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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...
26-08-2021
New class of exoplanets called 'Hycean' planets could support ALIENS - despite being hot, ocean-covered and hydrogen-rich, study claims
New class of exoplanets called 'Hycean' planets could support ALIENS - despite being hot, ocean-covered and hydrogen-rich, study claims
The Hycean class of alien worlds are larger and hotter than Earth-like planets
This makes them easier to spot from Earth and easier to see signs of alien life
It is hoped that with new telescopes life could be spotted within three years
A new class of 'waterworld' exoplanets have been found by astronomers, who say that despite being hot, ocean-covered and hydrogen-rich - could support life.
They have been dubbed 'Hycean' world's by the team from the University of Cambridge, who say they 'greatly increase our chance of finding alien life.'
In the search for life elsewhere, researchers have mostly looked for planets of a similar size, mass, temperature and atmospheric composition to Earth.
Astronomers now say there may be more promising candidates out there, and these Hycean worlds are more numerous than Earth-like planets.
The habitable exoplanets are hot, ocean-covered worlds with hydrogen-rich atmospheres, and are more observable than Earth-like planets due to their temperature, making them easier to detect with current telescopes.
According to the scientists, the findings could mean the discovery of biosignatures of life outside our Solar System is a real possibility within the next two or three years.
A new class of 'waterworld' exoplanets have been found by astronomers, who say that despite being hot, ocean-covered and hydrogen-rich - could support life
HYCEAN PLANETS: WATERWORLDS LARGER THAN EARTH
Many of the prime Hycean candidates identified by the researchers are bigger and hotter than Earth.
However, they still have the characteristics to host large oceans that could support microbial life.
This is similar to the forms of life that are found in some of Earth’s most extreme aquatic environments.
These planets also allow for a far wider habitable zone, or ‘Goldilocks zone’, compared to Earth-like planets.
This means that they could still support life even though they lie outside the range where a planet similar to Earth would need to be in order to be habitable.
The vast majority are planets between the sizes of Earth and Neptune and are often referred to as ‘super-Earths’ or ‘mini-Neptunes’.
They can be predominantly rocky or ice giants with hydrogen-rich atmospheres.
Most mini-Neptunes are over 1.6 times the size of Earth: smaller than Neptune but too big to have rocky interiors.
A recent study on the mini-Neptune K2-18b found that in certain conditions these planets could support life.
The result led to a detailed investigation into the full range of planetary and stellar properties for which these conditions are possible, which known exoplanets may satisfy those conditions, and whether their biosignatures may be observable.
Hycean planets can be up to 2.6 times larger than Earth and have atmospheric temperatures up to nearly 200 degrees Celsius (392F).
Dr Nikku Madhusudhan from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy, who led the research, said they open a whole new avenue of search for life elsewhere.
Many of the prime candidates of these planets identified by the researchers are bigger and hotter than Earth.
However, they still have the characteristics to host large oceans that could support microbial life similar to that found in some of Earth's most extreme aquatic environments, researchers suggested.
The planets also allow for a far wider habitable zone, or Goldilocks zone, compared to Earth-like planets.
This means that they could still support life even though they lie outside the range where a planet similar to Earth would need to be in order to be habitable.
Since the first exoplanet was discovered 30 years ago, thousands of other planets have been discovered outside of our Solar System.
The majority are planets between the sizes of Earth and Neptune, often referred to as super-Earths or mini-Neptunes.
They can be predominantly rocky or ice giants with hydrogen-rich atmospheres, or something in between.
Earlier studies of such planets found that the pressure and temperature beneath their hydrogen-rich atmospheres would be too high to support life.
However, a recent study on the mini-Neptune K2-18b by Dr Madhusudhan's team found that in certain conditions these planets could support life.
This prompted detailed investigation into the full range of planetary and stellar properties for which these conditions are possible.
It also looked at which known exoplanets may satisfy those conditions, and whether their biosignatures may be observable in the near future.
The investigation led researchers to identify a new class of planets, Hycean planets, with massive planet-wide oceans beneath hydrogen-rich atmospheres.
Hycean planets can be up to 2.6 times larger than Earth and have atmospheric temperatures up to nearly 200 degrees Celsius (392F).
The astronomers suggest such planets also include tidally locked 'dark' Hycean worlds that may have habitable conditions only on their permanent night sides, and 'cold' Hycean worlds that receive little radiation from their stars.
Size alone is not enough to determine whether a planet is Hycean, and other aspects such as mass, temperature and atmospheric properties are required to confirm.
Dr Madhusudhan said: 'Essentially, when we've been looking for these various molecular signatures, we have been focusing on planets similar to Earth, which is a reasonable place to start.
'But we think Hycean planets offer a better chance of finding several trace biosignatures.'
The habitable exoplanets are hot, ocean-covered worlds with hydrogen-rich atmospheres, and are more observable than Earth-like planets due to their temperature, making them easier to detect with current telescopes
Co-author Anjali Piette, also from the university of Cambridge, added: 'It's exciting that habitable conditions could exist on planets so different from Earth.'
The team has identified a sizeable sample of potential Hycean worlds which are prime candidates for detailed study with next-generation telescopes, such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is due to be launched later this year.
These planets all orbit red dwarf stars between 35-150 light years away - close by astronomical standards.
It is thought that planned JWST observations of the most promising candidate, K2-18b, could lead to the detection of one or more biosignature molecules.
Astronomers hope to be able to use the James Webb Space Telescope (pictured), that launches early next year, to find biosignatures in these alien worlds
HYCEAN PLANETS OBSERVED FROM THE EARTH THAT 'COULD' CONTAIN ALIEN LIFE WITHIN ITS PLANET WIDE OCEAN
NAME
MASS (xEarth)
RADIUS (xEarth)
TEMPERATURE (K)
TEMPERATURE (F)
K2-18 b
8.63
2.51
250
-9.67
K2-3 c
2.14
1.74
286
55.13
TOI-1266 c
2.2
1.56
291
64.13
TOI-732 c
6.29
2.42
305
89.33
TOI-270 d
4.78
2.01
327
128.93
TOI-175 d
2.31
1.57
341
154.13
TOI-776 c
5.3
2.02
350
170.33
LTT 1445 A b
2.2
1.38
367
200.93
K2-3 b
6.48
2.12
384
231.53
TOI-270 c
6.14
2.33
413
283.73
TOI-776 b
4
1.85
434
321.53
'A biosignature detection would transform our understanding of life in the universe,' said Dr Madhusudhan.
Adding: 'We need to be open about where we expect to find life and what form that life could take, as nature continues to surprise us in often unimaginable ways.'
Most often, these biosignatures are oxygen, ozone, methane and nitrous oxide, which are all present on Earth.
There are also a number of other biomarkers, such as methyl chloride and dimethyl sulphide, that are less abundant on Earth but can be promising indicators of life on planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres.
On these planets, life could be supported despite oxygen or ozone not as abundant.
Scientists study the atmosphere of distant exoplanets using enormous space satellites like Hubble
Distant stars and their orbiting planets often have conditions unlike anything we see in our atmosphere.
To understand these new world's, and what they are made of, scientists need to be able to detect what their atmospheres consist of.
They often do this by using a telescope similar to Nasa's Hubble Telescope.
These enormous satellites scan the sky and lock on to exoplanets that Nasa think may be of interest.
Here, the sensors on board perform different forms of analysis.
One of the most important and useful is called absorption spectroscopy.
This form of analysis measures the light that is coming out of a planet's atmosphere.
Every gas absorbs a slightly different wavelength of light, and when this happens a black line appears on a complete spectrum.
These lines correspond to a very specific molecule, which indicates it's presence on the planet.
They are often called Fraunhofer lines after the German astronomer and physicist that first discovered them in 1814.
By combining all the different wavelengths of lights, scientists can determine all the chemicals that make up the atmosphere of a planet.
The key is that what is missing, provides the clues to find out what is present.
It is vitally important that this is done by space telescopes, as the atmosphere of Earth would then interfere.
Absorption from chemicals in our atmosphere would skew the sample, which is why it is important to study the light before it has had chance to reach Earth.
This is often used to look for helium, sodium and even oxygen in alien atmospheres.
This diagram shows how light passing from a star and through the atmosphere of an exoplanet produces Fraunhofer lines indicating the presence of key compounds such as sodium or helium
A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been ... [+]
AMANDA SMITH, NIKKU MADHUSUDHAN
Alien life may exist on planets that have been hiding in plan sight, previously dismissed as astronomers as being incapable of hosting life.
That’s the conclusion of a study published today in The Astrophysical Journal in which a team from the University of Cambridge identify a new class of habitable exoplanets they’ve dubbed “Hycean.”
“Hycean” planets aren’t rocky like Earth, instead having oceans and hydrogen-rich atmospheres.
It’s thought that the new classification could accelerate the search for life outside our Solar System for one simple reason: planets that fulfil the criteria to be “Hycean” already dominate the known exoplanet population, which is approaching 4,500.
Such planets are also larger than Earth and many are relatively close to us, so much easier to find and study than tiny Earth-like planets.
So life could be hiding in plain sight.
The researchers singled out one particular exoplanet, called K2-18b, which tops a list of exoplanets that they say should be investigated by the massive James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which launches this October.
“Hycean planets open a whole new avenue in our search for life elsewhere,” said Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan from Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, who led the research. He thinks that we should be looking for trace gases in these planets’ atmospheres that have previously been overlooked, but could be as valid a “biosignature”—a suggestion of life—as the typically searched-for oxygen, ozone, methane and nitrous oxide.
“A biosignature detection would transform our understanding of life in the universe,” said Madhusudhan.
Here’s everything you need to know about “Hycean” planets:
What are ‘Hycean’ planets?
They’re hot, ocean-covered planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres, mostly bigger and hotter than Earth. That makes them rocky “Super Earths” or “Mini Neptunes” with hydrogen-rich atmospheres, which have thus far been ignored as exoplanets capable of hosting Earth-like life. There are no planets like them in our Solar System.
However, the researchers claim that some of them could host large oceans that could support microbial life similar to the extremophiles found around vents in Earth’s oceans.
Hycean planets can:
be up to 2.6 times larger than Earth.
have atmospheric temperatures up to nearly 200 degrees Celsius.
be ocean worlds conducive for microbial life in Earth’s oceans.
be tidally locked planets with a permanent night-side.
be far from their stars that receive little sunlight.
This artist’s impression shows the planet K2-18b, it’s host star and an accompanying planet in this ... [+]
ESA/HUBBLE, M. KORNMESSER
Why have ‘Hycean’ planets so far been overlooked?
In their search for an “Earth 2.0” astronomers usually focus on planets of a similar size, mass, temperature and atmospheric composition to Earth.
They also look only in the “habitable zone” of a star—that region between the snow-line and the star where liquid water could exist on the surface.
As well as widening the search for life beyond Earth analogs, “Hycean” planets could redefine how wide a habitable zone can be—i.e. where a planet’s oceans could be much hotter or colder than on Earth and still potentially host forms of life.
Welcome to K2-18b
Situated 124 light-years away in the constellation of Leo, K2-18b is a mini-Neptune planet orbiting a red dwarf star. JWST will definitely study its atmosphere and look for biosignatures because water vapor was discovered in its atmosphere.
However, it’s regarded by most astronomers as being too big to have a rocky interior like Earth, so very unlikely to host any kind of life. It’s also thought that the planet would have both a surface temperature and surface pressure too high to support life.
But Madhusudhan’s team found that in certain conditions K2-18b and planets like it could support life, specifically by because they may host other biomarker molecules like methyl chloride and dimethyl sulphide.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) will study the atmospheres of exoplanets and search ... [+]
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The hunt for new ‘Hycean’ biomarkers
Such molecules are less abundant on Earth, but the researchers say that they could be indicators of life on planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres, where oxygen or ozone may not be as abundant.
“Essentially, when we’ve been looking for these various molecular signatures, we have been focusing on planets similar to Earth, which is a reasonable place to start,” said Madhusudhan. “But we think Hycean planets offer a better chance of finding several trace biosignatures.”
“We need to be open about where we expect to find life and what form that life could take, as nature continues to surprise us in often unimaginable ways,” said Madhusudhan.
The ‘Hycean’ hit-list
Investigating which other known exoplanets may boast similar conditions and properties as K2-18b, the team produced a shortlist of 11 “Hycean” exoplanets with promising properties for JWST to study in the hope of turning up these or other biosignatures.
All of them orbit red dwarf stars between 35-150 light years away—super-close to us in galactic terms.
Bob Salas claims he himself saw a UFO, while he was on missile alert duty at the Malmstrom military base in Montana in 1967. He said a "glowing red object" hovered over a launch control capsule and then "shot a beam of light at the warhead" that left ten Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles disabled.
Ex-US Air Force Captain Bob Salas has demanded the government release all information it has on UFO incidents at nuclear sites in the United States. Salas has started a campaign to raise money in order to hold a press conference to draw the public's attention to the issue of UFOs and nuclear weapons.
According to a statement posted on the GoFundMe website, the money will also be used for lobbying activities in Washington, DC.
"It is time for the US Congress to hold public hearings on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP). There are many ex-military witnesses who can verify UFO incidents of nuclear weapons bases. The current period in time represents a unique opportunity to promote open and public disclosure of long held secrets by government agencies", reads the statement.
At the moment of writing Salas' campaign has received $5,700 of the $10,000 intended goal.
One individual, who donated $500, wrote the following statement.
"I had first heard about UFO incursions on nuclear weapon sites from a Physics Professor at Montana State University when I was a graduate student in 1988. The whole thing sounded ridiculous to me then. But it was the 2010 National Press Club conference that I saw on YouTube in 2016, which convinced me that this was real and important and that I needed to do something about it. This is one way I hope that I can give back! This is a global issue, and quite possibly one of the most important issues facing humanity".
Another person, who donated $200, wrote that his father "was a witness to a UFO interfering with the United States nuclear arsenal and he would have liked to have heard what our government knows about who or what was behind it".
Bob Salas is not the only person to speak about the need for government officials to investigate UFO sightings at nuclear facilities. Senator Harry Reid spoke about the issue in the documentary "The Phenomenon", made by ufologist James Fox. Reid, who in 2007 secured funding for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programme, a Pentagon project that examined the US military's encounters with UFOs, alleged that there have been numerous reports of mysterious objects flying above US nuclear facilities over the years.
Do aliens zealously want to learn about US nuclear programme? The Pentagon has given an ambiguous answer. In its recently released dossier on UFOs the Defence Department revealed that there have been over 140 sightings of mysterious objects with no possible explanation, but it stopped short of calling UFOs extraterrestrial ships. The Pentagon said that the eerie objects could belong to rival powers such as Russia or China.
There are enough conspiracy theories online to keep you reading for a lifetime — and trust us, you don't want to fall down that rabbit hole. But what does it mean when some of the rumors and secrets are actually confirmed? Thanks to declassified documents, government leaks, and revealing reports, we've learned more about our government's secret programs than ever before. From the FBI's file on Bigfoot to the CIA's covert dragonfly, sometimes the truth can be stranger than fiction.
Father And Sons Close Encounter With A Very Strange Alien Craft
Father And Sons Close Encounter With A Very Strange Alien Craft
AUGUST 17, 2021 …………….GARDEN VALLEY CALIFORNIA
My young son and I were outside watching the Perseid meteor shower and the smoke in the sky from the large wild fire in our county. To the northeast is a regular flight pattern of aircraft far off in the distant to the NE the craft fly from the east to the west and just look like small lights in the sky. On this occasion a craft flew from the NE straight in my direction, directly over my house to the SE. I had put a large shop light outside facing the NE to keep the critters away because my dogs bark all night. I think the craft was seeing what my light was. It moved very slowly and I could hear no noise until it was directly over my house. As it approached it had a huge white light and red lights around the top and sides. I thought it was a helicopter at first buy it was too large and didn’t make that kind of sound.
As it got closer the lights looked different. I could see it had a small red blinking light on the right side and a large blue light on the left side. The red light was the only blinking light on the craft and the blue light was constant and didn’t blink. The blue light was not as large as the white light in the middle. The nose of the craft was flat where the huge white light was on the front. The craft was shaped like a huge carrier jet and cigar shaped but a lot smaller than a cargo jet. It was just above tree top level and made a slight jet sound but very quietly as it flew over my house very slowly. I don’t know how it was flying so slowly and staying in the sky. I didn’t see any windows. It was shorter than the length of my house but the width and girth was larger than my house. It had two small wings to the front of the craft that didn’t look large enough for the craft. The small blinking red light and the blue light were on its wings. There were no jet engines on the wings or on the sides of the craft. It had no propellers.
I could not tell if or where any engines were on the craft. The body of the craft came to a smaller point to the rear and as if passed by I could see 2 huge tail wings that were on the craft in a vertical direction, huge rectangular shaped. The rear wings were very large and thick with each having a huge white rectangular light on the middle of the wing shining directly behind the craft. These rear lights were larger than the white light in the front. The wings looked like the wings on the star wars movie tie fighter but they were rectangular. I guess they are called v wings but these structures on the craft would not have benefited air flow around the craft. These rear vertical things on the back were taller than the body of the craft but did not hang down below the belly of the craft and were thick like giant blocks. The craft as a whole didn’t look like any jet I’ve ever seen, it looked like a space ship that could have turned straight up and went into space. I stood there with my mouth open saying “what is that” over and over again. My son is too young to say what he saw fly over the house. I have looked all over the internet but cannot find anything that looks remotely like what I saw. I didn’t think it was aliens although I guess I don’t know what one of their ships really looks like, but; I felt like it was ours. I turned off the bright light outside and haven’t turned it on since. I was half expecting the military to show up at my house because of the light but that didn’t happen, thank goodness. Apparently there are space craft on this planet that us regular people don’t know anything about. NOTE: The above image is real but from another case file.
Drone Captures What No One Was Supposed to See via Missing Files
Drone Captures What No One Was Supposed to See via Missing Files
Drone Captures What No One Was Supposed to See via Missing Files
A couple of decades ago, drones were merely a science fiction idea from the future! Nowadays, everyone and their dog has a drone, and they seem to be a regular fixture in our skies! Whether people are filming their hometown or capturing mind blowing footageon vacation, there is a whole world of incredible drone footage out there! However, not everyone loves being filmed by drones, and sometimes their pilots capture things they were never supposed to see. Yep, turns out there is a dark side to drones!
From the haunting birds eye view of one of the most infamous and deadly ghost towns on the planet, to the extreme footage that gets closer to a raging tornado than anyone ever has before in human history, these are the Drone Captures What No One Was Supposed to See
De onbemande sonde had eigenlijk in oktober moeten vertrekken maar liep al uitstel op naar mei 2022. Het is de eerste lancering van een maanverkenner door Moskou sinds de jaren 70, toen de Sovjet-Russische ruimtevaartindustrie voor fierheid zorgde.
Bouwer van de sonde is het bedrijf NPO Lavotsjkin dat in de jaren 60, 70 en deels in de jaren 80 de industriële pijler vormde van de interplanetaire verkenning door Moskou. Volgens zijn directeur Aleksandr Tsjetsjakov heeft het nieuwe uitstel te maken met “sommige problemen die tijdens tests zijn opgedoken”, meer specifiek om “een absoluut veilig landingssysteem op punt te stellen voor een zachte landing”.
“In feite hebben wij onvoldoende tijd. Wij hebben meer nodig om de ontwikkeling van het ruimtetuig af te ronden”, aldus de directeur, geciteerd door de Russische persbureaus.
De Loena-25 moet vanop de Russische ruimtehaven Vostotsjni met een Sojoez-2.1b/Fregat vertrekken en nabij de zuidelijke pool van de maan landen.
Serie Russische maanmissies
Het is de eerste etappe van een serie Russische maanmissies, met het oog op een eventuele basis in een baan rond het hemellichaam, of - in samenwerking met China - de constructie van een basis op het oppervlak van de maan.
De laatste maanmissie van Moskou was de Loena-24. Die maakte in augustus 1976 een zachte landing op de maan, nam er bodemmonsters, en bracht ze naar onze planeet.
Hersenen van octopussen tonen verrassende gelijkenissen met die van mensen
Hoewel octopussen al zowat 600 miljoen jaar een andere evolutionaire weg bewandelen, vertoont de vorming van hun hersencellen verrassende gelijkenissen met die van de mens. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van ontwikkelingsbiologen aan de KU Leuven.
Bijzonder aan de ontwikkeling van onze menselijke hersencellen is dat ze niet gebeurt op de plaats waar ze hun functie vervullen. Hersencellen ontwikkelen vanuit hersenstamcellen die, wanneer ze uitgroeien tot functionele hersencellen, nog een reis moeten ondernemen tot hun finale plaats in de hersenen.
“Dit bijzondere fenomeen is zichtbaar in de hersenen van gewervelde dieren zoals de mens, maar we hadden geen idee of dit migratieproces belangrijk is voor complexe hersenvorming in het algemeen”, zegt Eve Seuntjes, professor ontwikkelingsbiologie aan de KU Leuven. “Om die vraag te beantwoorden, moet je op zoek naar een dier met even complexe hersenen dat evolutionair zo ver mogelijk van onszelf verwijderd is. Pas wanneer er gelijkenissen zijn tussen dieren met een compleet ander evolutionair vertrekpunt, wijst dit erop dat deze manier van hersenontwikkeling geen toevalligheid is.”
De achtarmige octopussen bleken het antwoord te zijn op deze vraag. Ze hebben een complexe hersenstructuur die ze bovendien nuttig gebruiken. Octopussen zijn in staat om te spelen, te dromen, voorwerpen te gebruiken en zelfs vooruit te plannen. Deze ongewervelde dieren hebben een compleet ander evolutionair vertrekpunt dat op één of andere manier toch geleid heeft tot een gedrag dat wij als mensen herkennen.
Doorzichtige eieren
“In het lab bouwden we een ideale omgeving waarin octopuseieren kunnen ontwikkelen. Doordat de eieren doorzichtig zijn, konden we elke fase van de ontwikkeling goed opvolgen”, vertelt postdoctoraal onderzoeker Astrid Deryckere. “Tot onze grote verbazing vertonen hersencellen bij octopussen hetzelfde migratiegedrag als menselijke hersencellen. Dit bewijst dat migratie van hersencellen fundamenteel is om complexe hersenen te vormen.”
“In een volgende fase zullen we proberen te achterhalen hoe je van deze ingenieuze opbouw tot effectieve hersenactiviteit gaat en hoe dit dan verder leidt tot bepaalde gedragingen”, besluit Seuntjens.
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24-08-2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 24 - 8 - 2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 24 - 8 - 2021
UFO Sighted Over Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil ( August 22, 2021 )
Again it happened over Brazil : Fire dripping UFO? or UFO releasing small craft ....Sighted Over Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil on August 22, 2021 and resembling Mooca, São Paulo, Brazil sighting on August 8, 2021 ...They are back !
STATEMENT : Filmed last night in Campinas-SP. Look at the bright spot climb, right to left, diagonally. It's on the 8nd second of the footage. Sadly, was without the tripod.
ORIGINAL : Filmei ontem a noite, em Campinas-SP. Vejam a subida de ponto luminoso, da direita para a esquerda, em diagonal. É no 8° segundo da filmagem. Infelizmente, estava sem o tripé.
Impressive record of Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs that were sighted over the night skies of Indonesia,
They are here !
note : no audio
credit : U.S.F
UFO Creatures Sighted Over Baku, Azerbaijan ( August 20, 2021 )
Multiple unknown black UFO creatures appeared in Azerbaijan sky on August 20, 2021. The video was shot in Baku, near Elmlar AK
They are everywhere!
credit : UMDGUDF
UAP ORB Sighted Over Victoria, Australia ( August 22, 2021 )
Incredible Australian ORB UAP sighting ! This stunning video of an ORB UAP was captured by Chris K, in Victoria, Australia. This is one of the most fascinating videos you can ever see of a clear pulsating UAP Orb captured at twilight. All details withheld
credit : Chris K
The Lake Superior UFO Event ? ( August 22, 2021 )
Is the Pentagon Investigating this one ??? The Lake Superior Event ! An unidentified pair of lights appeared and hovered above a freighter travelling across Lake Superior. Erik Rintamaki was travelling though Paradise, Michigan, when he spotted a couple of bright lights in the sky above him. Whipping out his camera to film, one of the lights dipped out of view before appearing minutes later. The bright yellow orbs continued to float high above the freighter for more than an hour as Erik watched on stunned. Of course there is more! Watch !!! Are we getting close to a revelation ? Lanterns ? ISS ? Lol !!?
The video description states that there are “no signs of CGI or video editing,” and that it appears to be a “real and legitimate” UFO.
While some viewers are convinced the object is not of this world, others have denounced it as nothing more than a balloon—specifically one of Mr. Peanut.
The later theory came about after a photo, allegedly of the same flying object but from a different angle, surfaced on Reddit.
Regardless of the object’s true nature, it is—at least for now—an unidentified flying object.
Key Point: Conceived as a stealthy surveillance plane with a discrete Low Probability of Intercept Radar, Tacit Blue instead pioneered the use of computer-engineered curved surfaces in stealth aircraft which heavily informed Northrop’s forthcomingB-2 stealth bomber.
Despite the countless dubious conspiracy theories attributed to the site also known as “Dreamland” or “Groom Lake,” there’s no doubt that for over six decades the base hosted all sorts of “black project” aircraft whose existence was not formally disclosed by the Pentagon.
His article first appeared in July 2019. It is being republished due to reader interest.
Though the CIA only obliquely admitted to the site’s existence in 2013, we actually know a fair bit about how Area 51 came to be—and even how it first became a subject of juicy UFO stories.
A Private Testing Ground for Eisenhower’s Top-Secret Spy Plane
In the early 1950s, the United States was super keen on monitoring the Soviet Union’s rapidly developing nuclear ballistic missile program. As the first spy satellites remained a few years away from being launched, the only way to reliably spy on these sights was to fly above them and snap pictures with giant cameras. But by the early 1950s, the Soviet Union’s new air defense system and high-flying jet interceptors made spy flights excessively risky.
To overcome these defenses, Lockheed engineer Kelly Johnson proposed a glide-liker spy plane that would simply fly too high to be intercepted at over 70,000 feet. This still involved illegally violating Soviet airspace—but as long as the spy planes couldn’t be shot down, Moscow couldn’t prove the spy flights were happening at all.
In November 1954, Eisenhower approved the development of this U-2 spy plane in a program known as “Project Aquatone” to be operated by the CIA. While the plane would be built at Lockheed’s famous Skunkworks facility, an aircraft designed for illegal spy overflights needed to be tested somewhere more discrete.
Johnson asked Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier to find a suitably clandestine airfield. As described in the bookDark Eagles by Curtis Peebles, test pilot Tony LeVier departed from the Skunkworks facility in Palmdale, California flying a Beechcraft Bonanza light plane, ostensibly on a “hunting trip.” In reality, they proceeded to survey 50 decertified sites in Arizona, California, and Nevada over two weeks—but none seemed sufficiently remote.
However, Air Force liaison Col. Osmond Ritland recalled an abandoned X-shaped landing strip that had served as a gunnery field during World War II.
CIA officers Richard Bissell, LeVier, and Johnson flew down to inspect the strip, which lay next to a dry Nevada salt flat called Groom Lake. Bissell described the site as “…a perfect natural landing field… as smooth as a billiard table without anything being done to it.”
Johnson indicated “We’ll put it right there. That’s the hangar.”
A fake company called CLJ, created to obscure Lockheed’s involvement, recruited contractors to build up the facilities in the sweltering summer of 1955 at a cost of $800,000.
The desolate site, deceptively nicknamed “Paradise Ranch,” started out with a nearly mile-long runway, two hangars, a control tower, fuel and water storage tanks, an access road, and trailers for onsite personnel. LeVier personally road about the lakebed to clear it of debris and spent shell casings to make it safe for landing.
Finally, on July 24, 1955, the prototype U-2, dubbed Article 341, was disassembled and stowed into a hulking C-124 Globemaster transport plane, which transported it to the “Ranch”—landing with deflated tires so as not to break through the thin runway.
LeVier took the gawky aircraft around on taxi tests, hitting 80 miles per hour on the runway—only for the aircraft’s lengthy wings to lift his plane twenty feet into the air during his second run. The U-2 flew over a quarter-mile before LeVier was able to get the lift-prone aircraft back down on the lakebed on his second attempt—though the hard landing caused one of the jet’s tires to burst and catch fire.
The U-2 went on to see several successful flight tests and in a matter of months was deployed on spy flights over the Soviet Union with CIA pilots.
Civilian airline pilots and air traffic controllers began spotting the silvery U-2s flying at supposedly impossible heights. Given that the Air Force couldn’t explain the sightings by telling the truth, it devised weather-related incidents to explain them away. These often unconvincing explanations only fed the fervor of conspiracy theorists.
The Blackbirds: A-12, D-21, and SR-71
When a Soviet S-75 surface-to-air missile blasted Gary Powers’s U-2 in 1960, and he subsequently confessed to performing espionage flights) it became clear that altitude alone would not provide an adequate defense. Kelly Johnson had already anticipated this vulnerability in 1958, when he began exploring a new spy plane concept: combining high altitude with sustained speeds exceeding three times the speed of sound, and radar-stealth—hopefully making the jet too high and fast to ever intercept.
This CIA-Lockheed “black project”—codenamed “Project Oxcart”—spawned the futuristic-looking A-12 single-seat spy plane, the progenitor of the famous (and unclassified) two-seat SR-71 Blackbird flown by the U.S. Air Force.
The Groom Lake facility at this time acquired the designation “Area 51” as it expanded and developed specialized facilities for the striking supersonic jets: larger additional hangars, a longer 10,000 foot runway, safer backup landing areas, over 130 housing units for personnel, and enlarged fuel stores for the exotic high-temperature JP-7 fuel used in the A-12.
The first A-12s arrived in 1962 along with elite military pilots temporarily discharged and placed in the employ of the CIA, a protocol known as “sheep-dipping.” Though the White House never dispatched A-12s on overflights of the Soviet Union, they did fly thirty-two missions over Vietnam and North Korea in Project Blackshield before being retired in favor of the Air Force’s SR-71s, which had side-looking cameras that didn’t require overflight of hostile airspace.
Lockheed also devised a D-21 spy drone that resembled a miniature, single-engined Blackbird, carried on top of a Blackbird-derived carrier aircraft called the M-21.
Tragically, one of the piggybacked D-21 drones collided with its M-21 carrier during a test launch. Though both of the M-21’s crew ejected, one drowned before he could be rescued, and Johnson canceled M-21 program.
However, the CIA did later try to make use of the D-21s by launching them from B-52 bombers to snap footage of Chinese nuclear test sites. However, a series of mishaps meant the Air Force was unable to recover footage from any of the five drone missions it dispatched.
Birthplace of the Stealth Jet
While the A-12 and Blackbird had limited stealth characteristics, by the 1970s, the Air Force was interested in taking another crack at a low-radar-observable jet, this time with combat application.
In 1977, the Skunk Works used new computer modeling technology to design and build two pale aircraft with diamond-like faceted surfaces coated with radar-absorbent iron ball paint. These “Have Blue” aircraft was disassembled and flown to Area 51 in a giant C-5 cargo jet on November 16, then rebuilt and test flown.
Lo and behold, the Have Blues did exhibit drastically reduced radar cross-sections—but they were also highly aerodynamically unstable, and both crashed in 1979.
Lockheed evolved Have Blue into the F-117 Nighthawk attack jet, which used computer fly-by-wire systems to correct the aircraft’s inherent instability. A YF-117 prototype too made its first flight at Groom Lake on June 17, 1981. Production F-117s were then stationed at Area 51 before being redeployed to the nearby Tonopah Test Range.
Though the Pentagon admitted to the existence of a stealth jet in 1983, the secrecy surrounding the F-117 was so effective that the public never had any inkling of the Nighthawk’s true appearance, nor even its designation (widely believed to be the “F-19”) until was finally unveiled in 1988.
Meanwhile, Northrop, too, began refining its stealth technology with the Tacit Blue demonstrator, dubbed the “whale” or “alien school bus” for its decidedly unglamorous appearance. This made its first flight at Groom Lake in February 1982—the first of 135 in all before the demonstrator was retired in 1985.
Conceived as a stealthy surveillance plane with a discrete Low Probability of Intercept Radar, Tacit Blue instead pioneered the use of computer-engineered curved surfaces in stealth aircraft which heavily informed Northrop’s forthcoming B-2 stealth bomber.
Sébastien Roblin holds a master’s degree in conflict resolution from Georgetown University and served as a university instructor for the Peace Corps in China. He has also worked in education, editing, and refugee resettlement in France and the United States. He currently writes on security and military history for War Is Boring.
His article first appeared in July 2019. It is being republished due to reader interest.
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There appears to be a nexus between unidentified aerial phenomena-aligned activity and U.S. nuclear technology sites, a former fed said.
Provisions included in the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal 2022, which the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence recently passed via a unanimous bipartisan vote, would direct members of the intelligence community to further explore unidentified aerial phenomena, or the modern term for UFOs.
The work would build on efforts led by the Defense Department’s UAP Task Force, a group formed to study unexplainable happenings in the sky registered by military members or sensors. Those involved produced a preliminary assessment of such occurrences for U.S. IC and other government leaders earlier this year.
Two long-time advocates for more transparency in federal UAP pursuits said the IAA inclusions mark some of many elements needed to ensure America is on top of these sky-based national security concerns.
“I'm glad that Congress is doing something. My only hope is that it won't be a ‘once and it's over with.’ There must be an ongoing spending of taxpayer dollars to scientifically look and determine what these things are. Because right now, we don't know. The more we learn, the more we don't know,” former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told Nextgov. “Now the American people can handle this. I’m not worried about that—what I'm worried about is the government trying to hide the information they get. We must be transparent.”
During his time as a top lawmaker, Reid secured millions in funding to back the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP. An unclassified but unpublicized precursor to the UAPTF, AATIP operated for less than a decade conducting UFO sighting-aligned research before it was disbanded in the mid-aughts.
Reid and former AATIP Director Luis Elizondo discussed those prior and existing programs during Nextgov’s Emerging Tech Summit last week, and pointed to the directions they’d like to see feds move on this going forward.
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Representing a state that’s home to many UFO sightings, Reid became interested in this topic years ago out of curiosity and leaned into it during his time in the Senate. “I wanted to find out if there was anything to this,” he explained. The lawmaker worked with Sens. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii—who he said “controlled dark money in the Defense budget”—to put funds toward government-led scientific studies into the reported sightings.
When Reid expressed his aims, Stevens immediately brought up an experience he had as a pilot in World War II. An unidentifiable object flew to his left, followed him, and his aircraft got low on fuel. Stevens landed and asked the air traffic controller what was flying alongside him, and they had no idea anything had been there. Based on that experience, Reid said the AATIP ask was “such an easy sell.”
Ultimately, the lawmakers were looking to put a hard number to exactly how many people had witnessed the “unusual sightings,” Reid noted. As it turned out, there were thousands of them.
“We have counts going for 70 years of people seeing these phenomena. Now, it's becoming even more apparent that these unidentified flying phenomena exist—but what they are, we don't know,” Reid explained. “The more we study, the less we know what they are. But what we do know is that things are developing.”
Observations often included air and watercraft moving at remarkable speeds. Reid said at a military base in the Dakotas, personnel reported communications systems being shut off when UAPs were observed in the area. “The same thing happened on a Navy ship off the coast of San Diego,” Reid noted, “so it's something we better stay to hell on top of, because to let it go is not good for the security of this nation.”
Offering another example, the former Senate leader said on the Pacific Ocean-based USS Omaha, officials saw a football field-sized object that was shaped like a football hover around the massive cruiser and then suddenly disappear into the water.
“There were people who saw this with their eyes—and for the first time—through radar, sonar and other new equipment, we have pictures that are scientifically saved,” Reid said.
The short, unclassified version of a larger intelligence document released by the Pentagon’s UAPTF this summer confirmed more than 100 reports of such phenomena originating from government sources—80 of which involved observations with multiple sensors. Still, the review also noted that data and collection capabilities were limited.
Reid said he was happy to see further proof through technology and that the government was still looking into this. At the same time, he wants feds to ensure that the public continues to get information about the results of their work in this space. He and Elizondo noted France, China, Russia, among others, are likely investing in this space.
“Someone asked me, ‘what if it shows it's coming from someplace else?’ So what? They asked the same question to President Obama and he said, ‘look, we are just this small speck in this great universe.’ And I wouldn't be surprised if there's something else from someplace else,” Reid noted. “So that's where we are. I'm glad I got to start this—but it's not gonna end by the fact that we got something started. Something must be ongoing, and transparent to the American people.”
Elizondo over the last few years has also been pushing for more openness about the government’s knowledge of UAPs. Previously, he was a career intelligence officer and counterintelligence special agent, who worked to “hunt and catch terrorists and spies.” He spent much of that time abroad, and then the last 10 or so years of that work at the Pentagon. There, he was put in charge of the AATIP.
“I had no idea what the effort was about until once I was in. It was one of those, I guess, Hollywood moments where you watch a movie and they say, ‘hey, we want you to be part of something—but it's so secret we can't tell you what it is. Sign here,” Elizondo said. “So, wisely or foolishly I went ahead and signed, and it turned out that that effort was looking at UFOs.”
He was asked to steer the work in 2010 and did so until around 2017, when he resigned.
“A lot of people will say, ‘you resigned out of disloyalty to the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.’ That's not at all the case,” Elizondo said. “I actually resigned out of loyalty. We were receiving information that needed to be reported to senior leadership, but there was no mechanism in place. The bureaucracy wouldn't allow this information, because of the topic, to be reported.”
Drawing on his time in the program and the latest task force report, he reflected on some notable features of spotted UAPs.
“There does indeed seem to be some sort of nexus between UAP activity and our critical nuclear technology—whether it's propulsion, or weapons systems and whatnot,” Elizondo said. “It's not just our observations, other countries have observed this as well.”
The former defense official added there also “seems to be some sort of weird nexus between UAP activity and large bodies of water.”
He further elaborated on how technology is used by government officials during and in the aftermath of sightings, to make sense of them. Witnesses are often well-trained pilots, and their testimonies are vital. There are also electro-optical devices like gun cameras and infrared footage, smartphones and radar data to track such happenings.
“We've never been in such a golden era of technology and capabilities,” Elizondo said. He noted that with camera-enabled mobile phones, “every human being is a potential information collector.” There’s also now ground-, sea- and space-based capabilities and radar to capture information.
“In the ‘50s, we hadn't really made it into the upper limits of our atmosphere. Now, we have geosynchronous satellites, we have low-Earth orbit satellites, we've got mid-orbit satellites,” Elizondo explained, “all looking at the same spots on Earth through a different lens.”
‘As Important as a New Military Aircraft’
The 345th section of the intelligence authorization act for the next fiscal year is titled “Support for and Oversight of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.” Specifically, the legislation would mandate the Defense secretary and national intelligence director to “require each element of the intelligence community and the Department of Defense with data relating to unidentified aerial phenomena to make such data available immediately to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center.”
This bill would expand the task force’s and Air Force’s data and information collection regarding such incidents. If passed, it would also direct quarterly reports to Congress on the unfolding efforts.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., introduced the bill.
The legislation awaits action on the Senate floor, a spokesperson from Warner’s office confirmed. Generally, the recurring act is attached to another piece of relevant legislation, like the National Defense Authorization Agreement.
New, forward-looking Congressional language such as this could further affirm and reinforce the task force’s establishment, according to Elizondo. Looking ahead, he said a Pentagon Inspector General-led look into the hiccups DOD has had with UAP reporting and transparency might also make sense. He mentioned knowing of people on the Hill who are also pushing for public hearings on the topic.
“I think that's part of transparency—I'm certainly not against it. And if I'm asked to testify, you better believe I'm going to testify,” Elizondo said. “But that's not the only way to do it. I’d be concerned about creating some sort of spectacle or circus. My effort is not to blame anybody.”
He agreed with Reid that the government should continue to fund work to figure out this perplexing phenomena.
“We spend more on a new military airplane than we are spending on this—and we’ve got to realize that this is just as important as a new military aircraft,” Reid noted.
Despite hearing “all the arguments against this,” and naysayers, the Nevadan remains firm in his aims.
“My own staff told me to stay away from this. People would think I was a little demented—looking into flying saucers, so to speak. But frankly, I can go here in Las Vegas on the strip, and somebody will say, ‘are you Harry Reid? Yeah? Thank you for doing the work’ on, well they usually say flying saucers, but I know what they're talking about,” Reid said. “So I'm glad that I got it started. I'm really convinced that it was the right thing to do.
The past few years have seen a big change in how UFOs are perceived, both by the public and by government officials.
A still from a U.S. Navy video of a UFO sighting.
(Image credit: U.S. Navy)
Leslie Kean is a veteran investigative reporter who has spent over 20 years delving into the once-taboo topic of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). UFOs are now established as real, she says. Furthermore, despite observations using highly advanced technologies, we have no idea what they are or where they come from.
While Kean has never seen a UFO, her own close encounters with hundreds of government documents, aviation reports, radar data and case studies with corroborating physical evidence, as well as interviews of dozens of high-level officials and aviation witnesses from around the world, have bolstered her belief that UFOs are worthy of scientific study. "I believe we may have finally arrived at the threshold of a new paradigm," Kean said.
Kean is author of the New York Times bestseller "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record (Harmony Books/The Crown Publishing Group, 2010). More recently, she co-authored eye-opening articles in The New York Times that focused on sightings of UFOs, which the U.S. military has recently rebranded as unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAPs), and the government programs to investigate them. She also wrote "UFOs: Shifting the narrative from threat to science," an article published on The Debrief earlier this month.
Space.com recently caught up with Kean to discuss what she thinks is in the offing concerning UFOs, what stands in the way of the scientific community's taking on the challenge of discovering if any UFOs are extraterrestrial, and more.
Journalist and author Leslie Kean. (Image credit: Tatiana Daubek)
Space.com: How do you best characterize where we are today, given your NY Times co-authored piece that catapulted things into public view?
Kean: We have seen a major sea change since our December 2017 New York Times story that included two Navy videos. The government has acknowledged the reality of UFOs and the fact that they impact national security, and that alone is a major shift. We have more Navy videos of unexplained objects, an official UAP Task Force, and most recently a government report on UAP which was requested by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
The report stated there is no evidence that UAP are ours, Russian or Chinese. It forced many stove-piped agencies to pool information for the first time and gained further attention for UAP from policymakers, with some calling for open congressional hearings. Even before the June 2021 UAP report, high level officials have made statements as to the need for further investigation of these unexplained objects exhibiting technology beyond what we possess. The taboo against taking the subject seriously is diminishing, and scientists have come out of the woodwork advocating for studies on UAP in Scientific American. These events are unprecedented. And the media can't get enough of UFOs. Recently, for the first time, UFOs were covered by both The New Yorker and the CBS show, "60 Minutes."
Space.com: Do you believe the "UAP" focus is the same as decades of "UFO" reports? Are they one and the same or not, in your view?
Kean: I don't think there's any difference in how the reports describe the phenomenon. Government documents such as the famous 1947 Twining Memo describe the behavior of the objects in the same way as later documents did, and in the same way they are reported today. The difference is that today we have better cameras, radar, satellite and sensor technology than we had decades ago, increasing the specificity of data on UAP (which remains classified).
The term "UAP" has gradually become the preferred term used by the government and military, because it encompasses a broader range of phenomena than the term "UFO." But since "UAP" came into use primarily to avoid the stigma and baggage associated with "UFO," there really isn't much difference between the two other than the impression the acronym creates. One seems more cultural, the other more official. "UAP" removes any association with conspiracy theories, or shows like "The X-Files," or the fringe element. Even so, the term "UFO" has been around forever and has a wider appeal. In my reporting I use the terms interchangeably, depending on the context.
Leslie Kean met with former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) recently at his home in Nevada. (Image credit: Leslie Kean)
Space.com: Given your long and productive research on the UFO issue, what has surprised you the most? Similarly, what has disappointed you the most?
Kean: Especially in the early years of my reporting, I was most surprised by the lack of curiosity among scientists and policymakers about UFOs. I was also surprised by how entrenched and powerful the stigma was in the media and in the culture in general. It mystified me why just about everyone was not impacted by the potential implications of the evidence for this phenomenon. It didn't take long for me to realize that most people in a position to make a difference were uninformed and understandably had other priorities. Still, given how fascinated I was with this and given what it might mean if even one UFO was extraterrestrial, I found this apathy and disinterest hard to understand.
Many times I was amazed that accomplished investigative journalists did not jump on board and take a deep dive into this subject. As a freelancer, I couldn't open the same doors as The Washington Post, The New York Times or The New Yorker. Yet they were essentially silent. That was frustrating to me. But of course it has all changed now.
I was also frustrated that there was no government agency in place to receive reports from police officers, commercial pilots and other credible witnesses, and to conduct investigations when necessary. You can imagine my surprise when I learned about the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) program in 2017. However, being limited only to military cases and being secret, it was not exactly what I had been hoping for.
Space.com: With all the chatter now about UAPs, the UAP preliminary report, etc., where are we now, and what's next?
Kean: We have made tremendous progress in the last three and a half years. There was a lot of momentum which built up prior to the release of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) UAP report on June 25, and we have to keep the momentum going. But when things get quiet, I am aware that there is still a lot going on behind the scenes. For our next steps, we need to have a well-funded task force with expanded staff that can access information from all government agencies and consolidate it. The best experts from many fields need to analyze this data. We need to understand the root of the intelligence failure which has stymied a meaningful government investigation into UAP. Task force reports for the public and Senate committees need to continue to be published on a regular basis. And of course I believe that much more information should be released to the public.
There are videos and photographs in DOD [Department of Defense] files which are vastly superior to the ones we have seen so far. I think the public has a right to this and other data, as stated by [former U.S.] Senator Harry Reid who initiated the [AATIP] government program. The secrecy is excessive here, despite the need for some classification on grounds of national security.
Perhaps we will be fortunate enough to see open congressional hearings on UAP. And eventually, we may be issued a definitive statement that these objects are not Russian or Chinese. It has been established that they are not ours, but the door on UAP being technology from a foreign adversary has not been completely closed. Some in a position to know have stated that these objects are not created by Russia or China. That needs to be stated as fact in one of the subsequent written reports. Perhaps one day those two countries will join with the United States to acknowledge this reality. At that point we will have crossed a line into a new world.
Space.com: In my view, the public is experiencing a new wave of UFO frenzy — something I saw in the 1950s. There are charlatans in this arena hard at work to make money. There are dedicated investigators trying to unravel this saga. What are your thoughts on how the public should be wary but still remain open to getting to the bottom of the UFO story?
Kean: I would advise the public to be careful about whom they listen to. Focus on official information, provided by current and former government officials and others with credentials that are in a position to have knowledge. They often speak in generalities because they have been exposed to much classified information and can only go so far in what they can say publicly. But their words carry a lot of weight and should be taken seriously. I recommend paying attention to in-depth investigations, such as those from The Debrief and The Drive.
Fortunately, this subject transcends politics, and we have to keep it that way. We must all be wary of people with extreme conspiratorial views who are trying to influence the public for their own gain. Any such claims must be backed up with facts, names and documents that can be corroborated, or they are worthless. I encourage people to bear this in mind when they come across what you describe as "charlatans."
Space.com: Do you expect "full disclosure" regarding UFOs in the near term? If so, is the public ready for this disclosure and the related add-on of possibly distrusting the government?
Kean: It depends on what you mean by "full disclosure." Some people think this means that government officials will stand up and announce that we have been visited by extraterrestrial craft for over 70 years and we knew about it all along. I don't think this is ever going to happen.
However, if we get to a point where it becomes an official, stated fact — universally accepted — that these objects are not ours, Russian, Chinese, or made by any country on Earth, this would be disclosure of at least some UFOs originating off this planet. At the same time, I suspect that tagged on to any admission along these lines would be the caveat that we don't know what they are, where they are from or why they are here. Such clarity will not necessarily be established in the near term.
It all goes in steps, sometimes small ones, and it takes time. I think the process will continue to be gradual disclosure, and this will help minimize distrust in government. It gives all of us time to absorb and explore — and challenge — each step along the way. We are closer than ever before to a new level of confirmation. Yet I am sure there is plenty of resistance to such a paradigm shift.
Space.com: Lastly, is there a need to "internationalize" this UAP/UFO dialogue?
Kean: Definitely. Sources have told me that other countries have reached out to us since the June UAP report was released. China has established its own UAP task force. South America is active in investigating UAP. International cooperation among government officials and among scientists is crucial in moving forward. And I believe that scientists need to follow the lead of Harvard's Avi Loeb and become more involved, initiating their own independent, international explorations of this phenomenon. They might be able to tell us more about it than our government, because they can make their results public.
Leonard David is author of the book "Moon Rush: The New Space Race," published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook.
Glowing Disk over Peruvian Andes near Machu Picchu
Glowing Disk over Peruvian Andes near Machu Picchu
Some believe that ancient Machu Picchu in Peru and the Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Moon in New Mexico are not only archaeological wonders, but also evidence that ancient astronauts visited these areas and may still visit these places given the many unexplained objects in the sky that appeared above or near these locations over the years.
Unexplained objects like a glowing disk over Peruvian Andes near Machu Picchu, the disk has a copper color which gives off a glow and looks very geometric and does not resemble a reflection. Or a strange object, that is best described as a humanoid figure sitting on an aerial vehicle, that appeared above Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Moon, New Mexico, or a strange colorful object and a UFO-like anomaly that both appeared over Machu Picchu.
US Navy Chief Yeoman saw secret documents of retrieved alien bodies dead and ALIVE!
US Navy Chief Yeoman saw secret documents of retrieved alien bodies dead and ALIVE!
On Thanksgiving night, 1976, Thomas Colman Sheppard and two other Navy men saw photographs and documents in a TOP SECRET/MAJIC file about extraterrestrial biological entities. The location was a classified vault at White Beach Naval Facility in Okinawa, Japan.
Linda Moulton Howe presents her exclusive interview with retired US Navy Chief Yeoman Sheppard referencing an aerial disc technology described by government documents as "interplanetary;" military attacks and disc retaliations; and the strict American policy of denial about the disc intelligences in the interest of national security.
He also described seeing some highly classified “Roswell file photographs” of crashed UFOs and retrieved alien bodies — dead and alive.
The rover will continue exploring a potential ancient ocean floor on the Red Planet
A panoramic camera image showing the terrain ahead of China's Zhurong Mars rover around Aug. 15, 2021
(Image credit: CNSA/PEC)
China's Zhurong roverhas completed its primary three-month-long expedition on Mars but is set to continue exploring the Red Planet.
Zhurong completed its 90-sol mission in Mars' Utopia Planitia on Aug. 15, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). (One sol, or Mars day, lasts about 24 hours and 40 minutes. So 90 sols is about 92 Earth days.)
Since landing on May 14, the rover has taken selfies with its landing platform and driven 2,917 feet (889 meters) across the surface, visiting its own discarded landing equipment and analyzing different rocks, dunes and other features as it went.
A hazard avoidance camera shot showing fresh Zhurong tracks in the Martian surface. (Image credit: CNSA/PEC)
New images from the rover show the terrain that it most recently reached. Zhurong will continue to cross this area, which is thought to be below the shoreline of an ancient ocean in southern Utopia Planitia.
CNSA says Zhurong's six scientific instruments are working well and that the rover has, with the help of the Tianwen 1 orbiter acting as a relay, sent back 10 gigabytes of raw science data. That information could help scientists better understand Mars and its history, Liu Jianjun, chief designer of the Tianwen 1 ground application system, told CCTV.
"Hopefully, by providing these data to our scientists, we can get a deeper understanding of the geology of Mars, and then even see if we can find evidence of the existence of an ancient ocean in Utopia Planitia," Liu said.
The Tianwen 1 orbiter has been passing over Zhurong's position once a day to relay data back home. Both spacecraft will go into safe mode from mid-September through late October, however, because of a solar conjunction preventing communications between Earth and Mars.
With Mars on the far side of the sun from Earth, our view of the Red Planet is obscured by the sun. Charged particles given off by the star interfere with radio communications between the planets, meaning Zhurong will need to operate autonomously, and in a limited capacity, for safety reasons. NASA's Curiosityand Perseverance rovers will also be operating on their own between Oct. 2 and Oct.14for the same reason.
Map charting the Chinese Mars rover Zhurong's travels from its landing platform toward the south. (Image credit: CNSA)
When fully active again, Zhurong will continue toward a feature described as a "groove" just over 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) away.
"If it is possible for us to see from the top to the bottom [of the groove], or if there are disparities of rock types and compositions, we could learn about what has happened in its geological history. So, this is what we're going to focus on in the near future," Liu said.
TIanwen 1, meanwhile, will sometime after the conjunction switch its orbit to allow it to begin a global survey of Mars with its own seven science payloads. Teams are devising an orbit that will allow the orbiter to begin its own detections while still assisting Zhurong, which has only limited data transmission capabilities.
Tianwen 1 launched in July 2020 and is China's first independent interplanetary mission. The spacecraft entered Mars orbit in February of this year, and Zhurong separated from the orbiter and made its successful landing in May.
Multiple UAP ORBs Sighted Over Washington, D.C. ( August 22, 2021 )
The Washington DC UAP Orbs! : Impressive capture of Hundreds of fast moving bright UAP Orbs witnessed by family in broad daylight on August 22, 2021 over Washington, D.C.
They are here !
credit : UFO Sightings Footage
UFO Does Sharp Manoeuvres Over Wakefield, England ( August 22, 2021 )
Stars don’t do 90 degree turns or wild manoeuvres like this! Wakefield West Yorkshire UK!
STATEMENT : we had a crop circle appear last Thursday near an old castle! Unusual always Wiltshire!
They are here !
credit : Carl Smith
UFO Sighted Over College Point, New York ( August 18, 2021 )
Amazing this UFO sighting that was in College Point, a neighborhood in New York City, New York on the night of August 18, 2021 : 11:30 PM
They are everywhere
credit : U.S.F
Ghost Of Child Playing On Swing? Filmed At A Local Farmers Market In British Columbia, Canada.
The witness states the following: " I was just wanting to show how long this went for. I recorded this after an hour of the swing moving by itself. At first I hardly even noticed it thinking someone has pushed it, but then I realized that it was still going even after an hour. This happened between the hours of 6-7:30 at least what a remember. I didn’t feel scared, mostly weirded out. There was no wind or children near by at the time. I just found this just weirdo." The witness went on to add, "For those who are wondering I zoomed in during the video, mainly the reason I wasn’t scared was because I come from a culture which believe to not be afraid when you see strange stuff like this. If you wish which kind of culture, I am First Nation. I mainly wanted the video to be longer, but I had to head back to my work. I did speak with my co workers and he said he saw something." The witness also added, "To make it clear this take place in Canada, I wouldn’t be saying the clear location has I still work there. Again it wasn’t that windy at all that morning." Thanks to FuzzyBuns for allowing me the use of this footage and to view the original : https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comme....
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