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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THAT IS AN AVERAGE OF 400GUESTS PER DAY.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
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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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
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!!!
Een interessant adres?
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...
30-11-2020
Phil Schneider: Top Secret Underground Bases and Tunnels
Phil Schneider: Top Secret Underground Bases and Tunnels
PHIL SCHNEIDER – TOP SECRET UNDERGROUND BASES AND TUNNELS
Philip Schneider (23 April 1947—10 January 1996) was a lecturer on underground bases. He had been on lecture tour for two years, prior to his death, speaking out about government cover-ups, black projects and UFO phenomena. His motivation to speak out in public, may have been from the death of his friend, Ron Rummel, publisher of Alien Digest, who died on 6th August, 1993, from allegedly having shot himself with a gun. Based on the information given in the testimony of Cynthia Schneider Drayer, the date of death of Phil Schneider is thereabouts, on the same day as Karla Turner’s death on 10 January 1996.
Richard Sauder: Underground Bases and Tunnels - The Best Documentary Ever
Richard Sauder: Underground Bases and Tunnels - The Best Documentary Ever
RICHARD SAUDER UNDERGROUND BASES AND TUNNELS – THE BEST DOCUMENTARY EVER
With more than $6.5 TRILLION missing from the Pentagon and countless top secret deep underground military and government bases scattered across the . Some of Richard Sauders favourite research and reading interests are underground and underwater bases and tunnels, electronic mind control, Freedom.
HIDDEN EMPIRE: UNDERGROUND BASES AND TUNNEL SYSTEMS, with Dr. Richard Sauder. One of the most mysterious and secretive developments of the elite.
Mysterious monolith found in remote Utah desert vanishes as mysteriously as it appeared, to be replaced by shiny triangle (so did the aliens beam it up?)
Mysterious monolith found in remote Utah desert vanishes as mysteriously as it appeared, to be replaced by shiny triangle (so did the aliens beam it up?)
Mysterious monolith that was found in the remote Utah desert has been removed
The shiny pillar protruded approximately 12 feet from the red rocks in the desert
The three-sided structure was removed by 'an unknown party' on Friday evening
A mysterious monolith that was found in the remote Utah desert has been removed by an 'unknown party' after its sudden arrival sparked theories it was left by aliens.
The shiny triangular pillar, which protruded approximately 12 feet from the red rocks in southern Utah, was spotted last Wednesday by baffled local officials counting bighorn sheep from the air.
However the three-sided structure was removed by 'an unknown party' on Friday evening, the Bureau of Land Management Utah said in a statement.
A mysterious monolith that was found in the remote Utah desert has been removed by an 'unknown party', according to officials
Tourists have headed to the site following the news of its removal and revealed how the triangular top has been left at the site alongside rocks piled in a stack.
However the BLM said it had not removed the structure 'which is considered private property' and would not be investigating because 'crimes involving private property' are managed by the local sheriff's office.
The BLM said in a Facebook post on Saturday: 'We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, referred to as the 'monolith' has been removed from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands by an unknown party.
'The BLM did not remove the structure which is considered private property. We do not investigate crimes involving private property which are handled by the local sheriff's office.
However the three-sided structure was removed (pictured) by 'an unknown party' on Friday evening, the Bureau of Land Management Utah said in a statement
The shiny, triangular pillar, which protruded approximately 12 feet from the red rocks of southern Utah, was spotted last Wednesday by baffled local officials counting bighorn sheep from the air
Utah Department of Public Safety said on Monday that crew members found 'a metal monolith installed in the ground' but 'no obvious indication of who might have put the monolith there.'
'It is illegal to install structures or art without authorization on federally managed public lands, no matter what planet you're from,' warned the agency in a tongue-in-cheek press release Monday.
A tourist stands with the triangular top of the monolith and posted their finding to Instagram
A man holds the triangular top that has been left of the monolith which remains in the desert
News of the discovery quickly went viral online, with many noting the object's similarity to the strange alien monoliths that trigger huge leaps in human progress in Kubrick's classic sci-fi film '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
Meanwhile arguments broke out among residents in the U.S. South-West State after tourists were accused of trashing the location, which authorities had tried to keep secret to avoid people getting lost.
But many tracked down the co-ordinates and published them - leading people to drive many hours through the night to reach the 12ft aluminium structure.
One explorer crouches beside the triangular top which has been left next to a stack of rocks
And it was revealed that a similar version appeared nearly 20 years ago on New Years Day in Seattle.
However access to the site involved a 45-minute off-road drive on a dirt track many miles from any major town at 10mph - and then a 15-minute hike up a dry stream bed.
Across the globe UFO spotters and conspiracy theorists became obsessed with the shiny, triangular pillar.
A stack of rocks has been left next to the triangular top of the monolith which has been removed by an 'unknown party'
The BLM said in a Facebook post on Saturday: 'We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, referred to as the 'monolith' has been removed from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands by an unknown party'
Utah: The smooth, tall structure was found during a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah on November 18
A Reddit user said they had managed to geo-locate the obelisk using surrounding rock formations.
Sharing the Google Earth location - where a small structure can be seen, roughly six miles from the nearest road - the user said the structure was first photographed by Google in 2016.
Some satellite images of the monolith date back to a year earlier in 2015.
Several adventurous hikers successfully located the monolith on Tuesday and gleefully climbed the mystifying object and snapped photos with it, even though officials didn't disclose its exact location for fear people would get lost searching for it.
Though the structure was only discovered by authorities this month, Google Earth images show it had been standing since at least 2015 or 2016.
Lieutenant Nick Street, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, said it's possible the structure had been there for '40, 50 years, maybe more.'
Officials suggest it could be have been constructed by an artist or a huge fan of 2001: Space Odyssey - the structure resembles the machines found in Arthur C. Clarke's story (pictured)
'It's the type of material that doesn't degrade with the elements. It may only be a few years old, who knows. There's no real way based on the material it's made out of how long it's actually been there,' he said on Tuesday.
Some pointed out the object's resemblance to the avant-garde work of John McCracken, an American artist who lived for a time in nearby New Mexico, and died in 2011.
McCracken was known for his freestanding sculptures in the shape of pyramids, cubes, or sleek slabs.
Some observers also pointed out the object's resemblance to the avant-garde work of John McCracken (left) an American artist who lived for a time in nearby New Mexico, and died in 2011. He was known for his freestanding sculptures in the shape of pyramids, cubes, or sleek slabs (right)
The monolith most closely resembles McCracken's plank-like sculptures featured at his exhibit at the David Zwirner art gallery in New York.
On Tuesday a spokeswoman for David Zwirner said it was not one of McCracken's works, but possibly by a fellow artist paying homage.
However later in the day Zwirner gave another statement which suggested the piece was indeed by McCracken, meaning it had lain undiscovered in the desert for nearly a decade.
The monolith was located inside a red rock cove but workers have withheld details about its exact location to prevent others from endangering themselves trying to get a closer look
'The gallery is divided on this,' Zwirner said. 'I believe this is definitely by John.'
They added: 'Who would have known that 2020 had yet another surprise for us. Just when we thought we had seen it all. Let's go see it.'
Explorer David Surber visited the monolith last week and posted the co-ordinates to Instagram and revealed that it was located near Lockhart Basin Road, near Moab.
He has since posted about its disappearance to his Instagram Story on Saturday night: 'Apparently the monolith is gone.
'Nature returned back to her natural state I suppose. Something positive for people to rally behind in 2020.'
On social media, others remarked on its discovery during a turbulent year that has seen the world gripped by the Covid-19 pandemic, and optimistically speculated it could have a different function entirely.
Utah: Officials have refused to disclose the metal obelisk's location out of fear that curious sightseers would flock to the remote wilderness, but internet sleuths managed to pinpoint its position nonetheless. Google Earth images show it has been there since 2016 or 2015
'This is the 'reset' button for 2020. Can someone please press it quickly?' joked one Instagram user.
'Up close it reads: "Covid vaccine inside"' wrote another.
Bret Hutchings, the pilot who happened to fly over the obelisk, speculated that it had been planted by 'some new wave artist.'
Either way, Hutchings admitted it was 'about the strangest thing I've come across out there, in all my years of flying.'
'We were kind of joking around that if one of us suddenly disappears, then the rest of us make a run for it,' he told local news channel KSLTV.
A view of the mystery monolith in Magnuson Park in Seattle pictured on January 2, 2001
Utah has a history of 'land art,' unusual installations that cropped up far from population centers in the 1960s and '70s.
The most famous, Spiral Jetty, a 1,500-foot-long coil by artist Robert Smithson in 1970 that's composed entirely of mud, salt crystals and basalt.
Located on the northeastern edge of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point, the jetty appears and disappears depending on water levels.
So far, no one has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the monolith, though.
Colter Hoyt, from Boulder Town, Utah, drove nine hours to visit the monolith in the desert
Colter posed in a collection of fancy dress outfits in the desert including a silver skin-tight suit
The three-sided structure was removed by 'an unknown party' on Friday evening and left a stack of rocks in the place where it once stood
The appearance of the monolith (pictured) has not disturbed the bighorn sheep that live in the southern half of Utah
And it hasn't disturbed the bighorn sheep that live in the southern half of Utah. Their population was once down to under a thousand in the 1970s, but conservation efforts have seen them make a big comeback in recent decades.
Colter Hoyt, from Boulder Town, Utah, drove nine hours to visit it before posing in a collection of fancy dress outfits for a series of selfies and pictures which he posted to Facebook on Saturday.
He captioned the pictures: 'The Obelisk! I know it will be photographed heavily in the near future until its demise, but I don’t think too many people will do it quite as much justice as me.
'(I took a lot more pictures in a variety of outfits and places nearby, these are just a few. Was so fun!)'
Colter captioned the pictures: 'The Obelisk! I know it will be photographed heavily in the near future until its demise but I don’t think too many people will do it quite as much justice as me'
Colter posed on stilts next to the monolith before it was removed (left) and also re-enacted scenes next to the monolith (right)
Colter appeared in a silver skin-tight suit with an aluminium mask before appearing on stilts in the pictures.
However some users were concerned about people descending on the site.
Martin Hudson commented on the Facebook pos: 'I hope this doesn't start a fad...people going out in the desert and trashing it out.'
Colter dressed in a silver suit alongside the monolith and appeared on stilts for the pictures he later posted to Facebook
Social media users were quick to note the object's similarity to the strange alien monoliths in Stanley Kubrick's classic sci-fi film '2001: A Space Odyssey'
But Colter hit back in defence: 'Accessing it won't damage the desert any worse than is already happening.
'But I hear you. Let's pray for the best. This isn't as bad as carving your name on one of the arches. And it certainly is a fantastic piece of graffiti.'
However many people praised Colter for making them laugh.
Olga Sacasa wrote: 'Priceless! Did you do some in an ape suit with a club in your hand throwing it up in the air; an homage to 2001 Space Odyssey. What are those stilts you are wearing in one of the pictures? Love the costumes!'
Colter hit back to comments on Facebook in defence of visiting the monolith adding: 'Accessing it won't damage the desert any worse than is already happening'
Colter appeared in a silver skin-tight suit with an aluminium mask before appearing on stilts in the pictures
Aliens or avant-garde art installation? Theories surrounding the mystery of the Utah desert monolith
ALIEN INVASION
Social media users were quick to note the object's similarity to the strange alien monoliths in Stanley Kubrick's classic sci-fi film '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
In the film, the monolith was a tool created by an alien race that trigger huge leaps in human progress.
LATE ARTIST'S SECRET INSTALLATION
The structure has also drawn comparisons to the work of minimalist artist John McCracken.
McCracken, who died in 2011, was known for his freestanding sculptures in the shape of pyramids, cubes, or sleek slabs.
The monolith closely resembles McCracken's pieces, leading some to speculate this could be one of his own works of art.
Adding to the theory is that McCracken had lived and worked in nearby New Mexico and California.
A spokeswoman for his representative David Zwirner said it was not one of McCracken's works.
Zwirner later gave another statement in which he suggested the piece was indeed by McCracken.
'The gallery is divided on this,' Zwirner said. 'I believe this is definitely by John.'
NEW WAVE ARTIST OR SCI-FI FAN
Many have speculated the structure could just be the work of a new wave artist or sci-fi fan.
Pilot Bret Hutchings, who discovered the monolith, suggested it was placed by 'a big 2001: A Space Odyssey' fan.'
A David Zwirner rep said it was possibly by a fellow artist paying homage to McCracken.
The legendary Utah monolith has vanished, disappeared, left, gone home. Visitors to the site said it was there on Friday, but on Saturday it was gone. All signs of it were gone. In its place were a few rocks in a tiny pile. No metal fragments were visible and no metalic pieces or hole were visible in the photos. What happened to the monolith only time will tell. Perhaps an art collector offered a bounty on the item and had to brought to him. Or perhaps it was an alien probe and it just went home.
Missing 411 - Two physical therapists disappear in Alaska just days apart!
Missing 411 - Two physical therapists disappear in Alaska just days apart!
David Paulides goes into the Missing 411 files and presents the case of two missing physical therapists from Juneau, Alaska. He then presents the case of a missing PT from Pennsylvania, all within a very short time frame.
For those who don't know who David Paulides is, well he is a former police detective who is now an investigator and writer known primarily for his self-published books, one dedicated to proving the reality of Bigfoot, and his Missing 411 series of books, in which he documents the mysterious disappearance of people in national parks and elsewhere.
2 shooting UFO lights while tracking planes after a CE5 session, Comstock Park, MI
2 shooting UFO lights while tracking planes after a CE5 session, Comstock Park, MI
This strange activity was filmed over Comstock Park, Michigan on 7th August 2020.
Witness report:
Caught 2 shooting lights in each video while tracking planes after a CE5 session. We didn’t see these lights at the time of the recording. It was our second week trying out CE5 so we were learning how to track planes and such. I’ve looked back on several videos, many times, and these were new discoveries as of last week. First video, you’ll see 2 lights head upward to the left of the airplanes that we are talking about on camera. Second video, you’ll see 2 lights on either side of the tower both shooting in opposite directions as the plane goes by. 🙂
A total of 43 ancient mythological mask carvings have been found by archaeologists in Turkey’s ancient city of Stratonikeia that’s located in the Yatağan district of the southwestern province of Muğla. These 2,200-year-old carvings have been unearthed over the past two years with 33 of them already repaired and cleaned in preparation for the public to eventually view them.
In fact, many items from several different time periods have been unearthed at the 3,000-year-old ancient city that is now a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. The excavation team, which is led by professor Bilal Söğüt of Pamukkale University, have already uncovered artifacts from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Anatolian beyliks, Ottoman, and Republican periods.
(Not any of the mask carvings mentioned in this article.)
The excavation team has been working on several different structures in the city that includes a 2,200-year-old ancient theater where the mask carvings have been discovered. “We have been working at the ancient theater for two years. We found 33 face molds during our excavations here. Today, we unearthed 10 more. Hopefully, we will be able to find all the masks at the theater in their own places and arrange them in their original order. That will be very pleasant for us,” Söğüt stated.
He went on to describe how in ancient times, the masks would have been all around the theater’s stage. “When people came here in ancient times, they were impressed by the splendor and magnificence of the theater even before entering it. We have been slowly uncovering its richness and splendor. This [is] also the value ancient people gave to culture, art and architecture,” he explained.
He added that in addition to the characters depicted in the plays, the masks also represented ancient gods/goddesses and even animals. Pictures of the mask carvings can be seen here.
An archaeologist works on a face mask in the ancient city of Stratonikeia, Muğla, southwestern Turkey, Nov. 24, 2020.
(AA PHOTO)
Two masks in the ancient city of Stratonikeia, Muğla, southwestern Turkey, Nov. 24, 2020.
(AA PHOTO)
An aerial view from the 2,200-year-old theater in the ancient city of Stratonikeia, Muğla, southwestern Turkey, Nov. 24, 2020.
(AA PHOTO)
(Not any of the mask carvings mentioned in this article.)
While these masks were carved in stones, it wasn’t the only interesting mask discovery in western Turkey this year. A couple of months ago I wrote an article on a 2,400-year-old Terracotta mask depicting the Greek god Dionysus that was unearthed in the ancient city of Daskyleion that’s located in the Bandirma district of the Balikesir province. According to the archaeologist who led the excavation team, it was “possibly a votive mask” which means that it could have been used to express a wish or vow. (The article can be read in full here.)
There have certainly been some interesting discoveries unearthed in Turkey this year with possibly more to come.
Scariest UFO Documentary Ever! Astounding Compilation Of The Leading Experts On UFO's, The Illuminati, Freemasons, And The New World Order! Awesome Video!
Scariest UFO Documentary Ever! Astounding Compilation Of The Leading Experts On UFO's, The Illuminati, Freemasons, And The New World Order! Awesome Video!
Scariest UFO Documentary Ever! – Conspiritus Remake by Xendrius – Proper / Full Version
Featuring Ted Gunderson, Fritz Springmeier, Cathy O’Brien, Chuck Missler, Bill Cooper, John Todd, Aaron Russo, John Wheeler, Jacque Vallee, and more.
All aliens are demons or fallen angles or elohim or bene ha’elohim. All these evil entities can take human form and are walking among us today. Most of the rulers of the world today are elohim or bene ha’elohim or fallen watchers (fallen angels). There is a firmament over us so no entities can leave or come to earth. Cern is trying to break the veil in order to bring the giants in from the middle of the earth which is in another dimension. The Fallen Watchers along with the elohim and bene ha’elohim have been trying to break the firmament in order to escape earth as they do not want to be punished by Messiah Jesus when He returns to extinguish all evil.
Fellow Spiritual Warriors: This is an absolute MUST WATCH! I’ve been kicking around the planet long enough to know that much of what this amazing compilation contains is sickeningly ACCURATE. . . Xendrius has an amazingly strong Spirit and stomach to have been able to create this astounding historical overview that seamlessly blends together such seemingly disparate elements. CONSPIRITUS remade should be dessimated throughout the Multiverse as far as I’m concerned.
Missing 411 in Alaska! Two Physical Therapists Disappear From the Same Alaska City Just Days Apart
Missing 411 in Alaska! Two Physical Therapists Disappear From the Same Alaska City Just Days Apart
Missing 411 in Alaska! Two Physical Therapists Disappear From the Same Alaska City Just Days Apart
David Paulides goes into the Missing 411 files and presents the case of two missing physical therapists from Juneau, Alaska. He then presents the case of a missing PT from Pennsylvania, all within a very short time frame.
Mysterious Object Near Space Station On Live Cam, Nov 28, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious Object Near Space Station On Live Cam, Nov 28, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 28, 2020
Location of sighting: Space Station
Source: Live NASA Cam
I was watching the live cam when I noticed this strange object being passed by the space station. The object is traveling the same direction as the space station, but its speed is half that of the station. The object is oval in shape and appears to have a white painted surface much like that of the space station itself. This is what makes me wonder about its true origins. The color which closely resembles that of the station, makes me thing its some stop secret USAF/NASA project that is in earth orbit and spying on foreign counties worldwide. Today, information is power and the more information, the more power a country has. How can we trust our neighboring countries when America itself is busy spying on everyone?
Over the past week, several satellites have captured massive objects such as a glowing triangle, a rectangular anomaly, as well as a winged UFO that seemingly passed the sun.
The objects are just camera errors or... maybe they are in fact huge alien craft passing the sun?
Utah Officials Counting Bighorn Sheep from the Air Find Mysterious Structure in the Southern Part of the State + Update: Romania
Utah Officials Counting Bighorn Sheep from the Air Find Mysterious Structure in the Southern Part of the State + Update: Romania
The discovery of a mysterious metal obelisk in the remote western United States desert has fired up the imaginations of conspiracy theorists, UFO enthusiasts, and fans of film director Stanley Kubrick worldwide.
The triangular pillar, which shines and protrudes around 3.6 metres (12 feet) from the red rocks south of Utah, was spotted by baffled local officials from the air while counting bighorn sheep.
Utah Department of Public Safety crew members landed to investigate and spotted a metal monolith installed in the ground. However, no clear indication of who might have installed the monolith there.
In a press release, the agency warned that it’s not legal to install structures or even art without authorisation on federally handled public lands, no matter where you come from.
News of the discovery quickly made the rounds online and even picked up by mainstream media in different parts of the world. Several online comments noting the object’s similarity with mysterious alien monoliths that spark giant leaps in human progress in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 epic science fiction film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. The film depicts an alien monolith as a recurring symbol that appears to play a significant role in man’s evolution from the apes.
The Utah object’s origin is still unknown, and officials are refusing to disclose the strange object’s specific location out of fear that hordes of curious people would flock to the remote wilderness. However, many are trying to geo-locate the obelisk using surrounding rock formations.
Pilot Bret Hutchings, who happened to fly over the obelisk, admitted it was the strangest thing he has come across out there in all his years of flying.
Update, posted by peter2011
Utah monolith: The mysterious silver monolith in the desert has disappeared
By Alanne Orjoux and Melissa Alonso, CNN
A tall, silver, shining metal monolith discovered in the desert in southeastern Utah -- which prompted theories of alien placement and drew determined hikers to its secret location -- has now disappeared, the state's Bureau of Land Management said Saturday
The monolith was removed by an "unknown party" sometime Friday night, the agency said in a Facebook post.
"We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, referred to as the 'monolith,' has been removed" from BLM public lands, the post said.
"The BLM did not remove the structure, which is considered private property."
'We've got to go look at it!'
The monolith was first discovered November 18 by officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety's Aero Bureau.
They were flying by helicopter, helping the Division of Wildlife Resources count bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah, when they spotted something that seemed right out of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"One of the biologists ... spotted it, and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it," pilot Bret Hutchings told CNN affiliate KSL. "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!'"
And there it was -- in the middle of the red rock was a shiny, silver metal monolith sticking out of the ground. Hutchings guessed it was "between 10 and 12 feet high." It didn't look like it was randomly dropped to the ground, he told KSL, but rather it looked like it had been planted.
"I'm assuming it's some new wave artist or something or, you know, somebody that was a big ("2001: A Space Odyssey") fan," he said, referencing a scene in the 1968 film where a black monolith appears.
Still, it is illegal to install structures or art without authorization on public lands "no matter what planet you're from," said Utah DPS in a statement released Monday.
Where is it?
The location of the monolith was not disclosed because authorities said they didn't want curiosity seekers to become stranded in the remote landscape and need to be rescued.
The trek involved driving in the darkness over rocky terrain and verifying GPS coordinates, according to three people who went to see it. At least one explorer got lost at first. But the trip was worth it, they said, even if the monolith wasn't the work of aliens.
David Surber may have been among the very first to view the monolith in person. The coordinates to the monolith were circulating on Reddit, but none of the users could confirm they were correct. Surber volunteered to find out.
The coordinates were indeed correct, and Surber eagerly shared the results of his visit with 200 Reddit users who'd flooded his inbox. Among his findings: The monolith wasn't magnetic or solid (he said it sounded "like a cardboard box" when he knocked on it). He also shared step-by-step instructions for the drive out to the monolith.
"At the end of the day, extraterrestrial or made through artistic expression; the monolith provided an opportunity for thousands of people to rally behind something positive again," he told CNN in an email. "It was a good escape from all the negativity we've experienced in 2020."
A mysterious object discovered in September has now become a new mini-moon for Earth. It appears to be a lost-and-found 60s-era rocket from the Surveyor 2 moon mission, launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
View larger. | This animation shows the orbit of 2020 SO that was captured by Earth’s gravity on November 8, 2020. It will escape in March 2021. Its motion has been speeded up a million times faster than real time.
On September 17, 2020, astronomers spotted an object on approach to Earth. They assigned it an asteroid label: 2020 SO. Orbit models quickly showed, however, that both the low speed and trajectory of the approaching object were unusual. The models also showed that Earth would capture this object – temporarily – as a new mini-moon. And, on November 8, Earth did capture this object. Now, following a 3-month analysis of its motion, NASA has confirmed the object is likely no natural object at all. Instead, it appears to be a relic of the early Space Age, a Centaur upper-stage rocket booster, once called America’s workhorse in space. This particular rocket might be the one that launched the ill-fated Surveyor 2 spacecraft toward the moon in 1966.
The lost rocket, if that’s what it is, is expected to remain a captive of Earth from October 2020 until March 2021.
It appears to have been pushed from its original trajectory by a small but continuous pressure from sunlight.
It won’t be the first time Earth has captured a mini-moon. But it’s an awesome story of a lost-and-found rocket, originally launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
By the way, 2020 SO will come extremely close to Earth – about 30,000 miles (50,000 km or 0.13 of the average lunar distance) on December 1. Virtual Telescope will be showing this intriguing object live a few hours before its flyby: the live feed is scheduled for November 30, starting at 5 p.m. EST (22:00 UTC). Translate UTC to your time and see the poster below for more information.
Astronomers first sighted the object in September using the 71-inch (1.8-meter) Pan-STARRS1 telescope at Haleakala, Hawaii. They gave it its designation – 2020 SO – and added it as an Apollo-type asteroid in the JPL Small-Body Database.
However, 2020 SO was quickly seen to have some features that set it apart from ordinary asteroids. According to NASA/JPL calculations, the object sped past Earth’s moon at a speed of 1,880 miles per hour (3,025 km/h) or 0.84 km per second (.5 mi/sec). That is an extremely slow speed for an asteroid.
These calculations also show the apparent “slow asteroid” orbiting the sun every 1.06 years (387 days). The low relative velocity, along with the Earth-like orbit, both suggest it as an artificial object launched from our planet.
On December 1, 2020, the object labeled 2020 SO will come extremely close – about 30,000 miles (50,000 km or 0.13 of the average lunar distance). Virtual Telescope will be showing this intriguing object live a few hours before its flyby: the live feed is scheduled for November 30, 2020, starting at 5 p.m. EST (22:00 UTC; translate UTC to your time).
Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Near Earth Object center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, first suggested the object might be the rocket booster of Surveyor 2, a robotic spacecraft that was launched to the moon on September 20, 1966. Surveyor 2 was meant to be the second lunar lander in the uncrewed American Surveyor program to explore the moon. The spacecraft blasted into space atop an Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
A mid-course correction failure caused space controllers to lose contact with the craft three days later, after a thruster failed to ignite. The failure caused the spacecraft to tumble and ultimately to crash near the moon’s Copernicus crater.
View larger. | A model of the ill-fated Surveyor lander, which crashed on the moon in 1966.
Speed ahead to our time and the strange object designed 2020 SO. The object has an estimated size between 20 and 45 feet (6 to 14 meters), a not-unreasonable match for the dimensions of an Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D (approximately 41 feet or 12 meters).
How could we have lost an entire 41-foot-long rocket? Space archaeologist Alice Gorman of Flinders University in Australia told ScienceAlert that – before our modern era of reuseable rockets – the rockets that launched craft into space were surprisingly easy to lose. She said:
There are so many factors in the space environment, like gravitational factors and other things that affect movement, that it can sometimes be quite unpredictable.
You have to keep tracking these things, or you can just sort of lose sight of them really easily. And if they do something a little bit unpredictable, and you look the wrong way, then you don’t know where it’s gone. It is quite astonishing, the number of things that have gone missing.
NASA explained that pressure from the sun’s radiation caused the object to change its trajectory:
The pressure exerted by sunlight is small but continuous, and it has a greater effect on a hollow object than a solid one. A spent rocket is essentially an empty tube and therefore is a low-density object with a large surface area. So it will be pushed around by solar radiation pressure more than a solid, high-density clump of rock, much like an empty soda can will be pushed by the wind more than a small stone.
View larger. | This 1964 photograph shows a Centaur upper-stage rocket before being mated to an Atlas booster. A similar Centaur was used during the launch of Surveyor 2 two years later and could now be the object known as 2020 SO … a new temporary mini-moon for Earth.
This isn’t the first time Earth has captured a mini-moon.
As you might have realized by now, space is chock full of small asteroids. Once in a while, one of these space rocks is captured, temporarily, by our planet’s gravity before being cast out back into the solar system at large. Two confirmed mini-moons are 2006 RH120 (in Earth orbit between 2006 and 2007), and 2020 CD3 (in our orbit between 2018 and 2020).
It’s also not the first time we’ve mistaken space junk for an asteroid.
Another small object that was initially thought to be an asteroid was WT1190F, detected in October 2015 on approach to Earth. Its trajectory suggested it was about to penetrate Earth’s atmosphere near Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean, an event that happens with ordinary asteroids several times every year.
As WT1190F was disintegrating in our atmosphere on November 13, 2015, scientists analyzed its light via spectroscopy.
This analysis suggested the object might be a spacecraft component or part of a spent rocket, another wandering piece of space junk, returning home.
2020 SO isn’t the first thought to be an asteroid, and later realized to be human-made space junk. Here’s an object tagged as WT1190F entering Earth’s atmosphere south of Sri Lanka on November 13, 2015.
So is 2020 SO an ordinary asteroid? Or is it an old earthly rocket returning home? We don’t know yet, but we expect to find out. NASA explained:
Before it leaves, 2020 SO will make two large loops around our planet, with its closest approach on December 1.
During this period, astronomers will get a closer look and study its composition using spectroscopy to confirm if 2020 SO is indeed an artifact from the early Space Age.
Strange space object 2020 SO was discovered on September 17, 2020, on approach to Earth. On November 8, it slowly drifted into Earth’s sphere of gravitational dominance, a region called the Hill sphere that extends roughly 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) from our planet. That’s where 2020 SO will remain for about 4 months before it escapes back into a new orbit around the sun in March 2021. During that time, it will make 2 large loops around our planet. In this image, Earth is the blue dot in the center. The moon’s orbit is the white circle.
Bottom line: A newly discovered “asteroid” might become a new mini-moon for Earth. This object is designated 2020 SO and was entered in JPL’s Small-Body Database. But it might be no ordinary asteroid. It might be a lost rocket from the Surveyor 2 mission, originally launched from Earth more than 50 years ago.
Google “World’s oldest temple” (go ahead, we’ll wait) and the #1 answer is the famous Göbekli Tepe (Göbeklitepe) in southern Turkey, believed to have been built 11,000–12,000 years ago as a place to worship the dog star, Sirius. Loaded with T-shaped carved stone pillars, it predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years and puts Utah’s sole monolith to shame. Unfortunately for fans of the Göbekli Tepe, it may soon be knocked down to #2 with the announcement that the Karahan Tepe or Karahantepe in Turkey’s southeastern Şanlıurfa province contains hundreds of statues and artifacts that initially appear to predate Göbekli Tepe. Can Göbekli Tepe fans demand a recount?
Not even in the running
“Life in Göbeklitepe is not only limited to a period of ‘T’-shaped stones. It reflects a much longer process, there is a settlement of 700 to 800 years. It is certain that Karahantepe is somewhere in this period. It may cover a longer period of time or it may begin before. The excavations here will reveal all these, but at least we can say that this process coincides with a significant time period, a contemporary period. This means 11,500 years before today.”
Professor Necmi Karul of the Prehistory Department at the İstanbul University is the leader of the “Göbeklitepe Culture and Karahantepe Excavations” project and explains in Hurriyet Daily News that while the site was initially discovered in 1997, surveys did not start until 2018 and excavations didn’t begin until September 2019. The surveys found at least 250 T-shaped Neolithic-era obelisks were found. The obelisks appeared to be similar to those at Göbekli Tepe and the excavations are proving it. (Photos here.)
“The excavation program continues in Karahantepe in an intensive and rapid manner. There are more years of work, but we will have reached an older excavation center. This is 12 thousand years old, the other will be much older. It will probably become a priority place than Göbeklitepe. It will be our new focus of attention.”
Speaking at the 10th International Resort Tourism Congress this week, Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy excitedly delivered the news, saying the discovery “will make a sound in the world!”. That would certainly be the case in both of the minister’s departments. Göbekli Tepe has been regarded as the world’s oldest temple since its discovery and its monoliths and artifacts continue to be intensely studied — as will those at Karahantepe. The fame and publicity has resulted in Göbekli Tepe becoming a major tourist attraction for Turkey, and, while Karahantepe might take some of that away, together the should increase the total number of visitors and tourist dollars for the country.
“This year we have found very important finds highlighting the human symbolism. We discovered sculptures and new buildings. The statue head is quite interesting. The statue head, 50 cm in diameter, is carved into the bedrock. Again, we found structures carved into the bedrock around it. “
Karul points out that, while both Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe are loaded with T-shaped columns, the statues are different, with Göbekli Tepe having more animal representations while Karahan Tepe has more humans. That could mean the two sites, while similar, were separated by more than their 35 km (21.7 mile) distance. So far, the tools found at Karahan Tepe indicate it was a hunter and gatherer community.
Get your algorithm read, Google. There’s a new oldest temple in town.
The Strange Case of Daniel Ledger and hisThe Strange Case of Daniel Ledger and his World War II Alien Encounters Brent SwancerNovember 29, 2020 World War II Alien Encounters Brent SwancerNovember 29, 2020
The Strange Case of Daniel Ledger and his World War II Alien Encounters
During World War II the skies over Europe were not stranger to battle. Here there were frequent engagements between fighter lanes, and the sounds of machine gun fire and explosions were as common a background noise as the singing of birds or the chirping of crickets. The violence became a fact of life in many places, a common occurrence, yet in the summer of 1941 a very strange series of events would play out in the skies over Le Mans, France that was far from the ordinary. At the time a French soldier by the name of Daniel Ledger was at Le Mans when his attention, as well as that of the villagers, was drawn to an unusual sight in the sky in an area above what was then a German occupied airfield in nearby town of Raineries. And so would begin a weird odyssey involving UFOs, crashed spaceships, and a mysterious alien woman.
On that summer day they could see what looked like a dense, aluminum-colored cloud that was shaped somewhat “like the handle of a frying pan” and the whole of it ringed with a mist that orbited the more solid looking darkened interior. This odd cloud seemed to be more than just a cloud, as it had a certain weight and solidity to it, and it was also moving across the sky faster than the other clouds. It was indeed a strange sight, but what made it even stranger still was that there seemed to be German fighter planes circling the mass, looking like flies at that distance but the droning of their engines still audible and unmistakable. From what they could see, the German planes seemed to be attacking the cloud, but as they did another, larger cloud descended to hover over the scene, this one described as luminous and matching the speed of the one below it. Upon the arrival of this cloud, the German planes that came close to it were seen to “fall down like leaves” for several seconds before taking to the air again.
To Ledger it seemed like their engines were cutting out to send them into a temporary free fall, and he suspected this was being done as a defense by the clouds. This would go on for nearly a full hour before the planes veered away and the clouds disappeared into the distance. Ledger would claim that he looked through newspaper reports in the following days and found not a single mention of anything that could have explained what he had seen. Puzzled, he tried to put the bizarre experience out of his head, but little did he know that this was to pale in comparison to another experience he would have a few years later.
In July of 1943, Ledger had been conscripted by the Germans to work at a labor camp in the coastal town of Gdynia, Poland, and one day he requested permission to visit the town of Exelgroud, which was granted. The only way for him to go at the time was on foot, but it wasn’t far, and so he headed out but soon found that the walk was taking longer than he expected. Ledger apparently decided to take a shortcut that took him over an area of sand dunes along the Baltic beach. As he made his way across the sand, he noticed something up ahead that was quite unusual. Half buried in the sand was what appeared to be some large grey metallic object, seemingly lodged deep into a dune as if it had fallen from the sky to crash there. Curious, Ledger approached the object and that was when things became even stranger than they already were.
As he drew closer, Ledger was met with the sight of a woman with long blonde hair and dressed in some sort of tight-fitting black or dark-brown jumpsuit with a belt, who appeared to be trying to manually dig the weird object out of the sand. At this point, Ledger was convinced that this must be a German pilot who had gone down in some sort of experimental aircraft and was in trouble, and this made him slightly hesitant to go any closer. He contemplated turning back, but as he did so the strange woman turned to face him, as if somehow aware of his presence. Her features were completely human, even pretty, slightly Asian looking despite her flowing blonde hair, and a look of relief spread across her face. She gestured for him to come over and help her, which he warily did, still not sure of who this person was.
When he reached the object, she gestured that she wanted him to dig with her, and he soon found that the craft was not as firmly embedded in the sand as he had thought. They were able to dig it mostly free in short order, and Ledger noticed that it was composed of a completely smooth metal that had no noticeable joints or seams. As they dug she talked to him, and when she finally spoke it was not in German or Polish, but rather a language he was unfamiliar with, but which sounded vaguely Russian. Although he could not understand what she was saying she seemed to understand him, although he was not sure why he had this impression. When they finished removing the last of the sand she repeated some unintelligible words which he took to be thanks, and then touched a button in her belt. When she did, a door on the metal object slid open, even though there were no seams to show a door was there, and she gestured to the sky and tapped her chest, then motioned for Ledger to back away from the craft. He could understand that she meant to take off, and so he did as he was told, still a bit confused as to who this person was and what was going on.
The woman then entered the object and the door slid closed behind her, blending seamlessly into the exterior like it had never even been there at all. Ledger claimed that before the door closed he could briefly see that the interior was devoid of any instrumentation panels, and that the woman was assuming a position on all fours, as if she were about to enter a “motorbike competition.” The craft then began to rise into the air in a shower of loose sand, glowing slightly as it did. Ledger took a few more steps away, and was astonished that the aircraft made no noise at all. The craft silently hovered there for a moment before suddenly shooting straight up into the sky at phenomenal speed and vanishing to leave him standing there dumfounded at what he had just seen.
It is important to note that even after all of this, Ledger was convinced that this had been some form of experimental aircraft and that he had met its very human pilot, but in later years he was not so sure. When UFO reports started to emerge more frequently and the United States and Soviet Union began their space programs, Ledger remembered the German fighters circling that strange cloud and his weird encounter with the woman and her ship on the dunes and he wondered if perhaps these had been brushes with something beyond this world and even if they were connected somehow. Being as this is a rather obscure case with little in the way of corroborating evidence, it is hard to know what to make of it. Who was this mysterious woman and where was she from? Was she ever even real at all? What connection, if any, does it all have to Ledger’s previous claimed experience? We will probably never know, and it remains another historical oddity confined to the forgotten mists of history.
The two biggest planets in our Solar System will provide us with a beautiful sky treat this Christmas season. While the conjunction will happen from December 16th to the 25th, Jupiter and Saturn will be the closest they’ve been to each other in almost 800 years on December 21st.
This event will be visible worldwide with the best views from the equator. The two planets will appear in the western sky close to the horizon around the time that the sun sets. Those who live in the north, however, will have a much shorter time frame to see the conjunction before the planets disappear below the horizon. Patrick Hartigan, who is an astronomer from Rice University of Houston, Texas, noted, “Viewing that would be manageable if the weather cooperates and you have an unobstructed view to the southwest.”
Since this summer, Jupiter and Saturn have been moving closer to each other, and on the winter solstice (December 21st) they will appear less than a full moon’s width apart from one another.
Hartigan explained what will happen during this upcoming sky show, “On the evening of closest approach on Dec 21 they will look like a double planet, separated by only 1/5th the diameter of the full moon,” adding, “For most telescope viewers, each planet and several of their largest moons will be visible in the same field of view that evening.”
The two planets won’t appear next to each other at this close of a range until 60 years from now on March 15, 2080 when they will be visible higher up in the sky and for a longer length of time. Then it won’t happen again until after the year 2400.
Hartigan went on to explain just how unique this sky show will be, “Alignments between these two planets are rather rare, occurring once every 20 years or so.” “But this conjunction is exceptionally rare because of how close the planets will appear to one another.” “You’d have to go all the way back to just before dawn on March 4, 1226, to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky.”
Since this event will not happen again for another 60 years, you may want to head outside on December 21st to see this pretty holiday show.
Jupiter and Saturn will appear as one in the sky next month (skysafariastronomy.com)
Contract voor eerste opruimactie in de ruimte getekend
Het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA heeft met de Zwitserse start-up ClearSpace een contract van 86 miljoen euro getekend voor een eerste opruimactie in de ruimte. Dat is donderdag bekendgemaakt.
Meer dan de helft van alle in bijna zestig jaar gelanceerde objecten draait nog steeds rondom onze planeet en kan een gevaar vormen voor andere ruimtetuigen. Bovendien neemt het ruimteschroot alsmaar toe.
“Stel je voor hoe gevaarlijk scheepvaart zou zijn als alle schepen die ooit zijn vergaan nog steeds op de zeespiegel zouden dobberen. Zo ziet de baan rond de aarde eruit en dat kan niet langer”, zei ESA eerder over alle troep.
Bij de eerste schoonmaakmissie in 2025 wordt het doelwit de bovenste trap van een in 2013 gelanceerde lichte Europese draagraket Vega, de Vespa. Het zowat 100 kilo wegende ding draait een baan op een hoogte die schommelt tussen 660 en 800 kilometer hoogte.
De sonde ClearSpace-1 - een ruimtestofzuiger zo u wil - moet na een achtervolging de trap ter grootte van een kleine satelliet "vangen", om dan samen terug te keren en op te branden in de atmosfeer.
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