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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...
19-08-2022
Filer’s Files Aug. 15 2022 - Intel. Tells Congress UFO s RealV - PART I
Chatham, Canada on July 19, 2022, disc shaped
Filer’s Files Aug. 15 2022 - Intel. Tells Congress UFO s RealV - PART I
Special reports are: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, The Anunnaki’s Legacy, Human Origins Story Remains Incomplete with Missing Ancestors, Hacker Claims There Are Military Spaceships, There Is a Space Force,. And Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Canada, Eire, France, Germany, Norway, 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 and DOD investigated UFOs for more than forty years; 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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Special Projects
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Typical Disc Craft
U) This report was prepared for the Congressional Intelligence and Armed Services Committees under the auspices of the ODN! It was drafted by the UAPTF ODNI National Intelligence Manager for Aviation, with input from USD(I&S), LA, FBI, NRO, NGA, NSA, Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, DARPA, FAA, NOAA, ODNIINIME merging and Disruptive Technology, ODNI National Counterintelligence and Security Center, and of National Intelligence Council. (U) Assumptions (U) Various forms of sensors that register UAP generally operate correctly and capture enough real data to allow initial assessments, but some UAP may be attributable to sensor anomalies. 2 50 U.S.C. § 3024(1) 50 U.S.C. § 3024(I)
Navy F-18 Gun Cameral Photo of UFO/UAP
(U) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (U)
The limited amount of high-quality reporting on UAP hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP. The UAPTP considered a range of information on UAP described in U.S. military and IC (Intelligence Community) reporting, but because the reporting lacked sufficient specificity, ultimately recognized that a unique, tailored reporting process was required to provide sufficient data for analysis of UAP events. 50 U.S.C. § 3 024(I) As a result, the UAPTP concentrated its review on ~escribing Incidents that occurred between 2004 and 2021, the majority of which are a result of a new tailored process to better capture UAP events through formalized reporting. 50 U.S.C. § 3024(I) •
(U) Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electrooptical, weapon seekers, and visual observation. In a limited number of incidents, UAP reportedly appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics, including several in which the 1.4(a) (e )(g) ~1.4(a)(e)(g) ,==” involving • These observations could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer. misperception and require additional rigorous analysis.
(U) There are probably multiple types of UAP requiring different explanations based on the range of appearances and behaviors. UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security. Safety concerns primarily center on aviators contending with an increasingly cluttered air domain. UAP would also represent a national security challenge if they are foreign adversary collection platforms or provide evidence a potential adversary has developed either a breakthrough or disruptive technology. (U) Consistent consolidation of reports from across the federal government, standardized reporting, increased collection and analysis, and a streamlined process for screening all such reports against a broad range of relevant USG data will allow for a more sophisticated analysis of UAPs.
Senate Intelligence Committee
U) AVAILABLE REPORTING LARGELY INCONCLUSIVE
(U) Limited data leaves most UAP Unexplained (U) a dataset involved UAP largely witnessed firsthand aviators and that were collected from Limited data and inconsistency in replying are key challenges to evaluating UAP. No standardized replying mechanism existed until the Navy established one in March 2019. The Air Force subsequently adopted that mechanism in November 2020, but it remains limited to USG replying. The UAPTF regularly heard anecdotally doming its research about other observations that occulted but which were never captured in formal or informal reporting by those observers. focused on systems considered to be dependable. These reports describe incidents that occurred between 2004 and 2021, with the majority coming in the last two years as the new reporting mechanism became better known to the military aviation community. In only one instance, the UAPTF was able to identify the reported UAP with high confidence. In that case, we identified the object as a large, deflating balloon. The others remain explained. 144 reports originated from USG sources.
(U) UAP pose a hazard to safety of flight and could pose a broader danger if some instances represent sophisticated collection against U.S. military activities by a foreign government or demonstrate a breakthrough aerospace technology by a potential adversary
Almost a Collision With F-18
(U) Potential National Security Challenges
The UAPTF has 11 reports of documented instances in which pilots reported near misses with a UAP. ((U) We currently lack data to determine any UAP are part of a foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary. The initial focus will be to employ artificial intelligence/machine-learning algorithms to cluster and recognize similarities and patterns in features of the data points.
The national security implications associated with potential threats posed by UAP operating in close proximity to sensitive military activities, installations, critical infrastructure, or other national security sites, the FBI is positioned to use its investigative capabilities and authorities to support deliberate DoD and interagency efforts to determine attribution. Thanks to John Groenewald, Jr. 5700
The U.S Air Force is at its smallest size since the beginning in 1947.
Illustration of the Tablet of Shamash God is a stone tablet recovered from the ancient Babylonian city of Sippar in southern Iraq in 1881
‘According to Sumerian writing advanced humanoid aliens visited and colonized Earth in remote history. They claim to upgrade our human genome and eventually mentored early humanity, teaching us some advanced skills, and also intermarrying with us. Modern humans are their children.
Genesis 6:4 of the Bible reads as follows: “The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.”
Researcher Zecharia Sitchin
Researcher Zecharia Sitchin claims research as presented in his books establishes that we are not evolutionary apes, but the theory of ancient aliens is the best, most scientific and logically reasonable theory, but also the correct one. My work has found much more compelling logic in support of the Anunnaki Legacy of astronauts visiting Earth.
Zecharia SitchiZecharia Sitchin is an Icon and was a pioneer of legendary proportion. History will one day regard him as such. Like Galileo, Sitchin opened a new window of understanding. He may not have gotten every detail like the notion of the Anunnaki’s home planet, Niburu, being a renegade member of the Sun’s Solar System, but the main concept is on. Cynics can whine and cringe all they like, as do witches at the coming of dawn … but no one to my knowledge has ever successfully discredited Sitchin’s basic theory.
One of the richest sources for understanding the story of the last five to six thousand years of human history comes from religious records. Fortunately, many of these records are still available to us and useful. Unfortunately, we have to read these ancient documents through 21st Century vision to get past all of the cumulative errors, editing, misunderstanding and misinterpretations, compounded through the ages by our misguided human ancestors. But, if you study the material available closely, and with an open mind … a bigger-unifying story clearly emerges from it all. In short, each of the major religions of today’s world are either a direct or indirect descendent of the oldest major civilization – Sumer and its recorded history and story of cosmology as found in the Enuma Elish, what I refer to as the Anunnaki Legacy. The Anunnaki Legacy and Ancient Alien Theory are one-in-the-same. Anunnaki is the name of the advanced alien civilization that colonized Earth thousands of years ago, created, mentored, and then interbred with our early ancestors resulting in modern people. To put all of this religious history in proper perspective took a lot of explanation, but it was critical to support my conclusions.
Reincarnation, or more precisely –that all biological things have a dual nature – the physical mortal body and a separate immortal spirit or “soul” … which survives physical death … is a very old and basic area of human understanding. Both Western religion and science have done their best to purge this natural process from modern understanding. The problem for them is … evidence of reincarnation and duality both establish a firm case for the natural existence of human consciousness apart from the physical body – a heresy for scientific materialism, Universal Intelligence is a reality. Human consciousness is the direct link and means of understanding this simple fact of life. Science fears this knowledge, has a need to control it for their own devices.
The oldest written record available to us today is the cuneiform clay-tablet Sumerian Library of Ashurbanipal, an ancient-historical Babylonian ruler. This library was unearthed by archeologists in modern Iraq at the turn of the last century. One of the books in the collection brought back to light was the Enuma Elish.
The Enuma Elish is a recorded history of the Sumerian civilization
This is the oldest advanced culture mainstream science has verified to date (4000-6000 BC). The belief that Sumer was the oldest civilization is currently being taught in our school systems. The problem is the mainstream do not presently accept or teach that the early history of man found in the Enuma Elish as factual and regard this early part as myth. The first part is the Anunnaki Legacy.
To the Establishment’s chagrin, when you study Sumerian history with 21st century eyes two things become strikingly evident. First, many of the stories that would later be written into the chronicles of the major religions that followed – Hindu, Egyptian, Babylonian, Greco/Roman and the biblical Genesis, were simply a retelling of the stories which originated in the Enuma Elish and other Sumerian records. These would include the Golden Age, Flood Story, and a War of the Gods. If you have an open mind and study all of the earliest religious material, unimpeachable evidence for it speaks loudly for itself, in spite of claims to the contrary from biblical and theological circles.
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
Growing number of informed people are convinced mainstream science, education and the media establishments do suppress a good
amount of important new discovery and modern information on legitimate phenomena like UFO’s. How do you challenge this dogma and close-mindedness? By challenging them directly. Badger the mainstream into putting-up or shutting-up. I offered several very doable specific challenges for mainstream science, archeology, and historians. Here is just one example … Many of your readers will be familiar with the ancient, giant, intricately cut H-blocks at Puma Panko in Bolivia. The Establishment insists they were carved and constructed from quarries, over 22 miles of mountainous terrain away by the Indigenous primitive Amerindian tribes with stone chisels, ropes, timbers, and brute force.
Puma Punku in Bolivia.
I challenge them to either put up or reconsider. It would not be that difficult or unreasonable to send teams of archeological and engineering students from major colleges to Bolivia for a summer experiment. Have them go to the quarry, dislodge a rough stone from its source, transport it to Puma Punku and reproduce an exact replica of the original H-blocks, using only the methods claimed by mainstream science that were available 1500 years ago. I maintain it cannot be done. Until it is done as they claim, it’s simply a working hypothesis and a lame one at that. By the dictates of established science, if you have no direct evidence to support your hypothesis it cannot be elevated to “theory.” Slam Dunk.
Quimbayan, Columbia Jets
Puma Punku’s existence is not only the most important archeological site in the world, but also, along with Baalbek in modern Lebanon. And the Quimbayan, Bolivia Jets, represents the best physical evidence we have in support of The Anunnaki Legacy. Ancient Aliens TV segment set out to “prove” the artifacts were rooted in representations of ancient aircraft. before 2000 years ago. It is tragic and borderline dishonest that a major news source has never done a feature story or TV program on Puma Punku, Bolivia or Baalbek, Lebanon. To their credit, while derided by the science establishment, the History Channel has featured Puma Punku. What does CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX all fear? The answer is simple. Conventional explanations of history and evolution simply will not work at these locations and many others around the world. Fresh new thinking is demanded.
Roger Thomas states, “I have read all of the world’s great philosophers, both ancient and more contemporary. Of them all, Confucius is my favorite. His major points are all short, simple to relate to for everyone, and timeless. You don’t need to have a great intellect to learn from him. A good deal of Confucius’ philosophy has to do with personal responsibility and the ideal format for a true democratic government and egalitarian society – one which would best benefit all peoples and social classes.”
2500 years later, in 1776, Confucius’ vision finally took real form in the constitution of the United States. During its first 150 years American citizens used the gift of self-governance to create the most prosperous, successful, and generous civilization in human history. During the last 50 years or so, we have surrendered our authority and given it back to the bankers, wealthy families and multi-national corporations formerly known as the kings, royalty, clergy, and merchants. What happened? We controlled our own destiny, but over the last three generations too many of our citizens couldn’t handle it and traded it back in return for government largess. That is the Confucian Paradox.
Confucius
Somehow, we must find the collective will to regain control and hold on to it. Government must obey the people not the reverse. Understanding the real history of humanity is the first requirement. Too many people are apathetic and just plain lazy about coming to terms with the changes brought about by modern advances. So too are we equally challenged to consider Confucius the story of history. That is why the Anunnaki Legacy is not more widely known or accepted. We need to support and guide them with fresh thinking. Thanks to Roger Thomas.
Human origins remain unclear given studies of known fossils, concludes a new Science review. Today, our last common ancestor with the apes remains unknown as debate rages on. The study’s lead author, Sergio Almécija, a senior research scientist in the American Museum of Natural History’s Division of Anthropology, says there’s no agreement.
“When you look at the narrative for hominin origins, it’s just a big mess—there’s no consensus whatsoever,” said Almécija. “
The Core of the Human Origins Problem
‘Chimp has 70% of human like DNA
Between about 9.3 million and 6.5 million years ago, scientists believed humans diverged from the chimpanzee lineage. Today, chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest living relatives, sharing 99% of our DNA. That’s absolutely fact, although humans still seem intent to destroy our close relative’s natural environments. Some scientists think there is a missing chimp-like knuckle-walking ancestor that led to hominins. Others suspect it’s more likely an ancestor evolved from a species resembling Miocene apes.
Top-Down versus Bottom-Up
Taking a “top-down” approach, some scientists study chimpanzees to attempt to reconstruct hominin origins. Others use a “bottom-up” approach, focusing on the fossil record of mostly extinct apes. Now, reconciling these two approaches “remains at the core of the human origins problem,” the study states.
After the review, the scientists believe it’s “likely that the last shared ape ancestor had its own set of traits, different from those of modern humans and modern apes.”
Therefore, an essential part of the picture remains missing. Missing Part of the Picture
Ape Human
Study author Ashley Hmmond says “—it is clear that a human evolutionary story based on the few ape species currently alive is missing much of the bigger picture,” said Hammond.
“Early hominins likely originated in Africa from a Miocene LCA that does not match any living ape. Despite phylogenetic uncertainties, fossil apes remain essential to reconstruct the ‘starting point’ from which humans and chimpanzees evolved,” states the study. So how come our bodies are so flawed? Why does sharp vision so often elude us, for instance? Why do our backs hurt, hearing fails so frequently?
Darwin’s Theory 150 Years Later
Some 150 years ago, Darwin introduced “In the Descent of Man,” suggesting our origins came from an unknown ancestor in Africa. Today, Darwin’s speculation has been backed up with many discoveries of extinct fossils, but so far, none have proven to be the indisputable missing link. DNA confirms that our closest living biological relatives are chimpanzees and bonobos a type of ape, bit we are also have DNA similar to cows. S. Humans share genes with all living organisms, and some are closer than others. Paleontologists for some reason have ignored the possibility of intervention by extraterrestrials. They admit thousands even millions of mutations would be required to develop cells from the primordial soup to fish, primitive land creatures, then apes to hominids or primitive man. We know now that our DNA molecule is probably the most efficient information storage system in the entire universe.
The immensity of complex coded and precisely sequenced information written on the DNA is amazing. The evidence speaks of intelligent, information-bearing design. Complex DNA coding would have been necessary for even the hypothetical first ‘so-called’ simple cell(s).
Your single cell is as Complicated as NY City
A single cell is unbelievably complex being roughly equivalent to New York City in a bubble or the outer membrane of one cell. As we move in closer to examine the cell we see the huge buildings, roads, subways, bridges, auto traffic that represent the various parts of the human cell. As we move closer inside the various buildings we find a network of electrical wiring, heating and air conditioning systems, elevators carrying people. Inside the offices are millions of computers and electrical wiring systems. Now you have an idea of the complexity of one of the single cells in your body, that can duplicate itself in minutes.
Francis Crick the founder of DNA feels a spaceship or meteorites brought the DNA to Earth. Francis Crick proposed, in a book called “Life Itself,” that some form of primordial life was shipped to the earth billions of years ago in spaceships—by supposedly ‘more evolved’ (therefore advanced) alien beings. This concept basically infers that life, DNA, virus, bacteria, bombarded Earth from space aboard meteorites and comets.
The source said the alien species lives inside mountains, under the earth and sea in deep caverns.
Alleged Nordic Alien wirh Blue Eyes
The source expressed his belief that the ETs have a great deal of control over the planet and its inhabitants. He said the aliens have links to Mars, Sirius, and Zeta Reticule. The aliens living on Earth look remarkably similar to humans as shown above. They regularly study humans and take sperm, DNA, and other bodily samples.
Is it possible we are a product of an ancient alien species that continues to study, observe, and manipulate humans for reasons we don’t know? One probable reason is our immunity to several types of bacteria and viruses that could kill the visitors.
Paul Christian reports, “UFO hacker Gary McKinnon claims he has been seeing data on Non-Terrestrial Officers and spaceships conducting a military computer hack around Fort Meade and other facilities. At the Johnson Space Centre Gary spied on photographs of cigar-shaped objects that might have been UFOs but – he says – they were probably satellites. “You end up lusting after more and more complex security measures,” he says. “It was like a game a computer games. It was hugely addictive.” There were hackers from many nations snooping around every night for the entire five to seven years I was doing this.
He claims, “I found a list of officers’ names under the heading ‘Non-Terrestrial Officers’ and a list of ‘fleet-to-fleet transfers,’ and a list of ship names.
I looked them up. They weren’t US Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceships, off-planet. “Apparently there is a secret military astronaut corps, and the U.S. operates a fleet of antigravity space capable aerospace vehicles, although “I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect.” Allegedly the names of two of the ships are the General Curtis LeMay and Vice- Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter.
Ship Courtesy of Design Engineer William Tompkins
Editor’s Note:
Bob Lazar claims that during his employment at S-4 facility in Nevada, he briefly witnessed an Aurora flight while aboard a bus near Groom Lake. He claimed that there was a “tremendous roar” as he saw a very large aircraft having “two huge, square exhausts with vanes in them.,” Lazar claims he was informed that the aircraft was indeed an “Aurora, a high-altitude research plane powered by liquid methane.
TR-3B Aurora aircraft
Aberdeen Press and Journal writer Nic Outterside wrote a piece on US stealth technology in. He alleged RAF/USAF Machrihanish two-mile-long long runway near Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland to be a base for Aurora aircraft. Rumors from the secret hypersonic spy plane “Aurora” being operated from the base, to the other extreme of crashed UFO’s being dismantled and reversed engineered at the base ‘Oceanic Air Traffic Control at Prestwick’ Outterside says, ‘Tracked fast-moving radar blips at Mach 3 to 6. In 2006, aviation writer Bill Sweetman put together 20 years of examining the black budget concluded: “I learned how to sort out where money was going. This year, when I looked at the Air Force operations budget in detail, I found a $9-billion black hole that seems a perfect fit for a project like Aurora.”[4]
Former President Ronald Reagan who alluded to a highly classified space fleet in a June 11, 1985, entry in his diaries where he revealed that “Our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people.”
Lockheed’s Ben Rich
William Hamilton wrote, “Rich Andrews was a close personal friend of Lockheed’s Skunk Works CEO Ben Rich. Before Rich died of cancer, Andrews took my questions to him. Rich confirmed: There are two types of UFOs — the ones we build, and ones THEY build. We learned from both crash retrievals and actual “Hand-me-downs.” The Government knew, and until 1969 took an active hand in the administration of that information. After a 1969 Nixon “Purge”, administration was managed by an international board of directors in the private sector. “‘An’ item” — as opposed to “‘The’ item” — was recovered near the world’s only combat operational atom bomb base (Roswell AAF) in 1947. Hull design, aerodynamic measurements and propulsion info was passed directly to Jack Northrop and Kelly Johnson, beginning in 1950, with a major block of data being passed on from “The Working Group” at Wright Patterson AFB’s Foreign Technologies Division in 1952. Ben Rich claimed “We can take ET home.”
Testimony of Mr. John Maynard
While at the DIA, I saw some documents that pertained to extraterrestrials. They were code worded. A normal person reading it may not catch it — it would go right on beyond them. These were Top Secret documents. I imagine most of them are still classified. A lot of them pertained to Salt 1 and Salt 2 — the strategic arms limitation treaties with Russia.
I also saw pictures of UFOs from; I believe it was called the National Intelligence Photographic Center [NIPC], in Arlington. Once in a while an anomaly would show up on the pictures that didn’t belong there — a round object, a triangular object.
Space Is a Contested Environment so There Is a Space Force
Photo take from ISS of Spaceship
The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen established this specific area of emphasis to highlight “the space domain’s emergence as an environment where US superiority has been and will continue to be challenged.”
Along with its sister branch, the U.S. Air Force, the Space Force is part of the Department of the Air Force, one of the three civilian-led military departments within the Department of Defense. The Space Force, through the Department of the Air Force, is overseen by the secretary of the Air Force, a civilian political appointee who reports to the secretary of defense, and is appointed by the president with Senate confirmation.[10] The military head of the Space Force is the chief of space operations who is typically the most senior Space Force officer. The chief of space operations exercises supervision over the Space Force’s units and serves as one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Space Force is the smallest U.S. armed service, consisting of 8,400 military personnel and operating 77 spacecraft. Major spacecraft and systems include the Space Fence, Global Positioning System constellation, military satellite communications constellations, Boeing X-37B spaceplane, U.S. missile warning system, U.S. space surveillance network, and the Satellite Control Network. Under the Goldwater–Nichols Act, the Space Force is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping space forces. The U.S. Space Force traces its roots to the beginning of the Cold War, with the first Army Air Forces space programs starting in 1945. In 1954, the Western Development Division, under General Bernard Schriever, was established as the first dedicated space organization within the U.S. Armed Forces .
Alleged Space Force Spaceship
The triangles were kind of funny, with a rounded corner on the tail end of it. These were taken most generally with the Talent Keyhole Satellites, and they would show these UFOs in them. They would be objects from the TK11, TK12 shots that were taken, that showed the anomalies. Sometimes you could actually track it, photograph by photograph as it moved across the sky.
I received the code name to go in the Omni Project that dealt with radar satellites. I was talking with a director showing satellite’s positioning. I said, “Thissystem tracks radar anomalies on Earth, why are half of them pointed towards outer space? He said, “Well you got to have a need to know to know about that. We were tracking stuff from outer space.”
I also did collaborate with the Camp David accords and assigning the SR-71s, the Blackbird, to map that had been accompanied by UFOs. Thaks to the-“Disclosure Project”
July 2022 Sightings Statistical Report s TOTAL: 634
California 53, Florida 42, Texas 31, Pennsylvania 27, Colorado 25, Michigan 23, New York 23, Arizona 18, Washington 16, Illinois 15, Missouri 14, Ohio 14, Oregon 13, Nevada 12, Minnesota 12, Wisconsin 11, Wisconsin 11, New Jersey 10, Georgia 10, Oklahoma 10, North Carolina 9, and Maryland 9,
Country
UNITED STATES 507, –UNITED KINGDOM 36, FRANCE 33, CANADA 29, BRAZIL 4, BELGIUM 3, AUSTRALIA 2, INDIA 2, GERMANY 2, ITALY 2, and MEXICO 1.
Strange Craft
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 aviators 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.
Special reports are: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, The Anunnaki’s Legacy, Human Origins Story Remains Incomplete with Missing Ancestors, Hacker Claims There Are Military Spaceships, There Is a Space Force,. And Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Canada, Eire, France, Germany, Norway, 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 and DOD investigated UFOs for more than forty years; 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.
UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Vallejoon August 8, 2021, camera picks up sun tracking/ blocking artifact not detected with naked eye.
Colorado Objects
Park on July 30, 2022, my 4-year-old son noticed the rainbow. Then I took this photo with numerous very strange clouds and objects…very strange lights, streaks, a cigar-shaped object, a round object, a huge manta-ray shaped cloud, vertical arcs, and streaks, etc.
Florida Lights
Napleson June 13, 2022, bright light about half the size of the moon was pulling in this fog from a cloud like object. There two light sources and objects were pulling light and fog from one another.
Indiana Colored Light
Dyeron August 1, 2021. Last night at 10:59 pm, I was looking SE at the biggest, brightest moving ball of light I’ve ever seen. I took 3 pictures with my cell phone. As it dimmed and disappeared.
Maryland Object
Adamstown on August 6, 2021, taking video and when I went back to review noticed two UFOs and shiny lights before each one appeared.
Michigan Object
Traverse City on July 4, 2021, on South Manitou Island in the middle of Lake Michigan, I came across this unidentified object taking off in a straight trajectory at a speed faster than a plane.
New Jersey Lights and Black Object
Matawan on July 16, 2022, I saw at first what seemed to be 3 dark objects spaced out moving at a steady pace NW. They were visible for about a minute. I got live pictures on my iPhone of small UFOs,
North Wildwood on July 24, 2022, I was sitting on my steps and saw a triangle shape craft. It had 3 lights on the bottom that took off fast.
New York Light
Wappingers Falls on July 7, 2022, I have no idea what it is in the photo. Was high over trees.
Ohio Objects
Dublin Event occurred June 4, 2022, at Muirfield Village Golf Course while watching on TV, he ball was at apex, when a dark blurry thin shadow-like image streak across the TV screen from left to right. Video triangular shaped UAP. The object below is the golf ball in flight.
Pennsylvania Triangles
Happy Valley on July 27, 2022, please confirm multiple triangle crafts. I count at least 9-10 I witnessed a UFO 100’ above my head in Allen, Texas in 2017. Thank you for your work in helping bring the awakening to all those who are still asleep.
South Carolina Light
Siler City,– July 25, 2022 – tis was caught on our Genni Camera. It detected a UFO at the China cabinet in our kitchen. Y.
Note: I suspect that object is an out-of-focus insect, but this is just a “hunch.” Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Tennessee Object
Maryville on July 3, 2022, I took a picture of a cylinder UFO in Cades Cove but did not see it with my eyes.
Texas Object
El Pasoon July 31, 2022, Looked like black cylinder
Pasadena on March 21, 2021, I witnessed the UAP that was in the shape an equilateral cross with two little white nodes that were on each arm.
Vermont Object
Barre on July 31, 2022, saw this object three times over the course of a 20-minutes , I found my cell phone and let my husband know what I saw, and was able to take a live picture, which shows it descending. The object appeared to be a mile away and disappeared for a third time
Washington Lights
Edmondson August 2, 2018, could not tell what it was but every time I looked at it had moved. You can see two birds flying by in one of the photos. Looked like a black hole with a tail.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Object
Chatham on July 19, 2022, disc shaped craft, flew west less than a second, came back into my sight from the west then flew very quickly and y while glowing like a light bulb maybe reflecting the sun then zipped off to the east.
Eire Light
Tramore on August 3, 2021, saw hovering glowing light seemed to change shape and then disappeared. At first I thought it might be the sun going down but more I looked at it not the sun. I tried reporting my sighting to an Irish MUFON chapter but did not find one?
France Triangle
Berlin on March 23, 2022 , seven lights on triangular object of green color with bright. White lines across edges. Very fast speed, is mounted perpendicularly
Norway Light
Bergen on August 7 , 2021, early morning photo from hotel, room but did not see cigar with naked eye but only noticed after photo taken. White illuminated cigar shaped object with yellow strip down center and black strip around outer edge.
UK/England Lights
Sunderlandon July 19, 2022, the object I observed at last night hovered for around 10 minutes changing color and shape a couple of times before blinking out.
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Five Lights Over Othello, Washington July 12, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Five Lights Over Othello, Washington July 12, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 12, 2022
Location of sighting: Othello, Washington, USA
I had to watch this video several times to verify that the orange lights were not a reflection off the drivers windshield. If you look carefully, you will see the lights go behind the trees at the 51 second mark. That is 100% proof it is outside the car and is behind the trees in the distance. Very interesting.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was on my way home when I looked up ahead and say a group of lights hovering over a farm shop near my home. As I got closer to the shop the lights kept the same height but started moving. I have a video of me trying to record what I was seeing as I have never seen lights like these, I have seen planes pass by but none that look like these as these did not flash or blink I even rolled my window down and slowed my vehicle down, weirdly there was no noise. The more I continued driving the more they kept moving still at the same height. As I got home they stopped and kept hovering over the nearest home by mine I took one last picture and went inside, couple minutes later I went outside again and there was nothing.
Guys check this out, finally a great UFO report comes in...I've been waiting and waiting fore weeks. This is it. A pilot who works for a major airline has his first UFO sighting...and its of a white sphere...which is th #1 most common UFO in the world. This UFO is also known from WWI and WWII as a foo fighter, which was famous for following planes during the wars. This is some amazing and rare footage of a real UFO. The eyewitness credentials are impeccable and he is clearly an expert in his field of being a pilot with years of experience. This is 100% undeniable proof that UFOs are following jets and curious about those aboard them.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I am an airline pilot with a major airline in the United States. I am a former military pilot. When: August 12, 2022, over a 35 minute period from approximately 0055-0130 ET (0455-0530 UTC).
Where: At the first sighting we were approximately over the city of Wilmington, NC. At last sighting we were approximately over Richmond, VA. We were traveling almost due north and the objects were directly in front of us. It was impossible to tell exactly where the objects were; in the 35+ minutes we were watching them they never seemed to get closer. Narrative: We took off from St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands for a 4-hour flight to Washington Dulles airport. We departed at 2202 ET and landed at 0148 ET. At roughly 0055 ET I began seeing slow pulses of light in the sky directly in front of us (to our north). The pulses would last usually 8-10 seconds each and had gaps of darkness lasting anywhere from 10 seconds to over a minute. They were slowly moving from left to right. The pulses would be gradual (start very dim and grow into a bright light about the brightness of Venus, and then fade away).
As an airline pilot, I am positive I was not seeing other airliners. Very few civilian aircraft can fly above 41,000 feet, and the objects were about 10 degrees above the horizon from our perspective. I was not able to tell the distance of the object from our aircraft, but in the 35+ minutes we watched, they never seemed to get any closer even though we covered about 250 nautical miles in that time. For this reason I believe they were in either the upper atmosphere or in space. After a few minutes of watching, the Captain (who until this point had been very quiet) asked me if I was seeing the lights. I said yes and we started discussing what they could be. I started filming and taking photos at this point. We began seeing 2 lights at a time, often at different altitudes, but always moving generally from left to right when the pulse was at its peak. At one point we watched 2 lights flying in “formation”, almost side by side. When I looked very carefully, I could see the lights even after the pulse faded, but it was very dim and would sometimes fade away completely. When the pulse was dim they lights seemed to be traveling to the left. For a brief time we saw 3 objects at one time. At no point did we see a strobe light or navigation lights on the objects. The best way to describe what we saw is 2-3 aircraft circling in left hand turns with their landing lights on, which means that they were only clearly visible when the lights were facing towards us. Because we were flying towards Washington DC we discussed the possibility it was fighter aircraft flying circles over the city due to a security threat. This was clearly not the case however, because we were 300+ miles from DC when we spotted them, and they never seemed to get closer as we neared the city. They also were far higher in elevation than modern fighters can fly, and there would be no reason to have their landing lights on in that phase of flight. Additionally, fighter aircraft have their landing lights mounted within their landing gear which would have been retracted, and therefore could not have been visible.
As a former fighter/attack pilot I am extremely familiar with capabilities of modern aircraft, have trained in CAP (protecting locations from aerial threats) and I am 100% we were not seeing military aircraft or flares. I have spent a lot of time wondering if they could have been a train of Starlink satellites, and the light pulses were sunlight reflecting off the satellites. I don’t think this is the case, for the following reasons. We spotted them in the middle of the night; 5 hours after sunset, when it is less likely to spot satellites. We also saw the pulses an estimated 80+ times, and we only stopped seeing them due to us descending into the clouds. From looking online, starlink trains are typically 40-60 satellites. The sighting also lasted 35+ minutes, which is far longer than a satellite train. I believe it was the same 2-3 objects the entire time, and they were flying in circles. Lastly, the objects appeared to be flying in circles, which is not characteristic of satellites.
This is my first sighting. I have 4 videos and several photos. Unfortunately, they were taken from my iphone, at night. You can see the pulses, but the relative motion is difficult to make out. In one video I filmed my displays, which shows my altitude, and location.
Romanian General Strainu Tell The Story Of a Submarine Commander Who Discovered An Underwater City
Romanian General Strainu Tell The Story Of a Submarine Commander Who Discovered An Underwater City
Talking to a Soviet-era submarine commander, who patrolled the Pacific Ocean for about 10 years, General Emil Strainu managed to find out an extremely interesting story about a highly advanced underwater city.
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Mysterious 5.2 mile-wide crater found in Atlantic Ocean off the coast of west Africa may have been left by the baby cousin of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
Mysterious 5.2 mile-wide crater found in Atlantic Ocean off the coast of west Africa may have been left by the baby cousin of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
Impact crater around the same age as one left by dinosaur killer has been found
Dubbed Nadir Crater, new feature discovered off coast of Guinea in west Africa
The site sits almost 1,000ft below the seabed and has a diameter of 5.2 miles
Experts think asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have had a companion
A mysterious crater found in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of west Africa may have been left by the baby cousin of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, scientists say.
Dubbed the Nadir Crater, the new feature was discovered 248 miles (400km) off the coast of Guinea in west Africa.
It sits around 1,000ft (300m) below the seabed and has a diameter of 5.2 miles (8.5km).
The impact site is not as big as the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, which was left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but it is of a very similar age.
It has raised questions about whether Earth was hit by more than one space rock during that cataclysmic period in natural history.
If confirmed, it would also be of great scientific interest, because it would be one of a small number of known marine asteroid impacts, so may offer new insights into what happens during such a collision.
The depression was identified by Dr Uisdean Nicholson, from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, who has been analysing seismic survey data to better understand past climatic changes on Earth.
Researchers believe they identified a second asteroid that hit around the same time as the big one that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The second one, named Nadir crater, is much smaller that Chicxulub
The impact site is not as big as the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, which was left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but it is of a very similar age. It sits around 1,000ft (300m) below the seabed
KEY FEATURES OF THE NADIR CRATER
Located:248 miles (400km) off the coast of Guinea in west Africa
Depth: 1,000ft (300m) below the seabed
Diameter: 5.2 miles (8.5km
Size of asteroid: 1,300ft (400m)
Cousin? Chicxulub crater
'These surveys are kind of like an ultrasound of Earth. I've spent probably the last 20 years interpreting them, but I've never seen anything like this,' Dr Nicholson told BBC News.
'Nadir's shape is diagnostic of an asteroid impact.
'It's got a raised rim surrounding a central uplift area, and then layers of debris that extend outwards.'
The crater is just over 5 miles (8km) wide, and Dr Nicholson believes it was was likely caused by an asteroid more than 1,300ft (400m) wide smashing into the Earth's crust.
This, therefore, was much smaller than the city-sized space rock that caused the 100-mile-wide Chicxulub crater.
'Our simulations suggest this crater was caused by the collision of a 400m-wide asteroid in 500-800m of water,' said Dr Veronica Bray from the University of Arizona.
'This would have generated a tsunami over one kilometre high, as well as an earthquake of Magnitude 6.5 or so.
Mystery: A crater found in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of west Africa may have been left by the baby cousin of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, scientists say (stock image)
The depression (pictured) was identified by Dr Uisdean Nicholson, from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, who has been analysing seismic survey data to better understand past climatic changes on Earth
'The energy released would have been around 1,000 times greater than that from the January 2022 eruption and tsunami in Tonga.'
Nadir was identified using 'seismic reflection' as part of a wider project to reconstruct the tectonic separation of South America from Africa back in the Cretaceous period.
To be certain the crater was caused by an asteroid strike, Dr Nicholson said that scientists will need to drill into the the crater and test minerals from its floor.
However, it has all the hallmarks experts would expect, including the right ratio of crater width to depth, the height of the rims, and the height of the central uplift.
The latter is a mound in the centre created by rock and sediment forced up by the shock pressure.
The discovery of the Nadir Crater feature has been published in the journal Science Advances.
KILLING OFF THE DINOSAURS: HOW A CITY-SIZED ASTEROID WIPED OUT 75 PER CENT OF ALL ANIMAL AND PLANT SPECIES
Around 66 million years ago non-avian dinosaurs were wiped out and more than half the world's species were obliterated.
This mass extinction paved the way for the rise of mammals and the appearance of humans.
The Chicxulub asteroid is often cited as a potential cause of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
The asteroid slammed into a shallow sea in what is now the Gulf of Mexico.
The collision released a huge dust and soot cloud that triggered global climate change, wiping out 75 per cent of all animal and plant species.
Researchers claim that the soot necessary for such a global catastrophe could only have come from a direct impact on rocks in shallow water around Mexico, which are especially rich in hydrocarbons.
Within 10 hours of the impact, a massive tsunami waved ripped through the Gulf coast, experts believe.
Around 66 million years ago non-avian dinosaurs were wiped out and more than half the world's species were obliterated. The Chicxulub asteroid is often cited as a potential cause of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event
(stock image)
This caused earthquakes and landslides in areas as far as Argentina.
While investigating the event researchers found small particles of rock and other debris that was shot into the air when the asteroid crashed.
Called spherules, these small particles covered the planet with a thick layer of soot.
Experts explain that losing the light from the sun caused a complete collapse in the aquatic system.
This is because the phytoplankton base of almost all aquatic food chains would have been eliminated.
It's believed that the more than 180 million years of evolution that brought the world to the Cretaceous point was destroyed in less than the lifetime of a Tyrannosaurus rex, which is about 20 to 30 years.
Was er nog een tweede asteroïde die dinosauriërs op dezelfde dag uitroeide?
66 miljoen jaar geleden sloeg een asteroïde in op de aarde, op de plaats die we nu kennen als de Golf van Mexico. De impact was zo enorm dat de dinosaurussen werden uitgeroeid. Maar mogelijk was er die dag nog een tweede inslag, aan de overkant van de Atlantische Oceaan.
Voor de kust van Guinee is een soortgelijke krater ontdekt als die in het Mexicaanse Chicxulub. De nieuwe krater is ongeveer even oud en kreeg de naam Nadirkrater. Hij bevindt zich meer dan 300 meter onder de zeebodem en ongeveer 400 km voor de kust van Guinee in West-Afrika. De Nadirkrater is kleiner dan de Mexicaanse, maar lijkt toch ook op een catastrofale gebeurtenis te wijzen. Op basis van de diameter van de Nadirkrater van 8,5 km had de verantwoordelijke asteroïde vermoedelijk een doorsnede van ruim 400 meter.
Het was Uisdean Nicholson van de Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh die de verborgen West-Afrikaanse krater ontdekte. De wetenschapper onderzocht seismische gegevens, op zoek naar een plek om te kunnen boren en zo meer inzicht te verwerven in de klimaatveranderingen op aarde uit het verleden. Bij zo’n analyses worden de verschillende lagen van de ondergrond tot een diepte van vaak enkele kilometers in kaart gebracht.
“Die onderzoeken zijn een soort echografie van de aarde”, aldus Nicholson aan BBC News. Hij besteedde zowat de laatste 20 jaar aan de interpretatie ervan. “Maar zoiets als dit heb ik nog nooit gezien”, beweert hij. “De vorm van Nadir is kenmerkend voor een asteroïde-inslag. Het heeft een opstaande rand rond een centraal opwaarts gebied, en dan lagen puin die zich naar buiten uitstrekken.”
Ter vergelijking: de asteroïde die de Chicxulubkrater in de Golf van Mexico heeft doen ontstaan, was naar schatting 12 km in doorsnee. De krater is maar liefst 200 km breed. De inslag veroorzaakte zware aardschokken, tsunami’s en een wereldwijde vuurstorm. Er werd zoveel stof de lucht in geslingerd dat de aarde in een diepe vrieskou terecht kwam. De dinosaurussen overleefden de klimaatschok niet.
In het geval van de Nadir-asteroïde zouden de gevolgen niet zó groot zijn geweest, maar toch nog “een tsunami van meer dan een kilometer hoog hebben gegenereerd, en een aardbeving met een magnitude van 6.5 of zo”, volgens Veronica Bray van de Universiteit van Arizona. “De vrijgekomen energie zou ongeveer 1.000 keer groter zijn geweest dan die van de uitbarsting en tsunami in Tonga in januari 2022", vermoedt ze.
Verder onderzoek van de Nadirkrater is nodig - op basis van gesteenten uit de krater zelf en niet die uit een nabijgelegen boorgat - om de ouderdom ervan preciezer te kunnen bepalen en om te bevestigen dat het inderdaad om de inslag van een asteroïde gaat.
Wetenschappers zijn voorzichtig om deze gebeurtenis te koppelen aan de inslag in Chicxulub, ook al is de speculatie rond een mogelijke cluster van inslagen door grote ruimtestenen in het verleden niet nieuw. Zo wordt niet uitgesloten dat de Boltisjkrater in Oekraïne eveneens op een of andere manier verband houdt met de Chicxulubgebeurtenis.
Volgens professor Sean Gulick van de universiteit van Texas in Austin kan de West-Afrikaanse krater op dezelfde dag zijn ontstaan als de Chicxulubkrater, maar zal die ons niet rechtstreeks iets bijleren over het lot van de dino’s. “Een veel kleiner neefje of zusje voegt niet noodzakelijk iets toe aan wat we weten over het uitsterven van de dinosauriërs, maar wel aan ons begrip van de astronomische gebeurtenis die Chicxulub was”. Zo stelt de expert zich onder meer de vraag, die nog moet worden onderzocht: “Was Chicxulub een dubbele asteroïde waarbij een kleiner object in een baan om een groter object draaide?”
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R136 is the Most Massive Star Astronomers Have Ever Found. We Just got Some new Images of it
R136 is the Most Massive Star Astronomers Have Ever Found. We Just got Some new Images of it
Meet R136a1, the most mass star known. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, it’s a hulking behemoth weighing somewhere between 150 and 200 times the mass of the Sun. Understanding the upper limit of stars helps astronomers peace together everything from the life cycles of stars to the histories of galaxies.
A team of astronomers havestudied in detailthe star cluster known as R136. This star cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 150,000 light-years from Earth. The star cluster itself is huge, featuring many incredibly bright newborn stars.
Based on the image the astronomers were able to estimate the masses of some of the stars including R136a1, which they estimate has a mass somewhere between 150 and 200 times the mass of the Sun. This latest estimate is significantly lower than previous estimates of this same star. Despite that new estimate, however, R136a1 still has a surface temperature eight times hotter than the Sun and a radius forty times bigger.
It’s likely that R136a1 represents one of the most massive stars in the universe. Stars form in a variety of sizes, from red dwarfs a tenth the mass of the Sun to these giants that would put our home star to shame. Understanding how common supergiant stars are helps astronomers understand their formation mechanisms. After all, you need a lot of gas collapsing in a very brief amount of time in order to form a giant star like this. And since there are so massive they do not live long, so they are that much more difficult to detect.
Galaxies live their lives constantly turning out generation after generation of stars. The ability to make large stars depends on the existence of previous generations. This is because when stars die they release their fused heavy elements out into the interstellar medium. Those heavy elements help other clouds of gas cool quickly to collapse and form bigger stars without fragmenting into many smaller ones.
The more we learn about giant stars like R136a1, the more we learn about the history of galaxies
James Fox, producer of the groundbreaking UFO documentary 'The Phenomenon' (2020) says his team have uncovered images and video of an extraterrestrial being, filmed by the Brazilian military.
Promoting his new documentary 'Moment of Contact' he speaks on the investigative work being done in an attempt to uncover one of our greatest secrets.
Hopefully it's not a marketing stunt and what he says is true that he has photo and video evidence of alien bodies in his possession, the question is whether he is going to publish the evidence of the alien bodies or whether he will be forced to hand it over to the military.
Below the trailer for the documentary it is about "Moments of contact"
Moment of Contact is about an exploration of extraterrestrial encounters, this one centered on a series of events in 1996 when citizens of Varginha, Brazil, reported seeing one or more strange creatures and a UFO crash.
A number of locals, including a group of girls ranging in age from 14-21, had a close encounter with a being described as about 4 feet tall, with brown oily skin, a large head and huge red eyes.
The town of Varginha was cordoned off by military and emergency response teams and two creatures were captured.
Local military policeman Marco Cherese died under mysterious circumstances after allegedly handling one of the creatures.
Fox’s documentary features interviews with key eyewitnesses, experts and officials including nuclear physicist and professional ufologist Stanton Friedman, Brazilian Air Force General Jose Carlos Pereira, Brazilian ufologist Ademar Jose Gevaerd. Peter Coyote.
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The Military slowly removing the history of UFOs as it enables them to continue to pretend that there’s no cover-up
The Military slowly removing the history of UFOs as it enables them to continue to pretend that there’s no cover-up
The Tic Tac UFO encounter of 2004 is rightly considered to be a very important event. Unfortunately, too much of our public discourse relating to UFOs or UAP now only focuses on encounters from that point onward.
But very little of the incredible rich story of 20th century UFOs is ever discussed in mainstream/establishment venues.
Removing the history of UFOs is important for the military, as it enables them to continue to pretend that there’s no cover-up, no conspiracy.
In fact, there is overwhelming evidence that the US military has been deeply engaged in the matter of UFOs for 80 years.
The above image of a UFO was just released this month (August 2022). The so-called Calvin image showing a 100ft UFO was kept secret and being withheld from the public for 30 years by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) before a retired RAF officer who secretly kept a copy of the photograph decided to release the infamous image.
Cube like object with large energy field in sky above Toronto 17-Aug-2022
Cube like object with large energy field in sky above Toronto 17-Aug-2022
This daytime UFO footage was filmed in the sky above Toronto, Canada on 18th August 2022.
Witness report:
I got to Jimmy Simpson park in leslieville Toronto at 8:20. I always watch the sky for Planes and UAP sightings. The sun was setting and below the tree line which made for really nice colours of blue and light cloud contrast. I noticed very high up this circular glow that was about the size of a small plane. It was circular from what my eyes could see. It gave off a glow. Like an energy field. I pulled out my camera and started recording. I took two videos as I was trying to keep my eye on it as it travelled slowly across the sky from the north east to the east.
It was almost like it was hoovering at very high altitude but moving. Then it just disappeared. Totally gone. Not a trace anywhere in the sky. When I zoomed in on my video I could see it was cube shaped. The week before I saw the same UAP over the Toronto beaches. That was at high altitude as well.
Over the years there are a few questions that have been put to me more times than I can count.
One of the favourites is: "Have you ever seen a UFO?"
As I am sure you know, UFO – unidentified flying object – is the modern term for ‘flying saucer’.
The saucer craze began in the late 1950s, reached its peak in the 1960s and is still with us today.
But what really are the chances of our being visited by beings from another world?
Credit: KTSDesign / Science Photo Library
UFO sightings
There is no real point in talking to people who say that they have been taken for rides in flying saucers, or have been kidnapped by aliens and kept prisoner until released.
Trying to argue with these earnest folk is rather like trying to eat tomato soup with a fork, and one gets nowhere.
The same is true of Flat Earthers, hollow-globers and people who believe that Bacon wrote Shakespeare.
But there are undeniably some UFO sightings that cannot be dismissed so easily – so is there any possibility of an alien visitor?
I am going to cause some raised eyebrows by saying that it is not impossible. But first, let me turn to the real answers to most UFO sightings.
If you see a low-lying bright light in the early evening or morning, could it simply be Venus or Mercury? Credit: John Chumack
Venus is one. The planet can be striking, and atmospheric turbulence in front of it can give the impression that it is moving.
Jupiter and, very occasionally, Mars have also been mistaken for UFOs, and of course today we have artificial satellites.
An artist's impression of the four exoplanets in orbit around Tau Ceti.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Messages from another world? We have never received any, though careful searches have been made, not least by the SETI Institute.
The first of these dates back to 1970, when Frank Drake - of the famous Drake Equation - and his team in the USA used a large radio telescope to listen out for any rhythmical signals from planets orbiting the nearest solar-type stars, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani.
Messages from Mars have been reported often enough – on one occasion by the brilliant if eccentric Nikola Tesla – but there are no canal-building Martians, and it is safe to say that there is no advanced life anywhere in the Solar System except on Earth.
The icy, cracked surface of Europa. Image: NASA/JPL
It is possible that primitive organisms survive on Mars or in the sunless seas of Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus, but that is all.
If we want to find advanced life, we must look much further afield.
Visits from alien beings?
Alpha Centauri and its surroundings captured by the Digitized Sky Survey 2 telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
I have already said that I do not believe that an alien visitation is impossible. Now I will explain my reasons…
We have sent humans to the Moon and uncrewed probes to all the planets in the Sun’s family.
It takes a day or so to reach the Moon, a few months to reach Mars or Venus, and a few years to reach the giant planets: Voyager 2, launched in 1977, by-passed Neptune in 1989.
Timewise, all this is manageable, but reaching the stars is quite another matter.
You may have heard talk in UFO circles of the belief in an alien species inhabiting the Zeta Reticuli system, but even our nearest stars, those of the Alpha Centauri system, are over 4 lightyears away, ie, well over 20 million million miles (Epsilon Eridani is over 10 lightyears away, Tau Ceti over 11).
I suppose that we really could try to send a probe to Alpha Centauri, but there would be no hope of maintaining contact with it, and to suggest that it might carry a crew is the stuff of sheer fantasy.
I know that efforts will be made to build a spacecraft able to travel much faster than those of today, capable of reaching Jupiter or even Neptune in a week.
But to reach Alpha Centauri in a few years would mean moving at almost the speed of light, and this, I am sure, is something that we will never be able to do.
So why do I not rule out all alien visitors?
An artist's impression of Earth-like exoplanet Kepler-186f. Credit: NASA
Simply because there are 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way system, many of them attended by planets, and our Galaxy is only one of many.
Millions of millions of Earth-like exoplanets must exist, and surely there must be vast numbers of civilisations.
Ours is young, and it has taken only a few tens of thousands of years for Homo sapiens to evolve from cave-dwellers whose conversation was limited to "ug" and "og", to technicians able to produce nuclear bombs.
It is patently obvious that we cannot send material rockets to worlds beyond the Solar System, and we have no inkling of any other method.
Using, for example, space-warps, time-warps or thought-travel is completely unrealistic.
But I repeat – and this is the crux of my argument – our civilisation is young, and we are still going through the stage when we have the scientific ability to destroy ourselves but are not intelligent enough to live together in peace.
Hubble Ultra-Deep Field 3, June 2014. Virtually every point of light in this image is a galaxy, each composed of billions of stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), Z. Levay (STScI)
Other civilisations, older and wiser than ours, must surely have passed through this stage, and may well have solved the problem of interstellar travel.
If so, the Earth could well be on their visiting list.
Inevitably there are claims that this has already happened - the Roswell UFO incident being the most famous instance, undoubtedly to the benefit of local hoteliers and restaurants - but we await the arrival of a true expedition from afar.
I realise that I may be completely wrong: there may be something that rules out interstellar travel permanently, there may not yet be any civilisation able to achieve it, or – as a few people believe – we may, after all, be alone in the vastness of the Universe.
My opinion may be worth nothing, but I will still voice it: aliens have not yet visited us, so far as we know, but possibly they could.
And if I meet one, the first thing I will do is to persuade him to write an article for BBC Sky at Night Magazine.
What do you think? Is intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe an inevitability? Let us know via contactus@skyatnightmagazine.com.
This article originally appeared in the November 2009 issue of BBC Sky at Night Magazine.
Sir Patrick Moore (1923–2012) presented The Sky at Night on BBC TV from 1957–2012. He was the Editor Emeritus of BBC Sky at Night Magazine, President of the British Astronomical Association and Society for Popular Astronomy, and a researcher and writer of over 70 books.
A battery powered by nuclear waste could keep a spaceship or hospital operating for 28,000 years without needing to be recharged or replaced, its developers claim.
The radioactive battery is 'completely safe' for humans, according to California-based Nano Diamond Battery (NDB), who say it will 'change the world'.
The firm hopes to start selling the battery to commercial partners, including space agencies for long duration missions, within the next two years.
NDB are also working on a consumer version that could run a smartphone or electric car for up to a decade without requiring a charge.
No details on pricing have been revealed by the technology startup, who say it is still in development phase.
A battery powered by nuclear waste could keep a spaceship or hospital operating for 28,000 years without needing to be recharged or replaced, its developers claim
DIAMOND NUCLEAR VOLTAIC (DNV) ENERGY GENERATION
Diamond Nuclear Voltaic (DNV) is a technology that converts nuclear waste into electricity.
The microscopic diamonds have 'extremely good head conductance'.
They act to move heat away from the radioactive isotopes so quickly the transaction generates electricity.
This generates a small output of power but consistently for a very long period of time - thousands of years.
Several of these units are stacked, increasing overall power output.
This kind of arrangement improves the overall efficiency of the system and provides a multi layer safety shield.
The technology involves combining radioactive isotopes taken from nuclear waste with layers of panelled nano diamonds stacked in a battery cell.
Extremely good heat conductance of the microscopic diamonds acts to move heat away from the radioactive isotopes so quickly the transaction generates electricity.
It is based on a technology called diamond nuclear voltaic (DNV) presented by scientists in 2016 from the University of Bristol using waste graphite blocks.
This technology is best suited for devices that need a slow trickle of electricity, consistently over a long period of time due to low energy production.
The NDB system is able to work in consumer products by adding layers and layers of diamonds and radioactive waste panels to increase the total energy output.
'This battery has two different merits,' NDB CEO Nima Golsharifi told Future Net Zero.
'One is that it uses nuclear waste and converts it into something good. And the second is that it runs for a much longer time than the current batteries.'
The firm has also worked to ensure the material is safe and people can't easily access the radioactive material inside the stacked power cells.
'The DNV stacks along with the source are coated with a layer of poly-crystalline diamond, which is known for being the most thermally conductive material,' a spokesperson said.
This material 'also has the ability to contain the radiation within the device and is the hardest material,' up 12 times tougher than stainless steel.
'This makes our product extremely tough and tamperproof.'
Use cases include having a watch with a tiny NDB battery that could be passed down from generation to generation without ever having to replace the power supply.
Diamond batteries may one day power satellites, providing them with enough spare energy to de-orbit at the end of their life, or probes heading into deep space for thousands of years.
'The human desire to explore space is fuelled by the excitement of exploring the unknown,' NDB said on their website.
Future devices can also be used to power a smartphone or a laptop, each containing a miniature power generator that will last as long as the device itself - with no need to ever charge, or an electric car that could run for thousands of miles without a charge
'Recent advances in space technology and the rise of the first manned electric aircrafts have led to increasing demand on their battery systems, hindered by concerns regarding longevity and safety.
'NDB can be utilized to power drones, electric aircrafts, space rovers and stations whilst allowing for longer activity.'
Future devices can also be used to power a smartphone or a laptop, each containing a miniature power generator that will last as long as the device itself - with no need to ever charge.
'In situ medical devices and implantable such as hearing aids and pacemakers respectively can benefit from long battery life in a smaller package with added benefit of safety and longevity,' the firm added.
WHAT ARE HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS?
Hydrogen fuel cells create electricity to power a battery and motor by mixing hydrogen and oxygen in specially treated plates, which are combined to form the fuel cell stack.
Fuel cell stacks and batteries have allowed engineers to significantly shrink these components to even fit neatly inside a family car, although they are also commonly used to fuel buses and other larger vehicles.
Trains and aeroplanes are also being adapted to run on hydrogen fuel, for example.
Oxygen is collected from the air through intakes, usually in the grille, and hydrogen is stored in aluminium-lined fuel tanks, which automatically seal in an accident to prevent leaks.
These ingredients are fused, releasing usable electricity and water as by-products and making the technology one of the quietest and most environmentally friendly available.
Reducing the amount of platinum used in the stack has made fuel cells less expensive, but the use of the rare metal has restricted the spread of their use.
Recent research has suggested hydrogen fuel cell cars could one day challenge electric cars in the race for pollution-free roads, but only if more stations are built to fuel them.
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Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries That Could Last For Thousands Of Years
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries That Could Last For Thousands Of Years
We have an unquenchable energy need. When we need to run anything that cannot be plugged in, electricity will have to come from a battery, and the quest for a better battery is being launched in laboratories around the globe. Hold that thought for a moment.
Nuclear waste is radioactive waste generated by nuclear power plants that no one wants to be kept near their houses or even carried through their communities. The ugly substance is poisonous and deadly, takes thousands of years to disintegrate completely, and we continue to produce more of it.
Now, a California-based business, NDB, says it can resolve both of these issues. They claim to have built a self-powered battery made entirely of radioactive waste that has a life expectancy of 28,000 years, making it ideal for your future electric car or iPhone 1.6 x 104.
Rather than storing energy generated elsewhere, the battery generates its own charge. It is constructed of two kinds of nano-diamonds, which makes it almost crash-proof when used in vehicles or other moving things. Additionally, the business claims that its battery is safe since it emits less radiation than the human body.
NDB has already created a proof of concept and intends to construct its first commercial prototype once its laboratories restart operations after the COVID outbreak(which should be soon).
The nuclear waste from which NDB intends to manufacture its batteries consists of reactor components that have become radioactive as a result of exposure to nuclear power plant fuel rods.
While this is not considered high-grade nuclear waste—that would be spent fuel—it is nonetheless very poisonous, and a nuclear plant generates a lot of it. The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that the "core of a typical graphite-moderated reactor" may contain up to 2000 tonnes of graphite. (A tonne is equal to one metric tonne, or about 2,205 pounds.)
Carbon-14 is a radioisotope found in graphite. It is the same radioisotope used by archaeologists for carbon dating. It has a half-life of 5,730 years and ultimately decays into nitrogen 14, an anti-neutrino, and a beta decay electron, the charge of which piqued NDB's curiosity as a possible source of electricity.
NDB cleanses graphite and then converts it to microscopic diamonds. The business claims that by using current technology, they've engineered their little carbon-14 diamonds to generate a large quantity of electricity. Diamonds also operate as a semiconductor, absorbing energy and dispersing it via a heat sink.
However, since they are still radioactive, NDB encases the miniature nuclear power plants in other low-cost, non-radioactive carbon-12 diamonds. These glistening lab-created shells provide diamond-hard protection while also containing the carbon-14 diamonds' radiation.
NDA intends to manufacture batteries in a variety of common and unique sizes, including AA, AAA, 18650, and 2170. Each battery will feature many stacked diamond layers, as well as a tiny circuit board and a supercapacitor for energy collection, storage, and discharge. The ultimate result, the business claims, is a battery that will last an extremely long period.
According to NDB, a battery may live up to 28,000 years when utilized in a low-power setting, such as a satellite sensor. They predict a usable life of 90 years as a car battery, much longer than anyone vehicle would last—the business believes that one battery could theoretically power one pair of wheels after another. For consumer gadgets like phones and tablets, the firm estimates that a battery will last around nine years.
“Think of it in an iPhone,” NDB’s Neel Naicker tells New Atlas. "With the same size battery, it would charge it five times an hour from zero to full. Imagine that. Imagine a world where you wouldn’t have to charge your battery at all for the day. Now imagine for the week, for the month… How about for decades? That’s what we’re able to do with this technology.”
NDB expects commercialising a low-power version in a few of years, followed by a high-power version in roughly five years. If all goes according to plan, NDB's technology will represent a significant step forward in terms of delivering low-cost, long-term energy to the world's electronics and cars.
The company says, “We can start at the nanoscale and go up to power satellites, locomotives.”
Additionally, the business anticipates that its batteries will be comparably priced to existing batteries, including lithium-ion, and maybe much cheaper after they are produced of nuclear waste may even pay the company to take care of their poisonous issue.
The garbage of one enterprise becomes the diamonds of another.
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Something Massive Has Just Been Observed Inside Our Solar System Behind Our Sun During The Daytime via Unexplained Mysteries
Something Massive Has Just Been Observed Inside Our Solar System Behind Our Sun During The Daytime via Unexplained Mysteries
Something massive has just been observed inside our Solar System behind our Sun during the daytime. Today we take a look at this massive object that’s been observed behind the Sun during the daytime. Space is truly the final frontier, nowhere else on Earth are there as many seemingly unsolvable mysteries that leave scientists scratching their heads in the search for answers.
From mysterious flashes emanating from the depths of space to new glimpses of long obstructed planets, there is always progress being made in the attempt to uncover the deepest darkest secrets of space. Just recently this photograph was posted to various online groups that research strange discoveries in space. Thank you for watching!
The world's fastest airliner: Boom Supersonic Overture jet dubbed 'Son of Concorde' hits 1,300mph and runs on sustainable fuel - and could fly passengers from New York to London in 3.5HRS by 2029
The world's fastest airliner: Boom Supersonic Overture jet dubbed 'Son of Concorde' hits 1,300mph and runs on sustainable fuel - and could fly passengers from New York to London in 3.5HRS by 2029
American Airlines announced this week that it is buying 20 Boom Supersonic Overture jets
Overture is still in development but is tipped to be the 'world's fastest airliner', reaching Mach 1.7 (1,300mph)
This could slash the journey time between Miami and London from nine hours to just five
Overture is slated to roll out in 2025, fly in 2026 and expected to carry passengers by 2029
Ahead of its launch debut, MailOnline looks at the key features behind the Boom Superonic Overture
The idea of travelling from Miami to London in just five hours might sound too good to be true for many weary travellers.
But it could become a reality in just seven years, following the news that American Airlines has agreed to buy 20 Overture jets from aircraft maker Boom Supersonic.
The Overture, dubbed the 'Son of Concorde' is still under development, but is tipped to be the 'world's fastest airliner', reaching speeds of Mach 1.7 (about 1,300mph).
This is double the speed of current commercial jets, and could slash the journey time between Miami and London from nine hours to just five.
'Overture is our flagship aircraft, a supersonic commercial airplane that will carry up to 88 passengers,' Boom Supersonic explains on its website. 'We are designing Overture to industry-leading standards of speed, safety, and sustainability.'
Here's a look at the key features we expect to see in Overture, ahead of its roll out in 2025, first flight in 2026, and first passenger flight in 2029.
The Overture is still under development, but is tipped to be the 'world's fatest airliner', reaching speeds of Mach 1.7 (about 1,300mph). Overture is slated to roll out in 2025, fly in 2026 and expected to carry passengers by 2029
Still under development, the Overture is expected to reach speeds of Mach 1.7, or about 1,300 mph, roughly double the top speed of the fastest current commercial jets on the market, including the Boeing 747
Four-engine design
Overture is driven by four powerful wing-mounted engines that power the plane to cruising speeds of Mach 1.7 (1,300mph) over water, and just under Mach 1 (767mph) over land without the use of afterburners.
'The use of four engines keeps weight and temperature balanced, and shrinks the size requirements of each engine, which allows the production of those engines to fall within current supply chain and manufacturing capabilities,' Boom Supersonic explained.
Each engine is fed by a highly-efficient, streamline-traced, axisymmetric inlet.
These inlets provide 'exceptional' pressure consistency that allows the engines to operate with subsonic airflow at supersonic speed, according to Boom Supersonic.
'Engine placement was selected to conform to the strictest passenger safety requirements,' it added.
Quieter operation
While you might expect Overture to be incredibly loud, thankfully this isn't the case.
Using four engines results in lower thrust requirements for each, which means reduced overall noise levels, according to Boom Supersonic.
The plane is also fitted with the world's first automated noise reduction system.
'With no afterburners and buzz-free engines, Overture’s takeoffs will blend in with existing long-haul fleets, resulting in a quieter experience for both passengers and airport communities, meeting or exceeding ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) requirements for all subsonic aircraft operating over land and at or near airports,' Boom Supersonic explained.
Still under development, the Overture is expected to reach speeds of Mach 1.7, or about 1,300 mph, roughly double the top speed of the fastest current commercial jets on the market, including the Boeing 747
Boom says that Overture, which will be able to fly at 60,000ft and carry between 65 and 80 passengers, will use 'the world's first automated noise reduction system'
What is sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)?
SAF is a biofuel used to power aircraft that has similar properties to conventional jet fuel but with a smaller carbon footprint.
Depending on the feedstock and technologies used to produce it, SAF can reduce greenhouse gas emissions dramatically compared to conventional jet fuel.
Feedstocks for producing SAFs include:
Oil seeds
Algae
Other fats, oils, and greases
Agricultural residues
Forestry residues
Corn grain
Wood mill waste
Municipal solid waste streams
Wet wastes (manures, wastewater treatment sludge)
Dedicated energy crops
Contoured fuselage
Overture is designed to minimise drag and maximise fuel efficiency at supersonic speeds.
Boom Supersonic opted for a fuselage with a larger diameter towards the front of the aircraft, and a smaller diameter towards the rear.
Gull wings
Overture features gull wings, which allow air to flow smoothly over and around the aircraft.
A contoured wing profile reduces sonic shock strength and creates a swirling vortex along the entire wing surface that generates lift and reduces engine stress.
'Particular to Overture, this wing is a derivative of the traditional delta wing found on most supersonic aircraft,' (including Concorde), Boom Supersonic explained.
'The delta platform is optimised for supersonic flight but does not operate optimally in lower-speed / subsonic conditions.
'The complex gull-wing design was selected to optimise cruise and low-speed conditions.'
Carbon composite structure
The plane is built from a lighter carbon composite material, which makes it more fuel efficient, and thus more sustainable.
While many existing planes use aluminium as a key building material, Boom Supersonic says that carbon composite structures are a better option.
'The carbon-fibre composites maintain strength at elevated temperatures better than aluminium,' it explained.
'The composites expand and contract much less than metal under supersonic conditions, allowing Overture to fly at higher speeds more safely.'
'Overture is our flagship aircraft, a supersonic commercial airplane that will carry up to 88 passengers,' Boom Supersonic explains on its website. 'We are designing Overture to industry-leading standards of speed, safety, and sustainability'
Overture will be powered by four powerful, wing-mounted engines that enable the airliner to cruise at Mach 1.7 (1,300mph) over water and just under Mach 1 (770mph) over land
American Airlines on Tuesday agreed to buy up to 20 Overture jets (above) from aircraft maker Boom Supersonic, vowing to cut the time of long-haul flights over water nearly in half
Net zero carbon
Overture is built to operate on 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel - jet fuel made from sustainable and renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels.
'Environmental performance is being considered in all aspects of Overture, from design and production to flight and end-of-life recycling,' Boom Supersonic said.
'The engineering team prioritises circularity by repurposing used tooling, recycling components on the shop floor, and leveraging additive manufacturing techniques that result in less manufacturing waste and lighter, more fuel-efficient products.'
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CONCORDE: THE FIRST COMMERCIAL SUPERSONIC JET
Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet that was operated until 2003.
It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph or 2,180 k per hour at cruise altitude) and could seat 92 to 128 passengers.
It was first flown in 1969, but needed further tests to establish it as viable as a commercial aircraft.
Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued flying for the next 27 years.
It is one of only two supersonic transports to have been operated commercially.
The other is the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144, which ran for a much shorter period of time before it was grounded and retired due to safety and budget issues.
Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet that was operated until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph or 2,180 k per hour at cruise altitude) and could seat 92 to 128 passengers
Concorde was jointly developed and manufactured by Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) under an Anglo-French treaty.
Concorde's name, meaning harmony or union, reflects the cooperation on the project between the United Kingdom and France.
In the UK, any or all of the type are known simply as 'Concorde', without an article.
Twenty aircraft were built including six prototypes and development aircraft.
Air France (AF) and British Airways (BA) each received seven aircraft.
The research and development failed to make a profit and the two airlines bought the aircraft at a huge discount.
Among other destinations, Concorde flew regular transatlantic flights from London Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to New York-JFK, Washington Dulles and Barbados.
It flew these routes in less than half the time of other airliners.
Over time, the aircraft became profitable when it found a customer base willing to pay for flights on what was for most of its career the fastest commercial airliner in the world.
The aircraft is regarded by many as an aviation icon and an engineering marvel, but it was also criticized for being uneconomical, lacking a credible market, and consuming more fuel to carry fewer passengers than a Boeing 747.
Concorde was retired in 2003 due to a general downturn in the commercial aviation industry after the type's only crash in 2000, the September 11 attacks in 2001, and a decision by Airbus, the successor to Aérospatiale and BAC, to discontinue maintenance support.
American Airlines Agrees to Buy 20 Boom Supersonic Jets
American Airlines Agrees to Buy 20 Boom Supersonic Jets
Carrier joins United Airlines in betting on return of faster-than-sound flying nearly two decades after Concorde’s last flight
Boom Supersonic has said it expects its newly redesigned four-engine Overture jets to roll off the production line in 2025 and to carry passengers by 2029.
American Airlines GroupInc.AAL -3.48%agreed to buy 20 planes from Boom Supersonic, betting on the future of an ultra-fast plane that is still years away.
American put down a nonrefundable deposit on its initial 20 aircraft, known as the Overture, and has the option to purchase 40 more, the companies said Tuesday. The companies didn’t disclose additional financial details of the transaction.
Aerospace startup Boom is developing new planes capable of traveling at supersonic speeds, faster than the speed of sound. Overture is being designed to carry 65 to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7 over water, or 1.7 times the speed of sound—about twice as fast as commercial planes can fly today.
“Supersonic travel will be an important part of our ability to deliver for our customers,” Derek Kerr, American’s chief financial officer, said in a statement Tuesday.
Boom has said Overture will be able to fly over 600 routes in half the time those flights currently take—such as Miami to London in under five hours, and Los Angeles to Honolulu in three hours—at fares comparable with current business-class prices.
Some companies have tried to develop supersonic business jets and small passenger planes since the Concorde was retired in 2003.
PHOTO: MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES
Some industry observers are skeptical both about the level of demand for ultra-fast travel and of Boom’s plans. Boom has said it expects its newly redesigned four-engine Overture jets to roll off the production line in 2025 and to carry passengers by 2029.
The jet still doesn’t have an engine maker. Boom has had discussions with Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc, and a spokeswoman said Tuesday that Boom is now evaluating the results of Rolls-Royce’s work and assessing market requirements and design alternatives.
Other companies have tried to develop supersonic business jets and small passenger planes since the Concorde was retired in 2003. Aerion Supersonic, a startup backed by Boeing Co. , closed last year after running out of money.
Only British Airways and Air France bought the Concorde. High costs and concerns about the noise the Concorde produced wound up curtailing its use to pricey luxury trips between Europe and the East Coast. Declining demand after a fatal crash in 2000 and the travel slump after the 9/11 attacks led to the Concorde’s retirement.
Boom Chief Executive Blake Scholl has said previously that there have been significant technological advances since the Concorde was designed, such as lighter carbon-fiber components.
Boom currently has 130 orders for its Overture, the company said Tuesday, compared with 14 Concordes that ever entered service. In addition to United and American, Japan Airlines Co. Ltd. preordered 20 of the aircraft in 2017.
United last week agreed to put down a $10 million deposit for its order of air taxis being developed by Archer Aviation Inc, deepening its commitment to another nascent aviation technology.
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Astronomers Discover 'First of Its Kind' 3-Star System in Deep Space
Astronomers Discover 'First of Its Kind' 3-Star System in Deep Space
Somewhere in the depths of our universe, a stellar ballet is underway. Against the dark curtain of space, three enormous, glittering stars are locked in dance by their own gravitational forces and aglow in their shared luminescence.
Two blazing balls of gas are tightly pirouetting around each other, completing their mutual orbit to the rhythm of an Earth day. Simultaneously, a third star steadily encircles the pair, casting a spotlight on the performance.
Details of the cosmic situation can be found in a paper published in June in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "As far as we know, it is the first of its kind ever detected," Alejandro Vigna-Gomez, an astrophysicist at the University of Copenhagen and co-author of the paper, said in a statement Monday.
Though this animation is of a star and a black hole binary system, it helps illustrate what binary objects' motions would look like.
Even though we know of many tertiary star systems, per Vigna-Gomez, not only are they much farther apart than this sparkly trio, but they're also typically less massive.
By quite a bit. According to the new paper, the internal, close-quarter binary stars hold a combined mass approximately 12 times that of our sun, and the wide-field globe surrounding them boasts a whopping 16 times the mass of our sun.
For context, it would take more than 330,000 Earths to match one solar mass, a quantity that comprises 99.8% of the mass of our entire solar system. Simply put, these stellar ballerinas are absolutely colossal. But in the grand scheme of things, Vigna-Gomez was after much more than merely identifying this unusual starry arrangement.
The goal was to decode precisely how such a fierce triplet -- formally dubbed TIC 470710327 -- came together in the first place. A missing ballerina Along with fellow researcher Bin Liu, a theoretical astrophysicist also affiliated with the University of Copenhagen, Vigna-Gomez first came up with several options for the newly observed three-star system's backstory.
Foremost, there was the idea that the bigger, outer star formed first. However, this option eventually fell through because, after some investigation, the team realized such a starry leviathan would've likely ejected material inward that would disrupt the binary stars' formation.
There wouldn't have been a trio. There'd have been gaseous rubble spilling in all directions. Second, the team considered that the binary star dancers and third star spectator might've formed separately -- far away from each other -- then eventually have fallen together by some force of gravity.
Though this particular scenario hasn't been totally ruled out yet, the researchers think it still might not be the best one. They're much more focused on the final and preferred possibility. A slightly less collaborative one.
What if two individual binary star systems formed near each other, the researchers wondered, then maybe one of those pairs merged into a giant star? If true, that massive combo star would be the outer one we see today, orbiting the smaller -- but still huge -- stars within. In other words, it could be possible that a fourth dancer was part of this cosmic ballet, but was unfortunately eaten up by its own partner prior to the final scene.
Well, as of the team's new research -- based on tons of computer models and fascinatingly rooted in the discoveries of citizen scientists -- this case was the most probable. "But a model is not enough," Vigna-Gomez said, arguing that to prove his and Liu's suspicion with high certainty would require either using telescopes to study the tertiary system in better detail or statistically analyzing nearby star populations.
"We also encourage people in the scientific community to look at the data deeply," Liu said in a statement. "What we really want to know is whether this kind of system is common in our universe."
FURIOUS DOLPHIN BITES AT LEAST SIX BEACHGOERS IN JAPAN
FURIOUS DOLPHIN BITES AT LEAST SIX BEACHGOERS IN JAPAN
WHAT THE HECK!?
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Ragin' Cetacean
Right as "Jaws" hits theaters again this summer, one dolphin in the sea of Japan is looking to put that titular maneater to shame.
According to Japanese newspaper The Mainichi, officials say that a single dastardly dolphin has been responsible for at least six different attacks on humans this month, prowling the shores of several beaches of the Fukui Prefecture in Japan.
One swimmer required 14 stitches after a nasty bite to their hand. Another beachgoer found his arm clamped in the jaws of the furious creature, and when he attempted to pry it free, the dolphin almost forced him underwater by lunging on top of him. There have been at least 17 different dolphin attacks in total since that date, but it's unclear how many of those that the feared dolphin is responsible for.
Shore Thing
We’re not talking about attacks on people wading far out into the ocean. In fact, most of them occurred less than ten yards from shore.
After the initial wave of dolphin attacks, the city of Fukui installed underwater, ultrasonic wave emitting devices to stave off sea animals, The Mainichi reports. But the rogue dolphin has continued to strike even in the face of those deterrents, at least twice more as of Tuesday.
In the grand scheme of things, dolphin attacks on humans are quite rare — and so are shark attacks, it’s worth mentioning, contrary to what Spielberg’s blockbuster might have you believe — but that doesn’t mean beachgoers shouldn’t be careful.
"There are certain body parts where dolphins don’t like to be touched, like the tip of their nose and their dorsal fin," cautioned a tourism department official while speaking to Agence France-Presse, quoted by The Guardian.
Sea Psychos
Despite their cheery status in pop culture, dolphins can be shockingly cruel, likely in part due to their high levels of intelligence. They’re some of the biggest assholes in the ocean, mutilating the babies of other sea creatures for fun, and other grisly details we’d rather not mention here.
So if you see a dolphin swimming your way, treat it with the same respect and caution you would any other wild animal — and maybe just leave it alone entirely.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s planets, moons or stars: Although the countless celestial bodies in the universe sometimes differ greatly from one another, all these objects still have one thing in common – they are finite structures. Basically, it can be said that the processes in space are also subject to a constant rhythm of decline and new creation.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s planets, moons or stars: Although the countless celestial bodies in the universe sometimes differ greatly from one another, all these objects still have one thing in common – they are finite structures. Basically, it can be said that the processes in space are also subject to a constant rhythm of decline and new creation.
Those areas in which new stars and planets are born are therefore among the most important galactic regions among experts. The central question of how the formation processes of new celestial bodies in the universe are fueled has always been one of the most important aspects of modern space research.
However, some employees of the University of Copenhagen have now experienced first-hand that the investigation of the corresponding areas can also bring fabulous surprises to light. You can find out what unexpected circumstances the researchers were confronted with and what unique astronomical discoveries the experts were able to make in the recent past in today’s post
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