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...
24-08-2020
Mars Face Of Young Chubby Girl, Also Three Standing Figures! 100% Proof NASA Lies To The Public, UFO Sighting News.
Mars Face Of Young Chubby Girl, Also Three Standing Figures! 100% Proof NASA Lies To The Public, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Aug 23, 2020 Location of discovery: Mars, Sol 1087 Source photo:
Honestly guys, I'm getting sensory overload on this whole photo. Just too many ancient artifacts, and only 1 in 20 I will show you. Mostly because the other 19 are less detailed, less understandable, less significant. I found a face of a young girl, looks to be a chubby young girl with curly hair. The face is highly detailed and facing outward from the hillside. It looks human-like, if the human were 7 years old. I found a few standing figures, a few words engraved deeply into the stone, a few doorways, a few oddities that just cannot be explained by anything except as an ancient city. But my estimates are that those that lived here were a mere 3-5 inches tall. Right now you doubt me, but honestly, why do you think intelligence is limited by size? Some of the smartest people I ever met...were some of the shortest too. Scott C. Waring
Below is a (Side View) face looking up to the sky, only see the nose, chin cheeks, crown, neck.
Standing figure is only about 3-6 inches tall. Wearing a suit, hoody off, naked bald head seen from back.
Below is a male figure, wearing a pointy hood hat bending over the rock. I made him grey to make him stand out more easily for you. His face is very clear.
This is a white structure...which I call the white ceramics. These structures are near impossible to photograph due the powerful reflection of light bouncing off of them. I added contrast and they came into focus. I added yellow to the building area so you can see exactly what I see. It does take years of practice and patience to allow your eyes to adjust to not only the black and white photos, but to search for similar signs of structures that I have found in the past ten years. This has to be one of the top ten. The map ruler is not accurate, its true size is close to 300 meters across. and 50 meters high. Don't just glance at the screenshots here...allow your eyes to get use to looking at it. Search for the defining shading and edges. Take a few minutes and search the screenshots...finding these structures takes practice.
Kinds of structures I have found on the moon.
1. Once found elongated 6 sided 24k gold ship, flat, huge cross-like vein covered its surface only.
2. Found some transparent pyramids...very difficult to focus the pictures due to mass reflections. But experienced searcher could see it easily.
3. Metallic grey metal structures, often smaller and near edges of larger non reflective black structures.
3. White Ceramic structures, had to find some in focused due to light reflection, but if in a bit of shadows, can be focused.
4. Non reflective (stealth fighter black) black structures. Massive in scale, largest of all structures on Earths moon. Usually mistaken for shadows by inexperienced searchers.
Time, patience and practice...and you can accomplish the impossible.
This is an interesting find on the beach of Oveson, Norway. The person states on Reddit that they found the object on the beach and are asking for help identifying it. Some comments believe it to be a sinker for fishing, but its huge size puts that in doubt since most sinkers are now plastic and styrofoam making a sinker out of zinc would be very impractical and expensive, especially one of this size. I believe that this object fell from our atmosphere and while it did, it became damaged. Observe the molten uneven outer coating of the object. Observer the deep meteorite like craters on its surface. This is not caused by the salt water and rust, because we see no sign of decay or rust. It has be heated to extreme temperatures. I believe this object did not hit the ocean, but hit the beach itself. You can see that there is some non metal material that has been lodged inside the molten metal and burned. That material is from the beach. This is an alien probe, the kind that are often seen darting from cloud to cloud. Its value is immeasurable since it surly has keys to AI within its material itself. What I mean is, the systems...the computer, the AI, the propulsion are all built into micro scale into the metal itself. If there are sections left undamaged within it...then the micro technology found in it could change the world forever advancing humanity thousands of years ahead. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
High speed UFO stops midair and shoots straight up through the sky caught on Live Webcam
On August 17, 2020, witness lmx2001 tuned in to St Ives Hayle Beach Live Webcam UK to watch a sunset and noticed a strange bright light hovering above the sea so he used a desktop screen recorder to capture it.
The light then suddenly darts to the left over a distance at high speed then stops sharply where it just hovers again.
Then towards the end of the video it shoots straight up through the sky very fast and is gone.
The first video is the original recording of the UFO, while the second video shows a closer look at the UFO.
Daytime footage of a solid object flying in the sky above Westland in Michigan. This was taken on 30th June 2020.
Witness report:
Son and I saw this thing in the sky and I took a video of it. My son and I were in front of our local metro PC’s store waiting to buy a new phone and I was looking around and saw what at first glance looked like a large balloon in the shape of a donut flying across the sky. But when it dawned on me as to the largeness of this thing and my poor distance eye sight without my glasses was amazing and new it couldn’t possible be a balloon, so I started filming and showed my son.
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The Pentagon's footage from these sightings, which has been made public, depicts objects zooming quickly through the sky, as recorded by military pilots. Though these objects fit the technical definition of a UFO — meaning an unidentified flying object — they may not adhere to the folk understanding of "UFO" as synonymous with an extraterrestrial spacecraft. That's because there isn't exactly any evidence that these objects are of extraterrestrial origin, or that they defy any existing laws of physics that might hint at their development by a more scientifically advanced species.
"To understand the videos, all you need to do is ask any fighter pilot familiar with the FLIR camera system," Brian Dunning, a professional scientific skeptic and podcaster, told Salon by email. "What looks like great speed and wild maneuvers is just a common optical illusion combined with the effects of the FLIR's gimbal and glare filter." FLIR cameras, short for forward-looking infrared cameras, are capable of seeing slightly into the infrared spectrum, meaning that heat sources light up on FLIR camera footage.
Dunning zeroed in on a released video that appears to show a bat-winged shaped craft, noting that "the object you're seeing is a single point of heat from an unidentified plane, probably a distant commercial jet, flying away from the F-18. The camera is looking out the side of the F-18 which is speeding past nearby clouds, making the object appear to be moving relative to the clouds."
He added, "Its bat-wing shape is how the FLIR's glare filter always depicts single bright points (there are plenty of examples of this on YouTube), and whenever the object appears to turn, this is simply the FLIRs gimbal rotating to keep the target in view as the F-18 maneuvers. The other videos also have similarly prosaic explanations."
Timothy Caulfield, a law professor at the University of Alberta who also hosts a TV series that debunks pseudoscience (titled "A User's Guide to Cheating Death"), explained to Salon that there are a number of potentially innocuous explanations — many of them involving military or other highly secretive scientific experiments — that get ignored due to sensationalism.
"I get why people are fascinated by this topic. It's exciting, it's intriguing, it's mysterious," Caulfield said. "But the idea that these things are UFOs and alien sightings, and that there is alien material left on our planet, is scientifically implausible and highly unlikely. It's an Occam's Razor story. I think there is probably a more straightforward explanation, but we will just never know with the deep uncertainty. People want answers."
"When people look at those kinds of videos and the reaction of the pilots, for example, I think that's often also used to give them more credibility with these expert pilots, often military pilots, commenting on the behavior of the shifts," Caulfield explained. "I'm not a physicist, I'm not an engineer. I can understand what people are intrigued. They don't know what this object is and it's moving in a manner that seems impossible given our current technology."
Alexander Wendt, an international relations professor at Ohio State University who has become a prominent amateur ufologist, pointed to the reactions of the military pilots as a sign that these new UFOs should be taken seriously.
"I challenge anybody to do better than the Navy to explain what's in those videos. If the Navy couldn't do it..." Wendt told Salon, before adding that "they had every reason to want this off their plate."
As Wendt pointed out, "I think what's unique about these Navy videos is that the whole issue arose from the pilots... I think the upset pilots is really a key thing. These guys are the experts on what's in the sky. They have thousands of hours of experience flying up there. You see some of the interviews with these pilots and they think something is going on, and they were the ones that pushed this whole issue to the front."
Another Ohio State University professor, political scientist Thomas Wood, opened up to Salon about why people embrace UFO conspiracy theories.
"If you look at the data on public opinion on this, it is really sort of incredible," Wood explained. (A Gallup poll last year found that 33 percent of Americans believe that some UFO sightings were caused by alien visitation; a YouGov poll last month found that 56 percent of Americans believe that the government would hide UFO evidence from the public.) "The American public fascination with UFOs is one of the very durable conspiracy theories in the American public's imagination. Most conspiracy theories may become popular and then quiet quickly — for instance, the Barack Obama was born in Kenya theory, the American government planned the 9/11 terrorist attack theory. The UFO conspiracy theory is one of those that just sort of stuck around."
Dunning was quite cynical about the reasons for people believing in UFOs.
"Two words: Sensationalism sells," Dunning emailed Salon. "Nobody is excited about the artifacts of the FLIR glare filter; everyone is excited about the prospect of the Pentagon hiding the 'truth about aliens.'"
He added, "Humans are hardwired for anecdotal thinking. Our brains gravitate toward the simple and the desirable, and away from the complicated and the boring. The people in the business of selling TV programming are well aware of this, and that's why we see UFOs, ghosts, psychics, and miracle cures dominating pop culture."
Many famous people claim to have encountered either UFOs or aliens, from singers Elvis Presley and Blink-182's Tom DeLonge and President Jimmy Carter. They were able to have successful careers despite the stigma associated with such an alleged experience, though many other believers were not.
Earlier this year, the TV series "Unsolved Mysteries" devoted an episode to a group of people from a small town in western Massachusetts who claim they encountered a UFO in 1969. They described being socially rejected, viciously bullied, and in one case even harassed to the point where they moved away. it makes sense why they wouldn't go to the police or the local press at the time with their story. Many other reports of UFO sightings and encounters follow the same pattern — those who come forward suffer for doing so. As one of the people in the episode puts it, the town devolved from "Norman Rockwell to Salvador Dali" as public opinion and un-visited citizens turned against the purported witnesses.
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Matthew Rozsa is a staff writer for Salon. He holds an MA in History from Rutgers University-Newark and is ABD in his PhD program in History at Lehigh University. His work has appeared in Mic, Quartz and MSNBC.
Ivan Vagner joined the ISS crew on 9 April, when a Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft sent him along with fellow cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka as well as NASA’s Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir to the space oupost.
Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner, who is currently woking on board the International Space Station, has shared a video of the aurora over Antarctica which showed several unknown objects flying through outer space.
In the 60-second clip that Vagner posted on his Twitter page on Wednesday, at least five mysterious objects are seen emerging from the dark and slowly moving in space before completely disappearing.
"[…] In the video, you will see something else, not only the aurora. At 9-12 seconds, 5 objects appear flying alongside with the same distance. What do you think those are? Meteors, satellites, or…”, the cosmonaut tweeted.
He added that the footage was sent to the management of the Russian space agency Roscosmos as well as to the country’s leading rocket and spacecraft scientific centre TsNIIMash and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences for "further analysis".
Several Twitter users have, meanwhile, suggested that the "breathtaking" video captured nothing but a new batch of Starlink satellites that were launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday.
Starlink is the next-generation satellite network capable of providing Earth's inhabitants with broadband internet access. The project's implementation began in February 2018 amid SpaceX’s plans to launch a total of about 12,000 such satellites into outer space.
There have been hundreds of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) around the world.
Lincolnshire is certainly no different - there have been all sorts of strange sightings in the skies of our county over the years.
Last year, Boston was named as one of the top ten places in the UK to spot a UFO.
The most recent sighting - showed flickering lights the sky over the A151 near Bourne.
This sighting is just one of a number of other, more mysterious sightings,that still can't be explained.
Here are our picks of the weirdest UFO sightings across Lincolnshire.
Amazing footage captures UFO sighting in sky above Lincolnshire - July 2020
A man has captured video footage of a possible UFO flying in the sky above Lincolnshire.
The footage, which was filmed over the A151 by Alex Platts, shows flickering lights in the sky overhead on Monday, July 27.
He posted online: "UFO I’ve just been watching over Bourne.
"Headed off North Easterly direction. Any ideas??"
The video caused a stir, with a lot of people commenting with ideas of what they thought it was.
One said: "Very odd. That’s not something easily explained.
(Image: Alex Platts)
"I do love a good UFO sighting."
Another suggested: "The light flashing pattern makes me think it's a helicopter."
Alex, however, says he believes it's not a helicopter - as there was no rotor noise and the way the lights "flowed from front to back" was not like that of a helicopter.
"It looks like several of whatever they are," another person commented.
Mysterious object over the Lincolnshire coast - October 2019
A man in Ingoldmells spotted this very strange image in the sky in October last year.
The man who took the photo, Gary Couldwell, said: "It was so weird. At first I thought it was a lantern, but the way it moved in the sky I don't think it could have been.
"It just stayed in that position for such a long time before shooting up so quickly.
"I don't believe in any of that, really. I'm a doubter. But after this, seeing it with my own eyes - I'd say I'm inbetween."
(Image: Gary Couldwell)
Shiny round object in the sky over Boston - May 2017
In May 2017, a video of a shiny round silver object in the sky which appeared and disappeared over Boston was posted on YouTube.
Five strange lights spotted over Lincoln Cathedral in broad daylight - April 2014
People in Lincoln spotted five lights in a pentagon shape April 2014.
The person who captured the footage claimed they were absolutely not Chinese lanterns and has labelled the phenomenon a UFO.
Hovering, flashing lights spotted over Heckington - August 2013
This example has seen plenty of exposure since it came to light seven years ago.
An eyewitness, Pete Willerton, from Heckington, said he saw the lights from his home.
Speaking in 2013 he said: "It looks a bit like a chinese lantern but it flashes and changes colour from orange to red to white. It moves around slightly then just disappears.
Strange object seen over Lincoln - May 2019
Simon Carrison photographed this object in the sky from his home in College Close, Lincoln just after 6.30pm on May 23 2019. He had no idea what the object could have been.
(Image: Simon Carrison)
Object burning in the night sky - September 2017
In 2017, Zoe Fletcher took to Facebook at about 9pm on Monday, September 4 and wrote that she'd seen something burning through the night sky.
She wrote: "Me and Nathan were in the garden and heard a strange whirring noise in the sky like an aircraft but ranging from low pitch to high pitch.
"It looks like something burning through the atmosphere," she added.
Mysterious lights floating over Skegness for seven hours - 1996
Mysterious lights were seen in the sky over Skegness for seven hours, and the object was spotted on a military radar.
But the RAF were told to ignore it after it was “overruled at the highest level” and files show that RAF Coningsby wanted to scramble aircraft to the scene.
A letter from an unidentified government official criticised the government's defence secretary at the time, writing: "I am very concerned about an incident that occurred off the Anglian Coast recently, involving a visual unidentified flying craft sighting which was correlated by various different military radar systems.”
It added that it was "incredible" that "no aircraft were scrambled when an uncorrelated target was picked up so close to the coast” and that “this raises serious issues about the way in which we police the UK’s Air Defence Region”.
Large, dark object hovering over Lincolnshire - 2016
This image was taken in 2016 and appears to show a mysterious dark object floating in the sky in Lincolnshire.
It is not known exactly where the video was filmed but it was uploaded to YouTube with the title 'UFO Sighting Over Lincolnshire, UK August 20, 2016'.
"Is it a plane or a UFO?" - May 2014
A Lincolnshire allotment keeper spotted this mysterious object in the skies above the county.
Hunting cameras installed to identify people breaking into sheds and stealing chickens showed a strange light in the sky.
Allotment holder Gary Ingham said: "Is it a plane or a UFO?"
Grimsby Live has also reported a number of strange sightings and events in North Lincolnshire. One woman claimed to have been abducted by aliens from her home in Tetney the same day UFOs were spotted over Grimsby.
They report some of their strangest sightings below.
March 2000 - Woman claims to have been abducted by aliens
A woman claimed to have been abducted by aliens at her home in Tetney on the same day UFOs were sighted over Grimsby.
She said that at around 9.30am that morning she was transported from her bed to an alien space ship that was constructed entirely of a steel-like material.
She explained: “I was in bed and felt myself getting weaker and weaker, like I was collapsing. The next thing I knew, I was in this corridor.”
While on board the alien ship she opened a door and was shocked to find a human male “spread-eagled” on a table, while aliens “peeled back his skin to look at his insides”.
The woman added: “There was a female being, who was milky white and wearing some sort of wig, I think it was to try and make her look less frightening, and more human.
“She communicated to me, telling me not to worry about my cats and dog, that they would be looked after.
“She didn’t speak to me in words, just put these thoughts in my head. She didn’t scare me, I think she was trying to help."
She said she thought she was going to die, but the next thing she knew she was back in her bed and only 11-and-a-half minutes had passed.
“I was so shocked to be back, I thought I was gone for good,” she said.
The woman said she knew people would perceive her as “mad” but honestly believed it was a real abduction.
September 1970 - Fatal crash sparks strange theories
The downing of fighter jet XS894, piloted by American Captain William Shaffner on a September evening in 1970, has been officially documented as a tragic accident.
But reports of bizarre flying transparent spheres, unusual blips on the radar and the fact the aircraft was discovered with its cockpit empty and canopy shut fast has left the story open to discussion.
On the night of September 8 1970, Captain William Schaffner, an American pilot based at RAF Binbrook took off from the flight-line out into the skies over Grimsby and headed across the Humber, and out over the North Sea, heading to Flamborough. Shortly after 10.30pm his plane ditched into the North Sea, five miles south of Flamborough Head.
An air and sea search and rescue operation was launched but it would take a further four days for the joint American and British operation to cease their search.
On October 7, 1970, it was revealed that the plane had been found when navy divers sailed to Flamborough onboard the HMS Kedleston but their search still did not provide answers and they returned empty handed.
August 1999 - 'Disc' hovers over Scartho Fork
A UFO was spotted over Scartho Fork. A vast glowing disc hovered over the roundabout and then sped upwards, according a Springfield Road resident.
He added that he had seen the object a total of five times.
He said: "The first time I saw the UFO, I was frightened. The disc gave off a warm red glow and then turned green.
"The disc spun off in to the night sky, moving this way and that in an apparently random way. Who knows where it was going.''
April 2000 - Several sightings of strange phenomenons
Grimsby Telegraph readers flooded the telephone lines with sightings of strange phenomenons.
A Cleethorpes couple got the shock of their lives when an unidentified red ball hurtled towards their house and passed through one of their bodies.
A woman was on the telephone when her husband shouted to at her to look through the window.
She said: ''I left the phone dangling as I saw a two-inch red ball of fire come through the window and pass through my husband's chest.
“We immediately lifted his shirt to see if it had left a mark, but there was nothing there – we daren’t tell anyone at first, it was very frightening. People will think we’re mad but there was nothing in the sky and not a soul around.”
The man involved said: “I’m too old to be scared, it didn’t hurt but we both saw it and my wife never drinks.”
Meanwhile, one Cleethorpes woman's husband thought she was “cuckoo” after she told him she had seen a “bright light travelling really slowly across the sky down the Humber” when she put her washing out.
She described the object as “round and big”.
Another reader saw a “really bright light” hovering above Blundell Park.
He said: “It was like a comet, it was so quick it couldn’t have been an aeroplane or a helicopter. It vanished in a split second. It was travelling at a height between 3,000 to 5,000 feet – I can’t describe it, I’ve never seen anything like it.”
October 2003 - UFO spotted near Freeman Street
A couple spotted what they believe was a UFO "turning over and over in the sky" near Freeman Street in Grimsby.
The UFO was in the air above their Bodiam Way home for several minutes before Steve went inside and grabbed his video camera.
The footage showed an intriguing black object coming in and out of view and catching the light at regular intervals.
September 2005 - Mysterious animal and unidentified flash
Ashby-cum-Fenby was visited by both a UFO and a large black cat, according to a resident.
During one weekend, his CCTV camera caught images of a mysterious animal walking in a field near his house as well as an unidentified flash.
March 2009 - 'Protractor-shaped' flashes
Two people saw “protractor-shaped” flashes in the sky at about 8pm on March 23. Three others spotted a multi- coloured flashing object hovering in the sky above Grimsby’s Grafton Street.
January 2009 - Witnesses say UFO damaged wind turbine
Witnesses in the Conisholme area claimed damage to a wind turbine was caused by a UFO.
One person described seeing a “massive ball of light” with “tentacles going right down to the ground”.
The story garnered international attention as was reported on the front page of The Sun.
It was later reported that "bolts securing the blade to the hub of the turbine failed due to material fatigue".
September 2010 - 'Strange red aircraft lights' spotted near Tetney
A second appeal for sightings was printed in the Telegraph, following initial reports of “strange red aircraft lights” near Tetney earlier in the week. The story followed an e-mail from another reader who said they had “possibly just seen two UFOs travelling in an easterly direction over Fulstow village, heading towards the North Cotes area”.
September 2019 - Unusual lights over Grimsby
Several people got in touch to say they spotted unusual lights over Grimsby shortly before dawn one morning.
The unidentified objects were seen flying low over the town centre and are said to have disappeared mysteriously quite suddenly. Witnesses also said there was no sound accompanying the lights.
One picture sent to us appeared to show three distinct lights which did not seem to be connected by any visible object.
Dwarf Planet Ceres is Water-Rich World, New Research Suggests
Dwarf Planet Ceres is Water-Rich World, New Research Suggests
High-resolution observations from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft of mysterious bright spots (faculae) in Occator crater on the dwarf planet Ceres suggest the existence of a brine reservoir — which is about 40 km (25 miles) deep and hundreds of km wide — that emerged to the surface through long-lived cryovolcanic activity as a consequence of the impact that created the crater.
This false-color image shows the dwarf planet Ceres.
“Dawn accomplished far more than we hoped when it embarked on its extraordinary extraterrestrial expedition,” said Dawn’s mission director Dr. Marc Rayman, a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“These exciting new discoveries from the end of its long and productive mission are a wonderful tribute to this remarkable interplanetary explorer.”
Long before Dawn arrived at Ceres in 2015, astronomers had noticed diffuse bright regions on the dwarf planet with telescopes, but their nature was unknown.
From its close orbit, Dawn captured images of two distinct, highly reflective areas within Occator crater, which were subsequently named Cerealia Facula and Vinalia Faculae.
Scientists knew that micrometeorites frequently pelt the surface of Ceres, roughing it up and leaving debris. Over time, that sort of action should darken these bright areas. So their brightness indicates that they likely are young.
Trying to understand the source of the areas, and how the material could be so new, was a main focus of Dawn’s final extended mission, from 2017 to 2018.
The research not only confirmed that the bright regions are young — some less than 2 million years old; it also found that the geologic activity driving these deposits could be ongoing.
This conclusion depended on scientists making a key discovery: salt compounds concentrated in Cerealia Facula.
On Ceres’ surface, salts bearing water quickly dehydrate, within hundreds of years. But Dawn’s measurements show they still have water, so the fluids must have reached the surface very recently.
This is evidence both for the presence of liquid below the region of Occator crater and ongoing transfer of material from the deep interior to the surface.
The researchers found two main pathways that allow liquids to reach the surface.
“For the large deposit at Cerealia Facula, the bulk of the salts were supplied from a slushy area just beneath the surface that was melted by the heat of the impact that formed the crater about 20 million years ago,” said Dawn principal investigator Dr. Carol Raymond.
“The impact heat subsided after a few million years; however, the impact also created large fractures that could reach the deep, long-lived reservoir, allowing brine to continue percolating to the surface.”
Dawn captured pictures in visible and infrared wavelengths, which were combined to create this false-color view of a region in 92-km- (57-mile-) wide Occator crater on the dwarf planet Ceres. Recently exposed brine in the center of the crater was pushed up from a deep reservoir below Ceres’ crust. In this view, it appears reddish. In the foreground, is Cerealia Facula, a 15-km- (9-mile-) wide region with a composition dominated by salts. The central dome, Cerealia Tholus, is about 3 km (1.9 miles) across at its base and 340 m (1,100 feet) tall. The dome is inside a central depression about 900 m (3,000 feet) deep. The area depicted in this scene is about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) wide in the foreground, about 11 km (7 miles) wide across the dome, and 56 km (35 miles) wide in the background, where the crater rim rises against the black sky. The distance from the near point (at the bottom) to the far point (at the top) is about 52 km (32 miles).
Dawn got as close as 35 kilometres to Ceres' surface, enabling it to create image mosaics like this one of Cerealia Facula.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI)
This artist's concept shows NASA's Dawn spacecraft arriving at the dwarf planet Ceres.
(NASA: JPL)
Scientists are confident there's a deep brine reservoir under Occator crater.(NASA: JPL)
In the Solar System, icy geologic activity happens mainly on icy moons, where it is driven by their gravitational interactions with their planets.
But that’s not the case with the movement of brines to the surface of Ceres, suggesting that other large ice-rich bodies that are not moons could also be active.
Some evidence of recent liquids in Occator crater comes from the bright deposits, but other clues come from an assortment of interesting conical hills reminiscent of Earth’s pingos — small ice mountains in polar regions formed by frozen pressurized groundwater.
Such features have been spotted on Mars, but the discovery of them on Ceres marks the first time they’ve been observed on a dwarf planet.
On a larger scale, the Dawn scientists were able to map the density of Ceres’ crust structure as a function of depth — a first for an ice-rich planetary body.
Using gravity measurements, they found Ceres’ crustal density increases significantly with depth, way beyond the simple effect of pressure.
The authors inferred that at the same time Ceres’ reservoir is freezing, salt and mud are incorporating into the lower part of the crust.
The findings were published in a series of papers in the journals Nature Astronomy, Nature Geoscience and Nature Communications.
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C.A. Raymond et al. 2020. Impact-driven mobilization of deep crustal brines on dwarf planet Ceres. Nat Astron 4, 741-747; doi: 10.1038/s41550-020-1168-2
M.C. De Sanctis et al. 2020. Fresh emplacement of hydrated sodium chloride on Ceres from ascending salty fluids. Nat Astron 4, 786-793; doi: 10.1038/s41550-020-1138-8
Heavy Rains Filled Lakes and Rivers on Early Mars, New Research Suggests
Heavy Rains Filled Lakes and Rivers on Early Mars, New Research Suggests
Planetary researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center have used dry paleolakes and riverbeds to determine how much precipitation was present on Mars 3.5-4 billion years ago.
Open and closed lakes on early Mars.
Image credit: University of Texas at Austin.
The climate of the ancient Mars is something of an enigma to scientists. To geologists, the existence of riverbeds and paleolakes paints a picture of a planet with significant rainfall or snowmelt.
But planetary scientists who specialize in computer climate models have been unable to reproduce an ancient climate with large amounts of liquid water present for long enough to account for the observed geology.
“This is extremely important because 3.5 to 4 billion years ago Mars was covered with water,” said study lead author Dr. Gaia Stucky de Quay, a postdoctoral researcher in the Jackson School of Geosciences and the Center for Planetary Systems Habitability at the University of Texas at Austin.
“It had lots of rain or snowmelt to fill those channels and lakes.”
“Now it’s completely dry. We’re trying to understand how much water was there and where did it all go.”
In the study, Dr. Stucky de Quay and colleagues found that precipitation must have been between 4 to 159 m (13-520 feet) in a single episode to fill the Martian lakes and, in some cases, provide enough water to overflow and breach the lake basins.
“Although the range is large, it can be used to help understand which climate models are accurate,” Dr. Stucky de Quay said.
“Climate models have trouble accounting for that amount of liquid water at that time. It’s like, liquid water is not possible, but it happened. This is the knowledge gap that our work is trying to fill in.”
The scientists looked at 96 open-basin and closed-basin lakes and their watersheds, all thought to have formed between 3.5 billion and 4 billion years ago.
Using satellite images and topography, they measured lake and watershed areas, and lake volumes, and accounted for potential evaporation to figure out how much water was needed to fill the lakes.
By looking at ancient closed and open lakes, and the river valleys that fed them, they were able to determine a minimum and maximum precipitation.
In 13 cases, the authors discovered coupled basins — containing one closed and one open basin that were fed by the same river valleys — which offered key evidence of both maximum and minimum precipitation in one single event.
“Our study takes previously identified closed and open lake basins, but applies a clever new approach to constrain how much precipitation these lakes experienced,” said study co-author Dr. Tim Goudge, also from the Jackson School of Geosciences and the Center for Planetary Systems Habitability at the University of Texas at Austin.
“Not only do these results help us to refine our understanding of the ancient Mars climate, but they also will be a great resource for putting results from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover into a more global context.”
A paper on the findings was published online in the journal Geology.
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Gaia Stucky de Quay et al. Precipitation and aridity constraints from paleolakes on early Mars. Geology, published online August 13, 2020; doi: 10.1130/G47886.1
A group of citizen scientists working with a NASA citizen science project called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 has discovered 95 new brown dwarfs in the sun’s nearby neighborhood.
Artist’s concept of one of the 95 new cool brown dwarfs in the neighborhood of our sun. A companion white dwarf star is in the distance. Brown dwarfs are sometimes said to be star-planet hybrids. They’re not massive enough to ignite thermonuclear fusion reactions in their interiors, and so shine as stars do. Yet they’re too massive to be considered planets.
Image via NOIRLab/ NSF/ AURA/ P. Marenfeld/ William Pendrill/ JPL.
Almost every week, astronomers announce new discoveries such as exoplanets found orbiting distant stars, asteroids whizzing past Earth, and faraway galaxies with their massive black holes blazing at the edge of the universe. On August 18, 2020, NASA announced yet another discovery – made by members of the public assisting with a citizen science project – in this case of another 95 new cosmic neighbors – brown dwarfs – many within just a few dozen light-years of our solar system.
The findings are currently pending publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
These citizen scientists helped to find the brown dwarfs through a NASA-funded project called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9. Like other such projects, this one is a collaboration between scientists and volunteers. It relies on data – lots of data – from various sources, including NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) satellite, from NASA’s now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation’s ground-based NOIRLab program, which involves five major obervatories. Sifting through the mountains of data collected by all these instruments is a huge task. That’s why citizen scientists are so helpful, said Aaron Meisner of NOIRLab. He co-founded Backyard Worlds, and he’s lead author of the new study:
Vast modern datasets can unlock landmark discoveries, and it’s exciting that these could be spotted first by citizen scientists. These Backyard Worlds discoveries show that members of the public can play an important role in reshaping our scientific understanding of our solar neighborhood.
Comparison of the typical masses of exoplanets, brown dwarfs and stars.
Jackie Faherty of the American Museum of Natural History in New York said:
This paper is evidence that the solar neighborhood is still uncharted territory and citizen scientists are excellent astronomical cartographers. Mapping the coldest brown dwarfs down to the lowest masses gives us key insights into the low-mass star-formation process while providing a target list for detailed studies of the atmospheres of Jupiter analogs.
Brown dwarfs are fascinating objects that are too small and not massive enough to be stars, but too large and too massive to be considered planets. Some brown dwarfs can have temperatures in the thousands of degrees, but that’s not enough to fully “ignite” and become stars. Others are much colder, and many of the newly discovered ones are in this category. Some are colder than the boiling point of water, while others are actually have temperatures close to that of Earth. There is also evidence that, just like gas giant and ice giant planets, brown dwarfs can have very stormy atmospheres. The brown dwarf Luhman 16A may look a lot like Jupiter.
Astronomer Aaron Meisner of NOIRLab. He is lead author on a citizen-science effort that led to the discovery of 95 new brown dwarf neighbors.
If these brown dwarfs are so relatively close to us, why weren’t they discovered until now?
The answer is that, since they’re relatively cool objects, they shine only faintly in visible light. They can also be seen in infrared light, but because of their cool temperatures, they’re faint in infrared as well.
These new brown dwarfs are a missing link in the types of brown dwarfs known to exist, these scientists said. By learning more about them, they said they can learn more about how these objects form, and how they relate to other stars and planets in our sun’s neighborhood.
Some brown dwarfs are cold enough to have water vapor clouds, similar to earthly clouds. There is evidence for this on the coldest known brown dwarf, WISE 0855, which was discovered in 2014 and is only about seven light-years away. With a temperature of minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 23 degrees Celsius, some scientists thought it might actually be a rogue planet, floating freely in space between stars. The new discoveries now help to put WISE 0855 in the context of other cool brown dwarfs. According to astrophysicist Marc Kuchner, principal investigator of Backyard Worlds: Planet 9:
Our new discoveries help connect the dots between 0855 and the other known brown dwarfs.
Artist’s concept of turbulent weather on a brown dwarf.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ University of Western Ontario/ Stony Brook U.
And just how did the citizen scientists find the new brown dwarfs?
The volunteers – over 100,000 of them – were approached by Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 to examine telescopic images consisting of trillions of pixels. Ultimately, 20 different citizen scientists from 10 countries became coauthors of the new study. They used sky maps produced from observations by WISE and NEOWISE and scoured additional archival datasets, such as those from the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory and Víctor Blanco 4-m Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), both programs of NOIRLab. As one citizen scientist, Les Hamlet in Springfield, Missouri, said:
Being that this will be the first scientific paper that I’m a coauthor on, its publication will definitely be the highlight of working with Backyard Worlds so far. Also, being connected in some way with the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope through this paper is kind of special to me.
These new brown dwarfs are just the latest to be discovered; Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 has previously found over 1,500 such cool worlds.
So … what’s next?
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will soon image the entire southern hemispheric sky over 10 years, which should be yield many more cool brown dwarfs, among other discoveries. The upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be able to study some of these brown dwarfs more closely to find more clues as to how they form as well as other planet and atmospheres.
Brown dwarfs are enigmatic worlds, and scientists are now starting to learn how they came to be, in their cosmic place between planets and stars.
Artist’s concept of the brown dwarf Luhman 16A (not one of the newly-discovered brown dwarfs), which may have Jupi
ter-like bands. Image via Caltech/ R. Hurt (IPAC).
Bottom line:A group of citizen scientists working with Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 has discovered 95 new brown dwarfs in the sun’s neighborhood.
According to a new study, citizen scientists have recently discovered nearly 100 brown dwarfs located fairly close to our sun. Several members of the public, which includes volunteers as well as professional scientists, were part of a citizen science project that was funded by NASA and called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9.
During the project, over 100,000 citizen scientists analyzed data from NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (or NEOWISE) satellite as well as other data that was gathered by WISE between 2010 and 2011 in addition to information collected from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab.
They were able to locate 95 brown dwarfs which are space objects that are too small to be stars but too big to be planets. And they are relatively close to our sun with some of them being just a few dozen light-years away.
Even though they are called brown dwarfs, they are actually orange/red or magenta in color. While some brown dwarfs can reach temperatures as hot as thousands of degrees Fahrenheit, they can also be cooler than the degree at which water boils, and some have temperatures pretty close to Earth which would allow them to have water clouds.
The coldest brown dwarf ever found is called WISE 0855 and it was discovered in 2014. It has temperatures of around minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 23 degrees Celsius) which is by far the coldest brown dwarf that has been detected. In fact, it is so cold that some experts questioned whether it was instead a rogue exoplanet.
It’s quite exciting to think that citizen scientists made such a significant discovery. “These Backyard Worlds discoveries show that members of the public can play an important role in reshaping our scientific understanding of our solar neighborhood,” said Aaron Meisner, who is an assistant scientist at NSF’s NOIRLab and the lead author of the study.
Jackie Faherty from the American Museum of Natural History in New York and who is a co-author of the study, weighed in by stating, “This paper is evidence that the solar neighborhood is still uncharted territory and citizen scientists are excellent astronomical cartographers,” adding, “Mapping the coldest brown dwarfs down to the lowest masses gives us key insights into the low-mass star-formation process while providing a target list for detailed studies of the atmospheres of Jupiter analogs.”
In total, volunteers for Backyard Worlds have so far detected over 1,500 cold worlds pretty close to our sun and the newly discovered 95 brown dwarfs were the most ever found through a citizen science project. Many more are probably just waiting to be found and the James Webb Space Telescope will surely help with the findings when it is launched next year.
MUFON Canada UFO Primer: Interview with Victor Viggiani
MUFON Canada UFO Primer: Interview with Victor Viggiani
MufonCanada has launched a new Podcast feature on our YouTube channel. These will feature interviews with Ufologists from around the world, witness interviews from our cases files and other exciting news as we follow the US Navy Intelligence UAP Task Force. Listen now to the first of many to come.
Victor Viggiani is currently the News Director of ZlandCommunications an international news service. His study of anomalous aerial phenomenon, research and analysis of Extraterrestrial issues spans over 30 years. His experience involves UFO sightings report investigation, academic and radio journalism with a primary focus on UFO/ET government Disclosure. Victor has addressed the media and audiences in Sydney and Brisbane Australia, Washington D.C., at the Washington D.C. National Press Club, Rochester NY, CBC and CTV Toronto television news programs and at Convocation Hall University of Toronto. Victor is a co-host on the Richard Syrett Show on AM 740 Radio in Toronto.
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Unknown flashing object over Cleveland, Ohio 19-Aug-2020
Unknown flashing object over Cleveland, Ohio 19-Aug-2020
This bright UFO was seen and recorded in the sky above Cleveland, OH on August 19, 2020.
Witness report:
On 08/19/20 at approximately 10:00 hours I was assigned to assist with traffic in downtown Cleveland. There were 4 other parties assigned to the intersection of E.9th & Bolivar to repair telephone lines. During our time at the intersection I was discussing the buildings surrounding area. We began discussing the cable that was stabilizing a communication tower and the insulator in the middle which we thought was odd. In the video you can see the insulator, which can be mistaken for a hovering object. At 10:23 hours I noticed an object fly out from behind one of the buildings. The crew I was working with had also noticed it. I took out my phone and attempted to capture video of the object. In the video, we can all be heard acknowledging the object. The object appeared to have an erratic flight path. It flew to my left and flashed a few times and then moved to my right and flashed a few times then shot off into the sky. I believe I found one view of it. As it was flashing and moving so quickly it was almost impossible to capture.
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It was a strange interstellar comet, it was a stranger spaceship, it was an interstellar asteroid, it was something else, and the latest — it’s a frozen hydrogen-sicle. And now, the cigar-shaped unknown space object from another solar system is back to being a spaceship … or at least a piece of alien technology. That’s the latest from two leading astrophysicists who have been watching and commenting on ‘Oumuamua ever since it showed up unannounced in 2017 and has been inspiring debates, exploration suggestions and occasional concern ever since.
“The first interstellar object observed in our solar system, 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua), exhibited a number of peculiar properties, including extreme elongation and acceleration excess. Recently, Seligman & Laughlin proposed that the object was made out of molecular hydrogen (H2) ice. The question is whether H2 objects could survive their travel from the birth sites to the solar system.”
Like this, only hyrdrogen?
Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, and Thiem Hoang, an astrophysicist at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, sprang into action as soon as astrophysicists Darryl Seligman, University of Chicago, and Greg Laughlin, Yale University, released their research paper in May 2020 proposing that ‘Oumuamua was formed in a giant molecular cloud (GMC) and is composed of molecular hydrogen ice – a giant cigar-shaped interstellar hydrogen iceberg. Seligman and Laughlin tied their theory to the idea that outgassing or evaporating hydrogen ice wouldn’t be visible from Earth — explaining the mystery of how ‘Oumuamua could be a comet if it didn’t have a tail, especially when it accelerated out of the solar system.
“Assuming that H2 objects could somehow form in the densest regions of GMCs, we found that sublimation by collisional heating inside the GMC would destroy the objects before their escape into the ISM [interstellar medium]. We also studied various destruction mechanisms of H2 ice in the ISM. In particular, we found that H2 objects are heated by the average interstellar radiation, so that they cannot survive beyond a sublimation time of tsub ~ 10 Myr for R = 300 m (see Figure 1). Only H2 objects larger than 5 km could survive.”
“Not so fast!” said Loeb and Hoang. In their response, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, they point out that the closest GMC is too far away for a hydrogen iceberg to survive the trip (due to the heat generated by cosmic collisions) and would probably not even survive an exit from a GNC. Loeb admits that, while this knocks ‘hydrogen iceberg’ off the “What’ is ‘Oumuamua?” list, we still don’t know for certain what it is. Fortunately, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (VRO) is scheduled to become operational next year and he believes it will detect “one ‘Oumuamua-like object per month.” If they can’t figure out what it is with that kind of data, they need to turn in their astrophysicist club membership cards.
‘Oumuamua as alien technology disguised in a crust of space debris – proposed by Loeb in 2019 – was never disproved, just pushed down on the list of possibilities. With hydrogen iceberg joining the “Nope” list, it can move up again until the VRO collects more data or a human spaceship launched in time to catch ‘Oumuamua before it leaves the solar system.
Place your bets on your favorite now.
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Hey guys, hope you all are having a great weekend. I'm just chilling at my computer and found a few things that seem significant to me and hopefully it will be significant to you too. I found a structure on Mars. There is a window in it, even a doorway if you add much more light, but the door is only about 15% visible. Near the structure is a face wearing a Aztec animal like mask. I've seen this before in faces on Mars, its nothing new. The thing that made me excited was the white fungus seen growing under the rock. Its round and tube-like...a plant stemming out to find more space to grow. People say its impossible to discover life or evidence of life on other planets...but its what I do on a daily basis. Everything seems impossible until you put forth a little effort into it. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
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Drone caught Fastwalker speeding over Entre Ríos Province, Argentina
Drone caught Fastwalker speeding over Entre Ríos Province, Argentina
Anew drone footage shows one of the mysterious fastwalkers flying through our skies without we seeing them with the naked eye. The drone camera accidentally recorded the fastwalker moving at an incredible speed over Villa Valle María, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina on August 22, 2020.
The drone at that time was 400 meters high.and the video has been shot by Alan Gerstner in 1080p (Full HD) at 50 frames per second.
“Fastwalker” is a term used by NORAD and branches of armed forces to describe unidentified aerial phenomena moving and/or changing directions at high speed far beyond what current aerospace technology is capable of.
The fastwalker is marked with a yellow circle, in slow motion and in the last part of the video with zoom. The right image above has been edited and shows specific details of the fastwalker.
Nearly 4,000 light-years away, there’s a star called VY Canis Majoris. It is, in a word, huge. It’s 270,000 times as bright as the Sun, and if you plunked it down in the middle of our solar system, it would burn Saturn.
VY Canis Majoris is a hypergiant star. And perhaps it is no surprise that there’s a tech startup humbly eponymizing it: Hypergiant Industries, a company that aims, its website explains, to be “the guiding light that solves humanity’s most challenging problems.”
Hypergiant was founded just two years ago, in 2018, but the company has already worked with the likes of Booz Allen Hamilton, Shell, NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Department of Homeland Security. The company spun up so quickly in part because it didn’t just build from scratch. It fused already-extant elements: buying image-analysis companies, investing in AI developers, and scooping up space technology, in the service of delivering on its slogan: “Tomorrowing today.”
That all sounds pretty legit: Serious government agencies, serious firms, serious fortune, and Fortune 500. And that clout is probably part of why Hypergiant’s R&D division can, without risking too much blowback, now take a risk on something farther-out: UFO research. This may actually be more grounded, and profitable, than it sounds.
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Hypergiant was founded by CEO Ben Lamm, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous companies to big names like Zynga and Accenture. This company, though, he intends to hang on to.
Once Lamm decided he wanted to start Hypergiant, he said in an interview, he and his team started brainstorming where AI could still make a big difference. They settled on three main areas: infrastructure, like supply chains and logistics; defense; and space.
On the list of those projects on the company’s website, though, the new UFO endeavor isn’t listed. The company’s website does list some projects as “redacted,” however.
But Lamm does talk about UFOs, though he calls them UAP: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It’s the term insiders and the government have introduced to ditch the baggage that the decades-old “UFO” has amassed. If you look at the intersections Hypergiant’s three main interests, says Lamm, “UAPs are the X at the cross center.”
He’s interested in finding out whether those UAP come from here, or out there. “The question of whether we’re alone in the universe is kind of like ‘Is the Earth flat?’” he says (“no” being the answer to both, in his mind).
The US government has recently vocalized its interest in UFOs: the Navy has crafted new guidelines for soldiers to report sightings; Congresspeople have gotten classified briefings; officials speak of strange stuff in the sky as an imposing national-security threat.
Notably, there’s no evidence that directly supports the interpretation that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. In fact, signs point in a different direction: the Navy has said that UAP sightings are on the rise “consistent with the wide proliferation and availability of inexpensive unmanned aerial systems,” which are just cheap drones. Military definitions of “UAP” include objects that are simply unauthorized, not necessarily unidentified.
Lamm accepts that the phenomena might just be earthly technology, and he wants Hypergiant to help find whatever truth is out there.
“If this is a brilliant lady and guy who build insane technology in a garage in Iowa, we should know about that,” he says. “Regardless of what the UAP is and whether it has a terrestrial origin or not, I think it’s important for people’s safety.”
Hypergiant’s research trajectory homes in on exactly what UAP investigators have never nabbed: hard data collected in a systematic way. In this case, data largely from Earth-watching satellites.
The company plans to scrutinize that data with software it’s developing called CONTACT: Contextually Organized Non Terrestrial Active Capture Tool. Although it’s still in early stages, it will, the company hopes, burrito together adapted versions of Hypergiant’s existing tools, like the Disaster Mapping System, and new ones, to parse orbital and aerial images in search of Anomalies.
In its future final form, CONTACT will analyze 3-dimensional satellite data. Or ”volumetric” information, that reveals not just where a craft is in terms of its latitude, longitude, and altitude. CONTACT will spot the differences between satellite images and throw up a flag if, say, a mothership flies into a field of view at noon when it wasn’t there yesterday, and then determine whether it’s actually just a jet at a weird angle.
For that task, the team is developing a neural network that can recognize known aircraft. “This is xyz helicopter,” says Lamm. “This is xyz Raptor. This is a Boeing 737.” Those go in the digital trash.
To help train these aircraft-spotting algorithms, Hypergiant is creating a siphon that sucks up public information about creepy sky sightings that people think are unidentified and tags them with locations and times. The software will then dive into satellite and drone archives, gather images of the right regions and hours, and use computer vision to find fliers. After comparing whatever it finds against known airline flight paths, and screening out all the Boeings, the researchers will use what’s left as training data, to help AI identify UAP in future observations.
Hypergiant positions CONTACT as a way to investigate cosmic mysteries: to toss out terrestrial knowns in search of possible extraterrestrial unknowns. But the tool would be equally adept at identifying terrestrial unknowns: experimental drones, and advanced military aircraft tests, for example. Because of this, Lamm believes that CONTACT would be of keen interest to officials with extremely earthly concerns. “It’s highly valuable to big defense contractors, the Air Force, radar operators,” says Lamm.
If things go well, which they often don’t in space, Hypergiant engineers will start gathering their own data. On a rocket scheduled to launch in March, Hypergiant will send up its first instrument that can take 3-D observations, in the form of a payload piggybacked on a larger satellite. Data should start to rain down in April or May.
Assuming that works, the first satellite of Lamm’s 30+ orbiter constellation will go up in the fall, on the Cygnus NG-14 and SpaceX SpX-21 missions. And then, presumably, the other 29 or so. And then, perhaps, the startup will data that will illuminate what we talk about when we talk about UAP, UFOs, or whatever acronyms someone comes up with later. To see whether or not all of that happens, we’ll have to wait till today becomes tomorrow.
Luis Elizondo, former head head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), will join us to talk about recent developments. We’ll discuss the Department Of Defense’s announcement of the creation of a UAP Task Force, his History channel show Unidentified, the history of inaccurate statements made about him by the DoD and more.
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