Take a video tour of asteroid Bennu’s remarkable terrain and read a list of 10 cool things scientists know about this pristine remnant from the early days of our solar system.

Captured on October 20, 2020, during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s sample collection event on asteroid Bennu, this series of 82 images shows the spacecraft’s field of view as it approaches and touches down on Bennu’s surface. The sampling event brought the spacecraft all the way down to the sample site, and the team on Earth received confirmation of a successful touchdown at 6:08 p.m. Preliminary data show the sampling head touched Bennu’s surface for approximately 6 seconds, after which the spacecraft performed a back-away burn. 

See more video and read more from NASA.

On Tuesday (October 20, 2020), NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm and touched an asteroid – known as Bennu – to collect dust and pebbles from the surface. The aim of the OSIRIS-REx mission is to bring the sample back to Earth for study in 2023.

• Read more about Tuesday’s collection event from NASA

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, about the size of a 15-passenger van, is currently orbiting the asteroid Bennu 200 million miles (321 million km) from Earth. When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had suspected: Bennu is made of loose material weakly clumped together by gravity, and shaped like a spinning top.

Scientists had expected Bennu’s surface to consist of fine-grained material, like a sandy beach, but the spaceship’s images showed instead a rugged world littered with boulders the size of cars, the size of houses, even the size of football fields. Using OSIRIS-REx’s high-resolution imagery and data from its laser altimeters – devices that use lasers to map Bennu’s terrain – NASA scientists have created the video tour, below, of Bennu’s remarkable terrain.

Bennu contains material from the early solar system and may contain the molecular precursors to life and Earth’s oceans. OSIRIS-REx engineers and scientists will use several techniques to identify and measure Tuesday’s sample remotely. If the October 20 sample collection event provided enough of a sample, mission teams will command the spacecraft to begin stowing the cargo to begin its journey back to Earth in March 2021. Otherwise, they will prepare for another attempt in January 2021.

On October 15, 2020, NASA released the following list of what we already know (and some of what we hope to find out) about this pristine remnant from the early days of our solar system.

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1. It’s very, very dark …

Bennu is classified as a B-type asteroid, which means it contains a lot of carbon in and along with its various minerals. Bennu’s carbon content creates a surface on the asteroid that reflects about 4% of the light that hits it, and that’s not a lot. For contrast, the solar system’s brightest planet, Venus, reflects around 65% of incoming sunlight, and Earth reflects about 30%. Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid that hasn’t undergone drastic, composition-altering change, meaning that on and below its deeper-than-pitch-black surface are chemicals and rocks from the birth of the solar system.

2. And very, very old.

Bennu has been (mostly) undisturbed for billions of years. Not only is it conveniently close and carbonaceous, it is also so primitive that scientists calculated it formed in the first 10 million years of our solar system’s history, over 4.5 billion years ago. Thanks to the Yarkovsky effect – the slight push created when the asteroid absorbs sunlight and re-emits that energy as heat – and gravitational tugs from other celestial bodies, it has drifted closer and closer to Earth from its likely birthplace: the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on December 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a rangeof 15 miles (24 km).

Image via NASA/ Goddard/ University of Arizona.

3. Bennu is a ‘rubble-pile’ asteroid. But don’t let the name trick you.

Is Bennu space trash or scientific treasure? While “rubble pile” sounds like an insult, it’s actually a real astronomy classification. Rubble-pile asteroids like Bennu are celestial bodies made from lots of pieces of rocky debris that gravity compressed together. This kind of detritus is produced when an impact shatters a much larger body (for Bennu, it was a parent asteroid around 60 miles [about 100 km] wide). Bennu, for contrast, is about as tall as the Empire State Building (1,454 feet or 443 m). It likely took just a few weeks for these shards of space wreckage to coalesce into the rubble-pile that is Bennu. Bennu is full of holes inside, with 20% to 40% of its volume being empty space. The asteroid is actually in danger of flying apart, if it starts to rotate much faster or interacts too closely with a planetary body.

4. Asteroids may harbor hints about the origin of all life on Earth …

Bennu is a primordial artifact preserved in the vacuum of space, orbiting among planets and moons and asteroids and comets. Because it is so old, Bennu could be made of material containing molecules that were present when life first formed on Earth. All Earth life forms are based on chains of carbon atoms bonded with oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and other elements. However, organic material like the kind scientists hope to find in a sample from Bennu doesn’t necessarily always come from biology. It would, though, further scientists’ search to uncover the role that asteroids rich in organics played in catalyzing life on Earth.

5. … But also platinum and gold!

Extraterrestrial jewelry sounds great, and Bennu is likely to be rich in platinum and gold compared to the average crust on Earth. Although most asteroids aren’t made almost entirely of solid metal (but Psyche may be!), many do contain elements that could be used industrially in lieu of Earth’s finite resources. Closely studying this asteroid will give answers to questions about whether asteroid mining during deep-space exploration and travel is feasible. Although rare metals attract the most attention, water is likely to be the most important resource in Bennu. Water (two hydrogen atoms bound to an oxygen atom) can be used for drinking or separated into its components to get breathable air and rocket fuel. Given the high cost of transporting material into space, if astronauts can extract water from an asteroid for life support and fuel, the cosmic beyond is closer than ever to being human-accessible.

6. Sunlight can change the asteroid’s entire trajectory

Gravity isn’t the only factor involved with Bennu’s destiny. The side of Bennu facing the sun gets warmed by sunlight, but a day on Bennu lasts just 4 hours and 17.8 minutes, so the part of the surface that faces the sun shifts constantly. As Bennu continues to rotate, it expels this heat, which gives the asteroid a tiny push towards the sun by about 0.18 miles (approximately 0.29 km) per year, changing its orbit.

7. There’s a small change that Bennu will impact Earth late in the next century.

The NASA-funded Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research team discovered Bennu in 1999. NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office continues to track near-Earth objects (NEOs), especially those like Bennu that will come within about 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers) of Earth’s orbit and are classified as potentially hazardous objects. Between the years 2175 and 2199, the chance that Bennu will impact Earth is only 1 in 2,700, but scientists still don’t want to turn their backs on the asteroid. Bennu swoops through the solar system on a path that scientists have confidently predicted, but they will refine their predictions with the measurement of the Yarkovsky effect by OSIRIS-REx and with future observations by astronomers.

Captured on August 11, 2020, during the second rehearsal of the OSIRIS-REx mission’s sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches asteroid Bennu’s surface. The rehearsal brought the spacecraft through the first three maneuvers of the sampling sequence to a point approximately 131 feet (40 meters) above the surface, after which the spacecraft performed a back-away burn. 

Read more about this image.

Image via NASA/ Goddard/ University of Arizona.

8. Sampling Bennu will be harder than we thought

Early Earth-based observations of the asteroid suggested it had a smooth surface with a regolith (the top layer of loose, unconsolidated material) composed of particles less than an inch (a couple of centimeters) large at most. As the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was able to take pictures with higher resolution, it became evident that sampling Bennu would be far more hazardous than what was previously believed: new imagery of Bennu’s surface show that it’s mostly covered in massive boulders, not small rocks. OSIRIS-REx was designed to be navigated within an area on Bennu of nearly 2,000 square yards (meters), roughly the size of a parking lot with 100 spaces. Now, it must maneuver to a safe spot on Bennu’s rocky surface within a constraint of less than 100 square yards, an area of about five parking spaces.

9. Bennu was named after an ancient Egyptian deity

Bennu was named in 2013 by a nine-year-old boy from North Carolina who won the Name that Asteroid! competition, a collaboration between the mission, the Planetary Society, and the LINEAR asteroid survey that discovered Bennu. Michael Puzio won the contest by suggesting that the spacecraft’s Touch-and-Go Sample Mechanism (TAGSAM) arm and solar panels resemble the neck and wings in illustrations of Bennu, whom ancient Egyptians usually depicted as a gray heron. Bennu is the ancient Egyptian deity linked with the sun, creation and rebirth. Puzio also noted that Bennu is the living symbol of Osiris. The myth of Bennu suits the asteroid itself, given that it is a primitive object that dates back to the creation of the solar system. Themes of origins and rebirth are part of this asteroid’s story. Birds and bird-like creatures are also symbolic of rebirth, creation and origins in various ancient myths.

This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 19, 2019, was created by combining two images taken on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Other image processing techniques were also applied, such as cropping and adjusting the brightness and contrast of each image. 

Read more about this image.

Image via NASA/ Goddard/ University of Arizona/ Lockheed Martin.

10. Bennu is still surprising us!

The spacecraft’s navigation camera observed that Bennu was spewing out streams of particles a couple of times each week. Bennu apparently is not only a rare active asteroid (only a handful of them have been as yet identified), but, along with Ceres as explored by NASA’s Dawn mission, may be among the first of its kind that humanity has observed from a spacecraft. More recently, the mission team discovered that sunlight can crack rocks on Bennu, and that it has pieces of another asteroid scattered across its surface. More pieces will be added to Bennu’s cosmic puzzle as the mission progresses, and each brings the solar system’s evolutionary history into sharper and sharper focus.

Bottom line: Video of sample collection on asteroid Bennu, and 10 things to know about Bennu and the OSIRIS-REx mission.

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25-10-2020 om 01:46 geschreven door peter  

Fans of “The Late Show with David Letterman” will remember a recurring segment called “Is this anything?” where the host and the bandleader Paul Schaffer would watch some strange event and then debate about whether it was anything to be impressed with, afraid of, etc. Ever since the millisecond-long fast radio bursts (FRBs) were detected by astronomers in 2007, space scientists and the general public have been trying decide if they’re anything. Are they signals from an alien civilization? Are they hyperflares from equally mysterious magnetars? If they repeat regularly, then what? Well, get ready to play again because the only known source of FRBs in the Milky Way just sent another burst. Is this anything?

It this anything?

“SGR J1935+2154, the host magnetar of the Galactic FRB200428 (ATel #13681, #13684), was reported to be radio-active again on 2020 Oct 8th by CHIME/FRB team (ATel #14074, #14080). There was one marginal detection of the magnetar’s pulsed radio emission at 408 MHz by the Medicina Northern Cross (ATel #13783) despite many attempts (ATel #13713, #13726, #13778, #13838). FAST observed this magnetar for one hour on 2020 Oct 9th at 1.25 GHz with a bandwidth of 460MHz and detected multiple radio pulses with fluence up to 40 mJy ms.”

That post on the pro astronomers bulletin board ‘The Astronomer’s Telegram’ reports than the CHIME/FRB team (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) was watching the Milky Way magnetar SGR 1935+2154 (30,000 light years from Earth) on October 8 when it emitted three millisecond radio bursts in three seconds, followed by a pulsed radio emission that matched the magnetar’s spin period. SGR 1935+2154 has been under close watch since April 2020 when it emitted its first FRBs, making it the first in the Milky Way and one of only two dozen magnetars ever discovered. Magnetars are neutron stars (collapsed super-giants) with unusually powerful magnet fields, and the discovery led astronomers to answer ‘Yes’ to the ‘Is this anything’ question – this is the first confirmed cause of FRBs. It may not be the only one, but it’s definitely the first.

It’s definitely something

“It’s really exciting to see SGR 1935+2154 back again, and I’m optimistic that as we study these bursts more carefully, it will help us better understand the potential relationship between magnetars and fast radio bursts.”

Astronomer Deborah Good of the University of British Columbia in Canada and a member of the CHIME/FRB, confirmed to ScienceAlert that this is something, especially since the three bursts occurred within one rotation period of the magnetar, with two of them close together. Good called this “a bit unusual” and something the CHIME/FRB team would analyze, but the report in ‘The Astronomer’s telegram’ reveals why this set of bursts could be a BIG something.

“Based on these results and the increasing bursting activities, we speculate that the magnetar may be in the process of turning into an active radio pulsar.”

Radio pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit radio radiation from their poles in millisecond pulses. This means SGR 1935+2154 may be more than a magnetar – it may be the missing link between magnetars and radio pulsars.

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25-10-2020 om 00:17 geschreven door peter  

Archaeologists uncover huge new cache of unopened sarcophagi dating back 2,500 years at Saqqara - two weeks after they recovered 59 coffins from the ancient necropolis

• Authorities announced the coffins were discovered at the famed necropolis near ancient capital of Memphis
• The 80 sarcophagi are believed to be more than 2,500 years old, according to preliminary analysis 
• Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly toured the area and viewed the finds earlier this week 

By JOE PINKSTONE FOR MAILONLINE

Egypt has unearthed another trove of ancient coffins in the vast Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, announcing the discovery of more than 80 sarcophagi. 

The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said in a statement that archaeologists had found the collection of colourful, sealed caskets which were buried more than 2,500 years ago.

Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly and Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khalid el-Anany toured the area and inspected the new discovery yesterday.  

Egypt has unearthed another trove of ancient coffins in the vast Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, announcing the discovery of more than 80 sarcophagi. Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly toured the area and viewed the finds earlier this week (pictured). 

 Egypt has sought to publicise its archaeological finds in an effort to revive its key tourism sector, which was badly hit by the turmoil that followed the 2011 uprising. Pictured, the Egyptian Prime Minister looking inside one of the coffins 

This photo from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities shows Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly looking inside at one of the coffins discovered at an ancient burial shaft at a necropolis in Saqqara

Pictured, Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly (L), Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled el-Anany (C) and secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri (R) looking at a sarcophagus

Archaeologists also found colourful, gilded wooden statues, the ministry said. 

Details of the new discovery will be announced soon in a news conference at the famed Step Pyramid of Djoser, it said.

Egypt has sought to publicise its archaeological finds in an effort to revive its key tourism sector, which was badly hit by the turmoil that followed the 2011 uprising.

The sector was also dealt a further blow this year by the coronavirus pandemic.

As well as more than 80 coffins and mummies, there were various artefacts discovered inside the burial chamber presenred here before the Prime Minister 

The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said in a statement that archaeologists had found the collection of colourful, sealed caskets which were buried more than 2,500 years ago

 More details of the new discovery will be announced soon in a news conference at the famed Step Pyramid of Djoser, Egyptian authorities say 

The dramatic find was unearthed south of Cairo in the sprawling burial ground of Saqqarah, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage site

Just over two weeks ago Egypt revealed 59 sealed sarcophagi, with mummies inside most of them, in the same area of Saqqara.

The Saqqara site is located south of Cairo and the vast burial complex, which also  features the step pyramid of Djoser, served the ancient capital of Memphis. 

It also includes the famed Giza Pyramids, as well as smaller pyramids at Abu Sir, Dahshur and Abu Ruwaysh. 

The ruins of Memphis were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1970s.

The plateau hosts at least 11 pyramids, including the Step Pyramid, along with hundreds of tombs of ancient officials and other sites that range from the 1st Dynasty (2920-2770 B.C.) to the Coptic period (395-642).

Earlier this month, one of dozens of ornately decorated sarcophagi was opened for the first time before assembled media.

The team slowly revealed mummified remains wrapped in burial cloth that bore hieroglyphic inscriptions in bright colours. 

The majority of coffins housed mummified remains which initial research suggests would have been priests, top officials and elites in ancient Egyptian society.

All of whom would have likely been subject to ancient Egypt's complex burial rituals after they died, including having their brains removed with an iron hook.

Egypt's Minister of Antiquities and Tourism, Dr. Khaled El-Enany, said at the time: 'I can say most of the discoveries have been made by Egyptian teams on Egyptian soil. This is something I am immensely proud of.'

He said the mission had started re-excavating the site two months ago, and uncovered a burial shaft 36 feet deep. Inside, they found 13 intact coffins.

The team continued their excavations, discovering two more shafts - 32 and 39 feet deep - also filled with coffins. 

All the coffins discovered so far are in good condition and bear their original colours.

'My colleagues in the Supreme Council of Antiquities discovered burial shafts filled with wooden, sealed and intact coffins,' El-Enany said.

'I am really impressed that Covid-19 did not stop them from digging to unveil more mystery and secrets about our great civilisation.'

The minister said that the coffins would be transported to the Grand Egyptian Museum to be displayed to the public.

Just over two weeks ago Egypt revealed 59 sealed sarcophagi , with mummies inside most of them, in the same area of Saqqara. This find adds to the enormous trove of historical finds in the African nation 

Archaeologists also found colourful, gilded wooden statues, officials said. Details of the new discovery will be announced soon in a news conference at the famed Step Pyramid of Djoser

Pictured: A man opens one of the sarcophagi during the unveiling event in front of the media earlier this month. 59 anthropoid painted coffins have been discovered so far 

The majority of the coffins found at Saqqara so far have contained mummified remains (pictured) of priests, top officials and elites

A sarcophagus that is around 2500 years old is seen inside the newly discovered burial site near Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, in Giza, Egypt, October 3

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24-10-2020 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

A little more than a month ago, I wrote an article on the 13 ancient Egyptian coffins that were unearthed in the desert necropolis of Saqqara, located south of Cairo, Egypt (the article can be read here). The colorful coffins that date back more than 2,500 years (between 664 and 525 BC) were completely sealed and untouched.

After their initial discovery of the 13 coffins inside of a burial shaft that was 36 feet deep, experts continued digging and found two other shafts (32 feet and 39 feet deep) that contained several more coffins that were in good condition and still held their original colors.

Step Pyramid in Egypt.

The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities revealed that more than 80 coffins have been discovered. Additionally, they found colorful, gilded wooden statues. The 28 statuettes were of the god Ptah-Soker and a carved bronze one depicting the god Nefertum which measured a foot tall and had precious stones embedded in it along with the name Priest Badi-Amun who owned it. In addition to those, several ushabti figurines and amulets were also found.

Earlier this month, on October 3^rd, archaeologists opened one of the coffins as several people watched with excitement. The coffin revealed a mummy that was wrapped in ornate burial linen. Amazingly, the inscriptions and colorful designs were still present on the cloth after approximately 2,600 years.

Another picture of the Step Pyramid in Egypt.

It is believed that those who were buried in the coffins were top officials and other important members in Egypt during that time as well as priests from the 26^th Dynasty. According to Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities and Tourism, Dr. Khaled El-Enany, the coffins will be brought to the Grand Egyptian Museum in order for the public to view them. Several pictures of the coffins can be seen here.

The Saqqara site where the coffins were located is part of the necropolis at the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis that includes the Giza Pyramids and smaller pyramids at Abu Sir, Dahshur, and Abu Ruwaysh. There are at least eleven pyramids located in the plateau that includes the Step Pyramid as well as hundreds of ancient tombs that date back between the 1^st Dynasty from 2920 to 2770 BC and the Coptic Period from the years 395 to 642.

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24-10-2020 om 23:33 geschreven door peter  

De verzamelarm van sonde OSIRIS-REx.

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24-10-2020 om 23:19 geschreven door peter  

Edgar Cayce: His Incredible Predictions Were 93% Accurate and Often Shocking

COAST TO COAST AM INSIDER Archived Show – Kevin Todeschi, spokesperson for A.R.E., the organization which Edgar Cayce founded, talked about Cayce’s life and work as well as dream interpretation. Known as the Sleeping Prophet, Cayce gave out thousands of readings while in a trance state, and those concerning medical issues had a 93% accuracy rating, Todeschi reported.

Cayce believed that Atlanteans saved records of their advanced civilization in three locations– in the Yucatan, on the Bimini Islands and in the right paw of the Sphinx. Buried at the Sphinx is a written history of the world from the time of Atlantis to our current era, he predicted. A University recently got the OK to do some underground tunnelling to study parts of the Sphinx, Todeschi announced.

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24-10-2020 om 22:57 geschreven door peter  

 NASA Contractor Whistleblower Says Earth's a Sitting Duck, Aliens From 1,000 Stars Can Easily Detect Us, Greg Allison

Greg shares his knowledge of space and gives his opinions, theories as to what it might actually mean, if an advanced civilization heard a message from Earth that appeared hostile. Also Mr Allison is former Army Special Forces and we talk about a Rumor of a Joint Military/Alien Underground Base in Alaska and a Couple Very Strange Experiences He had, one in Alaska, One around Area 51.

Mr. Allison is currently the Program Manager for the Huntsville Alabama L5 Society (HAL5) High Altitude Lift-Off (HALO) Program, and as President of the High Altitude Research Corporation (HARC). In these capacities Mr. Allison is actively developing cheap access to space technologies. Mr. Allison has worked on the International Space Station Program for Grumman as a systems engineer specializing in robotics, for the Mevatec Corporation as an electrical power systems integration engineer, and for Teledyne Brown Engineering as a payload integration engineer for external space station experiments.

Mr. Allison is currently working for Hernandez Engineering as a safety and product assurance engineer on such projects as Orbital Space Plane, X-37 and HyTEx. Mr. Allison also studies means to defend Earth from asteroids, and the construction of large-scale space stations.

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24-10-2020 om 22:50 geschreven door peter  

What Happened to This Man Will Amaze You...and Terrify You at the Same Time!

Witness of Another World is an intimate documentary that intends to unveil the mystery of a spectacular close encounter case witnessed by a lonely gaucho. Filmmaker Alan Stivelman, moved by the story of Juan Pérez, decides to investigate more about the event that forced him to take refuge in the countryside for fear of contact with the phenomenon.

Dr. Jacques Vallée, a well-known scientist and researcher, participates in this documentary having met Juan more than thirty years ago. This is the only case in the history of ufology in which a witness has been studied several times during a period of 40 years, with his life and the impact of the experience documented fully.

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24-10-2020 om 22:39 geschreven door peter  

Mars Forbidden City - Structures Seen from Space

Stunning HiRISE images of the Mars Forbidden City on Mt Sharp in Gale Crater confirming the city structure photos I have shown from the Curiosity Rover. Amazing ruined city buildings seen from space.

The Forbidden City was first found/named by Joe White – ArtAlienTV – 2015 and these space views were published on YouTube first by ArtAlienTV – Oct 23rd 2020 Real scientists, by definition, are not meant to follow dogma, but to question it relentlessly and push the boundries of current knowledge.

© My enhanced images are shown next to the official raw images to show they are well within the bounds of sensible inquiry/analysis. My finds can be used only if my logo is left in the image and links are given to the video. Feel free to share video links  All these finds must be credited to ArtAlienTV unless stated otherwise.

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24-10-2020 om 22:34 geschreven door peter  

UFOs Seen Entering and Exiting Earths Sun, Oct 22-24, Two Videos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 22-24, 2020

Location of sighting: Earths Sun

Source: Helioviewer.org

 

I got a request from one of my Youtube subscribers a few days ago asking me to find a UFO near the sun. He loved my work and I told him I would get right on it. Today I found two! One entering our sun and one exiting our sun. This does reinforce my Hollow Sun Theory. A theory that says there is a whole mini solar system of mini moon size planets within our sun. One shot in from far away, only to disappear...the other shot out of the side of the sun during a solar explosion. Its huge boomerang wings still have me in awe of the craft. 100% proof that aliens are using a huge hollow space within our sun as a mini solar system. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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24-10-2020 om 22:04 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Craft Seen Then Shoots Away Over Frisco, Texas On Oct 23, 2020, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 23, 2020
Location of sighting: Frisco, Texas, USA
Source: MUFON

 

This UFO report just came in. It included a video and photo of the object. What really surprised me is that the object was seen and followed for a few seconds, the the UFO seemed to realize it was being recorded and shot away at high speed in the opposite direction. Great video of the incredible maneuverability of UFOs. Also the photo itself has a cross like shape to it from the side...very strange. The video is fantastic and terrific evidence, but its the high detailed photo that confirms its 100% an alien craft. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

 

Eyewitness states: 

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24-10-2020 om 22:00 geschreven door peter  

Glowing Objects Over Guildford, Great Britain, Oct 23, 2020, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 23, 2020
Location of sighting: Guildford, Great Britain

Source: MUFON

 

Watch this video below and see these red glowing spheres moving about. The objects are large, round and have no openings visible. If they were Chinese lanterns, they would be oval and a large opening would be visible on the bottom and the candle within would be seen. Lanterns also burn out in 1-3 minutes. None exists in this video. These are UFOs. These are a rare look at alien craft over Britain. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

 

Eyewitness states: 

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24-10-2020 om 21:56 geschreven door peter  

Just in...Eyewitness Shares Three disk Sighting Near California Road, 1985, Drawings, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 1985

Location of sighting: Brownsville, California, USA

Source: MUFON report

 

Now here is a MUFON report just in, but its about a sighting that happened back in 1985...35 years ago. Why is this important? Because we learn from past sightings to compare, contrast and evaluate future sightings. The person really put their heart into this report...it had meaning, purpose and became a part of the persons life that changed them forever. They are opening up to us...and its up to us to give them our trust and attention. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

 

Eyewitness states:  

On a clear spring day just before sunset, the three witnesses were driving west along Hwy 20 from Hwy 49, below Camptonville, California. As we rounded a sharp curve just past the old stone quarry near Bullard's bar, we came upon three silver discs landed in a field to the right of the road. I pulled onto the right shoulder just as the large discs suddenly shot upward in powerful ascent. My friend [name removed/cms/rjl] and I felt compelled to jump out of the car and race to the center of the highway, where we stood staring excitedly up at the saucers - I did not feel any fear...I felt elated and awe-struck. I estimate the size of each disc to have been between 50 and 75 feet in diameter. Above us, the discs blocked out most of the sky. They appeared quite solid and metallic, with very definite mechanical features - including a central opening from which a powerful conical beam projected straight down from each disc. The beam color was brilliant bluish-white, and we were washed with the light, yet could still see the features beneath the discs. I don't recall any sound, but there might have been a wind - those details have grown very fuzzy over the 35 years since the encounter. I do recall that the three discs were locked into a tight triangular formation, with one disc forming an apex above the other two. When the discs reached above a hundred feet overhead, they briefly hovered. Then all together, they tilted about 45 degrees and shot off toward the south, which took them straight across the highway and over above the Feather River Canyon, which we overlooked out to our left. As the craft traveled over the canyon, the conical beams appeared to light up a big portion of the valley - the beams would have to have been extremely powerful to do so, especially considering that it wasn't quite dark yet. When the objects reached an angle of what might have been 60 degrees in the sky over to our left, they abruptly vanished, leaving three glowing purple clouds where each disc had disappeared. Those clouds remained visible and softly glowing for the entire half-hour that it took us to complete our drive home to Forbestown, where we were temporarily staying at the time. It should be noted that I am aware of a considerable amount of amnesia both during and after the encounter. I seem to recall a previous encounter which might have occurred about a half-hour before to the remembered encounter - I even have a general sense of approximately where that first encounter might have occurred - along Hwy 49 above Camptonville, California. I always felt that we were abducted - but I can't consciously remember it. Also, the third witness (my mother) remained in the car during the main event. She was paralyzed with fear, and couldn't or wouldn't look above the ground level, so she only saw the preliminary scene when the objects were just beginning to take off. She can't recall seeing the discs themselves, but she did see what she thought might be something like nozzles or cylindrical objects - possibly some details on the bottoms of the discs. I lost contact with [name removed/cms/rjl] after the sighting, and I have no knowledge of his whereabouts after 35 years. Mom is now 85 years old and slipping into dementia, so she is no longer available for a witness testimony. I now have no proof, apart from a rough sketch that I drew, and conversation remembered by family members, to whom I related the experience over the years. I was profoundly affected by the encounter, with a long-term improvement in my health and a complete change in my interests and beliefs. I became quite obsessed with UFOs and ETs after the encounter, and I've been researching ever since. I've made many trips back to the encounter site, as I tried to retrace the whole event - once I even took my whole family there during a reunion. I've had other, possibly related experiences going back to age three or before - I've written many of them down.

 

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24-10-2020 om 21:47 geschreven door peter  

Grey Disk Caught Near Drilling Rig Over Saskatchewan, Canada May 22, 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: May 22, 2020
Location of sighting: Coronach, Saskatchewan, Canada

Source: MUFON report

 

Aliens have a huge interest in human energy consumption and here we have a disk near an oil platform in Canada. Oil being the old school concept of energy is slowly being fazed out, but still being used. Electricity being cleaner is quickly replacing it. How we are still harming our planet and increasing global warming seems to be high on the interest list of aliens. Why? Because they were here before us and will be here after us...meaning...it always been their world, not ours. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

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24-10-2020 om 21:43 geschreven door peter  

Astrange spherical object hovering over Mexico on October 17, 2020. The sphere spins and moves slowly through the sky. 

The strange thing is that it looks like the object is surrounded by a cloud, which makes me wonder whether the photographer has captured a partially cloaked UFO disguised as cloud.

Special thanks to OvnisUFO.

  

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24-10-2020 om 21:26 geschreven door peter  

Footprints dating back 120,000 years have been discovered near an ancient lake in Saudi Arabia, which not only offer an insight into humanity's past, but also the previous climates of Earth. 

The small, now dried up, lake, found in the Nefud Desert, was also frequented by mammals such as camels, buffalo and other animals. 

In total, seven footprints in the area were identified as being from anatomically modern humans. In addition to the footprints, hundreds of fossils were found at the site.

  

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24-10-2020 om 21:23 geschreven door peter  

UFOs flying over Guildford, United Kingdom 23-Oct-2020

Here’s one new UFO video filmed yesterday over Guildford in United Kingdom. Two bright unidentified flying objects are slowly moving across the night sky.

Witness report: 

Event lasted for approximately 1 hour. I was just out for a walk around the local playing fields. I witnessed more than 10 large red-orange glowing orbs, like fireballs. The orbs appeared either singly or in pairs, at the same point in the sky each time, and they “popped out”. No flashing or taillights and absolutely not helicopters or planes, which are both common appearances where I live and easily distinguishable. From the ground they had an apparent size roughly 1/4 that of a full moon, just bigger than an aspirin. Each pair of orbs moved in a west-to-east direction and disappeared after moving around 20 degrees eastwards. A few minutes later the orb(s) would reappear at the same original point and move in the same direction as the previous ones.

There was also some strange pulsating lights in a cloud moving in a geometric pattern which accompanied the sighting. I was able to capture some footage on my phone but the quality is not great due to night-time and lack of tripod – and my total shock at seeing this!.

The first video shows a pair of these orbs, the second shows the strange pulsating in the clouds, as well as another orb taken around 10 minutes after the first video.

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24-10-2020 om 20:48 geschreven door peter  

White cigar shape UFO over Waverly, Ohio 23-Oct-2020

This cylindrical UFO was seen and recorded in the sky above Waverly, a city in, and the county seat of, Pike County, Ohio. This happened on 23rd October 2020.

Witness report: 

It was a white cigar shaped object flying in a straight line with no sound no visible wings.

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24-10-2020 om 17:48 geschreven door peter  

Ghostly 'UFO cloud' hovering over mountains wows judges in weather photo contest

By Brandon Specktor 

This spooky saucer is a common phenomenon where wind meets mountains.

An eerie lenticular cloud forms over El Chalten mountain in Argentina

(Image: © Francisco Javier Negroni Rodriguez)

A ghostly white saucer hovers over the peaks of El Chaltén in southern Argentina. As wind thrashes the nearby clouds, the saucer remains fixed above the craggy summit, anchored in the sky like a mothership surveying the hills below.

It's not aliens. (Sorry … it's never aliens). It's just a friendly neighborhood "UFO cloud" — better known in meteorological circles as a standing lenticular cloud.

This eerie weather phenomenon is relatively common in mountainous regions like El Chaltén, or the Rocky Mountains in the U.S., where high-speed winds ricochet over a tall peak, creating a distinct lens- or saucer-shaped cloud formation high in the sky. Still, photographer Francisco Javier Negroni Rodriguez — whose photo above is a finalist in the Royal Meteorological Society's (RMS) 2020 Weather Photographer of the Year contest — had to wait the better part of a day to capture the cloud in its mysterious glory.

• Related: Gallery: Reading the clouds

"An hour before taking this photograph I was walking along the trails that surround the beautiful rock formation … [but] the day was very cloudy. Apparently, luck was not with me on this adventure," Negroni Rodriguez told the RMS. "Only for a moment, the clouds allowed me to see El Chaltén — and to my surprise, there was a spectacular and brilliant lenticular cloud with a beautiful and perfect figure that I had never seen."

This type of cloud forms when strong wind blows into the side of a mountain, skyscraper or other tall obstruction, according to the National Weather Service. The mountain deflects the wind, forcing it into a wave that crests over the mountaintop, dips down on the other side, then rises up again. In the upward-moving parts of the wave, the air cools until it condenses into clouds. When the air descends again on the downward-moving side of the wave, the cloud evaporates. The result is a spooky, stationary cloud perched atop the crest of the wave, sculpted into a saucer shape by the wind constantly rising and falling within it.

Negroni Rodriguez's photo joins 25 other finalists in the RMS contest, which is co-sponsored by AccuWeather. While the alien cloud was not one of the three grand-prize winners announced on Oct. 17, it nevertheless rose to the top of more than 7,700 entries, according to the RMS. To see some of the other stunning finalists — including the big winners — click through this gallery. 

• Originally published on Live Science.

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24-10-2020 om 01:27 geschreven door peter  

NASA to Announce New Science Results About Moon

NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 26. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website.

This new discovery contributes to NASA’s efforts to learn about the Moon in support of deep space exploration. Under NASA’s Artemis program, the agency will send the first woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024 to prepare for our next giant leap – human exploration of Mars as early as the 2030s. Understanding the science of the Moon also helps piece together the broader history of the inner solar system.

Briefing participants are:

• Paul Hertz, Astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters, Washington
• Jacob Bleacher, chief exploration scientist for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters
• Casey Honniball, postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
• Naseem Rangwala, project scientist for the SOFIA mission, NASA’s Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley, California

To participate in the teleconference, members of the news media should contact Felicia Chou at felicia.chou@nasa.gov by 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 26, to receive the dial-in information.

As the world’s largest airborne observatory, SOFIA is a modified 747 that flies high in the atmosphere to provide its nearly 9-foot telescope with a clear view of the universe and objects in our solar system. Flying above 99% of the atmosphere’s obscuring water vapor, SOFIA observes in infrared wavelengths and can detect phenomena impossible to see with visible light.

• For more information about NASA’s Artemis program, visit:
• https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/
• For more information about the SOFIA mission, visit:
• https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/index.htm

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24-10-2020 om 01:07 geschreven door peter