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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...
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Triangle UFO formation over Trenton, NJ 28-Aug-2021
Triangle UFO formation over Trenton, NJ 28-Aug-2021
This interesting UFO sighting of bright orbs in triangle formation was filmed over Trenton, New Jersey on 28th August 2021.
At the heart of NASA's Artemis mission, which aims to land humans on the lunar surface by 2024, is the spacecraft Orion. Jenn Walter shows how engineers are preparing for its maiden voyage:
November 2021 will be a big month for NASA. The Artemis I team is gearing up to launch the spacecraft Orion to the Moon and back for an uncrewed test flight. Artemis I lays the groundwork for NASA’s first crewed mission to the Moon since the Apollo days — with the ultimate goal of using Orion to land humans on the lunar surface in 2024.
Space.com's Tariq Malik tours the interior of NASA's Orion spacecraft mock-up at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.
ORION - NASA's Deep Space Exploration Spacecraft - Explained in Detail
NASA's new deep space exploration spacecraft called Orion which will take humans farther into space than ever before including landing on an asteroid, the moons of Mars, and Mars itself. Space launch system. Background music can be found at https://www.shockwave-sound.com/a/4be...
Apollo vs Orion Finally Explained
NASA has two spacecraft that were born fifty years apart but look like they were separated at birth – I’m talking, of course, about the historic Apollo command module and NASA’s new Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis Program. Both share a similar shape, but their similarities end there.
WATCH: WHY BLUE ORIGIN IS STILL LAUNCHING LUNAR LANDING TECHNOLOGY
WATCH: WHY BLUE ORIGIN IS STILL LAUNCHING LUNAR LANDING TECHNOLOGY
Blue Origin successfully launched its 17th New Shepard suborbital spaceflight.
BLUE ORIGINlaunched its 17th New Shepard mission Thursday morning, sending a payload of experiments and an art installation on a sub-orbital trip from the space company’s Launch Site One in West Texas.
The uncrewed payload mission was the fourth flight for the reusable New Shepard rocket so far this year — including the July 20 flight that took Blue Origin founderJeff Bezos to space.
It was a clean launch, with an easy landing made by both booster and capsule. This New Shepard mission also served as an opportunity to test technology that may prove to be crucial for future trips to the Moon — even though Blue Origin rival SpaceX is helping NASA get there first.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket lifts off from West Texas on August 26, 2021. Blue Origin
HOW DID THE LAUNCH GO?
After two lengthy holds due to payload readiness issues, New Shephard finally lifted off at 10:31 a.m. EST, just more than an hour later than originally scheduled.
New Shepard lifts off from West Texas on August 26, 2021. Blue Origin
The vehicle reached the Karman line and crossed into space proper just four minutes later at 10:35 a.m. After separation, the crew capsule reached its highest point away from Earth’s surface at 10:36 a.m.
Capsule and rocket booster separation during the Blue Origin New Shepard flight of August 26, 2021. Blue Origin
The reusable New Shepard rocket booster fell quickly back to Earth, firing its rockets in the final moments of its flight to touch down softly on the concrete pad bearing the Blue Origin feather logo on a circular blue field at 10:39 a.m.
Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard booster touches down in West Texas on August 26, 2021. Blue Origin
The uncrewed crew capsule followed shortly after, swaying beneath red and blue parachutes in front of the West Texas hills before picking up the desert dust at 10:42 a.m.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard payload capsule drifts to Earth under its main parachutes in West Texas.Blue Origin
The total time elapsed from launch to space and back again was 10 minutes and 38 seconds.
WHAT DID BLUE ORIGIN LAUNCH?
The New Shephard capsule flew to a peak altitude of 347,430 feet while carrying 20 payloads. This included:
A biological imaging experiment put together by researchers at the University of Florida
Another experiment demonstrating a new technique for measuring spacecraft propellant levels
But the premier payload on the flight was definitely the test of a lunar landing Deorbit, Descent and Landing (DDL) sensor, and a suite of related technologies developed by NASA and flown by Blue Origin.
First flown on New Shephard during an October 13, 2020 flight, the DDL sensor aids a lidar and landing computer system that helps determine a spacecraft’s speed and location as it approaches the lunar surface. According to Blue Origin, this technology will allow future lunar missions to land on more varied terrain than was possible during the Apollo missions.
The data collected from the 2020 flight is open source and available at data.nasa.gov. The data from Thursday's flight will eventually be added to the dataset as well.
“We got phenomenal data from the first flight and we have learned from it,” John Carson, principal investigator of NASA’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution, or SPLICE program, said during a pre-launch briefing hosted on the Blue Origin website. “It’s been very valuable data.”
WHY IS BLUE ORIGIN STILL LAUNCHING NEW SHEPARD?
Now that Jeff Bezos has (possibly) earned his astronaut wings, why is Blue Origin still launching the suborbital New Shepard vehicle? And why work on flying lunar landing technologies when NASA has already awarded the lunar lander contract for its Artemis III moon mission to Blue Origin rival SpaceX?
There are several reasons to keep flying New Shepard, but the first is the simplest: Why wouldn’t they?
“The goal of New Shepard wasn't to fly Jeff Bezos to space,” Laura Seward Forczyk, the founder of space consulting firm Astralytical, tells Inverse. “It's operational space hardware so why not use it?”
Foczyk says that Blue Origin’s CEO Bob Smith has said the company makes money from every flight. Since they have several contracts to fly payloads, “there’s no downside to flying,” she said.
“The great thing about the suborbital R&D market is that it’s diversified compared to tourism,” a Blue Origin company spokesperson, tells Inverse.
The company has federal, international, and private clients purchasing spots for their payloads, and many are repeat customers. “About half our customers currently are returning and our top users are coming back for their 8th or 10th payloads,” the spokesperson explains.
Many of the payloads for Thursday’s flight were paid for by NASA through the space agency’s NASA Flight Opportunities Program, while the lunar landing technology test was part of a NASA Tipping Point partnership — a way for the space agency to foster the development of promising technologies that could benefit both NASA and commercial space missions.
The Tipping Point partnership with Blue Origin dates back to 2018, Clare Skelly, a NASA spokesperson, tells Inverse. This was before the competition for the lunar lander, which is why it still makes sense for Blue Origin to be flying such a payload.
There’s also the fact that New Shepard is still a relatively new technology.
“Seventeen flights are still so few,” Forczyk says. “The more Blue Origin flies New Shepard, the more it learns to improve their technology for both suborbital and orbital spaceflight.”
WHAT’S NEXT
Speaking of orbital spaceflight, that’s another reason to keep launching New Shepard: New Glenn, Blue Origin’s orbital spacecraft, isn’t expected to fly until the final quarter of 2022, according to the Blue Origin spokesperson.
That said, there is value for NASA and other customers in suborbital flights, even when there are orbital launch vehicles available. During the preflight briefing, Carson noted that for testing things like lunar landing sensors, a suborbital flight is actually ideal.
“Before suborbital testing abilities were available to the community, the first time we did the types of integrated, system-level descent and landing testing was on the actual mission entry, descent, and landing,” he said. That’s a risky proposition for billion-dollar missions.
“The advent of suborbital vehicles enables us to combine systems together and test them in relevant conditions and ultimately retire the risk.”
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have imaged HH 111, one of the most well-known Herbig-Haro objects.
This Hubble image shows a Herbig-Haro object labeled HH 111.
Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / B. Nisini.
HH 111 is located approximately1,360 light-years (417 parsecs) in the constellation of Orion.
The object is deeply embedded in a cometary molecular cloud called L1617.
At the center of HH 111, there are two sources, VLA 1 and VLA 2, with a projected separation of 1,200 AU and the former driving the prominent jet.
“Herbig-Haro objects are formed under very specific circumstances,” Hubble astronomers said.
“Newly-formed stars are often very active, and in some cases they expel very narrow jets of rapidly moving ionized gas — gas that is so hot that its molecules and atoms have lost their electrons, making the gas highly charged.”
“The streams of ionized gas then collide with the clouds of gas and dust surrounding newly-formed stars at speeds of hundreds of kilometers per second.”
“It is these energetic collisions that create Herbig-Haro objects such as HH111.”
The new image of HH 111 was made from separate exposures taken in the infrared region of the spectrum with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
Four filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter.
“WFC3 takes images at optical and infrared wavelengths, which means that it observes objects at a wavelength range similar to the range that human eyes are sensitive to optical and a range of wavelengths that are slightly too long to be detected by human eyes,” the astronomers said.
“Herbig-Haro objects actually release a lot of light at optical wavelengths, but they are difficult to observe because their surrounding dust and gas absorb much of the visible light.”
“Therefore, the WFC3’s ability to observe at infrared wavelengths — where observations are not as affected by gas and dust — is crucial to observing Herbo-Haro objects successfully.”
The bright blueshifted jet of HH 111 seen by the ground-based telescope NTT
The world of ghosts and demons hasEd and Lorraine Warren. The world of aliens and unidentified flying objects has Betty and Barney Hill. Their names may not be immediately familiar to you, but their alleged encounter with extra-terrestrial beings in September of 1961 was the first documented instance of a purported alien abduction, which profoundly changed the course of ufology and how it was perceived by the public.
The fourth and final episode of Showtime's UFO docu-series, which aired earlier this evening, reveals that the first psychiatrist who examined the Hills initially concluded that their supposed close encounter of the fourth kind "stemmed from the social pressures of being an interracial couple" in a time when such a union was frowned upon in the United States. Six months later, however, that same psychiatrist came to believe that the husband and wife were indeed telling the truth.
"My wife and I were driving along Route 3 when we saw what looked like a bright star in the heavens. And surprisingly, it began coming in my direction," Barney states in Episode 4 via old recordings. "I could see what I thought was approximately 9 to 11 men looking down through this series of windows. Well, this was too much for me and I made a hasty retreat to the car, screaming to the wife that they had seen me, that they had seen us. My god, they're going to capture us!"
At first, the husband and wife duo only recalled being followed by a strange light in the sky as they drove to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Later put into hypnotic trances, both said they remembered being led onto a ship by strange beings with bulbous eyes who examined them before wiping their memories blank. The purported encounter eventually drew the attention of J. Allen Hynek (founder of the Center for UFO Studies and former director of the Air Force's Project Blue Book), who consulted on the case.
"The real abductions are totally different from what you see on TV," Betty once remarked during an interview with the Fortean Times. "The UFO people now, I don't say 'aliens' are people, but they're different from us. There are certain fundamental, physical characteristics which are different. And if a person has really seen one, they know it. And the real abductees have never had any need for therapy. And not only that, but every one of them has had changes in their lives. Of benefit to them. It's been a very positive experience."
Last summer, it was announced that Bryce and Jackie Zabel (the writing duo behind Hallmark's Pandemic series from 2007) had been tapped to write Captured, a television drama inspired by the Hills' famous experience. The series (originally planned as a movie) will draw inspiration from Stanton T. Friedman and Kathleen Marden's 2007 biographical publication, Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction.
John G. Fuller was the first author to document the story in 1975's The Interrupted Journey.
Credit: Bettmann/Getty
The Hills' experience has already been adapted once into the 1975 television movie titled The UFO Incident, which starred a young James Earl Jones (aka the voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa) as Barney. Sadly, Barney passed away in 1969 at the age of 46. Betty died over three decades later in 2004 at the age of 85. She never wavered in her story and continued to research UFOs until her passing.
As Allison Quang of the Appalachian Mountain Club blog puts it: "Before the Hills' experience, aliens were portrayed as friendly creatures who would commute back and forth between Earth and their home planets. However, after the Hills shared their story, alien abductions became better known for their mystery and intrigue."
Showtime subscribers with access to the network's official app can stream all four episodes of UFO (executive-produced by J.J. Abrams) right now. The premiere is currently free to watch on YouTube, Showtime.com, and Sho.com.
If you believe in the existence of aliens, some might consider you a crackpot with a tinfoil hat. If you're a Harvard professor with a PhD who believes in the existence of aliens ... well, let's just say that might raise even more eyebrows. One academic, however, dared to fly in the face of everything to study alien abduction cases. That would be John E. Mack, whose fascinating story takes center stage in the fourth and final episode of Showtime's UFO docu-series, which aired earlier this evening.
Born John Edward Mack in 1929, the future academic attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate before pursuing his medical degree at Harvard, where he would later work and teach as a psychiatrist. In fact, he founded the department of psychiatry at the university's Cambridge Hospital, running the unit for close to a decade. Early on in his career, Mack studied dreams and psychological ramifications of the Cold War (particularly the constant threat of nuclear annihilation). He also won the Pulitzer Prize for A Prince of Our Disorder, an acclaimed biography of T.E. Lawrence.
By the early 1990s, Mack found himself interested in studying individuals who claimed to have been abducted by extra-terrestrials (people he dubbed “experiencers”). He believed them when no one else would. With a grant from Laurance Rockefeller, he began the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research.
His contemporaries were skeptical, but he forged on, determined to bring UFOs and aliens into the world of modern science. To be fair, though, Mack himself was also skeptical at first (like any good scientist would be). He admitted to being raised in a materialist household, but ultimately found that formative philosopHy turned on its head once he began interviewing experiencers.
"When I heard about this phenomenon in 1990, I was very doubtful. I thought it must be some kind of mental illness," he told The Washington Post during an interview conducted in the mid-'90s. "I came gradually to the conclusion that I could not find any psychiatric explanation or other explanation except that some kind of trauma happened to them."
His findings led to the publication of two books: Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens in 1994 and Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters in 1999. "I've been criticized for it," he added to the Post. "But on the other hand, this is a matter that is important to the public at large as well as the professional community. In academic circles, one can look askance when a professor goes on a popular national television show like that."
Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images
"These people suffered from no obvious psychiatric disorder, except the effects of traumatic experience, and were reporting with powerful emotion what to them were utterly real experiences," he wrote in Abduction (via Vanity Fair). "Furthermore, these experiences were sometimes associated with UFO sightings by friends, family members, or others in the community, including media reporters and journalists, and frequently left physical traces on the individuals’ bodies, such as cuts and small ulcers that would tend to heal rapidly and followed no apparent psychodynamically identifiable pattern as do, for example, religious stigmata. In short, I was dealing with a phenomenon that I felt could not be explained psychiatrically, yet was simply not possible within the framework of the Western scientific worldview.”
Mack died at the age of 74 when he was hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street in London in 2004. This led some to believe that the doctor was assassinated by shadowy elements because he was getting a little too close to the truth. Of course, no evidence supporting this conspiracy theory has been unearthed.
Mack's life and career were documented in the biography The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. The book was written by Ralph Blumenthal, one of the journalists behind the 2017 New York Times article that blew the whistle on the U.S. government's top-secret UFO program.
“There was something cavalier about the way he didn't seem to care much about what the consequences were of what he was doing,” Blumenthal said to the San Antonio Express-News earlier this summer. “And that was both a blessing and a curse.”
Showtime subscribers with access to the network's official app can stream all four episodes of UFO (executive-produced by J.J. Abrams) right now. The premiere is currently free to watch on YouTube, Showtime.com, and Sho.com.
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MUFON CASE : 117614Morphing UAP / UFO Sighted Over Gaithersburg, Maryland ( August 8, 2021 )
Morphing UAP / UFO Sighted Over Gaithersburg, Maryland on August 8, 2021
STATEMENT : A morphing drone or craft?
This is MUFON CASE : 117614 : Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117614
Entered I-270 south from Quince Orchard Rd and immediately saw slow moving (approx 30 mph) object which was so BIG I pulled over on narrow shoulder. I wouldn't have done this for a small toy or consumer drone. It seemed to be flying northwest first over Montgomery County Fairgrounds then as it crossed the 270 then flying west into sun.. On a UFO Facebook page many people were sure it was mylar star balloons. But the edges of the moving appendages had hard angular edges and whole thing seemed mechanical moving by its own propulsion. It was definitely spinning while the 4 to 6 appendages were moving up and down as if the whole thing was revolving around a rubix cube like axis. The red lights on bottom were much brighter than in video I shot and I recalled they were alternately flashing or strobing as appendages moved up and down. Some said it was morphing. The exterior shell or hull seemed hard and rigid, and appeared both dark gray and red as it moved. The lights seemed encasrd in the shell of craft.. One person even claimed I'd faked it, that original vid was manipulated. That is false. Please tell me if you can identify this. I was there and saw it and the strangeness of it was so much more uncanny than in video. Thank You, Steve Hay
Date Submitted : 2021-08-28 Date of Event : 2021-08-08 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 20210808181313.mp4
MUFON CASE : 117607 Mastic Beach, New York ( August 28, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Four bright orange/amber objects appeared on the west side of Narrow Bay. They shot over the SW horizon in rapid succession like bursts from a Roman c Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117607
I was standing on the deck of my cottage which overlooks Narrow Bay in Mastic Beach. Four bright orange/amber objects silently shot up over the SW horizon like bursts from a Roman candle in a rapid succession. The first object gained altitude and moved steadily in a North, Northeast direction. I attempted to get a better look through a pair of cheap binoculars, but all I could see was orange/amber light traveling more rapidly than any aircraft I had ever observed. The first object faded to a pinpoint in the northern cloud cover before disappearing altogether. The three remaining objects followed close afterwards appearing to maintain equal distances between them before fading and disappearing out of sight. I managed to get my phone and video record 1minute and 14seconds of the event.
Date Submitted : 2021-08-28 Date of Event : 2021-08-24 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 20210824214947.mp4
Strange UFO was sighted over the skies of California on August 27, 2021
STATEMENT : In California today (UFO )
They are here !
credit : Poland News
Morphing UAP / UFO Sighted Over Gaithersburg, Maryland ( August 8, 2021 )
Morphing UAP / UFO Sighted Over Gaithersburg, Maryland on August 8, 2021
STATEMENT : A morphing drone or craft?
This is MUFON CASE : 117614 : Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117614
Entered I-270 south from Quince Orchard Rd and immediately saw slow moving (approx 30 mph) object which was so BIG I pulled over on narrow shoulder. I wouldn't have done this for a small toy or consumer drone. It seemed to be flying northwest first over Montgomery County Fairgrounds then as it crossed the 270 then flying west into sun.. On a UFO Facebook page many people were sure it was mylar star balloons. But the edges of the moving appendages had hard angular edges and whole thing seemed mechanical moving by its own propulsion. It was definitely spinning while the 4 to 6 appendages were moving up and down as if the whole thing was revolving around a rubix cube like axis. The red lights on bottom were much brighter than in video I shot and I recalled they were alternately flashing or strobing as appendages moved up and down. Some said it was morphing. The exterior shell or hull seemed hard and rigid, and appeared both dark gray and red as it moved. The lights seemed encasrd in the shell of craft.. One person even claimed I'd faked it, that original vid was manipulated. That is false. Please tell me if you can identify this. I was there and saw it and the strangeness of it was so much more uncanny than in video. Thank You, Steve Hay
Date Submitted : 2021-08-28 Date of Event : 2021-08-08 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 20210808181313.mp4
Strange Rotating UFO Cloud Sighted Over Monroe, Louisiana ( August 26, 2021 )
STATEMENT : It's just a cloud.... ′′ If you want an unexplainable KILLER video of what some claim to be a UFO and others say is a glitch in the Matrix, look no further, watch this video filmed in Monroe Louisiana ′′ 🇺🇸 26 August 2021.
Filer’s Files 34 2021 - F-89 Disappearance - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Gordon Cooper saw UFOs,
Special Reports are Japan’s Former First Lady Miyuki Hatoyamaan Abducted, F89 Disappearance, Virginia Interceptors, Most UFO Sightings Are Near Water, UFO Observational Evidence Is Very Important, Canada Encounter, World Leaders Condemn Biden, And Strange Craft
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Chili, Czech Republic, Greenland, Myanmar, South Africa, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
Japan’s Former First Lady Miyuki Hatoyamaan Abducted
Hatoyama Miyuki, born June 28, 1943) is the wife of former Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama was an actress in the all-female Takarazuka Revue during the 1960s. She quit the troupe and her stage career when she was in her mid-20s and moved to the United States.
Hatoyama has authored several cookbooks. Among her books authored is Spiritual Food, which focuses on macrobiotic recipes. She has since published another book titled Very Strange Things I’ve Encountered.
In the book, she claims “While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a Triangular shaped UFO and went to Venus. It was a very beautiful place, and it was very green.”
Miyuki met her future husband, Yukio Hatanaka in San Francisco, while Yukio was a student at Stanford University. Miyuki and Yukio married in 1975 and the couple has one son, Kiichiro, who is currently an engineer.
F89 Disappearance
F-89 Interceptor Disappears in 1953. Yukio Hatanaka is a former Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 16 September 2009 to 8 June 2010. He was the first Prime Minister from the modern Democratic Party of Japan.
One well known example of aircraft loses to a UFO was the F-89 C Scorpion with tail number 51-5853A, piloted by 1st Lt. Felix Moncla Jr, with Second Lt. Robert L. Wilson as the Radar Intercept Officer. I spoke with a radar operator who worked in the Air Defense Command radar site on November 23, 1953. During the evening, radar picked up an unidentified target over Lake Superior and alerted the 433rd Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Truax Field, in Wisconsin.
Red is flight of F-89
Lt. Moncla in his F-89 C all-weather interceptor was scrambled and instructed to intercept the target. The F-89 diving steeply down intercepted the target at 8,000 feet, and radar operators watched as the “blips” of the UFO and the F-89 merged on their scopes, in an apparent collision, and disappeared. No trace of the plane was ever found. You can visit Lt. Moncla’ s memorial headstone at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in Moreauville, Louisiana, which reads:
Lt. Felix Moncla a Lt. Robert Wilson
Two F 89 aircraft from the 433 Fighter Interceptor Squadron was lost the same day on 23 November of 1953. Shortly after noon an F-89 Scorpion, from Truax Air Base in Madison, Wisconsin with Lt. John Schmidt, and Capt. Glenn Collins aboard, took off, witnesses below reported hearing an explosion, and then the jet crashed into a marsh in the Arboretum, killing the crew. Less than six hours later radar operators on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula spotted a UFO in restricted air space over the Soo Locks at Sault Ste-Marie. An F-89c flown by pilot Lt. Felix Moncla and 2Lt. Robert Wilson was the Radar Intercept Officer was scrambled to intercept a large UFO that headed west over Lake Superior… Lt. Moncla’ s last words from the cockpit were, “I’m going in for another look.” The radar operator claims “The F-89 jet was followed on the radar screen until its image merged with the UFO blip, – then it was lost. The odd radar image seemed to show the UFO swallow the F-89. There was an apparent collision or capture no trace of the plane was ever found. The U.S. Air Force claimed the F-89 was launched to intercept a Royal Canadian Air Force C-47, and the fighter jet had collided with the Canadian transport plane. The Canadians deny any of their planes were over the lake on that date or were involved. A headstone at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in Moreauville, Louisiana, which reads:
Editor’s Note: Assuming the radar report is correct that the two craft merged over Lake Michigan it is quite possible thy crashed together or that the UFO captured the F-89. I have seen huge UFOs that could easily fit a dozen F-89s inside or hang it on the outside. During 1953 the Air Force lost 2075 planes according to General Benjamin Chidlaw.
The destruction or disappearance of military aircraft during interceptions of UFOs continued apace.” As General Benjamin Chidlaw, former commanding general of the Air Defense Command told Robert C. Gardener (ex USAF) in 1953: “We have stack of reports of flying saucers. We take them seriously, when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” Leonard Springfield, the former Air Force intelligence officer and later a UFO investigator was told by a reliable source in the 1950s that the “Air Force was losing about a plane a day to the UFOs.” The facts are that numerous UFOs exist and attempts to shoot them down have generally been unsuccessful.
UFO F-106 Interceptors
F-106s
I was stationed at Langley Air Force Base and flew tankers and C-130s. I played bridge with several pilots from the 48th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. One pilot crashed his plane the following day.
Langley Air Force Base, Hampton — I was in the Air Force in the 48th Fighter Interceptor Squadron when late one night in March of 1972, at about 8:00 PM, a blimp appeared on radar that caused our two-armed aircraft to be scrambled. The planes were out about an hour, when one of the pilots began screaming over the radio that they were confronting a UFO. It was an orb and seemingly clear. The ranking officer ordered to fire missiles at the UFO. The squadron was put on immediate lock down! The armed Security Police immediately escorted the operator who developed the gun camera film.
When the two aircraft returned to base, the pilots came inside. One was clearly in shock, and just kept repeating, over and over, “A dam flying saucer! We fired at it, but they just went right through it”. Several men in AF long coats, entered the building and immediately began debriefing both pilots in the command post. A man in glasses came into my shop and asked me, if I had spoken to either pilot. My response was, “No.” The next morning both pilots had been transferred during the night. One went to the Pentagon the other was assigned out west. I never saw either pilot again, or film from the nosecones of their aircraft was confiscated. My immediate NCOIC, told me to keep my mouth shut if I didn’t want to be reassigned. So, I kept quiet.
According to US Defense Department figures, from 1952 until the end of October 1956, there were 18,662 major accidents of Air Force and Navy military aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Of this astonishing four-year total of 18,662 US jaircraft losses, most involved fast new jets (such as those scrambled in UFO interceptions), of which 56.2 per cent were found to be caused by pilot error; 8.1 per cent by ground-crew or other personnel failure; 23.4 per cent by failure of parts and equipment in the aircraft; 2.8 per cent by various unsafe conditions, and 9.5 per cent (1,773) were due to unknown factors. Thanks to Timothy Good new book, “Need to Know” P.172
F-86 Sabre Frequently Lost
Comments: When I chased a UFO, we exceeded the red lined aircraft air speed by 20 knots. In the excitement of the chase, it is easy to exceed aircraft capabilities and often some part of the aircraft may fail. Many stories are told of firing missiles and making direct hits on the UFOs that were unharmed only to have them return the fire and destroy the interceptor
UFO Observational Evidence Is Very Important
British UFO
Jack Sarfattti writes “Let me be very clear all this observational evidence is very important, and I applaud the efforts of those who gather it. A theoretical physicist is like a defense lawyer. My job is if tic tac reports are true, how are we to understand it? I have solved that problem with elementary physics – with Keith wander’s collaboration on important details. This is no mystery. Elizondo, Mellon, Davis et-al are misleading the pentagon not intentionally perhaps. Therefore, they are damaging us national security because Vladimir Putin’s men take my ideas very seriously on this issue and they are running with my ball. They are not stupid.”
Note: The Soviet’s would pay big money to get any UFO data while they wouldn’t pay much for our latest aircraft data.
Hawaii UFO Looked Like a Wayward Missile
Mothership
MAUI — On August 15, 2006, we saw bright slow-moving objects moving and then vanishing. Right next to them we would see what looked like a falling star following the vanishing. Then we saw two “flashes” in the sky. No lights, no stars, just flashes, they looked like explosions not meteorites, as they were occurring at the same spot for about 2 minutes. Then, we noticed the two flashes were moving closer to each other until they were upon each other. The flashes seemed to increase and there were moving lights as well around the general location, unlike anything I’d ever seen. Thanks to Kathryn and Lee Guilmette Chin.Hilo — On August 15, 2006, a silver tubular flying object buzzed Hilo Airport on the Big Island and looked a lot like a missile. Officials at the Pohakuloa Training Area told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that there were no military exercises involving missiles taking place when the object was spotted Tuesday. Witnesses told the newspaper the silver object emitted a vapor trail; but had no apparent fins or markings on it and was very loud. The object didn’t threaten any air traffic. Thanks to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
UFOs Often Underwatered
UFO Comes Out of the Water
Coastal areas and Great Lakes over the interior, except for Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona have numerous sightings near water. The concentrations of sightings would indicate that the UFOs have under water bases off our coasts and perhaps lakes or rivers in the Rocky Mountains. I have tried to contact people who spend time at sea such as fisherman. Many have observed UFOs often taking sea life.
I and my son and many of my neighbors have seen UFOs in or over lakes in the New Jersey area.
Ron Hannivig reports he has two credible, separate reports of UFOs diving into small lakes up in the Thompson/Ararat Township, Pennsylvania. I personally saw one come out of a small lake in 1980. In past years, thousands of people visited Wanaque Reservoir in North Jersey to watch UFOs come in and out of the water. They had beautiful blinking spinning lights kind of like plasmas or UFOs.
Canada Encounter
Disc 25 feet in Diameter
Mike Plunkett writes, in 1967 Canadian Stephen Michalak of Winnipeg, Manitoba decided to relax by doing some prospecting in the Whiteshell Provincial Park. A mechanic by trade, Michalak had been an amateur geologist had found several quartz veins near Falcon Lake that were associated with silver deposits. Up early on May 1, 2021, 19th, Michalak had located a vein of the precious material after only a few hours of prospecting, stopped for a quick lunch break, then resumed his digging.
Shortly after noon, he heard geese flying overhead. Looking up to catch a glimpse he was caught off guard to see two elongated red glowing objects, one of which was slowly descending. The closer it came it took on a disc-like appearance. He watched in awe as the 1st object hovered defiantly in the air while the second object settled down on a large rock 150 feet away. The hovering disc then quickly changed color from red to orange, then grey as it disappeared in a cloud bank.
Michalak stood transfixed in the same spot for some 30-minutes, in that time having the presence of mind to quickly sketch the landed saucer. Overcome with curiosity, and sensing no immediate threat, Michalak approached the craft. An opening suddenly appeared by the time he was within a few yards of the vehicle. Able to see into the craft from that vantage point, he saw what appeared to be an array of colorful lights like a lit Christmas tree. At the opened doorway of the craft, Michalak heard what he took for some type of spoken communication in a foreign but indistinct language. Peering cautiously inside, he noted a series of panels emitting lights. Looking around he saw no pilot or sign of life. The strange sound that he took for language had stopped the moment he had peered inside the craft.
Disc 25 feet in Diameter Developed Sudden Heat
Suddenly fearful, he backed out of the doorway a split second before three panels suddenly closed in an unexpected fashion, closing, and eliminating any sign of the doorway. Examining the exterior of the craft, he reached out to touch it. He described it as highly polished colored glass with no breaks or seams in its surface. When he contacted the craft, his glove was melted from its heat. Suddenly a vented opening about nine inches tall by six inches appeared. Heat emitted from the strange vent caught Michalak’s shirt and set it afire. Removing his shirt quickly he was overcome by extreme pain. He watched the saucer take off and ascend into the clouds and a vacuum of air could be felt as it left the ground. He found himself in immediate need of medical attention, his chest badly burned and suffering from a sudden spell of dizziness. Before leaving the area, he tried to make a landmark by piling up debris and rocks. Suffering from a bad headache, he quickly broke into a cold sweat and violently vomited. He eventually made his way to the highway and was found by the police who transported him to a local hospital where he was treated for his severe burns, dizziness, and debilitating headache. Stephen Michalak was a hardworking, reliable, and honest man not given to tall tales. The burns on his chest are a matter of public record. His health declined sharply in the years after his claimed strange encounter. A subsequent visit to the location by the local authorities in the days and weeks after the alleged event showed a distinct sharp increase in radiation levels in and around the spot where the craft had allegedly landed.
By late June 1967, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had taken an interest in Michalak’s claims. They could not identify the site on their own, and on June 1st Michalak accompanied them. On June 26, Michalak had located the site and recovered personal belongings he had left there. The RCMP obtained soil samples which they tested for radioactivity. On July 28, Michalak and RCMP officers together identified a semicircle on the rock face at the scene, 15 feet in diameter, where the moss had been somehow removed. There were traces of radiation in a fault in the rock across the center of the landing spot. No trace of radiation was found around the outer perimeter of the circle or in the moss.
Michalak’s Burns from UFO
World Leaders Condemn Biden
The location of Michalak’s encounter was investigated by the RCMP, the Royal Canadian Air Force, Condon Committee, as well as other respected government and civilian UFO groups. There was nothing left to investigate, yet nothing was found to debunk his story. It should be noted that Michalak paid all his own medical expenses. He later wrote a booklet of his alleged experience at Falcon Lake. Stephen Michalak is one of the few people to claim physical injury from contact with a UFO. Today, his account of the encounter at Falcon Lake is widely considered legitimate. Stephen Michalak died in 1999 at age 83. Today the Canadian Government identifies the Falcon Lake case as unsolved. Thanks to RSR UFO Files
Joe Biden’s disastrous handling of the defeat in Afghanistan and his remarks on the debacle continue to reverberate around the world. NATO countries urged the U.S.. to stay in Afghanistan. The British Daily Telegraph reports that America’s closest ally and Parliament are roundly condemning Biden and holding him in contempt n its headlines questioning its relationship with the United States. World leaders are speaking out about their disappointment with the security situation in Afghanistan. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson going so far as to pin the blame on President Joe Biden and the United States.
“Nobody wants Afghanistan once again to be a breeding ground for terrorist attacks and we don’t think it is in the interests of the people of Afghanistan that it should lapse back into that pre-2001 status,” Johnson told Sky News.
” Trudeau said. “We are heartbroken at the situation the Afghan people find themselves in today.” Trudeau said the “security and safety” of Canadians in the country remain his top priority, as the country moved to suspend diplomatic operations in Afghanistan and shuttered its embassy in Kabul.
Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government would “redouble” efforts to evacuate people in Afghanistan that have aided the Australian effort in the country.
It seems obvious that there should have been an exit strategy pulling out of the Middle East knowing the Taliban do not fight in the winter. It’s like you can’t reverse Trump’s border policies without implementing new ones or defund the police without having a new system already in place.
Unprecedented Dishonor: Many nations Hold Biden in Contempt for ‘Shameful, cowardly, and ‘Catastrophic’ Afghanistan Withdrawal costing the lives of thousands.
On Thursday, and daughter of the late Sen. John McCain said she has “been physically ill” and filled with “pure rage and anger” since the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Megan McCain
McCain had strongly campaigned for Biden’s election , a f close family friend of Biden but now she argued the way Afghanistan unfolded was “one of the greatest foreign policy catastrophes of my lifetime.”
“I am furious our President was so incompetent not to see what every expert on the planet could have seen coming,” she wrote. “I am furious for my friends and family who have been fighting in these wars. I am furious seeing our allies and innocent Afghan citizens who trusted us are being left to be slaughtered or so desperate to escape the pure evil the Taliban will bring in that they are falling out of f—— planes. This is not who America is, this is not the values this country was founded in.”
McCain, 36, continued, she insisted that “the shame, dishonor and embarrassment the Biden administration has brought to our country will take generations to undo. Not to mention our standing in the world and the cruel reality that the likelihood of another significant domestic terror attack has now risen to the highest levels since 9/11 and will usher in Isis 3.0.”
“I am furious our President was so incompetent not to see what every expert on the planet could have seen coming,” she wrote. Afghan citizens who trusted us are being left to be slaughtered or so desperate to escape the pure evil the Taliban will bring in that they are falling out of f—— planes. This is not who America is, this is not the values this country was founded in.” ..
She insisted that “the shame, dishonor and embarrassment the Biden administration has brought to our country will take generations to undo. How many are being killed in the interior of the country and in the streets of Kabul.? Afghan Christians are totally vulnerable with no political power. They have no-one to appeal to. Some 229 Christian missionaries have been sentenced to death eliminate women ‘s education throughout the country.
They don’t even generally qualify for special immigrant visas to the United States and expect to be slaughtered.
Taliban and AL Qaeda Capture Afghanistan
The Taliban are calling the shots and are keeping allies from entering Kabul Airport and frequently firing their weapons.
Taliban are going house to house killing Christians, Army and police, and interpreters. The US Administration is not going after its people like both the French and British Special forces are going into Kabul and recovering both British and Americans. The biggest humiliation in the history of the United States.
We went in Afghanistan to defeat Al-Qaeda an Islamist group founded between 1988 and 1990 by Osama Bin Laden and Mohammed Atef and is believed responsible for attacking New York City on 9/11 and now can do it again. Al-Qaeda has been gaining strength and will likely continue to conduct arson as many of the 40.000 fires already set in the U.S. this year.
Why Did the Afghanistan Army stop fighting? The Afghan Army was taught to fight with good intelligence and with 90% of the US close air support that Biden stopped last month in probably the biggest mistake of the entire war. He also stopped the small Afghan Air Force.
A good Afghan unit was surrounded in a Taliban force and was holding well when resupplied early last July by commandoes. For a month they used up their ammunition, food and water and were eventually defeated. This was well known throughout Afghanistan and the various War Lords gave up their cities rather than fight because they had no air support air intelligence.
In the end, President Biden got all the troops out by July Fourth, but a small force that was there to guard the U.S. Embassy.
Trump left 2500 US soldiers that were pulled out by July 4. Well, not only did the U.S. withdraw all the forces from Afghanistan, but we also took out all the contractors that were there to help the Afghans with their maintenance and their logistics of their vehicles and helicopters and airplanes. We stopped providing, in any meaningful sense, all the close air support, the air support that the Afghan military was accustomed to having when they fought the Taliban. Then also, we stopped with some of the other intelligence-sharing mechanisms as well. This really left the Afghan army high and dry and unable to fight effectively.
the Taliban sensed this, and they decided to act. You already alluded to the timeline here, during about 72 hours, the Taliban captured essentially the whole country without barely a shot being fired. This was an insurgency that for the past two decades was unable to capture even one of the 34 provincial capital cities in Afghanistan, but then out of nowhere, they sweep across the whole country and they’re sitting in the presidential palace in Kabul. It’s an utter disgrace and an extreme loss of prestige of the United States that President Biden allowed this to happen. I seriously wonder if his plan seems to be to destroy the United States
Tom Tugendhat, UK chairman of the Foreign Affairs select committee, who served as a British soldier in the Afghanistan war. “The tragedy of Afghanistan is that we are swapping that patient achievement for a second fire and a second. war.”
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public. Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra. https://amzn.to/2SK3SIQ
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Filer’s Files 34 2021 - F-89 Disappearance - PART II
UFO over Laguna Niguel on July 24, 2021
Filer’s Files 34 2021 - F-89 Disappearance - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Gordon Cooper saw UFOs,
Special Reports are Japan’s Former First Lady Miyuki Hatoyamaan Abducted, F89 Disappearance, Virginia Interceptors, Most UFO Sightings Are Near Water, UFO Observational Evidence Is Very Important, Canada Encounter, World Leaders Condemn Biden, And Strange Craft
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Chili, Czech Republic, Greenland, Myanmar, South Africa, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Laguna Niguel– on July 24, 2021, witnessed these objects while walking the county park, at first, they were almost directly above me floating downward. They moved away to the north that is when I decided to take some pictures with my mobile phone. There was with no sound, no props, no lights and floated up and down like hang gliders, there were several 5 or 6 maybe more. They were not hang gliders, or drones. It was saucer shaped with a circular dome under the saucer, in that same picture there is another cigar shaped object to the left above the trees.
Colorado Lights
Thornton on July 4, 2021, I noticed one dot of light slowly, dropping straight down then out of sight! That’s when these three lights appeared from the same direction, joined by a fourth within a few seconds! There were silent abrupt changes in direction as well as very clear flame trails!
Connecticut Lights
Hartford– on August 10, 2021, these objects are not fireworks, and it looks like they were shooting at one another like they were in a big battle.
Delaware Object
Hagelstad – on August 15, 2021, about 11:00 hours I suddenly noticed a strong flash in western direction. This repeated at intervals of seconds. I estimated the distance in the range 10 – 20 km. At first there was air turbulence around the location of the flash. The flashing object then continued to move at the same altitude in a general southerly direction. The flashing and flare did not subside.
I got my 8x binoculars and could see that it was a solid object. One side flashed in the sunlight; the other side showed a brown-black color. a good 10 meters in diameter for a sphere. Sincerely Hubert Muckel Colonel (ret)
Florida Object
Cocoa– on June 30, 2021, there are sound waves in the photos, a tower that evaporated and then doubled, many flying objects. There are no towers or wires in the area. A source or beam was coming down at the same time.
Illinois Light
East Peoria– on July 15, 2021, this photo was captured on a Trail Camera with a coyote in the lower left and an object in the air. We did not sight the object, the camera did. Note: The apparent object could be due to a lens flare or reflection. Thanks to Will ucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite.
Maryland Object
Lavale– on August 11, 2021, about 8:55pm I was watching the sunset while waiting in line. I noticed a low oval cloud much lower than the high streaming clouds. It was somewhat dark on the bottom but appears bright on the upper portion. I took a quick photo with my Android phone that shows a definite outline of a pearl-like object. It flew SW against the wind and the object disappeared.
Nebraska Light
Sioux City– on August 14, 2021, my wife and I were enjoying the sunset by the Marriot waterfront. I took a picture of the bridge and notice a light in the picture so that I zoomed in and saw this object.
New Jersey Lights
Lawrence Harbor – on August 14, 2021, I brought my grandkids to a festival and when I got home and looked at my 30 pictures, I noticed this strange white object in one.
Trenton – on August 13, 2021, while out watching meteor showers I spotted this object southwest of Stony Plain at about 12:57 A.M. It was the largest thing I have ever witnessed, moving very slowly, then turned east. The body was cylindrical with a v shape top. I woke my wife to witness it. It was just t like standing silent in a vacuum.
New York Lights
Brooklyn– on August 9, 2021, recorded from cell phone which turned off for no reason. Giant blue UFO ejecting smaller UFOs
Queens– on August 18, 2021, flew left to right at low altitude. Flew over my house four times in College Point
Ohio Object
Medina — on July 17, 2021, I was with my niece and nephew outside enjoying the sunset at 8:40pm. I heard a passenger jet coming over heading to Cleveland Hopkins Airport. I was able to capture on video, a white glowing Tic Tac object following the jet.
Pennsylvania Object
Smithfield — on August 13, 2021, taking pictures of a lightning storm using my iPhone and enhanced the image and discovered object changing shape and moving in all directions. It changed shape from spherical to square.
Wisconsin Objects
Milwaukee – on August 15, 2021, I witnessed these 2 objects spinning around each other. Initially they hovered, then moved west, then up and away, out of sight. They are seemingly red bodies with amber lights. I’m a mile from a Great Lake. Photos are from a Canon Rebel and telephoto lens.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Triangle
Stony Plain — on August 15, 2021, while out watching a meteor shower at 12:57 A.M. I saw largest thing I have ever witnessed, moving very slowly first from the south, then turned east. The body was cylindrical with a V shape top. The dark body was visible but was cloaking as you could see stars through it. I woke my wife to witness a large blinking octagon shaped lights were on each end of it, then was gone in a huge blast of light.
Green Island Cove – on August 9, 2021, this is a remote part of Newfoundland near the ocean. As I drove south on The Viking Highway, I noticed a high-level aircraft, that wasn’t moving. As a private pilot, I noticed it had a vapor trail, that is created by thrust. I pulled over as moved upwards at a 45-degree angle until I couldn’t see it any longer.
Chile Disc
Constitution— on September 22, 2017, I saw chrome color metallic object passing over Quivolgo Nursery. I have more than 300 photos that verify and demonstrate a UFO flight route over Constitution at the same height, flying north to south.
Czech Republic Light
Zlín– on July 9, 2021, my boyfriend and I wanted to watch the stars and noticed a star glowing and flickering, but then it began to move slowly. I believe it was a UFO. We took the binoculars and at that moment we both saw the movement clearly. I decided to make a video of it; so, I took the binoculars, pressed it to my phone, and zoomed to the maximum. Seeing with my own eyes something, that could really prove their existence and have a record of it is an indescribable feeling.
Greece Tic Tac
Athens, Glyfada– on August 15, 2021, observed a Silent Tic Tac shaped craft fly past silent and slowly without wings, tail, lights, or windows. It was flying slow so. I was able to record on my iPhone 7. This is the second time I’ve seen this identical craft. Navy depiction of craft
Greenland Object
Photo of a large strange, shaped object taken by pilot.
60 Miles East of Greenland – in June 2021, at 5:30 PM GMT. The photo was taken from 36,000 feet making the object perhaps miles across. Notice the shadows on the icebergs going beneath the object and the swirl in the ice flow as if the object had moved. I was the pilot flying the aircraft for a major US airline and spotted object that caused disturbance in the ice flow. I’ve had many other pilots look at the picture some intelligence and MIT types and no one thinks it’s natural. The upper surface is smooth and gray and less reflective than ice. Other huge icebergs can be seen around with the reflective edges. It looks likes it is just above the icebergs”. The two uniform “intakes” or shadows on the top are also quite interesting. I am a former Air Force pilot, and this was very strange.
Note:The aircraft was flying to the west at 539 MPH at an altitude of 36,000 feet. The first officer was also an ex-Air Force pilot. The pilot has provided the date of the sighting, but it is not published in this report to not reveal the identity of the pilot and first officer.
Myanmar Light
Yangon– on May 22, 2021, I saw a small white flying thing when I looked beside the moon. It flew from north to south, so I took videos. As long as I was taking video, it became smaller and disappeared.
South Africa Triangle
Johannesburg – on January 3, 2015, being an avid amateur astronomer, I am familiar with the night sky, and assume that this was a UAP. I was in the process of setting up my telescope gazing south when I realized that a large section of the sky was completely “blacked out” due to an enormous triangle shaped object. The triangle was completely black, seamless, silent, and like liquid mercury. Intermittently it became translucent, allowing the stars to shine through. When directly above me, it completely blacked out the visible sky. It then proceeded to disappear in a northerly direction. https://uforsa.co.za/black-triangle-in-pretoria/
UK/England Light
Whittingham– on August 8, 2021, I took photos and videos
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The story behind the supposed reptilian city found under Los Angeles
The story behind the supposed reptilian city found under Los Angeles
When Warren Shufelt was inspecting near downtown Los Angeles for oil, gold and other minerals with a device of his invention, he accidentally stumbled upon a so-called “underground reptilian city.”
Los Angeles Times article that talks about the city.
What is true in the news about an underground reptilian city in Los Angeles? Well, in 1933, the engineer Warren Shufelt used a device invented by himself to take soil readings. Their target was oil, gold, or any kind of valuable material.
However, from one moment to the next, the instrument began to show a series of “voids” under the ground . He quickly realized that it was a network of underground tunnels, so he wasted no time and drew a map of his find.
Everything seemed to indicate that it had been built with a work plan . With rooms at every certain distance and warehouses that led to other tunnels .
An underground city in Los Angeles?
Shufelt deduced that some of the tunnels were up to 30 kilometers underground . At first he thought they were ventilation pipes.
However, he never thought that these tunnels connected to a much larger city , which was submerged under the Pacific Ocean thousands of years ago, during a terrible earthquake and subsequent floods.
According to later investigations, the complex discovered by Shufelt was used as emergencies, with a capacity to house up to 5000 individuals .
The so-called “reptilian city stored supplies of non-perishable plants used for food and in sufficient quantities to feed the survivors. Or at least until it was time to return to the surface. “
“It also had a supposed complex where documents, artifacts and ancient treasures would be kept .”
The engineer investigated the tunnel network on his own , which led him to meet a member of the Hopi , known as Chief Little Green Leaf.
The Legend of the Lizard People
He commented on the existence of an ancient race of “Lizard People.” The story went that about 5000 years ago, a meteor shower fell on the west coast. A proof of this is the Winslow crater , north of Arizona.
Thousands of people died that day. Miles of fertile land and forests were lost. An unprecedented catastrophe.
The few survivors gathered on the west coast to come up with a plan and build safe areas. However, the sky sentinels appeared and indicated that it was time to return to the underground shelters.
Place where the excavation began.
Thus, the Lizard People closed the access tunnels, saving themselves from another meteor shower that swept the west coast this time.
But despite having survived the catastrophe, the toxic gas leaked into the bunkers , causing them to perish.
Digging for the city
Both men were convinced that this legend was real . If the information captured by Shufelt’s device is added to that , all was said.
On February 21, 1933, they got permission from the County Board of Supervisors for the excavation to begin. Any treasure found was to be 50% shared with the City of Los Angeles.
Shufelt was convinced that the labyrinth was about 300 meters deep . So he could find the rooms of 2.5 square kilometers. Where the most valuable treasures were hidden.
The legend about this reptilian city tells how the rooms sheltered historical tables of gold . In them were important engravings on the origins of humanity . These boards were 1 meter long and 35 centimeters wide.
Shufelt mapped out the ideal place to dig as his device had located the empty areas of the tunnels and dark areas where the gold was found .
When the excavation began, the water had seeped into several tunnels. Arriving to flood several rooms.
The journey of both subjects had reached the media. In early February 1934 the first reports came out of the “Lost Land of the Lizard People.”
By that time , 100 meters had been dug in one of the five pits being dug at the same time.
However, when there was more attention on the underground reptilian city, the project was stopped at any moment. The excavation was abandoned and on March 5, the pits were backfilled once more.
Shufelt continued to reside in Los Angeles, passing away in November 57. Leaving a legacy that, despite his continuous legal struggles, he could never continue.
My Favorite Martian Image: Helicopter Sees Potential Rover Road Ahead
My Favorite Martian Image: Helicopter Sees Potential Rover Road Ahead
This image of the South Séítah region of Jezero Crater was captured by NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 12th flight at Mars, on August 16, 2021.
Perseverance scientist impressed with aerial images of location considered for rover exploration.
Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite photograph or two from their mission. For Ken Farley, the project scientist for NASA’s Perseverance rover, one of his current favorites is a color image of “South Seítah,” an area the mission’s science team had considered potentially worthy of a rover visit. The agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took the image during its 12th and most recent flight, on Aug. 16.
Prior to Ingenuity’s latest flight, the majority of what the Perseverance science team knew of the southern portion of the Seítah feature came from orbiter images. Based on that data, they believed the site could possibly be a treasure trove of complex geology, providing information that could play a valuable role as the rover team searches for signs of ancient microbial life and attempts to characterize the geology of the area and to understand the area’s history.
They used the rotorcraft’s images to look for signs of layered, sedimentary rock that could have been deposited in water, intriguing rocky outcrops accessible to the rover, and safe routes the rover could take into and back out of the area.
“From a science perspective, these images of South Seítah are the most valuable Ingenuity has taken to date,” said Farley, who’s based at Caltech. “And part of their value may be in what they are not showing. Sedimentary layers in rocks are not readily apparent in the image, and there may be areas that could be difficult to negotiate with the rover. There is work to do by our science and rover driving teams to understand better how to respond to the new data.”
Ingenuity obtained 10 images of the area as it flew into and then back out of South Seítah at an altitude of 33 feet (10 meters). The flight was one of the most complicated the helicopter team has executed so far – the longest-duration flight to date (169.5 seconds) with multiple waypoints as it flew from relatively non-descript terrain outside South Seítah into much more varied terrain inside, and then back out again.
“What this image may be saying is, we don’t need to drive further west to obtain the best geologic variety of this first science campaign,” said Farley. “If we decide to make the trip to South Seítah, we’ve got some valuable intel on what we’ll encounter. And if the decision is to stick around ‘Artuby Ridge,’ the rover’s current location, we’ll have saved valuable time. It’s a win-win.”
More About Ingenuity
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by JPL, which also manages the operations demonstration activity during its extended mission for NASA Headquarters. It is supported by NASA’s Science, Aeronautics Research, and Space Technology mission directorates. NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, and NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity’s development. AeroVironment Inc., Qualcomm, and SolAero also provided design assistance and major vehicle components. Lockheed Martin Space designed and manufactured the Mars Helicopter Delivery System.
More About Perseverance
A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
The discovery of more than 100 sealed coffins containing mummies, at the Saqqara archaeological site in Egypt, was one of the biggest archaeology stories of 2020.
(Image credit: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)
With the pandemic and accompanying economic recession clouding 2020, it goes without saying that the year will not go down as the happiest for humanity. The archaeology world also felt the effects, as numerous digs were canceled or curtailed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the difficult year, many archaeological and historical discoveries came to light, including a sprawling geoglyph in Peru, a trove of mummies, the tomb of the legendary Romulus and more.
1. Cat revealed at Nazca
(Image credit: Johny Isla/Ministerio de Cultura)
A 120-foot-long geoglyph of a cat discovered in Peru in 2020 is the most recent example of a Nazca Line to be found. The geoglyph was heavily eroded and barely visible, but conservation work revealed a more complete picture of the cat, which looks a bit like a child's doodle. Archaeologists estimate that the geoglyph was constructed sometime between 200 B.C. and 100 B.C., a time when many Nazca Lines were being built.
2. Amazon ice-age art
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In 2020, archaeologists announced the discovery of an 8-mile-long (12.9 kilometers) "canvas" of ice-age art that dates back 11,800 to 12,600 years. Drawn using ocher, the images include depictions of mastodons, giant sloths and other now-extinct beasts that lived at the time. The images were drawn in the hills above three rock shelters in the Colombian Amazon.
The drawings also include human handprints, geometric designs, and images of deer, tapirs, alligators, bats, monkeys, turtles, serpents, porcupines, camelids and horses, among other animals. There are also drawings showing people hunting animals and interacting with plants and trees. The excavations were made possible thanks to a 2016 peace treaty that put an end to hostilities between the Colombian government and FARC, a rebel guerrilla group. With the onset of peace, the region became accessible to archaeologists.
3. Mummies galore!
(Image credit: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)
More than 100 sealed coffins with mummies have been found at Saqqara, in Egypt. Excavations are ongoing, and more mummies will likely be found.)
Since summer 2020, Egyptian archaeologists have been excavating a series of burial shafts at the site of Saqqara and have found an ever-growing number of sealed coffins with mummies inside. As of Nov. 14, the count was up to over 100 coffins containing mummies, and as the excavations continue, more will likely be found. In Egypt, tombs were frequently robbed in both ancient and modern times, and to find so many undisturbed, sealed coffins with mummies is a remarkable find.
Numerous artifacts have been found within the coffins, including 40 statues that depict Ptah-Soker, a deity who was an amalgamation of Ptah, the god of Memphis, andSoker (also spelled Sokar and Seker), who was the god of Saqqara. All of the finds date to between roughly 712 B.C. and 30 B.C., a time when Egypt was often controlled by foreign groups, such as the Assyrians, Persians and Greeks.
4. Tomb of Romulus
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In February 2020, archaeologists announced the discovery of the tomb of Romulus beneath the Roman Forum's Senate House. According to legend, Romulus founded Rome in the eighth century B.C. He and his brother Remus were supposedly abandoned as infants and raised by a she-wolf. When they reached adulthood, the two brothers got into a dispute over which hill Rome should be built on, and Romulus killed Remus. Today, most historians regard the story as mythological and doubt that Romulus really existed. However, the ancient Romans took it seriously and placed his tomb beneath the Senate House, the heart of Roman politics.
Inside the tomb, archaeologists found an empty 4.5-foot-long (1.4 m) sarcophagus made of a light volcanic stone, called tuff, that was quarried from the Capitoline Hill beneath the Roman Forum. The tomb has been 3D laser scanned, and future excavations may reveal more details about it.
5. Female hunters
(Image credit: Matthew Verdolivo (UC Davis IET Academic Technology Services))
In 2020, the idea that males did all of the big-game hunting while females gathered herbs and plants was proved wrong, as archaeologists found a 9,000-year-old burial of a female hunter in Peru. She was buried with a hunter tool kit that included projectile points and flakes, and she may have hunted vicuñas, wild ancestors of alpacas.
The archaeologists who excavated the woman's remains do not believe she was an unusual case. When they analyzed over 400 skeletons that had been previously excavated in the Western Hemisphere, the archaeologists found that 27 were buried with tools suitable for hunting big game and 11 of those individuals were female, suggesting that females often hunted big game in the Western Hemisphere.
6. Polynesians meet Native Americans around A.D. 1150
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A large study that involved gathering DNA from 807 Indigenous individuals from Polynesia and the Pacific coast of South America has revealed that Polynesians and native peoples of Colombia not only made contact but also bred with one another around A.D. 1150. It's not clear how the groups met; the Polynesians may have sailed to South America or vice versa.
Either way, their descendants were living in the Marquesas Islands — about 4,350 miles (7,000 km) from the coast of Colombia — by A.D. 1200, and gradually branched out to other islands in Polynesia.
The biggest prehistoric monument in the U.K. was revealed in 2020. Dating to around 4,500 years ago, during the Neolithic period, it consists of 20 giant holes that appear to mark the boundaries of an earlier enclosure circle. Each of the holes is 32 feet (10 m) in diameter and 16 feet (5 m) deep. The holes form a circle stretching 1.2 miles (2 km) and covering an area larger than 1.2 square miles (3.1 square km). It's so large that it has Durrington Walls, the largest henge in the U.K., at its center.
It's not clear why the giant circle of holes was created. It's possible that it formed a symbolic barrier that told certain members of society how close they could get to Durrington Walls. Another possibility is that the holes were used to hold water during the wet season. In any case, the circle of holes is one of a kind, with no comparable prehistoric monuments known elsewhere, archaeologists said.
8. Assyrian rock panels
(Image credit: Alberto Savioli/Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project/University of Udine)
Ten ancient Assyrian rock panels showing carvings of Assyrian deities were discovered at a canal that dates back more than 2,700 years. They include carvings of Ashur, the main Assyrian god, who is shown on a dragon. They also show Ashur's wife, Mullissu, who is seated on a decorated throne supported by a lion. Other depictions include the sun god Shamash on a horse and the moon god Sin on a horned lion. All of the deities face in the direction of the water that flowed in the canal.
The panels and canal were likely built during the reign of the Assyrian king Sargon II, who ruled from 722 B.C. to 705 B.C. In the rock panels, Sargon II is shown at the beginning and end of the procession of deities.
Archaeologists announced the discovery of the canal and rock panels, found near Mosul, Iraq, in January 2020. Work on uncovering the panels began in 2012, but when the terrorist organization ISIL (also known as ISIS or Daesh) approached the region,archaeologists hid the panels to prevent their destruction by ISIL. As a result the panels were not fully uncovered until recently.
9. Rich ninth-century Viking longhouse on Iceland
(Image credit: Bjarni Einarsson)
In June 2020, archaeologists in Iceland announced the discovery of a 130-foot-long (40 m) longhouse that was built in the ninth century. It is one of the earliest Viking structures in Iceland to be discovered and has lavish hoard of ornamental beads and coins archaeologists found.
The finds include Roman and Middle Eastern silver coins, as well as "hacksilver" — cut and bent pieces of silver that the Vikings and other peoples used as bullion or currency. The hoards also contained glass beads, rings, weights and a tiny fragment of gold. The Vikings who lived there may have acquired the goods by trading whale and seal meat and skins for them.
10. Mammoth structure
(Image credit: Alex Pryor)
A circular structure constructed out of the remains of at least 60 mammoths was discovered in Russia. Bones from reindeer, horses, bears, wolves, red foxes and arctic foxes, among other animals, were also used to build the structure, archaeologists said. Dating back around 20,000 years, the structure is 36 feet (11 m) in diameter and may have had a roof made of animal hides, the researchers said.
The purpose of the structure is a bit of a mystery. It might have been used for rituals, or possibly food storage. At the time, pieces of animal meat were still attached to the bones, which would have made the structure smelly. Archaeologists could tell that they had meat on them because some of the bones were articulated (joined together) in a way that could only have been done if flesh was still on them.
An ancient “pre-human” civilization was destroyed by a comet (Video)
An ancient “pre-human” civilization was destroyed by a comet (Video)
The evidence that our planet harbored intelligent life before humans is increasingly evident. Now, one theory could reveal that a comet destroyed an ancient civilization more than 13,000 years ago.
A comet would have created a cataclysm similar to the one that destroyed the dinosaurs.
Graham Hancock , one of the most controversial researchers of recent years, wrote a book entitled “Wizards of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization.”
In it, he mentions an ancient pre-human civilization on Earth and how it was destroyed by a giant comet more than 13,000 years ago.
An ancient civilization died out before mankind was born
The remains of a giant comet pierced the atmosphere, generating a global cataclysm similar to that of the destruction of the dinosaurs.
Hancock says that at least eight fragments of the huge comet hit the North American ice sheet , and others hit northern Europe.
The heat generated by the approach of the giant fireballs, at more than 150,000 kilometers per hour, melted millions of square kilometers of ice instantly.
As a consequence, the earth’s crust was destabilized like never before and a global flood was generated that destroyed an ancient civilization . This cataclysm was named in different myths of ancient cultures, including the bible .
This theory was ignored for decades as it was considered “unlikely.” In fact, several experts pointed out that it was impossible for a developed civilization to live on Earth thousands of years ago .
Some even ridiculed the researcher, as always happens when an alternative history is proposed for humanity
Evidence of the comet impact is found at Göbekli Tepe.
It is not a simple theory
In order to find such an ancient catastrophic event , one has to search the oldest known remains of an ancient civilization. And that’s Göbekli Tepe .
Archaeologists from the School of Engineering of the University of Edinburgh, carried out an investigation in these ruins.
Apparently, evidence was found that a comet collided with Earth in 11,000 BC. C. approximately. This cataclysm generated drastic changes that exterminated an advanced civilization.
Based on that investigation, Hancock added that such an event could occur again . Earth will be in the path of a meteor shower in 2030 .
It should be noted that the oldest layer of Göbekli Tepe dates from the year 9600 BC. C. , this means that it is 7000 years older than the pyramids of Egypt .
There were stone carvings with astronomical symbols linked to a global catastrophe that occurred in 10,950 BC. C., as explained by Dr. Martin Suetman .
This artifact was called the “Vulture Stone” and clearly shows human suffering through symbols.
This means that an ancient civilization, with astronomical and mathematical knowledge, as well as civilized, existed long before human beings.
A NASA image shows 9 of the 13 cubesats originally planned to fly on the Artemis 1 mission installed in their payload adapters. At least one cubesat will not be ready in time for the mission. Credit: NASA/Cory Huston
COLORADO SPRINGS — While most of the cubesats manifested to launch as secondary payloads on the first Space Launch System mission have arrived, at least one of them will miss its flight.
NASA selected 13 cubesats several years ago to fly as secondary payloads on the Artemis 1 mission, launching no earlier than November. The cubesats, each six units in size, come from a mix of NASA, international and academic developers.
NASA released an image Aug. 11 showing the Orion stage adapter, the component that links the Orion spacecraft to the SLS second stage and which hosts the cubesats that will be deployed during the mission. The image shows nine cubesats installed on the adapter and the other four slots still unoccupied.
One of those four slots will be filled by BioSentinel, a NASA cubesat that will study the long-term effects of radiation in deep space on organisms, in this case yeast. That spacecraft has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, NASA spokesperson Shannon Segovia said Aug. 19, but will be installed on the adapter last to preserve the biological samples onboard.
Two of the other three cubesats are part of NASA’s Cube Quest Challenge, a competition held by the agency’s Centennial Challenges prize program. NASA spokesperson Molly Porter said that one of them, CU-3E from the University of Colorado Boulder, is still expected to arrive in time for the Artemis 1 launch, but that the other, Cislunar Explorers from Cornell University, will not be ready for the flight. A third Cube Quest cubesat, Team Miles, has been installed on the stage adapter.
The other cubesat is Lunar Flashlight, being developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to look for water ice deposits on the moon using lasers. That spacecraft is in danger of missing the Artemis 1 because of delays in the development of its propulsion system, JPL spokesperson Ian O’Neill said Aug. 20.
“Due to significant issues during testing of the originally procured Lunar Flashlight propulsion system, the mission switched to development of an alternative. This change occurred late in the project and delayed mission readiness,” NASA said in a statement about the cubesat. The pandemic then slowed development of the new propulsion system, which uses a “green” nontoxic propellant, by a group led by the Georgia Institute of Technology.
JPL has received the propulsion system, but O’Neill said it wasn’t clear that the system would be fully integrated and tested in time to launch on Artemis 1. “NASA is also exploring several near-term commercial launch opportunities for Lunar Flashlight in case it does not make Artemis 1,” the agency stated.
Exactly how much time CU-3E and Lunar Flashlight have to make Artemis 1 isn’t clear. Segovia said the cubesats must arrive in time to be installed on the Orion stage adapter before that adapter is installed on the SLS. NASA KSC spokesperson Tiffany Fairley said that installation is currently scheduled for early fall.
During a panel discussion at the AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum Aug. 10, David Reynolds of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center said that the pandemic had caused some of the secondary payloads to fall behind schedule. “We’re trying to give them some opportunity to get caught up,” he said.
NASA is doing so by delaying the installation of the Orion stage adapter for as long as possible, using a mass simulator in its place for tests inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC. “That will allow them to load in some of those secondary payloads for another month and a half,” he said.
Reynolds noted that the current planning date for the Artemis 1 launch is Nov. 26. “I wouldn’t book nonrefundable flights just yet,” he added.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has been exploring new frontiers for science since it landed on the Red Planet in February in an area called Jezero crater.
“The main goal of the mission is to seek out the signs of ancient life ― life that once existed on Mars. We’re talking about microbial life, very small basic life,” researcher Sarah Fagents said.
Fagents is with the University of Hawaii’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. She’s on the team of about of about 30 scientists, engineers and graduate students that controls the rover’s Mastcam-Z.
The imaging system captures high-resolution photographs and video of the Martian landscape.
UH doctoral student Eleni Ravanis is also a team member.
“We’re looking at places that scientists have been looking at from orbit for a long time. It’s really exciting to get up close and test some of the hypotheses that people have come up with,” she said.
The work is rewarding and a challenge logistically. The Mastcam team is spread out all over the world and a Martian day is 40 minutes longer than an Earth day. Team members work round-the-clock to send Rover work orders that it receives during the Martian night.
“When the Rover wakes up in the morning, during the Martian day, it can do everything we told it to do,” Fagents said.
The Mastcam is one of seven instruments on the rover. They have their own teams of scientists who assigned specific tasks that include collecting samples of rocks and soil.
Eventually, Perserverance wlll move to another part of the Jezero crater.
“It used to have a lake in it. We can tell that from the types of deposits that we can see in there from orbit,” Fagents said.
The spacecraft will operate until it dies. The goal is to get the samples back to earth.
“There’s a lot more work that we can do in a big specialist laboratory that we have on earth compared to what we can do at Mars,” Ravanis said.
Other mission scientists with UH ties include Jim Bell, the principal investigator of the Mastcam-Z instrument, and Shiv Sharma who is the co-investigator on the Supercam instrument.
Fagents said she’s thrilled to be working on the Mars project.
“It’s the next best thing to being their with your own boots on the ground.”
If all goes well, in 2023, Perseverance will climb out of the crater to explore more of the Red Planet.
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FORTY YEARS AGO, NASA SCIENTIST LINDA SPILKER started sleeping at the office. It was her first job out of college, but she wasn’t camping out because she was over-worked and chained to her desk. Instead, she was waiting for an exquisite moment in human history: The first time Voyager 2 would fly by Saturn and its moons, and, critically, the images it would return to Earth of the distinctive ringed planet.
“I’d bring my sleeping bag into my office, and I’d have like a timeline of when the pictures would come back to the Earth,” she recalls for Inverse. “A lot of people did this, so you could sometimes go into somebody’s office, and you might see a pair of feet sticking out from under the desk.”
Voyager 2’s flyby wasn’t the first time a spacecraft gave scientists a close-up view of the gas giant and its moons — that privilege went to its sister spacecraft Voyager 1, which entered the Saturn system on November 12, 1980.
But the flyby, which took place on August 26, 1981, provided scientists here on Earth with important observations that, combined with those of Voyager 1, have informed every NASA mission to the Saturn system since.
“WE COULD GO IN AND TWEAK THE DESIGNS AND THE OBSERVATIONS FOR VOYAGER 2.”
NASA’s Cassini, Huygens, and, importantly, the upcoming Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan to search for signs of life all owe a debt to this moment in history.
WHAT VOYAGER 2 DISCOVERED AROUND SATURN
When Spilker graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics and went to work for NASA in 1977, they gave her a choice of missions., including a brand new mission set to launch that year — Voyager.
“When they told me that Voyager was headed to Jupiter and Saturn, and possibly onto Uranus, and Neptune, I said, ‘Sign me up,’” she says.
Spilker watched Voyager 2 launch in August of 1977 and then settled into her role on the science team for both space probes until they reached the Saturn system. Voyager 1 made it on November 12, 1980, and just a little shy of one year later, Voyager 2 entered the Saturn system on August 26, 1981.
“The first flyby was unique in that we found so many interesting new things. We got to see the detailed structure, for instance, in Saturn’s rings,” Spilker says. With these data in hand, the scientists on the ground could plan for the next flyby — and what they wanted to find.
“We could go in and tweak the designs and the observations for Voyager 2,” Spilker says.
Voyager 2 took a closer look at Saturn’s rings, particularly the narrow, outermost “F” ring.
“We saw a lot of changes in that ring, in particular, these sorts of kinks and braids that we could see in that ring,” Spilker says.
Voyager 2 revealed that Saturn’s rings are anything but “bland sheets of material,” but rather intricate, detailed, and dynamic structures. Spilker would later use Voyager 2’s stellar and radio occultation data — measurements of how starlight and radio waves were influenced by the rings while passing through them — to complete her Ph.D. in geophysics and space physics.
“The way the waves damp out tell you something about the surface mass density and about the densities of particles,” she says.
“WE SAW EVIDENCE OF TECTONIC FRACTURES, SOFTENED CRATERS.”
“I was always a big fan of the rings after having used so much ring data for my thesis.”
IDENTIFYING HABITABLE WORLDS
Less visually beautiful, but perhaps more intellectually curious, were the observations collected by Voyager 2 of two of Saturn’s moons, Titan and Enceladus. These data would inform both later NASA missions and the scientific search for alien life.
Enceladus is now known to harbor a global liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust, making it a prime candidate target to search for extraterrestrial life. But before the Voyager craft made it to Saturn, scientists were not even sure the small, 500-kilometer diameter world was geologically active — a key ingredient for life.
“What was really astonishing was to see Enceladus and just how bright and pristine this world looked,” Spilker says.
“We saw evidence of tectonic fractures, softened craters,” she recalls.
Saturn’s moon Enceladus as captured by Voyager 2. NASA
NASA’s 2005 Cassini mission conducted multiple flybys of the little moon and took images of geysers erupting from Enceladus’s southern polar region. Cassini even flew through the geysers’ plumes, sampling what is believed to be water spewing up from the subsurface ocean.
Meanwhile, the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, remained obscured by haze during the Voyager missions. But the data Voyager 1 and 2 collected was then used to better equip the Cassini spacecraft and the Huygens lander, which separated from Cassini to land on Titan on January 14, 2005.
Saturn’s largest moon Titan as imaged by Voyager 2. NASA
Together, they revealed a world of hydrocarbon lakes and water ice. Titan, scientists confirmed, was another intriguing candidate for hosting extraterrestrial life.
“All the things we learned with Voyager informed us and helped us build the Huygens probe,” Spilker says. She would know, as she joined the Cassini team in 1988.
“Had we not had that information from Voyager, it might have been much harder to put together.”
HOW VOYAGER 2 STILL INFLUENCES NASA MISSIONS TO SATURN
Voyager to Cassini and Huygens — each science mission informs the next, according to Planetary Scientist Elizabeth Turtle. Turtle is the primary investigator on the upcoming Dragonfly mission to Titan set to launch in the mid-2030s.
“TITAN HAS BEEN DOING PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENTS FOR US.”
“Each mission provides information that is the basis for future missions,” she says. “But each mission also raises questions, and those become the questions the next missions try to tackle.”
One of the big mysteries about Titan following the Voyager mission’s flyby was what lay on the moon’s surface. Cassini and Huygens answered that question, making observations that revealed a dense atmosphere rich in complex carbon molecules and a surface made of water ice. Turtle says these could include the ingredients necessary for the chemical reactions that could lead to the genesis of life.
Dragonfly on Titan, as imagined by an artist.NASA/JHU-APL
Now it’s Dragonfly’s turn to answer the follow-up question as to whether or not those ingredients are indicative of signs of life on Titan.
An octocopter drone, Dragonfly will fly from place to place to sample the surface of Titan.
“Titan has been doing prebiotic chemistry experiments for us,” Turtle says. “What dragonfly is designed to do is to get there and pick up the results of those experiments and tell us whether there are biologically relevant compounds on the surface of Titan.”
HOW VOYAGER 2 KEEPS ON KEEPING ON
As for Voyager and Spilker, they have both left planetary science far behind. Earlier this year, Spilker rejoined the Voyager 2 mission as its deputy project scientist. Only now, instead of studying Saturn's rings, she’s studying the interstellar medium 150 astronomical units from the Sun: Voyager 2 officially left the Solar System on November 5, 2018.
“I think the goal is to keep taking as much science data for as long as we can,” Spilker says of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is now in its 44th year of operations.
“It’s gonna be a long time until we ever get another mission as far from the Sun as Voyager.”
Spilker recalls a statement made by Richard Laeser, then the Voyager project manager, after the Saturn flyby. “Voyager is in its post-retirement years,” Laeser said, and “is very healthy for its age.”
“I just had to chuckle,” Spilker says, “Because that was in 1985, and here we are in 2021, and the Voyagers — both of them are still going strong.”
We’veWe’ve been destroying the earth for a long time, and because sci-fi cinema has distilled and explored those concerns for decades (from Soylent Green to Waterworld to WALL-E to Snowpiercer), the genre has become a kind of echo chamber. Our planet becomes uninhabitable. Humanity travels elsewhere to start again. Were we the problem all along? The repetitive setup of these concerns, and a lack of creativity in considering them, results in films like director and co-writer Tim Fehlbaum’s The Colony.
Visually gorgeous but narratively inert, The Colony tips its hat toward fellow genre classics like Aliens and Children of Men with questions about reproduction, colonialism, and communal responsibility. Its protagonist, Blake (Nora Arnezeder), evokes Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley with her physical strength, her steely stare, and her tenderness toward children. The film’s characters are divided into warring factions fighting over who should control the planet’s scant resources, with Earth’s natives being dismissed as backward and unsophisticated. The allure of space, and the potential it holds, is discussed at length. But for all the time The Colony spends on wistful, melancholy rumination over these ideas, it falls short of offering a singular perspective about any of them.
Intertitles inform us that because of climate change, pandemics, and war, “the ruling elite” escaped Earth to settle on the distant planet Kepler 209. But the planet isn’t perfect: There are no large bodies of water, but there is widespread radioactivity, making survival difficult. Most importantly, people are losing the ability to naturally conceive. With the potential end of humanity looming, the Kepler-ians begin an astronaut program to return to Earth. The first spaceship they send back, Ulysses 1, disappears without ever sending back a return transmission. A generation later, Kepler launches Ulysses 2, and puts all their hope on the shoulders of this three-person crew, including Blake.
Photo: Saban Films
Can you recognize a place where you’ve never lived? Does that kind of knowledge exist as an existential inheritance? As Blake wanders around a humid, foggy beach, lifting up horseshoe crabs and poking at jellyfish, Arnezeder exudes both confusion and familiarity. Her expressive face reflects those conflicting emotions well, and her lithe physicality captures a warrior and explorer accustomed to tension and trained to analyze the unknown. But even with all that preparation, Blake is caught off guard when ambushed by the planet’s survivors, led by a woman named Narvik (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina). They speak in a mishmash of languages, they carry weapons and live nomadically, and unlike the humans on Kepler, they have children. Among the youngsters is a girl named Maila (Bella Bading), whom Blake befriends — and who is kidnapped when this group of survivors is attacked by another heavily armed group who takes what they want, including all the female children.
Blake’s primary mission is to send a message back to Kepler to let them know that reproduction still works on Earth, but when Maila is taken, her Aliens-style protectiveness kicks in. When she follows that second group of survivors to their enclave of gigantic, abandoned cargo ships and aircraft carriers caught on the beach, Fehlbaum gets another chance to show off visually. But when he shifts the film into action mode, The Colony becomes reactive rather than proactive. And while the secrets Blake learns from Gibson (Iain Glen), the second community’s leader, connect to her childhood back on Kepler and provide some solid character development, The Colony then follows a fairly predictable path regarding what Blake chooses to do now that she’s on Earth.
In its early scenes, The Colony works as a plaintive visual exploration of what survival might look like if we continue on our ruinous climate path: constant flooding and swirling waters, movable cities built on rickety ships, nomadic people wrapped in outfits that protect them from the elements and allow for ease of movement. Cinematographer Markus Förderer and production designer Julian R. Wagner create a haunting world, but The Colony is sometimes too literal. Fehlbaum’s presentation of loneliness is packed with thuddingly obvious imagery (Blake alone on the beach, Blake alone in a well flooding with tidewater), but its first 20 or so minutes are a disquieting visualization of loss.
But The Colony isn’t nearly as thoughtful in its character development, and it doesn’t push far enough. So much remains unexplored: How long have the different groups of survivors been at war? What effect does the return of people from Kepler have? How does Blake feel about the societal demand of reproduction? What is the rest of Earth like? Why is a science fiction film, supposedly about exploring a possible future, so incurious about the details?
Photo: Saban Films
The film’s offhanded descriptions of death, like “Flood took him” in describing a missing character, suggest a life of endless hardship. But because The Colony sticks so firmly with Blake’s perspective, it doesn’t make much space for anyone else. The film suggests a class analysis with that “ruling elite” intertitle, but does nothing with it. And while Arnezeder and Boussnina have unbelievable chemistry, The Colony doesn’t allow for any queer subtext, and isn’t actually interested in person-to-person human emotions like romantic love.
Its considerations are loftier: Is world peace realistic between people who were able to leave a dying planet, and those forced to stay behind? What about “coming home” could spark physical changes? Especially recently, as we sail past the deadline for preventive action to combat climate change — with the August 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report describing climate change as “widespread, rapid, and intensifying” — nearly every sci-fi film seems to be revisiting the end of Earth as we know it. But similar to Chaos Walking, Settlers, and Voyagers, The Colony sidesteps the hard work needed to fix or reverse the devastation we have wrought. These characters move in a world that is stunningly visualized but superficially conceived, and The Colony embodies a genre that seems — perhaps like humanity itself — unable to take a step forward in imagining a different future.
The Colony opens on August 27 in theaters, on VOD, and on digital rental platforms like Amazon and Vudu.
The strange vehicle was reportedly seen on Florida Turnpike, with at least one social media user joking that “even a UFO can’t afford the Sunpass toll.”
A video showing what looks like a flying saucer-shaped vehicle cruising along a road in Florida emerged on social media this week.
The footage, posted on Instagram by a media company called Only in Dade, was apparently recorded by a driver who passed the "UFO."
According to Fox News, Only in Dade told them in an email: "It was on the Florida Turnpike and no it wasn’t photoshopped."
At least one social media user who commented on the video suggested that “people will say it's photo shopped.”
Others seemed more amused than perplexed by the spectacle, with one netizen jokingly inquiring “Where is Marvin the Martian?” while another mused that “even a UFO can’t afford the Sunpass toll.”
This UFO sighting video was just submitted to me through our Facebook page. It happened just a few hours ago (29th August 2021) over Carson, a city in Los Angeles County, California in the south bay region of Los Angeles.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
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