Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
25-11-2020
Alien Buildings On Earths Moon, Aristarchus Crater, Alien Base Confirmed, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Buildings On Earths Moon, Aristarchus Crater, Alien Base Confirmed, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Nov 24, 2020
Location of discovery: Earths moon, Aristarchus Crater
These are some structures I found in Aristarchus crater, our moon. The crater is about 40km in diameter and these structures are each about 300-500 meters across. The structures are hidden because NASA over exposes the photos adding too much light, making everything a blur. Add a bit of contrast and everything comes back into focus. This is 100% proof that the reason America never went back to the moon...is that we were not welcome there. It was never ours to begin with.
Hey I found this really cool warrior in the side of a mountain near the ocean. Its just a few km from where I found the other carving in the mountain just 2 days ago. This carving has a cape, crown and is holding a shield, but has no visible weapon. Its easy to make out the facial features like the nose, eyes, eyebrows, ears, cheeks and so on. Sure some people are nay sayers and will deny any new discovery by anyone today...calling this just rocks. But I don't tear down...thats easy...I build up...thats the hard part. I did the work, now all we need is some experts in the field of ancient cultures to examine what I found. Lets leave it up to the experts. But...then again...it is 100% proof that ancient cultures existed thousands of years before the Aztecs and Mayans did. Possible alien culture landing on the end of South America and later working themselves upwards dividing into the Mayan and Aztec and Incas. Descended from the stars.
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Huge UFO Disk Lights Up Sky Over City In Chile On Nov 22, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Huge UFO Disk Lights Up Sky Over City In Chile On Nov 22, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 22, 2020 Location of sighting: Chile
This video was recorded by the Gollitos Family on Nov 22. That night they noticed something outside their patio that made no sound, but lit up the sky. Six or more glowing UFOs appeared in the distance and they did not fall, but sat there glowing evenly and then faded one by one. The eyewitness stated that he believes the lights to be a single large alien ship. I have to agree with him. Those lights appear to be separate, but most likely they are visible through the cloak even though the rest of the ship is invisible. What we may be seeing are some in atmosphere propulsion systems which might not be able to hide within a cloak. Fantastic and rare catch. 100% proof that Chile is a hotbed for UFO activity.
Really fast UFO #OVNI filmed over Mexico City 22-Nov-2020
Really fast UFO #OVNI filmed over Mexico City 22-Nov-2020
Check our this amazing UFO video of a really fast unidentified flying object flying across the night sky above Mexico City. This happened on 22nd November 2020.
A new study of geologically young lava flows in Elysium Planitia suggests that Mars might still have residual volcanic activity below its surface. The finding could also correlate with seismic activity detected by the InSight lander in the same region and may have implications for possible Martian life.
Oblique view of Cerberus Fossae, a tectonic fracture in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars. A new study of young lava flows surrounding it suggests that this area might still be volcanically active today, underground.
Mars has some of thelargest volcanoes in the solar system, but they’ve apparently been inactive for millions of years. No plumes of ash or flowing streams of lava are seen on Mars today. But just how long ago were the last great Martian eruptions? That has been a matter of some debate among planetary geologists, and now scientists at the University of Arizona (UA) have announced new evidence for recent – geologically speaking – explosive volcanism in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars. According to the new findings, eruptions there may have occurred as recently as 53,000 years ago, which is a blink of an eye relative to Mars’ total age of about 4.6 billion years (same as Earth’s). According to these scientists, this finding could mean Mars is still volcanically active even today, at least underground.
Prior to this new work, the most recent eruptions known on Mars happened about 2.5 to 500 million years ago.
The evidence comes from the study of a volcanic lava deposit distributed symmetrically around a segment of the Cerberus Fossae fissure system in Elysium Planitia, called the “mantling unit.”
The researchers say it is probably the youngest such deposit yet found on Mars. It is similar to pyroclastic flows – fluidized masses of rock – on the moon and Mercury, but sits on top of older lava flows and has a thickness of tens of centimeters.
By counting the number of impact craters visible in the area, the researchers, led by David Horvath at UA, say these eruptions are estimated to have happened only 53,000 to 210,000 years ago. That’s like yesterday in geological terms.
Elysium Planitia is also where NASA’s InSight lander touched down on November 26, 2018. Since then, the probe has recorded hundreds of marsquakes in the planet’s subsurface with its Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, proving that Mars is still seismically active. As of last February, it was reported that over 450 seismic signals had been detected, up to the equivalent of magnitude 4 on the earthly Richter Scale.
David Horvath at the University of Arizona, lead author of the new study.
Some of those quakes were detected near or at Cerberus Fossae, the location of the young lava deposits. Could there be a connection? Mars doesn’t have tectonic plates like Earth does, so those quakes are more similar to those in the middle of continents on Earth rather than at plate boundaries. Whether there is any relation to current volcanic activity isn’t known, but based on the new findings of young lava flows, it certainly seems possible. From the paper:
Given the young age of the deposit, it is possible that the deeper magma source that fed the deposit could still be active today and could generate seismicity observable by the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument on the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) lander (Lognonné et al., 2019). Seismicity related to magma transport and chamber pressurization has been linked to active volcanism on Earth (e.g., Battaglia et al., 2005; Grandin et al., 2012; Carrier et al., 2015). Magma-induced seismicity along rift zones can result in small to moderate earthquake magnitudes (Mw < 6). Dike-induced faulting and seismicity (Rubin & Gillard, 1998; Taylor et al., 2013) associated with this young magmatic activity is also possible.
There is also a possibility that current volcanic activity, if proven, could help explain the presence of methane in Mars’ atmosphere. Various telescopes, orbiters and the Curiosity rover have all detected the gas in small quantities, which on Earth is produced mostly by microbes as well as some from geologic activity. Scientists still don’t know the source of the Martian methane, but even if it is only from geological activity, that could still have implications for biology, since it would require liquid water-related chemical reactions (serpentinization) below ground.
The landing site of NASA’s InSight lander in Elysium Planitia and its proximity to the tectonic fissure system Cerberus Fossae. The probe has detected hundreds of marsquakes, including near Cerberus Fossae, which may be related to subsurface volcanic activity.
Landslides within Cerberus Fossae, caused by marsquakes.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ University of Arizona.
From the paper:
Geologically recent near-surface magmatic activity in Elysium Planitia, combined with evidence for recent groundwater-sourced floods (Burr et al., 2002; Head et al., 2003), which may have been triggered by dike intrusions (Hanna & Phillips, 2006), raises important implications regarding the subsurface habitability on Mars. Dike-induced melting of ground ice and hydrothermal circulation could generate favorable conditions for recent or even extant habitable environments in the subsurface. These environments would be analogous to locations on Earth where volcanic activity occurs in glacial environments such as Iceland, where chemotrophic and psychrophilic (i.e., cryophilic) bacteria thrive (Cousins & Crawford, 2011). Subsurface microbial communities found in basaltic lavas on Earth (McKinley et al., 2000) are also aided by hydrothermal circulation of groundwater through porous basalt (Storrie-Lombardi et al., 2009; Cousins & Crawford, 2011). Recent or ongoing magmatic activity on Mars could also provide a source of transient methane releases to the atmosphere (Formisano et al., 2004; Fonti & Marzo, 2010) through direct volcanic outgassing or, more likely, serpentinization reactions (Atreya et al., 2007).
The possibility that Mars is still volcanically active is exciting, since it would overturn long-held assumptions that the planet has been geologically dead for the most part for billions of years. It could also create habitable environments below the surface for Martian microorganisms, which would be even more exciting. Mars may not be as dead or dormant as we thought it was, perhaps in more ways than one.
Bottom line: A new study of geologically young lava flows suggests that Mars may still be volcanically active today.
We know so much about long-extinct creatures such as dinosaurs thanks to their fossilized bones which act as time capsules, revealing not only their size and shape but also clues about their diet, behavior or even mating patterns. Similarly, astronomers can learn about the Milky Way’s galactic history billions of years into the past by studying stellar relics.
In a new study, researchers describe a newly discovered ‘fossil galaxy’, which until now had been hidden deep inside our Milky Way.
The colored rings show the rough extent of the fossil galaxy known as Heracles. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, and the SDSS.
Large galaxies such as the Milky Way, which contains more than 100 billion stars, take time to accrete matter and grow to their gargantuan sizes. Besides developing their own stars in galactic nurseries, large galaxies also merge with small galaxies over time, which increases their mass.
Over its 12 billion-year-old history, the Milky Way has gone through a dozen such mergers, devouring a neighbor’s stars and mixing them into an ever-growing stew of commandeered suns. With each galactic merger, the shape, size, and motion of our galaxy changed, until it formed its now-iconic spiral.
But it is possible to unwind this spiral and in the process reverse engineer the Milky Way’s previous mergers.
Just a week after Dr. Diederik Kruijssen at the Center for Astronomy at the University of Heidelberg (ZAH) reported newly identified globular clusters that match the properties of a previously unknown collision with what the team has dubbed the ‘Kraken’ galaxy, a new study is now reporting yet another hidden galaxy.
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), astronomers have found the remnants of an ancient collision between the Milky Way and an early galaxy. The event, which took place 10 billion years ago when our galaxy was still in its infancy, is responsible for roughly one-third of the Milky Way’s spherical halo.
“To find a fossil galaxy like this one, we had to look at the detailed chemical makeup and motions of tens of thousands of stars,” Ricardo Schiavon from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) in the UK said in a press release. “That is especially hard to do for stars in the center of the Milky Way, because they are hidden from view by clouds of interstellar dust. APOGEE lets us pierce through that dust and see deeper into the heart of the Milky Way than ever before.”
The astronomers dubbed the galactic fossil Heracles, after the ancient Greek hero also called Hercules, who was granted the gift of immortality when the Milky Way was created — or so the myth goes.
The colored rings show the approximate extent of the stars that came from the fossil galaxy known as Heracles. Credit: ESA/Gaia, and the SDSS.
In order to distinguish Heracles’ stars out of all the Milky Ways’ billions of objects, the astronomers had to measure the stars’ chemical composition and velocities using APOGEE. A few hundred of these stars had chemical makeup and velocities that were radically different from all the rest. The only reasonable explanation is that these objects belonged to a galaxy other than the Milky Way.
“These stars are so different that they could only have come from another galaxy. By studying them in detail, we could trace out the precise location and history of this fossil galaxy,” Danny Horta from LJMU, lead author of the new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, said in a statement.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. In the future, the fifth phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its “Milky Way Mapper” will measure spectra for ten times as many stars across the entire galaxy. Who knows what cosmic fossils astronomers will be able to discover then.
“As our cosmic home, the Milky Way is already special to us, but this ancient galaxy buried within makes it even more special,” Schiavon says.
And since you must be wondering, the next merger is scheduled to occur 2.5 billion years from now with the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy.
From a young age William Tompkins was a bit different. Beginning from age 9 he started crafting an impressive fleet of handmade models of Navy ships at a tiny 1:600 scale and meticulously detailed down to every last antenna, turret, lifeboat and airplane. By 1941, at the age of 17, Tompkins had a fleet of around 50 such ships, which were impressive enough that they would be displayed in the window of the Broadway department store on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, CA, and this was where they would capture the attention of the Navy. When officers got a look at the model ships, they were surprised to notice that the level of detail included was considered to be perfect, including many details that were deemed sensitive or even classified secrets, and which made it all seem suspicious that such a young man should have access to these designs. After all, this was in the days leading up to World War II, not long before the attacks on Pearl Harbor, and so the Navy was very interested in how this civilian boy could have gotten such details for his ships. This is how Tompkins would begin his journey along the road into the bizarre, and be initiated into the world of secret insiders spilling their guts on classified information concerning aliens, UFOs, and all sorts of strange stuff.
Navy officials approached Tompkins’ father to interrogate him on how his son had gotten such details, and questioned the boy as well, and the answer to how he had done it was perhaps even more surprising than if he had been getting top secret information. You see, it seemed that Tompkins had pretty much a photographic memory and sense for size and dimensions, so he had simply seen the ships anchored in Long Beach harbor that were open to the public at the time and which his father often brought him to see, committing them to memory in order to be reproduced in his painstakingly crafted models. It was such an astonishing ability that Naval Intelligence was greatly impressed, and in 1942 went about having Tompkins pulled from his second year of high school in order to be inducted into the Navy.
William Tompkins
He would complete his training and make his way quickly up the ranks of Naval Intelligence, eventually replacing a Commander at North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego and getting involved in “advanced technology projects,” after the war going on to work for the Douglas Aircraft Company and then becoming the corporate director of North American Advanced Space Research and a member of the Red Team at General Dynamics Corporation, along the way also serving on the Apollo Space Program. It seems that this is chapter in his life where things would begin heading into the bizarre. Tompkins became a key player in the aerospace field, instrumental in numerous projects involving naval intelligence, aerospace engineering, special projects, research for above-top-secret space programs, and various highly top secret projects, and he was an integral part of think tanks across several aerospace firms working on other such highly classified projects. In later years, Tompkins would come forward with his insider information of these projects, and some of them are rather outlandish, to say the least.
Among projects Tompkins claims to have been involved with were those that were directly related to aliens and UFOs, as well as “extraterrestrial life and technology.” Among the projects he would claim to have been involved in were reverse engineering alien technology, as well as analyzing UFO technology recovered from the Nazis, and using it to create advanced antigravity spacecraft and extraterrestrial communications systems, all of it funded with black budgets. Indeed, he claimed to have been involved with numerous spacecraft designs utilizing alien technologies for various aerospace contractors, many of which he would say were beamed directly into his brain by aliens, and he also claimed that these spacecrafts were being put into battle groups by the Navy in order to launch a sort of secret space force. This all got even more bizarre when he additionally claimed that there were several species of aliens involved in human affairs on this planet, something he had first become aware of during his time working with a think tank called Project RAND. He would say of this:
Project RAND, a way-above-top-secret scientific think tank… was created in December 1945 as a special contract to Douglas Aircraft Company, at the Santa Monica Municipal Airport. Inside a highly classified, walled-off area in the Douglas Engineering Department, Project RAND studied the implications of threatening alien agendas… Some unbelievable space studies came out of the Douglas Think Tank. They revealed that not only were certain U.S. governmental heads aware of the alien involvement in human affairs, but that the Soviet Union was aware of the situation, too. With possible alien “assistance,” the Soviets were bent on getting to the Moon first, in order to establish missile bases there and control the entire planet.
This is where things begin to get even weirder than they already are, as Tompkins would repeatedly come forward with new information to add to this bonkers mythology of alien races on Earth. He particularly spoke heatedly about a race of reptilians he called the “Draconian Reptilians,” which according to him were in league with the Nazis during World War II. These reptilian aliens allegedly supplied the Germans with all sorts of advanced technology that they used to make working UFOs and beam weapons, as well as genetic and biotech research, human cloning, and life extension technology. The Reptilians also allegedly helped the Nazis to reach the moon and other planets, and also helped them build subterranean bases in Antarctica. Luckily for the U.S., Tompkins claims that America and the Allies were aided by another race of aliens called the Nordics, tall humanoid beings who helped them out with technology of their own, as well as being instrumental in developing the space force, which supposedly includes a “2.5km Naval Spacecraft Carrier and a 1.4km Naval Spacecraft Battle Cruiser.” Tompkins claimed to be in frequent telepathic contact with these Nordic aliens, and UFO researcher Makia Freeman has said of this:
Tompkins believes the Nordics have been helping him all along by clearing the way for him to do certain things… He thinks he has been protected because of his association with Nordic ETs, specifically two women and a man who used to be his secretaries. As an aside, he did not know for a long time that he even had ETs working for him. He only found out when one day, one of them fell down the stairs and was taken to the hospital in a grave condition. He overheard her admitting she was not who she said she was and answering to another boss or captain.
Further down the rabbit hole we go. Tompkins paints a picture of two distinct aliens races basically using humans as pawns their own millennia long battle here on Earth, and he has compiled the entire outlandish story into an in-depth and highly technical, very weird book called Selected by Extraterrestrials, which covered two volumes and goes into painstaking, impressive detail on his claims. He even said that the book was secretly condoned by his superiors in the U.S. Navy, so that people could be woken up to the truth. Tompkins has said of this:
Early in 2001, I called on Admiral Hugh Webster, Navy League Corporate Director… We had a five-hour meeting on my ongoing book–writing concerning the extraterrestrial threats to our planet. After Admiral Webster read portions of my document and backup technical documentation, I asked him, “How much of this can I include in a published book?” He said. “Bill, tell it all. This is most important to our country. Don’t leave anything out.”
After coming out with his book and his version of “the truth,” Tompkins gave a number of radio and TV interviews, and his wild, far-out story was heavily discussed and debated. Many questions swirled at the time, and still do, concerning his bonkers tale. We do know that his credentials are sound, and that he was a highly respected member of the aeronautics field, but what of his other claims? Is there any truth to any of this, and if not, why would he risk his reputation to make up such a completely ludicrous tale? His claims have been criticized for being really well beyond the fringe, something more at home in a bad science fiction novel than the real world, but there have been those who also defend his claims. Unfortunately, Tompkins passed away in 2017 at the age of 94, and so whatever truth there are in his whistleblower claims he took to the grave with him. Is there anything to his stories? What did he see behind the veil of secrecy? Were these real revelations or just an eccentric man spitting sci-fi nonsense? Is he a champion of disclosure of a fruit loop? For such an apparently valued aerospace figure it seems odd that he would spin such yarns, and it all leaves us with yet another enigmatic insider making bold claims it is hard to know what to do with
Ancient 'Megafloods' Swept Across the Surface of Mars 4 Billion Years Ago, Find Scientists
Ancient 'Megafloods' Swept Across the Surface of Mars 4 Billion Years Ago, Find Scientists
Based on data gathered by NASA's Curiosity rover, scientists found that 'megafloods' once washed through the surface of the planet nearly 4 billion years ago
Knowing if life existed or exists on Mars has been a key frontier for human beings since the advent of space exploration decades ago. Finding water on the red planet strengthened the possibility of finding alien life. However, a new study states that floods of inconceivable scales—megafloods—once washed through the surface of the planet nearly 4 billion years ago; tilting the needle in the direction of life having once prevailed on Earth's cosmic neighbor.
The research, which is based on data gathered by NASA's Curiosity rover, found that the Gale Crater located on Mars' equator, was once a site that was washed through by massive floods billions of years ago. The turbulent megaflood may have begun due to the heat generated by a meteoritic impact. This unloosened the ice that was stored on the planet's surface. Thus, setting up enormous ripples, that are characteristic geologic formations that scientists on Earth are familiar with.
Surface of Mars (Representational Picture)Needpix
"We identified megafloods for the first time using detailed sedimentological data observed by the rover Curiosity. Deposits left behind by megafloods had not been previously identified with orbiter data," said Alberto G. Fairén, co-author of the study, in a statement.
Evidence Preserved In Ice
Geological features such as the effects of wind and water have been preserved within the frozen ice on Mars for around 4 billion years; much like how it has been on Earth. Therefore, these geological trademarks serve as an explanation of how the surfaces of the two neighboring planets were carved in their past.
According to Prof. Ezat Heydari, lead author of the study, in the case of Mars, it consists of the existence of colossal wave-shaped features in Gale crater's sedimentary layers. These features are called 'antidunes' or 'megaripples', which are around 30 ft in height and positioned about 450 ft apart.
Ice at Martian north pole (Representational Picture)Wikimedia Commons
Prof. Heydari also said that these megaripples are suggestive of megafloods that flowed around 4 billion years ago at the bottom of the Gale Crater. These features, according to the physicist, are similar to the features created on Earth by melting ice around 2 million years ago.
What Caused the Megaflood?
So the question is—What caused the megaflood on Mars? The researchers posit that the flooding was caused by the heat produced by a huge impact. This led to the release of methane and carbon dioxide trapped within the frozen ice of the planet. The water vapor, combined with the release of the warming gasses, produced a brief duration of wet and warm conditions on Mars.
The condensation process led to the formation of vapor clouds, which in succession led to the creation of relentless rains, probably across the planet. The water created entered the Gale Crater. Following which, it combined with the water descending from Mount Sharp (found within Gale Crater) to cause enormous flash floods that left behind the ridge-and-trough band formations in the striated grounds and gravel ridges in the Hummocky Plains Unit (flood deposits in Gale crater).
Artist's impression of a pond in Gale Crater (Representational Picture)Wikimedia Commons
The team was also able to establish that persistent streams and lakes once existed in the Gale Crater. These large bodies of water serve as positive indicators that microbial life could have been supported by the crater and Mount Sharp as well.
"Early Mars was an extremely active planet from a geological point of view. The planet had the conditions needed to support the presence of liquid water on the surface – and on Earth, where there's water, there's life," expressed Fairén.
According to a new study, there were giganticmegafloods on Mars about 4 billion years ago. NASA’s Curiosity Rover found that some geological features on the Red Planet were formed by wind and water. More specifically, the Gale Crater had once been bombarded with huge amounts of water.
Surface of Mars
(Representational Picture)Needpix
Since there were megafloods on Mars billions of years ago, that could potentially mean that the planet was once habitable with the real possibility of life once existing there.
As for what caused the exceptionally high amounts of water, the new study claimed that it happened when an asteroid impacted the planet. The impact would have created high levels of heat which would have caused the ice to melt in addition to releasing methane and carbon dioxide that were hidden in the ice. The water vapor clouds would have dumped large amounts of rain onto Mars which would have been part of a short period of time when the planet had warmer and wetter conditions.
A combination of the rain as well as the water that was flowing down from Mount Sharp (the central peak inside of the crater) would have created major flash flooding in the Gale Crater. This raises the possibility that perhaps there was microbial life that once existed in the crater.
In fact, researchers from Jackson State University, Cornell, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Hawaii found sediment structures inside of the crater as well as 10 meter tall (32.8 feet) symmetrical gravel ridges that looked like “antidunes” that suggested megaflooding. They were able to calculate the distance between the crest on the ridges and found that they would have been formed by flood waters that were at least 24 meters in depth (78.7 feet) and moved up to 10 meters (32.8 feet) each second.
Ice at Martian north pole
(Representational Picture)Wikimedia Commons
Alberto G. Fairén, who is an astrobiologist and a co-author of the study, explained this further, “Early Mars was an extremely active planet from a geological point of view. The planet had the conditions needed to support the presence of liquid water on the surface—and on Earth, where there’s water, there’s life,” adding, “So early Mars was a habitable planet. Was it inhabited? That’s a question that the next rover Perseverance will help to answer.”
The Perseverance rover was launched in July of this year and is scheduled to land on Mars in February of 2021. It will search for signs of ancient life on the planet in addition to collecting soil and rock samples that it will bring back to Earth for scientists to study.
Their research was published in the journal Scientific Reports where it can be read in full.
In other related news, major dust storms may have removed most of the water from Mars. Strong summer dust storms on the Red Planet could have thrown water high up into the atmosphere which would have destroyed the molecules and let the hydrogen travel into space. This may have had a significant impact on how Mars would have gone from a planet full of water to the dry, dusty world that it is today. The study was published in the journal Sciencewhere it can be read in full.
Jupiter en Saturnus doen volgende maand iets wat we al 800 jaar niet konden waarnemen
Jupiter en Saturnus zijn de twee grootste planeten van ons zonnestelsel. Alleen al daardoor spreken ze tot de verbeelding. Maar volgende maand prikkelen ze ons nog méér. Op de kortste dag van het jaar zullen de twee gasreuzen iets doen wat wij al sinds de middeleeuwen niet meer hebben kunnen waarnemen aan de nachthemel.
Dit jaar valt de winterzonnewende in ons noordelijk halfrond op 21 december, een dag die hier bij ons maar 7 uur, 56 minuten en 20 seconden zal duren. Vanaf dan beginnen de dagen weer te lengen. Maar op 21 december vindt er - toevallig ook op die dag - nog een ander astronomisch fenomeen plaats, eentje dat de mens voor het laatst bijna 800 jaar geleden, op 4 maart 1226, kon waarnemen. Jupiter en Saturnus staan dan vanuit ons perspectief op aarde zodanig op bijna dezelfde lijn dat ze een dubbelplaneet lijken. “Met het blote oog zien we dan eigenlijk maar één planeet. We hebben een verrekijker of een telescoop nodig om Jupiter en Saturnus dan nog van elkaar te kunnen onderscheiden, omdat ze zo dicht bij elkaar staan”, legt onze wetenschapsexpert Martijn Peters uit.
In de astronomie heet dit fenomeen ‘conjunctie’, wat samenvoeging betekent. “Jupiter en Saturnus zijn in werkelijkheid nog altijd miljoenen kilometers van elkaar gescheiden, maar vanuit onze waarnemingspositie lijkt het alsof ze samensmelten tot één planeet”, licht Martijn Peters toe. Een samenvallen van deze 2 planeten doet zich ongeveer om de twintig jaar voor en noemt men een ‘grote conjunctie’. “Saturnus doet bijna dertig jaar over zijn baan rond de zon, Jupiter bijna twaalf. Het ‘inhalen’ gebeurt dus ongeveer op 20 jaar”, aldus Peters.
Maar dit jaar is deze samenvoeging van beide planeten heel uitzonderlijk, om twee redenen. Ten eerste staan Jupiter en Saturnus vanuit ons perspectief op 21 december op amper 0,1 graden van elkaar, wat echt wel zeldzaam dicht is. Ten tweede zal de samenvoeging ook goed te zien zijn. We moeten al teruggaan tot 4 maart 1226 voor een gelijkaardige situatie. Op 16 juli 1623 stonden de planeten ook heel dicht bij elkaar, maar toen was de grote conjunctie niet zo goed waarneembaar. “Het gaat dit jaar zeker over een ‘once in a lifetime’-event, al krijgen jongere lezers wel opnieuw een kans in 2080, wanneer de conjunctie nog beter waarneembaar zal zijn omdat ze dan hoger plaatsvindt”, zegt Peters. Na 2080 is het alweer enkele generaties wachten tot 2417 voor een grote conjunctie waarbij Jupiter en Saturnus zich zo dicht bij elkaar bevinden.
Waar en wanneer moeten we kijken op 21 december? “Het beste moment is het eerste uur na zonsondergang”, weet Peters. In Brussel gaat de zon die dag onder om 16.39 uur. “We moeten wel hopen op een heldere hemel en de conjunctie vindt ook redelijk laag plaats, dus dicht boven de horizon. Dat betekent dat we een open plek moeten uitkiezen, zonder hoge gebouwen die het zicht belemmeren. Onze blik moet zich naar het zuidwesten richten.” 21 december is het hoogtepunt van de conjunctie, maar ze is waarneembaar tussen 17 en 25 december. De afstand tussen Jupiter en Saturnus vanuit ons perspectief varieert dan van nog geen volle maan (een halve graad) tot amper een vijfde van de diameter van de maan (0,1 graad) op 21 december.
Steckling discussed evidence for alien bases on the moon. He noted that numerous anomalies such as luminescent areas and glowing objects have been observed coming from the moon in reports dating as far back as the 1800′s.
Astronauts like Gordon Cooper and the French scientist Maurice Chatelain have made comments that NASA moon missions were followed by ET craft, said Steckling.
Antarctica City Found Under Melting Ice, Complex Architecture, Latest Leak Project
Antarctica City Found Under Melting Ice, Complex Architecture, Latest Leak Project
Antarctica City Found Under Melting Ice, Complex Architecture, Latest
Thank you to the LP Subscribers that sent me the coordinates and images, which i was able to cross reference with Google Earth Pro. It appears to be a city with complex architecture that is under the melting ice. Not sure if it is built on the same Cymatics systems that we find in South Africa, but i show a comparison and let you decide.
These structures were not visible 15 years ago, but since Ice has melted greatly in that area, they are now very visible. We zoom in to within 150 feet. Thank you for “being the change the world needs to see”
Four ufos at Glen Park Canyon, San Francisco, California Nov 22, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Four ufos at Glen Park Canyon, San Francisco, CaliforniaNov 22, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 22, 2020 Location of sighting:Glen Park Canyon, San Francisco, CA, USA
Source: MUFON
Here is a great video of some white cloud like UFOs moving around in the clouds. They move and suddenly disappear as if they are testing out some kind of cloaking technology. UFOs do have such abilities and UFOs are frequently seen near the tops of mountains, since they exit and enter underground alien bases in locations they think less humans are likely to be. So...now we know there is an alien base 5-6km below Glen Park Canyon.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I looked up and saw three discs. Then a fourth. They would disintegrate and come back into this dimension.
Ancient Alien Monolith Found In Utah Desert, First Contact Scenario? VIDEO! UFO Sighing News.
Ancient Alien Monolith Found In Utah Desert, First Contact Scenario? VIDEO!UFO Sighing News.
Date of discovery: Nov 2020 Location of discovery: Utah, USA
A tall metallic monolith was discovered in the Utah desert landing tall in a dead end canyon. The object was reminiscent of an old science fiction movie. But this was real, the people who were counting the sheep, landed the helicopter and took a closer look. They warned each other if one of them disappears suddenly, the rest has to get the hell out of there. No joke. Then they stood next to it and measured it with two humans high, or 12 feet tall.
Also I notice that at the base of the monolith, no dirt was disturbed or misplaced, piled or mounting about. The metal monolith was just sticking out of the desert floor and no explanation of how it happened or why it took place.
This could be the first signs of an alien base under the ground or a sign that alien needed an antenna like device to allow other aliens to homier on their location.
Awinged anomaly has been spotted in an image captured by NASA's SOHO Lasco C2 camera on November 9, 2020. Due to its tremendous speed as it passes the sun, the anomaly is only visible in one frame.
I'm not sure whether the winged structure is that of a massive alien spacecraft or not, but it's not the first time as similar anomalies have appeared in SOHO images, in the past.
Strange Lights Making A Change In Formation Spark UFO Speculations
Strange Lights Making A Change In Formation Spark UFO Speculations
Interesting footage shows a series of mysterious bright lights hovering over Texas, triggering fears of a possible extraterrestrial vehicle.
The glowing lights were observed changing formation in the dark sky above three different counties across an 80-mile radius.
UFO enthusiasts in Dallas and neighboring areas butted in with sightings after a video of the unusual activity over in the south of Duncanville’s city was shared online.
Dozens of witnesses came forward saying they had multiple sightings from different sites, and many were convinced visiting aliens caused the lights.
Javier Estrada III, the retail manager who recorded the video, said they encountered the strange lights when they were visiting for their grandma’s birthday and looked up by chance. What they saw mesmerized them.
The witness said that they noticed glowing lights hovering very slow, and that’s when they knew it was something strange.
The witness does believe in aliens, so the first thing that came to their mind was a UFO. As soon as the witness saw it, they were starstruck as it appeared so real.
According to the witness, they wouldn’t mind having extraterrestrials come to visit but knowing the USA, the armed forces will probably attack these aliens first.
In Javier’s clip, four lights can be seen in the clear night sky, changing formation from a kite-like to a square one before drifting apart and disappear without a trace.
Two more lights then become visible before the footage ends.
Sightings were reported from eight different areas in and around the city. Many witnesses came from the south describing the lights as a straight light formation.
There were also reports from witnesses in Allen, to the northern area of the city, and Granbury, to the southwest, separated by a distance of almost 2-hour drive.
The ongoing pandemic has slowed testing for NASA’s Space Launch System megarocket, but the process is resuming and has checked off a key milestone: powering up the core stage.
An artist’s rendering of the first Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle with Orion spacecraft on the pad before launch. The Orion spacecraft and SLS megarocket – together called Block 1 – and the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, will be part of the Artemis 1 lunar mission, scheduled for launch in 2021.
Although the coronavirus pandemic has slowed testing of NASA’s Space Launch System – a rocket more powerful than the Saturn V that propelled the first astronauts to the moon – the months-long process is finally resuming at the agency’sStennis Space Center in Mississippi. Boeing, the company NASA contracted to lead the rocket’s construction, is now engaged in an eight-step core testing process dubbed the green run. It’ll culminate in a hot-fire test, where the rocket will be tied down, but will fire up its engines and endure each step of a launch as if it were really taking place. Originally scheduled to take place in early to mid-November 2020, this final testing is now expected to take place within the next three to six weeks, NASA says. It hopes to keep to this testing goal, to keep its schedule on track for the rocket’s debut launch on the Artemis 1 lunar mission in mid-to-late 2021.
Clyde Sellers, a security specialist at the NASA center, told EarthSky:
It’s extremely gratifying to watch. It’s the first time this test has run and for a new, original rocket, the most powerful rocket ever built.
Although the green run series started with a modal test – a kind of vibration testing – conducted in January 2020, the process has been slowed considerably by the coronavirus that has swept the world. Agency leadership halted on-site work at Stennis after the pandemic struck the region in March. The center began reopening slowly in mid-May, and the green run team completed their second test on the core stage (the orange “body” of the rocket) in late June.
That test ensured that the software and other electrical interfaces involved in the rocket and the testing stand work properly.
The rocket has since undergone and passed the next four steps of the green run series:
Test 3, in which engineers inspected all the safety systems that shut down operations during testing. During this test, they simulated potential problems.
Test 4, the first test of each of the main propulsion system components that connect to the engines. Command and control operations were verified, and the core stage was checked for leaks in fluid or gas.
Test 5, in which engineers ensured the thrust vector control system can move the four engines and checked all the related hydraulic systems.
Test 6, which simulated the launch countdown, including step-by-step fueling procedures. Core stage avionics were powered on, and propellant loading and pressurization were simulated. The test team exercised and validated the countdown timeline and sequence of events.
This helpful graphic illustrates what the 8 parts of the green run will test, as well as the individual components of the SLS Core Stage (orange rocket body).
The final two tests scheduled for the next month or so – test 7 and test 8 – will be a “wet dress rehearsal” that sees the rocket stage loaded with fuel and the full hot-fire test to ensure the vehicle is truly ready for launch. It’s an intense procedure, but one that’s crucial for engineers to feel confident the vehicle is safe.
After the hot fire test, engineers will refurbish the core stage and configure it for its journey to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where still more tests await the core stage. But eventually, if all goes well, the next time the RS-25 engines fire will be for the first uncrewed mission of NASA’s Artemis 1 – the first in a series of increasingly complex missions that will enable human exploration to the moon and Mars – and perhaps, one day, deep space.
The orange SLS core stage is being tested on the B-2 test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
The core stage will later be assembled with the other parts of the rocket and the Orion spacecraft, the crew module designed to carry humans into space.
Drawing from more than half a century of research and development, the Orion module plans to be flexible enough to carry humans to a variety of destinations beyond our own moon. The abort system, which will provide the crew with the ability to escape if an emergency occurs on the launch pad, was successfully tested at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico back in 2010. A series of launch and landing simulations at NASA’s Hydro Impact Basin tested how the module will fare when it splashes down in the ocean at the end of its mission.
Orion’s testing wrapped up in 2018 after a series of parachute falls, and it is expected to fly in the first Artemis launch.
Unlike previous human launch systems, SLS is designed to grow and evolve over time, with system flexibility that allows engineers to use one design today but adapt it later to future missions. Sellers added:
SLS will advance our understanding of our solar system and mankind’s capabilities.
A comparison of NASA’s SLS megarocket with the Saturn V and other rockets. What is labeled here as “initial configuration” is now called Block 1, the rocket being tested in late 2020, in preparation for a 2021 launch as part of the Artemis 1 moon mission.
Bottom line: Although the coronavirus pandemic has slowed testing of NASA’s Space Launch System – a rocket more powerful than the Saturn V moon rocket – the months-long process is finally resuming at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The green-run tests will culminate with a hot-fire test planned for the next few weeks, a schedule NASA says keeps it on track for its first launch of the Artemis 1 lunar mission by late 2021.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter was assisting Utah Division of Wildlife Resource officers counting bighorn sheep when the crew spotted something mysterious from above.
The discovery was made Wednesday.
“One of the biologists is the one who spotted it and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it,” said pilot Bret Hutchings. “He was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!’ And I was like, ‘what.’ And he’s like, ‘There’s this thing back there – we’ve got to go look at it!’”
The crew circled back and landed the helicopter to take a closer look. They couldn’t believe their eyes.
Tucked in a red rock cove was a shiny metal monolith protruding from the ground.
“I’d say it’s probably between 10 and 12 feet-high,” Hutchings said. “We were kind of joking around that if one of us suddenly disappears, then the rest of us make a run for it.”
Hutchings said it didn’t look like it was dropped into the ground from above. It was firmly planted there.
“We were, like, thinking is this something NASA stuck up there or something. Are they bouncing satellites off it or something?” Hutchings questioned.
That said, the crew decided it didn’t appear there was any scientific purpose to it. Hutchings said it looked as if it was manmade – perhaps more of an art form than any kind of alien lifeform.
“I’m assuming it’s some new wave artist or something or, you know, somebody that was a big (2001: A Space Odyssey) fan,” Hutchings said, referencing a scene in the movie.
Because the monolith was in an area the crew feared amateur adventurers might get stuck, they were intentionally vague about its location.
The group left with pictures and videos but few answers.
Hutchings said he had seen many unusual things from the helicopter over the years, but never anything quite like this.
“That’s been about the strangest thing that I’ve come across out there in all my years of flying,” Hutchings said.
Aliens in ancient Egypt helping build the pyramids? Believable. Aliens in pre-Columbian Central America inspiring drawings of spaceships? Sure. Aliens in ancient Bulgaria? Sorry, we’re gonna need some proof. Well, this might be it. An archaeologist digging in the settlement mound of the oldest town in Bulgaria discovered a small artifact carved with what looks suspiciously like a classic Grey alien face with large almond eyes and an oversized head. If it’s real, why Bulgaria?
“Many are likening it [the mask or figurine] to… an alien in a space suit.”
The clay piece (see pictures here) was found by a team led by Professor Vasily Nikolov excavating what was once the town of Provadia Solnitsata (Salinas de Provadia) near the present-day town of Provadia in northeastern Bulgaria. The lines carved into the triangular clay artifact make it look like an alien face – a miniature version of a large mask – and has two holes drilled in the upper corners, suggesting it was worn as a necklace. Adding to the mask-like design is the fact that the flip side is indented.
The mouthless prehistoric clay mask or figurine from the 5th millenium BC found in the Salt Pit prehistoric settlement near Provadiya in Northeast Bulgaria has been compared to “an alien in a space suit” in media reports.
Photo: Bulgarian National Radio
The more than 6,000-year-old mouthless prehistoric “alien” mask from the Salt Pit prehistoric town in Northeast Bulgaria might have been a status symbol.
The more than 6,000-year-old mouthless prehistoric “alien” mask from the Salt Pit prehistoric town in Northeast Bulgaria might have been a status symbol.
Prehistoric archaeology expert Prof. Vasil Nikolov is seen here showcasing the mouthless clay mask from the 5th millenium BC.
Photo: Bulgarian National Radio
The mouthless prehistoric clay mask or figurine from the 5th millennium BC found in the Salt Pit prehistoric settlement near Provadiya in Northeast Bulgaria has been compared to “an alien in a spacesuit” in media reports.
Photo: Bulgarian National Radio
What are you implying?
“[The face] has shaped eyebrows, a stylized nose, and elliptical eyes. The artifact was most probably a status symbol hanging on the chest of the person worthy of it. It is interesting that the artifact does have even a hint of a mouth. That is certainly not accidental and bears its own symbolism. The emphasis is on the eyes – their shape, their size as well as the vertical polished bands beneath them are saying a lot more than the missing mouth.”
They’re not saying “it’s aliens” to Archeology in Bulgaria, but it definitely looks like one. Why would aliens be visiting of Provadia Solnitsata in the 5th millennium BCE at the end of the Chalcolithic (Copper) Age just prior to the start of the Bronze Age? One clue might be that Solnitsata was the site of a massive salt mining operation at a time when today’s most common spice was a precious commodity. Salt was so valued back then that Solnitsata, which supplied salt across the Balkans, was walled to protect its residents and the mining operation from invaders and early pretzel makers. Could salt be a reason why aliens might have visited Provadia Solnitsata, prompting someone to capture their likeness on a stone necklace?
It turns out that a number of people claiming to have been abducted by aliens report having a craving for salt upon their return. This could be due to a loss of bodily fluids voluntarily or by force. Are aliens taking salt-filled fluids for examination or consumption? The carved artifact from Provadia Solnitsata could be the missing link to proving this theory.
This prehistoric society specialized in the production of salt which was exported to distant markets. The salt production boosted trade, and salt itself was probably used as a currency at first, before the arrival of gold.
Credits: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Or … it could be the carving of an owl, a praying mantis or some other animal. Professor Nikolov thinks it’s a mixture of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features, and is “categorically connected with the male beginning” but he doesn’t elaborate. The professor also found another alien-like artifact with a triangular face in southeast Bulgaria he calls “the goddess with hair in a bun.” And a prehistoric settlement near Telish in northwest Bulgaria has yielded artifacts resembling “space rockets” and more goddesses with triangular faces. Evidence or art? Other pieces of jewelry were discovered at Provadia Solnitsata, lending credence to the fact that this was once a town made rich by salt. However, all good things come to an end – climate change dried up the sources of salt and the resulting economic recession caused infighting amongst the citizens. Before they could switch to another line of work, an earthquake destroyed the city and covered it with the soil that is the mound today.
Prediconica mask, Vinca culture 4500-4000 BC.
Does the clay face represent aliens, an animal, a person, a goddess or something else? Until more are found, the needle rests on ‘interesting but uncertain’.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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