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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
20-05-2021
Swarms of Robots Could Dig Underground Cities on Mars
Swarms of Robots Could Dig Underground Cities on Mars
Underground habitats have recently become a focal point of off-planet colonization efforts. Protection from micrometeorites, radiation, and other potential hazards makes underground sites desirable compared to surface dwellings. Building such subterranean structures presents a plethora of challenges, not the least of which is how to actually construct them. A team of researchers at the Delft University of Technology (TUD) is working on a plan to excavate material and then use it to print habitats. All that would be done with a group of swarming robots.
The idea stems from a grant opportunity posted by the European Space Agency. Students at the Robotic Building lab (RB) at TU Delft, led by Dr. Henriette Bier, were enthusiastic to participate in the challenge that focuses on in-situ resource utilization for off-Earth construction. The RB team, together with experts in material science, robotics, and aerospace engineering submitted an idea that was granted €100k to develop a preliminary proof of concept.
The proposed approach focuses on the lab’s specialty – robotic building – and has four main components – digging out the regolith, printing a new habitat using an additive manufacturing process, coordinating the work between all the robots that would be needed to complete the tasks, and powering them as well as the habitat.
Excavating regolith with robots has been explored previously, but usually in the context of the moon. Different patterns of excavation are useful for building different structures, and the pattern the RB team focused on was a downwards sloping spiral. Such a structure could create a stable, safe structure within a relatively small footprint on the surface.
Example of some of the subtractive toolpaths that would be use to hollow out the habitat’s tunnels. Credit: Bier et al.
Modeling the stresses and strains on that structure is a key component of the current study project. The team developed a 1m x 1m scale prototype of a fragment with patterns that would allow them to create safe and stable areas effectively. Some of those areas were designed with habitation in mind, including detachable plant areas that could house hydroponically grown plants.
Tons upon tons of regolith would have to be removed from any real-life scale excavation site. That regolith is used as material to 3D print a stable habitat. Originally, the team was planning on combining regolith withliquid Sulphurto produce concrete. But after involving material scientists and an industrial partner specialized in robotic printing with cement they settled on using cement-based concrete by tapping into some of Mars’ water resources. Creating cement itself requires an infrastructure though, so any such plan to utilize regolith would have to wait until after that infrastructure was already in place on the planet.
Video discussing how swarm methodology can be implemented to aid in the exploration of Mars.
Structuring the habitat itself is also a key consideration when designing what shape should be 3D printed. The team focused on relatively porous structures, which allowed them to use less material in its construction. However, the structures still had remarkably high strength and durability and also provided good insulation from the radiation and micrometeorite impacts the subsurface colony is looking to avoid.
Some of the advantages of this approach are due to one of the biggest drivers of innovation – collaboration. The project is coordinated by the RB lab but involves partners both at TUD and external commercial partners. These collaborators bring civil, aerospace, and robotic engineering expertise, and additive manufacturing technologies for developing the robotic swarm construction approach .
An example of the “rhizome” habitat that would have a relatively small exposed area on the surface but provide a large habitable space underground. Credit: Bier et al.
Those collaborators will have to continue to work together for a long time in order to see this project eventually implemented on Mars. As a technology demonstrator, it still has a long way to go to even be accepted as a mission concept. Dr. Bier and her team hope to continue pushing the concept forward and are shooting for future funding opportunities as part of that development path.
With luck, swarming robots and 3D printed cement-based habitats will play a key role in the future development of what so far is only science fiction – an underground city on Mars.
UFO Sighted In Westminster, Massachusetts ( May 18, 2021 )
UFO Sighted In Westminster, Massachusetts, May 18, 2021 : George W Stanton Hwy STATEMENT : So they was deff transporting a UFO on the highway!!
credit :Shannon Archambault
UFO Sighted Over Popocatépetl, Volcano, Mexico ( May 2, 2021 )
Impressive sighting of an immense Cylindrical UFO coming out of the Mexican Popocatepetl volcano.
The surprising image comes from the volcanic monitor cameras installed nearby this fire colossus, which follow their activity 24 hours a day.
For decades, intense and incredible UFO activities have been recorded entering and leaving this active volcano, which leads to experts and researchers of the UFO phenomenon claiming that this volcano is a UFO base or a dimensional portal. Sighting made on the May 2, 2021.
UFO Sighted Over São Gonçalo, Brazil ( May 11, 2021 )
UFO Sighted Over São Gonçalo, Brazil on May 11, 2021
STATEMENT :São Gonçalo RJ - 11/05/2021
credit :Diogo HG
UFOs Sighted Over Sidcup, England ( May 17, 2021 )
UFOs Sighted Over Sidcup, Bexley, south-east London Borough, England on May 17, 2021
STATEMENT :Black Donut UFO over Sidcup
17/05/2021 18:42 Moving in a very strange fashion, slowly spinning at times then stopping and hovering defo looked to be under some form of control rather then just balloons blowing in the wind. They looked black, donut shaped with a hole or white light in the centre.
3 Spherical Shaped UFOs, 1st Spotted in Mexico then Nevada & then in California! Is it the same UFO?
Three Spherical shaped UFO sightings.
Starting in Iztapalapa Mexico on 05/12/21 then another in Minden Nevada on 05/14/21 and then the last reported sighting in Glendale California on 05/16/21. All on the west coast with 1800 miles and two days between Iztapalapa Mexico sighting and the possible next sighting in Minden Nevada then another two days later and 421 miles another sighting was seen in Glendale California! Is this the same Spherical shaped object or is it just coincidental?
SOMETHING'S ODD. Galaxy group Stephan’s Quintet has been at the focus of a major redshift controversy for years. However, astronomers are certain the galaxy at the lower left is some 10 times closer to us than the others.
NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO Team
Some autumn night, hold a dime at arm’s length and block a tiny piece of the constellation Pegasus the Winged Horse. Hidden behind that coin may be the most famous galaxy cluster in all the heavens.
First seen by French astronomer Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan in 1877, the five galaxies famously known as Stephan’s Quintet constitute the first compact group ever found. Back in the 19th century, however, no one knew that these smudgy patches were far more than mere clouds of gas in our Milky Way Galaxy. With the advent of better telescopes and spectroscopy, astronomers eventually saw each as a city of billions of stars. But there was mystery here, stupendous mystery, and it arose not slowly but all at once.
The puzzle involved redshift, the most important evidence of a galaxy’s distance. Redshift — a change in the wavelength of light an object emits as it moves away from us — indicates how fast a galaxy recedes in our expanding universe. Imagine a balloon covered with polka dots. As the entire cosmos (the balloon) expands, the galaxies (dots) logically get farther apart. A dot close to the one you live on will move slowly away from you; more distant dots will move away faster.
The galaxies in Stephan’s Quintet all seem physically connected, so they should display similar redshifts as the space between our Milky Way and them grows continuously larger. Indeed, more than merely appearing physically near each other, tendrils of dusty gas appear to connect them loosely. It seems as if each galaxy’s gravity pulls off strings of material from the others, like pizza cheese. They appear interlocked.
There was just one problem. Four of the galaxies show a large redshift, corresponding to a recessional speed of 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers) a second. This means they lie about 300 million light-years away. But galaxy NGC 7320, at lower left in the photograph, shows a redshift indicating a slower speed of just 491 miles (790 km) per second. This would mean it’s only 30 million light-years away.
This discrepancy was not some mere technicality; it was huge. If one galaxy at the same distance as others has a very different redshift, then redshift cannot be a reliable indicator of distance. Some astronomers, led by the iconoclast Halton Arp (see object 38 on our list), concluded that redshift can’t be trusted. The size of the universe was suddenly in doubt, as were many of the tenets of cosmology, such as how quickly everything is expanding. Thus, Stephan’s Quintet became the paradigm for the mysterious, and for cosmological insecurity.
Many astronomers insisted the streams of material between NGC 7320 and the other galaxies proved they were physically bound together in space. Moreover, all five galaxies have approximately the same apparent size, further evidence they sit at the same distance. After all, if the low-redshift galaxy was really much closer to us, shouldn't it appear far larger than the others?
The Hubble Space Telescope finally solved this issue in 2000. Its razor-sharp imaging resolved individual stars in the low-redshift galaxy, while the other four remained starless. This proved NGC 7320 is much closer to us than the others.
At last, mystery laid to rest. It’s a line-of-sight situation. One galaxy sits in front of the other four — 10 times closer, in fact. The seeming strings of matter do not really extend from NGC 7320 to the others. And NGC 7320 appears the same size as the other four because it happens to be a smaller galaxy.
Cosmologists let out a collective sigh of relief. Redshift is reliable after all. The universe is safe. Astronomers now prefer to label the four galaxies that are actually a physically bound unit as Hickson Compact Group 92. This actually includes a separate galaxy that was not a part of the original quintet, so that even though NGC 7320 has been expelled from the club, Compact Group 92 remains a fivesome.
But relief did not last long. Amazingly enough, a different puzzle suddenly arose. Near the nucleus of the quintet’s uppermost galaxy is a benign-looking star that spectroscopy now shows is a quasar with an enormous redshift. Meaning, it must lie billions of light-years beyond the galaxy. Yet there it is, clearly in front of it, and seemingly interacting with the galaxy’s gas.
This resurrects the same cosmic puzzle — with a vengeance. How could a galaxy envelop a quasar whose redshift indicates it’s several billion light-years farther away?
It’s déjà vu all over again. It’s another doozy of a discordant distance issue in the very same rabbit patch. Indeed, this time the visual evidence is even more ironclad. Might redshift be unreliable after all? Or does the distant quasar just happen to align with a weird empty hole that tunnels all the way through this galaxy?
Stephan’s Quintet just won’t quit the Strangeness Society.
China is only the 2nd nation to successfully soft-land on Mars.
China has released the first photographs taken by its Zhurong rover, which touched down on Mars late on Friday (May 14) as part of the country's Tianwen-1 mission.
The China National Space Administration (CNSA), which runs the mission, has released two Mars photographs taken by the rover: one in color and one in black and white. Both images show parts of the rover and its lander against a backdrop of Utopia Planitia, the expansive northern plain that Zhurong will explore during its mission.
This photo is the first color view of Mars from China's Zhurong rover, looking toward its rear, from its landing spot on a plain in Utopia Planitia following a May 14, 2021 landing. This image was released May 19. (Image credit: China National Space Administration)
The color image shows a view looking to the rear of Zhurong from a navigation camera above the rover's main deck. Solar arrays are visible, as are some surface rocks and features. The black and white image is from an obstacle avoidance camera at the front of the rover. It was captured with a wide-angle lens that also revealed a view of the Mars horizon in the distance, as well as two subsurface radar instruments on the rover itself.
In addition to the photos from the surface, CNSA also released two short videos of the orbiter and Zhurong rover's landing capsule separating during Friday's maneuver. Both videos come from cameras on the orbiter and show the capsule pulling away.
This black and white view of Mars is a photo from a navigation camera on China's Mars rover Zhurong released on May 19, 2021 about 4 days after landing. The ramp to the Martian surface from Zhurong's lander is visible, as are two subsurface radar instruments on the rover and the Martian horizon in the wide-angle view. (Image credit: China National Space Administration)
China's successful Mars landing made the country only the second nation to successfully soft-land on Mars, joining the United States. The Soviet Union and the European Space Agency have also sent missions to the Red Planet's surface, but those landings have not been successful. Zhurong's arrival brings the active Mars rover tally to three, joining NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers.
The landing comes as part of China's Tianwen-1 mission, which was also the nation's first successful Mars orbiter; China was the sixth entity to notch that accomplishment in February. Tianwen-1 translates to "Heavenly Questions"; the name Zhurong honors an ancient Chinese fire god.
The six-wheeled, 530-lb. (240 kilogram) Zhurong rover carries six instruments that the rover will use to study geology and climate in the Utopia Planitia region. The rover is meant to operate for about three months.
This brief time-lapse captures the moment of separation as China's Zhurong rover and lander cast off from the Tianwen 1 orbiter to descend to Mars. (Image credit: China National Space Administration)
Another view of China's Zhurong rover descent capsule separating from the Tianwen 1 orbiter for a landing on the Red Planet in May 2021.
(Image credit: China National Space Administration)
This brief time-lapse captures the moment of separation as China's Zhurong rover and lander cast off from the Tianwen 1 orbiter to descend to Mars.
(Image credit: China National Space Administration)
Another view of China's Zhurong rover descent capsule separating from the Tianwen 1 orbiter for a landing on the Red Planet in May 2021.
(Image credit: China National Space Administration)
Zhurong's next milestone is expected to occur on Friday or Saturday (May 21 or May 22), when the rover will make its way down the pair of ramps seen in the new greyscale image to reach the Martian surface proper.
Email Meghan Bartels at mbartels@space.com or follow her on Twitter @meghanbartels. Follow uson Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
US Navy Pilot: “My Colleagues And I Saw UFOs Hundreds Of Times”
US Navy Pilot: “My Colleagues And I Saw UFOs Hundreds Of Times”
Last Sunday, the American program “60 Minutes” aired an interview with former US Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves.
He said that he and his colleagues saw strange flying objects ( he calls them the term “unidentified aerial phenomena – UAP) several hundred times, almost every day, between 2015 and 2017.
Most of these sightings came from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia.
Ryan Graves
Graves stated that they have seen these ultra-fast objects so often that they are already used to their presence, but they are very worried about them. In particular, he called them a threat to national security.
“To be honest, I’m worried. You know, if there were tactical aircraft from another country, that would be a major problem,” Graves said.
Senator Mark Rubio , who also appeared on 60 Minutes, agreed with Graves . He warned that UFOs do pose a serious threat to national security and that senators “can no longer laugh at them.”
“Some of my colleagues are very interested in this topic, and they almost giggle when you bring it up. But I don’t think we can let the stigma [of the UFO topic] prevent us from getting an answer to a fundamental question.”
Rubio argued that the possibility that these UFOs are actually drones or aircraft from a rival military power – or another civilization – invade US airspace without permission should attract more attention and resources.
“I want us to take this seriously and develop a process for how to deal with it. I want us to have a process for analyzing the data every time it comes up. To have a place where these events are cataloged and constantly analyzed. until we get the answers. Maybe it has a very simple answer. Maybe not, “Rubio said.
Last December, when Marc Rubio served as head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he urged the Pentagon to declassify reports of UAPs, unidentified aerial events. As a result of his investigation, it was stated that the Pentagon’s Task Force on Unidentified Air Events must report its findings to Congress by June 2021.
According to informant Luis Elizondo , who also spoke in 60 Minutes, the soon-to-be-released report on unidentified aerial phenomena could reveal the biggest failures in US intelligence since 9/11.
Luis Elizondo led the $ 22 million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program from 2007 to 2012, created by then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Like Rubio, Elizondo had access to some classified material that has not yet been released to the public, and he also states that the UFO threat is very real.
“Imagine a technology that can undergo an overload of 6 to 700 g, that can fly at 13,000 miles per hour, that can evade radar, and that can fly through air, water and possibly space,” he said in interview “60 Minutes”.
(RNS) — I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we did at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture.
We ended up talking a lot about aliens. He agreed with me that the Catholic intellectual tradition would have absolutely zero problem with the idea of intelligent life — that is, substances of a rational nature (the classic definition of a “person” in my field) — on other planets.
But when asked in a later, more in-depth interview on these topics if he would be willing to baptize an alien, he said, “Only if she asked.”
At one point in our history, the discussion of nonhuman persons would have been limited to Wookies like Chewbacca in “Star Wars” or Vulcans like Spock in “Star Trek.” But with the stunning “60 Minutes” segment on UFOs this week, it is now fair to say not only that we have something close to strong evidence that we are not alone in the universe but that the idea has gone mainstream.
According to the CBS News flagship show, a report due to Congress next month from the director of national intelligence and the Pentagon is poised to offer firm video evidence of incredible encounters with UFOs — including from Navy pilots who claim to encounter them “every day.”
There is some chance that these vehicles could be supersecret spy technology from, say, China or Russia that we previously didn’t know about. But in light of documented movements that no other known aircraft can pull off — even when flying into a massive headwind and without having any kind of exhaust plume — the UFO explanation is, remarkably, more likely at this point.
Sen. Marco Rubio told “60 Minutes” that his colleagues are very interested in getting the report and that the stigma surrounding this issue is starting to fade.
“I want us to take it seriously and have a process to take it seriously. I want us to have a process to analyze the data every time it comes in,” he said. “That there be a place where this is cataloged and constantly analyzed, until we get some answers. Maybe it has a very simple answer. Maybe it doesn’t.”
I’ve heard lots of folks over the years speculate on what the reality of nonhuman persons on other plants would mean for religious belief — implying that it would be some kind of challenge or problem. But I agree with Ezra Klein, who argued in a recent New York Times column that the challenge is actually more profound for his own secular worldview, which positions humanity as a kind of cosmic accident in an empty cosmos.
On the contrary, Klein notes, religious traditions have always believed that we share both Earth and the larger universe with other intelligent beings: angels, demons, demigods, jinn and other kinds of nonhuman intelligences.
We’ve lost that mindset in the developed West as Klein’s worldview has become dominant, but in a course I teach for theology majors titled “Animals, Angels and Aliens: Beyond the Human in Christian Thought,” I try to help my students understand and appreciate a wider, more open-minded view of the universe, and how recognizing the existence of other powers and principalities might break down their largely myopic worldviews.
One of the texts I use in the course is Thomas F. O’Meara’s wonderful book “Vast Universe,” which gives newbies a nice survey of thought about extraterrestrials and Christian revelation. From Origen in the third century to Thomas Aquinas in the 13th to the Renaissance thinkers of the 15th and 16th centuries, there is already a robust set of theological reflections on a host of questions that nonhuman persons on other planets produce.
Did Jesus die for them too? Or would they need their own Incarnation and savior? Or maybe they didn’t have a primeval original sin that disordered their nature and environment and therefore wouldn’t have the “happy fault” that produced our particular history of salvation? Are they governed by our sense of right and wrong or would it be quite different? Or would they be capable of sinning at all?
Far from being a kind of backbreaker for religious faith, our becoming aware of the existence of other rational creatures in the cosmos would likely reinvigorate theological inquiry quite dramatically, and the church’s intellectual tradition on these questions would be brought to bear in exciting and important ways.
So bring it on, director of national intelligence and Pentagon. Let’s see what you got. The Catholic intellectual tradition stands ready to help humanity interpret and process the fact that we are not alone in the universe.
China’s Mars rover Zhurong has yet to drive off its lander and start exploring.
Credit: Xinhua/Alamy
Now that they know the general landing location of China’s Zhurong Mars rover, scientists are rushing to analyse satellite images and geological maps to pinpoint intriguing features. Of particular significance is a possible mud volcano — a type of landform that no Mars rover has visited before.
“We want to propose the plan for the rover,” says Xiao Long, a planetary geologist at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, who says scientists across China will now have the tantalizing opportunity to influence Zhurong’s journey.
“A number of teams will be trying to plan out the traverse — where you would go in what time frame, to accomplish as many goals as you can in a 90-day mission,” adds Joseph Michalski, a planetary scientist at the University of Hong Kong.
China has landed its first rover on Mars — here’s what happens next
Encased in a lander, the rover touched down shortly after 7 a.m. Beijing time on Saturday, 10 months after China’s Tianwen-1 mission left Earth. Until the touchdown, the potential landing zone — in a vast impact crater called Utopia Planitia — was thousands of kilometres across, meaning that scientists could only loosely finger sites of possible interest.
Images yet to come
No images from the rover have so far been released — and they might not come for weeks, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
But radio signals sent after the rover unfurled its solar panels suggest that it has arrived at the western edge of Utopia Planitia, about 1,800 kilometres northeast of NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed in February. More precise coordinates will soon come from aerial observations of the site, scientists say.
The lander has probably settled on a fairly smooth, sandy plain dotted with small craters, add researchers. They are now studying existing images of the region taken by spacecraft such as NASA’s Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
The site is close to the boundary between Mars’s northern lowlands and southern highlands. NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers also landed close to this region, which might have been the shoreline for an ancient ocean that once covered the planet’s north. “Many missions want to detect if there is a real shoreline or not,” says Long.
Yuyan Zhao, a planetary geochemist at the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Guiyang, says that her priority is to study the composition of sediments for evidence they have been altered by interaction with water, which would suggest that the area had once been immersed. But Michalski argues that more recent geological processes in the area are likely to have obscured evidence of this ancient water body.
A false-colour image of Zhurong’s landing site; the image is a composite of ones taken by NASA’s Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Warmer features, such as rocky surfaces that retain heat at night, appear redder; dusty surfaces, which are cooler, appear blue-green. A conical feature in the top left could be a mud volcano.
Credit: NASA/ASU
Of great interest to scientists is a pitted, cone-shaped feature seen in aerial images, which is about three kilometres northwest of Zhurong’s position: this could be a volcano formed from lava or slurries of mud.
On Earth, mud volcanoes are associated with the production of methane by bacteria. Their presence on Mars might help to explain puzzlingly large quantities of methane that had been previously detected in the Martian atmosphere, says Michalski, but “it is a long shot”.
To find out what the feature is, Long says he’d like to see the use of a laser-based system tied to Zhurong’s spectrometer, to zap the rocks and analyse their composition, as well as ground-penetrating radar to study structures below the surface.
Alfred McEwen, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and principal investigator for the HiRISE imaging instrument on the MRO, says that the pitted cone would also be “number one” on his list of objects to investigate. But Zhao says that the cone could be beyond Zhurong’s reach. The mission’s goal is to cover a distance of several hundred metres over the next three months, she says — although the rover could stay active for longer.
Sand dunes and subsurface ice
The area where Zhurong has landed also features large sand dunes that reveal that winds flowed in a southeasterly or northwesterly direction, says Michalski. The site is also likely to contain rocks that were ejected from nearby impact craters, so “there will be a few different rock types to explore”, he says.
Researchers also hope to find ice below the surface. The shallow cliffs and troughs that appear in the aerial images are reminiscent of features seen in permafrost-layered regions of Canada and Siberia, says Michalski — which suggests that features on Mars might also have been formed by ice-driven processes.
An image, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, from a region slightly to the southeast of Zhurong’s landing site, featuring ‘yardangs’ — linear ridges made of wind-blown dust. Higher-resolution images of the landing site are required to establish whether such ridges are present there, too.
Credit: NASA/UA
In coming days, the CNSA team will check that Zhurong’s instruments are functioning, before driving it down a ramp off the lander.
To explore all these features on Mars’s surface, Zhurong can move at speeds of 200 metres per hour. But it is likely that the 240-kilogram rover will move much more slowly, says David Flannery, an astrobiologist at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, who is part of the team working on Perseverance.
The key challenge will be navigating the complex, rocky landscape autonomously, he says. Even Perseverance — an SUV-sized rover weighing more than a tonne — will probably cover only 100 metres in a day, making it much faster than any other rover before it.
In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Ronald Reagan UFO Believer, Are We Supposed To Be Seeing These Space Ships? Russian plane hit by a UFO, Israel Iron Dome Can’t Defeat a Thousand Rockets, the Secrets Book and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wyoming.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFO’s is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFO’s 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. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
President Ronald Reagan UFO Believer
President Ronald Reagan had personally sighted a UFO when Governor of California and closely followed UFO reports when President He stated in his famous speech at the UN General Assembly in September 1987 the following: Significantly “In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond.”I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside of this world. And yet I ask – is not an alien force already among us?Reagan’s last question reveals that he did not believe that an alien invasion scenario was something that lay ahead in future decades.”
Aliens would interfere with nuclear weapons not because they are dangerous to life here or elsewhere, but because nuclear weapons are a threat to what the aliens wish to collect from Earth.
Ballistic missiles have been shut down by UFOs in both the Soviet Union and the United States. It has been well documented that for 60 years or more, UFOs have been monitoring nuclear weapons facilities, and in some situations have actively interfered with nuclear weapons. Many UFO researchers have interpreted this as a sign that extraterrestrials were trying to warn humanity of the global threat posed by nuclear war. There is also reports of aliens attempting to clean up harmful radiation and even preventing explosions. Indeed, numerous individuals claiming to have been contacted of abducted by extraterrestrials since the 1940s have made a similar point. Many UFOs are seen at the site of nuclear power plants particularly when radiation is involved such at Fukashima, Japan. Keep in mind that many of the greatest civilizations in human history have been formed, basically to counter a common enemy. When you look at the great world powers of the globe today, you find a lot of them formed because of the fear of a common enemy.
It was a contingency humanity had to grapple with in the immediate moment – an extraterrestrial presence was already among us. Global unity was an imperative to deal with all the implications of such a presence! It appears that Reagan was secretly briefed about extraterrestrial life, and some of the threats this posed to humanity.
Star Wars Was More Effective than Known Shooting Do own UFOs
It appears he was really warning the world about classified alien secrets withheld from the global public and launched the most expensive defense program to protect humankind? The Ballistic Missile Defense (Star Wars) can be effectively used against UFOs. A false flag alien invasion scenario was first revealed by Dr. Werner Von Braun, a founder of the US Apollo Space Program, to Carol Rosin shortly before the former’s death in 1977. What however would be the case if Reagan’s warning was authentic, and extraterrestrials are already here? I know there is much closer cooperation between nations when chasing and confronting UFOs. The news media doesn’t seem to have any reliable inside information concerning this entire field of research or has been told not to report.
Are We Supposed To Be Seeing These Space Ships?
What is John Lenard Walson videotaping with his proprietary telescope video cam technique? Are these just satellites or ET spacecraft or, are we seeing large and very sophisticated spacecraft for the first time that we AREN’T supposed to see?
Walson received the following comment about one of the videos: MIT scientist writes, “Hello again And, again, my congratulations on your superb astrophotography. MIT Lincoln Laboratory is the group which has built some of the things you are seeing. Much of what they do is what used to be the Star Wars project, which no doubt involves some of your objects. They examined crashed UFOs held at Wright Patterson AFB and likely back engineered these craft.”
USS Nimitz and Tic-tac UFO
The military personnel who are encountering these phenomena tell remarkable stories. In one example, over the course of two weeks in November 2004, the USS Princeton, a guided-missile cruiser operating advanced naval radar, repeatedly detected unidentified aircraft operating in and around the Nimitz carrier battle group, which it was guarding off the coast of San Diego. In some cases, according to incident reports and interviews with military personnel, these vehicles descended from altitudes higher than 60,000 feet at supersonic speeds, only to suddenly stop and hover as low as 50 feet above the ocean. The United States possesses nothing capable of such feats.
Early Warning Satellites
Initial Anti-missile Warning Satellite
A missile warning satellite spots the launch of a ballistic missile and immediately relays that information to the ground, enabling the targeted country to retaliate, take cover, or possibly shoot down the missile. The first missile warning satellites were born in the early days of the space race, when the 1957 Soviet launch of Sputnik atop its converted intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) reminded U.S. generals that the country had become increasingly vulnerable to attack. The U.S. military knew that an ICBM launched from the Soviet Union to the United States would take about 30 minutes to reach its target, but in the 1950s, American radars located on overseas bases in Norway, Greenland, and Great Britain could spot an ICBM only after it had travelled half its distance. This meant that, at best, the United States would have only 15 minutes to get their strategic bombers, like the B-52 Stratofortress, off the ground.
Three B-52 Stratofortress Had to Launch in 15 Minters after Horn Warning
This was not enough time, and the generals realized that most of their bombers would be blown up before they ever lifted off the runway.
A year before Sputnik, a few scientists and engineers proposed using infrared sensors aboard aircraft to spot the hot exhaust of Russian ICBMs soon after they blasted off. They proposed placing these sensors on high-flying U-2 spyplanes flying around the edge of the Soviet Union. But this plan required a lot of planes flying all the time and would have been expensive, and the plan was not approved by the Air Force.
In 1956, Joseph Knopow, an engineer at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, proposed putting an infrared sensor on a telescope aboard a spacecraft flying in low-Earth-orbit. This spacecraft could spot the hot exhaust of a rising ICBM once it lifted clear of the clouds and increase warning time of an ICBM attack from only 15 minutes to more than 25 minutes. But because satellites are constantly moving around the Earth, as many as 24 satellites would be needed so that several would be positioned over Russia at any one time to spot the missiles. The Air Force adopted this proposal and named it MiDAS, for Missile Defence Alarm System.
The Air Force launched its first MiDAS test satellite in February 1960, but it did not reach orbit. The next several test launches suffered various problems, many of them pertaining to the spacecraft and not its telescope. But committees of scientists asked to evaluate the MiDAS system were sceptical that the telescope’s sensors would ever work. In particular, they were concerned that sunlight reflecting off of clouds would confuse the infrared detectors and register as false alarms.
A second group of test satellites, known as Program 461, was launched in 1966. These satellites had more powerful telescopes capable of spotting cooler solid-propellant rockets like the American submarine-launched Polaris missile. These satellites were more successful than their predecessors and finally proved that the concept could work. But the requirement for a large number of satellites meant that the program would be expensive, and Department of Defence officials cancelled it.
In 1966, a high-level scientific committee determined that a satellite with a big infrared telescope and located in geosynchronous orbit could spot an ICBM launch. The chief advantage of operating in such a high orbit was that only a few satellites, rather than the dozen or more needed for a low-altitude system, were needed to observe all the primary launching sites because each satellite could now see virtually half the Earth. The Air Force abandoned the low-altitude approach and selected satellite maker TRW and sensor manufacturer Aerojet to build the new satellites. This project was soon named the Defence Support Program, or DSP. The first DSP satellite was launched in 1971 into an improper orbit, but the spacecraft itself worked and proved that the technology worked. DSP proved to be a very successful military satellite program.
DSP Satellite
Ever since Ever since 1971, the U.S. Air Force has been launching bigger and more powerful DSP satellites into orbit. The 14th satellite launched entered service in 1989 and was the first of a new class of satellites named DSP-1. In 1992, a DSP was launched from the Space Shuttle. The satellites are barrel-shaped, with four solar panels on extendable panels at their rear. They spin in orbit for stabilization. They have a large telescope that is mounted at an angle at their front end and which sweeps across the face of the Earth six times every minute, meaning that they can detect, or “image,” an infrared heat source, such as a missile, every ten seconds, tracking its trajectory.
Initially two ground stations were built to receive their data, one near Denver, Colorado, and another in Alice Springs, Australia. The Australian site was classified because the Australian government feared public opposition. It was closed in 2001, and now all missile warning data is relayed to the Colorado station.
DSP controllers soon discovered that the satellites could spot other heat sources besides land and submarine-launched missiles. These included forest fires, surface-to-air missiles, and even military aircraft using their afterburners. The U.S. Navy began to use DSP satellites to warn of Soviet bomber attacks on its aircraft carriers. Other intelligence agencies used this information as well.
By the 1980s, the United States began operating infrared sensors on top-secret satellites in highly elliptical orbits that carry them high over the northern part of Russia and low and fast over the southern hemisphere. These sensors augmented the existing early warning system and also focused on specialized targets, such as the anti-ballistic missile system around Moscow.
Like with most military space technologies, the Soviet Union lagged behind the United States by several years. The Soviet Union launched its first missile warning test satellite in 1972, and its first operational satellite in 1977. The Soviet satellites, named Prognoz, operated in highly elliptical orbits that were highly inclined to the equator. These orbits, also known as “Molniya” orbits after the first Soviet communications satellite to use them, enabled the satellite sensors to view a missile above the horizon of the Earth against the cold background of space, which is easier than viewing it against the warm Earth background. But because the satellites are always moving, more of them are needed and the Soviets required a “constellation” of nine satellites to provide full coverage of American ICBM launch sites. This still left other areas of the globe uncovered, like the oceans that hide U.S. missile submarines. The large constellation size, combined with the short lifetimes of the satellites, meant that the Soviets had to launch up to seven satellites in a single year to keep the system running. After the Cold War ended, the Russian government was no longer able to maintain the system and during the 1990s only about half of the constellation was operating at any one time. During the mid-1980s the Soviets began launching missile warning satellites to geosynchronous orbit, like the DSP, but they launched far fewer of these satellites and Western space experts believe that these satellites, called Oko (or “Eye”) have not been very successful.
SBIRS architecture.
DSP has been tremendously successful during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 it provided effective warning of the launch of Iraqi Scud missiles against Saudi Arabia and Israel. But the basic satellite design and its sensor technology are obsolete. This led the U.S. Air Force to begin developing a replacement. After a frustrating series of stops and starts, by the late 1990s the Air Force was developing two different types of satellites, known as SBIRS-High and SBIRS-Low. (SBIRS, pronounced “sibirs,” stands for Space-Based Infrared System.) The SBIRS-High satellites will replace DSP satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Unlike their predecessors, they are three-axis stabilized and their sensors “stare” at the ground continuously rather than sweeping over a specific point every ten seconds, thereby providing much more accurate data. SBIRS-Low satellites, if built, will operate in low Earth orbit and track missiles as they fly above the horizon, offering much more accurate information on their trajectories. Such information is necessary for an effective anti-ballistic missile defense.
Star wars Ground Station Reloadable Terminals
The Star Wars System was helpful in shoting down certain UFOS.The satellites developed precise location, velocity and acceleration data on the enemy vehicles. The planned interceptors can engage threats at ranges beyond the capabilities of their associated radars. Using data generated by SMTS, these interceptors can use that excess capability to negate attacking missiles far from friendly forces and population centers. This shoot-look-shoot option reduces interceptor inventory requirements. Early intercepts made possible by SMTS extend the boundaries of the defended area some three to five times.
SMTS can precisely cue ground radars; allowing them to limit operations until a hostile missile is within their range. This reduces the threat from homing anti-radiation missiles — likely players on modern battlefields. The constellation provides global surveillance for ballistic missile launches within seconds.
Patriot Missile system Firing
The Patriot system gained notoriety during the Persian Gulf War of 1991 with the claimed engagement of over 40 Iraqi Scud missiles, and are likely effective against some UFOs. The system was successfully used against Iraqi missiles in 2003 Iraq War, and has been also used by Saudi, Israel, and Emirati forces in the Yemen conflict against Houthi missile attacks. The use of weather modification technologies that former Secretary of State William Cohen confirmed as existing in 1997. The “weather modification technologies”. Dr. Salla is referring to include directed energy weapons which, by the evidence, have been used in scalar, weather warfare and seismic false flag operations such as December 26, 2004 (Boxing Day) Indonesian Tsunami, the Haiti earthquake of January 12, 2010, and the Chile earthquake of February 27, 2010. It is assumed that much of the bad weather in the US is because Communist China is controlling the jet stream sending it further north into Canada causing unusual cold weather and lack of rain in the West.
Reptilians Allegedly at War with Humanity
UFO’s are being seen all over the world and high ranking Government, Air Force, Army, Navy officials are now coming forward as witnesses to the UFO, Extraterrestrial and free energy secrecy that has been withheld from the public for many years.
An artist’s conception comparing reptilians to humans!
Reptilians – also called Reptoid, lizard people,reptiloids, saurians, or draconians – are supposed reptilian humanoids, which play a prominent role in fantasy, science fiction, and ufology. The idea of reptilians was popularized by David Icke, a conspiracy theorist who claims shape shifting reptilian aliens control Earth by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate human societies. Icke has stated on multiple occasions that many world leaders are, or are possessed by, so-called reptilians. I have no firsthand knowledge of these Exterrestrials but numerous religious books speak of similar beings.
William Tompkins in his book, “Selected by Exterrestrials” who had the highest Navy clearances and worked for numerous aviation companies and reveals numerous secrets states, “The Reptilians have created a background of hell on Earth. The methods and purposes of these devil creatures have been implementing for the last several thousand years has been extremely hateful. They are not benevolent beings coming down to save our planet. But you left out a massive one, “They farm us and clone us. We must stop accepting the excuses they give and understand the truth of what they have done to humanity for 30,000 years. Some of those bastards take out our organs on production lines, sometimes when we are still alive.” Page 359
William Tonkin personally told me of the existence of reptilians and I’m aware of a weapon system shooting down certain Exterrestrials craft. Tomkins claimed they spread a gas from the air that encouraged people to spend their time on sports, sex and other propaganda to ignore what the extraterrestrial were doing. When the government became aware of certain aliens they built large space ships designed by Tomkins to destroy the anti-Et UFOs. I’ve known several people who claimed they saw the crashed ships after they were shot down. Tomkins worked for TRW and they built all kinds of effective lasers since the early 60s. Allegedly friendly aliens helped us with the advanced technology to built effective space lasers some a hundred feet long and spaceships to carry them. Some 747 aircraft will alls carry a 26 foot laser that could defeat the alien shields. Allegedly, there is an alliance with several allies to defeat the UFOs.
A depiction of a Navy craft carries a chemical laser that obtains its energy from a chemical reaction. Chemical lasers can reach continuous wave mega power that can allegedly destroy alien UFOs.
Russians Claim UFO hits Aircraft
Damaged Wing
Russians claim forty pilots had encounters with UFOs. One pilot narrowly avoided a complete disaster has the UFO hit his aircraft’s wing and damages it. Another claimed his craft was hit by a bright light coming from a UFO that disenabled his plane. Soviet Missile bases were attacked in the Ukraine in 1962 and the missiles suddenly became active and seemed prepared to launch. Codes were entered and the missiles were ready for launch until the UFO vanished and the missile operators could shut them down to avoid World War 111. The US spy plane is thought to be the new SR-72 Mach 6 aircraft, which is replacing the Blackbird stealth jet that the US has previously used. It was used to spy on Vietnam, North Korea and the Soviet Union with the new jet thought to be able to travel over 4,600mph.
Israel Iron Dome Can’t Defeat Two Thousand Rockets
Iran Dome Destroys 85% of Gaza Rockets
The Israeli military said Hamas militants have fired more 1,650 rockets into Israel since the conflict began, with 200 of them falling short and landing inside Gaza. “More than a thousand rockets have been fired towards Israel and the Iron Dome missile system built in Israel had an 85 percent to 90 percent interception rate despite the Hamas terrorist organization attempting to overwhelm the system”.
Iranian Built Rockets Fired by Hamas from Gaza
Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a military spokesman, said “Two infantry brigades were sent to the area, indicating preparations for a possible ground invasion into Gaza to wipe out the rockets”. The new President seems weak and is being tested by Iran and Humus for his resolve to support his ally Israel that would never happen under the previous administration. Expect more tests from around the world like the hacking off the oil pipeline in the US. The Iran Dome system is destroying numerous rockets but many are falling and killing people in Israel. The Israeli Air Force has retailed bombing suspected rocket sites in Gaza. The long range rocks are built in Iran. 100+ killed in Gaza, 6 killed in Israel as conflict escalates Palls of gray smoke rose in Gaza, as Israeli airstrikes leveled two apartment towers and hammered the militant group’s multiple security installations, destroying the central police compound. Relatives gather outside the damaged home of Nadine,16, and Khalil Awaad, a father and daughter who were killed by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, May 12, 2021. (AP Photos/Heidi Levine) more.
Rocket Damage Kills several Israeli Women
relatives gather outside the damaged home of Nadine, 16, and Khalil Award, a father and daughter who were killed by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in their village of Dahmash near the Israeli city of Lod, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photos/Heidi Levine) In Israel, barrages of hundreds of rockets fired by Gaza’s Hamas rulers and other militants at times overwhelmed missile defenses and brought air raid sirens and explosions echoing across Tel Aviv, and other cities. While the rapidly escalating conflict has brought images familiar from 2014 Israel-Hamas war, the past day has also seen a startling new factor: A burst of fury from Israel’s Palestinian citizens in support of those living in the territories and against Israel’s recent response to unrest in Jerusalem and its current operations in Gaza.
Hamas Media Tower Destroyed by Israeli Fighter Bomber
Thanks to the Daily News.
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In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Ronald Reagan UFO Believer, Are We Supposed To Be Seeing These Space Ships? Russian plane hit by a UFO, Israel Iron Dome Can’t Defeat a Thousand Rockets, the Secrets Book and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wyoming.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFO’s is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFO’s 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. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
UFO Sightings in the United States
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ARIZONA LIGHTS
Payson– on April 8, 2021, round orb, dense with beam both above and below the object. Edges of object were very bright. Also one that defies description in shape. These photos were taken at varies times from 8 April 21 8:42 PM to 7 May 21 at 8:15 PM. There were no aircraft or cars in the area when these trail camera photos were taken. Additionally there was no moon out at these times. These photos were taken with a MOULTRIE trail camera. Also my horse was in the area and she seemed to take no notice of any of these objects. The area of these photos was approximately 100 feet long by approx. 40 feet wide.
CALIFORNIA LIGHTS
Fresno– May 5, 2021, my wife called me outside to look at what she is recording in the sky. I stopped counting at 30 because I was checking everything out. they looked like a string of stars in a line heading from south to north. Note: SpaceX has already sent 1,500 mini satellites into low orbit.
COLORADO LIGHTS
Denver– on April 28, 2021, Star Cruiser #705C (c)
FLORIDA LIGHTS
Daytona Beach – May 9, 2021, We watched as shiny objects expelled the cloud like poufs in photo! They were just in front of us and we drove directly under them. No plane in the area. No sound!
MINNESOTA LIGHTS
Faribault– on April 29, 2021, light flashes nonstop more like a tube type object the speed was very high.
NEVADA LIGHTS
Las Vegas – on April 24, 2021, I did not see with my own eyes. I was taking pictures and saw it on my picture or the next day. No one who was outside with me or anyone else stated they saw anything. I did not see anything when I snap the picture I was taking a picture of the Eiffel tower.
NEW JERSEY LIGHTS
New Jersey – May 8, 2021, this is the second time it has appeared over Jersey City.
NEW MEXICO LIGHTS
Las Cruces – on March 8, 2021, too much to type. Please contact for full story on both sightings which happened within one month’s time. Not sure this is any type craft?
OHIO OBJECT
Steubenville– May 8, 2021, could not see it with our eyes or on a normal camera only with the IR camcorder and had no noise and appeared to be rapidly spinning fast enough to make it look like two eyes.
PENNSYLVANIA OBJECT
New Cumberland – May 8, 2021, I took a break from my bike ride to take a couple photos of my bike. When I was looking at the photo later and noticed a dark object. When I zoomed in on the photo it looked like a classic UFO shape. This object is not present in the second photo. This photo is located within about a half mile of an airport and within a mile of a military base. It was very windy and I do not believe it’s a drone.
UTAH LIGHTS
Salt Lake City – May 1, 2021, I was driving back to work from my Lunch Break when I saw what looked to be shiny Balloons in the Sky but then they were behaving a little odd for Balloons, when I looked harder I thought maybe they could be Birds but they were disappearing and reappearing, dancing and making shapes, they seemed to be like orbs not birds. There was about 10 of them moving oddly in the sky, so I pulled over and took a video.
WASHINGTON LIGHTS
Gold Bar – May 4, 2021, it was a long vertical row of lights like lined up dots about 7″ with my hand . The object was larger than the length of my hand going to the southeast very fast solid lights. It was going so fast it was out of my sight within a minute. We are 60 miles from the cascade Stevens Pass and it went past the mountains within minute. I see a lot of unexplained things.
Note: It appears that the witness did some editing to brighten up the photo because at 9:25 PM it should have been dark. There are some other lights in the photo, but the witness doesn’t mention them in her report. Thanks to Will Pocket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite
Olympia – on April 14, 2021, I took this picture as I was starting out on a walk in Priest Point Park. I could see something through the screen so there are a series. These are several. Please let me know what you think! Response of Witness to Explanation That the Object Was a Reflection: I figured that might be what it was, but then a couple of friends said it might be a UFO. One was ‘certain’ so I thought I’d send it along. Take care and thank you so much for checking it out. Note: The apparent object is likely a reflection and not a real object.
WYOMING CYLINDER
Glenrock July 17, 2019 was driving to my mother in laws and stopped to take a few pictures of the approaching storm. I didn’t realize I caught a UFO following the storm. The photos were taken over Glenrock WY the photos are zooming in on the original.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
AUSTRALIA LIGHTS
Melbourne – May 1, 2021, looking back over some photos my son took, before flying out of Melbourne Airport, we noticed a strange artifact in a few of the images. I assumed it was some kind of camera glitch, but then we found our friends phone had pictures with the same thing in them. The IPhone in live mode took a few videos.
DENMARK OBJECT
Toreby L – on May 9, 2021, decided to record storm clouds forming and by accident I did see a flying object which I cannot see with naked eye, I presume. It’s because it was moving very fast. It it’s a in a second video, but what I saw is unexplainable .
FRANCE LIGHTS
Leers – “on April 11, 2019, very often in the morning I film the rising sun, I saw an object on the right side of the sun that comes out on the left side. I saw in the eye of my camera but on the photo it is not clear because the camera hasn’t focused. I observed it clearly as it was really huge. I have several times seen a vessel”.
PUERTO RICO OBJECT
San Juan – March 13, 2021, I like to follow the airplanes due to I live right by their path and after I noticed the object across the airplane I decided to start to take photos of the object.
UK/ENGLAND OBJECT
Slough – May 10, 2021, Iwas taking pictures of the sky I didn’t notice anything until I saw a small black spec and enlarged it. it could be a bird but it’s odd and though I would post in case.
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The alien abduction phenomenon is already inherently strange. Here we have cases of people who claim to have been whisked away by non-human entities from space, or perhaps somewhere else, who have come back with bizarre tales of being examined, studied, and operated upon. One of the weirder areas of the phenomenon is what is called implants, in which these entities have hidden within the abductee’s body some sort of metal chip or device for reasons unknown. There have been quite a few cases that have featured this weird feature, and one of the strangest and most high-profile of alien implants comes from a humble construction worker who one day went on a drive, only to be plagued by alien forces and discover an unexplained implant within his arm.
It all began with a premonition. On April 2, 1978, a cement contractor from Yuma, Colorado by the name of Tim Cullen woke from a terrifying nightmare. In it, he had been involved in a terrible car accident along a lonely stretch of highway, and it had been so vivid and realistic that he could see every detail of the landscape around him as the accident played out. It was so real, in fact, that he was startled and not a little relieved to be back in his own bed, but the images from the bad dream still flickered through his mind. Indeed, memories of that nightmare would often intrude upon his waking hours, like some ominous portent of doom, until a week later, when it would turn out to have perhaps been a glimpse into the future.
On April 9, Cullen was driving with his friend, Ken Ruberg, along Highway 34 when he was hit by a sudden realization that this was the same stretch of road from his nightmare a week before. It was so shocking in its clarity and sense of foreboding that he immediately thought about stopping the car and turning back, but it was too late. Even as he panicked at this scene from his nightmare, the car went out of control and rolled five times before coming to a stop, leaving him unable to move and with a severely injured neck. Ruberg had somehow escaped injury and helped his friend out of the vehicle before waving down a passing vehicle and getting Cullen to a hospital, where it was found that he had fractured his neck. He was put under sedation and underwent surgery, during which he had another vivid dream, this time of a strange light in the sky hovering over his car as he and his wife looked on in amazement. Things would only get stranger from there.
On May 30, 1978, Cullen went to the hospital to have a check-up done on his neck, which was still wrapped in a brace. The doctor’s visit went smoothly and they headed back home along a lonely stretch of Highway 59 through expanses of hayfields and grassland as far as the eye could see. As they drove, at around 11 pm he again was hit by a jolt of familiarity, a sort of déjà vu, as he had lived through this moment before in the dream he had had at the hospital under sedation. He was convinced that the dream, like that of the accident, was a premonition, and instinctively looked around for the light that he had seen. At first there was only darkness, and then an illuminated object bloomed up from behind a low hill, passed right in front of their car, and then once again dipped below the hill. Cullen would say of what happened:
It went out a ways, alongside, and as I brought the car down to a stop, it came back toward us a bit. I backed the car up, and the UFO went out to the west of us. It came in under the power and telephone lines and hovered over a pasture. It was about a hundred foot long and twenty foot wide, and about ten foot high. It didn’t make any noise. There were two diffused lights that shone at the back of the craft, one a light yellow, and the other red. We couldn’t see very good. We sat there and stared at it for a while. After we looked at the two lights for a few minutes I turned to my wife and told her we might as well go on to town. Now, when I think about it, when I turned and started driving, I did have an odd feeling, but it didn’t really register with me. I remember coming back to Yuma, but not looking at a clock. I was kind of shocked by the whole thing. I didn’t really think of looking at a clock.
He would only later realize that he and his wife had experienced missing time that night, but didn’t really give it much thought at the time. Things would get even odder when several years later, in 1980, Cullen had another encounter with a similar craft with “two diffused yellow lights” at exactly the same spot on Highway 59, and this would not even be the end of his UFO experiences. In 1994 he was driving with his wife and three daughters about 40 miles south of Yuma when they all witnessed a dimly lit craft with blue and white lights hover over the road right in front of them. They stopped the car and watched in for around 10 minutes before it headed off into the night to leave them dumbstruck. This is all very weird, but he would not put it all together in his head until 1998, when an accident at work would send him further down the rabbit hole.
On this day, Cullen was at work when he smashed his thumb with a hammer. Thinking his finger to be broken or at the very least dislocated, he went to see a Dr. Mark Hubner at the Yuma Clinic and get an x-ray done. After the procedure, Hubner was a bit puzzled, because it seemed as if there was a piece of metal in Cullen’s arm. It should not have been there, as Cullen had never had any sort of surgery to that effect on his arm, making him just as confused as the doctor. That was when it all hit him at once, the accident, the lost time, the subsequent UFO sightings, it all came crashing back to him, and he was convinced that it all had something to do with that thing in his arm. He would say of this:
I knew then what had happened. I knew it was an alien implant from that first encounter in 1978. There was lost time that night. I have to assume I was abducted. In a short span of time in 1978 it was revealed to me that we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, and it was also proven to me that God is with us always, without a doubt. The events that have happened to me over the past twenty-seven years have had an enormous effect on my life and what I believe.
Cullen could not remember any actual abduction, assuming that his memory had been wiped, but he was sure of it. Desperate for answers, Cullen reached out to the UFO community and managed to get put in touch with a Dr. Roger K. Leir in California, who had made a name for himself as being a sort of expert on alleged alien implants and had removed them from several patients. After a year of correspondence, Cullen made a trip out to a medical facility in Thousand Oaks, California, in order to undergo surgery to remove the strange object in his arm, and it would be the 9th such procedure that Leir would carry out. The surgical team, which included Leir and a Dr. John D, Matrisciano, managed to remove a small metal object measuring about 7 centimeters long and 4 centimeters wide and with an array of long proceptors on one end that were reportedly attached to the nerve endings. The whole of it was apparently covered in a reddish-brown membrane, thought to be for the purpose of preventing rejection by the body. According to Dr. Leir, the implant was due to be analyzed, saying of it:
The implant has been turned over to DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS, here in California for complete analysis. It seems the more we investigate and learn, the more questions we have. Digital Instruments has technology to measure and analyze matter, 10 atoms at a time. We are researching both the biological and metallurgical aspects of Tim’s implant. Again, the more knowledge gained, the more we need to know.
It is unclear what results this analysis uncovered, and in the meantime, Cullen has become a bit of a champion for other alleged alien abductees who have had implants put into them. He is remarkable in being so outspoken on the matter, and that he has allowed his real name to be used where so many others like him have preferred to remain anonymous. He has said of his drive to get his story out there and raise awareness of alien implants:
This could be a huge medical breakthrough for doctors who want to use biological, metal, or implants of other materials, in their patients. I feel that the American public must learn of this situation, I feel that the membrane needs to be analyzed and developed, in the public domain, as quickly as possible. It is a given that it can hide metal in deep tissue, did it in my body for 20 years. We owe it to ourselves and our children, etc., to do what properly and morally needs to be done. Several prestigious labs have chemically broken down the make-up of the membrane. With the proper research, funded by large pharmaceutical companies, human body rejection of such implants could save many lives in the future. I’m coming forward because someone has to put a face to the alien stories, and cause more people to come forward. The more people we can find with implants, the more evidence we’re going to have. We can study things a lot more and get things done; get rid of the stigma around it. The truth needs to come out!
As to why these aliens seemed to have been following him around and shown an interest to begin with, Cullen has mused that they were interested in his psychic ability, which is what had originally allowed him to foresee the initial crash. According to him, the aliens are curious as to what produces these abilities in humans, and so the implant was put there to monitor this latent ability within him. In the meantime, it is not clear what has become of Cullen’s implant since then, or what the results of the analysis were, and we are left to wonder just what is going on here. What happened to him out on that lonely road? Were these inscrutable forces studying him for reasons we may never understand? What happened to that implant and why was it put there? Is there anything to this at all? It is unsure what the answers may be, but the case of Tim Cullen has become one of the more standout tales of the greater phenomenon that is the mystery of alien implants
Actor Patton Oswalt has enough geeky, nerdy credentials – creator and star of M.O.D.O.K.; actor in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Dimension 404, The King of Queens; sci-fi fan and more – that you’d hope he’s had some real paranormal experiences to go along with them. It turns out he hasn’t but his father had some as military pilot. Patton revealed one of those experiences recently on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
“So he said he was on a test flight, and he saw a bunch of objects. He said they look like glowing balls of energy in like these like round metal cages, and they were keep tracking with the jets. And they were doing these turns that you couldn’t do under those G-forces and would disappear.”
Oswalt’s dad, Larry J. Oswalt, was a career United States Marine Corps officer and pilot who named his first son after General George S. Patton – “I’m assuming with very high hopes.” Raised a military brat, he didn’t follow his father into the military but served his country in in fictional ways – as Agent Koenig on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fire Marshall Boone on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He also helped save the country by completing his late wife Michelle McNamara’s book on the mysterious Golden State Killer, who was caught less than two months after “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” was released.
“And when he came down and talked to his base commander and said, ‘Hey, my squad saw…,’ they were in a basement, and [the people there] went, ‘Were they metal cages with like energy balls in them?’ And he goes, ‘Yeah…’ [And they said], ‘do you want to report them?’ And he’s like, ‘No, I don’t.’ And his commander went, ‘Good, fine,’ and then like walked away.”
I didn’t see anything.
Oswalt told Kimmel his father said he and other pilots saw UFOs “all the time” but rarely reported them because “they didn’t want to go into a crank file” or be grounded for seeing things. (Watch the entire interview here.) Oswalt doesn’t have any such qualms. The Kimmel show aired just a day after the blockbuster “60 Minutes” report on UFOs and Oswalt referred to the upcoming government report on UFOs and asked Kimmel if he knew if it was “just going to cover A.A.T.I.P. (the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program) or go all the way back to Project Blue Book.” Kimmel promised “I’ll call you after the show and let you know what’s going on” … Kimmel is also a UFO nerd, having discussed them on his show with former U.S. presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Jimmy Kimmel may have talked UFOs with presidents, but the guy this writer would like to nerd out with over UFOs would be Patton Oswalt. Let’s hope other talk shows take interest and bring him on share more of his father’s encounters.
China deelt eerste foto's die verkenner maakte op Mars
China heeft vandaag de eerste foto’s verspreid die de onbemande verkenner Zhurong na zijn landing op Mars heeft gemaakt. Op een van de foto’s is de voorkant van het karretje te zien en zijn nieuwe werkplek, de hoogvlakte Utopia Planitia. Een andere afbeelding laat de zonnepanelen aan de achterkant van de verkenner zien.
De Zhurong landde zaterdag op Mars. China is het derde land dat erin slaagt een ‘rover’ gecontroleerd te laten landen op de rode planeet. Dat lukte eerder alleen de Sovjet-Unie en de Verenigde Staten. Europa wil in 2023 toetreden tot dat gezelschap. De honderden miljoenen kilometers lange oversteek naar Mars is al lastig, maar de laatste minuten voor de landing zijn nog veel moeilijker. Vaartuigen schieten op hoge snelheid de dampkring van Mars binnen, waarna ze in korte tijd moeten afremmen om uiteindelijk voorzichtig neer te komen op de grond.
De Chinese verkenner is vernoemd naar een mythische vuurgod. Het rijdende laboratorium zit vol wetenschappelijke instrumenten. Daarmee wil China sporen van leven vinden en het oppervlak en de bodem van Mars in kaart brengen. Daarnaast wil Peking zijn grote ambities in de ruimte laten zien. Het land wil in de komende jaren onder meer zijn eigen ruimtestation bouwen. Dat heet Tiangong (Hemels Paleis).
Utopia Planitia, de hoogvlakte waar de ‘rover’ actief is, is miljarden jaren geleden ontstaan door de inslag van een ruimterots. Mogelijk heeft er ooit een oceaan gestaan. Diep onder de grond is er nu misschien ijs te vinden.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS
UFO Sighted Over Czechoslovakia ( May 15, 2021 )
Impressive UFO sighting at or Czecho-Slovakia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, on May 15, 2021.
More evident every day
credit :Caterine Smooth
UFO / UAP Sighted Over Hawkins County, Texas. ( March 6, 2021 )
UAP : Unidentified Aerial Phenomena :Luminous Entities Sightings of these entities become more frequent and evident through security cameras. This stunning capture was taken early on March 6, 2021 in Hawkins County, Texas.
VIDEO 2 : UFO / UAP : Minas Gerais, Brazil, on March 18 and 23, 2021.
VIDEO 3 : UFO / UAP :These two captures were taken on two consecutive nights in August / 2019 by Bob Salazar in Wyoming, USA.
Three UFO "Orbs" Filmed Over New York City Moments Before They Disappear. May 17, 2021
This was filmed from The Brooklyn Heights Promenade, also called the Esplanade in Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City on May 17, 2021 around 10:30 pm. The witness states that before filming he watched these UFOs doing strange movements and this is what caught his attention. During the filming of the objects they started to vanish one by one.
Thanks to DRV NYC for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original video
I was watching the HD live International Space Station cam when the day soon turned into night and then suddenly a glowing triangle appeared. The object had four glowing lights on it and the colors ranged from green, purple and yellow. Although it looks like four different objects, when I enhanced it adding light...it was obvious that there was a center area linking all the lights.
Recently the US government released a video in night vision of several triangle shaped craft flying around a Navy ship. Todays sighting only compounds the evidence on that subject. This ISS recording is 100% proof that aliens were near the space station today. Right now...is a tipping point for humanity. The Doomsday Clock is close to midnight. China wants war with the world, and the world is ready to give it to them. Covid19 has killed over three million people and the mutant strains may kill the remaining humans if were cant stop it from spreading. This...living on the edge mentality...is what aliens are highly interested in. By studying humanity now...dealing with the worst case scenarios, they can determine if we are ready be allowed to expand into the universe or not. Yes...it's not our decision. But the world is putting its best foot forward, fighting the noble fight, win or lose, we will try our best.
Retired Navy officers have issued a chilling warning that UFO sightings - which have repeatedly violated US airspace - possess technology that is up to 1,000 years ahead of that used by the United States, reports dailymail.
60 Minutes: Bill Whitaker reports on the regular sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, that have spurred a report due to Congress next month.
CBS Sunday Morning: Our fascination with aliens has also led us to speculate about unidentified flying objects – unexplained airborne phenomena – that might be of extraterrestrial origin.
Correspondent David Pogue reports on how, as the scientific community continues to question the legitimacy of possible alien visitations, the government's attention toward UFOs has become more serious.
CNBC Television: Gadi Schwartz joins 'The News with Shepard Smith' to report new videos from the U.S. military that raise questions about UFOs.
When it comes to UFOs, or what the Pentagon refers to as “unidentified aerial phenomena,” the United States has “a massive intelligence failure on its hands,” said Christopher Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence.
“It’s extremely disturbing to think that, after spending hundreds of billions of dollars for so many years, and believing our airspace to be secure, in fact, we’ve had vehicles operating restricted military airspace with impunity on a recurring and sustained basis for many years,” said Mellon, who served under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
The Pentagon declassified three videos taken by U.S. Navy pilots last April which show unidentified objects flying at high speeds in the Earth’s atmosphere along with audio of Navy pilots expressing shock and awe.
The U.S. Navy formalized a reporting process in 2019 for pilots to report incidents of UFO sightings, saying in a statement that there have been “a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated airspace in recent years.”
Congress is set to be briefed on UFOs in June, but Mellon told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” that it is unlikely the classified information that will be shared with senators will be shared with the public.
That’s because details about strategic defense systems, like those used to prevent nuclear warfare, could be disclosed, and that would put U.S. safety at risk.
Mellon advised that an important next step for the federal government when it comes to unidentified aerial phenomena would be to “overcome our self-inflicted ignorance, and start collecting data.”
This sample of red trinitite was found to contain a previously unknown type of quasicrystal.
Credit: Luca Bindi, Paul J. Steinhardt
Scientists searching for quasicrystals — so-called ‘impossible’ materials with unusual, non-repeating structures — have identified one in remnants of the world’s first nuclear bomb test.
The previously unknown structure, made of iron, silicon, copper and calcium, probably formed from the fusion of vaporized desert sand and copper cables. Similar materials have been synthesized in the laboratory and identified in meteorites, but this one, described in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on 17 May, is the first example of a quasicrystal with this combination of elements1.
Impossible symmetries
Quasicrystals contain building blocks made up of arrangements of atoms that — unlike those in ordinary crystals — do not repeat in a regular, brickwork-like pattern. Whereas ordinary crystal structures look identical after being translated (shifted along certain directions), quasicrystals have symmetries that were once considered impossible: for example, some have pentagonal symmetry, and so look the same if rotated by one-fifth of a full twist.
Materials scientist Daniel Shechtman, now at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, first discovered such an impossible symmetry in a synthetic alloy in 1982. It had pentagonal symmetry when rotated in each of various possible directions, something that would occur if its building blocks were icosahedral — that is, had a regular shape with 20 faces2. Many researchers initially questioned Shechtman’s findings, because it is mathematically impossible to fill space using only icosahedrons. Shechtman ultimately won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery.
At around the same time, Paul Steinhardt, a theoretical physicist now at Princeton University in New Jersey, and his collaborators had begun to theorize the possible existence of non-repeating 3D structures. These had the same symmetry as an icosahedron, but were assembled from building blocks of several different types, which never repeated in the same pattern3 — thus explaining why the mathematics of symmetrical crystals had missed them. Mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, now at the University of Oxford, UK, and other researchers had previously discovered analogous patterns in two dimensions, which are called Penrose tilings.
Steinhardt recalls the moment in 1982 when he first saw the experimental data from Shechtman’s discovery and compared it with his theoretical predictions. “I stood up from my desk and went and looked at our pattern, and you couldn’t tell the difference,” he says. “So that was kind of an amazing moment.”
In subsequent years, materials scientists synthesized many types of quasicrystal, expanding the range of possible forbidden symmetries. And Steinhardt and his colleagues later found the first naturally occurring ‘icosahedrite’ in fragments from a meteorite recovered in Eastern Siberia, Russia. This quasicrystal probably formed in a collision between two asteroids in the early Solar System, Steinhardt says. Some of the lab-made quasicrystals were also produced by smashing materials together at high speed, so Steinhardt and his team wondered whether the shockwaves from nuclear explosions might form quasicrystals, too.
‘Slicing and dicing’
In the aftermath of the Trinity test — the first ever detonation of a nuclear bomb, which took place on 16 July 1945 at New Mexico’s Alamogordo Bombing Range — researchers found a vast field of greenish glassy material that had formed from the liquefaction of desert sand. They dubbed this trinitite.
The plutonium bomb had been detonated on top of a 30-metre-high tower, which was laden with sensors and their cables. As a result, some of the trinitite that formed had reddish inclusions, says Steinhardt. “It was a fusion of natural material with copper from the transmission lines.” Quasicrystals often form from elements that would not normally combine, so Steinhardt and his colleagues thought samples of the red trinitite would be a good place to look for quasicrystals.
“Over the course of ten months, we were slicing and dicing, looking at all sorts of minerals,” Steinhardt says. “Finally, we found a tiny grain.” The quasicrystal has the same kind of icosahedral symmetry as the one in Shechtman’s original discovery.
“The dominance of silicon in its structure is quite distinct,” says Valeria Molinero, a theoretical chemist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. “However, after many quasicrystals have been synthesized in the lab,” she says, “what I find truly intriguing is that they are so scarce in nature.” Steinhardt says this might be because the formation of quasicrystals involves “unusual combinations of elements and unusual arrangements”.
Like most known quasicrystals, the trinitite structure seems to be an alloy — a metal-like material made up of positive ions in a sea of electrons. This is unusual for silicon, which typically occurs in rock in an oxidized form: reversing the oxidation would require extreme conditions, such as the intense heat and pressure of a shockwave, says Lincoln Hollister, a geoscientist at Princeton.
Steinhardt suggests that quasicrystals could be used for a kind of nuclear forensic science, because they might reveal sites where a covert nuclear test has occurred. Quasicrystals might also form in other materials that were generated in violent conditions, such as fulgurite, the material made when lightning strikes rock, sand or other sediments. “The quasicrystal saga will continue!” says Hollister.
Spaceship Moon Theory: Is The Moon An Artificial Alien Satellite
Spaceship Moon Theory: Is The Moon An Artificial Alien Satellite
Over the years, it has been scientifically observed that the Earth’s Moon holds some strange characteristics.
The Moon is the 5th largest natural satellite in the Solar System. It is believed to have been created by a giant impact between the young Earth and a Mars-sized body.
After examination, it has been noted that the Moon is apparently in the wrong orbit for its size, according to its current assumed density. Astronomy data indicates that the internal regions of the Moon are less dense than the outer, giving rise to the inevitable speculation that it could be hollow.
Speculative cutaway model of a Spaceship Moon
Some of these claims come from the fact that when meteors strike the Moon, it rings like a bell. More specifically, when the Apollo crew, on November 20, 1969, released the lunar module, after returning to the orbiter, the module impact with the Moon caused their seismic equipment to register a continuous reverberation like a bell for more than an hour.
In July of 1970, members of the then Soviet Academy of Sciences, Michael Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, proposed the Spaceship Moon Theory.
The pseudoscientific theory claims that the Earth’s moon may actually be an alien spacecraft. Vasin and Shcherbakov’s thesis was that the Moon is a hollowed-out planetoid created by unknown beings with technology far superior to any on Earth.
Huge machines would have been used to melt rock and form large cavities within the Moon. The Moon would, therefore, consist of a hull-like inner shell and an outer shell made from metallic rocky slag.
The “Spaceship Moon” was then placed into orbit around the Earth. Proponents of this theory point to the increased reports and pictures of UFOs taken by NASA on their missions to the moon.
The moon has tens of thousands of craters of various sizes covering the surface; however, all of the craters have the same depth. This suggests to scientists that there may be some sort of metallic barrier underneath the surface protecting it from damage.
It has been found that asteroids and meteors not only create shallow craters on the Moon’s surface, but produce a convex floor to the crater instead of concave as expected, supporting the idea of a rigid shell.
The moon is far older than previously expected, maybe even older than the Earth or the Sun. The oldest age for the Earth is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old, while Moon rocks were dated at 5.3 billion years.
The chemical composition of the dust upon which the rocks sit is remarkably different from the rocks themselves. This indicates that the lunar surface may have been moved from somewhere else and placed on the Moon.
Some of the Moon’s craters originated internally, yet there is no indication that the Moon was ever hot enough to produce volcanic eruptions. Hundreds of moonquakes are recorded each year that cannot be attributed to meteor strikes. Some of the quakes seem to follow a specific schedule
The moon’s crust is much harder than originally presumed. When NASA was recorded drilling down a few inches into the Moon’s surface, it appeared that metal shavings were visible.
Earth’s moon is the only natural satellite in the Solar System that has a stationary, near-perfect circular orbit. How does one explain the coincidence that the moon is just the right distance, coupled with just the right diameter, to completely cover the sun during an eclipse?
Professional astronomers have been gradually discouraged from investigating a phenomenon that has been reported on the Moon for 1,000 years. It is short-lived light, color, or other changes in the appearance of the lunar surface, referred to as Transient Lunar Phenomena.
The moon is also known to contain a unique combination of metals. According to Ancient Code, it includes traces of metals that are not naturally occurring, such as brass. The amount of titanium that is found on the moon is also 10 times what is found on Earth. Scientists call this ratio “mind-blowing.”
The mysteries of the moon and the universe are far from being solved and the possibilities of what lies beyond our earth’s atmosphere may not be discovered in our lifetime.
The facts and theories that define the universe are malleable with every new thought, technological advancement and scientific discovery. It’s just a matter of what’s next.
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