Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
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17-03-2021
Daytime VIDEO: Ring-shaped UFO over Washington
Daytime VIDEO: Ring-shaped UFO over Washington
This ring-shaped UFO was filmed in the sky above US state Washington on 13th December 2021.
Here are some identical UFO sightings from all over the world:
Some early-bird skywatchers got a surprise before dawn Sunday (March 14).
"Is it a fireball?" "Is it a space jellyfish?" Nope, it's a SpaceX rocket.
Some observers along the U.S. East Coast saw a strange sight in the dark, early morning sky on Sunday (March 14): a bright object streaking across the sky, leaving a ballooning, illuminated trail behind it. The pre-dawn sky made this spectacle even more striking and the American Meteor Society (AMS) received about 120 reports about "an observed object in the sky," the AMS tweeted. However, the sighting was actually of a SpaceX rocket, not a fireball, the AMS confirmed.
At 6:01 a.m. EDT (1101 GMT) Sunday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying a fresh batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit. People all along the East Coast, from Florida up to Maine, saw the rocket's brilliant streak across the sky.
This photo by Warren L. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021, as seen from Front Royal, Virginia.
(Image credit: Warren L. )
This photo by Cory B. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021 as seen from Lebanon, PA.
(Image credit: Cory B. )
This image was taken by Monita S. of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on March 14, 2021, as seen from Pleasantville, NJ.
(Image credit: Monita S. )
This photo by Jonathan W. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021 as seen from Holly Springs, NC.
(Image credit: Jonathan W. )
This photo by Paul H. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021 as seen from Frederick County, MD.
(Image credit: Paul H )
Skywatchers sent the AMS photos of the "fireball," showing the striking image of the rocket midflight. Florida launches like this one are often visible along the East Coast. But this time, because the launch happened in the predawn hours, the sun illuminated the rocket's plume and created a unique atmospheric effect that only happens at dawn and dusk, where the light looks like a "space jellyfish" in the sky.
This sighting isn't the first time that skywatchers have mistaken a rocket launch for something stranger in the sky. SpaceX launches have sparked claims of UFOs, as they sometimes create strange, squiggly "clouds" in the sky.
As during SpaceX's other Falcon 9 launches, the reusable rocket's first stage fell back to Earth shortly after launch; it landed on SpaceX's drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You," which was posted in the Atlantic Ocean, the ninth time for this booster.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2021 in a brilliant pre-dawn liftoff.
(Image credit: SpaceX)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2021 in a brilliant pre-dawn liftoff.
(Image credit: SpaceX)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2021 in a brilliant pre-dawn liftoff.
(Image credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX is working to launch the massive constellation of Starlink internet satellites to create global internet coverage and provide internet connectivity for those in rural or remote areas that otherwise don't have access.
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Filer’s Files 11 2021 Ancient Aliens by von Däniken - PART I
Kennewick, Washington Cylinder —on March 11, 2021
Filer’s Files 11 2021 Ancient Aliens by von Däniken - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Tim Peake’s UFO Sighting? Navy Aircrews are Chasing UFOs, Ancient Aliens by Erich von Däniken, and Chariots of the Gods, Mayor De Blasio Criticizes Gov. Cuomo for Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations, Shadows, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Canada, Columbia, France, Mexico, Portugal, England in the United Kingdom and Zaire.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Astronaut Tim Peake’s “UFO Sighting?
Astronaut Tim Peake’s “UFO Sighting” in Space January 9, 2021 UFOs Latest posts, NASA 0. Four mysterious lights threw the first Brit in space for a loop!
Peake mistook ‘lights’ in space for a UFO but had actually spotted urine leaking from a Russian probe.
The astronaut, 48, said he had seen lights ‘moving in formation’ during his trip. He said his team was ‘perplexed’ before they realized it was droplets of liquid. Peake became first official British astronaut to join International Space Station.
Editor’s Note: Astronaut Peake, is aboard the ISS so what is the manned Russian probe with urine leaking from it?
Anything seen in space has various explanations; I’ve been told the public doesn’t have the right to know what was actually seen. So it’s difficult to know what was actually seen. Astronaut Tim Peak. Why announce it to the world that what they saw was urine>
Navy Aircrews are Chasing UFOs
USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier F-18 Aircrew’s have continued to gather eyewitness accounts like these: “It’s white. It has no wings. It has no rotors.”
“It didn’t fly like an aircraft. It was so unpredictable—high g, rapid velocity, rapid acceleration.”
“I didn’t see a trail.” “It was going 70-plus knots underwater.”
F-18s chase Tic Tac
Those reports—from Navy fighter pilots, radar operators and other witnesses from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group incident from November 2004—were among a handful of shocking encounters the Unidentified team explored. When Elizondo ran the Defense Department initiative, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, he compiled a list of extraordinary, logic-defying capabilities most commonly associated with unidentified aerial phenomena sightings. He calls those traits the “five observables”:
1) Anti-gravity lift
Unlike any known aircraft, these objects have been sighted overcoming the earth’s gravity with no visible means of They also lack any flight surfaces, such as wings. In the Nimitz incident, witnesses describe the crafts as tubular, shaped like a Tic Tac candy.
2) Sudden and instantaneous acceleration
The objects may accelerate or change direction so quickly that no human pilot could survive the g-forces—they would be crushed. In the Nimitz incident, radar operators say they tracked one of the UFOs as it dropped from the sky at more than 30 times the speed of sound. Black Aces squadron commander David Fravor, the Nimitz-based fighter pilot who was sent to intercept one of the objects, likened its rapid side-to-side movements, later captured on infrared video, to that of a ping-pong ball. Radar operators on the USS Princeton, part of the Nimitz carrier group, tracked the object accelerating from a standing position to traveling 60 miles in a minute—an astounding 3,600 miles an hour. According to manufacturer Boeing, the F/A 18 Super Hornet fighter jet typically currently reaches a maximum speed of Mach 1.6, or about 1,200 miles an hour.
Tic Tac UAP/UFO
3) Hypersonic velocities without signatures
If an aircraft travels faster than the speed of sound, it typically leaves “signatures,” like vapor trails and sonic booms. Many UFO accounts note the lack of such evidence.
4) Low observability, or cloaking
Even when objects are observed, getting a clear and detailed view of them—either through pilot sightings, radar or other means—remains difficult. Witnesses generally only see the glow or haze around them.
5) Trans-medium travel
Some UAP have been seen moving easily in and between different environments, such as space, the earth’s atmosphere and even the ocean water. In the Nimitz incident, witnesses described a UFO hovering over a churning “disturbance” just under the ocean’s otherwise calm surface, leading to speculation that another craft had entered the water. USS Princeton radar operator Gary Vorhees later confirmed from aunderwater Mothership about 1,500 feet long, Tic Tac is about 60 feet length, USS Nimitz, length is 1,092 feet
Navy sonar operator in the area that day that a craft was moving faster than 70 knots, roughly two times the speed of nuclear subs.
No one has yet gotten close to crafts that display these traits, so their origins are still unknown. Are they a super-top-secret U.S. defense project? Do they hail from Russia? China? Or from even further afield? The only thing we do know is that their sixe and capabilities exceed any technologies currently in the U.S. arsenal. “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation,”
Ancient Aliens by Erich von Däniken
Amelia Wynne writes, In the 1970s, Erich von Däniken was invited to a secret speech at NASA where he met NASA’s Josef F. Blumrich. The two spoke about von Däniken’s ancient astronaut theory from his book.
Chariots of the Gods, notably the idea that Ezekiel’s visionwas that of a space shuttle, rather than a divine chariot. This conversation led Blumrich on a mission to disprove von Däniken’s seemingly absurd theory, so he did some research of his own and started writing a book. However, the evidence was overwhelming and Blumrich had an epiphany. Ezekiel was undoubtedly describing an advanced spacecraft. Blumrich even used Ezekiel’s description of the craft to patent his own version of an omnidirectional wheel.
Chariots of the Gods suggests that extraterrestrial beings influenced ancient technology. Von Däniken suggests that some ancient structures and artifacts appear to represent higher technological knowledge than is presumed to have existed at the times they were manufactured almost 2500 years ago. . Von Däniken maintains that these artifacts were produced either by extraterrestrial visitors or by humans who learned the necessary knowledge from them.
The Baptism of Christ, 1710 it was painted by Dutch artist Aert De Gelder in the 18th century. UFO hunters suggest that the disc-like object, s shown shining light onto John the Baptist and Jesus could be a UFO.
Art experts suggest that this painting is a reference to a religious passage: ‘The heavens opened, and the Spirit descended like a dove and (put) lighting upon him’.
Such artifacts include the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and the Moai of Easter Island. Further examples include a medieval Piri Reis Map, which von Däniken describes as showing the Earth as it is seen from space,[7] and the Nazca lines in Peru, which he suggests may have been constructed by humans as crude replicas of previous alien structures, as a way to call the aliens back to Earth.
Ezekiel is a key figure in Judaism and is also prominent in other biblical texts. Ezekiel was brought to Babylon (now Iraq) in the first captivity of Israel and is described as a prophet. One of the interesting characteristics of The Book of Ezekiel as a biblical text is that it is written using the pronoun, “I,” clearly showing it being written by Ezekiel himself as a first-person account, unlike many biblical texts written in the third person. This seems to lend a little more credit and personality to the story as it is told shortly after its occurrence.
Ezekiel describes seeing a wheeled chariot descend toward him from the sky, piloted by beings with the “likeness of a man.” While many biblical versions of the story describe this being the chariot of God, von Däniken points out that the original Hebrew version never mentions God, this word was added later.
Ezekiel’s description of the wheeled chariot landing sounds much like that of the landing of a spacecraft. The windstorm, flash of lightning, and brilliant lights are reminiscent of a spacecraft coming down for a landing and kicking up dirt in a spectacle never before seen by someone of such a primitive era. Ezekiel even describes the fire powering the chariot as appearing as ‘glowing metal.’
“4I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, 6 but each of them had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, 9 and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.” – Ezekiel 1
Blumricks Study of Ezekiel as NASA Scientist
I was quite impressed when I originally read Blumrich’s book 40 years ago. But when I then started reading the entire Book of Ezekiel—including the extensive prophecies and messages that claim to be from the God of the Bible—
Some people who examine Spaceships decide that Blumrich originally planned to refute von Däniken but realized the story was factual by agreeing. I have researched Blumrich extensively and there is absolutely no question that he honestly believed what he wrote. After Spaceships he wrote another book on the legends of the Hopi Indians who also describe UFOs aliens and spaceships. He published unpaid articles, gave lectures and unpaid interviews and participated in Paleo-SETI groups that research “ancient astronauts as gods” theories. ` His also likely new NASA was regularly seeing UFOs even though they are kept secret.
Much of the way Ezekiel’s vision is portrayed in biblical artwork. Pictures often leave out the details involving the fire, omnidirectional wheels, and the vaulted crystal encasing over the heads of the human-like creatures.
“15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. 16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 17 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. 18 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around… 22 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome.” – Ezekiel 1
These creatures with the ‘likeness of man,’ then take Ezekiel with them in their craft, bringing him to a ‘temple’ on top of the highest mountain. During his flight there, Ezekiel mentions feeling the hand of God on him, which could be interpreted as the force of gravity, or g-forces, felt when lifting off? He is taken to these beings’ ‘temple,’ which is likely a staging area or city where they reside.
Examples such as: Ezekiel‘s revelation in Old Testament, which he interprets as a detailed description of a landing spacecraft with angels in the likeness of man.
Ark of the Covenant
Moses and the directions ‘God‘ gave him to construct the Ark of the Covenant, which is assumed to be a communication device with an alien race. Lot and his extended family being ordered by human like ‘angels‘ to go to the mountains, due to the destruction of the city of Sodom by God. His wife looked back at the possible nuclear explosion, and fell “dead on the spot”. Däniken attempts to draw an analogy with the “cargo cults” that formed during and after World War II, when once-isolated tribes in the South Pacific mistook the advanced American and Japanese soldiers for gods.
So, according to Christian interpretations, in prophetic visions Ezekiel saw Jesus. The “Commander” who Ezekiel saw was God—and whenever God appeared in human form in the Bible; it was in the form of Jesus.
Corroborating Evidence
Throughout an array of biblical stories, the Ark of the Covenant presents itself as an artifact of interest for von Däniken’s theory. But it’s mention in the Kebra Nagast, an account of Christianity in Ethiopia under King Solomon, is where he sees the most relevancy. In this account, he says that it was known that King Solomon had flying machines that weren’t mentioned in the Bible as well as possession of the highly coveted Ark. King Solomon built likeness of the UFOs where the Israelites crossed the Red Sea that still stand today.
King Solomon probably the greatest and wisest King of Israel had two columns erected to match the UFO on both coasts 400 years after the miracle crossing from Egypt. King Solomon’s sea port was at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba at Eilat and he was very familiar with the Red Sea crossing. The King reigned from 970 BCE to 931 BCE, making the cylinder statues almost 3,000 years old at the entrance and exit to the Red Sea Crossing.
These two columns look very similar to those photographed today
The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974) is a book by Josef F. Blumrich (March 17, 1913 – February 10, 2002) about a spaceship that was observed by the prophet Ezekiel, written while the author was chief of NASA’s Systems Layout Branch of the Program Development Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center
Two column’s wee built by King Sol omen 3000 years ago that resemble the UFO Cylinders we see today
According to Christian theology, “the Angel of the LORD” in the Old Testament was Jesus.
Both the Hebrew word (ma-lach) and the Greek word (ággelos) can be translated either “angel”, i.e., “a supernatural created spirit-being” or “messenger”. So, malach-Yahweh can be translated either “Angel (created being) of the LORD” or “Messenger of Jehovah”.
The beginning of the Gospel of John calls Jesus the Word of God. So, saying that the “Messenger of Jehovah” is the same person as the “Word of God” is no great leap. So, according to Christian interpretations, in prophetic visions Ezekiel saw Jesus. The “Commander” who Ezekiel saw was God—and whenever God appeared in human form in the Bible; it was in the form of Jesus.
These texts note that people were afraid of the Ark, as it often killed those who were in close contact with it. Was this because it was radioactive or electrically charged? Was the Ark of the Covenant a plutonium reactor?
Erich Von Däniken says he believes there are other Bible verses that fit into his ancient astronaut theory, including some that hint at similar ‘temples’ or landing areas for spacecraft, (perhaps Heaven
Angel of the Lord’s Craft 3,000 years old or a base much like the one Ezekiel was brought to. One such temple known as, Chavin de Huantar can be found in Peru, sitting thousands of feet high on a mountain from a culture of which little is known with strange sculptured faces and a pyramid.
The bird Nazca lines points to Chavin de Huantar, in Peru
The 1200 BCE temple is decorated with winged figures and sculpted heads that appear to be wearing helmets. Von Däniken says he believes these to be of similar origin to those described by Ezekiel in the Bible.
Ezekiel’s calling was to Israel. Jesus would also say that He was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matthew 15:24).
The name Ezekiel means: “God gives strength.” God addresses him as Ben Adam, “Son of man”
Ezekiel the prophet, together with King Jehoiachin, and many noble of the people of Judah had been brought to Babylon in 597 BC.
God stated, “I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou give him not warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his death.”
Erich von Däniken is perhaps the greatest advocate of this hypothesis, giving an extremely convincing contention to an elective understanding of the Book of Ezekiel. Thus, convincing that his hypothesis even turned around the whole postulation of a NASA researcher’s NASA’s Josef F. Blumrich’s book pointed toward refuting his case.
Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods
Ezekiel is a vital figure in Judaism and is additionally unmistakable in other Abrahamic scriptural writings. Ezekiel was brought to Babylon in the principal bondage of Israel and is portrayed as a prophet. One of the intriguing attributes of The Book of Ezekiel as a scriptural book is that it is composed utilizing the pronoun, I, plainly showing it being composed by Ezekiel himself as a first-individual record, not at all like numerous scriptural writings written as an outsider looking in. This appears to loan somewhat more credit and character to the story as it is told not long after its event.
Ezekiel depicts seeing a wheeled chariot plummet toward him from the sky, steered by creatures with the “similarity of a man.” While numerous scriptural variants of the story portray this being on the chariot as God, von Däniken brings up that the first Hebrew form never specifies God, this word was added later.
Ezekiel’s depiction of the wheeled chariot landing sounds similar as that of the arrival of a space apparatus. The windstorm, blaze of lightning, and splendid lights are suggestive of a shuttle descending for an arrival and kicking up earth in a scene at no other time seen by somebody of a particularly crude time. Ezekiel even depicts the fire controlling the chariot as showing up as ‘shining metal.’
“I looked, and I saw a windstorm emerging from the north—a monstrous cloud with blazing lightning and encompassed by splendid light. The focal point of the fire appeared as though sparkling metal, 5 and in the fire was what resembled four living animals. In appearance their structure was human, 6 however every one of them had four countenances and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight; their feet resembled those of a calf and sparkled like shined bronze. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. Each of them four had faces and wings, 9 and the wings of one contacted the wings of another. Everyone went on; they didn’t turn as they moved.” – Ezekiel 1
Chariots-of-the-Gods
There is obviously some error between this depiction and a large part of the manner in which Ezekiel’s vision is depicted in scriptural craftsmanship. Pictures regularly leave out the subtleties including the fire, omnidirectional wheels, and the vaulted precious stone encasing over the tops of the human-like animals.
“15 As I took a gander at the living animals, I saw a wheel on the ground close to every animal with its four appearances. 16 This was the appearance and design of the wheels: They shone like topaz, and every one of the four seemed to be indistinguishable. Each had all the earmarks of being made like a wheel meeting a wheel. 17 As they moved, they would go in any of the four bearings the animals confronted; the wheels didn’t alter course as the animals went. 18 Their edges were high and magnificent, and every one of the four edges were brimming with eyes in general… Spread out over the tops of the living animals was what looked something like a vault, shining like gem, and marvelous.” – Ezekiel 1
These animals with the ‘similarity of man,’ at that point take Ezekiel with them in their art, carrying him to a ‘sanctuary’ on top of the greatest mountain.
During his trip there, Ezekiel makes reference to feeling the hand of God on him, which could be deciphered as the power of gravity, or g-powers, felt when taking off. He is taken to these creatures’ ‘sanctuary,’ which is likely an organizing territory or city where they live.
Supporting Evidence
Ezekiel accurately foretells the future? He foretold Israel becoming a nation.
Judah and Israel Together Again
15 The Lord said:
16 Ezekiel, son of man, get a stick and write on it, “The kingdom of Judah.” Then get another stick and write on it, “The kingdom of Israel.”[b]17 hold these two sticks end to end, so they look like one stick. 18 And when your people ask you what this means, 19 tell them that I, the Lord, will join together the stick of Israel and the stick of Judah. I will hold them in my hand, and they will become one.
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Hold these two sticks where they can be seen by everyone 21 and then say:
I, the Lord God, will gather the people of Israel and bring them home from the foreign nations where they now live. 22 I will make them into one nation and let them once again live in the land of Israel. Only one king will rule them, and they will never again be divided into two nations. 23 They will no longer worship idols and do things that make them unacceptable to me. I will wash away their sin and make them clean, and I will protect them from everything that makes them unclean. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
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Their king will always come from the family of my servant King David and will care for them like a shepherd. The people of Israel will faithfully obey my laws. They and their descendants will live in the land I gave my servant Jacob, just as their ancestors did. 26 I solemnly promise to bless the people of Israel with unending peace. I will protect them and let them become a powerful nation. My temple will stand in Israel for all time, 27 and I will live among my people and be their God. 28 Every nation on earth will know that my temple is in Israel and that I have chosen the Israelites to be my people.
Asteroid Fly -by
Asteroid Near Earth
On Marcy 13, 2021 a likely asteroid flew horizontally across New Jersey creating a large fire in the sky with a long contrail. UFOs do not normally have contrails. .
Mayor De Blasio Criticizes Gov. Cuomo for Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking on Gov. Andrew Cuomo amid the governor’s sexual harassment scandal. The mayor on Thursday criticized Cuomo for his response to the allegations against him by seven women on his staff.
BILL DE BLASIO: He was disrespectful to the people of New York City.
MARCIA KRAMER: Governor Cuomo’s favorite punching bag punched back today. Mayor de Blasio was furious that even in the middle of an emotional apology to three women he’s accused of sexually harassing, the governor found time to knock New York City and, by extension, the man in charge.
ANDREW CUOMO: You also have New York City, which is in a very precarious situation. It’s teetering, to use a word. Crime is way up. Homelessness is way up. We have to get New York City functional again and safe again.
President Biden was strongly considering Cuomo for the attorney general job and that Biden is considering him for the role based on their decades-long friendship. He was pulled when the scandal broke. Thanks to CBS2 Marcia Kramer
To some, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s early pandemic nursing home policy was a disastrous mistake; to others, a crime. For President Joe Biden, it represented the gold standard. Is that still the case now that Cuomo is no longer the protected golden boy of the left? New York Governor Cuomo signed into law a bill that legalize abortions up to birth. . While that has been the main focus of the legislation, the new law also revokes medical care for babies who are born alive after botched abortions.
With White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dancing around the question and the president avoiding it entirely, it’s difficult to tell. But Psaki did say the president will continue to work with Cuomo, “just like we work with governors across the country,” even if she won’t “give new labels or names from the president.”
With all the public outrage against Governor Death and even his own staffers turning on him, how long can Biden ignore this millstone around his neck before it pulls him under, too?
The Fall of a Golden Boy
Secretary Melissa DeRosa
Leesa K. Donner probably said it best: “Putting people with COVID into nursing homes may be a dereliction of duty, but lying about the number of deaths caused by such an action and then covering it up constitute political suicide.”
Is it any wonder an investigation seems imminent? For all her efforts to shift the blame onto Trump, secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa all but confessed to a crime on behalf of the Cuomo administration.
Secretary Melissa DeRosa “We were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation,” she rambled. In much simpler form: We didn’t tell the truth because we were afraid it would result in an investigation.”
Failing that, covering up the truth just makes one look guilty – and, of course, like it wasn’t an accident.
President Biden is having a tough time of late as well. Those on the right have pointed for years to the elder statesman’s integrity problem, but now it seems the more progressive elements of the Democratic Party are catching on. Black Lives Matter and Antifa continued to engage in mostly peaceful protests, racking up millions of dollars in damage with no end in sight, while it seems Biden wouldn’t deliver on the promises they felt he had made. At a recent town hall, last week Biden also met with Cuomo and other governors to discuss the president’s American Rescue Plan. They did not discuss the disastrous nursing-home decision by Cuomo or the fact that afterward Biden called Cuomo the gold standard in leadership. Evidently, it wasn’t relevant to the topic at hand – a COVID relief bill that earmarks more than $50 billion dollars for New York. thanks to Liberty Nation.
Congressman Sherries criticized Biden for calling Governor Cuomo the Golden Boy and not commenting on the 6,000 who died when sick patients were put in the Nursing Homes. Before Cuomo’s downfall Cuomo was a top selection for Attorney General.
Shadows
No. 2 of The Seven trilogy
Shadows, Fred Ellis Brock’s second novel of The Seven trilogy, has been released. It is a cross-genre thriller involving kidnapping, murder, romance, and UFO conspiracies. It is published by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing. The third novel, Secrets, will be published in the summer of 2021.
The first novel, The Seven, came out last June. Shadows and The Seven are available wherever books are sold, but if you’re looking online at places like Amazon, many books have “seven” and “shadows” in the title. Best to search for the author’s name. More information at www.fredellisbrock.com.\
In Shadows, best-selling author Bill Sanders reluctantly returns to his hometown almost a year after an old Friend, Paul Watson, was murdered while the two were searching for Paul’s missing ten-year-old daughter.
Paul had sworn to Bill that the girl was abducted by a UFO. Only after Paul’s death did Bill come to know that his friend was telling the truth. Bill also learns of the existence of an ultra-secret group called The Seven and its shocking role in the UFO phenomenon.
Bill also makes an astonishing discovery about his and Paul’s pasts with UFOs and aliens. This, along with a letter from a dead man about the earlier death of Bill’s wife, sets him on a collision course with The Seven. www.fredellisbrock.com
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Filer’s Files 11 2021 Ancient Aliens by von Däniken - PART II
Kennewick, Washington Cylinder —on March 11, 2021
Filer’s Files 11 2021 Ancient Aliens by von Däniken - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Tim Peake’s UFO Sighting? Navy Aircrews are Chasing UFOs, Ancient Aliens by Erich von Däniken, and Chariots of the Gods, Mayor De Blasio Criticizes Gov. Cuomo for Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations, Shadows, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Canada, Columbia, France, Mexico, Portugal, England in the United Kingdom and Zaire.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Phoenix– on March 1, 2021, took a picture of a blue heart that the clouds formed in the blue sky when I caught this golden spiral. Looks like there is something cloaking in the clouds.
California Triangle
Yucca Valley– On December 13, 2020, I was getting home when I saw this object and I was reminded of another triangle I saw in 2013. I had no picture of it but if I did would be way better than this one cause it had a big red light like fire in the middle. Also it had three white lights on the rounded corners and I was really close to it. That triangle was close to the ground but I have a picture of this triangle. There are visible lines or a pattern on the triangle.
Colorado Disc
Palmer Lake – November 19, 2019, took a photo overlooking the lake following a long bike ride from Colorado Springs. I was admiring the scenery off to the North hillside across the lake. I didn’t hear or observe anything in the sky until I looked at this photo. There were people fishing but no one acted as if they had seen anything.
Connecticut 3 Light
Stamford– on March 8, 2021, I witnessed six or more glowing lights from my 13th floor apartment. These orbs were flying in seemingly random directions above an area facing the New York City. These lights then began to form what seemed to be flight formations. I took several photos and after 25 minutes the lights disappeared one by one.
Florida Cylinder
Pensacola – on December 28, 2020, at 5:04 pm. driving on the interstate we spotted the object. At first we thought it was the remainder of jet exhaust or chemtrail. Only it did not dissipate but became more defined with dark areas. It hovered silently like nothing I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen a jet in the sky that didn’t move and made no noise. That is no jet.
Massachusetts Cylinder
Chicopee – on October 24, 2020, my boyfriend and I were driving west on the Mass Pike when we both saw this giant “craft” hovering in the sky far off in the distance. He said “hurry take a picture!” We probably saw it hovering for maybe a minute after I took the picture and all of a sudden it was gone. At the time he described the lights on it as “riveted” multiple bulbs. MUFON website has similar sighting of “giant cigar shaped sighting”.
New Jersey Object
Lindenwold – on December 18, 2020, I was outside of work when I noticed the sun rays piercing thru the clouds. Afterwards upon looking at the picture and zooming in I noticed this object. I did not see or hear anything, but can’t explain what the camera captured. The object can be seen above the center light ray thru the clouds. Slightly above center screen.
Ohio Horseshoe
Ironton – on March 16, 2007, my sighting was on Wednesday at 10 AM, of a glowing yellowish orange football shaped object at low altitude. Photos were taken with a disposable camera.
These are close up cropped images of the object I saw when I pulled over to get a better look, as it was as bright as a welder’s arc and as big as a car. Note: The witness described the object as shaped like a football. The enlargement of the object shows that it was more “horseshoe shaped.” Thanks to Will Pucket http://www.ufosnw.com/newsite
Oregon Cross
Portland – on March 7, 2021, we were coming home in and we live on the Columbia River. My daughter wanted to take a picture of the sun because it was about to set. She had the Live Photo feature on her iPhone turned on when she was taking the picture. We noticed a cloud that looks like a dog and wanted to get it in the picture. When we got inside she noticed something black above the sun so she zoomed in and could see a giant cross structure above the sun. I held the picture to see the short video from the Live Photo feature and noticed that the structure did not move with the camera has she moved. But also noticed there was a green orb with a honey comb pattern and floating and making quick movements at the top right of the video. You can zoom in on the sun in the picture to the see the cross structure.
Tennessee Object
Hillsboro – on July 20, 2021, appeared to be a planet like Venus looks in the evening but was in the wrong part of the sky. So I got my telescope out and was amazed at what I saw. Almost jelly fish like with bright blinding lights evenly spaced around the rim.
Washington Cylinder
Kennewick—on March 11, 2021, was standing across the street from where I work at 4:52 am looking at a stationary object in the sky. When I saw something flies very quickly by me on my phone screen. I then looked up and observed a moving object that was flying around the stable object and took off. Two minutes later a long bright tube came from the south.
West Virginia Lights
Huntington– on February 22, 2021, his video was taken on the west end of town, filmed by a high school friend. I think it was just after 9 PM my friend said he was staring at the sky and thought out loud: “If you guys are out there, then why won’t you show yourselves?” And then they appeared. His teenage son can be heard cursing in the back. My wife has had many sightings with me and my mother remembers her sighting of a saucer in Wheeling, WV at 8 years of age. She blacked out and was missing for almost 6 hours. She has no memory of what happened, but had night terrors afterwards. Thanks to Will Pucket http://www.ufosnw.com/newsite
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Lights
Cordoba– on April 21, 2020, the video was taken with a borsch ip7000 70 fps camera that is ready to observe these types of events since they are repetitive. Sometimes when there are storms they can be seen moving on the edges of the clouds then suddenly disappear at great speed.
Canada Lights
White Rock, BC. – on March 1, 2021, I was taking pictures of the sunset, I could see something like a small ball of light moving around on my IPhone screen that wasn’t visible to the naked eye. I took my sunset pictures and later looked closely to find an interesting small UFO object in all three pictures. The object was not visible to the naked eye. Note: Light is most likely lens flare. Thanks to Will Pucket http://www.ufosnw.com/newsite
Abbottsford – on March 11, 2021, I look up my driveway and see this strange moving row of lights emitted from the cigar shaped craft with no wings and no sound heading NE at slow speed. It’s longer than a passenger jet with bright headlights on its side.
Columbia Object
Bogota— on January 24, 2021, at 5:56 p.m. on the flight that leads from La Vega to Bogota, there was a UFO sighting.
France Cylinder
Wattignies– January 18, 2021, at 30 second intervals, observation of two very bright orange shapes that spin in a straight line. I called my husband on the second pass because it was quiet and strange. Time to react, we made a few seconds of video
Mexico Disc
September 7, 2008, flying object, very stable despite the air, moves and small objects appear around it.
Portugal Disc
Vizla –January 1, 2021, This is a story related in 3rd person since I’m the boyfriend of the witness and friend of the others: 8-10 years old She was playing hide and seek with friends at night and then she and her cousin saw what they thought to be a plane showing a lot of lights, they both starting looking at the “plane” until it got closer and closer to about 15m. The numerous lights, constant, red, blue, green and looked metallic grey, no body panels, one solid piece, at the top looked like it had a dome that could be opened, it wasn’t rotating, slowly coming down , they had no fear, 2-3 minutes of contact, no sound at all, no heat, wind…
UK/England Cigar
Dorcaster – on February 28, 2021, he Object was stationary above my property for 25 minutes. We first observed it after seeing a helicopter pass below the object. The helicopter seemed to not notice the object at all. The object was seen as three vertical bright lights at first at around a mile high. It wasn’t until I observed it through binoculars that I could see that it was Y shaped and made up of 4 metallic shapes. A reddish Tic-Tac shaped middle section with two struts sticking out of the top at angles, with a goldish orb atop both struts. Underneath the Tic-Tac was another strut with a silver orb. There were bright light on each of the orbs which was visible when it turned its sides towards us.
Port Alfred – on March 10, 2021, superfast crossing of sky in the SW direction for a straight path towards Antarctica. It was literally so fast that a normal eye would not even notice I just happened to see it like a streak.
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Nieuwe fragmenten uit mysterieuze Dode Zee-rollen ontdekt in grotten in woestijn van Judea
Nieuwe fragmenten uit mysterieuze Dode Zee-rollen ontdekt in grotten in woestijn van Judea
Israël heeft in grotten in de woestijn van Judea fragmenten van een boekrol met oude Bijbelteksten ontdekt. Het zou gaan om onderdelen van de zogenaamde Dode Zee-rollen, die eind jaren veertig opgegraven werden in hetzelfde gebied en die de oudste gekende versie van het Oude Testament bevatten. De Israël Antiquities Authority (IAA) maakte het nieuws dinsdag bekend. De nationale oudheidkundige autoriteit spreekt van “een historische vondst”.
De geschriften dateren uit de periode rond de Joodse opstand van Bar Kokhba tegen de Romeinen, van 132 tot 136 na Christus. Ze zijn opgesteld in het Oud-Grieks. Stukken van de manuscripten hebben onderzoekers geholpen om passages uit het boek van Zacharia en het boek van Nahum te reconstrueren. Die boeken maken deel uit van het Twaalfprofetenboek, dat geschriften van twaalf kleinere profeten verzamelt.
Bezet
De geschriften zijn gevonden in een rotsgrot in het natuurreservaat rond de stroom Nahal Hever, die loopt van de Dode Zee tot in de Westelijke Jordaanoever. Dat gebied bezet Israël al sinds 1967.
Naast de geschriften brachten de archeologische opgravingen ook zeldzame voorwerpen zoals munten, pijlpunten, kleding, sandalen en luizenkammen aan het licht. De archeologen ontdekten zelfs een gemummificeerd kinderskelet van wel 6.000 jaar oud, dat in doeken was gewikkeld, en een mand van meer dan 10.000 jaar oud. Met zijn gezegende leeftijd van 10.500 jaar zou het de oudste mand ter wereld zijn, aldus de IAA.
“De vondsten zijn niet alleen belangrijk voor ons cultureel erfgoed, maar ook voor de hele wereld,” zei Avi Cohen, het hoofd van het ministerie van Jeruzalem en Cultureel Erfgoed.
Dieven
Israel Hasson, directeur van IAA, stelt de voorwerpen tentoon in zijn laboratorium in het Israëlmuseum in Jeruzalem. Volgens hem heeft de nationale operatie, waarvan de archeologische opgravingen in de woestijn van Judea deel uitmaken, als doel de “zeldzame en belangrijke erfgoedstukken uit de klauwen van dieven te redden”. Sinds de ontdekking van de Dode Zee-rollen in de grotten van Qumrân eind jaren veertig, zijn de rotsachtige grotten in de woestijn van Judea immers het doelwit van plunderaars.
Het negenhonderdtal manuscripten van de Dode Zee-rollen wordt beschouwd als een van de belangrijkste archeologische ontdekkingen ooit, omdat de geschriften religieuze teksten in het Hebreeuws, Aramees en Grieks bevatten, evenals de oudste gekende versie van het Oude Testament. Het eerste geschrift werd gevonden door een herder, daarna werden meer fragmenten ontdekt.
It is no secret, at all, that I am distinctly skeptical of the idea that aliens met their deaths in the desert on that long gone day in July 1947. And I consider that should we one day uncover the true story of what really occurred outside of Roswell, it will likely be one of secret military experimentation born out of the early years of Cold War shenanigans. But, I may well be 100 per cent wrong in my suspicions. Keeping in mind the sentence immediately above, what if the Roswell affair is explainable in a very different, and wildly alternative, fashion? What if the weird craft and its strange crew were not the denizens of another galaxy, or even of the military of the immediate post-World War II era, after all? What if, incredibly, their point of origin was…a far flung future of a distinctly human nature? While such a scenario may sound extreme and incredible to many – even to those who are of the opinion that something truly anomalous occurred in Lincoln County, all those years ago – such theories have been expressed, and endorsed too. One of those who revealed his thoughts on this particular scenario was Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso, co-author with William Birnes of the much-debated 1997 book, The Day after Roswell.
The sensational, and also rightly questioned and criticized, story told of Corso’s alleged personal knowledge of the Roswell affair while serving with the military, and of the way in which he allegedly helped to advance the United States – both scientifically and militarily – by secretly feeding certain fantastic technologies found in the craft recovered at Roswell to U.S.-based private industries and defense contractors. Despite the fact that many have championed Corso as a solid proponent of the idea that extraterrestrials plunged to earth in New Mexico in 1947, in reality, Corso was willing to consider something very different. The unusual bodies found within the wreckage of the craft, Corso maintained, were genetically created beings designed to withstand the rigors of space flight, but they were not the actual creators of the UFO itself. Right up to the time of his death in 1998, Corso speculated on the distinct possibility that the U.S. Government might still have no real idea of who constructed the craft, or who genetically engineered the bodies found aboard or in the vicinity of the wreckage.
Corso gave much consideration to the idea that the Roswell UFO was a form of time machine, possibly even one designed and built by the denizens of an Earth of the distant future, rather than by the people of a faraway solar-system. Of course, it’s vital that I make it clear Corso’s story has been the subject of a great deal of intense debate – I don’t believe it. Bit, I do think it’s worth sharing the story for, if nothing else, a debate. Corso’s account relative to Roswell has been both vocally championed and loudly denounced. Others seem unsure what to make of it all. But, unfortunately for those trying to make some sense of the situation, Ufology has always been like that when it comes to matters of a highly volatile nature. We never get a definitive answer. It always ends up, to use a terrible but appropriate pun, in a “grey” area.
If history shows there’s nothing to the story of Philip Corso, then so be it. But, if there is even a small nugget of truth to the story, then here is something we should muse upon: Maybe, by studying the Roswell materials, officialdom has learned something deeply troubling and terrible about our future, something it dares not share with us, the populace at large. Ever. Is this, perhaps, the reason why the Roswell affair is one still shrouded in overwhelming secrecy, more than 60 years after it occurred? To paraphrase The X-Files, when it comes to UFOs and Roswell, “the truth” may not be “out there” after all. Instead, it might be countless millennia ahead of us.
Water op Mars verdween niet in ruimte maar werd opgezogen door bodem volgens nieuwe studie
Water op Mars verdween niet in ruimte maar werd opgezogen door bodem volgens nieuwe studie
Een grote hoeveelheid van het water op Mars ontsnapte niet in de ruimte toen de atmosfeer van de planeet verdween, maar werd opgezogen door de bodem. Dat staat te lezen in een nieuwe studie die vandaag verscheen in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Science.
Miljarden jaren geleden zag onze buurplaneet er veel meer uit zoals onze Aarde nu, met zeeën en rivieren van vloeibaar water. Volgens wetenschapper Eva Scheller van het California Institute of Technology was er op Mars zelfs genoeg water om de volledige oppervlakte in een oceaan te veranderen van 100 tot 1.500 meter diep. Pas drie miljard jaar geleden werd het er poederdroog.
Veel studies gingen er tot nu toe van uit dat het water op Mars op hetzelfde moment verdween als de atmosfeer van de planeet en dat het de ruimte in verdampte. Dat mechanisme kan echter niet de hoeveelheid water hebben laten verdwijnen die theoretisch op Mars aanwezig was, klinkt het nu.
Simulaties
Scheller maakte op basis van onder meer observaties van Marsrover Curiosity en de analyse van meteorieten op de planeet simulaties die moesten tonen wat er met de rest van het water gebeurd was. Het resultaat stelde ze vandaag voor op de virtuele Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
Volgens de simulaties verdween al het water niet in de ruimte, maar werd tussen 30 en 99 procent opgezogen door de bodem van de planeet. Daar ging het onomkeerbaar deel uitmaken van de moleculaire structuur van mineralen.
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The Alien Autopsy Footage Controversy... New Evidence Proves Authenticity
The Alien Autopsy Footage Controversy... New Evidence Proves Authenticity
The Alien Autopsy Footage Controversy… New Evidence Proves Authenticity
The Alien Autopsy ignited controversy as one of the first pieces of evidence for alien contact. 25 years later, Paola Harris and Italian researcher Maurizio Baiata bring forth the evidence gathered to prove this leaked film is indeed authentic. In this conversation, Regina Meredith speaks with researcher Paola Harris and Maurizio Baiata, an Italian journalist and UFO researcher who was one of the first to see the autopsy footage.
They compare what was known then, with what has been discovered since. This initial discovery has been followed by many others, adding to the evidence that we are not alone.
Linda Moulton Howe: Strange Discoveries in Alaska & Ancient Pyramid Power
Linda Moulton Howe: Strange Discoveries in Alaska & Ancient Pyramid Power
Linda Moulton Howe: Strange Discoveries in Alaska & Ancient Pyramid Power
Who built the ancient pyramid in Alaska and is it an energy source? Investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe shared her findings in an interview with Regina Meredith. Linda Moulton Howe is an American investigative journalist and documentary producer-writer-director-editor who is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She reports her findings on earthfiles.com.
The Secret Vatican Vaults... E.T. Visitations That Remain Concealed!
The Secret Vatican Vaults... E.T. Visitations That Remain Concealed!
Rumor has long held that deep within the vaults of the Vatican library lie the answers we seek concerning extraterrestrial visitation upon our world. Through legal maneuvering, one man has chanced an encounter with these enigmatic documents, Daniel Sheehan. In this interview with Regina Meredith, he discusses the many trials and tribulations he endured as navigated the complex legal system which seems bent upon keeping this important information forever concealed.
Daniel Sheehan is a Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School-trained Constitutional Litigation and Appellate Attorney. Dan’s work as a Federal Civil Rights Attorney, Author, Public Speaker and College and Law School Educator has helped expose the structural sources of injustice in our country and around the world. In 1977, he served as a “Special Counsel” to the United States Library of Congress’ investigation into the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence that had been expressly requested by then President Jimmy Carter.
In 2001, Dan was invited to serve as General Counsel to The Disclosure Project.
I was looking at a video by Youtuber 2018 Flatearth and noticed his 4k telescope was showing incredible detail. Even better than NASA shows in their maps and photos online. So I began to go through one of them. At 13:43 into a video I easily spotted three alien structures. The structures are each hidden inside of craters. Aliens do this to fool long distance astronomer into thinking "oh its shadows," or worse, "its rocks." But the detail here throws those two theories out the window. This 4k telescope is showing a whole new story to the moon. One that we haven't been told of before.
The tools at our disposal are all around us. Just because others don't use those tools, doesn't mean they aren't useful for task. What I'm saying is...we no longer need NASA, when we can produce better quality video and photos than they can.
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Sailors witnessed mysterious light in the sky over the Indian Ocean
Sailors witnessed mysterious light in the sky over the Indian Ocean
Crew member Shomuddro Bilas who witnessed the strange appearance in the sky states:
On March 12, 2021, while our ship was in Indian ocean sailing towards Bangladesh, we saw a mysterious light show on the night sky for 20 minutes around 08.00 pm.
Our 3rd mate called me and told me about it and to bring my camera to photograph the moment. I went to bridge a minute later. There were also other people on the bridge including our Captain and Chief Engineer.
We all saw the same thing. The Captain was the first one who noticed the light. I saw it 2-3 minutes later as the 1st picture on the video. Our captain said, initially when he saw it, it was more smaller and much brighter.
I started to capture a time-lapse with 1s exposure and 1 second interval and record 400 photos as you can see it was glowing and expanding in the time-lapse, easily visible in naked eye at night.
After the light disappeared, I took a photo of our ship's position (Latitude, Longitude, UTC time). We discussed about it, but nobody was sure about what it was or never saw this kind of light before.
A huge and luminous Submarine-UFO was photographed over a crowded city in China
A huge and luminous Submarine-UFO was photographed over a crowded city in China
I just received this UFO report at my email.
Chapter 1 More Confusion The sightings were compiled by witnesses in February 2021, in which three aspects were particularly strange:
The UFO disappeared about 10 seconds after coming into view.
The UFO was enormous and appeared over the city where people were gathered. The photographer, Mr. W, saw it, but his companion, Ms. B did not see it, nor did any other passersby.
The sky was some light when Mr. W witnessed the UFO. The captured UFO pictures were incredibly distorted in their overall color and had brightness values about twice as high as other photos. The iPhone X had difficulty taking the pictures (when the iPhone X was taking pictures, it was seriously disturbed).
Chapter 2 Witnesses and Photos The story goes like this. Mr. W is a Chinese lawyer, on the afternoon of June 2, 2018, Mr. W and his companion Ms. B drove to County Miyi, City Panzhihua, Province Sichuan to handle some affairs, and to enjoy the scenery on both sides of River Anning and the night scene along the way. See below the “Aerial view of County Miyi, City Panzhihua”. After driving away from the highway and entering the county, Mr. W parked his car in a parking spot, then together with his companion, Ms. B walked through the Bridge Renminlu below, and then along the viewing road by the river on the left, then they advanced to Bridge Dragon above.
See below “Original Picture 1 (Mobile No. IMG_1631, 20:12 photographed)”. Mr. W, located near the restroom, suddenly saw a UFO-like object, Its shape and size resembled a large submarine, over the buildings across the river. It was silent and motionless and glowed with slight light like the afterglow of the sun penetrating through thin clouds. It was obviously incompatible with the surrounding clouds and was very dazzling and eye-catching. Its magnificence dumbfounded Mr. W. However, the sun should not appear near in the position of Submarine-UFO in the sky at this time, after all, it was already past 8 p.m. Mr. W immediately took a picture of the Submarine-UFO with the iPhone X in hand at the approximate position shown in Figure 1, and then couldn’t wait to see the details of the UFO through the zoom function of the mobile phone. But it was quite inconceivable that the photo had a serious color cast (or/and the brightness was high) and was very unusual, far from what Mr. W had witnessed with his eyes. The reason might be that, to go to the bathroom, Mr. W walked in front of his companion Ms. B. When Ms. B approached Mr. W, Mr. W originally intended to watch the strange object together with her. But Mr. W was surprised to find that perhaps within 10-30 seconds when he looked down at the photos, the Submarine-UFO had disappeared without a trace. At that time, many people walking along the viewing road of the riverside after enjoying their dinner. People would look at the river and the scenery on the opposite bank. The two banks of the river were very wide, and the huge Submarine-UFO should have been seen or photographed by more people. But what is unbelievable is that Mr. W felt that people were not aware of this UFO, and even his companion Ms. B also said that she saw nothing. The iPhone X photo has a resolution of 4032 x 3024, 5.88 times the video resolution 1920 x 1080, so Mr. W chose to take pictures and then to shoot a video. However the Submarine-UFO disappeared too fast, and unfortunately, there was no chance to shoot the video. The 576 million pixels of the human eye is 48 times the 12 million pixels of the iPhone X photo, so Mr. W felt amazed at what he witnessed at the time and how it was completely different from the situation as shown by the photo. It’s a magnificence that can never be copied and imagined unless you are personally on the scene!
Chapter 3 Details of Photos Description of photo details:
See below the “enlarged view of drew outline”. The Submarine-UFO has obvious geometric lines, the front resembles a streamlined structure of a revolving body, especially the front end looks like a cone or ellipse, and a small part of the middle area below the axis is protruding and similar to the pod parts (This feature may also be an illusion caused by part of the UFO being blocked by clouds). The back is similar to the stern structure, which is flat and inclined downward.
See below the “enlarged view of increased saturation”. The surrounding light clouds are floating around the dark Submarine-UFO and are incompatible with each other, and the latter shows no signs of being squeezed by the former.
See below the “iPhone X gallery thumbnails”. Except that the photo of the Submarine-UFO Figure 1 taken by the mobile phone shows the color cast or/and shiny effect as a whole, the color or/and luminance of other photos appear to be more normal thus an exception exists.
Chapter 4 Follow-up Observations See below “Original Picture 2 (mobile phone number IMG_1632, 20:16 photographed)”. Mr. W saw a group of birds flying in the sky over the area, then using a mobile phone took pictures of the flying birds at the approximate position shown in Figure 2, but the traces of the Submarine-UFO were already gone. The local weather recorded on the Internet was “breeze, without continuous wind direction”. There was no surging wind and clouds were in a calm sky, and the UFO never re-appeared.
See below “Original Picture 3 (mobile phone number IMG_1633, 20:19 photographed)”. Mr. W and Ms. B walked to the highest point of the Dragon Bridge, using their mobile phones, they took pictures at the location shown in Figure 3 facing the direction they had just come from. At this time, the colorful lights on the building were brilliant and colorful, and the night was very charming, end.
Chapter 5 Photo Data Attached photo data description: The luminance of Figure 1 is 2.77, approximately 2 times the luminance of Figure 2, at 1.36. When consulted what condition could increase the luminance of a picture taken by iPhone X, the Chinese Apple customer service technician answered that the luminance of the subject itself increased. Relevant experts also believe that the flash of mobile phones will not affect the brightness of the distant view (especially buildings, the sky, and the Submarine-UFO on the other side of the river).
Figures 4 and 5 are photos taken at 21:51 after Mr. W and Ms. B arrived on the other side of the river. In close-up photography of people at night, Figure 5 has a flare brightness of about -2.16, an increase of 0.5 as compared with the -2.66 of Figure 4, taken without a flash.
The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth.
The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth.
“It almost seems like a magical thing,” said one of the astronomers involved in studying the lunar phenomenon.
By Robin George Andrews
Carl Sagan once said that Earth is but a “mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” He would probably be thrilled to know that, around the time of a new moon, Earth is a speck of dust suspended in a moon tail.
The moon, lacking an atmosphere to shield it, is constantly under attack. When meteorites bombard its volcanic surface, sodium atoms fly high into orbit. The sun’s photons collide with the sodium atoms, effectively pushing them away from the sun and creating a tail-like structure flowing downstream from the moon.
“It makes the moon sort of look like a comet,” said Jeffrey Baumgardner, a senior research scientist at Boston University’s Center for Space Physics. “It has a stream of stuff coming off it.”
For a few days each month, when the new moon moves between Earth and the sun, this comet-like tail dusts the side of our world that is facing the sun. Our planet’s gravity pinches that sodium stream, narrowing it into a beam, invisible to the naked eye, that wraps around Earth’s atmosphere and shoots out into space from the opposite side of the planet.
This moonbeam can be seen by special cameras as a spot in twilight skies. Sometimes it appears brighter, sometimes dimmer. Ever since the tail and its beam were first seen back in the late 1990s, scientists have been wondering what controls the beam’s brightness. As reported Wednesday in a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 14 years of observations suggests meteors — particularly larger, faster ones that bombard the moon at random — may explain what controls its flicker.
“Does this have a practical application? Probably not,” Mr. Baumgardner, the study’s lead author, said. This research was driven by nothing more than curiosity, he said, a desire to simply learn more about that beautiful volcanic pearl in the sky and its mystifying moonbeam.
“I think it’s very cool,” said Sarah Luettgen, an undergraduate at Boston University and a co-author of the study. “It almost seems like a magical thing.”
Boston University has placed several all-sky-imaging cameras — essentially fish-eye lenses that see the entire visible sky — around the world. Originally designed to spot auroras, they can see sodium in Earth’s atmosphere with a filter. They commonly observe it when meteors burn up before reaching our planet’s surface.
In November 1998, during the peak of the annual Leonid meteor shower, a team working with one such camera at the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas, hoped to see those sodium flares. They were puzzled when, just after the peak, a spot of sodium persisted in the sky for three nights. This spot, appearing on the side of the world facing away from the sun, brightened as the new moon approached, then quickly faded.
After additional work, including models that simulated where the sodium spot could be coming from, the team concluded that it must be the result of a comet-like tail of sodium stretching out at least 500,000 miles from the moon.
The tail may be sprinkling the world with sodium, but it is extremely diffuse, so there’s no chance any moon dust dandruff will gather on our heads, said Luke Moore, a senior research scientist at Boston University and a co-author of the study.
The November 1998 moon spot appeared particularly bright after the peak of the Leonid meteor shower. It was also seen during other new moons without concurrent meteor showers, but it was fainter. The scientists therefore suspected that these meteor shower impacts were chipping off enough sodium to fuel a particularly luminous spot.
But the all-sky-imager camera situated in the El Leoncito Observatory in Argentina, which took 21,000 images of the moon from 2006 to 2019, tells a slightly different story.
Annual meteor showers — like the Leonids, one of the most intense — can coincide with a brighter moon spot. But this isn’t always the case, perhaps because their impacts are not always energetic enough to jettison lunar sodium far away enough from the moon so that it can contribute to the comet-like tail and its moon spot.
Impacts by sporadic meteors, those that don’t appear in regular showers, have a stronger correlation with the moon spot’s brightness. This is possibly because they can be more massive, speedier and can collide with the moon head-on, meaning they are capable of expelling more sodium into a higher orbit.
If a suitably sizable asteroid slammed into the moon with enough momentum, it might be able to expunge enough sodium to produce a moonbeam anyone could see with the naked eye, said James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency who wasn’t involved with the research. And if you could observe it, “it would be a fuzzy patch of light about the size of the belt stars of Orion,” Mr. Baumgardner said.
But even invisible, knowing that Earth has a meteor-fueled moonbeam is satisfying enough — a reminder of the moon’s dynamism.
“I think we definitely take it for granted,” Dr. O’Donoghue said.
Hannah, Rob and Cathryn are celebrating an extraordinary find
"We're still pinching ourselves - to believe that this actually happened on our drive!"
Rob Wilcock, his wife Cathryn and daughter Hannah are astounded to find themselves at the centre of a major scientific discovery.
It was their property in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, that was hit by the most valuable space rock ever to fall on the UK.
The meteorite has had British scientists in raptures of joy.
It's a carbonaceous chondrite - a dark stony material that retains unaltered chemistry from the formation of our Solar System 4.6 billion years ago, and, as such, could give us fresh insights on how the planets came into being.
The first thing the Wilcock family knew about it was when they heard a dull thud outside their house on the night of Sunday 28 February.
"When I heard it drop, I stood up and looked out the window to see what was there," recalled Hannah. "But because it was dark I couldn't see anything.
"It was only the next morning when we went out that we saw it on the drive - a bit like a kind of splatter. And in all honesty, my original thought was - has someone been driving around the Cotswolds lobbing lumps of coal into people's gardens?" she told BBC News.
"Either that or someone had upturned a barbecue tray," chimed in Cathryn.
Scientists knew fragments of a meteorite must be in the Gloucestershire area. Their cameras had recorded the rock coming through the atmosphere that Sunday night, creating a huge fireball in the process.
Imagery from multiple angles allowed researchers to narrow the drop zone, and when they went on the media to make an appeal on the Monday, they hoped one or two people might come forward with an interesting find.
In fact, they were inundated with pictures. Most had nothing to do with meteorites, but when Open University planetary scientist Richard Greenwood looked at the Wilcocks' picture, he was blown away.
"It was one of those moments when your legs start going wobbly. I saw this thing; it was like a splat across [the Wilcocks'] drive; and it had all these rays coming off it; and I just thought - that is a meteorite. It was instantaneous," he said.
With all the hullabaloo that was bound to follow the discovery, Rob's initial reaction was to try to stay out of the limelight - to be anonymous.
But when he thought it through a little more, Rob said the three of them recognised they should talk about what had happened to them.
"We've been wrestling with the question of whether we should talk about it, and in the end we decided we should. There seems to be such a lot of genuine public interest in the find," Rob told BBC News.
"We're absolutely thrilled that something that's going to be so valuable to science, to the human understanding of the world and of the Solar System has happened, and that we can be a small part in it."
The family have donated the meteorite remains to the national collection held by the Natural History Museum in London. They were determined the rock should not go to a dealer, but to science.
The last meteorite fall to be picked up in the UK was 30 years ago. That was an "ordinary chondrite" - a common type of space rock.
The Winchcombe meteorite is far more valuable. Studying its chemistry - and what it can tell us about the conditions that went into building the planets - will keep scientists busy for years.
As for the small Gloucestershire market town - it's now firmly on the map.
"We always felt that the Cotswolds is a wonderful place to live. But now the whole world seems to know about us," reflected one local resident on Tuesday afternoon.
Today, we know that the Basilosaurus is the first ancient whale humanity has ever found. But back when it was first described, the animal’s huge proportions earned it the name of ‘king lizard’. And although technically incorrect, the name isn’t undeserved; during its day, the Basilosaurus ruled the waters of Tethys with an iron flipper and a really impressive set of teeth.
This creature lived 40 to 35 million years ago, during a part of geologic time known as the late Eocene. The dinosaurs were quite well gone by this time, and mammals were well on the way to dominating the planet. The Basilosaurus was also a mammal — a whale, no less — and could grow up to 60 feet (a bit over 18m) in length. Needless to say, you can’t skip meals and grow so large. But this species likely had no issues getting full, as the Basilosaurus was, by all indications, a formidable apex predator.
It was first described in 1834 from fragments of a skeleton found in the US. Due to the sheer scale of the fossils, their striking similarity in shape and function to marine predatory dinosaurs, poor availability, and the limits of paleontological understanding of the day, the species was initially assumed to have been a dinosaur — and christened the ‘king of the lizards’, Basilosaurus
How come?
The academic story of this genus starts with B. cetoides, the first ancient whale species ever discovered, which was unearthed in Louisiana around 1830 by Richard Harlan and still serves as the type species of Basilosaurus.
Details from the dig and the wider goings-on around the fossils aren’t very good from the time, but we do know that bones from this dig were sent to the American Philosophical Society by Judge Henry Bry of Ouachita County, Louisiana and Judge John Creagh of Clarke County, Alabama, according to theEncyclopedia of Alabama. Here, they were examined by Richard Harlan, one of the US’s earliest paleontologists and naturalists, who would end up christening the new species.
Upon first examination, Harlan was very excited. Comparing the bones he received to those of Plesiosaurus and Mosasaurus, two species of marine dinosaurs that were already described at the time, he concluded that the new species grew no less than 80–100 ft (24–30 m) long. Still, there were enough structural similarities between its vertebrae and those of Plesiosaurus, as well as between its skull and that of Mosasaurus, for Harlan to assume that the species were related. At the very least, he assumed, they lived around the same time.
The first signs that this name wasn’t really spot-on came when Harlan took his specimens to the UK for consultation with his peers there. Richard Owen, a controversial figure but a superb paleontologist, observed that the animal’s molars were two-rooted. No known fish or reptile at the time showed the same structure, and Owen suggested the animal might have been a whale instead. The two even agreed to rename it Zeuglodon cetoides (“whale-like yoke teeth”).
A few years later the other known species, B. isis, would be described based on fragments of bone recovered from Egypt. Although the first full skeleton of B. isis wouldn’t be unearthed until 2016, the discovery of this species and its fossil association with species that were known to have been whales at the time further suggested that all Basilodons were, in fact, mammals. This was helped by the fact that Basilosaurus fossils actually became quite common over time, so much so that in the 19th century they were even used as andirons, furniture, or decoration.
Over the years, paleontologists have wisened up to the fact and tried to change the genus’ name. However, zoological naming conventions meant that the original name stuck. Today, the Basilosaurus is the state fossil for Alabama and Mississippi.
How did it used to live?
One thing that Harlan got right about the Basilosaurus was that it was large. This whale was bigger even than some predatory dinosaurs that came before it, and it undoubtedly threw its weight around the ancient, lost sea of Tethys.
Another thing it definitely threw around were bites. Unlike most whales today, Basilosaurus didn’t filter feed, it hunted. Its jaws were lined with several types of teeth, including molars and canines, which are specialized for chewing and ripping, respectively. Such teeth are characteristic of meat-eating species.
Two other important characteristics of the species are a skull asymmetry and a relatively low intracranial volume. The first is a trait it shares with modern toothed whales such as orcas. Today, this asymmetry is associated with whales’ ability to produce high-frequency sounds for echolocation; Basilosaurus likely didn’t have this ability, however, and its skull was asymmetrical in order to house a fatty sensory organ meant to help it hear underwater. The lack of room for a big brain inside its skull likely means that Basilosaurus was not a social species, like whales are today, and that it also wasn’t as capable from a cognitive standpoint.
Such traits can be indicative of an evolutionary ‘work-in-progress’. The Basilosaurus seems to have been the first whale species to live entirely underwater, marking the point where the lineage of walking whales finally took the plunge.
It most likely spent its day as a solitary hunter, or at most, one that lived in small groups. Social interactions are extremely demanding, from a cognitive point of view, and Basilosaurus’ brain just seems to have been too small to adequately navigate living in a group.
Still, who needs big brains when you have big brawns? Analysis of fossilized, scarred Dorudon skull bones — this is another genus of prehistoric whale that was the preferred prey of Basilosaurus — suggests that the king of lizards could bite down with 3,600 pounds per square inch (PSI).
To put things into perspective, that’s 233 times more pressure than a fully-loaded M1A2 main battle tank exerts on the ground under its tracks. Most industrial hydraulic presses in use today exert between 1,000 to 3,000 PSI, which is still under the estimated high ofr Basilosaurus. You do not want to get bitten by one of these.
With big bites, however, also comes good manners. Wear patterns on Basilosaurus teeth suggest that the animal bit and then chewed its food, unlike most predators today, whose teeth are specialized in ripping chunks of meat off the bone, that are then gulped up whole. In regards to what they ate, stomach contents seem to indicate that B. cetoides hunted fish and large sharks exclusively, while we know from Dorudon skulls that B. isis would also hunt these. Dorudon was a larger animal, related to today’s dolphins, and B. isis likely focused on delivering a killing blow to its head before tearing it apart while feeding (many Dorudon skeletons, especially those showing signs of predation from Basilosaurus, are found disarticulated).
King no more
The Basilosaur genus went extinct, with our last fossil evidence of them hailing from around 40 million years ago. They didn’t leave behind any direct descendants which, judging from their teeth, isn’t the worst thing to have ever happened.
We’re not entirely sure why they disappeared. Sometime around 40 million years ago, something happened to bring these toothy kings low. However, the fact that other toothed and baleen whales are around today suggests these smaller relatives of the Basilosaurus out-competed them in the end. It might have been their big brains, it might have been their social nature, it could even have been their more modest appetites; for now, it remains a mystery.
Jacco van Loon, Astrophysicist and Director of Keele Observatory, Keele University
Humans have been trying to contact aliens for many years, but do the aliens want to contact us?
– Sai, aged eight, London, UK
This is a great question – and the truth is that we don’t know the answer.
For starters, we haven’t found any aliens yet, so we haven’t been able to ask them and receive a reply. When we try to answer the question “do they want to contact us”, we have to put ourselves in their shoes – that is, if they have feet.
The question presumes that aliens do exist. And again, because we haven’t found any yet, we don’t know if they do. It is possible they may exist, for one simple reason: we exist. Whatever made the likes of bacteria evolve into complex bodies with intelligent brains on Earth may have also occurred on another planet.
On Earth this transformation seems to have taken place quite suddenly some 700 million years ago. At that time the Earth was already almost 4 billion years old, and had been inhabited by simple lifeforms such as bacteria for much of that time. Why did it not happen sooner? And what made it happen? Until we find the answers to those questions we cannot tell how likely it is that it also occurred elsewhere.
If there are aliens out there, they might want to contact us for the same reasons we want to contact them.
One reason why scientists on Earth are looking for aliens is that we are curious. We want to know if they exist, what they are like, and what our relationship with them might be. Curiosity is a powerful force, leading us to look beyond the horizon and to try new things. It is how we have developed science and technology, why we can have video calls with friends on the other side of the world and why we can now venture out into space. Aliens may be curious about us, too.
(Image credit: The Conversation)
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But there are other reasons why we want to contact others. We have sometimes needed help from others, or companionship. Perhaps aliens, too, would look to us for help or friendship.
They may also be interested in our planet. Earth has perfect conditions for life. Aliens might need another home, if for some reason – such as climate change, nuclear war or an enormous asteroid impact – they had to leave their own planet.
It’s also possible that they would not be looking for friendship. There are plenty of examples from our history of times when humans have travelled somewhere on Earth and acted cruelly, killing or enslaving the people that lived there. Aliens settling on Earth might want us out of their way. There’s another reason – humans are predators who eat other lifeforms. Aliens might find us nutritious or tasty too.
These are all possible reasons why aliens might want to contact us. But what if they didn’t? Some aliens might find us boring, hard to understand, too primitive to deserve their attention, or potentially bearing disease. Conversations across the vastness of space take many years, and travel much longer still. Some aliens might simply not be interested in life beyond their own world.
On the other hand, it may be that life such as ours is actually very common. With so many worlds and civilisations to choose from, we may simply not yet have caught their eye. If that is the case, we might soon detect alien life around nearby stars for ourselves.
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San Diego often tops the lists of people looking to move to a place with great temperatures, great beaches, and great amenities. It rarely appears on the lists of places with great booms – until recently when the beautiful California city was suddenly hit by mysterious booms that no one seems to know the source of or wants to take credit for. Residents, tourists bureaus, animals at the San Diego Zoo – they all want to cool it with the boom booms. Will that happen or will San Diego end up like so many other locales around the world with no answers to the mysterious sounds they’re being plagued by?
“People from Del Mar to Chula Vista took to social media Wednesday afternoon to report a “boom” that shook doors and startled pets, leading many to speculate that the region had experienced a short, mild earthquake. Posts on Twitter and Facebook described a loud boom, accompanied by shaking doors and cabinets.”
That afternoon boom was reported by the San Diego Tribune on January 15, 2020. A U.S. Geological Survey spokesman quickly said it wasn’t an earthquake, an ongoing exercise at Camp Pendleton with artillery fire had been canceled for the day, the San Diego-based Naval Air Forces said none of the Navy’s aircraft were the source of the boom, and Marine Corps officials from the MCAS Miramar-based 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing also denied responsibility. That boom remained unsolved.
“Some sort of weird shaking thing happened in San Diego a few minutes ago. Didn’t feel like an earthquake. More like a bizarre wind gust. Not sure what it was, but I’m not in favor of more bad things happening.”
One year later, on the afternoon of February 16, 2021, San Diego got hit by another boom which the USGA quickly reported was not an earthquake. Reports on this one came from Rancho Bernardo on the north side, 30 miles south from Chula Vista and 30 miles east from El Cajon. This time, no reported comments from the military.
“For the second time in about three weeks, residents from across San Diego County reported feeling a mysterious shaking — or in some cases hearing a loud boom — late in the afternoon Wednesday.”
That was around 5 pm on March 10, 2021, and the USGA reported that it was not an earthquake. (Do you detect a pattern here?) Again, no reported comments from the military, but local officials seem to be ruling out sonic booms or artillery fire anyway. A new theory came from Humberto Mendoza Garcilazo, a researcher at the Center of Scientific Research and Higher Education, who suspected stormy weather and atmospheric pressure changes, but National Weather Service meteorologist Brandt Maxwell told the San Diego Union Tribune there were no thunderstorms in the area and “even with a strong cold front, you won’t get that kind of rumbling.”
So, no answers … only denials and silence. The booms occurred in the same area at about the same time of day. Earthquakes and weather are easy to rule out – records of both are in the public domain. The military is supposed to notify the public of unusual noise occurrence due to exercises or testing – but no one would be surprised if secret operations were not reported until possibly later with an “Oops, we’re sorry.” However, that hasn’t happened in San Diego. These booms bracket the coronavirus pandemic – could they be from secret military operations related to it? If the military is ruled out, what else could they be?
That’s the question being asked around the world as these mysterious sounds are heard more and more frequently. The media seems concerned in the moment, but quickly moves on to the next big news. Is it time for an independent organization to investigate these booms? Are there secret files or a secret internal group for mysterious booms like there is for UFOs? Both are possible security threats.
We’ll continue to report these mysterious sounds until someone gives an answer. Until then, report, record and repeat.
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