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...
17-02-2023
UFO Sightings near Volcanoes: Exploring the Latest Footage
UFO Sightings near Volcanoes: Exploring the Latest Footage
For years, reports of UFO sightings near volcanoes have been a topic of intrigue and speculation. From Iceland to North America, sightings of unidentified objects around these natural wonders have become increasingly frequent. The latest video to cause a stir is from Mexico, where webcams recorded an unidentified glowing orb appearing to launch from Popocatépetl Volcano, known locally as El Popo.
The phenomenon is not new to Mexico; the country ranks seventh in the world for the number of reported UFO sightings. MJ Banias, a journalist, believes that UFOs may be attracted to volcanoes for camouflage and energy. The heat emitted by the volcano may draw them in, while the cracks and vents provide a place to hide and refuel. Some even believe that the vent is a point of entry and exit for UFOs to use as a base of operations.
In March to May 2021, state cameras over El Popo captured at least five instances of lights flashing above the volcano. The footage raises the question of whether these lights are from Earth or from somewhere else. However, a closer examination of the video suggests that these sightings may not be as mysterious as they first seem.
Rich Hoffman, a specialist in aviation safety, examined the video of the bright light seen over Mexico City and found it to be doubtful that it was a real UFO. The brilliance of the light should have yielded more reports, yet no geologists or residents in the city reported anything. A closer look at the location of the light revealed that it was close to Puebla International Airport, where aircraft are known to turn on their landing lights when they are below 10,000 feet. The speed and flight path of the light also suggested that it could have been a commercial aircraft heading to Cancun.
In contrast, the footage of floating, glowing orbs seen at different times around the volcano is more challenging to explain. Marc D’Antonio, an astronomer and video effects designer, analyzed the video and eliminated the possibility that the objects were embers or fireflies. He concluded that the lights were not of this world, but could not rule out the possibility that they were man-made drones.
While the latest footage ofUFO sightingsnear Popocatépetl Volcano in Mexico is intriguing, the explanation for such sightings may not be as extraterrestrial as some would like to believe. The heat, energy, and cracks from the volcano may attract attention from humans and other organisms, including drones. However, the mystery remains as to what causes the floating, glowing orbs seen on various occasions around the volcano.
'Hobby balloon' shot down: Republicans mock Biden for military …
'Hobby balloon' shot down: Republicans mock Biden for military …
Republicans mock Biden for having fighter jets potentially shoot down a $13 hobby balloon and providing a 'powerful deterrence for any high school science clubs that might try to invade America'
By Lewis Pennock For Dailymail.Com
Republicans have mocked Biden over claims a hobby balloon was shot down
Ted Cruz says it is a 'deterrence for high school science' trying to invade the U.S.
The Bottlecap Balloon Brigade declared their balloon missing in action last week
When the Bottlecap Balloon Brigade discovered their hobby balloon went missing the same time fighter jets were scrambled to down a mysterious object over Alaska, theories started swirling.
Was their $12 inflatable taken out by a $400,000 Sidewinder missile fired from a $143 million F-22 in a military operation ordered by President Joe Biden?
They reported their property 'missing in action' and have been in contact with the FBI, but whether their balloon was targeted is yet to be confirmed as the Pentagon tries to retrieve the debris.
Yet their involvement in the UFO hysteria of the last two weeks has led to mounting questions, and mockery of the White House.
Ted Cruz wrote on Twitter: 'To be fair, Biden is providing is powerful deterrence for any high school science clubs that might try to invade America….'
Former Republican congressman and Army reservist Peter Meijer added: 'RIP to the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s ~$80 ham radio transmitter balloon, likely the victim of friendly fire by a $143,000,000 USAF F-22 firing a $485,000 AIM-9X Sidewinder missile during the Great Balloon Panic of 2023.'
The hobby balloon's last known location over Alaska came several hours before a fighter jet downed an unknown object several hundred miles away over Canada. A map of the hobby balloon's predicted path indicates it was heading towards the site where the UFO was downed
The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB) reported one of its balloons 'missing in action' around the same location - and at the time time - a U.S. Air Force jet downed an unidentified object near Alaska using a $400,000 Sidewinder missile.
NIBBB said its 'K9YO' balloon last reported its location shortly before 1am GMT on Saturday, February 11 (8pm EST on February 10), near the coast of southwest Alaska.
Modeling shared by NIBBB shows its balloon was headed in the direction of Yukon before it vanished - and opens up the possibility it was one of the suspicious objects down by the U.S. military.
Members of the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, whose balloon went missing near the area where an unidentified object was shot down by a fighter jet over Alaska
An F-22 (similar to the one pictured in this file photo) later shot down a 'cylindrical' metallic object over Mayo, Yukon
A model of the hobby balloon's projected path shows it was headed for Yukon, Canada, where an unidentified object was shot down. The balloon's last known location is marked by a star, while the red line shows its predicted path
A fighter jet flies near the remnants of the Chinese balloon after it was struck by a missile over the Atlantic Ocean, just off the South Carolina coast near Myrtle Beach, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023
It's been speculated the balloon used for K9YO was a $13.33, silver 32-inch mylar balloon - mainly used for parties and celebrations, but sometimes by hobbyists for high-altitude flights.
Other hobbyists are also speculating that pico balloons could account for some of the mystery objects spotted over the U.S. since a Chinese spy balloon was detected earlier this month.
Ron Meadows, the founder of Scientific Balloon Solutions (SBS), which makes balloons used by hobbyists, told Aviation Week: 'I tried contacting our military and the FBI—and just got the runaround—to try to enlighten them on what a lot of these things probably are. And they're going to look not too intelligent to be shooting them down.'
Tom Medlin, a host on the Amateur Radio Roundtable show, said the objects shot down were 'probably' pico balloons.
He said he uses a $12 foil balloon for his flights - matching the 'metallic' description of the Yukon object - and these can endure long periods of time at high altitudes.
The balloon shot down over Yukon was at an altitude of about 40,000 feet, officials said. The last known altitude of NIBBB's balloon was 37,928 ft.
President Joe Biden said on Thursday admitted the Yukon object and two other mysterious aerial objects destroyed by U.S. warplanes since the China balloon incident were not thought to be surveillance vehicles
'We don't yet know exactly what these three objects were, but nothing nothing right now suggests they were related to China's spy balloon programme, or they were surveillance vehicles from other any other country,' he said.
'The intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions, studying weather, or conducting other scientific research.'
Biden came under intense criticism for allowing the balloon to fly all across the U.S. before giving the order to shoot it down once it was off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4.
On February 10, an unidentified object was downed over Alaska. The Yukon incident came a day later, then a third UDO was shot down over Lake Huron in the Midwest on February 12.
Military officials and the White House have also not categorically ruled out aliens could be behind the recent UFO incursions.
U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 prepare to conduct a search for debris during recovery efforts for the remains of a high-altitude Chinese balloon shot down by the U.S. Air Force off the coast of South Carolina during salvage and investigation operations on February 7, 2023 in this image released by the U.S. Navy in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2023
The White House has announced it is putting together a new UFO task force to study the potential security risks posed by new airborne objects detected in US airspace.
The new group, created on orders from national security adviser Jake Sullivan, will see experts from the Pentagon, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies come together to analyze unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) and determine whether they are a threat.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Monday said: 'Every element of the government will redouble their efforts to understand and mitigate these events,' adding the task force would examine the 'broader policy implications' related to the detection and analysis of UFOs over mainland US.
The announcement came just one day after a US air force F-16 fighter jet shot down a UFO over the Great Lakes - the third unidentified object to be downed in as many days.
The UFO narrative wasn't helped by Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of NORAD and US Northern Command, who wouldn't say aliens were off the table during a briefing Sunday night.
The Hobby Club is concerned their missing balloon have been shot down by the USAF
The Hobby Club is concerned their missing balloon have been shot down by the USAF
A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10.
On February 15, a small balloon that was flying around the world was declared missing by a local club in Illinois. It has since emerged as a possible explanation for one of the three objects that were shot down by the US Air Force’s heat-seeking missiles.
The pieces of circumstantial evidence supporting the claim are intriguing. The club’s silver-colored balloon, which was reported missing on February 10, reported its last position at around 38,910 feet. A forecasting tool known as the HYSPLIT model, which is used by NOAA, also predicted that the object would be located somewhere over the Yukon Territory on February 11.
On the same day, an F-22 aircraft from Lockheed Martin was able to shoot down an unidentified object in the same area.
Some members of the community, which is composed of amateur-scale balloonists and ham radio users, are also questioning the nature of this mysterious object. They have contacted the FBI and the military to try and explain what it might be.
According to Ron Meadows, the founder of a tech company that makes small electronic balloons, the object most likely won’t look like it’s intelligent enough to shoot it down.
The descriptions of the objects that were shot down on February 10-12 match the shapes and altitudes of the small electronic balloons that can be purchased for around $12 to $180 each. Tom Medlin, a retired engineer, noted that the objects most likely were pico balloons. He is the co-host of a radio program that’s focused on amateur radio.
Various federal agencies, including the FBI and NORAD, were asked to comment on the possibility of a pico balloon being involved in the incident. The agencies declined to answer questions. The Office of the Secretary Of Defense and the FBI also didn’t acknowledge the idea that the harmless balloons could be the cause of the incident.
NORAD also didn’t provide an update regarding the status of the three objects. On February 15, John Kirby, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, said that the objects might have been launched for commercial purposes.
Over the past decade, the development of circumnavigational pico-balloons has been increasing. According to Lee Meadows, he and his father, Ron, were able to calculate the helium gas needed to make a standard latex balloon perform well at high altitudes. These devices, which are attached to a tether, can update their position to various radio stations around the world.
Several dozen such balloons can be launched at any given moment. They circle the Earth several times before they break apart or malfunction. Launch teams are seldom able to recover their balloons.
There are various types of balloons that can be used. For instance, some people still use the Mylar party balloons, which have a published calculation that shows the amount of gas that’s needed to be injected. However, the round-shaped ones are not capable of rising to higher altitudes.
For $12, Medlin says he uses a Japanese company’s foil balloon, which is made of a material that can endure long periods of exposure at high altitudes. Despite the manufacturer’s claims that the balloon was never intended to be used for this purpose, he noted that the material has proved resilient. Another alternative is the SBS made by Meadows’ company. These are special balloons that are designed to perform well in circumnavigational flights.
The members of the pico-balloon community are worried about the negative publicity they’re getting due to the incident. Some members of Congress and White House reportedly called the objects they shot down at high altitudes dangerous.
According to Kirby, the objects were identified as being capable of posing a threat to air traffic. Although they didn’t have specific reasons to believe that they were being used for surveillance, they could have been launched for commercial reasons.
According to Medlin and Meadows, the small balloons, which weigh less than six pounds, are not subject to FAA restrictions. Three nations, namely North Korea, Yemen, and the UK, have strict airspace restrictions that prevent the transmissions of data from the balloons. As a result, the community has developed a geo-fencing software that prevents the objects from flying over these countries.
The community is also concerned that the objects could be shot down. According to Medlin, one of his balloons, which is known as HYSPLIT, is expected to enter US airspace on February 17. It has already traveled around the world several times, and its trajectory carried it over China before it eventually reached the U.S. or Mexican airspaces.
UFOs of the Gigantic Size: Motherships from the Stars?
UFOs of the Gigantic Size: Motherships from the Stars?
Nick Redfern
My previous article was on the subject of small, mysterious objects seen in the skies for decades. Today, however, I'm going to foucus on huge UFOs: the exact opposite. So, let's have a lok at some of the biggest UFOs out there. UFOs come in all sorts of shapes: flying saucers, cigar-shaped craft, flying triangles, and rocket-like vehicles. And that's just the start of it. There is also the matter of the sizes of some of these craft. Indeed, there are a number of cases that suggest at least some UFOs are massive in size. And that's what today's article is all about. With that said, let's take a look at some cases that fall into that giant-sized category. As its staff state: "The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is responsible for the regulation of aviation safety in the U.K., determining policy for the use of airspace, the economic regulation of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports, the licensing and financial fitness of airlines and the management of the ATOL financial protection scheme for holidaymakers." Over the years the CAA has received more than a few UFO reports, which is hardly surprising. The same goes for numerous military agencies around the world, too. But, it was the period of the 1950s that really got the "huge UFOs" phenomenon going.
UFOs come in all sorts of shapes: flying saucers, cigar-shaped craft, flying triangles, and rocket-like vehicles. And that's just the start of it. There is also the matter of the sizes of some of these craft. Indeed, there are a number of cases that suggest at least some UFOs are massive in size. And that's what today's article is all about. With that said, let's take a look at some cases that fall into that giant-sized category. As its staff state: "The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is responsible for the regulation of aviation safety in the U.K., determining policy for the use of airspace, the economic regulation of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports, the licensing and financial fitness of airlines and the management of the ATOL financial protection scheme for holidaymakers." Over the years the CAA has received more than a few UFO reports, which is hardly surprising. Let's take a look at one such CAA report that is focused on a UFO of huge proportions. The summary of the report reads as follows: "12 Jun 82 Dinkelsbuhi – Large translucent object 500 feet long at 41,000 feet. ATCC [Air Traffic Control Center] requested subject aircraft to investigate this object which was found to have the form of a double rectangle surmounted by a globe (egg shape) crowned by a silver cone. Object observed by all on board."
Now, let's take a leap back to the 1950s. On the morning of April 4, 1957 – according to now-declassified British Royal Air Force documents housed at the National Archive, Kew, England – radar operators at Balscalloch, Scotland reported to RAF West Freugh, Wigtownshire that they had detected a number of "unidentified objects on the screens of their radars." And it quickly became apparent this was no Cold War penetration of British airspace by Soviet spy-planes or bombers. As the mystified radar-operators watched their screens, they were amazed to see a large, stationary object hovering at 50,000 feet that then proceeded to ascend vertically to no less than 70,000 feet. According to the files: "A second radar was switched on and detected the object at the same range and height." Most significant of all at this stage was the assessment by the radar experts of the incredible proportions of the UFOs: "It was noted by the radar operators that the sizes of the echoes were considerably larger than would be expected from normal aircraft. In fact they considered that the size was nearer that of a ship’s echo."
Consider this case from 1951, which is described in the files of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey: "“On September 20, Andrew J. Reid G-2 [Army Intelligence] Ft. Monmouth, NJ, provided following report of unconventional aircraft observed by radar at above Army installation. On Sept 10, fifty one], an AN/MPG-1 radar set picked up a fast moving low flying target, exact altitude undetermined at approximately 11:10 a.m., southeast of Ft. Monmouth at a range of about twelve thousand yards. The target appeared to approximately follow the coast line, changing its range only slightly but changing its azimuth rapidly. The radar set was set to full aided azimuth tracking which normally is fast enough to track jet aircraft, but in this case was too slow to be resorted to. Target was lost in the N.E. at a range of about fourteen thousand yards. “This target also presented an unusually strong return for aircraft, being comparable in strength to that usually received from a coastal ship. The operator initially identified target as a ship and then realized that it could not be a ship after he observed its extreme speed."
In 1952, radar operator William Maguire had an extraordinary, radar-based UFO encounter in 1952. It was while he was stationed at Royal Air Force Sandwich in Kent, England. Of his experience, Maguire said: “The mechanics were being blamed for not calibrating the instruments properly; we were being blamed for not interpreting the readings properly. But the obvious answer staring us in the face, on every single instrument on the base, was the fact that there was sitting up at an unbelievable height, this enormous thing with the equivalent mass of a warship." Similarly, there are the words of John Oliver, who had his encounter with a huge UFO in 1949. Once again, it was a radar-based encounter. He recalled: "The general consensus regarding its size, among the very experienced radar personnel engaged in the operations, was that the object offered an echo similar to that of a large passenger or freighter surface vessel, something in the region of 15,000 or 20,00 tons."
Born in Poland in 1891, George Adamski – of Flying Saucers Have Landed notoriety - was the ultimate “contactee,” regardless of what you may or may not think of him and his tales. He defined what it meant in the 1950s to have interactions with beings from other worlds; creatures very much like us and who wished us nothing but goodwill. Adamski’s primary visitor from the great beyond was Orthon. Adamski’s forays into the world of the supernatural, however, did not begin when the flying saucer phenomenon was at its height. Adamski had been involved in matters of a metaphysical type for years. For example, in April 1934, the Los Angeles Times ran a feature on the man himself with a headline that succinctly read as follows: “Shamanistic Order to be Established Here.” I should stress I'm not a supporter of Adamski's claims - at all. But, if we are going to talk about huge UFOs, we have to at least make a note about his over the top claims.
It was early on the morning of November 20, 1952. Adamski and his faithful secretary Lucy McGinnis drove to Blythe, California. This was not your average road-trip, however. Adamski, when telling the story to whoever would listen, claimed that the reason for hitting the road to Blythe had an astonishing purpose behind it: aliens dearly wanted to meet with the professor-who-wasn’t. The pair soon met up with other characters in 1950s-era Ufology. They included UFO enthusiasts Al and Betty Bailey, and George Hunt Williamson. The latter was a controversial contactee who crossed paths with the FBI on several occasions, most seriously in 1962. That was when Williamson was suspected by the Bureau of smuggling priceless Mexican artifacts of an historic and archaeological significance into the United States. After refueling their vehicles and their stomachs, the gang then headed out to Parker, Arizona – where, Adamski said, he was absolutely sure that aliens were soon to put in an appearance. So the tale goes, that’s exactly what happened. A huge, “cigar”-shaped UFO loomed into view, high in the skies above Parker. The amazed crew hit a dirt-road in hot pursuit of the mighty craft. Adamski and co. were, apparently, not the only ones who were looking for a close encounter. Adamski claimed that a squadron of U.S. Air Force planes were also after the aliens. The people from the stars almost effortlessly made a quick escape from the pursuing pilots.
It wasn’t long before a much smaller flying saucer made its appearance before the astonished group. In an almost Old Testament-style fashion, the gleaming craft landed on a nearby mountain, awaiting the disciple-like Adamski to come forward and meet his superior. He somehow knew that the aliens had come for him. Adamski approached the craft, while the rest – their mouths no doubt agape – looked on. An extremely-human-looking extraterrestrial exited the futuristic craft, just as Michael Rennie’s character of Klaatu did in the classic 1951 movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Unlike Klaatu, though, Adamski’s alien – who announced himself as Orthon – had long hair of the kind that just about any and every 1980s-era “hair-metal” rock band would have been proud to sport. Orthon announced to Adamski that he came from Venus - and that he came in peace, too. In no time at all, Orthon began lecturing Adamski on why we, the human race, needed to ditch our atomic weapons. If we didn’t, the only outcome would be overwhelming, worldwide destruction. Not only that, Orthon wanted Adamski to be one of the key figures in the plan to save the Earth and its people. In an instant, Adamski was up for the challenge. Orthon, seemingly happy with the outcome, returned to his flying saucer and shot off into the skies. An alien had come and gone, and for Adamski a new life had just begun.
There’s no doubt that George Adamski was at the height of his fame from the early-to-mid 1950s, with the absolute peak year being 1953. That was when his book, Flying Saucers Have Landed, was published. It sold more than 100,000 copies in the process. The book was curious not just because of its content – controversial encounters with human-like aliens – but also because of how it was written. And who by. It was credited to Adamski and an Irish writer named Desmond Leslie. That’s not entirely wrong; but, it’s important to note that it’s not precisely correct, either. It so happens that in the same time-fame that Adamski was toiling on his book, Leslie was working on a publication on strange phenomena in the skies: UFOs. Leslie got his hands on sixty pages of a manuscript on Adamski’s claimed encounters that he, Adamski, had cobbled together in somewhat chaotic fashion. An agreement was made to combine the two works-in-progress and fuse them into one, which is exactly what happened. The reality, though, is that those sixty pages were not written by Adamski, at all. They were actually ghost-written by Adamski’s secretary, Lucy McGinnis. Adamski dictated the story to McGinnis, who made the whole thing readable, if not particularly believable.
On this issue of believability, or of a significant lack of it, we need to return to the words of the Gorightly-Bishop team: “Flying Saucers Have Landed wasn’t Adamski’s first stab at literary immortality. In the 1940s, he submitted a science-fiction yarn called ‘Pioneers of Space’ to Amazing Stories that featured an extraterrestrial messianic figure who comes to Earth bearing a message of peace and love. Adamski later self-published a book version of Pioneers of Space that fell by the wayside until debunkers rediscovered the work and pointed to it as an early fictional account of his Orthon encounter.” The odd thing is that Adamski faked tales of giant-sized UFOs when real huge Saucers were being monitored by the U.K. and the U.S military. Ufology is certainly a weird phenomenon!
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16-02-2023
Rings Aren't Rosy - Saturn's are Smudged and a Dwarf Planet's are Too Far Away
Rings Aren't Rosy - Saturn's are Smudged and a Dwarf Planet's are Too Far Away
Paul Seaburn
It has probably happened since Dutch spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey patented the first refracting telescope and Galileo Galilei built his own and made them popular – kids get a telescope and the first thing they want to see are the rings around Saturn. For eons, those rings were thought to be unique to Saturn, but later astronomers discovered them circling the other three giant planets - Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. Saturn’s are still the most spectacular, and the other planets seem to keep the rings in the realm of giant planets. Two recent discoveries have taken the sheen and specialness off of planetary rings – Saturn’s are starting to show some smudges, and a ring system has been found around a dwarf planet. Not only does this blow the ‘only giants have rings’ theory out of the water, this dwarf’s rings are so far away from it that they should be beyond its gravity. The rings around our solar system aren’t rosy these days – let’s see if we can figure out why.
“This latest image heralds the start of Saturn's "spoke season" with the appearance of two smudgy spokes in the B ring, on the left in the image. The shape and shading of spokes varies – they can appear light or dark, depending on the viewing angle, and sometimes appear more like blobs than classic radial spoke shapes, as seen here.”
Before kids started begging their parents for a new telescope because the lens on theirs is smudged, NASA wisely issued a statement explaining that it is “spoke season” on Saturn. Like Earth, Saturn has a tilt and that gives it four seasons. However, because its orbit is so much longer than Earth’s, a season on Saturn lasts seven Earth years. Saturn is currently nearing the end of its summer season, but that doesn’t mean its rings are working on their tans. What it does mean is that the rings are developing smudges or spokes – a phenomenon only discovered about 40 years ago by the Voyager probes. These are not signs of sunburn, but their cause has eluded astronomers. That may change in the current spoke season as the venerable Hubble space telescope has captured some excellent detailed photos of the smudged rings.
"Thanks to Hubble's OPAL program, which is building an archive of data on the outer solar system planets, we will have longer dedicated time to study Saturn’s spokes this season than ever before."
NASA senior planetary scientist Amy Simon, head of the Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, explains in a press release how the spokes/smudges appear near the last four years of the Saturn summer and will become more pronounced as the autumn equinox arrives in its northern hemisphere on May 6, 2025. As expected, they begin to fade during the winter, then return in the spring to begin the cycle again. Simon thinks this intense crutiny by Hubble will solve the mystery of the smudges. The betting money is on Saturn’s variable magnetic field and how it interacts with the solar wind. On Earth, this causes charged particles in the atmosphere, resulting in the aurora borealis (northern lights) in the norther hemisphere. It is suspected that the massive magnetic field of Saturn causes charged particles all the way into the inner rings. The charge may then lift the smallest particles out of the ring, causing them to cast a shadow on the larger ones, resulting in the smudge or spokes we see.
Or maybe not. Smith says data from the Cassini mission which spent years orbiting Saturn was unable to solve the spoke mystery, or even help predict when they appear. You can be sure NASA will keep us posted as more is known – a kind of ‘Smudge Report’.
Far beyond Saturn to the outer edge of the solar system is the Kuiper Belt – that vast collection of orbiting space rocks known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). Some are large enough to fall into the category of dwarf planets, and one of those is Quaoar. Discovered on June 4th, 2002 by California Institute of Technology astronomers Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown (Brown is famous as a Planet 9 hunter and for knocking Pluto down to dwarf planet status) using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory, Quaoar (also called 50000 Quaoar) didn’t seem to have anything that would make it unusual – it was smaller than other dwarfs like Eris, Haumea, and Makemake. That changed recently when astronomers discovered a very unusual ring around Quaoar. It didn’t have any smudges, but its location made its existence a puzzle.
“Up to now, all known dense rings were located close enough to their parent bodies, being inside the Roche limit, where tidal forces prevent material with reasonable densities from aggregating into a satellite. Here we report observations of an inhomogeneous ring around the trans-Neptunian body Quaoar. This trans-Neptunian object has an estimated radius of 555 km and possesses a roughly 80-km satellite (Weywot) that orbits at 24 Quaoar radii. The detected ring orbits at 7.4 radii from the central body, which is well outside Quaoar’s classical Roche limit, thus indicating that this limit does not always determine where ring material can survive.”
A team of astronomers led by Bruno Morgado, a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and lead author of the paper published recently in the journal Nature, found a ring around Quaoar, which is only about 700 miles in diameter and about 4 billion miles from the Sun. Amazingly, that hasn’t prevented other astronomers from finding Quaoar and its even tinier moon. Now, Morgado and his international team discovered a faint ring by noticing that a star blinked out when Quaoar passed in front of it. The ring is nowhere near Saturnian – it is uneven, measuring from a few miles wide in some spots to hundreds of miles wide in other spots, to almost nonexistent in others. Even more interesting, by standard ring distances, it shouldn’t exist at all – it is outside the so-called Roche limit for the dwarf planet.
The Roche limit is named for French astronomer Édouard Roche who determined a formula for measuring the limit of a planet’s gravity for holding a ring in place – outside the Roche limit, the ring particles would be scattered into space. Quaoar’s Roche limit is 1,100 miles (1770 km), while its ring is an unbelievable 2,500 miles (4023 km) away. This either means that Quaoar’s gravity is really strong, or Roche’s limit is really wrong.
“If the data weren’t so convincing, I would insist they weren’t real.”
Even Michael Brown is baffled. He and other astronomers tell The New York Times that they now expect to find more dwarf planets with rings. And even though these ringed dwarfs are out in the Kuiper Belt, they will help explain how planets formed by accreting or accumulating particles. And, as Quaoar shows, those young planets may have had quite a pull.
Perhaps that headline is misleading – the discovery around Quaoar shows that some rings ARE rosy in our solar system.
Black object over Lancaster, California 6-22-2022 UFO Sighting News.
Black object over Lancaster, California 6-22-2022 UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 6-22-2022
Location of sighting: Lancaster, California, USA Source: MUFON
A dark black object was seen over Lancaster a few months back, but reported today. The object was recorded passing below the clouds, but at one point it passed above some clouds going behind them. This object appears to be city bus size and is rotating slowly. The UFO has a haze, a myst around it that many UFOs have in old Majestic 12 reports from the 1960s. This looks 100% real to me.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I witnessed a soundless oval object flying over Lancaster, Ca. It did appear to have a point on one side and a glow around it even during the day. It appeared to be under the clouds moving pretty fast from west to east. This happened at 1:47 pm on June 22nd, 2022. The day was great weather, warm, no wind, some clouds moving high above. I’ve witnessed a lot of objects flying here in Lancaster. We are an aerospace community. I ruled out trash bag, balloon or any of the local military planes. My observation of it was better with my eyes and clearer, the video is just capturing what I was seeing. The object looked smooth and appeared to rotate slightly giving me sight to what looked like a point on one side. I often video local planes flying over cause I live in the flight plan for Lockheed, Rockwell, McDonald Douglas and Boeing. This flew over pretty fast. I always watch the skies, just glad I was able to catch this UAP on this day.
Four UFOs Over Ocean Side Beach, California on Nov 5, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Four UFOs Over Ocean Side Beach, California on Nov 5, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 5, 2022 Location of sighting: Ocean side beach, California, USA
Source: MUFON
This recent video was taken at a beach in California. The eyewitnesses saw several diamond black objects in the sky for about 15 minutes and they moved only a little bit, but just disappeared soon after. In the video you can see several people turn and look upward at the black UFOs, but then go about their business enjoying the beach. Why? Because its the beach, and thats what people love to do, including me. Aliens in California...like thats news to any of us from there.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
4 diamond shaped objects just hovered there for over 15 mins. Only moving slightly.
Shot down high altitude objects could be 'tied to private companies,' President Biden says
President Joe Biden delivered a statement on Thursday (Feb. 16) about the three unidentified high altitude objects and the Chinese balloon that were recently shot down by the US military.
"The intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions, studied weather, or conducting other scientific research," according to Biden.
James Webb Space Telescope delivers stunning views of PHANGS galaxies - See in 4K
See amazing views of the M74, NGC 7496, IC 5332, NGC 1365, and NGC 1433 galaxies captured using the James Webb Space Telescope.The Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies (PHANGS) collaboration is conducting a survey using Webb.
Credit:NASA, ESA, CSA, and J. Lee (NOIRLab), A. Pagan (STScI), the PHANGS-JWST Team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta (https://twitter.com/stevespaleta)
James Webb Space Telescope's view of Pandora's Cluster is mind-boggling
James Webb Space Telescope imagery of Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744) delivers "never-before-seen details," three galaxy clusters and so much more, according to the Space Telescope Science Institute. Take a tour of the view.
Combining All Telescopes On Earth, Cooling Down Venus, Replacing ISS Modules | Q&A 211
Why don't we just combine all telescopes into a single one that will have a crazy resolution? Can we simply replace old ISS modules with new ones? How long will it take to cool down Venus? How much mass can the Earth afford to lose? Why blue shift exists if the Universe is expanding? All this and more in this week's Q&A
30:09 [Dagobah] Why blue shift exists if the Universe is expanding?
32:16 [Yavin] Why not just replace old modules of the ISS?
Terraformed Venus image in the thumbnail, Credit: Ittiz
Will These Next-gen Ion Engine Technologies Make Chemical Rockets Obsolete?
Tracking UFOs over North America with Harvard's Amir Siraj
Tracking the recently shot down UFO backwards to possible points of origin with Amir Siraj.
NASA launches pair of suborbital sounding rockets to the mesosphere
On Feb. 16, 2023, NASA launched a pair of 9 feet tall sounding rockets to conduct a "study of the mesosphere, a layer of Earth’s atmosphere between approximately 31 and 53 miles (50-85 kilometers) altitude," according to NASA's Wallops Flight Center.
Abducted by Aliens: UFO Encounters of the 4th Kind
Abducted by Aliens: UFO Encounters of the 4th Kind
For centuries, people have reported being taken by alien entities against their will. These experiences, known as the fourth kind encounters, involve complex physical and psychological procedures that leave many victims traumatized. But what if our government is aware of these abductions and is powerless to prevent them?
The depth of this conspiracy remains unclear, but with each new case, we gain more knowledge of the alien agenda. Some believe that these beings are from outer space, while others suggest they are from another dimension. Regardless of their origins, the truth is that countless individuals have very real memories of being taken by these entities.
Many of these victims have reported tragic tales of being subjected to experiments and procedures that have left lasting physical and emotional scars. Despite this, some skeptics argue that these encounters are nothing more than elaborate hoaxes or vivid dreams.
So what do we really know about the truth behind these abductions? While the full agenda of the beings responsible remains a mystery, there is no denying that these encounters have left a lasting impact on those who have experienced them.
One thing is for sure: as we continue to uncover more information about these phenomena, we become better prepared for the day when we will have full disclosure that we are not alone in the universe. Whether or not we are being taken by beings from outer space or another dimension, the truth is out there waiting to be uncovered.
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Diamond-Shaped Objects Hover Over Oceanside, California
Diamond-Shaped Objects Hover Over Oceanside, California
On November 5th, 2022, there was a reported UFO sighting in Oceanside, California. According to the witness report, four diamond-shaped objects were seen hovering in the sky for over 15 minutes. The objects did not move much and only made slight movements during the entire sighting.
NASA and the European Space Agency are developing plans for one of the most ambitious campaigns ever attempted in space: bringing the first samples of Mars material safely back to Earth for detailed study. The diverse set of scientifically curated samples now being collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover could help scientists answer the question of whether ancient life ever arose on the Red Planet.
Bringing samples of Mars to Earth for future study would happen in several steps with multiple spacecraft, and in some ways, in a synchronized manner. This short animation features key moments of the Mars Sample Return campaign: from landing on Mars and securing the sample tubes to launching them off the surface and ferrying them back to Earth.
Animation is contributed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the European Space Agency, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Marshall Space Flight Center.
With all the unknown small objects flying around, I thought I woud share some cases with you. So, let's get started. Here's the first case. April 13, 1964. At around 8:40 p.m. on the night in question, bus-driver Bob Fall was driving alongside the River Lea in the town of Walthamstow, England when his attention was drawn to a fast-moving aerial object that barely missed his bus as it plunged into the depths of the river. He said: “I just glanced into the sky and saw something coming towards me very, very fast. It flew straight across the road and, had I been a few yards further forward, it would have hit the top deck of the bus. At first I thought the back windows of the bus had come in and, as I turned around, I saw all the passengers looking out towards the river. There was a big splash in the water. I stopped as soon as I could to report it. The thing was at least nine feet long, cigar-shaped and silver,” he insisted. “If it had been a bird or birds I [would] have seen the wings. Besides, it was going too fast.” As a result of the media publicity afforded this event, a British UFO investigator, Ronald Caswell of Harlow, Essex, looked into the case and uncovered a wealth of data that had been almost completely overlooked by his contemporaries.
His notes state:
“I have a piece of one of the telephone wires broken by the object. A newspaper shows great coils of it on the towpath. The police spokesman’s suggestion that a duck, or even four ducks, could have broken those wires is ridiculous. Neither could a swan. The length of the wire across the river would have moved away at the pressure of a plummeting bird, and the bird would certainly have been badly injured, if not killed.” Notably, Caswell also said that he learned “…when it was late enough for the general public to have cleared off, heavy lifting equipment was brought in and a find was made in the early hours of the morning.” What that “find” was, has never been disclosed. Now, to another case of the "object" type.
January 4, 1965: “We have drawn a blank”: In the early part of 1996, the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) declassified under the terms of the Government’s “Thirty Year Ruling” (legislation designed to ensure that all documents, regardless of classification, were withheld from public scrutiny for a minimum of 30 years) a file that detailed a variety of UFO reports that the MoD received during 1965. Contained within the file was an 11-page report concerning an unidentified object that was seen to come down in the vicinity of March, Cambridgeshire, England on January 5, 1965. A man named Max Beran, one of those who witnessed the descent of the object, quickly wrote to the Meteorological Office Unit (MOU) at Huntington Road, Cambridge. Beran stated: “Whilst in the sunlight it remained visible, giving the appearance of a curved object. Perhaps a parachute, but I would have thought too fast for that. Before falling too low to be visible in the low sun it appeared to be falling to a point perhaps a mile or two Southeast of the town center from where I was watching. What could the falling object have been?”
The Senior Meteorological Officer at Cambridge immediately contacted his headquarters at Braknell, Berkshire, regarding Beran’s letter. Recognizing that this was a matter for the Ministry of Defense, Braknell prepared a one-page memorandum for the MoD outlining the facts. The MoD quickly swung into action. According to a one-page handwritten note contained within the file, the police at March had been directed by the MoD to look into the matter. “[The police] sent a car out to look for the object in the vicinity of the ‘Sixteen Root Drain’ but without success,” stated the note. The MoD also put numerous questions to a host of other official departments as it sought to locate and identify the UFO, including the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Aviation, and various civil aviation bodies. Whatever the object was, the MoD claimed, it was not a piece of military hardware. “Things which may on occasion fall from aircraft include external fuel tanks, drag-chutes, cockpit canopies, access panels on doors, and sometimes accumulations of ice,” the MoD informed Max Beran. “We have looked carefully into all these possibilities so far as our own aircraft are concerned, but have drawn a blank.”
Number 3: January 6, 1995: Collision course!“A close encounter between a British Airways jet with 60 passengers on board and an illuminated, triangular-shaped, unidentified flying object at 13,000 feet above the Pennines is under formal investigation by the Civil Aviation Authority,” stated the Times newspaper on February 2, 1995.The incident had actually taken place on January 6, 1995, as Captain Roger Wills and co-pilot Mark Stuart began their descent towards Manchester Airport, England, in a Boeing 737 twin jet. Seventeen minutes before touchdown, all was normal until a mysterious object flashed past the right-hand side of the aircraft at a distance described as being “very close.” So close, that the crew actually “ducked down” in their seats as the object sped past them. An immediate check with air traffic control at Ringway revealed that nothing had been picked up on radar, save for the 737 itself.
Anticipating ridicule, the crew of flight BA 5601 did not report the incident to their colleagues; however, British Airways management was ultimately advised of what had occurred. In line with set procedures, a full report, complete with sketches of the UFO, was sent to the Joint Air Miss Working Group, a part of the Civil Aviation Authority. A CAA spokesperson said that any suggestion that the object had been a UFO was “purely speculative,” adding that the investigation could last up to six months. The spokesperson told the press: “A very small proportion of near-miss situations involving untraced aircraft remain unresolved.” This was one of those “unresolved” ones.
February 5, 1986: An unexplained encounter in the skies: A brief UK Ministry of Defense document reveals the salient data on a UFO encounter involving a highly respectable source, an airline pilot who sighted a UFO in the airspace of Ireland. The report states: “5 Feb 86 5427N 0530W – Bright light passed upwards in front of A/C. A/C was crossing east coast of Ireland on descent. Light travelled towards A/C from a 2.30 position range approx. 11/2 miles and passed 1000 feet above travelling right to left 1 mile ahead. Burst of green light observed at peak of its ballistic flight. A/C ht [height] 1450 ft. CAA closure – possibly flare fired at about time of OCC by Aldergrove. Pilot considered this unlikely but no other explanation has emerged.”
June 12, 1982: A 500-foot-long UFO: A public service corporation, the Civil Aviation Authority was established by the British Parliament in 1972 as a specialist aviation regulator and provider of air traffic services. Following its separation from the National Air Traffic Services in 2001, the CAA became the U.K.’s independent aviation regulator, with all civil aviation functions (such as economic regulations; airspace policy; safety regulations; and consumer protection) integrated within a single, unified body. The CAA has declassified into the public domain a number of documents that tell of extraordinary encounters with UFOs, as the following, startling extract demonstrates: “12 Jun 82 Dinkelsbuhi – Large translucent object 500 feet long at 41,000 feet. ATCC [Air Traffic Control Center] requested subject aircraft to investigate this object which was found to have the form of a double rectangle surmounted by a globe (egg shape) crowned by a silver cone. Object observed by all on board.” The strange saga of this absolutely huge UFO was never figured out.
August 18, 1983:A Spotted UFO: “18 Aug 83 Florence – Unidentified flying object seen by crew. Large black object, balloon shaped with large white spot on it, observed 10 NM SE of Firenza. No attachments to object. SUPP. INFO.: Italian CAA replied no met [meteorological] balloon could possibly have been present at the indicated place or time.” Prepared by the staff of the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority in the summer of 1983, this particular report, although brief, clearly demonstrates something very unusual was seen in the skies of Florence. Precisely what was seen, however, remains unknown. Here's another: August 21, 1986: A cigar-shaped UFO and an official document. The following is extracted from a notable file on UFOs prepared by the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority in the 1980s: “21 Aug 86 Belgrade – Non UK Airmiss missile type object passed 500 ft above on reciprocal track A/C heading 290 MAG at FL 390. Object was black, cigar shaped, without wings. Belgrade radar informed on RTF. CAA closure – foreign authority advised.”
And, finally: February 9, 1962: A flying saucer and engine trouble. In February 1962, an employee of the UK Royal Air Force Police – one Sergeant C.J. Perry – was ordered to investigate a then-recent, extraordinary UFO report. The documentation prepared by Perry is now in the public domain. It tells an intriguing story: “At Aylesbury on 16th February 1962, at 1530 hrs., I visited the Civil Police and requested information on an alleged ‘Flying Saucer’ incident. I was afforded every facility by the Civil Police authorities and although no official report had been made, details of the incident were recorded in the Station Occurrence book. “The details are as follows: Mr. Ronald Wildman of Luton, a car collection driver, was traveling along the Aston Clinton road at about 0330 hrs. on 9th February 1962 when he came upon an object like a hovercraft flying approximately 30 feet above the road surface. As he approached he was traveling at 40 mph but an unknown force slowed him down to 20 mph over a distance of 400 yrd., then the object suddenly flew off.
“He described the object as being about 40 feet wide, oval in shape with a number of small portholes around the bottom edge. It emitted a fluorescent glow but was otherwise not illuminated. Mr. Wildman reported the incident to a police patrol who notified the Duty Sergeant, Sergeant Schofield. A radio patrol car was dispatched to the area but no further trace of the ‘Flying Saucer’ was seen. It was the opinion of the local police that the report by Mr. Wildman was perfectly genuine and the experience was not a figment of imagination. They saw that he was obviously shaken.“I spoke to Sergeant Schofield and one of the Constables to whom the incident was reported. Both were convinced that Mr. Wildman was genuinely upset by his experience.”
February 23, 1975: A spiky UFO: Mavis Allen had a very strange encounter on a particular morning in 1975, in an area of woodland in central England. As Mavis walked her dog through woods near the town of Rugeley, she was amazed to see a circular, black-colored object rolling along the ground in front of her. It was around six feet in circumference and had four protrusions (that Allen referred to as “spikes”) that stuck out from equal points around the middle. Allen stopped in amazement as the object rose slowly and silently, to a height of around fifteen feet and which then shot away at a fast pace.
May 1, 1994: A “Boomerang” attracts official, secret attention: Under the terms of the UK Freedom of Information Act, the following, brief extract from a much longer, and still withheld, file offers the following, tantalizing insight: “1 May 1994 – Sighting of unusual object. Member of public reported seeing a black boomerang-shaped object, which appeared to hover over RAF Northolt, above 30,000 feet, before tumbling approx 2000-3000 feet, while rotating through 180 degrees on its axis. No other reports of anything unusual received – possibly A/C in Bovingdon stack seen from odd angle in setting sun.” What all of this tells us is that reports in the skies of our world, concerning mainly small objects, is nothing new at all. Of course, none of these "things" can be said to military craft, unknown objects or alien spacecraft. Yet, what we're saying now was being done decades ago.
The Time a Peruvian Fighter Pilot Tried to Shoot Down a UFO
The Time a Peruvian Fighter Pilot Tried to Shoot Down a UFO
Paul Seaburn
The news over the past two weeks has been inundated with reports about a Chinese surveillance balloon being shot down by U.S. fighter jets just after it passed over a major portion of the country, followed by reports of three unidentified flying objects that appear to be balloons being shot down over the U.S. and Canada. Many of the reports treat this as an unheard of, never-before seen occurrence of an engagement between a fighter pilot and a balloon-shaped UFO resulting in the UFO being fired upon. Peruvian Air Force (FAP) fighter pilot Lt. Oscar Santa María Huerta would beg to disagree.
“On April 11, 1980, at 7:15 in the morning, 1800 men were in formation at the Air Base of La Joya, Arequipa. They all observed a stationary object in the sky, which looked like a balloon, at about three miles distance, and approximately 1,800 feet altitude. It was luminous because it reflected the sun. My unit commander ordered me to takeoff in my Sukhoi 22 jet to shoot down the spherical object. It was in restricted airspace, without clearance, and we were concerned about espionage.”
What was Peruvian Air Force (FAP) fighter pilot Oscar Santa María Huerta about to engage with?
Thus begins Oscar Santa María Huerta’s account of a little-known event in 1980 – what some media reports called the only known attempt to shoot down a UFO by a military pilot. At a press conference in 2009, the now retired fighter pilot revealed startling details of the incident in 1980 that is still believable to this day. At the time, Lt. Huerta was 23 years old, had been a pilot for eight years and had been flying Peruvian Air Force fighter jets since he was 19. In other words, Oscar Huerta was a very experienced pilot. The year was 1980 – a tense time. It was just a few years after the war in Vietnam had ended but the Soviet Union was still in existence and considered to be a threat by many countries. Peru had been a U.S. ally, but in 1968, a military junta led by pro-Soviet Peruvian Army General Juan Velasco Alvarado took over and the Peruvian Air Force acquired Soviet-made aircraft, including Sukhoi Su-22 fighters, transport aircraft and helicopters. The pro-American leaders returned to power in 1980, but Huerta points out that the government was still concerned about Soviet spies.
“I approached the object and strafed sixty-four 30 mm. shells at it. Some projectiles went towards the ground, and others hit the object fully, but they had no effect at all. The projectiles didn't bounce off; probably they were absorbed. The cone-shaped "wall of fire" that I sent out would normally obliterate anything in its path.”
This was 1980, not 2023, and Huerta was flying an older Soviet jet, so his weaponry was not heat-seeking missiles like the F-22s of the modern U.S. Air Force but guns firing 30 mm shells. That probably should have been sufficient if he was firing at a balloon – which he and so many of his fellow military personnel on the ground thought he was attacking. However, whatever he had just blasted did not act like any aircraft would have after absorbing such a shelling.
“The object then began to ascend, and move farther away from the base. When I was at about 36,000 ft., it made a sudden stop, forcing me to veer to the side since I was only 1500 feet away. I flew up higher to attack It from above, but just as I had locked on to the target and was ready to shoot, the object made a straight vertical climb evading the attack.”
Those kinds of evasive maneuvers could not be made by any know balloon in 1980 – not even in 2023. Huerta believed that the craft was able to either predict his actions or was somehow picking up signals because two more times he had his sights locked on it and the object deftly moved out of range. He then pursued it as rapidly it ascended to 63,000 feet. (Note: that was about the altitude of the Chinese surveillance balloon when the U.S. fighter jet shot it down.) It was at this altitude that Huerta says he realized this was not a balloon.
“At this point, I came within about 300 feet of the UFO. It was about 30 feet in diameter. It was an enameled, cream-colored dome, with a wide, circular, metallic base. It had no engines, no exhausts, no windows, no wings or antennae. It lacked all the typical aircraft components, with no visible propulsion system.”
It was at this altitude that Huerta also realized his jet was just about out of fuel. He radioed for another jet to pursue the UFO but was told it was too high. He then disengaged and dangerously descended – gliding at some points to save fuel and zigzagging to avoid being attacked. After landing safely, he estimated that he had engaged with the UFO for 22 minutes – a UFO that was still visible from the ground to Huerta and other military personnel for two more hours. He concluded by noting that a 1980 US Department of Defense document titled 'UFO Sighted in Peru' described the incident and stated that the vehicle's origin “remains unknown.”
“I find myself in the unique position, at least for the moment, and as far as I know, of being the only military pilot in the world who has actually fired a weapon and struck a UFO. It still gives me chills to think about it.”
That was in 2009. Huerta’s purpose for participating in this press conference was to call attention to this little-known encounter and convince the Pentagon to open investigations into it and other similar engagements between military jets and UFOs. It is now 2023. We have just had four encounters with either balloons or unidentified objects behaving like balloons in U.S. airspace. It is obvious his testimony – along with the knowledge that hundreds of soldiers and officers at the La Joya Air Force Base in Peru witnessed the UFO and the encounter - did little to move the Pentagon in the years after he testified.
Forty-three years later, we still don't know what evaded the attack by fighter pilot Lt. Huerta. Will the pilots who shot down the UFOs in 2023 end up giving press conferences in ten years to convince the Pentagon to do something about them? Or have times changed?
Why are Jupiter’s Trojan Regions so Unevenly Balanced With Asteroids?
Solar systems evolve, especially early on in their lifetimes. While this evolution is primarily driven by gravity, there are some parts of our own solar system that are difficult to understand – especially how gravity forced them into their current configuration. One of the most prominent of these areas is the Trojan asteroids.
These 10,000 asteroids, which congregate at the L4 (Greek) and L5 (Trojan) points of Jupiter’s orbital path, don’t contain the same amount of asteroids on each side. In fact, despite the fact that collectively the two asteroid groupings are known as the Trojans, the Greeks actually outnumber the Trojans by about 60%.
Typical models of the evolution of the solar system, especially those that are highly reliant on gravity, don’t result in this uneven distribution of asteroids between the two seemingly stable gravitational points. Gravity-based models would imply that each asteroid grouping should have a similar number of asteroids, given that each point is considered to be equally stable. So what caused this uneven distribution?
Researchers from various institutions in China, America, Abu Dhabi, and Japan think they might have an answer. They found that a very fast migration of Jupiter from the inner solar system to its current orbital path could result in the divergent numbers of asteroids at its stable gravitational points. Given that Jupiter is one of the two lodestars of the Trojan system (the other being the Sun), that seems a plausible scenario.
Partly that is due to some previous theories that are beginning to gain some credence among the scientific community. The Grand Tack Hypothesis, which suggests that Jupiter formed slightly further out than Earth, then came inwards in the solar system and was catapulted (at high speeds) out to its current orbital path, seems to fit the bill nicely for exactly this kind of fast migration. In fact, that fast migration is exactly the kind of event that could potentially cause this uneven distribution, so this research could be thought of as a point toward confirmation of the Grand Tack Hypothesis itself.
In order to prove their own theory, though, the researchers did as all good researchers would do when they lack experimental evidence – they developed a model. This particular model focuses on how Jupiter’s orbit has evolved since its inception and, in particular, what impact that has on the local asteroid population. The findings from the model were in line with the expected values for the population of the Greek and Trojan asteroids.
However, there are some downsides to this model. In particular, it doesn’t account for what, if any, other evolutionary aspects of the solar system might have had on the Trojan’s formation. There are plenty of other models that do account for such evolutionary aspects, so maybe someone in the near future will be able to combine the broader solar system models with the Jupiter-specific ones and see what kind of impact it has on the distribution of the asteroids. After all, the more we understand about our early solar system, the better.
Glowing Objects Fall Over Miami, Florida Feb 14, 2023, UFO Sighting News. Video.
Glowing Objects Fall Over Miami, Florida Feb 14, 2023, UFO Sighting News. Video.
Date of sighting: Feb 14, 2023
Location of sighting: Miami, Florida, USA
Source: MUFON
This report just in. An eyewitness in Miami recorded strange glowing objects that were falling and then stopped and hovered over an area for a few minutes. At first the object appears to be falling space debris or a meteor breaking apart, but then suddenly they stop falling and start hovering. Please tell me you thoughts on this sighting. Thanks, Scott C. Waring
Latest UFO Sightings: Strange Objects Spotted in Olympia, Washington on Valentine’s Day
Latest UFO Sightings: Strange Objects Spotted in Olympia, Washington on Valentine’s Day
On the evening of February 14, 2023, some residents of Olympia, Washington, reported seeing mysterious lights and objects in the sky. According to one witness, who captured the incident on video, the UFOs appeared to be moving in unusual patterns and directions, and were not easily explainable as any known aircraft or natural phenomenon. The witness also ruled out the possibility that the objects were from a nearby airport or military base, as they were seen in a different direction and distance.
The footage shows five glowing orbs hovering and moving above the cityscape. The color and intensity of the lights vary, and seem to pulsate or flicker at times. In one clip, the UFOs seem to merge and split, or change their shape and size, while emitting a humming or buzzing sound. In another clip, the lower object appears to make a sudden turn or jump, as if avoiding something or adjusting its trajectory.
The witness said that he had never seen anything like this before, despite living in the same building for almost two years. The witness also noted that the distance between Olympia and Seattle airport, which is the closest major airport, is about 55 miles, and that there were no other visible planes or helicopters in the area at the time of the sighting. The witness encouraged others to come forward and share their experiences, and hoped that experts or investigators could shed some light on what the UFOs might be.
If you are curious about the latest UFO sightings, and want to stay informed about the latest developments and news, be sure to follow our website and social media channels. We will continue to monitor and report on the most credible and intriguing reports of UFO sightings!
UFO Mania: Experts Warn of Impending UAP Sightings Wave in the UK
UFO Mania: Experts Warn of Impending UAP Sightings Wave in the UK
Are we alone in the universe? That’s a question that has fascinated people for generations. Recently, there has been renewed interest in UFO sightings after four flying objects were shot down over North America, three of which remain unidentified. This has led experts to suggest that the UK (and of course other countries in Europe) could be about to experience a wave of sightings in its skies.
Joe McGonagle, an amateur UFO researcher in the UK, claims that the recent news about alien life has caused people in the country to start thinking about it. However, he advises against jumping to conclusions.
Despite the increasing number of UFO sightings, according to McGonagle, many of these will remain unsolved. He believes that there is a wide range of plausible explanations behind these sightings, and he claims that people like himself are more likely to know about it than the authorities. For decades, he has been studying classified documents about the Ministry of Defence to gain a deeper understanding of the phenomenon.
However, even evidence to the contrary is often not enough to deter the most ardent alien hunters from their belief in a conspiracy to keep sightings secret. The increased press coverage of UFO sightings is likely to lead to a rash of reports from people who don’t usually look at the sky. As McGonagle warns, this can create a self-fulfilling cycle where people start to see things they don’t recognize, report them, and then spark an alien invasion rumor.
While there has been a recent increase in UFO sightings, we should not jump to conclusions about the origins of these flying objects. It is essential to keep an open mind and acknowledge that many sightings will remain unexplained. Still, it’s fascinating to ponder whether we are alone in the universe or not. So keep looking up, and who knows what we might see?
Astronomers Spot a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole, Hurtling Through Space Leaving Star Formation in its Wake
This artist's conception illustrates a supermassive black hole (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. Now astronomers have found a rogue SMBH travelling through space.
Astronomers Spot a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole, Hurtling Through Space Leaving Star Formation in its Wake
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) lurk in the center of large galaxies like ours. From their commanding position in the galaxy’s heart, they feed on gas, dust, stars, and anything else that strays too close, growing more massive as time passes. But in rare circumstances, an SMBH can be forced out of its position and hurtle through space as a rogue SMBH.
In a new paper, researchers from Canada, Australia, and the USA present evidence of a rogue SMBH that’s tearing through space and interacting with the circumgalactic medium (CGM.) Along the way, the giant is creating shock waves and triggering star formation.
If you’ve never heard of a runaway SMBH, you’re not alone. SMBHs are normally locked into place at the centers of galaxies, and that’s where they stay. But scientists think that in rare circumstances SMBHs can escape their galaxies. In their paper, the authors explain how an SMBH can be cast out of its host galaxy.
It always starts when galaxies merge. That leads to the formation of a binary SMBH at the center of the merger remnant. The binary SMBH can be very long-lived, surviving for as long as one billion years before merging. If during that time, a third SMBH reaches the galactic center, then a three-body interaction can give one of the SMBHs a velocity boost, and it can be driven from the galaxy.
But despite their theoretical underpinnings, finding these rogue SMBHs is difficult. Astronomers identified one of the best candidates in 2021, about 230 million light-years away. The authors noticed peculiar movement and velocity that indicated recent disruption. But they couldn’t conclude whether they saw an ongoing galaxy merger, a binary black hole system, or a gravitational-wave recoil event.
Astronomers recognize a couple of ways that they can identify a runaway SMBH. The easiest way is if the hole is actively absorbing material as an active galactic nucleus and can be identified by its luminosity. “For such objects,” the authors write, “the presence of an SMBH is not in doubt, but it can be difficult to determine whether they are ‘naked’ black holes or the nuclei of merging galaxies.”
Another way is by the stellar mass that the rogue hole drags along with it. When an SMBH is ejected, its massive gravitational power pulls some stars along with it. But without the luminosity from an AGN, the dimness makes identifying the hole and its stellar companions difficult from a great distance.
A third way that astronomers could recognize a potential rogue SMBH is by the effect it has on the difuse gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) as it passes through it.
“The interaction of a runaway supermassive black hole with the CGM can lead to the formation of a wake of shocked gas and young stars behind it,” the authors write. In their paper, they report the serendipitous discovery of a linear feature in images from the Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys that could be one of these wakes.
When an SMBH travels through ionized hydrogen in the CGM, it produces a shock front with a long wake trailing behind it. In the wake, clouds of shocked gas can cool and form stars that look like knots in the trail. The researchers analyzed three of the knots in the linear feature and measured their ages and metallicity.
Theory and modelling show that the youngest stars formed in the wake should be younger than about 30 million years old. When the researchers measured their properties, they found that the three knots are within the age range laid out by models. They’re also within the range of metallicities and dust content.
If the host galaxy ejected an SMBH, the galaxy should show signs of disruption. SMBHs are extraordinarily massive, and that much mass can’t move through a galaxy without shaping it. The team examined the galaxy that spawned the rogue SMBH and found that its morphology was disrupted.
There is, however, another possible explanation for the linear feature. It could be a black hole jet rather than a rogue SMBH. Under the right conditions, black hole jets can also shock gas in the CGM and lead to star formation. “There are two well-studied nearby examples of jets triggering star formation,” the authors state. One of them is called Minkowski’s Object.
The authors acknowledge the black hole jet explanation as a possibility, but they say there are too many problems with it. Visible emission lines aren’t a property of black hole jets, and there’s no evidence of nuclear activity. There’s also a problem with morphology. “A more serious issue is that the morphology of the feature does not match simulations or observations of jet-induced star formation,” the authors explain.
They settle on a runaway SMBH as the best explanation for the data and observations.
“The line ratios, colours, and the overall morphology are consistent with an ejected SMBH moving through the CGM at high speed while triggering star formation,” they write.
Locating the black holes would be incontrovertible evidence for this conclusion. “The ‘smoking gun’ evidence for this scenario would be the unambiguous identification of the black holes themselves,” the researchers write. “The obvious places to look for them are A and B in Fig. 6.”
“These are candidates for ‘hyper compact stellar systems,'” SMBHs enveloped in stars and gas that escaped with them,” they explain.
The long feature in these observations is highly unusual, so it won’t be a surprise if it has an unusual cause. Only more observations can determine if rogue SMBHs are at work, and the JWST could provide them. “Deeper data, for instance, from the JWST NIRSPEC IFU, may show the expected broad, highly red- or blueshifted emission lines of ionized gas that is bound to the black holes themselves. Those data could also spatially resolve flows, shocks, and star formation near A,” the authors say, looking ahead.
And if there is one instance of runaway SMBHs creating these features, there will be others.
“Looking ahead, the morphology of the feature in the HST images is so striking that it should not be too difficult to find more examples if they exist. Future data from the Nancy Grace Roman telescope can be searched with automated algorithms,” they explain.
A rogue SMBH disconnected from its galaxy and roaming through the circumgalactic medium is a fascinating phenomenon. We’re only in the early stages of understanding SMBHs, how they’re linked with galaxy growth, and how they merge to produce gravitational waves.
To find that they can be kicked out of their host galaxies adds a layer of complexity only nature could come up with.
Falling asteroid sparks brilliant fireball over Europe just hours after discovery (video)
Falling asteroid sparks brilliant fireball over Europe just hours after discovery (video)
Elizabeth Howell
A dramatic fireball lit up European skies just hours after its discovery in space.
Krisztián Sárneczky spotted the small asteroid at Konkoly Observatory's Piszkéstető Station, located some 60 miles (100 kilometers) northeast from Budapest, with a 2-foot (0.6-meter) telescope. The information was passed along to the European Space Agency, hours before it fell into the atmosphere around 10 p.m. EST Feb. 12 (0300 GMT Feb. 13).
"I discovered this small body during a routine NEO [near Earth object] hunt," Sárneczky told Space.com senior writer Tereza Pultarova in an e-mail. "It was immediately obvious that it was an NEO, but it wasn't particularly fast across the sky, as it was heading right towards us, and it was faint," Sárneczky added.
It's not the first time Sárneczky has given a heads-up for a dramatic fireball event, as the professional asteroid hunter did the same thing in March 2022. "At the time I thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime event," he said. "I was wrong."
KIJK. Spectaculaire beelden tonen hoe asteroïde door atmosfeer vliegt in Noord-Frankrijk: natuurspektakel ook in ons land te zien
KIJK. Spectaculaire beelden tonen hoe asteroïde door atmosfeer vliegt in Noord-Frankrijk: natuurspektakel ook in ons land te zien
Afgelopen nacht is boven Noord-Frankrijk een asteroïde door de atmosfeer gevlogen. De asteroïde, genaamd Sar2667, was ongeveer een meter groot en ongevaarlijk. Het is nog maar de zevende keer ooit dat experten de meteoor hadden voorspeld. Verschillende Fransen konden het unieke spektakel vastleggen. Ook in ons land was de asteroïde te zien, zo legde een deurbelcamera in Haaltert het fenomeen vast. Bekijk in bovenstaande video de beelden.
KIJK.
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