The Aftermath of Saturn's Giant Storms Lasts for Centuries

Giant storms on the ringed planet can leave patches of ammonia trapped in the lower atmosphere for centuries, a recent study suggests.

BY KIONA SMITH

 

Saturn’s giant storms leave ammonia footprints in the lower atmosphere that last for centuries after the storm has blown itself out.

Every decade or two, Saturn spawns a truly enormous storm. Winds roar at up to a thousand miles an hour, trails of storm clouds wrap around the whole planet, and hail made of ammonia rattles downward. The storm finally peters out after more than six months, but its impact on Saturn’s atmosphere will last much longer, according to a recent study by University of Michigan planetary scientist Cheng Li and his colleagues. They recently discovered that Saturn’s giant storms carry ammonia vapor deep into the planet’s atmosphere, where it can linger for centuries, like a footprint to mark the storm’s passage.

• Li and his colleagues published their research in the journal Science Advances.

HOW GIANT STORMS LEAVE FOOTPRINTS IN THE SKY

Saturn’s uppermost cloud decks are mostly ammonia (a nitrogen atom bonded to three hydrogen atoms), floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen. At deeper, warmer altitudes, the clouds are mostly water. But in data from the Very Large Array radio telescope, Li and his colleagues spotted radio emissions from patches of ammonia trapped in the lower layers of Saturn’s atmosphere, where it usually shouldn’t be.

The out-of-place ammonia was drifting at around 43 degrees north latitude, where NASA’s Cassini spacecraft (RIP) watched a giant, planet-spanning storm in 2010 (Saturn’s winds mostly blow east and west, which is why the giant storms tend to be long and narrow — and why weird features in the atmosphere tend to stay at the same latitude that spawned them).

The storm lasted a little more than six months, and Li and his colleagues say it carried ammonia from high-altitude clouds into the lower layers of the atmosphere — where it’s now stuck.

Using the VLA data, Li and his colleagues spotted several other swathes of misplaced ammonia in Saturn’s lower atmosphere. And they mostly matched the latitudes of the five other huge storms astronomers have observed swirling around Saturn since 1876. That means that some of those ammonia clouds have been trapped in Saturn’s lower atmosphere for almost 120 years.

One patch of ammonia Li and his colleagues spotted doesn’t match any of the recorded storms, so it may be more than 150 years old: a cloudy footprint of a storm human eyes never saw.

A closeup of the 2010 megastorm that formed in Saturn's northern hemisphere, wrapping around the entire planet

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MUSHBALLS ARE THE WEIRDEST, COOLEST PRECIPITATION

Part of the explanation may be what Li and his colleagues call mushballs: little balls of ice with a liquid blend of ammonia and water inside (like Gushers candy, except unflavored and also poison). The mushballs fall from storm clouds in the higher levels of Saturn’s enormous storms, carrying ammonia deeper into the atmosphere.

In the wake of the storm, the upper atmosphere stays warm for a while; it’s also dry, having dropped so much of its ammonia in a hail of mushballs. For a while, the upper layers of the atmosphere are warmer than the layers beneath, and that warm, dry air acts as a lid, keeping the ammonia clouds trapped in the layer below.

Even a storm as tremendous and powerful as Saturn’s decadal storms can’t leave footprints in the clouds forever, though. Eventually, the turbulence of Saturn’s atmosphere will mix the storm-heated air with cooler air from other latitudes, and the trapped banks of ammonia clouds will be free to rise. And eventually, another storm will come along.

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

When Li and his colleagues studied the swaths of trapped ammonia left by giant storms on Saturn, they noticed that each “footprint” tends to split in two. One patch of ammonia drifts northward from the latitude of the storm, while the other patch drifts south. That’s one of the things they want to study in more detail with future observations.

It’s challenging enough to predict the weather here on Earth, let alone on a turbulent alien world like Saturn, but history suggests that another giant storm should flare up and wrap itself around the planet in the next ten to twenty years. When that happens, Li and his colleagues hope astronomers and planetary scientists will study how the storm evolves and what happens to Saturn’s atmosphere in its aftermath.

Meanwhile, the team plans to look at Saturn’s southern hemisphere in 2025. The VLA data Li and his colleagues used for their recent study only covered the planet’s northern hemisphere, because at the moment, the tilt of Saturn’s axis means the southern hemisphere is demurely hiding behind the planet’s iconic rings. By 2025, Saturn will be at a different point in its orbit, and telescopes on Earth will be able to see the southern hemisphere.

All of the giant storms astronomers have observed so far have happened in the planet’s northern hemisphere, so Li and his colleagues predict that, if they’re right, they shouldn’t see any trapped patches of ammonia in the south.

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20-08-2023 om 20:43 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers Discover Tiny Stars in a Terrifyingly Close Orbit

One of them is barely a star at all, and together the pair could fit inside the girth of our Sun.

BY KIONA SMITH

 

arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.15729

If you needed any more proof that space is extremely weird, look no further than 457 light-years away. There, two tiny, dim stars whirling around each other every two hours, close enough together to fit inside our Sun.

A team of astronomers led by Harvard University’s Kareem El-Badry recently discovered the bizarre binary system. One appears to be a type of small, relatively cool star called a red dwarf, while the other is an even smaller object called a brown dwarf: sort of a faintly-glowing gray area between stars and planets — too big to be a gas giant, but too small to be a proper star. And they’re locked in a shockingly close orbital dance.

El-Badry and his colleagues have published their findings in a preprint paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed or accepted by a journal.

DYNAMIC DUO

El-Badry and his colleagues were looking for nearby pairs of small stars in data from the Zwicky Transient Facility, and they found exactly what they were looking for — a pair of faint objects that pass in front of and behind each other as they orbit their shared center. By watching the pair of stars with several telescopes, in both optical and infrared light, the astronomers were able to measure the stars’ mass, radius, surface temperatures, and how quickly they orbited each other.

One member of the cosmic duo is a red dwarf, a small star with just 13 percent of our Sun’s mass and 18 percent of its radius. It’s tiny and dim, but it’s still bigger and brighter than its partner: a brown dwarf about the size of Jupiter but with 80 times the gas giant’s mass packed into that space. That’s minuscule for a star but huge for a brown dwarf. In fact, it's teetering on the edge of stardom. But so far, its mass isn’t enough to create the heat and pressure needed to kickstart hydrogen fusion.

Because brown dwarfs are so faint and so small, they’re often difficult for astronomers to find and study; El-Badry and his colleagues hope that watching this one transit in front of its orbital dance partner may help astronomers shed light on this weird class of objects.

Based on El-Badry and his colleagues' measurements, the pair have been orbiting each other for a long time: at least five billion years, and maybe as long as ten billion. During that time, they closed the original distance between them, which was at least five times the radius of our Sun. And they’re still spiraling ever closer. El-Badry and his colleagues predict that the pair will keep spiraling closer until, eventually, the brown dwarf starts pulling away material from its larger but less dense partner.

“Today, the entire binary would comfortably fit inside the Sun,” write El-Badry and his colleagues in their recent paper (although it’s unclear exactly who is supposed to be comfortable in that scenario).

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20-08-2023 om 20:29 geschreven door peter  

Mars is Accelerating Its Spin, According to Data from a Defunct NASA Mission

Mars is spinning faster and the planet's days have shortened, ever so slightly, according to NASA.

BY DORIS ELÍN URRUTIA

 

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20-08-2023 om 20:22 geschreven door peter  

Bob Lazar Tells Us What The Navy Saw While Diving In The Arctic

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20-08-2023 om 20:11 geschreven door peter  

UAP Enters Atmosphere Over Japan On Aug 17, 2023, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 17, 2023

Location of sighting: Over Japan
Source: Email report

 

This video was sent into me from a person working at Polar Star space agency in Japan. The unknown object is glowing green and seen entering earths atmosphere over Japan and shooting downward slowly passing below the clouds in the distance headed toward the ocean. Unlike a meteor this object has very little trail, no debris fall with it or off of it and keeps a constant glow, falling one quarter the speed a meteor would be traveling at. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

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20-08-2023 om 18:35 geschreven door peter  

Human-Alien Hybrids Could Be Roaming Earth

Unearthly Encounters: Abduction Tales from the Pacific Palisades

It’s a tranquil night on the shores of the Pacific Palisades. The horizon is graced with the usual sights of distant ships and twinkling stars. However, an anomalous light emerges, unlike any ship or star known to the residents. As it swiftly disappears, blending seamlessly with the starry sky, an eerie calm ensues.

One resident recalls waking up not in the familiar comfort of her bed but on an alien ship, surrounded by strange, off-white beings. Standing at a mere three-and-a-half feet with enormous black eyes and tiny frail bodies, these creatures were not the gray aliens frequently depicted in popular culture.

Stories of such abductions aren’t rare. Over the years, numerous accounts describe humans being taken onto alien spaceships, where they claim to have been inseminated with alien reproductive material, leading to the conception of human-alien hybrids. These harrowing tales speak of hybrid children, created using human DNA combined with alien DNA. The purpose? Still unknown. Some speculate it’s a hybridization program; others think these hybrids might repopulate our planet when environmental conditions change. The consistency in these narratives begs the question: is there some truth to these encounters?

The Bombardier Beetle: Evolutionary Anomaly or Intelligent Design?

Deep within the Ventura Bio Center, another mystery unfolds, albeit a tiny one. Giorgio Tsoukalos, an ancient astronaut theorist, is introduced to one of Earth’s most enigmatic insects: the Bombardier Beetle.

This tiny creature, often overlooked in the vast realm of biodiversity, boasts a chemical defense mechanism that has left scientists astounded. With the capability to shoot out streams of boiling, toxic liquid resembling rocket fuel, this beetle’s defense is nothing short of a marvel. The liquid, produced by a combination of hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide, is ejected at a staggering rate, deterring would-be predators.

But how did this beetle evolve such a sophisticated defense mechanism? Traditional evolutionary theories suggest gradual changes leading to adaptations. So, what intermediate steps led the beetle to not only produce these chemicals without harming itself but also to develop a unique one-way valve to ensure its own safety while discharging this lethal concoction?

This led some, like Tsoukalos, to pose a riveting question: Could the Bombardier Beetle, or at least its genetic blueprint, be of extraterrestrial origin? If humans could harness this beetle’s ability on a grand scale, it could serve as a potent chemical weapon or energy source.

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Connecting the Dots: Earth, Aliens, and Our Biosphere

While the tales of abductions and the mystery of the Bombardier Beetle might seem worlds apart, they converge on the intriguing notion of extraterrestrial intervention. Could some creatures, like the beetle, have been placed on Earth as finished products, or perhaps as subjects for humans to study and learn from?

While definitive answers remain elusive, such tales and mysteries remind us of the vast, uncharted territories of knowledge waiting to be explored. They beckon us to keep our minds open, ready to challenge what we know and venture into the unknown realms of the universe.

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20-08-2023 om 18:14 geschreven door peter  

Scientists have found new evidence for the largest asteroid impact crater on Earth, and it's buried under Australia.

© NASA/Don Davis

• This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

In recent research published by myself and my colleague Tony Yeates in the journal Tectonophysics, we investigate what we believe – based on many years of experience in asteroid impact research – is the world's largest known impact structure, buried deep in the earth in southern New South Wales.

The Deniliquin structure, yet to be further tested by drilling, spans up to 520 kilometers in diameter. This exceeds the size of the near-300-km-wide Vredefort impact structure in South Africa, which to date has been considered the world's largest.

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Hidden traces of Earth's early history

The history of Earth's bombardment by asteroids is largely concealed. There are a few reasons for this. The first is erosion: the process by which gravity, wind and water slowly wear away land materials through time.

When an asteroid strikes, it creates a crater with an uplifted core. This is similar to how a drop of water splashes upward from a transient crater when you drop a pebble in a pool.

This central uplifted dome is a key characteristic of large impact structures. However, it can erode over thousands to millions of years, making the structure difficult to identify.

Structures can also be buried by sediment through time. Or they might disappear as a result of subduction, wherein tectonic plates can collide and slide below one another into Earth's mantle layer.

This map shows the distribution of circular structures of uncertain, possible or probable impact origin on the Australian continent and offshore. Green dots represent confirmed impact craters. Red dots represent confirmed impact structures that are more than 100 km wide, whereas red dots inside white circles are more than 50 km wide. Yellow dots represent likely impact structures. 

(Image credit: Andrew Glikson and Franco Pirajno)

Nonetheless, new geophysical discoveries are unearthing signatures of impact structures formed by asteroids that may have reached tens of kilometers across – heralding a paradigm shift in our understanding of how Earth evolved over eons. These include pioneering discoveries of impact "ejecta," which are the materials thrown out of a crater during an impact.

Researchers think the oldest layers of these ejecta, found in sediments in early terrains around the world, might signify the tail end of the Late Heavy Bombardment of Earth. The latest evidence suggests Earth and the other planets in the Solar System were subject to intense asteroid bombardments until about 3.2 billion years ago, and sporadically since.

Some large impacts are correlated with mass extinction events. For example, the Alvarez hypothesis, named after father and son scientists Luis and Walter Alvarez, explains how non-avian dinosaurs were wiped out as a result of a large asteroid strike some 66 million years ago.

• Biggest Impact Crater Ever Discovered May Have Just Been Found in Australia (Amaze Lab)

Uncovering the Deniliquin structure

The Australian continent and its predecessor continent, Gondwana, have been the target of numerous asteroid impacts. These have resulted in at least 38 confirmed and 43 potential impact structures, ranging from relatively small craters to large and completely buried structures.

As you'll recall with the pool and pebble analogy, when a large asteroid hits Earth, the underlying crust responds with a transient elastic rebound that produces a central dome.

Such domes, which can slowly erode and/or become buried through time, may be all that’s preserved from the original impact structure. They represent the deep-seated "root zone" of an impact. Famous examples are found in the Vredefort impact structure and the 170-km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico. The latter represents the impact that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Between 1995 and 2000, Tony Yeates suggested magnetic patterns beneath the Murray Basin in New South Wales likely represented a massive, buried impact structure. An analysis of the region's updated geophysical data between 2015 and 2020 confirmed the existence of a 520 km diameter structure with a seismically defined dome at its centre.

The Deniliquin structure has all the features that would be expected from a large-scale impact structure. For instance, magnetic readings of the area reveal a symmetrical rippling pattern in the crust around the structure's core. This was likely produced during the impact as extremely high temperatures created intense magnetic forces.

A central low magnetic zone corresponds to 30-km-deep deformation above a seismically defined mantle dome. The top of this dome is about 10km shallower than the top of the regional mantle.

Magnetic measurements also show evidence of "radial faults": fractures that radiate from the center of a large impact structure. This is further accompanied by small magnetic anomalies which may represent igneous "dikes," which are sheets of magma injected into fractures in a pre-existing body of rock.

Radial faults, and igneous sheets of rocks that form within them, are typical of large impact structures and can be found in the Vredefort structure and the Sudbury impact structure in Canada.

Currently, the bulk of the evidence for the Deniliquin impact is based on geophysical data obtained from the surface. For proof of impact, we'll need to collect physical evidence of shock, which can only come from drilling deep into the structure.

The Deniliquin structure was likely created in eastern Gondwana during the Late Ordovician. (Image credit: Zhen Qiu et al, 2022, CC BY)

When did the Deniliquin impact happen?

The Deniliquin structure was likely located on the eastern part of the Gondwana continent, prior to it splitting off into several continents (including the Australian continent) much later.

The impact that caused it may have occurred during what’s known as the Late Ordovician mass extinction event. Specifically, I think it may have triggered what’s called the Hirnantian glaciation stage, which lasted between 445.2 and 443.8 million years ago, and is also defined as the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event.

This huge glaciation and mass extinction event eliminated about 85% of the planet’s species. It was more than double the scale of the Chicxulub impact that killed off the dinosaurs.

It is also possible the Deniliquin structure is older than the Hirnantian event, and may be of an early Cambrian origin (about 514 million years ago). The next step will be to gather samples to determine the structure’s exact age. This will require drilling a deep hole into its magnetic centre and dating the extracted material.

It's hoped further studies of the Deniliquin impact structure will shed new light on the nature of early Paleozoic Earth.

• Acknowledgment: I'd like to thank my colleague Tony Yeates, who originated the view of the Deniliquin multi-ring structure as an impact structure – and who was instrumental to this work.
• This story originally appeared on The Conversation.

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20-08-2023 om 01:27 geschreven door peter  

Russia's Luna-25 moon lander suffers 'emergency situation' in lunar orbit

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That's all we have to go on at the moment. But, as is often the case, speculation has filled the information vacuum.

"Russian internet is now filled with rumors/failure scenarios, and most of them assume that Luna-Glob (#Luna25) was lost. One argument is — had the problem been not fatal, Roscosmos would simply never mention it! ;)" Anatoly Zak of RussianSpaceWeb.com wrote on X (formerly Twitter) today.

If Luna-25 is indeed dead, it would be quite a blow to Russia's space program. Luna-25 is the first moon mission developed by modern Russia, and the first for it or its forerunner state, the Soviet Union, since Luna-24 in 1976.

Luna-25 launched on Aug. 10 and reached lunar orbit six days later. It's supposed to touch down near the moon's south pole, perhaps as early as Monday. 

The lander carriers eight different science instruments. If it does bounce back from today's glitch, Luna-25 will use that gear to hunt for water ice and perform a variety of investigations in the exotic south polar region, which has not hosted a lander or a rover to date.

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20-08-2023 om 01:02 geschreven door peter  

US Soldier Shocking Alien Abduction Claims & Discussed Reptilian, Greys & Tall Whites

In April 2012, a video was uploaded on YouTube, where an unidentified US Army soldier who is black talks about his encounter with three alien races. It looks like the video was shot at one of the US military bases in the presence of other soldiers. The US military personnel could be seen telling other soldiers about his repeated abductions by extraterrestrial civilizations and meetings with three different species of aliens.

He told others that he had been firstly abducted by grey aliens (with a large head and short body), then by the tall white aliens (who were created by short grey aliens as servants), and by reptilians (like anthropomorphic lizards).

He was trying to sketch the aliens on the whiteboard behind him, but because of the poor quality of the video, it is hard to see them. According to the soldier, on the greys’ planet, they can breathe oxygen as the atmosphere is quite similar to ours. However, the planet has a binary star system, resulting in drier air. The greys’ bones are more fragile than those of humans.

The soldier also mentions the third race, the reptilians, whom he draws and identifies as adversaries to humanity. He explains that they are humanoid and bipedal, standing at an average of 6 to 7 feet tall with a strong build. He explains that the reptilians are the most aggressive and dangerous alien species, and they could be a real threat to mankind.

According to the soldier, there had been a big war between the greys and the reptilians, and the greys almost wiped the reptilians out. Meanwhile, he said that the greys are kind to humans. He had even reportedly visited the planet of grey aliens.

But the greys’ planet lies in a binary star system (with two suns like in Star Wars on the planet Tatooine), due to which their place is like a desert with a very hot climate. The soldier also mentions the term EBE-1 which, according to former CIA pilot John Lear, is known as “Extraterrestrial Biological Entities.”

Lear believed that everything started with the Roswell crash in 1947. He claimed that in September 1945, President Truman established MJ-12, and the purpose of that was to study the saucers and cover up the existence of UFOs. He told Geroege Knapp that four alien bodies were recovered from a crash and were autopsied by Dr. Detlev Bronk. They were named “EBEs”, and three live EBEs were captured in different crashes. EBE-1 lived with an Air Force Colonel between 1949 and 1952. The EBEs were kept in an electromagnetic facility called a YY-2, which was designed by Dr. Eric Wang, who worked under Dr. Kissinger and was involved in the coverup of the incident since the beginning.

Further, the soldier stated that the alien abductions are mostly done by the grey aliens, but they always return people without harming them. He even said that since the caveman days, the DNA of humans have been altered by 60-68 times to enhance and accelerate our evolution, so that we can be immune to various diseases and protect ourselves from disasters. Jesus Christ was one of those genetically modified humans.

The soldier also talked about the top-secret project supervised by the Majestic 12, in which 12 people were selected for visiting greys’ planet. They chose the best military specialists from the US Department of Defense, who had to spend 10 years on an alien planet.

Majestic 12 (or MJ-12) was the ultra-secretive group that controlled and managed the UFO/alien issue in the 1940s. So, the US soldier refers to the so-called “Project SERPO,” which is allegedly one of 20 top-secret projects supervised by the MJ-12.

SERPO was a joint program of the US government and humanoids living on the planet Serpo, located in the star system of the Zeta Reticuli. The distance from Earth to Serpo is about 39 light-years. According to an anonymous source, contact with aliens was established after two of their aircraft crashed in Roswell (New Mexico, USA) in 1947. Then, the Americans managed to save one humanoid. He was allowed to communicate with his brethren through an intercom located in a disc-shaped object.

The Americans prepared a group of 12 people after having established contact with the aliens. By agreement in the exchange program, for the duration of the stay of earthlings on the planet Serpo, one of the aliens remained as a diplomatic representative on Earth. All the information related to those who had agreed to fly was destroyed as if they never existed.

According to the soldier, one US President told Close Encounters director Steven Spielberg that he “hit the nail on the head” with the film’s storyline. It is unclear which President he is discussing but he claimed all the presidents including Barack Obama “know.”

Interestingly, during a special screening of “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial” at the White House in 1982, President Reagan whispered to Steven Spielberg that everything shown in the movie was real. It was confirmed by Spielberg while giving an interview to Quint (aka Eric Vespe).

Spielberg said: “No, he wasn’t ushered out of the room. He was the President of the United States! Nobody could usher Ronald Reagan out of the room! It was in the White House screening room and Reagan got up to thank me for bringing the film to show the President, the First Lady, and all of their guests, which included Sandra Day O’Connor in her first week as a Justice of the Supreme Court, and it included some astronauts… I think Neil Armstrong was there, I’m not 100% certain, but it was an amazing, amazing evening.

He just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount, and he said, “I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie,” and then he looked around the room and said, “And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.”

The actual source of the video is still unknown, and the identity of the US soldier has never been disclosed.

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20-08-2023 om 00:36 geschreven door peter  

Ex-CIA Pilot Said US Buried Huge UFO That Was Too Big To Move, Corroborating Coulthart Claim

On July 8, 2023, one of the greatest UFO stories was told by Ross Coulthart to Project Unity host Jay Anderson. The investigative journalist claimed that there is a huge UFO in the possession of the United States that could not be moved, and he knows the location of the craft. Coulthart clarified that the immovable craft is not in the US.

In the interview, Coulthart discussed the potential implications of the new US Senate intelligence bill. He referenced Douglas Dean Johnson’s writings about the bill, which purportedly mandate holders of non-earth origin or exotic UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) material to make it accessible to the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) within six months.

Anderson raised concerns that this six-month window might offer enough time for those holding such materials to hide or conceal them. Coulthart acknowledged the possibility but suggested that certain UAP materials could be so large that relocating them is not feasible. He mentioned the existence of a building constructed over such a massive object in a foreign country, which might sound implausible to some.

This revelation left the UFO community curious about the place where the craft might be situated. Interestingly, the late former CIA pilot John Lear previously mentioned the existence of buried crafts too massive to move. In 2018, Lear posted on Facebook, recounting the enigmatic tale of a massive buried UFO near Garrison, Utah. This peculiar incident became a topic of discussion at a UFO conference in Las Vegas, piquing Lear’s curiosity.

The incident dates back to 1953 when a large UFO, measuring between 150 to 200 feet in diameter, crashed near Garrison, Utah. Lear explained that the UFO was so large that even the United States Air Force Security Forces’ “Blue Berets” could not relocate it. Consequently, a decision was made to bury the UFO on the spot. Lear wrote that a team of hundreds of soldiers dug the ground and managed to bury the craft 50 feet below ground level. (Earthfile source)

“While all of the digging to bury the saucer was going on, they also dug a tunnel from the saucer several hundred feet to the south, where they built 2 or 3 houses. The houses were constructed to appear about 75 years old, using old, weathered wood, nails, window frames, and roofing. The only hint that these houses might not be so old were the brand-new padlocks on the doors.

I don’t recall the exact description of the interior, except for a door leading to a stairwell that connected to the tunnel leading to the craft. Everything I’m telling you is from my recollection of the report, likely written by the person who accessed the buildings. My memory isn’t perfect. One of the houses contained a logbook in which visitors from various organizations like Air Force, Navy, Army, and others would inscribe their names.”

Lear and his associates intended to visit Garrison to witness this buried craft. They planned to use a helicopter, a fuel truck, and specialized equipment to explore underground. However, the trip never materialized for reasons unknown. Lear maintained his belief that the craft remains in place. He even shared Google Earth images indicating the potential location. He marked the houses on the images, but they no longer appear on Google Earth.

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“About 300 yards east from this claim, there was an alleged Spanish treasure location. This treasure spot had been discovered by an individual from the Phoenix area with access to Spanish treasure maps, and this location was marked on one of the maps.

In a pile of rocks, there was a precisely square cutout approximately 10 inches wide and 16 inches deep. The bottom seemed like concrete. I had the underground radar team scan the area and found only a few potential returns. The area is now in an ACEC (Area of Critical Environmental Concern). Nevertheless, we were all set to convene for the Garrison expedition in 2 weeks, but somehow it never took off.”

Lear even provided the coordinates of the location: Latitude 38 degrees 37 minutes 40 seconds North, Longitude 113 degrees 40 minutes 40 seconds West. This further deepens the mystery, leaving people intrigued about the truth surrounding the buried UFO near Garrison, Utah.

Moreover, there is alleged John Lear’s statement on the alien presence, posted to Paranet on December 29, 1987. Here are the paragraphs published by UFOmind.com discussing the buried craft: [this page was first archived on January 31, 1997]

“Moore is also in possession of more Aquarius documents a few pages of which leaked out several years ago and detailed the supersecret NSA project which had been denied by them until just recently. In a letter to Senator John Glenn NSA’s Director of Policy Julia B. Wetzel wrote, “Apparently there is or was an Air Force project by that name Aquarius) which dealt with UFO’s. Coincidentally, there is also an NSA project by that name.”

NSA’s project Aquarius deals specifically with the ‘communications with aliens’ (the EBE’s). Within the Aquarius program was project ‘Snowbird’ a project to test fly A recovered alien aircraft at Groom Lake, Nevada. This project continues today at that location. In the words of an individual who works at Groom Lake ‘our people are much better at taking things apart than they are at putting them back together’. Another saw a saucer being trucked into the Nevada Test Site in March of 1988. Still another informant witnessed a saucer being buried at that location (for God knows whatever reason) during the second week of August 1988.”

There is another version of this statement: (Source)

“Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939. General James H. Doolittle went to Sweden in 1946 to inspect a flying saucer that had crashed there in Spitzbergen…

In July of 1952, a panicked government watched helplessly as squadron of “flying saucers” flew over Washington, D.C., and buzzed the White House, the Capitol Building, and the Pentagon. It took all the imagination and intimidation the government could muster to force that incident out of the memory of the public.

Thousands of sightings occurred during the Korean war and several more saucers were retrieved by the Air Force. Some were stored at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, some were stored at Air Force bases near the location of the crash sight.

One saucer was so enormous and the logistic problems in transportation so enormous that it was buried at the crash sight and remains there today. The stories are legendary on transporting crashed saucers over long distances, moving only at night, purchasing complete farms, slashing through forests, blocking major highways, sometimes driving 2 and 3 lo-boys in tandem with an extraterrestrial load a hundred feet in diameter.”

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20-08-2023 om 00:19 geschreven door peter  

Researchers have discovered a new stellar object with “highly unusual” characteristics, which they say possesses the most powerful magnetic field anywhere in the known universe.

Astronomers involved with the discovery characterize the object as a massive magnetic helium star and say the discovery could help astronomers understand the origins of magnetars.

Magnetars are a type of neutron star with extremely strong magnetic fields. Neutron stars are formed when a very large star finally explodes, resulting in a supernova. The incredibly compacted core of the remnant star that is left behind is believed to represent the densest matter anywhere in the universe.

Magnetars produce the strongest magnetic fields that are known to exist, although how they manage to do so remains a mystery to astronomers.

Now, observations made by researchers with the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab could help astronomers unravel new details about how magnetars are believed to form.

The team reports in a paper recently published in Science that a strange, massive star they have discovered possesses what may be the most powerful magnetic field ever associated with such a celestial body, marking the discovery of an all-new variety of astronomical objects.

An effort that combined data collected from telescopes that included the Canada-France-Hawai‘i Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea and other observatories from around the world helped the research team identify the huge helium star, which possesses an equally massive magnetic footprint.

The team identifies the object as a variant of what is known as a Wolf-Rayet star, which may represent a phase in its evolution toward becoming a magnetar.

“For the first time, a strong magnetic field was discovered in a massive helium star,” said NOIRLab researcher André-Nicolas Chené in a statement.

“Our study suggests that this helium star will end its life as a magnetar.”

Chené and the team says spectroscopic observations helped them detect the magnetic field produced by the unusual object, which at 43,000 gauss is believed to be the most powerful magnetic field known to have been detected.

Additional details about the object’s mass and age were gleaned from observations of its interaction with nearby celestial objects, the team said, adding that the star might have formed because of a merger between a pair of smaller stars long ago.

Now the team is considering whether the formation of magnetars throughout the universe may rely on similar processes.

“This is a very specific scenario, and it raises the question of how many magnetars come from similar systems and how many come from other types of systems,” Chené said in a statement.

Chené adds that it was previously believed that stars that may eventually become magnetars would likely arise from the most massive stars, which may not be the case after all.

“What this research shows us is that stars that are much less massive can still become a magnetar, if the conditions are just right,” Chené adds.

Chené and the team’s research was detailed in a paper, “A massive helium star with a sufficiently strong magnetic field to form a magnetar,” which appeared in Science on August 17, 2023.

• Micah Hanks is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of The Debrief. He can be reached by email at micah@thedebrief.org. Follow his work at micahhanks.com and on Twitter: @MicahHanks. 

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19-08-2023 om 23:34 geschreven door peter  

UFO With Entities Did Land In Rendlesham Forest & Filmed On Cine Camera, Revealed In New USAF Airman Testimony

The Rendlesham Forest UAP incident is one of the legendary UFO encounter cases in the history of UFOlogy. In 1980, Lt. Col. Charles Halt, a deputy commander of the US Air Force Base, received the news of strange sightings near twin NATO airbases of RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk, England. In the early morning of December 26, Airman First Class John Burroughs reported the sighting that included vague descriptions, ranging from unusual supernatural light, glittering triangular spaceships, and scorched footprints on the ground.

It is always argued whether the Suffolk UFO landing actually happened or it was just a hoax. On the official note, there is no physical evidence to prove this claim, only testimonies provided by credible witnesses. As the years passed, a piece of new information indulged which opened many untold stories of this case.

Gary Heseltine, a former police detective and UFO investigator recounts the complex story of the Rendlesham Forest UFO incidents, which is considered the second most famous UFO case after Roswell in 1947. Heseltine researched the case for over five years, analyzing various published materials and uncovering lesser-known information.

In his book, “NON-HUMAN: The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incidents: 42 Years of Denial“, he presented amazing new military testimony from a previously unknown witness. The book discusses the political aspects of the incident, suggesting that the narrative may have been controlled by a few individuals for years. Heseltine argues that the UK and US governments have downplayed the true significance of the case.

This series of events occurred between December 26 and December 28, 1980. A mysterious flying object flew at such an incredible speed that violated the laws of physics. Moreover, despite the very high speed, the alien spacecraft did not make any noise.

The incident involves a young airman’s claim of witnessing a translucent UFO about 30 ft in diameter landing in a farmer’s field. This claim has been debated for many years. Later, round-shaped prints were found on the ground clearly from a heavy object, which were at a distance of about 3 meters from each other. Burns were also seen near these grooves on the ground.

On December 28, when soldiers were sent for a more thorough study of the area, they noted the excess of radiation. And at this time, a UFO reappeared, it flew by with incredible speed, illuminating everything around with bright red lights. The light emanating from the ship was so strong that the sensors of the night sights burned out, and the lights continued to hover and shine over the forest and field for some time.

Heseltine discovered a new witness account that sheds new light on the landing of a triangular-shaped UFO in the forest, an event previously recounted publicly only by Staff Sgt Jim Penniston and Airman John Burroughs. Heseltine reveals that after extensive research, he has obtained corroboration from a military witness, Sergeant Adrian Bustinza, confirming the occurrence of a UFO landing.

In a four and half hour transatlantic telephone interview (which was audio recorded) he admitted that he had been involved in a second UFO related event, a landing of a translucent craft approximately 30 feet in diameter which was surrounded by a ring of US Air Force Security police officers, writes Heseltine. (Source)

The landing was filmed on video and cine cameras, marking it as the second UFO landing event. Heseltine emphasizes that Bustinza’s involvement was significant because he was part of the security perimeter around the craft, as was Larry Warren, an honorably discharged military eyewitness, and was the first to go public about the Bentwaters UFO cover-up.

Sergeant Bustinza’s account corroborates Warren’s version of events, confirming that the entire incident was being filmed. Additionally, Bustinza states that Colonel Gordon Williams, the Base Commander of the twin US bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, was present at the second landing. Despite Colonel Williams’ denial of involvement, both Bustinza and Warren assert that he was present during the event.

“When I arrived [at the scene], it was going in and out through the trees and at one stage it was hovering,” Sgt. Adrian Bustinza said. (Source)

Interestingly, Heseltine mentioned that both Bustinza and Warren state that entities or lifeforms were seen near the craft, engaging in what seemed like a silent confrontation with Colonel Williams. This detail adds a mysterious and intriguing element to the story.

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Heseltine highlights the significance of Sergeant Adrian Bustinza’s corroboration, as it confirms the existence of the second UFO landing. He asserts that the US Air Force has attempted to cover up this event, but now, with the corroboration from a first-person witness, the truth is emerging.

Moreover, while examining old documentation of the case, Heseltine found a direct admission made by Lt. Col. Charles Halt, the deputy base commander at the time, to an American researcher named Ray Boeche in April 1985. Halt admitted that the second UFO landing did occur, and the craft was surrounded by USAF Security police officers, with Col. Williams present. This admission from Lt. Col. Halt adds further weight to the claims made by Bustinza and Warren.

Alien Abduction

Interestingly, video footage was published in 2018 by the British tabloid newspaper, The Sun, where Retired Lt. Colonel Charles Halt can be heard saying that John Burroughs “may have been abducted” and that the men were “unaccounted” for hours. The video was reportedly captured in 2010 when Halt and retired British police detective Gary Heseltine revisited Rendlesham Forest for a documentary that was never made. The footage was recorded by Heseltine’s wife when the two were talking about the UFO incident during a break.

Halt said: “He [Burroughs] may have been abducted, who knows… You know, there is LOST TIME, we know that? They were not on the radio… You’ve got men out in the forest that you can’t… unaccounted for hours.”

Even though the USAF had always denied any UFO landing in the Rendelsem forest, Burroughs shared the shocking news about his health. He said that he had been subjected to a high amount of radiation during the investigations of the mysterious craft on three consecutive nights in December 1980.

The US military classified Burrough’s medical records, so neither he nor his lawyer were able to get it. Even the USAF denied that he had been working with them during the time of the incident as claimed by Burrough. Somehow, they got a document from the British Ministry of Defence in which it was written that the site had a high level of radiation during the UFO incident.

Finally, after decades, the US Veterans Association and the Department of Defence agreed to pay for his treatment. Besides, in the radiation document, the US military acknowledged the unexplained aerial phenomenon that occurred at the site and caused a physical injury to Burrough.

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19-08-2023 om 23:22 geschreven door peter  

A stock photo of a UFO 

(Image: Getty)

This new research is proof of alien life, says Philip Mantle

The US Congress has been told UFOs are real. We discovered lost photos which prove alien contact has already been made, writes Philip Mantle.

In recent days the internet has been buzzing after former US intelligence officer Davis Grusch testified under oath before members of the US Congress that he had seen conclusive proof that the US authorities have recovered crashed UFOs and their occupants.

The one thing on everyone’s mind was, of course, “show us the evidence Mr. Grusch”.

Sadly, he could not as it was classified. But the fact is there are cases already out there that would stand up in a court of law and prove that something quite extraordinary has happened. Such cases are close encounters or better known in the popular imagination as “alien abductions”.

One such case that I and my colleague Dr Irena Scott in the USA have been working on does just that.

The date of the close encounter was October 11, 1973; the location was the Pascagoula River, Mississippi.

Former US intelligence officer, Davis Grusch 

(Image: Getty)

One last thing that has left the authors completely baffled is what could be proof of a physical contact with something by Parker and Hickson that night. Both men reported that when the bizarre looking humanoids took hold of them, they felt a kind of scratch or prick similar to an injection.

We uncovered a document written on October 13, 1973, just two days after the encounter, which describes a physical examination of the two men and that “puncture wounds” were located on Charles Hickson’s arm and Calvin Parker’s foot.

The document, located in 2018, also mentioned that photographs of these marks were taken. In the file sadly there was no sign of these photographs.

In 2021 when this book was being written the authors received an email from a colleague that mentioned he had accidentally found a couple of photos that he thought we would be interested in.

The photographs in question were those mentioned in the ‘puncture wounds’ document obtained three years earlier and show marks on Charles’s Hickson’s arm and Calvin Parker’s foot. These photos will be published in our book for the first time ever.

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19-08-2023 om 22:59 geschreven door peter  

Men In Black Encounter After UFO Crashed in Man's Backyard - Greer UFO Crash Whistleblower Interviewed By Jeffery Pritchett

Interview with Robert Earl White who was just on Laura Eisenhower’s show.

Men In Black Encounter After UFO Crashed in Man’s Backyard – Greer UFO Crash Whistleblower Interviewed By Jeffery Pritchett 

Men in Black, in American popular culture and in UFO conspiracy theories, are men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen.

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19-08-2023 om 22:40 geschreven door peter  

Two Tic-tac UFOs Over Bristol, Indiana May 28, 2023, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: May 28, 2023

Location of sighting: Bristol, Indiana, USA
Source: MUFON

 

Two huge tic-tac shaped UFOs flew one after another over Bristol, Indiana a few months back. The report just came in so this is fresh. The objects are so close that they only have a quarter the size of the ships between them. The ships are the same size, same white color and show no wings, no contrail, no windows, no painted markings or landing gear. This is 100% proof that aliens are flying over Indiana. 

 

The first 8 seconds of the video is a close up of the UFOs I made, then after is the original 18 seconds attached to it. This way you can see them closer, and yet see the original untouched video at the end. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

Eyewitness states: 

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19-08-2023 om 21:10 geschreven door peter  

UAP over Reno, Nevada On Aug 18, 2023, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 18, 2023

Location of sighting: Reno, Nevada, USA
Source: MUFON

 

This UFO appeared to a guy in Reno yesterday and he got really excited about it. He even described it to us as a glowing shining spinning disk. Something thats hard to tell for sure without a closer high quality camera, but his iPhone did good. This video reveals its movements, colors, shape and it seems to be watching the eyewitness. Aliens...they love watching, but not so much into intervening. 

Scott C. Waring

 

Eyewitness states: 

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19-08-2023 om 21:01 geschreven door peter  

UFO Seen Over Field In Argentina Aug 2023, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 13 or 14th, 2023
Location of sighting: Chubut, Argentina

This UFO is tilting to an angle that will allow it to enter an underground alien base about 5-6km below the surface. The ground just opens into a huge tunnel and allows anything to enter, and as it does so, the tunnel behind it will close, never collapsing, but always slowing the ship to move forward in a tunnel until it reaches the city underground. Awesome photos, notice the dust storm below the UFO, it's clearly causing quite a disturbance with its energy propulsion...unless of course, that dust is from the tunnel opening up to enter the underground base. Wow, just wow! 100% proof of ancient aliens visiting this month in Argentina!

Scott C. Waring 

Eyewitness states: 

A few days ago in Argentine Patagonia, precisely in the province of Chubut, a witness named Calaverita Mateos took several panoramic views of an unknown object, which is already being speculated to be false photos and a montage.

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19-08-2023 om 20:56 geschreven door peter  

Images above and below

credit: Ryan Graves

Excerpt: 

"I am a (Major US Carrier) A320/321 Captain, the following sighting occurred during one of my flights recently. Since I have shared my story, several other (Major US Carrier) pilots have reached out to me and shared their similar experiences. 

Last week of July, 2023, I departed Santo Domingo DR at 2305 destined for New York JFK. My route of flight was L453 in NY Oceanic airspace, non radar hundreds of miles offshore. At approximately 1 hour into the flight as we were approaching the southern boundary of the NY oceanic airspace, and at 32,000 feet, I called out a visual on traffic that was excessively bright and looked like about 80 miles range... and then disappeared visually. I never saw the traffic on TCAS. 

Then a few minutes later I saw two objects round in shape, one lighted and one not flying in a formation just above the horizon, at a range I guessed of 120-200 NM. The object/s would illuminate to be as bright as a star for several seconds, then go dark for a few minutes, only to illuminate again. The brightness would vary from bright to very bright to dark. The color of the lighted object was white light. 

There was a second object you can clearly see in the photos that would follow the illuminated object, but it would not illuminate itself. 

I have the brand new Samsung S23 phone which has the best camera on the market for a cell phone and I started recording this object in video. I have a great 7 min video (see below) of it appearing and disappearing while I was talking to other airliners on 123.45 vhf about it. You can hear that conversation in the video! Another airliner approximately 400 NM ahead of us at 36,000 feet stated they saw the same thing. 

In one of the photos I took (see first and second image above) you can actually see the lighted object and the unlit object very clearly as round metallic objects. 

In the image above, you will be able to see in the long exposure photos the stars are pins of light but the UFO's are streaks of light because they are moving! It is actually amazing! 

The light seemed to be on or just above the horizon until we got closer to our destination of NY. Just prior to beginning our descent the objects appeared much higher in the sky 80-90 degrees above the horizon and much further away, actually out of the atmosphere."

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19-08-2023 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

Woman In Florida Shares Terrifying Image Of UFO Sighting

In a quiet neighborhood in Florida, a chilling event took place that would remain etched in the annals of UFO sightings. Trish Bishop, a courageous woman, not only experienced an extraordinary encounter with the unknown but also managed to document it, offering a glimpse into the elusive world of extraterrestrial encounters.

UFO sightings have long captured the imagination of the masses. Be it luminescent objects dashing across the sky or inexplicable phenomenon observed in remote locations; such instances spark intense debate and intrigue. Yet, what sets Trish’s encounter apart is its sheer intimacy and the tangible evidence she provided.

Trish described an eerie moment when she observed a being approaching a “wavy thing” – an entity possibly from another world. In a mesmerizing recount, she detailed how the entity took several steps forward, entered the “wavy thing”, and then vanished completely. However, what’s most intriguing is that she waited for years to speak about the incident. Why? She worked for a government contractor and had clearance. The implications of sharing her story were vast. Trish’s job and credibility were on the line.

But why did she eventually come forward? The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) – an organization dedicated to understanding UFO phenomena – played a pivotal role. After stumbling upon them online, she felt an overwhelming urge to share her experience. John Gagnon, a representative from MUFON, verified her account and even went on to classify her as one of the top three credible witnesses he’s encountered.

Adding to the mystery, a trail camera captured a mystifying image, which Trish believes to be linked to her sighting. Astonishingly, another sighting had been reported just six months prior, a mere 11 miles away from Trish’s location. The parallels in the two reports reignite questions: Are we alone? Or is our understanding of the universe more limited than we think?

In the vast tapestry of UFO sightings, Trish Bishop’s story stands out not just for its gripping narrative but also its authenticity. For those who scour the skies in hopes of spotting a UFO or those who remain skeptical, her tale serves as a compelling testament to the fact that sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.

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19-08-2023 om 20:30 geschreven door peter  

19-08-2023 om 01:41 geschreven door peter