During a thunderstorm one night in September, Brennan Nedeff saw a weird light in the night sky and thought it was the moon but at the end it looks like something came out of the cloud formation.

The strange light is an atmospheric optic that sometimes occurs when clouds reflect the Moon's light or something supernatural has taken place in the sky over Yakima Washington?

  

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29-09-2020 om 15:06 geschreven door peter  

July 31st, 1995. A Boeing 727 carrying 102 passengers is on final approach to the airport of San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. According to the radio transcripts, flight crew and personnel on the ground witnessed a rapid-moving, luminous…something. In the pilot’s words, “the object has bright flashing lights...this...is...we think it's a flying saucer.”

How many trained observers saw this? Did it perform an "impossible" maneuver seemingly defying the laws of physics? 

And what did the Fuerza Aérea Argentina (Argentine Air Force) conclude this was? One of the most interesting and truly lesser known strange UFO encounters.

0:00 Intro 

0:42 Declassified transcripts 

1:57 "Impossible" maneuver 

3:17 Three ground observers 

4:30 Air Force analysis 

7:14 Our thoughts

  

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29-09-2020 om 14:35 geschreven door peter  

UFOs filmed over Rock Hill, South Carolina 28-Sep-2020

These strange lights were recorded in the night sky above Rock Hill, SC yesterday.

Witness report: 

These objects are strange. We tried to debunk them as floating lanterns, or drones, etc., but still is believed that they are UAP’s.

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29-09-2020 om 14:22 geschreven door peter  

Life on Earth may have begun in hostile hot springs

Understanding how complex molecules formed on our planet could guide the search for life elsewhere in the solar system

By Jack J. Lee

At Bumpass Hell in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, the ground is literally boiling, and the aroma of rotten eggs fills the air. Gas bubbles rise through puddles of mud, producing goopy popping sounds. Jets of scorching-hot steam blast from vents in the earth. The fearsome site was named for the cowboy Kendall Bumpass, who in 1865 got too close and stepped through the thin crust. Boiling, acidic water burned his leg so badly that it had to be amputated.

Some scientists contend that life on our planet arose in such seemingly inhospitable conditions. Long before creatures roamed the Earth, hot springs like Bumpass Hell may have promoted chemical reactions that linked together simple molecules in a first step toward complexity. Other scientists, however, place the starting point for Earth’s life underwater, at the deep hydrothermal vents where heated, mineral-rich water billows from cracks in the ocean floor.

As researchers study and debate where and how life on Earth first ignited, their findings offer an important bonus. Understanding the origins of life on this planet could offer hints about where to search for life elsewhere, says Natalie Batalha, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “It has very significant implications for the future of space exploration.” Chemist Wenonah Vercoutere agrees. “The rules of physics are the same throughout the whole universe,” says Vercoutere, of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. “So what is there to say that the rules of biology do not also carry through and are in place and active in the whole universe?”

Lure of the land

At its biochemical core, the recipe for life relies on only a few ingredients: chemical elements, water or other media where chemical reactions can occur and an energy source to power those reactions. On Earth, all of those ingredients exist at terrestrial hot springs, home to some hardy creatures. Great Boiling Spring in Nevada, for example, is a scalding 77° Celsius, yet microbes manage to eke out an existence in water near the spring’s clay banks, researchers reported in 2016 in Nature Communications. Such conditions may reflect what it was like on early Earth, so these life-forms are most likely “related to some of the organisms that were originally on this planet,” says Jennifer Pett-Ridge, a microbial ecologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

Microorganisms at hot springs can form communities called microbial mats. Made up of layers of microbes, mats have been found in geothermal areas all over the world, including in Yellowstone National Park, the Garga hot spring in southern Russia and Lassen — home to Bumpass Hell.

Over time, microbial mats can form into stromatolites, structures of microbes and minerals that have accumulated on top of one another; the layered appearance of a stromatolite reflects the passage of time, like a tree’s growth rings. Researchers found evidence of stromatolites in the Dresser Formation, a 3.5-billion–year-old rock feature in the Western Australia outback, along with evidence of hot spring mineral deposits, describing the findings in 2017 in Nature Communications. These findings, plus other signs of past microbes, led the team to suggest that some of the earliest life on Earth flourished in a hot spring environment.

David Deamer, a biophysicist at UC Santa Cruz, has spent four and a half decades exploring how life on our planet may have begun. He started out studying lipids, oily molecules that make up the membranes surrounding cells. Deamer, a big proponent of hot springs as the source of life’s start, has shown that conditions at terrestrial hot springs can produce bubblelike vesicles, with an outer layer made up of lipids. Such structures may have been the ancestral precursors of modern-day cells (SN: 7/3/10, p. 22).

Bruce Damer, an astrobiologist at UC Santa Cruz who brings a computer science approach to questions about the origins of life, worked with Deamer to test whether conditions at hot springs could drive condensation reactions, which join two molecules into one larger composite.

When water splashes out of a hot spring and evaporates, molecules that were in the liquid could undergo condensation reactions and link up. A subsequent splash would add more molecules that could undergo additional condensation reactions as liquid dries again. Repeated rounds of wetting and drying could produce chains of molecules.

In 2018, Damer set up shop at an active geothermal area in New Zealand, named along the usual theme — Hells Gate — to test that hypothesis. He prepared vials with ingredients needed to assemble strands of RNA, a nucleic acid that acts as a messenger during protein synthesis and may have catalyzed chemical reactions involved in the origins of life on early Earth (SN: 4/10/04, p. 232). The concoction included two of the four RNA building blocks — the nucleotides that link together to form RNA chains.

Damer stood the open vials in a metal block, roughly the size of two CD cases stacked together, and set the contraption into a near-boiling hydrothermal pool. To simulate the sometimes-wet, sometimes-dry burbling of the primordial Earth, Damer squirted acidic hot spring water into the vials, let them dry out and then repeated the wet-dry cycle several more times. When he brought the vials back to the lab, he found that they contained RNA-like strands that were 100 to 200 nucleotides long.

These results, reported in December 2019 in Astrobiology, indicate that complex molecules can form at hot springs, supporting the hypothesis that life on Earth may have developed in such an environment. In 2020, Damer returned to Hells Gate with Deamer and colleagues to confirm Damer’s results and do more wet-dry cycling studies.

Nicholas Hud, a chemist at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, studies the origins of life from a slightly different perspective: He explores how DNA and RNA nucleotides originated. He agrees that molecules are more likely to link together by condensation reactions on land, where wet-dry cycles can occur, than in the ocean. These reactions produce water; the formation of such a chemical bond isn’t energetically favorable when there’s already a lot of water around. “The best place to form that is in a hot, dry place,” Hud says. “The worst place to form it is in a wet, hot place.”

Underwater visions

Yet, wet, hot environs are just the place for life to originate, other evidence suggests. At hydrothermal vents on the deep, dark ocean floor, heated water spews into seawater that’s just a few degrees Celsius above freezing (SN: 7/23/16, p. 8).

In 2017, researchers found fossils in 3.77-billion-year-old rocks from Quebec that originated from the ancient ocean floor and had signs of hydrothermal activity (SN: 4/1/17, p. 6). The researchers claim that the distinct structures resemble those of microbes, suggesting that deep-sea environments may have supported some of the earliest life on Earth.

These environments can be extreme: Some vents belch dark plumes of water as hot as 400° C. However, if vents played a role in nurturing early forms of life, it likely happened at milder vents. For example, Lost City is a hydrothermal area in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean where the fluid streaming from vents ranges in temperature from 40° to 90° C. The region is named for dramatic limestone chimneys that rise as much as 60 meters above the seafloor.

These spires are home to microbes that feed off the products of a chemical reaction known as serpentinization. “Hydrothermal vents are interesting because they are at the interface of water and rock,” says astrophysicist Laurie Barge of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

A chemical reaction between water and rock at sites like Lost City makes the water coming out of vents more alkaline than the water in the ocean, which has a higher concentration of positively charged hydrogen ions. The resulting gradient from alkaline to more acidic water is like the difference between the positive and negative ends of a battery and can serve as an energy source for chemical activity.

To study the conditions at underwater vents, Barge creates simulated environments in the lab that, she says, “can mimic what you see in the natural world.” To represent an ocean on early Earth, she fills an inverted glass bottle with an acidic mixture containing iron but no oxygen. One end of a plastic tube pokes through the narrow end of the bottle, connected to a steady supply of a basic, or alkaline, solution just like a vent.

When Barge and colleagues injected an alkaline vent solution containing RNA nucleotides into an ocean-simulating bottle, individual RNA nucleotides linked up into short chains. These strands were only three or four nucleotides long, but the results suggest that the conditions at deep-sea vents could have supported reactions that led to the emergence of life on Earth, the researchers proposed in 2015 in Astrobiology.

Problems with both

To Deamer, there are big barriers to putting life’s pieces together near underwater vents: The vastness of the ocean would dilute molecules so they wouldn’t be concentrated enough to drive chemical reactions. Also, there are “no wet-dry cycles underwater.” In his view, repeated evaporation is needed to pull together enough molecules to bump into each other and react to form longer chains. Plus, unlike a hot spring’s freshwater, salty ocean water inhibits the formation of membranes and reactions that link together molecules, he says.

However, Deamer’s hot springs theory has its critics as well. DNA and RNA strands are composed of alternating phosphate and sugar molecules, but sugars “are profoundly unstable in hot spring environments,” says David Des Marais, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.

And it may be too soon to rule out wet-dry cycles underwater. “You can have a little bit of water get stuck in a pore,” says Bill Brazelton, a marine microbiologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. And then, because the serpentinization reaction at a vent uses up water in making other molecules, “you can have these cycles of dehydration inside a rock underneath the ocean.”

It may be impossible to nail down how life truly began on Earth: Most geologic records of what actually happened during Earth’s earliest days have long disappeared. There are numerous alternative hypotheses for where life began, beyond terrestrial hot springs and deep-sea vents. Recent research, for example, suggests that asteroid impacts could have sent superheated seawater into the crust to produce hydrothermal systems resembling hot springs (SN: 7/4/20, p. 10).

“I think we have to admit that there might be more than one little torturous path that might have been traversed in order for life to begin,” Des Marais says.

Life beyond Earth

Researchers are using what they’ve learned about how and where life may have originated on Earth to guide the search for biological signatures beyond our planet. There are several promising locales in our solar system.

“One of the things that NASA is really interested in knowing is whether or not there could be life in the subsurface oceans of the icy moons, like Europa and Enceladus,” says Batalha, of UC Santa Cruz. Scientists have evidence that the two moons, one orbiting Jupiter and the other, Saturn, have oceans of salty, liquid water beneath their icy shells (SN Online: 6/14/19).

These moons are intriguing because, along with liquid water, both have plumes of water erupting from their surfaces (SN: 6/9/18, p. 11), suggesting ongoing hydrothermal activity. NASA’s Cassini space probe even identified compounds containing carbon, nitrogen and oxygen within Enceladus’ plumes, some of the ingredients of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Europa and Enceladus fascinate astronomers because activity on their ocean floors may resemble the hydrothermal vents found on our own planet and may provide the chemical conditions to support life (SN: 4/18/15, p. 10).

Icy moons may also promote condensation reactions. “Even if you were on an icy moon, you might have … freezing and thawing of ice,” Barge says. “So, I think it’s important to say, if wet-dry cycling is important, then we should look for any environment in the solar system that might be able to promote oscillating conditions of dehydration.”

But to find signs of past life, Damer and Deamer believe Mars is a more promising place to look. Mineral deposits indicate the presence of hot springs and hydrothermal activity in the planet’s past, which would have sustained the wetting and drying cycles that the two researchers see as crucial for condensation reactions to get life going.

Missions to the Red Planet are already under way. NASA’s Perseverance rover will be searching for signs of ancient life, such as telltale minerals in rock samples, at Mars’ Jezero crater when the mission lands in February 2021 (SN: 7/4/20 & 7/18/20, p. 30). Though at least 54.6 million kilometers separate them, Mars and Bumpass Hell may not be so different.

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29-09-2020 om 01:40 geschreven door peter  

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29-09-2020 om 01:27 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers in Canada say they have found evidence for 45 new tiny moons orbiting Jupiter, and that the planet may have a staggering 600 such moons in total.

Image of j22r94a24, one of the possible new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter by scientists at the University of British Columbia in Canada. The researchers say that Jupiter may actually have up to 600 of similar tiny moons. Image via Edward Ashton/ University of British Columbia/ SkyandTelescope.org.

As the largest world in our solar system, Jupiter is often referred to as the king of planets. Its kingdom contains at least 79 known moons, second only to Saturn with 82. Now, a new study from the University of British Columbia in Canada suggests that there might be many more Jovian moons waiting to be discovered. If these astronomers are right, Jupiter might have as many as 600 moons whirling around it! These additional waiting-to-be-found moons are sure to be very small, on the order of about 800 meters (yards) in size, these astronomers say.

The findings will be presented virtually on September 25, 2020, at the Europlanet Science Congress 2020, but in the meantime, you can read the pre-print version of the new paper on arXiv, to be published in The Planetary Science Journal, and there is also an abstract on the ESC 2020 website.

This fascinating news was reported by the University of British Columbia on September 14, 2020, as well as by Govert Schilling at SkyandTelescope.org on September 8, 2020.

So how did these researchers come to their conclusion of 600 moons for Jupiter?

Schematic representation of the orbits of Jupiter’s 79 known moons. The 45 new tiny moons potentially discovered are thought to have irregular orbits and belong to the retrograde group. Additional such moons would also likely be in similar orbits, far out from the planet.

Image via Carnegie Institute for Science/ Roberto Molar Candanosa/ SkyandTelescope.org.

Edward Ashton, Matthew Beaudoin and Brett Gladman at the University of British Columbia examined archival images of Jupiter, taken with the 340-megapixel MegaPrime camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The 60 images studied were all taken on September 8, 2010, within a period of three hours. In order to account for the various ways tiny moons might move across a field of view, the team digitally combined all the images in no less than 126 different ways. Their efforts paid off.

They found 52 possible new moons. The objects had diameters as small as 800 meters (2,600 feet), showing up in the images with magnitudes down to 25.7. Out of those 52, seven turned out to be already-known moons that are in irregular orbits, leaving a total of 45 new detections. The newly spotted moons also appear to be retrograde moons, meaning they orbit Jupiter “backwards” with respect to Jupiter’s rotation. This is a bit different from apparent retrograde motion, where a planet, such as Mercury, appears to change its direction moving across the sky as seen from Earth – but doesn’t really, of course – due to the relative positions of the planet and Earth and how they are moving around the sun.

It’s cool that the team found so many (unconfirmed) new moons, but how do they jump from those detections to 600 moons?

The answer is that this search was conducted in only one square degree of view of the space around Jupiter. By extrapolating to the rest of the region around the planet, the researchers estimate that Jupiter could have as many as 600 moons total.

Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie Institution of Science had previously estimated the number of moons larger than one kilometer (.6 mile) in size to be around 100. Regarding the new study, Sheppard told Schilling at SkyandTelescope.org:

We used a similar shift and stack technique for our Jupiter moon discoveries that were announced in 2018. In our paper, we also mentioned detections that we could not confirm as moons, because we didn’t observe them for the months and years required to reliably determine their orbits.

Jupiter is well-known for its four largest Galilean moons Europa, Io, Callisto and Ganymede (Io and Europa depicted here), but it also has many more much smaller moons as well.

Image via ElChristou/ Wikimedia Commons.

As of right now, however, those 45 new moons are not officially confirmed, as their orbits have not yet been precisely determined. Sheppard said:

It takes a lot of large telescope time to get reliable orbits for these very small and numerous moons, so one has to decide if that is scientifically valuable.

The fact that Jupiter already has 79 known moons is incredible enough, when we think of how Earth has only one. But gas and ice giants are much larger and have much stronger gravitational pull, so it really isn’t too surprising that they have many more moons than smaller rocky planets do. Hundreds of moons for Jupiter might be more than you or I imagined, but science fiction writers have probed this possibility for years.

Unfortunately, at the moment, there are no planned follow-up observations to try to confirm these new moons. Ashton said:

It would be nice to confirm them, but there is no way to track them without starting from scratch.

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Image via Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory might be able to help find them again however. According to Ashton:

They will then be linked back, so our observations will eventually be incorporated.

These tiny objects are just big enough to be considered moons – or moonlets – according to scientists. And what about Jupiter’s rings? Like the rings of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, they are composed mostly of particles much smaller than that, more like sand grains or even dust. It would be completely impractical to think of every one of those specks as a “moon,” obviously, so where is the size cutoff?

The answer is that the International Astronomical Union does not consider any rocky objects smaller than one kilometer (.6 mi) to be a moon. Ashton said:

Eventually one descends to ring particles, and some kind of cutoff will be useful.

Brett Gladman at University of British Columbia, 1 of the 3 researchers involved in the new study.

Image via The University of British Columbia.

It was also reported last week that Jupiter’s moons seem to be warmer than expected. Most of the heat (on the insides of these worlds) was thought to come from Jupiter’s gravity tugging at the moons’ interiors, creating extra warmth. But now it seems that the moons may be heating each other more instead. This applies to the four large Galiean moons Europa, Io, Callisto and Ganymede.

Saturn currently has 82 known moons. And it is surely likely that future studies will reveal dozens or hundreds more in the Saturnian system as well. What about Uranus and Neptune? It will be very interesting to see if the researchers’ prediction for Jupiter holds up, and how many more of these tiny worlds will be found, within our lifetimes, orbiting the largest planets in our solar system.

• Bottom line: Astronomers in Canada have found evidence for 45 new moons orbiting Jupiter, and say the planet may have as many as 600.
• Source: The Population of Kilometer-scale Retrograde Jovian Irregular Moons
• Via SkyandTelescope.org

The four largest moons of Jupiter, from left to right: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. 

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29-09-2020 om 01:19 geschreven door peter  

 ASHLEY COWIE

World’s First Complete Dinosaur Skeleton Has Been Vividly Brought to Life

A team of English scientists have unboxed the first complete dinosaur skeleton ever discovered, and after over 150 years the remains have finally been fully studied and recorded. Previously unknown traits have been discovered, as well as giving it a new home on the evolutionary timeline.

Rise of the First Terrible Lizard

Sir Richard Owen (1804 - 1892) was a controversial English biologist, comparative anatomist, and paleontologist who spent a lifetime interpreting fossils. He eventually assisted Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 - 1894), the English sculptor and natural historian, in creating the first life-size sculptures depicting dinosaurs. Those sculptures were made for for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London’s Crystal Palace and were seen by over six million people that year.

Owen’s research identified several anatomical similarities between modern reptiles and the skeletons of giant ancient creatures that were being excavated across Victorian England , and it was he who published the first work on Mesozoic land-reptiles, which he named  Dinosauria, from the Greek words “ deinos,” meaning “terrible, powerful or wondrous”, and “ sauros” meaning “lizard”: directly translated to “ Terrible Lizards”.

Bipedal Scelidosaurus illustration from 1896.

(FunkMonk/ CC BY 2.0 )

The Story of the Lost Limb Lizard

According to a report on Science Daily , in 1850 James Harrison, a quarry owner in West England, sent a curious boulder he had found imprinted with fossilized leg bones and a skull to Richard Owen at the British Museum . When Owens completed his study he announced to the world that the fossils encased in this stone represented the very first practically-complete dinosaur skeleton ever discovered. And because of its extremely well-developed hind legs in 1859 Owen named this ancient beast “ Scelidosaurus,” the “limb lizard”.

Replica of a Scelidosaurus skeleton. (FunkMonk/ CC BY SA 2.0 ) The first complete dinosaur skeleton was a Scelidosaurus.

And while in 1861 Owen described this creature as a partially sea-dwelling fish-eater, he failed to make a life-size reconstruction of the creature, and he also neglected any attempt to place the dinosaur into historical context in a timeline with other species. And because in the following decades the fossils of much larger and more newsworthy dinosaurs were discovered, Owen’s “limb lizard” faded into relative obscurity and became all but forgotten in the vaults of London’s Natural History Museum . Until now this is…

• Footprints on the Wall: Were Dinosaurs Actually Climbing the Cliffs in Bolivia?
• Is the Creature Carved Into Angkor Temple Wall a ‘Domestic’ Dinosaur?
• Chinese Boy Accidentally Finds 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Eggs

Resurrecting the First Complete Dinosaur Skeleton

Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes,” and this sentiment applies directly to paleontologist David Norman of Cambridge University’s Department of Earth Sciences . Professor Norman and his team studied Owen's overlooked dinosaur specimen and a new paper they detail how Scelidosaurus had lived around 194-million-years-ago in forested regions that are now submerged beneath the former British Sea . The results of Norman's work, published as four separate studies in the  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London , not only reconstruct what Scelidosaurus looked like in life, but reveal that it was an early ancestor of ankylosaurs, the armour-plated 'tanks' of the Late Cretaceous Period.

The new analysis shows that while Scelidosaurus was a relatively slow-moving creature measuring about 4 meters (13 ft) long, and its entire body was protected inside a thick case of armor, composed of bony spikes, plates and horny scutes. The creature’s teeth and jaw indicated that it was an herbivore that mostly fed on undergrowth. And it was also discovered that the creature probably stood on its hind legs to reach low foliage growing on trees, but its relatively long arms indicated that it had a greatly quadrupedal posture.

Skull of a Scelidosaurus.

( University of Cambridge )

Visualizing a 194-Million-Year-Old Creature

In the most part we humans are a very visually orientated group of creatures who say things like “photographs speak a thousand words,” and the inordinate success of Instagram perhaps speaks loudest about our thirst to be stimulated with graphical representations of reality. It is for this reason perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the new study is the new reconstruction of  Scelidosaurus.

Not only does this new study let us see how this lost dinosaur would have looked when it was grazing in the ancient forests of Europe, but the researchers also completed another major task that Owen had failed to do: they inserted the creature into a new found chronological station of the dinosaur evolutionary time line.

It was after establishing the creature’s 194-million-year-old origins that the team of researchers managed to determine that  Scelidosaurus was not an ancestor of the  Stegosaurian dinosaurs, an idea that has long been suspected in paleontological circles - instead it was an ancestor of the ankylosaurs which emerged around 68–66 million years ago.

David Norman has published the four studies in the latest Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , listed below.

• Top Image: Reconstruction of a live Scelidosaurus, the first complete dinosaur skeleton ever discovered. Source: John Sibbick

By Ashley Cowie

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29-09-2020 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

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29-09-2020 om 00:42 geschreven door peter  

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29-09-2020 om 00:41 geschreven door peter  

The Anunnaki And The Origin of Mankind

Niamh Harris

Zecharia Sitchin  was one of the few scholars able to read and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian clay tablets. He based his bestselling ‘The 12th Planet’ on texts from the ancient civilizations of the Near East.

His controversial theories on the Anunnaki origins of humanity have been translated into more than 20 languages and featured on radio and television programs around the world

Anunnaki (Sumerian: “those who came down from the heavens”). The Anunnaki correspond to the old Hebrew Anakeim and Elohim and the Egyptian Neter.

Rise Earth reports: According to Sitchin, the Anunnaki came from Nibiru, the mysterious yet unconfirmed tenth planet in our solar system. They landed in the Persian Gulf area some 430,000 years ago and colonized our planet with the intention of mining monoatomic gold, which was scarce on Nibiru yet abundant on Earth.

Their mining operations went without a hitch for 200,000 years until their miners rebelled and the Anunnaki were left without their working force. Documents Sitchin claims to have translated tell of the efforts the Anunnaki undertook in search for new miners, efforts which ultimately led to the rise of Homo sapiens.

After unsuccessful attempts to splice animal and Homo erectus DNA, the Anunnaki chief scientists Enki and Ninhursag incorporated their own genetic material into H. erectus, fathering modern humans. Their success was shadowed by the fact that their new human slaves were sterile clones and as the demand for workforce increased, they genetically engineered mankind in order to be able to reproduce.

This ability led to overpopulation and many humans were banished from the safety of their cities, giving rise to the expulsion from paradise myth that so many cultures still recall.

Thousands of centuries later, the human species had evolved into stability and again caught the attention of the Anunnaki. They wanted to take advantage of the new genetic stock and some of them were chosen as sexual partners. The children resulted from these forbidden unions were called the Nephilim, “the giants of old”. This protocol breach also resulted in wiping out the resulting populace, save for a few chosen individuals who were protected by Enki, who still harbored sympathy for his creation. These events are present as the cultural heritage of many civilizations.

After hundreds of thousands of years of enslaving their creation to serve their obscure interests, the Anunnaki decided to leave Earth. Their influence reached every corner of the world, from Mesopotamia to India to South America.

According to Sitchin, the Anunnaki exodus happened around 6,000 years ago. Before they left, they decided to give humanity one more boost, which can be summed up as the Sumerian civilization, which was inexplicably advanced for its time. Indeed, they made a ‘sudden’ appearance as a mature and highly organized culture. The Anunnaki taught the Sumerians their way of life and established kingship. The king would act as their emissary on Earth and rule the people under their guidance. Their select bloodline was genetically enhanced with Anunnaki genes and they were taught astronomy, mathematics, technology and medicine.

Despite the skepticism with which this theory has been met, Sitchin cites several documents and discoveries in support of his claim.

The Babylonian epic of creation called Enuma Elish represents a history of the forming of our solar system. According to it, the Earth had not yet formed when a wandering planet called Nibiru was caught by our sun’s gravitational pull. It disturbed many of the planets’ moons and tilted Uranus’ orbit. It then collided with Tiamat, a planet that once orbited between Mars and Jupiter.

Earth was born out of this collision and Tiamat’s moon became our own. What was left of Nibiru settled into a 3,600 year elliptical retrograde (it spins opposite to all the other planets) orbit around the sun. Interestingly enough, computer simulations indicate such an event as the origin of our planet. It would certainly explain a lot of inconsistencies in our current theory about the Moon, which seems older than Earth itself.

Sitchin also believes that the existence of out of place artifacts such as the Baghdad Batteries or the Saqqara Bird can be attributed to an ancient yet highly advanced civilization. He also mentions the suppressed discovery of an Anunnaki gold processing plant on Mount Horeb by Sir Flinders Petrie in 1889.

Archaeological digs at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Niniveh uncovered 400 intact clay tablets in the library of Assurbanipal. These tablets contain continuous historical records fully encompassing the activities of the Anunnaki. The records place the location of the Anunnaki genetic laboratories in East Central Africa, which, interestingly enough is in the exact same area as our modern searches have placed ‘mitochondrial Eve’ and in the same time period. Even more interesting is that 100,000 year-old gold mines have been found in the area.

Sitchin believes that our evolution has been sped up beyond a doubt. He and others claim that our radical and anomalous differences should be evidence enough for this theory.

They also say the Anunnaki are not done ruling Earth.

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29-09-2020 om 00:24 geschreven door peter  

Is it possible that a famous author had secret access to ancient information surrounding the planet Mars? The story I’m sharing with you today revolves around none other than Jonathan Swift, the brains behind the classic novel Gulliver’s Travels. The book was first published in 1726, almost three hundred years ago. Before we get to the matter of Swift’s strange connection to Mars, though, let’s first take a look at the story-line of his famous novel. The planned, original title of Gulliver’s Travels was Travel into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts…by Lemuel Gulliver. It’s hardly surprising that with a title like that the publisher chose to trim it down a bit! As for the story itself, it tells of the adventures of the aforementioned Lemuel Gulliver. We learn that he has a long affinity for the vast oceans of our world, that he is a skilled surgeon, and that he has traveled the planet, overseeing the crews of several ships. Swift’s story sees our hero head out to a series of tongue-twisting places, including Luggnagg, Laputa, and Brobdingnag, where adventures abound.

Mars’ moon, Phobos (NASA)

Although Swift’s acclaimed novel was first published in 1726, the man himself had been working on the story as far back as 1713. It wasn’t for a full seven years later that Swift finally decided to seriously get into the writing of what was, until then, a largely stalled manuscript. Swift certainly made up for lost time, however, toiling night and day to get the book whipped into good shape. He certainly did that. On reading Swift’s work, Benjamin Motte, a London publisher, eagerly decided to publish it. It was a most wise move: Gulliver’s Travels became a distinct bestseller. It’s still a crowd-puller to this day: in 2010 a big-bucks movie version, starring Jack Black, reaped in more than $200 million in the process. Now, we come to the matter – and the mystery – of Swift’s connection to Mars.

In Gulliver’s Travels, we learn that the people of Laputa – an island that Gulliver visits during the course of his worldwide trek – have “…discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary planet exactly three of its diameters, and the outermost five; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half; so that the squares of their periodical times are very near the same proportion with the cubes of their distance from the center of Mars, which evidently shows them to be governed by the same law of gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.”

We might say that there is nothing particularly strange about all of this: after all, Mars does indeed have a pair of small satellites. Their names are Deimos and Phobos. So, why there is such a controversy surrounding Swift’s words? The answer is a fascinating and tantalizing one: Mars’ two moons were not discovered until 1877 – which was approximately a century and a half after Swift’s book was published. This begs an important and glaringly obvious question: how could Swift have known of the existence of the Martian moons long before anyone else? Certainly, in the 1700s there were no telescopes around at the time that could secure a viewing of the two moons. Not only that, Swift’s descriptions of Deimos and Phobos were not too dissimilar to the reality of the situation.

Deimos: Mars’ Other Moon

(NASA)

On this issue, astronomer David Darling says:”When the two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, were eventually found, by Asaph Hall at the US Naval Observatory, their orbits proved to be quite similar to those described in Swift’s novel. Phobos is actually 6,000 km from the surface of Mars and revolves around Mars in 7.7 hours, whereas Swift gave the values 13,600 km and 10 hours, respectively. Deimos averages 20,100 kilometers from Mars and orbits in 30.3 hours; Swift gives 27,200 kilometers and 21.5 hours, respectively.” Adding even more intrigue to the story: Swift was not the only writer, in the 1700s, to address the matter of Mars’ two moons. They pop up in the pages of an early sci-fi story, Micromegas. It was written in 1750 by Voltaire, an acclaimed French philosopher and historian. Of course, the fact that Voiltaire’s story came after Swift’s makes it very likely that Voltaire simply decided to take a degree of inspiration from the pages of Gulliver’s Travels.

There is another possibility, too. A controversial – and now rightly dismissed – theory was postulated by a German astrologer and astronomer, Johannes Kepler, who was born in 1571 and who died in 1630. Kepler’s theory was that the numbers of moons that orbited the planets in our solar system adhered to a certain concept. Kepler, as a revered astronomer, concluded that neither Venus nor Mercury had moons. He was correct. Obviously, he knew that our planet has just one moon. And, in the world of Kepler, that meant Mars would likely have two moons. And Jupiter would have three, and Saturn four. And so on and so on. Today, we know that this idea has no merit to it at all. Was Kepler’s concept the cause of all the controversy surrounding the Martian moons? Was the whole matter a bizarre coincidence? Or, did Jonathan Swift have access to ancient secrets pertaining to a now-long-forgotten Martian race? They are questions that offer us a great deal of food for thought. So far, however, the questions remain unanswered.

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28-09-2020 om 20:42 geschreven door peter  

For millennia, we, the Human Race, have been intrigued by Mars. Indeed, a good case can be made that we have an absolute affinity to the Red Planet; an affinity that dictated the development of early religions and even the world of conflict, as NASA notes. NASA also states: “The ancient Greeks were fascinated by Mars. Its blood red color led them to attribute the planet to Ares, their god of war. When the Romans conquered the Greeks, they renamed the gods and the planet Ares became the planet Mars.” As for Mars, the god, N.S. Gill says: “Mars sired Romulus and Remus, making the Romans his children. He was usually called the son of Juno and Jupiter, just as Ares was taken to be the son of Hera and Zeus. The Romans named an area beyond the walls of their city for Mars, the Campus Martius ‘Field of Mars.'” Mars was important to the Roman Empire when it came to the matter of something that we, as a species, are all too aware of: warfare. And sacrifice, too, as Patti Wigington states: “Before going into battle, Roman soldiers often gathered at the temple of Mars Ultor (the avenger) on the Forum Augustus. The military also had a special training center dedicated to Mars, called the Campus Martius, where soldiers drilled and studied. Great horseraces were held at the Campus Martius, and after it was over, one of the horses of the winning team was sacrificed in Mars’ honor. The head was removed, and became a coveted prize among the spectators.”

Then, there’s the matter of the ties between Mars and the world of science-fiction. Take, for example, H.G. Wells’ classic sci-fi novel of 1897, The War of the Worlds. It’s a story which sees the human race up against an invasion by hostile extraterrestrials that live on the Red Planet. Moving on, there are Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic fantasy tales that chronicle the life of one John Carter. He’s a heroic, sword-wielding figure who has all kinds of adventures on faraway Mars, with the first story being published in 1912. Burroughs’ novels proved to be incredibly popular with the public of that era. They included A Princess on Mars; Swords of Mars; Synthetic Men on Mars; Thuvia, Maid of Mars; John Carter of Mars and…well…you surely get the picture.

On October 30, 1938, a radio-version of The War of the Worlds was broadcast on The Mercury Theater on the Air. It was directed by Hollywood legend, Orson Welles. So realistic was the drama, it led at least some of the listeners to believe that the Martians really were invading. In 1967, Hammer Film Productions released Quatermass and the Pit, the title of which was changed for American audiences to Five Million Years to Earth. It’s a gripping tale of ancient Martians who came to our world millions of years ago – and who genetically altered early, primitive humans. And, in a strange and very alternative way, the Martians of the movie are still wielding their strange, almost supernatural, powers in 1960s-era London, England, deep inside the tunnels of the London Underground rail-system.

In 1979, NBC broadcast a mini-series based on Ray Bradbury’s science-fiction novel, The Martian Chronicles. Mission to Mars was a big-bucks movie made in 2000 that starred Gary Sinise and Tim Robbins as astronauts who learn – to their amazement – that Mars is not the dead world that so many believe it to be. Then, in 2015, actor Matt Damon took on the role of astronaut Mark Watney in The Martian, a movie that saw Damon’s character forced to find a way to survive in the harsh environment of Mars. Moving away from the domain of sci-fi, there is the matter of the many and varied unmanned missions to Mars that have been undertaken by the United States, Russia, India, Japan, and the European Space Agency. The combined figure – of fly-bys, landings and orbits of Mars – now amounts to close to fifty. In other words, the world’s leading nations in the field of space-flight and astronomy have a deep interest in Mars. As a species, it’s almost as if we just cannot leave Mars alone, whether in mythology, history, science-fiction, or ambitious missions to the planet itself.

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28-09-2020 om 20:28 geschreven door peter  

New Asteroids Update! National Near Earth Object Preparedness USA Strategy via Israeli News Live

New Asteroids Update! National Near Earth Object Preparedness USA Strategy via Israeli News Live

Here is an update on events that have transpired since we first revealed that the earth is entering an asteroid belt as well as the weather changes that would impact the earth.

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28-09-2020 om 18:41 geschreven door peter  

The Simpson's Alien Invasion Prophecy

From correctly predicting the Presidency of Donald Trump to Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox, The Simpsons, yes the longest-running animated TV show ever, has correctly predicted a bunch of wild events. Join Ryan as he shares fifteen of his favorite predictions that have come true.

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies.

Are both parties infiltrated by aliens? They certainly seem like it lately. Aliens that don’t give a s about us.

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28-09-2020 om 18:27 geschreven door peter  

NASA Releases a Picture of the Curiosity Rover With a Mysterious Shadow

NASA Releases A Picture Of The Curiosity Rover With A Mysterious Shadow

In September 2012, Nasa released a picture of the Curiosity, a rover that was exploring Mars. A regular photo of the rover’s exploration containing a mysterious shadow intrigued the internet and raised questions.

A Mars rover is a motor vehicle that travels across the surface of the planet Mars upon arrival. Rovers have several advantages over stationary landers: they examine more territory, they can be directed to interesting features, they can place themselves in sunny positions to weather winter months, and they can advance the knowledge of how to perform very remote robotic vehicle control. Wikipedia

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28-09-2020 om 17:56 geschreven door peter  

28-09-2020 om 17:42 geschreven door peter  

White Triangle UFO Over Las Vegas, May Be Alien Drone From Nellis AFB, Sept 27, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 27, 2020
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Here is some very shaky raw footage of a white triangle UFO over Las Vegas, Nevada this week. This footage is real, it checks out and is not CGI. I have had contact with some people in Las Vegas over the last ten years or so that have also see these white UFOs over Vegas frequently. Nellis AFB is in Las Vegas and its known for having a Tall Whites alien base behind the old firing range of Nellis AFB. This ship fits the description of the Tall Whites craft. I believe this is a remote controlled craft...a drone from the Tall White underground base. They are stubborn and do what they want when and how they want. Why observe us? Humanity has many cultures, rituals and races. We are very different from their genetically enhanced race...genetically increasing strength, memory, stamina, speed, but not things like art, creativity, patience, or trust. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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28-09-2020 om 17:12 geschreven door peter  

Two Mysterious Creatures Wander In Front Of Door Cam, Dallas, Texas, Aug 28, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: August 28, 2020

Location of sighting: Dallas, Texas, USA

 

This footage came from a Ring door cam. It was recorded automatically by the door cam. In the footage we see two very short creatures walking around in the parking lot. The creatures look to be about a foot tall or less. 

There are dozens of old UFO landing reports that talk about eyewitnesses seeing small alien creatures, some that move incredibly fast, but none were harmful but were reported to be very mischievous. These creatures in the cam look like they are looking for something. Its very possible that these are two intelligent alien beings and they landed to get a close up look at life on Earth for a few minutes. Intelligence is not regulated by size, but by will of the species to evolve and survive. 

Scott C. Waring 

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28-09-2020 om 17:06 geschreven door peter  

Mini-moons are a unique space phenomenon that usually happen when an asteroid is caught by Earth's gravitational pull and temporarily orbits the planet.

But now, astronomers are baffled by an object which is on track to enter Earth's orbit in November and it doesn't seem like an asteroid.

According to the director of NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, this 'mini-moon', which they have called asteroid 2020 SO, could be a lost booster rocket from the 60s.

So they're basically suggesting that this man-made booster rocket traveled through space only to resurface close to Earth after more than 50 years. Is that possible or this object isn't man-made at all?

  

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28-09-2020 om 14:46 geschreven door peter  

On September 27, 2020 an unknown object came into the view of the International Space Station live cam until it disappears behind the earth and goes out of the field of view. About 30 minutes later it reappears.... 

Meanwhile the ISS is leaking air and till now they cannot find the leak. Since it looks like the object has the same color as the space station we may wonder whether something did come off the ISS or not.

  

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28-09-2020 om 14:28 geschreven door peter