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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VISITORS FROM 135 DIFFERENT NATIONS ALREADY FOUND THEIR WAY TO MY BLOG.
THAT IS AN AVERAGE OF 400GUESTS PER DAY.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
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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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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...
09-10-2023
James Webb maakt ongeëvenaard gedetailleerde opname van superzeldzame Wolf-Rayetster
James Webb maakt ongeëvenaard gedetailleerde opname van superzeldzame Wolf-Rayetster
Ze zijn superhelder, heel zwaar en maar relatief kort waarneembaar. We hebben het over Wolf-Rayetsterren en James Webb heeft er eentje gespot. En hoe!
De krachtige ruimtetelescoop James Webb werd eind 2021 gelanceerd en opende tegen de zomer van 2022 de ogen. En één van de eerste dingen die de telescoop toen zag, was – zo onthullen de Amerikaanse en Europese ruimtevaartorganisaties nu – een zeldzame Wolf-Rayetster. Het levert een spectaculaire en ongeëvenaard gedetailleerde opname op.
WR 124 Wolf-Rayetsterren zijn zware sterren die door toedoen van krachtige sterrenwinden veel massa verliezen. Ze leven maar kort en exploderen uiteindelijk tot supernova. Op de opname van James Webb schittert de Wolf-Rayetster WR 124. De ster bevindt zich op zo’n 15.000 lichtjaar afstand, in het sterrenbeeld Boogschutter.
WR 124 is ongeveer 30 keer zwaarder dan de zon en druk bezig om zijn buitenste lagen af te stoten. Inmiddels heeft de ster al zo’n 10 zonsmassa’s aan gas weggeslingerd. Dat weggeslingerde gas koelt – op enige afstand van de ster – af, waarna stof ontstaat.
Laatste stuiptrekkingen Je kunt het zien als de laatste stuiptrekkingen van WR 124. De ster is namelijk gedoemd om op korte termijn te exploderen. We gaan WR 124 dus verliezen. Maar we krijgen er ook weer een hoop voor terug, zo is de overtuiging van astronomen. De stervende ster creëert immers grote hoeveelheden stof, waarvan naar verwachting in ieder geval een deel de supernova-explosie zal doorstaan. En uit dat stof worden vervolgens weer nieuwe sterren – en uiteindelijk ook weer planeten – gevormd. Daarnaast vormt het stof ook een platform waarop moleculen zich kunnen vormen en bijvoorbeeld tot bouwblokken van leven kunnen samenklonteren.
Afbeelding: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team.
Het belang van gedetailleerde opnamen Het moge duidelijk zijn: stof speelt een belangrijke rol in het universum. Daarnaast weten we dat er ook heel veel stof in de kosmos te vinden is. Veel meer eigenlijk dan astronomen kunnen verklaren. Geen wonder dat ze met bovengemiddelde interesse kijken naar stofproducenten, zoals WR 124. En dankzij James Webb kunnen ze deze stofproducent nu beter dan ooit bestuderen. Kosmisch stof kun je namelijk het beste observeren in infrarood licht en daar is James Webb voor gemaakt. De krachtige telescoop onthult structuren in het gas en stof rond WR 124 die eerder onzichtbaar bleven en stelt astronomen zo voor het eerst in staat om zich een gedetailleerd beeld van de stofproductie rond Wolf-Rayetsterren te vormen. Zo kunnen ze bijvoorbeeld nagaan of dat stof grof en talrijk genoeg is om – ook tijdens een supernova-explosie – stand te kunnen houden en bij te dragen aan het ‘stofbudget’ van de kosmos.
Daarnaast is het natuurlijk ook gewoon heel gaaf om een Wolf-Rayetster zo gedetailleerd te kunnen bekijken. Zeker als je bedenkt dat deze sterren vrij weinig worden waargenomen. In onze eigen Melkweg – gevuld met zo’n 100 miljard sterren – kennen we er slechts 500. Dat ze zo zeldzaam zijn, heeft alles te maken met het feit dat de sterren maar een kort leven beschoren zijn. Het maakt de opname van James Webb alleen maar waardevoller; de telescoop is er immers glansrijk in geslaagd een naar kosmische maatstaven vluchtig moment te vereeuwigen.
15 Incredible Ancient Buildings and Structures (Video)
The sheer scale of human construction throughout history is awe-inspiring. From buildings to bridges, roads to houses, temples to theaters, humans have been creating structures for millennia. However, the structures featured in this video are particularly remarkable. From Borobudur Temple to the Great Aqueduct, Saksaywaman, Derinkuyu underground city , Abu Simbel Temple and more, these are some of the oldest and most impressive remnants of ancient civilizations. Despite their age and the challenges of preservation, we are doing our best to protect these structures so that future generations can appreciate and learn from them.
There is a UFO/alien controversy surrounding Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, where one of three UFOs allegedly landed in May 1971. The incident has been recently discussed by “Moment of Contact” filmmaker James Fox, who says the full video of the UFO landing exists, including the alien entities walking out of the craft.
However, as it is so often in such cases, instead of the government releasing a film of the entire incident to author/filmmaker Robert Emenegger as promised, it only released 8 seconds of this special footage that ultimately made it into the film. Holloman Air Force Base is the United States Air Force base established in 1942 and located six miles southwest of the central business district of Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The story begins in 1971 when Emenegger and producer/director Allan Sandler were invited by US intelligence to Norton Air Force Base in California to discuss the significant UFO phenomenon that had occurred previously and create a documentary film about it.
Apparently, Mr. Fox recalls the Holloman incident on Julian Dorey Podcast, published on February 25, 2023. He says that he interviewed Sandler and Emenegger about it and they as well believe the UFO landing film footage exists. He points out this happened not far from Socorro, where Lonnie Zamora had his famous sighting roughly a year prior of a similarly shaped “tic tac” white craft and beings walking around the UFO.
There is no official record of the reason why the US government allowed giving secret UFO footage for a documentary film. It is believed that the administration of President Nixon did it to look strong in the science field for the upcoming 1972 re-election campaign.
Emenegger said that he was promised by the USAF officials to get the authentic UFO landing footage that happened at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico in 1971. It showed the alien visitors emerging out of the craft that met with the US military. Even though Emenegger was skeptical about it, the Air Force assured him that the footage was authentic.
One of the military’s officials named Paul Shartle, who was in charge of the audio-video department, said in a 1988 national television broadcast with Mike Farrell that he had watched the 16mm film of three disc-shaped craft. One of them landed and the others flew away.
“I saw footage of three disc-shaped crafts one of the crafts landed and two of them went away. It appeared to be in trouble because it oscillated all the way down to the ground. However, it did land on three pods, a sliding door open a ramp was extended, and out came three aliens. They were human-sized. They had an odd gray complexion and a pronounced nose. They wore tight-fitting jumpsuits, thin headdresses that appeared to be communication devices, and their hands in their hands they held a translator I was told.”
Robert Emenegger (Right) and Paul Shartle (Left)
Mr. Fox revealed on the podcast that Allan Sandler told him on the phone call that he had seen three discs escorted by a military jet. “He was not sure of the altitude, but he estimated that they were at roughly 10 to 12,000 feet,” Mr. Fox said. He continued: “Paul Shartle (One of the military’s officials at Norton Air Force Base in California who was in charge of the audio-video department) admitted that he had seen it and that it was not of Earth origin.”
Sandler told Mr. Fox that two of the discs peeled away while one wobbled to the ground. He said it was like a leaf floating down from the sky, and it looked like it was in trouble. Mr. Fox said that the wobbling movement was similar to the footage he had seen of a UFO before. He does not think that Allan knew how the UFO hovered. The disc eventually went to the ground.
“He said James, just like in a sci-fi movie, the seamless door opens and out come these beings that had very large noses, slits for mouths, and their eyes were almost like a vertical slit, like a cat’s eye, very, very big. They had… I’m just like… I [Fox] need to make this abundantly clear to your audience. I’m not saying what’s true or what’s not true, or if it happened or if it’s alien or whatever it is. I’m just telling you what I was told by people who saw it, and claimed to have seen it. They came out and they met with the base commanders, and then they either got into a Jeep or were about to get into a Jeep or do something and then the film footage just cuts.”
Emenegger claimed that he personally visited the landing site and inspected the area where the extraterrestrial craft had been stored, and that the US military and the alien visitors had held meetings that lasted for several days.
Additionally, Emenegger’s production team was granted access to highly classified documents at DoD facilities, and they received assistance from military officials who had expertise in UFO-related matters, such as Col. William Coleman of Project Blue Book and Col. George Weinbrenner, who headed Foreign Technology at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
Paul Shartle, who showed the footage to Allan Sandler, faced some men in dark suits that showed up from an unknown location and warned him not to speak of the incident. They confiscated the footage, stating that it was not supposed to have happened. Sandler did not inform Emenegger for over 40 years.
Emenegger completed extensive research and film production only to feel cheated when the authorization to use real footage was withdrawn. Despite this setback, he went ahead and released his documentary “UFOs: Past, Present, and Future,” which was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1974. The documentary was groundbreaking because it provided information from the Department of Defense (DoD).
High Speed Test Track at Holloman Air Force Base
The United States Air Force (USAF) required Emenegger to add animated footage of the alleged Holloman UFO landing. According to Emenegger, some frames from the original footage were used during the editing stage with USAF authorization, which was not entirely missing from the frames. The viewers spotted a genuine bright disc coming down slowly in the distance against the backdrop of Holloman’s surrounding landscape.
David Cameron, a UFO researcher, shared in an interview that he was involved in confirming that the Pentagon was not covering up UFO sightings. He recounted the story of the Holloman Air Force Base film, where the government allowed producers to use eight seconds of footage of a landed alien ship in a documentary, but the classified part where an alien got out was removed.
Mr. Fox explains that the point of the story is that there is compelling evidence of an event occurring involving an unidentified object and that there may be film footage of the incident. Despite the existence of this evidence, the story has been overshadowed by other sensational claims, such as secret meetings between President Eisenhower and aliens.
While it is unclear what exactly happened, there is substance to the story and it should not be dismissed outright. However, the addition of other claims has muddied the waters and made it difficult to investigate the case of the president making contact with extraterrestrial life.
“The Finch” is a bright flash of light that appeared on manytelescopes on April 10, 2023. To this day, astronomers don’t know what set it off.
The avian moniker belongs to an event scientists spot roughly once a year. It’s called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT), and it doesn’t fit the mold of a supernova.
Supernovas create drama, but their sparks are different from LFBOTs. Supernovas take weeks or months to dim; LFBOTs take just days. Supernovas are also explainable: When stars reach the end of their life, they, in one way or another, explode. LFBOTs could be star deaths, too, but while past LFBOTs appear in stellar nurseries, the Hubble Space Telescope found that the Finch emanated from a dark chasm between galaxies.
“The discovery poses many more questions than it answers,” Ashley Chrimes, astronomer and lead author of a paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, says in statements from both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) describing the Finch. “More work is needed to figure out which of the many possible explanations is the right one.”
Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT) designated AT2023fhn (nicknamed the Finch), indicated in this Hubble Space Telescope image by pointers.
The Finch, like all other LFBOTs, is ephemeral. It shines intensely in blue light and evolves quickly into its peak brightness; then, it's gone. It takes only a few days for them to fade.
They are some of the brightest visible-light explosions in space. The first was discovered only recently, in 2018, and a handful have been observed ever since. With a small sample size, astronomers have limited guesses about their source.
They had an inkling that these phenomenal events could come from places within galaxies where stars were being born based on the location of the past blasts. But the Finch has thrown a wrench into that idea.
It’s “unlike any other LFBOT seen before,” NASA and ESA officials write. The Finch appears outside of two galaxies rather than inside of one. It was 50,000 light-years from a nearby spiral galaxy. Although it was three times closer to a smaller galaxy, the Finch emerged in what appears to be a desolate place.
Even if a star had managed to emigrate out of a galaxy and then exploded, the large blast would have needed to be powered by a large star, and astronomers don’t think one could have survived the exodus.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Astronomers need to grow their LFBOT sample size to get a clearer picture of these mysterious events. All-sky survey telescopes like the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory may help detect more of these short-lived events.
For now, researchers have their theories. Perhaps the dark patch of sky is filled with a community of stars that our telescopes can’t see, but where the fuel for such a blast was dwelling and where a black hole was prowling and, in April 2023, finally pounced.
Quite naturally, the October 11, 1973, alien abduction case featuring Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson in Pascagoula, Mississippi, took the headlines in the media at home and abroad. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that UFO sightings continued, not just in Mississippi, but across the USA. However, UFO sightings were still coming in from Mississippi, and another peculiar sighting came just ten days after the Hickson/Parker encounter.
There was a discussion on social media about the Pascagoula case when a gentleman by the name of Kevin Garrett joined the discussion with the following account.
Kevin Garrett
The following is my retyped copy of a letter from my grandfather to my aunt, describing events in Monticello, MS (about two hours north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast), just a few days following the incident in Pascagoula. I remember it happening, but honestly do not remember any details, except the globs themselves.
Sunday, 6:10 P.M., October 21st, 1973:
Dear Yvonne & Family:
We received your letter this morning and read it before going to Church. A.D. will write you telling that we are glad that you have bought a new vehicle. Also, to tell you of other happenings around here that may interest you.
The purpose of this letter from me is to tell you of our experience last Thursday afternoon. I was in the yard painting a record cabinet I have made for A.D. and A.D. was in the house resting. Martha came over to tell us what she had just heard over the radio. She heard the announcer state that spider-web-like material was falling from the sky in North Mississippi and that globs had fallen in a woman’s yard, and that her dog was lapping it. Martha was anxious for us to hear the next newscast, so at 4:00 P.M., she brought her small radio over, and we sat in the yard to listen to the news.
Sure enough, the first thing mentioned was that the spidery-webbed substance was then falling over Jackson. After listening for the 15-minute newscast to the end, I said, well, if spider webs had gotten to Jackson from North Miss., in that short period of time, we should be able to see some down this far. It was then about 4:25 P.M. and I was anxious to finish my painting, which I did. When Martha went home, she was looking up into the sky and, inasmuch as her TV antenna was almost in front of her, she noticed a silky like thread or web-like stringy something hanging from it. She called us, and we all went over to look.
There was another long strand hanging over a tree nearby, and while we were looking at this, someone said, “Look!, what’s that coming over.” From the North or slightly NE, we saw globs of whitish-silvery looking, odd, shaped UFOs coming over. At first sighting one, you would think it was a white bird, then it would reflect its true shape as it passed over. Not knowing the height from the ground, we cannot guess how large any of them were. They were not all the same size or shape. One appeared to be about the size of two 500-gallon butane tanks welded together lengthwise. Both ends were dome-shaped, and our guess was that it would have to be at least six to eight feet in diameter. It had no wings and it made no noise. It did not tumble over and over but kept a straight line, lengthwise. Ahead of it was a smaller blob like the others we saw. The smaller ball or glob was leading the bigger, cigar-like shaped thing, and we could see stringy-like silvery ribbon strands connecting the smaller to the large thing trailing. All were traveling at a tremendous speed, and we couldn’t figure out how they traveled so fast, especially since the wind was from the NW and they were coming from the NE. It could be that they were in a jet stream, but how did it get that height and what was propelling them unless they were in the jet stream? All were traveling very fast, and unless you spotted one in time, it was almost impossible for one who saw it to point it out to you. I would say that from the time one was spotted until you could see it no more toward the SW, would be about 30 seconds.
The birds and butterflies were disturbed. Some butterflies looked to be as big as a bat, and they were reddish-rust in color. They were not as high as those objects we saw but were traveling in the same direction. I have never seen butterflies, if they were; fly as high as these were flying. Blackbirds were flying over from the NW, going toward the river, and they acted funny. Two out of three out of a flock of ten to twenty would turn around, fly in the opposite direction, then turn and try to catch up. I believe that perhaps they had run into some of that spider-web-like stuff.
Well, I see that I had my carbon backward, so I can’t write on the reverse of the first page. Martha would not let Rusty touch the web-like material as she wanted Tom to see it when he came home. He did. Also, after getting his glasses, he finally begins to see those white objects coming over. He said he had never seen anything like it. About that time, we spotted two globs coming over. They were bigger than all the others except that cigar-shaped thing and they were going at a faster rate of speed than the others and seemed to be lower. One glob would get ahead of the other, then they would change and the other overtake the first one. They seemed to have a cord or something connecting them together and they were oddly shaped and would change shape as they traveled. These were also going toward the SW, and it appeared that the wind was tossing them about. Again, the wind was from the NW as a thin layer of cloud cover came over from that direction. So, the way I figure it, the wind we ordinarily know as wind, was coming from the NW and these things were traveling toward the SW. This, then, would not indicate that they were traveling against or opposite to the wind, but more or less across or more like an X, not exactly + to the other.
They have said very little about this except to state that they were taking samples to Hattiesburg for analysis. I heard one follow-up say that it turned out to be spider webs. We have not heard the report from Hattiesburg.
The only other report of sightings of this matter around here was by a class of children at Silver Creek who happened to be outside.
I have been a little reluctant to relate what I and we saw to others as I imagine it would be hard to believe. I have related this to you exactly as WE saw it, and you can draw your own conclusion as to what it was. Sometimes, when we are together, AD & I will tell you about the other object we saw about two weeks ago. This was prior to the incident at Pascagoula and AD and I got home in time for Martha and the children to see it. By the way, these blobs we saw, about 18 to 20 of them, lasted for about an hour. I had hoped they would keep over until sundown, but we did not see any more. Hope you appreciate this explanation and please excuse the errors. No, I am not excited, just rusty with my typing.
Love,
George Bowskey Russell was Kevin Garrett’s grandfather, the author of the letter, and A.D. (Alonzo Dulaney) was his grandmother A.D, Russell.
I, of course, am Kevin; Rusty is my brother; Tom was my father; Martha was my mother; Yvonne was my mother’s sister who lived near Fort Worth, TX, and to whom the letter was addressed. George Bowskey and Alonzo Dulaney were my maternal grandparents and we lived next door to them. The copy is from page two of a Xerox (when was last time you heard that term?) of the letter written by my grandfather to my aunt.
Kevin added on June 12th, 2023, via email: “The only thing I remember was seeing the globs getting caught in the limbs of the large pecan tree in the area between our houses. To me, they seemed a bit stringy. One would certainly assume some made it to the ground, but I don’t remember that. While I definitely remember the incident, I don’t remember many details. For example, I don’t remember the large silver things in the sky.”
Page two of the original letter
Kevin Garrett informed us that he had recently moved house so it was difficult to locate the actual type-written letter in question. He did, however, have one page that he had previously digitized. The above account and the copy of the letter are reproduced with the permission of Kevin Garrett. Mr Garrett also supplied us with a photo of his grandparents.
Alonzo Dulaney Russell
George Bowskey Russell
This is yet another peculiar UFO sighting coming from Mississippi in what was a flap of sightings in 1973. The Parker/Hickson abduction account was the most outstanding of cases reported during this flap. It makes you wonder how many more sightings were made but never reported.
About the author:
Philip Mantle is a long-standing UFO researcher and author from the UK. He was formerly the Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association and the MUFON Representative for England. He is the founder of FLYING DISK PRESS and can be contacted by email at: philip.mantle@gmail.com.
Our new book ‘BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT – The Pascagoula Alien Abduction’. Out September 1, 2023, on Amazon.
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The Astonishing UFO Sightings of Las Vegas: A Detailed Account
The Astonishing UFO Sightings of Las Vegas: A Detailed Account
The world remains captivated by unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, with countless individuals sharing their own stories and footage of bizarre occurrences in the sky. One of the most intriguing instances recently occurred over Las Vegas, where a local resident captured a mesmerizing display of these unexplained phenomena.
Las Vegas: A New Hub for UFO Sightings?
On October 5th, 2023, between 7 and 8 pm, a Las Vegas resident from Summerlin, looking up at the skies from his backyard, witnessed a display that has left the UFO community abuzz. The footage showcased an awe-inspiring arrangement of UFOs moving in perfect unison. Their unique ability to space themselves uniformly in the sky and their seamless formation hinted at advanced technology beyond our comprehension.
The video is reminiscent of earlier footage from 2021, which displayed similar impressive formations. The videographer noted that the appearance and behavior of these UFOs have evolved over the years. Notably, since 2017, it seems these unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) have become conscious of being observed and documented, leading to a shift in their patterns.
More Than Just A Passing Plane
To the untrained eye, the night sky over Las Vegas is often filled with the regular comings and goings of commercial airplanes. However, this witness emphasizes a clear distinction between regular jets preparing to land and the UFOs. While jets approach at a steep angle, these unidentified objects maintain a flat trajectory, occasionally side by side, and seem to operate at varying altitudes.
Interestingly, the observer hypothesizes a location on the base’s backside where these UFOs might be captured. Here, they float in and are potentially seized by an unknown technology, placing them underground.
A Message in the Movements
One standout feature in the recent video is the behavior of three particular UFOs. They initially move in a straight line to the east before breaking formation and smoothly floating toward the observer. Such deliberate movement cannot be dismissed as mere coincidence. Could this be a greeting or a form of communication? The excitement and mystery around these objects are palpable as they seem to showcase maneuvers, suggesting intent and perhaps even awareness.
The Age-old Question: Are They Ours?
As our understanding of UFO sightings grows, so does the debate about their origin. Are these advanced technologies developed secretly on Earth, or do they originate from the vast expanse of the universe? While many hope for the latter, offering the thrilling possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life, some believe these sightings are a testament to human ingenuity. If they are ours, what magnificent advancements in aerospace technology might we be on the cusp of unveiling?
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The UFO sightings in Las Vegas reiterate the fascination and unanswered questions surrounding these mysterious objects. As more individuals come forward with their own accounts and evidence, one can only hope that the truth behind these astonishing phenomena will be unveiled. Whether it’s an extraterrestrial signal or a human-made marvel, the skies above us continue to captivate and intrigue.
The disclosure has probably been going on for some time, but most of us have been oblivious to it. Bill Nelson, the administrator of NASA, made the most startling claims about extraterrestrial visitors. He thinks there is intelligent life beyond Earth, on worlds that might be just as sophisticated and well-organized as ours. Mr. Nelson expressed his hope that some of the unexplained UFO sightings are not evidence of an “adversary here on earth.” He suggested that it is more likely that these sightings are evidence of life existing on other planets.
NASA conspirators/whistleblowers have a full assurance that the US space agency has been covering the evidence of UFOs since the first Apollo mission. Donna Hare claimed to have worked for NASA contractor Philco Ford in the early 1970s. She had a high-security clearance to walk into NASA’s photo lab and other departments.
During the Disclosure Project press conference, Hare revealed that NASA covered up and eliminated space anomalies such as UFOs from satellite photos. Hare has got several awards in space programs. She dedicated most of her time as a technical illustrator to space programs. She created lunar maps, and landing slides and had been working for 15 years as a sub-contractor for NASA.
Former NASA scientist Robin Brett, who was among the first people to study and direct research on moon rocks said: “It seems easier to explain the non-existence of the Moon than its existence.” Besides, according to scientists, the Moon is older than the Earth by nearly 800,000 years, which raises a lot of questions.
Former US Air Force Sergeant Karl Wolfe, who died in a bike accident in 2018, was another person who shared a story similar to Donna Hare. He also had top-secret clearance and worked at Langley Air Force base in Virginia, the USA. He worked as a precision electronics photograph repairer for NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Project. One day, he was taken into a lab by another worker who showed him a photo of artificial buildings at the lunar base. These photos had been taken prior to the Apollo landing in 1969.
Sergeant Karl Wolfe
“…At any rate, I was in a color lab one day when my boss, Staff Sergeant Taylor, came over to me and said that they were having a problem with some equipment on the base and it was the first lunar orbiter program, where they had a mission to pretty much locate the first landing sites for the 1969 lunar mission for the astronauts.
So he said they were having some problems with equipment over there. it was similar equipment to what we had- it was computerized contact printing equipment. He wanted to know if I would go over and take a look at it. He said to me, It’s an NSA facility. At the time, I didn’t know what the NSA was – I was pretty naive.
I thought he said NASA. So in my mind, for a long time, I thought it was a NASA facility that I had gone to, but I remembered him saying NSA and converting it in my own mind to NASA…”
Wolfe claimed that one day, when NSA photographic equipment failed, he was asked to assist them with the important repair work that was needed to keep the machines on the job. He was the only person who was readily available at the time and was trained in the type of equipment that had failed. This was really a coincidence. In the regular course of events, he would be breaking protocol by entering NSA territory.
The level of his security clearance was enhanced, and as a result, he was allowed to even enter the extremely secure laboratory. Wolfe’s heart was pounding when he entered the here-to-fore forbidden hangar on that particular day, and he was astounded to witness the frenzied activity in the laboratory, which was being carried out by individuals from different countries.
Wolfe had expected that only people with the American citizenship would be in the NASA lab, but he was surprised to see a large number of people with guest name tags and obviously from other countries present on this particular day. This led him to believe that those people had traveled from their home countries for some event that required their temporary presence.
Concerning the outcome of his mission, he experienced feelings of dread. Whatever it was that required his presence, it was of the utmost significance. Someone had informed him that the relevant equipment was located in a nearby dark room.
When he was first carried into the chamber, the only thing that greeted him was the red glow of a safety light. However, after a time, he was able to make out the form of one airman who manned the area even though it was dark.
Wolfe was aware that in order to fix the image processing equipment, it would first need to be removed, and he was also aware that the diagnostics on this kind of equipment would take some time to complete.
Quickly, arrangements were made for the camera equipment to be moved to a safer place so Wolfe could start the long process of figuring out what was wrong. While Wolfe was waiting for his ride, he started talking to the other airman. Wolfe asked very carefully why NASA work was being done at Langley instead of at NASA’s headquarters in Houston.
After that, he was informed that all of the NASA picture data was transferred to Langley, where it was upgraded and transformed into finished photographs, which were then analyzed by various parts of the armed forces. Wolfe was given some insight by the attendant of the dark chamber as to the nature of the enigma surrounding the situation.
Wolfe was told that new, better pictures had shown structures on the surface of the Moon’s dark side that were both surprising and clear. Structures that could not have been made by natural means like meteors or ancient collisions between other celestial bodies. The structures were created by intelligent beings. “We discovered,” the airman said, “a base of the back side of the Moon.”
Wolfe was obviously stunned by this extraordinary disclosure. He remembers literally “shaking” trying to take in the enormity of what he had been told. Seeing Wolfe’s disbelief, the dark room attendant continued: “Yes, a base on the dark side of the Moon.”
Although the attendant had not explicitly stated that the structures were not created by inhabitants of Earth, it appeared obvious. Wolfe was still in awe as he looked down at the photos he was attempting to visualize in his mind. As he stooped beneath the red-glowing lamp, he saw something that so few would ever see. He was able to discern geometric shapes that were well-organized and planned. Most noticeable to him were what looked exactly like radar antennas, very similar to what one could see on Earth.
There was no longer any question in Wolfe’s mind as to the reason behind the peculiar assortment of investigators and scientists that were present at this location on this particular day. They had traveled to the moon in order to view and investigate the structures that he was currently staring at, which were built on the moon by intelligent beings.
He might be detained or worse. He only wanted to complete his task, get out of there, and leave things alone. Wolfe carried on the task at hand, putting the memories of that day to the back of his mind, and continued living his life. Wolfe, however, was haunted by the images he saw that day for many years to come.
After he left the active service, his security clearance prohibited him from leaving the United States for five years, and he was sworn to keep what he had seen to himself. Before he finally informed anyone about that remarkable day, it would be thirty years. The 74-year-old Sgt. Wolfe was killed after being hit by a trailer while cycling in Lansing, New York. Wolfe was rushed to Cayuga Medical Center where he later died from the injuries sustained in the crash.
Wolfe was not the only whistleblower whose death seems mysterious. Former U.S. Army Command Sgt. MajorRobert Orel Deanclaimed that when he worked for NATO in France, he read a document titled “The Assessment” in the 1960s. According to him, the document contained information about “photos of dead aliens, crashed UFOs and reports by military pilots and scientists.” Coincidently, he died a week before Wolfe’s death in 2018.
The sixth episode of the podcast”Weaponized,” starring filmmaker Jeremy Corebll and investigative journalist George Knapp, has ignited a long debate on Area 51 holding secrets of UFOs and non-human beings. Mr. Knapp explained a lot of the corroborating evidence regarding people that confirm Bob Lazar’s claims, as well as the S4 base he worked at Nevada desert and the company that vetted him, EG&G.
Lazar’s identity as an Area 51 scientist has always been discussed by other people in the UFOlogy. Lately, Dr. Travis Scott has also been seen discrediting Bob Lazar and said he did work at Area 51 but as a janitor. Many users find it a direct attack on Lazar’s credentials as he failed to show his qualifications. However, there are credible experts that have confirmed Lazar’s work at Area 51.
Mr. Knapp revealed to Corbell that while working on the follow-up series “UFOs: The Best Evidence” in 1990, he came to know about a man named Alfred O’Donnell, who was the general manager at EG&G in Nevada that managed Area 51. According to Knapp, O’Donnell claimed that “they did have a flying saucer that had been recovered from New Mexico,” and a “live being.”
EG&G was created by three scientists, Harold Edgerton, Kenneth Germeshausen, and Herbert Grier. The company specialized in the measurement of energy created by nuclear weapon explosions. EG&G was involved in the development of a complex little gadget that could arm an atomic bomb, start an automated countdown, set it off, and collect data on how it behaved. The company played a role in the migration of well-educated professionals to Las Vegas in the early 1950s, including Alfred O’Donnell, a technician who worked for the company.
Alfred O’Donnell
O’Donnell was the prominent figure in Area 51, who had all clearance to walk anywhere in the facility. Moreover, his background is good enough to add credibility to Bob Lazar’s claims. Mr. Knapp shared his story of meeting O’Donnell who told him about the recovered craft that was stored at the Indian Springs (Creech US Air Force Base), but later it was transferred to the newly built Area 51 in 1955.
“They moved it to an adjacent facility he didn’t say it was S4 he didn’t say it was Papoose but I think that’s what he’s talking about Papoose lake is where Bob Lazar said he worked and where they had built hangers underground disguised it to look like the desert and where they had other recovered craft,” Mr. Knapp said.
O’Donnell told Knapp all the secret information about UFOs at a coffee shop. He said that they were trying to reverse-engineer the recovered crafts and duplicate the technology to build more crafts like that. Further, O’Donnell revealed that they were worried that “IT” could get out. He said they were holding it in a cage as they did not understand it.
“We didn’t know what it was… To tell you the truth, we couldn’t communicate with it. In the beginning, we didn’t know what it was, we didn’t know where it was from. And we didn’t know what to do with it…”
“Eventually, they figured out a way to communicate with it and so I asked him well what did it look like… he said well kind of looks like a certain political candidate… at the time Ross Perot was running for president, he said it looks like Ross Perot, a little skinny guy with big ears and a tiny head, not a classic gray looking alien but a very odd looking creature.”
Mr. Knapp further shared a story about a former female employee of defense contractor Holmes & Narver, who allegedly had knowledge about “crashed saucers, recovered materials, and what sounded like a Roswell-type incident.” The woman had been intimidated by unknown agents before she was scheduled to speak with Knapp, causing her to cancel the meeting.
Knapp also mentioned that former Congressional staffer Richard D’Amato investigated claims about crashed saucers and visited Area 51, but was unable to verify the statements. Knapp later scheduled a meeting between D’Amato and EG&G employee O’Donnell, which was allowed by EG&G co-founder Herbert Grier. However, O’Donnell refused to tell D’Amato anything.
Knapp stated that O’Donnell made a deathbed confession, confirming the existence of a crashed flying saucer and a living being. However, no recording of O’Donnell’s confession has surfaced. If the recording was made public, it would lend credibility to the assertions made by Bob Lazar, who claimed to have worked on recovered saucers in Area 51.
Years after his initial conversation with Knapp, O’Donnell changed his story and shared a different version of the flying saucer incident with journalist and author Annie Jacobsen, which regarded the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) incident at Roswell in 1947.
Journalist Christoper Sharp writes that Jacobsen mentioned different version of O’Donnell’s story in the book “Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base,” according to which “Roswell incident was not the result of non-human intelligence, but in fact a Russian craft with ‘grotesque, child-size aviators’ developed in human experiments by Nazi doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele.”
But Mr. Knapp debunked this story as he discovered the Russians were just as mystified about the Roswell incident as the Americans.
Bob Lazar claimed in 1989 that the US government was conducting a project to reverse engineer alien technology from nine different UFOs collected over decades and hidden in hangars at a location called S-4 near Papoose Lake.
Jeremy Corbell shared a video of Mr. Knapp discussing a real story of a civilian, Jerry Freeman, who snuck onto the Area 51 base and saw Papoose Lake. Freeman reported seeing security lights on the perimeter and lights that opened and closed near the center of the lake, and he felt vibrations for almost two minutes, which he thought could be either from underground or from Groom Lake.
Freeman also reported seeing a door opening in space with a bluish light, and then disappearing. George Knapp confirmed that Freeman did not know who Bob Lazar and John Lear were, and that former employees who worked with Bob verified that he was a physicist, but those claims were made informally and off the record.
Medium user SignalsIntelUFO has done great work by transcribing over 50 interviews of Bob Lazar with in-depth information. Bob claimed to have been hired as a physicist at Los Alamos in May 1982. For evidence about his employment, there is an article written by Terry England on June 30, 1982. “To Lazar, a physicist at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, the important thing is the jet engine. It’s something he’s been working on for years,” England wrote.
Terry England article on Bob Lazar
In July 2020, during Joe Rogan’s podcast with Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, Corbell said he asked Terry England about Bob Lazar’s occupation as a physicist at Los Alamos. Corbell said: “Look, here’s the point, you said Bob Lazar was a physicist at Los Alamos. So how did you base that? You’re writing a paper…” and he [England] goes “yeah,” — and it got picked up by AP news — he goes “if I [England] had misrepresented that he was a physicist at Los Alamos I would have been blackballed by everybody at Los Alamos. They take that very seriously. He was a physicist. I reported it. AP News picked it up, they repeated it. Not word one from anybody saying he wasn’t a physicist at Los Alamos.”
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The Parker Solar Probe is the little engine that just keeps going and going by the Sun. On September 27th, it made its 17th close approach and skimmed just 7.26 million kilometers (4.51 million miles) above the sun’s “surface” layer (called the photosphere).
That’s just the latest achievement by the probe, which also became the first-ever spacecraft to fly through a coronal mass ejection—and live to tell the story. That CME pass-through occurred on September 5, 2022, during its 13th approach to the Sun.
The spacecraft’s most recent accomplishment was set up by a gravity-assist flyby of Venus in late August. During the closest approach, the Parker Solar Probe was moving at 635,266 kilometers per hour (394,735 miles per hour). Both the close approach and the CME encounter are just two of many highlights of a mission that’s planned to continue its studies of the Sun and solar environment through mid-2025. So far, the spacecraft is in pretty good shape, considering what it’s experiencing during the mission. Parker does all this while experiencing temperatures up to 1400 C. Its main instruments are protected by shielding, which allows them to operate in a near-normal room-temperature environment.
Parker and Its Solar Accomplishments
Solar scientists sent Parker to help them understand some of the most puzzling aspects of our star’s activities. Its main target is the solar corona. They want to figure out what heats the corona by tracing the flow of energy that heats this uppermost part of the solar atmosphere. In addition, they want to understand how and why the solar wind gets accelerated as it leaves the Sun.
Artist’s impression of the solar wind from the sun (left) interacting with Earth’s magnetosphere (right). The Parker Solar Probe studies this wind at its source. Credit: NASA
Since the Sun is largely plasma, they want to understand its structure and the magnetic fields that exist and influence the flow of plasma from the Sun through the solar wind. Finally, the mission is equipped to study energetic particles flowing from the Sun and determine their transport mechanism.
About that Coronal Mass Ejection
We on Earth experience coronal mass ejections as they pass from the Sun on their way through the Solar System. These powerful events hurl huge masses of plasma through space, moving at speeds of 100 to 3,000 kilometers per second. Many CMEs do not encounter our planet, but when they do, they twist and stretch our planet’s magnetic field. The results can range from beautiful displays of aurora borealis to disruption of communications and electrical grids.
Solar physicists would like to be able to forecast these awesome solar storms. They’ve long wanted to measure the forces that drive CMEs. In particular, they want to know what accelerates the charged particles in the explosions to high speeds. They hope that Parker can give them data on just what’s happening on the Sun as one builds up.
A video showing Parker Solar Probe Wide-field images at the moment when it passed through a coronal mass ejection. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Brendan Gallagher/Guillermo Stenborg/Emmanuel Masongsong/Lizet Casillas/Robert Alexander/David Malaspina
On September 5, 2022, Parker was cruising the far side of the Sun. It flew just about 6 billion kilometers above the surface. That’s when it detected the CME as it built up. Later on, the spacecraft passed through the structure of the ejection, experienced its leading edge, and then exited the material. It was a pretty extreme CME and allowed Parker to pick up data about the shock wave’s speed and density. Luckily, this one didn’t hit Earth. However, if it had, the event would have severely damaged communications systems and probably caused widespread power blackouts.
“This is the closest to the Sun we’ve ever observed a CME,” said Nour Raouafi, the Parker Solar Probe project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, which built the spacecraft within NASA’s timeline and budget, and currently manages and operates the mission. “We’ve never seen an event of this magnitude at this distance.”
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If confirmed, this would be by far the largest sample of rogue planets ever discovered.
Astronomers Samuel Pearson and Mark McCaughrean of the European Space Agency made the observations and posted a preprint paper to arXiv. The paper has yet to be peer reviewed, but has been submitted to Nature.
The researchers say a near-infrared survey from JWST allowed them to discover and characterize this large sample of 540 planetary-mass candidates. The team says these planetary mass objects (PMOs) are too small to be stars, as their masses are well below the traditional cutoff for a deuterium-burning brown dwarf, even down to 0.6 Jupiter mass — not much more massive than Saturn.
Within the large group of rogue planets are 42 pairs of planets that are gravitationally bound together, something that’s never been observed before. The astronomers named them Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, or JuMBOs.
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“How pairs of young planets can be ejected simultaneously and remain bound, albeit weakly at relatively wide separations, remains quite unclear,” the researchers wrote in their paper.
“The Jupiter Mass Binary Objects or JuMBOs are a really big discovery, we believe,” said McCaughrean, a senior adviser for science and exploration at ESA, on Mastodon. In the pre-print, researchers said that these planetary-mass binary objects is “a result that is highly unexpected and which challenges current theories of both star and planet formation.”
The conventional definition of a planet is that it is in orbit around a star. Additionally, current theories of planetary formation suggest that Jupiter-sized objects can only be formed through the process that gives rise to stars inside the clouds of dust and gas found in a nebula.
“It is clear that further simulations and modelling will be needed to understand how a substantial population of objects can form below [5 Jupter masses] and how a significant fraction of them can end up in multiple systems,” the team concluded.
The exact mechanisms for how planets go “rogue” are unknown, but several theories exist. The theories include that planets are pulled away from one star by gravitational interactions with other passing stars, or that supernovae kick them out, or that they free float into space after their sun dies.
Alternatively, for the JuMBOs, the researchers speculate that planetary ejections can be caused through planets scattering in a planetary disk or by dynamical interactions between stars.
“The latter are relatively common in dense star-forming regions like the Trapezium Cluster,” the team wrote. “The ensemble of planetary mass objects and JuMBOs that we see in the Trapezium Cluster might arise from a mix of both of these “classical” scenarios, even if both have significant caveats, or perhaps a new, quite separate formation mechanism, such as a fragmentation of a star-less disk, is required.”
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Area 51: Some of the Strangest Tales and Mysteries From Aliens to Marilyn Monroe
Area 51: Some of the Strangest Tales and Mysteries From Aliens to Marilyn Monroe
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Area 51: we've all heard about it. But, what about some of the craziest stories that have come out of it? Let's have a look at some of them. Here they are, in their top weirdness and in no particular order: there can be very few people on the planet who have not heard of its infamous name. Many will be familiar with the extraordinary claims of what, allegedly, goes on there. It’s a place that is saturated in secrecy, cloaked in conspiracy theories, and, according to many, it is home to Uncle Sam’s very own, highly classified, prized collection of secret aircraft, dead aliens, crashed UFOs, and extraterrestrial technology. Highly fortified, and guarded by personnel who have the right to use “deadly force” to protect its many and varied secrets, it is, of course, Area 51. For years, there were rumors of a top secret installation deep in the Nevada desert. Incredibly, outside of the world of officialdom and the people who lived in the area, hardly anyone had heard of the place until the latter part of the 1980s. That was when a controversial character named Bob Lazar came out of the shadows and revealed a startling story. According to Lazar, in late 1988 he worked briefly at a facility on Area 51 called S-4. That work reportedly revolved around the study of a number of acquired alien spacecraft. Yes, the U.S. Government has a secret storage area for vehicles from other worlds. Maybe even from other galaxies. At least, if you buy into the stories of Lazar.
(Nick Redfern) The most secret military facility on the planet
It’s hardly a surprise that when the Lazar story hit the headlines the media quickly latched onto it, as did the UFO research community, many of whom saw Lazar’s revelations as the breakthrough they had waited for, patiently, and for so long. Maybe it was just such an amazing breakthrough, but, on the other hand, perhaps it wasn’t. We’ll come to that thorny issue later. Regardless of whether or not people bought into Lazar’s revelations, the fact is that the genie’s bottle – so to speak – was, thanks to his disclosures, now open and ready to be mined. As a result, Area 51 appeared in various episodes of The X-Files, in a block-buster movie of 1996, Independence Day, and in numerous other sci-fi-driven shows, as well as on almost endless numbers of television documentaries. Although, from the government’s perspective, it’s barely acknowledged to exist, Area 51 is known worldwide. In a very strange fashion, it has become part of our pop-culture. And that is unlikely to ever change, such is the allure of the tales coming out of the base. But how and why did one top secret government facility achieve such notoriety? Let’s see…
Area 51, the Nevada Test and Training Range, aliens, JFK and the death of Marilyn Monroe: are they all connected? It’s a hugely charged saga that dates back to the mid-1990s and which is clearly not going to go away anytime soon. The vast majority of the story is reliant on a controversial document of questionable origins and of equally questionable authenticity. Allegedly, it’s a CIA document dated August 3, 1962 and which deals with Marilyn Monroe’s supposed knowledge of Roswell and UFO-themed conspiracies. And matters relative to what is referred to as a “secret base.” Now, where might that be…? What is particularly interesting about the “Monroe document” is not so much what it says, but what it specifically doesn’t say. Despite what many researchers have said, there is not even a single reference in the document to aliens, extraterrestrials, flying saucers, or UFOs. Not a single one. In fact, the wording could actually push the whole thing down a very different paths you will soon see. But, first, let’s see how and under what circumstances the controversial one-page document surfaced.
It all began in 1995, at a Los Angeles-based press conference. It was a press conference held by a man named Milo Speriglio. He was a man with a deep interest in the circumstances surrounding Marilyn’s death. Speriglio was so interested in her final day in August 1962 that he wrote three books on the issues of her life and her still-controversial death. They were Crypt 33, The Marilyn Conspiracy, and Marilyn Monroe: Murder Cover-Up. Until 1995, Speriglio had not made any kind of connection between the Hollywood uber-babe and UFOs. So, what was it that prompted Speriglio to head off into new and highly inflammatory territory? It was a revelation from a man named Timothy Cooper. Today, many people within Ufology might not recognize that name. But, from the early-to-late 1990s, Cooper – of Big Bear Lake, California – was a well-known figure in Ufology. He was also a controversial figure, too. Most of the controversy stemmed from the fact that Cooper claimed to have received a wealth of old, sensational, leaked documents from retired figures in the intelligence community – almost all of them on crashed UFOs, Roswell, dead aliens, and the notorious Majestic 12 group. Rather notably, the initial batch came to Cooper from a source in…Nevada.
(Nick Redfern) Who really knows the truth?
There’s no doubt that the documents existed (and still exist). There are literally hundreds of pages. The big question is: are they the real deal? When the papers were made available, there were those researchers who believed that the documents were one hundred percent real. Some investigators, though, considered them to be government disinformation. And others were firmly of the opinion that Cooper had created them himself, perhaps for fame, notoriety or money. Possibly, all three. The controversy raged on for a while, but finally imploded upon itself with barely a sigh. The Marilyn document was one of those which Cooper claimed to have received from one of his various sources, or as we might justifiably call them: “ufological Snowdens.” Now, onto somthing else weird and connected to Area 51.
Now, to a matter concerning NASA and which provoked a whirlwind of controversy in 1974. It all revolves around three astronauts and NASA’s almost legendary craft, Skylab. NASA states: “Skylab was hailed as a ‘bold concept’ by Rocco Petrone, who served as director of launch operations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida before becoming director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., during 1973 and 1974. The program demanded innovation and ingenuity, said Petrone in Skylab, Our First Space Station, a NASA report published in 1977. ‘Experience and knowledge gained from earlier space programs provided a solid foundation on which to build, but the Skylab Program was truly making new pathways in the sky.’ The project began as the Apollo Applications Program in 1968 with an objective to develop science-based human space missions using hardware originally developed for the effort to land astronauts on the moon. Skylab orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979.”
It was on April 19, 1974 that trouble started brewing. It was on that day that the then-Director of the CIA, William Colby, received a communication from one of his colleagues, an unknown figure who wanted to discuss a certain “issue.” Colby was told that: “The issue arises from the fact that the recent Skylab mission inadvertently photographed” Area 51. Colby was additionally informed that: “There were specific instructions not to do this.” Dwayne A. Day, of The Space Review, and who personally broke the story in 2006, said: “In other words, the CIA considered no other spot on Earth to be as sensitive as Groom Lake, and the astronauts had just taken a picture of it.” Uh-oh. Not good. Those astronauts who had caused all of the problems were Edward Gibson, Gerald Carr and William Pogue. Both Pogue and Carr had military backgrounds and Gibson had a doctorate in engineering physics. Day says of their actions: “Why the Skylab astronauts disobeyed their orders and took the photo is unknown, as are what it depicted.”
Director Colby’s informant told him: “This photo has been going through an interagency reviewing process aimed at a decision on how it should be handled. There is no agreement DoD elements (USAF, NRO, JCS, ISA) all believe it should be withheld from public release. NASA, and to a large degree State, has taken the position that it should be released – that is, allowed into the Sioux National Repository and let nature take its course.” Colby was also advised that: “There are some complicated precedents which, in fairness, should be reviewed before a final decision.” There was, Colby was told, “a question of whether anything photographed in the United States can be classified if the platform is unclassified; such complex issues in the UN concerning United States policies toward imagery from space” and “the question of whether the photograph can be withheld without leaking.”
In terms of the outcome, Dwayne A. Day said: “Nothing more is known of this Skylab incident than the fact that the photograph was not released. NASA and the State Department clearly lost the argument. But the opponents of releasing it preserved national security, as they defined it.” None of this explains, exactly, why the NASA astronauts deliberately went against protocol and photographed Area 51. Were they, perhaps, aware of the strange rumors surrounding the base and, as a result, decided to get a photo of the legendary installation? It’s very hard to come to another, viable conclusion. Although the story of Area 51 didn’t really take off big time until 1989 – which was when Bob Lazar entered the scene in controversial and eyebrows-raising fashion – there were significant indications as far back as 1984 that something very weird and deeply conspiratorial was going down out in the heart of the Nevada Desert. We know this, thanks to a now-declassified U.S. Government document of 1987 on what are referred to in its pages as “military land withdrawals. The title: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session.
On March 11, 1986, beginning at 9:45 a.m., in room B-352, Rayburn House Office Building, the Honorable John F. Seiberling made a notable statement on the U.S. Air Force’s plans to prevent American citizens from accessing massive slabs of land that, legally, the Air Force had no right to claim as their own. That land, of course, was – as the government saw things – way too close to Area 51 for comfort. But, before we get to that, let’s take a look at a certain controversy that was going down in 1984. It provides us with a timeline that led directly to the events of March 11, 1986. In his 1991 book, Alien Liaison, British ufologist Timothy Good wrote: “In early 1984 the U.S. Air Force illegally seized 89,000 acres of public land, known as the Groom Range, in order to further restrict access to Area 51. The decision to control access was made after the consultation with local Bureau of Land Management officials and after USAF Headquarters had conferred with the Air Force Secretariat.”
As a result of this controversial land-grabbing operation, in August 1984 a hearing was held to specifically address this issue. It was held in the U.S. House of Representatives. The debate was between the Honorable John Rittenhouse – who was there to represent the interests of the Air Force – and the Chairman, the Honorable John F. Seiberling. The debate went as follows: Seiberling: “Is it true that Air Force has already acted to restrict public use of the Groom Range area?”
(Nick Redfern) Marilyn Monroe and Area 51: a strange connection
Rittenhouse: “Yes, sir, it is true. We have asserted the right to control the surface access and egress to the extent of requesting people not to go in and out. We have people posted to the roads and at certain times we do not. We ask their cooperation.”
Seiberling: “Under what legal authority was that done; that right asserted?”
Rittenhouse: “As far as I know, sir, there is none; except decisions were made at a much, much higher level than mine that that be done.”
Seiberling: “There is no higher level than the laws of the United States.”
Rittenhouse: “No, sir, I understand, and we can describe that further if you would like, sir.”
Seiberling: “I would like.”
Rittenhouse: “In closed briefing.”
Seiberling: “Why would that have to be in a closed briefing?”
Rittenhouse: “I can’t discuss it, sir.”
Area 51's secrecy was in danger of being lost.
One of the most controversial of all of Lazar’s claims is that he read a series of highly-classified documents on various aspects of the UFO phenomenon. One of those documents, Lazar maintained, told a strange and almost sinister story of a violent confrontation between security personnel at Area 51 and a group of aliens that were in residence and working at S-4, alongside a scientific team. It was a confrontation that reportedly resulted in more than a few deaths. Far more than a few. To his credit, Lazar has admitted that he cannot say for sure that the briefing papers he read were the real thing. He has acknowledged that they may have been disinformation, designed to swamp him with both real and bogus material. Why might the project leaders at Area 51 do such a thing? Simple: if there were concerns that lazar might blow the whistle on what he knew (which, as history has shown, he did, in 1989), mixing up the truth with a more than liberal amount of lies might have an adverse effect on his credibility. It should be noted that’s exactly what happened. That said, and although he cannot say for sure that the documentation was the real deal, he does recall the contents of the material, in relation to this fire-fight situation.
According to Lazar, the deadly confrontation occurred at some point in 1979, in the S-4 facility. Lazar said: “I believe the altercation came about in 1979, or sometime like that. And I don’t remember exactly how it was started, but it had something to do with the security personnel. The aliens were in a separate room. I think it had something to do with the bullets [the security guards] were carrying, and somehow they were trying to be told that they couldn’t enter the area with the bullets, possibly because it was hazardous – the bullets could explode, through some field or whatever.” Lazar continued that despite the warning, one of the security guards did indeed enter the room with the bullets – something which resulted in a violent and lethal response from the aliens. Lazar recalled that the papers he read described how the security personnel were all quickly killed by “head wounds.” The same fate befell a group of scientists on the program, too. Timothy Good, who interviewed Lazar at the height of the controversy surrounding his claims, said: “The incident is said to have led to the termination of an alien liaison at the Nevada Test Site.”
There is a particularly important aspect to the controversy surrounding Bob Lazar that many researchers are either completely unaware of or have overlooked – possibly not realizing the importance of that certain aspect. It’s the distinct possibility that while working out at S-4 Lazar may have had his mind tampered with. We’re talking about ways and means to blur reality, to have the targeted individual – in this case Lazar – see and experience something that may not actually be part of what passes for reality. Timothy Good made a notable statement on this issue. Good stated that Lazar told him, “Security was formidable, and various methods of intimidation (including the possible use of drugs and hypnosis [italics mine]) were used to ensure that those who worked at the base kept their mouths shut.”
Renowned ufologist, Dr. Jacques Vallee, noted something that was almost certainly connected to the drugs / hypnosis issue. Vallee, speaking on KLAS-TV’s show, UFOs: The Best Evidence, said he asked Lazar “if he felt that his memory might have been tampered with.” There was a good reason for that question to have been asked. Lazar has admitted that on a couple of occasions, all he could remember was being flown out to S-4…and flying back. And that’s all. His mind had been wiped clean of around two days’ worth of memories. And he never, ever got those missing days back. In light of that, we have to seriously wonder if Lazar genuinely recalled his experiences as he remembered them, but that what he remembered wasn’t real. It may well have been part of an ingenious plan to have Lazar become the ultimate patsy in a plot to convince someone – maybe the Russians – that the U.S. Government has UFOs and alien technology in its secret arsenals. In that sense, the entirety of Lazar’s story needs to be addressed very carefully. Not because he was a liar. But, because his memories cannot be trusted. Of course, though, that’s not down to him. It’s all down to whoever it was who messed with his mind.
One of the lesser known aspects of the Bob Lazar controversy is that which suggests he just might have seen an alien entity at Area 51 – a live one, no less. The story gets very little publicity, but it’s fascinating in the extreme. The issue of aliens – alive, dead or both at Area 51 -first surfaced from Lazar in early 1989. When asked about that specific matter by George Knapp, Lazar quickly shot down the question in an awkward fashion and changed the subject. Later, though, in what was a private, rather than public, interview, Lazar opened up a bit more. What he had to say was brief but amazing – if true, of course. According to Lazar, “I walked down the hallway at one time I was working down there, and there were these doors – the doors that go to the hangar are smaller than the doors in the corridors and have a 9-inch or 12-inch square window with little wires running through it, just about head level. And as I was walking by, I just glanced in and I noticed – at a quick glance – there were two guys in white lab coats, facing me towards the door.”
Lazar then got to the heart of the matter: the two men were looking down at a small, humanoid figure with long arms, seemingly talking to it. Although Lazar only saw the entity for a second or so, he was in no doubt about what it appeared to be. I say “appeared” because Lazar himself wondered if this was some kind of set-up. He said of this possibility: “Maybe they stuck a doll in front of these guys and made me walk by it and look at it, just to see what my reaction would be.” Such a thing is not at all impossible, as the following brief, but notable, comment from Lazar makes clear: “They play so many mind games there [italics mine].” While enthusiastic UFO researchers may dearly want to believe that living aliens are at Area 51, Lazar’s carefully worded statement suggests we should exercise restraint on this issue – at least until, or if, further vindication comes along. It’s important too to note that there is an intriguing precedent to this – a very similar tale of fabricated aliens, as we will imminently see. George Knapp made a thought-provoking statement in 1993 which may have a bearing on the issue of how the government might be using the UFO issue as a cover for something else, such as a dummy for an alien, we might suggest. Knapp said: “Again and again, I have heard self-appointed Groom Lake experts conclude, without any reservations, that the Groom Lake aerial ballet is disinformation, pure theater, a show designed to distract attention away from earthly black projects, or as some sort of exercise in mass psychology.”
It’s a fact that most people who have studied the claims of Bob Lazar focus their attentions on what he had to say about the UFOs allegedly held at S-4, as well as his statements concerning Element 115. There is one issue which doesn’t get the attention that it really should. It’s a part of Lazar’s story which takes things down a path that is filled with disturbing revelations involving the afterlife. One of the many briefing papers that Lazar said he read at S-4 stated that the aliens refer to us, the human race, as what we would call “Containers.” But, containers of what? Well, that’s where things get really controversial. Lazar told KLAS-TV’s George Knapp “religion was created so we have some rules and regulations for the sole purpose of not damaging the containers.”
There followed an awkward conversation which saw Knapp pressing for answers, and Lazar almost squirming because of the nightmarish nature of the story. That’s hardly surprising, because the claimed big secret is that the aliens have an interest in the human soul. Worse, though, they allegedly use the human soul in a way that the U.S. Government doesn’t fully understand. Or, that the government does know, but does not know how to tell the world the awful truth. One of the theories is truly terrifying: that the aliens “feed” on the human soul, on our life-force. In this scenario, the earth is a farm and we are the cattle. On our deaths our souls are reaped and the life-energy sustains the aliens. Far out? Definitely. But, Lazar stands by what he read in those briefing papers. The soul angle has led some UFO researchers to believe that the aliens are actually nothing of the sort. Rather, the theory is that they are high-tech demons; it’s an issue we will come to shortly.
George Knapp was not the only person who Bob Lazar spoke to on this issue of containers. Michael Lindemann is the author of a 1995 book, UFOs and the Alien Presence. He also questioned Lazar on this controversy-dominated aspect of the story of Lazar and Area 51. Lazar added a bit more to the story, when speaking with Lindemann, as the latter acknowledged in his book. He noted that Lazar said the containers were “extremely, extremely unique,” that they were “very difficult to find,” and that the biggest secret of all revolved around our souls. No wonder that the people in the know at Area 51 didn’t know how to tell the rest of the world the story they were forced to sit on – out of fear of worldwide anarchy breaking out, if it was revealed that religion was a creation of ancient extraterrestrials who devour our souls.
As we have seen, there is one thing – more than any other – that sets Area 51 apart from just about every other military or government facility in the United States: it’s the sheer extent of the government’s determination to make sure that absolutely nothing gets out of Area 51 and no-one gets in. Of course, and particularly so in today’s climate of uncertainty and threats of nuclear attacks, everyone needs to be vigilant. And that includes everyone who works at Area 51, too. They are, when all is said and done, just like us, regular people with lives and families. The big difference, though, is that they know the reasons for so much secrecy and we don’t. It would be hard – in fact, impossible – to find a military installation in the United States that protects its secrets to a greater degree than Area 51. People have been forced to leave their homes and their land – solely due to U.S. Government concerns and worries that those same people just might see something they shouldn’t see. The outrageous story of the Sheahan is a perfect example. Those who stray too close to portions of the Nevada desert that the staff of Area 51 would prefer to keep under wraps risk large fines, imprisonment and even death, and all in the name of national security.
Aircraft are banned from flying close to or over Area 51. They can even be shot down out of the sky, if circumstances dictate and warrant such drastic action. When, in 1974, NASA’s astronauts on-board Skylab took an aerial phot of the base, all hell broke loose in the defense- and intelligence-based communities of the United States. The CIA and the Department of Defense quickly got involved. Major concerns were expressed about how on Earth (or, in this case, off it) such a thing could have happened. Secret files were created, most of which have never publicly surfaced. Motion-detector equipment peppers the landscape. Cameras are everywhere. Guards patrol the local roads for any perceived suspicious characters. Night-vision technology ensures that no-one can penetrate the base in the early hours of the morning.
The government practically refuses to acknowledge not just the existence of Area 51, but even its name. That same government refused to offer help on the 1996 movie Independence Day, and all because a substantial portion of the movie revolved around Area 51 and the 1947 incident at Roswell, New Mexico. All of the above is astonishing. No facility in the United States comes even close to the level of secrecy and paranoia that surrounds Area 51. Which brings up an important question: is all of this overwhelming secrecy just in place to protect next-generation after next-generation of aircraft? Or, are the rumors and the whispers true? You know the ones, of course: the claims that are deeply hidden at Area 51 are the remains of the Roswell wreckage, recovered flying saucers, and alien corpses. Maybe, even living aliens are at the base, too.
Three Enigmatic Lights Spotted in Earth’s Orbit by Astronauts!
Three Enigmatic Lights Spotted in Earth’s Orbit by Astronauts!
Article: The Enigma of Space: UFO Sightings or Astral Phenomena?
From the vast emptiness of space, mysteries emerge. Stories of unidentified flying objects have long intrigued the masses, stirring up questions about extraterrestrial life and the unknown. As advancements in technology bring us closer to the stars, they also offer more enigmatic findings.
During a routine survey to ensure the safety of Atlantis’ heat shield, astronauts reported seeing three flashing lights in Earth’s orbit. Was it a sign of extraterrestrial life visiting our planet? This sighting, though brief, captivated NASA scientists and enthusiasts of UFO sightings alike.
However, a closer examination suggested that the lights might be incidental objects that broke free accidentally from the shuttle. The concern was justified when, a day later, NASA found evidence that Atlantis had been hit by a micrometeorite. While the triangular formation of the lights witnessed by the crew remained an unsolved puzzle, NASA’s swift caution ensured the shuttle’s safe return.
Atlantis had always been a beacon of hope and a symbol of human achievement in space exploration. The unexpected incident only reinforced the importance of its impeccable performance.
Space Oddities: Beyond Triangular Lights
Triangular patterns aren’t the only peculiar symbols reported in space. Astronomer Jim Scotty of Kit Peek Observatory in Arizona, upon hearing of an unconventional comet, set his sights on the skies. Using his 1.8-meter telescope, he glimpsed something out of the ordinary – an object that looked eerily distinct from any known comet.
Further investigation revealed a hazy image that seemed to have a probe-like extension. This caught NASA’s attention, leading them to deploy their most powerful observational tool – the Hubble Space Telescope.
The images relayed were nothing short of astonishing. A giant ‘X’ shape loomed in space, an anomaly that had scientists stepping back in awe. This X-structure, which spanned over 1,500 miles, was unlike anything manufactured on Earth and was unlike any recognized natural phenomena. Theories abounded, with some speculating a collision between two asteroids, while others mused on the possibility of an unknown space construction.
Despite the abundance of advanced equipment and seasoned experts, the universe continues to retain its mysteries. As Astronomer JJ Cavalars aptly puts it, “There’s more that we don’t know than we do know.”
Whether UFO sightings, mysterious space formations, or the enigmatic ‘X’ in the sky, the universe constantly reminds us of its vastness and the multitude of secrets it holds. While some questions might find answers in time, others might remain in the beautiful realm of the unknown.
Should Britain be taking UFOs more seriously? As NASA sets up a taskforce to study possible extraterrestrial visitors in the US, experts say it's time for the UK to follow suit in the interests of 'national security'
Should Britain be taking UFOs more seriously? As NASA sets up a taskforce to study possible extraterrestrial visitors in the US, experts say it's time for the UK to follow suit in the interests of 'national security'
Experts have accused UK Government of failing to take UFOs seriously enough
Ministry of Defence closed its UFO desk in 2009 and nothing has ever replaced it
Britain should follow America's lead and create its own UFOtaskforce to investigate potential extraterrestrial sightings, experts have said.
They accused the UK Government of failing to take the issue seriously enough and warned that it could have serious implications for the country's defence capabilities.
Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the British military in the 1990s before the unit was disbanded, said it was 'outrageous' that ministers are not taking 'meaningful action' to probe unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) — more commonly known as unidentified flying objects.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) needs to restart UAP investigations, a task force of some sort needs to be set up, and the Defence Committee needs to start holding the MoD to account on UAP, as the Armed Services Committees are doing in the US Congress, in both the Senate and the House,' he told MailOnline.
Mr Pope accused defence officials of 'falling back on a lazy, closed-minded "it can't be, so it isn't" mindset', meaning potential foreign threats to UK shores could be missed.
Is anyone out there? Britain should follow America's lead and create its own UFO taskforce to investigate potential extraterrestrial sightings, experts have said
Alien hunter: The inaugural boss of NASA's newly-created UFO research division has been named as former meteorologist and liaison to the Pentagon Mark McInerney
The MoD closed its UFO desk in 2009 and nothing has ever replaced it.
Prior to this, it carried out what at the time was a highly-secretive and extensive UFO investigation of more than 10,000 possible sightings over several decades — many of which were by military personnel.
Known as the Project Condign report, it concluded that 80 per cent of the sightings were easily explained, 19 per cent were secret military craft and just 1 per cent were mysterious in origin.
However, the MoD accepted that there are always going to be UAP and that those which are unexplained are likely an 'an unknown kind of plasma' and not of concern.
'The MoD has consistently stated that no UFO/UAP sighting has ever shown a threat to the UK, therefore they are of no defence significance and as a result the MoD is not interested,' said Philip Mantle, the former director of investigations at the British UFO Research Association.
He told MailOnline that for this reason it would be 'pointless' to set up a UFO taskforce.
'The MoD are not interested and science in general usually gives the subject a wide berth,' Mr Mantle added.
'One thing that is clear, however, is that the UFO phenomenon, whatever it may be, does not recognise any international borders, therefore any such study surely must be international in scope rather than national.'
The space agency's independent panel of experts stressed that there was 'no reason to conclude' that any were extraterrestrial in origin, but warned that mysterious flying objects were a 'self-evident' threat to American airspace.
Mr Pope said that if the US was worried about this then Britain, as an NATO ally, should be too.
In the US, NASA last week released its highly-anticipated report into more than 800 potential alien sightings over a period of three decades. NASA chief Bill Nelson (pictured) announced that a new director for UFO research would help implement the panel's recommendations
The newly-formed UFO research division will continue studying UAPs, even though the space agency yesterday ruled out that aliens were to blame for some 800 such sightings over almost three decades. Above, a weather balloon careens through the air following its release from the Cape Canaveral weather station in Florida. NASA's panel included this image in their report as an example of the striking, highly unusual objects that actually have a terrestrial explanation
He added: 'The UK can make a significant contribution to the wider search for the truth about UAP, by leveraging its world class intelligence community imagery analysis resources and capabilities.
'The bottom line is that we need action.
'Just as lawmakers in the US – Republicans and Democrats alike – are taking up this issue, UK Parliamentarians should start asking the MoD some hard questions, not accept boilerplate responses, and ensure that meaningful action is taken by setting up a task force modeled on the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.'
A petition has also been set up calling for the UK to set up an investigatory office on UFOs/UAPs but has so far attracted just 1,500 signatures since May.
It requires 10,000 for the Government to respond to it and 100,000 to be considered for debate in Parliament.
Interesting: Earlier this year the Department of Defense released a document disclosing the 'world's UFO hotspots'. It includes a map showing where the most sightings of unidentified objects have been recorded, based on reports between 1996 and 2023
The petition states that the office 'would be primarily to research and investigate reports of UFOs (unidentified flying objects) and UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) over the United Kingdom and also assist and support witnesses.'
Even though they poured cold water on the extraterrestrial hypothesis, NASA's experts did not deny the possibility of a 'potential unknown alien technology operating in Earth's atmosphere'.
Their 33-page report called for NASA to utilise its technological might to continue studying UFOs because many cases remain unsolved — and researchers still have no idea what some of these sightings are.
But that could finally change following the official release of information from the Pentagon about the mysterious aerial phenomena.
The new Department of Defense document reveals characteristics of the typical UFO, including the colour and the shape, velocity, and flight level
Based on clues from reported sightings, the typical UFO has a round shape, usually described as spherical or an orb, with a white or silver colour, often translucent.
It also has a size of between 3 and 13 feet (1 to 4 metres) and usually travels through the air at a height just below commercial passenger planes.
Het is een van de raadselachtigste massa-extincties die de Aarde heeft gekend: hoe konden die grote en machtige dinosaurussen 66 miljoen jaar geleden in één klap worden weggevaagd? En niet alleen de dino’s, driekwart van het leven op Aarde verdween. Was het een meteorietinslag of toch een vulkaanuitbarsting, die op dramatische wijze een einde maakte aan het Krijt?
Onderzoekers besloten zich er eens niet zelf mee te bemoeien, maar een computer het werk te laten opknappen. En dat leidde tot een verrassende uitkomst: niet de asteroïde, maar de uitbarsting van de Deccan Traps zou het leven op Aarde fataal zijn geworden. Rond de overgang van het Krijt naar het Tertiair barstte het westen van India open over een oppervlakte van 500.000 vierkante kilometer. De vulkaanuitbarstingen hielden een miljoen jaar aan, waardoor er enorme hoeveelheden CO2 in de lucht belandden en de Aarde snel opwarmde. Het gebied van de Deccan Traps bestaat uit een laag van 2 kilometer dikke gestolde basalten.
Vulkaan versus meteoriet Volgens de laatste theorie vormden deze vulkaanuitbarstingen de voorzet, waarna de meteoriet de genadeklap was. Het puin en stof in de lucht na de inslag blokkeerde het zonlicht waardoor het zo’n tien jaar lang koud en donker werd op Aarde, wat tot de uitsterving van een groot aantal soorten kan hebben geleid. Maar zeker weten doen we het niet.
Dus misschien kan een computermodel uitsluitsel bieden. “In plaats van te zeggen: ‘laten we de vulkanen de schuld geven en uitleggen waarom’ of ‘laten we de asteroïde de schuld geven en uitleggen waarom’, was het doel om zo min mogelijk menselijke input of vooroordelen te hebben”, zegt rekenkundig geoloog Alexander Cox van het Amerikaanse Dartmouth College.
Boringen in de diepzee Het idee was om bij het bewijs te beginnen, want dat is er: bij boringen in diepzeesedimenten zijn geologische resten gevonden die wijzen op dodelijke hoeveelheden gas in de atmosfeer en in de oceanen, met name CO2 en zwaveldioxide. Maar die gassen kunnen net zo goed afkomstig zijn van de vulkaanuitbarstingen als van de meteorietinslag, aangezien daardoor rotsen zijn verbrand op het oppervlak van de Aarde, redeneren de onderzoekers.
Speciaal wiskundig model Om te ontrafelen hoe groot de bijdrage was van beide rampen, hebben ze een specifiek statistisch model gebruikt: de Markov-keten Monte Carlo-methode (voor de liefhebbers). Deze methode berekent systematisch de kans op verschillende emissiescenario’s van de diverse bronnen. De oplossing ontstaat, doordat de resultaten van de simulaties steeds dichterbij de geologische observaties komen. Wat de bevindingen extra sterk maakt, is dat de onderzoekers maar liefst 128 verschillende processors parallel simulaties lieten draaien. “Alle processoren vergeleken daarna hoe ze het deden aan het eind van elke simulatie, zoals klasgenoten hun antwoorden vergelijken”, aldus Cox. Zo konden berekeningen die normaal wel een jaar duren in een paar dagen worden uitgevoerd.
Foraminiferen De gegevens waren afkomstig uit drie kernen die gedrild zijn in diepzeesedimenten, allemaal daterend van 67 tot 65 miljoen jaar geleden. In die sedimenten zijn foraminiferen gevonden, micro-organismen waarvan de schaal verschillende isotopen van koolstof en zuurstof bevat. Dit kun je zien als een afspiegeling van de chemische samenstelling van de oceaan in die periode. Daarom kun je het gebruiken als een proxy om bijvoorbeeld de temperatuur in die tijd af te leiden of hoeveel diertjes er in de oceanen leefden en hoeveel koolstof er heen en weer ging tussen de atmosfeer, de oceaan en het land.
En de computersimulaties leverden iets interessants op: de hoeveelheid gas die in de atmosfeer werd gespuwd door de vulkanen was genoeg voor de temperatuurverandering en koolstofcyclus, zoals die is af te leiden uit de foraminiferen in de drilkernen. En de asteroïde, die de enorme Chicxulub-krater vormde in wat nu Mexico is, produceerde waarschijnlijk niet zo’n enorme piek in koolstof- of zwaveldioxide als gedacht, blijkt verder uit de analyse.
Niet overtuigd Maar veel wetenschappers zijn nog niet helemaal overtuigd dat deze computerberekening nu voor eens en voor altijd het antwoord is op een vraag die onderzoekers al decennia bezighoudt. “Het is een elegante manier om dit probleem op te lossen”, reageert geochemicus Sierra Petersen van de University of Michigan. “Een model op deze manier gebruiken, geeft de vrijheid om tot een consensus te komen, waarbij rekening is gehouden met vele data. Maar, zoals met elk model, hangt de output af van de input.” Volgens Petersen zijn foraminiferen niet de ideale proxy om vroegere temperaturen uit af te leiden. De zuurstofisotopenratio’s kunnen niet alleen door temperatuur veranderen maar ook door de samenstelling van het zeewater. Verschillende temperatuur-proxy’s leiden waarschijnlijk tot verschillende patronen van vrijkomend gas, zoals die worden gereproduceerd door de modellen, legt Petersen verder uit.
Ook heeft ze kritiek op de conclusie uit de studie. “Het is nogal een stap om te stellen dat deze studie aantoont dat de meteorietinslag de extinctie niet heeft veroorzaakt. Ik denk dat enkel wordt aangetoond dat er bij de inslag niet zoveel gas vrijkwam.” Maar de asteroïde kan nog steeds op een andere manier een dodelijke impact hebben gehad. Zo kwamen er grote wolken van roet en stof in de lucht. Eerder onderzoek stelde dat daardoor het zonlicht dat de Aarde bereikte mogelijk met wel 20 procent afnam, waardoor het steenkoud werd en vele dieren en planten stierven.
Toch een stapje dichterbij Hoewel deze studie dus een interessante toevoeging is in het debat over het einde van het dinotijdperk biedt hij wederom geen uitsluitsel in de discussie ‘vulkaanuitbarsting versus meteorietinslag’, maar misschien is het wel weer een puntje erbij voor de vulkaantheorie.
Grote opwinding onder wetenschappers als in 2017 voor de kust van Antarctica een monsterachtige ijsberg het levenslicht ziet. De ijsberg dobbert jarenlang rond en vindt uiteindelijk pas in 2020 zijn Waterloo. En nu blijkt ook die ondergang van de machtige ijsberg behoorlijk opwindend te zijn (geweest).
Want in een nieuw onderzoek – verschenen in het blad Geophysical Research Letters – schrijven wetenschappers dat de ijsberg – terwijl deze ten onder ging – een enorme impact had op zijn directe omgeving. Zo blijkt de ijsberg er eigenhandig voor gezorgd te hebben dat de oppervlaktetemperatuur van de Zuidelijke Oceaan lokaal met maar liefst 4,5 graad afnam. En ook het zoutgehalte liep door toedoen van de smeltende ijsberg met meer dan 60 procent terug. Het zijn grote veranderingen; groter dan alle andere veranderingen die wetenschappers ooit in reactie op een smeltende ijsberg hebben waargenomen.
Als een riviermonding in open zee “De A68-ijsberg was één van de grootste en best bestudeerde ijsbergen ooit,” vertelt onderzoeker Roseanne Smith. “Toen deze uiteen begon te vallen, was het een beetje alsof er een enorme riviermonding in de open oceaan was geïnstalleerd die koud, zoet water in de bovenste laag van de oceaan pompte.”
Over A68 De ijsberg waar het onderzoek van Smith en collega’s om draait, ontstond in 2017, toen een enorm stuk ijs van de Larsen C-ijsplaat voor de kust van Antarctica, afbrak. In eerste instantie was de resulterende ijsberg ongeveer net zo groot als de provincie Gelderland. Naarmate de tijd verstreek, braken er echter steeds meer stukken ijs van de ijsberg af. En in 2020 was deze nog ongeveer zo groot als Luxemburg. Rond diezelfde tijd had A68 – al dobberend – ook al een flinke afstand afgelegd en stevende deze af op het nagenoeg onbewoonde eiland Zuid-Georgië. En daar begint de ijsberg in datzelfde jaar uiteen te vallen en – al smeltend – enorme hoeveelheden koud, zoet water in een relatief klein deel van de oceaan te brengen. Wetenschappers zitten er bovenop; met behulp van satellieten observeren ze de smeltende ijsberg en hoe deze de bovenste centimeters van de Zuidelijke Oceaan lokaal beïnvloedt. Het resulteert in de ontdekking van ongeëvenaarde, lokale afwijkingen in de temperatuur en het zoutgehalte van de oceaan, zo is in het blad Geophysical Research Letters te lezen.
De reis van A68, van Antarctica naar Zuid-Georgië. Afbeelding: ESA.
Fytoplankton Het roept natuurlijk de vraag op in hoeverre die veranderingen ook de bewoners van die wateren hebben geraakt. Dat is op dit moment lastig te zeggen, vertelt Smith aan Scientias.nl. “A68 heeft waarschijnlijk de grootste directe invloed gehad op de onderste regionen van de voedselketen, oftewel op microalgen of fytoplankton – die aan het oppervlak van de oceaan leven. Elke soort is aan specifieke omstandigheden – waaronder een bepaalde watertemperatuur en een bepaald zoutgehalte – aangepast. Dus een verandering in die omstandigheden – zoals ontstaat wanneer een enorme ijsberg koud, zoet water in de nabijheid dumpt – is waarschijnlijk van invloed op een breed scala aan verschillende fytoplanktonsoorten in dit gebied.” Als je het zo bekijkt, lijkt de smeltende ijsberg dus slecht nieuws voor fytoplankton – en mogelijk ook de organismen hogerop in de voedselketen die voor hun overleving (grotendeels) van fytoplankton afhankelijk zijn.
Complex verhaal Maar het is een stuk gecompliceerder dan dat, vertelt Smith. Want zo’n smeltende ijsberg kan fytoplankton inderdaad het leven zuur maken door de temperatuur en het zoutgehalte van hun oude vertrouwde oceaan tijdelijk te veranderen. Maar tegelijkertijd kan de ijsberg de groei van (andere) fytoplanktonsoorten ook weer bevorderen. “Het smeltwater van de ijsberg is rijk aan opgelost ijzer en ijzer is iets wat de Zuidelijke Oceaan door de bank genomen mist. Dus ijsbergen kunnen de oceaan als het ware ‘bemesten’.” En zo de groei van fytoplankton stimuleren. “Dus als we kijken naar de gigantische ijsberg A68 en het smelten en ineenstorten daarvan voor de kust van Zuid-Georgië, in de zomer van 2020/2021, was die gebeurtenis dan goed nieuws voor algen? Dat is lastig te zeggen. Er groeit van nature namelijk ‘s zomers al veel fytoplankton in de wateren rond Zuid-Georgië. Voor nu wijzen satellietdata er echter voorzichtig op dat het fytoplankton in sommige gebieden toenam en in andere iets afnam.”
Tegelijkertijd kan op dit moment ook niet worden uitgesloten dat de smeltende ijsberg de omringende oceaan niet alleen op ijzer, maar ook op fytoplankton getrakteerd heeft. “Het is mogelijk dat de ijsberg zelf ook fytoplanktonsoorten herbergde die normaliter niet zo noordelijk voorkomen,” vertelt Smith. “Die soorten kunnen tijdens het smelten van de ijsberg zijn ontsnapt en in de wateren rond Zuid-Georgië zijn gaan groeien, omdat ze het wel prettig vinden in dat koude, zoete smeltwater dat rond hen vrijkwam.” Het is iets wat onderzoekers in eerdere studies naar andere (kleinere) smeltende ijsbergen wel hebben zien gebeuren. Maar of ook A68 fytoplankton meevoerde, is nog niet bewezen. “We hebben simpelweg te weinig bewijs om nu te zeggen dat dat het geval is. Ook kunnen we nog niet zeggen of het netto effect van de ijsberg op het ecosysteem van Zuid-Georgië nu positief of negatief was. Daar worden de komende maanden en jaren nog wel studies over gepubliceerd,” verwacht Smith. “Want er zijn in die tijd (dat de ijsberg smolt, red.) veel watermonsters verzameld en die worden nu nog onderzocht.” Wordt vervolgd dus.
Enorme afstand Wat we ondertussen wél zeker weten, is dat de impact van de ijsberg ook verder reikte dan de directe omgeving van Zuid-Georgië. Het koude, zoete smeltwater werd namelijk door stromingen in oostelijke richting van het eiland weggevoerd. En niet zo’n klein eindje ook. “Wat mij het meest heeft verrast, was de enorme afstand waarover de smeltwaterpluim van A68 verspreid werd,” vertelt Smith. “Voor A68 hadden we al vastgesteld dat temperatuurdalingen en veranderingen in het zoutgehalte van het water aan het oppervlak van de oceaan zelfs op tientallen kilometers afstand van de rand van de ijsberg nog gedetecteerd konden worden. Dat komt doordat het smeltwater door lokale stromingen wordt weggevoerd. Maar in het geval van A68 was het echt een heel ander verhaal: de pluim bestaande uit koel, zoet smeltwater werd over een enorme afstand weggevoerd. Op een gegeven moment was deze pluim zelfs meer dan 1000 kilometer lang! Dat is ongeveer de afstand tussen Parijs en Wenen!”
Heldenrol voor satellieten De enige reden dat onderzoekers überhaupt in staat waren om de enorme afstand waarover het smeltwater verspreid werd, vast te stellen, is dat ze gebruik maakten van satellietdata. “In de meeste eerdere studies naar smeltwaterpluimen van ijsbergen werd gebruik gemaakt van sensoren op schepen of boeien, maar je zou heel veel schepen en heel veel tijd (en dus ook heel veel geld) nodig hebben om op die manier de omvang van de smeltwaterpluim van A68 te meten. Alleen dankzij satellietdata is het ons gelukt om de volledige lengte en distributie ervan over een periode van meerdere maanden vast te stellen.”
Dat het smeltwater zo ver werd weggevoerd, betekent ook dat de impact die het smeltwater eventueel op fytoplankton nabij Zuid-Georgië had, in ieder geval tijdelijk was. “Het is onwaarschijnlijk dat de impact van het smeltwater na de winter van 2021 nog door de fytoplankton gevoeld werd,” stelt Smith. “De ijsberg was in april 2021 (oftewel tijdens de herfst op het zuidelijk halfrond, red.) volledig weggesmolten en het resterende koude, zoete smeltwater was toen door stromingen al bij Zuid-Georgië weggevoerd. Tegen het aanbreken van de lente was alles rond Zuid-Georgië waarschijnlijk weer als vanouds.”
Groeven in de zeebodem Is er dan anno 2023 niets meer dat ons herinnert aan het ontstaan en de ondergang van de machtige ijsberg A68? Zeker wel! “Daarvoor moeten we echter onder het ruwe, stormachtige oppervlak van de oceaan duiken, richting de bodem rond Zuid-Georgië,” vertelt Smith. “Het is gebruikelijk dat grote ijsbergen over de bodem van de zeebodem schuren als ze door relatief ondiep kustwater bewegen.” Het resulteert in blijvende groeven in de zeebodem. Ook beïnvloedt het alles wat op die zeebodem leeft. “Als ijsbergen over de zeebodem schuren, bulldozeren ze het fragiele ecosysteem op die zeebodem en dat kan erin resulteren dat meer dan 98 procent van de lokale dieren en planten sterft. Het kan vervolgens ook lang (in de orde van jaren) duren voor dat ecosysteem weer hersteld is.” Zuid-Georgië heeft al veel ijsbergen door haar kustwateren zien reizen, dus de zeebodem herbergt heel wat groeven die daarvan blijvend getuigen. “Van A68 wordt vermoed dat deze de zeebodem ten zuiden van Zuid-Georgië half december heeft geraakt,” vertelt Smith. En daarmee is het leven op de zeebodem mogelijk zodanig aangetast dat het wel even duurt voor het zich weer hersteld heeft. En de zeebodem zelf is in dat scenario sowieso voorgoed enkele groeven rijker.
Het onderzoek naar de impact die monsterachtige ijsbergen op de lokale oceaan en ecosystemen hebben, is belangrijk. Want de verwachting is dat we in de nabije toekomst veel meer van deze grote ijsbergen zullen zien ontstaan. “Klimaatmodellen laten zien dat een verdere opwarming van de atmosfeer en oceaan door broeikasgassen de stabiliteit van de vele ijsplaten rond Antarctica aantast. Als die ijsplaten uiteenvallen, kunnen ze in korte tijd veel grote ijsbergen in de Zuidelijke Oceaan loslaten,” legt Smith uit. “Meer ijsbergen betekent ook dat meer met ijzer verrijkt zoetwater de Zuidelijke Oceaan bereikt. En dat resulteert in een afnemend zoutgehalte en meer stratificatie in de bovenste delen van de oceaan, oftewel: die bovenste lagen gaan zich moeilijker mengen met diepere waterlagen.” Dat laatste heeft alles te maken met het feit dat zoet water een geringere dichtheid heeft dan zout water en dus minder makkelijk zinkt. “Het kan verschillende effecten hebben,” gaat Smith verder. Zo zorgt de stratificatie van het water ervoor dat oppervlaktewater moeilijker naar grote diepte zinkt. “En dat is belangrijk, omdat het zinken van dat oppervlaktewater helpt bij de opslag van koolstof en warmte in de diepere delen van de oceaan.” Daarnaast kan het smeltwater ook van invloed zijn op de aangroei van zee-ijs, zo verwachten de onderzoekers. “En dat is belangrijk, omdat zee-ijs helpt om de energie van de zon te reflecteren en minder zee-ijs betekent dus dat er meer zonne-energie (en dus warmte) wordt geabsorbeerd (en vice versa).” En ten slotte kunnen ijsbergen dus ook nog eens op verschillende manieren hun stempel drukken op lokale ecosystemen. “Welk van deze effecten het meest dominant zal zijn, is lastig te zeggen,” erkent Smith. “Maar als de frequentie waarmee grote ijsbergen ontstaan, substantieel toeneemt, kan het zijn dat de tijdelijke invloeden die elke individuele ijsberg heeft, zich gaan opstapelen en resulteren in grotere, langer aanhoudende en meer wijdverspreide veranderingen in de Zuidelijke Oceaan, met gevolgen voor zee-ijs, de groei van fytoplankton en het zinken van oppervlaktewater.”
The melting of the supergiant iceberg A-68 had a huge impact on the ocean around South Georgia, in sub-Antarctica,_Povl Abrahamsen, BAS
Mysterious light appears in the images pulled from the depths of the universe using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). And now, it finally has an explanation.
JWST, the next-generation observatory from NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, is able to view infrared light like never before. Infrared reveals visible light that has been stretched by the universe as it expands and which has poured out from the farthest reaches of space across billions of light-years. Once this light reaches Earth, astronomers can see the cosmos as it once was.
They haven't seen anything like JWST’s images before, which first went public in July 2022. But, they had good guesses about what they’d find.
There are more than 20,000 galaxies in this field, observed by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope view when it looked between the Pisces and Andromeda constellations.
However, one particular characteristic of the ancient galaxies appearing before them left many stumped. Although astronomers know very little about Cosmic Dawn, the 100 million years to 1 billion years after the Big Bang, when the universe sprouted its first stars and galaxies, they did not expect to see galaxies shining as bright as they see in the telescopic images. Rohan Naidu, a NASA Hubble Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, even toldQuanta Magazine that the galaxies were “stupidly bright.”
WHY ARE THE ANCIENT GALAXIES SO BRIGHT?
Their luminosities were so shocking that some physicists questioned the standard model of cosmology, which describes how the universe has evolved since the Big Bang.
The issue is that, usually, bright galaxies mean big galaxies. “But because these galaxies formed at cosmic dawn, not enough time has passed since the Big Bang,” Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois and an author of a new paper, says in a statement describing the study. “How could these massive galaxies assemble so quickly?”
A research team led by Guochao Sun, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern, found an explanation: bursts of formation. They published their findings on Tuesday in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.
“If star formation happens in bursts, it will emit flashes of light. That is why we see several very bright galaxies,” Sun said in a Northwestern University statement describing the study.
The young galaxies, which the statement called “too bright, too massive, and too mature to have formed so soon after the Big Bang,” may just plain and simply be bursting with new stars.
Unlike modern galaxies, which form stars at a steady rate, the early galaxies seed a process known as bursty star formation. “So-called bursty star formation occurs when stars form in an alternating pattern — many stars at once, followed by millions of years of very few new stars and then many stars again,” according to the statement.
Now that the JWST imagery begins to make more sense, astronomers can use its sensitive instruments to investigate other cosmic mysteries.
Geoscientists Discover Massive Undersea Water Reservoir Off New Zealand’s Coast
Geoscientists Discover Massive Undersea Water Reservoir Off New Zealand’s Coast
Revealed by 3D seismic imaging, the newly-discovered water reservoir lies 3.2 km (2 miles) under the ocean floor off the coast of New Zealand, where it may be dampening a major earthquake fault that faces the country’s North Island. The fault is known for producing slow-motion earthquakes, called slow slip events. These can release pent-up tectonic pressure harmlessly over days and weeks.
3D seismic imaging and ocean drilling at the Hikurangi margin reveal a widespread and previously unknown fluid reservoir within the extensively hydrated (up to 47 vol % water) volcanic upper crust of the subducting Hikurangi Plateau large igneous province.
Image credit: Gase et al., doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh0150.
“Many slow slip earthquakes are thought to be linked to buried water,” said Dr. Andrew Gase, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas.
“However, until now there was no direct geologic evidence to suggest such a large water reservoir existed at this particular New Zealand fault.”
“We can’t yet see deep enough to know exactly the effect on the fault, but we can see that the amount of water that’s going down here is actually much higher than normal.”
The site where Dr. Gase and colleagues found the water is part of a vast volcanic province that formed when a plume of lava the size of the United States breached the Earth’s surface in the Pacific Ocean 125 million years ago.
The event was one of the Earth’s largest known volcanic eruptions and rumbled on for several million years.
The study authors used seismic scans to build a 3D picture of the ancient volcanic plateau in which they saw thick, layered sediments surrounding buried volcanoes.
They ran lab experiments on drill core samples of the volcanic rock and found that water made up nearly half of its volume.
The seismic image of the Hikurangi Plateau reveals details about the Earth’s interior and what it’s made of. The blue-green layer under the yellow line shows water buried within rocks
Image credit: Gase et al., doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh0150.
“Normal ocean crust, once it gets to be about 7 or 10 million years old should contain much less water,” Dr. Gase said.
“The ocean crust in the seismic scans was ten times as old, but it had remained much wetter.”
“The shallow seas where the eruptions took place eroded some of the volcanoes into a porous, broken-up rock that stored water like an aquifer as it was buried. Over time, the rock and rock fragments transformed into clay, locking in even more water.”
The finding is important because scientists think that underground water pressure may be a key ingredient in creating conditions that release tectonic stress via slow slip earthquakes.
This usually happens when water-rich sediments are buried with the fault, trapping the water underground. However, the New Zealand fault contains little of this typical ocean sediment.
Instead, the researchers think the ancient volcanoes and the transformed rocks — now clays — are carrying large volumes of water down as they’re swallowed by the fault.
“The findings suggest that other earthquake faults around the globe could be in similar situations,” said Professor Demian Saffer, a researcher at the University of Texas.
“It’s a really clear illustration of the correlation between fluids and the style of tectonic fault movement — including earthquake behavior.”
“This is something that we’ve hypothesized from lab experiments, and is predicted by some computer simulations, but there are very few clear field experiments to test this at the scale of a tectonic plate.”
The study appears in the journal Science Advances.
Andrew C. Gase et al. 2023. Subducting volcaniclastic-rich upper crust supplies fluids for shallow megathrust and slow slip. Science Advances 9 (33); doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh0150
Researchers Find Two Extraterrestrial Minerals in El Ali Meteorite
Researchers Find Two Extraterrestrial Minerals in El Ali Meteorite
The El Ali meteorite, a 15.2-ton iron meteorite found in 2020 near the tiny town of El Ali in Somalia, contains at least two new minerals: elaliite and elkinstantonite.
This sample of the El Ali meteorite contains two new minerals: elaliite and elkinstantonite.
Image credit: Nick Gessler / Duke University.
“Whenever you find a new mineral, it means that the actual geological conditions, the chemistry of the rock, was different than what’s been found before,” said University of Alberta’s Professor Chris Herd.
“That’s what makes this exciting: in this particular meteorite you have two officially described minerals that are new to science.”
The two minerals, elaliite and elkinstantonite, came from a 70-g slice that was sent to the University of Alberta for classification, and there already appears to be a potential third mineral under consideration.
“If researchers were to obtain more samples from the massive meteorite, there’s a chance that even more might be found,” Professor Herd said.
Professor Herd and his colleagues from the University of Alberta, the University of California, Los Angeles and Caltech classified the El Ali as an ‘Iron, IAB complex’ meteorite, one of over 350 in that particular category.
“The very first day University of Alberta’s Dr. Andrew Locock did some analyses, he said, ‘You’ve got at least two new minerals in there.’ That was phenomenal. Most of the time it takes a lot more work than that to say there’s a new mineral,” Professor Herd said.
“The rapid identification was possible because the two minerals had been synthetically created before, so he was able to match the composition of the newly discovered natural minerals with their human-made counterparts.”
The scientists are continuing to examine the new minerals to determine what they can tell us about the conditions in the meteorite when it formed.
“That’s my expertise — how you tease out the geologic processes and the geologic history of the asteroid this rock was once part of,” Professor Herd said.
“I never thought I’d be involved in describing brand new minerals just by virtue of working on a meteorite.”
“Any new mineral discoveries could possibly yield exciting new uses down the line,” he said.
“Whenever there’s a new material that’s known, material scientists are interested too because of the potential uses in a wide range of things in society.”
“While the future of the El Ali meteorite remains uncertain, we’ve received news that it appears to have been moved to China in search of a potential buyer.”
“It remains to be seen whether additional samples will be available for scientific purposes.”
This day in History, Pilot encounters giant pyramid-shaped UFO over Pelotas, Brazil, Oct 5, 1996, UFO Sighting News.
This day in History, Pilot encounters giant pyramid-shaped UFO over Pelotas, Brazil, Oct 5, 1996, UFO Sighting News.
Perhaps the most impressive UFO story told during the recent Brazilian World UFO Forum was that of Haraldo Westendorf, who made news headlines a year ago when he allegedly flew his private plane within a few dozen meters of an enormous unidentified flying object.
Westendorf is 40 years old, a father of three children and a successful businessman. He is also an avid private pilot rated for acrobatic flying.
The following account is based directly on his one-hour presentation at the Brazilian UFO conference, which included several detailed illustrations. Westendorf says he took off in his single-engine Piper Apache [correction: the plane was actually an Embraer EMB-712, the Brazilian version of the Piper Cherokee Archer II] from the city of Pelotas near the southernmost tip of Brazil on the morning of November 5, 1996. It was to be a routine recreational flight of the kind he takes for fun whenever time allows. On this occasion, he had been in the air only about 12 minutes and was flying at an altitude of 5,000 feet over a large lake some five miles southeast of Pelotas when he saw ahead of him an enormous aerial object. The time was about 10:30 a.m. He radioed the Pelotas tower to learn if they could see the object from the ground.
They confirmed that the object was visible to them and asked him for a close-range report. Westendorf then decided to fly as close as he could. Westendorf emphasizes that he did not believe in UFOs and says this accounts for his initial willingness to fly close to the object. He didn't know he might be in danger. When he got close to the object, he realized that in his twenty years of piloting experience he had never seen or heard of anything like it. Since he had done stunt training in the United States and had also flown in France, he had become acquainted with some very advanced and exotic aircraft.
But he knew that this was not an airplane. Westendorf showed several detailed color drawings of the object, with his own plane drawn to scale alongside it. He describes the object as a faceted cone, flat on the bottom with a rounded point on top. On each of the eight or ten sloping side panels were three large bulges, like triangle-shaped bay windows on the side of a house -- but they did not look like windows. The entire surface was brown in color. The structure was about 70 meters (225 feet) high and about 100 meters (325 feet) in diameter, big enough to fill nearly an entire soccer field if landed. His own plane, less than 6 meters wide, was tiny by comparison. Westendorf says he spent about 12 to 14 minutes in close proximity to the object, trying to see as much as he could. Although the Pelotas air tower does not have radar, he believes the airport radar at Curitiba (nearly 450 nautical miles northeast of his position) tracked the whole encounter. However, officials at Curitiba deny this (see below). The object was spinning around slowly and moving southeast toward the nearby seacoast at a speed of about 60 nautical miles per hour. Westendorf managed to fly entirely around the base of the object three times. At one point, he says, his wingtip came within about 40 meters of the object. After his third lap around the object, Westendorf noticed that the rounded top seemed to disappear, leaving what looked like an open hole at the top. Then he saw, emerging from inside the object, a classic flying saucer. It rose sideways, its long axis vertical until it cleared the top of the larger object, then tipped down to assume its normal orientation and departed at tremendous speed. Westendorf said that this saucer was about 10 meters in diameter, or nearly twice as wide as his own plane, and he thinks it flew away at more than Mach 10. The saucer showed no indication of noticing Westendorf's presence nearby. As soon as the saucer disappeared, Westendorf decided to try to fly over the top of the object. Brazilian media later reported that he wanted to fly his plane into the interior of the object, but he says he never even considered that. He only hoped for a peek through the opening. To get more altitude, he flew his plane several hundred meters away from the object, turned around and began a steep climb. He noticed that the object was now rotating much faster. Then he saw brilliant beams of red light shoot from the top of the object toward the sky. He quickly abandoned his plan to fly over the top. Then, to his amazement, the object rose straight up at tremendous speed. For the first time, Westendorf was scared, because he believed the object's rapid acceleration might produce a shock wave of turbulence that could overwhelm his own plane.
As a trained pilot, he knew that air traffic controllers recommend staying at least three minutes behind a large aircraft to avoid such turbulence. He estimated that the unidentified object probably weighed at least three times as much as a 747 jumbo jet, so its shock wave should be huge -- and he was only a few hundred meters away. He quickly began emergency procedures in case his plane went into a spin or a stall. But to his surprise, he did not encounter any turbulence.
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