Franse astronaut Thomas Pesquet vliegt met SpaceX naar ruimtestation ISS - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

Pesquet wordt de eerste Europeaan om met de Crew Dragon van SpaceX te vliegen, startend vanop Cape Canaveral in Florida. Hij heeft reeds met de simulators van SpaceX getraind.

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“Ik ben ontzettend blij dat ik de eerste Europeaan mag zijn die met de nieuwe generatie Amerikaanse bemande ruimtevaartuigen meevliegt, “ zegt Thomas. “Het zal extra interessant zijn om deze ervaring te kunnen vergelijken met mijn eerste vlucht als Sojoez-piloot en deze ervaring te delen met het team.”

Crew Dragon

Zijn missie zal de naam Alpha dragen, genoemd naar Alpha Centauri, het sterrenstelsel dat zich het dichtst bij de Aarde bevindt.

In mei heeft SpaceX voor rekening van de NASA met de Crew Dragon astronauten naar het ISS gebracht: de Amerikanen Doug Hurley en Bob Behnken. Zij keren op 1 augustus met de capsule naar de Aarde terug.

De tweede operationele missie van de Crew Dragon is precies die van Pesquet.

De 42-jarige Fransman verbleef in 2016-2017 reeds zowat zes maanden in het ISS, waarbij hij twee ruimtewandelingen maakte. De heen- en terugreis was met een Russische Sojoez.

Hij zal in de Crew Dragon het gezelschap hebben van de Japanner Akihiko Hoshide, aldus het Japanse ruimtevaartburaeu Jaxa dinsdag. De 51-jarige woonde en werkte al in 2008 en 2011 in het ruimtestation, waar hij de tweede Japanner wordt die het gezag zal voeren. De eerste was Koichi Wakata.

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28-07-2020 om 18:12 geschreven door peter  

Groen licht voor Amerikaanse Marsmissie: robotjeep Perseverance kan gelanceerd worden - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

De Marsverkenner heeft donderdag vanaf 13.50 uur (Belgische tijd) twee uur de tijd om te beginnen aan zijn reis, ingezet met een lancering door een krachtige Atlas-5 draagraket van lanceerbedrijf United Launch Alliance (ULA). Volgens de eerste meteoschatting bedraagt de kans op goed weer tachtig procent. De robotjeep moet op 18 februari landen in de Jezerokrater.

De zowat een ton wegende Perseverance moet zoeken naar sporen van vroeger microbiologisch leven. Bovendien moet de robotjeep het klimaat en de geologie van onze buurplaneet onderzoeken, door het nemen van stalen van stenen en stof. De missie moet tevens toelaten nieuwe technologie voor toekomstige onbemande en bemande missies naar Mars te testen.

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Vinciane Debaillie, een wetenschapster van de ULB, is een van de vijf vorsers die het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA heeft aangesteld om mee te werken met de 2,7 miljard dollar kostende Marsmissie. Haar werk bestaat onder meer uit de besturing van de robot, het documenteren van waarnemingen en het behandelen van gegevens. Ze maakt ook deel uit van het wetenschappelijk comité.  Wetenschappers willen ook meer leren over het ontstaan van het universum.

De jeep draagt een plakkaat mee dat hulde brengt aan de hulpdiensten en de gezondheidswerkers die met de coronapandemie te maken hebben gekregen, zegt de NASA. 

Mars 2020 Mission Overview ( bijgevoegd door peter2011 op basis van NASA )

The Mars 2020 mission with its Perseverance rover is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The Mars 2020 mission addresses high-priority science goals for Mars exploration, including key Astrobiology questions about the potential for life on Mars. The mission takes the next step by not only seeking signs of habitable conditions on Mars in the ancient past, but also searching for signs of past microbial life itself. The Perseverance rover introduces a drill that can collect core samples of the most promising rocks and soils and set them aside in a "cache" on the surface of Mars. A future mission could potentially return these samples  to Earth.  That would help scientists study the samples in laboratories with special room-sized equipment that would be too large to take to Mars. The mission also provides opportunities to gather knowledge and demonstrate technologies that address the challenges of future human expeditions to Mars. These include testing a method for producing oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, identifying other resources (such as subsurface water), improving landing techniques, and characterizing weather, dust, and other potential environmental conditions that could affect future astronauts living and working on Mars.

The mission is timed for a launch opportunity in July 2020 when Earth and Mars are in good positions relative to each other for landing on Mars. That is, it takes less power to travel to Mars at this time, compared to other times when Earth and Mars are in different positions in their orbits. To keep mission costs and risks as low as possible, the Mars 2020 design is based on NASA's successful Mars Science Laboratory mission architecture, including its Curiosity rover and proven landing system.

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28-07-2020 om 18:04 geschreven door peter  

Secret Space 20 & Back Program Off Planet Earth

Some are called to service with the Secret Space Program, others are born into it. This is the case with Randy Cramer, who claims to have been engineered for a military life on the moon and on Mars. After his return from 20 years of service, disturbing memories flooded his mind which he worked hard to reconcile. Knowing that there are many others who are enduring the same ordeal, it has become his mission to tell his story, to encourage them to come forward and reveal their experiences and heal.

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28-07-2020 om 17:43 geschreven door peter  

Maybe the anomaly was just a cosmic ray but I have never seen that quite large and bright, it looks more like a spaceship similar to a fighter jet as you see it on an aircraft carrier.

It is said that interdimensional alien craft accessing our solar system using the Sun as a stargate, entering and exiting from dimensional portals in the Sun. 

Is the sun a natural stargate, a portal to other solar systems and what you are seeing is a huge alien spaceship using the solar flare to enter or to exit a portal in the sun?

Video: Possible alien spaceship starts at 2.40.

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28-07-2020 om 17:11 geschreven door peter  

Couple spotted huge bright UFO flying over Lakeview, Ohio 18-Jul-2020

New footage of a bright unidentified flying object that was filmed in the sky above Lakeview, Ohio. This event happened on 18th July 2020.

Witness report: 

Intense bright light with bluish tint. My wife and I were sitting in our far back yard viewing comet Neowise and off to my left (west) I noticed what I thought of as a blue beam. The beam effect could have been due to I wear glasses. Anyways I turned my head and noticed what appeared to be an unusually bright light. Kinda like aircraft landing light being seen head on but only one, not multiple.
I got up and walked to the north a bit and saw the light coming through the trees and saw it was heading our way so I ran back and got the camera from my wife and started filming.
It looked as bright and intense as a tig wielder but with a slight bluish tint. Did not see any anti collision lights, heard no noise from it at all. I would guess it seemed to be between 1000 and 2000 feet in altitude.
That’s all I can think of.

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28-07-2020 om 16:49 geschreven door peter  

With the New York Times chasing crashed saucers and Trump talking on-the-record, Roswell remains the original sin of the UFO cover-up.

  Bryce Zabel  

Take a moment to appreciate what’s going on in this photo. This is Major Jesse Marcel of the Roswell Army Air Base in July of 1947. He knows that something incredible has taken place outside of town because he has seen the crash site with his own eyes and touched the wreckage with his own hands. For almost a day, it’s been breath-taking for Marcel knowing that the world is going to change dramatically, something he knows because his military bosses seem to be trying to level with the American people.

Then, the next day, the door slams shut hard. The policy is now denial and ridicule, and it comes straight down from Washington, D.C. Worse, Marcel gets chosen to be the visual messenger that takes it all back, to say sorry, our mistake, just a weather balloon, nothing to see here.

In this photo, Marcel realizes that at this singular moment in human history his role is to play the joker who screwed up, someone so dumb he can’t tell the difference between a weather balloon from his own military base or a flying saucer from outer space.

That is exactly how Jesse Marcel got to wear the deer-in-the-headlights look on his face in this memorable photo. He is taking the most epic fall in human history. Shakespeare could not have written it better.

With the scene set, let’s get to the breaking news…

The New York Times Running with Fox News?

There’s a rumor buzzing about among UAP activists and researchers that the New York Times has reporters out making calls about actual crash retrievals of unidentified flying objects on American soil.

Update: That article was published on July 23, 2020.

Take a moment and appreciate what this might mean if it turns out to be true. That would mean the nation’s most famous newspaper may be on the verge of stating that we have recovered materials from crashes, and that the technology is not ours (the U.S.) or theirs (China, Russia), and comes from another source. Do the math on that one.

Why in the world would respectable journalists like Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, working in the bosom of respectability that the New York Times, want to chase that old canard of crashed saucers out in the desert?

For starters, because there’s always been lots of anecdotal evidence and witness testimony from some key people. Only it just hasn’t been the Smoking Wreckage that proof demands. That, plus you’d be so far out on a limb as a journalist that you might never crawl your way back. And that might have been true until just last year.

That’s when Luis Elizondo, who ran the government’s AATIP, Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said out loud what we knew he was thinking. While talking to Fox’s Tucker Carlson, he said that, yes, the U.S. had the goods, as in actual physical wreckage. Former military intelligence, Elizondo quit the government’s UFO program to live the activist’s life and advocate for new thinking and transparency about this reality.

Carlson: Do you believe, based on your decade of serving in the U.S. government on this question, that the U.S. government has in its possession any material from one of these aircrafts?

Elizondo: I do, yes.

Carlson: You think the U.S. government has debris from a UFO in its possession right now?

Elizondo: Unfortunately, Tucker, I really have to be careful of my NDA. I really can’t go into a lot more detail than that, but simply put, yes.

The whole topic just oozes the possibility of rapid Disclosure and change waiting in the wings, just off the stage of transparency. Here’s a great refresher on who’s said what about crash wreckage.

It is possible that the new headlines from The New York Times will be the kick to the barn door of Disclosure that lets all the horses out.

While we wait to see, let’s check in with what the Donald Trumps have to say about Roswell.

Roswell is the Holy Grail

Donald Trump Jr. just asked his dad, repeatedly, about Roswell in a Father’s Day 2020 interview. Red or blue, it is still semi-astonishing to hear the sitting President of the United States admit his awareness of Roswell, and say, “I won’t talk to you about what I know about it, but it’s very interesting.” If it was just a 73-year old mistaken weather balloon or even crash dummies story, it wouldn’t be all that interesting, would it? Those deceptions are now old news. But if Roswell was something authentic, well, that would be… interesting.

The Question You Just Have to Ask

Quick review of Roswell 101 —

In early July of 1947, the military brass at the Roswell Army Air Base put out a press release that was so forthright that the local paper headlined with “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region.” Here’s the front page:

The next day the same people said that all these trained military people who the U.S. trusted with nuclear weapons out at the base got it all wrong and they just misidentified a weather balloon, something they dealt with every day. Here’s that headline:

Why Do I Believe the Roswell Crash?

This is clearly a question to be answered cautiously. I start with what we know. We know the Roswell Army Air Base put out a press release saying they had captured a flying saucer and the next day took it all back and said they had only found a weather balloon. That’s shady behavior, but it’s not proof of anything.

We know over the years the U.S. military has variously announced that Roswell was a flying saucer, a weather balloon, crash dummies from a test flight, or a secret Mogul balloon to spy on the Soviets nuclear capability. Those are just the official attempts at explanation. Other interested parties have spun tales of Nazi Mengele-crewed saucers, Soviet saucers, and the work of the Devil. The subject has clearly been one open to interpretation for decades now.

Then, in shocking counterpoint to all of that, there’s a singular, other story that has been more or less consistently told from the beginning.

Roswell was exotic technology. We got wreckage and bodies. We don’t talk about Fight Club.

That storyline has hundreds of witnesses testifying to roughly the same fact trail. Some were first hand witnesses to debris and even the recovery of bodies, and several accounts came from death bed confessions. Many more witnesses were family members who learned of the secret their fathers and husbands had kept inside them for decades. There were dozens and dozens who attested to extremely tight security and transportation of material in the aftermath of what crashed at Roswell.

I know this because I worked with the top two researchers — Don Schmitt and the late Stanton Friedman — and I’ve spent dozens of hours going through their research while working on a film project about how Stan was the man who found Jesse Marcel back in 1978 and Don was the energetic young researcher who competed with him in a bitter 1990s feud. Both men always came back to this:

Would hundreds of people be enlisted in such an immense effort to guard the scraps of a mere weather balloon that would be shown later in a news conference?

Those witnesses, of course, do not agree on each and every detail, nor were they all direct witnesses, but taken together they tell a very compelling story about essentially the same thing.

It involves a crash in a thunderstorm, a rescue effort to assess and move the intact part of the craft, and a clean-up effort both literally and figuratively that probably yielded one survivor and four dead. Bodies, craft and wreckage were moved, mostly to Wright-Paterson Air Force Base, and to other places, as ordered.

The testimony I’ve seen comes from men and women who were there, at the base, in the field, in the hospitals and funeral homes, and flying cargo and guarding it with care at a level you’d never experienced. There are so many of them.

Not one witness has come forward to say, “well, you know, I never wanted to talk about it in all these years but it really was a weather balloon.”

Yes, some of the details may feel slippery as would be normal based on memory in a case of this magnitude. Especially one that’s been undermined for years by experts in psychological operations, both in government and out.

There may be an uncomfortable amount of noise in this one but, to me, the signal remains loud and clear. The big picture is crash recovery of exotic technology.

Roswell is Probably Off-Limts for a While Longer

The media has done a very poor job on the story over the years, preferring to cover people in alien cosplay costumes at the Roswell UFO Festival over actually digging in and doing research and interviewing witnesses.

The full story of Roswell likely won’t be written for years. When it is, the story will gain the respect it deserves. Historians and readers of that age will wonder how it came to be that such a serious matter was swept under the rug for so long. It will seem insane.

It’s doubtful that any imminent New York Times reporting will dare to touch the Roswell story, so tainted by disinformation, abuse, witness intimidation, and the twin pillars of cover-up, denial and ridicule, that to many it appears shaky and unreliable. It’s better for them to go after a fresh target, maybe something more recent, less well known. Roswell, it turns out, has hardly been the only crash. These wingless craft are not regularly falling out of the skies, but there have been a few, here and around the world.

The big game reporters are hunting is just one piece of material from a UFO wreck, or a craft itself. They want to know who got it, what they did with it, what we’ve learned from it, and where it is today.

So the news on the circuit is that calls have been widely made on the subject of testing exotic metals and crash retrievals. Predicting when such an astonishing story might drop is a fool’s errand. Because of the subject matter, editors will force reporters to source meticulously.

Here’s the prediction:

The story of Roswell is on a fast track to investigation and then de-classification. At that point, the game will continue with different rules.

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28-07-2020 om 01:53 geschreven door peter  

Magnetic anomaly from 11 million years ago could help us understand how poles flip

If you could go back in time and look at a compass, it would show something very different.

28-07-2020 om 01:26 geschreven door peter  

Huge, Hovering and Silent: The Mystery of 'Black Triangle' UFOs

An illustration depicting a triangle UFO.

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Some speculate they are super-secret US spy craft. Others question whether they might be from elsewhere, conducting some kind of surveillance.

Within the larger mystery of the UFO phenomenon is another, still-unsolved puzzle: Why do so many reports involve strange, triangular-shaped craft—often described as dark in color, virtually noiseless and the size of a football field or larger? What, exactly, are they? And why are so many witnessed hovering or moving slowly and methodically, with no visible contrails?

In the years after the U.S. Air Force coined the term “unidentified flying object” in 1952, reports often referred to UFOs generically as flying saucers. But witnesses then, and since, have described a wide array of shapes: saucers (or two saucers put together), eggs, hats, cigars, boomerangs, lightbulbs—even Tic Tac candies.

Among the most commonly reported shapes were V-shaped, arrowhead-like or triangular. David Marler, UFO researcher and author of Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation, says he has reviewed more than 17,000 case files involving unidentified triangular craft, sometimes called “black triangles.” Whether the sightings represent advanced U.S. spy craft—as some speculate—or something of unknown origin, their purpose remains mysterious. Given their consistent hovering behavior, Marler says, they might be engaged in “surveillance of some nature—or scanning. Or analyzing the topography.”

“There have been many instances in which these vehicles have been observed over bases operated by the Strategic Air Command,” says Chris Mellon, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, whose career has focused on unconventional threats to American security. Mellon is now an integral part of the investigative team featured on HISTORY’s “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation.”

• READ MORE: Are UFOs a Threat to National Security? This Ex-US Official Thinks They Warrant Investigation

An International Phenomenon

In the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, triangular UFO reports hailed from across the U.S. and beyond. During the 1960s, at the height of Cold War UFO fever, mysterious flying triangles were reported over Connecticut, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Texas—as well as London, Madrid and Czechoslovakia. In 1969, two National Guard pilots tailed a “triangular shaped object, 50 feet in diameter” for 20 minutes over San Juan, Puerto Rico, until they ran low on fuel and had to return to their base. Many of these incidents would be attributed by officials to atmospheric conditions, weather balloons or other everyday sources, but some remained unexplained.

Between 1983 and 1986, a notable rash of mass sightings occurred in New York’s Hudson Valley, some 50 miles north of New York City. One witness, Kevin Soravilla, a retired lieutenant from the Yorktown Police Department, described a huge, silent craft, 100 yards from wingtip to wingtip, hovering low, which banked and made a 45-degree turn before abruptly speeding off. Soravilla said he called Stewart Air Force Base in nearby Newburgh to determine whether one of its C-5 transport planes—then the world’s largest and heaviest aircraft—had been in the skies that night; none had. Later that year, a hulking triangular UFO hovering over a stretch of New York’s Taconic Parkway prompted a huge traffic pile-up as scores of motorists stopped to get a better look. Similar incidents continued in the region for several years.

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28-07-2020 om 00:59 geschreven door peter  

No More Hiding in the Shadows- Pentagon’s Secretive UFO Unit to make ‘Sensational Findings’ Public!!

By Tony Winterburn

The Pentagon- expect some mind-blowing revelations over the next few weeks.

image: Wikipedia

At last, after years of speculation and conspiracy theories, the Pentagon’s secretive UFO unit is going to make some of its findings public!!

They are out there

A consultant to the agency has briefed US Defense Department officials of some highly unusual discoveries ― including items retrieved from “off-world vehicles not made on this Earth.”

The Pentagon had claimed that it disbanded its UFO office, now it is understood that the department had in reality simply changed names and moved, and a US Senate committee report suggests it will be expected to make some information public every six months.

The main goal isn’t actually to confirm alien spaceships exist, but rather to see if thousands of confounding sightings ― including some by the military ― are actually advanced technology from rival nations like Russia and China for example. The soon to be released report also hints at possible artefacts from UFO crashes.

What do we know about Area 51?

Area 51 refers to a map location and is the popular name for a United States Air Force base. It is at Groom Lake, a dry lake bed in the Nevada Desert, 85 miles (135km) north of Las Vegas. What goes on inside is extremely secret. Members of the public are kept away by warning signs, electronic surveillance and armed guards.

It is also illegal to fly over Area 51, although the site is now visible on satellite images. The base has runways up to 12,000ft (2.3 miles/3.7km) long.                         

“Off-world vehicles not made on this Earth”.

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.):

“After looking into this, I came to the conclusion that there were reports — some were substantive, some not so substantive — that there were actual materials that the government and the private sector had in their possession,” he told the newspaper.

Astrophysicist Eric W. Davis, who has been a subcontractor and consultant for the Pentagon, said he had briefed the Defense Department in March this year about the “off-world vehicles not made on this Earth.”

He said he has examined some of the materials and made a startling discovery, he concluded: “we couldn’t make it ourselves.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also indicated that he was concerned that supposed UFOs could be advanced tech from foreign nations.

Regular Sightings at Military bases

“We have things flying over our military bases and places where we’re conducting military exercises, and we don’t know what it is, and it isn’t ours,” Rubio, who is acting chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he continued:

“I would say that, frankly, that if it’s something from outside this planet, that might actually be better than the fact that we’ve seen some technological leap on behalf of the Chinese or the Russians or some other adversary that allows them to conduct this sort of activity.”

He said the objects in these sightings “exhibit, potentially, technologies that you don’t have at your own disposal” making them a national security risk.

The military’s encounters with possible UFOs have come under intense interest in recent years since several videos were leaked in 2017 showing encounters with fast-moving objects including one given the nickname “Tic Tac” because it looked like one of the candies. This object, still not publicly identified, dropped from 60,000 feet to just 50 feet in a matter of seconds:

“The part that drew our attention was how it wasn’t behaving within the normal laws of physics,” pilot Chad Underwood filmed the “Tic Tac” encounter. The military has since confirmed that the footage is real, and formally declassified it in spring, but has said little else about it.

National Security could be compromised

The Navy told UFO researcher Christian Lambright in a Freedom of Information Act request that releasing more information “would cause exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States.”

To The Stars Academy, a company co-founded by former Blink 182 frontman Tom DeLonge which has worked to reveal UFO information and helped expose the 2017 videos, celebrated the newest developments. “TTSA welcomes the increase in transparency and is steadfast in our mission to educate policymakers and support continued interest and engagement on this topic,” the organization said via Facebook.

Expect some mind-blowing revelations over the next few weeks. The time has finally come when we will be told what we already knew- WE ARE NOT ALONE. TW

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27-07-2020 om 23:53 geschreven door peter  

Earliest evidence for humans in the Americas

27-07-2020 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

Between March and May 2020, many people across Earth went into lockdown. During those months, seismographs recorded a drop in human-linked vibrations in the solid Earth, by an average of 50%.

You can see the human signal fall away as the world goes into lockdown. The first clip shows the ‘wave’ of noise dampening as the world locks down. The second shows the UK’s seismic noise

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Seismometers measure seismic waves from big events such as earthquakes, volcanos, bombs and so on. At the same time, they pick up what’s called seismic noise – ambient vibrations – from things like wind, rivers, ocean waves and human activities (especially travel and industry). According to a new study by an international team of researchers, Earth’s seismic noise level dropped by an average of 50% between March and May 2020, during the Covid-19 lockdown.

In a July 23, 2020, statement from Imperial College London, which took part in the study, researchers said this quiet period was likely caused by the total global effect of social distancing measures, closure of services and industry, and drops in tourism and travel.

They said it is the longest and most pronounced quiet period of seismic noise in recorded history.

Before this study, scientists knew that human-generated noise tends to dampen during quiet periods, for example, over the Christmas and New Year holidays in the western hemisphere, over Chinese New Year in Asia, and even during weekends and overnight. However, the researchers said that the drop in vibrations caused by Covid-19 lockdown measures eclipse those seen during such periods.

View larger. | This map shows 268 seismometers in 117 countries, 185 of which detected a drop on seismic noise between March and May 2020.

Image via Imperial College London.

The new research showed that the largest drops in vibrations were seen in the most densely populated areas, for example, Singapore and New York City. Drops in vibrations were also recorded in remote areas, such as Germany’s Black Forest and Rundu in Namibia. The statement explained:

The strongest drops were found in urban areas, but the study also found signatures of the lockdown on sensors buried hundreds of meters underground …

Stephen Hicks from Imperial College London is a co-author of the study, which was published July 23 in the peer-reviewed journal Science. Hicks said in the scientists’ statement:

Our study uniquely highlights just how much human activities impact the solid Earth.

He added that the study could also let scientists see more clearly than ever what differentiates human and natural noise.

Image via Imperial College London.

For this study, researchers looked at seismic data from a global network of 268 seismic stations in 117 countries. They found significant noise reductions compared to before any lockdown at 185 of those stations.

Beginning in China in late January 2020, and followed by Europe and the rest of the world in March to April 2020, researchers tracked the “wave” of quietening between March and May as worldwide lockdown measures took hold.

Citizen-owned seismometers (like the one pictured above), which tend to measure more localized noise, noted large drops around universities and schools around Cornwall in the U.K. and Boston in the U.S., a drop in noise 20% larger than seen during school holidays.

Image via Imperial College London.

Countries like Barbados, where lockdown coincided with the tourist season, saw a 50% decrease in noise. This coincided with flight data that suggested tourists returned home in the weeks before official lockdown.

The study reports the first evidence that previously concealed earthquake signals, especially during daytime, appeared much clearer on seismometers in urban areas during lockdown. The study’s authors hope that their work will spawn further research on the seismic lockdown, as well as finding previously hidden signals from earthquakes and volcanoes. Hicks said:

The lockdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic may have given us a glimmer of insight into how human and natural noise interacts with the Earth. We hope this insight will spawn new studies that help us listen better to the Earth and understand natural signals we would otherwise have missed.

• Bottom line: The Covid-19 lockdown caused a 50% global reduction in human-linked Earth vibrations between March and May 2020.
• Source: Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures
• Via Imperial College London

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27-07-2020 om 22:38 geschreven door peter  

Rare ghostly particles produced inside the sun just detected under a mountain in Italy

By Diane Lincoln 

A snippet of the new solar time-lapse video

(Image: © NASA Goddard)

For the first time ever, physicists have spotted rare, ghostly particles produced by a weird kind of fusion inside the sun. 

The particles, called CNO-produced neutrinos, traveled from the sun to a detector buried deep beneath a mountain in Italy. This discovery brings humans one step closer to understanding the fiery nuclear reactions fueling our home star.

"With this outcome," physicist Gioacchino Ranucci, a physicist at Italy's National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Milan, told Live Science. "Borexino has completely unraveled the two processes powering the sun."

Two types of nuclear fusion reactions occur in the sun's core. The first, and most common, is proton-proton fusion, where protons fuse to transform hydrogen into helium. Scientists predict such reactions generate 99% of the sun's energy. Rarely, nuclear fusion occurs via a six-step process, called the CNO cycle, where hydrogen is fused to helium using carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and oxygen (O). Proton-proton fusion and the CNO-cycle create different types of neutrinos, subatomic particles that are nearly massless and can pass through ordinary matter without a hint of their presence, at least most of the time. Physicists routinely detect neutrinos created during the proton-proton process. However, on June 23, at the Neutrino 2020 Virtual Meeting, researchers from Italy's Borexino detector announced that they had detected CNO-produced solar neutrinos for the very first time.

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The underground Borexino Experiment, at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, near the town of L'Aquila, Italy, was designed to study these extremely rare neutrino interactions. The Borexino detector consists of a tank approximately 60 feet (18 meters) tall that contains 280 tons (254 metric tons) of scintillating liquid — which flashes light when electrons in the liquid interact with a neutrino. A bright flash, which indicates higher energy, is more likely to be from CNO-produced neutrinos. 

Buried deep underground and cocooned in a water tank, Borexino's internal tank is lined with sensitive detectors that are extremely isolated from background radiation from cosmic rays present at Earth's surface. Without this shielding, other signals would drown out the rare signals coming from CNO neutrinos. 

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Ranucci also credits the "unprecedented purity" of the scintillating liquid with much of the experiment's success. 

Comparing the observed CNO neutrino observation with the number of observed proton-proton neutrinos will help reveal how much of the sun is made up of elements heavier than hydrogen such as carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. The current results, although not yet peer-reviewed and published in a scientific journal, showed a significance greater than 5 sigma with a greater than 99% confidence level, meaning there is just a 1 in 3.5 million chance that the signal was produced by random fluctuations, rather than the CNO process.

The Borexino international collaboration is made up of researchers from Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, and three universities from the United States, Princeton, Virginia Tech and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Originally published on Live Science.

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27-07-2020 om 22:22 geschreven door peter  

The ink is barely dry on the so-called ‘big’ revelation by The New York Times that the Pentagon’s thought-to-be-disbanded Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) never was and is now the funded and functional Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force … AND it’s getting ready (well, every six months starting at some unnamed time) to reveal what it has recovered from UFO/UAP crash sites, including what it quoted astrophysicist Eric W. Davis described as “off-road vehicles not made on this earth” and former Senator Harry Reid said were “actual materials,” not just theories. EXCEPT …

“I have no knowledge—and I have never suggested—the federal government or any entity has unidentified flying objects or debris from other worlds. I have consistently said we must stick to science, not fairy tales about little green men.”

Former Senator Harry Reid forced a retraction by The New York Times after he tweeted that he NEVER said the federal government has actual materials from other worlds. Oops. Sorry, Senator.

Harry Reid

Hmm. Makes you wonder what the Pentagon thinks about all of this.

“(The Department of Defense) is creating a task force to gain knowledge and insight into the nature and origins of UAPs (as well as their) operations, capabilities, performance, and/or signatures. (The mission) will be to detect, analyze, catalog, consolidate, and exploit non-traditional aerospace vehicles/UAPs posing an operational threat to U.S. national security and avoid strategic surprise.”

Popular Mechanics is no longer just your dad’s go-to source for car maintenance and home improvement tips – it received and published a response to its request for more information from Department of Defense strategic planner and spokesperson Sue Gough about The New York Times article and she spun it that the Pentagon “is creating” the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force to retrieve, review and reverse-engineer anything non-US it detects over its (and hopefully our) airspace. That wasn’t enough for British UFO expert Nick Pope, who published the entire text of the response on his website. (Read it here.) His conclusion?

“Every government rightly wants to secure the territorial integrity of its airspace and ensure that all objects and phenomena in its airspace or in close proximity to its military assets are identified. This bold new initiative may be controversial, but it makes perfect sense in strategic terms, whatever the true nature of the phenomenon.”

“… whatever the true nature of the phenomenon.” In other words, they haven’t really told us anything yet that we didn’t already know. Will they tell us about anything whose “true nature” is other worldly or not made on this earth … as promised in The New York Times? Oh, yeah, that was Eric Davis, not the Pentagon. The blog “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena – scientific research” does a nice job of analyzing the statement from Sue Gough, pointing out its nebulousness. However, one word that is singled out is “detect.”

“However, the DOD statement specifically says “detect.” Does this imply that the Task Force, themselves will be out there actively seeking to observe the objects intruding on U.S. training ranges and designated airspace. This is very different from collecting observations from other people.”

This implies a proactive operation, rather than just showing up to collect the smoldering pieces. Will UFO watchers around Area 51 be forced to share their space with members of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force?

Everything is speculation until the first time the task force reports ”at least some of its findings to the public every six months.”

The countdown has begun.

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27-07-2020 om 21:58 geschreven door peter  

“Niet door de mens gemaakt”: ufo-team van Pentagon gaat onverklaarbare waarnemingen naar buiten brengen - HLN.be

Sven Van Malderen

Bron: New York Times

Piloten van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht registreren soms ‘vliegende objecten’ waarvan de oorsprong onbekend is. Het Pentagon liet uitschijnen dat die mysterieuze confrontaties niet meer onder de loep genomen werden, maar uit een overheidsrapport blijkt nu dat er nog wel degelijk geld gepompt wordt in het onderzoeksprogramma.

Het voornaamste doel: achterhalen of vijandige landen geen gebruik maken van geavanceerde spitstechnologie om de Verenigde Staten te bedreigen. De Republikeinse senator Marco Rubio maakte zich deze maand nog zorgen over een onbekend toestel dat over een Amerikaanse legerbasis vloog. “Is China of Rusland met iets nieuws op de proppen gekomen? Of bestaat er een eerder saaie verklaring voor? We moeten daar een antwoord op vinden.”

“Open en duidelijke communicatie”

Luis Elizondo stond tien jaar lang aan het hoofd van het onderzoeksproject rond ufo’s. Hij bevestigt dat er voortaan niet meer in het geheim hoeft gewerkt te worden. “Er zal open en duidelijk gecommuniceerd worden”, klinkt het. Met al zijn expertise is hij er trouwens van overtuigd dat “we niet alleen zijn in het heelal”.

Harry Reid, een ex-senator uit Nevada die het financiële plaatje rond het ufo-programma regelde, is dezelfde mening toegedaan. “Ik geloof stellig dat objecten van onbekende origine al op aarde neergestort zijn. De regering heeft zulke toestellen in haar bezit, dan kan er maar beter onderzoek naar gebeuren. Het is van groot belang dat zulke resultaten gedeeld worden met het grote publiek.”

Drie maanden geleden gaf het Pentagon zelf al drie video’s vrij waarbij Amerikaanse piloten tijdens trainingsvluchten in contact kwamen met ‘ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten’. Ze bewegen zo flitsend door de lucht dat de infraroodcamera’s ze maar heel kort konden oppikken.

“Kijk naar dat ding”

Het commentaar van de piloten spreekt tot de verbeelding. “My god. Het gaat tegen de wind. Een westenwind van 120 knopen. Kijk naar dat ding! Het is aan het draaien!”, zegt een stem. In de andere video juicht een piloot. “Yes, ik heb het. Kijk hoe het vliegt! Wow.”

David Fravor maakte de beelden van de derde video (zonder geluid) in 2004. Drie jaar geleden verklaarde de intussen gepensioneerde marinepiloot dat het object “bewoog op manieren die hij niet kon uitleggen”.

“Toen ik het naderde, schoot het razendsnel weg naar het zuiden. En het verdween in minder dan twee seconden”, zei hij aan CNN. “Het gebeurde extreem abrupt, als een pingpongbal die van de muur afketst. Alsof het iets raakte en in de andere richting werd gekatapulteerd.”

Astrofyiscus Eric W. Davis werkte sinds 2007 als consultant voor het ufo-programma. Ook hij gelooft in het buitenaardse. “In sommige gevallen zijn we er niet in geslaagd om de origine van het materiaal te achterhalen. We konden niet anders dan besluiten dat die objecten niet door de mens gemaakt waren.”

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27-07-2020 om 21:35 geschreven door peter  

NASA Zooms In On Donut UFO At Space Station, July 25, 2020, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 24, 2020
Location of sighting: International Space Station
Source: ISS NASA Live cam

While watching the ISS I noticed that a small glowing light was noticeable in the distance over the two radar dishes. But unsure of how useful the UFO was since its hard to see, I assumed that maybe it wasn't worth reporting...but then as I went further into the footage, I noticed that NASA went to blue screen, this often happens when they change cameras and they did. They went to a new camera and you can clearly see the space station put the UFO in the center of the screen and then enlarge it to maximum size. When it is zoomed in on, the object looks like a giant alien donut UFO. Yep, true words. Watch the video and decide for yourself. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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27-07-2020 om 20:28 geschreven door peter  

Five UFOs Seen During Sunset Over Pennsylvania, July 24, 2020, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 24, 2020
Location of sighting: Laural Run, Pennsylvania, USA
Source: MUFON 110440

Now just look at this video, it will blow your mind! Not one, but five UFOs are seen shooting across the sky during sunset over Laural Run, PA. The eyewitness was driving and pulled over to record the UFOs. The objects are entering the earths atmosphere and shooting across the sky! One might be dismissed as a meteor, but five...thats called a squadron of UFOs. Not so easy to dismiss such things. I'm sure they showed up on military radar, but the US military dismisses them...knowing what they are already. Alien species do not follow our rules...we follow theirs. 
Scott C. Waring 

Eyewitness states: 

Driving in Northeast PA headed northwest at around sunset 8:30pm. Observed Unknown flying objects ascending from the horizon. Took video and pictures attached.

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27-07-2020 om 20:24 geschreven door peter  

There is a cosmic cover-up of the highest order, but for how long they can keep the existence of UFOs in space secret, especially if you see massive objects in the vicinity of the sun that clearly show solid-looking structures.

In the next video sky-watcher BruceSeesAll will show you several of these giant UFOs flying by the sun which he has caught using his telescope.

But it is not just about the UFOs near the sun, these space vehicles are also regularly observed near the moon.

The video continues with images of UFOs on the moon, lights which are moving under the haze, constructed objects on the moon and how they are hiding these constructions as well as lights leaving the moon's surface and lights arriving to the moon's surface.

It is well known that NASA’s astronauts and scientists are not allowed to speak about the UFO phenomenon but amateur astronomers with professional telescopes have no restrictions on showing the truth about what's going on in deep space!

 

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27-07-2020 om 18:37 geschreven door peter  

26th July: 4 crop circles were found in UK!

1. Scrubbs Lane, Nr Bishops Sutton, Hampshire

2. The Ridgeway, Nr The White Horse Hackpen Hill, Wiltshire

3. Etchilhampton Hill, Nr Mixon, Wiltshire

4. Yarnbury Castle, Nr Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire.

Video, review of the 4 crop circles found in UK

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27-07-2020 om 18:10 geschreven door peter  

2020 crop circles – Germany: Ammersee, West of Munich, Bavaria

This crop circle was found in Ammersee (South End), West of Munich in Bavaria, Germany on 26th July 2020.

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27-07-2020 om 17:49 geschreven door peter  

Unidentified flying object above St. Petersburg, Florida 26-Jul-2020

This bright UFO was seen and filmed in the sky above St. Petersburg, a city in Pinellas County, Florida. This was filmed on 26th July 2020.

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27-07-2020 om 17:42 geschreven door peter