Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
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...
30-06-2021
UFOs Could Be Secret U.S. Military Craft, Says Electromagnetic Drive Inventor
UFOs Could Be Secret U.S. Military Craft, Says Electromagnetic Drive Inventor
I'm a South London-based technology journalist, consultant and author
The Pentagon has a long history of misleading reports on UFOs. The new paper on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) may be another example, according to the British scientist Roger Shawyer. Looking at their accounts, Shawyer has an explanation which is hinted at, but also concealed by the report.
“I think the UAPs are American,” Shawyer told me.
The report discusses 144 recent sightings by U.S. government personnel, many of them Air Force and Navy pilots and sensor operators. In most cases the UFO was spotted by several means, such as visual contact and radar or infra-red together.
“Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors,” according to the report.
This classic 'UFO' photographed when it hovered for fifteen minutes near Holloman Air Development ... [+]
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The report suggests there might be several types of objects, including airborne clutter such as balloons, natural atmospheric phenomena, “USG or U.S. industry developmental programs,” foreign adversary systems and Other.
Some details seemed to turn up repeatedly across the sightings. In particular many seemed to share an unusual type of “advanced propulsion” and could remain motionless against the wind at high altitude, execute high-speed maneuvers, and move at high speed “without discernable means of propulsion.”
In addition, the report states that in some cases “military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings.”
Shawyer says that these features are all consistent with the electromagnetic drive, or EmDrive, which he developed, and which, despite considerable controversy and misleading reports of its demise, is still very much under development by DARPA.
Depending on which theory you follow, the EmDrive uses an obscure piece of physics to seemingly generate thrust from a closed system. The results have apparently repeated at independent labs around the world including NASA’s Eagleworks and researchers at Xi’an in China. While existing versions only produce tiny amounts of thrust, comparable to ion drives used on satellites and space probes, Shawyer calculates that a version based on superconductors could drive a high-speed demonstration vehicle.
Skeptics, of course, claim that this is all bunk: that the EmDrive violates the laws of physics, can never generate thrust, and any experimental results to the contrary are lab errors, wishful thinking, or simply fraud. Apparent positive results are met with furious rebuttals, setbacks are hailed as the end of the EmDrive. Suffice to say, the debate continues.
Shawyer claims that EmDrive technology was supplied to Boeing in 2009 (“under the Boeing Purchase Contract No 9CS114H”) and tested successfully. Boeing has declined to comment on its involvement in the project.
The controversial EmDrive developed by Roger Shawyer in the early 2000s appears to generate thrust ... [+]
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Shawyer observes the wording in the UAP report is rather precise, referring to “advanced propulsion.”
“Note the use of the word ‘advanced’, rather than ‘exotic’ or ‘unexplained’,” says Shawyer. “The propulsion demonstrated was not unexpected.”
The EmDrive is able to produce the sort of maneuvers described, without the heat output or noise of a jet engine. The radio output observed is also highly characteristic of the EmDrive.
“In all my experimental work, stray RF [radiofrequency] energy was detectable, and having a field meter to monitor radiation leakage was part of the safety procedures that were mandatory for tests by Boeing,” says Shawyer.
Shawyer is not saying that the UAPs described were U.S.-made craft, simply that their characteristics are consistent with some type of EmDrive. The report even tacitly admits that this is a possibility:
“Some UAP observations could be attributable to developments and classified programs by U.S. entities. We were unable to confirm, however, that these systems accounted for any of the UAP reports we collected.”
“The words ‘we were unable to confirm’ is standard government-speak for a classified subject,” says Shawyer.
Researcher Mike McCulloch of the University of Plymouth, who is heading up the DARPA project, has also noted the similarities between the reports and the drive he is working on.
“Behavior of these UAPs is what you would expect from a quantized inertia horizon drive,” says McCulloch.
In particular he says this type of drive can achieve the sort of sharp acceleration which the UAPs appear to have, which would normally be intolerable for the pilot and electronics inside.
“Inertia is just a push from the quantum vacuum and it can be damped by the use of synthetic horizons,” says McCulloch. “This means a spacecraft can accelerate as much as you want and you will not feel any forces inside.”
Again, McCulloch says that there are plenty of other possible explanations for the sightings, including psy-ops or mind games by someone in the U.S. government.
“I’m not saying that UAPs are real, just that the observations are consistent with QI technology,” says McCulloch.
Exactly why such craft would make fleeting appearances during U.S. military exercises is of course a big question. The report notes that a disproportionate number of them interrupted planned military activities. It might be convenient if the U.S can claim ignorance if such craft appear watching military exercises elsewhere.
As the report notes, there are likely to be several explanations for UAP reports. But the report does appear to leave the door very much open on the possibility of their being of U.S. origin, and being powered by something like an EmDrive.
Keep watching the skies.
UPDATE 30th June:
Shawyer says it is important to note that China has also shown a clear understanding of the EmDrive and the issues of handling the superconducting cavities needed for high-thrust systems. While they started late, it is theoretically possible that China has recently developed vehicles with EmDrive propulsion. This would not explain earlier sightings, which remain puzzling as ever, but it might account for the increased U.S. military concern after decades of seemingly ignoring UFOs
Estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, the unusual wandering body will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2031.
This illustration shows the distant Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein as it might look in the outer Solar System. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is estimated to be about 1000 times more massive than a typical comet, making it arguably the largest comet discovered in modern times. It has an extremely elongated orbit, journeying inward from the distant Oort Cloud over millions of years. It is the most distant comet to be discovered on its incoming path. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
A giant comet from the outskirts of our Solar System has been discovered in 6 years of data from the Dark Energy Survey. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is estimated to be about 1000 times more massive than a typical comet, making it arguably the largest comet discovered in modern times. It has an extremely elongated orbit, journeying inward from the distant Oort Cloud over millions of years. It is the most distant comet to be discovered on its incoming path, giving us years to watch it evolve as it approaches the Sun, though it’s not predicted to become a naked-eye spectacle.
A giant comet has been discovered by two astronomers following a comprehensive search of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The comet, which is estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, or about 10 times the diameter of most comets, is an icy relic flung out of the Solar System by the migrating giant planets in the early history of the Solar System. This comet is quite unlike any other seen before, and the huge size estimate is based on how much sunlight it reflects.
Discovery image of Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (annotated).
Credit: National Science Foundation
Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein, of the University of Pennsylvania, found the comet — named Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (with the designation C/2014 UN271) — hidden among data collected by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. The analysis of data from the Dark Energy Survey is supported by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the DECam science archive is curated by the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC) at NSF’s NOIRLab. CTIO and CSDC are Programs of NOIRLab.
One of the highest-performance, wide-field CCD imagers in the world, DECam was designed specifically for the DES and operated by the DOE and NSF between 2013 and 2019. DECam was funded by the DOE and was built and tested at DOE’s Fermilab. At present DECam is used for programs covering a huge range of science.
DES was tasked with mapping 300 million galaxies across a 5000-square-degree area of the night sky, but during its six years of observations, it also observed many comets and trans-Neptunian objects passing through the surveyed field. A trans-Neptunian object, or TNO, is an icy body that resides in our Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Bernardinelli and Bernstein used 15–20 million CPU hours at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Fermilab, employing sophisticated identification and tracking algorithms to identify over 800 individual TNOs from among the more than 16 billion individual sources detected in 80,000 exposures taken as part of the DES. Thirty-two of those detections belonged to one object in particular — C/2014 UN271.
Comets are icy bodies that evaporate as they approach the warmth of the Sun, growing their coma and tails. The DES images of the object in 2014–2018 did not show a typical comet tail, but within a day of the announcement of its discovery via the Minor Planet Center, astronomers using the Las Cumbres Observatory network took fresh images of Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein which revealed that it has grown a coma in the past 3 years, making it officially a comet.
Its current inward journey began at a distance of over 40,000 astronomical units (au) from the Sun — in other words, 40,000 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, or 6 trillion kilometers away (3.7 trillion miles or 0.6 light-years — 1/7 of the distance to the nearest star). For comparison, Pluto is 39 au from the Sun, on average. This means that Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein originated in the Oort Cloud of objects, ejected during the early history of the Solar System. It could be the largest member of the Oort Cloud ever detected, and it is the first comet on an incoming path to be detected so far away.
Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is currently much closer to the Sun. It was first seen by DES in 2014 at a distance of 29 au (4 billion kilometers or 2.5 billion miles, roughly the distance of Neptune), and as of June 2021, it was 20 au (3 billion kilometers or 1.8 billion miles, the distance of Uranus) from the Sun and currently shines at magnitude 20. The comet’s orbit is perpendicular to the plane of the Solar System and it will reach its closest point to the Sun (known as perihelion) in 2031, when it will be around 11 au away (a bit more than Saturn’s distance from the Sun) — but it will get no closer. Despite the comet’s size, it is currently predicted that skywatchers will require a large amateur telescope to see it, even at its brightest.
“We have the privilege of having discovered perhaps the largest comet ever seen — or at least larger than any well-studied one — and caught it early enough for people to watch it evolve as it approaches and warms up,” said Gary Bernstein. “It has not visited the Solar System in more than 3 million years.”
Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein will be followed intensively by the astronomical community, including with NOIRLab facilities, to understand the composition and origin of this massive relic from the birth of our own planet. Astronomers suspect that there may be many more undiscovered comets of this size waiting in the Oort Cloud far beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. These giant comets are thought to have been scattered to the far reaches of the Solar System by the migration of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune early in their history.
“This is a much needed anchor on the unknown population of large objects in the Oort Cloud and their connection with early migration of the ice/gas giants soon after the Solar System was formed,” said NOIRLab astronomer Tod Lauer.
“These observations demonstrate the value of long-duration survey observations on national facilities like the Blanco telescope,” says Chris Davis, National Science Foundation Program Director for NOIRLab. “Finding huge objects like Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is crucial to our understanding of the early history of our Solar System.”
It is not yet known how active and bright it will become when it reaches perihelion. However, Bernardinelli says that Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a future Program of NOIRLab, “will continuously measure Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein all the way to its perihelion in 2031, and probably find many, many others like it,” allowing astronomers to characterize objects from the Oort Cloud in much greater detail.
Study Finds That Humans Would Welcome the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life
Study Finds That Humans Would Welcome the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life
Article by Gautam Peddada - (collective-evolution.com)
Researchers from Arizona State University have performed studies to find out how we humans will deal with it if we make contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life? Will we be terrified? Will we feel threatened? Will we be able to comprehend it? Will we accept it?
On February 16th, ASU Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael Varnum presented the findings of the most recent study, “How Will We React to the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life?” at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Austin, Texas. Varnum’s conclusion? “If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be pretty upbeat about it.”
A previous pilot study focused on people’s reaction to the discovery alien microbial life on Mars, the periodic dimming around Tabby’s Star, and other Earth-like exoplanets in a star’s habitable zone that could support life as we know it. The pilot study discovered that the language used to depict these events elicited much more positive than negative feelings.
In a second study, the researchers invited over 500 people to write about their potential reactions to the discovery of alien microbial life ‘considering their individual sentiments as well as those of mankind as a whole’. Again, participants’ replies revealed substantially more positive than negative emotions. “I’d be a little excited about the news,” one participant remarked.
Varnum’s ASU group gave an additional sample of over 500 people split into two groups. Group One participants read a previous article from The New York Times on probable evidence of ancient microbial life on a Mars meteorite. Group Two participants were given another New York Times article about the development of synthetic human-made life in a lab.
The responses were considerably more positive about finding of microbial alien life than they were about developing synthetic life. With regard to other planets hosting life, one participant stated, “It’s an intriguing and fascinating discovery that might be only the beginning.”
Varnum also examined recent media coverage that the interstellar ‘Oumuamua’ asteroid is actually a spacecraft. Here, too, Varnum discovered more positive than negative emotions, implying that humans may react favorably to news of the finding of sentient life elsewhere in the cosmos. “[T]aken together, this implies that if we find out we’re not alone, we’ll take the news rather well.”
As the possibilities of a non-human intellect being present on Earth increase on a daily basis, one critical question must be addressed: How will we deal with it if we make contact? Will we be terrified if we feel threatened? Will we accept it? Will we be able to comprehend it? Or will we dismiss it as just another item to cope with in our increasingly fast-paced world?
Michael Varnum
Researchers from Arizona State University performed a study to try to find out the answer, and the article is titled “How Will We React to the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life?”
The researchers looked at how language was used in media coverage of previous announcements of this kind, with an emphasis on alien microbial life (Pilot Study). A large online sample was asked to write about their own and humanity’s reaction to a hypothetical announcement of such a discovery, and another large online sample was asked to read and respond to a news article about the discovery of fossilised extraterrestrial microbial life in a Martian meteorite.
“If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be pretty upbeat about it,” said Arizona State University Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael Varnum.
Varnum presented the study’s findings on February 16 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Austin, Texas.
The pilot study’s articles focused on the 1996 discovery of possibly fossilised extraterrestrial Martian microbes, the 2015 discovery of periodic dimming around Tabby’s Star, thought to indicate the presence of an artificially constructed “Dyson sphere,” and the 2017 discovery of Earth-like exoplanets in a star’s habitable zone. The pilot study discovered that the language used to depict these events elicited much more positive than negative feelings.
In a second study, the researchers invited over 500 people to write about their potential reactions to the discovery of alien microbial life, as well as humanity’s possible reaction. When considering their individual sentiments as well as those of mankind as a whole, participants’ replies revealed substantially more positive than negative emotions.
“I’d be a little excited about the news,” one participant remarked. “Even if it existed in a rudimentary form, it would be fascinating.”
Varnum’s group then gave an additional sample of over 500 people with historical news coverage of scientific breakthroughs and asked them to write about their emotions in another research. Participants were split into two groups. Participants in one group read a previous article from The New York Times on probable evidence of ancient microbial life on a Mars meteorite. The second set of participants wrote a report from the New York Times about the alleged development of synthetic human-made life in a lab.
The scientists discovered evidence of considerably happier than negative emotions in responses to the alleged finding of alien life, and this impact was larger in response to reading about extraterrestrial life than in response to human-made synthetic life.
“This discovery demonstrates that other planets can support life,” one participant stated. “It’s an intriguing and fascinating discovery that might be only the beginning.”
Varnum examined recent media coverage of the potential that the interstellar Oumuamua asteroid is actually a spacecraft in unpublished data given at the conference. Here, too, he discovered evidence of more positive than negative emotions, implying that humans may react favourably to news of the finding of sentient life elsewhere in the cosmos.
According to Varnum, “taken together, this implies that if we find out we’re not alone, we’ll take the news rather well”
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Full Pentagon UFO report 'was like sci-fi movie with 14 videos and 70 pages'
Full Pentagon UFO report 'was like sci-fi movie with 14 videos and 70 pages'
The Pentagon finally released its report into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena on June 25, but many believe a bulk of information was removed from the originally-classified document
The Pentagon’s full classified UFO report contains 14 videos in what insiders described as a “sci-fi movie”, researchers have claimed.
After months of speculation, the eagerly-anticipated report into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena was released on Friday, June 25.
The nine-page unclassified document revealed that 143 out of 144 reports of sightings remain unexplained.
Alien technology was neither confirmed or denied as the document simply said more scientific analysis was required.
It follows the release of several baffling videos of UFO encounters by personnel onboard US Navy ships dating back to 2004.
But, according to UFO researcher and Virginia Tech professor Bob McGwier, the full classified document that was shared with Congress and the National Security Council was far more detailed.
One of the pyramid UFOs that was filmed swarming a US Navy ship(Image: JEREMY CORBELL)
“There were 70 pages and 14 videos, they got to see the good stuff,” he explained on Spaced Out Radio.
“There was a full classified report and 14 videos. I know several people who were in the national security council meeting and the best comment I heard was ‘what we had was 40 minutes of science fiction movies, we were all gobsmacked’.
“It’s ridiculously slim. Everything they could redact they did but the committees and the White House – they saw the works.”
A screengrab from an unclassified video of US Navy pilots encountering a UFO(Image: HANDOUT/DoD/AFP via Getty Images)
The comments echo what investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell previously told this site of the Pentagon being in possession of plenty more videos of UFO encounters.
And, just days before the report was released, the former head of the Pentagon’s UFO programme also said there were clearer videos yet to be released.
Speaking to Curt Jaimungal on his Theories of Everything podcast on June 23, he said there are “extremely compelling” videos and photographs.
“I’ve said for the record that the three videos that have come out, as interesting as they are, they’re probably the least compelling of the ones that we have,” he said.
“There were some very high very high definition videos in there that when you looked at it you realised, ‘Hey, that’s not one of our craft’.”
The publicly-available Pentagon UFO report placed the sightings in five separate categories: airborne clutter (such as birds or balloons), natural atmospheric phenomena, classified military programs, foreign adversary systems or “other”.
Objects would be placed in the “other” category “pending scientific advances that allowed us to better understand them”.
MUFON CASE : 116566 Albuquerque, New Mexico ( June 28, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Long, rectangular bright/white object appearing in video of sunset
Long Description of Sighting Report
I was recording video on iPhone 12 of rain clouds over Sandia Mts. Began filming North direction and slowly panned to West and sundown. Dense, dark clouds over mts then moving to clearing skies towards the West. Sun is seen just above horizon. In reviewing the video I noticed an “object” appearing on the upper right of the screen at 55 seconds into video. As I continued pan the “object” descends, hovers, descends, moves up and down. The video terminates with shot due West at the sinking sun with bright orange sunset clouds. The “object” is now just above the sun. At times the “object” appears shaky - that's me, I think. I had not noticed the “object” while filming but only on reviewing video. I went back to spot on patio where I shot video. Repeated my motions while making the video, looking for anything that may have caused a reflection. Nothing. My house was behind me, no lights on that could account for a reflection. I have attached video file below - I hope. Perhaps this is a video “artifact” and perhaps you can make that determination. Unusual enough I wanted to report it to you.
Date Submitted : 2021-06-28 Date of Event : 2021-06-28 / 8:10PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.4D334D9A30BD4DB58BFAD15BDC98A08E.MOV
A corner of the UFO phenomenon that has remained rather spectacular and alluring is that of the UFO crash. By far the most famous of these is the July 1947 crash of some sort of flying object at Roswell, New Mexico, which has gone on to spawn countless conspiracy theories and tales of alien bodies and secret bases in the desert testing out alien technology. Roswell can also arguably be said to lay claim to being the incident that really launched the UFO craze into the public consciousness and put the idea of sinister government UFO research on the map, the name Roswell being nearly synonymous with any purported UFO crash thereafter and a name known by people who don’t even follow the field. The Roswell incident has become by far the most famous UFO crash, becoming a pop cultural icon in the process, and is largely thought to mark the beginning of serious mainstream consideration of mysterious craft coming down from the sky to smash into the earth. Yet, Roswell is not, as many may believe, the first, and there have been supposed mysterious crashes of UFOs and even alien bodies found that predate it by some margin.
One of the earliest UFO crash stories in America happened even before there was even a Roswell at all. In 1884 there was a very bizarre incident that allegedly happened at the tiny town of Max, Nebraska. The town was just a dusty, nondescript speck on the map, with only 914 living there at the time, a place where not much ever happened at all, but on June 6, 1884 all of that would change. On this day a rancher named John W. Ellis and a group of other cowboys were rounding up a herd of cattle when they heard a “terrific whirring noise over their heads” and turned to see “a blazing body falling like a shot to Earth.” Whatever it was hit nearby beyond an embankment, and when they went to investigate they found a strange metallic object embedded in the earth, which had left in its wake a deep gash in the ground. One of the frightened herdsmen, a man named Alf Williamson, was purportedly burned when he drew to close to the object. There was apparently a lot of debris from the mysterious craft lying about as well, and one report in the Nebraska State Journal would say of this:
One piece that looked like the blade of a propeller screw, of a metal of an appearance like brass, about 16 inches wide, three inches thick and three-and-a-half feet long, was picked up by a spade. It would not weigh more than five pounds, but appeared as strong and compact as any known metal. A fragment of a wheel with a milled rim, apparently having had a diameter of seven or eight feet, was also picked up. It seemed to be of the same material and had the same remarkable lightness.
It is a very compelling report, but it happened so long ago and was so little covered in the news at the time that it is impossible to ascertain how real any of the report is or what could have happened to the supposed fragments of the craft. What happened to this craft after that? Are there still pieces of this thing out there somewhere? Who knows? Another very early account of a supposed UFO crash that happened just a few years later even allegedly featured a dead alien pilot. In April of 1897, the small town of Aurora, Texas, was rocked by a rather spectacular event. It was reported that a large, slow-moving aircraft like nothing anyone had ever seen came down from the sky to go smashing into a windmill to send debris scattering everywhere, as well as a dead humanoid creature the townsfolk called the “Martian pilot.” An article in the Dallas Morning News would say of the incident:
Aurora Cemetery “About 6 o’clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than before. Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor’s windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge’s flower garden. The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.
The body of the alien was then supposedly given a proper burial at the local cemetery, and it has all become a fixture of local lore, as well as almost legendary in the UFO field. Various people have tried to dig up more information on this, even talking to supposed living relatives of the original witnesses and scouring the cemetery with metal detectors, but the body supposed body has never been found. In 1973, a group called the International UFO Bureau claimed to have located the site of the alien’s grave, but they were denied the proper permits to have it exhumed, leaving it a mystery as to just who or what is buried there. A North Texas State University professor also allegedly unearthed some fragments at the site of where the windmill once stood, which “consisted primarily of iron which did not seem to exhibit magnetic properties,” but it is unknown what happened to these or what they actually were.
One account in later years from 1920 is an account related by a man named Clark Linch, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. On June 3, 1920, Linch took a break from working on his father’s farm in order to do some fishing at the nearby river. It was 10 AM on a pleasant day, and he planned to go out fishing for just a few hours and then come back to work. As he sat out at the riverside waiting for a fish to bite, he allegedly saw “an egg-shaped object the size of a cream can” come down to smash into the ground about 15 feet away on the bank, where it sat for around 15 minutes before taking off again. He would say of his rather odd encounter:
I wasn’t in any hurry to jump up and run over to it, and I’m glad I didn’t. It might have killed me. Just when I thought about going over to take a closer look at it, it took off without any sound and without turning around. The grass where it hit was pressed down. I didn’t know what to believe about it at the time, and I still don’t. I’ve concluded that it wasn’t anything from Earth. It was so small; it couldn’t have been occupied by intelligent life as we know it.
He would claim that the object flew off at very slow speeds, with a strange wobbling motion, making him think the thing had crashed and been damaged somehow. When Linch examined where the object had been, he found merely an area of pressed down grass, but no scorch marks or other damage. At the time he kept his strange experience to himself, and it would not be until 1955 that he would tell anyone about what had happened, explaining “You didn’t talk about flying saucers in 1920.” Despite decades having passed, he still vividly remembered the incident, and knew the date because it was his birthday and the year he got married. What did he see out there at that riverside?
Even more spectacular is another report of a UFO crash complete with alien bodies and a government cover-up that predates Roswell by 6 years. The account comes from the book UFO Crash / Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum, by UFO researcher Leo Stringfield. He claimed that he had received a letter from a woman named Charlette Mann, who had a very strange story to tell. She claimed that in 1984 her grandmother on her deathbed had told her about an incident experienced by her grandfather, a Reverend William Huffman, who had told her of having been involved with being called to bless alien bodies in the wake of a UFO crash outside of Cape Girardeau, Missouri in the spring of 1941. Huffman told her that he had been brought to the crash site thinking he was going to an airplane crash and that he would be saying last rights to human victims, but as soon as he arrived, it was immediately clear that this was no normal aircraft and these were not human victims, but rather a spaceship and several small, hairless beings. Charlette would explain of what had happened to her grandfather:
Upon arrival it was a very different situation. It was not a conventional aircraft, as we know it. He described it as a saucer that was metallic in color, no seams, did not look like anything he had seen. It had been broken open in one portion, and so he could walk up and see that. In looking in he saw a small metal chair, gauges and dials and things he had never seen. However, what impressed him most was around the inside there were inscriptions and writings, which he said he did not recognize, but were similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics. There were 3 entities, or non-human people, lying on the ground. Two were just outside the saucer, and a third one was further out. His understanding was that perhaps that third one was not dead on impact.
It was hard for him to tell if they had on suits or if it was their skin, but they were covered head to foot in what looked like wrinkled aluminum foil. He could see no hair on their bodies and they had no ears. They were small framed like a child, about 4 feet tall, but had larger heads and longer arms. Their faces had large, oval-shaped eyes, no noses, just holes and no lips, just small slits for mouths. There had been mention of a ball of fire, yet there was fire around the crash site, but none of the entities had been burned and so father did pray over them, giving them last rites. There were many people there, fire people, photographers, and so they lifted up one, and two men on either side stood him up and they stretched his arms out, they had him up under the armpits and out here.
When Huffman had finished his blessings and his duty, he was then told in no uncertain terms to say nothing of what he had seen there, but he had eventually told his wife. Charlette also claimed that her grandfather had secretly kept a picture from the scene of the crash, which allegedly showed one of the dead alien bodies being held up by two military men. She had been shown this picture by her father, who had gotten it from her grandfather, and indeed she claimed that this was the reason she had pushed her grandmother to tell her the truth of what had happened that day. Charlette would say of the creature in the mysterious photograph:
As I recall from the picture I saw, he was about 4 feet tall, appeared to have no bone structure, soft looking. He had a suit on, or we assume it was a suit, it could have been his skin, and what looked like crinkled, soft aluminum foil. I recall it had very long hands, very long fingers, and I think there were three but I cannot swear to that.
It is unclear what happened to this picture, or whether it ever even existed or not, and indeed the whole account is a bit murky and difficult to get to the facts. Several people related to Charlette, as well as the living brother of the Cape Girardeau County sheriff in 1941, Clarance R. Schade have corroborated these events, and Charlette Mann has been called a very sincere and trustworthy person by those who have interviewed her since, but UFO researchers who have visited the area and dug for more information have failed to uncover much more information on the case. It is largely known from Stringfield’s book and some interviews with Charlette herself, and without further evidence it is hard to say just what exactly happened out there in the spring of 1941.
What can we say about such reports? With no real evidence there is not way to know how real they were, or whether they were merely hoaxes and urban legends and lore. One thing we can say is that they show that the notion of alien spacecraft coming down to crash into the earth did not begin with Roswell, and that this sort of report has been going on for some time. Whether it is aliens, tall tales, or some explainable phenomena, such reports certainly capture the attention, and serve as strange historical oddities that have remained elusive to our understanding.
In 1948, shortly after the “Flying Saucer” craze had erupted over the Americas, a new kind of aerial apparition began to be frequently reported: the so-called “green fireballs.”
Among the most notable sightings had been one occurring over New Mexico in late 1948, reports of which were logged by the crew aboard both military and civilian aircraft operating on the night of December 5. Both groups of observers likened the object to “a huge green meteor.”
The December 5 incident had not been the first time that bright fireballs lit up the night sky over America. In February of the same year, a brilliant flash of night occurring in the night sky over Kansas had been announced as the result of a meteor by Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, then director of the Institute of Meteorites at the University of New Mexico. Later that summer, reports of a huge green fireball observed over Oregon also made headlines, after a bright meteor was observed by many Oregonians on the night of June 28, which disappeared over the ocean.
However, the objects that were being seen over the southeast in December appeared to behave differently from typical meteors, a fact noted by LaPaz in a letter he sent to the U.S. Air Force on December 20. The following month, a concerning new possibility had been raised in official circles: The Director of Army Intelligence from Fourth Army Headquarters in Texas had suggested that the strange fireballs could be the “result of radiological warfare experiments by a foreign power,” and deemed this possibility to be “of such great importance, especially as they are occurring in the vicinity of sensitive installations,” that a scientific board should be established to investigate the matter.
The U.S. Air Force had already become concerned about the presence of unusual flying objects operating over America, following a rash of reports of the alleged objects in the weeks following a landmark sighting by pilot Kenneth Arnold over Mount Ranier, Washington. The sightings helped initiate the formation of Project Sign, the first Air Force investigation into the possible source of the objects. In February 1949, a conference was held at Los Alamos which Project Sign investigators attended, along with several scientists and other military personnel, with the objective of assessing the fireball sightings, although the conference led to no conclusions about what their source might have been. The following December saw the establishment of Project Twinkle, which involved plans for systematic efforts to observe and photograph the mysterious green objects, although the operation never saw full implementation, and was discontinued after just two years in operation.
However, the sightings had not completely subsided, and on January 22, 1953, an article in the Santa Fe New Mexican featured the latest theories of Dr. LaPaz, which still involved the possibility that Russian technology could be to blame.
“A fireball expert said today Russia may be scouting the United States and other parts world with strange new guided missiles,” the article stated. “Dr. Lincoln LaPaz said a good many shreds of evidence point to green fireballs sighted throughout the world being a type of missile—possibly of Soviet make.”
Although the mysterious green fireballs are commonly associated with the early years of UFOs, there have been some notable incidents throughout the ensuing decades that appear to describe similar phenomena.
On the night of November 17, 1995, the crew aboard Lufthansa Flight 405 and that of British Airways 226 each observed a brightly lit, greenish object as it flew past them while flying over Long Island, New York. Several of the observers described it as resembling a green projectile, which they estimated to be flying at an altitude approximately 3000 feet above them and to their left. Following the incident, Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center compiled additional information about the incident, and also obtained a transcript of the communications between air traffic controllers and the pilots who observed it. Strangely, the transcripts revealed that the object had apparently managed to evade detection by radar at the Air Route Traffic Control Center at nearby Nashua, New Hampshire, despite being observed by multiple witnesses on the night in question.
Is it possible that the sightings of green fireballs from over the years represent nothing more than the occasional peculiar behavior of meteorites as they burn through our atmosphere? Even Dr. LaPaz seemed to think otherwise based on his assessments of the sightings from the late 1940s, although his attribution of the phenomena to prospective Russian technologies seems to fall flat—much like the modern attribution of UAP observed since 2004 to Russia or China, an unlikely conclusion that many nonetheless appear to maintain.
Although prosaic explanations may exist for the green fireballs, their source still remains undetermined, leaving them as one of the many peculiar and colorful footnotes in the broader history of the longstanding UFO mystery.
Voor het eerst waargenomen: zwart gat slokt neutronenster op
Wetenschappers hebben voor het eerst en zelfs tot twee keer toe geobserveerd dat een zwart gat een neutronenster opslokt, zo blijkt uit een internationale studie die vandaag verscheen in het vakblad Astrophysical Journal.
Astrofysici hadden reeds waargenomen dat zwarte gaten of neutronensterren onder elkaar fusioneren, maar zagen nooit "gemende koppels", zo staat in een communiqué van het Franse Nationaal Centrum voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (CNRS).
De twee evenementen werden met een interval van tien dagen waargenomen in januari 2020 via de Virgo- en Ligo-detectoren van zwaartekrachtgolven. Ze vonden plaats op ongeveer 900 miljoen en een miljard lichtjaar van de Aarde. De zwarte gaten hebben respectievelijk een massa die 8,9 en 5,7 keer die van onze Zon is. Met een massa van 1,9 en 1,5 keer die van onze ster hadden de neutronensterren geen kans om aan de zwarte gaten te ontsnappen.
Indien het massaverschil te groot is verslindt het zwarte gat in één keer, vertelde tegenover het Franse persbureau AFP astrofysicus Astrid Lamberts, hoofdauteur van de studie en verbonden aan het CNRS.
Zwarte gaten en neutronensterren behoren tot de meest exotische objecten in de kosmos. Beiden zijn ze het resultaat van een enorme ster die aan het eind van haar leven in elkaar klapt. De massa van het zwart gat is zo geconcentreerd dat de zwaartekracht ervoor zorgt dat niets kan ontsnappen, zelfs geen licht. Hoewel neutronensterren buitengewoon compact zijn, zijn ze wel te zien.
Binaire fusies tussen zwarte gaten werden al bijna vijftig keer waargenomen, binaire fusies van neutronensterren een handvol keer.
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Ancient Civilization's Stories of Star Beings, Humanity's Cosmic Origins & Consciousness
Ancient Civilization's Stories of Star Beings, Humanity's Cosmic Origins & Consciousness
Ancient Civilization’s Stories of Star Beings, Humanity’s Cosmic Origins & Consciousness
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‘Scary’ Boston Dynamics Dance Video Divides Internet as Robo-Dogs Celebrate Hyundai Acquisition
‘Scary’ Boston Dynamics Dance Video Divides Internet as Robo-Dogs Celebrate Hyundai Acquisition
from RT:
American robotics company Boston Dynamics released a new robot dance video after it announced it had been acquired by Hyundai – and, like its previous effort, this one had many people terrified.
Though it announced the completion of the acquisition last week in a press release, Boston Dynamics decided to mark the occasion in style on Tuesday.
The video shows five of its dog-like ‘Spot’ robots dancing to the song ‘IONIQ: I’m On It’ by South Korean boy band BTS, and demonstrates the precision and complexity of its machines, which feature long arm-like appendages with claws.
A photographer on Instragram caught something amazing while shooting a volcano in India. Guarto Song took a photo of the active volcano at just the right time that he also caught a long green light shooting down. The green object was actually small, but moving fast and thats why it appears to be one lone line. Volcanos worldwide have been linked to UFO sightings and more and more photos and video are recording such events everyday. For UFOs to enter and exit a mouth of a volcano, it must be leading them to and from somewhere significant. This is why I believe that aliens use mouth of volcanos, because few humans ever go there and there is less chance of being seen. An alien base 5-6 km below the surface of the mountain makes a lot of sense. This is 100% proof of that fact.
Barack Obama just said something *very* interesting about UFOs
Barack Obama just said something *very* interesting about UFOs
Unidentified Flying Objects have long been a phenomenon that has captivated Americans, but the age-old question still remains — does extraterrestrial life actually exist? In this latest episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains what the government already knows about UFOs and what we can expect to uncover in the upcoming report from the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense on what they call “unidentified aerial phenomena.”
NGC 3254, a Seyfert galaxy 118 million light-years from Earth. The image was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
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Prior to its shutdown due to a malfunctioning computer from the 1980s, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to take a remarkable image of a galaxy in deep space that has a core that gives off as much energy as the rest of the galaxy all together.
The galaxy, known as NGC 3254, is not a spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way, but rather a Seyfert galaxy.
Seyfert galaxies, which make up approximately 10 percent of all galaxies, have 'extraordinarily active cores' and belong to a class of 'active galaxies,' according to a statement fromNASA.
The image of NGC 3254 is a composite of both infrared and visible images.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took an image of a galaxy in deep space that has a core that gives off as much energy as the rest of the galaxy all together, NGC 3254, which is a Seyfert galaxy
Seyfert galaxies, which make up approximately 10 percent of all galaxies, have 'extraordinarily active cores'
These galaxies 'have supermassive black holes at their centers accreting material, which releases vast amounts of radiation,' NASA said
When viewed from the side, it looks like a typical spiral galaxy, but it is in fact a Seyfert galaxy, which are best viewed in light outside visible spectrum, NASA explained.
These galaxies 'have supermassive black holes at their centers accreting material, which releases vast amounts of radiation,' the US space agency added.
Supermassive black holes, which are common throughout the universe, are defined as black holes that have a mass between a million and a billion times more than the typical black hole.
These celestial objects put gases, dust, stars and even planets into a giant suction, pulling them inside and eventually ripping them apart.
Upon being ripped apart, all of the atoms hit into each other - with not even light escaping - and supermassive black holes radiate more than 'a trillion times as much energy as our sun,' according to Swinburne University.
The Milky Way is considered a spiral galaxy, among the most common types of galaxies.
These galaxies have arms that stretch out from the center of them to form pin-wheel like or spiral structures.
Most spiral galaxies are comprised of a flat, rotating disk of stars, gas and dust. The group of stars in the center is known as a bulge.
NGC 3254, which was first discovered in March 1785 by astronomer William Herschel, is located in the constellation Leo Minor, approximately 118 million light-years from Earth.
A light-year, which measures distance in space, is roughly 6 trillion miles.
In 1941, a supernova was spotted within the galaxy, known as SN 1941B.
The Hubble has spotted several other Seyfert galaxies in recent years, including one that looks like a 'twin' of the Milky Way galaxy, IRAS17020+4544, in 2016.
Separately that year, it also spotted NGC 6814, which is roughly 75,000 light-years across, or half thee size of the Milky Way.
NASAs Hubble Space Telescope is still working and has made more than 1.3 million observations since its mission began in 1990
The Hubble telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, via the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
It is named after famed astronomer Edwin Hubble who was born in Missouri in 1889.
He is arguably most famous for discovering that the universe is expanding and the rate at which is does so - now coined the Hubble constant.
The Hubble telescope is named after famed astronomer Edwin Hubble who was born in Missouri in 1889
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Hubble has made more than 1.3 million observations since its mission began in 1990 and helped publish more than 15,000 scientific papers.
It orbits Earth at a speed of about 17,000mph (27,300kph) in low Earth orbit at about 340 miles in altitude.
Hubble has the pointing accuracy of .007 arc seconds, which is like being able to shine a laser beam focused on Franklin D. Roosevelt's head on a dime roughly 200 miles (320km) away.
The Hubble telescope is named after Edwin Hubble who was responsible for coming up with the Hubble constant and is one of the greatest astronomers of all-time
Hubble's primary mirror is 2.4 meters (7 feet, 10.5 inches) across and in total is 13.3 meters (43.5 feet) long - the length of a large school bus.
Hubble's launch and deployment in April 1990 marked the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo's telescope.
Thanks to five servicing missions and more than 25 years of operation, our view of the universe and our place within it has never been the same.
Left to its own devices, Earth’s climate typically takes thousands of years to change. Thanks to human activities, however, what previously took millennia now is taking only decades, suggests a new joint studyby NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).1 Published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, it finds the Earth is retaining twice as much heat now as it did in the early 2000s.1
Specifically, scientists used two different means to measure and assess the Earth’s energy imbalance, which is the amount of radiative energy that the planet absorbs from the sun relative to the amount of thermal infrared radiation that it emits into space. The first was NASA’s Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES), a suite of satellite sensors that measure the amount of energy entering and leaving the Earth’s atmosphere. The second was Argo, a global network of ocean floats that measure the retention of energy in the ocean. Both revealed a positive energy imbalance, which means Earth is retaining more energy than it’s releasing.1
That causes the planet to heat up. By a lot, it turns out: Data from both CERES and Argo show that Earth’s energy imbalance in 2019 was double what it was in 2005, just 14 years prior.1
“The two very independent ways of looking at changes in Earth’s energy imbalance are in really, really good agreement, and they’re both showing this very large trend, which gives us a lot of confidence that what we’re seeing is a real phenomenon and not just an instrumental artifact,” said NASA scientist Norman Loeb, lead author of the study and principal investigator for CERES at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. “The trends we found were quite alarming in a sense.
Scientists blame rapid heating on a mix of human and natural causes. On the one hand, they observe, increases in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities—for example, driving, deforestation, and manufacturing—have trapped outgoing heat in the atmosphere that Earth would otherwise emit into space. That causes changes in snow and ice melt, water vapor, and cloud cover, which in turn creates even more warming.
On the other hand, scientists also note a concurrent change in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), a natural pattern of climate variability in the eastern Pacific Ocean. During the time period in question, the PDO—which is like a longer-term El Niño—switched from a cool phase to a warm phase, which likely exacerbated Earth’s positive energy imbalance.
“It’s likely a mix of anthropogenic forcing and internal variability,” Loeb said. “And over this period they’re both causing warming, which leads to a fairly large change in Earth’s energy imbalance. The magnitude of the increase is unprecedented.”
The increase is as impactful as it is unprecedented.
Comparison of overlapping one-year estimates at 6-month intervals of net top-of-the-atmosphere annual energy flux from CERES (solid orange line) and an in situ observational estimate of uptake of energy by Earth climate system (solid turquoise line).NASA/Tim Marvel
“It’s excess energy that’s being taken up by the planet, so it’s going to mean further increases in temperatures and more melting of snow and sea ice, which will cause sea level rise—all things that society really cares about,” Loeb told CNN, adding that accelerated warming will likely produce “shifts in atmospheric circulations, including more extreme events like droughts.Because 90% of the excess energy from an energy imbalance is absorbed by the ocean, yet another consequence will be ocean acidification from higher water temperatures, which will impact fish and marine biodiversity, CNN points out.
“My hope is the rate that we’re seeing this energy imbalance subsides in the coming decades,” Loeb continued in his CNN interview. “Otherwise, we’re going to see more alarming climate changes.”
Unfortunately, it’s impossible to predict what those changes might be or when they’ll occur, stress Loeb and his colleagues, who describe their research as “a snapshot relative to long-term climate change.” Still, the science is getting better all the time. By using it to measure the severity of global warming, scientists at NASA and NOAA hope to inform and influence actions that will stop or reverse human-induced climate change before it’s too late to do so.
“The lengthening and highly complementary records from [space- and ocean-based sensors] have allowed us both to pin down Earth’s energy imbalance with increasing accuracy, and to study its variations and trends with increasing insight, as time goes on,” said Gregory Johnson, Loeb’s co-author on the study and physical oceanographer at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle. “Observing the magnitude and variations of this energy imbalance are vital to understanding Earth’s changing climate.”
Denisova Cave DNA: Neanderthals, Denisovans and Humans Lived Together!
Denisova Cave DNA: Neanderthals, Denisovans and Humans Lived Together!
The deeply-ancient Denisova Cave in Siberia was at times home to Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans “at the same time” based on the latest Denisova Cave DNA research.
Nobody in the world had expected first-contact to come from a tiny, fossilized pinkie bone, but 10 years ago it was the discovery of such a bone that introduced us to the hitherto unknown and now extinct "Denisovans.
A new study of Denisova Cave DNA sampled from the floor of the Russian cave has revealed for the first time that the cave was also used by modern humans. But what was completely unexpected is that the new dating suggests the ancestors of modern humans lived “alongside Denisovans and Neanderthals.”
Researchers Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li and Kieran O'Gorman collecting soil samples in the main chamber to test for Denisova Cave DNA.
Denisova Cave DNA Changes Everything And Proves More
“Aju-Tasch” is more famously known as the “ Denisova Cave ,” and this time capsule of anthropological treasures was found hidden in a cliff face in the Anui River valley in the Altai Mountains of Russia. The cave comprises 20 layers of excavated artifacts indicating occupation by hominins as long ago as 280,000 years before the present, and signs of habitation have been found all the way into the Middle Ages.
Up until recently, according to Britannica encyclopedia , researchers have suspected that the cave was inhabited by early modern humans ( Homo sapiens ) and Neanderthals ( H. neanderthalensis ). However, evidence of a previously unknown group of hominins, the Denisovans, who were neither modern humans nor Neanderthals, was also discovered at the site.
Researchers Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li and Kieran O'Gorman in the south chamber of the cave taking sediment samples as they search for more Denisova Cave DNA.
The new research was published in the Nature journal and covered as well in a release from the Max Planck Institute . The research study’s lead author, Dr Elena Zavala, a graduate student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and her colleagues worked with a team of Russian DNA researchers. The primary goal was to test the soil floor of the three-chamber cave to try and gain a clearer picture of how and when modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans lived in the now famous Denisova Cave.
For four decades researchers have been studying artifacts and DNA gathered from soils within the cave. However, according to an article about the new research in Science Mag , only over the last 4 years has anyone found DNA from extinct humans in the ancient cave soil.
A Denisovan tooth found in Russia’s famous Denisova Cave in 2000.
Previous research highlighted in this Science Mag article stated that “728 soil samples” had been taken in the cave. And now, after almost 24 months, the researchers have published new research about their discovery of “ human DNA in 175 of the samples.”
An article about the paper published by the Max Planck Institute quotes Dr Katerina Douka, an archaeological scientist at the institute who said the new study represents the “largest and most systematic of its kind.”
The study concludes that the three different groups “moved in and out of the cave over time.” However, Dr Zavala’s work confirms that Denisovans were the cave ’s first inhabitants about 300,000 years ago and that they disappeared 130,000 years ago. A different group of Denisovans who “likely made many of the stone tools,” then moved into the cave shelter about 30,000 years later. It would be 170,000 years after the first inhabitants that Neanderthals used the cave, at times, “overlapping with the Denisovans,” and the first humans used the cave beginning around 45,000 years ago.
A reconstructed fossil skeleton of a cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea). Cave hyena bones were also found in the Denisova Cave, and this must have resulted in horrible attacks on the hominins living there.
DNA is like any organic matter, and it has a shelf life dependent on the environment in which it found. The Denisova Cave DNA covered all three human groups, and the researchers wrote in their paper that the time periods represented by each soil layer “are quite large.” According to Dr Zavala, this is the first time archaeologists have discovered an ancient site where Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans “lived together through time.”
The fossils of many ancient animals were also discovered in the cave which corresponded with times the climate became cooler. Over time, many different species of hyenas and bears use the cave to shelter from the harsh Russian winters, and it was for this reason it is known locally in Altay as “ Aju-Tasch” or “bear rock.”
Top image:The entrance to the Denisova cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia where the so-called new “Denisova Cave DNA” has proven, for the first time, the Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo sapiens occupied the same cave at the same time sometimes!
Giants in Ancient Egypt? A “mummified finger” could confirm this
Giants in Ancient Egypt? A “mummified finger” could confirm this
The belief in giants does not go back to a simple myth. There is a lot of archaeological evidence, accepted and unrecognized, that suggests its existence. That is the case of the colossal finger found in Egypt.
Finger next to an Egyptian 20 pound note to compare the size.
Scholars of ancient cultures that inhabited the world thousands of years ago are convinced that giants roamed the Earth .
Although science recognizes the existence of abnormally large men through gigantism, archaeological evidence, which has not been accepted by the mainstream, shows that it was not a disease.
This could be the case of a strange mummified finger found in Egypt , which has dimensions that exceed those of the average human.
Giant’s finger in Egypt
In March 2012, the German magazine Bild published an article claiming that the remains of a giant had been found in Egyptian territory.
The finger, which was mummified, had all the characteristics of a human, except its size, which was 15 inches long .
According to the publication, the photographs are dated 1988 , but these had never come to light, until the newspaper was able to get them.
The images were taken by the Swiss businessman and fan of the history and culture of ancient Egypt, Gregor Spoerri.
In 1988, she says, one of Egypt’s private providers, Bir Hooker, promised to arrange a meeting with a former grave robber .
The meeting took place in a small house obtained by Hooker, 100 kilometers northwest of Cairo.
The businessman received a large bag with a rather strong smell. Opening it, he found the huge finger wrapped in rags. Obviously, Spoerri decided to cancel the $ 300 the man demanded to take some pictures of them.
To check the size of the finger, the man placed a 20 Egyptian pound note next to the finger. This one was dry and very light , but intact. Soperri assured that the creature must have been at least 5 meters tall .
X-ray supposedly demonstrating the authenticity of the mummified finger.
Its veracity was proven when the looter showed an X – ray of the mummified finger, which he performed in the 1960s. He also showed the certificate of authenticity .
A race that walked the Earth?
Although the businessman asked him to sell the relic, the man refused, claiming that the value it had for his family was priceless .
Later, Spoerri showed the images to colleagues and specialists, who rejected them . They all argued that it was simply “impossible” for someone that size to exist.
In 2009, the businessman once again visited Hooker to obtain new photographs of the giant toe. However, he was unable to find the looter.
Although this story sounds pretty incredible, it is not the first time that giants have been talked about in ancient Egypt.
In the year 79 d. C., the Roman historian, Josefo Flavio , wrote that the last member of the race of the giants lived in century XIII a. C., during the reign of King Josué .
In addition, he said that they had colossal bodies and their faces were so different from humans, that looking at them generated astonishment and their voice provoked fear.
Scientists claim that the giants are nothing more than fictional characters, since there is no evidence that hominids have grown to such dimensions. However, the enigmatic findings that could prove otherwise are piling up .
‘Dragon Man’ Skull Found in China May Be ANOTHER New Human Species
‘Dragon Man’ Skull Found in China May Be ANOTHER New Human Species
In the latest edition of the journal The Innovation, a team of evolutionary scientists led by Professor Qiang Ji from Hebei GEO University in Shijiazhuang, China have announced the discovery of a new human species. Their startling conclusion is based on the results of a sophisticated computer analysis of a strange human-like skull that emerged three years ago from a source in northern China.
The scientists say the Harbin skull belonged to a 50-year-old man who lived sometime between 146,000 and 296,000 years ago. This dates him to the Middle Pleistocene, or Middle Stone Age .
The skull (cranium) was intact and was most notable for its extraordinarily large size. The skull´s combination of features had never been seen before, the scientists claim, and seems to represent some type of hybrid between archaic humans and modern humans ( Homo sapiens ).
“The discovery of the Harbin cranium and our analyses suggest that there is a third lineage of archaic human [that] once lived in Asia, and this lineage has [a] closer relationship with H. sapiens than the Neanderthals,” said Xijun Ni , a Hebei GEO University paleoanthropologist and co-author of this new study.
Based on its huge head, the team have named their new species Homo longi , which means ‘Dragon Man’ in Chinese.
Amazingly, the large cranium was discovered more than 80 years ago, near Harbin City in China’s Heilongjiang province. A workman found it embedded in river mud, while laboring on a construction crew building a bridge over the Songhua River in the early 1930s.
For reasons unknown, the man who discovered the skull kept its existence hidden until 2018. Only then, when he was dying, did he reveal that he had the skull and had dropped it into a well for safekeeping. After his death, his family agreed to donate the cranium to the Geoscience Museum of Hebei GEO University, where the evolutionary scientists launched their three-year investigation into its likely origins.
The cranium nicknamed Dragon Man, which could be a new species of ancient human.
The standout characteristic of the skull is it size. It is the largest hominin skull ever discovered.
“This is biggest human skull I’ve seen – and I’ve seen a few,” said Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist from London’s Natural History Museum and human evolution expert who participated in this research project.
In comparison to a modern human cranium, there are similarities and differences. The Harbin skull has thick brow ridges and square eye sockets, like an archaic man . The cranium is also longer than that of Homo sapiens . But overall, the shape and contours of its face resemble that of an impossibly large human being. The skull’s brain cavity is also similar in size to that of a modern human.
“It’s got such an interesting combination of features,” Stringer noted. “The morphology shows that this is definitely a distinct lineage in eastern Asia. It’s not Neanderthal and it’s not Homosapiens, it’s something quite distinctive.”
Evolutionary Analysis Reveals Surprising Results
One thing that was clear to the scientists was that the Harbin skull wouldn’t fit neatly into an already discovered species. Many of its features were familiar, but their combination was perplexing and unusual.
To find out where the Dragon Man skull belonged on the hominin evolutionary chart, the researchers used information obtained from 95 fossil crania, jawbones, and teeth, representing different hominin groups. In total they had more than 600 skull and facial features to use as points of comparison.
With this information as a baseline, they programmed a supercomputer to construct billions of theoretical evolutionary trees. When the results were in, the researchers were quite surprised to find that the computer had placed the Harbin skull on its own separate evolutionary branch. It had identified the skull as belonging to a whole new hominin species, a type of archaic man that was closely related to Homo sapiens but not identical to anything else.
Here the phylogenetic analysis puts the skull in the context of human development.
“I was surprised to see this,” Stringer said. He had anticipated that the skull would be labeled as an offshoot of the Neanderthals, not as a close relative of modern humans.
To place the skull in the Middle Pleistocene, the scientists relied on results obtained from two types of advanced dating technology, X-ray fluorescence and direct uranium-series dating. These tests showed that the Dragon Man skull had to have been at least 146,000 years old.
Alternate Theories: Was the Dragon Man a Denisovan?
The announcement of the Dragon Man skull research team is being met with some degree of skepticism. It is rare to discover a new species of archaic man, and some scientists are wondering if evidence from one cranium is enough to prove the existence of Homo longi .
“Whether or not this skull is a valid species is certainly up for debate,” anthropologist Michael Petraglia , from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, told Smithsonian Magazine .
The Harbin skull is only one of many unique hominin fossils recovered from China that date to the Middle Pleistocene. The rarity of such finds raises questions about possible hidden connections.
“How do they fit in terms of their evolutionary relationships, to what degree are they interbreeding with the populations across Eurasia, and to what degree do they become isolated resulting in their distinctive features?” Petraglia asked rhetorically. “This brings up a lot of interesting questions and in human evolution China is still really a great unknown.”
Surprisingly, study participant Chris Stringer also doubts that his team has discovered a new and distinct species of ancient man. He notes some intriguing similarities between the Harbin cranium and the Dali skull , a 250,000-year-old-fossilized cranium discovered in China’s Shaanxi province. At present, Stringer believes these two skulls should be grouped together and labeled as a different species known as Homo daliensis .
One of the more fascinating suggestions is that the Harbin skull may actually belong to the mysterious Denisovans. This ancient hominin species was well-established in Asia during the Middle Pleistocene. The Denisovans were closely related to the Neanderthals and are known to have interbred with Homo sapiens (modern humans carry traces of Denisovan DNA ).
Only a few Denisovan fossils have been found, none of which were intact craniums. But one recovered Denisovan jawbone had very large teeth—just like the Harbin skull.
Is this a clue that the Harbin skull may be giving scientists their first-ever look at the true face of the Denisovans? As of now, that is not the official conclusion. But as the number of fossilized remains recovered in China increases, new relationships between archaic human species may be observed and theories may change dramatically as a result.
Top image:A full-length artist's impression of what the human species ‘Dragon Man’ could have looked like. (Chuang Zhao/ The Innovation )
Alien Abduction Of Linda Napolitano That Was Pulled Up Into Giant UFO, 23 Witnesses
Alien Abduction Of Linda Napolitano That Was Pulled Up Into Giant UFO, 23 Witnesses
Around 45% of Americans believe that UFOs exist and have visited the Earth, while 25% believe that aliens have similar societies like humans, according to Ipsos 2020 report. There are many victims who claimed to had been abducted by small gray-colored humanoids (Greys) and then taken to spaceships for some experiments or mating. Among them, Linda Napolitano’s case is the most well-documented UFO encounter.
Linda Napolitano (who uses the pseudonym Linda Cortile), a young woman in her 20s claimed that in November 1989 she had been pulled by grey humanoids from her bedroom window while her husband was asleep next to her. Soon after this horrific incident, she contacted Budd Hopkins, an American UFO researcher who even wrote a book entitled “The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions,” describing the UFO events that occurred on November 30, 1989.
Linda Napolitano
Napolitano, an Italian-American young woman said that on November 20, at 3:15 in the morning, she suddenly woke up, finding herself paralyzed, and saw three non-human figures, gray in color and with big heads that were floating in her bedroom. She could not call her husband as the beings told her in their language to stay quiet. She was pulled by a blue beam from her apartment’s window (on the 12th floor) in Manhattan. She was levitating inside that beam with three other aliens until they reached a giant spaceship that opened like a clam.
“I’m standing up on nothing. And they take me out all the way up, way above the building. Ooh, I hope I don’t fall. The UFO opens up almost like a clam and then I’m inside. I see benches similar to regular benches. And they’re bringing me down a hallway.
Doors open like sliding doors. Inside are all these lights and buttons and a big long table. I don’t want to get up on that table. They get me on the table anyway. They start saying things to me and I’m yelling. I can still yell. One of them says something that sounds like {Nobbyegg}. I think they were trying to tell me to be quiet because he put his hand over my mouth.”
Illustration of Linda’s abduction
Napolitano could not remember much about what had happened inside that ship but she recalled some sort of medical examinations that had been done on her, and she remembered that had passed through some procedures. Besides, she remembered that one of the aliens put something into her nasal cavity, and the pain was so unbearable that she lost her consciousness. Three hours later, she surprisingly found herself lying next to her husband who was still sleeping. Interestingly, she did an x-ray of her head, and the doctor found something strange lodged inside her nose.
This encounter was not just limited to Napolitano, there were other witnesses. Two security guards (Richard and Dan) confirmed to had been watching Napolitano with three humanoids, being pulled up to a large UFO, hovering near her apartment. One of the guards felt guilty for not helping her and even suffered a nervous breakdown.
Budd Hopkins
“There was an oval-shaped object hovering over the top of the apartment building two or three blocks up from where we sat.
We didn’t know where it came from. It happened too fast. Its lights turned from bright reddish-orange to a whitish blue coming out of the bottom. Green lights rotated round the edge of the saucer. A little girl or woman wearing a white gown sailed out of the window in a fetal position – and then stood in mid-air in this beam of light. I could see three of the ugliest creatures I ever saw. I don’t know what they were. They weren’t human.
Their heads were out of proportion, very large heads with no hair. Those buggers were escorting her into the craft. My partner screamed, ‘We have got to get them.’ We tried to get out of the car but couldn’t. After the woman was escorted in, the oval turned reddish orange again and whisked off.”
Actually, Hopkins got his interest in Napolitano’s case after he received a letter from Richard and Dan in 1991. Upon researching more on these two men, Hopkins found out that they were the bodyguards of an important political figure. Hopkins reportedly believes they were the bodyguards of former U.N. statesman, Javier Perez de Cuéllar.
The founder and director of Mutual UFO Network, Walter H. Andrus strongly believed Napolitano’s story and called it a “definitely authentic’ case of human abductions by aliens.”
An alleged photograph released several years after Linda’s abduction showing a strange object floating in the sky outside her apartment
However, there is much skepticism about Napolitano’s case. Some people compared it with the sci-fiction novel “Nighteyes,” originally published on March 1, 1989. But at the same time, there are 23 eyewitnesses who saw this strangeness that night.
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How the Pentagon's UFO Report Could Pressure China and Russia
How the Pentagon's UFO Report Could Pressure China and Russia
“Nobody is saying they are aliens. That’s not the message here. The message is they are unexplained objects,” investigative journalist Leslie Kean said, “This is a major intelligence issue that there are things flying around in our skies that we can’t identify in restricted airspace”
As the Pentagon is preparing to release a heavily anticipated report on UFOs, NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports on what the feds might finally reveal about the mysterious flying objects — including if they belong to the U.S., another country, or something else entirely.
The upcoming Pentagon report on UFOs is not expected to confirm or deny the existence of interplanetary aircraft visiting Earth. To some, that will render the document a little underwhelming.
But not to Leslie Kean.
Kean is a New York-based investigative journalist who’s been pressuring U.S. officials for decades to come clean about what they know – and don’t know – regarding UFOs. She views the forthcoming report as a major pivot for the U.S. intelligence community, which has traditionally avoided frank discussion of unidentified aerial phenomena.
“The fact that the report was requested at all, and that it is being delivered, to me is a milestone event,” Kean said.
In 2017, Kean co-authored a New York Times story that revealed the existence of a secret Pentagon program to investigate mysterious aircraft with seemingly advanced technological capabilities. Since then, the Department of Defense has confirmed the authenticity of several images captured by Navy pilots who encountered unexplained objects traveling at high speeds.
“There’s been more activity, it seems to me, around our Navy ships, Kean said. “There’s some kind of strange escalation going on.”
But Kean cautions just because an aerial object is unexplained – doesn’t mean its origin is interplanetary.
“Nobody is saying they are aliens. That’s not the message here. The message is they are unexplained objects,” Kean said. “This is a major intelligence issue that there are things flying around in our skies that we can’t identify in restricted airspace.”
The security risk posed by mystery aerial objects is a major reason prompting the Pentagon’s UFO report. Kean expects around 70 pages of the report to be classified. But she believes the headline will be a simple but profound statement from the federal government.
“I understand that the report is going to declare that these objects are not United States technology. That they’re not ours. And I think that is a really important statement,” Kean said.
The impact of that sort of statement is hard to underestimate. If military pilots are having close encounters with mystery aircraft – and they’re not some sort of experimental American technology - the question becomes, whose technology is it?
“I think the question that is going to be front and center after this report comes out and is also on people’s minds now is, could these be Russian or Chinese?” Kean said.
How Russia and China respond to the report will be monitored closely by the U.S. intelligence community.
In Rare Move, U.S. Confirms Footage Shows a UFO
The two nations could publicly deny involvement with the mystery aircraft observed by US military pilots. They could also remain silent on the subject. But even their silence will speak volumes.
“It’s going to be a momentous event if it ever does get to the point where it becomes 100 percent clear that it is not Russian or Chinese or American. Then we are in a new world at that moment.”
The UFO report is expected to be delivered to the US Senate Intelligence Committee by the end of June. Members of that committee will be able to read the full classified version. Kean says the report is one of the few topics in American politics that isn’t partisan right now..
“I love the fact that this issue transcends all of that and you can get the most right-wing media and the most left-wing media reporting on it and they will basically say exactly the same thing.”
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