The Mars Helicopter Could Charge up the Atmosphere Around Itself as it Flies

Plasma globes are a common enough sight in retails stores across the rich world.  If you’ve ever seen one and gotten a chance to touch it, you’ve seen how the plasma will arc toward your touch creating a sense that you’re able to harness electricity like Thor.

That effect does not only take place on Earth – anywhere there is a charge build-up that causes a high enough electrical potential between two points to create an electrical glow or corona. Now a team at NASA think that a large charge build-up might occur when Ingenuity, Perseverance’s helicopter companion, takes to the sky.

The team, led by Dr. William Farrell at Goddard Space Flight Center, has been interested in the electrical properties of Mars’ atmosphere for decades, first beginning to study the subject in the early 90s.    Reasons abound for wanting to understand these phenomena, not the least of which is understanding what impact it might have on any future human colony.

For now, humanity’s ambassadors on the red planet are robots, and they have their own challenges when facing electrical discharges.  One particular robotic emissary is in a unique position amongst the current Martians when it comes to electrical discharges. Ingenuity will operate in a naturally dusty atmosphere and could even possibly create its own miniature dust cloud when it takes to the skies in a few weeks.

With those dust interactions come electrical potentials, which are created when two dust particles run into each other or into the blades of the rotorcraft.  The dust contacting the blades  will likely cause a phenomena technically known as “tribocharging”.  More commonly, people are familiar with this phenomena from rubbing balloons on their hair and then sticking them to a ceiling.

Tribocharging itself is not likely to cause any sparks to fly in Earth’s atmosphere.  However, the conditions are different on Mars, whose atmosphere has a much lower “breakdown voltage” than that of Earth’s.  While the research team is quick to point out there is no immediate danger to Ingenuity, or the rovers themselves, there is the potential to get some interesting data about the electric potential of Mars’ atmosphere.

That data has been a long time coming, as attempts to study the electrical properties of Mars’ atmosphere have a history going back to the 1990s.  Efforts have been plagued by the notorious difficulty of actually landing a craft on Mars.  Attempts to send an instrument capable of detailed study were cut short when the Mars Polar Lander mission failed in 1999.  That craft was part of the Mars Surveyor program, which was suspended following the loss of the Polar Lander.

One of those planned-but-never-executed Surveyor craft, Mars 03 Surveyor, was to have  electrical instrumentation on it that would have allowed scientists to directly study the electrical properties of the atmosphere.  A later mission, ESA’s Schiaparelli lander, would have had similar instrumentation, but it was destroyed along with the lander in a failed landing attempt in 2016.

Despite all these setbacks, interest has not waned in the topic.  And Ingenuity’s takeoff allows a coincidental chance to at least get some data.  The counterrotating blades the helicopter uses for stabilization will likely have the effect of creating a small Van de Graff generator, charging the helicopter body with high voltages when comparing to its surrounding atmosphere.

The best way to observe this phenomenon would be with dedicated instruments, such as an electrometer or radio antenna.  In lieu of that, the best scientists can hope for in this mission is to observe Ingenuity while it takes off.  Dr. Farrell and his team suggest that doing so at twilight would make for ideal observing conditions.  However, mission planners much prefer operations with good lighting and calm winds – not necessarily at twilight.

No matter the launch time, Ingenuity’s flight will be the first powered controlled flight by humankind on another planet.  If it happens to take off with an amazing glow, it will not only result in great data for Dr. Farrell and his team, but also could be a spectacular show for those of us stuck watching on the ground.

Learn More:

• arXiv – Will the Mars Helicopter Induce Local Martian Atmospheric Breakdown?
• UT – Here’s How Perseverance’s Helicopter Sidekick Will Deploy on Mars
• UT – Lightning Detect on Mars

Lead Image:

• Artist’s rendition of Ingenuity on the ground on Mars.
  Credit: NASA / JPL – Caltech

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04-03-2021 om 23:51 geschreven door peter  

The Whole Planet Is Under Alien Attack

The Whole Planet Is Under Alien Attack

Owen and Young Pharaoh discuss what is the root of the evil plaguing humanity, and possible solutions.

Is our whole planet really under attack by aliens? =) What do you think? Let us know in comments and thanks for stopping by. 

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04-03-2021 om 23:24 geschreven door peter  

SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after first successful landing

In a classically spectacular fashion, a SpaceX Starship prototype has successfully touched down in one piece for the first time ever, only to explode minutes later after catching itself on fire.

Rolled from SpaceX Boca Chica Starship factory to test and launch facilities just a mile down the road on January 28th, Starship SN10 lifted off just five weeks later – the fastest factory-to-launch flow yet. The speed of that turnaround was mainly made possible thanks to an exceptionally smooth test campaign, passing cryogenic proof and static fire tests after only a few attempts.

Prior to its second launch attempt, Starship SN10 automatically aborted a few seconds prior to its first attempt after the rocket’s flight computer determined that its three Raptor engines were producing more thrust than expected. Within half an hour of the abort, CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to reveal the cause and stated that SpaceX would be tweaking the flight software’s thrust limits and recycling for another shot at launch around two hours later.

Starship SN10 became the first of its kind to touch down in one piece – but not for long. 

(SpaceX)

Up to the last 20 or so seconds of the 6.5-minute flight test, Starship SN10’s launch debut was virtually identical to Starships SN8 and SN9, both of which made it just one or two dozen seconds away from a soft landing. However, after SN9, SpaceX optimized the landing process to add additional redundancy, meaning that SN10 reignited all three of its Raptor engines – instead of just two – for its flip and landing burn.

Exactly as planned, SN10 fired up those engines, autonomously analyzed their performance, and then shut down two Raptors to leave the best-behaving engine to complete the final landing burn. Unlike SN8 and SN9, that maneuver went about as well as it could have, nearly slowing SN10 to a hover with one (seemingly) healthy engine to take it the rest of the way to the ground.

(NASASpaceflight)

Unfortunately, SN10 only had a bit less than ten minutes to enjoy its incredible accomplishment, exploding around T+14:40 after a small fire spread. 

(NASASpaceflight)

SN10 touched down in one piece but remote firefighting hardware at the landing zone was ultimately unable to beat down an onboard fire that appeared to start during the Starship’s landing burn. Eventually, that fire somehow won out over Starship’s structure or pressure vessels, breaching its pressurized propellant tanks and triggering a massive explosion.

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04-03-2021 om 23:03 geschreven door peter  

What Happens if Perseverance Finds Life on Mars?

It all happened so fast! On Thursday, February 18th, NASA’s Perseverance rover set landed in the Jezero crater on Mars and almost immediately transmitted its first image of the Martian. This was followed by photos from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and footage taken by the rover’s Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL). Then there was the panoramic video, a sound recording, and deployed its Ingenuity helicopter, all in the space of a week!

But that’s nothing compared to what happened next. Shortly after the rover started drilling into the floor of the Jezero crater, Perseverance found evidence of fossilized bacteria! The search for life on Mars finally struck paydirt! Okay, that didn’t happen… Not yet, anyway. But what if it does? After all, one of Perseverance‘s main objectives is to search for evidence of past life on Mars. What will be the impact if and when it finds it?

The Perseverance rover is NASA’s ninth mission to land on Mars and (like its predecessors) is tasked with characterizing the geology, atmosphere, and climate of Mars and help pave the way for human exploration. But the rover is also focused on astrobiology, which refers to the study of life throughout the Universe. As the next most-habitable place in our Solar System beyond Earth, Mars is a major focus of our astrobiological efforts.

Biosignatures, Anyone?

As Gentry Lee, the chief engineer for the Planetary Science Directorate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explained in a JPL press release:

“To quote Carl Sagan, ‘If we see a hedgehog staring in the camera, we would know there’s current and certainly ancient life on Mars, but based on our past experiences, such an event is extremely unlikely. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the discovery that life existed elsewhere in the universe would certainly be extraordinary.’”

Thanks to the many rovers, orbiters, and landers that explored Mars in the past, scientists understand that billions of years ago, Mars was a much different place than it is today. Its atmosphere was denser, its climate warmer, and liquid water flowed on its surface. This led to many of the features that are observable today, like the preserved river delta in the Jezero crater.

This feature indicates that ca. 3.5 billion years ago, Jezero was a lakebed that had water flowing into it. This caused sediment to build up over time, leading to the formation of a river delta that is rich in clays. While the lake may be long gone, scientists theorize that there could be biosignatures somewhere in this 45 km (28 mi) wide crater just waiting to be found.

Given the relatively brief window Mars had for habitability, odds are that only simple lifeforms (like single-celled bacteria) would have emerged. On Earth, some of the most ancient evidence for life comes in the form of microbialites, sedimentary deposits composed of carbonate mud that form with the help of photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

Said Ken Williford, the deputy project scientist for the Perseverance mission:

“We expect the best places to look for biosignatures would be in Jezero’s lakebed or in shoreline sediments that could be encrusted with carbonate minerals, which are especially good at preserving certain kinds of fossilized life on Earth. But as we search for evidence of ancient microbes on an ancient alien world, it’s important to keep an open mind.”

Tools of the Trade

Using its advanced suite of scientific instruments, Perseverance will collect rock core samples in metal tubes and place them in a supply cache (which will be retrieved by a future mission sent by the ESA). These instruments include the rover’s suite of cameras, especially the one located on the rover’s mast that’s capable of zooming in to inspect targets (Mastcam-Z).

There’s also the SuperCam instrument, which is also located on the mast and can use a small laser to examine promising research targets. This is done by using the laser to create small clouds of plasma clouds, which will then be analyzed to determine the target’s chemical composition. If the data it obtains reveals something interesting, the rover will be able to examine it more closely with its two turret-mounted instruments.

These are known as the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) and the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals (SHERLOC) instruments. The former relies on small x-ray bursts to search for chemical biosignatures while the latter uses its own laser to detect concentrations of organic molecules and minerals that have been formed in watery environments.

Together, these two instruments will effectively create high-resolution maps of elements, minerals, and molecules in Martian rocks and sediments, which astrobiologists will use to determine which to collect and eventually send back to Earth. As Bobby Braun, the Mars Sample Return program manager at JPL, explained:

“The instrumentation required to definitively prove microbial life once existed on Mars is too large and complex to bring to Mars. That is why NASA is partnering with the European Space Agency on a multi-mission effort, called Mars Sample Return, to retrieve the samples Perseverance collects and bring them back to Earth for study in laboratories across the globe.”

“We have strong evidence that Jezero Crater once had the ingredients for life. Even if we conclude after returned sample analysis that the lake was uninhabited, we will have learned something important about the reach of life in the cosmos,” said Williford. “Whether or not Mars was ever a living planet, it’s essential to understand how rocky planets like ours form and evolve. Why did our own planet remain hospitable as Mars became a desolate wasteland?”

In short, the Perseverance mission is dedicated to the search for life and is equipped with the very best that modern science can offer. So it naturally begs the question, what happens if and when it succeeds?

What’s Next?

Well for starters, the announcement would spread around the world like wildfire. Just imagine the headlines: “Perseverance finds evidence of Martian life!” “Humanity discovers extraterrestrial bacteria!” The excitement would be palpable and would be felt wherever the news reached. Of course, it would also raise some very important questions, the answers to which would have some rather drastic implications.

First of all, there’s the question of whether or not life on Mars is related to life on Earth. If the answer to this question is yes, then scientists would have solid evidence of lithopanspermia, where life is distributed between planets in a star system. Alternately, it could be an indication of panspermia, where life is distributed throughout the cosmos by celestial bodies like asteroids and comets.

In this case, it could be argued that Earth and Mars were seeded from the same source (though that would be extremely difficult to prove). Dr. Tanja Bosak, a professor of geobiology at MIT and the group leader of their Program in Geology, Geochemistry and Geobiology, is also the Returned Sample Science Lead for the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance mission. As she told Universe Today via email:

“The most direct test of the genetic relatedness of any martian and terrestrial life would come from the comparisons of the information molecules (DNA, RNA) and the presence of such molecules in anything we find... In the best-case scenario, we’d find fossils of microbes or some such biosignature, but DNA and RNA do not preserve over billions of years, i.e., from the time when surface life was possible in Jezero crater. However, if we see something that looks like fossil cells upon sample return, and detect some organic biosignatures, that would automatically support the similarities between past life on Mars and life on Earth.”

Artist’s impression of water under the Martian surface.

Credit: ESA/Medialab

Second, the discovery of evidence for past life on Mars is likely to lend some credibility to the theory that life still exists there today. Much like the disappearance of Mars’ surface water, it is theorized that microbial life could have also migrated underground as a result of changes in the planet’s climate. In fact, research has been conducted that demonstrated how microbes could survive beneath the surface in briny patches of water.

As Dr. Bosak added, the scientific consensus is that modern surface life on Mars is highly unlikely, hence why Perseverance aims to collect samples that will preserve evidence of past life. Nevertheless, the existence of past life will make the issue of planetary protection all the more pressing when crewed missions to Mars commences, especially if they lead to an enduring human presence there.

Already, robotic missions are forced to exercise care in the vicinity of potential sites for microbial life, a good example of which is the time Curiosity came upon a discolored patch of sand (thought to be a surface brine) and was forced to divert its path to go around it. If human habitats are ever built on Mars (either temporary or permanent), the possibility that we could be causing harm to Martian organisms will always be there.

The Perseverance rover will not provide the final word on this subject, but the data it collects and the sample return it will perform will provide an essential piece to the puzzle. After all, the search for life on Mars is like the search for meaning in the Universe: ongoing! And while we’re waiting for answers, here’s some entirely appropriate music to help us pass the time. Take it away David Bowie!

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04-03-2021 om 22:26 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Knowledge Foretells The Arrival of Extraterrestrial Visitors

Ancient Knowledge Foretells The Arrival of Extraterrestrial Visitors

Over 30 ancient cultures tracked the stars to learn when the Gods will return.It appears that all of these ancient peoples and who knows how many others believed in a very different model of history than that which predominates our modern age of so-called rationality. Essentially, the difference is that in these ancient cosmologies, both human consciousness and the motion of history were viewed as cyclical rather than linear. These ancient cultural beliefs are very tied in with the precession of the equinox. Have the Gods already arrived?

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04-03-2021 om 21:32 geschreven door peter  

Something Strange Is Surrounding Our Solar System! 10 Incredible Discoveries

Something Strange Is Surrounding Our Solar System! 10 Incredible Discoveries

Anyone who looks at the stars secretly wonders what is going on in the universe. For us humans it is almost unimaginable. For people in former times it was a much bigger mystery. Our modern civilization has recently been able to fathom, at least in part, what is hidden in space. Nevertheless, our knowledge is manageable and many explanations can only be given in our imagination – all the more important are all the discoveries made by space explorers and scientists.

In the following we present you with ten of the most exciting, mysterious, interesting and incredible discoveries from the near past, where you will wonder what the future will bring. Have fun with exciting facts about foreign planets, black holes, extraterrestrial life and much more.

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04-03-2021 om 16:05 geschreven door peter  

04-03-2021 om 15:59 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sighting Over Neuquen Argentina, Feb 28, 2021, White Craft.

Date of sighting: Feb 28, 2021
Location of sighting: Neuquen, Argentina

 

This UFO is actually triangle shaped. It has three distinct corners and is almost cloud like in appearance. UFOs have cloaks to appear as clouds, but this one instead has only turned its color to white, sill not having made a cloud around it. The sky is cloud less and really lets us see this thing really well. The detail is remarkable. The UFO is about the size of a car and is slowing down...watching the humans reaction to it. We watch them and they watch us. Interesting trade don't you think? 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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04-03-2021 om 15:40 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sighting Of Black UFO Passes Over Las Vegas, Nevada On Feb 23, 2021, News.

Date of sighting: Feb 23, 2021
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

 

This UFO was recorded two weeks ago over Las Vegas. That area is very close to the secret Nellis AFB which is connected to the same profited area of land controlled by Area 51. I have talked to sky watcher in Vegas over the years and some of them see UFOs on a daily basis moving about in the sky. Usually white orbs but this one is like a black shrimp object. Very strange, I can't say I have eve seen a C shaped UFO before but they do come in all shapes, sizes and colors. The largest part of the craft seems to be peering downward so the pilot can see the happenings below him. Vegas...is a UFO hotspot that I wish I lived in. Nice capture and 100% proof that UFOs frequent Vegas. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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04-03-2021 om 15:37 geschreven door peter  

Below text is a concerpt from two separate recent articles published by Zerohedge and Alexander Evgenievich SEMYONOV, President Association "Ecology of the Unknown", Professor, Academy of Geopolitical Problems.  

I highly recommend you to read both articles to find out what's going on and what we might expect soon! 

Are The Recent UFO Disclosures Setting Us Up for A Mass Deception of Epic Proportions?

• https://www.zerohedge.com/political/are-recent-ufo-disclosures-setting-us-mass-deception-epic-proportions 

The Last Card comes out of the Shadow 

• https://files.constantcontact.com/f27ad3a5201/42d65627-c805-4cb6-ab5a-c2a4102a4d45.pdf 

Concerpt: 

Have you noticed that UFO sightings have been in the news a lot lately? Even in the midst of all the other big events that are happening, evidence of mysterious objects flying through our skies continues to make headlines. 

In the old days, the U.S. government would go to great lengths to deny that anything unusual was happening in our skies. But over the past couple of years, government officials have started to change their tune and openly admitting that UFOs exist. 

After all this time, why would the federal government finally admit this? 

Are they trying to mentally prepare us for something? 

Yes, it seems they are going to prepare us for a global event, since the time is coming that the ‘Last Card’ (which is the name von Braun gave for the final, fourth stage of establishing of a new world order, gaining power over the entire planet Earth) is coming out of the shadow! 

The fourth stage is the recognition of the existence of aliens and the fight against them in order to repel possible aggression and enslavement of humanity. 

The introduction into public and state discussion of the fourth stage, which has been gradually preparing for more than 60 years – the "last card" – is not at all a fantasy. It may come out of the shadows by mid-2021. 

It is highly likely that it will be announced in one form or another that one should prepare for the invasion of Earth from space by a new, very powerful enemy. 

 

But remember it is all lies! 

Is it possible to simulate an "alien" threat? Easy. The technical means of producing fakes in the media and computer networks are already well known. They can put up a reality show by using laser and optical methods (such as Project "Blue Beam") or creating over the selected territories of effects like mirages of religious, apocalyptic or ufological content or demonstration flights with simulated air attacks of "terrestrial" flying saucers may also come in handy with as a result mass panic can be guaranteed. 

Such a false flag "alien" threat will play an important part of the 4th stage of the global restructuring of civilization – the formation of a new world order - with as a result the NWO gains absolute planetary power, to create a computer-consumer, moderately well-fed concentration camp in which the overwhelming majority of people will live with strict adherence to the appropriate rules of behavior, communication and thinking. 

And yet another, more terrible prospect may be the prospect of the probable targeting and use of weapons launched into space against single or group unidentified aerial-space objects. The response can target not only a specific combat satellite, but the entire planet. 

And one more thing! 

Where did the opinion come from that representatives of civilizations from other planets and stellar systems, messengers of more complex dimensions and metrics of space-time are hostile to us? How and by whom has this been demonstrated and proved to be true?

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04-03-2021 om 15:19 geschreven door peter  

Live 14 inch telescope footage of the lunar surface showing besides a UFO that appeared close to the moon, a capture of a second UFO hitting the moon. 

Bruce also captured an unknown double explosion while filming the moon for two minutes. Take a look as we get in close and really slow it down and analyze the details of the UFO hitting the moon.

  

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04-03-2021 om 15:12 geschreven door peter  

UFO activity over Panjab, India 25-Feb-2021

These unknown lights were filmed in the night sky above  Ludhiana, Panjab, India on 25th February 2021 and it was just submitted to us through our Facebook page.

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UFO Spotted in Ludhiana? Residents Claim They Saw a Shiny Unidentified Object in Sky

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Many others also captured the alleged UFO and shared it on Twitter. Here are those videos:

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04-03-2021 om 14:58 geschreven door peter  

FBI 'aware of' American Airlines possible UFO sighting, stops short of confirming investigation

American Airlines flight 2292 was traveling from Cincinnati to Phoenix when pilot spotted 'long cylindrical object'

04-03-2021 om 01:13 geschreven door peter  

 Suzanne Rowan Kelleher - Forbes Staff

I write about travel trends and news you can use.

A radio transmission from an American Airlines from Cincinnati to Phoenix last weekend might have been ripped straight from the X-Files.

“Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us,” said the pilot at 1:19 p.m. CST on Sunday. “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,” according to audio published on aviation blog Deep Black Horizon.

The blogger, Steve Douglass, intercepted the transmission accidentally as he was trying to pick up another aircraft with a radio scanner. “It was a pure coincidence,” he told The Arizona Republic.

Douglass used two flight tracking websites, Flightradar24 and Flight Aware, to determine that the exact position of the plane was “over the northeast corner of New Mexico west of Clayton, New Mexico” at an altitude of 37,000 feet.

Douglass’ blog post includes a link to download the audio MP3 file, which he named “UFO.”

Following a debrief with the flight crew, American Airlines confirmed that the radio transmission came from flight 2292.

Yesterday, the FAA released a short 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.” 

While authorities may never be able to explain what the missile-like object was, it’s not the first time a pilot has spotted unexplained flying phenomena. In fact, it happens fairly regularly.

A remarkably similar incident occurred over the Sonoran Desert three years ago. On February 24, 2018, within minutes of each other, two pilots flying different aircraft — a Phoenix Air Group Learjet and an American Airlines commercial flight — both reported passing a mysterious object, according to audio recordings released by the Federal Aviation Administration to the Phoenix New Times several weeks later.

“Was anybody above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?” the Learjet pilot asked an air traffic controller. “Negative,” replied the tower.

In November 9, 2018, a British Airways pilot flying over Ireland reported seeing “a very bright light that disappeared at very high speed,” reported The Guardian. A Virgin Airlines pilot confirmed seeing it, too: “Multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory – very bright from where we were.”

Experts say there is usually a very logical explanation for UFO sightings, and the U.S. government has had a famously long history of being tight-lipped on the subject. In recent years, however, there’s been some notable movement on that front.

In 2017, the Pentagon acknowledged the existence of a $22-million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that had investigated reports of “unexplained aerial phenomena” from 2007 until it was shut down in 2012.

In April 2019 the U.S. Navy announced it was modifying how pilots reported UFO sightings in favor of a more data-driven approach, telling Politico that there had been “a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years.”

The next month, five Navy pilots told the New York Times that they had frequently seen unidentified flying objects that looked like white Tic Tacs or spinning tops off the Eastern seaboard from Virginia to Florida between 2014 and 2015. The objects, they said, reached hypersonic speeds and heights of 30,000 feet without any visible engine or exhaust trails.

One 10-year veteran, Lieutenant Ryan Graves, said he saw these objects on a daily basis. “These things would be out there all day,” Graves told the Times. “With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”

Of course, unexplained is not the same as extraterrestrial. “It's probably one part of the military not telling the other part of the military what they're up to,” speculated Bill Nye the Science Guy to CNN’s Brian Stelter at the time. (And to be fair, once in a while a military branch ‘fesses up.)

Last April, the Pentagon declassified and released three videos taken by Navy pilots — one from 2004 and the others from 2015 — in order to “clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos,” per a statement, noting “the aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’”

Americans wondering if the truth is out there will likely learn a lot more about UFOs later this year.

Buried deep in last December’s Covid relief bill, tucked into the “committee comment” section of the Intelligence Authorization Act, is a provision that requires U.S. intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs by mid-2021.

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• Why Ted Cruz’s United Airlines Flight Info Was Hiding In Plain Sight
• The First Large-Ship Cruise Line Announces Vaccine Requirement

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04-03-2021 om 00:59 geschreven door peter  

Parker Solar Probe reveals dazzling image of Venus

During a flyby, the NASA spacecraft surprised scientists with an image of the Venusian surface.

 by Paula Ferreira

 

Launched in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe is a NASA mission focused on observing the Sun’s corona, zooming closer and closer to our star. The spacecraft is currently the closest object to the sun made by humans and it’s already shown us the highest resolution image of the sun, revealing insights such as the stunning solar ‘campfires‘.

When not looking at the Sun, the Parker probe is focusing on comets. On 2019 September 2, it observed the comet 322P/SOHO in its closest approach to the sun. The spacecraft detected the dust particles being ejected through 322P’s tail. In 2020, a more interesting image showed the NEOWISE comet with its double tail — the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since. The astonishing photo of NEOWISE depicted above was made with Wide-Field Imager the instrument aboard the Solar Probe (WISPR), designed to provide images of the corona and inner heliosphere in visible light.

This time, WISPR brought us an incredible view of Venus. Parker Solar Probe is tightly intertwined with Venus, as the planet sustains the spacecraft’s orbit, and sometimes there is a good opportunity for a flyby. Scientists didn’t lose the opportunity of photographing the planet and the result was a stunning image of the Venusian surface.

The shot was taken when the spacecraft was 12,380.68 km (7,693 miles).  What grabs attention first is the aura-like around the planet which makes the dark sky a little brighter. Scientists believe it is like Earth’s airglow, an emission of light caused by particles in the atmosphere. This is notoriously difficult to overcome in astronomy photography.

If you take a closer look, you will notice a darker region on the surface of the planet. This is the Aphrodite Terra, a highland area roughly as big as the African continent. It seems darker because it is cooler than the surroundings. Aphrodite Terra also features some large mountains and lava flows, which you can’t really see in this photo.

It is however possible to see streaks all around the surface, although scientists are not sure yet what they mean. There are many possibilities, they could be cosmic rays, dust reflected by sunlight or even ejected by the spacecraft itself.

The team had already taken a similar shot with the latest flyby on 2021 February 20, This time they decided to observe in the near-infrared as well. This wavelength is the one used in remote controls of your TV. It is not absorbed by dust, so will be able to see a clear image of the surface of the planet. The results will be received by the end of April, so fingers crossed for more surprising announcements from Venus.

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04-03-2021 om 00:36 geschreven door peter  

Russian Astronaut On The ISS Allegedly Sees 5 UFOs In New Footage

I’m not sure this story would have been so widely covered if it had happened 3 or 4 years ago, but given the rise in public awareness around UFOs, Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner’s footage of what appears to be 5 lights ‘flying’ in unison was met with mainstream media curiosity.

Vagner referred to the lights as:

“Space guests, or how I filmed the new time-lapse […] you will see something else, not only the aurora”

He made these statements in a Tweet showcasing footage of a breathtaking time-lapse of aurora australis over the earth taken from the International Space Station (ISS) where he is stationed. Vagner does admit that these are only potentially UFOs as he writes in a follow up Tweet:

“At 9-12 seconds, 5 objects appear flying alongside with the same distance,” Vagner wrote in a follow-up tweet. “What do you think those are? Meteors, satellites or … ?”

In the footage, which you can see below, we see the aurora australis passing near Antarctica and Australia. At around the 9 second mark, you see what looks like 5 lights flying in unison coming up from the Earth horizon. The video you see below was shot in a time-lapse, therefor the brief images of the 5 objects you see coming up over the horizon lasted for about 52 seconds.

This is not the first time ISS related footage of what appear to be UFOs has been brought to public awareness. Although in previous incidents, the mainstream media was less interested in reporting on it. Perhaps due to the general lack of public acceptance? We wrote back in 2015 and 2016, about two separate occurrences where NASA cut live video feeds of the ISS following what appeared to be strange phenomenon caught on tape. Both incidents are linked above, and while neither can be proven as being an actual craft, it is interesting to note that live feed footage was cut on both occasions.

“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time, that their appearance is bizarre from any kind of traditional materialistic western point of view, that these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.”

 Dr. Brian O’Leary, former NASA astronaut and Princeton physics professor (source)

The Takeaway

It is no secret that UFOs have become a much more widely accepted topic in recent years. This is primarily due to widespread mainstream media coverage of recent US Navy footage that was released and confirmed to be UFO in nature. This essentially means they do not know what these flying objects are. The next plausible question is “who is manning these craft?”

For those interested in exploring this topic further, it’s important to note that the evidence available in the realm of the UFO, ET and contactee phenomenon is extremely vast. It’s not a fringe topic where cheap evidence is brought forth in the form of grainy images or videos online, it’s a realm where high ranking military, government personnel, astronauts and more high profile figures have personally blown the whistle to share evidence with the public that western governments refuse to share at this time. We’ve covered this topic in great detail over the last 11 years and you can find tons of information going through our archives or by watching our coverage on CETV. 

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03-03-2021 om 20:40 geschreven door peter  

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03-03-2021 om 18:48 geschreven door peter  

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com  

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Singapore-based Kelley Aerospace has officially launched the world's first supersonic unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV).

Called 'Arrow,' the drone is designed with a single-shell made of lightweight carbon fiber that allows it to reads speeds up to Mach 2.1 – exceeding the speed of sound.

The UCAV is fitted with a reduced radar cross-section and infra-red signature, and is designed for multiple combat or reconnaissance roles.

The firm says it has already received more than 100 pre-orders for the war machine, which costs between $9 million to $16 million.

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© Provided by Daily Mail Singapore-based Kelley Aerospace has officially launched the world's first supersonic unmanned combat aerial vehicle

'The Arrow is designed to complement manned aircraft and be a force multiplier in the aerial battlefield,' Kelley Aerospace shared on its website.

A manned combat aircraft would control 'multiple' Arrow UAVs, tasking 'each with a different missions.'

This would allow military officials to add a variety of weapons depending on the mission.

Kelley also says that Arrow can launch autonomously or be remotely controlled by two ground station controllers.

© Provided by Daily Mail Called 'Arrow,' the drone is designed with a single-shell made of lightweight carbon fiber that allows it to reads speeds up to Mach 2.1 – exceeding the speed of sound

© Provided by Daily Mail The firm says it has already received more than 100 pre-orders for the war machine, which costs between $9 million to $16 million

Arrows maximum weight is 37,038 pounds, but its monocoque design 'endows the Arrow with outstanding strength and stiffness,' the firms shared in a statement.

Video: Drones are growing into a $100 billion industry (CNBC)

However, what makes this machine so special is that it is the first to travel faster than the speed of sound, which is Mach 1 – but Arrow can reach Mach 2.1.

It is estimated that it will not cost more than $16 million with prices going as low as $9 million.

Kelley notes that this 'allows more airframes to be purchased and yet, have a multi-role supersonic UCAV to perform high-risk missions as it does not necessarily need to return home.'

The firm conducted the first scale prototype test flights in 2014, Flight Global reports.

Kelley Aerospace plans to be a big player in the supersonic area, and its Arrow UCAV may be the push it needs to take over the space.

© Provided by Daily Mail A manned combat aircraft would control 'multiple' Arrow UAVs, tasking 'each with a different missions.' This would allow military officials to add a variety of weapons depending on the mission

At a launch event in Singapore in December 2020, the company disclosed it was also developing a supersonic business jet. 

And two prototypes are reporting undergoing testing in the USA and Sweden.

Kelley Aerospace chief executive Ian Lim says: 'UAVs are known for their persistence…loitering, [but] are never known for their speed. So with the Arrow supersonic UAV, you will overcome the issues of speed and reach.'

Other fighter jets do have the ability to reach supersonic speeds, but most are only capable of doing so for short bursts.

© Provided by Daily Mail Last year, the Pentagon announced plans to commission a prototype for prototype of a new supersonic Air Force One that could one day ferry the president around the world at nearly twice the speed and half the time currently required to travel

And new F-35 fighter jets is one of them.

The jets, which have also been bought by the US Navy and Marine Corps, are at risk of 'structural damage' when hitting their top speeds of around 1,200mph, potentially hindering their ability to intercept other planes, according to a report by the US Department of Defense.

Last year, the Pentagon announced plans to commission a prototype for prototype of a new supersonic Air Force One that could one day ferry the president around the world at nearly twice the speed and half the time currently required to travel – but the innovation is still in early developmental phases.

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03-03-2021 om 18:29 geschreven door peter  

There can be very few people – if any at all – who have never experienced the phenomenon of Déjà vu. There are two overriding theories for what causes Déjà vu: one is that now and again time itself has a glitch, albeit usually a very brief glitch that leaves us feeling slightly weird and a bit uneasy. The other theory is far more down to earth: that Déjà vu is caused by the occasional misfiring of the brain. Healthline have addressed the matter and provide us some fascinating material: ‘”‘Déjà vu’ describes the uncanny sensation that you’ve already experienced something, even when you know you never have. Say you go paddleboarding for the first time. You’ve never done anything like it, but you suddenly have a distinct memory of making the same arm motions, under the same blue sky, with the same waves lapping at your feet. Or perhaps you’re exploring a new city for the first time and all at once feel as if you’ve walked down that exact tree-lined footpath before. You might feel a little disoriented and wonder what’s going on, especially if you’re experiencing déjà vu for the first time.”

Scientific American have tackled this slightly jarring phenomenon, too: “Carrie-Anne Moss, as Trinity in The Matrix trilogy, tells us (and Keanu Reeves as Neo) that déjà vu is a ‘glitch in the Matrix’’ – the simulated reality that keeps humanity unaware that intelligent machines have actually taken over the world. That explanation is perfect for cyberpunk science fiction, but it doesn’t give us any scientific understanding of the phenomenon. We associate the feeling of déjà vu with mystery and even the paranormal because it is fleeting and usually unexpected. The very things that intrigue us about déjà vu are the same things that make it hard to study. But scientists have tried using tricks like hypnosis and virtual reality.”

Frontiers for Young Minds offer these words: “The percentage of people who experience déjà vu is probably somewhere between 30% (about 8 in a class of 30) and 100% (everyone in a class of 30). We are not sure about the exact percentage for two important reasons. First, we cannot ask everyone in the world so we have to use the results of surveys of small groups of people. This is a problem because surveys can give us quite different results depending on who we ask. Second, people can give very different answers depending on the definition we give of déjà vu. Asking the question in different ways can get very different results. We can also get an idea of how often déjà vu happens by asking people. Again, the answers they give depend on who they are and how we ask them the question, but most people report déjà vu somewhere between every few weeks and every few months. Typically, this means that déjà vu is not very common so if you have experienced it recently you are very lucky!”

Going back to the matter of the mind itself causing Déjà vu, Penn Medicine have some interesting data: “Though much rarer, déjà vu is sometimes a sign of a seizure, specifically an epileptic seizure. ‘About 60 percent of people with epilepsy have something called a focal seizure, which is in just one part of the brain. This can be in the same part of the brain where memory is stored: the temporal lobe,’ says Dr. Spears. Focal seizures can be hard to recognize as seizures because they are short and you remain conscious throughout. A person having one may look like they are having a staring spell or daydreaming.

“Some people who have focal seizures may experience intense feelings of déjà vu. This is often accompanied by: Motor feelings, which impact your ability to control your muscles, like twitching or the inability to move certain muscles; Sensory feelings, involving taste, touch, smell, vision, and hearing, like tasting or hearing something that’s not real; Sudden and unexplainable feelings of joy, anger, sadness, or nausea; Strange, repetitive behaviors, such as blinking, twitching, or moving your mouth involuntarily; An unusual sensation that a seizure is about to occur, called an aura.”

Despite the medical explanations for Déjà vu, what about the movie-themed explanation for the mystery? Did the Matrix movies inadvertently play into a real situation: that reality is not what it appears to be? And, just like the situation in the movies, time is not as we perceive it to be?

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03-03-2021 om 17:32 geschreven door peter  

Two Suns Seen Over Isle Of Man, England On Feb 2, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of sighting: Feb 2, 2021

Location of sighting: Isle of Man, England

 

The eyewitness goes by the name GoldeNLemonZ on Youtube. He posted a video back on Feb 2 of not one, but two suns seen during sunset. The video was taken at Isle of Man, an island belonging to England. Now I believe that second sun is actually a round UFO that is trying to go unnoticed slowly into the ocean...matching speed with the sun setting, so everyone believes its a reflection, but its not. It's a cloaked UFO lowering into the ocean. Its also proof that there is an alien base in that location, about 5-6km below the ocean floor. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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03-03-2021 om 16:53 geschreven door peter