The recent report that two American Airlines pilots described to air traffic control a cylindrical unidentified object fly over their plane while crossing New Mexico is getting updated as fast as the UFO was apparently flying. Just days after the incident hit the media and went viral, American Airlines confirmed that the report had indeed been made by the pilots. Not long after that, the Federal Aviation Administration issued its own statement. Is this the Tic Tac of 2021?

“Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us – I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing – moving really fast right over the top of us.”

Tomahawk submarine-launched cruise missile

That’s a transcript from the recording of the pilots on February 21 as American Airlines Flight 2292 flew at 36,000 feet over northeastern New Mexico. It had been recorded by Steve Douglass, a photographer for Amarillo television station KVII whose hobby is listening to air traffic control conversations. Douglass posted the recording on his blog, Deep Black Horizon, and commented that the reply from the Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center was garbled by conversations from other planes. The story was picked up by the Albuquerque Journal, other local and national mainstream media providers, and the military investigative website The Drive/War Zone.

The Albuquerque Journal reached out to American Airlines for a statement and received this email and followup:

“Following a debrief with our Flight Crew and additional information received, we can confirm this radio transmission was from American Airlines Flight 2292 on Feb. 21.”

“The FBI is aware of the reported incident. While our policy is to neither confirm nor deny investigations, the FBI works continuously with our federal, state, local and tribal partners to share intelligence and protect the public.”

A request to White Sands Missile Range was unanswered, but Lally Laksbergs, a spokesperson for Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque said they heard nothing.

“We have no knowledge of this. We’re not aware of anything.”

The Journal article did not say if the FBI was contacted. The Drive contacted the FAA and received this statement:

“A pilot reported seeing an object over New Mexico shortly after noon local time on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. FAA air traffic controllers did not see any object in the area on their radarscopes.”

That non-response is typical, so The Drive’s Tyler Rogoway says he “executed a full FOIA request on this case with the FAA” for basic radio recordings between the AAL 2292 and Albuquerque Center (air traffic control). Rogoway also investigated a report that a Lear jet had been in the vicinity of AAL 2292 at about the time of the incident, and found the “timing was off” and the pilots would not have made such a puzzled report to the tower. He seems to be leaning towards “misidentification” but is waiting/hoping for more from the FAA.

Learjet

Will this be the Tic Tac UFO of 2021? It has been picked up across the mainstream media spectrum and made it to the late night talk show monologues. While there’s no video or air traffic control radar recording, that could change if they exist and enough pressure is put on the FAA, as seen after The New York Times picked up the Tic Tac/Nimitz UFO incident.

This long, cylindrical UFO won’t be going away anytime soon.

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27-02-2021 om 20:46 geschreven door peter  

Don't Be Deceived.  Find out the Real Reason Why This is Happening Now. 

Why Now?  It’s been 74 years since Roswell.  Thousands of ufo sightings, videos, pictures, articles, and reports since then and All Have Been Denied and Covered Up.  Why is the government Now actively talking about full disclosure within a few months?   The answer is actually right in line with end times prophecy timelines as I will show you, as well as why it’s happening now.  

End times prophecy tells us this.   Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.  But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.  The great dragon was hurled down that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him…..Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them!  But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you!  He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.”  Revelation 12

This is what is going to happen very soon.   So when the devil and his angels come to earth what do you think their arrival will look like?  Will they just sneak in and try to mingle with us?  I don’t think so.  I believe they will come as kings of the universe in space vehicles and tell us they are from some distant planet.  And that they have been here many times and have come now to live among us and lead us to the next level of our development.  

THIS is what it’s all about.  We are being prepped for the main event.  The government will tell us that Yes, UFO’s have visited us many times.  This will get us ready for when the devil and his angels tell us their lies and This is what they are getting us ready for right now.   Jesus said that the devil is a liar.  He does not speak the truth he only lies.  They will deceive many……But there is more to this story.

The reason the devil and his angels will tell us these lies is because they want to get as many of us to believe them as possible.  They do this because those who believe them and take the mark are the ones that will spend eternity in the lake of fire with them.  They will be their slaves for eternity.   They will use and abuse them FOREVER.  The devil and his angels already know they are going to the lake of fire so they want to make sure they have enough of us to abuse when they get there.  But…..you don’t have to be in that group.  There is a way out and you can change that.  PLEASE don’t make the foolish mistake of thinking that this is Not going to happen to you or that it will not happen in your lifetime.  That’s just those same guys telling you more lies.

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27-02-2021 om 18:56 geschreven door peter  

Alien Craft Landing And Three Entities Encounter In Virginia

JANUARY 19, 1965 ………WAYNESBORO VIRGINIA

William Blackburn, a resident of Waynesboro, Virginia, was working at the Augusta County Archery Club off Route 250, near Brand’s Flats, when at approximately 5:40 PM, on January 19, 1965, he saw two objects in the sky.

One of these UFOs, the smaller of the two, descended to the ground and landed approximately 18 yards from the witness. From it emerged three beings of extraordinary appearance, each about three feet high.

They were dressed in clothes of the same shiny, peculiar color as the object. One had an extremely long finger on one Band. The beings’ eyes were particularly penetrating: according to the witness, “they seemed to look through you.”

As the creatures approached the witness, to within 12 yards, he froze in fright, a double-edged axe in his hand. After uttering some unintelligible sounds, the beings turned and reentered the object through a door that appeared to “mold itself into the ship.”

The object then ascended and disappeared.

Following the appearance of Blackburn’s account in the local press, the witness told of being visited by members of a government agency whom he would not identify, although he said he was told not to say anything further about his sighting.

In an investigation conducted by Richard Hall and several NICAP staff members, strong evidence was found to support the witness’ report of being silenced.

In spite of this, the investigators were able to secure some additional details on the sighting. The area of the reported sighting is close to Fishersville, Va., the site of another landing (but with no reported occupants) which had occurred less than a month before.

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27-02-2021 om 18:09 geschreven door peter  

Huge UFO Passes In Front Of Moon Over Chicago, Feb 26, 2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Feb 26, 2021
Location of sighting: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Source: MUFON 

 

Watch this raw footage and you will see a long dark tictac UFO move past the moon in earths orbit. The UFO is very long and takes a few seconds to cross the moon. Normally the UFO would be impossible to see, but lucky for the eyewitness the moon happened to be behind the UFO which lit it up. Even in Chicago, UFO are visible when you try hard enough. Hard work pays off. 100% proof that huge motherships are in Earths orbit right now!

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

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27-02-2021 om 17:34 geschreven door peter  

UFO Fleet Over San Bernardino, California On 9-21-2019, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 9-21-2019
Location of sighting: San Bernardino, California, USA
Source: MUFON (came in today)

 

Wow, this is a rare sight. Its a alien mother drone. Thats a drone that actually makes other smaller drones to seed the sky. The mother drone is diamond in shape at the center. Look at the close up screenshot I made at the top of this post. It produced about 100 smaller alien AI controlled drones. These are drones that are dropped off, then after a certain amount of weeks, they will be picked up at a specific location again and taken back to the home world so that the data the drones gathered could be studied. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

A fleet of ufos. Stopped for gas at a gas station in San Bernardino when I looked up and saw maybe hundreds of objects of various sizes. Some caught fire while others were orbs.

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27-02-2021 om 17:27 geschreven door peter  

UFO Over Albuquerque, New Mexico Trailing Plane Feb 26 2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Feb 26, 2021
Location of sighting: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Source: MUFON 113852

 

An eyewitness in New Mexico this week caught sight of a cloud orb that was very close to a jet and buzzing around its contrail for a few minutes. This kind of behavior is typical and has recorded evidence of past events so yes, this is a cloud orb. Orbs are alien drones that are circle shaped, controlled by AI and about the size of a softball, but sometimes as big as a basketball. The surface is semi transparent, as if it were a computer screen reflecting the colors around it. I love this video, and it bounces only because of the guy using zoom and zooming in always makes it unsteady, but worth it to see the orb close up. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

• White / silver orb trailed a plane coming in from SW, Once I started filming it when plane reached NW, Object dashed away from the plane and started heading SE.

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27-02-2021 om 17:22 geschreven door peter  

Straight lines and perfect circles don't exist in reality; there is no perfect line or circle in the entire universe, only manmade or manufactured objects are often geometric and “straight”, while objects growing naturally have curvature.

  

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27-02-2021 om 17:05 geschreven door peter  

American Airlines Confirms UFO Sighting Incident with One of Their Pilots

American Airlines passenger jet encountered an unidentified flying object (UFO) over northeastern New Mexico.

The incident took place on Sunday afternoon around 1 pm CST. Steven Douglass published a recording on his blog Deep Black Horizon about a transmission by the pilot of flight 2292, which American Airlines confirmed.

At the time, the pilot radioed in after spotting a UFO above the aircraft. In the recording, the pilot described the UFO as like a long cylindrical object that nearly similar to a cruise missile type of thing moving at incredible speed over the top of their aircraft.

Following a debrief with Flight Crew and additional details received, American Airlines confirmed it was one of their pilots who radioed in the object during the passenger flight from Cincinnati to Phoenix. However, the airline company wouldn’t share any further details about the UFO incident. They encourage anyone who has additional questions on the incident to reach out to the FBI.

Douglass said he spoke with a former military pilot, who suggested the pilot was probably shaken after the UFO encounter that he had to report it. Although it seems American Airlines expects the FBI to handle the case, Douglass believes the Federal Aviation Administration will also do an investigation to identify what the pilot encountered flying above the aircraft.

New Mexico is home to White Sands Missile Range, located in the state’s southern area, and is described as the largest, fully-instrumented, open-air range of the Department of Defense. However, the chief of public affairs at White Sands Missile Range, Scott Sterns, said the range wasn’t testing anything on that day of the incident and noted the distance between the missile range and northeastern New Mexico, which is approximately 400 miles.

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27-02-2021 om 16:08 geschreven door peter  

Well, that didn’t take long. NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on Mars for about a week and its panoramic camera is already picking up strange, unidentified objects among its surroundings in the Jezero Crater. While some may have logical explanations, that hasn’t stopped folks from seeing flying saucer parts, skulls and other odd pareidolia-generated objects … or are they?

Credit: NASA

This first photo, as is the case with many photos taken by various rovers and satellites, lacks anything identifiable that could lend perspective and size to the image. That frees the imagination to, as some commenters suggest, see these objects as ants, perhaps giant alien ants. After all, that does seem to be a hill in the background. However, most agree that these are just rocks – although it seems a bit sacrilegious to refer to Martian rocks as “just rocks.”

Credit: NASA

The next photo needs less imagination but more pareidolia-tion (new word coined just for you, Perseverance). With just a little magnification, this odd-shaped object has most observers thinking “skull.” Human? Who knows, although the wide-open mouth looks alien or at least Edvard Munch-ish. (Can Perseverance zoom in to see if there’s a Screamish “Could only have been painted by a madman!” message nearby?) Or is this a miniature recreation of the famous “Face on Mars” which dates back to the Viking missions and has lost its luster — not to mention eyes, nose and mouth — as better satellites zoomed in on this Martian hill?

Credit: NASA

The best and most fun image from this first batch has to be the shiny objects on a hill. Once it was determined that they’re not debris from the rest of the mission – both the sky crane and the part with the heat shield crashed much farther away – the pareidoliacs (another new word – thanks, Perseverance!) decided this is definitely pieces of a metallic spacecraft, either belonging to aliens or long-ago (or perhaps secret) human missions to the Red Planet. As this video shows (watch it here), zooming doesn’t help (anyone working from home and attending virtual meetings could tell you that).

The good news is that the objects have not yet been identified so they’re still open for pareidoliussions and pareidoliarguments (OK, those might be a bit a stretch, Perseverance). The better news is that more are coming as Perseverance flexes its wheels and later launches its helicopter. That could be Perseverance’s greatest gift to homebound pareidoliacs tired of seeing pictures of famous people in their burnt toast (get a new toaster already!).

Thanks, Perseverance!

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26-02-2021 om 23:50 geschreven door peter  

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26-02-2021 om 22:59 geschreven door peter  

One Type of Fast Radio Bursts… Solved?

Every now and then there is a burst of radio light in the sky. It lasts for just milliseconds before fading. It’s known as a Fast Radio Burst (FRB), and they are difficult to observe and study. We know they are powerful bursts of energy, but we aren’t entirely sure what causes them.

The more we’ve learned about FRBs, the stranger they appear. Most occur outside our galaxy, but there are a few that seem to originate within the Milky Way. Most seem to appear at random in the sky, but a few of them are repeating FRBs. Some of them even repeat with surprising regularity. Because of this, astronomers generally think they can’t be caused by a cataclysmic event, such as the last radio burst of a neutron star as it collapses into a black hole.

One likely candidate is a special kind of neutron star known as a magnetar. Neutron stars generally have strong magnetic fields, but magnetars take this to the extreme. Their magnetic fields can be a thousand times more powerful than that of a typical neutron star. Their fields are so powerful that they can heat the surface of a magnetar to more than 10 million Kelvin.

Magnetars are magnetically and thermally active, so they can have upwellings of hot material and magnetically charged flares. It’s similar to the surface activity of our Sun, but at a much more powerful level. When a magnetar has a flare, it can create a burst of intense x-rays and gamma rays. These stars are known to be the source of soft gamma ray repeaters, for example. Since a flare of ionized gas can create radio light when it interacts with a magnetic field, it’s thought that magnetars could also create fast radio bursts.

Recently, a team found evidence to support this idea. About 30,000 light years from Earth there is a magnetar known as SGR J1935+2154. In mid-April of 2020, it entered an active period, so the team decided to observe it with the Insight-HXMT satellite. They observed hundreds of x-ray bursts from the magnetar. Then on April 28, the CHIME radio telescope observed the fast radio burst FRB 200428, which had the same location and distance as the magnetar. The FRB occurred just 8.6 seconds after the team observed an x-ray burst. This time delay is consistent with the fact that the interstellar medium slightly slows radio signals.

From this study it is clear that magnetars are a source of fast radio bursts. We still aren’t clear if magnetars are the source of all FRBs, particularly those that don’t repeat. But since SGR J1935+2154 is relatively close and regularly goes through active periods, we should be able to observe many more FRBs from it over time. It should give us the data we need to understand these strange radio signals.

Reference:

•  Li, C. K., et al. “HXMT identification of a non-thermal X-ray burst from SGR J1935+ 2154 and with FRB 200428.” Nature Astronomy (2021): 1-7.

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26-02-2021 om 22:46 geschreven door peter  

EXCLUSIVE: The Coming Space Race

Brian Berletic
21st Century Wire

Introduction

The domain of space has become an increasingly important playing field economically and militarily amid the wider great power game here on Earth.

While mostly out of sight, the satellites circling overhead provide us with precise positioning information for navigation, communication, weather data, intelligence, and imaging for maps so readily available online – we have begun to take this all for granted.

The impact of this technology in orbit on our ability to engage in commerce and maintain military preparedness has become so vital over the past several decades that nations have begun dedicating not only more resources into developing spaceborne capabilities, but also creating the ability to monitor threats in space and develop methods to defend against them.

This has led to several nations creating “space forces,” with the United States creating the US Space Force in 2019. Russia and China also have equivalent military forces dedicated solely to the domain of space – though how they will be used will most certainly differ from how the US will likely (and is already beginning to) use theirs.

What we see unfolding now is geopolitical cooperation and conflict here on Earth being extended into Earth orbit and beyond.

China has begun launching as many, if not more rockets per year than the United States. Its capabilities range from placing entire satellite constellations into orbit, to launching its own astronauts and even space station segments, as well as commercial missions for clients from around the globe.

Russia continues to develop its space launch capabilities and currently still has these most reliable manned space launch systems on Earth – the Soyuz. Their plans to develop reusable rockets to remain competitive with American aerospace company SpaceX means that Russia too remains a significant partner/competitor in the space domain.

And of course, private companies – from the US to China and everywhere in between – are creating capabilities and pursuing objectives beyond existing state-dominated space programs – with US-based SpaceX creating everything from reusable launch vehicles, to satellite internet, to a fleet of stainless steel starships designed to colonize Mars.

And just beyond reach of current technology are resources in space in the form of minerals and ore on the Moon and trapped in near-Earth objects like asteroids that could open the door to a multi-trillion dollar space economy that could sustain a population within our solar system many times larger than the 7.6 billion people on Earth today.

Through this now quickly shifting and rapidly developing space industry we can see the stage being set for a new, and much more wide-ranging “space race” for the 21st century.

While the first space race was bipolar – between the United States and the Soviet Union – today’s new space race includes old adversaries – the US and Russia – as well as China, India, and even Iran. There are also a growing number of private space companies from US-based firms like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, to Japan’s iSpace, and Galactic Energy in China.

The Space Economy 

There is a very real space-based economy already.

It consists of constellations of satellites providing everything from communication to navigational services – services that are playing an increasingly important role in the global economy.

Industries like delivery services heavily depend on satellite navigation to connect drivers with their destinations, aiding them in navigating to customers and allowing customers to track their progress in real-time. Food delivery alone is an industry of over $100 billion worldwide.

There are also taxi services that increasingly rely on satellite navigation to find and deliver passengers.

The growing importance of satellite navigation for the economy is only set to grow as companies around the globe explore the possibility of drone delivery services and modes of land transportation that are increasingly autonomous.

Communication satellites have long served an important role in advancing and connecting modern information technology. Satellite phones and now satellite internet are services already available around the world. These services depend on satellites in higher orbits over the Earth meaning that latency is higher – and internet speeds slower.

Geostationary orbits, while higher and providing slower communication speeds, require fewer satellites to cover any particular area – with specific satellites assigned to and stationed permanently over a single region of the planet.

Communication satellites in low earth orbit cannot remain over a single region of the planet permanently. They are constantly moving, and thus to create worldwide coverage, shells of constantly moving satellites with protocols meant to relay signals not only from the ground to orbit, but between satellites in orbit are required – and in large numbers.

The lowering costs of both satellite manufacturing and space launches to place them into orbit makes this possible today.

With SpaceX’s Starlink service, consisting of thousands of satellites in low earth orbit (and eventually tens of thousands of satellites), low latency satellite internet will be available worldwide with a partial network already being tested.

Other companies are attempting to create their own low earth orbit constellations including OneWeb and Amazon’s Project Kuiper.

Russia’s Roscosmos is planning to create a similar constellation and China via its Hongyun project is already launching satellites in a bid to create its own low earth orbit broadband internet constellation.

These would constitute global internet service providers – though satellites would still depend on ground stations that connected to the physical backbone of the Internet in order to receive and transmit data – and companies involved in proposing and building these constellations are designing custom tailored solutions on a state-by-state basis to address security concerns in an age where information warfare is as serious a threat as actual warfare.

There are also clear military implications regarding satellite navigation and communication.

Its use on the battlefield includes collecting intelligence, coordinating the locations of and communication between troops in the field, guiding warships at sea as well as warplanes overhead, guiding munitions accurately to their targets and for managing the growing fleet of unmanned military vehicles on land, in the air, and both on and under the sea.

The obvious importance of satellite navigation and communication for both a nation’s economy and its defense is why nations like the United States, Russia, China, and the EU have developed their own networks that they control and that they cannot be excluded from. These are networks that they can offer access to for allies and customers, to enhance their alliances and to open up streams of revenue.

The United States maintains the Global Positioning System (GPS) with a constellation of 31 satellites. The maintenance and protection of America’s GPS satellites was transferred to its newly christened Space Force.

Russia maintains the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) with 24 satellites in orbit. The EU’s Galileo network also consists of 24 satellites.

China recently completed its BeiDou network with 35 satellites in orbit – the largest network of its kind and one of several key indicators illustrating not only how serious China takes this new space race, but the competence it is able to bring to it.

The BeiDou network has already become a key component of China’s One Belt, One Road initiative. It is space infrastructure China is using to help stitch together the economies of Eurasia and to help augment the military capabilities of its allies – including nations like Pakistan who now have access to BeiDou’s higher military-grade positioning resolution.

Since China is building continent-spanning transportation infrastructure – creating and maintaining its own network of navigation satellites with global coverage prevents nations like the US from cutting it off from the GPS network at junctures of geopolitical tensions and potentially stranding logistical operations across entire continents.

CISLunar Economy 

United Launch Alliance (ULA) – a space lift company created by Boeing and Lockheed – has proposed what it calls a “cislunar economy.” Cislunar describes the space between the Earth and the Moon.

ULA’s proposal imagines a cislunar economy reaching $3 trillion by 2050. According to SpaceNews in an article titled, “ULA’s Tory Bruno argues for U.S. investments in the production of fuel in space,” that economy would include mining, transportation, manufacturing and space tourism.

Space.com in an article titled, “Inside ULA’s Plan to Have 1,000 People Working in Space by 2045,” would note just how many people would make up that economy.

CISLunar economy

(Image Source: ULA/NASA)

Mining and in-situ manufacturing in space alone would be transformative for human civilization – akin to moving from the bronze age to the iron age. The resources trapped in near earth objects dwarf the total amount of resources here on Earth. It is just a matter of accessing it and possessing the tools to use it in manufacturing processes in space.

The science fiction future imagined in books and movies for decades could become a reality, complete with orbital habitats not unlike that featured in the 2013 film, “Elysium,” hopefully without the accompanying dystopian class divide.

While ULA’s own expendable launch vehicles are unlikely capable now or anytime in the near future of actually realizing their cislunar economy, other US-based companies and even those abroad might – and sooner than we imagine.

Jeff Bezos – Amazon founder and owner of US-based aerospace company Blue Origin – has proposed a roadmap (video) for the mining of resources and the construction of such habitats. Blue Origin is currently working on its New Glenn rocket – the closest launch vehicle in terms of capability and reusability to SpaceX’s Starship currently under testing. New Glenn, Starship, and similar launch vehicles would be needed to create the foundation of these proposed manned economies in space.

Getting to Space

Space was once the sole domain of a handful of government space programs.

Today, governments, corporations, and a mix of both are now widening the space launch capabilities of countries with space programs, as well as opening increasingly attractive options for nations without their own space launch capabilities.

To date, Russia, the US, Japan, China, the EU, India, Israel, Ukraine, Iran, and North Korea have all demonstrated the ability to launch payloads into orbit.

Currently, China, Russia, and the US lead the world in total launches per year – placing public, military, and commercial payloads into orbit not just for their respective countries but for a wide range of customers from around the world.

China currently leads, or closely follows the US in total launches per year – depending on the year – with US-based SpaceX accounting for America’s ability to continue competing.

The US currently holds the edge in overall competitiveness – again because of SpaceX – and owed in particular to SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Some of its Falcon 9 boosters have flown and landed up to 8 times (at the time of writing). The boosters are designed to fly up to 10 times before major overhauls.

The merit of reusability has not been lost on America’s main competitors. China has been nurturing its own private space industry and several companies are pursuing Falcon-style reusability including Galactic Energy with its planned Pallas 1 rocket targeting a 2021 test launch. Companies like iSpace are also pursuing similarly reusable launch vehicles. Both companies have already reached orbit with expendable rocket designs.

Russia’s Roscosmos is developing its Amur rocket, following SpaceX’s strategy for reusability using a first stage that launches and lands under the power of its own rocket engines.

SpaceX itself – while continuing to launch its Falcon 9 on a regular basis (26 launches in 2020 alone) – is working on the next generation of reusable launch vehicles – Starship.

It will be the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and feature fully reusable first and second stages. It is designed ultimately not only to send people to Mars, but to be able to lift enough material, equipment, and people into orbit frequently enough to build a city on the red planet.

While this goal remains on a more distant horizon, the cargo lift capabilities of Starship – lifting 150 tons into low earth orbit – and its rapid reusability will make access to space cheaper than ever before. It will open up a variety of possibilities both economically and militarily for the United States and its allies, as well as for commercial partners around the world – while leaving other nations playing catch-up.

Nothing like Starship is even under development elsewhere around the globe. While China and Russia are developing heavy-lift rockets nearing Starship’s lift capabilities, none of them will be even partially reusable.

There is also the ability to reach other places in the solar system – other than Earth orbit. The US, China, Russia, and Japan all possess the capability to reach the Moon, Mars, and even near earth objects like asteroids.

In 2020 when the most recent launch window opened to send missions to Mars, the US and China both sent major missions.

NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars’ surface earlier this month. The rover contains experiments to retrieve and eventually send back samples of the Martian surface to Earth as part of future missions to Mars, as well as an experiment for in-situ oxygen production which will be vital for human habitation and the production of fuel on Mars in the future.

China’s mission – Tianwen-1 – has also reached the red planet, featuring an orbiter, a lander, and a rover.

If China successfully lands on the surface of Mars it will signify a major milestone for the nation and its spaceborne capabilities. Having already reached Mars orbit and having sent back incredible pictures of the Martian surface – Tianwen-1 has already made a major geopolitical statement.

While critics say China has not done the many things the US has done in space and has a long way to go to catch up – China does not need to replicate America’s past achievements – it merely needs to match or surpass America’s current achievements and is working to do exactly this.

Mission accomplished: Japanese Hayabusa2 carrying asteroid samples in December 2020

(Image: JAXA)

NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have both sent missions to asteroids – a major first step toward eventually exploiting the vast amount of resources trapped in them.

JAXA’s Hayabusa missions both retrieved samples from targeted asteroids and returned them to Earth. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully collected a sample from asteroid Bennu and is slated to return it to Earth by 2023.

Getting into space and being able to reach a wide variety of destinations there – and being able to carry out a wide variety of activities will be key to expanding Earth’s economy into space. Government agencies and private companies are developing these capabilities at an increasingly faster pace each year with large implications regarding cooperation and conflict in space in the near future.

Conflict in Space

The networks being placed into orbit will enhance the economic and military capabilities of the respective nations on the ground launching them. The importance of creating and defending these networks is obvious.

Satellite navigation’s use in conducting warfare and in particularly accurately guiding unmanned aircraft and even munitions across the battlefield makes it an obvious target for electronic jamming.

F-35 Fighter

(Image Source: Darin Russell/Lockheed Martin)

Here we can see the clearest example of how geopolitical competition on Earth is extending into the domain of space.

The National Interest in a 2019 article titled, “GPS Jammed: Russia Is Messing with America’s F-35s,” would claim:

Russian forces have been jamming GPS systems in the Middle East. The electronic-warfare campaign could affect U.S. forces gathering in the region in advance of potential strikes on Iran.

“Since last spring, pilots flying through the Middle East, specifically around Syria, have noted that their GPS systems have displayed the wrong location or stopped working entirely,” The Times of Israel reported in late June 2019.

GPS is essential for US military operations – and for pilots of warplanes like the F-35 in particular – both regarding navigation and guiding munitions to target. Jamming GPS signals in theater means partially blinding US warplanes and severely inhibiting their ability to carry out military operations.

While the US has claimed this jamming is a serious provocation, Syria is a nation the US has illegally occupied for years. This is in addition to its military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and, as the article points out, its planned military aggression against Iran, all nations thousands of miles from America’s shores, and all nations that pose no direct threat to the US itself.

The use of America’s GPS in the Middle East is explicitly for enabling military aggression abroad – not the defense of the United States itself.

With the founding of the US Space Force in late 2019, and with the new armed forces branch overseeing America’s GPS capabilities, it is certain that stopping Russia or any other nation from disrupting these capabilities overseas will become part of its mission.

It is clear that the US Space Force will be used – not to defend the United States itself – but to prevent others from defending themselves from US aggression and its spaceborne capabilities used to enable it.

Russia’s use of electronic jamming has complicated American aggression in the Middle East. But there are other threats to America’s spaceborne capabilities – and theoretically, to those of all other nations as well.

This includes anti-satellite missiles.

In 2007, when China tested an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile which destroyed one of its aging Fengyun series weather satellites, the West vocally protested – so much so – that many might believe China was the first ever to carry out such a test.

In reality, the US conducted a very similar test as early as 1985 using an ASM-135 ASAT missile mounted on an F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft. The missile was used to destroy the Solwind P78-1 satellite – a scientific platform nearing the end of its lifespan.

The early US test – like the Chinese one in 2007 – created debris that posed a hazard to other satellites and spacecraft in orbit. The US test even delayed the construction of what is now the International Space Station (ISS).

After the Chinese test in 2007 – and despite the US already demonstrating its ability to destroy satellites in orbit – the US carried out an additional ASAT mission a year later using a modified SM-3 missile to destroy the USA-193 reconnaissance satellite operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

While the mission was justified by claiming there were fears that the malfunctioning satellite could enter the atmosphere and cause contamination with its highly toxic fuel – the timing following the Chinese missile test made it clear this story was just cover for what was a tit-for-tat demonstration vis-a-vis China and a test of US missile defense systems as provocative as the US claimed China’s test was.

Russia began testing modern ASAT missiles in 2015, conducting several tests but none of them directed at actually destroying a satellite in orbit.

India – a nation with an increasingly capable space program – tested an ASAT missile in 2019 successfully destroying a test satellite in low earth orbit (LEO).

In other words, several nations now possess the ability to not only jam satellites but also destroy them.

For nations like the US who depend heavily on its GPS network when fighting wars of aggression abroad – the destruction of even parts of its GPS network would immediately impact its fighting capacity and require a time consuming and expensive process to replace lost satellites.

The advent of ASAT systems has increased the cost of US military aggression abroad should red lines be crossed and either Russia or China decide to begin targeting this crucial component of American military might.

On the other hand, US-based SpaceX – should its Starship launch vehicle begin placing payloads into orbit, it would be capable of replacing entire constellations faster than they could be shot down.

Here, we can see the potential ingredients for a space-based arms race.

Should ULA’s cislunar economy – or a version of it – begin to take shape, it will be difficult to imagine how economics in orbit and on Earth, as well as the conflict that will inevitably arise will take full shape.

It may resemble in many ways the process of exploring for and exploiting hydrocarbons here on Earth with a process of staking and exploiting claims clearly defined and competitors moving on to other objects in search for resources.

If current studies of near earth objects are accurate, there would be more resources in space than human civilization has the ability to fully exploit – although real estate on the Moon or Mars, or specific asteroids in closer proximity to Earth would be likely candidates for races, competition, and possible conflict.

Conflict might be fought out on Earth between respective nations over what is happening in space or a new class of weapons and tactics might be developed for use in space-to-space combat.

Here on Earth we can already see attempts by the US to pressure nations like Iran and hinder the development of Iran’s space program – which has already successfully placed payloads into orbit and is developing more capable launch vehicles as well as its own satellites to place in orbit.

Denial to space, and denial to regions in space may become common themes in near-future warfare.

Cooperation in space or exclusion of certain nations from specific projects has already become a geopolitical tool. Russia’s monopoly over manned space launches – only recently broken by SpaceX’s crewed Dragon 2 spacecraft – was a useful tool for Moscow to remind America of the limits of its omnipotence.

America’s plans for a Lunar Gateway station now exclude Russia – a politically-motivated decision that will cost America in terms of technical expertise can capabilities Russia could offer the project.

America’s exclusion of China from virtually all cooperation with NASA including on the International Space Station would at first serve to hinder China’s space program – but now appears to be spurring it.

China now plans to launch its own space station and will use it to cooperate with any  and all nations in space – including those thus far excluded by US-dominated projects.

These are possibilities that are no longer the domain of science fiction writers but the serious topics of policymakers and the aerospace branches of national armed forces around the globe.

Satellite-killing missiles, moon bases, Mars rovers, space stations, rockets taking off and landing under the power of their own engines – are fast becoming a reality or in some cases, are already here.

The new space race has begun and it is a race a growing number of nations and companies are joining on a nearly monthly basis.

Rockets are taking off from traditional launch sites in Florida and Kazakhstan – but also now from places like New Zealand and Amur Oblast in eastern Russia. SpaceX is building a spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas, near America’s border with Mexico. And China is constructing new launch facilities on land and at sea.

The scale and importance of activity in space is expanding rapidly, with ever-expanding rewards of the wealth, power and influence for its participants. Wherever there are people and resources – there will be competition, and in this new space race we will likely see this competition move beyond flag-planting and toward something that resembles actual conflict.

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Author Brian Berletic, formerly known under his pen name Tony Cartalucci, is Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher, writer and special contributor to 21st Century Wire. See more of his work at Tony’s archive. Over the last decade, his work has been published on a number of popular news and analysis websites, and also on the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”. Also, you can follow him on VK here.

References:

• New Eastern Outlook – China Completes its Beidou Satellite Navigation Network:
  https://journal-neo.org/2020/12/11/china-completes-its-beidou-satellite-navigation-network/
• SpaceNews – ULA’s Tory Bruno argues for U.S. investments in the production of fuel in space:
  https://spacenews.com/ulas-tory-bruno-argues-for-u-s-investments-in-the-production-of-fuel-in-space/
• Space.com – Inside ULA’s Plan to Have 1,000 People Working in Space by 2045:
  https://www.space.com/33297-satellite-refueling-business-proposal-ula.html
• Blue Origin – Going to Space to Benefit Earth:
  https://youtu.be/GQ98hGUe6FM
• TASS – Launch of Russian Amur rocket with reusable stage will cost $22 mln:
  https://tass.com/science/1192127
• NASA – Mars Perseverance Rover:
  https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance/
• CGTN – China’s Tianwen-1 enters Mars parking orbit:
  https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-02-24/China-s-Tianwen-1-probe-enters-parking-orbit-around-Mars-Y8pDCosLCM/index.html
• JAXA – Hayabusa 2 Project:
  https://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/
• NASA – OSIRIS-REx:
  https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/in-depth/
• National Interest – GPS Jammed: Russia Is Messing with America’s F-35s:
  https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/gps-jammed-russia-messing-americas-f-35s-90136
• New Eastern Outlook – The Problem With US Space Force:
  https://journal-neo.org/2021/02/10/the-problem-with-us-space-force/

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26-02-2021 om 22:20 geschreven door peter  

Airline Passenger Sees UFO Fleet Over Bay of Bengal, India On Aug 10, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of sighting: Aug 10, 2017

Location of sighting: Bay of Bengal, India

 

The video was posted this week on Youtube, however the person had been holding it since it occurred in 2017. The person said they didn't release it till they saw other similar videos and thought someone may be interested in it. Yep...I'm interested! I analyzed the video carefully and saw that when enlarged, a few of the glowing orbs did pass behind the clouds disappearing for a few seconds. This is 100% proof that the objects are outside the window and not a reflection from inside the aircraft. That was a main concern for me, but the results are clear...those are outside the aircraft. I have seen one other video of a similar event many years ago, but this video is more clear. This is a very rare event, when a alien fleet masses above the clouds. There must be a hundred or more of them. 100% proof that aliens exist on Earth! 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

The video was recorded over the Bay of Bengal on a flight from Bangkok to New Delhi, on August 10, 2017. It didn’t occur to me to post it. I don’t normally post content but recently saw another video that was similar so decided to share this one. Not sure what it was then and still not sure what it is now, but looks interesting.

  

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26-02-2021 om 18:11 geschreven door peter  

Alien Face Statue Found On Mars In Spirit Rover Photo, 100% Proof Of Ancient Aliens! UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Feb 26, 2021

Location of discovery: Mars Sol 1,000
Source photo: 

• http://www.gigapan.com/galleries/13333/gigapans/115102

While looking over a Mars gigapan photo, I found something intriguing on the far right of the picture. A face, a huge statue face carved into the side of a boulder. The face has an eye, nose, mouth and it looks very similar to a human face. To dismiss such evidence is not only ignorant of the facts, but literally a crime against humanity. What would have happened we still believed the earth was flat? Or the sun revolved around the earth? Its a crime against all humanity to be stuck into that false way of thinking. A closed mind, is a close door to the facts. This my friends...is 100% proof that intelligent life with a face like our own, once lived and thrived on the surface of Mars. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

I put the screenshots into normal color, NASA places them into false brown color to blur detail. Original photo is using a False color brown filter. 

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26-02-2021 om 18:05 geschreven door peter  

Cylinder UFO Over South Shields, England On Feb 25, 2021, UFO Sighting News.

 

 

Date of sighting: Feb 25, 2021

Location of sighting: Moon seen from South Shields, England

Source: MUFON 113829

 

This eyewitness was recording the moon with an advanced Nikon p900 camera when a black cylinder UFO passed across the moon. The UFO surprised the eyewitness so much that he seemed to panic as he zoomed out, zoomed in, then zoomed out again. All the while trying to find the object that passed in front of his lens. By chance he did miss the UFO when he zoomed out, because at 1:06 into the video (has to be paused to see it) you will notice the object at the bottom center of the screen for two seconds. Wow, just an awesome lucky catch. 

 

What really gets me is that just last Sunday, a pilot from American Airlines reported a similar cylinder object flying over his plane in New Mexico...the pilot described it as "looking like a cruise missile." Well this looks exactly as he described! 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

Eyewitness states:

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26-02-2021 om 17:59 geschreven door peter  

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover captured on its third day on Mars strange rectangular bright shining metallic looking objects resting on top of an underlying metallic looking sheet. 

It is suggested that it could be the Perseverance Heat Shield that helped protect NASA's Perseverance rover during its landing on the surface of Mars or other parts of the Mars 2020 mission landing system. 

But an official map provided by NASA shows that the heat shield and other parts of the landing system are much further away then the metallic looking objects in front of the Perseverance camera. 

Could it be something artificial, left behind by visitors from the past?

Links: 

• https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA24333_fig1.jpg 
• https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-

images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00003/ids/fdr/browse/zcam/ZLF_0003_06672175

74_000FDR_N0010052AUT_04096_034085J01.png 

• https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia24422-c1-

3000.jpg?fbclid=IwAR26E1ln6dP7w-KXJN50xA1_yCh1huiEUv_12dSWRxct-BnDrnXIrXti5zM

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26-02-2021 om 17:34 geschreven door peter  

Pilots of an American Airlines jet flying over New Mexico say they saw something fly directly over them that they cannot explain. 

The strange encounter happened over the northeast corner of New Mexico west of Clayton, New Mexico as the jet was cruising at 36,000 feet traveling around 460 mph. 

The unidentified flying object sighting was documented by the pilots when they radioed the Albuquerque Center according to The Drive. 

"Do you have any targets up here," the pilot asked before reporting that "we just had something go right over the top of us." "I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing moving really fast right over the top of us." 

A response to the pilot's inquiry was, unfortunately, not picked up, but flight tracking websites indicate that there were no aircraft in the vicinity of the plane which could account for the odd sighting. 

Meanwhile, the FAA has released a short statement, which reads: A pilot reported seeing an object over New Mexico shortly after noon local time on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. FAA air traffic controllers did not see any object in the area on their radarscopes.        

It is clear, something is not right here.

In the next video FOX46 reports on this event, including the original conversation between the pilot and the Albuquerque Center.

  

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26-02-2021 om 17:23 geschreven door peter  

UFO Spotted LIVE in a Storm on a Brazilian Newscast

The BAND program “Brasil Urgente” was live with the presenter Datena showing the clouds and the rain in São Paulo, when out of nowhere a discoid-shaped object crosses in front of the camera at a great speed where it caught the attention of the presenter. Experts calculate that this object was at a speed twice the speed of Sound, “680 meters per second ie (2,488 km / h)”.

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26-02-2021 om 16:47 geschreven door peter  

Biggest Reveal: US Govt Admitted Testing Roswell UFO Debris To Create Advanced Technology

A stunning explanation is given by American UFO researcher Anthony Bragalia that he had received 150 pages of text from the US Military Intelligence Agency. He filed a request to the US government about the information on UFO debris they possess under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) three years ago and got a reply from them.

He wrote that the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) did not deny the fact that the military recovered the wreckage from the UFO crash site in New Mexico, 1947. It has been revealed officially that the material of the UFO was given to the DIA for analysis, and its properties did not match any material known to man.

According to the released information, there was a discussion of a certain material with shape-recovery properties like the “memory metal.”

The people who witnessed this event could not determine what kind of object had fallen in Roswell, and the US government quickly took everything under control by declaring that a meteorological balloon had collapsed near the city, but UFO enthusiasts did not believe this story. Since then, researchers around the world have been collecting bits of information about this event.

Anthony Bragalia, an American ufologist who closely monitors and records all the incidents and encounters with extraterrestrials that are significant, shared his opinion on the topic.

He wrote:

“It appears that the retrieved debris exhibits other extraordinary capabilities. In addition to “remembering” their original form when bent or crushed, some of these futuristic materials have the potential to make things invisible, “compress” electromagnetic energy, and even slow down the speed of light. Although much of the reports’ details are redacted, what can be gleaned is that these technologies represent a literal quantum leap beyond the properties of all existing material known to man.”

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Bragalia made a request under FOIA in 2017 and asked the DIA about the physical properties, descriptions, and compositions of the UFO material. In addition, the US Intelligence agency wrote that the material had been analyzed under the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program monitored by Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In the received information, there were several pages discussing some advanced technology connected with nitinol, described as shape recovery alloy. He also noted that the agency’s response contained information on studies of the potential use of nitinol on the human body to improve health.

According to him, the US scientists had planned to create phase diagrams for the manufacture of metal with similar properties (memory effect) using ultra-high-purity titanium and nickel.

Bragalia wrote that the reports he received from the DIA mentioned a special kind of highly-engineered material known as a metamaterial, described as “assemblies of multiple elements fashioned from composite materials such as metals and plastics.” Such material cannot be found in natural occurrences. Interestingly, after two months of the Roswell incident, in September 1947, General George Shulgen of Air Intelligence described “the materials of construction” of the flying saucers as potentially being made of “composite or sandwich construction utilizing various combinations of metal and plastics.”

Unfortunately, there is no clue where the debris of that UFO could be, and also Bigelow Aerospace suddenly laid off all its 85 employees in March of last year.

Although Bragalia did not get satisfactory information from the DIA, he sounded more confident and wrote that he would rechallenge the government, asking them to tell its citizens about the extraordinary extraterrestrial hardware.

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26-02-2021 om 01:08 geschreven door peter