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21-08-2022 om 00:37 geschreven door peter  

Is THIS why we're yet to find aliens? Intelligent life may exist but be too SCARED of 'dangerous' humans to visit Earth, expert claims

• No life beyond Earth has been found and there's no evidence alien life has visited
• But this may be due to alien life being too scared of 'dangerous, violent' humans 
• Dr Gordon Gallup at University of Albany says we engage in endless bloody wars

By JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE 

Sci-fi films and TV shows have routinely depicted a brutal race of aliens visiting Earth in their spaceships and enslaving unfortunate Earthlings.  

But according to one expert, extraterrestrial life may actually be too scared of 'dangerous' and 'violent' humans to want to come here. 

Dr Gordon Gallup, a biopsychologist at the University of Albany, argues that humans are 'dangerous, violent and ceaselessly engage in endless bloody conflicts and war'. 

For this reason, aliens with the technological capability of making a visit to Earth – if they exist – are likely inclined to stay away for fear of death and genocide, according to Dr Gallup. 

No life beyond Earth has ever been found and there is no evidence that alien life has ever visited our planet. But this may be due to extraterrestrial life being too scared of 'dangerous' and 'violent' humans

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Dr Gordon Gallup (pictured) is a biopsychologist at the University at Albany

Dr Gallup has presented his argument in an open access paper published in the Journal of Astrobiology this month.  

'If [alien life] exists it may have found us by now and discovered that humans are dangerous, violent and ceaselessly engage in endless bloody conflicts and war, and continually develop even more powerful weapons of mass destruction,' Dr Gallup says. 

'It would also be obvious, that as a byproduct of increasing pollution, habitat destruction, coupled with endless wars, pillage, death, destruction and the desire for conquest, that humans pose an unparalleled and unprecedented risk not only to other life forms on Earth but to life on other planets.'

As an example, Dr Gallup cites 'the total destruction of the highly advanced Aztec and Inca civilizations' and the subsequent genocide of the native people, their temples and buildings destroyed and their wealth and natural resources stolen.

'If the humans of Earth became aware of advanced civilizations and desirable resources on other worlds, might these native extraterrestrial populations eventually suffer the same fate as befell the natives of Mexico and Peru?,' he writes.

'If there is intelligent life elsewhere, they may view humans as extremely dangerous. Maybe this is why there is no proof or compelling evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence: we pose too great a risk, and they do not want to be discovered.' 

During his lifetime, the famous British astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking (pictured) raised concerns about the dangers posed by intelligent and hostile extraterrestrials

During his lifetime, the famous British astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking raised concerns about the dangers posed by intelligent and hostile extraterrestrials, Dr Gallup points out. 

These aliens might arrive to conquer, enslave, destroy, and colonise humans to exploit the resources of our planet having exhausted those of their own.  

This has long been perpetuated by TV and film – for example, 'Battlefield Earth', a 2000 film based on a novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, depicts a brutal race of giant aliens called 'The Psychlos' subjecting humans to slave labour. 

According to Professor Hawking, the outcome might be analogous to when Columbus came to America, which did not turn out well for Native Americans, Dr Gallup says. 

But the truth could be completely the opposite – it might also be possible that aliens live in fear of being found. 

Overall, humans are unique because 'they have developed the technological capability to cause their own extinction'. 

'Humans appear to be poised at the brink of reaching the tipping point when it comes to our dependence on fossil fuels and the resulting effects on climate change,' Dr Gallup says. 

'The trajectory suggests that for the first time in the history of Earth, we are headed for a mass extinction that is occurring as a result of the actions of a single species; i.e., human.' 

In 'Battlefield Earth (2000) a brutal race of giant aliens called 'The Psychlos' that have subjected humans to slave labour for 1,000 years

So far, astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 of exoplanets confirmed to be orbiting other stars in our galaxy. Pictured is an artist's rendering of an exoplanet and its moon 

The paper draws on the Fermi paradox, which is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations and various high estimates for their probability.

In other words, if there is extraterrestrial life, why have we not found any evidence for it?

According to estimates from Erik Zackrisson, an astrophysicist at Uppsala University in Sweden, there are 70 quintillion planets in the universe – that's 7 followed by 20 zeroes.  

In the Milky Way galaxy alone, there many as many as six billion Earth-like planets, according to a 2020 study by University of British Columbia astronomers. 

According to NASA, some 4.933 exoplanets – planets outside our own solar system – have been confirmed in 3,704 systems. 

The majority of these exoplanets are gaseous, like Jupiter or Neptune, rather than terrestrial, according to NASA's online database.  

As for whether intelligent life exists other than on Earth, Dr Gallup says: 'The history of biology on Earth makes it clear that intelligent, technologically sophisticated life is the exception rather than the rule. 

'Despite billions of different lifeforms, the track record of intelligent life with complex tool-making capabilities and the cognitive ability to achieve self-consciousness, indicate that it has only appeared once, which makes the prospect of finding technologically sophisticated intelligent life elsewhere exponentially remote.'  

WHAT IS THE FERMI PARADOX?

The Fermi Paradox questions why, given the estimated 200bn-400bn stars and at least 100bn planets in our galaxy, there have been no signs of alien life. 

The contradiction is named after its creator, Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.

He first posed the question back in 1950.

Fermi believed it was too extraordinary that a single extraterrestrial signal or engineering project has yet to be detected in the universe — despite its immense vastness. 

Fermi concluded there must a barrier that limits the rise of intelligent, self-aware, technologically advanced space-colonising civilisations.

This barrier is sometimes referred to as the 'Great Filter'.

Italian physicist Enrico Fermi devised the so-called Fermi Paradox in the 1950s. It explores why there is no sign of alien life, despite the 100 billions planets in our galaxy

If the main obstacle preventing the colonisation of other planets is not in our past, then the barrier that will stop humanity's prospects of reaching other worlds must lie in our future, scientists have theorised.  

Professor Brian Cox believes the advances in science and engineering required by a civilisation to start conquering the stars ultimately lead to its destruction.

 He said: 'One solution to the Fermi paradox is that it is not possible to run a world that has the power to destroy itself and that needs global collaborative solutions to prevent that.

‘It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably outstrips the development of political expertise, leading to disaster.'

Other possible explanations for the Fermi Paradox include that no other intelligent species have arisen in the universe, intelligent alien species are out there — but lack the necessary technology to communicate with Earth.

Some believe that the distances between intelligent civilsations are too great to allow any kind of two-way communication.

If two worlds are separated by several thousand light-years, it's possible that one or both civilisation will be extinct before a dialogue can be established. 

The so-called Zoo hypothesis claims intelligent alien life is out there, but deliberately avoids any contact with life on Earth to allow its natural evolution. 

Read more:

• (PDF) Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Cognitive Evolutionary Perspective

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20-08-2022 om 23:53 geschreven door peter  

NASA’s First Flight With Crew Important Step on Long-term Return to the Moon, Missions to Mars

NASA’s First Flight With Crew Important Step on Long-term Return to the Moon, Missions to Mars

Astronauts on their first flight aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft will travel farther into the solar system than humanity has ever traveled before. Their mission will be to confirm all of the spacecraft’s systems operate as designed with crew aboard in the actual environment of deep space. The Artemis II flight test will be NASA’s first mission with crew and will pave the way to land the first woman and next man on the Moon on Artemis III. Building on those early missions, NASA’s Artemis program will return humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and future missions to worlds beyond, including Mars.

“The unique Artemis II mission profile will build upon the uncrewed Artemis I flight test by demonstrating a broad range of SLS and Orion capabilities needed on deep space missions,” said Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager. “This mission will prove Orion’s critical life support systems are ready to sustain our astronauts on longer duration missions ahead and allow the crew to practice operations essential to the success of Artemis III.”

Leaving Earth

The mission will launch a crew of four astronauts from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2023 on a Block 1 configuration of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The flight profile is called a hybrid free return trajectory. Orion will perform multiple maneuvers to raise its orbit around Earth and eventually place the crew on a lunar free return trajectory in which Earth’s gravity will naturally pull Orion back home after flying by the Moon. 

The initial launch will be similar to Artemis I as SLS lofts Orion into space, and then jettisons the boosters, service module panels, and launch abort system, before the core stage engines shut down and the core stage separates from the upper stage and the spacecraft. With crew aboard this mission, Orion and the upper stage, called the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS), will then orbit Earth twice to ensure Orion’s systems are working as expected while still close to home. The spacecraft will first reach an initial orbit, flying in the shape of an ellipse, at an altitude of about 115 by 1,800 miles. The orbit will last a little over 90 minutes and will include the first firing of the ICPS to maintain Orion’s path. After the first orbit, the ICPS will raise Orion to a high-Earth orbit. This maneuver will enable the spacecraft to build up enough speed for the eventual push toward the Moon. The second, larger orbit will take approximately 42 hours with Orion flying in an ellipse between about 235 and 68,000 miles above Earth. For perspective, the International Space Station flies a nearly circular Earth orbit about 250 miles above our planet. 

After the burn to enter high-Earth orbit, Orion will separate from the ICPS. The expended stage will have one final use before it is disposed through Earth’s atmosphere—the crew will use it as a target for a proximity operations demonstration. During the demonstration, mission controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will monitor Orion as the astronauts transition the spacecraft to manual mode and pilot Orion’s flight path and orientation. The crew will use Orion’s onboard cameras and the view from the spacecraft’s windows to line up with the ICPS as they approach and back away from the stage to assess Orion’s handling qualities and related hardware and software. This demonstration will provide performance data and operational experience that cannot be readily gained on the ground in preparation for critical rendezvous, proximity operations and docking, as well as undocking operations in lunar orbit beginning on Artemis III.

Checking Critical Systems

Following the proximity operations demonstration, the crew will turn control of Orion back to mission controllers at Johnson and spend the remainder of the orbit verifying spacecraft system performance in the space environment. They will remove the Orion Crew Survival System suit they wear for launch and spend the remainder of the in-space mission in plain clothes, until they don their suits again to prepare for reentry into Earth’s atmosphere and recovery from the ocean.

While still close to Earth, the crew will assess the performance of the life support systems necessary to generate breathable air and remove the carbon dioxide and water vapor produced when the astronauts breathe, talk, or exercise. The long orbital period around Earth provides an opportunity to test the systems during exercise periods, where the crew’s metabolic rate is the highest, and a sleep period, where the crew’s metabolic rate is the lowest. A change between the suit mode and cabin mode in the life support system, as well as performance of the system during exercise and sleep periods, will confirm the full range of life support system capabilities and ensure readiness for the lunar flyby portion of the mission.

Orion will also checkout the communication and navigation systems to confirm they are ready for the trip to the Moon. While still in the elliptical orbit around Earth, Orion will briefly fly beyond the range of GPS satellites and the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites of NASA’s Space Network to allow an early checkout of agency’s Deep Space Network communication and navigation capabilities. When Orion travels out to and around the Moon, mission control will depend on the Deep Space Network to communicate with the astronauts, send imagery to Earth, and command the spacecraft.

After completing checkout procedures, Orion will perform the next propulsion move, called the translunar injection (TLI) burn. With the ICPS having done most of the work to put Orion into a high-Earth orbit, the service module will provide the last push needed to put Orion on a path toward the Moon. The TLI burn will send crew on an outbound trip of about four days and around the backside of the moon where they will ultimately create a figure eight extending over 230,000 miles from Earth before Orion returns home.

To the Moon and “Free” ride home

On the remainder of the trip, astronauts will continue to evaluate the spacecraft’s systems, including including demonstrating Earth departure and return operations, practicing emergency procedures, and testing the radiation shelter, among other activities.

The Artemis II crew will travel 4,600 miles beyond the far side of the Moon. From this vantage point, they will be able to see the Earth and the Moon from Orion’s windows, with the Moon close in the foreground and the Earth nearly a quarter-million miles in the background.

With a return trip of about four days, the mission is expected to last just over 10 days. Instead of requiring propulsion on the return, this fuel-efficient trajectory harnesses the Earth-Moon gravity field, ensuring that—after its trip around the far side of the Moon—Orion will be pulled back naturally by Earth’s gravity for the free return portion of the mission.

Two missions, two different trajectories

Following these first two test flights, Orion and a crew of four will once again travel to the Moon, this time to make history with the first woman and next man to walk on its surface. Beginning with Artemis III, NASA intends to launch crewed missions about once per year, with initial missions focused on establishing surface capabilities and building the Gateway in orbit around the Moon.

“Together, these test flights will demonstrate the capabilities we need to land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024 and enable sustainable missions for decades to come,” said Sarafin. “We will take the experience gained exploring the Moon to prepare for the next giant leap to Mars.”

NASA is leading a return to the Moon through an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities. SLS and Orion are critical backbone capabilities, along with the Gateway in lunar orbit and a modern human landing system, that will enable human missions of increasing complexity in deep space.

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20-08-2022 om 23:19 geschreven door peter  

Pilots of a passenger plane flying over Columbia at 30,000 feet noticed a strange object with no wings and no visible propulsion that was moving in the opposite direction of the aircraft. 

With all those strange objects in the sky over the last few years, we may wonder whether this possible secret man-made object is one of the latest developments referring to the infamous tic-tac UFOs. 

One of the pilots managed to capture the cube-shaped UFO on February 2020.

  

20-08-2022 om 22:44 geschreven door peter  

Huge cigar shaped UFO over Sinsheim, Germany

This interesting UFO video was recently filmed over Sinsheim, a town in south-western Germany.

What do you think about this UAP sighting? Please leave your comment below!

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20-08-2022 om 22:33 geschreven door peter  

Hubble Space Telescope Provides A Closer Look At the Rarest Metallic Asteroid Worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000

Between Mars and Jupiter lies an incredibly rare metallic asteroid that is worth more than the entire world economy. The Hubble Space Telescope has now provided us with a closer look at the object, which is estimated to be worth $10 quadrillion dollars.

New research published this week in The Planetary Science Journal looks deeper than ever before into the secrets of the asteroid 16 Psyche, one of the solar system's most enormous objects in the main asteroid belt around Mars and Jupiter, roughly 230 million miles from Earth. It has a diameter of around 140 miles or nearly the size of Massachusetts.

The majority of asteroids consist of rock or ice. But 16 Psyche is dense and composed mostly of metal, likely the remnant core of a planet that never fully formed — a so-called "protoplanet" whose mantle was stripped away by collisions that revealed its core.

This research represents the first ultraviolet (UV) observations of the celestial body. The asteroid may be composed completely of iron and nickel, which are present in the dense cores of planets, according to new findings.

"We've seen meteorites that are mostly metal, but Psyche could be unique in that it might be an asteroid that is totally made of iron and nickel," lead author Dr. Tracy Becker said in a statement. "Earth has a metal core, a mantle and crust. It's possible that as a Psyche protoplanet was forming, it was struck by another object in our solar system and lost its mantle and crust."

Scientists examined the asteroid at two points throughout its rotation in order to examine the UV wavelength information of both sides. They discovered that the surface may be composed mostly of iron, but cautioned that even a modest quantity of iron would dominate UV data.

"We were able to identify for the first time on any asteroid what we think are iron oxide ultraviolet absorption bands," Becker said. "This is an indication that oxidation is happening on the asteroid, which could be a result of the solar wind hitting the surface."

The solar wind is the movement of charged particles across the solar system from the sun's upper atmosphere, known as the corona. It is responsible for comet tails, aurora formations, and the putative "space weathering" of Psyche.

Researchers also reported that the asteroid grew more reflective at deeper UV wavelengths, which may indicate its age.

"This is something that we need to study further," Becker said. "This could be indicative of it being exposed in space for so long. This type of UV brightening is often attributed to space weathering."

Metal asteroids are uncommon, therefore Psyche gives a fascinating chance for scientists to examine the inside of a planet. NASA intends to send the unmanned spacecraft Psyche on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in 2022 in order to investigate the asteroid in an effort to understand its history and that of related asteroids. This will be the first time a mission will visit a fully metallic body.

In January 2026, the orbiter will arrive at the asteroid to investigate it for about two years. The head of the project at Arizona State University thinks that the iron alone would be worth $10,000 quadrillion dollars on the current market.

"What makes Psyche and the other asteroids so interesting is that they're considered to be the building blocks of the solar system," Becker said. "To understand what really makes up a planet and to potentially see the inside of a planet is fascinating. Once we get to Psyche, we're really going to understand if that's the case, even if it doesn't turn out as we expect. Any time there's a surprise, it's always exciting.

Reference(s): 

• Peer-Reviewed Research, 
• Press Release

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20-08-2022 om 01:32 geschreven door peter  

Weird Energy Beam Just Left A Galaxy Travelling At Five Times the Speed of Light And Hubble Caught It

Please welcome to the stage a master illusionist. An energy beam that stabs out of galaxy M87 like a toothpick in a cocktail olive is pulling off the ultimate magic trick: seeming to move faster than the speed of light.

Almost five times faster, in fact, as measured by the Hubble Space Telescope. This feat was first observed in 1995 in galaxy M87, and has been seen in many other galaxies since. It might have you questioning your entire reality. Nothing can break the cosmic speed limit, right? You can’t just flaunt the laws of physics… can you?

If you want to just enjoy the illusion from your seat in the audience, stop reading. Otherwise, I welcome you backstage for a look at how the trick works – and how it’s helping astronomers to understand the fate of entire galaxies.

Blobs faster than light?

We’ve known about the jet of plasma shooting from the core of M87 since 1918, when astronomer Heber Curtis saw a ray of light connected to the galaxy. To be visible from so far away, it had to be huge – about 6000 light years long.

As modern astronomers now know, pretty much all galaxies have a central black hole that periodically draws in stars and gas clouds. When gas begins to swirl down the drain, it heats up and magnetic fields focus some of it into jets of hot plasma. These jets shoot out at velocities near to – but not faster than – the speed of light.

Cosmic uncertainty: Is the speed of light really constant?

If you were to aim a telescope into the sky towards M87, you would see that this lance of plasma is askew. Instead of pointing exactly into our line of sight, it’s angled a bit to the right.

To understand the illusion, picture a single glowing blob of plasma starting at the base of this path and emitting a ray of light, both of which travel towards Earth. Now wait 10 years. In that time, the blob has moved closer at a sizeable fraction of the speed of light. That gives the rays emitted from that later position a few light years’ head start on the way to us.

If you compare the first and second images from Earth’s perspective, it looks like the blob has just moved across the sky to the right. But because the second position is also closer to us, its light has had less far to travel than it appears. That means it seems to have arrived there faster than it actually did – as if the blob spent those 10 years travelling at ludicrous speed.

One among many

The jet from M87 is more than just a curiosity, says Eileen Meyer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

All over the universe, outflows of energy from massive black holes can stop or start the formation of stars throughout galaxies. But it’s unclear how these outflows work and how much energy they contain.

By appearing to move faster than light, jets such as the M87 one change visibly over just a few years, which is unusual for distant objects like galaxies. That allows astronomers to make precise estimates of how fast the plasma is moving and thus how powerful the process is.M87 is special because it is relatively close compared to other galaxies, making it easy to study. In 1999, astronomers used Hubble pictures of the jet taken over four years to see that plasma ripple outwards. In 2013, Meyer lengthened that to 13 years of images, which seemed to show that the plasma might also be moving in corkscrew-like spirals – as if it wasn’t complicated enough.

Fresh results from Meyer, now being prepared for publication, extend that baseline again to a total of more than two decades and may offer new surprises. “Over 20 years, you know, things go bump in the night,” she says.

And although the faster-than-light effect is old hat to her, she still stops to appreciate it sometimes. Most things we see travelling across the sky, such as planets and comets, are close to us. But M87 is tens of millions of light years away. “We can see, over a human lifetime, things moving,” she says. “Which is crazy.”

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20-08-2022 om 01:06 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers Have Revealed a Black Hole's Photon Ring for the First Time

In 2019 the Event Horizon Telescope gave us our . It was a powerful image, but not one with much detail. It looks like a blurry orange donut. To be fair, the real meat of the discovery was in the data, not the image. And as a recent study shows, there’s a great deal more in the data than what we’ve seen.

One of the important things to understand about the EHT image is that it doesn’t show the glow of the black hole itself. Black holes don’t emit light directly. And unlike less detailed images of supermassive black holes we have, the glow isn’t due to jets of plasma or a torus of superheated gas around the black hole. Instead, the image shows radio light that was focused by the black hole.

The black hole in M87 is bathed in light from nearby gas, including radio light. When a particular beam of light passes close to the black hole, the warping of spacetime causes it to change direction a bit. We’ve observed the slight deflection of light from things such as the stars and galaxies numerous times, but close to a black hole the light can change direction significantly. It could loop around to make a right-angle turn, or even end up heading back from the direction it came. The closer the path to the black hole, the more radical the change in direction.

Light is passing near the black hole in all sorts of directions, but from our perspective, we can only see the light that is focused toward us. Any beam of light that loops around the black hole and heads our way, we should be able to see. It turns out that the black hole can act as a really strong lens. Light can pass extremely close to the black hole, and get focused directly toward us. So what we should see is a thin circle of light known as the photon ring. Part of the right will be brighter since the rotation of the black hole also gives the light a bit of an energy boost. The size of the ring depends on the mass of the black hole, and the brightness of the brighter region depends on the black hole’s rotation.

So why doesn’t the EHT image show the photon ring? Unfortunately, the space between us and the black hole isn’t completely empty. There is still a surrounding region of cold gas, which the light has to pass through to reach us. Some of the light scatters along the way, making the image more blurry than we’d like. This is where the new study comes in.

The diffuse glow of the EHT image tells us not only about the black hole but also about the diffuse gas surrounding the black hole. The team noted that there are essentially two images within the EHT data. One is that of the photon ring itself, and the other is the blurry glow of the surrounding region. Using new imaging algorithms, the team was able to separate the two, revealing the black hole’s photon ring.

It’s a great example of the power of analyzing data in new ways. Modern astronomical observations gather so much data that there is often much more information than we might suspect. As we learn how to process data more effectively, we can reveal layers hidden under the surface.

Reference:

•  Broderick, A. E., et al. “The Photon Ring in M87*.” The Astrophysical Journal 935.1 (2022): 61.

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19-08-2022 om 23:58 geschreven door peter  

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19-08-2022 om 22:51 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sightings in the United States

Sightings are from MUFON CMS

California Object

Vallejo on 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

Naples on 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

Dyer on 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 Paso on 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

Edmonds on 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

Sunderland on 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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19-08-2022 om 22:50 geschreven door peter  

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

 

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19-08-2022 om 21:15 geschreven door peter  

Airline Pilot Sees Foofighter over Wilmington, North Carolina Aug 12, 2022, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 12, 2022

Location of sighting: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Email report: send to scwaring@yahoo.com

 

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

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19-08-2022 om 20:53 geschreven door peter  

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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19-08-2022 om 20:31 geschreven door peter  

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

By SAM TONKIN FOR MAILONLINE

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

'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.

Read more:

• Impact crater may be dinosaur killer's baby cousin - BBC News
• www.science.org/...

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19-08-2022 om 01:31 geschreven door peter  

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.

Joeri Vlemings  

 Bron: BBC News

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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19-08-2022 om 01:00 geschreven door peter  

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 have studied in detail the 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

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19-08-2022 om 00:21 geschreven door peter  

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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18-08-2022 om 23:22 geschreven door peter  

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.

  

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18-08-2022 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

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.

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18-08-2022 om 22:50 geschreven door peter  

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?

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.

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.

The International Space Station can be very spectacular as it moves majestically across the starry background, and indeed it is possible to see the ISS in the night sky.

However, all these reports can be explained at once.

Strange phenomena in our atmosphere? Ball lightning is probably the oldest and is still not fully understood.

It is rare, and I have seen it only once in my 86 years – but nobody could possibly take it for an alien spacecraft.

If you do see it, treat it with respect. It is liable to go off with a bang!

For more of these, read our guide to things commonly mistaken for UFOs.

Receiving messages from an alien civilisation

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

Authors

Patrick Moore Astronomer

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.

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18-08-2022 om 01:25 geschreven door peter