Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Topwetenschapper Harvard blijft geloven dat aliens vier jaar geleden op bezoek kwamen, maar hij krijgt stevige tegenkanting
Topwetenschapper Harvard blijft geloven dat aliens vier jaar geleden op bezoek kwamen, maar hij krijgt stevige tegenkanting
“Aliens hebben ons in 2017 een bezoek gebracht, maar wetenschappers hebben die realiteit genegeerd.” De stelling doet misschien de wenkbrauwen fronsen, maar ze komt niet van de eerste de beste. Avi Loeb is een topastronoom aan de universiteit van Harvard die ook al samengewerkt heeft met Stephen Hawking. In het wereldje wordt hij nu echter vooral afgedaan als een collega “die met straffe beweringen het publiek wil bespelen”.
De bekende Israëlisch-Amerikaanse kosmoloog verwijst naar de doortocht van ‘Oumuamua’, een mysterieus object dat vier jaar geleden in sneltreinvaart door ons zonnestelsel vloog. Het 400 meter lange gevaarte wisselde soms van tempo, hield geen rekening met de zwaartekracht en had de vorm van een sigaar. Een komeet kon het niet zijn omdat de nevelige wolk van gassen en stof ontbrak. Experts spraken van het eerste interstellaire object dat vanop Aarde waargenomen werd.
De ‘ruimterots’ kwam dus uit een ander zonnestelsel, maar was het daarom ook buitenaards? In dit geval: hadden aliens werkelijk een sonde gecreëerd waarmee ze een verkenningstocht uitvoerden?
De controversiële these won aan belang sinds Loeb zich in 2018 in het kamp van de ‘believers’ aansloot. Zijn artikel in het wetenschappelijke blad ‘Astrophysical Journal Letters’ deed alvast het nodige stof opwaaien.
Computersimulaties
Uit een studie van vorig jaar bleek echter dat Oumuamua - Hawaïaans voor ‘scout’ - volledig natuurlijk ontstaan zou zijn. Rotsachtige objecten kunnen immers uit een zonnestelsel gekatapulteerd worden door getijdenkrachten.
Computersimulaties vonden na lange tijd een verklaring voor de ‘sigaarvorm’ en ook het mysterie van de plotse versnellingen leek opgehelderd. “Een combinatie van waterijs met de uitwaseming van gas”, meent hoofdauteur Yun Zhang. Elk planetensysteem zou volgens haar zelfs zo’n 100 biljoen objecten als Oumuamua uitstoten.
“We zijn niet speciaal”
De wetenschappelijke uitleg kan Loeb echter niet overtuigen. Hij bracht nu een boek uit om zijn theorie rond buitenaardse wezens te staven. Zij zouden een lichtzeil gefabriceerd hebben dat via zonlicht voortgestuwd wordt.
“Denken dat we uniek en speciaal zijn is gewoon arrogant. We zouden ons beter verzoenen met het feit dat er nog veel andere culturen bestaan. We moeten ze nu enkel nog vinden”, klinkt het in ‘Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth’.
Astrofysicus Ethan Siegel betreurt dat Loeb die weg ingeslagen is. “Ooit was hij zeer gerespecteerd. Nu het niet meer lukt om collega’s met argumenten te overtuigen, praat hij het grote publiek maar naar de mond”, schrijft hij in ‘Forbes’.
Ook de Nederlandse hoogleraar Sterrenkunde Gijs Nelemans denkt er zo over. “Loeb heeft al eerder spraakmakende zaken aangekaart. Hij gooit ze in de groep en kan ze goed uitmelken, daarna mogen anderen het zaakje uitzoeken. Als ik zou moeten kiezen tussen aliens of de wetenschappelijke uitleg, dan wordt het toch de tweede optie. Er zijn bij dit object ook radiometingen gedaan en er werd geen enkel signaal vastgesteld.”
“Pesterijen”
Loeb noemt dit soort reacties pestgedrag. “Galileo werd ook ooit verketterd omdat hij ontdekte dat de Aarde niet het centrum van het universum was. We zouden veel meer middelen moeten besteden aan de zoektocht naar buitenlands leven. Als we hun technologie zouden bestuderen, kunnen we misschien wel een miljoen jaar winst boeken.”
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Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Offer Surprises Even Before NASA’s Lucy Mission has a Chance to Visit Them.
Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Offer Surprises Even Before NASA’s Lucy Mission has a Chance to Visit Them.
A new study out this month suggests that Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids may be more peculiar than previously thought. The Trojan asteroids are rocky objects which orbit the Sun just ahead of and just behind the gas giant, in gravitational sweet spots known as Lagrange points. The swarm ahead of Jupiter, known as the L4 (Greek) group, is slightly larger than the L5 (Trojan) swarm behind, but until now, astronomers believed that there was otherwise little differentiation between the two swarms. The paper released this month appears to change that.
The research team, using data from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) based in Hawaii, has discovered unexpected variations in the shape of the Trojans. This new study suggests that objects in the L4 population are actually more elongated than those in the L5 population, on average.
In this image, Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids are shown in Green. The L4 group is labelled ‘Greeks’, because these objects are usually named after Greek heroes of the Trojan War, while the L5 asteroids are labelled ‘Trojans,’ as they are named after Trojan heroes. Credit: Wikipedia Commons
Why does this matter? Well, the difference “may imply a different collisional evolution within each cloud,” the paper suggests. The L4 swarm’s larger population means objects within it have had had more opportunities to collide with one another. As one Trojan slams into another, larger objects are worn down or broken into smaller pieces. Over billions of years of impacts, the result is that more L4 objects have been battered into eccentric shapes than those in L5.
This discovery is a lesson learned regarding the evolutionary history of the Solar System, and the Jupiter Trojans may have plenty more to offer scientists in that respect in the near future. In order to get a closer look at these primordial remnants of the early Solar System, NASA is set to launch a robotic spacecraft to visit the Trojans later this year. The mission is named Lucy, after the fossilized remains of an early human ancestor found in Ethiopia in 1974. Lucy taught paleontologists about the evolution of humans, and in a similar way, the Lucy spacecraft will be able to teach astronomers about the early history of the Solar System.
Artist’s Rendering of Lucy. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
One of Lucy’s key objectives is to understand the composition and diversity of Trojan objects. It is believed that these asteroids represent the leftovers of planet formation, so learning about their structure, age, and component materials will help us to understand the ingredients which went into making the planets we see today, including, possibly, the organic materials which found their way to Earth in its infancy.
Lucy will take advantage of lessons learned from previous missions, carrying instruments similar to those flown on NASA’s New Horizons, which flew past Pluto in 2015, and OSIRIS-Rex, which is currently bringing a sample back to Earth from Asteroid Bennu. Using a series of clever gravity assists, Lucy will be able to visit more targets in a single mission than any solar system probe before it, flying past at least eight different asteroids over twelve years, starting with one in the main asteroid belt, then bouncing back and forth between objects in the L4 and L5 swarms.
Lucy’s orbital trajectory. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
Careful planning, and a bit of astronomical luck, means that Lucy will even get the chance to visit two targets in the L5 swarm which travel in high inclination orbits, making them normally very difficult to reach. The binary pair, Patroclus and Menoetius, will pass within reach of Lucy in 2033, making for a spectacular finale to Lucy’s primary mission.
Lucy will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Atlas V rocket in October. The complete mission timeline is as follows:
October 16, 2021: The three-week long launch window opens.
April 20, 2025: Main asteroid belt object (52246) Donaldjohanson.
August 12, 2027: L4 object (3548) Eurybates and its satellite, Queta.
September 15, 2027: L4 object (15094) Polymele.
April 18, 2028: L4 object (11351) Leucus.
November 11, 2028: L4 object (21900) Orus.
March 2, 2033: L5 object (617) Patroclus and its partner, Menoetius.
Whatever else Lucy might discover, it is clear that a combination of ground based-astronomy and spacecraft flybys are opening up a new chapter in our understanding of planetary formation, and the Trojans probably have more surprises in store for us in the years to come.
Since this video was recorded, asteroid Queta has been added to the mission profile, after its discovery in 2020.]
Dr. Steven Greer: The Cabal's Last Card Fake Alien Invasion - Deep State False Flags - The Classics
Dr. Steven Greer: The Cabal's Last Card Fake Alien Invasion - Deep State False Flags - The Classics
The work that medical doctor, researcher and author Steven Greer continues to do through the organization CSETI has made some tremendous breakthroughs in establishing contact with an intelligent phenomena, often perceived as UFOs, Light Phenomena and strange looking entities.
Steven demonstrates that there is a conscious connection being established with this phenomena and on many occasions they are being caught on camera.
Dr. Steven Greer: The Cabal’s Last Card Fake Alien Invasion – Deep State False Flags
Guys do you see the UFO lighting near the tree edge? Its a small UFO that came out the the huge UFO cloaked inside the cloud. Yes, two UFOs! The guy noticed the small one, and dismissed the cloud. But the cloud is the mother ship! Crazy cool that the eyewitness didnt even mention the UFO shaped cloud...its hiding a cloaked UFO in it. Wow, just wow!
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I was driving home and saw the brightest light I have ever seen during the day. It was hovering when I first spotted it then it proceeded to move and that’s where the video starts. It also disappears at the end. Thoughts on what this is?
Triangle UFO Seen In Night Vision Over Rochester, Michigan. 11-2-2014, MUFON UFO Sighting News.
Triangle UFO Seen In Night Vision Over Rochester, Michigan. 11-2-2014, MUFON UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:Nov 2, 2014 Location of sighting: Rochester, Michigan, USA
Source: MUFON
This eyewitness was using a type 2 generation night vision scope. I know, because I own one. He also is holding a green pen laser, which I also have and use. He is using the green laser to get the attention of aliens so that they fly near him so he can catch it on night vision and record it.
Here we see not a TR3B, but a cloaked triangle craft. Its just one craft! See the two screenshots above, both different but both show a solid triangle craft. It may be invisible, but its visible in night vision! This object was drawn to this location because of the green laser! It was curious about it since it could see the laser for many miles away.
100% proof that triangle alien crafts do exist and do come to the UFO hunters when they try hard to get noticed with green pen lasers! Also nice he didn't hit the ship with the laser rather he politely followed it. Very thoughtful of the eyewitness.
Helicopter FLIR camera caught two UFOs over San Clemente Island, California
Helicopter FLIR camera caught two UFOs over San Clemente Island, California
Over the years, many eyewitnesses from the Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard have reported strange UFO activity off the California's southern coast, especially the area around the islands San Clemente and Catalina and now once again UFO activity has been recorded and this time over Clemente Island.
2021/02/08. The video was recorded from a phone of a sailor on the H60 Romeo's FLIR.
FLIR cameras are typically used on military and civilian aircraft, use a thermographic camera that senses infrared radiation.
The helicopter was grounded off of San Clemente Island, California on a 2 week training event. They were doing routine maintenance after shutdown for all flights when they saw the lights.
There seems to be 2 balls of light in the distance, and when the FLIR locks on it speeds away so fast the FLIR can't keep up with it. Mufon case 113954.
These high speed objects are man-made or are they of alien origin?
CIA Document Dump Reveals 70 Years Of US Government UFO Info
CIA Document Dump Reveals 70 Years Of US Government UFO Info
“What does the U.S. government really know about UFOs and for how long have they known it?” Ufologists and UFO experiencers have been asking these questions for decades, and it seems that answers are finally emerging. Based on the CIA’s recent release, on January 14, 2021, of nearly 3,000 pages of documents that detail a wealth of fascinating data about UFO behavior and capabilities , it seems they know a lot and have known a lot about this topic for quite some time. These freshly declassified US government UFO info documents (published in their entirety on The Black Vault ) reveal the truth about harrowing and awe-inspiring encounters between reliable witnesses and “unidentified aerial phenomena” of unknown origin that have been occurring since the 1950s. The recently-released US government UFO info includes multiple stories of up-close sightings of mysterious disks , glowing spheres, wingless cigar-shaped cylinders, and other anomalous flying objects by military and commercial pilots, in the United States and elsewhere around the world .
In many instances these objects were observed visually and on radar performing aerodynamically impossible (for conventional aircraft) maneuvers. Other times they emitted odd beams of light and other forms of strange illumination. The CIA files even reported close encounters between shocked military personnel and actual aliens , who were spotted emerging from landed UFOs.
These types of stories have circulated for years, and have frequently been discussed on radio programs, podcasts, YouTube videos, at UFO conferences, and in online forums frequented by paranormal enthusiasts. But now, for the first time, the government is adding its official seal of approval to such reports, giving them a legitimacy that they lacked when they were coming exclusively from anonymous “whistleblowers,” lien disclosure gadflies, mysterious ex-military insiders, and other questionable sources sporting dubious or non-existent credentials.
The CIA has long withheld detailed information about UFOs from the public but that changed on January 14, 2021, when nearly 2 million documents were released and published online.
Government UFO Info: The US Senate Demands Answers
The January 2021 release of these new documents was apparently prompted by a special comment added to the recent $2.3 trillion COVID relief and government funding bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump at the end of last December. In this comment, the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FLA), instructed the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, and the heads of all other intelligence agencies to “submit a report within 180 days of the date of the enactment of the Act, to the congressional intelligence and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena .”
Under the terms of the Intelligence Committee directive, the government UFO info report would have to address “observed airborne objects that have not been identified” and should include a “detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by geospatial intelligence, signals intelligence, human intelligence , and measurement and signals intelligence.”
In an added paragraph that seems like a nod to X-Files fans, the Intelligence Committee further ordered “a detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted United States airspace … and an assessment of whether this unidentified aerial phenomena activity may be attributed to one or more foreign adversaries.”
It must be noted that this government UFO info directive says nothing about public disclosure. It only requests that reports be created and forwarded to the Senate Intelligence Committee for analysis. This makes the decision of the CIA to release this latest batch of documents to the public a matter of choice rather than law. No one required them to do it, but for reasons unknown they decided to do it anyway and several months before the June deadline that requires them to file a report with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
CIA UFO Data Dump: Honest Disclosure Or Hidden Agenda?
Curiously, this is the second occasion in the last year where an agency of the US government has deliberately chosen to release information that whets the public’s appetite for insider information about UFOs. In April 2020, the Department of Defense took the extraordinary step of declassifying three U.S. Navy videos that showed unidentified aerial objects performing their tricks for navy pilots.
These videos, which were recorded in 2004 in one case and 2015 in the other two instances, had already been leaked to the media in 2007 and 2017. It appears the Defense Department’s primary objective in releasing them officially was to confirm their anomalous nature .
In their statement accompanying the release, the Defense Department said it wanted to “clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real.” They confirmed that “the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”
In other words, the United States Department of Defense wants its citizens to know that UFOs are real, that they aren’t secret military aircraft, and that investigations into their activities will continue if and when other encounters occur.
After decades of denial and obfuscation, it seems the US government is no longer interested in debunking UFOs or covering up the truth (whatever it might be) about their origin and nature.
Dutifully, mainstream media sources in the United States and the United Kingdom are following the government’s lead, and are now reporting UFO stories disclosed by official sources in a relatively straightforward manner, without the usual snide remarks, snarky tones, or tired and dismissive “explanations” that invoke swamp gas, ball lightning, weather balloons, or next-generation stealth aircraft.
Following this remarkable turn of events, it seems the old questions about “what do they know and for how long have they known it” have been rendered obsolete. In this current disclosure-oriented environment, what we should be asking instead is, “why are they doing this and why are they doing it now?”
Top image: US government info on “everything” to do with UFO sightings, held by the CIA, was released and published online on January 14, 2021 .
Here are 4 of the space missions to keep an eye out for in 2021.
The James Webb space telescope’s gold-coated mirror undergoing cryogenic testing. After many delays, the new space telescope – Hubble’s successor – is currently scheduled to launch on October 31.
This year is shaping up to be just as interesting. Here are some of the missions to keep an eye out for.
1. Artemis 1
Artemis 1 is to be the first flight of the NASA-led, international Artemis program, whose goal was (originally) to return astronauts to the moon by 2024. Artemis-1, which is still scheduled for launch late this year, will consist of an uncrewed Orion spacecraft which will be sent on a three-week flight around the moon. It will reach a maximum distance from Earth of 280,000 miles (450,000 km), the farthest into space that any spacecraft that can transport humans will have ever flown.
Artemis 1 is designed to be launched into Earth orbit on the first NASA Space Launch System, which will be the most powerful rocket in operation. From Earth orbit, the Orion will be propelled onto a different path toward the moon by the rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage. The Orion capsule will then travel to the moon under the power provided by a service module supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA).
The mission will provide engineers back on Earth with a chance to evaluate how the spacecraft performs in deep space and serve as a prelude to later crewed lunar missions. The launch of Artemis 1 is currently scheduled for late in 2021.
In February, Mars will receive a flotilla of terrestrial robotic guests from several countries. The United Arab Emirates’ Al Amal (Hope) spacecraft is the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. It is scheduled to arrive in Mars orbit on February 9, where it will spend two years monitoring the Martian weather and disappearing atmosphere.
Arriving within a couple of weeks after Al Amal will be the China National Space Administration’s Tianwen-1, consisting of an orbiter and a surface rover. The spacecraft will enter Martian orbit for several months before deploying the rover to the surface. If it succeeds, China will become the third country to land anything on Mars. The mission has several objectives including mapping the mineral composition of the surface and searching for subsurface water deposits.
NASA’s Perseverance rover will land at Jezero Crater on February 18 and search for any signs of ancient life which may have been preserved in the clay deposits there. Critically, it will also store a cache of Martian surface samples on board as the first part in a highly ambitious international program to return samples of Mars to Earth.
3. Chandrayaan-3
In March 2021, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is planning to launch its third lunar mission: Chandrayaan-3. Chandrayaan-1 launched in 2008 and was one of the first major missions in the Indian space program. Comprising an orbiter and a surface penetrator probe, the mission was one of the first to confirm evidence of lunar water.
Unfortunately, contact with the satellite was lost less than a year later. Sadly, there was a similar mishap with its successor, Chandrayaan-2, which consisted of an orbiter, a lander (Vikram) and a lunar rover (Pragyan).
Artist’s concept of the the Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission from India.
If all goes well the Chandrayaan-3 rover will touch down in the lunar south pole’s Aitken basin. It’s of particular interest as it is thought to host numerous deposits of subsurface water ice – a vital component for any future sustainable lunar habitation.
4. James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, but has had a rocky path to being launched. Initially planned for a 2007 launch, the Webb telescope is almost 14 years late and has cost roughly U.S. $10 billion (£7.4 billion) after apparent underestimates and overruns similar to those experienced by Hubble.
Whereas Hubble has provided some amazing views of the universe in visible and ultraviolet region of light, Webb is planning to focus observations in the infrared wavelength band. The reason for this is that when observing really distant objects there will probably be gas clouds in the way.
The galaxy NGC 2275 seen by Hubble.
Image via ESA/ Hubble/ NASA/ J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team.
These gas clouds block really small wavelengths of light, such as X-rays and ultraviolet light, while longer wavelengths like infrared, microwave and radio can get through more easily. So by observing in these longer wavelengths we should see more of the universe.
Webb also has a much bigger mirror of 21-foot (6.5-meter) diameter compared to Hubble’s 8-foot (2.4-meter) diameter mirror, essential for improving image resolution and seeing finer detail.
The primary mission of Webb is look at light from galaxies at the edge of the universe which can tell us about how the first stars, galaxies and planetary systems formed. Potentially this could include some information about the origin of life as well, as Webb is planning on imaging exoplanet atmospheres in high detail, searching for the building blocks of life. Do they exist on other planets, and if so, how did they get there?
We are also likely to be treated to some stunning images similar to those produced by Hubble. Webb is currently scheduled to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket on October 31.
Astronomers may have captured the first good look at giant flares from the strongest magnets in the universe.
The likely cause of these giant flares? Starquakes trillions of trillions of times stronger than any earthquakes, scientists reported at the 237th American Astronomical Society meeting, held virtually last week.
The most powerful magnets in the cosmos are magnetars, which possess magnetic fields about 100 trillion times more powerful than Earth's, or 10 trillion times that of an ordinary fridge magnet, Kevin Hurley, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, said during a news conference held Jan. 13.
Detections of GRB 200415A by NASA's Fermi, Wind, Mars Odyssey and Swift missions provide bands of possible locations, and these bands overlap in the central region of the Sculptor galaxy. (Image credit: NASA GSFC/Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona)
Magnetars are a rapidly spinning kind of neutron star, which is a corpse of a star that died in a catastrophic explosion known as a supernova. "Magnetars are up to a thousand times more magnetic than ordinary neutron stars," Soebur Razzaque, an astroparticle physicist at the University of Johannesburg and the senior author on one of the studies presented, said in a statement.
"In the Milky Way there are tens of thousands of neutron stars," Razzaque added. "Of those, only 30 are currently known to be magnetars."
Once magnetars are born, they only stay magnetars for about 10,000 years before their magnetic fields weaken to render them relatively ordinary neutron stars, Eric Burns, an astrophysicist at Louisiana State University and co-author of the new study, said at the press conference. Magnetars are typically seen in star-forming regions, such as starburst galaxies, he noted.
Previous research discovered magnetars regularly explode with X-ray bursts about one-tenth of a second long that each pack up to about the same amount of energy the sun gives off in a year. In three instances over the past 40 years, astronomers have seen magnetars in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies explode with even brighter, more energetic outbursts of X-rays and gamma rays. However, such giant flares were so powerful, they blinded any sensors that glimpsed them, making them difficult to study in any great detail.
Now researchers may have the best look yet at a giant magnetar flare, one good enough to help them deduce its possible origins.
Scientists analyzed the extremely bright gamma-ray burst GRB 200415A, which five space observatories that form the so-called Interplanetary Network detected on April 15, 2020. Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the universe, each giving off as much energy in milliseconds to minutes as the sun is expected to emit during its entire 10-billion-year lifetime.
This graphic shows the three nearest magnetar giant flares ever detected. The first one erupted in 1979 in the Large Magellanic Cloud; the others erupted in 1998 and 2004 within our galaxy. (Image credit: NASA GSFC)
At its peak, this newfound explosion was about 360 trillion times more luminous than the sun. "That is about 100,000 years of solar energy released in only 140 milliseconds," Hurley said.
The Interplanetary Network triangulated the location of the gamma-ray burst to the center of the nearby Sculptor galaxy, formally known as NGC 253, which is located about 11.4 million light-years from Earth in the Sculptor constellation. Previously detected GRBs came from relatively far away from the Milky Way, but GRB 200415A originated much closer to home, in cosmic terms.
Gamma-ray bursts are typically divided into two groups — long and short — depending on whether they last more or less than two seconds. Short gamma-ray bursts are most likely caused by the mergers of neutron stars, while long gamma ray-bursts are linked with supernovas.
GRB 200415A lasted just 140 milliseconds, about the blink of an eye. "It's as fast as snapping your fingers," Oliver Roberts, an astrophysicist at the Universities Space Research Association in Huntsville, Alabama who led another new study on GRB 200415A, said at the news conference.
This speed would ordinarily suggest it was a short gamma-ray burst. However, the pattern of light seen from this outburst was very different from that seen from short gamma-ray bursts that previous research found were caused by colliding neutron stars.
Instead, GRB 200415A's light pattern was a near copy of those previously seen from giant magnetar flashes. Those began with an intense flash about one-fifth of a second long, followed by a string of pulses lasting about two to 12 seconds.
The cause of this newfound giant magnetar flare was likely a "starquake" — a rupture of the magnetar's solid crust, Roberts said. This quake was huge — magnitude 27.8 in strength, or about one thousand trillion trillion (10^27, or a 1 with 27 zeroes behind it) times more powerful "than the largest known terrestrial earthquake, which was the magnitude 9.5 [earthquake] in Chile in 1960," Hurley said.
The researchers suggested this starquake not only released a bright flash of gamma rays, but also heated the magnetar's crust. As the magnetar whirls around, this super-hot crust looks like a series of bright flashes that dim as the surface cools, Hurley told Space.com.
The scientists added this starquake likely also spit out a blob of plasma traveling about 99% the speed of light, Nicola Omodei, an astrophysicist at Stanford University who participated in the study, said at the press conference.
After four days, this blob encountered the shockwave created when the giant bubble of plasma around the magnetar, known as its magnetosphere, slammed into the interstellar medium of gas and dust between stars at a speed of about 2.2 million mph (3.6 million kph). When the blob collided with this shockwave, it generated another pulse of gamma rays seen 19 seconds after the initial flash. The gamma rays in this second outburst were even more energetic than those seen in the first one, he noted.
All in all, these new findings suggest that maybe a small percent of known short gamma-ray bursts are caused by giant magnetar flares, Burns said.
The scientists detailed their findings Jan. 13 at an online meeting of the American Astronomical Society meeting. Hurley, Roberts and their colleagues detailed their findings in twostudies in the Jan. 14 issue of the journal Nature. Omedei and his colleagues detailed their findings online Jan. 13 in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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This Mars meteorite, which weighs 0.75 pounds (327 grams), landed in July 2011 as part of a shower in the vicinity of Tissint, Morocco, the location that gives the meteorite its name. A cross section of a small Aguas Zarcas fragment shows colorful clays that might include complex organic compounds. Water may have recently flowed within meteorites, suggesting the asteroids they broke off from may bear ice, a new study finds.
Water may have recently flowed within meteorites, suggesting the asteroids they broke off from may bear ice, a new study finds.
Researchers analyzed carbon-rich meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites. These rare space rocks are one of the most ancient types of meteorites, whose parent bodies formed in the early days of the solar system. Previous research suggested that carbonaceous chondrites raining on Earth likely helped deliver water and organic matter to our newborn planet.
Prior work found that a number of minerals seen in carbonaceous chondrites likely formed due to chemical reactions involving flowing liquid water. However, scientists had thought such activity halted about 4.5 billion years ago, within the first 4 million years or so of the solar system's history.
Now, scientists in a new study have discovered signs of far more recent liquid flow within these meteorites, occurring less than a million years ago.
In this study, researchers examined carbonaceous chondrites collected from around the world. They focused on variations of the elements uranium and thorium known as isotopes. (Isotopes of an element each have different numbers of neutrons in their atomic nuclei. For instance, uranium-234 atoms are uranium isotopes with 142 neutrons, while uranium-238 atoms each have 146 neutrons.)
The levels of different uranium and thorium isotopes within these meteorites should have depended on how long the isotopes usually last before they begin to radioactively decay. Instead, the scientists found unusually high levels of the relatively short-lived isotope uranium-234, compared with longer-lived uranium-238, in all the carbonaceous chondrites they looked at. Most of the samples also had unusually high levels of uranium-238 compared with thorium-230, an isotope that results from the radioactive decay of uranium-234.
The most likely explanation for these findings, they found, was that liquid water flowed within the parent bodies of these meteorites, likely when the collisions that broke the meteorites off those carbonaceous asteroids melted ice within those rocks, the researchers said.
They think this because Uranium and thorium isotopes respond in different ways to liquid water — uranium is soluble in water, whereas thorium is not — which would explain the unusual isotope levels seen within these meteorites.
The anomalous isotope levels seen within the meteorites should disappear within a million years due to radioactive decay, the scientists noted. This suggests these meteorites possessed liquid water during that time.
All in all, this discovery suggests "these asteroids still contain ice, and that means that they could, at any time, have delivered both water and organics, which combined are critical for life," study lead author Simon Turner, an isotope geochemist at Macquarie University in Australia, told Space.com.
Previous research has detected water ice on asteroids such as Themis. "Carbonaceous asteroids might be frozen mud balls rather than rocky bodies as commonly thought," Turner said. "Our data provides strong evidence to support that."
The scientists detailed their findings in the Jan. 8 issue of the journal Science.
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The star system of Trappist-1 is home to the largest group of Earth-like planets ever discovered elsewhere in the Universe by astronomers. This means that investigating these seven rocky worlds gives us a good idea of how common exoplanets with similar compositions to our own are in the Milky Way and the wider cosmos.
New research has revealed that these planets, which orbit the Trappist-1 star 40 light-years away from Earth, all have remarkably similar compositions and densities. Yet, all are less dense than Earth.
The results could indicate these are worlds with much more water than is found on earth, or possibly even that these planets are composed almost entirely of rust.
An artist’s view of the TRAPPIST-1 system. The TRAPPIST-1 star is home to the largest batch of roughly Earth-size planets ever found outside our solar system. An international study involving researchers from the Universities of Bern, Geneva and Zurich now shows that the exoplanets have remarkably similar densities, which provides clues about their composition (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
This similarity between the exoplanets makes the Trappist-1 system significantly different from our own solar system which consists of planets with radically compositions and densities. Trappist-1’s worlds are dense, meaning they are like the rocky planets in our solar system, Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. The system seems to be lacking larger gas dominated planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
The finding, documented in a paper published in the Planetary science Journal shows how the system, first discovered in 2016, offers insight into the wide variety of planetary systems that could fill the Universe.
This chart shows, on the top row, artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods, distances from their star, radii, masses, densities and surface gravity as compared to those of Earth. On the bottom row, the same numbers are displayed for the bodies of our inner solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. (NASA/ JPL – Caltech)
“The new observations allowed us to use transit data from a much longer time span than was available to us for the 2018 calculations,” explains Simon Grimm of the University of Bern, who as well as being involved in the current study, was part of a 2018 team that provided the most accurate calculation of the masses of the seven planets thus far. “With the new data, we were able to refine the mass and density determinations of all seven planets.
“It turned out that the derived densities of the planets are even more similar than we had previously expected.”
The similarity in densities observed in the Trappist-1 exoplanets seen by the astronomers hailing from the Universities of Bern, Geneva and Zurich, indicates that there is a good chance they are composed of the same materials at similar ratios.
These are the same materials that we believe form most terrestrial planets, iron, oxygen, magnesium, and silicon. But there is a significant difference between our terrestrial world and the Trappist-1 exoplanets.
Comparison of TRAPPIST-1 to the Solar System: A planet’s density is determined by its composition, but also by its size: Gravity compresses the material a planet is made of, increasing the planet’s density. Uncompressed density adjusts for the effect of gravity, and can reveal how the composition of various planets compare. (NASA/JPL-Caltech )
The planets in the Trappist-1 system appear to be about 8% less dense than the Earth. This suggests that the materials that comprise them exist in different ratios than they do throughout our home planet.
This difference in density could be the result of several different factors.
One of the possibilities being investigated by the team is that the surfaces of the Trappist-1 exoplanets could be covered with water, reducing their overall density. Combining the planetary interior models with the planetary atmosphere models, the team was able to evaluate the water content of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets with what Martin Turbet, an astrophysicist at the University of Geneva and co-author of the study describes as “a precision literally unprecedented for this category of planets.”
For the Trappist-1 system’s four outermost planets, should water account for the difference in density, the team has estimated that water would account for 5% of their overall masses. This is considerably more than the 0.1% of Earth’s total mass made up of water.
Rust Nevers Sleeps for the Trappist-1 Planets
Another possibility that could explain why the Trappist-1 exoplanets have lower densities than Earth is the fact that they could be composed of less iron than our planet is–21% rather than the 32% found in the Earth.
It’s also possible that the iron within the seven exoplanets could be bonded with oxygen forming iron oxides–commonly known as rust. This additional oxygen would reduce the planet’s densities.
Shown here are three possible interiors of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets. The more precisely scientists know the density of a planet, the more they can narrow down the range of possible interiors for that planet. All seven planets have very similar densities, so they likely have a similar composition (NASA/ JPL – Caltech)
Iron oxides give Mars its rust-red colour, but they are pretty much confined to its surface. Its core is comprised of non-oxidized iron like the solar system’s other terrestrial planets. If iron-oxide accounts for the seven exoplanet’s lower densities it implies that these worlds are rusty throughout and lacking solid non-oxidized iron cores.
“The lower density might be caused by a combination of the two scenarios – less iron overall than and some oxidized iron,” explains Eric Angol, an astrophysicist at the University of Washington and lead author of the new study. “They might contain less iron than Earth and some oxidized iron like Mars.”
Angol also points out that the Trappist-1 planets are likely to have a low-water content, an idea supported by previous research. “Our internal and atmospheric structure models show that the three inner planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are likely to be waterless and that the four outer planets have no more than a few per cent water, possibly in liquid form, on their surfaces,” says Turbet.
This seems to favour the theory that the lower density of the Trappist-1 planets is a result of one or both of the iron scenarios suggested by the researchers.
There’s Still a Lot to Learn from Trappist-1
Since its discovery in 2o16, the Trappist system has been the subject of a wealth of observations made by both space and ground-based telescopes alike. Before it was decommissioned at the start of January 2020 the team used the Spitzer Space Telescope to collect their data. This telescope, operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, alone has clocked in more than 1,000 hours of targeted observations of the exoplanets.
This new study demonstrated the importance of studying systems such as Trappist-1 for extended periods of time.
Caroline Dorn, an astrophysicist at the University of Zurich also highlights the fact that studying systems like this could answer questions about the habitability of exoplanets and the possibility of life elsewhere in the Universe.
“The TRAPPIST-1 system is fascinating because around this one star we can learn about the diversity of rocky planets within a single system,” concludes Dorn. “And we can actually learn more about an individual planet by studying its neighbours as well, so this system is perfect for that.”
“The night sky is full of planets, and it’s only been within the last 30 years that we’ve been able to start unravelling their mysteries, also for determining the habitability of these planets.”
Original Research
Agol. E., Dorn. C., Grimm. S. L., et al, ‘Refining the transit timing and photometric analysis of TRAPPIST-1: Masses, radii, densities, dynamics, and ephemerides,’ Planetary Science Journal, [https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01074]
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER THE REASON FOR UNEXPLAINED ACTIVITY ON MARS
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER THE REASON FOR UNEXPLAINED ACTIVITY ON MARS
The answer may lie just beneath the surface of the Red Planet.
FOR CENTURIES AFTER GALILEO made the first observations of Mars in 1610, the planet appeared to our Earth eyes as a quiet, dusty, and ultimately, dead planet.
But in the last 50 years, scientists have sent multiplespacecraftto observe the Red Planet up close, revealing Mars is very much an active planet, wracked by continuous geological activity and riven with subsurface canals.
One piece of evidence for this activity is the fact the Martian landscape regularly experiences a form of natural disaster which, here on Earth, has the potential to level cities and block roads: Landslides.
For as long as we have known they occur on Mars, so too have scientists not known their cause. But a new study may have uncovered the reason why this Earth-like feature also occurs on Mars lurking beneath the planet's surface. The findings have major implications for future human missions to explore Mars.
The study was published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
Development of RSL features at Palikir crater on Mars as viewed by the HiRISE camera on 6 occasions during Mars years 29–30.NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
HERE'S THE BACKGROUND
In September, 2018 NASA's Mars Reconnoissance Orbiter caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a recent landslide in a crater near a region of the planet called Nili Fossae.
The landslides were formed by large amounts of rock and soil moving downslope at a speed of up to 360 kilometers per hour, and extending for over tens of kilometers.
However, scientists were not sure what caused the landslides to form.
Landslides in a crater near Nili Fossae on Mars.Credit: NASA/UofA HiRiseteam/MRO
WHAT'S NEW
Janice Bishop, senior research scientist at the SETI Institute and lead author behind the new study, was studying the unusual chemical processes which take place beneath Antarctica's ice when she noticed a strange similarity to Mars.
"Antartica is a cold and dry environment like Mars," Bishop tells Inverse.
"So we started looking at other analogs as well to try to understand this chemistry."
Bishop and her team studied both the Dead Sea in Israel and Salar de Pajonales in the Atacama Desert, in addition to conducting experiments in the lab, to glean further insights as to what may be occurring on Mars to cause changes in the planet's topography.
Through their observations, they found that specific chemical salts interact with gypsum, or water underground, and this causes disruptions on the surface, including ground collapse and landslides.
"The chlorine salts are very deliquescent, they absorb a lot of water like a sponge so they become a liquid," Bishop explains. This is similar to a more terrestrial, and familiar process you can see in your own kitchen, she says.
"If you leave your salt shaker out, it absorbs water, and becomes sticky."
Similarly, the chlorine salt and sulfate found in the icy underground water beneath Mars' surface creates an unstable, liquid-like slush which causes disturbances in the above ground surface.
Photo of Mars analog crust following hydration experiment with dry blue sulfates on the surface and moist pink sulfates below.Janice Bishop, SETI Institute
This same process may have also caused landslides to take place on Earth millions of years ago. However, since then, our planet was covered by oceans and plants which covered its surface, preventing us from observing the markings leftover by early processes on the planet.
WHY DO WE STUDY MARS?
"I think Mars is really interesting because it's kind of a window to our origins on early Earth," Bishop says. "On our planet, life took off and we have plants and bacteria, we have highways and roads but on Mars you get to see the rocks, the planet isn’t contaminated by all the things we have here so you can see its history."
Mars may be a dry and desolate planet today, but scientists believe that it may have had a similar start to Earth, beginning as a warm and wet world. However, gradually over time, the planet lost its atmosphere.
"The evolution of the planet was kind of frozen in time, its not that it would’ve been the same as Earth but there could’ve been a lot of similarities," Bishop says.
WHAT'S NEXT
The new study suggests that the subsurface of Mars holds a lot more clues to the history and evolution of the planet than scientists previously believed.
Bishop suggests that more efforts need to be concentrated on drilling beneath the surface of Mars.
"So far, we've only seen the surface," Bishop says.
NASA's Mars rovers have poked at rocks, and the space agency's Insight mission, which has been attempting to drill on the Red Planet, recently called it quits. However, the upcoming European Space Agency's ExoMars mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2022, will dig two meters beneath the surface.
From there, Bishop hopes to get a better understanding of the processes that are taking place beneath the surface.
"Understanding the processes on Mars helps us understand what happened on Earth since our history was erased," she says.
Abstract:
On Mars, seasonal martian flow features known as recurring slope lineae (RSL) are prevalent on sun-facing slopes and are associated with salts. On Earth, subsurface interactions of gypsum with chlorides and oxychlorine salts wreak havoc: instigating sinkholes, cave collapse, debris flows, and upheave. Here, we illustrate (i) the disruptive potential of sulfate-chloride reactions in laboratory soil crust experiments, (ii) the formation of thin films of mixed ice-liquid water “slush” at −40° to −20°C on salty Mars analog grains, (iii) how mixtures of sulfates and chlorine salts affect their solubilities in low-temperature environments, and (iv) how these salt brines could be contributing to RSL formation on Mars. Our results demonstrate that interactions of sulfates and chlorine salts in fine-grained soils on Mars could absorb water, expand, deliquesce, cause subsidence, form crusts, disrupt surfaces, and ultimately produce landslides after dust loading on these unstable surfaces.
Although some of them were leaked out from under the Iron Curtain of the Cold War days, and many more have been brought into the public arena since, many UFO incidents and conspiracies are still likely buried beneath the secrecy of political ideology and mutual mistrust.
Considering how vast a country Russia is – and how much more territory the Soviet Union took in during its reign – combined with over four decades worth of suppressed information to be accounted for, there is surely a treasure trove of encounters still to be investigated.
We have written of several of these strange incidents and reports before. The Boshich Space Wreckage for example is still one of the most intriguing reports on record. The strange Birdman of Pripyat is another bizarre series of encounters in the wake of the Chernobyl Disaster.
Alien Encounters From Behind The Iron Curtain
Perhaps one of the most intriguing UFO encounters is that of the Voronezh sighting in 1989, thought by some to be disinformation, either to see how seriously the west would take such reports or just to simply feed outright false information. It is arguably a little of both. The fact that the report would enter the mainstream courtesy of the Russian news agency, TASS would also seem to suggest so.
On 27th September 1989, according to the report, a huge, disc-like craft landed in full view of thousands of people on a busy day in the city of Voronezh. Several tall beings then exited the craft and took in their surroundings. They then re-entered the craft, taking off into the air, leaving a “strange residue” behind where their ship had been stationed.
The following month in October 1989, TIME magazine even ran a story on the incident, and more to the point, why the Soviet Union would have allowed such a release to go international. According to Howard G. Chua-Eoan, he believed that the story was a way of testing the “glasnost policy” – an agreement between the two nations to an open media. You can read this article in full here and check out the videos below for further viewing.
An even more bizarre encounter is that of an apparent battle between Soviet military and alien beings, at the bottom of the icy Lake Baikal in Siberia. The account would come to light due to an apparent leak of official documents by a former Soviet navy officer, Vladimir Azhazha.
According to Azhazha, in the winter of 1982, the Soviet military were monitoring reports of strange lights hovering over the lake (incidentally, the area is still considered a UFO hotspot). Military divers would venture down to the icy depths of the lake. They would witness several strange humanoid beings, each dressed in shiny silver clothing, and each wearing a small oxygen mask. The unit would launch an attack on the beings, who responded with a technology akin to a sonar weapon. Three of the unit were killed, and the four survivors had major injuries. You can read a little more of the encounter here, and you can check out the video below.
The Far-Reach Of The Cold War
Although the incident didn’t occur in Russia, it did take place in Soviet controlled Berlin in East Germany. Largely because the Soviet regime stated that UFO sightings were in fact weapons tests “of the evils of the United States”, Linke would keep the encounter to himself until he finally managed to escape the repressed existence on the east side of the Berlin Wall. To make it known of a belief in such sightings invited government “interest” in you that could result in imprisonment.
Once Linke settled in the west to begin his new life with his family, he would tell of his encounter to a Greek newspaper. Interestingly, the CIA would use the newspaper article as a source and put the incident on their own records.
In the summer of 1952, as he was making his way home with his eleven-year old daughter, Gabriella, the pair would spot something in the distance. Believing it to be a deer, the pair crept forward to get a better look. They soon realised it wasn’t a deer.
Settling around forty meters away from the scene, Oscar and Gabriella could see two men examining the ground in front of them with bright lights flashing from their “shiny, metallic clothing!” Nearby was some kind of craft that resembled a “huge frying pan” with a “black conical tower” on the top of it.
When Gabriella let out an involuntary gasp of shock, the two men quickly boarded the craft, which rose into the air, rotating as it did so, before vanishing straight up into the evening sky. For years Linke believed they had witnessed secret Soviet technology and feared having his “movements restricted!” He stated to the newspaper years after the incident that, “The Soviets do not want anyone else to see their work”, going further to say that many people had restricted movements, and even house arrest, because “they know too much!”
Maybe one of the most interesting UFO encounters is one experienced by an apparent Soviet war hero pilot, who “doesn’t exist” and “is no hero of the Soviet Union!” At least that is what UFO researcher, Timothy Good, was told when he questioned Soviet officials.
According to the account put forward by Good, Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin was one of the most highly decorated pilots in Soviet history. So much so, that in the years after the Second World War, he would become the finest test pilot for the Soviet military, putting the cutting edge of Soviet aviation technology through their paces.
On one such test flight on 16th June 1948, he would witness a “cucumber-shaped” craft in the skies in front of him. It was heading straight for him. When it got within ten kilometres of his plane, it vanished out of sight. At the same time, Apraksin’s plane failed and he was forced to make an emergency landing.
He would have another encounter just short of a year later in May 1949. Again, the craft would interfere with his plane, and this time, although he managed to land again, he sustained substantial, injury. It appeared at this point, the Soviet regime were putting his removal from history into action. He would be sent for “re-evaluation” and then eventually registered as “Group One Disabled” – this basically meant he was not fit for active service.
Apraksin literally vanished in the years following his time as a test pilot. Was this due to embarrassment on the regime’s part of a pilot speaking of such “crazy” things. Or was he being removed from official records for another reason?
The Conspiracies Of The Lost Cosmonauts
Perhaps one of the most outlandish and chilling conspiracies said to have played out behind the wall of the Soviet Union during the Cold War is that of the Lost Cosmonauts. While there is no solid proof that the recordings said to have been intercepted by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers in 1961 are one-hundred percent genuine, the battle for the stars between the United States and the Soviet Union was very real, and so does lend a little bit of credibility to the claim. It is really that much of a stretch of the imagination to think that in their desire to score a huge propaganda victory over the United States (and the west as a whole), tragedies were downplayed and essentially kept out of the history books altogether?
The brothers claimed to have intercepted a total of nine such recordings altogether, but one in particular was especially harrowing. Claimed by the brothers to have been recorded in May 1961, the two minute audio is of a female cosmonaut communicating her concerns that her pod is about to burn up upon re-entry. Incidentally, there is no reply from the assumed control tower, despite the woman’s pleas that “I can see a flame! I can see a flame! I feel hot!” You can read a full transcript of the encounter here.
One last point worth mentioning here is, despite the Soviet government (at the time) and the Russian government denying there being any truth to the claims, is an apparent report from the old Soviet news agency TASS, who claimed an “unmanned satellite” had come back to Earth on 26th May 1961. Many believe this unmanned satellite was actually the remains of the unfortunate female cosmonaut. You can read a little more about that here and here.
If there is any truth at all to the Judica-Cordiglia brother’s claims, then somewhere in space – possibly still in the Earth’s orbit – there are several early 1960s space pods-turned-floating tombs containing the bodies of several unknown space pilots. Perhaps one of them was the aforementioned Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin.
Check out the videos below. The first looks at the alleged recording of the unknown female cosmonaut, while the following videos look at the Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy in a little more detail. The video below those looks at the conspiracy of Soviet UFO files.
Warp Drives, Space Manipulation, And The Pentagon’s UFO Program
Warp Drives, Space Manipulation, And The Pentagon’s UFO Program
Talk of wormholes and other dimensions outside the parameters of science fiction are usually greeted with nervous looks and uncomfortable sniggers from most. The fact is, however, that many intelligence agencies, in particular, the United States’ Defense Intelligence Agency, has at the very least, experimented and researched the logistics of these theories, as well as the technology required to embark on such endeavors. A “treasure trove” of documents was recently released in the United States following requests by a media outlet in Las Vegas including one, which we will look at in a moment, that looks in depth at not only the prospect of wormholes for space travel but how this could be accomplished. As will also look at a little later, these “projects” appear to have been taking place behind closed doors for over a decade, at the very least, with the roots of them going back to the years following the Second World War and the drastic and urgent increase in UFO activity across the planet – in particular, in the United States.
Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions
Although the paper was dated 2nd April 2010, it was only very recently cast back into the public arena by Las Vegas-based media platform KLAS-TV who, incidentally, share close connections with respected UFO researcher, George Knapp.
The 34-page file titled, Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions goes into intricate details of exactly what the title suggests. The document is just one of a plethora of “scientific studies of UFOs” by the Pentagon in 2007. As the opening lines of the document states:
“If one is to realistically entertain the notion of interstellar exploration in time-frames of a human lifespan, a dramatic shift in traditional approach to spacecraft propulsion is necessary. It has been known and well tested since the time of Einstein that all matter is restricted to motion at sublight velocities, and that as matter approaches the speed of light, its mass asymptotically approaches infinity. This mass increase ensures that an infinite amount of energy would be necessary to travel at the speed of light, and, thus, this speed is impossible to reach and represents an absolute speed limit to all matter traveling through spacetime."
IT quickly concludes that even if such a propulsion method was developed and utilized, the nearest star would still take multiple decades to reach from the start point of Earth. It then, however, speaks of recent developments in that “physicists have discovered two loopholes to Einstein’s ultimate speed limit – the Einstein-Rosen bridge (commonly referred to as a ‘wormhole’) and the warp drive. Fundamentally, both ideas involve manipulation of spacetime!” Furthermore, this would allow for “Faster-than-light (FTL) travel!”
The report continues that the wormhole will “connect two potentially distant regions of space”, essentially creating a “shortcut!” This would, in theory, result in the craft being “instantaneously be transported” from one point in space to another. The paper states that “observational evidence” suggests that wormholes don’t exist – at least not locally. They can, however, be manipulated into existence. The warp drive, the report states, “involves local manipulation of the fabric of space in the immediate vicinity of the spacecraft”. This manipulation creates “an asymmetric bubble of space that is contracting in front of the spacecraft while expanding behind it”.
According to the projections, it would be possible to reach Mars in just over three minutes, while reaching as far as Neptune would take only four hours. With regards to more distant destinations, the Orion Nebula, which is 1,599 light years away, could be reached in just over a year utilizing such wormhole-like technology.
It then talks about how the “spacecraft remains stationary inside this ‘warp bubble’ and the movement of space itself facilitates the relative motion of the spacecraft”. This is remarkably similar to how apparent whistleblower, Bob Lazar, spoke about the propulsion systems of alien crafts that he had back-engineered for the United States shadow government in the 1980s.
He would state that UFO crafts had “waveguides” that in turn connected to antimatter reactors that would create a gravity field which makes “manipulation of space and time possible!” He would further describe this manipulation was though the spacecraft in question was a “big stone on a sheet of rubber!” Upon turning on the gravity drives it would “pull the desired destination to it!” When the gravity drive was shut off, space (the rubber sheet) would return to normal, with the craft (the big stone) riding the wave of space-time – essentially, a wormhole. You can read a little more about Lazar and UFO propulsion here. The video below features Lazar speaking about UFO propulsion in a little more detail. You can also view the aforementioned files in full here or here.
The Pentagon and UFOs
According to a report in the New York Times in December 2017 (which you can read in full here), the Defense Department spent $22 million on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. That is, however, all that is known. The records do not show how the money was spent, where it went, or why. Only that the figure of $22 million was allocated to this particular platform. In reality, this money would appear to have been earmarked for “black budget” projects – at least according to those who keep an intense eye on government spending.
Like the above research into “warp drives” and creating wormholes, this project was first set up in 2007 by the Pentagon. Luis Elizondo would run the project until its closure in 2012. However, according to some, its closure was for public consumption, and behind closed doors, the project continues – as does the (now) secretive funding. Elizondo would go public with what he knew about the continued interest and funding the Pentagon had regarding the existence of UFOs. At the same time, US authorities would release two previously classified videos from their files showing UFO activity.
In 2008, the Defense Intelligence Agency would put parts of its research out to the highest bidder. Only weeks later, Bigelow Aerospace, owned by millionaire investor, Robert Bigelow, was awarded the contract. This contract came only weeks after Bigelow shut down what appeared to be one of the most promising independent studies of strange and paranormal phenomena in history at Skinwalker Ranch.
Part of the contract would require Bigelow to “provide a facility that qualified for top-secret work!” Skinwalker Ranch today, is completely off-limits to the general public. Perhaps also interestingly, given the above information regarding the creation of warp drives in order to travel through space in hours instead of years, is Bigelow’s chosen area of interest following the public closure of Skinwalker Ranch. As well as the contract work with NASA, Bigelow Aerospace would look to venture into “space tourism” in the near future.
Whatever the details of the situation, it appears certain that the study of UFOs and the technology they utilize continues by the US government, only now it appears to continue under the cloak of absolute secrecy. Perhaps, as we will look at in a moment, those advances in technology have more than mere human ingenuity at their core.
Check out the short videos below. The first looks at one of the recently released Pentagon UFO sightings, while the second looks at some of the conspiracies surrounding Skinwalker Ranch.
Alien At The Pentagon?
While the idea of top-secret, prolonged interaction between a shadow government operating out of the Pentagon is absurd to some, it isn’t the first time that such claims have been made. The strange tale of Valiant Thor tells of an apparent alien craft landing in a field in Alexandria, Virginia, in March 1957. A lone policeman witnessed the events purely by chance as he went about his routine patrols. A humanoid, very much human-looking, if not a little taller, emerged from craft and approached the policeman. He had, he claimed, been sent by the “High Council” to speak with President Eisenhower. His name was Valiant Thor.
The account was written about extensively by Frank Stranger in the book, Stranger At The Pentagon. Within these pages were several pictures claiming to show Valiant Thor. Whether it is of importance or not, no US official, serving or former, has stepped forward to discredit these photographs.
According to the accounts, Thor did meet with the President, as well as various other high-ranking US officials. He would remain at the Pentagon for three years as a “VIP”. He would be involved in numerous in-depth discussions with US officials during his stay. You can check out the short video below that looks at this claim in a little more detail, and you can read a little more about it here.
Of course, there are many who claim there are secret deals between aliens and top-secret shadow governments. The great-granddaughter of President Eisenhower, who some believe made “secret deals” with grey aliens in 1954 following offers of advanced technology for “access” to American citizens (you can read more about this here), would state that such deals came to fruition “in a world most of us don’t realize existed”. She would continue that the “Second World War was still being fought behind the scenes. It’s like there is this whole other reality going on that we don’t hear about. These timelines and the deeper history connected to secret societies, connected to these deeper ET agendas that have been around for thousands of years!”
Furthermore, according to Laura Eisenhower, not only did these deals result in greater technology, they would also result in secret space programs and unofficial missions. Of course, if there is any degree of truth to the claims, it would also result in the abduction of, and experimentation on, thousands of US citizens, as well as thousands more worldwide. Assuming for a moment these claims are true, we have to ask, how much clout and say in the decision making would Eisenhower really have had? It is likely a decision already made that he, as the President of the United States, had to put his name to. His great-granddaughter would state decades later that her great-grandfather “was instrumental in warning us about the military-industrial complex!”
The videos below features Laura Eisenhower speaking a little further about such notions of secret alien involvement in human affairs. Perhaps such technologies as “warp drives”, only now coming into the public arena for dissection, is the result of such secret deals that took place over half-a-century ago.
An artist's drawing of a particle jet emanating from a black hole at the center of a blazar.
Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab (used with permission by Astronomy Picture of the Day, which is co-managed by Robert Nemiroff at Michigan Tech).
Astrophysicists propose that gamma-ray bursts may exceed the speed of light.
The superluminal jets may also be responsible for time-reversibility.
The finding doesn't go against Einstein's theory because this effect happens in the jet medium not a vacuum.
According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. Yet in space many strange things happen, including a new proposal by two astrophysicists that blasts creating bursts of gamma rays may be able to speed up faster than light, going superluminal.
Yet, this research by the astrophysicists Jon Hakkila of the College of Charleston and Robert Nemiroff of the Michigan Technological University is not going against Einstein's theory. What the scientists found is that while these bursts surpass the speed of light in surrounding gas clouds, that only happens in the jet mediums, not in a vacuum.
The astrophysicists also think that these superluminal jets can create the time-reversibility that can be observed in gamma-ray burst light curves.
Jet bursting out of a blazar. Black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars are the most common sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
NASA
Jon Hakkila likens what they found to skipping stones across the pond. If someone was to throw such a stone into the water towards you, the stone would go through the air in between hops faster than the waves that it causes are moving through the water. As it gets closer, you will see the waves that are produced by each skip in reverse order. The most recently created ones will get to you first and those from the early skips along the water would come last.
"Standard gamma-ray burst models have neglected time-reversible light curve properties," Hakkila explained. "Superluminal jet motion accounts for these properties while retaining a great many standard model features."
Check out the new paper here, published in The Astrophysical Journal.
Cosmic death beams: Understanding gamma ray bursts
Les « sept minutes de terreur » qui attendent le rover Perseverance le 18 février
Les « sept minutes de terreur » qui attendent le rover Perseverance le 18 février
Xavier Demeersman
Journaliste
[EN VIDÉO] L'atterrissage du rover Perseverance sur MarsAnimation montrant la séquence EDL, l'entrée, la descente et l'atterrissage de Perseverance à la surface de Mars.
Dans moins de deux mois, le vaisseau transportant le nouveau grand rover de la Nasa Perseverance et le révolutionnaire Mars Helicopter Ingenuity va entrer dans l'atmosphère de Mars pour les déposer en douceur sur leur site d'exploration. Un moment où toutes les équipes de la mission retiendront leur souffle.
L'arrivée duroverPerseveranceà la surface de Mars en quête de traces de vie anciennes ou actuelles sera un des plus grands moments de 2021. Une mission, rappelons-le, très ambitieuse tant sur le plan de la recherche enexobiologie,météorologie, environnement extraterrestre que celui de la préparation de l'installation des premiers êtres humains sur une autre planète.
Pour l'instant, le super-rover à la pointe des technologies (célébré par le Time magazine, on en parle ici), encapsulé dans le vaisseau qui le conduit jusqu'à la Planète rouge, vogue paisiblement dans l'espace interplanétaire à une vitesse de quelque 85.000 km/h ! Les trois quarts de son voyage sont déjà accomplis (77 % ce 24 décembre) et il ne lui reste plus que 56 jours de vol (108 millions de kilomètres) avant d'apercevoir la terre rouge... Comme prévu, ce sera donc le 18 février que la machine va atterrir à l'intérieur du cratère Jezero, une destination bien entendu sciemment choisie par les équipes scientifiques de la mission pour son habitabilité passée, il y a plus de trois milliards et demi d'années, quand il faisait plus chaud à la surface de ce monde.
Le rover Perseverance dans les griffes du Sky Crane qui le transporte jusqu'à son site d'atterrissage prévu, le cratère Jezero.
Comme tous les engins qui veulent toucher le sol de Mars, Perseverance va devoir atterrir en douceur, et ainsi passer d'une vitesse de croisière supérieure à 50.000 km/h à zéro en très peu de temps. La méthode choisie pour cette séquence nommée EDL (entry, descent, and landing) est pratiquement la même que celle employée pour Curiosity, en août 2012. Elle a fait ses preuves.
La très belle animation ci-dessus présente l'enchaînement des différentes actions qui se dérouleront le jour J. Le moment le plus tendu sera bien sûr celui où la capsule plongera dans l'atmosphère jusqu'au terminus au sol quelques minutes plus tard. Un moment crucial pour la mission que la Nasa appelle, à juste titre, « sept minutes de terreur ! » (ici condensées en trois minutes dans la vidéo). Comme le centre de contrôle de Mars 2020 est sur Terre, à des centaines de millions de kilomètres de là, soit une dizaine de minutes-lumière, toutes les actions ont donc été orchestrées à l'avance et le cerveau du vaisseau n'aura plus qu'à jouer la partition qu'on lui aura transmise.
Déposé en douceur par le Sky Crane, Perseverance touche le sol de Mars.
Les principales étapes de l’atterrissage de Mars 2020
0:28 : Mars est en vue ! La capsule se sépare de son enveloppe de panneaux solaires.
0:40 : Le vaisseau qui transporte Perseverance entre dans l'atmosphère martienne. Il doit passer de 20.000 km/h à presque zéro en quelques minutes.
0:54 : Solidement attaché, le rover et son vaisseau sont conçus pour résister aux vibrations au cours de son voyage et la manœuvre périlleuse de la séquence EDL.
1:05 : le cratère Jezero n'est plus très loin. Le parachute supersonique est ouvert. Maintenant, la descente peut se faire à une vitesse réduite.
1:26 : la capsule s'ouvre, le rover a les pieds dans le vide. Quelques instants plus tard, l'engin qui va le porter se détache du vaisseau, lequel va aller s'écraser des centaines de mètres plus bas.
Aussitôt largué, le SkyCrane a allumé ses rétrofusées. C'est parti pour une petite balade au-dessus de la région où doit atterrir Perseverance.
2:03 : quand la zone d'atterrissage est en vue, à l'intérieur d'une ellipse de huit kilomètres, l'engin-porteur descend le rover avec les filins.
2:08 : quand Perseverance touche le sol, les filins sautent aussitôt. Le SkyCrane s'éloigne pour aller s'échouer dans un endroit qui ne met pas en danger le rover.
Perseverance est livré. Reste plus ensuite qu'à vérifier que tout est en état de fonctionnement. Puis viendront les premières images de son environnement, mais aussi de lui-même, afin de l'ausculter visuellement. Puis les premiers tours de roue, les premières mesures météo, le déploiement du petit hélicoptère révolutionnaire qui l'accompagne, etc.
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