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...
22-09-2020
Black Sphere UFO Playing Over Water In Russia, Sept 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black Sphere UFO Playing Over Water In Russia, Sept 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 20, 2020 Location of sighting: Kemerovo, Siberia, Russia A black sphere was seen flying over the Tom River in Kemerovo, Russia this week. The object which the eyewitness calls a ball seems to have a black mist around it and you don't really notices a smooth surface which a ball should have, but this does not. I can easily tell that the black UFO is intelligently controlled, by the way it almost touches the surface of the water and then rises up to avoid contact with it. It does this several times, but the detail is incredible. Never in my life have I ever seen a ball or balloon with a black mist around it. Many UFOs often have a spiky mist around them...but usually its caused by light if the crafts propulsion, but there...I am confused at what causes it...again propulsion systems? The HD quality of this video...makes my head spin. Wow, just so amazing of detail here. We see its shape, the black mist around it, its odd movement heading to the water and then avoiding it then doing it again. Very important evidence of UFOs here. This is one for the history books. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Grey UFO Flew Past Queen Mary Ship In Torquay, UK Sept 13, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Grey UFO Flew Past Queen Mary Ship In Torquay, UK Sept 13, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 13, 2020
Location of sighting: Torquay, UK
Source: Twitter
This UFO was caught last week and shared on twitter by the eyewitness. Twitter user Aaron James who goes by the tag @aaronjamesf1 caught a UFO shooting past the Queen Mary ship as it came near Torquay, UK last week.
The UFO has a grey metallic glint to its surface and is shaped like an arm with a white ball on one end. The object appears to be the size of a car and has no visible wings, propellers. UFOs are seen more often over and near the ocean due to the craft coming from underwater bases on the oceans floor. This doesn't look like a drone or any other aircraft. This is alien tech.
Strange Anomaly speeding through the sky over Osijek, Croatia
Strange Anomaly speeding through the sky over Osijek, Croatia
The last months, the eyewitness had seen unidentified aerial phenomena in the sky over Osijek, Croatia. On September 11, 2020 when searching the sky again for UFOs and Spheres he accidentally recorded a bullet-like object that flew through the sky at an incredible speed.
It is not clear if it is a (Tic Tac) UFO something else like an insect or bird since it looks like the anomaly flies close to the camera, making it appear as if the object is flying at a very high speed, but I could be wrong. The photographer sent the video to Mufon for further investigation.
The anomaly moves from left to the right and can be seen right at the start of the video, followed by a slow motion clip of the object.
U.S. Air Force General on UFOs – ‘I’ve had those cases and reported them’
U.S. Air Force General on UFOs – ‘I’ve had those cases and reported them’
Air Force General Kenneth Wilsbach said he hadn’t received reports as a PACAF commander from his personnel about any strange aerial vehicles that could be alien since the Pentagon’s announcement on creating a task force to look into the UFO sightings.
Gen. Wilsbach has been flying his whole life and started airplanes when he was 14 years old, particularly gliders at that time. He has flown jets his entire career. He said, “occasionally, you see stuff that you can’t explain.” And he has “had those cases and reported them.” However, they haven’t had any reports, mainly because the task force started just a few weeks ago.
The members of Congress and the U.S. military are concerned that UFOs that Navy pilots have reported seeing since 2014 could indicate that Russia and China have made breakthroughs in advanced technology, including hypersonics.
No U.S. official so far has publicly ventured that space aliens could fly the UFOs.
On Wednesday, Wilsback shook his head and said, “I don’t know” when asked if he personally believes that extraterrestrials have visited our planet.
What could this be? It was found in Arkansas and photos posted on Facebook in hopes of finding an answer.
PHOTO COURTESY DREW BALEDGE
A large, scaly object resembling a giant egg was found in an Arkansas field, leading to an ongoing social media debate over what it might be — and if it was once alive.
Photos of the find were posted Monday by the Arkansas History Unearthed Facebook group (with more than 18,000 members), showing it was oval shaped, more than 2-feet long and seemingly reptilian in origin.
Group member Drew Baledge of Fayetteville, Arkansas, reported the object had been found by someone in a field and he asked: “What, if anything could this possibly be?”
Hundreds have responded in the past day, including many who called the object “creepy” and “scary.” Among their ideas: fossilized dinosaur waste, a prehistoric egg, a petrified turtle shell, and a giant mushroom.
What could this be? It was found in Arkansas and photos posted on Facebook in hopes of finding an answer. FACEBOOK SCREENSHOT
A few wanted to know if it had a heart beat and if it was soft enough to cut open. Several warned the finder not to bring it indoors.
A UC Merced student who has been obsessed with dinosaurs since he was little recently excavated a 65 million-year-old Triceratops skull while digging in North Dakota, the university said July 24, 2019.BY DAVID CARACCIO.
Several people suggested it is a prized geological formation known as a siderite septarian nodule, which is actually correct, according to James Starnes, director of surface geology for the Mississippi Office of Geology.
Septarian nodules are often referred to as a “dragon stone, because the natural patterns make people think of dragon skin,” according to Fossilera.com. The site sells examples of the stone for up to $395.
The photos indicate the specimen is big, which would make it “highly prized” by collectors, Starnes said. “It’s a crazy looking specimen. Really unique and special,” he told McClatchy News.
It could also be ancient. The nodules typically form in muddy sediment, when soils dry out over years and develop “desiccation cracks,” Starnes said. Those cracks later fill in with secondary minerals like calcite, he said.
The age of the nodule would depend on where it was found, Starnes said. The Facebook post did not give an exact location or weight of the stone.
Fayetteville is in the northwestern part of Arkansas, where septarian nodules are known to be found and occasionally ”mistaken for fossilized turtle shells,” the Arkansas Geological Survey reports.
A beautiful new image of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope – captured in August 2020 – shows the planet’s icy moon Europa as well as several famous storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
View larger. | This might not be the clearest image of Jupiter you’ve ever seen. Spacecraft images are clearer. But it is the clearest image taken from Earth we can recall. Isn’t it beautiful? It’s from the Hubble Space Telescope. The little moon to the left is Europa. Read below to learn about several famous storms of Jupiter, shown in this image.
Image via NASA/ ESA/ STScI/ A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)/ M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)/ the OPAL team.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Jupiter on August 25, 2020, from a distance of 406 million miles (650 million km) from Earth. That wasn’t when Jupiter was closest to us this year. It was closest on July 15, a couple of days after Earth swept between Jupiter and the sun, as we do once each year. Still, in August, Jupiter and Earth were relatively close, in part accounting for the clarity of this image, which shows Jupter’s icy moonEuropa(sixth-closest of the planet’s 79 known moons) as well as some famous storms in Jupiter’s dense atmosphere.
There are lots of cool things to notice in this image.
First, notice Europa to the left of the planet. It’s the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, and is thought to have an ocean beneath its icy surface, possibly holding the ingredients for life.
Now, look at the planet itself. You probably know that the bands we see aren’t on the planet’s surface; instead, when we look at Jupiter, we’re seeing only the uppermost layers of its clouds. The image shows the Great Red Spot, a gigantic storm larger in diameter than our entire Earth, rolling counterclockwise in the atmosphere above Jupiter’s southern hemisphere.NASA said the Red Spot plows into the clouds ahead of it:
… forming a cascade of white and beige ribbons. The Great Red Spot is currently an exceptionally rich red color, with its core and outermost band appearing deeper red.
Researchers say the Great Red Spot now measures about 9,800 miles (14,500 km) across, big enough to swallow Earth. The super-storm is still shrinking as noted in telescopic observations dating back to 1930, but the reason for its dwindling size is a complete mystery.
Now … see the second oval spot below the Great Red Spot? It’s also a storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere, called Red Spot Jr. by scientists. This storm on Jupiter has a long history. NASA said:
Red Spot Jr. is the first storm that astronomers watched develop on a gas giant planet. The huge spot formed between 1998 and 2000, when three small, white, oval-shaped storms merged together. Two of the white spots have been observed since about 1915, but they may have been present even earlier. The third white spot appeared in 1939. In December 2005, the newly formed single white spot turned red, like the much older Great Red Spot.
For the past few years, Red Spot Jr. has been fading in color to its original shade of white after appearing red in 2006. However, now the core of this storm appears to be darkening slightly. This could hint that Red Spot Jr. is on its way to turning to a color more similar to its cousin once again.
Now look more closely at Jupiter’s cloud bands. Note the bright, white, stretched-out storm at mid-northern latitudes (to the upper left of the Great Red Spot and Red Spot Jr). You can see it more clearly in the image below.
View larger. | The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Jupiter in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light on August 25, 2020. In this photo, the parts of Jupiter’s atmosphere that are at higher altitude, especially over the poles, look red from atmospheric particles absorbing ultraviolet light. Conversely, the blue-hued areas represent the ultraviolet light being reflected off the planet. Image via NASA/ ESA/ STScI/ A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)/ M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)/ the OPAL team
NASA said this bright white storm is:
… traveling around the planet at 350 miles (560 km) per hour. This single plume erupted on August 18, 2020 – and ground-based observers have discovered two more that appeared later at the same latitude.
While it’s common for storms to pop up in this region every six years or so, often with multiple storms at once, the timing of the Hubble observations is perfect for showing the structure in the wake of the disturbance, during the early stages of its evolution. Trailing behind the plume are small, rounded features with complex ‘red, white, and blue’ colors in Hubble’s ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light image. Such discrete features typically dissipate on Jupiter, leaving behind only changes in cloud colors and wind speeds, but a similar storm on Saturn led to a long-lasting vortex. The differences in the aftermaths of Jupiter and Saturn storms may be related to the contrasting water abundances in their atmospheres, since water vapor may govern the massive amount of stored-up energy that can be released by these storm eruptions.
Bottom line: A beautiful new image of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope – captured in August 2020 – shows the planet’s icy moon Europa as well as several famous storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
Of all the rocky, inner worlds of the solar system, Venus is the most challenging to explore.
With surface temperatures reaching a bewildering 867 degrees Fahrenheit (464 degrees Celsius), even the mosthardened landers can't survive for long. But a new idea, called the Calypso Venus Scout, calls for a bold new mission design: a science probe dangling 20 miles (32 kilometers) below a cloud-borne balloon.
Welcome to hell
Because Venus is only slightly smaller than our own planet, it's taken up the nickname of the "Earth's twin." But if Venus really is a twin of the Earth, it's the evil kind. Despite their similar sizes, the two worlds couldn't be more different. While Earth maintains a balmy climate, with a decent atmosphere keeping the lid on vast expanses of liquid water oceans, Venus is a nightmare world.
Its atmosphere is almost completely carbon dioxide and reaches pressures 92 times that found at Earth's sea level. The noxious atmosphere is so thick that the planet's surface temperatures are the hottest in the inner solar system — warmer even than Mercury, despite sitting 50% farther away from our sun.
Of all the missions of Venus, only the Soviets attempted any landings, with the Venera program. Brutalized by the extreme conditions, most of those landers failed, but a few managed to survive long enough to send back a few quick exposures before succumbing.
No lander has reached the Venusian surface since Venera 14 in 1982. To date, our only records of the surface come from those few Soviet probes and the occasional orbiter. Even though Venus may be our twin, we know far too little about it.
The winds of Venus
Even nearly 40 years after the last Venera mission, we do not have the technology to build a reliable, long-term probe to survey the terrain of Venus like we do on Mars. What's more, with all the interest in Mars exploration, including possible human visits, nobody really wants to spend the money on developing the technologies needed for a still-risky Venus venture.
But there could be another way to do it, and it's called the Calypso Venus Scout, as outlined in a white paper recently posted to the preprint site arXiv.org. Calypso isn't under NASA consideration right now; the paper's author wrote about it to give the decadal survey, the government's long-term planning process for planetary science, a broader sense of current options.
The mission tries to balance the twin challenges of Venus: The surface of Venus is just too dang hot, but orbital missions trying to study the surface are hampered by the miles and miles of thick, hazy cloud layers, making precise measurements incredibly difficult.
So Calypso would go in between.
At an altitude of about 20 miles, the thick clouds of Venus clear away. If you can get a probe below that level, then you should have a clear, unobstructed view of the ground. And while it's still ridiculously hot at that altitude, it's not nearly as hot as the surface: a relatively balmy 260 F (130 C).
Upon Calypso's arrival at Venus, a massive balloon would deploy in the atmosphere, right at the top of the cloud layers, keeping steady at an altitude of about 30 miles (50 km). At that height, the temperature and pressure don't require any ingenious new technology and solar panels can provide ample power to the probe.
From that balloon, a descent module would trail down, held to the balloon by a tether 10-20 miles (15-30 km) long. The descent module would poke beneath the clouds and take some pictures, surveying the terrain as the high-altitude winds blow the balloon around. Then, once the temperatures inside the descent module get too hot to handle, the module would reel back up above the clouds, relaying the data back to Earth while the module cools off for another round.
The better to see you
On its way up and down, the probe would slowly scan the surface of Venus in visible and infrared wavelengths to a potential resolution of just a few inches or centimeters. One of the most powerful aspects of Calypso is that it wouln't be limited to studying just a single landing site, but would be able to survey wide swaths of the Venusian landscape.
Understanding Venus is critical for learning about our own planet. Billions of years ago, Venus really was a twin of Earth, with liquid water oceans and a pleasant atmosphere. But a runaway greenhouse event on Venus evaporated the oceans, allowed carbon dioxide to vent into the atmosphere unchecked, and left the place a ruin. Venus became so dry that plate tectonics completely shut down, locking its surface in place for at least hundreds of millions of years.
Venus is both a time capsule, providing a glimpse into what an Earth-size planet was up to long ago, and a cautionary tale. By studying Venus more, with daring missions like Calypso, we can better learn what our own fate might be.
Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of Your Place in the Universe.Sutter contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
This amazing image shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot in unprecedented detail.
Collated from data gathered over 30 years ago, the recently completed image has undergone digital enhancement.
Now it is possible to clearly see the Great Red Spot, a hurricane twice the size of Earth that has been raging for longer than telescopes have been able to view it.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot: The hurricane is twice the size of Earth and has been raging for longer than telescopes have been able to view it. This digitally enhanced image was collated from data sent back by Voyager 1 in 1979
The image data was taken by Voyager 1 during a fly-by in 1979.
Nasa launched Voyager 1 in 1977 and, 34 years later, it is currently making its way towards the outer edges of our solar system.
It passed Jupiter early on during its epic journey, on the morning of March 4, 1979, when it spent 36minutes imaging the planet from 1.85million kilometres away.
Voyager 1, needless to say, is the most distant man-made object in the universe and is currently 117 AU from Earth. One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun.
Nasa last year released this infrared image showing how the Great Red Spot is a turbulent region. The darker the colour, the colder the area
As it is: This visible light image of shows how the naked eye would view the region
Jupiter's Great Red Spot has fascinated astronomers since the 19th century.
It lies 22 degrees south of Jupiter's equator and has been known to drift to the left and right.
The Red Spot has changed in size over the years. A century ago it measured 25,000miles across but it is now about half that.
However, it remains incredibly stable despite turbulence, upheavals and close encounters with other anticyclones, suggesting it won't disappear any time soon.
In the past few years, we’ve been spoiled with some awesome Jupiter photos, and this one is no exception. This latest, pastel-colored image is so detailed it can serve as a weather report of the planet’s monstrous atmosphere.
An image of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light on Aug. 25, 2020, is giving researchers an entirely new view of the giant planet. Image credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot takes all the spotlight when it comes to jovian storms, but while it is undoubtedly a mammoth storm, it’s far from the only one. For instance, opposite to the Great Red Spot (in the top-left part of the picture), there’s a remarkable new storm brewing.
The white stretched-out storm is already traveling around the planet at 350 miles per hour (560 kilometers per hour), despite only emerging on August 18, 2020. It’s also accompanied by two other, smaller storms at about the same latitude. According to a NASA statement, this new Hubble image “shows that Jupiter is clearing out its higher altitude white clouds, especially along the planet’s equator, where an orangish hydrocarbon smog wraps around it.”
Another notable storm is the so-called Red Spot Jr., a storm that appears just below the Great Red Spot in this image. For years, Red Spot Jr. has been fading to a shade of white after appearing red in 2006, but now it seems to be turning towards red once again.
As for the Red Spot itself, it’s still shrinking, for reasons that are not well understood. However, it still measures 9,800 miles across, which makes it big enough to swallow the Earth whole.
No matter how many times you look at it, Jupiter is still stunning. Image credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team.
The icy satellite Europe is also visible to the left of Jupiter. Europe has drawn astronomers’ attention as one of the prime candidates for extraterrestrial life in our solar system. Not only does Europe have a liquid ocean under its frozen surface, but it also seems to have salt and hydrothermal vents, essentially supplying all the necessary ingredients for life as we know it.
NASA is already preparing a mission to study Europa on-site, with the Europa Clipper spacecraft set for launch sometime between 2023 and 2025. Europa Clipper will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter’s moon, looking for signs of life and sending a lander to the surface of the satellite.
A team at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has spotted the first comet we’ve ever seen to create an aurora in the ultraviolet spectrum.
Comet 67P. Image Courtesy of ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM.
On Earth, auroras (or ‘polar lights’) are created when charged particles from the Sun hit those in our planet’s atmosphere. They form at the poles because that’s where the Earth’s magnetic field is weakest, allowing such particles to reach the atmosphere.
The discovery of a similar phenomena on a comet, bodies that lack our planet’s magnetic field, has researchers understandably excited.
A space first
“Charged particles from the Sun streaming towards the comet in the solar wind interact with the gas surrounding the comet’s icy, dusty nucleus and create the auroras,” said SwRI Vice President Dr. Jim Burch, in charge of the Ion and Electron Sensor (IES) instrument on board of the craft, in a statement.
“The IES instrument detected the electrons that caused the aurora.”
The IES is installed aboard the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, which was launched back in 2004 and whose mission ended in 2016. Together with Philae, its lander module, Rosetta was the first of our probes to fly alongside a frozen comet (67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko) as it hurdled towards the Sun, observing how it behaved along the way.
Now, data from Rosetta has revealed ultraviolet auroras around 67P, the first ever seen on a comet. These auroras are produced by charged particles interacting with the ‘coma’, the bubble of gas that is created from and encases the comet. This interaction excites the gases enough to make them glow in ultraviolet (UV) light.
Dr. Joel Parker, a member of SwRI who handled data from the Alice far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectrograph on Rosetta, recounts that at first, the team believed they were seeing 67P’s ‘dayglow’, a well-documented phenomenon created by this bubble of gas interacting with photons (light). But they soon realized that this wasn’t the case.
“We were amazed to discover that the UV emissions are aurora, driven not by photons, but by electrons in the solar wind that break apart water and other molecules in the coma and have been accelerated in the comet’s nearby environment,” he explains.”The resulting excited atoms make this distinctive light.”
The findings show that its possible for auroras to form around comets, despite their lack of a magnetic envelope. The techniques developed by the team to integrate data from several devices and discover these auroras can serve us to find similar phenomena on other comets in the future.
The findings will been published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Asteroid 2020 SW will sweep closest – closer than weather satellites – on September 24. It will not hit us, but its orbit will be changed by its close encounter with Earth. Charts here for telescope users. How to watch online.
Small asteroid 2020 SW will pass so close to Earth on September 24, that our planet’s gravity will alter the space rock’s speed and bend its path through space. The green line indicates the asteroid’s trajectory, while the yellow line points to the sun.
Illustration by the Minor Planet Center, with modifications by Eddie Irizarry.
A small asteroid discovered on September 18, 2020, from Mt. Lemmon Observatory in Arizona will pass a lot closer than the moon’s distance this week, passing even closer than geostationary satellites. This approach is so close, and the asteroid is so small, that Earth’s gravity will bend the space rock’s trajectory, as shown in the illustration above.
Closest approach of this asteroid – labeled 2020 SW – should occur on September 24 at around 11:18 UTC (7:18 am ET; translate UTC to your time). At closest approach, asteroid 2020 SW should pass at an estimated distance of 17,556 miles (28,254 km) from Earth, which is just 7% of the moon’s distance. For comparison, television and meteorological satellites orbit at some 22,300 miles (35,888 km) from our planet’s surface.
Although there’s still some uncertainty in the space rock’s orbit, calculations indicate there is no risk of impact. As a result of the asteroid’s orbit’s uncertainty, closest approach might occur up to six hours earlier or later than expected.
Asteroid 2020 SW is estimated to be about 14 to 32 feet (about 4.5 to 10 meters) in diameter. It’ll brighten as it draws near, but won’t ever get bright enough to see with the eye alone. Look below for charts for telescope users.
Or you can watch online:
View larger. | The Virtual Telescope Project in Rome will be showing asteroid 2020 SW live a few hours its closest approach. The live feed is scheduled for September 23, 2020 starting at 22 UTC; translate UTC to your time. To join online, go to Virtual Telescope’s website.
Preliminary calculations indicate that asteroid 2020 SW orbits the sun every 372 days. Its orbit is just seven days longer than Earth’s. However – despite the similarities our orbits – calculations indicate the small asteroid will not impact Earth, at least not for the next approximately 50 years for which its orbit has been calculated.
The space rock is currently traveling at a speed of 17,336 miles per hour (27,900 km/h) or 7.75 km/s relative to Earth.
Asteroid 2020 SW will pass at a safe distance, probably over Australia or New Zealand, during its closest approach, as shown on the illustration below:
Asteroid 2020 SW will pass at a safe distance, probably over Australia or New Zealand, during its closest approach. Green line indicates the asteroid’s trajectory, with blue marks indicating position every 30 minutes. Yellow line points toward the sun.
Illustration by the Minor Planet Center, with modifications by Eddie Irizarry.
Will it be visible?
Asteroid 2020 SW might reach a visual magnitude of 13.0 to 13.5, too faint to be seen by the unaided eye, but within the reach of observers using a 6- or 8-inch diameter telescope – that is, a very small telescope – and also larger telescopes. The space rock is currently in the constellation of Pegasus the Flying Horse, and will then move to the constellation of Pisces the Fish.
The asteroid might still have a magnitude close to 15 on the night of Wednesday, September 23, but will gradually increase its brightness as it approaches, reaching a magnitude of around 13 to 13.5 during the first hours of Thursday, September 24, its brightest being just before dawn.
Observers using a telescope might detect the asteroid, which will look like a “star” moving very slowly because of the distance. If you are pointing the telescope at the correct position and time, carefully observe the stars’ pattern and compare it just five minutes later. If you are able to see a “star” that changed position, then it’s not a star, you have found the asteroid!
Location of Asteroid 2020 SW on the night of Wednesday, September 23, at around 10:30 pm CDT (03:30 UTC on September 24). Facing east, as seen from U.S. The space rock will be located not too far from where we see the star Algenib (Gamma Pegasi), in the Great Square of Pegasus.
Have a computerized or “GoTo” telescope? Point it to one of the stars shown here (HIP 1948 or HIP 1772) on the night of Wednesday, September 23, 2020, and you might be able to detect asteroid 2020 SW. If the object you’ve pinpointed is in fact the asteroid, you should be able to detect its motion after about 5 to 10 minutes.
Want to try to spot asteroid 2020 SW very close to the time of its closest approach? Point your computerized or Go To telescope to one of these stars around 4:45 am CDT (5:45 EDT, 09:45 UTC) on Thursday, September 24, 2020. The space rock’s apparent motion should be easier to detect just before dawn on September 24.
Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium.
Bottom line: Asteroid 2020 SW is small, and it’ll pass exceedingly close to us, so close that Earth will bend its trajectory. It’ll be closest on September 24, 2020, at around 11:18 UTC (7:18 am ET; translate UTC to your time). Its estimated closest distance will be 17,556 miles or 28,254 km from Earth, which is just 0.0735 lunar distances, closer than geostationary satellites. There is no chance it will hit Earth.
I thought I would do something different today (and for the next couple of days). Namely, to demonstrate how the origin of a UFO investigation can be as intriguing as the case itself. Indeed, it’s very often what goes on behind the scenes that really stands out. We’ll begin with my research into the Roswell “UFO crash” of 1947 and how and why I came to the conclusion that nothing of an extraterrestrial nature crashed on the Foster Ranch, New Mexico. I have to admit that up until the latter part of the 1990s, I was – like so many – a believer that aliens died in New Mexico. Things started to change, however, in 1998. That was the year in which my second book was published by Simon & Schuster. Its title: The FBI Files. As the title suggests, it’s a study of the FBI’s investigations into the MJ12 documents, the Contactees of the 1950s, UFO encounters, and cattle mutilations. One of the chapters in that book was titled “The Oak Ridge Invasion.” It was focused on a wave of UFO activity in the late 1940s at the Atomic Energy Commission complex at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It wasn’t long after the book hit the shelves that I got a letter from someone in the United States (I still lived in the U.K. then). It was a letter sent to Simon & Schuster’s offices in London from California. And it was then forwarded on to me.
The letter was written by a woman who wanted to share with me what she knew about Oak Ridge – something extremely controversial. She would only share what she knew in person, however. She didn’t want to say anymore by letter and she wasn’t online. And, she lived in the United States. Well, this made things pretty awkward, to say the least. Indeed, there was no way I could afford to fly all across the Atlantic and onto Los Angeles just to do an interview – an interview that might not even go anywhere. As a result, things were in a state of limbo until 2001. That was when I moved to the United States to live. I still had the woman’s contact information, and I explained the situation: that I could now meet with her in person and we could have a chat. Well, that chat became much more than that. It was one of the most controversial interviews I’ve ever done. Eventually, there were numerous interviews. The woman was pushing eighty in 2001 and she wanted to share what turned out to be a very dark and disturbing story. She had a wealth of material (mainly of old black and white photos) showing she did indeed work at Oak Ridge in the 1940s. There was much more, though.
I assumed – wrongly – that the woman wanted to discuss the UFO reports at Oak Ridge that I wrote about in The FBI Files. What she did want to discuss, however, was something very different. As we sat in a California diner, with a family member along too, she told me something incredible and disturbing: she knew a great deal about Roswell, but not in relation to aliens from faraway worlds. Rather, she said that Roswell was really a series of top secret experiments that revolved around (a) high-altitude testing in craft that are known as “lifting bodies,” (b) huge balloon arrays, and (c) prisoners and handicapped people who were guinea-pigs used in the grim experiments – which all failed. You can, by now, see where all of this is going. The woman said that the UFO legend was a smokescreen to hide what was arguably an even more controversial situation. Even decades later, she was still very concerned for her safety. She was fearful there might be those in government who still might know where she lived, she told me. Her concerns were understandable. Not only that: she put me in touch with several other old-timers – who she knew of way back in the 1940s and 1950s – and who agreed to speak out.
It was after some time – around a couple of months – that I brought up the issue of writing a book. She was okay with that, providing that her real name wouldn’t be publicly revealed. So, when my 2005 book on all of this – Body Snatchers in the Desert – was published I called her the “Black Widow.” It’s hardly surprising that when the book appeared, there was a great deal of debate online (primarily on the now defunct UFO Updates). And, for a few months, I was the ufological Public Enemy Number One, which I was fine with. From there on, I got more and more material on the “human experimentation” angle of Roswell, to the extent that I wrote a sequel in 2017 called The Roswell UFO Conspiracy. Of course, most people in Ufology didn’t buy into it. Some just didn’t want to deal with such revelations: they couldn’t handle the possibility of Roswell not having been an extraterrestrial event. Too bad. I still get threads here and there that add to the story, to the extent there’s a distinct possibility of me doing a third book on all this. And it all had its origins in a solitary letter sent across the Atlantic by a woman who, for decades, had been quietly sitting on a secret of huge proportions.
Part-2 of this 3-part article is focused on how I was able to write what is probably my most controversial book. Its title: Final Events. It’s a book that looks at the secret activities of a small think-tank group within the U.S. government and which believes that the UFO phenomenon is not extraterrestrial in nature. Rather, the group has come to the conclusion that the mystery is one of demonic proportions. As was the case with part-1 of this article, there is an interesting story as to how and why I came across the story and why I decided to write the book. It all goes back to the final days of 2006. At the time, I was looking for a new story that I could turn into a book. As it happened, the story – that I quickly concluded was the one – practically dropped into my lap. It was in late 2006 that I happened to be chatting with Ufologist and priest Dr. Ray Boeche about the Rendlesham Forest affair of December 1980, which – at the time – I thought might have been a good idea for a book. The reason why I gave Ray a call was because he had done a lot of investigative work into Rendlesham throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s. It was during the course of the chat that Ray told me he had an even better and bigger story that might interest me. So, I sat back and listened to what he had to say.
Back in late 1991, Ray was clandestinely approached by a pair of physicists who were working on a U.S. Department of Defense program to try and contact what the group called non-human entities. Or, NHEs. Ray had a meeting with the pair at Nebraska’s Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel. Those who worked on the program, Ray said to me, started off believing that the entities they were were trying to communicate with really were extraterrestrials. It didn’t take long, however, for the group to conclude they were actually dealing with nothing less than demons. Not only that, there had been violent deaths in the program. Ray was shown graphic photos of several people – with their bodies in chairs – who had died while, it was assumed, they were trying to contact the demonic things. Even more controversial, the group was doing its best to try and weaponize the powers of those supernatural creatures. The pair was deeply worried about what they had gotten into and wanted Ray’s advice. That made a lot of sense, as Ray had a background in both UFOs and religion.
This was a fascinating story. I began interviewing (and audio-recording) Ray about all of this on January 22, 2007. Not only that, as time progressed I was able to learn more about the group. They used a nickname of “Collins Elite.” On page 42 of Final Events (which was published in 2010) I specifically pointed out that the name was an informal title created by the group. Almost certainly, the group had a highly-classified title. I never did get to learn what that real name was, however. I was able to speak with a number of the specifically retired staff, though. In the process of digging further I discovered that the group had actually been around for a long time – decades, in fact. But, that there were different levels and tiers within the group, which is why the two guys that met with Ray – and who, in 1991, were new to the program – weren’t aware of much that had gone on in the 1970s and 1980s. “Need to know” was very much the name of the game, which is why they were looking for advice from Ray.
How strange that I would never, ever have heard of a group in the DoD that was investigating demonic activity and supernatural powers had I not approached Ray Boeche about his research into the Rendlesham Forest incident of Christmas 1980. Not at all unlike part-1 of this 3-part article, this saga of aliens and demons is one that could not have been foreseen
Did the Soviet Union Discover Aliens in the Deepest Lake in the World?
Did the Soviet Union Discover Aliens in the Deepest Lake in the World?
Did The Soviet Union Discover Aliens In The Deepest Lake In The World?
Under the waters of Lake Baikal in 1982, 7 Russian divers are exploring the world deepest freshwater lake on a research mission, but 50 metres underwater, strange humanoid creatures appear and in an attempt to capture one of them, all the divers are pushed up to the top by an unknown force.
Who were these creatures and what can we learn from this encounter?
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Zig Zagging UFO Over Seoul, South Korea On Sept 20, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Zig Zagging UFO Over Seoul, South Korea On Sept 20, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 20, 2020
Location of sighting: Seoul, South Korea
This video was just released today. A person in South Korea was recording with their phone on the roof of their apartments when they saw a white object behaving strangely. The UFO began to back track its direction three different times and descended very quickly at one point. There is no aircraft that I have ever seen capable of performing those kinds of maneuvers. 100% proof that aliens are watching over South Korea.
UFO Fleet Over Chicago Causes Guy To Drop His Take Out, Sept 20, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Chicago Causes Guy To Drop His Take Out, Sept 20, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 20, 2020 Location of sighting: Chicago, USA This is really a great catch from Chicago. A UFO fleet was seen over a neighborhood and if you watch carefully and in full screen mode, you will see the UFO is not a lone but with a whole fleet. I saw at least five UFOs, but there may be more since some may glow faintly and the video may not pick them all up. Many white UFO fleets being seen this week around the globe. 100% alien technology, no doubt about it. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I just pulled up to my home and someone flashed me. So I set my P.F. Chang’s on the ground and commenced to record!! Then I said thank you for showing me!! Activity in this part of the USA seems to be gaining momentum.
UFO Fleet Over Old Saybrook, Connecticut On Sept 19, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Old Saybrook, Connecticut On Sept 19, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 19, 2020 Location of sighting: Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA When UFOs fly together, they often take on a formation with the ones closest to them. Here you see a dozen white UFOs in the sky over Connecticut and some of them are in a triangle formation. Its how they watch out for each other. For example a military pilot is always suppose to wait for his wingman...the other pilot flying in the other jet in order to fly more safely and watch out for one another. Very interesting that even UFOs take safety into consideration. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Around 8 or 9 orbs traveled in the same direction for a few minutes before disappearing in Old Saybrook, CT about 2-3 miles away from Saybrook Point around 7:30 pm on September 19th, 2020. They were not airplanes. I don't know what they were so they are technically UFOs.
Huge UFO Over Truchas, Spain On Sept 14, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Huge UFO Over Truchas, Spain On Sept 14, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 14, 2020 Location of sighting: Truchas, Spain What we see here is a huge UFO that has created a cloud around it in order to not frighten the public. It probably is moving from a base under the ocean floor to a new location. The object also seems to be moving very fast, too fast to be a cloud. The disk itself is perfectly balanced and mimics the alien disk shape perfectly. This is an alien ship. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
The journey from La Bañeza to the town of La Baña is made by this van, every working day, taking the workers from a slate factory. One of those days, the occupants of the vehicle are surprised to observe this strange phenomenon. It is produced on the local road LE-126, between the towns of Truchas and Quintanilla de Yuso. With their mobile, they record this possible unidentified object ... or possibly ... this cloud. You think !!
In 1994 an unidentified flying object was filmed by two radar tracking cameras at the Nellis Test Range in Nevada.
First it was sighted near the two radar domes on Black Mountain, Nevada, by tracking Station S30 and the second encounter 43 minutes later was filmed by tracking station S13 from an undisclosed location.
The tapes where made by airmen "filming the screens" of two CCTV monitors and all of the audio was recorded using a microphone. The tapes showing the event were smuggled out and smaller sections were first broadcast in 1995.
Although the footage reveals two radar tracking stations, S30 and S13, when we listen carefully we hear a third station which is S12.
Interestingly when we see the S30 CCTV monitor we are actually hearing the communication between the S12 and S13 controllers . They perform a simulated missile launch on the UFO not once but twice. It is very difficult to hear but you can hear the call "Jackpot".
I.A.T. presents you at first the original untouched video with bad audio quality followed up by our fully enhanced version with better (restored) audio and shown in the correct sequence. Pay special attention to the "white halo" around the UFO. See how it rotates and moves in all directions indicating the UFO's heading.
Some "experts", clearly not radar controllers themselves have been telling complete nonsense as they have drawn wrong conclusions from the radar data.
In a video to be presented soon, we will go much deeper into the subject and will explain in detail what really happened that day (and what not) by presenting you forensically enhanced photos- and videos, audio transcripts with explanations, details of the UFO in super resolution, tracking data and lots of background information, which has never been published.
The mystery of the unidentified flying object spotted whizzing through the air above the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship in Torquay last week has been solved.
Chief investigator for World UFO Photos, John Mooner, who witnessed the UFO said: ''The object flew down towards the ship and then stopped and hovered there for a couple of second before it just seemed to disappear into thin air.
“I was really stumped by this as it was far too large to be a drone and there was no sound at all.
“What the hell did I witness? And where did it go?”
Well, it seems the mystery behind explainable phenomenon can finally be put to bed after the man behind the marvel has come forward stating that it was 'likely' to be his drone.
Budding photographer Luke Brown said: ''Over lockdown I had decided to take up a new hobby so invested in a drone.
Luke captured some stunning shots of the cruise ships(Image: Luke Brown)
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