Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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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...
24-10-2022
NASA Gets Serious About UFOs - Unveils Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study Team Members
NASA Gets Serious About UFOs - Unveils Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study Team Members
Paul Seaburn
For the organization which has spent more time in outer space that any other, NASA has been slow to embrace the idea of unidentified flying objects. Even when its own astronauts swear they have seen UAPs, the space agency has stepped back from acknowledging them, let alone investigating them. As the Department of Defense finally admitted that videos of UAPs taken by military pilots and naval ship personnel are real and the U.S. Congress demanded and received briefings and hearings, NASA this summer decided to jump on the UAP bandwagon and announced it would form a panel to investigate them. After months of searching, that panel has finally been announced. Let’s take a look at who is on it and why, and then compare it to some rival organizations.
“Exploring the unknown in space and the atmosphere is at the heart of who we are at NASA. Understanding the data we have surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena is critical to helping us draw scientific conclusions about what is happening in our skies. Data is the language of scientists and makes the unexplainable, explainable.”
In the NASA press release, Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, makes some bold statements about a 16-person commission with a budget under $100,000 and only nine months to complete the project. But we’ll have to take when we can get from the organization that usually gives nothing on the subject. At the head of the table is David Spergel, the chair of the study. Spergel is the president of the Simons Foundation where he was the founding director of its Flatiron Institute for Computational Astrophysics and helped establish the standard model of cosmology.
Two names on the panel that should be familiar to the general public are Scott Kelly and Frederico Bianco. Kelly is a veteran NASA astronaut – having served on four space missions, including a one -year stint on the International Space Station – and is have of the human space travel guinea pigs team with his identical twin brother and fellow astronaut Mark Kelly, now a U.S. senator. Scott Kelly was asked by CNN in 2021 if he believes in UFOs or extraterrestrials and he said, “No. I think the distances are too great. The physics are... The nearest Earth-like planet, if we went as fast as we could, would take 80,000 years to get there." If UFO believers were hoping for a fighter on the team, Scott Kelly isn’t it … but Federica Bianco is. The Italian-born astrophysicist took up boxing for fitness and while living in New York and found she was good enough to turn pro – competing in competitions like Beautiful Brawlers and the National Women’s Golden Gloves. Bianco calls herself “The Mad Scientist” and has real science credentials – she is a joint professor at the University of Delaware, is the principal investigator of Federica Astrostatistics Lab (FASTLab), and coordinates more than 1,500 scientists for the 2023 Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Science Collaboration to discover new galaxies and stars in the southern sky.
Former astronaut Scott Kelly
With some UAPs also showing underwater capabilities, the team decided to include biological oceanographer Paula Bontempi, a professor of oceanography University of Rhode Island and a NASA veteran who was the acting deputy director of NASA’s Earth Science Division for the Science Mission Directorate and worked on many NASA Earth observing satellite missions. To help include non-military UFOs in the evaluation is Karlin Toner, the acting executive director of the FAA’s Office of Aviation Policy and Plans, who previously was the director of the Airspace Systems Program at NASA Headquarters. Also representing the FAA is Warren Randolph, the deputy executive director of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Accident Investigation and Prevention for Aviation Safety department. This is a good sign that the many UFOs seen by commercial pilots will be included in the NASA research. To make sure the photos are clear and the facts checked thoroughly is science journalist Nadia Drake, a contributing writer at National Geographic and Scientific American covering astronomy, astrophysics, planetary sciences, and jungles and the holder of a doctorate in genetics.
The search of extraterrestrial intelligence will be represented on the panel by Anamaria Berea, an associate professor of Computational and Data Science at George Mason University and a research affiliate with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, focusing on the science of both biosignatures and technosignatures as signs of intelligent life. Representing the issues of the Department of Defense is Reggie Brothers, the former undersecretary for Science and Technology at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research at the Department of Defense. On the medical side – if they happen to uncover some living ETs – is Jen Buss who worked with NASA on strategic planning processes for astronaut medical care. When it comes to negotiating with those living extraterrestrials, the panel has Mike Gold, a former NASA associate administrator for Space Policy and Partnerships, acting associate administrator for the Office of International and Interagency Relations and senior advisor to the Administrator for International and Legal Affairs. Gold also worked with the State Department on the creation and execution of the Artemis Accords, which established the norms of behavior in space. To help figure where the UFOs and aliens are coming from is David Grinspoon, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and a researcher on comparative planetology, climate evolution and the implications of habitability on earth-like planets.
Proving that the James Webb Space Telescope has taken over SETI, the panel includes Matt Mountain, who oversees a consortium of national and international universities who help NASA and the National Science Foundation build and operate observatories including NASA’s Hubble Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. Representing earthlings is Walter Scott, the executive vice president and chief technology officer of Maxar in Colorado which specializes in earth intelligence and space infrastructure. Also looking at the Earth side is Joshua Semeter, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University where he also researches interactions between Earth’s ionosphere and the space environment. For those who support the theory that extraterrestrials beat the speed of light limitation by traveling through wormholes and black holes is Shelley Wright, an associate professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Studies specializing in supermassive black holes and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Who will prove their existence first?
That is NASA’s UFO investigation panel. It seems to have every aspect of unidentified aerial phenomena and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence covered except for one – no one on the panel has had an encounter with a UFO or ET. For that, we turn to a rival organization – the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession, the AAIA announced the formation of the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Community of Interest with two co-chairpersons -- Ravi Kopparapu, a planetary scientist at NASA who is studying the potential habitability of Earth-like planets, and Ryan Graves, the former Navy fighter pilot and defense contractor who revealed his UFO encounters while piloting his F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet in 2014 and 2015. These two organizations are just starting out, while the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office formed in July “to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in, on or near military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use airspace and other areas of interest, and, as necessary, to mitigate any associated threats to safety of operations and national security. This includes anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects.”
NASA’s unidentified aerial phenomena panel has the broadest background and a boxer, but the smallest budget. On the private sector side, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has a pilot with real UFO experience. The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has the backing of the federal government and the biggest budget. Which one will win the race to reveal the first extraterrestrials and their space ships?
Silver Disk Over Buddha Statue In Sokcho-si City, South Korea Oct 10, 2022, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Silver Disk Over Buddha Statue In Sokcho-si City, South Korea Oct 10, 2022, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 10, 2022
Location of sighting: Sokcho-si, South Korea
Source: MUFON
Hey check this out. A person was praying at a temple on a hilltop in South Korea last week when they accidentally photographed an alien craft in one photo. The object is obviously a disk, tilted in flight, just like Bob Lazar said the look (tilted when moving). Bob Lazar is a employee in area S4 with Area 51, who worked on an actual alien disk for months to learn how it worked and could be duplicated for the USAF to make. This disk, is 98% similar to the disk he worked on. So yes, this is 100% real.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Observer had taken three shots (facing Northwest) of the Buddha statue at 09:45:31, 09:45:32 and 09:45:51. Silver metallic disk type UFO is observed in the second shot taken at 09:45:32.
Terrified Kids Watch Lights, Cottageville, South Carolina Oct 13, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News
Terrified Kids Watch Lights, Cottageville, South Carolina Oct 13, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News
Yes its short, but they were scared. 🤔🤔🤔Eyewitness states: I went outside the call the cat in, and saw a light between the trees-(object was past the trees)- I moved my head several times because it was just sitting there. I ran inside to get my husband and ran back out and it started ascending up (slowly like a rising elevator) husband took the shortest video because he said it was a plane-it absolutely was not. It was low and hovered before ascending! Then flew over our heads over our house. Was it a drone? I have no idea. It seemed bigger than that. It did make noise as it flew over but not as loud as a low “plane” would have been. I do not believe it to be a helicopter either. It did have a flashing red light underneath which made me think it wasn’t a UFO-but I couldn’t see the standard red, white, and blue lights of a plane. I am positive it was triangular in shape as it flew over the house-and then that was that. I asked the community on FB if anyone had seen it-got nothing in return
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I went outside the call the cat in, and saw a light between the trees-(object was past the trees)- I moved my head several times because it was just sitting there. I ran inside to get my husband and ran back out and it started ascending up (slowly like a rising elevator) husband took the shortest video because he said it was a plane-it absolutely was not. It was low and hovered before ascending! Then flew over our heads over our house. Was it a drone? I have no idea. It seemed bigger than that. It did make noise as it flew over but not as loud as a low “plane” would have been. I do not believe it to be a helicopter either. It did have a flashing red light underneath which made me think it wasn’t a UFO-but I couldn’t see the standard red, white, and blue lights of a plane. I am positive it was triangular in shape as it flew over the house-and then that was that. I asked the community on FB if anyone had seen it-got nothing in return.
Harvard professor on UFO sighting study: “I am significantly intrigued”
Harvard professor on UFO sighting study: “I am significantly intrigued”
NASA has enlisted the help of 16 experts to look into UFO sightings. Some of them include journalists, computer science experts, and astronomy experts. Also, Scott Kelly, an astronaut who holds the record for most days in space, is part of the group.
Avi Loeb, a science professor at Harvard, said that despite the stigma attached to UFOs, it’s time for scientists to start looking into these mysterious objects.
Last year, he established the Galileo Project, which aims to collect data related to the hundreds of alleged sightings of extraterrestrial objects. The team will start analyzing the data on Monday.
According to him, it’s the government’s duty to ask scientists to help investigate these alleged sightings. If they find that the objects are natural or human-made, then they will stop looking for them. However, if they find that the objects are alien, then it will be very exciting.
Science is based on evidence, and it’s important that the scientists get the necessary data to confirm if the objects are alien or natural.
When asked if he believes there’s life out there, he said that he’s interested in learning more about the possibility of intelligent life.
Marsrobot Perseverance haalt zuurstof uit de atmosfeer
Marsrobot Perseverance haalt zuurstof uit de atmosfeer
NASA/JPL-CALTECH
Image caption,
The Moxie unit is about the size of a toaster
In de toekomst is zuurstof nodig om ter plaatse brandstof voor raketten te produceren, zodat ruimtetuigen vlot heen en weer kunnen pendelen tussen de aarde en Mars.
Beeld: MOXIE is zo groot als een broodrooster. Credit: NASA
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft alweer een mijlpaal bereikt in de verkenning van de planeet Mars. Het instrument MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) aan boord van het robotje Perseverance is erin geslaagd om CO2 uit de atmosfeer van Mars om te zetten in zuurstof. Op termijn moet dit toelaten om ter plaatse brandstof voor raketten te produceren, zodat ruimtetuigen vlot heen en weer kunnen pendelen tussen de aarde en Mars. Daarmee komt de ultieme droom een stapje dichterbij: bemande ruimtemissies naar Mars.
Het MARS Exploration Program (MEP) van de NASA wil zo veel mogelijk te weten komen over onze buurplaneet. Wetenschappers zoeken een antwoord op allerlei vragen. Hoe is Mars ontstaan? Welke evolutie heeft de planeet doorgemaakt? Is er ooit leven geweest? Kan de geschiedenis van Mars ons iets leren over de evolutie van onze eigen planeet?
Sinds 18 februari 2021 dokkert het zeswielig ruimtewagentje Perseverance over het ruwe Marsoppervlak. Hij gaat op zoek naar bodemstalen die over een aantal jaar in onze aardse labs moeten terechtkomen en ons inzicht in het ontstaan en de evolutie van de rode planeet moeten aanscherpen.
Pendeldienst
Maar om een ruimtetuig vanop Mars naar de aarde te laten terugkeren, heb je uiteraard brandstof nodig. De voor de hand liggende oplossing bestaat erin om de stuwstof (brandstof + zuurstof) voor de terugreis mee te sturen bij de lancering vanop aarde. Maar daarvoor heb je al gauw 500 ton nodig, een flinke belasting voor een raket.
Daarom zoeken ruimtevaartingenieurs en wetenschappers naar alternatieven. Aangezien zuurstof het leeuwenaandeel van het gewicht inneemt, loont het de moeite om te onderzoeken of we op zuurstof kunnen bezuinigen. En dat moet in principe kunnen, want er zit zuurstof in de atmosfeer van Mars. Zij het opgesloten in koolstofdioxide (CO2), dat 96% van de atmosfeer vult.
Zuurstof voor astronauten
Het komt er dus op aan om zuurstof uit de dampkring van Mars te halen. En dat is precies wat MOXIE doet. Dit instrument met de grootte van een broodrooster bevindt zich aan boord van de Perseverance. Het bevat een filter die schadelijke stofdeeltjes uit de inkomende atmosfeer haalt. Een pomp drukt het overblijvend atmosfeergas (hoofdzakelijk CO2) samen.
Wanneer het gas opgewarmd is tot 800°C wordt het door een volgende component van MOXIE gejaagd, SOXE (Solid Oxide Electrolysis). Door een proces van electrolyse scheidt SOXE de CO2-moleculen in zuurstof en koolstofmonoxide. Tot slot bevat MOXIE nog een onderdeel dat de productiesnelheid en zuiverheid van de verkregen zuurstof meet.
In de loop van zeven productieruns leverde MOXIE 50 gram zuurstof op, waarmee het instrument aan de verwachtingen voldoet. Ook de zuiverheid van de verkregen zuurstof stemt tot tevredenheid. Tot slot bleek deze methode van zuurstofextractie zowel overdag als ‘s nachts en onafhankelijk van de Martiaanse seizoenen te werken.
In een volgende fase moet MOXIE opgeschaald worden, zodat het op termijn de vereiste hoeveelheid zuurstof kan opleveren voor een raketlancering vanop Mars.
En terwijl de focus nu volop ligt op het transport tussen aarde en Mars, opent deze techniek in een verdere fase ook perspectieven op de productie van zuurstof voor astronauten op Mars.
JP, who currently serves with the US Army as a quartermaster and chemical repairer, was recently taken on a covert mission to an underwater city off the Florida coast in the Bermuda triangle region. JP said that he witnessed tall human looking beings that inhabited the city which was protected by a giant underwater dome. He said that there were two other domed cities adjacent to the one he visited. JP said that he was there with a small contingent of soldiers to protect a civilian negotiator who met with leaders of the underwater city to conduct negotiations.
In this Exopolitics Today interview, JP discusses his mission, the people involved, and what he witnessed at the bottom of the ocean in the Bermuda triangle region.
Met de Artemis I lanceert NASA ook een toestel dat met zonnezeilen koers zal zetten naar een asteroïde ver in ons zonnestelsel.
Na eindeloze vertragingen en tientallen miljarden dollars aan uitgaven stond NASA afgelopen maandag eindelijk op het punt om zijn Space Launch System (SLS)-megaraket te lanceren. Vanwege technische problemen werd die lancering op het laatste moment uitgesteld naar aanstaande vrijdag, met maandag 5 september als tweede optie. Dan zullen de hoofdmotoren en side-boosters een stuwkracht leveren van 39.000 kilonewton om de raket met de grootte van het Vrijheidsbeeld de lucht in te krijgen. De SLS moet een onbemande Orion-capsule en een bijbehorende dienstmodule in een baan om de maan brengen.
De missie, die Artemis I wordt genoemd, zal de grootste mijlpaal tot nu toe zijn in het gelijknamige programma van NASA – een project om voor het eerst in meer dan een halve eeuw mensen naar het maanoppervlak te sturen.
Als de missie slaagt, kan NASA ook een andere, minder bekende mijlpaal halen: de verkenning van asteroïden in de buurt van de aarde (ook wel NEA’s of near-Earth Asteroids genoemd). Terwijl Artemis I de maan nadert, zal NASA's NEA Scout, een meeliftende ruimtesonde kleiner dan een schoendoos, uitrollen vanaf een module op de adapterring die Orion verbindt met de tweede trap van de SLS-raket.
Eenmaal losgekomen zal de NEA Scout zich voorbereiden om 2020 GE, een asteroïde met de afmetingen van een schoolbus – op te zoeken en te fotograferen. 2020 GE wordt dan de kleinste asteroïde die ooit door een ruimtevaartuig van dichtbij zal zijn bestudeerd.
Maar de baanbrekende trip van de NEA Scout zal nog op een andere, meer betekenisvolle manier bijdragen aan de ruimtevaart. Om zich voort te bewegen zal de sonde namelijk gebruikmaken van zonnezeilen, één van de weinige methodes waarmee een ruimtevaartuig stuwkracht kan genereren zonder raketbrandstof.
‘De film van het zonnezeil heeft veel weg van vershoudfolie, behalve dat hij veel dunner is. Nog dunner dan een menselijk haar’
Zonnezeilen zijn al eerder met succes gelanceerd op proof-of-conceptmissies, zowel in de interplanetaire ruimte als in een lage baan om de aarde. De Japanse ruimtevaartorganisatie JAXA demonstreerde voor het eerst gecontroleerd zonnezeilen met Ikaros, dat een scheervlucht maakte langs Venus. De NanoSail-D van NASA had een zonnezeil, net de LightSail 1- en 2-ruimtevaartuigen van de Planetary Society. Die laatste cirkelt nog steeds in een baan rond de aarde.
Nadat hij is afgesplitst van Artemis I zal de 14 kilogram zware NEA Scout eerst zijn koudgas-stuwraketten – zes kleine gastanks – ontsteken. Daarmee moet hij in een stabiele baan weg van de maan en richting 2020 GE belanden. Het ruimtevaartuig zal dan een dun, met aluminium bekleed plastic zonnezeil ontvouwen. Het zeil, dat ongeveer zo groot is een squash-veld, vangt licht in plaats van wind. De opgevangen zonnestraling, die hij omzet in energie, moet hem op cruisesnelheid brengen.
‘NEA's zijn brokstukken afkomstig van botsingen in de belangrijkste asteroïdengordels’, zegt Julie Castillo-Rogez, hoofdonderzoeker van de NEA Scout aan NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Californië. ‘2020 GE vertegenwoordigt een klasse asteroïden waarover we heel weinig weten.’ Het wordt de eerste keer dat een asteroïde met een breedte kleiner dan 100 meter zal worden onderzocht.
Verkenner
Tijdens de flyby zal de NEA Scout zijn hogeresolutiecamera gebruiken om 2020 GE van dichtbij te bekijken. Hij zal nauwkeurig de grootte, vorm, rotatie en oppervlakte-eigenschappen van de asteroïde meten, en tegelijk het omringende stof en puin registreren. Omdat de camera van het kleine ruimteschip een resolutie van minder dan 10 centimeter per pixel heeft, zou het wetenschapsteam de samenstelling van 2020 GE moeten kunnen vaststellen. Dat wil zeggen: of de asteroïde rotsvast is of eerder een losse verzameling van kleinere steentjes en stof, zoals sommige van zijn grotere neven.
De asteroïde Bennu, die bijna dertig keer groter is dan 2020 GE, heeft een ogenschijnlijk vast, rotsachtig oppervlak, maar dat bleek alsnog poreus te zijn toen het Osiris Rex-ruimtevaartuig er onverwacht in wegzakte terwijl het monsters aan het verzamelen was.
De NEA Scout werd in 2013 oorspronkelijk opgezet als een verkenningsmissie. De sonde moest asteroïden uitzoeken waaraan astronauten later een bezoek konden brengen. Dat plan is inmiddels opgeborgen.
In zijn huidige opzet moet de missie belangrijke inzichten verschaffen in de risico's die kleine NEA's voor de aarde inhouden. ‘Grote asteroïden baren misschien de meeste zorgen vanuit het oogpunt van planetaire verdediging,’ zegt Castillo-Rogez, ‘maar objecten als 2020 GE komen wel veel vaker voor.’
Ondanks hun kleinere afmetingen kunnen ze wel degelijk een gevaar vormen voor onze planeet. De meteoriet die op 15 februari 2013 boven het Rusissche Tsjeljabinsk ontplofte was een NEA van vergelijkbare grootte als 2020 GE. Hij veroorzaakte een schokgolf die in de hele regio ramen verbrijzelde en meer dan 1.600 mensen verwondde.
Twee voetbalvelden
De andere taak van de NEA Scout – het demonstreren van zonnezeilvoortstuwing voor missies in de diepe ruimte – kwam voort uit één enkele vraag: kan een klein ruimtevaartuig diep in de ruimte zich op een goedkope manier nuttig maken voor de wetenschap? ‘Dat is een enorme uitdaging’, zegt Les Johnson, missieleider aan NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. ‘Voor sondes als deze is er gewoon niet genoeg plaats voor grote aandrijfsystemen en veel brandstof.’
Het riskantste onderdeel van de missie van de NEA Scout zal de ontplooiing van zijn ragfijne zeil zijn. Dat moet zich foutloos kunnen ontvouwen, ver weg van de aarde. Het ruimtevaartuig zal vier samengevouwen metalen gieken uitrollen waaraan het strak opgevouwen zeil is bevestigd. De lange, afgeplatte steunen zullen rond een spoel worden gewikkeld die de gieken uitrolt als een meetlint. De gieken zullen vervolgens in een stijve, V-vormige dwarsdoorsnede openspringen.
Als het zonnezeil zich ontvouwt, zal het een totale oppervlakte van 86 m2 beslaan, aldus Johnson. Het zeil zelf is gemaakt van een rigide, flexibele, met aluminium gecoate polymeerfilm. ‘Die film heeft veel weg van vershoudfolie, behalve dat hij veel dunner is. Nog dunner dan een menselijk haar’, zegt Johnson.
Het spiegelzeil zal stuwkracht genereren door 90 procent van de inkomende fotonen van de zon te weerkaatsen. Die fotonen met een zichtbare golflengte zijn te vergelijken met projectielen uit een luchtgeweer, zegt Johson. ‘Ze raken het zeil raken en stuiteren er weer af. Daarbij brengen ze telkens een deeltje van hun momentum op het zeil over.’
Dat de zonnezeilen zo groot zijn, heeft te maken met de stralingsdruk van de zon. Die is buitengewoon zwak. Zelfs met zonnezeilen met een oppervlakte van twee voetbalvelden in de volle middagzon is de stralingsdruk niet groter dan de kracht die een muntstukje op je handpalm uitoefent’, zegt Johson.
‘De NEA Scout zal waarschijnlijk de langzaamste flyby van een asteroïde ooit maken’
Maar er is ook goed nieuws. ‘Newton's wetten werken!’, lacht Johnson. Bevrijd van het zwaartekrachtveld van de aarde en ongehinderd door de luchtweerstand – twee krachten die het zonnezeil anders tegenwerken – bouwt het momentum zich geleidelijk aan op. Uiteindelijk kunnen ruimtesondes met zonnezeilen verrassend hoge snelheden halen – en nauwelijks brandstof verbruiken.
De NEA Scout zal kleine hoeveelheden brandstof uit zijn koudgasstuwraketten gebruiken om zichzelf in de ruimte te besturen, maar het zeil zelf zal het meeste werk verrichten. Het toestel zal manoeuvreren door het zeil te kantelen, om zo de invalshoek van het inkomend zonlicht te veranderen. Het kan ook de stuwkracht en de reisrichting regelen.
Vergelijk het met hoe een zeilboot manoeuvreert door zijn zeilen onder een specifieke hoek te positioneren ten opzichte van de wind. Het zonnezeil zal een bepaalde oriëntatie dagenlang aanhouden, zodat het momentum van elk manoeuvre kan worden opgebouwd.
Tegen september 2023 zal de NEA Scout, deels dankzij een duwtje in de rug door de zwaartekracht van de maan, genoeg snelheid hebben verzameld om 2020 GE in te halen. Missienavigators zullen het toestel tot op een kilometer van de asteroïde leiden.
‘De NEA Scout zal waarschijnlijk de langzaamste flyby van een asteroïde ooit maken, met een relatieve snelheid van 20 meter per seconde’, zegt Castillo-Rogez. ‘Dat geeft ons ongeveer drie uur de tijd om onschatbare wetenschappelijke informatie te verzamelen.’
Daarna kan de NEA Scout aan een langere missie beginnen, denkt Castillo-Rogez. Hij zou nog een flyby kunnen doen langs 2020 GE, of misschien kan hij andere NEA’s bezoeken. Mogelijk laten de missieleiders hem zelfs naar potentiële Trojaanse asteroïden reizen op het Lagrangepunt 5, een ‘zwaartekrachtvallei’ die de baan van onze planeet volgt.
Waterijs
De NEA Scout is een voorbeeld van de groeiende kracht van CubeSats. Met hun kleine afmetingen en lage gewicht kunnen organisaties deze satellieten goedkoop als secundaire lading in een baan om de aarde brengen. Momenteel zijn meer dan 1.500 CubeSats actief.
Maar zoals de NEA Scout nu laat zien, kunnen CubeSats zich van eenvoudige satellieten ontwikkelen tot ruimtevaartuigen die in staat zijn om in de maanruimte en verder te opereren.
NASA's Lunar Flashlight, een CubeSat die bij een latere lancering naar de maan zal worden gebracht, is ontworpen om daar naar waterijsafzettingen te zoeken. Het ruimtevaartuig zal infraroodlasers gebruiken om licht te bundelen in de schaduwrijke gebieden van de zuidpool van de maan, in een poging om verborgen waterijs te onthullen. Waterijs kan onder andere worden gebruikt om raketbrandstof te produceren.
De NEA Scout zelf zal de toon zetten voor twee andere NASA-zonnezeilschepen. Die toestellen moeten mee vorm geven aan toekomstige ruimtevaartuigen die bijvoorbeeld kunnen waarschuwen voor zonnevlammen, of dienen als geostationaire communicatieverbindingen boven de polen van de aarde. Ook meer verreikende en ambitieuze interplanetaire missies zijn mogelijk.
Mettertijd zou zeilen op zonnestraling ruimtevaartuigen in staat moeten stellen om voor onbepaalde tijd in het zonnestelsel te reizen. Zo moeten ze nieuwe banen bereiken en aanhouden die anders ontoegankelijk zijn. Ruimtevaartuigen aangestuwd door raketten zouden met zonnezeilen efficiënter van baan kunnen veranderen om de polen van de zon en de planeten te bekijken en er zelfs te blijven.
Op de korte termijn wijzen CubeSat-ruimtevaartuigen van de volgende generatie, zoals de Lunar Flashlight en de NEA Scout, de weg naar meer kleine, capabele en betaalbare ‘SailCubes’. In de niet al te verre toekomst zou een vloot van autonome verkenners in een baan om de aarde kunnen worden gebracht. Vandaaruit kunnen ze wegzeilen, in de richting van asteroïden en andere wetenschappelijk of commercieel interessante bestemmingen.
A Black Hole is Hurling a jet of Material at its Neighboring Galaxy
Artist view of an active supermassive black hole.
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
A Black Hole is Hurling a jet of Material at its Neighboring Galaxy
It’s been a banner time for black hole research! In recent months, astrophysicists have announced the discovery of the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever recorded (due to the formation of a black hole), a monster black hole in our cosmic backyard, the frame-dragging effects of a binary black hole, and the remains of the 2017 Kilonova event(spoiler alert: it was a black hole). And with the help of citizen scientists, a team of astronomers recently discovered a unique black hole in a galaxy roughly one billion light-years away that’s hurling a relativistic jet at another galaxy.
Galaxies are typically divided into three main classes based on size, shape, and composition. First, there are ellipticals, which account for about one-third of all galaxies in the Universe that range from being nearly circular to very elongated. Then there are spiral galaxies, which are noted for their distinct spiral arms and appear as flat disks with large yellowish bulges in their centers. Last, there are irregular galaxies, which are neither elliptical nor spiral and were more common in the early Universe (before evolving into the other two classes).
When it comes to elliptical galaxies, astronomers have observed that the formation of new stars is very scarce and appears to have largely ceased billions of years ago. While the reason for this remains a mystery, modern research suggests that the presence of supermassive black holes (SMBH) might be responsible. These “monster black holes” cause the centers of massive galaxies to become Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) – aka. Quasars – where the nucleus is more energetic than all the stars in the disk combined.
In many cases, AGNs also have massive jets spewing from their poles that accelerate gas and dust to relativistic speeds (close to the speed of light). The ejection of this matter toward other galaxies is believed to deplete elliptical galaxies of the cold gas and dust that would otherwise be fuel for star formation. Another mystery facing astronomers is how these AGN-driven jets become coupled with the gas of merging galaxies, causing positive feedback. This temporarily leads to enhanced star formation, followed by negative feedback and a decline in star formation.
To address this latter mystery, Dr. Hota and his colleagues observed the SMBH at the center of RAD12, an elliptical galaxy located about 1 billion light-years from Earth. This unique nature of this galaxy first became apparent in 2013 based on optical data from the Sloan Digitised Sky Survey (SDSS) and radio data from the Very Large Array’s (VLA) Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) survey. But when Dr. Hota and his team observed it again using the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India, they noticed that RAD12 appeared to be ejecting matter from only one pole.
Image of the black hole within galaxy RAD12 spewing a large unipolar radio bubble onto its merging companion galaxy. Credit: Hota, A (et al.)/GMRT/CFHT/MeerKAT
These observations were confirmed using archival radio and optical data from the MeerKAT array in Australia and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (respectively). Unlike other jets that eject matter in pairs and opposite directions, RAD12 appeared to be ejecting matter only toward its neighboring galaxy, RAD12-B. Their observations also revealed a jet of young plasma that is conical in shape at the stem and flares out to become mushroom-shaped at the end (shown above). The yellow features represent galaxies – the larger being RAD12 (left) and RAD12-B (right) – and the plasma jet is shown in red.
The whole structure extends for 440 thousand light-years and is much larger than the host galaxy itself. This is the first time a jet has been observed to collide with a large galaxy like RAD12-B. As Dr. Hota said in a recent Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) news release:
“We are excited to have spotted a rare system that helps us understand radio jet feedback of supermassive black holes on star formation of galaxies during mergers. Observations with the GMRT and data from various other telescopes such as the MeerKAT radio telescope strongly suggest that the radio jet in RAD12 is colliding with the companion galaxy. An equally important aspect of this research is the demonstration of public participation in making discoveries through the RAD@homeCitizen Science research collaboratory.”
Thanks to the observations by Dr. Hota and his team, astronomers are now one step closer to understanding the impact that such interactions have on elliptical galaxies. Their findings could lead to a new understanding of how star formation is arrested in elliptical galaxies, resolving a long-standing mystery about galactic evolution. It is also a testament to the kind of research that is possible today through collaboration between citizen scientists and astronomers.
More Crashed UFOs = Total 6 Now! In Antarctica, Google Earth Map, UFO Sighting News.
More Crashed UFOs = Total 6 Now! In Antarctica, Google Earth Map, UFO Sighting News.
2 UFOs at: -62.663753, -61.099363
4 UFOs at: 66°14'59.0"S 100°36'13.0"E (Credit Kelly Lee)
Hey check this out. A Youtube subscriber of mine notified me she found four more pink crashed UFOs in Antarctica today. I loved it so much I had to make a video of it and mine combined. I'm sure that these were revealed due to global warming causing the ice to melt. These probably date back thousands of years, to the age of the Dark Knight Satellites. My question is...will aliens activate these objects one day, and what is their purpose?
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Glowing Object Over Hollywood, Florida On 6-26-2022, Video, UFO Sighting News. 👾👾👾
Glowing Object Over Hollywood, Florida On 6-26-2022, Video, UFO Sighting News. 👾👾👾
Date of sighting: 6-26-2022 Location of sighting: Hollywood, Florida, USA Source: MUFON
👾👾👾Hi everyone, This one just got reported today, but was recorded a few months ago. First I hear a parrot talking in the background. Second, this craft looks similar in shape to the one I reported a few days ago. Third, don't smoke and record. Fourth, Florida beach area is a hotbed of UFO activity due to an underwater base off its east coast about 20km out to sea. Whats your thought on this video guys? Thanks, Scott. 👾👾👾
Eyewitness states:
Large blinking lights that changed in color and would blink. I also saw planes in the sky but their lights were much much smaller than the unidentified light. I was with my husband, cousin, and cousin-in-law. The lights seemed to pulsate, blink and change color.
Fascinating triangle UFO filmed over Cottageville, South Carolina 13-Oct-2022
Fascinating triangle UFO filmed over Cottageville, South Carolina 13-Oct-2022
Possible TR-3b (triangle UFO) was seen and filmed over Cottageville, a town in Colleton County, South Carolina on 13th October 2022.
What do you think about this footage? Please leave a comment below!
Witness report:
It hovered in between the trees (it wasn’t in the trees though) and rose up like an elevator slowly then flew over our heads and house. I went outside the call the cat in, and saw a light between the trees-(object was past the trees)- I moved my head several times because it was just sitting there. I ran inside to get my husband and ran back out and it started ascending up (slowly like a rising elevator) husband took the shortest video because he said it was a plane-it absolutely was not. It was low and hovered before ascending! Then flew over our heads over our house. Was it a drone? I have no idea. It seemed bigger than that. It did make noise as it flew over but not as loud as a low “plane” would have been. I do not believe it to be a helicopter either. It did have a flashing red light underneath which made me think it wasn’t a UFO-but I couldn’t see the standard red, white, and blue lights of a plane. I am positive it was triangular in shape as it flew over the house-and then that was that. I asked the community on FB if anyone had seen it-got nothing in return.
Interview with Lue Elizondo, a former director of the AATIP UFO program, about the strange connection between the nuclear industry and extraterrestrials. He explains how these objects have been spotted in the area around the country’s nuclear facilities. Robert Hastings, a journalist, has documented over a hundred cases of UFOs. He also gives us his theories on the possible reasons behind the sightings.
Watch: Something Escaped A Black Hole at almost the Speed of Light and NASA Recorded It
Watch: Something Escaped A Black Hole at almost the Speed of Light and NASA Recorded It
A black hole that is ejecting hot material into space at almost the speed of light has been seen by astronomers.
The distance between a black hole and its partner star is 10,000 light-years. The MAXI J1820 + 070 system is created when these two cosmic objects come together. The hot material was observed by NASA’s Chandra x-ray telescope exiting the black hole at almost the speed of light.
The Chandra Space Telescope of NASA captured video of a black hole ejecting hot material into space at nearly the speed of light.
According to the researchers, the black hole in the MAXI J1820 + 070 system has a mass around eight times that of the sun, indicating that it is a stellar-sized black hole formed by the collapse of a massive star. Supermassive black holes, on the other hand, have millions or billions of times the mass of the sun.
The companion star orbiting the black hole has almost the same mass as the sun. The immense gravity of the black hole drags the companion star’s material toward the black hole’s X-ray-producing disc.
The immense gravity of the black hole drags the companion star’s material toward the black hole’s X-ray-producing disc.
While some of the heated gas in the disc will reach the “event horizon” and fall into the black hole, some will be ejected in a number of brief beams of jets from the black hole. These jets are released along magnetic field lines from beyond the event horizon and aim in opposite directions.
Chandra’s four observations in November 2018 and February, May, and June 2019 offered a new picture of the black hole’s activities. It was discovered in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by Mathilde Espinasse of the University of Paris in a study.
The video below from NASA shows what the telescope discovered.
The images show a massive optical and infrared view of the Milky Way galaxy captured by Hawaii’s PanSTARRS optical telescope, with MAXI J1820 + 070 indicated by a cross on the plane of the galaxy. The video inset illustrates Chandra’s four observations, with “day 0” matching to the first observation on November 13, 2018, about four months after the jet was launched.
The bright X-ray source in the image’s center is MAXI J1820 + 070, and X-ray sources can be observed moving north and south in jets away from the black hole. MAXI J1820 + 070 is an X-ray point source, yet its brightness makes it appear larger than a point source. The southern jet is too faint to be identified in May and June 2019 measurements.
As a result, how fast are the material jets departing the black hole? From Earth’s perspective, the northern jet appears to be traveling at 60% the speed of light, while the southern jet appears to be traveling at 1600% the speed of light, which sounds preposterous. After all, nothing can move faster than the speed of light.
This is an example of superluminal motion, which occurs when an object approaches us at almost the speed of light and in a direction parallel to our line of sight. This means that the item approaches us nearly as quickly as the light it emits, giving the impression that the jet is flying faster than the speed of light.
The MAXI J1820 + 070’s south jet is heading in our direction while the north jet is facing away, indicating that the south is travelling more quickly than the north. Only two previous instances of such fast X-ray ejections from stellar-mass black holes, according to Chandra, have been documented.
Bob Lazar was again trending on Twitter after former Pentagon chief scientist Travis Taylor hysterically called him Area-51 “Janitor” at PhenomeCon 2022. Many people speculated it was again done to discredit Lazar’s credibility by the government. ButFilmmaker Jeremy Corbellcame in support of Lazar, sharing staggering information that corroborates Lazar’s testimonies.
Robert “Bob” Scott Lazar is the most controversial figure linked to alleged secret activities related to extraterrestrials and UFOs supposedly happening at Area-51. Thirty-three years ago, he claimed to have worked as an engineer on reverse engineering alien spacecraft near Area-51 at a hangar called S-4.
Investigative reporter George Knapp should be applauded for bringing up Lazar’s story to the world in 1989. He told Knapp that he was a physicist working at S-4, a government laboratory near Groom lake (Area-51 was not officially acknowledged by the US government at that time). However, he did not share (or could not) any evidence to validate his statements which subsequently surrounded him with suspicion.
Since then, Lazar’s identity as an Area-51 scientist has always been discussed by other people in the UFOlogy. Recently, Dr. Travis Scott has also been seen discrediting Bob Lazar and said he did work at Area-51 but as a janitor. Many users find it a direct attack on Lazar’s credentials as he failed to show his qualifications. However, there are credible experts that have confirmed Lazar’s work at Area-51. (Click here to read the full article)
In 1989, Robert Lazar, a shadowy figure claiming to work at Area-51, spoke for Las Vegas-area television station KLAS-TV. In a series of interviews, Lazar told stories of a project to reverse engineer alien technology. The project centered on nine different UFOs collected by the U.S. Government over decades and hidden in hangers in a location named S-4. Lazar’s information about S-4 corroborated with Papoose Lake, a now-dry lake bed just miles southwest of Area-51.
As the interviews continued, Lazar went into detail about the intentional construction of the hangars at a devious angle and military attempts to camouflage the buildings at Papoose Lake, which is about 17 miles south of Groom Lake.
Now, Jeremy Corbell provided incredible information that might support Lazar’s claim on this unique and highly camouflaged building at Papoose Lake. Corbell shared a video of Knapp where he discusses a real story of a civilian who snuck onto the Area-51 base and took a look at Papoose Lake.
According to the 1998 report published in the “Los Angeles Times” entitled “A Search on Forbidden Ground” an archeologist named Jerry Freeman snuck into the forbidden zone of Area-51 during his expedition to retrace the route of the Lost ‘49ers. Freeman is the only civilian known to have gained access to where Bob Lazar said a hidden military installation was.
George Knapp holds the photograph of archeologist Jerry Freeman. Image credit: YouTube screencap
He hiked to Nye Canyon and Papoose Lake – two sites mentioned in the wagon train journal. The canyon is where the 1849 inscription was carved in rock; the dry lake bed is where pioneers pitched camp the last time before splitting up and sending one group to its Death Valley doom.
Corbell writes: “However, many people like to claim that Jerry Freeman never reported seeing anything unusual at Papoose Lake… that his excursion was uneventful, and that somehow his account throws shade on what Bob Lazar told us.” He shared a video clip where George Knapp heard the story directly from Jerry. Additionally, it also contains an audio interview Jerry did with radio host Art Bell.
Here is the audio transcript of what Freeman described happened with him at Papoose Lake during the night:
“I could clearly see security lights on the perimeters and I could see lights that opened and closed near the center of the lake. I felt vibration, I know I wasn’t imagining it because there was sand coming down just on the other side. I thought well hey ‘an earthquake’ well then I realized this is not an earthquake it continued and continued for maybe nearly two minutes. It’s something they’re testing either directly underground or I was feeling vibrations completely from Groom Lake. I don’t know. I think if they’d have caught me in there that it’ll lift me up like a Roman Candle.”
Mr. Knapp told Corbell that he himself talked with Freeman who had no idea what flying saucers were, as well as who Bob Lazar and John Lear were. “I inherited a lot of his files. He says he was out at night by Papoose and all of a sudden out of nowhere a door opens up. I mean like just a door in space a light a bluish light that opened up a doorway to who knows where and then poof it was gone. He told unfortunately as he traversed the Nevada Test Site, he ran into pockets of radiation and got contracted cancer and died,” Knapp said.
George Knapp stated that he had spoken with former employees who worked with Bob and verified that he was a physicist, however, these claims were made informally and off the record. Knapp said that those employees were Lazar’s friends and only specifically named Joe Vaninetti as the person who confirmed it. Vaninetti had a significant interest in UFOs and was involved in UFO research with Bob, both before and after Bob claimed to have worked at S-4.
Newly-Released Documents Shed Light on Government-Funded Research Into Worm Holes, Anti-Gravity and Invisibility Cloaks
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PHOTO OF SENATOR HARRY REID VIA GETTY IMAGES.
Newly-Released Documents Shed Light on Government-Funded Research Into Worm Holes, Anti-Gravity and Invisibility Cloaks
A tranche of documents released to Motherboard through FOIA show the research priorities of the secretive Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program.
Since its existence was revealed by the New York Times in 2017, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which was funded by the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, has been the subject of fervent curiosity from UFO disclosure advocates, government transparency activists, and journalists alike. The now formally defunct program was studying UFO-related phenomena, according to a landmark 2020 investigation by Popular Mechanics; the DIA’s public explanations on just what that involved have ranged over the years from unsatisfying to obfuscatory. Namely, the agency has insisted in recent years that AATIP was not looking at UFO-related phenomena, which former employees working on the program say is simply not true.
Now, a new tranche of documents released by the DIA to Motherboard based on a FOIA request filed four years ago shows, in detail, the exotic and occasionally downright weird research priorities of the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program (AAWSAP), an at-times overlapping program whose existence has been known about for several years.Some of these documents were also released several weeks ago to John Greenewald at the Black Vault; others have been circulating on Reddit for the past several weeks, indicating that the DIA has recently released a backlog of very old FOIA requests. The Sun also published some details about some of the documents, which it also obtained via FOIA, earlier this month. (AATIP and AAWSAP appear to have been, in practice, almost interchangeable; a DIA spokesperson previously told Greenewald, “[AATIP] was the name of the overall program. [AAWSAP] was the name of the contract that DIA awarded for the production of technical reports under AATIP.”)
The nearly 1,600 pages of documents released to Motherboard are a mix of scientific research, contracts, presentations, briefings, and memos related to the program; there are also many documents written for or by former Senator Harry Reid, who was responsible for the creation of the program, that detail meetings about AATIP or AAWSAP, argue for or against certain research or contracts, and the like. In many cases, documents prepared for the DIA about the theoretical applications of certain technologies were prepared by a person or entity whose name is redacted. Motherboard is publishing the full scope of what we received for transparency and to aid researchers and other journalists. Those documents are available here.
The documents make clear that the AAWSAP was focused on studying the defense and military capabilities of a variety of exotic speculative technologies, including invisibility cloaking, traversable wormholes, stargates, negative energy, antigravity, high frequency gravitational wave communications, and an (obviously) never-carried out proposal to tunnel a hole through the moon using nuclear explosions. (“Gravity is the bane of aerospace transportation,” one DIA reference document reads.) In the coming weeks, Motherboard will examine a few of these proposals in detail.
None of these technologies ever seem to have gotten remotely close to being a reality, as far as we know. The documents included in the FOIA are fascinating for two reasons: The first is that the research is, well, pretty weird, and the other is that AATIP and AAWSAP weren’t doing much of that research in-house. Both programs relied in large part on contract research conducted by an arm of a private company, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Studies (BAASS), owned by eccentric hotel magnate Robert Bigelow. (BAASS is now defunct, but Bigelow Aerospace is still operational.)
Bigelow was a personal friend of Reid and lobbied for the creation of the AATIP program. He owned the infamous Skinwalker Ranch, a location said by some UFO enthusiasts to be a hotbed of paranormal activity and others to be a hotbed of a particular kind of hot air, for about 10 years. Bigelow is also known for having a keen interest in life after death. Just six months after BAASS was created, according to Popular Mechanics, Reid created funding for AATIP and drafted the AAWSAP contract. BAASS was the sole bidder for the contract and was awarded $10 million for the first year.
The documents raise further questions– which have already been swirling for years – about the government’s allocation of millions of dollars to a set of programs that seem to have ultimately accounted to very little, at least publicly. Titles of 38 research projects covered under the AAWASAP were released in 2019, following a FOIA request filed by Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. (Correction, 5:40 p.m. EST: After publication, Jeremy Corbell, a UFO filmmaker, pointed out that George Knapp was the first person to publish a list of 37 of these areas of study, in July 2018. Knapp obtained it, he reported, from physicist Hal Puthoff, who previously worked for BAASS. The DIA formally released the full 38-item list in 2019 in response to Aftergood's FOIA.)
Aftergood, too, was critical of aspects of the program, telling Popular Mechanics: “The whole contracting process for this program was irregular from start to finish. [The AAWSAP contract] sounds like it was a good deal for the contractor. But it would be hard to argue that either the military or the public got their money’s worth.”
But what was released to Motherboard this week is a far more in-depth series of records, giving status updates on various projects and outlining why, precisely, the U.S. government was so interested in things like invisibility cloaks. They also reveal the enormous amount of effort former Reid put into championing the AATIP and AAWSAP, and into trying to keep the work they did classified. (Reid died in December 2021.)
In 2020, Reid said that what had publicly been released to that point "only scratched the surface" of what the Pentagon knows about UFOs and advanced technology and told Motherboard that he believed (at the time) that far more information should be released publicly.
This wasn't always the case, however; the documents released to Motherboard also show Reid pushed at one time to keep AATIP highly classified. In a 2009 letter to then-Secretary of Defense William Lynn III, Reid urged Lynn to make large portions of AATIP a Restricted Special Access Program (SAP)—a step above how normal classified documents are handled.
“Given the current rate of success, the continued study of these subjects will likely lead to technology advancements that in the immediate near-term will require extraordinary protection,” Reid wrote. (A memo prepared for the Secretary of Defense by James Clapper Jr., who would go on to become Director of National Intelligence, recommended against giving the program a SAP classification.)
Reid also made sweeping promises about what AATIP could do for the United States.
“Ultimately, the results of AATIP will not only benefit the U.S. Government, but I believe will directly benefit DoD in ways not yet imagined,” he wrote. “The technological insight and capability gained will provide the U.S. with a distinct advantage over any foreign threats and allow the U.S. to maintain its preeminence as a world leader.”
It seems clear that even more documents about these two linked, and deeply weird, programs will be forthcoming. In early March, for instance, Greenewald at the Black Vault learned that the Barack Obama Presidential Library is in possession of thousands of pages of materials, although those could take years to be released.
EXCLUSIVE: Dramatic videos of UFOs over the Pacific are revealed, as expert pilots describe seeing bright lights moving in 'race track' circles over the summer - but say their employers told them to keep quiet
EXCLUSIVE: Dramatic videos of UFOs over the Pacific are revealed, as expert pilots describe seeing bright lights moving in 'race track' circles over the summer - but say their employers told them to keep quiet
Pilots claim they saw UFOs while flying on routes from Japan and Hawaii in August and September
Now captains and a former F-18 pilot describe to DailyMail.com seeing bright lights moving in elongated circles or 'race tracks' for hours high in the sky
The series of sightings were seen by dozens of pilots and captured on video and in air traffic control recordings
Witnesses tell DailyMail.com they are now being told by their employers to keep quiet about the sightings
Pilot Chris Van Voorhis said UFO sightings are quite common among pilots, 'Out of my pilot friends, at least 50% have seen some type of an anomaly'
Van Voorhis said his employer told him to 'cease and desist' even mentioning the incident in public, and that he feared his job could be at risk for reporting his sighting
A series of strange UFO incidents over the Pacific Ocean this summer were captured on video and in air traffic control recordings after sightings by dozens of pilots.
Experienced captains and one former F-18 pilot told DailyMail.com they saw bright lights moving in elongated circles or 'race tracks' for hours high in the sky while they flew on routes from Japan and Hawaii towards the US West Coast in August and September.
The incidents were reported to the FAA, and a researcher obtained dramatic audio of the pilots calling in the strange sightings to Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC).
Pilots also attempted to film from their cockpits the group of between three and five bright objects, which appeared to fly around in the area of the sky where the 'scoop' of the big dipper constellation sits.
Some of the witnesses told DailyMail.com they are now being told by their employers to keep quiet, and are calling for better reporting procedures for encounters with 'unidentified aerial phenomena' (UAPs).
A graphic shows the location and dates of the several reported UFO sightings, mainly in the Pacific Ocean, that occurred in August and September of this year
Pilot Chris Van Voorhis, 63, told DailyMail.com he saw between three and five objects, far brighter than the stars around them, fading in and out with no discernable pattern and moving in a 'race track' circular motion, while he was flying from Honolulu to Los Angeles in August
Two of the pilots can be heard in ARTCC recordings from August 18, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Ben Hansen, a former FBI agent and the host of Discovery+ show UFO Witness.
'We've got a few aircraft to our north here and he's going around in circles, much higher altitude than us. Any idea what they are?' Mark Hulsey, a pilot flying a Gulfstream charter jet off the Los Angeles coast radioed in.
'Uh, no, no I do not,' the baffled controller responded. 'You're not entering any [military] airspace or anything. I am not sure.'
Van Voorhis, who has been flying since he was 14 and has 32,000 hours experience, said the objects appeared to be in Earth's orbit or even further out in space
The pilot described seeing 'maybe three aircraft there,' then called ARTCC 23 minutes later, stating, 'there's now like seven of them,' and estimating that they were 'at least 5 or 10,000 feet above us.'
Asked to elaborate by the controller, the rattled Hulsey added: 'They just keep going in circles. I was an F-18 pilot in the Marine Corps, and I'm telling you, I've done many intercepts, I've never seen anything like this.'
At certain times of day satellites can reflect the sun and appear to pilots as bright lights in the sky. But the expert aviators say they believe the circular movement and duration of the sightings – some for hours – ruled out satellites.
Chris Van Voorhis, 63, told DailyMail.com he saw between three and five objects, far brighter than the stars around them, fading in and out with no discernable pattern and moving in a 'race track' circular motion, while he was flying from Honolulu to Los Angeles in August.
Van Voorhis, who has been flying since he was 14 and has 32,000 hours experience, said the objects appeared to be in Earth's orbit or even further out in space, given their continued position near to the big dipper constellation as he flew over the ocean for hours.
'The other airlines were saying, Hey, are you seeing what we're seeing?' the veteran pilot said.
'They were lights that would come on very bright, you would see them move, then they would go out.
'It had to be in a very, very high orbit, or actually even out in space quite a ways away from anything that a satellite would be, because every time we were seeing it, it was in the lower right hand corner of the Big Dipper, no matter where we were in the world.
'It lasted for such a long time that it actually became boring, almost.
'If it was [Elon Musk's satellite system] Starlink, or anything like that, then it's going to be moving in a linear fashion, and all of them will be moving in the same direction. These weren't. They were moving different directions.'
Van Voorhis said his employer, which DailyMail.com has chosen not to name, told him to 'cease and desist' even mentioning the incident in public, and that he feared his job could be at risk for reporting his sighting.
Gulfstream captain and former F-18 pilot Mark Hulsey's saw a UFO sighting on August 18 by Santa Catalina, an island off the LA coast
This image shows the brightness of the UFO compared to the three circled stars, which are much dimmer
Two UFOs (also called UAPS - unidentified aerial phenomena) are seen in this photo, grabbed from a video of the encounter
Hansen has collected accounts of pilots for Southwest Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and others between August 6 and September 23 who say they saw the same lights in the sky as Van Voorhis.
'Many of these pilots are very confident that the lights were not just going in one direction, but in both directions, which is very unusual for satellites.
'In Mark's case they would go from the north and then actually go above his craft, where he had to crane his neck to see them from the canopy.
'It was seen by upwards of 15 different commercial flights. And at least six pilots are willing to go on record with their names and everything if asked to do so by any investigative agencies.
'In this case, we have a global phenomena from as far west as Japan, to as far east as possibly Miami. Whatever it is, pilots are seeing it from halfway across the world.'
But Hansen said there is currently no proper process for reporting such sightings – even of strange objects that could pose a threat to the safety of commercial airlines.
'Civilian pilots do not have a structured, robust process that is publicly provided to them where they can report UAPs,' he told DailyMail.com.
'The reason the pilots don't report primarily is because they don't think the FAA will follow up, or worse they will be ridiculed.'
An FAA spokesman told DailyMail.com: 'The Federal Aviation Administration documents Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) sightings whenever a pilot reports one to an air traffic control facility.
'If the pilot report can be corroborated with supporting information such as radar data, it is shared with the UAP Task Force' – a Defense Department unit that investigates UFOs, now officially called the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
A 2021 Director of National Intelligence report warned that 'UAP threaten flight safety and, possibly, national security,' due to 11 near misses between naval aviators and unknown objects.
Van Voorhis' said UFO sightings are quite common among pilots.
'Out of my pilot friends, at least 50% have seen some type of an anomaly,' he said.
Two of the pilots can be heard in ARTCC recordings from August 18. 'We've got a few aircraft to our north here and he's going around in circles, much higher altitude than us. Any idea what they are?' Mark Hulsey radioed in
'Uh, no, no I do not,' the baffled controller responded. 'You're not entering any [military] airspace or anything. I am not sure'
The incidents were reported to the FAA, and a researcher obtained dramatic audio of the pilots calling in the strange sightings to Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC)
His August sighting was not his first. In February 2004 while flying for Japanese airline Jalways he said he and another plane's crew saw three 'disks' descend from outside the atmosphere, 'stop' mid air, then suddenly pivot 30 degrees while keeping their triangular formation and shoot off beyond the horizon at thousands of miles per hour.
'I was coming back from Japan to Honolulu. We were at 39,000 feet coming across the Pacific Ocean. It was 5:30 in the morning, local time. Something caught my eye off the left hand side of the aircraft. There were three large discs,' he said.
'They were high enough up in the atmosphere to be reflecting the light from the sun which wasn't up yet.
'They came in a triangular formation and stopped. They turned in formation, they didn't bank or anything like that, nothing aerodynamic, they just pivoted. And then they took off over the horizon.
'It wasn't like they accelerated. They were just at speed and gone over the horizon. The whole thing took about 15 seconds.
'The aircraft in front of us saw it too. They said 'are you going to tell anybody?' and we said 'no'.'
Gulfstream captain and former F-18 pilot Hulsey's August 18 UFO sighting was by Santa Catalina, an island off the LA coast.
Famously, US Navy aviators from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz chased a 'tic tac'-shaped UFO near Santa Catalina Island in 2004.
The tic tac evaded Top Gun ace Commander David Fravor, maneuvering and accelerating in ways which seemed to defy the laws of physics. It then disappeared before astonishingly reappearing 40 miles away in less than one minute, at the aviator's CAP point, a rendezvous location only known by the pilot and his commander.
In July 2019, in the same area, multiple strange objects harassed US naval warships over several days.
The Pentagon claimed they were drones, but could not confirm the origin nor the operators of the craft. A source close to the investigation of the incident told DailyMail.com that a nearby Chinese cargo ship named Bass Strait, thought to be the culprit, was searched with no signs of drones.4
If you were a commercial or private pilot flying one of those long trips across the Pacific Ocean and you saw UFOs in the form of bright lights high over the plane traveling in oval patterns, would you report them to your upper management or the FAA? Would you discuss them with other pilots? If the lights were in the sky long enough to record, would you record them? If the lights seemed to be following each other in this oval pattern, would you think you were watching a UFO racetrack? Believe it or not, all of these events have been occurring regularly and were witnessed by seasoned pilots, many with military experience, and they collectively are baffled by what they’re seeing. Baffled … but not afraid to record and report these sightings. Before you say “Meh … more drones,” the pilots have been told by their higher authorities not to discuss these sightings. Fortunately for us, they ignored the orders. Before you make up your minds, read some of the testimonies of pilots puzzled by the “Race track UAPs.”
“The other airlines were saying, “Hey, are you seeing what we're seeing?” They were lights that would come on very bright, you would see them move, then they would go out. It had to be in a very, very high orbit, or actually even out in space quite a ways away from anything that a satellite would be, because every time we were seeing it, it was in the lower right hand corner of the Big Dipper, no matter where we were in the world. It lasted for such a long time that it actually became boring, almost.”
(pilot and UFO witness Chris Van Voorhis to The Daily Mail)
Chris Van Voorhis, a veteran pilot with 32,000 hours of flight experience, says he was flying from Honolulu to Los Angeles in August 2022 when his eye caught sight of as many as five bright objects standing out against the surrounding stars of the Big Dipper. Yes, he knows what the SpaceX Starlink satellites look like and these were not satellites. Van Voorhis claimed they faded in and out rather than blinking, and the oval pattern they seemed to be traveling in reminded him of a “race track.” That’s how he knew they weren’t Starlink satellites because those follow each other in a straight line. As he indicated to The Daily Mail, Van Voorhis contacted other pilots who traveled this route and found many of them had seen the same UFOs around the Big Dipper.
“(Pilot) We've got a few aircraft to our north here and he's going around in circles, much higher altitude than us. Any idea what they are?
(Air traffic controller) Uh, no, no I do not,' the baffled controller responded. 'You're not entering any [military] airspace or anything. I am not sure.”
“(Pilot) There’s now like seven of them.”
Gulfstream charter jet pilot Mark Hulsey reported his sightings in the same August and September timeframe to air traffic control, which could not identify what he was seeing at an estimated “5 or 10,000 feet above us.” This conversation was broadcast on YouTube (watch the video here) by Ben Hansen, a former FBI agent and current UFO researcher, who obtained the conversation and many others using Freedom of Information requests for Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC) recordings from the FAA. Hulsey later says to the controller:
“They just keep going in circles. I was an F-18 pilot in the Marine Corps, and I'm telling you, I've done many intercepts, I've never seen anything like this.”
That is a key statement – Mark Hulsey is a former military pilot. Had he had this encounter, which took place by Santa Catalina, an island off the LA coast and near many military UFO sightings -- in a Marine fighter jet, he would have had a rigid set of instructions to follow to report this incident up the chain of command. He would also likely have ships with radar controllers following his moves and potentially tracking the UAPs. Hulsey and Van Voorhis are commercial pilots – they have looser guidelines to follow when encountering such phenomena, and often don’t because they don’t believe the FAA will follow up with an investigation … even of events seen by multiple pilots. They also fear losing their jobs. Van Voorhis said his unnamed employer told him to “cease and desist” mentioning the incident in public. Fortunately for us, many other pilots continued to report them and Mark Hulsey has their recordings.
“Many of these pilots are very confident that the lights were not just going in one direction, but in both directions, which is very unusual for satellites. In Mark's case they would go from the north and then actually go above his craft, where he had to crane his neck to see them from the canopy. It was seen by upwards of 15 different commercial flights. And at least six pilots are willing to go on record with their names and everything if asked to do so by any investigative agencies. In this case, we have a global phenomena from as far west as Japan, to as far east as possibly Miami. Whatever it is, pilots are seeing it from halfway across the world.”
In his video, Hansen reveals names of airlines -- Southwest Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, among others – whose pilots saw the same “race track UFOs” between August 6 and September 23, 2022. While only Hulsey and Van Voorhis are willing to go public, the others may soon follow because there has been no investigation or explanation of these lights. And there are more, according to Van Voorhis.
“Out of my pilot friends, at least 50% have seen some type of an anomaly.”
The Defense Department now has the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) – an official UAP Task Force tasked with investigating military UFO encounters. While the FAA can share its pilot-reported sightings with the AARO, there is no guarantee they will be investigated.
Kudos to Ben Hansen for doggedly chasing down these reports. On his YouTube page, he mentions that these latest reports are in addition to “previous sightings reported in the two preceding videos in this playlist.”
These “race track UFOs” have been seen by experienced pilots around the world at altitudes high above theirs, and they are convinced the phenomena are not satellites. Then … what are they? Don’t hold your breath waiting for a Pentagon or government response. Get out there yourself, look up in the sky, have your cellphone charged and ready, file FOI requests, bug your congressional representatives, do the legwork. Like politics, the best UFO investigations begin at the grass roots.
Some of the Most Bizarre Alien and UFO Encounters at U.S. Air Force Bases
Some of the Most Bizarre Alien and UFO Encounters at U.S. Air Force Bases
Brent Swancer
There are all manner of UFO and alien encounters within the realm of ufology, coming from a wide variety of witnesses from all walks of life. There are those in rural areas, suburban areas, at airports, urban areas, and everywhere in between, but one type of case that really catches the attention are those that have supposedly gone down at military installations. Here we have highly trained observers who have made themselves ready for a lot of things, but not for something like this. A lot of these reports are even more bizarre than most, and here we will look at a handful of extremely weird alien and UFO encounters at Air Force bases in the United States.
On May 1, 1952, a Major Rudy Pestalozzi was out an airfield with an airman at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB), in Tucson, Arizona on duty when they noticed something very odd about the B-36 bomber that was flying overhead. According to the witness, two shiny metallic discs sped in out of nowhere to overtake the plane and then move into positions on each side of it, after which they paced it for a time before suddenly tearing off at an angle of 70-80 degrees from the flight path of the B-36 and shooting off out of sight. The crew of the B-36 was apparently so unnerved by the whole experience that they performed an early landing, after which they were heavily interrogated by Pestalozzi on what had happened up there. They would explain that each of the discs has measured an estimated 20-25 feet in diameter and had remained silent when the plane attempted radio contact. What were these objects and what did they want? Who knows?
Another very bizarre event was mentioned in the book They Knew too Much About Flying Saucers, by Gray Barker, and allegedly took place In April of 1954, at Edwards AFB, formerly Muroc AFB, in the Palmdale/Lancaster area of California’s remote Mojave Desert, California. The bonkers report begins with 5 crafts approaching the base; 3 disks and 2 cylinders, each one about 30 feet in diameter, which the Air Force wasted no time in firing upon with live ammo. The blistering assault allegedly had no effect on the objects, and they proceeded to land near one of the large hangars. After some time of just sitting there freaking everyone out, the objects then disgorged a procession of diminutive humanoids, which were about 3 feet tall, without helmets and with large heads and eyes, typical “grey aliens.” These aliens could rather creepily turn themselves invisible at will and spoke English through some sort of translator devices on their silvery suits, and rather than express any anger over having just been fired upon, they had quite the tale to tell.
They supposedly explained that they were from a dying world and that and that they also had a genetic disorder, and therefore needed Earth’s help to provide underground bases for them to live in peace for a time and try to find a cure. They promised that in exchange for this they would provide various technologies to the human race, and that they would leave behind one of their flying saucers. An agreement was reached and the saucer was then moved to one of the hangars, where it proved to be very light and able to turn invisible. It would allegedly be kept at Muroc for some time before being placed underground at the North Edwards base for many years. Rather surreally, the then President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was at the base at the time and supposedly witnessed everything, and after convening a meeting of world leaders the aliens were allegedly given an island in French Polynesia as a base on Earth, after which numerous projects were funded to build subterranean bases for the Greys. This would supposedly kick off a long term exchange with these aliens that the government has kept a secret and which all began that day in 1954 at Muroc AFB. Pretty strange stuff, indeed.
From 1975 we have a another case from Edwards Air Force Base. On October 7 of that year, 12 luminous UFOs allegedly came right down low and just over a secure military runway, and were clearly observed by both witnesses on the ground and on radar. The alarmed Air Force scrambled several jet fighters, worried about the threat to the nuclear materials stored at the base, but the planes were never able to follow or even hope to match the extreme maneuverability and speed of the crafts. Then, just as the base was considering a more significant military response, the objects all flew off in formation to places unknown. The film producer and ufologist Samuel M. Sherman would claim that he had managed to cobble together the lost tapes of what he says were about 40 hours of recordings that were made of the incident, and he says of it all (caps not mine):
What makes this historic intrusion and visit so important is that the US Air Force thoroughly documented it and even gave it a code name: “The Incident.” The entire incident was additionally documented with written reports, radar photos, and AUDIO TAPES made by Air Force personnel while they were actually SEEING the objects, FLYING AFTER the objects, and considering taking SERIOUS MILITARY ACTION against what they might imply as a threat.
From my calculations at least 40 hours of recordings were made (a five hour event recording from at least 8 locations). However, only six hours of tapes were de-classified many years ago as a mass of noise and unclear voices, which truly defied interpretation. They had SCRAMBLED the tapes into what they felt was a hopeless jumble of random pieces of conversation utterly out of sequence and logical progression. When I realized what had been done, it presented a challenge which made me determined to find out what was hidden within that chaotic mass of sound. After many months and countless hours of laborious research, cataloging, and editing the snips and pieces of the audio tape, I was able to organize the sound so the conversations could be understood. The resulting reconstructed tapes are now ironclad documented proof of the existence of extraterrestrial UFO visitation to this planet.
I have sent copies of my finished product directly to a number of major Government Agencies and have received NO NEGATIVE COMMENTS! Not a single Official Agency has tried to debunk or discredit the event, or my presentation of the tapes. Furthermore, The CSETI organization has used my tape presentation in meetings with members of Congress with the aim of having our government tell the public the truth of ET involvement on the Earth. And yes, the plane spotters at Edwards KNEW that UFOs or UFOBs, as they called them then, were not our “black” projects, Soviet bombers, or any known aircraft – they were unknown, fabulously high-tech craft with capabilities beyond any known technology.
What to make of all of this? Very odd. Edwards AFB has often been the center of strangeness like this, and yet another incident supposedly happened there in 1971 that is every bit as bizarre. In the summer of 1971, A small mushroom-shaped craft allegedly actually came down to crash close to Edwards AFB, and was described as being metallic with greenish lights, with no windows or seams and seemingly molded out of one piece, but what was even weirder than this was that there were apparently three grey alien humanoids in the craft, two of which were dead and one that was alive but badly injured. Making it even more bizarre still was that there was also found a human woman in a tight-fitting pink body suit, an apparent abductee by the name of Lorraine Dvorak Cordini, who was also alive but injured.
Cordini would supposedly later claim that although her memories of what had happened to her were fuzzy, she remembered travelling aboard the craft from a massive “mothership” in space, and the next thing she remembered was being in the wreckage and being arrested by military personnel. As she was being led away, she also recalled that there had been the image in her mind a “Captain,” who was a different type of alien that was tall and dressed in white robes, who apologized to her that they could not be helped. She was then led away to a hangar and ufologist Anton Anfalov has written of what happened next:
Lorraine was then thrown into the backseat of a black limousine. Her next memory was what surfaced in the hypnosis session. Lorraine was lying on a cold metal table in a hangar. Three military persons stood to the left of the table. One may have been an officer because he had a different cap than the fatigue uniforms of the other two persons. Another uniformed military man was at Lorraine’s head and to the right and to his left was an alien whom Lorraine described as having a pumpkin-shaped head. He had appeared in a childhood experience that previously surfaced during the same hypnosis session. In the childhood experience he was in a spacesuit… Lorraine’s child’s mind saw him dangling outside the window in a deep sea diver’s suit. This alien was about 4 ft tall, his body bulbous and brown. His head bulbous and pumpkin like. Lorraine “heard” the alien thinking how great he felt about himself and how proud he was to be in the service of the earth military men… he had a smug attitude and the military man next to him showed contempt towards the alien. She was very confused and disoriented. Her next memory was of being yanked off the table and being dragged outside the hangar. There she saw many flashing red lights and screamed, “My God, that isn’t a space ship that is the police, my God it is the police.” The military men then sat her on a bus and she ended up in San Francisco stranded and lost.
Very strange, to be sure. Moving along into 1976, there is a rather intense report from the Cannon AFB, which is located a few miles outside of Clovis, New Mexico. In January of that year, four bright saucer-shaped objects, each one estimated as being at least at least 30 to 50 feet in diameter, allegedly dropped right down from the night sky from out of nowhere and started darting around in a threatening manner above the base, which was enough for the Air Force to scramble jets to send up to engage. Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research, has said of what happened next:
The jet aircraft began trying to intercept the objects. As the aircraft got close to the vicinity of the unknown objects, the objects, at an incredible rate of speed, would shoot across the sky making 90 degree turns leaving the fighter aircraft trailing way behind as they just weren’t able to keep up with the strange craft. As the objects made unusual turns a plasma type glow could clearly be witnessed by the group of people watching the event. The cat and mouse chase between the objects and jets went on for approximately 45 minutes. Because the witnesses were on one of the tallest buildings in Portales, New Mexico, they could clearly see the flight-line at the Base. One of the men had brought a 150 power telescope which enabled the fellows to see the objects fly at a low altitude over the flight-line. As the objects passed over the lights running down the flight line, all the lights went out. Eventually the objects shot up and were gone in a second, or so, and the F-111’s were recalled back to the Base and landed safely.
According to Vike, a journalism student called “Bruce” was there at the time, and actually managed to take some photos of the incident, but that he had a disturbing experience not long after appearing on the Jeff Rense national radio program about what had happened. Vike explains of the spooky incident:
It was around 1:30 a.m., Bruce and his wife had turned in for the night and were sound asleep when his cell phone started ringing. Knowing that he had his work cell phone turned off he knew it was a call from one of his children, and of course being a parent, he worried as he grabbed for the phone. Bruce answered with a hello and a voice spoke back saying, “Mr. Bruce (last name). Bruce said there was a very professional sounding gentleman on the other end. The man said he needed to talk to him about a matter of utmost urgency! Bruce still half asleep asked the man who he was, what was this call was all about, especially at this hour of the morning. The fellow said this is about your recent radio appearance and discussion about some photographs that you took back in New Mexico.
At this point in the conversation Bruce said to the man,”you have to be kidding me,” thinking this had to be some kind of hoax, asked who was this. The man said there is no need for you to know who I am. He went on to say, “it would be in your best interest to discontinue this line of discussion and do away with those photographs. Destroy them!” Bruce at this point is in shock about this man. He looks on the cell phone to see what phone number is displayed and it shows “number not available”. The man told Bruce that “this is no joke and ‘we’ feel that this would be in your best interest, and for the sake of your family, that all of this go away.” Bruce told the man that if he wasn’t willing to reveal himself then the conversation would be terminated. The man then went on to tell Bruce what his children were involved in, meaning their daily activities, where they lived, etc.., what Bruce’s wife was doing, such as personal activities within the family, etc… and said that he could fax Bruce his life’s history within a few seconds. That was it, Bruce hung up and that ended the call with the stranger.
After this incident took place and some weeks had gone by, a neighbor of Bruce’s caught up with him outside one day and told him that they had been seeing alot of traffic in and out of Bruce’s property. Cars would pull up and stay for a while and then drive off. Other times the cars would pull into the driveway, stop, and men would get out and walk around the home. Then they got back into their cars and drove off. These cars that were coming and going had government license plates on them. One other interesting fact to this story is that Bruce put together a package for me, Jeff Rense, George Filer and Peter Davenport. In this package there was a copy of the photo he had taken over the AFB. Bruce mailed out the packages to us all and not one of us have received the information. Bruce says he is going to try again and send it through a different means.
Pretty sinister, indeed. From the following year these is a bizarre incident from Ellsworth AFB, located around 7 miles southwest of Nisland, South Dakota. On the evening of November 16, 1977, two security personnel were dispatched to investigate an alarm activation at one of the warhead storage facilities on the base, and as they approached they observed a bright light shining vertically upwards from the rear of the fence line. One of the men stayed in the vehicle while the other went to check out what this strange light was, and as he approached he would report seeing “an individual dressed in a glowing, green metallic uniform and wearing a helmet with visor.” The security officer ordered the mysterious trespasser to stop, and when he did not he aimed his weapon at him. As the weapon was trained on him, the stranger produced some sort of object that emitted a “bright flash of intense light” that disintegrated the weapon and caused severe burns to the guard’s hands.
When his partner arrived to help, they then saw two more intruders dressed in the same uniforms, who seemed to phase through the fence and walk completely through it. When their orders to halt went unheeded, they fired at the intruders with an M-16 rifle and both fell to the ground. They didn’t stay down long, however, and the two base personnel had to take cover as the intruders fired beams of light at them. The two figures then proceeded to hurry off to a nearby hill, where a saucer shaped object bathed in green illumination appeared, which picked them up and then climbed vertically upwards and shot off over the Eastern horizon. Rather strangely, an examination off the site would show that the nuclear components of the warhead had gone missing. Were they stolen by those enigmatic strangers? Who knows?
If a shootout with aliens sounds strange enough as it is, our final case here is perhaps the most spectacularly weird of all, involving an alien allegedly killed by base personnel. The incident supposedly happened at Fort Dix/McGuire AFB, New Jersey, on January 18, 1978. At around 3 a.m. that morning, a Jeffrey Morse had been on patrol as a security policeman for the base when he was notified about UFO activity over Fort Dix, which is an army base that adjoined McGuire AFB, and there were calls for assistance from a Ft. Dix MP who was pursuing a low flying object which had then hovered over his car. Morse would explain of the incredibly bizarre series of events:
He described the UFO as oval shaped, with no details, and glowing with a blueish green color. His radio transmission was cut off. At that time in front of his police car, appeared a thing, about 4ft tall, grayish, brown, fat head, long arms, and slender body. The MP panicked and fired five rounds from his .45 Cal into the thing, and one round into the object above. The object then fled straight up and joined with eleven others high in the sky. This we all saw but didn’t know the details at the time. Anyway, the thing ran into the woods towards our fence line and they wanted to look for it. By this time several patrols were involved.
We found the body of the thing near the runway. It had apparently climbed the fence and died while running. It was all of a sudden hush-hush and no one was allowed near the area. We roped off the area and AF OSI came out and took over. That was the last I saw of it. There was a bad stench coming from it too. Like ammonia smelling but it wasn’t constant in the air. That day, a team from Wright-Patterson AFB came in a C141 and went to the area. They crated it in a wooden box, sprayed something over it, and then put it into a bigger metal container. They loaded it in the plane and took off. That was it, nothing more was said, no report made and we were all told not to have anything to say about it or we would be court martialed.
Morse would go on to claim that all witnesses to the event had been interrogated and sent off for duty at other bases. UFO investigator George Filer would claim that he had been summoned to the base that evening, and had witnessed strange red lights on one of the disused runways. He also alleged that he had heard chatter among the base personnel that an alien had been killed and that UFO activity had been picked up on radar at both Fort Dix and McGuire AFB. It is just one more case to throw on the pile of very odd encounters that have supposedly gone on at Air Force bases. What were these entities and what did they want? Where did they come from? Were they ever even really real at all? The answers remain unclear.
Chandra’s X-ray Vision Combined With JWST Reveals Even More Details About the Universe
Chandra’s X-ray Vision Combined With JWST Reveals Even More Details About the Universe
NASA scientist have released images combining the early data from the James Webb Space Telescope with X-ray data taken with the Chandra Observatory. Besides their beauty, the images offer insights into the inner workings of some of the most complex astrophysical phenomena in the universe.
Different wavelengths of light reveal different kinds of information about the cosmos. Each new telescope that we launch into space or open up on the ground offers a new window into processes that we wouldn’t otherwise be able to perceive.
For example, the James Webb Space Telescope is focused on infrared radiation. Infrared radiation is emitted by warm objects and is excellent at passing through gas clouds without being absorbed or getting scattered. This allows astronomers to peer into the hearts of dense dust clouds like the kind that surround newly forming stars.
At the other end of the energy spectrum sits the Chandra C-ray Observatory. X-rays are produced by some of the most energetic events in the cosmos, like supernovae and pulsars. The radiation we get in the X-ray tells us about how these high energy processes operate.
The best kind of astronomy happens when we combine different wavelengths. In the latest case, NASA scientists took the recently published early release images from the James Webb Space Telescope and overlaid Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the same objects.
Stephan’s Quintet as seen by both Chandra and James Webb. Image credit: NASA
Scientists have not yet mined through the images and published their research, but we can already draw some conclusions. The X-ray radiation tells us where high energy processes are taking place, while the infrared tells us where warm objects are obscured by dust clouds. For example, the image of Stephan’s Quintet shows 5 galaxies. Above the two galaxies at the center sits a squiggly cloud. This is a shockwave revealed by Chandra that wouldn’t otherwise be visible.
You can check out the photo album for yourself here. While scientists continue to combine the data and reveal new insights, we can content ourselves by enjoying the beautiful images.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) says the American public is being "hosed" when it comes to the government releasing information about UFOs. Burchett believes the government is withholding serious information on UFOs from the public.
Rep. Tim Burchett's statement comes at the same time as NASA announces their Unidentified Aerial Phenomena study team members.
NASA has selected 16 individuals to participate in its independent study team on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). Observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomena are categorized as UAPs.
The independent study will begin on Monday, Oct. 24. Over the course of nine months, the independent study team will lay the groundwork for future study on the nature of UAPs for NASA and other organizations. To do this, the team will identify how data gathered by civilian government entities, commercial data, and data from other sources can potentially be analyzed to shed light on UAPs. It will then recommend a roadmap for potential UAP data analysis by the agency going forward.
NASA has brought together some of the world's leading scientists, data and artificial intelligence practitioners, aerospace safety experts, all with a specific charge, which is to tell us how to apply the full focus of science and data to UAP.
Note:
And then NASA says the following in their announcement:
"Consistent with NASA’s principles of openness, transparency, and scientific integrity, this report will be shared publicly,” “All of NASA’s data is available to the public – we take that obligation seriously – and we make it easily accessible for anyone to see or study."
What a hypocrisy, besides don't expect too much from this study, NASA as well as the Government have already collected so much information and evidence on the existing of the UFO phenomenon, but both organizations have covered it up for already so many years and as Rep. Tim Burchett said "the government (and NASA too) is withholding serious information on UFOs from the public."
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.