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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
20-09-2021
Astronomers Should be Willing to Look Closer at Weird Objects in the Sky
Astronomers Should be Willing to Look Closer at Weird Objects in the Sky
The Galileo Project seeks to train telescopes on unidentified aerial phenomena
When purchasing a new phone or tablet, it is common practice to select the best technology that fits your needs within the available budget. This is also the strategy adopted by our research team at the Galileo Project, a new initiative to image unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) like those reported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to the U.S. Congress on June 25, 2021.
To my amusement, I recently came across an online retailerthat would allow us to “add to cart” a one-meter telescope for half a million dollars. Fortunately, cheaper telescopes are all that is needed for surveying the sky at the proper resolution to identify UAP.
Under typical weather conditions, Earth’s atmosphere is opaque to infrared light beyond a distance of about 10 kilometers or less. Resolving a feature the size of a cell phone on the surface of a UAP at that distance requires a telescope diameter on the order of 10 centimeters. Having a few such telescopes on a given site will allow us to monitor the motion of an object in three dimensions. These telescopes could be supplemented by a radar system that would distinguish a physical object in the sky from a weather pattern or a mirage.
If UAP are solid objects, they should heat up as they rub against air at high speed. The surfaces of objects that move in air faster than sound, such as supersonic airplanes or space rockets, are heated by hundreds of degrees. I calculated that the infrared glow of fast objects above a meter in size, supplemented by the heat from shockwaves in the air around them or an engine they carry, should be detectable with infrared sensors on telescopes out to the desired distance.
The data from a system of optical, infrared or radio telescopes will be fed to state-of-the-art video cameras linked to software that will filter out objects of interest for the telescope to track. If a bird flies above a common astronomical observatory, it will be ignored. The Galileo-Scopes will track it. Human-made drones or airplanes might be of great interest to some residents of Washington, D.C., but they are as uninteresting as birds for the Galileo Project.
My student Amir Siraj and I calculated that the number of UAP described in the ODNI report corresponds to about one object per hundred thousand square kilometers per year (with large uncertainties up to a factor of 100). This is well below the rate of unidentified objects from cell phone photographs or civilian eyewitness testimonies, implying that many of these unofficial sightings may have mundane explanations. Millions of cell phones with millimeter-size apertures are inferior to what Galileo proposes: a much smaller number of optimized telescope systems with apertures 100 times larger that are designed to rapidly track UAP.
The iceberg of classified reports‑of which only the tip has been exposed publicly‑may contain higher-quality images than those released to the public. Galileo’s goal is to capture new crisp images with better instruments than have ever been used by civilians. The full data set from the project will be open, whereas much of the data associated with the ODNI report is classified because it was obtained by government-owned sensors. Because the sky is not classified, Galileo-Scopes will operate just like common astronomical telescopes‑except that they will focus on nearby objects. We aim to change the intellectual landscape of UAP studies by bringing them into the mainstream of credible scientific inquiry.
In my book Extraterrestrial, published half a year ago, I argued that bringing the search for technological relics into the mainstream of astronomy would attract new funds and young talent to science. In recent weeks, this forecast became a reality. The Galileo Project has attracted millions of dollars from private donors and thousands of commitments from volunteers who offered to contribute their time and resources. Given the low incidence of UAP reported by ODNI, however, the project will need hundreds of telescopes to find UAP over a few years. That represents an order of magnitude more funding than we have collected so far.
With good enough data, extraterrestrial technologies can be distinguished from terrestrial technologies or natural objects. The Galileo Project will attempt to obtain this data from both UAP and unusual interstellar objects like `Oumuamua.
If prehistoric cave dwellers were to discover a cell phone, they would initially assume it to be a shiny rock of a type never seen before. But this might be the beginning of their learning experience. By pressing buttons on this weird rock, these early humans would record voices and images.
Similarly, the strange `Oumuamua has been interpreted as a new type of asteroid, such as a frozen chunk of pure hydrogen or nitrogen. But what if high-resolution images of such a weird object revealed buttons? It could encourage us to learn more by landing on the surface, just as the OSIRIS-REx craft recently landed on the asteroid Bennu. Here’s hoping that astronomers will be open-minded enough to check.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Avi Loeb is former chair (2011-2020) of the astronomy department at Harvard University, founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He also chairs the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies and the advisory board for the Breakthrough Starshot project, and is a member of President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Loeb is the bestselling author of Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
There was a time when humans had not yet invented numbers but needed ways to count and measure, so they used whatever they had available – rocks, sticks, hands, etc. Numbers and measurement standards made the tasks easier but less fun. There was a time much more recently when humans wondered at an invention called a “calculator,” which took the effort out of standard arithmetic. However, it still needed the operator to do substantial work to be practical. For example, a calculator can help you calculate how much a tube of toothpaste costs per ounce, but it’s no help figuring out how many brushes your family of four will get per tube. For that you need Omni Calculator – a Polish startup which has brought practicality and fun to counting, measuring and figuring with the release of over 2,000 specialty calculators. There’s one that will answer your toothpaste dilemma, another to figure out your bikini size, one to calculate the benefits of switching from driving to work to cycling, a new fun one forcalculating in weird units … and at least 1997 more!
“In Omni Calculator, we knock down each and every obstacle that stands between you and an informed decision. We provide the numbers you need, making calculations fast, easy, and fun. A world driven by rational decisions is a better place. It’s a world where we don’t waste resources as much, believe nonsense a bit less, and don’t mistake opinions for facts. It’s the world we want to help building.”
Put down that book — there’s a better way
If the name Omni Calculator sounds familiar, it may be from its UFO Travel Calculator, which estimated those in famous Tic Tac UFOs to weigh more than 47,000 pounds (21,320 kg) with a span of 44.6 ft (13.6 m) and a speed of more than 11,800 mph — allowing one to travel from London to San Francisco (5,351 miles) in 27 minutes. Or more recently when a number of media sites directed Americans trying to figure out their Child Tax Credit to Omni ‘s Child Tax Credit Calculator. Then there’s the Toilet Paper Calculator that everyone should have used to determine exactly how much their family needs instead of creating a massive shortage last year. That’s what the founder of Omni would call a “rational decision.”
In 2011, Mateusz Mucha built a web calculator which could calculate in any direction, without a fixed input or output. He added a mobile app Percentage Calculator, made it available online and it’s been downloaded over 4 million times to date. Deciding that “everyday math problems are a universal struggle,” he started Omni Calculator in 2014. By 2019, it had twenty-four employees and it continues to grow because everyone who uses one of these calculators thinks of another they need – and Omni is ready to build it.
Many of the cool calculators from Omni are of the kind you never thought you needed – and now you can’t do without. A Chilled Drink Calculator to determine how long you need to keep your drink in the fridge to reach its optimal temperature. An Addiction Calculator to figure out how much shorter your life will be if that chilled drink contains booze. A Snowman Calculator to design the perfect Frosty. A Tree Value Calculator to figure out your tree’s net worth. A Crickets Chirping Thermometer to tell the temperature by listening to those annoying bugs. A Dog Size Calculator to estimate the adult size of your puppy. A Plant Spacing Calculator to help plan your garden. And then there’s the latest Weird Units Calculator that makes conversions from standard unit types (meters, kilos, minutes, etc.) to weird ones like football fields, cats, human pregnancies, candy bars and many others.
Can you help me, Omni?
What we need at this point is a calculator to determine what percentage of Omni’s calculators we’ve listed so far. Better yet, how about one that could look at your lifestyle and pick the right calculator for your need. OK, that may be too Big Brother for a company whose mission is to create a world driven by rational decisions. One the company makes is hiring specialists, academics and experienced polymaths from around the world – because every country has different problems.
What’s your problem? Get started finding a solution by visiting Omni Calculators.
From the ever-growing “What could possibly go wrong?” file comes word that a group of scientists have proposed a way to fight global warming by making clouds whiter and brighter. No … this isn’t funded by a laundry detergent company, although that’s not a bad idea. They claim brighter clouds will reflect more sunlight, leaving the Earth cooler. Before you start wondering if this involves ‘chemtrails’, they’ve got an answer for that too. Is this the ‘holy grail’ of climate change solutions that doesn’t involve us humans changing our behavior, our pollution, our corporate profits or our politics?
“Led by University of Washington scientists, a team of researchers designed a program to explore marine cloud brightening as a mechanism for cooling climate while simultaneously providing insight about cloud-aerosol effects and their influence on climate.”
As long as it’s not making chemtrails …
The Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) project is led by University of Washington cloud-aerosol scientist Dr. Robert Wood, and was inspired by a real phenomenon – ships at sea emit exhaust particles (aerosols) which mix with sea salt particles and carry them up to stratocumulus clouds over the ocean, brightening them to levels that cool the ocean below and offset increased levels of CO2. Seen from satellites, these “ship tracks” look suspiciously like airplane contrails (see for yourself here), so the purpose of the MCB Project is to ‘sea salt’ these clouds from ships without harming the atmosphere … or humans.
Ship tracks off of western U.S. coast
The arguments in favor of ‘sea salting’ clouds starts with the fact that sea water is free and environmentally harmless when it falls back to Earth. Aerosolizing seawater from sea level would use far less energy than cloud seeding by aircraft, resulting in lower costs and less polluting emissions. On the downside, the researchers don’t really know what will happen when they increase the amount of “ship tracks” to levels needed to cool off hotspots like the coast of California, Chile or south-central Africa. To answer the “What could possibly go wrong?” question, the project will entail three phases: aerosol spray development and testing, aerosol process experiments, and cloud-brightening experiments. Each will e fully completed before moving to the next phase, and the project will end if they find out what could possibly go wrong.
What could possibly go wrong?
With California redwood forests in danger of being destroyed by wildfires and coastal coral reefs in danger of dying from heat stress, the need for controlling climate change is urgent. Could a quick fix like “sea salting” clouds give us humans enough time to enact major changes … or will it give us an excuse to kick the climate change ball to another generation?
I Caught Thousands of Objects Around The Sun(UFO SIGHTING)
I Caught Thousands of Objects Around The Sun (UFO SIGHTING)
Using a Nikon P1000 with a solar filter I have caught thousands of objects passing close to our sun or in the direction of the sun. Now what I suspect is that the sun is illuminating these objects these UFO's if you will so we can see them as they pass by? Tell me what you think? ___________________________________________________________ Source of video : Terry's Theories using a Nikon P1000 with a solar filter. The Express News Article on 2020 sighting caught on Aug. 22nd
Eerste SpaceX-capsule met enkel ‘ruimtetoeristen’ veilig en wel teruggekeerd
Eerste SpaceX-capsule met enkel ‘ruimtetoeristen’ veilig en wel teruggekeerd
De SpaceX-capsule met vier Amerikaanse ruimtetoeristen aan boord is in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag, net na 01.00 uur zoals gepland, in de Atlantische Oceaan geplonsd. Daarmee is de eerste ruimtemissie met aan boord louter niet-professionele astronauten met succes afgesloten.
Brazilian observerJosé Luis Pereira captured a bright flash on the solar system's largest planet Monday night (Sept. 13), memorializing the fiery death of a space rock high in the Jovian atmosphere.
"I am an assiduous planetary observer," Pereira told Space.com in a written statement Tuesday (Sept. 14). "When the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are in opposition, I try to make images in every possible night of clear skies. Especially [of] the planet Jupiter, my favorite."
On Sunday (Sept. 12) and Monday, Pereira set up his equipment in São Caetano do Sul, in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo. As on many other nights, he aimed to photograph Jupiter and capture videos for the DeTeCt program, which seeks to spot and characterize impacts on the giant planet.
The weather didn't look like it would cooperate on Monday night, but Pereira persevered, collecting a series of 25 Jupiter videos, with no time gap between them.
"To my surprise, in the first video I noticed a different glow on the planet, but I didn't pay much attention to it as I thought it might be something related to the parameters adopted, and I continued watching normally," Pereira wrote. "So as not to stop the captures in progress for fear that weather conditions would worsen, I didn't check the first video."
He fed the videos into the DeTeCt program and then went to bed.
"I checked the result only on the morning of the 14th, when the program alerted me to the high probability of impact and verified that there was indeed a record in the first video of the night," Pereira wrote.
He then sent the information to Marc Delcroix of the French Astronomical Society, who confirmed that Pereira had indeed recorded footage of an impact that occurred Monday at 6:39 p.m. EDT (2239 GMT).
"For me it was a moment of great emotion, as I have been looking for a record of [such an] event for many years," Pereira wrote.
His observing setup consists of the following, he added: a Newtonian Telescope 275mm f/5,3 with a QHY5III462C camera, plus a Televue Powermate 5x (f/26,5) eyepiece and an IRUV cut filter. If you're looking to learn more about how to photograph planets, check out our astrophotography for beginners guide for the basics. You can also see how the Nikon Z6 camera stacks up for astrophotography here.
You can see more of Pereira's astronomical work on Flickr and YouTube.
A big, frequently battered planet
Because it orbits close to the main asteroid belt and features a powerful gravitational pull, Jupiter gets pummeled fairly often. In July 1994, for example, fragments of the broken-apart Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 famously slammed into Jupiter, creating big bruises in the planet's thick atmosphere that lasted for months.
Those scars opened a rare window into Jupiter below the cloud tops, and professional astronomers took advantage of the opportunity. They studied the impact sites with a variety of powerful telescopes, fleshing out our understanding of the gas giant's atmospheric composition.
Another high-profile smashup occurred 15 years later, when an impactor punched a scar the size of the Pacific Ocean into Jupiter's swirling air. Like the Shoemaker-Levy 9 lesions, that blemish lingered long enough for professional astronomers to mobilize.
But it doesn't look like they'll get that chance with the newly observed impact.
"The site is clearly resolved and no visible scar was left (just as with previous impact flash events.) The object was probably too small to reach the deeper atmosphere," astrophotographer Damian Peach wrote on Twitter Wednesday, where he posted a gorgeous photo of a healed-up Jupiter taken an hour after it was hit.
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Jose Luis Pereira was using his telescope and recording Jupiter when he caught something fantastic. A huge glow suddenly appears and then is gone on the surface of the planet. This could be a meteor, but I see no sign of a meteor incoming, no tail, no glowing from hitting Jupiters atmosphere. Thats really odd to me and tells me that this is not a meteor from space. However I do notice that the explosion seems to come from the planet itself. I believe that an alien bomb of some type has detonated, or some high tech energy buildings similar to our nuclear reactors, but far more advanced with an energy we cannot yet comprehend has exploded. This tells me that Jupiter is inhabited and the clouds around it could very well be from such detonations across its surface. Are they are war? Or are the detonations an accident? Only one way to find out...is to travel there.
UFO Fleet During Storm Over Montpellier, France Sept 16, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet During Storm Over Montpellier, France Sept 16, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 16, 2021 Location of sighting: Montpellier, France Source: Email report
This was sent to me this weekend. A lighting storm began over Montpellier, France on Sept 16th and someone went outside and noticed some glowing lights flying in the shape of a figure eight or...the infinity symbol. The lights are not made by spotlights, which would not be active during an electrical storm. Each light is different in shape and slightly different movement.
I have experienced a similar encounter once in Taiwan. These are energy entities...which can see people who are on the ground and they are highly intelligent. They are visible sometimes at night, especially on overcast nights. Here the entities are absorbing the lightning energy...almost feasting on it, as one would food. I think this helps them stay active. This video is 100% proof that energy entities do exist and they move above our cities freely.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
This UFO was filmed yesterday above Montpellier in south of France during a violent storm. I would like to have your opinion and those of your subscribers of which I am part. This video was not filmed by me but another resident of Montpellier.
Strange UFO sighting over North Carolina 15-Sep-2021
Strange UFO sighting over North Carolina 15-Sep-2021
UFO footage filmed over North Carolina on 15th September 2021.
Witness report:
Not exactly sure what we saw it was 6 lights in a v shape some what it came down from the sky this happened 3 times in an hour I have never seen something like this before it appears to hover there was like a star lookin thing above it that whatver those lights are came from I think it’s just odd and I’d like an opinion on what it is as the map shows there is ocean and some land where I saw.
NASA has just revealed that there were once thousands of “super eruptions” from volcanoes on Mars. They were able to confirm this based on evidence found at a location called Arabia Terra in the northern part of the planet. These “super eruptions” occurred approximately 4 billion years ago and lasted for a period of about 500 million years.
These massive eruptions released a gigantic amount of molten rock and gas that ended up covering the surface of the planet for thousands of miles with a thick blanket of ash. To understand this better, the molten rock and gas that was spewed out of the volcano was equivalent to 400 million Olympic-size swimming pools. After the eruptions occurred, the volcanoes collapsed, creating a massive hole called a “caldera”.
Arabia Terra imaged by THEMIS.
(Via Wikipedia)
Patrick Whelley, who is a geologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and who led the Arabia Terra analysis, went into further details, “Each one of these eruptions would have had a significant climate impact — maybe the released gas made the atmosphere thicker or blocked the Sun and made the atmosphere colder.”
At first, scientists thought that the depressions were the cause of asteroids impacting the planet; however, they found that they were not roundly shaped, causing them to wonder whether they were in fact ancient calderas. At that point, Whelley and his colleagues, with help from Alexandra Matiella Novak, who is a volcanologist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, searched for evidence of volcanic ash from Arabia Terra by using images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
They were able to find volcanic minerals that were turned into clay from water (these included montmorillonite, imogolite, and allophone) in canyon walls and craters located as far away as thousands of miles from the calderas. Furthermore, the layers of ash were exceptionally well preserved as if it had just happened.
An ice sheet in Oxus Patera which is a caldera in Arabia Terra.
(Via Wikipedia)
This new research, combined with a previous study conducted in 2013 that originally found the calderas, allowed the experts to confirm that there were thousands of powerful eruptions. But this is only the beginning as Jacob Richardson, who is a geologist at NASA Goddard and who worked with both Whelley and Novak, stated, “People are going to read our paper and go, ‘How? How could Mars do that? How can such a tiny planet melt enough rock to power thousands of super eruptions in one location?’” “I hope these questions bring about a lot of other research.” This latest research was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters where it can be read in full.
Another picture of several craters in Arabia Terra can be seen here.
NASA Goddard scientist, and Arabia Terra study lead author, Patrick Whelley, preparing for a 3D laser scan survey at the site of the 1875 explosive eruption of the Askja Volcano, Iceland, Aug. 2, 2019.
Credits: Jacob Richardson / NASA Goddard
This image shows several craters in Arabia Terra that are filled with layered rock, often exposed in rounded mounds. The bright layers are roughly the same thickness, giving a stair-step appearance. The process that formed these sedimentary rocks is not yet well understood. They could have formed from sand or volcanic ash that was blown into the crater, or in water if the crater hosted a lake. The image was taken by a camera, the High Resolution Imaging Experiment, on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Russisch team klaar voor productie van allereerste film in de ruimte
Een Russisch team van twee kosmonauten en twee professionele filmmakers reist begin volgende maand naar het internationale ruimtestation ISS, voor de productie van de eerste film die in de ruimte gemaakt wordt. Dat deelde de bemanning vandaag mee.
Het viertal vertrekt op 5 oktober met een Sojoez MS-19-ruimtecapsule. Die brengt hen dan naar het ISS, dat op 354 kilometer hoogte rondom de aarde cirkelt.
“Deze film vertelt het verhaal van een gewone mens. Een arts die niets te maken had met ruimteverkenning en er zelfs nooit aan dacht, krijgt het aanbod om naar het ISS te reizen en het leven van een kosmonaut te redden,” vertelde regisseur en acteur Klim Shipenko vandaag op een persconferentie, voor de bemanning richting de Baikonur-kosmodroom in Kazachstan vertrok.
Ook de professionele kosmonauten zullen in de film te zien zijn. “Ik zal niet de hoofdrol spelen, maar ik zal toch moeten uitzoeken hoe een film wordt gemaakt in zo’n ongewone plek als de ruimte,” reageerde commandant Anton Shkaplerov.
Hoofdrolspeelster Julia Peresild doet voor de gelegenheid haar eigen make-up en styling. “Het zal niet op hetzelfde niveau zijn als op aarde, maar we zullen ons best doen. We zijn er klaar voor,” zei ze. Bang is ze niet. “Het is een beetje te laat om bang te zijn, want we zijn zo ver gekomen. Er is nog veel te doen en om eerlijk te zijn, er is gewoon geen tijd meer voor angst.”
Regisseur Shipenko is 1m90 groot en zijn lengte maakt het trainen in het ruimtetuig - en de komende reis - niet erg comfortabel. Maar in de toekomst zullen er aanpassingen worden gedaan, zei hij. “Het is oké. Ik vlieg nu zoals het is, maar als we het vervolg doen over reizen naar Mars, dan beloven ze dat de zitplaats beter zal zijn.”
SpaceX: “Ruimtetoeristen Inspiration4 zijn gelukkig en in goede gezondheid”
De vier Amerikaanse ruimtetoeristen zijn "gezond, gelukkig en rusten comfortabel uit" in het ruimtetuig van SpaceX. Dat meldt het ruimtebedrijf vandaag. Het gaf daarmee een eerste update sinds de vier in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag Belgische tijd opstegen voor de historische ruimtereis.
De bemanning "cirkelde 5,5 keer rond de aarde, voerde de eerste reeks van wetenschappelijk onderzoeken uit en had een paar maaltijden" voordat ze naar bed gingen, meldt het bedrijf van Elon Musk op Twitter. De vier inzittenden zijn privépersonen waarbij voor het eerst geen enkele beroeps- of institutionele astronaut banen rondom onze planeet zal trekken.
De 38-jarige miljardair Jared Isaacman, een burgerpiloot die ook ervaring met performante gevechtsvlieguigen heeft, is gezagvoerder. Hij heeft ook de missie bekostigd. SpaceX zou een zitje voor ongeveer vijftig miljoen dollar verkopen. De 51-jarige Sian Proctor, eveneens een burgerpiloot, is professor en heeft een diploma biologie op zak. De 29-jarige Hayley Arceneaux is medisch assistente bij het St. Jude Kinderen Research Hospital waarvoor de missie geld moet opleveren. De 42-jarige Chris Sembroski is een data-ingenieur.
De missie die de naam Inspiration4 kreeg, is de eerste volledig commerciële bemande ruimtevlucht. Het vaartuig komt maximaal 540 kilometer van de aarde. De laatste keer dat mensen zo ver weg gingen, was in 2009. Na een verblijf van ongeveer drie dagen in de ruimte keren de bemanningsleden terug op aarde. Het vaartuig plonst dan, hangend aan een parachute, in de Atlantische Oceaan.
Strange lights in the sky have sparked many UFO reports
(Image: Getty Images)
A police helicopter was drafted in to help search for a mystery object spotted falling from the sky in North Staffordshire.
But the bright ellipse – seen by a member of the public - had vanished by the time they got there. All that remained were freshly damaged branches of trees.
The incident in woodland near Ipstones was reported to police back in July 1991.
Now we have delved into The Sentinel archives to find this and other UFO files.
Mark Lees, an engineer from Cheadle, had been visiting friends when the falling object appeared on the Churnet Valley skyline.
Mysterious Footage Shows UFOs Hovering In Skies...
“It came down into the woodlands on the opposite side of the valley, quite quickly and at a steep angle,” the 31-year-old told our reporter.
“It was not a light, but appeared metallic, possibly aluminium. It was broad daylight at the time.
“I clearly saw it go down in the trees, with the backdrop of the valley side behind me. It did not appear to be revolving in any way and followed a constant line.”
Mr Lees described it as around 10 feet long, elliptical and ‘very, very bright’. He returned to the scene in search of the object, but could find nothing.
He said: “There were places we could not reach because of the boggy ground and the thickness of the undergrowth.”
Police launched a major search and the helicopter crew uncovered the damaged branches.
PC Mick Powles, of Cheadle police, said: “From the evidence we have, we believe something did come down, but we do not know what it was.”
Reports of UFOs in North Staffordshire and South Cheshire had soared just a year or so before the Ipstones incident.
Back in summer 1990, we reported on figures from the Cheshire UFO Studies Centre in Earle Street, Crewe. Its team had received 120 calls via a 24-hour hotline in just 12 months – a rise of 20 per cent on the previous year.
Most of the sightings concerned mystery lights in the night sky over Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford and Crewe.
Investigations by the centre’s experts ruled out the vast majority of the lights as UFOs, with most traced to aircraft or satellites.
But in 1990, they were immersed in a six-month inquiry after two separate callers reported a close encounter with a 35ft ‘bright object with a glowing centre’. It was spotted in a field near the South Cheshire village of Audlem before vanishing.
Centre chairman Eric Morris said at the time: “Most of the people who call are genuine and many are worried or frightened by what they have seen.
“After inquiries with the RAF, the Ministry of Defence, airports, and interviewing witnesses, we can explain about 95 per cent of the strange things people see. But there are still the rest which remain a mystery.
One incident in South Cheshire in 1993 later turned out to be something less than sinister.
But it certainly spooked the public as hundreds of callers jammed the police switchboard. They reported white orbs appearing and then disappearing over a period of several hours.
One of the lay-bys along the A500 near Crewe(Image: Google Images)
Some roads were blocked, and lay-bys along the A500 were full of parked cars, as drivers went to watch the spectacle.
Police soon cracked the case. The orbs were laser lights being used for a 1940s-themed event at Rookery Hall Hotel at Worleston, near Nantwich.
Manager Philip Parker was amazed at the public response.
He said: “We had hundreds and hundreds of families following the lights. They travelled from as far as Hanley and Tarporley. It was absolutely incredible.”
In 1994, the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9(SL9) impacted Jupiter, which had captured the comet shortly before (and broken apart by its gravity). The event became a media circus as it was the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects. The impact was so powerful that it left scars that endured for months and were more discernible than Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.
Since then, astronomers have observed multiple objects impacting Jupiter, and it is expected that such impacts happen all the time (though unobserved). On September 13th, 2021, at 22:39:30 UTC (06:39:30 PM EDT; 03:39 PM:30 PDT), another impact was observed by multiple astronomers across the world. Images and a video of the impact (shown below) were captured by members of Société Lorraine d’Astronomie (SLA) in France.
The impact was reported by Brazilian amateur astronomer Jose Luis Pereira and confirmed a day later by Harald Paleske from Langendorf, Germany. At the time, Paleske had been taking a video of the transit of Io’s shadow when the event occurred, which appeared as a two-second flash. Upon reviewing the footage, he ruled out the possibility that the event happened closer to Earth (with Jupiter merely being the backdrop).
Still image of the impact. Credit: H. Paleske
After a thorough examination, Paleske determined that the impact happened at Jovian latitude 106.9° (CM1), longitude +3.8°, and timed it to 22:39:27 UTC on Sept. 13th. The impact was independently observed by two teams of French amateur astronomers with the SLA. According to a statement issued by the SLA, the two teams consisted of:
“Jean-Paul Arnould from his observatory in Villey-le-sec with the C11 telescope of the SLA [and] a team made up of Thibaut Humbert, Stéphane Barré, Alexis Desmougin, and Didier Walliang at the Astroqueyras observatory in Saint-Véran, with the 62 cm diameter telescope Other people around the world have observed the same phenomenon. This is the first time that so many people (currently 9) have captured this type of event.”
Thanks to the DeTeCt software/project, the amateur and professional astronomical community was issued a wide alert that allowed for rapid responses. All across the world, instruments that were aimed at Jupiter were consulted to see if they also recorded the light flash on the Jovian gas giant. The SLA also sent the data to Marc Delcroix, a Senior Research Scientist at the NTT Communication Science Laboratories‘ Media Information Laboratory in Kyoto, Japan.
Based on the images and video provided observers, the object’s diameter is estimated at 20 meters (ft). Similar to what happened with SL-9, this object is believed to be the remnant of a larger comet or asteroid that was captured by Jupiter’s gravity that broke up shortly before the impact took place. This information and any updates on the event can be found at Delcroix’s website, who indicated that this impact could be the brightest ever observed by amateur astronomers (save for the SL-9 impact).
Light on at Jupiter! Anyone home? This bright impact flash was spotted yesterday on the giant planet by astronomer José Luis Pereira.
Not a lot of info on the impacting object yet but its likely to be large and/or fast!
“Aside Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts in 1994, never an impact was so well covered!” he wrote. Over the coming days and weeks, Delcroix and the astronomical community will examine the amateur videos to learn more about the lightcurves the impact generated. From this, they hope to obtain information on the amount of energy released, the dynamics of the impact, the physical characteristics of the impactor itself.
“Many thanks to every amateur who was implied in this event, whether discovering it, observing it, looking for it in his capture without finding it, or spreading the alert (there were hundreds of shares). Special thanks to the amateurs of the French astrosurf forums who helped me a lot to find out information on discoveries or new observations. We amateurs demonstrated our force as a community, showed our motivation, dedication and experience through this great event!”
This event beautifully illustrates how far astronomy has come in recent years. Whereas impacts with Jupiter were once thought to be rare, they are now understood to be a regular occurrence. With modern opportunities for data-sharing, networking, and collaboration between amateurs and professionals, events that would have otherwise gone unnoticed are being detected with regular frequency. That’s how vital research and discoveries happen!
Aliens probably could just fly over the road here, but it never hurts to be courteous.
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SEATTLE — Big news for paranormal researchers, truth-seekers and fans of the strange and occult: Washington is one of the country's biggest hot spots for UFO sightings, according to a new report.
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For their study, GambleOnline says they searched through data from the National UFO Reporting Center and found that Washington had the third most UFO sightings of 2020, with 368 sightings logged. The only states with more unidentified flying objects were Florida (398 sightings) and California (619).
Washington state actually has a long history with UFO sightings. UFO hunting has been a popular pursuit in the United States since the mid-20th century, when Kenneth Arnold, a businessman piloting a small plane, filed the first well-known report in 1947 of a UFO over Mount Rainier in Washington. Arnold claimed he saw nine high-speed, crescent-shaped objects zooming along at several thousand miles per hour "like saucers skipping on water."
Although the objects Arnold claimed to see weren't saucer-shaped at all, his analogy led to the popularization of the term "flying saucers."
Other highlights from the study include:
1. Lights are the most common type of UFO reported
Mysterious lights made up 1,777 of last year's UFO sightings, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, making them far and away the most common type of UFO. The second most common were circles, with 886 sightings, and spheres, with 444 sightings. The least common sighting was the lowly cone-shaped UFO, only spotted 14 times.
2. Most sightings come between 8 p.m. and midnight
It may seem like common sense — it's much harder to see mysterious lights during the daytime, after all — but 40 percent of UFO sightings happen between 8 p.m. and midnight. If you'd rather not endure the hassle of experiencing a mysterious and world-shattering phenomenon, the best time to be out and about is from noon to 4 p.m., when UFO sightings are scarce.
3. Spring is UFO season
If you're an amateur alien hunter, spring is the best time to get out there. Researchers found that April and March had by far the most sightings, with 1,045 and 828 UFO reports respectively. December had the least sightings with 370.
Interestingly July is a relatively average month for UFO sightings, despite the fact that July 2 is UFO Awareness Day — you'd think people might step up their sky-gazing game.
4. The average UFO sighting lasts 19 minutes
UFO sightings in media tend to be blink-and-you-miss-it, but in real life, the UFOs hang around. Most UFOs (38 percent) stuck around for between one to five minutes, but 11 percent hang out for more than half an hour. Another 11 percent stuck around for 16 to 30 minutes, making the average sighting 19 minutes long.
There were 222 UFO sightings in Arizona in 2020, but this is not an image of any of those.
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PHOENIX, AZ — Big news for paranormal researchers, truth-seekers and fans of the strange and occult: Arizona is one of the country's hot spots for UFO sightings, according to a new report.
For its study, GambleOnline says it searched through data from the National UFO Reporting Center show that Arizona had the ninth most UFO sightings of 2020, with 222 sightings logged. California was No. 1 with 619 sightings, followed by Florida with 398, Washington with 368, Texas with 297, New York with 289, Ohio with 239 and Oregon with 236.
Other highlights from the study include:
1. Lights are the most common type of UFO reported
Mysterious lights made up 1,777 of last year's UFO sightings, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, making them far and away the most common type of UFO. The second most common were circles, with 886 sightings, and spheres, with 444 sightings. The least common sighting was the lowly cone-shaped UFO, only spotted 14 times.
2.Most sightings come between 8 p.m. and midnight
It may seem like common sense — it's much harder to see mysterious lights during the daytime, after all — but 40 percent of UFO sightings happen between 8 p.m. and midnight. If you'd rather not endure the hassle of experiencing a mysterious and world-shattering phenomenon, the best time to be out and about is from noon to 4 p.m., when UFO sightings are scarce.
3. Spring is UFO season
If you're an amateur alien hunter, spring is the best time to get out there. Researchers found that April and March had by far the most sightings, with 1,045 and 828 UFO reports respectively. December had the least sightings with 370.
Interestingly July is a relatively average month for UFO sightings, despite the fact that July 2 is UFO Awareness Day — you'd think people might step up their sky-gazing game.
4. The average UFO sighting lasts 19 minutes
UFO sightings in media tend to be blink-and-you-miss-it, but in real life, the UFOs hang around. Most UFOs (38 percent) stuck around for between one to five minutes, but 11 percent hang out for more than half an hour. Another 11 percent stuck around for 16 to 30 minutes, making the average sighting 19 minutes long.
On September 18, 1973, future President Jimmy Carter filed a report with the International UFO Bureau claiming that he had seen a UFO with his own two eyes in October of 1969.
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Carter’s insistence that he had seen a UFO persisted in his Presidential campaign. From the History Channel:
During the presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic challenger Carter was forthcoming about his belief that he had seen a UFO. He described waiting outside for a Lion’s Club Meeting in Leary, Georgia, to begin, at about 7:30 p.m., when he spotted what he called “the darndest thing I’ve ever seen” in the sky. Carter, as well as 10 to 12 other people who witnessed the same event, described the object as “very bright [with] changing colors and about the size of the moon.” Carter reported that “the object hovered about 30 degrees above the horizon and moved in toward the earth and away before disappearing into the distance.” He later told a reporter that, after the experience, he vowed never again to ridicule anyone who claimed to have seen a UFO.
During the presidential campaign of 1976, Carter promised that, if elected president, he would encourage the government to release “every piece of information” about UFOs available to the public and to scientists. After winning the presidency, though, Carter backed away from this pledge, saying that the release of some information might have “defense implications” and pose a threat to national security.
The report hasn’t exactly changed the transportation sector as we experience it on a day-to-day basis, but it certainly did play a role in the more widespread understanding of a UFO. There have been purported UFO sightings for centuries, but Carter really spurred on the government’s legitimate study of the crafts; in 1973, a Gallup poll found that 95 percent of people had heard of UFOs — a greater percentage of people than had heard of former President Gerald Ford.
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