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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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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...
09-09-2023
Unveiling the Mysteries: America’s Top 4 Baffling UFO Sightings
Unveiling the Mysteries: America’s Top 4 Baffling UFO Sightings
Are you fascinated by UFO sightings but overwhelmed by conspiracy theories and hoaxes? Uncover the truth with our deep-dive into the most mysterious and scientifically scrutinized UFO encounters in the United States. Featuring Roswell, Navy pilots, declassified government videos, and a shocking congressional report—our comprehensive guide offers compelling evidence that will make even the skeptics reconsider.
Roswell: The Mother of All UFO Sightings
Back in 1947, Roswell became ground zero for UFO enthusiasts. A rancher named Mac Brazel stumbled upon inexplicable metallic debris in New Mexico. The military initially reported capturing a “flying saucer,” only to retract it a day later, blaming a weather balloon. Major Jesse Marcel, who was the first military officer on the scene, secretly shared with his family that the material was unlike anything he had ever seen. Why the sudden backpedal? Could this have been the starting point of a well-orchestrated government cover-up?
San Diego Skies: The Unbelievable Tic Tac Encounter
Fast forward to 2004, two Navy pilots encountered a Tic Tac-shaped object hovering off the coast of San Diego. Navy Pilot David Fraver reported that the object performed aerial stunts that defy our understanding of aerodynamics. The object had no visible means of propulsion and darted away at speeds incomprehensible to modern technology. Could this be a new form of aerial technology or perhaps something far more unworldly?
Declassified Videos: The Pentagon Opens Up
In 2017, Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon official, brought to light three declassified Navy videos showing unidentified flying objects executing impossible maneuvers. These videos took the UFO community by storm and further intensified the demand for disclosure. The visuals are captivating and challenge our scientific understanding, paving the way for more serious inquiry into the phenomenon.
Congressional Report: The Turning Point
In June 2021, the U.S. government took an unprecedented step by releasing a nine-page report on UFOs, or “UAPs” (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). Out of 144 reported sightings, only one was explained—a deflating balloon. The report hints at the need for additional scientific research to explain these phenomena, effectively acknowledging the potential of extraterrestrial technology.
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From ranchers to Navy pilots and government reports, America’s UFO sightings have captivated global attention. These narratives aren’t just fuel for wild imaginations; they provide a basis for meaningful dialogue and scientific inquiry. As we continue to question, research, and potentially make groundbreaking discoveries, one thing is clear—UFO sightings are a subject that demands more than a cursory glance.
By unraveling these captivating incidents, we may be stepping closer to a broader understanding of our universe. If you’re intrigued by the enigma surrounding UFO sightings, stay tuned for more revelatory content.
History of Soviet/Russian UFO Crash Retrieval Operations & Relations with Non-human Civilizations
History of Soviet/Russian UFO Crash Retrieval Operations & Relations with Non-human Civilizations
Anton Anfalov, Ph.D., was born in the city of Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union in 1972 and spent decades living in Crimea before his recent departure to Canada due to the intensifying Ukraine conflict. In the mid-1980s, he became interested in the UFO phenomenon after the Soviet Union first relaxed its stringent secrecy policies during the glasnost era and the subsequent Presidency of Boris Yeltsin.
Dr. Anfalov has interviewed hundreds of Russian and Ukrainian whistleblowers and been given documents on the UFO phenomenon dating back to the early post-World War II Soviet era. He has gained much knowledge about UFO crash retrieval operations in the Soviet Union and Russia; learned about ancient underground tunnels built by extraterrestrials that the Kremlin repurposed for deep underground military bases; the capture in 1965 of several Praying Mantis Insectoids from the Inner Earth; and the existence of a Russian secret space program.
In the first of a series of Exopolitics Today interviews, Dr. Anfalov explains how he learned about Soviet and Russian secrets about extraterrestrial visitors and Inner Earth Civilizations. He asserts that the current administration of President Vladimir Putin has adopted Soviet-era KGB policies of strict secrecy and that prospects of official disclosure by Russian authorities are dim. His testimony, therefore, provides rare insight into the secret history of the Soviet Union and Russia interacting with visiting extraterrestrial life and Inner Earth civilizations, and reverse engineering captured UFO technologies.
Astronomers are racing to explain peculiar orbits of faraway objects at the edge of our solar system.
Artist's conception of the dwarf planet Sedna in the outer edges of the known solar system.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC))
Among the many mysteries that make the furthest reaches of our solar system, well, mysterious, is the exceptionally egg-shaped path of a dwarf planet called 90377 Sedna.
Its 11,400-year orbit, one of the longest of any resident of the solar system, ushers the dwarf planet to seven billion miles (11.3 billion km) from the sun, then escorts it out of the solar system and way past the Kuiper Belt to 87 billion miles (140 billion km), and finally takes it within a loose shell of icy objects known as the Oort cloud. Since Sedna's discovery in 2003, astronomers have struggled to explain how such a world could have formed in a seemingly empty region of space, where it is too far to be influenced by giant planets of the solar system and even the Milky Way galaxy itself.
Now, a new study suggests that a thus far undetected Earth-like planet hovering in that region could be deviating orbits of Sedna and a handful of similar trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which are the countless icy bodies orbiting the sun at gigantic distances. Many TNOs have oddly inclined and egg-shaped orbits, possibly due to being tugged at by a hidden planet, astronomers say.
Two Japanese researchers used computer simulations to analyze the effects of such an undiscovered planet on the TNOs. Those simulations, which included evolutions of numerous real and model TNOs in the furthest reaches of an icy region, known as the Kuiper Belt, produced the extreme orbits observed for Sedna and other TNOs.
Such a planet would be between 1.5 to three times Earth's size and would reside somewhere between 23 billion miles (37 billion km) to 46 billion miles (74 billion km) from the sun, astronomers say.
"It is plausible that a primordial planetary body could survive in the distant Kuiper Belt, as many such bodies existed in the early solar system," researchers write in the new study.
The quest to find hidden worlds
Searching for planets lurking in the frigid edges of our solar system is not a new concept.
The so-called Planet Nine, a world 10 times more massive than Earth, is thought to be responsible for at least five strange features in the solar system including the oddly inclined orbits of a few Kuiper Belt objects. This theoretical orb has captured the attention of many, but remains undetected. But research suggests if Planet Nine exists out there, it could be residing somewhere between 37 billion miles (59 billion km) to 74 billion miles (119 billion km) from the sun.
Although the possibility of Planet Nine gained significant traction from research groups worldwide, the theory has also been controversial. Some astronomers argue that the highly eccentric orbits of TNOs, for which Planet Nine's presence was considered necessary, could occur without the hidden planet's presence.
In 2021, an independent study in fact claimed data used by the team behind the discovery paper first theorizing Planet Nine was biased, and concluded that there's a very low chance of such a planet existing.
In comparison to Planet Nine, the newly hypothesized planet —- dubbed "Kuiper Belt Planet (KBP)" — would be much closer and more influential on the orbits of Kuiper Belt's objects, especially those beyond 4 billion miles (7 billion km), according to the new study.
It is worth reiterating that the KBP has neither been directly or indirectly spotted yet. If the KBP orbits within 34 billion miles (54 billion km), the authors say there's a 90% chance of detecting it in the sky.
However, more information about the structure of objects in the edges of Kuiper Belt is needed to either reveal or rule out KBP's presence.
This research is described in a paper published Aug. 25 in The Astronomical Journal.
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Researchers have shown that a particularly hearty strain of bacteria nicknamed “Conan the Bacterium” could survive buried on Mars for 280 million years. Previous studies indicated that Deinococcus radiodurans could survive the harsh ionizing radiation battering the surface of Mars for as many as 1 million years by hiding under the protective Marian soil. This study shatters that previous record, dramatically increasing the chances that microscopic life forms could still be alive beneath the red planet’s surface.
The researchers also note that their findings could significantly impact preparations for the potential contamination of Mars by Earth-origin life forms and the contamination of Earth by Martian life forms. Both are serious considerations for NASA, including the recent appointment of a new Planetary Protection Officer.
SEARCHING FOR MARTIAN LIFE PAST AND PRESENT
Since NASA’s first Viking landers, scientists have been searching Mars for signs of life. Some members of those initial experiments still believe they discovered living microscopic life forms way back in 1976, even though follow-up tests were unable to confirm their tantalizing signal.
In the decades since, researchers have learned much more about the harsh radiation and arid conditions on present-day Mars, as well as the likely wet and more temperate eras in the planet’s past, shifting the hunt away from currently living organisms and toward signs of ancient life. If confirmed, this latest research may shift the pendulum back from hunting for ancient Martian fossils to looking for bacteria or other microscopic life forms still living beneath the Martian soil.
CONAN THE BACTERIUM COULD SURVIVE BENEATH MARTIAN SOIL FOR HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS
The new study’s press release says, “When Mars’ first samples return to Earth, scientists should be on the lookout for ancient sleeping bacteria.”
Led by Michael Daly, a professor of pathology at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and member of the National Academies’ Committee on Planetary Protection, the new study looked at how the harsh radiation and arid environment on Mars’s surface affect the survivability of dormant bacteria.
“There is no flowing water or significant water in the Martian atmosphere, so cells and spores would dry out,” said research team co-leader Brian Hoffman, a Professor of Chemistry from Northwestern University. “It also is known that the surface temperature on Mars is roughly similar to dry ice, so it is indeed deeply frozen.”
To mirror these conditions (-80 degrees Fahrenheit) in their lab, the researchers recreated Mars’ surface’s cold and dry conditions.
Next, the team placed six different microscopic life forms, a collection of fungi and bacteria, in their simulated Mars and subjected these carefully selected life forms to blasts of either gamma rays or protons, simulating the ionizing cosmic radiation and solar protons that regularly slam into the red planet’s surface. By adjusting the intensity, researchers were able to simulate the volume of radiation these microorganisms would encounter at three levels: on Mars’s surface, at a depth of 10cm, and finally, at a depth of 10 meters.
Unsurprisingly, the surface survival rates were measured in minutes or hours, confirming that even Earth’s hardiest organisms couldn’t live for very long on Mars. However, burying one particular dried-out bacteria, a strain nicknamed Conan the bacterium for its hardiness, beneath the Martian soil dramatically changed the results.
Deinococcus radiodurans, aka Conan the Bacterium, in a lab dish. Credit: Michael J. Daly/USU
In fact, simply reducing the radiation levels to simulate bacteria shielded beneath 10cm of soil extended their ability to absorb radiation and still survive from hours to a staggering 1.2 million years. Furthermore, simulating burying these bacteria 10 meters below the surface upped their survivability to a whopping 280 million years. According to the researchers, this means that if life ever did exist on Mars, we may still find some of its living remnants today.
“Although D. radiodurans buried in the Martian subsurface could not survive dormant for the estimated 2 to 2.5 billion years since flowing water disappeared on Mars, such Martian environments are regularly altered and melted by meteorite impacts,” explained Daly. “We suggest that periodic melting could allow intermittent repopulation and dispersal.”
Daly went even further, pointing out that even if these intermittent repopulations did not occur and no bacteria have survived to the present day, there could still be significant evidence of ancient life on Mars.
“If Martian life ever existed, even if viable lifeforms are not now present on Mars, their macromolecules and viruses would survive much, much longer,” he said. “That strengthens the probability that, if life ever evolved on Mars, this will be revealed in future missions.”
FUTURE MISSIONS COULD HUNT FOR CURRENT MARTIAN LIFE WHILE AVOIDING CONTAMINATION
With results published in the journal Astrobiology, the researchers behind the new study say their findings have two significant implications. First, as noted, this may dramatically alter future missions searching for ancient signs of life and instead refocus efforts towards finding signs of organisms currently living beneath Mars’ surface.
Second, and perhaps even more significant, simply demonstrating that Earth organisms could survive for hundreds of millions of years on Mars if brought there by human astronauts should inform efforts to prevent contamination of Mars by Earth’s microbes, and vice versa.
“Our model organisms serve as proxies for both forward contamination of Mars, as well as backward contamination of Earth,” explained Daly, “both of which should be avoided.”
Professor Hoffman expanded on the significance of this point, including the likely long-lived nature of such cross-contamination.
“We concluded that terrestrial contamination on Mars would essentially be permanent — over timeframes of thousands of years. This could complicate scientific efforts to look for Martian life,” said Hoffman. “Likewise, if microbes evolved on Mars, they could be capable of surviving until present day. That means returning Mars samples could contaminate Earth.”
Sounds like the beginning of a really fun (or really scary) science fiction movie.
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In May 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope(JWST) encountered a problem. The giant observatory, perched 1 million miles from Earth, has a honeycomb-like configuration of mirror panels to see the stars. But one of them was struck by a bigger-than-expected micrometeoroid. The agency reported in a blog post that it had “a marginally detectable effect in the data.” But a larger chunk of rock flying at unfathomable speeds could have delivered a bigger blow.
Its predecessor, Hubble, had experienced similar issues. A 1997 repair mission discovered that a micrometeroid had struck on the antenna of the space telescope, adding a new layer of difficulty to the shuttle crew’s maintenance of the observatory.
Strikes like these are a big hazard to some of the most expensive telescopes in the world. But maybe there's something that can be done. While Hubble was close enough to Earth for astronauts to service, JWST has no such luxury. But what if you could build a telescope that could repair itself?
Cosmic Backyards is an Inverse series that explores the cutting-edge research looking into the depths of the cosmos. This work is pushing the boundaries of our understanding of the universe, and our place in it.
Edward Balaban — a research scientst at NASA Ames — and his colleagues are exploring doing just that. But instead of creating a solid telescope mirror, they’re looking toward using liquid materials. Not only could it lead to space telescopes that can repair themselves, but it will also overcome several other hurdles of large telescopes including risky rocket flights and painstaking construction, and potentially be able to produce unfathomably large telescopes at the same time by manufacturing them in space. Called the Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE) project, the team suggests creating liquid mirrors 164 feet (50 meters) in diameter — nearly eight times the size of the mirror on JWST.
"If we are successful, we believe that large fluidic space telescopes will enable a real revolution in astronomy, allowing us to observe much fainter objects than currently possible and peer back further in time at the very early stars and galaxies," Balaban tells Inverse.
In turn, this could allow astronomers to look further back into the universe than ever, make out details of objects that appear as fuzzy points of light to even the most powerful telescopes right now, or even answer the question of if we’re alone in the universe by peering directly at alien worlds.
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So why liquid?
The molecules in liquids can stick to one another more tightly than they do to other things, making the surfaces of those liquids act like flexible membranes that can be surprisingly strong. This property, known as surface tension, is the force that compels water droplets to bead up into the most compact shapes possible, and lets insects such as water striders walk on water without sinking.
On Earth, when droplets of water grows larger than roughly 0.09 inches (2 millimeters), gravity overcomes surface tension, squashing them flat. However, in space, even large amounts of liquid can, through surface tension, bead up into spheres. Liquids may stick to surfaces due to a property called adhesion. In microgravity (like you have in space), you could take advantage of adhesion to contain liquid materials in a circular frame. The liquid will stretch across the inside of the frame and naturally form a curved shape because of surface tension.
If a sufficient amount of liquid is made to adhere to the inner surface of a circular ring-like frame, By using the right volume of liquid, the surface of the liquid can curve inward instead of bulging outward. If the liquid is reflective, this inwardly curved surface can serve as a telescope mirror.
"I love innovations that push outside of the limits of how we currently implement missions," Morgan Cable, an astrochemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who is not part of Balaban’s team, tells Inverse. "Taking advantage of the fundamental properties of liquids such as surface tension to work to our advantage is a game-changing idea."
WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER TELESCOPE
Currently, JWST is the largest and most powerful space observatory ever built. It possesses a 21.3-foot-wide (6.5 meters) mirror dwarfing that of the Hubble Space Telescope more than twice over. The main mirror is 18 hexagonal segments built of gold-plated beryllium that create the huge light-gathering area of the telescope. It had to be folded like origami to fit in the nose cone of its rocket, and successfully deploying this mirror and the tennis-court-size sunshield designed to keep it cold was a project of unprecedented complexity.
The conventional way to make the optics for telescopes is literally a grind, involving repeatedly sanding and polishing solid materials such as glass or metal to create precisely curved and smooth lenses and mirrors. Using current technologies, the upper-limit of telescope size is around 33 feet (10 meters). scaling up space telescope optics to more than roughly 33 feet (10 meters) wide isn’t economically viable.
In theory, there is little limit to the size of liquid optics. "The same physics work whether a liquid optical component is 10 centimeters in diameter or 10 kilometers in diameter," Balaban says. This could make telescopes capable of feats we only dream of right now. For instance, planets outside our Solar System (exoplanets) appear right now to be, at best, specks of light — and that’s when we can see them directly, which isn’t very often. But Balaban says a large liquid telescope could take a look at surface features of nearby exoplanets. This could also give clues to if anything is alive there.
"Discovering any type of life outside of Earth would be immensely exciting," Balaban says. "It's a question that humans have pondered for millennia."
Gallium, an element with a melting point so low it can go from liquid to solid in your hand — and which the FLUTE project has tested out.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF FLUTE
Balaban came up with the idea for this strategy after a conversation with an astronomer colleague about building telescopes even larger than JWST in space instead of launching them from Earth. Balaban’s colleague told him there is “no way” NASA or another agency would be able to construct telescopes in space with the kind of precision required with current technology. "That sort of got stuck in the back of my brain as a challenge," Balaban says.
A few months later, Balaban's long-time friend Moran Bercovici at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa came to visit him. Bercovici was working with microfluidics, but not for telescopes. Instead, it was for “lab-on-a-chip” technology where droplets of fluid get pushed around reconfigurable channels, allowing researchers to perform medical and chemistry research. "I then asked something along the lines of, 'What about using something like that to build a giant space telescope?'" Balaban says.
The two began collaborating on what would become FLUTE in 2020 just before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. By 2021, the FLUTE team flew several 1-inch test lenses on an airplane that can simulate microgravity. They followed that up in 2022 with a new design, twice the size and incorporating a gallium alloy. (Gallium is a metal with a very low melting point.) That same year, Israeli commercial astronaut Eytan Stibbe also created several 20-centimeter lenses on the International Space Station to test the tech in space
LIQUID OPTICS COME INTO THEIR OWN
The underlying idea of FLUTE — using liquid metal to build telescope mirrors — has been around for decades. Until now, though, it’s hit a series of roadblocks. For instance, researchers explored spinning reflective liquids to create curved mirrors. This shape is necessary to funnel light to a sensor that can then build the image. The process works on Earth, but in the microgravity of space, the mirrors end up flat.
But FLUTE takes advantage of the way fluids naturally behave in microgravity. An eventual mission could thus fly the liquid metals as raw material, and the telescope’s optics could actually be constructed in orbit. According to David Leisawitz, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, who is not part of the research, this could help reduce both the size and mass of the launch, making it more fuel efficient while allowing for a larger space observatory.
"The liquid used to make the mirror can be very compact when the payload is launched, and it can be turned into a large mirror in space," Leisawitz tells Inverse.
An extra benefit that liquid optics have is how they can self-repair if damaged. Like the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the telescope could heal itself. Hubble had to have astronauts repair it from time-to-time. JWST, which sits a million miles beyond Earth and has had its share of encounters with small dust and rocks striking the mirrors, has no such luxury. But a liquid optic telescope wouldn’t need this. The goal is to engineer the viscosity, thickness and other aspects of these optics so they can recover after "no more than several hours," Balaban says.
But scaling up the FLUTE project runs into the practical limitations of the size of how test experiments are flown. The plane they flew their experiments on is just a modified Boeing 727; the ISS is just about as cramped as a plane cabin. But an award from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program granted in January will allow the FLUTE team to design, fund, and launch a small demo mission to low-Earth orbit. Rather than 25 or 50 millimeters, the team will assemble a 1-meter (3.28 foot) mirror aboard a small spacecraft that will also include instruments to analyze the quality of the resulting mirror, he notes.
Although the preliminary findings are promising "in order to be successful, this telescope would have to operate in space for a very long period of time," Cable says. "It will be important to understand how liquid-based lenses age in the conditions of space — vacuum, temperature cycling, radiation, and so on."
But astronomers like Cable are hopeful that it works, as it would open up entire new areas of astronomy.
"To me, the most exciting aspect of FLUTE is the sheer scale of it," Cable says. "When it comes to telescopes and their capabilities, everything depends on size. So this is a really big deal."
In Greek mythology, a chimera is a monstrous scramble of a lion, goat, and a serpent. In genetics, the term means something only slightly more down-to-earth: an organism with cells from at least two different species. While this might sound perfect for devising something gruesome like a pigeon-rat, it’s most promising for regenerative medicine. A chimera, with a genetically engineered ability to nurture cells of another species, can grow entire organs for another creature. Researchers just used chimeras to get one step closer to growing vital human organs.
A team of researchers in China and the U.K. have used a CRISPR-modified pig-human chimera to grow a human kidney. They published their results today in the journal Cell Stem Cell. While previous studies have employed similar methods to grow human blood or skeletal muscle in pigs, this is the first time scientists have successfully cultivated a solid humanized organ inside another species.
To grow the kidney, the researchers started with a blastocyst (an early-stage embryo) from cloned pigs. Then, they used the gene-editing technique CRISPR to remove two genes from the blastocyst that contain the instructions for developing kidneys. Otherwise, pig kidney cells would outcompete human ones for available resources.
Next, the researchers used human pluripotent stem cells, which can become any kind of cell, and tweaked them to be able to seamlessly integrate with a pig embryo’s biology.
A total of 1,820 embryos were implanted in 13 surrogate sow mothers. As the chimera embryos grew over either 25 or 28 days, the team closely watched how the human kidneys’ development fared. They aimed to grow a kidney to its middle stage of development, which they marked by the development of mesonephros, which are structural pieces of human kidneys.
The team set a gestation limit of 28 days because these embryo clones had a high risk for degeneration at the one-month mark and because mesonephros appear at around 20 days in pig embryos. However, these time parameters also stemmed from ethical concerns that other tissue, including the brain, could develop. By the 28-day mark, the team collected five embryos with normally developed mesonephros.
This isn’t the first time researchers have successfully grown an organ outside a body.
A paper published in 2017 demonstrates how researchers used a mouse-rat chimera to grow a mouse pancreas, successfully transplanted into another mouse. A 2019 paper demonstrated that mouse-rat chimeras can also develop mouse kidneys.
While these mesonephros developed normally, they can’t yet be transplanted into a human. They’d need to produce a mature kidney, known as a metanephros, in order to make that leap. What’s more, they’d need to confirm that other cell types within the kidney were also of human, not pig, senior author Miguel Esteban, a regenerative medicine researcher at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Sciences, wrote to Inverse.
“We are very excited [by] having achieved this milestone, but this is only the first step,” Esteban says. Future work entails further modification to human cells, mostly to make sure the chimera’s pig cells don’t get mixed into the developing human kidney, writes senior author Liangxue Lai, a molecular biologist at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Sciences.
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15 of the Most Secret Bases on Earth That Governments Don’t Want You to Know About (Video)
15 of the Most Secret Bases on Earth That Governments Don’t Want You to Know About (Video)
Governments around the world are hiding their secrets in highly secure facilities, far away from prying eyes. These places have become focal points of conspiracy theorists and those trying to uncover the truth of what our governments are doing behind closed doors… so, from classified monitoring stations, to chemical research stations, here are the top 15 most secret bases on earth.
So, from classified monitoring stations, to chemical research stations, here are the top 15 most secret bases on earth.
From Spy Balloon to UFO: The Unveiled Secrets of the F-22 Raptor’s Mysterious Yukon Encounter – Read ‘Secret’ memo
From Spy Balloon to UFO: The Unveiled Secrets of the F-22 Raptor’s Mysterious Yukon Encounter – Read ‘Secret’ memo
In an atmosphere thickening with tensions of national security and the forever elusive question of “Are we alone?“, a curious incident has recently come to light. This is the tale of an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP)—commonly known as a UFO—intercepted and taken down by a U.S. F-22 Raptor in Canada’s remote Yukon Territory. Initially dismissed as a Chinese spy balloon, the object now emerges as a centerpiece in a renewed global focus on unexplained aerial occurrences.
The Yukon Incident: A Closer Look
On a seemingly ordinary day in February, the U.S. F-22 Raptor, one of the most advanced fighter jets in the world, engaged with an unidentified object over the icy landscapes of the Yukon Territory. According to reports, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received a “Secret” memo that chronicled this as the 23rd UAP occurrence in North America within the initial weeks of 2023.
Notably, this incident followed the downing of what was believed to be a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina. This led many to initially categorize the Yukon object as another likely espionage attempt, especially in the backdrop of three other unidentified objects being intercepted around the same time. However, details suggest a more mysterious nature to the object shot down in the Yukon.
The “Secret” Memo Unveiled
Obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, the memo designated for the Canadian Prime Minister added layers of complexity to an already complicated narrative. Sent on February 14, the document was cautiously distributed to a select few, including Trudeau’s national security advisor, Jody Thomas, and endorsed by Janice Charette, who was the clerk of Canada’s Privy Council Office at that time.
While most UAPs usually turn out to be harmless, the memo explicitly states that the purpose, means of propulsion, or affiliation with any specific nation-state of the Yukon object remains unconfirmed. Moreover, the strenuous conditions and the remote, mountainous terrain have prevented recovery efforts, leaving the questions about its nature unanswered.
Unidentified or Unexplainable?
What elevates the Yukon incident from a mere curio to a subject of robust inquiry is the shift in global attitude toward UAPs. The Pentagon and NASA have increased their investigations, recognizing these phenomena as more than fodder for conspiracy theories. The memo for Prime Minister Trudeau shows a similar sentiment in Canada, indicating that the governments are taking these incidents seriously enough to engage at the highest levels.
Additionally, the object’s initial identification as a “suspected balloon” with a “cylindrical” shape only intensifies the intrigue. This poses significant questions: What led the F-22 Raptor to engage an object that was neither confirmed as hostile nor clearly identified? What implications does this have for our understanding of airspace security? And most of all, what was that object?
Global Reckoning
U.S. President Joe Biden has suggested that these mysterious objects are likely benign, possibly even private or research balloons. But if that’s the case, why the classified memos and the high-level briefings? Why the sudden rush of increased surveillance capabilities, as indicated by the spokesperson of Canada’s Department of National Defence?
The Yukon incident might just be the tip of an iceberg in a sea of unanswered questions about our skies, and by extension, our place in the universe. It has emboldened the argument that there’s more out there than what meets the eye—or our radars.
The downing of the unidentified object in the Yukon by an F-22 Raptor has opened Pandora’s box of curiosities and concerns. As we await further disclosures and investigations, one thing is clear: the world is watching, and perhaps, so is someone—or something—else. The narrative has changed, and as nations re-evaluate their approach toward unidentified aerial phenomena, one can only wonder what other secrets the skies hold.
What started as a mere blip on the radar in a remote part of Canada has catapulted into a global debate, and it seems, the discussions are just beginning to take flight.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully located and photographed the landing site of a spacecraft recently sent to the moon by India’s space program.
Chandrayaan-3 is the third mission in the Chandrayaan program, a set of moon missions launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The current mission, launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on July 14, includes the Vikram lunar lander and an accompanying lunar rover, Pragyan, which follow a similar pairing of lunar exploration vehicles launched in 2019 as part of the Chandrayaan-2 mission.
Since June 18, 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been observing the moon from its position in an eccentric mapping orbit, providing imagery crucial to the production of a 3D map of the lunar surface. Although the LRO’s mission was originally intended to last for just two years, it was extended to allow the spacecraft to continue to collect data that may help scientists understand a range of questions that include the evolution of the moon’s crust and regolith.
Chandrayaan-3 landed on the Moon on August 23, approximately 600 kilometers from the Moon’s South Pole.
From its position in orbit, the LRO successfully spotted and photographed the Indian spacecraft’s landing site, which can be seen in the center of the image below as a dark spot surrounded by a lighter “halo” of white.
India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander can be seen as the tiny object surrounded in white at the center of this image (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/ASU)
The Chandrayaan-3 lander isn’t actually glowing, of course. The lighter area around it is an effect caused by the spacecraft’s rocket plume blasting away fine-grained lunar soil, resulting in the exposure of regolith with a lighter coloration, contrasted against the shadow cast by the lander.
The image was logged by NASA as frame No. M1447750764LR, comprising a region surrounding the Chandrayaan-3 lander that is close to 1,738 meters wide.
Four days after NASA obtained the images that initially detected the Chandrayaan-3 lander, a secondary view at a 42-degree oblique or “slew angle” was also obtained.
Additional imagery of the Chandrayaan-3 mission has been made available online courtesy of the ISRO and can be viewed here.
Bryce Zabel, a CNN reporter has done a marvelous job in presenting the detailed Roswell incident in his personal blog. He collectively mentioned top witnesses’ statements that assure Roswell disclosure is on a fast track. The legendary incident that happened in 1947 was indeed real, according to moon-walking astronaut Edgar Mitchell. He claimed in his interviews that he had informants that had told him about the inside story of Roswell, but he never disclosed their names.
“Make no mistake, Roswell happened. I’ve seen secret files which show the government knew about it — but decided not to tell the public,” claimed Edgar Mitchell, Ph.D., Apollo 14 Astronaut.
In February 1971, after the successful completion of the mission, the Apollo 14 crew returned to Earth. Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell became the fifth and sixth astronauts to walk on the moon’s surface. While Shepard chose to live in the glory, Mitchell became the main troublemaker for many years.
He publicly accepted the existence of aliens after being on the Moon and stuck to it until his death. He accused the US government of hiding the truth about contact with aliens. Immediately after his return, Mitchell left NASA and immersed himself in studying UFOs, ancient history, and human consciousness.
Edgar Mitchell, 1971. Image credit: NASA
Mitchell grew up in the small town of Artesia, a few miles from the very Roswell airbase where the crash allegedly occurred. The astronaut claimed that many of his neighbors, acquaintances, and friends worked at that base, and what he heard from them is enough for him to consider the Roswell incident a real UFO crash. Mitchell did not disclose the names of his informants, referring to the fact that they all signed a non-disclosure agreement and he did not want them to have any problems.
Michell, who claimed he briefed the highest members of the Pentagon, said the reality is that there was an advanced civilization that could penetrate our air defenses at will and that we could not stop them in any way, shape, or form, immediately doomed the Roswell incident to become one of the greatest coverups in history.
ET stopped Nuclear War
According to Mitchell, he once had a confidential conversation with a Navy admiral, who secretly told him that in fact, aliens had established contact with the government back in the early 1940s. They were interested in earthly weapons, primarily the atomic bomb. At the very beginning of the Cold War between the USSR and the USA, aliens often came to Earth because they feared nuclear war and tried to influence the world elites in some way. (Source)
Growing up in New Mexico gave him a unique insight to the Roswell area, he told the UK’s Mirror in 2015.
“White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons – and that’s what the extraterrestrials were interested in… They wanted to know about our military capabilities. My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.”
According to a 2015 story, Apollo 14 astronaut said: “My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.”
However, he clarified in hisinterview with Observerthat he did not make those statements but at the same time, he somewhat agreed with those words. He said: “I don’t remember speaking to them personally. I don’t know where they got that information. I didn’t make those statements. Somebody has added to my words. Those weren’t my exact words but I don’t necessarily disagree with those statements.”
However, the 2016 Wikileak emails say Mitchell was worried about space weaponization. Despite the fact that aliens might be violent as shown in various sci-fi, the notable astronaut called them nonviolent in his email. In January 2015, he sent an email to Podesta, asking him to have an urgent meeting to discuss Disclosure and Zero Point Energy (ZPE). He was concerned about the peace in space.
Mitchell wrote: “My Catholic colleague Terri Mansfield will be there too, to bring us up to date on the Vatican’s awareness of ETI. Another colleague is working on a new Space Treaty, citing involvement with Russia and China. However, with Russia’s extreme interference in Ukraine, I believe we must pursue another route for peace in space and ZPE on Earth.”
Mitchell emailed Podesta again on September 18, 2015. He wrote: “Because the War in Space race is heating up, I felt you should be aware of several factors as you and I schedule our Skype talk. Remember, our nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero point energy to Earth. They will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space.”
Why Believe the Roswell Crash?
Bryce Zabel writes: “That storyline has hundreds of witnesses testifying to roughly the same fact trail. Some were first-hand witnesses to debris and even the recovery of bodies, and several accounts came from death bed confessions. Many more witnesses were family members who learned of the secret their fathers and husbands had kept inside them for decades. There were many dozens who attested to extremely tight security and transportation of material in the aftermath of what crashed at Roswell.”
Jesse Marcel was an intelligence officer of the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Field and was tasked with investigating the 1947 Roswell crash
Moreover, the hype of Roswell stories has increased. The New York Times started covering this issue in the summer of 2020 and is continuing its investigation into crash wreckage. Besides, the former head of the AATIP Luis Elizondo gave his candid take on the 1947 Roswell crash in New Mexico and more in an interview with the Roswell Daily Record.
Elizondo: “I’ll share with you… some of the observations that were made by some people. Before I was part of AATIP, I had no idea about Roswell, other than that there was sort of some alleged crash at some point and some farmer found debris — but during my time with AATIP, there was some very interesting anecdotal information that suggests there wasn’t just one crash, there may have been two crashes, and that somehow it may have been related to some sort of testing that was being done at the time at White Sands, and that material was recovered.
And that material that was recovered, samples of that material found their way into the hands of private citizens, some of them, but that the … allegedly the larger sections of debris were all recovered by the U.S. Government.”
During the interview, Elizondo said that while he headed the AATIP, his job was to concentrate on current UAP incidents, however, he added that he had conversations with so-called “graybeards” at the Pentagon who had been involved with UAPs since Project Blue Book. It was from these individuals that Elizondo learned what probably occurred at Roswell in 1947.
Elizondo: ”These individuals were convinced that the events in New Mexico were not fiction. In fact that it was a, very much a real event and that some very exotic material was recovered… And then there was a subsequent effort to try to be very dismissive about what occurred in New Mexico. But again, I will share with you that it was, from my understanding, it wasn’t one, it was two crashes, and it may have been related to some sort of nuclear-type testing of technology that we were doing, atomic and/or nuclear technology at Los Alamos at the time.”
Two Brazilian journalists in 1952 presented photos they said depicted a flying disk. The photos created an uproar. They were not debunked by a subsequent military inquiry, although some ufologists later asserted that the images had been fabricated.
(Ed Keffel/O Cruzeiro/National Archives of Brazil)
RIO DE JANEIRO — Early one August evening in 1954, a Brazilian plane was tracked by an unidentified object of “strong luminosity” that didn’t appear on radar. Two decades later, a river community in the northern Amazon jungle was repeatedly visited by glowing orbs that beamed lights down onto the inhabitants. In 1986, more than 20 unidentified aerial phenomena lit up the skies over Brazil’s most populous states, sending the Brazilian air force out in pursuit.
The stories are not the ravings of aUFO buff. They are official assessments by Brazilian pilots and military officers — who often struggled to put into words what they’d seen — and can be found in Brazil’s remarkable historical archive of reported UFO visitations.
Even more extraordinary? It’s all public record.
There are no security clearances. No heavily redacted documents. Anyone can access the files — the military reports, the videos and audio recordings, the grainy unverified photographs — and thousands of people have.
“It’s comparatively easy to get this information here,” said Rodolpho Santos, a historian at the Federal Institute of Minas Gerais. “And the variety of records is good and considerable.”
Brazil and the United States are two countries of continental proportions, frequent UFO sightings and active communities of extraterrestrial enthusiasts. But how each has responded to the most fundamental of human questions — are we alone? — has been sharply different. In the United States, the matter of unidentified aerial phenomena has often been treated as a closely guarded government secret. Meanwhile, in Brazil and much of South America, there has been a more relaxed attitude toward the inexplicable, the public’s right to know and the limits of scientific explanation.
A supposed flying disk that caused a sensation in Brazil in 1952. (Ed Keffel/O Cruzeiro/National Archives of Brazil)
Now, as legislators in Washington push for the same transparency that other parts of the world have enjoyedfor years, the cultural and nationalistic differences between how countries interpret the skies and what is divulged have grown even more apparent.
In South America, at least four countries — Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru — have public government programs that study and investigate UFO activity. Argentina and Chile regularlyrelease reports on identifying aerial objects. And in Uruguay, which has passed UFO details along to the United States since the 1970s, the military runs the Commission for the Reception and Investigation of Complaints of Unidentified Flying Objects.
“We have been sharing the information with the public since the beginning,” said Col. Ariel Sánchez, the head of the Uruguayan program. “We believe people need to be informed.”
Whether a country shares that contention, researchers say, often comes down to military interests. The United States, for example, has often been less willing to publicize or publicly engage on questions about UFOs — even going so far to spread misinformation in the 1950s — for fear of ceding a strategic advantage to adversaries and jeopardizing national security.
“The U.S. has always tended toward secrecy,” said Chris Impey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona. “Only in the last year or so has there been a push for transparency, but the backdrop of that was flat-out denial or secrecy.”
In Brazil, where polling shows that 33 percent of people believe in extraterrestrial life, ufologists are not treated as crackpots. They run magazines and operate through official-sounding organizations, such as the Brazilian Commission of Ufologists. Some were granted an audience before the Brazilian Senate last yearand have met with some of the country’s most important military leaders. Generals, in turn, openly wonder about extraterrestrials without fear of derision.
In 1977, residents of the impoverished northern Amazon jungle community of Colares reported being visited by glowing orbs that beamed lights down onto inhabitants. The Brazilian military spent months investigating and documented the objects but said it could not discern what they were. (Air Force of Brazil)
A document from the Brazilian military investigation of the phenomena in Colares in the state of Pará. (Air Force of Brazil)
£“The science of man is very small to be able to explain all phenomena,” said Gen. Marco Aurélio Rosa. “And our cultural and ethnic mixing has enabled Brazilians to have this curiosity about the supernatural, the mystical and transcendental, that ends up leading us to the question of ufology.”
Brazil’s military began posing such questionsin the 1950s, shortly after two journalists came back from an assignment in Rio de Janeiro with what they claimed were extraordinary photos. They showed a circular object flying over a granite mountain. One of the photos — now stored in the national archives — leaped onto the cover of the national magazine O Cruzeiro. “FLYING DISC,” the headline said. More sightings of other flying discs quickly followed. The public was restless for answers. The military launched an inquiry and then held a public conference in 1954 at its national academy in Rio de Janeiro.
Col. João Adil Oliveira, one of that era’s most respected officers, stepped in front of a large audience.
Additional military documentation of phenomena in Colares. (Air Force of Brazil)
Material from the investigation triggered by mysterious sightings in Colares in 1977.
(Air Force of Brazil)
“The issue of flying discs,” he proclaimed, “is serious and deserves to be treated seriously.” The military had not been able to disprove the journalists’ photos, nor discern the disk’s provenance. (Years later, some ufologists asserted that the photos had been faked; the issue remains hotly debated by Brazilian enthusiasts.)In the decades that followed, how the military treated reports of subsequent sightings was in large part a function of Brazil’s own vacillating commitment to transparency. During the military dictatorship, which ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985, most information was restricted. But when the country returned to democracy, and particularly after the 2011 passage of a freedom of information law, Brazilians availed themselves of their newfound right by requesting, first and foremost, access to UFO records.
By 2013, the military was deluged by requests, according to reporting at the time. The pile of information requests involving UFOs was nearly four times higher than the next largest — that involving military pay. With pressure building, then-Defense Minister Celso Amorim signed off on a meeting with Brazilian ufologists and afterward ordered the transfer of a vast trove of UFO records to the national archives for public access.
“I did it because of the demand at that time,” recalled Amorim, now a senior adviser to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
For the first time, researchers and ufologists were able to scrutinize the most curious incidents in recent Brazilian history. Some proved to be frauds or were easily explained away. But regarding others, questions lingered.
One involved the impoverished Amazon community of Colares in the state of Pará. In the latter half of 1977, the community was gripped by panic. People were saying the region’s rivers had been invaded by flying, luminous objects. They beamed lights down onto people, who, according to military records, reported symptoms of paralysis and dizziness.
A military unit was sent in to investigate. It spent four months in the area. The team photographed the flying lights, interviewed dozens of people and wrote extensive reports that included drawings of the luminous aircraft that, in declassified notes, looked like flying American footballs. The military observers said that what they saw defied explanation.
“We feel as we haven’t come to a completely satisfactory conclusion,” João Flavio de Freitas Costa wrote in his November 1977 report. “The cases … left us in doubt and without explanations, based on our standards of knowledge.”
Photos that two Brazilian journalists in 1952 said they took of an unknown flying object. (Ed Keffel/O Cruzeiro/National Archives of Brazil)
Other reports involved what would come to be known here as the “Official Night of UFOs.” It occurred in May 1986, when 21 separate flying objects were reported across southeastern Brazil. Dozens of people — perhaps thousands — witnessed the flying objects. One of those witnesses was a pilot who, while in the air, made a call to a control tower.
“I’m seeing three of them now,” the pilot said, according to the recording.
“Could it be a shooting star?”
“A shooting star that stands still?” he said. “It’s beautiful. It changes from red to yellow. … Look at them. I have chills.”
The military sent planes out to intercept the objects. Cmdr. José Pessoa Calvalcanti de Albuquerque tried to describe what the military and air traffic control witnessed in a confidential report dated June 2, 1986. “They are solid phenomena and reflect a certain intelligence,” he wrote, “by their ability to accompany and keep distance from observers and that they fly in formation.”
But even in a country largely open to discussing and inquiring into unidentified phenomena, not all matters have been fully disclosed. Missing from the archives, ufologists say, are military photographs and videos of the orbs that visited the Amazonian river community as well as military documents regarding perhaps the most notorious alleged encounter, known as the “Varginha Incident.”
According to a recent study using computer simulations, Planet 9 is out there— and it’s smaller and more like Earth than you probably expect.
Planetary scientists Patryk Sofia Lykawka of Kindai University and Takashi Ito of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan used computer simulations to model how the rocky, frozen little worlds of the Kuiper Belt could have ended up in their current orbits, and it turns out that the best explanation is an unseen, undiscovered planet slightly larger than Earth, orbiting somewhere between 250 and 500 times farther from the Sun than our temperate planet. They published their work in The Astrophysical Journal.
The Kuiper Belt is populated by dwarf planets like Quaoar, shown in this illustration, and smaller chunks of rock and ice.
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SOMETHING STRANGE IS AFOOT IN THE KUIPER BELT
Far beyond the orbit of Neptune, in the outermost reaches of our Solar System, hundreds of thousands of tiny, frozen worlds drift through the darkness. The Kuiper Belt objects are like time capsules from the ancient Solar System, and their orbits can reveal how the giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — moved through the early Solar System and settled into their current orbits. And some of those orbits are weird enough to demand explanation.
In 2016, astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin announced a hypothesis for how a dwarf planet called Sedna and several objects like it came to have similar strange, elongated orbits that all cluster near the same point in space: a planet about half the mass of Neptune on the outskirts of our Solar System pulling their orbits in weird directions. Called Planet Nine, the hunt has since ensued for the elusive world.
But Lykawka and Ito say Brown and Batygin’s version of Planet 9 doesn’t account for all the weirdness going on with Kuiper Belt objects’ orbits, just the group whose orbits have been tilted at the same strange angle. Other scenarios — like an Earth-sized planet, carelessly shoved aside by one of the wandering giant planets, which in turn nudged a few Kuiper Belt objects on its way out of the Solar System — also don’t explain all of the orbital resonances, weirdly distant objects, and tilted orbits we see in the Kuiper Belt today.
In Lykawka and Ito’s simulations, only one scenario that explained all of the complex goings-on in the Kuiper Belt: a planet closer to Earth’s mass, around 250 to 500 times Earth’s distance from the Sun. According to Lykawka and Ito’s simulations, the best explanation is an unseen, undiscovered planet about 1.5 to 3 times as massive as Earth, orbiting somewhere between 250 and 500 times as far from the Sun: it’s Planet 9, but not the version other scientists have been looking for.
It will take more than computer simulations to prove that Planet 9 exists, let alone reveal its size or its path around the Sun. The best option would be to actually spot the world lurking on the edges of our system, but it’s likely to be so small and so distant from the Sun that the chances of it being visible are, well, astronomical. (However, some observatories like the Vera Rubin Observatory might be able to find such a world, but not without a lot of effort.) Instead, Lykawka and Ito, as well as Brown and Batygin, are on the right track; we’ll most likely find Planet 9 by tracking its unseen influence on the small icy worlds around it.
“More detailed knowledge of the orbital structure in distant Kuiper Belt can reveal or rule out the existence of any hypothetical planet in the outer Solar System,” write Lykawka and Ito in their recent paper.
It was in the heady, X-Files-dominated days of 1995 thatRay Santilli let loose upon an unsuspecting world the infamous “Alien Autopsy” film. Eleven years later, and after a seemingly never-ending period of controversy and debate, Santilli finally ‘fessed up to the fact that the controversial footage was nothing more than a, ahem, “restoration.” So Santilli’s highly convoluted story went, he really did have in his possession 1947-vintage U.S. military film that showed the secret autopsy of a bald-headed, pot-bellied alien who had had the unfortunate bad driving skills to crash to earth deep in the harsh deserts of New Mexico. Ironically, however, Santilli elaborated, the real footage had supposedly degraded to the point where it was both unwatchable and unusable from a broadcasting perspective; and so he enlisted the expert help of special-effects chums to work on that aforementioned restoration.
It would have been far too much to have expected this to lay matters to rest. And, indeed, it did not. The believers – or some of them, at least - continued to believe; while the disbelievers publicly scoffed at Santilli’s claims of “restoration” and maintained that the whole thing was nothing more than a straightforward hoax – albeit an ingeniously instigated and executed one. And even though the affair has now been relegated to the sidelines of ufology by all but those few that still have faith in Santilli’s original story, it is a seldom discussed fact that Santilli was not the first to claim knowledge of, or possession of, decades-old U.S. military film-footage and photographs said to show the bodies of dead and decaying ET’s.
(Nick Redfern) Get our hands on the dead aliens and we have the answers
A well-known collector of crashed UFO tales, the late Leonard Stringfield, was the recipient of a number of such claims – although, sadly and perhaps inevitably, no films. One such tale told to Stringfield came from the unsurprisingly anonymous ‘Mr. T.E.’, who, said Stringfield in 1980, “holds a technical position in today’s life.” T.E. told Stringfield that in 1953, at the age of just twenty, and while stationed at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, he was summoned to watch a startling piece of film-footage at the base theatre. Reported Stringfield: “Without any briefing, the 16mm movie projector was flicked on and the film began to roll on the screen…the film showed a desert scene dominated by a silver disc-shaped object embedded in the sand…” Stringfield continued that: “Then…there was a change of scenes. Now in view were two tables, probably taken inside a tent, on which, to his surprise, were dead bodies. T.E. said the bodies appeared little by human standards and most notable were the heads, all looking alike, and all being large compared to their body sizes…They looked Mongoloid.”
Interestingly, T.E. and his colleagues were told immediately after the screening to ‘think about the movie’; but were later advised that: “It was a hoax.” And, eerily paralleling the Santilli film, T.E. told Stringfield that: “The 5-minute long movie certainly was not a Walt Disney production. It was probably shot by an inexperienced cameraman because it was full of scratches, and had poor colouring and texture.” Then, there is the little known story of Pennsylvania-based UFO researcher Joan Jeffers who – having read the “T.E. Report” – stated in a letter to Stringfield on February 6, 1979 that she, too, had spoken with a military source who claimed to have seen what sounded suspiciously like the same film – at a “radar facility” in Maine, USA around 1956.
And still further reports reached the eyes and ears of Leonard Stringfield. Two years later, in 1982, Stringfield wrote: “On a tip from Bill Hamilton of Phoenix, Arizona, at the MUFON Symposium in Houston, June, 1980, I was soon in communication with Ms. C.M. of Los Angeles, a successful freelance writer who knew about a secret movie allegedly showing a freshly recovered alien craft with occupants, filmed inside an Air Force hangar. The movie, in color with sound, and of 17 minutes duration, said CM, was in the possession of a person formerly in government service, whom she did not identify…one scene showed the removal of five alien dead bodies.” Despite attempts to cultivate the source to a greater degree, Stringfield was unable to do so. Another film had bitten the dust.
Quite possibly the strangest story of an alleged alien autopsy film involves – in a weird and convoluted way – the late country and western singer, John Denver, who died in a plane crash near Pacific Grove, California on October 12, 1997. Aside from music, Denver’s other big passion was for space travel: he even took, and passed no less, NASA’s physical and mental examination to determine if he was fit enough to cope with the extreme rigours of a journey into space. As a result, plans were made for Denver to travel on the Challenger Space Shuttle. But a twist of fate prevented him from joining the ill-fated January 1986 mission that ended in complete and utter disaster when Challenger exploded shortly after take-off, killing all of the crew. One of those aboard Challenger was astronaut Ellison Onizuka, who had told his close friend, Chris Coffey that, while serving in the U.S. Air Force at McClelland Air Force Base in 1973, he had viewed a piece of black-and-white film footage that showed “alien bodies on a slab” – alien bodies not unlike those said to have been found in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Roswell, it turns out, was John Denver’s home town: he was born there – into an Air Force family, no less – in 1943.
Interestingly, in the same year that Challenger exploded – 1986 - English UFO researcher and author Jenny Randles was approached by a British Army source that she called “Robert,” who claimed to have read – and asserted that he had access to – hundreds of pages of seemingly Top Secret U.S. military files that had been found on classified computer systems at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Contained within those files, Randles told me in an interview on March 28, 1997, were – according to Robert, at least – photographs that showed aspects of at least one alien autopsy. Randles further informed me that: “…there was a very detailed account that was mostly filled with medical jargon about the autopsy which he didn’t understand, and there was a photograph of this entity with a slit right down the middle from the neck to the navel.” She added: “One of the things Robert said was that the aliens were very human-looking. He said that the head was completely bald, but the most unusual feature of the face was the nose, which was almost flush into the face – almost unnoticeable. Notably, Randles reported: “Bearing in mind, 1986 was years before the autopsy film [from Ray Santilli] surfaced. In fact, the connections with the autopsy film and with what Robert told me are chillingly similar. One of the impressions that you get from the alien autopsy footage is that the body is very human-like; and is around five foot in height. I have to say it struck me as soon as I saw the footage that this was very similar to what Robert had described.”
(Nick Redfern) Deep in Puerto Rico's El Yunque rain-forest could be the end of the puzzle
Keeping that possibility in mind, consider this, too: there is one central theme that runs throughout all of these “alien autopsy film”-related accounts – namely, the apparent and ridiculous ease with which each of the military sources seemingly had access to such apparent Top Secret material. The claim of Santilli’s “cameraman,” that he was able to keep the footage because no-one in the official world ever came to claim it, is both utterly absurd and beyond belief. That Leonard Stringfield’s twenty-year old source, “T.E.,” was openly shown – for no apparent reason that either party could determine – an alleged film of alien bodies laid out on tables also sounds unlikely in the extreme. And, as Jenny Randles told me with specific regard to one aspect of the story related to her by British Army informant, Robert – namely the apparent ease with which supposed classified files and photographs on dead aliens had been made available to him: “I more or less mutually decided that the most likely explanation was that Robert had been set up by someone, and that he really did have this documentation. If it was a hoax, then Robert certainly wasn’t guilty of it. And I’d probably still have to say that today.”
In view of this, we might do well to muse upon the possibility that deep within the bowels of the U.S. Air Force secret film-footage really does exist, and does appear to show the autopsies of one or more diminutive alien bodies. But appearances may be deceiving. We might argue that such footage was faked officially – decades ago, even – to test the loyalty of military personnel: deliberately expose them to such seemingly sensational material and then see if they keep their collective mouths shut in a fashion that is expected of them by their superiors; or watch them closely to see if they confide in their friends, family and the media. If the former: all well and good. If the latter: well, no actual real secrets have been exposed, and those that are found untrustworthy are quickly relegated to cleaning the latrines; or posted to guard-duty in some icy, polar region as punishment. Or, perhaps even, this was all part of a ploy to try and spook the former Soviet Union into believing that the West had access to crashed UFOs, alien bodies, and all of the attendant advanced technology that came with such a finding. History has certainly shown that Cold War psychological warfare operations took some bizarre and unique twists and turns; and history may one day show that the many tales of secret alien autopsy films have more to do with the shenanigans of spies, spooks, disinformation experts, and cigar-chomping Air Force generals than they do with diminutive, black-eyed aliens from the other side of the universe.
How about the legendary Chupacabra? Certainly, many people on Puerto Rico believe the Chupacabras are extraterrestrials and not just unknown animals. Let's have a look at the mystery. There is another reason why I was so intrigued by the potential UFO link to the chupacabra controversy. It was because of something that happened back in 2004. Shortly after the Proof Positive shoot was completed for the SyFy Channel, I spoke with a woman who had her own encounter with a UFO, but in a location where a chupacabra was seen only days later. As Rosario told me, it was early March 2000, and she was working in a grove near the foot of El Yunque where she picked plantains. Her attention was suddenly drawn to a deep, resonating hum, one that was coming from directly above her. Looking up, Rosario was startled to see a black, triangular-shaped object – about 25 to 35 feet in length - that was hovering overhead at a height estimated to be around 90 to 120 feet, and which had a glossy, shiny surface. Surprise and amazement turned to shock when a pencil-thin beam of light shot out of the base of the craft, fanned out, and enveloped Rosario in a pink glow. For what almost seemed like an eternity, Rosario was rooted to the spot, while her mind was flooded with images of widespread nuclear destruction and environmental collapse in the Earth’s near-future. The final image was of a large, bald head with huge, black eyes and that closely resembled the alien face on the cover of Whitley Strieber’s 1987 best-selling book, Communion – which Rosario was inexplicably drawn to read in the immediate aftermath.
Suddenly, the light retracted and the flying triangle rose into the sky, heading slowly towards the heart of the rain forest. Interestingly, in the wake of the encounter, Rosario developed an overwhelming interest in environmental issues, and quite literally overnight – after a lifetime of eating meat – became a staunch advocate of vegetarianism. That was not all: three days later, and only a couple of hundred feet from where Rosario was working on that fateful day, two girls spotted a chupacabra of the bipedal, spiked and decidedly menacing kind. The beast spotted them, too. Evidently, however, it was a monster on a mission, since, after peering at them for a few moments it fell down on all-fours and bounded away into the heavy undergrowth. It was an event that – due to both the time-frame and the proximity – led Rosario to conclude the chupacabra was somehow linked to the UFO phenomenon. And here’s the clincher: she, too, had heard rumors of dead chupacabra, found in a crashed UFO some years earlier that had been secretly taken to Roosevelt Roads.
Also of relevance, while on Puerto Rico in 2005, with Paul Kimball and his Red Star Films crew, our guide, Orlando, was filmed talking about a 1990s-era event in which U.S. military forces reportedly captured several extremely vicious Chupacabra in El Yunque. What happened to them, beyond first being held at Roosevelt Roads and then flown on to the United States - in secure cages, aboard a military aircraft - is unknown. And then there was that 2010 story of alleged, classified experiments undertaken on monkeys and apes in an underground facility at the base that I described earlier. Was this all nothing stranger than modern day folklore in the making? Or, could it have been the cold, stark truth? That Puerto Rico is hiding the bodies of dead aliens?
Now, to the U.K. Without doubt, the expert on this complicated story is Andy Roberts; he’s a long-time researcher of UFOs and numerous other anomalies. As for what happened in January 1974, Andy says: “Prehistoric man lived and worshipped on the mountains leaving behind him a dramatic, ritual landscape dotted with stone circles…Folklore tells us that these mountains are haunted by many types of aerial phenomena, including the spectral Hounds of Hell: those who saw them recalled how they flew through the night sky baying as though pursued by Satan himself. To the south of the Berwyn’s at, Llanrhaedr-ym-Mochnant, the locals were plagued by a ‘flying dragon’ – intriguingly, a common name for UFOs in times gone by.” He continues: “It is against this backdrop of history and myth that on the evening of January 23, 1974 an event took place on the Berwyn Mountains that was to perplex locals and spawned a veritable cascade of rumours, culminating in a claim that, if true, would irrevocably change our view of history and make us revise our plans for the future of both our planet and our species. The claim was that a UFO piloted by extraterrestrials crashed, or was shot down, on the mountain known as Cadair Berwyn and that the alien crew, some still alive, were whisked off to a secret military installation in the south of England for study.”
The witnesses speak: certainly, something happened on the Berwyn Mountains at approximately 8:30 p.m. on that famous night. No-one disputes that: it’s the nature of the events that provoke most of the debate. Anne Williams, of Bro Diham, Landrillo, recalled: “I saw this bright light hanging in the sky. It had a long fiery tale which seemed to be motionless for several minutes, going dim and then very brilliant, like a dormant fire which keeps coming to life. It would have been like an electric bulb in shape, except that it seemed to have rough edges. Then fell somewhere behind the hills at the back of my bungalow and the earth shook.” Police Constable Gwilym – off-duty at the time and knocking back a beer or a few in the local Dudley Arms pub - had something to say, too: “There was a great roar and a bang and the glasses shook. The sky was lit up over the mountains. The color was yellowish but other people in the valley described seeing blue lights.” Police Sergeant Gwyn Williams stated: “The walls shook and the mirror swung away from the wall,” he recalled. “My first thought was that a big lorry had hit the cinema – it was that kind of a roar and bang. Everyone ran into the street.” Around an hour-and-a-half later, what was described as a huge “luminous sphere” was seen by Ken Haughton, at a height of around 15,000 feet in the sky. He said that it seemed to fall vertically into the sea near to the town of Rhyl.
That strange lights had been seen maneuvering in the skies, and the fact that the ground shook to a major degree, inevitably provoked fears that an aircraft – or, possibly, something exotic and unearthly - had crashed somewhere on the vast mountains on that winter’s night. It’s no surprise, then, that on the early morning of the 24th a Royal Air Force emergency rescue team – operating out of the RAF Valley base – carefully scoured the Berwyns from overhead. They came away completely blank: there was no evidence of any kind of crash having occurred. There was no debris, no fires on the mountains, and no mangled bodies, human or otherwise. The entire thing was a mystery. Much ado about nothing? A very non-mysterious theory was put forward by the authorities: what some believed to have been a crash of something from the skies was actually an earth tremor. That does make some sense: it would have been very easy to mistake the effects of a small earthquake for a large object slamming into the ground. But, what of those lights that were seen in the skies – and at just about the same time? One theory was that they were actually the lamps of men out on the hills hunting for hares. Or, that there had been a meteorite shower – which there actually was.
(Nick Redfern) Alien autopsies in the U.K.'s highly sensitive and secret facility, Porton Down
Not everyone was buying into this wholly-down-to-earth picture, however. A letter was fired off to the staff of the Wrexham Leader newspaper by a fairly irate soul, who wrote: “Regarding your front page article ‘Mystery Tremor’ in the issue of January 25, I find the explanation given absolutely ludicrous. The tremors shook houses over a 60-mile radius, and the lights were seen clearly miles away – this was reported by the national press and radio. I know nothing about ‘Hare hunting’ but unless the hunters use aircraft searchlights and kill their prey by lobbing a small atom bomb at them, then I fail to see how anyone can accept such an explanation.” For many, it was all a huge – and almost unique – coincidence provoked by those lamps, the meteorite shower, and an earth tremor that was powerful enough to shake homes and cause windows to shatter. All in relatively close proximity to each other. And all at around the same time. You can easily see why more than a few people might have chosen to use one word to describe the chaos on the mountains: “Hmmmmm.”
The coincidence angle is broadly the theory that Andy Roberts goes with. Indeed, Andy wrote an entire book on the subject - and from the perspective of everything being very much UFO-absent. Its title: UFO Down? The Berwyn Mountain UFO Crash. It should be read by one and all. While the U.K.’s ufologists of the 1970s were briefly excited by what happened – the possibility of a UFO presence in the area, and maybe even the crash of an extraterrestrial craft – it wasn’t too long before life returned to normality in the area and the incident was eventually relegated to the status of a local legend and not much more. Except, that is, for those ufologists who just couldn’t let it go: a number of articles were written on the subject in the 1970s and 1980s. It wasn’t until 1996, however, that the story was resurrected in a big-time fashion. From the shadows comes an insider source
We now come to what I suspect is the most significant part of this whole story – that of a connection between the Berwyns Mountains events and the experiments that occurred in Rendlesham Forest. While I think that Andy Roberts gave the UFO research community a highly plausible scenario for what happened on January 23, 1974, there is data out there that makes me conclude there were things far stranger than just meteorites in the sky on that dark night. We’re talking about phenomena that closely parallels what was perfected at the Edgewood Arsenal in the 1960s: controlled ball lightning. In 1996, a military whistleblower came forward, claiming that aliens had crashed on the Berwyn Mountains back in January 1974. The pummeled bodies of the dead crew were said to have been secretly rushed to Porton Down, for hasty examination and even hastier preservation. As is so typically often the case in such situations, the source chose not to provide his name to the UFO research community of the day. He preferred to lurk in the darkness, shrouded in mystery and intrigue. He shared his story only with Tony Dodd, who was a North Yorkshire police sergeant and UFO investigator. Dodd chose to give his talkative soldier the alias of “James Prescott,” who was said by Dodd to have been long-retired from the British Army.
“I cannot named my unit or barracks, as they are still operational,” Prescott told Dodd. Prescott did, though, admit that his base at the time was situated in the south-west of England, which – as the crow flies – may have placed his installation not too far from Porton Down. In a very baffling way - and although the incident on the Berwyn Mountains occurred on January 23, 1974 - Prescott and his colleagues were ordered to be on “stand-by at short notice” on January 18. That was five days before the Berwyns were briefly highlighted in the nation’s newspapers. Prescott got right into the heart of the story: “We then received orders to proceed with speed towards North Wales. We were halted in Chester in readiness for a military exercise we believed was about to take place. On 20 January, the communication to us was ‘hot.’ At approximately 20:13 hours we received orders to proceed to Llangollen in North Wales and to wait at that point.”
According to Prescott there was a huge amount of “ground and aircraft activity” over and around those huge mountains. Remember, this was still January 20, according to Prescott – three days before the ground shook those little old villages at the foot of the mountains. Prescott said that on that same night he and his colleagues were given further orders: “We, that is myself and four others, were ordered to go to Llandderfel and were under strict orders not to stop for any civilians,” claimed Prescott. On arriving at Llandderfel - a small, Welsh village - they could see soldiers racing around. Senior officers were barking orders here, there and everywhere. Aircraft were zooming across the star-filled sky. And all of this was against a background of overwhelming darkness. Prescott and his colleagues were ordered to haul a pair of large, wooden boxes onto the back of their truck, which they did in rapid-fire time. According to Prescott: “We set off with our cargo and during the journey we stopped to get a drink. We were immediately approached by a man in civilian clothes, who produced an I.D. card and ordered us to keep moving, and not to stop until we reached our destination.”
Matters got really weird, as Prescott explained to Dodd: “We were at this time warned not to open the boxes, but to proceed to Porton Down and deliver the boxes. Once inside, the boxes were opened by staff at the facility in our presence. We were shocked to see two creatures which had been placed inside decontamination suits. When the suits were fully opened it was obvious the creatures were clearly not of this world and, when examined, were found to be dead. What I saw in the boxes that day made me change my whole concept of life. The bodies were about five to six feet tall, humanoid in shape, but so thin they looked almost skeletal with a covering skin. Although I did not see a craft at the scene of the recovery, I was informed that a large craft had crashed and was recovered by other military units. Sometime later we joined up with the other elements of our unit, who informed us that they had also transported bodies of ‘alien beings’ to Porton Down, but said that their cargo was still alive.”
The big problem in all of this, however, is that it's very difficult to get your hands on a dead alien. Of course, if we could do such a thing, then we would have everything we needed.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 07/09/2023
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 07/09/2023
Why does the U.S. hide its information on UFOs? | Morning in America
Nick Pope discusses why other countries publish their findings on UFOs but the U.S. doesn't. He says the U.S. will eventually release its findings on UFOs.
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'Urge to secrecy is longstanding in US': Professor on UFO reports | Elizabeth Vargas Reports
The Washington Post reports that some countries regularly share UFO information with the public. UFO researcher Nick Pope and Chris Impey, an astronomy professor at the University of Arizona, join "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" to discuss their perspective.
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The Washington Nationals: Unexplained Phenomena in 1952 or Extraterrestrial Encounters?
Watch the Unexplained with Howard Hughes, from 10pm every Sunday night on Talk TV.
In July of 1952, Washington, D.C. experienced not one, but two sets of unusual sightings and contacts. The events captivated the public's attention, and now, author Kevin Randle has released an updated version of his book, "The Washington Nationals," which delves into the parallels between the sightings in 1952 and the current fascination with UFOs.
He argues that there are striking similarities between the way these events were handled then and now, highlighting the need for a more thorough and unified investigation into these phenomena.
The first edition of Randle's book explored the sightings that occurred over Washington, D.C. in 1952, shedding light on the attempts to understand and explain the unexplained. The updated version of the book was motivated by the renewed interest in UFOs and the focus on more recent cases. However, Randall believes that it is crucial to revisit these early cases to gain insight into what was happening at the time and how it relates to current events.
One of the key observations Randle makes is the lack of progress in investigating these phenomena. He suggests that obstacles are often placed in the way, hindering thorough investigations.
Unprecedented Discovery: UFO Fragments Found In Pacific Ocean? | The Unexplained With Howard Hughes
In a ground-breaking discovery, scientists claim to have recovered material that originated outside of our solar system for the first time in history. A team of researchers led by Harvard physicist Professor Avi Loeb recovered metal fragments from the Pacific Ocean in June, which they believe came from interstellar space. The fragments were found to have compositions that do not match any known natural or man-made alloys, leading to speculation that they could be remnants of an alien craft.
During their expedition, the team found approximately 700 tiny metallic spheres, with 57 of them being analysed. These spheres, roughly the size of a grain of sand, were found on the ocean floor about two kilometres deep.
The composition of these spheres included elements such as beryllium, lanthanum, and uranium, which have concentrations that are several hundred times higher than what is found in solar system materials. This confirms that the object came from outside the solar system, although it remains unclear whether it was of natural or artificial origin.
In light of this discovery, the U.S. Department of Defence has launched a website dedicated to providing publicly available information on unidentified anomalous phenomena, also known as UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena).
This move signifies a growing interest in investigating and understanding such phenomena at a higher level. It also suggests that the government may possess materials related to these phenomena and have programs aimed at retrieving and reverse engineering them.
While the new website aims to bring more transparency to the information surrounding UAPs, not all details will be immediately declassified. However, it represents a step toward acknowledging and addressing the existence of unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Watch Avi Loeb's interview on The Unexplained With Howard Hughes, which you can watch live every Sunday night at 10pm on TalkTV.
Pilot Encounters Mysterious Red Lights Over the North Pacific | NASA’s Unexplained Files
Strange red lights that emerged over the North Pacific in 2014 sparked many speculations but left the mystery unresolved. The ISS space station's cybersecurity has also come under scrutiny after rumours of a possible hack.
Meteor lights up the sky bright green in Turkey
Dashcam video showed a meteor illuminating the night sky in Turkey's Gumushane Province.
The video showed the view of a dark road before the meteor lit up the sky with several colours.
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The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five eminent persons as trustees.
The Weakening Of The Polar Vortex Is Leading Us Towards A New Ice Age!
The Stratospheric Polar Vortex, a term that has often, though inaccurately, gained media attention in recent years, is a seasonal high-altitude atmospheric structure that forms in autumn, consolidates in winter, and dissolves in spring. Its developments and shifts from the vertical axis of polar latitudes are often responsible for sudden changes in tropospheric circulation. Variations that, especially in recent years, have led to the abrupt spread of polar air towards mid-latitudes.
The polar vortex, as we will see, is a structure present on other planets as well. In the past, it has played a fundamental role in shaping Earth's climatic history, particularly in the last 2.5 million years, characterized by a sequence of recurring glacial periods and shorter interglacial periods.
Today, thanks to the whims of the polar vortex, we have the fortune (or misfortune) of occasionally experiencing what the average climate conditions were like during the last glacial maximum. We can temporarily return to the conditions that prevailed on Earth 20,000 years ago.
But there's a danger lurking – the possibility that over time (some suggest within a couple of decades at most), the polar vortex might collapse definitively, leading us not to just occasional adventurous cold weeks, but to a permanent ice age!
Elon Musk: "Oumuamua is Suddenly Speeding Towards Earth. It is NOT ALONE..."
Amidst the interstellar space, mysteries abound. But none have captured the world's imagination quite like the inscrutable visitor known as 'Oumuamua. But when it first swept through our solar system in 2017, 'Oumuamua left scientists baffled and intrigued. Its bizarre cigar-like shape and unexpected acceleration raised countless questions. But now, the visionary Elon Musk has boldly declared the return of ‘Oumuamua with an escort.But what exactly is this cigar-like shape? Is it an asteroid, a spaceship, or something even more sinister and otherworldly?
UFOs on night vision, 8-19-2023, North Carolina, UFO Sighting News. Video.
UFOs on night vision, 8-19-2023, North Carolina, UFO Sighting News. Video.
Date of sighting: 8-19-2023, 8:20 PM
Location of sighting: North Carolina, USA
Source: MUFON
Now this person used night vision to see the UFOs which show up well at night. The night vision amplifies the infrared light bouncing off the objects, light which can not be seen with the human eye. Even if cloaked, these UFOs will be revealed. One actually curves and follows another to the right.
Humanity is getting closer and closer to 100% revealing of the truth about alien life. It may actually come in the next two years.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I’m looking north towards Biltmore Lake. Around 1030pm the lights start to move in and out of the lake area. Happens for around 30/45 minutes. Have seen them with my eyes but using the night vision binoculars they really stand out. I’ve recorded for about 5 nights or so worth of material.
The Enigma of the Kecksburg UFO Crash: 1965’s Unsolved Mystery
The Enigma of the Kecksburg UFO Crash: 1965’s Unsolved Mystery
It was a cold evening on December 9, 1965, when the skies over Kecksburg, Pennsylvania,were split open by a mysterious fireball. Spectacular streaks of light punctuated the heavens, visible not just in Pennsylvania but also across several U.S. states and even into Canada. For many, it was perhaps a fleeting moment of celestial grandeur, but for the residents of Kecksburg, it was the beginning of a decades-long puzzle that would involve military personnel, scientists, UFO investigators, and conspiracy theorists. This event, known as the Kecksburg UFO incident, remains one of the most mysterious and debated UFO occurrences in history.
A Fiery Descent
People who saw the object claim it appeared as a fiery ball with a tail, moving across the sky in a way that clearly differentiated it from a typical meteor. Eyewitnesses reported that the object seemed to navigate and change direction, finally crashing into the woods near the small town. Within hours, the area became the center of frenetic activity. Military trucks and personnel arrived swiftly, cordoning off the area and barring curious locals from the crash site.
The Acorn-Shaped Object
Those who managed to catch a glimpse of the crashed object described it as acorn-shaped, roughly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, adorned with markings and symbols reminiscent of hieroglyphics. It certainly wasn’t a typical aircraft, and the official explanation—that it was a meteorite—did not align with these witness accounts. Here is where the mystery deepens. According to reports, military personnel quickly removed the object and transported it to an undisclosed location.
The Cover-Up
Whispers of a cover-up began to circulate almost immediately. Government agencies appeared reticent to discuss the event openly. Initial reports by the Air Force suggested that nothing had been found, contrary to eyewitness accounts of military trucks carrying away a large object covered in tarp. The military later changed their statement, claiming what fell was a Russian satellite or space debris, yet no fragments were shown to the public to validate this.
Theories and Explanations
Numerous theories have been floated over the years. Some believe the object was an experimental military aircraft. Others suggest that it might be the remnants of the failed Soviet Venus probe, Kosmos 96. A more exotic theory posits that the object was an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
The Nazi Bell Connection
A fringe theory even connects the Kecksburg incident with the alleged Nazi secret project known as “Die Glocke” (The Bell), a device described as bell-shaped and said to have time-warping capabilities. The story goes that the technology was seized by the U.S. under Operation Paperclip and was being tested in secret.
The Roswell Connection
Conspiracy theorists often draw parallels between the Kecksburg and the infamous Roswell incident of 1947. In both cases, unidentified objects crashed, the military swiftly arrived, and the events were shrouded in secrecy.
Decades of Quest for Truth
Over the years, numerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests have been filed, documentaries have been produced, and investigations have been conducted by organizations such as the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Despite these efforts, no definitive explanation has emerged. The scant documents that have been released are often heavily redacted, fueling further speculation.
Humanizing the Unsolved
Amidst all the conspiracy theories and government statements, it’s easy to forget the human element. For the residents of Kecksburg, the incident is not merely a fascinating enigma; it’s a part of their community’s folklore. Families pass down stories of that mysterious evening as a cherished, albeit perplexing, part of their heritage. For them, the unanswered questions are not just matters of scientific or conspiratorial interest, but pieces of a communal memory that may hold profound implications about our place in the universe.
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The Mysterious Kecksburg UFO Crash Incident in 1965
The Kecksburg UFO incident is like a rich, intricately designed tapestry of mysteries, woven from threads of scientific puzzles, government secrecy, and human curiosity. Whether a space probe, an experimental aircraft, or something far more otherworldly, the object that fell that fateful evening in 1965 remains a haunting enigma. Until the day more conclusive evidence is unearthed, the skies over Kecksburg will continue to harbor an unsolved riddle, inviting us all to look up and wonder.
Is it a story spun from half-truths and deceptions, or is it a breadcrumb in humanity’s ongoing quest to understand what lies beyond our Earthly realm? Only time, and perhaps further disclosure, will tell.
Guys this sightings is really odd. I admit I not seen many sightings like this over the years. A few in the north arctic region, but this is just confusing. Its over California, one of the busiest states in the US and the line looks huge about 15-25 meters long. Similar craft have been seen on the side over airports in China, but this is vertical. I know UFOs can go from horizontal to vertical without having gravity within the craft affected (1960s Friendship Case, Italy) but this is some serous showing off by aliens.
Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
We have seen unknown object in a shape of the stick consisted of several joints. It was flying straight up and disappeared in a few seconds.
Einstein’s Student Dr. Wright Scientist Witnesses Roswell Alien Survivor: Startling Revelation of Underground Existence
Einstein’s Student Dr. Wright Scientist Witnesses Roswell Alien Survivor: Startling Revelation of Underground Existence
The Enigma of Dr. Wright: A Glimpse into the World of Extraterrestrial Contact
In a realm of science where most shy away from delving into the inexplicable, Dr. Shirley Jean Wright PhD (8/19/1929 – 7/1/2015) stands as an anomaly. Not just any scientist, Wright had the extraordinary privilege of working with Albert Einstein during his early academic years. His story takes us far beyond the realm of nuclear chemistry into something truly otherworldly: an encounter with extraterrestrial beings.
Working with Einstein: An Unforgettable Experience
In his youth, Wright had the unparalleled opportunity to work with none other than Albert Einstein. The experience was part of a summer program in nuclear chemistry. Sponsored either by the government or a university grant—Wright isn’t quite sure anymore—this program aimed to gather the country’s brightest minds. Here, he was a “special student” under the mentorship of Einstein, a position that could make any academic career. But the mystique of Dr. Wright’s narrative doesn’t end with the chalk and spectacles of the university classroom.
A High-Stakes Security Clearance
Wright once had a security clearance, although he can’t remember the specific name or classification. The clearance allowed him access to top-secret information, but what was most intriguing was that he never felt the need for such a high level of clearance afterward. Even though he published papers with esteemed bodies like the National Academy of Science, he never again entered the world of classified information. That is, except for one unforgettable experience that transcends the normal boundaries of science.
Contact: Not of This World
Dr. Wright recalls an extraordinary event where he was somehow involved in the contact with extraterrestrial beings from the Roswell Incident. The beings, nine in to
tal, were unlike anything known to humanity. They had enormous eyes, almost brown-black, and lacked noticeable pupils. Their bodies were a grayish-green, slim, and lean, with peculiar facial features that included markings instead of a nose.
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1993 UFO Audio: Einstein Protegé, Dr. Wright, Recounts Roswell Aliens from 1947
The beings wore suits of an unknown fabric, designed without any recognizable fasteners, zippers, or ties. The suits included an insignia, puzzlingly located in the middle rather than the side where one might expect a badge or emblem.
Questions Left Unanswered
Despite the high-stakes situation, the scientists, including Dr. Wright, tread carefully when questioning these beings. Concerned about offending or antagonizing them, the team managed to learn only that these extraterrestrials lived partly subterranean and found humans “very odd.” However, the beings were cryptic about their methods of procreation and were “limited in what they felt was appropriate to tell.”
One lingering question that emerged was whether these beings intended to maintain contact with Earth. According to Wright, they “very definitely” did but seemed to have already discounted Earth as a less desirable destination.
An Unparalleled Tale
In his interview, Dr. Wright navigates from the halls of academic prestige to the enigmatic corridors of extraterrestrial contact. His account, while leaving us with more questions than answers, opens a door to the limitless possibilities that extend beyond our world.
So, where does this leave us? Wright’s extraordinary narrative expands our understanding of what science, in its purest form, can strive to investigate: the unfathomable. While most of the world ponders over life’s terrestrial issues, let’s take a moment to ponder over Dr. Wright’s unforgettable experiences, which compel us to look toward the stars, and maybe, just maybe, receive a glimpse of the unimaginable.
The Truth Is Out There: National Archives Unveils a Trove of Digitized UFO Records
The Truth Is Out There: National Archives Unveils a Trove of Digitized UFO Records
In recent times, the subject of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, has transcended the realm of conspiracy theories to become a topic of national discussion. And now, with the National Archives digitizing tens of thousands of pages related to UFO sightings and investigations, you no longer need to don a tinfoil hat or hack into classified files to peek into the mysteries of the extraterrestrial. You just need a computer and an internet connection.
A Step Toward Transparency
The National Archives has undertaken the herculean task of bringing decades-old paper records into the digital age, including rare sketches, black and white photographs, and, yes, original films of the famed Roswell incident. The effort represents a significant shift toward government transparency on the subject, even as questions persist about how many documents remain classified.
The Roswell Files: Not Just a Hollywood Blockbuster
You’ve probably heard of Roswell—the incident that inspired countless books, movies, and TV shows. But now, thanks to the Archives, you can view original films of the 1947 Roswell incident, previously only available at an archival facility outside Washington, D.C. What’s especially noteworthy is that these aren’t dramatized Hollywood versions but official Air Force footage, offering a peek into the government’s perspective on what was officially described as debris from tests of covert weather balloons.
A Glimpse Back in Time: Project Blue Book
According to Chris Naylor, a research services executive, the archive will also include files from Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force program operational from 1947 to 1969. The project was responsible for receiving, documenting, and investigating UFO reports. Among these files is a captivating 1950s amateur sketch of egg-shaped discs flying over the Baltimore night sky—a sighting witnessed by an entire neighborhood and still unexplained decades later. Another photograph, from 1969, turned out to depict not an alien spaceship but a rare cloud formation.
Today’s Mysteries: The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
Though the Archives provide a valuable historical context, it’s essential to note that UFO phenomena are still under investigation. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office inside the Pentagon is tasked with collecting and investigating modern-day reports. How many of these newer reports remain classified is unknown, but the digitization of older documents could pressure the government to disclose more recent findings.
Public Impact: Stigma, Scrutiny, and Speculation
The Archive’s new online accessibility could change the cultural conversation around UFOs in significant ways:
Reduced Stigma: Greater transparency could help lessen the ridicule or disbelief often associated with reporting UFO sightings.
Increased Scrutiny: With open access, the public can engage in a detailed examination of these files, potentially identifying overlooked clues or inconsistencies.
Fuel for Speculation: Of course, increased transparency comes with its downsides—wild theories and speculation may find new life in the broader discussion.
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National archives digitizes once-secret UFO records | Elizabeth Vargas Reports
With the National Archives aiming to complete the digitization by the end of the year and tens of thousands more documents slated for online access by 2024, one thing is certain: the conversation around UFOs is about to get a lot more interesting. And who knows? Maybe, just maybe, the truth really is out there, waiting for us to find it.
So, the next time you find yourself gazing at the night sky, pondering the existence of extraterrestrial life, remember: you can now search “UFO” in the National Archives online catalog to add a little factual flair to your cosmic curiosity.
UFO Moves Through Aurora Borialis At Quebec, Canada Sept 5, 2023, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Moves Through Aurora Borialis At Quebec, Canada Sept 5, 2023, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 5, 2023
Location of sighting: La Sarre, Quebec, Canada
Source: MUFON
An eyewitness saw a glowing craft moving slowly through the Aurora in Quebec last night. The aurora has had several sightings over the years of UFOs both big and small getting caught in photos. I feel the energy release by the planet causing the aurora is of highly scientific interest to aliens so UFOs may be accidentally caught in some videos and photos. It the future, the most valuable commodity, will be knowledge.
We were watching northen lights and my niece was taking pictures with her phone. There was no clouds. We saw some satellites mouvements, some planes going by (blue and red flashing lights) and a few shooting stars. Around 23h00, I saw a big star like LIGHT moving slowly downwards and I said look at the shooting star but I realised that it was mutch slower, a lot brighter and the movement lasted for around 15 seconds and then just disapear. There was no trails, the LIGHT just fainted rapidly. Then my niece was showing me pictures of the northen lights and I told her that she catched the LIGHT on one of her picture. When she zoomed on the light, it looked like 3 light togeteher. So we tought it was a bizare event.
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