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...
06-06-2021
This Native Tribe Is In Contact with Aliens
This Native Tribe Is In Contact with Aliens
This Native Tribe Is In Contact with Aliens
According to the Seri tribe, from the desert of Sonora, Mexico – they have been in contact with aliens for generations. #Aliens #UfoSighting #Disclosure
They live in under ground cities, in the ocean and Antarctica. Lots of info out there. Many ancestors speak of “portals” or physical “doorways” that can only be used if you reached a different level on consciousness. AK 1776
Above Majestic | Prepare For Change | The Implication Of A Secret Space Program
Above Majestic | Prepare For Change | The Implication Of A Secret Space Program
“Above Majestic”: A look at the origins, history and conspiracies behind the “Majestic 12”, a clandestine group of military and corporate figureheads charged with reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.
Narrated by Jordan Sather, Above Majestic is a shocking and proactive look at what it would take to hide a multi-trillion dollar space program from the public and the implications this would have for humanity.
MJ-12 or “Majestic 12” refers to a clandestine group of elite military and corporate figureheads. Appointed by Harry S. Truman is 1952, they were to handle and manage all information related to extraterrestrial craft retrieval and the reverse engineering of technology.
How were this compartmentalized and unacknowledged Special Access Programs funded over the decades? What technologies have they developed and at what price to humanity?
UFOs Sighted From Mexico City to Cancún, Mexico ( June 4, 2021 )
STATEMENT : O v n i s Vuelo de CD de México a Cancún Increíble... minutos antes dije "imagínate que viéramos unos ovnis ahorita aquí por la ventanilla"... Y veo esto....
TRANSLATE :O v n i s Flight from CD Mexico to Cancun Amazing... minutes before I said ′′ Imagine we saw some UFOs right now out the window "... And I see this....
note : no audio
credit : Porque Yo Amo A Cancún. A.C
UFOs Sighted From ISS ( June 5, 2021 )
UFOs captured by UFO researcher Rafael Navarro Ferrari : here are two examples of his captures both captured on June 5, 2021. STATEMENT : Ya llegaron..! : They have arrived..!
UFO Sighted Over Venezuela ( June 4, 2021 )
Los Teques, Venezuela
STATEMENT :What a beauty this is a show.The lightning of the Catatumbo in the early morning today vibrated like never Only in Venezuela you see this. ORIGINAL: Que Belleza esto es un Espectáculo. El relámpago del Catatumbo en la madrugada de hoy vibro como nunca Solo en Venezuela 🇻🇪 se ve esto
credit : Keila Flowerzitha
UFO Sighted Over Omaha, Nebraska ( June 5, 2021 )
STATEMENT : UFO spotted in Omaha Nebraska
VIDEO 2 : SLC, Utah two days ago. What do you guys think?
VIDEO 3 :Was watching the Space X launch and noticed this.
credit : VIDEO 1 : Lucio Suen : Omaha, Nebraska
VIDEO 2: Madison Magleby Chichia : Provo, Utah : note : no audio
VIDEO 3 : Ryan Poelman : Grand Rapids, Michigan
UFO Sighted Over Wrocław, Poland ( May 22, 2021 )
STATEMENT :Ja w sobotę widziałem UFO w centrum Wrocka!
TRANSLATE : On Saturday, I also saw a UFO in the center of Wrock! a tak patrząc gołym okiem jak to wyglądało? Faktycznie wydawało się duże : and looking with the naked eye, how did it look It did seem big
credit : Piotr Pe
UFO sighted Over Seongnam-si, Korea ( June 4, 2021 )
STATEMENT : VIDEO 1 : UFO ? KOREA Seoul city
VIDEO 2 : Unidentified flying object 2021.06.04 (Seongnam) UFO unidentified flying objectJune 4, 2021 around 8:30 PM Northwest direction from Geumgwang-dong, Seongnam From the upper left of Namsan Tower in Seoul By moving toward Inwangsan and Bukaksan show
ORIGINAL :ufo 미확인비행물체 2021.06.04 (성남) ufo 미확인 비행물체 2021년 6월 4일 오후 8시30분경 성남 금광동에서 북서쪽방향 서울 남산타워 왼쪽 상공쪽에서 인왕산, 북악산쪽 방향으로 이동하는것으로 보임 1:07~ 확대영상 구형 발광체가 매우 빠르게 회전하는 모습이 보인다
ORIGINAL VIDEO OWNER VIDEO 1 : 은준 김 ( Eun-Jun Kim )
MUFON CASE : 116043 Moores Hill, Indiana ( June 5, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Fireball crossed road above tree tops the changed direction. Long Description of Sighting Report
My husband and I were on our way home and he first observed a fireball maybe a little bigger than a basket ball cross in front of our truck. At that point I literally hung out my window taking picts snd video. What we witnessed was unbelievable and amazing at the same time. Once it crossed the road it stopped and switch directions. It seemed to be following us and stayed maybe 10 ft above the tree line. I tried zooming my camera but the more I zoomed the further away it looked. I’ve never had my camera do that before. My pictures and video look further than what the object really was. My first picture is the orange ball but when you zoom the picture in you can see a lighter color almost like a vortex and the outside you can almost see energy around it. My 2nd picture with the lines and ending pints is NOT what I saw when taking the picture! It was huge like a hexagon shape about the size of a helicopter! There were no wings no propellers there’s was nothing but a huge hexagon surrounded by lights with different shapes inside all connected by lights! It was so bizarre because what I saw is NOT what I got on the picture!! My video isn’t the best (keep in mind I was hanging out of my truck window while my husband was driving) but you can see the light in the corner that follows us until we get to the clearing then it stops. It flashed several times then was gone!! Just disappeared! I do have 1 other witness that saw the fireball less than 5 mins later but he was driving and didn’t have time to get a picture. He was also the next town over. Less than two minutes later my husband and I made it home and I was excited telling my son about what we saw and showing him the picts and video. While telling him his cell phone rang and it was a friend of his yelling in the phone saying he had just saw a UFO! What makes this so odd is his friend was on his way over to hang out with my son when he saw what we had! I placed my pics and video to Facebook and no one else in our area has seen anything except for My husband and I, and a friend of my son that was already on his way to my home! I NEED to understand what we saw and why!!!??
Date Submitted :2021-06-05 Date of Event : 2021-05-29 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE :trim.85A559C9CEC9405AAF6B7BE225A492FC.MOV
MUFON CASE : 116040 Noida, India ( June 5, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : A ball of Fire, like an orb hovering above ground Long Description of Sighting Report
A yellowish orange orb or a ball of fire hovering above the ground during night time. I recorded it on camera. The orb was frozen in the air and did not move at all. 13th March 2020
Date Submitted : 2021-06-05 Date of Event : 2020-13-03 / 8:00PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : VID20200313200620.mp4
MUFON CASE : 116034 Omaha, Nebraska ( June 5, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : White somewhat stationary dot in the sky since 2:00 pm. Didn’t move from its spot much.
Long Description of Sighting Report
My friend Zach, who lives in Millard Nebraska, called me up saying that he saw a white, star-like dot in the sky at around 2:00 PM. My friend Derek and I went to inspect but we didn’t see anything as it was really bright outside. He took a picture and sent it to me. At around 7:00 pm Derek and I went to look again and we clearly saw the white dot he was talking about. I opened my Star Map on my phone and pointed it at the direction of the object, there were no obvious Star/Planet candidates for the light. Venus and Mars were not visible at that time. I got my brother Chris and his girlfriend Monnie to come look at the object and they could clearly see it as well. I then called my other brother Zakk who was in Bellevue Nebraska to see if he could see it. He did, and he had a set of binoculars but they did not help much. As the Sun set the dot became less white and more red-ish over time, like it was reflecting the color off the sunset. I lied down on the grass to stabilize my viewing of the object and noticed a slight Z-like pattern of motion.
As the sun finished setting the object dimmed until it could not be seen anymore, and the stars eventually came out. The object was gone. It was almost as if there was something reflective floating very high in the atmosphere in roughly the same spot all day. Both Zach and I took pictures and video of the object, He sent me a few of the pictures that he took at 2:00 pm and I have video from around 8:00 pm. I would usually say it’s probably some sort of balloon but since three different people all across the spread-out area saw it, it’s a bit more curious.
MUFON CASE : 116033 Bloomington, Minnesota ( June 5, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Several (slow) flickering lights in the sky Long Description of Sighting Report
Spotted some weird lights in the sky that dimmed on and off ... these are two different clips pieced together of the same lights in the sky, from two vantage points.
Sighting took place on May 29, 2021 at approx 9:30 pm at Bush Lake Park in Bloomington, MN. Lights observed approx 30 mins. No sound, just lights. I actually left before lights completed disappeared so duration of lights in the sky was longer than 30 mins.
Video recorded with an IPhone
The ONLY edits to these clips are: sound removed, two video clips combined into one to show you the two vantage points, and clip sped up so you can see lights change a little better (it’s more obvious when video is sped up). Original footage is over 7 mins long.
Date Submitted : 2021-06-05 Date of Event : 2021-05-29 / 9:30PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.EF21A8B567C942388F51DDB9D8330CE0.MOV
NASA's new top administrator is directing the agency's scientists to investigate unidentified flying objects, just a month after taking charge of the agency.
Bill Nelson, the former Florida senator who flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, says there is no evidence yet that extraterrestrials have visited Earth, telling CNN on Thursday: 'I think I would know.'
But, as the Pentagon prepares to release a highly anticipated UFO report that does not rule out an extraterrestrial origin for high-profile military sightings, Nelson agrees that the possibility remains open.
'We don't know if it's extraterrestrial. We don't know if it's an enemy. We don't know if it's an optical phenomenon,' Nelson told CNN of encounters filmed by Navy pilots.
'We don't think [it's an optical phenomenon] because of the characteristics that those Navy jet pilots described ... And so the bottom line is, we want to know,' he said.
NASA's new top administrator Bill Nelson is encouraging the agency's scientists to investigate unidentified flying objects as they see fit
The so-called Gimbal video, from 2015, shows Navy pilot footage of an unexplained object seen at center as it is tracked as it soars high along the clouds at incredible speeds
NASA press secretary Jackie McGuinness told the outlet that Nelson has not established a formal task force to begin investigating UFOs, but did direct researchers to move forward investigating the topic as they see fit.
'This is a really interesting phenomenon and Americans are clearly interested in it [so if] the scientists want to investigate, they should,' said McGuinness.
Meanwhile, Federal Aviation Administration' database of drone-related incident has been revealed to include some unusual incidents.
The majority of the 10,000 incidents from the past 10 years appear to be related to encounters with commercial drones in restricted airspace -- but some suggest advanced capabilities including high-altitude operations.
An analysis of the incident database by The Drive found a curious pattern, with clusters of encounters occurring off the coast of the southeast U.S. and in the southwest.
One report in 2017 cited as many as eight unidentified aircraft operating in sensitive airspace off the East Coast.
It comes as the Pentagon faces a June 25 deadline to release its UFO report to Congress.
A NASA launch at Cape Canaveral, Florida is seen in April. Nelson is asking NASA scientists to investigate UFO sightings as they see fit
Two officials briefed on the report say the U.S. government cannot give a definitive explanation of the 'unidentified aerial phenomena' -- better known as UFOs -- spotted by military pilots.
Investigators have found no evidence the sightings are linked to aliens - but can´t deny a link either.
The report also doesn´t rule out that what pilots have seen may be new technologies developed by other countries. One of the officials said there is no indication the unexplained phenomena are from secret U.S. programs.
The officials were not authorized to discuss the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Findings of the report were first published by The New York Times.
The report examines multiple unexplained sightings from recent years that in some cases have been captured on video of pilots exclaiming about objects flying in front of them.
Congress in December required the Director of National Intelligence to summarize and report on the U.S. government´s knowledge of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs - better known to the public as unidentified flying objects or UFOs.
The effort has included a Defense Department UAP task force established last year. The expected public release of an unclassified version of the report this month will amount to a status report, not the final word, according to one official.
A Pentagon spokeswoman, Sue Gough, declined Friday to comment on news stories about the intelligence report. She said the Pentagon's UAP task force is 'actively working with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the report, and DNI will provide the findings to Congress.'
Video showing an unidentified flying object splashing down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego two years ago has now been corroborated by military radar which shows a ship, the USS Omaha, being swarmed by aerial phenomena in July 2019. The image above shows nine unexplained objects - some of which were traveling at speeds in excess of 160mph
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, when asked about the report, said of the question at first, 'It´s always a little wacky on Fridays.' But she added, 'I will say that we take reports of incursions into our airspace by any aircraft - identified or unidentified - very seriously and investigate each one.'
The Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency have for decades looked into reports of aircraft or other objects in the sky flying at inexplicable speeds or trajectories.
The U.S. government takes unidentified aerial phenomena seriously given the potential national security risk of an adversary flying novel technology over a military base or another sensitive site, or the prospect of a Russian or Chinese development exceeding current U.S. capabilities. This also is seen by the U.S. military as a security and safety issue, given that in many cases the pilots who reported seeing unexplained aerial phenomena were conducting combat training flights.
The report's lack of firm conclusions will likely disappoint people anticipating the report, given many Americans' long-standing fascination with UFOs and the prospect of aliens having reached humankind. A recent story on CBS' '60 Minutes' further bolstered interest in the government report.
Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon´s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said the one official's claim that there was no indicated link to secret U.S. programs would be significant. But he called on the government to be fully transparent.
'I think that our tax dollars paid for information and data involving UFOs,' Elizondo said. 'And I think it is the U.S. government´s obligation to provide those results to the American people.'
But skeptics caution that the videos and reported sightings have plausible Earth-bound explanations. Mick West, an author, investigator and longtime skeptic of UFO sightings, said he supported the military looking into any possible incursion of U.S. airspace, especially by an adversary.
'People are conflating this issue with the idea that these UFOs demonstrate amazing physics and possibly even aliens,' West said. 'The idea that this is some kind of secret warp drive or it´s defying physics as we know it, there really isn´t any good evidence for that.'
The Pentagon last year announced a task force to investigate the issue, and the Navy in recent years created a protocol for its pilots to report any possible sightings. And lawmakers in recent years have pushed for more public disclosure.
'There´s a stigma on Capitol Hill,' Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, told '60 Minutes' in May.
'I mean, some of my colleagues are very interested in this topic and some kind of, you know, giggle when you bring it up. But I don´t think we can allow the stigma to keep us from having an answer to a very fundamental question.'
Harry Reid demands report on UFOs to be released by Senate Intelligence Committee and say's he has 'no problem' if aliens exist
Former U.S. Senator Harry Reid has penned an article demanding the Senate Intelligence Committee release a report on UFOs lawmakers have commissioned
Former U.S. Senator Harry Reid recently penned an article demanding that the Senate Intelligence Committee release a report on UFOs lawmakers have commissioned.
Reid, 81, also detailed in his article for The New York Times how the former Senate Majority Leader became 'increasingly interested in UFOs' and said he has 'no problem' if aliens exist.
In December, Sen. Marco Rubio - then-acting head of the Senate Intelligence Committee - called for Pentagon reports into the unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) to be declassified. The Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force has until June to report its findings to Congress.
'I believe that there is information uncovered by the government's covert investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena that can be disclosed to the public without harming our national security,' Reid wrote for The New York Times.
'The American people deserve to know more — and hopefully they will soon, with the release of a comprehensive government report requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee on the military's encounters with UFOs.'
He added: 'Let me be clear: I have never intended to prove that life beyond Earth exists. But if science proves that it does, I have no problem with that. Because the more I learn, the more I realize that there's still so much I don't know.'
In the article, Reid described first becoming interested in unidentified aerial phenomena, what most people refer to as UFOs, in 1996 after being invited to a conference on topic by an investigative reporter for KLAS-TV.
He said his interest in UFOs grew through conversations with former astronaut John Glenn, a fellow senator, but his staff warned him 'stay the hell away' from the topic publicly.
'I politely ignored them. I was inquisitive and, like Senator Glenn, I thought it was an issue that demanded attention, and I was in a position to act,' he said.
Reid, while serving as Senate Majority Leader in 2007, worked to secure $22 million in funding for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
'This clandestine Pentagon operation investigated reports of UFOs and other related phenomena, including UFO encounters involving American military personnel,' he wrote.
Reid noted that program no longer exists but the government continues to study UFOs through the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force.
He said that, as a senator, he visited Area 51 and saw classified information that fascinated him.
The top-secret Air Force testing site in southern Nevada has long associated with UFOs and related 'conspiracy theories' in popular culture. Reid noted that its existence wasn't publicly acknowledged by the U.S. Government until 2013.
'What I saw fascinated me, though much of it must remain classified. During one visit I traveled a short distance to the facility that housed the Air Force's secret new stealth fighters,' Reid wrote.
Reid explained that 'there's still a great deal we don't understand' but UFOs and it remains unclear how to explain some of these 'strange sightings' scientifically.
We have some good news and some interesting news about the much-anticipated government intelligence report on UFOs ‘promised’ to be released this month. The good news is, it definitely exists, according to anonymous senior administration officials who told The New York Times that they have been briefed on it. The interesting news is …
“The report determines that a vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any American military or other advanced U.S. government technology, the officials said.”
“And while a forthcoming unclassified version, expected to be released to Congress by June 25, will present few other firm conclusions, senior officials briefed on the intelligence conceded that the very ambiguity of the findings meant the government could not definitively rule out theories that the phenomena observed by military pilots might be alien spacecraft.”
Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper from the “All the UFO News That’s Fit to Print” newspaper reveal that the report looks at over 120 incidents over the past two decades, including many similar to the publicized incidents in 2004 and 2019 involving Navy pilots, ships and personnel that are backed up with radar, photo and video records. Many of the elected officials who have been peppered with questions ahead of the report have said their main concern is airspace security, and the Times reporters said officials who received the briefing admitted it could be experimental technology – possibly hypersonic — most likely from Russia or China. In particular, they looked at the 2004 “Tic Tac” which was estimated to be “about the size of a commercial plane” which one of the pilots, Cmdr. David Fravor, said to The Times “accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen.”
Unfortunately, that’s all the Times reporters revealed. Inverse interviewed Mark Rodeghier, the scientific director at the Chicago-based Center for UFO Studies, who agreed the report will be inconclusive and will probably focus on mostly military sightings. He listed three of what he believes are the strongest UFO cases, which may not have been reviewed because they’re out of the two-decade range of the report.
On November 2, 1971, a mushroom-shaped craft was reported in Delphos, Kansas. The witness claimed he was temporarily blinded by its light, and his mother took a Polaroid photo allegedly showing the ground still glowing a day after the incident. The soil was analyzed and an organic compound was identified.
On October 18, 1973, a UFO was spotted near Charles Mill Lake near Mansfield, Ohio, by an Army Reserve helicopter pilot and a crew of four enlisted men. The crew claimed the UFO was headed for a collision, then bathed the chopper in a bright green light and took off. The UFO was also reported by witnesses on the ground.
From 1983 to 1986, thousands of people in New York and Connecticut reported seeing a slow-moving, low-flying V-shaped craft that was nicknamed the Westchester Boomerang. Despite all those sightings, no explanation was ever given.
Rodeghier sounds like he’s prepared to be disappointed by the report, but hopes it spurs more witnesses to come forward and more pilots to report unusual sightings.
When it comes to waiting for this report, I’m not saying it’s frustrating … but it’s frustrating.
UFOs may not be coming from space - but rather from beneath the sea amid a string of strange encounters involving US warships, a former cop turned investigator has claimed.
Gary Heseltine is the vice president of the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial ResearchCredit: Gary Heseltine
He told The Sun Online recent videos showing encounters between the US Navy and UFOs along with a Pentagon investigation are game changers that pave the way to finally explain the unexplained.
"UFOs are often seen coming in and out of water so suspect that in our deepest oceans and trenches we may well have alien bases," Mr Heseltine said.
"That sounds crazy but if you think about it we only know 5 per cent of ocean, we know more about the surface of the moon or Mars than our own oceans - so that would seem to me why UFOs are seen regularly coming in and out of water."
Mr Heseltine spent six years working with the Royal Air Force police, 24 years with the British Transport Police, and launched a national database for UFO sightings for cops whiles till a serving officer in 2002 - before retiring from the force in 2013 to focus on his research.
US intelligence officials have been ordered to compile a dossier on UFOs for Congress after a flurry of videos filmed by US Navy and Air Force personnel were leaked - and the report is due for release this month.
Strange videos show encounters with objects which appear to defy all conventional understanding of how aircraft move - with the most recent showing 14 UFOS swarming the USS Omaha.
UFOs - now more commonly referred to in scientific and intelligence circles as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) - have stepped from being fringe conspiracy theories to a genuine security concern.
And with eager UFO enthusiasts eagerly awaiting the US report compiled by the US Congress, ICER was formed to highlight the global implications that these UFOs could be "non-human intelligence".
Mr Heseltine also added there appears to be a correlation between UFO encounters and the world's nuclear capabilities.
He told The Sun Online: "There is a massive correlation between UFOs being seen near nuclear facilities, whether it's nuclear aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, nuclear weapon storage areas, power plants.
"This would seem to indicate that it's as if they're saying 'we don't like nuclear weapons' so they show up.
"Maybe they realise we could destroy this beautiful planet."
Leaked footage from the USS Omaha appears to show a UFO plunging into the ocean
Drawing together the nuclear and underwater theories, Mr Heseltine said: "If you think about it if there was World War 3 and we made toxic all the water then that would affect their habitat.
"That's why I think think there's correlation with water - they have bases and we only know 5% of the ocean."
UAPs have become a hot topic issue as the deadline approaches for the report, with more and more US military footage leaking and pressure mounting on governments to come clean.
And so far there are no definitive public answers as to what appears to be happening in our skies.
However, US officials have started taking the unprecedented step of confirming the authenticity of strange videos filmed by warships and warplanes.
And they have admitted they do not know the origin of the unusual objects as calls grow in the US for widespread disclosure to figure out what - if anything - the world's governments are hiding on UFOs.
Competing theories on the strange videos continue to rage – with some grounded on Earth claiming the videos capture never-before-seen military aircraft or drones, while others claim it shows otherworldly craft possibly piloted by aliens.
Others however are more skeptical and sometimes even dismissive, claiming the bizarre videos may just be camera tricks, natural phenomena or even outright hoaxes.
Screenshot from the eriee and unexplained 'Tic Tac' video filmed by the US Navy and released by the Pentagon
Another US Navy video called 'Go Fast' which shows a UFO being tracked
Screenshot from the 'Gimbal' UFO video which includes US Navy pilots exclaiming 'look at that thing!'
“We know that ultimately this conversation will lead to confirmation that we’re being engaged with some kinds of intelligence that is likely to be extraterrestrial,” Mr Heseltine told The Sun Online.
“The things that are being described now were seen and being described in the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.
“Nothing has changed all we have is better technical equipment like video on aircraft so we can pick things up easier, that’s why it’s being seen more.
“We are saying you’ve got to start preparing people for a massive psychological change – whether it’s now or six months or a year’s time everything is pointing to ET or non-humans.
“Through awareness programmes we want to prepare people for the shock of this new reality on a global scale because 95 per cent of the world is in ignorance about it.
“Seventy years of past history would say they’ve been here all that time, they’re not a threat."
He explained ICER wants to make sure the public are ready for any potentially bombshell revelations on UFO, saying "we should be preparing the world now".
Mr Heseltine added ICER is working towards being an NGO that has United Nations special consultative status
What is going on with UFOs in the US?
UFOS have stepped from fringe conspiracy theories to a genuine national security debate in the US.
Pentagon officials last year took the unprecedented step to release of trio of remarkable videos which showed US encounters with UFOs.
The debate is still open as to what the phenomena caught on film were – but it made clear to everyone, something is in the skies.
Perhaps the most striking was a video known as the “Tic Tac” – which showed an unidentified object being pursued by fighter planes.
The US also confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) – a Pentagon programme set up to study UFOs before being disbanded in 2017.
However, it was replaced by the UAP Task Force in June 2020 after a vote by the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
Defence chiefs have since confirmed a number of leaked UFO videos and photos which were submitted to the Task Force for investigation.
Why this sudden rush for transparency?
No outside the secretive wings of the US government currently knows for sure.
And as a tacked on addendum to a 5,500 page Covid relief bill passed in December, the the Director of National Intelligence’s office was ordered to compile a report on UFOs within 180 days.
Former intelligence director John Ratcliffe has hinted the report will be a big deal – and we now just over a month away from its release.
US intelligence services officially closed the book on the phenomena in 1969 at the conclusion Project Blue Book - which stated there was nothing to see regarding UFOs.
However, in the last three years there has been an abrupt turnaround as the Pentagon took the unprecedented step of releasing three stunning UFO videos filmed by the US Navy.
He said: "What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory.
"They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.
Investigators compiling a report to Congress due later this month are said to have found no evidence to suggest the UAPs are linked to alien spacecraft, nor are they in a position to explain what has been reported by U.S. military pilots in encounters over the years, the three officials said.
One of the officials told ABC News that some of the dozens of incidents involving UAPs were able to be explained, for example as weather balloons or as atmospheric conditions, but other incidents were not able to be explained.
A fourth official said that investigators have also ruled out the possibility that UAPs are related to any secret U.S. military technology, or so-called "black programs."
At the Pentagon, a top spokesman declined to comment on press reports about what was included in the upcoming report.
"I'm not going to get ahead of a report that hasn't been filed to Congress, and I'm certainly not going to speak about intelligence issues here from the podium," said John Kirby, the Pentagon's top spokesman. "I've seen the press reporting, but I'm not going to be able to comment beyond that."
Kirby said the UAPs are taken seriously since safety concerns have been raised by incursions into aerial training areas where some of the incidents were documented. The spokesman also confirmed that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been briefed on the progress of the report.
Meanwhile, weapons experts are casting doubt on the possibility that the sightings are hypersonic technology belonging to America's foreign adversaries.
These developments further muddle the list of possible explanations for UAP sightings, which have consumed the national conversation in anticipation of a report due later this month from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and a Pentagon task force focused on the issue.
In the absence of answers, experts and former government officials have coalesced around two competing theories for the UAP sightings: they could either be extraterrestrial in nature, or they could be experimental military materiel belonging to Russia or China.
Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and retired CIA officer, said that either way, "these need to be investigated."
"These objects appear to exceed our military capabilities," said Mulroy, now an ABC News contributor. "We need to determine who this is and what capabilities they possess. It is never a good thing to discover you are vastly behind in technology. From a national security perspective, we cannot presume benevolence – whether terrestrial in origin or not."
A New York Times report cited a U.S. official as suggesting that the UAPs could be Russian or Chinese military assets experimenting with hypersonic aircraft or weapons – advanced technology that would allow objects to fly at unfathomable speeds.
In recent years, both China and Russia have "accelerated" their hypersonic research and development programs, according to a report prepared by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in April. The race for hypersonic technology is high stakes, and experts fear the Chinese and the Russians are making progress.
"Open-source reporting indicates that both China and Russia have conducted numerous successful tests of hypersonic glide vehicles and likely fielded an operational capability," the report read.
Weapons experts, however, are wary of a hypersonic explanation for the UAP anomalies.
"I would be very skeptical about the hypersonic theory," said Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher specializing in advanced weapons at the United Nations.
Video evidence of the UAPs released by the Pentagon shows Tic Tac-shaped objects flying at superfast speeds and abruptly changing directions. Lt. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, told the CBS News program "60 Minutes" last month that he saw the objects "every day for at least a couple of years" off the Atlantic coast.
David Fravor, another naval aviator, described a 2004 encounter he had with one of the Tic Tac-shaped UAPs off the coast of southern California.
"The Tic Tac's still pointing north-south, it goes, click, and just turns abruptly. And starts mirroring me. So as I'm coming down, it starts coming up," Fravor said. "And it's climbing still. And when it gets right in front of me, it just disappears."
Kelley Sayler, the author of the Congressional Research Service report, told ABC News that she is "not aware of any hypersonic weapon or aircraft that behaves in the manner depicted in the videos."
Podvig, the U.N. researcher, echoed that sentiment.
"Any object moving at hypersonic speed would generate a strong infrared signature, which doesn't seem to be visible in images of these UAPs," Podvig explained.
"It would also create a shock wave and sonic boom, which doesn't seem to happen in these images, either. Further, a hypersonic object would not be very maneuverable -- it can change a trajectory somewhat, but cannot do sudden turns, not to mention stops," Podvig said.
With no clear earth-bound explanation for the UAPs -- and with the recent dismissal of some previously accepted alternative theories – so-called ufologists have elevated the prospect that these unexplained sightings reflect extraterrestrial interactions.
Christopher Mellon, a former Pentagon official who has led the charge for further investigation into the UAPs, tweeted on Friday that "It is likely that there is not a single explanation for all of this."
For its part, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Friday that the report is "not in the conclusion phase, as I understand."
"I will say that we take reports of encouragement incursions into our airspace by any aircraft identified or unidentified very seriously and investigate each one," she said.
She said President Joe Biden had not been briefed on the upcoming report.
The U.S. Congress is due to receive a report on UFOs this month. PHOTO BY TORONTO SUN FILES /Toronto Sun
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Evidence appears to be mounting that, in fact, we are definitely not alone.
U.S. defence department officials are preparing to present Congress with a bombshell report outlining UFO secrets the government has kept a tight lid on for decades.
And new radar footage has been released of apparent UFOs swarming an American warship off the California coast in 2019.
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell leaked the latest video, claiming the video was filmed in the combat information centre of the ship on July 15, 2019.
Footage taken aboard the USS Omaha shows an unknown object flying over the ship before it disappeared into the ocean.
Corbell tweeted: “This is corroborative electro-optic data demonstrating a significant UFO event series in a warning area off San Diego.”
In Canada, as well, there has been an increase in UFO sightings. And interest.
In Alberta, authorities received nearly 900,000 calls last year, according to the RCMP.
“There were definitely some themes about unusual UFO sightings and satellites,” Tracy Duval, acting operations manager in Red Deer, Alta., told The Canadian Press.
“We were getting a lot of calls with the SpaceX satellite launches. They’re a very specific pattern in the sky, they’re not hitting the ground, and we can just explain very quickly to people that there are actual satellites in there.”
Lue Elizondo, a former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, filed a complaint against the Pentagon last week.
He claims officials attempted to smear his character when he leaked evidence of UFOs. But he said things are changing — and fast.
“The level of interest is reaching a critical mass,” Elizondo told the New York Post.
“I think (government officials realize that) it would be like putting the cat back in the bag or like putting toothpaste back in the tube. Now that the government has acknowledged the reality of unexplained aerial phenomenon … it’s going to be real hard to backtrack.”
Now, the U.S., the government has reversed its decades-long official stand of ignoring UFOs which have even been given a new acronym: UAPs or unidentified aerial phenomenon.
And the U.S. navy has confirmed that the photos and video taken aboard the Omaha were shot by sailors on the ship. They are not fakes.
“I can confirm that the referenced photos and videos were taken by navy personnel,” Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough said in a statement to the Black Vault.
The latest unclassified clip shows sailors observing as many as nine UFOs swarming the vessel at what appears to be speeds of around 260 km/h.
Earlier, the Pentagon confirmed that an 18-second video of three UFOs hovering over the USS Russell in July 2019 is also authentic. That, too, was leaked by Corbell.
“Luckily we have footage from the CIC [combat information center] that was obtained by a crew that was specifically called in to film these anomalous events,” Corbell told associate, KLAS-TV Las Vegas reporter George Knapp on Knapp’s paranormal-focused show Mystery Wire.
In addition, Corbell said at one point during the encounter, at least 14 UFOs were seen on radar.
“It supports the hypothesis that these are not just a balloon that is dropping into the water, it’s not something that is easily explained, these are true unidentifieds in mass number,” he said.
During July 2019, there were a series of encounters involving nine American navy ships stationed in the Pacific Ocean, he said.
“The objects are truly of unknown origins,” Knapp said.
“If they are foreign drones, they displayed abilities to exceed our own technologies, anything we know of, that is, and some of them appeared to be transmedium craft: They could fly in the air, they could enter the ocean, travel through water as easy as they travel through air.”
The truth is out there. And now, finally governments appear ready to play ball.
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UFO Sighted Over Anstey, Leicestershire, England ( June 4, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Poker player hedges bets on whether he saw UFO or bin bag in sky over Leicestershire
'Since I filmed this thing I have been having real technology problems' Professional poker player Mason Kanabar is hedging his bets on whether he saw a UFO or not.
The 23-year-old filmed a mysterious black object as it travelled across the sky above Leicestershire. Mason, who lives in Anstey, said he videoed the strange sight in his back garden at 8.05pm on bank holiday Monday May 31.
“I was just chilling in the garden having a smoke when this thing caught my eye.
“It seemed to flicker so I grabbed my phone and filmed it.
“I have no idea what it was but it was odd for sure.
“I did not hear any sound. It just travelled weirdly across the sky.”
credit : Mason Kanabar
UFO Sighted Over Jangkar Beach, Indonesia ( May 26, 2021 )
A long, black object plunged from the sky at Jangkar Beach in East Java, Indonesia STATEMENT : WHAT WAS THAT?Mystery as anchor-shaped UFO leaves trail of smoke before crashing into sea off Indonesia
The bizarre footage of the long, black object plunging into the water was filmed at Jangkar Beach in East Java - with some people claiming it was a damaged UFO.
The spooky object was swallowed by the waves shortly after crashing into the sea.
Facebook user Kh Popeye Watermelon shared the clip and asked: "What is this anchor-like thing that fell from the sky?"
Gabriel Notonegoro said: "Maybe it was fairy who lost her wings and forgot her way home? Lol."
YouTube user Roy Valen commented: "Mysterious!"
Emanuel Sungging Mumpungi, from Indonesia's government space agency, said it was aware of the footage and a team had been sent to the location.
"We are still waiting for the location team to confirm," Mumpungi said.
credit : www.thesun.co.uk/news
UFO Sighted Over Hanoi, Vietnam ( June 1, 2021 )
This Stunning Sighting of an UFO in Hanoi, Vietnam was taken on June 1, 2021 was made from a surveillance camera and reported on television.
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UFO Sighted Over San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico ( June 2, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Ustedes juzguen,,, vídeo tomado en un poblado cercano a las pirámides de Teotihuacán TRANSLATE : You judge,,, video taken in a town close to the pyramids of Teotihuacán
ARing cam in Southbury, Connecticut captured a strange ray of lights. It does look like it came from a wooded area.
As it flying towards the cam you can see the reflection of the object on the paved driveway when it gets to the garage as if it’s going to go over it. Source: www.mufon.com
Several slow flickering UFOs in the sky over Bloomington, Minnesota 29-May-2021
Several slow flickering UFOs in the sky over Bloomington, Minnesota 29-May-2021
This strange UFO activity was filmed in the sky above Bloomington, Minnesota on 29th April 2021.
Witness report:
Spotted some weird lights in the sky that dimmed on and off … these are two different clips pieced together of the same lights in the sky, from two vantage points. Sighting took place on May 29, 2021 at approx 9:30 pm at Bush Lake Park in Bloomington, MN. Lights observed approx 30 mins. No sound, just lights. I actually left before lights completed disappeared so duration of lights in the sky was longer than 30 mins. Video recorded with an IPhone. The ONLY edits to these clips are: sound removed, two video clips combined into one to show you the two vantage points, and clip sped up so you can see lights change a little better (it’s more obvious when video is sped up). Original footage is over 7 mins long.
Glowing Object At North Miami Beach, Florida UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Object At North Miami Beach, Florida UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 29, 2021
Location of sighting: North Miami, Florida, USA
Watch this raw footage at a Miami beach where a glowing green light was seen moving around the surface near a pier. The glowing light moved about and even changed its shape but always glowing this bright green. Its a well known fact that UFOs do sometimes glow due to the propulsion systems. Its also a well known fact that UFOs can move as easily though space as it can through the air and water. Many such UFOs have been seen leaving and entering the ocean in past reports. This...is more proof that there is an alien base 4-6km below Florida.
I was searching through some old NASA moon photos when I found something that really caught my interest. A face in the center of the crater. The object is a carved face that closely resembles humans, but its wearing or growing two huge horns from its head. The horns are bent backwards a little bit as if they grew from the being. Also the horns are hollow, indicated from the shadows and openings...since one of the horns is cracked across its middle. The whole face and horns are a structure created to celebrate, commemorate and hold highly the person or species it was created to represent. The structure is hollow and was made to be a shrine or temple of some sort. For its horns to be broken, it must be thousands of years old. I love the bold look of the huge horns...it represents fearlessness, stubbornness and power.
I also found a horse statue not far away. It was laying down on the ground, made of the same white material and its long face, ears, neck back, hind area, and front two folded legs are all easily visible. Horses and horned warriors...almost sounds like vikings. Maybe aliens influenced Vikings here on earth, or perhaps the Vikings influenced the aliens who visited them.
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NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions
NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions
by Marcia Dunn
This image made available by NASA shows the planet Venus made with data from the Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter. On Wednesday, June 2, 2021, NASA's new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new robotic missions to the solar system's hottest planet, during his first major address to employees. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP
NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbor, after decades of exploring other worlds.
The space agency's new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new robotic missions to the solar system's hottest planet, during his first major address to employees Wednesday.
"These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface," Nelson said.
One mission named DaVinci Plus will analyze the thick, cloudy Venusian atmosphere in an attempt to determine whether the inferno planet ever had an ocean and was possibly habitable. A small craft will plunge through the atmosphere to measure the gases.
It will be the first U.S.-led mission to the Venusian atmosphere since 1978.
The other mission, called Veritas, will seek a geologic history by mapping the rocky planet's surface.
"It is astounding how little we know about Venus," but the new missions will give fresh views of the planet's atmosphere, made up mostly of carbon dioxide, down to the core, NASA scientist Tom Wagner said in a statement. "It will be as if we have rediscovered the planet."
NASA's top science official, Thomas Zurbuchen, calls it "a new decade of Venus." Each mission—launching sometime around 2028 to 2030—will receive $500 million for development under NASA's Discovery program.
The missions beat out two other proposed projects, to Jupiter's moon Io and Neptune's icy moon Triton.
The U.S. and the former Soviet Union sent multiple spacecraft to Venus in the early days of space exploration. NASA's Mariner 2 performed the first successful flyby in 1962, and the Soviets' Venera 7 made the first successful landing in 1970.
In 1989, NASA used a space shuttle to send its Magellan spacecraft into orbit around Venus.
The European Space Agency put a spacecraft around Venus in 2006.
4,000-year-old alien craft found in the Grand Canyon?
4,000-year-old alien craft found in the Grand Canyon?
The Grand Canyon, that lonely and strange arid region, still holds many archaeological mysteries. The latest research has revealed the possible existence of a 4,000-year-old Alien Ship.
Aerial view of the Grand Canyon.
One of the rangers in charge of guarding the Grand Canyon , came across a strange structure. Experts assured that this material belongs to an Alien Ship .
This is one more proof that adds to a long list of evidences that shows that, in the past, our planet was visited by beings from other worlds .
Alien Ship in the Grand Canyon?
Buried under the arid lands of the Grand Canyon, a gigantic carcass of a metal unknown to scientists was found.
The dimensions of this structure encompassed the entire fund in which it was found. Or that was what a group of researchers who followed up on the finding declared , who preferred to remain anonymous .
Carbon analysis that was carried out on the metal, showed that the object could have a date of the year 2000 a. C. Thus, the strange structure would have a total of 4,000 years old.
According to some specialists, the team in charge of investigating the discovery is a military faction that secretly works everything related to UFOs .
The deduction that certain ufologists arrived at about the structure is that it is an alien ship, which had a spectacular accident 4 millennia ago.
The metallic substance with which the ship was made is totally unknown . A slight radiation is emitted from the shell . In addition, according to the leaked information, the huge carcass was removed and immediately guarded.
California-based astronomer Henry Leaumont told the Weekly World News website after being shown confidential files from the US Air Force on the case.
Leaumont said that his contacts told him that the structure was definitely not of terrestrial origin . It was an alien ship that housed between 12 to 20 passengers .
The cave painting in the area could reveal that the crew of the alien ship inhabited the surroundings.
“Aliens 4,000 years ago on Earth”
The characteristics of the cockpit suggest that the crew members had a human- like physiognomy , albeit much smaller. They were apparently breathing oxygen and guiding the ship through a magnetic steering system. They also had cupboards that stored food and water supplies.
The ship suffered several damage when it collided with the limestone of the floor of the Grand Canyon, near a place known as Comanche Poiint.
A detailed inspection of the landing zone showed that the beings that manned the alien ship left the place. Thus leaving the abandoned ship, inhabiting the vicinity for some years.
«This impression is confirmed by Indian cave paintings made at the time. Paintings found near the crash site show strange humanoid creatures with bulbous heads.
Experts believe that these creatures were the beings that arrived on the ancient alien ship. The ship is made of an extremely light metallic fiber.
Relative to the alien ship, it is about 15 meters wide and 31 meters long . It could be considered the most important find in relation to UFOs in history, reason enough for the US government to hide it.
This is not the first evidence that the governmental elite of the planet hide. According to experts, it is through it that they technologically update their military vehicles. Who knows what this alien ship could bring you.
Dr. Steven Greer: Cosmic Consciousness and Contact with E.T. Civilization
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2021 NEW Conscious Life Expo… MUST WATCH!!! A very rare video appearance from Dr. Steven Greer discussing how to make contact with ET civilizations. Human Initiated contact: – CE5. How to do it. Why it is important. And how to form your own groups. People from Thailand to Nova Scotia to Russia are doing CE5 with amazing experiences. Father of the Disclosure movement, he presided over the groundbreaking National Press Club Disclosure Event in May, 2001. Over 20 military, government, intelligence and corporate witnesses presented compelling testimony regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life forms visiting the planet, and the reverse engineering of the energy and propulsion systems of these craft. Over one billion people heard of the press conference through the original webcast and on subsequent media coverage on BBC, CNN, CNN Worldwide, Voice of America, Pravda, Chinese media, and media outlets throughout Latin America.
The webcast had 250,000 people waiting online – the largest webcast in the history of the National Press Club at that time. He has worked for 17 years to bring together the scientists, inventors and leaders in society to advance new clean technology energy systems. He is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on the strategic process of transforming our carbon-based civilization to a long-term sustainable civilization using innovative sciences and technology. A lifetime member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the nation’s most prestigious medical honor society, Dr. Greer has now retired as an emergency physician to work on these projects. He is the author of four insightful books and multiple DVDs on the UFO/ET subject.
He teaches groups throughout the world how to make peaceful contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, and continues to research bringing truly alternative energy sources out to the public. Dr. Greer has studied the Sanskrit Vedas extensively and has been teaching mantra meditation for over 30 years. Dr. Greer has been seen and heard by millions world-wide on CBS, the BBC, The Discovery Channel, the History channel, The Ancient Aliens series, Thrive and through many news outlets worldwide.— His message is one of hope – that these energy systems can soon be available worldwide. His goal is to assist in the creation of a sustainable, peaceful civilization on Earth that is both high tech and in harmony with the environment.
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11 BOEIENDE WEETJES OVER SUPERREUZEN EN HYPERREUZEN
11 BOEIENDE WEETJES OVER SUPERREUZEN EN HYPERREUZEN
Tim Kraaijvanger
Superreuzen en hyperreuzen zijn de allerzwaarste sterren in het heelal. Wist je dat hyperreuzen net ‘dikke BMW’s’ zijn en hun brandstof in korte tijd opstoken? En dat de grootste hyperreus verder reikt dan de baan van Saturnus? 11 boeiende weetjes over de grootste sterren in het universum.
Deze week overleed astronoom Kees de Jager op 100-jarige leeftijd. Hij werd ook wel de ‘superreus’ onder de astronomen genoemd, omdat De Jager veel betekende voor het onderzoek naar super- en hyperreuzen. In 2017 verscheen een artikel van Kees de Jager over deze bijzondere sterren. “Het is bijna niet voor te stellen: sterren die één miljoen keer helderder zijn dan de zon,” schrijft De Jager. “Maar ze bestaan echt!” Ter nagedachtenis aan De Jager staat Scientias.nl dit weekend in het teken van deze bijzondere sterren.
Wat zijn superreuzen en hyperreuzen? Superreuzen en hyperreuzen zijn de allerzwaarste en allergrootste sterren in het heelal. Het zijn reuzen in vergelijking met onze zon, die een vrij gemiddelde dwergster is. “Hun eigenschappen laten zich alleen in superlatieven beschrijven,” vertelt De Jager in zijn artikel. “Zij werpen een heel eigen licht op de evolutie van de allerzwaarste sterren.”
Enkele reuzensterren op een rij. Van links naar rechts: Cygnus OB2 #12, V382 Carinae, V915 Scorpii, UY Scuti en Stephenson 2-18. Ter vergelijking: de oranje lijn is de baan van Saturnus, de blauwe lijn is de baan van Neptunus.
#1 De grootste hyperreus is Stephenson 2-18
Stephenson 2-18 is 2.150 keer breder dan de zon, wat betekent dat de zon bijna 10 miljard keer in de superreus past. Stel, we plaatsen Stephenson 2-18 in het centrum van het zonnestelsel, dan zou zijn fotosfeer – de diepste laag van de atmosfeer van een ster – verder dan de baan van Saturnus reiken. Stephenson 2-18 maakt onderdeel uit van de Melkweg, maar is 18.900 lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd en bevindt zich in een cluster met 25 andere superreuzen. De tweede grootste ster is LGGS J004539.99+415404.1 in het Andromedastelsel. Deze ster is 1.980 tot 2.377 keer breder dan de zon. Op de voorlopig derde plaats staat MSX LMC 597 in de Grote Magelhaense Wolk, een satellietstelsel van onze Melkweg. MSX LMC 597 is 1.882 tot 1.953 keer breder dan de zon.
Stephenson 2-18 is hier in het midden te zien.
Foto: 2MASS Survey.
#2 De allereerste sterren in het heelal waren hyperreuzen
Kort na de oerknal was het universum nog donker en warm, maar langzaam koelde het uitdijende heelal af en werden de eerste sterren geboren. In het begin waren er alleen nog hele simpele elementen, zoals waterstof, helium en een beetje lithium. Uit observaties van CR7 (een jong sterrenstelsel in het vroege universum) blijkt dat in wolken zonder zware metalen grote sterren ontstonden die honderden of zelfs duizend keer zwaarder waren dan de zon. Deze populatie-III-sterren leefden heel kort – mogelijk enkele honderdduizenden jaren – maar zijn wel belangrijk geweest voor de ‘evolutie’ van het universum. Deze sterren zetten lichte elementen in korte tijd om in zwaardere elementen, zoals zuurstof, stikstof, koolstof en ijzer. Zonder deze elementen waren wij er niet geweest, want ze zijn heel belangrijk voor het ontstaan van leven.
Artistieke impressie van CR7: het helderste sterrenstelsel in het vroege universum.
#3 De bekendste superreus is… Betelgeuze
Betelgeuze is 764 keer breder dan de zon. Stel, we plaatsen Betelgeuze in het centrum van het zonnestelsel, dan zou zelfs Mars opgeslokt worden door de rode superreus. Betelgeuse is de helderste rode superreus vanaf het aardoppervlak en maakt onderdeel uit van het sterrenbeeld Orion. Je kunt de ster dus vrij eenvoudig zien op een heldere winteravond. Sterker nog: als je naar Betelgeuze kijkt, dan heeft de ster een rode kleur ten opzichte van bijvoorbeeld de ster Rigel in hetzelfde sterrenbeeld. Betelgeuze is opvallend goed zichtbaar, omdat de afstand tussen de zon en Betelgeuze relatief klein is: circa 600 lichtjaar. Deze nabije ster staat op het punt van ontploffen, maar daar hoef je niet wakker van te liggen. De afstand is gelukkig groot genoeg en het kan nog miljoenen jaren duren. Het grote voordeel van een nabije reuzenster is dat Betelgeuze vaak in detail wordt bestudeerd door astronomen. Zo begon de helderheid in oktober 2019 plotseling af te nemen, wat mogelijk kwam door een grote uitbarsting op de ster. Ook maakten astronomen in het verleden een prachtige foto van Betelgeuze, waarop te zien is hoe de reuzenster een enorme gasbel de ruimte in blaast.
Opname van Betelgeuze met de Very Large Telescope. De gasbel is hier duidelijk zichtbaar.
Afbeelding: ESO / P. Kervella.
#4 Hyperreuzen zijn ‘dikke BMW’s’
Hyperreuzen zijn geen zuinige sterren, waardoor ze ook niet oud worden. Onze zon is 4,6 miljard jaar oud en zal waarschijnlijk nog wel vijf miljard jaar schijnen. Hyperreuzen stoken hun brandstof er in een rap tempo doorheen en leven daardoor erg kort, namelijk slechts een paar miljoen jaar. “Hoe meer massa een ster heeft, des te meer nucleaire brandstof een ster heeft en des te sneller de ster deze brandstof verbrandt”, vertelt professor Steve Eikenberry. Juist omdat hyperreuzen relatief kort leven, zijn ze zeer zeldzaam.
#5 Rode superreuzen zijn koeler dan de zon
Het oppervlak van de zon heeft een temperatuur van 6.000 graden Celsius. Rode superreuzen zijn veel koeler en hebben een oppervlaktetemperatuur van circa 3.000 graden Celsius. Dit betekent dat de sterren koeler zijn dan sommige exoplaneten, zoals exoplaneet Kepler-70b. Een mooi voorbeeld is de ster Betelgeuze in Orion. Deze ster is 100.000 keer zo helder als de zon, maar zijn oppervlaktetemperatuur ligt iets boven de 3000 Kelvin, wat neerkomt op ongeveer 2750 graden Celsius.
In dit Hertzsprung-Russelldiagram zijn de verschillende soorten sterren te zien. Van links naar rechts neemt de temperatuur af. De verticale as laat de absolute helderheid van de sterren zien. Er is sprake van een lijn: van heet en lichtsterk (linksboven) naar koel en minder helder. Dit wordt de hoofdreeks genoemd. De meeste sterren in het heelal zijn zogenoemde ‘dwergsterren’ en maken onderdeel uit van de hoofdreeks. Ook onze zon is een dwergster. De grootste sterren (Ia en Ib) wijken af van de hoofdreeks en zijn veel zeldzamer.
#6 Hyperreuzen veranderen aan het eind van hun leven in hypernova’s
Aan het eind van het leven van een ster is er niet genoeg nucleaire brandstof meer en wordt de kern steeds zwaarder doordat zijn eigen massa richting de kern stroomt. Aangezien een ster geen energie meer produceert, kan het object geen tegendruk geven tegen de enorme druk van de zwaartekracht. Uiteindelijk stort de kern van de ster in elkaar en ontstaat er een supernova. In het geval van hyperreuzen worden er zelfs hypernova’s gevormd. Hypernova’s zijn de zwaarst bekende explosies in het heelal (als we de oerknal niet meerekenen). De kracht van een explosie is honderd keer groter dan die van een supernova. Een hypernova schijnt korte tijd veel feller dan een heel sterrenstelsel vol met miljarden sterren.
Stel, een hypernova zou plaatsvinden binnen een afstand van enkele honderden lichtjaren van de zon, dan zou dit mogelijk leiden tot een massa-extinctie op aarde. Röntgenstraling en gammastraling van de hypernova kunnen stikstof en zuurstof in de atmosfeer ioniseren, waardoor er stikstofoxiden ontstaan en leven op aarde drastisch zou veranderen. Gelukkig hebben we geen hyperreus in de buurt.
#7 Superreus Eta Carinae verloor een zon per jaar
Eta Carinae is een indrukwekkende ster op 7.500 lichtjaar van de aarde. De zon is ongeveer 82 keer zo zwaar als de zon, maar was vroeger waarschijnlijk veel massiever. 200 jaar geleden was deze ster net zo helder als Sirius, maar na 1860 nam de helderheid af. Dit kwam door enkele grote explosies. Bij deze ontploffing kwam evenveel energie vrij als bij een supernova-explosie. Hierbij zijn er twee grote gaswolken ontstaan die inmiddels een grootte hebben van 0,7 lichtjaren. De totale massa van deze gaswolken wordt geschat op twaalf tot dertig zonnen. Dit betekent dat Eta Carinae in ongeveer twintig jaar tijd (van 1840 tot 1860) ongeveer één zonsmassa per jaar verloor. Dat is uitzonderlijk veel voor een ster. Astronomen verwachten dat de ster de komende decennia weer een stuk helderder wordt, omdat een stofnevel om de ster langzaam verdwijnt.
Eta Carinae.
Afbeelding: ESA / NASA.
#8 De geboorte van een hyperster is… niet ‘hyper’-bijzonder
Je denkt misschien dat een hyperster op een andere manier ontstaat als een eenvoudige ster als de zon, maar dat is niet zo. Alle sterren ontstaan op dezelfde manier. Wolken van gas en stof trekken langzaam samen. Op een bepaald moment stort een deel van zo’n wolk onder zijn eigen gewicht ineen. De kern wordt heter en de wolk begint sneller te draaien. Op een bepaald moment ontstaat er dan een protoster (oftewel een ster-in-spé). Er vindt nog geen kernfusie plaats, maar de protoster geeft al wel hitte af. Pas later, als de druk en temperatuur in het centrum van de protoster ver toeneemt, zal de kernfusie op gang komen. In 2010 vonden wetenschappers een bijzonder zware babyster (IRAS 13481-6124). Deze babyster is twintig keer zo zwaar en vijf keer zo groot als de zon. Net als andere babysterren is ook IRAS 13481-6124 gehuld in een cocon van stof. “Onze waarnemingen tonen aan dat de vorming voor alle sterren op dezelfde manier verloopt, ongeacht de massa,” concludeert onderzoeksleider Stefan Kraus.
Artistieke impressie van een babyster IRAS 13481-6124 in een stofrijke, protoplanetaire schijf.
Bron: ESO
#9 Reuzensterren kunnen plotseling verdwijnen
In het Kinman-dwergstelsel was lange tijd een monsterster te zien, maar in 2019 konden wetenschappers de ster niet meer vinden. “Tot onze verrassing kwamen we erachter dat de ster verdwenen was,” zegt onderzoeker Andrew Allan. Het is vreemd dat er geen supernova of hypernova aan vooraf ging. Er zijn twee mogelijke theorieën voor het verdwijnen van de ster. Mogelijk is de lichtsterke blauwe variabele ster door een uitbarsting veranderd in een minder heldere ster, die ook nog eens deels door stof wordt verduisterd. De tweede theorie luidt dat de ster ineengestort is tot een zwart gat, zonder dat daar een supernova-explosie aan voorafging. Dat zou echter wel een ontzettend zeldzame gebeurtenis zijn: voor zover we weten sluiten zware sterren namelijk hun bestaan af met een supernova. “Als dit toch zo is, zou dat de eerste, directe detectie van een monsterster zijn die zijn leven op deze manier afsluit,” aldus Allan.
#10 Rode, gele en blauwe, maar geen groene superreuzen
Reuzensterren zijn er in verschillende smaken. Er zijn rode superreuzen, gele superreuzen en blauwe superreuzen. De kleur van een ster verraadt hoe warm het oppervlak is. De blauwe superreuzen zijn het warmst, gevolgd door gele superreuzen en rode superreuzen. Sterren kunnen veranderen. Zo kan een blauwe superreus in omvang toenemen en uiteindelijk veranderen in een rode superreus. Onze zon is op dit moment een gele dwergster, maar transformeert over miljarden jaren in een rode reus (maar geen rode superreus).
Een bekende blauwe superreus is Rigel op een afstand van circa 800 lichtjaar van de aarde. Deze ster is zeventien keer zwaarder dan de zon, maar geeft 40.000 keer meer licht. De ster geeft zoveel licht, dat ‘nabije’ nevels door Rigel worden verlicht, zoals de Heksenkopnevel op onderstaande foto.
De Heksenkopnevel (IC2118) wordt verlicht door de nabije ster Rigel (rechts).
Kijk je met een eclipsbrilletje naar de zon, dan zie je dat de zon een duidelijke rand heeft. Onze moederster is een mooi rond bolletje. Dit geldt niet voor hyperreuzen. Hyperreuzen en superreuzen verliezen veel massa, waardoor de buitenste randen nogal ijl zijn. Hierdoor hebben hyperreuzen geen duidelijke rand, maar een wazige rand. Dit maakt het ook veel lastiger om de grootte van hyperreuzen en superreuzen te bepalen, want het is niet altijd duidelijk waar gas stopt en het vacuüm begint.
NASA BRENGT SPECTACULAIRE FOTO UIT VAN HET CENTRUM VAN DE MELKWEG
NASA BRENGT SPECTACULAIRE FOTO UIT VAN HET CENTRUM VAN DE MELKWEG
Tim Kraaijvanger
Het centrum van ons Melkwegstelsel is een kosmisch web van heet gas en magnetische velden met in het midden: een supermassief zwart gat.
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft een bijzondere panorama uitgebracht van ons galactische centrum. Het centrum van de Melkweg bevindt zich op 26.000 lichtjaar van de aarde. Het kosmische meesterwerk is gemaakt door data te combineren van de Zuid-Afrikaanse MeerKAT radiotelescoop en NASA’s Chandra-röntgenobservatorium.
Het mozaïek is het resultaat van 370 Chandra-waarnemingen van 1999 tot 2019. In totaal gaat het om 1.555 uur en 26 minuten aan observaties, wat neerkomt op ruim 64 dagen.
Sagittarius A*
Precies in het midden van de foto is Sagittarius A* te zien. Dit is een superzwaar zwart gat in het centrum van ons Melkwegstelsel. Dit zwarte gat is de laatste tijd erg actief en varieert regelmatig in helderheid. Dit komt door het materiaal dat in het zwarte gat valt. “Voordat het materiaal er helemaal in verdwijnt wordt het eerst warm en gaat het stralen,” vertelt astrofysicus Rudy Wijnands aan Scientias.nl. “De hoeveelheid straling die we zien is direct gerelateerd aan de hoeveelheid materiaal dat in het zwarte gat valt. Als het zwarte gat helderder wordt, valt er dus meer materie in het zwarte gat.”
Een draad van superheet gas Op de foto is een opvallend lange draad van superheet gas te zien, namelijk G0.17-0.41. Deze draad is twintig lichtjaar lang, maar slechts 1/100ste lichtjaar breed. Zo’n draad ontstaat door botsende magnetische velden. Als magnetische velden op elkaar botsen, raken ze verstrengeld en ontstaan deze draden van superheet gas. Astronomen vermoeden dat deze botsende magnetische velden het gas tussen de sterren – het zogenoemde interstellaire medium – kunnen verhitten. Door deze turbulentie kunnen uiteindelijk weer nieuwe sterren ontstaan.
Clusters, sterren en röntgenbronnen Nabij het centrum is de Quintuplet-cluster te zien. Dit cluster is slechts vier miljoen jaar oud en bevat veel jonge massieve sterren. In dit cluster bevindt zich de Pistoolster: een van de helderste sterren in de Melkweg. Verder zien we diverse andere clusters, zoals de Arches-clusters, vele sterren (de kleine puntjes) en heldere röntgenbronnen (groene cirkels).
Het galactische centrum. Een grote versie van deze foto downloaden? Klik hier!
Chandra: bijna net zo legendarisch is als Hubble Het Chandra-röntgenobservatorium zweeft inmiddels al meer dan twintig jaar in de ruimte. In deze periode heeft het observatorium veel bijzondere ontdekkingen gedaan. Zo heeft Chandra een jet van het zwarte gat Sagittarius A* gefotografeerd. Dit is een kosmische fontein van hoog-energetische deeltjes. Chandra fotografeerde de stroom afkomstig uit Sagittarius A. Wat blijkt: de jet botst met gas in de nabije omgeving. Tijdens de botsing wordt röntgenstraling en radiostraling geproduceerd, wat door Chandra waargenomen is.
Ook maakte Chandra al eerder een prachtig mozaïek van het centrum van de Melkweg. De foto hieronder is in werkelijkheid 400 bij 900 lichtjaren groot. Rondom het zwarte gat in het centrum van de Melkweg draaien honderden witte dwergen, neutronensterren en stellaire zwarte gaten.
A government employee photographed a UFO that hovered for 15 minutes near Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico, on Dec.16, 1957.
(Image credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)
After a months-long investigation, the Pentagon is poised to produce a report addressing sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) — more commonly known as "unidentified flying objects," or UFOs.
But don't expect a big reveal about secret alien technology and extraterrestrial spaceships. The aim of the report is to establish standards for recording sightings of mysterious objects and to determine if those objects pose a threat to national security.
In 2020, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee called for an inquiry into UAPs in the Intelligence Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2021. According to the document, committee members were concerned that "there is no unified, comprehensive process within the Federal Government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat."
After the bill was enacted on Dec. 21, 2020, the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense then had 180 days to produce a report for the committee, "submitted in unclassified form," on the current status of UAP sightings and protocols, Live Science previously reported — and that six-month deadline expires this month.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio served as the Intelligence Committee's acting chair when the act was drafted and enacted, and he ordered the investigation of UAPs because he saw them as a critical national security issue, Rubio told journalist Bill Whitaker on CBS's "60 Minutes" in May.
"Anything that enters an airspace that's not supposed to be there is a threat," Rubio said. "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."
In April 2020, the U.S. Navy released three videos of UFO sightings from 2004 and 2015; the clips were nicknamed "FLIR," "GOFAST" and "GIMBAL," and they showed what appeared to be spacecraft traveling at hypersonic speeds with no visible means of propulsion, Live Science reported. (The three videos had previously been posted online in 2017 and 2018 by the UFO research group To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.)
"There's footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are — we can't explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern," former president Barack Obama said in May, in an appearance on CBS's "The Late Late Show with James Corden."
So, what might be included in the report? Not everything in the document will be publicly available — while the report will be unclassified, it "may include a classified annex," the Intelligence Committee wrote. The committee requested a detailed analysis of UAP data and intelligence, including information gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) about UFOs.
The committee also requested that the report outline a process for sharing information between agencies, to help identify unfamiliar technologies and to detect patterns in UFO appearances that could imply hostile intentions.
"I want us to have a process to analyze the data every time it comes in. That there be a place where this is cataloged and constantly analyzed, until we get some answers," Rubio said.
"Maybe it has a very simple answer. Maybe it doesn't," Rubio told Whitaker. "We're gonna find out when we get that report."
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