Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
05-01-2024
‘Giant’ Predatory Worms Lived in Greenland Waters 518 Million Years Ago
‘Giant’ Predatory Worms Lived in Greenland Waters 518 Million Years Ago
Adorned with fins down the sides of its body, a distinct head with long antennae, massive jaw structures inside its mouth and growing to more than 30 cm (11.8 inches) in length, Timorebestia koprii was one of the largest animals in the Early Cambrian oceans.
Reconstruction of Timorebestia koprii in the pelagic ecosystem preserved in Sirius Passet; other species shown in the foreground are Kiisortoqia, Siricaris, Kerygmachela, Pauloterminus, Kleptothule, and Isoxys; further in the background are two radiodonts: Tamisiocaris and an amplectobeluid.
Image credit: Robert Nicholls / BobNichollsArt.
Timorebestia koprii lived in the Early Cambrian oceans, more than 518 million years ago.
“We have previously known that primitive arthropods were the dominant predators during the Cambrian, such as the bizarre-looking anomalocaridids,” said Dr. Jakob Vinther, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol.
“However, Timorebestia koprii is a distant, but close, relative of living arrow worms, or chaetognaths. These are much smaller ocean predators today that feed on tiny zooplankton.”
“Our research shows that these ancient ocean ecosystems were fairly complex with a food chain that allowed for several tiers of predators.”
“Timorebestia were giants of their day and would have been close to the top of the food chain. That makes it equivalent in importance to some of the top carnivores in modern oceans, such as sharks and seals back in the Cambrian period.”
Inside the fossilised digestive system of Timorebestia koprii, Dr. Vinther and colleagues found remains of a common, swimming arthropod called Isoxys.
“We can see these arthropods was a food source many other animals,” siad Dr. Morten Lunde Nielsen, a paleontologist at Korea Polar Research Institute, the University of Bristol and British Geological Survey.
“They are very common at Sirius Passet and had long protective spines, pointing both forwards and backwards.”
“However, they clearly didn’t completely succeed in avoiding that fate, because Timorebestia munched on them in great quantities.”
Holotype of Timorebestia koprii.
Image credit: Park et al., doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adi6678.
“Arrow worms are one of the oldest animal fossils from the Cambrian. While arthropods appear in the fossil record about 521 to 529 million years ago, arrow worms can be traced back at least 538 million years back in time,” Dr. Vinther said.
“Both arrow worms, and the more primitive Timorebestia, were swimming predators. We can therefore surmise that in all likelihood they were the predators that dominated the oceans before arthropods took off.”
“Perhaps they had a dynasty of about 10-15 million years before they got superseded by other, and more successful, groups.”
“Timorebestia is a really significant find for understanding where these jawed predators came from,” said Oxford University’s Dr. Luke Parry.
“Today, arrow worms have menacing bristles on the outside of their heads for catching prey, whereas Timorebestia has jaws inside its head.”
“This is what we see in microscopic jaw worms today — organisms that arrow worms shared an ancestor with over half a billion years ago.”
“Timorebestia and other fossils like it provide links between closely related organisms that today look very different.”
“Our discovery firms up how arrow worms evolved,” said Dr. Tae Yoon Park, a palentologist at the Korean Polar Research Institute.
“Living arrow worms have a distinct nervous centre on their belly, called a ventral ganglion. It is entirely unique to these animals.”
“We have found this preserved in Timorebestia and another fossil called Amiskwia.”
“People have debated whether or not Amiskwia was closely related to arrow worms, as part of their evolutionary stem lineage.”
“The preservation of these unique ventral ganglia gives us a great deal more confidence in this hypothesis.”
The team’s work was published in the journal Science Advances.
Tae-Yoon S. Park et al. 2024. A giant stem-group chaetognath. Science Advances 10 (1); doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adi6678
De marsrover Curiosity heeft stilstaand een opname van 12 uur gemaakt, waarbij je zowel de zonsopgang als zonsondergang kan zien. De beelden bieden een uniek inkijkje op hoe een dag op Mars eruitziet.
Normaal scheurt de rover Curiosity rond op Mars in de naam van de wetenschap. Echter komt het af en toe voor dat de zon tussen de aarde en de rode planeet gaat staan, waardoor signalen verstoord kunnen raken door geïoniseerde gassen van onze moederster. Dit evenement heet ook wel de zonneconjunctie en is de grootste reden dat wetenschappers één keer in de twee jaar een ‘pauze’ van twee weken inlassen om er zeker van te zijn dat apparatuur op Mars geen wilde dingen gaat doen. Voor het racemonster Curiosity betekent dit dus vooral parkeren en wachten totdat het evenement voorbij is. Tijdens deze geforceerde pitstop heeft de rover echter nog wel werk verricht. Zo heeft Curiosity op acht november een opname gemaakt van zonsopgang tot zonsondergang.
Beelden van de voorkant van de rover.
Credit: NASA
Hazcams De wetenschappers hadden gehoopt om een uniek weerfenomeen vast te leggen, maar helaas is dat niet gelukt. Wat we wel goed kunnen zien, is hoe een normale dag er op Mars uitziet. Zo zien we de schaduw van de rover over het oppervlak kruipen en zien we de zon in de lucht haar weg vervolgen. Helaas zijn de beelden in zwart-wit. Dit is omdat de zogenoemde ‘Hazcams’ zijn gebruikt voor de opname. Deze hazcams maken ‘slechts’ zwartwitfoto’s en hebben de belangrijke functie om ervoor te zorgen dat de rover niet over gevaarlijk terrein gaat rijden. Zo heeft Curiosity eerder rechtsomkeert moeten maken vanwege een enorme verzameling aan windkeien. Het grootste probleem hierbij is vooral de slijtage die passage door een met windkeien – of met andere gevaren – bezaaid gebied aan de wielen oplevert.
De achterste Hazcam van Curiosity legde de schaduw van de achterkant van de rover vast in deze 12 uur durende opname, kijkend naar de bodem van de Gale-krater. Een verscheidenheid aan factoren veroorzaakte verschillende beeldartefacten, waaronder een zwart stipje, het vervormde uiterlijk van de zon en de rijen witte pixels die uit de zon komen.
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Stoffig scherm De bovenstaande beelden zijn afkomstig van de voorkant van de rover. De onderstaande beelden zijn afkomstig van de achterkant van de rover. Het zijn vooral deze beelden waar de wetenschappers van NASA een aantal kanttekeningen bijzetten. Zo is het ten eerste goed om te onthouden dat de beelden enigszins ‘stoffig’ over kunnen komen. De grootste reden hiervoor is dat er (helaas) nog niemand langs is geweest om de lenzen op te poetsen, en er dus elf jaar aan stof op de buitenkant van de rover zit. Ten tweede valt het op dat tijdens de zonsondergang er een soort van ‘witte sneeuw’ in de lucht lijkt te hangen. Dit heeft te maken met de camera’s die zichzelf proberen af te stellen op het licht en hierbij een gek effect lijken te veroorzaken, een effect dat ook wel te boek staat als ‘hot pixels’. Als laatste wijzen de wetenschappers op een willekeurig zwart vlekje dat vlak voor de zonsondergang op het beeld verschijnt. Dit vlekje is het gevolg van een kosmische straal die toevallig op dat moment de hazcams terroriseerde.
Alien Encounter Triggers Shocking Halving of Witness’s Bodyweight
Alien Encounter Triggers Shocking Halving of Witness’s Bodyweight
In the tranquil expanse of Salinas, California, Rob Foynton’s life took an extraordinary turn one fateful 4th of July night in 2009. As the rest of the country celebrated independence, Rob faced an unimaginable ordeal that would challenge the very fabric of reality. This is a tale not just of alien abduction but of a profound transformation that left a man half the person he used to be, quite literally.
Rob, like many others, never suspected the skies held such secrets until he witnessed a massive glowing disc hovering ominously above his backyard. What started as a casual cigarette break spiraled into a nightmarish experience of abduction and experimentation. Rob recounted being rendered helpless, succumbing to an unknown force, and blacking out, only to awaken with no memory of the intervening hours.
The phenomenon known as ‘missing time’ is common in abduction narratives, yet each story bears its unique horror. For Rob, it was the vivid recollection of seeing his brain exposed while strapped helplessly to a chair aboard an alien craft. Surrounding him were beings of humanoid form, performing inexplicable and invasive procedures.
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The aftermath of this encounter was as bizarre as it was devastating. Rob’s health spiraled inexplicably. He faced constant sickness, unexplained injuries, and a dramatic weight loss, shedding nearly half his bodyweight within months. The medical community stood baffled. Despite extensive tests, no conventional explanation could be found for his condition.
In his desperate search for answers, Rob turned to hypnotherapy, a common recourse among those claiming alien encounters. He believed these unearthly beings had inflicted damage beyond the scope of human medicine. The physical and emotional toll was immense, leading to isolation and disbelief from those around him.
This story isn’t just about Rob or the eerie parallels with historic cases like Barney and Betty Hill’s in 1961. It’s about the broader, enduring fascination with the unknown. It reflects a collective quest for understanding in a universe that continually reminds us of our limitations.
The skies above us hold wonders and terrors beyond our comprehension. Rob’s harrowing experience serves as a stark reminder that sometimes, truth can be stranger than fiction, and sometimes, it can be downright otherworldly.
The James Webb Space Telescope filled us with awe this year. Here's a look back on how.
An artist's impression of the James Webb Space Telescope.
(Image credit: Northrop Grumman)
On Christmas morning two years ago, astronomers and space fans received the gift they'd been waiting on for 30 years: the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope(JWST), the world's biggest, most daring endeavor to probe the earliest stars and galaxies in the universe.
This year, the space observatory has continued to deliver breathtaking and scientifically valuable images of the cosmos. Here's a look back at the JWST discoveries that altered our understanding of the universe in 2023.
1. THE JWST TAKES A FRESH LOOK AT OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
(Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ricardo Hueso (UPV), Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Thierry Fouchet (Observatory of Paris), Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Joseph DePasquale (STScI))
Although the JWST's purpose is to see some of the first stars and galaxies in the universe, its fresh look at our own solar system has been nothing short of breathtaking.
Take this image, which, in October, revealed a high-speed jet stream on Jupiter, previously unseen despite being over 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) wide and traveling at about 320 mph (515 km/h).
2. NEARBY EXOPLANET HAS ABUNDANT LIFE-SUPPORTING MOLECULE
An artist's concept of K2-18 b. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser)
In September, the JWST discovered methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a fairly nearby exoplanet named K2-18 b, which circles a cool star 120 light-years from Earth and is larger than our planet but smaller than the giant planets in our solar system.
Previous observations with the Hubble Space Telescope had indicated that K2-18 b may be s a "Hycean world," an exoplanet that hosts thick, hydrogen-rich atmospheres with oceans of liquid water underneath. Recent observations with the JWST support that hypothesis, as the new data shows evidence for abundant methane and carbon dioxide but little ammonia.
"These results are the product of just two observations of K2-18 b, with many more on the way," study co-author Savvas Constantinou, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge, said in a statement. "This means our work here is but an early demonstration of what Webb can observe in habitable-zone exoplanets."
An artist's impression of an irregularly shaped asteroid in deep space. (Image credit: N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), ESO/M. Kornmesser and S. Brunier, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org))
In February, scientists were thrilled with the JWST's unexpected discovery of a small asteroid embedded in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Like most residents of that region, the space rock, which is about as tall as the Washington Monument, is thought to be a remnant of the formation of the solar system and thus contains tantalizing history about its evolution.
Asteroids less than a mile long are difficult to spot with other telescopes, so the find underscored the telescope's usefulness closer to home.
4. THE JWST FINDS MASSIVE, MYSTERIOUS GALAXIES IN THE INFANT UNIVERSE
These six galaxies may force astronomers to rewrite cosmology books. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, I. LABBE)
In February, scientists announced the discovery of galaxies as massive as the Milky Way sprinkled across the JWST's images of the universe just 500 million to 700 million years after the Big Bang. From what existing theories and models tell us, the galaxies the JWST found are too big, and the mature red stars in them too old, that the study authors said the find "creates problems for science."
"It calls the whole picture of early galaxy formation into question," study co-author Joel Leja, an astronomer at Penn State, said in a statement.
5. AN INTENSIFYING DEBATE OVER THE UNIVERSE'S EXPANSION RATE
Combined observations from NASA’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and Hubble’s WFC3 (Wide Field Camera 3) show spiral galaxy NGC 5584, which resides 72 million light-years away from Earth. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and A. Riess (STScI))
We know that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, but we don't know precisely how fast. The issue has become a debate centered on resolving the correct value of the Hubble constant, an important number for estimating the universe's expansion rate. Right now, model estimates for the Hubble constant don't agree with values based on telescope observations.
This year, the JWST observed a class of stars known as Cepheid variables, which are usually humongous stars some 100,000 times brighter than the sun and the most reliable source to measure cosmic distances (and thus to tease out the universe's expansion rate). But instead of resolving the debate, the JWST's data only deepened the ongoing debate over the Hubble constant.
"I don't care what the value of the Hubble constant comes out to be," said Adam Riess, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and a Nobel laureate. "I want to understand why our best tools — our gold standard tools — are not agreeing with each other."
6. SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON THE FIRST SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES
The quasar HSC J2236+0032 as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: Ding, Onoue, Silverman, et al.)
This year, the JWST helped astronomers see starlight from two early galaxies where they think one of the first supermassive black holes emerged. The JWST observed the galaxies as they were when the universe was younger than 1 billion years, showing how, over time, black holes gain unfathomable masses — often millions or billions of times that of the sun.
7. COMPLEX ORGANIC MOLECULES IN A PRIMORDIAL GALAXY
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered evidence of complex organic molecules similar to smoke or smog in the distant galaxy shown here. In this false-color image, the foreground galaxy is shown in blue, while the background galaxy is red. The organic molecules are highlighted in orange. (Image credit: J. Spilker / S. Doyle, NASA, ESA, CSA)
In June, astronomers revealed that the JWST had detected intriguing carbon-based molecules, similar to the ones found in oil and coal deposits on Earth, from over 12 billion years ago, when the universe was just 10% of its current age. In space, these molecules link to minuscule dust grains. Detecting them had been challenging because of the limits of our telescopes. However, "Webb really makes looking for organic molecules look too easy," Justin Spilker, an astronomer at Texas A&M University, told Space.com.
8. YUP, MAISIE'S GALAXY IS AMONG THE EARLIEST EVER SPOTTED
Maisie's galaxy, as captured by the JWST earlier this year. (Image credit: NASA/STScI/CEERS/TACC/ University of Texas at Austin/S. Finkelstein/M. Bagley)
This blurry orange blob, imaged by the JWST in summer 2022, is known as Maisie's galaxy, and in August 2023, astronomers announced that it's one of the earliest galaxies ever discovered. The galaxy seems to have existed when the universe was only 390 million years old, making it one of the four earliest galaxies ever seen.
"This was the undiscovered frontier where we really didn't know how the galaxies formed or what they looked like until we went and looked for them with the JWST," study author Steven Finkelstein, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, told Space.com.
9. THE MOST DISTANT SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE EVER SEEN
A panoramic vista of over 100,00 galaxies known as the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. (Image credit: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin), Micaela Bagley (UT Austin), Rebecca Larson (UT Austin).Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI))
In July, astronomers announced that the JWST had detected the most distant active supermassive black hole ever seen, whose host galaxy formed just 570 million years after the Big Bang. However, this ancient black hole has puzzlingly low mass — just 9 million times that of the sun. For comparison, most of these cosmic beasts weigh over 1 billion solar masses. "It is still difficult to explain how it formed so soon after the universe began," the researchers said.
10. THE JWST REDISCOVERS AN ANCIENT GHOSTLY GALAXY
The galaxy AzTECC71 as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: J. McKinney/M. Franco/C. Casey/The University of Texas at Austin)
The JWST's sighting of a fuzzy galaxy embedded deep inside a dust cloud has been of recent interest to astronomers, in part because it is seen as it appeared just 900 million years after the Big Bang, when the very first stars were appearing. But astronomers are also interested in the science lessons this galaxy is waiting to reveal, "potentially telling us there's a whole population of galaxies that have been hiding from us," Jed McKinney, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a statement.
"When we look at the James Webb data, there are two competing possibilities for these objects," Katherine Freese, a professor of physics at The University of Texas at Austin, said in a statement. "One is that they are galaxies containing millions of ordinary, population-III stars. The other is that they are dark stars. And believe it or not, one dark star has enough light to compete with an entire galaxy of stars."
Astronomers think these types of stars are powered by dark matter, the elusive substance that makes up 85% of the matter in our universe but is invisible to telescopes. If dark stars really do exist, their presence would help solve the puzzling observations of how a very young universe grew to host so many large galaxies as observed by the JWST, researchers say.
12. THE EARLIEST GALAXIES LOOKED SURPRISINGLY SIMILAR TO OUR MILKY WAY
Images from JWST of the newly discovered Milky Way-like galaxies seen in the early universe. Each row shows a different galaxy as observed in the different infrared wavelengths where JWST takes imaging data. (Image credit: L. Ferreira, C. Conselice)
"Based on our results astronomers must rethink our understanding of the formation of the first galaxies and how galaxy evolution occurred over the past 10 billion years," study co-author Christopher Conselice, a professor of astronomy at the University of Manchester in the U.K., said in a statement.
Helicity Space, a startup founded in 2018, is developing a fusion drive poised to transform space travel. With a fresh round of investment, the company is developing a proof-of-concept for a fusion-powered propulsion system that can get from Earth to Mars in two months.
In a recent press release, the space-based startup recently secured $5 million in seed funding from Airbus Ventures, TRE Ventures, Voyager Space Holdings, E2MC Space, Urania Ventures, and Gaingels.
Unlike traditional rockets that rely on chemical reactions, Helicity’s fusion drive operates on a magneto-inertial fusion method. This involves fusing two hydrogen isotopes into helium, releasing immense energy – ten million times more per unit mass than chemical fuels.
According to Helicity, the core technology behind their fusion drive efficiently converts electricity into plasma heating, using a unique approach to scale fusion conditions and directly produce thrust. Their method, distinct from conventional magnetic or inertial (laser) fusion, employs self-organized Taylor relaxation and magnetic reconnection physics, combined with a peristaltic magnetic compression scheme.
In very simple terms, the engine uses hot ionized plasma gas heated by magnetic fields that are constantly forced together to the point where they must then break apart. It is this seesaw of magnetic forces that generates vast amounts of energy, heating the plasma to the point where fusion occurs, forcing the nuclei so close that they overcome their electrostatic repulsion and fuse together. To simplify this even more, the energy created by that fusion is aimed out of the tailpipe of the Helicity Drive, and you generate a helluva lot of thrust.
So much so that it cuts the current seven or eight-month trip to Mars down to two, or the six-year trip to Jupiter down to just one.
One of the key advantages of Helicity’s fusion drive is its fuel and propellant efficiency. It enables faster travel over interplanetary distances, with less exposure to space radiation and the agility to alter trajectories or abort missions if necessary. The Helicity Drive creates short bursts of fusion conditions in a design optimized for propulsive plasma exhaust, thus providing acceleration with each pulse. You proverbially slam on the gas pedal, accelerate, and then take your foot off the gas letting momentum do the work. This propulsion method can be deployed before achieving continuous power generation, significantly advancing the feasibility of fusion propulsion in space.
Helicity’s efforts are part of a larger movement to leverage fusion technology in space exploration. Fusion power, unlike fission, merges atoms together, releasing vast energy amounts with safer byproducts. This contrasts starkly with fission’s splitting of atoms, which leads to radiation issues and the complex disposal of irradiated waste. Helicity’s fusion engines use multiple magnetically-controlled, super-heated plasma jets to propel spacecraft, marking a substantial shift from conventional rocket technology, which requires large amounts of super-cold or highly explosive fuel.
“Fusion propulsion can contribute to Earth’s environmental goals indirectly by enabling offworld mining and industry, reducing terrestrial resource consumption and ecological impact,” explained Helicity co-founder Dr. Setthivoine You in an interview. “Ultimately, we see our technology playing a significant role in both space exploration and Earth’s sustainable future.”
The company’s vision extends to catalyzing humanity’s spacefaring ambitions, boosting both human and robotic exploration, and possibly leading to ventures like asteroid mining. The technology’s scalability and practical use in space, even before establishing self-sustaining reactors, demonstrate its potential for early testing and gradual scaling up.
Helicity Space collaborates with top scientific institutes globally, including the California Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo. Supported by entities like the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovation Network for Fusion Energy, these partnerships underscore the scientific community’s interest in and support for Helicity’s groundbreaking work.
“We’re currently focused on proving the technology for space propulsion. Once we achieve this, we anticipate drawing more substantial interest and investment, including from energy companies, for broader applications,” said Dr. You.
While building a working fusion drive will require more than their current $5 million dollar investment, the fact that there was funding clearly shows there is a hard push for novel space technology. While still in development, the potential applications of this technology in enhancing human and robotic space exploration are immense.
MJ Banias is a journalist who covers security and technology. He is the host of The Debrief Weekly Report. You can email MJ at mj@thedebrief.org or follow him on Twitter @mjbanias.
On February 25, 1942, around 2:30 in the morning, the people of Los Angeles were abruptly awakened by air raid sirens. The city was instructed to blackout and prepare for a possible attack. Searchlights illuminated the sky, searching for enemy aircraft. Eventually, the lights converged on a single object, causing frightened citizens to step outside to observe. The sky was filled with hundreds of explosions and smoke as the Battle of Los Angeles began.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the entire west coast of the United States was on high alert. Blackouts and curfews were common, and rumors circulated about Japanese battle groups invading the coast and enemy spies infiltrating the population. The Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, warned that American cities should be prepared for enemy attacks.
On February 23, 1942, a Japanese submarine off the coast of Santa Barbara fired 25 explosive shells at an oil field, causing minor physical damage but sending a clear message that America’s coast was vulnerable to attack at any time.
In the early morning of February 25, a radar station picked up a strange object in the sky over the Pacific about 200 miles from Los Angeles. By 2 am, two other radar stations confirmed the object, now only 120 miles off the coast, and headed directly for the city. At 3 am, the object was reported to be 25 planes flying at 12,000 feet, just off the coast of Santa Monica.
Suddenly, the object vanished from the radar. The city was ordered to blackout, and anti-aircraft batteries were loaded and ready to shoot on sight. Visual sightings continued, with some reporting one large ship and others multiple aircraft in formation. Anti-aircraft explosions lit up the sky as shrapnel rained down on the city for the next hour. The object eventually disappeared over Long Beach, and the situation was already under control by 4:14 am.
The incident was front-page news along the West Coast and across the nation. Over 1400 high-explosive shells and countless 50-caliber rounds were fired, but there was no evidence of any downed aircraft or bombs. Shell fragments damaged several buildings and vehicles, and five civilians died as an indirect result of the anti-aircraft fire: three were killed in car accidents in the ensuing chaos, and two heart attacks attributed to the stress of the hour-long action.
The Battle of Los Angeles has been the source of numerous UFO sightings, with some of these reports coming from credible military sources. Project Blue Book investigated over 12,000 UFO sightings between 1952 and 1969 and was able to explain most of these sightings, but the object over Los Angeles in 1942 remains unsolved and unexplained. Despite numerous investigations and explanations, some still question what was fired upon that night.
Out of the 12,000 cases, there are still 701 unsolved, unexplained objects documented in Project Blue Book. Of the 700 cases, the object over LA in 1942 remains unexplained.
The most logical explanation for the LA object was a Japanese air attack, although 250 anti-aircraft guns filled the sky with explosions and shrapnel, there were no confirmed hits or downed targets. After the war, the Japanese military claimed they had no aircraft in the area at that time.
A local police officer claimed he saw two planes shot down, but there was no evidence of that on the ground. Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt, said it was just a false alarm and an overreaction due to jitters, but the army disagreed. They said the alert was absolutely real, and the army report said that as many as 15 planes might have been involved flying at various speeds and altitudes.
Despite the numerous military reports of something in the sky, skeptics say it was just jitters, but what about the eyewitness accounts and the three separate radar hits? The supporters of the UFO theory say the radar hits are absolute proof of a UFO, but it is important to note that radar technology in 1942 was not perfect.
Upon asking his opinion on the UFO sightings, Major Donald Keyhoe said, “With all due respect to the air force, I believe that some of them will prove to be of interplanetary origin. During a three-year investigation, I found that many polishes have described objects of substance and high speed. In one case, the polish reported their plane was buffeted by an object which passed them at 500 miles an hour. Obviously this was a solid object that I believe was from outer space.”
Original Photograph
However, the famous photograph of the object over LA has been discovered to be doctored and possibly retouched. One can see the searchlights converging on something in the sky that is shaped like a saucer or football. However, the photo was enhanced and possibly retouched.
Image credit: David Marler
Image credit: David Marler
This was a common practice in the past to make photos more visible in newsprint, but the original photo was very different. It was underexposed and barely showed anything except for the faint lights. It was previously thought the original negative had been lost, and the one in the LA Times photo archives is not the original. The LA Times could not track down the original after working with investigators.
Interestingly, UFO researcher David Marler presented an original photo of the object over LA at the 2017 Ozark Mountain UFO Conference. He has actively investigated and researched the subject for 32 years. He joined The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1990 as a Field Investigator Trainee. (Source)
The story of how Marler got the original photo is really interesting. He claimed he bought it on eBay back in September 2012. The famous photograph was possibly not taken by an LA Times photographer, and the source of the original negative is in doubt. If it didn’t come from the LA Times, where did it come from?
Marler claimed that he traced it back to the Associated Press. So, all the photographs of 1942 objects over Los Angeles on the internet are doctored image published by the LA times. The authenticity of his photo can be confirmed after Ben Hansen, a former FBI agent, showed him a clip he shot with Simon Eliot, Archivist of the LA Times Collection at UCLA, where Eliot showed Hansen the original negative that an LA Times photographer did not take.
Below is the explanation given by David Marler:
“This is the original negative, and I’m viewing it as a positive because it just plays havoc with your eyes when you’re looking at things in reverse. So I wanted you to be able to see what the actual original image before it was doctored looks like. Here you can see all the writing on the side of the negative and again that typical notch pattern that’s not typical for the LA Times. If we blow this up, here’s what we’re looking at. This right here, and you can see these little blobs of light. These are all anti-aircraft explosions captured at the moment the photographer clicked the shutter…
I know what the original photos look like and the characteristics they need to have. One interesting thing is that not only is it a photo, but on the back, it has a stamped property of Associated Press dated February 25, 1942. I have other examples to show you from the collection that have the original news teletype glued to the back with one of the original descriptions of the event.
Here’s a blow-up and it’s very blurry, but there is a note to the editor dated February 25, 1942. This means that it was published that morning in preparation to be disseminated across the newswire as an Associated Press photo. It says ‘caution, use credit if you use this photo.’ I have many other similar photos, so I know the characteristics to look for.
The original news teletype says ‘Associated Press Photo, not LA Times.’ It says ‘caution, use credit from Los Angeles, how any aircraft barrage looked to Los Angeles.’ This picture shows how the early morning anti-aircraft guns shooting shells into the sky appeared to the average Los Angeles resident who got up to watch it. The small round white dots were made by the exploding shells.
Many people thought that a slow-moving object was the target of the guns, but hours later, the army still had not identified it. And again, Associated Press Photo, February 25, 1942. This is a nice piece of history to have in regards to the case.
Now we’re talking about a case that is 75 years old this year, and I think it’s interesting because as UFO researchers, we can never close a case unless we can rule out the possibility of a prosaic explanation. If you have an open case and you know it’s not a satellite or aircraft, it’s truly an anomalous case, and you can never close it.”
Some people claim that the object was shot down by the ordinance in the air that night, but others believe it was just a weather balloon that anti-aircraft gunners launched. There are reports of planes, bombers, and a crashed aircraft in the middle of the city, but the government claimed that it was likely shrapnel and burnt embers from exploding shells.
Dr. Robert Wood, an aerospace engineer who worked for Sikorsky, Hughes, McDonald Douglas, and Lockheed, believed there was a cover-up and exposed secret government projects. After retiring, Dr. Wood researched and exposed the Majestic 12 and other secret government projects. He received five leaked documents about the Battle of Los Angeles; at least one has been authenticated.
One of the documents is a memo between FDR and George Marshall, the army’s chief of staff. It is dated one week after the incident. It reads, “This headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are not of earthly origin and according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.”
However, the government denied the memo, and Dr. Wood only received photocopies, not originals, so there is no way to test the paper to authenticate them as genuine. Nevertheless, this case, 80 years later, remains unsolved, and if there was a flying object in the skies above Los Angeles in February 1942, it remains unidentified.
Deep beneath arctic permafrost on a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, scientists have detected the migration of natural gases that they say could potentially impact the environment if they escape into the atmosphere.
Under Svalbard’s frozen surface, there are an estimated several million cubic meters of trapped methane. Based on new findings, scientists say that this colorless but highly flammable gas also appears to be able to migrate beneath the High Arctic permafrost.
Now, a new study published in Frontiers in Earth Science proposes that the methane located beneath Svalbard’s highland regions poses a significant risk of escaping due to the presence of diminishing ice coverage, which could lead to greenhouse gas emissions that may contribute to rising temperatures.
PERMAFROST IN THE HIGH ARCTIC
In the High Arctic, permafrost is ubiquitous, although the subtle relationship between it and the region’s underlying geology is less well characterized. What scientists do possess a large degree of knowledge about is the accumulations of natural gas the permafrost contains, revealed over the decades by drilling both for scientific research, as well as the extraction of commodities like coal.
Throughout Svalbard, natural gas accumulations are present in distinct layers, which reveal more to scientists than merely their origins; they also provide evidence of the migration of these gases throughout the archipelago.
The Svalbard archipelago in Northern Norway
(Credit: Vince Gx/Unsplash)
According to the new study, led by Thomas Birchall with the Department of Arctic Geology at the University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, the size of the trapped gas beneath Svalbard is presently unknown. However, one case he and his colleagues studied was able to produce several million cubic meters of gas in less than a decade.
Given that past studies have continually shown the steady thawing of arctic permafrost, Birchall and his colleagues warn that the escape of methane currently trapped under permafrost in regions like Svalbard could have a significant impact on rising temperatures and other effects on the climate.
METHANE ESCAPES COULD MEAN RISING TEMPERATURES
More specifically, the escape of large amounts of methane from its permafrost containment in Svalbard could instigate a warming cycle that would potentially spike methane emissions that, in turn, would lead to more permafrost thawing, and potentially the release of more methane.
“Svalbard shares a similar geological and glacial history with much of the Circum-Arctic, suggesting that sub-permafrost gas accumulations are regionally common,” the researchers write in their recent study. Given the location’s similarity to other arctic regions, the team’s findings mean that similar leaks of methane and other natural gases could easily occur in other regions.
“At present the leakage from below permafrost is very low,” Birchall said in a statement, “but factors such as glacial retreat and permafrost thawing may ‘lift the lid’ on this in the future.”
During their research, Birchall and the team found that gas accumulations at 18 hydrocarbon exploration wells they drilled in Svalbard were much higher than expected, with eight of them containing permafrost, and four revealing gas accumulations during drilling.
“All the wells that encountered gas accumulations did so by coincidence,” Birchall said. “[B]y contrast, hydrocarbon exploration wells that specifically target accumulations in more typical settings had a success rate far below 50%.”
Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Credit: James Padolsey/Unsplash).
In one harrowing circumstance, Birchall says drillers close to the Longyearbyen airport, where a bubbling sound was heard emanating from the well the drillers had produced. Birchall and his colleagues decided to examine the location with basic detection equipment capable of discerning when explosive levels of methane are present.
According to Birchall, the team’s alarms “were immediately triggered when we held them over the wellbore.”
Currently, scientists like Birchall and his colleagues hope to broaden their understanding about changes in permafrost, which undergoes periodic thawing and re-freezing phases each year. Over time, this uppermost active layer of permafrost has shown a general expansion in response to a warming climate, which also affects the movement of natural gases it contains.
“With permafrost thawing in the Arctic, there is a risk that the impacts of releasing of methane trapped beneath permafrost will lead to positive climatic feedback effects,” the team writes in their new paper, indicating the potential for an acceleration of warming both in the High Arctic, as well as in other regions around the world.
The team’s recent study, “Permafrost trapped natural gas in Svalbard, Norway,” was published last month in Frontiers in Earth Science.
NASA’s exploration of our skies and space will continue in 2024. Here are some of the high-profile missions that are currently underway, and some events are just a few weeks away, including NASA’s newest stride toward the Moon.
The first flight for its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program is scheduled to launch on January 8. NASA’s Artemis II mission, where humans would return to lunar orbit for the first time since Apollo, could fly as early as November 2024.
There’s plenty to watch from Earth’s surface, too. NASA is debuting a supersonic plane in 2024. There’s also a major astronomical event on April 8: a total solar eclipse.
Far beyond the Earth and the Moon, NASA will send its Europa Clipper spacecraft as early as October 10, which will explore a possible life-sustaining moon around Jupiter.
Here’s a closer look at five major NASA goals for the new year.
Europa intrigues astrobiologists. The Jupiter moon is coated in ice and cracks along the surface as well as jumbled features called chaos regions, hint that it might be geologically active. Jupiter could be stretching and pulling on Europa to the point that it warms it up inside, allowing ice to remain as liquid water below the surface.
An abundance of salt in this hidden ocean would explain why NASA data shows Europa conducting some of Jupiter’s magnetic field. And in the depths, hydrothermal vents may be erupting in a manner like the “black smokers” at the bottom of Earth’s oceans. Dark, salty, deep aquatic regions on Europa might have the recipe for microbial life. But finding out if this is true will be hard. Jupiter has a mighty influence. To evade the danger of Jupiter’s high radiation, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will take data as it flies by the moon, “clipping” it. Europa Clipper could launch as early as October 10, 2024, though it won’t arrive at Jupiter until 2030.
2. NASA INSTRUMENTS WILL FLY TO THE MOON ONBOARD ASTROBOTIC’S PEREGRINE LANDER
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Pittsburgh-based private space company Astrobotic, is on track to become the first commercial company to successfully land a craft on the surface of the Moon. Their stout, six-foot-tall Peregrine lander will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on board United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rocket on January 8, 2024. If Peregrine successfully lands on the Moon on February 23, it would usher in NASA’s partnership with private companies for ongoing delivery services to the Moon instead of building carriers themselves. Once on the lunar regolith, a handful of NASA payloads will begin collecting data about the lunar environment that could give NASA a leg-up on how to approach longer-term Moon exploration with crewed missions.
3. A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE WILL BE SEEN ACROSS NORTH AMERICA
Photo taken on Dec. 14, 2020 shows a total solar eclipse witnessed in Freire, La Araucania Region, Chile.
On April 8, 2024, the Moon’s shadow will block the entire disk of the Sun, hiding all but the star’s outer corona. The event is like a sequel to the 2017 Great American total solar eclipse: The lunar shadow will align with the Sun over a stretch of North America. The total solar eclipse begins in the Pacific Ocean, makes landfall in western Mexico, and then moves northeast across the continent, from Texas through Vermont, then out towards eastern Canada, and ending in the northern Atlantic Ocean. NASA officials will be watching from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.
4. QUESST SONIC PLANE
Artist illustration of NASA’s X-59 Quesst aircraft.
In 2024, NASA will seek to fly its Quesst mission for the first time. The X-59 plane would fly over American land at supersonic speed, hopefully minus the harsh noise. X-59 will fly over several communities, whose members would then report back to the space agency how they perceived the plane’s sound. National and international regulators currently prohibit commercial supersonic flight over land because of the boom noise. Quesst’s success could revolutionize commercial air travel by clearing the sonic obstacle, allowing for supersonic flights, and thus significantly reducing travel time.
5. ARTEMIS II, WITH ITS FOUR-PERSON CREW, COULD ORBIT THE MOON
Left to right, Artemis II astronauts Pilot Victor Glover, Commander Reid Wiseman, and Mission Specialists Christina Hammock Koch and Jeremy Hansen stand in front of the Artemis II Orion Crew Module.
NASA’s Artemis program has repeatedly faced delays, so it’s possible that the follow-up to 2022’s Artemis I mission might not happen by their 2024 target. But the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission have already begun training to ready themselves for that historic launch date when they could become the first humans to fly to the Moon in more than 50 years. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen could fly as soon as November 2024 on a nine-day mission around the Moon and back and come in faster and hotter into Earth’s atmosphere than any crew has ever done before.
Are we on the verge of a catastrophic UFO disclosure? The year 2023 has witnessed significant progress in bringing the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) matter to the attention of the United States Congress. Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch has dominated discussions throughout the year. His testimony before Congress has raised numerous questions about the secrets the U.S. government has allegedly kept since the dawn of UFO sightings. Grusch is convinced that the world has been kept in the dark about this phenomenon for the past 80 to 90 years.
In November 2023, the Daily Mail published a bombshell story discussing the impending UAP Disclosure. Retired US Army Colonel Karl E. Nell was invited to a Stanford University conference to present a “campaign plan” aimed at achieving greater transparency. He also discussed a “Manhattan project,” dedicated to reverse-engineering recovered UFOs/UAPs.
During the conference, Nell showcased slides indicating his hope for disclosure by October 1, 2030. In the slides, he argued his plan, if achieved, would see “Proper Oversight Restored,” “Catastrophic Disclosure Avoid,” and “Scientific Understanding Advanced.” More specifically, Nell advocated for “restoration of proper Federal government oversight over all UAP legacy (and ongoing) program efforts” and “transformative” research and technology programs.
Daily Mail information was based on the first-ever symposium of the new nonprofit Sol Foundation, a group that wants serious research into UFOs and their effects on the world. In 2004, in response to the Defense Intelligence Agency’s decision not to release classified information about UFOs due to the perceived threat to national security, the Sol Foundation was formed.
At this meeting, both Colonel Nell and a former CIA scientist named Hal Puthoff spoke. Puthoff said that in 2004, these important groups chose not to share information about UFO research with the public. Among the Sol Foundation’s other speakers were former U.S. Air Force veteran David Grusch, who testified before Congress earlier this year under oath that “the U.S. government is operating with secrecy—above Congressional oversight” over UAP.
Grusch told the symposium: “Let us advocate for transparency, not for ourselves, but for the generations to come, as we embark on a journey toward a more enlightened and interconnected world.”
At the Sol Foundation UFO symposium, Karl Nell called for a ‘UAP campaign plan’ to compel transparency as well as ‘a Manhattan Project’ to more successfully reverse-engineer recovered UAP craft
Grusch has the support of many individuals in authority who believe he is an authentic person. In the June 2023 edition of the Debrief, authors Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal mention Karl Nell, the retired Army Colonel and aerospace executive who worked with David Grusch and characterized Grusch as “beyond reproach.” Nell speaks highly of Grusch’s integrity and credibility in his role as the Army’s liaison for the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022.
Grusch left the government on April 7, 2023, in order, he said, to advance government accountability through public awareness. He remains well-supported within intelligence circles, and numerous sources have vouched for his credibility.
“His assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence,” Karl Nell said.
Ross Coulthart’s insights into UAP disclosure present a compelling narrative, suggesting that there’s more to this phenomenon than meets the eye. With mounting pressure from various quarters, including politicians and the media, the quest for truth regarding UAPs seems poised to intensify in the coming days.
The urgency for UAP disclosure has persisted for a very long time. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the third CIA director, wrote to Congress in 1960, pleading for UFO disclosure. This confirmed a cover-up and a government disinformation campaign aimed at ridiculing and stigmatizing the topic. (Source)
Perhaps Hillenkoetter’s best-known statement on the subject was in 1960 in a letter to Congress, as reported in The New York Times: “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.”
In his interview with NewsNation, journalist Ross Coulthart shed light on the Office of Global Access (OGA), a key entity where much of the coordination regarding the retrieval of unidentified crafts seems to be happening. He emphasized the seriousness of the matter, stating, “You’ve got to have an office to coordinate the retrieval of these craft.” While some may dismiss these claims as mere science fiction, his recent interactions with credible intelligence sources have solidified his stance that operations related to UAPs are steered from within the CIA and OGA.
However, the scale of this phenomenon might be more extensive than what has been previously reported. Ross refuted claims that the U.S. only possesses nine such crafts. “I’m told that the United States has far more than nine craft,” he remarked, indicating that not all of them are intact. He further elaborated that JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) operators, primarily sourced from t he US Air Force special forces, are actively involved in retrieval missions.
A significant revelation from Ross’ sources is the recovery of what he terms as “biologics” — in simpler terms, Non-human Bodies. He shared, “We have recovered what David Grush euphemistically referred to as biologics. Alien bodies, non-human bodies.” This raises pressing concerns about the extent of knowledge the U.S. government possesses regarding non-human life forms.
Ross expressed fears of a potential “catastrophic disclosure” if the government remains tight-lipped. He believes that withholding such crucial information from the public and Congress might lead to unforeseen consequences. He stated, “I think it’s incumbent on the president and members of the executive to start thinking seriously,” emphasizing the urgency of the matter.
When posed with alternate explanations, like the involvement of foreign adversaries, Coulthart was quick to debunk such theories. He clarified that the evidence and statements from government officials indicate that these phenomena are not associated with known foreign technologies. This assertion raises eyebrows and places the focus squarely on what exactly the U.S. government knows but is not sharing.
Ross pointed out the notable shift in stance by certain senior Republican politicians. He questioned their motivations behind opposing legislation that seeks transparency regarding non-human intelligence technology. Coulthart’s skepticism was evident when he questioned, “If this is all nonsense, why would somebody of the incredible reputation and seniority of Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio, associate themselves with legislation that specifically talks over 20 times about NHI nonhuman intelligence technology?”
Danny Sheehan has been publicly pushing for the disclosure or revelation of information related to UAPs. In other words, he believes that there should be more transparency from governments or other relevant authorities about these unidentified phenomena.
In his other interview with James Landoli on “Engaging The Phenomenon,” Sheehan, who was a former Chief Council for the United States Jesuit order, revealed intriguing details about his conversations with the head of the Vatican archives regarding the Vatican’s knowledge of extraterrestrial life. Sheehan shed light on his involvement in a groundbreaking initiative to address the theological and philosophical implications of the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence.
During the interview, James raised the topic of David Grusch‘s claim that the Vatican possessed knowledge of extraterrestrial phenomena. Sheehan discussed his access to the classified files of the Project Blue Book, where he encountered photos of UFO crash retrievals and concrete evidence of non-human piloted vehicles.
He proposed the formation of a task force involving all 54 major religious denominations to address the issue from a theological perspective. However, at that time, there was insufficient consensus, and the proposal was declined. Sheehan is currently working through his New Paradigm Institute to organize a global summit conference involving world religious leaders to discuss the recent recovery of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
“The United States government is in possession of biological evidence and has actually taken into custody alive an extraterrestrial person. They’re keeping this secret, interrogating the being, and distorting the information to justify massive expenditures on weapon development under the guise of a perceived threat.”
– Daniel Sheehan.
Sheehan highlighted the Vatican’s acknowledgment of the possibility of extraterrestrial life. He referenced a formal statement issued by the Catholic Church on November 10, 2009, authorized by Pope Benedict. The statement, issued by Father Jose Gabriel Alfuz, a director of the Pontifical Observatory in Rome, recognized the increasing discovery of exoplanets and called for a global discussion on the philosophical and theological implications of the imminent discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Sheehan disclosed that the government was telepathically interrogating the extraterrestrial biological entity (EBO) in custody. Despite acknowledging the bizarre nature of the revelation, Sheehan stood by the credibility of the information, having interviewed individuals directly involved in the process. The EBO allegedly conveyed that a coalition of star systems in our galaxy monitors the evolution of life on different planets, including Earth.
“Pope Benedict had a formal statement issued by the Catholic Church, saying that with the discovery of more exoplanets, it has become clear that we will be discovering life elsewhere in the universe. This prompted the need for a global discussion on the philosophical and theological questions posed by the discovery of extraterrestrial life.”
– Daniel Sheehan.
Meanwhile, Lue Elizondo expresses support for efforts to increase transparency around UAPs. He indicates that there are ongoing efforts behind the scenes to achieve this transparency and that even if certain official channels face challenges or opposition, there are alternative methods and backup plans in place for disclosure. Elizondo emphasizes the importance of understanding the vulnerabilities and challenges faced in these efforts, suggesting a comprehensive strategy is in play.
Uri Geller posts pic of UFO in Israel, social media says it's a lamppost
Uri Geller posts pic of UFO in Israel, social media says it's a lamppost
Israeli psychic and mystifier Uri Geller shared a photo of a UFO in Israel he says was sent to him by a senior IDF officer, but social media users dubbed it a streetlight.
Israeli psychic and mystifier Uri Geller shared a photo allegedly taken by a senior IDF officer depicting what seemed to be an unidentified flying object (UFO) hovering over a road in southern Israel.
"This photograph was taken by an Israeli Lieutenant Colonel who is a close friend, he was driving today by a sensitive installation in Southern Israel when he photographed this strange-looking object simply hanging in the sky," Geller wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
The picture in question seems to depict a gray object along the side of an unidentified road in Israel.
In his post, Geller linked the photo to possibilities of aliens, writing "A draft paper by a Harvard scientist and the head of the Pentagon's UFO office has raised the idea an alien mothership could be in the solar system, sending out tiny probes dubbed "dandelion seeds" to explore the planets within.
"Please all of you try to decipher this strange object in the photo and let me know what YOU think it is."
Social media fact checks claim of mysterious UFO in Israel
Users on X were quick to respond to the post, which was also hit with a community note for context.
"It's just a streetlight, with the base digitally erased," the community notes post read.
Other posts indicated that the UFO was almost identical to the nearby lampposts, with some suggesting it was made with a panoramic image.
Geller, however, is aware of the issues with the photo, telling The Jerusalem Post that he "found the photo strange myself, almost like it was two photos put together."
He continued: "I'm asking people to tell me their opinion, to tell me what they think it is."
Geller further elaborated on a follow-up post he made, which highlighted two sections of the photo that seem distorted.
"What's going on here????" Geller wrote on X.
Regarding the photo's authenticity, Geller says he was skeptical, but that the senior IDF officer who took it insisted it was legitimate
"I found it very strange, it was definitely manipulated by something," Geller said, adding that he didn't think anyone in Israel would have time to photoshop anything due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. "I, personally, do not think it's a lamppost. Something happened to this photo, and that's what I find bizarre."
Artist's rendering of DARPA's experimental X-65 CRANE aircraft being build by Aurora Flight Sciences.
(Image credit: DARPA)
DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences have begun building the first full-scale X-65 aircraft to demonstrate a new method of flight control that uses no external moving parts.
The X-65 is an experimental jet being developed by the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program overseen by DARPA, (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the Pentagon's research and development agency. Since the first aircraft were invented, they have been controlled by moving surfaces such as rudders, flaps, elevators and ailerons.
The CRANE program aims to do away with these entirely and develop an aircraft controlled fully by jets of pressurized air that alter how the surrounding air flows over the aircraft while in flight.
However, in order to minimize risk, the first X-65 demonstrator will feature both conventional moving control surfaces and what are known as active flow control (AFC) actuators, the jets of pressurized air.
"The X-65 conventional surfaces are like training wheels to help us understand how AFC can be used in place of traditional flaps and rudders," Richard Wlezien, program manager for CRANE, said in a DARPA statement. "We'll have sensors in place to monitor how the AFC effector's performance compares with traditional control mechanisms, and these data will help us better understand how AFC could revolutionize both military and commercial craft in the future."
The X-65 will feature a 30-foot (9-meter) wingspan and weigh 7,000 pounds (3,200 kg), making it roughly the size of the T-38 trainer aircraft used by NASA astronauts and the U.S. military. It will be able to reach speeds of up to Mach 0.7, which DARPA says will "make the flight-test results immediately relevant to real world aircraft design."
"The X-65 conventional surfaces are like training wheels to help us understand how AFC can be used in place of traditional flaps and rudders," Wlezien said in the statement. "We'll have sensors in place to monitor how the AFC effectors' performance compares with traditional control mechanisms, and these data will help us better understand how AFC could revolutionize both military and commercial craft in the future."
The X-65 will even feature a modular design, meaning its wings and active flow control systems will be able to be swapped out in the future, allowing it to be used for additional testing in the future after the conclusion of the CRANE program.
In the statement, DARPA says the X-65 could be completed and unveiled as soon as early 2025, with the first flight occurring as soon as summer of 2025.
Alien City On The Moon Found, Google Map, Jan 2024, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Alien City On The Moon Found, Google Map, Jan 2024, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Jan 2024
Location of discovery: Earths moon
1. 28° 9'44.30"N 22°40'41.62"W
2. 28°13'25.95"N 21°56'0.01"W
3. 21°34'45.41"N 8°43'37.53"E
4. 28°20'3.25"N 18°56'9.64"W
5. 28°21'32.05"N 17°48'28.40"W
Check out these amazing structures on Google Moon map. The structures are massive, and really stand out. The structures have many right angles and have a glistening look of dull silver metal to them. The structures are mostly covered up with some poor photoshop on behalf of NASA to keep the public in the dark about the truth, but hey, thats why I'm here. To help you see the truth.
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I just did an interview with Jaime Maussan, UFO researcher from Mexico, UFO Sighting News.
I just did an interview with Jaime Maussan, UFO researcher from Mexico, UFO Sighting News.
We had a face to face meeting with the famous Jaime Maussan, who just a few months ago stood in front of the Mexico congress and showed evidence of alien bodies.
We talked about the UFO I found at the Arecibo radio telescope website. I found a gif which is many photos put into a movie form, the very last photo in the gif was very clear and focused. The one that is undeniable proof that UFOs and alien exist. It had a 800 meter disk (Arecibo stats tell size) and it had two smaller rectangle UFOs orbiting around it. It had no rotation data which is strange since all the doppler radar images have rotation data except this one. I believe the UFO is too smooth to allow rotation to be recorded.
Steen van Rosetta De Rosetta-steen, die in 1799 werd opgegraven door een Franse soldaat tijdens de Egyptische expeditie van Napoleon Bonaparte, is een plaat van granietachtige steen met drie versies van een schriftelijke opdracht dat in 196 v.Chr. werd uitgevaardigd door een groep Egyptische geestelijken. De bovenste en middelste teksten zijn in het Oud-Egyptisch en gebruiken respectievelijk hiërogliefen en demotische schriften (een schrift afgeleid van het hiëratisch), terwijl de onderkant in het Oud-Grieks is. Dit ensemble hielp wetenschappers eindelijk de code van hiërogliefen te kraken.
Dode Zeerollen De Dode Zeerollen zijn oude joodse en Hebreeuwse religieuze manuscripten van leer, papyrus en koper. Ze werden tussen 1947 en 1956 ontdekt in 11 grotten in de buurt van Khirbet Qumran, aan de noordwestelijke oever van de Dode Zee. Ze zijn ongeveer 2000 jaar oud.
Terracotta Leger In 1974 graafden een groep boeren een put bij de grafheuvel van de Qin Shi Huang-keizer op de berg Li in de Chinese provincie Shaanxi. Ze deden daarbij een van de meest gevierde archeologische ontdekkingen in de geschiedenis: het 8.000 man sterke terracottaleger dat was opgericht om de keizer in zijn hiernamaals te beschermen. De figuren omvatten krijgers, strijdwagens en paarden, die allemaal 2000 jaar in het graf verbleven.
De tombe van Toetanchamon Een van de belangrijkste archeologische vondsten van de 20e eeuw vond plaats op 4 november 1922. Een team, onder leiding van de Britse egyptoloog Howard Carter (1874-1939), ontdekte het graf van Toetanchamon in de Vallei der Koningen. Het gouden masker van de jonge farao werd later, in 1925, ontdekt. Het is een van de bekendste kunstwerken ter wereld.
Steen van Rosetta De Rosetta-steen, die in 1799 werd opgegraven door een Franse soldaat tijdens de Egyptische expeditie van Napoleon Bonaparte, is een plaat van granietachtige steen met drie versies van een schriftelijke opdracht dat in 196 v.Chr. werd uitgevaardigd door een groep Egyptische geestelijken. De bovenste en middelste teksten zijn in het Oud-Egyptisch en gebruiken respectievelijk hiërogliefen en demotische schriften (een schrift afgeleid van het hiëratisch), terwijl de onderkant in het Oud-Grieks is. Dit ensemble hielp wetenschappers eindelijk de code van hiërogliefen te kraken.
Pompeï Een catastrofale uitbarsting van de Vesuvius in 79 n.Chr. begroef de oude Romeinse stad Pompeii onder vulkanische lava en as . De plek werd voor het eerst opgegraven in 1592, maar pas in de jaren 1920 legden georganiseerde archeologische opgravingen de verbazingwekkend goed bewaarde ruïnes en de daarin begraven schatten bloot.
Grot van Altamira Een grottencomplex dat in 1868 werd ontdekt in de buurt van de historische stad Santillana del Mar in Cantabrië in Spanje. Het onthulde een verbazingwekkende reeks prehistorische rotstekeningen met houtskooltekeningen en polychrome schilderijen van de hedendaagse lokale fauna en menselijke handen, waarvan de vroegste 36.000 jaar oud zijn
Schat van Staffordshire Het is de grootste schat aan Angelsaksisch goud- en zilvermetaal dat ooit is gevonden. Het werd in 2009 ontdekt door een metaaldetectorist in een veld nabij het dorp Hammerwich, in Staffordshire, Engeland. Archeologen geloven dat de meer dan 4.000 voorwerpen, waaronder dit gevouwen kruis, verborgen lagen sinds 700 v.Chr.
Stonehenge Het is zonder twijfel 's werelds beroemdste prehistorische steencirkel en zeker de meest architectonisch geavanceerde. Stonehenge heeft historici en archeologen eeuwenlang in verwarring gebracht. De eerste bekende opgraving in Stonehenge werd in de jaren 1620 uitgevoerd door de hertog van Buckingham. Het eerste echte archeologische onderzoek van het gebied vond echter plaats in de late jaren 1660, toen de antiquair John Aubrey (1626-1697) het mysterieuze monument inspecteerde.
Grafveld van Varna De Varna Necropolis in Bulgarije, ontdekt door archeologen in 1974, wordt internationaal beschouwd als een van de belangrijkste archeologische vindplaatsen in de prehistorie van de wereld. Het werd het rijkste graf van het 5e millennium v.Chr. genoemd, waarbij talloze goudartefacten werden opgegraven, die dateren uit 4560-4450 v.Chr. Het is het oudste bewerkte goud ter wereld.
Tombes van de piramidebouwers in Egypte De piramides van Gizeh behoren tot de grootste archeologische schatten op aarde. Er wordt al lang gespeculeerd dat ze werden gebouwd met behulp van slavenarbeid. Door een ontdekking in 2010 van oude graven, naar verluidt meer dan 4.000 jaar oud, wordt er aan deze veronderstelling echter getwijfeld. Archeologen geloven namelijk dat de graven toebehoren aan de arbeiders die de piramides van Khufu en Khafre hebben gebouwd. Als vrije individuen kregen ze de eer om begraven te worden in de schaduw van de heilige piramides waaraan ze werkten.
Sutton Hoo Sutton Hoo is de locatie van twee vroeg-middeleeuwse begraafplaatsen uit de 6e tot 7e eeuw in Suffolk, Engeland. In 1939 ontdekte amateurarcheoloog Basil Brown (1888-1977) een spectaculair lang begrafenisschip boordevol oogverblindende rijkdommen, waaronder vier complete Angelsaksische helmen.
Machu Picchu Toen de Amerikaanse ontdekkingsreiziger Hiram Bingham III (1875-1956) in 1911 Machu Picchu in Peru tegenkwam, was hij op zoek naar een andere stad, bekend als Vilcabamba. Onder begeleiding van lokale inheemse boeren stuitte hij op de Inca-citadel.
Ötzi De goed bewaarde natuurlijke mummie van een man die volgens wetenschappers tussen 3350 en 3105 v.Chr leefde, werd in september 1991 bevroren in een gletsjer in de Ötztaler Alpen op de grens tussen Oostenrijk en Italië ontdekt. Zijn ontdekking, genaamd Ötzi, of de Iceman, geldt als een grote archeologische vondst van de 20e eeuw.
Indonesische grotkunst Indonesië herbergt enkele van de oudst bekende nog bestaande grotkunst. In november 2018 werd een 40.000 jaar oud schilderij in de vorm van een dier ontdekt, in grotten verborgen in een afgelegen bergachtig gebied op het schiereiland Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat. Het maakt deel uit van een jachttafereel en is momenteel het oudste beeldverslag en het vroegste figuratieve kunstwerk ter wereld.
Knossos Knossos, het centrum van de Minoïsche beschaving en de hoofdstad van het Minoïsche Kreta, is de locatie van de grootste archeologische vindplaats uit de bronstijd op het eiland en wordt ook wel de oudste stad van Europa genoemd. Opgravingen begonnen in Knossos onder leiding van de Britse archeoloog Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941) in 1900. Naast het onthullen van de ruïnes van een paleis, heeft de opgraving een reeks tabletten blootgelegd met een oud Kretenzisch schrift dat bekend staat als Linear B. Dat is een syllabisch schrift dat werd gebruikt voor het schrijven van Myceens Grieks, de vroegst geschreven vorm van Grieks.
Begraafplaats koning Richard III In 2012 werden de stoffelijke resten van koning Richard III (1452-1485) opgegraven onder een parkeerplaats in Leicester, Engeland. De voormalige monarch, de laatste koning van het Huis van York, werd in 2015 herbegraven in de kathedraal van Leicester. De locatie van zijn oorspronkelijke graf heeft een beschermde status gekregen en maakt tegenwoordig deel uit van een bezoekerscentrum.
Paaseiland Moai De hoofden van Paaseiland staan bekend als Moai en zijn door het Rapa Nui-volk vervaardigd. Zij leefden tussen 1250 en 1500 n.Chr. en bikten 1.000 torenhoge figuren van vergoddelijkte voorouders uit vulkanisch tufsteen. De beelden werden voor het eerst waargenomen door Europeanen toen ze de eilanden in 1722 bezochten.
Borobudur De Borobudur-tempel in Midden-Java, Indonesië, is 's werelds grootste boeddhistische tempel. Het enorme complex dateert uit de 8e en 9e eeuw na Christus en werd in de 19e eeuw ontdekt.
Göbekli Tepe Göbekli Tepe is een neolithische archeologische vindplaats in de buurt van de stad Şanlıurfa in Turkije en onderscheidt zich vanwege de oudst bekende megalieten (stenen monumenten) ter wereld. Ze dateren uit ongeveer 9500 en 8000 v.Chr. en er zijn meer dan 200 massieve stenen pilaren. De archeologische vindplaats werd voor het eerst onderzocht in 1963.
De lijnen van Nazca De Nazca-lijnen, geëtst in de Nazca-woestijn in Peru en alleen zichtbaar vanuit de lucht, zijn enorme geogliefen (aardtekeningen) die op dieren en planten lijken. Ze zijn gemaakt tussen 500 v.Chr. en 500 n.Chr. en variëren in complexiteit. De Amerikaanse wetenschapper en historicus Paul Kosok (1896-1959) wordt gezien als de eerste serieuze onderzoeker van de Nazca-lijnen, maar tot op heden is het nog altijd een mysterie wat het doel is van de lijnen. Onderzoekers die drones gebruiken, hebben onlangs tussen de 80 en 100 nieuwe figuren ontdekt.
Petra Een van 's werelds beroemdste archeologische vindplaatsen, Petra, in Jordanië, staat bekend om zijn uit rotsen gehouwen architectuur. De uitgebreide Al-Khazneh-tempel (afgebeeld is het Ad Deir-klooster) is daarvan het hoogtepunt. Petra, mogelijk al in de 5e eeuw v.Chr. gebouwd, bleef 'verloren' totdat de Zwitserse ontdekkingsreiziger Jean-Louis Burckhardt (1784-1817) de ruïnes in 1812 ontdekte.
Olduvai-kloof De afgelegen Olduvai-kloof in Tanzania is een van de belangrijkste paleoantropologische vindplaatsen ter wereld. Hier hebben de Brits-Keniaanse paleoantropoloog Louis Leakey (1903-1972) en zijn vrouw Mary (1913-1996), die paleoantropoloog was, opgravings- en onderzoeksprogramma's opgezet en ontwikkeld. Daarbij werden fossielen van de vroegste mensachtigen ontdekt. Mary ontdekte de robuuste Zinjanthropus-schedel in de Olduvai-kloof in 1959.
Chichén Itzá Chichén Itzá is een van de meest bezochte archeologische vindplaatsen in Mexico, waarbij de tempel van Kukulcán (El Castillo) het centrum van de oude stad domineert. Het gebied werd in 1841 ontdekt door de Amerikaanse ontdekkingsreiziger John L. Stephens (1805-1852), een cruciale figuur in de ontdekking van de Maya-beschaving.
Skara Brae Het neolithische dorp Skara Brae aan de westkust Mainland, het grootste eiland in de Orkney-archipel van Schotland, werd ontdekt in de winter van 1850, nadat de contouren werden blootgelegd door een hevige storm. Skara Brae, een van de best bewaarde dorpen uit het stenen tijdperk in Europa, werd bewoond van ongeveer 3200 tot 2200 v.Chr.
De Akropolis van Athene De Akropolis van Athene is het meest opvallende en complete oude Griekse monumentale complex dat nog steeds bestaat in onze tijd. Gebouwd in de tweede helft van de 5e eeuw v.Chr., wordt de citadel gekroond door het prachtige Parthenon. Onderzoekers begonnen het gebied rond de eeuwwisseling van de 20e eeuw te restaureren en te behouden.
Tikal De ruïnes van Tikal, een oude pre-Columbiaanse Maya-stad diep in de regenwouden van wat tegenwoordig Guatemala is, werden pas in 1956 opgegraven door een team van archeologen van de Universiteit van Pennsylvania.
Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum Het Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum op Malta, werd per ongeluk ontdekt in 1902 door een bouwteam dat stortbakken aan het hakken was voor nieuwe woningbouw. Het is een neolithische ondergrondse structuur die dateert uit de Saflieni-fase (3300-3000 v.Chr.) in de Maltese prehistorie.
Angkor Wat Het enorme 12e-eeuwse boeddhistische tempelcomplex in het noorden van Cambodja, bekend als Angkor Wat, werd in de jaren 1840 ontdekt door de Franse ontdekkingsreiziger Henri Mouhot (1826-1861).
Homo luzonensis In 2019 betekende de opgraving van een voorheen onbekende mensensoort die zo'n 50.000 jaar geleden op een eiland in de huidige Filippijnen leefde, in feite dat de menselijke stamboom een nieuwe tak kreeg. De soort, Homo luzonensis genoemd naar het eiland Luzon waar het werd gevonden, is geen directe voorouder van de moderne mens, maar eerder een verre oud familielid. Deze foto toont de fossielen en tanden van de vroege verre voorouder.
Serra da Capivara Nationaal Park Het Serra da Capivara Nationaal Park in Brazilië, opgericht in 1979, getuigt op uitzonderlijke wijze van een van de oudste populaties die Zuid-Amerika bewoonden. In de rotsschuilplaatsen in het park, zijn talloze grotschilderingen ontdekt, waarvan sommige 25.000 jaar oud zijn. In feite heeft het gebied van Serra da Capivara de hoogste concentratie van prehistorische plaatsen in geheel Amerika.
Akrotiri De archeologische vindplaats Akrotiri uit de Minoïsche bronstijd, gelegen op het Griekse eiland Santorini, is een van de belangrijkste in zijn soort in de Egeïsche Zee. Het werd verwoest tijdens een vulkaanuitbarsting ergens in de 16e eeuw v.Chr. en bedolven onder as. De plek werd halverwege de jaren zestig ontdekt en sinds 1967 opgegraven.
Deciphering the Skies: The Latest in Tic-Tac UFO Encounters
Deciphering the Skies: The Latest in Tic-Tac UFO Encounters
In the vast expanse of our skies, the enigma of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, commonly known as UFOs, continues to captivate and puzzle us. Recently, two intriguing accounts have surfaced that are igniting the curiosity of enthusiasts and skeptics alike. These involve not just any observers, but trained military personnel, adding a compelling layer of credibility to the sightings. Let’s delve into these mysterious encounters and what they could potentially signify.
The LAX Tic-Tac Incident
On 22nd December 2023, an ordinary day at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) took an extraordinary turn. Plane spotters, live-streaming the airport activities, captured a baffling sight: a tic-tac-shaped object hovering near a tanker refueling and escorting Air Force One. The footage, which was quickly removed from the internet, showed a spherical object exhibiting flight characteristics beyond our current understanding. This sighting, referred to as the “LAX Tic-Tac Incident,” has since become a focal point for UAP discussions.
Navy Pilots’ Gulf Encounter
Adding to the intrigue, former F-18 pilot Jack Stewart revealed a personal encounter with a similar object. Over the Gulf of Mexico, Stewart and his wingman witnessed a 40-foot-long spherical UAP displaying incredible agility and speed. This account from highly trained observers adds another layer of authenticity to the ongoing narrative of unexplained aerial phenomena.
Analyzing the Accounts
What makes these accounts stand out is the credibility of the sources. Trained pilots with years of experience in the skies have little to gain and much to lose by coming forward with such stories. Their detailed descriptions and the physical evidence, albeit scrubbed from some platforms, offer a rare glimpse into incidents that are often shrouded in secrecy and skepticism.
The Bigger Picture
These sightings come at a time when the interest in UAPs has surged, not just among the public but within government and military circles. The U.S. government’s acknowledgment of UAPs and the establishment of official bodies to investigate them indicates a shift towards taking these phenomena seriously. The LAX and Gulf encounters feed into a larger narrative that our skies might be host to technologies or entities far beyond our current understanding.
The Path Forward
As we stand on the cusp of potentially groundbreaking revelations, it’s crucial to approach these accounts with a balance of open-mindedness and skepticism. While the possibility of extraterrestrial technology is tantalizing, it’s equally important to consider earthly explanations. However, the increasing quality and quantity of sightings by credible sources are pushing the boundaries of conventional skepticism.
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Chris Lehto – New Tic-Tac UAP Accounts-LAX and Navy Pilots
The recent Tic-Tac UAP accounts from LAX and Navy pilots are more than just fleeting news stories; they represent a growing body of evidence that demands serious attention and investigation. As we continue to explore and understand these phenomena, it’s clear that the skies hold more mysteries than we ever imagined.
Een ontdekking die alles verandert dat we weten over ons universum De James Webb-ruimtetelescoop is door de internationale gemeenschap gebouwd om het heelal beter te kunnen begrijpen. Beelden die tijdens recent ruimteonderzoek zijn gemaakt, hebben ons begrip van het universum mogelijk nog complexer gemaakt
Iets dat niet zou moeten bestaan Foto's die zijn gemaakt tijdens de verkenning van een stukje nachtelijke hemel dichtbij de Grote Beer, hebben verschillende abnormaal oude sterrenstelsels onthuld die niet zouden moeten bestaan.
Zes enorme sterrenstelsels In de door de James Webb ruimtetelescoop gemaakte opnamen waren subtiele sporen van zes massieve sterrenstelsels verborgen. Volgens astrofysici moeten deze kort na de oerknal zijn ontstaan. Deze sterrenstelsels zijn zo oud en zo groot dat ze onmogelijk echt kunnen zijn, aldus astrofysici.
Veel groter dan verwacht Volgens de wetenschappelijke nieuwswebsite phys.org verklaart Joel Leja, een professor in de astronomie en astrofysica aan de Penn State University, dat deze objecten veel zwaarder zijn dan verwacht. Ze is een van de onderzoekers die het licht van de ontdekte sterrenstelsels modelleerde.
Volwassen sterrenstelsels uit het begin der tijden "We hadden verwacht dat we op dit moment alleen kleine, jonge sterrenstelsels zouden vinden, vergelijkbaar met babystelsels. Tot onze verrassing hebben we sterrenstelsels ontdekt die net zo volwassen zijn als de onze. Sterrenstelsel die komen uit een tijd die wij beschouwen als het begin van het universum", voegde Leja eraan toe.
Grootte doet er toe Zowel de leeftijd als de grootte van deze sterrenstelsels zijn van immens belang. Als de voorlopige gegevens juist zijn, kan dit onze huidige kennis over de vorming van het vroege universum op zijn kop zetten.
13 miljard jaar oud "Elk van de kandidaat-sterrenstelsels bestonden mogelijk aan het begin van het universum. Ongeveer 500 tot 700 miljoen jaar na de oerknal, of meer dan 13 miljard jaar geleden", schreef Daniel Strain van de Universiteit van Boulder Colorado.
“Ze zijn ook gigantisch” "Ze zijn ook gigantisch," voegde Strain, eraan toe. ''Elk sterrenstelsel bevat bijna net zoveel sterren als het moderne Melkwegstelsel."
Er is meer onderzoek nodig Onderzoekers hebben nog meer gegevens nodig om te bevestigen dat de sterrenstelsels inderdaad zo oud en groot zijn als aangegeven. Toch wordt in Science Daily in de publicatie opgemerkt dat deze ontdekking "een veelbelovende voorproef biedt van hoe dankzij de komst van James Webb, de astronomieboeken herschreven kunnen worden", voegde Leja eraan toe.
"Het is waanzinnig" "Het is waanzinnig", zegt Erica Nelson, een astrofysicus van de Universiteit van Colorado en één van de co-auteurs van het onderzoek dat de zes oude sterrenstelsels identificeerde.
"Deze sterrenstelsels hebben geen tijd gehad om zich te vormen" “Je verwacht gewoon niet dat het vroege heelal zich zo snel kan organiseren. Deze sterrenstelsels hebben geen tijd gehad om zich te vormen”, voegde Nelson eraan toe.
Dit verandert alles wat we weten Leja herhaalde Nelson's verklaring en zei dat ze ontdekt hebben dat massieve sterrenstelsels zich extreem vroeg in de geschiedenis van het universum hebben gevormd. Dit betekend een ommekeer in de wetenschap. Mensen dachten dat bepaalde zaken gewoon vaststonden in de wetenschap, maar daar klopt niets meer van.
"Universele vernietigers" Volgens Leja hebben verschillende leden van het onderzoeksteam informeel verwezen naar de zes superzware sterrenstelsels die ze ontdekt hebben als 'universele vernietigers'. Dit vanwege de implicaties die ze zouden kunnen hebben voor wat we nu weten over het heelal.
99% van de kosmologische modellen zijn fout Hoewel wetenschap soms moeilijk te begrijpen is, komt het er volgens Leja in wezen op neer dat elk van de zes sterrenstelsels zo groot zijn, dat ze niet overeenkomen met 99% van onze huidige kosmologische modellen.
De eerste keer kijken naar het vroege heelal "We keken voor het eerst in het zeer vroege universum en hadden geen idee wat we zouden vinden", zei Leja.
Alles staat nu ter discussie "Het blijkt dat we iets onverwachts hebben gevonden. Dit gaat eigenijk zorgen voor problemen in de wetenschap. Het hele beeld van de vroege vorming van sterrenstelsels wordt nu in twijfel gebracht.''
Curiosity’s rear Hazcam captured the shadow of the back of the rover in this 12-hour view looking toward the floor of Gale Crater. A variety of factors caused several image artifacts, including a black speck, the distorted appearance of the Sun, and the rows of white pixels that streak out from the Sun. NASA/JPL-Caltech
On November 8th, NASA’s Curiosity Rover paused its incessant science work and just watched the day unfold on Mars. The rover used its black-and-white Hazard-Avoidance Cameras (Hazcams) to watch an entire 12-hour day on Mars as the shifting Sun cast shadows across the Martian landscape. NASA chose this day because of the Mars solar conjunction when the Sun interferes with communications with the Red Planet, meaning the rover doesn’t do any roving about. The timelapse comprises 25 frames from both the front and rear Hazcams.
When the rover stays in one place, it works pretty well as a sundial, NASA says. You can see in the video below, posted on X, how the Sun and shadows move across Curiosity and the surrounding vistas. This is the first time the Hazcams were used to record 12 hours of images from a day on Mars.
The rover team back on Earth sent the instructions to record the timelapse videos just before the start of Mars solar conjunction because during this time, the Sun’s plasma interferes with communications between Earth and Mars. While the rover isn’t completely out of contact, no complex instructions are sent during the several weeks of potential radio interference.
The Hazcams are usually used to spot rocks, slopes, and other hazards that may be risky for the rover to traverse. Because Curiosity wasn’t doing any roving or other science, the team hoped that by using the Haxcams to record a day on Mars, they might be able to capture clouds or dust devils that could reveal more about the Red Planet’s weather. However, it was a relatively mild weather day on Mars, so no unusual weather events show up in the video.
The Hazcams have an autoexposure algorithm to deal with the various amounts of daylight at different parts of the day. For example, during mid-day, the algorithm settles on exposure times of around one-third of a second. By nightfall, that exposure time grows to more than a minute. This causes a typical sensor noise known as “hot pixels” that appears as white snow across the final image.
The video posted on X shows the first part of the day, with images from the front Hazcam. The view looks southeast along Gediz Vallis, a valley found on Mount Sharp. Curiosity has been ascending the base of the 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain, which sits in Gale Crater, since 2014.
This annotated image from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows its wheel tracks in Jezero Crater and a distant view of the first potential location it could deposit a group of sample tubes for possible future return to Earth. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
At sunrise, the shadow of the rover’s 7-foot (2-meter) robotic arm moves to the left, and Curiosity’s front wheels emerge from the darkness on either side of the frame. Also visible at left is a circular calibration target mounted on the shoulder of the robotic arm. Engineers use the target to test the accuracy of the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, an instrument that detects chemical elements on the Martian surface.
The second video, which is our lead animated gif image, shows the view of the rear Hazcam as it looks northwest down the slopes of Mount Sharp to the floor of Gale Crater. The rover’s right rear wheel is visible, along with the shadow of Curiosity’s power system. NASA explained that a small black artifact that appears at the left midway through the video, during the 17th frame, resulted from a cosmic ray hitting the camera sensor. Likewise, the bright flashing and other noise at the end of the video are the result of heat from the spacecraft’s power system affecting the Hazcam’s image sensor.
How well does your own dozen-plus-year-old camera work? NASA said that speckled appearance of the images, especially prominent in the rear-camera video, is due to 11 years of Martian dust settling on the lenses. You can see in the image above how dust settles on many parts of the rover.
Curiosity launched from Earth on November 26, 2011 and landed on August 4, 2012.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been getting closer and closer to Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io with each recent orbit. Juno is in its 57th orbit of Jupiter, and on December 30th, Juno came to within 1500 km (930 miles) of Io’s surface. It’s been more than 20 years since a spacecraft came this close.
The Galileo spacecraft travelled over the moon’s south pole in 2001, coming to within 181 km (112 miles.) Galileo showed us a lot about the nature of Io’s surface.
But Juno is a different spacecraft with more modern instruments and cameras that will fly by Io multiple times. One of the mission’s specific goals is to determine if Io has a magma ocean or not. And while the spacecraft’s suite of scientific instruments can shed light on that question, Juno also carries a powerful camera that rides shotgun: Junocam.
Junocam was included with the spacecraft primarily to satisfy us, the interested public around the world. It takes high-resolution visible light images that are available for anyone to process and share. Two other imagers were also busy during the Io flyby. One is the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM), which takes images in infrared. The other is the Stellar Reference Unit, which usually takes images of stars for navigation.
Io’s forbidding surface looks almost inviting in this Junocam image processed by Kevin Gill. But don’t be fooled: Io is a volcanic hellscape. If you’d like a phone wallpaper version of this image, Kevin made one here. Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Kevin Gill
Junocam images get the most attention because NASA makes them available for anyone to process and post. Junocam captured six separate images of the volcanic moon, including black and white and colour. The image below is a composite showing the lit and shadowed sides of Io, processed by Hemant Dara.
Scientists know that Io is the most volcanic body in the Solar System by far. But they hunger for more detailed knowledge of its interior. Juno’s series of flybys will allow researchers to watch its volcanoes over time, which will help lead to some new understandings.
“By combining data from this flyby with our previous observations, the Juno science team is studying how Io’s volcanoes vary,” said Scott Bolton, Juno’s principal investigator and a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, in a statement issued before this most recent flyby. “We are looking for how often they erupt, how bright and hot they are, how the shape of the lava flow changes, and how Io’s activity is connected to the flow of charged particles in Jupiter’s magnetosphere.”
Io remains volcanic to this day because of its eccentric orbit around Jupiter. Jupiter’s mass squeezes Io, and the squeezing generates heat that drives its volcanoes. The other Galilean moons add to the effect. The tidal force is so strong that Io’s surface can rise and fall by as much as 100 meters.
Io is about the same size as Earth’s Moon, yet it’s covered in hundreds of active volcanoes. Eruptions can launch lava dozens of kilometres above the moon’s surface. There’s so much volcanic activity on the surface of Io that some lava flows are hundreds of kilometres long. These voluminous eruptions are like the ones that triggered mass extinctions here on Earth.
Juno’s next Io flyby will be on February 3rd. During that visit, Juno will also approach about 1500 km (930 miles) above Io’s surface.
“With our pair of close flybys in December and February, Juno will investigate the source of Io’s massive volcanic activity, whether a magma ocean exists underneath its crust, and the importance of tidal forces from Jupiter, which are relentlessly squeezing this tortured moon,” said Bolton.
Juno is nearing the end of its mission in 2025. One of the hazards that’s bringing its end is Jupiter’s intense radiation. The spacecraft’s orbits are designed to protect it from Jupiter’s radiation, except when it approaches the planet for closer looks. It has to remove itself from the intense radiation to both extend the life of its electronics and allow it to send data back to Earth.
Juno was designed to withstand only 17 orbits of Jupiter but has so far survived 57. With a few more to come, the mission still has lots to teach us about Io and the Jovian system. No doubt we’ll be gifted more stunning images and science as it completes its mission.
“Io is only one of the celestial bodies which continue to come under Juno’s microscope during this extended mission,” said Juno’s acting project manager, Matthew Johnson of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “As well as continuously changing our orbit to allow new perspectives of Jupiter and flying low over the nightside of the planet, the spacecraft will also be threading the needle between some of Jupiter’s rings to learn more about their origin and composition.”
Io’s primary mission ended in July 2021, and its current extended mission will end in September 2025. At that time, the spacecraft will be sent plunging to its destruction in Jupiter’s atmosphere, ending its nine-year mission.
But these pictures of Io will always be part of its legacy.
After all of This Time Searching for Aliens, is it The Zoo Hypothesis or Nothing?
In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, famed physicist Enrico Fermi asked the question that launched a hundred (or more) proposed resolutions. “Where is Everybody?” In short, given the age of the Universe (13.8 billion years), the fact that the Solar System has only existed for the past 4.5 billion years, and the fact that the ingredients for life are everywhere in abundance, why haven’t we found evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence by now? This came to be the basis of Fermi’s Paradox, which remains unresolved to this day.
Interest in Fermi’s question has been piqued in recent years thanks to the sheer number of “potentially habitable” exoplanets discovered in distant star systems. Despite that, all attempts to find signs of technological activity (“technosignatures”) have come up empty. In a recent study, a team of astrobiologists considered the possible resolutions and concluded that only two possibilities exist. Either extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs) are incredibly rare (or non-existent), or they are deliberately avoiding contact with us (aka. the “Zoo Hypothesis“).
As we addressed in our series, “Beyond Fermi’s Paradox,” the paradox itself actually began with astronomer (and white nationalist) Michael Hart in 1975. In a paper titled “Explanation for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth,” Hart argued that given the age of the Universe and the relatively short time it would take for an advanced civilization to spread across the Milky Way Galaxy (650,000 years, by Hart’s estimate), Earth should have been visited by an extraterrestrial civilization (ETC) by now.
In 1980, mathematical physicist and cosmologist Frank J. Tipler built on and refined Hart’s arguments with his paper, “Extraterrestrial Intelligent Beings do not Exist.” Based on the Copernican Principle, which states that neither humanity nor Earth are in a privileged position to observe the Universe. Accordingly, Tipler theorized that an ETC would be assisted by self-replicating robotic explorers (von Neumann probes) that would spread from system to system, facilitating the arrival of settlers later. By Tipler’s refined estimate, an ETC would be able to explore the entire galaxy in “less than 300 million years.”
This came to be known as the Hart-Tipler Conjecture, which essentially states that the absence of evidence can only be explained by the absence of ETCs. In 1983, Carl Sagan and William Newman produced a rebuttal paper titled “The Solipsist Approach to Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (aka. “Sagan’s Response”) where they argued that “the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence” and took the Hart-Tipler Conjecture to account for the many assumptions it made. They and countless other scientists have proposed potential resolutions for why we haven’t seen any ETCs yet.
The Great Silence Persists
Nevertheless, despite decades of observation and SETI surveys, there is still no definitive evidence that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations are out there. For the most part, these have consisted of radio SETI experiments that have observed distant stars and galaxies for indications of radio transmissions. However, other SETI experiments have focused on anomalous infrared (heat) signatures that could indicate the presence of a megastructure designed to enclose an entire star system – otherwise known as a Dyson Sphere (or Dyson Structure).
Alas, these searches have found no compelling evidence of technosignatures within our galaxy or beyond. According to Crawford and Schulze-Makuch, the “Great Silence” we perceive when we look out into the Universe can only mean one of two things. First, there’s the possibility that the Hart-Tipler Conjecture is correct, and there are no advanced ETC out there. Similarly, it may be that intelligent life (or life in general) is rare in the Universe due to the odds being stacked against its emergence or evolution (aka. the Great Filter).
If neither of these scenarios is true, we are left with only one answer: the Zoo Hypothesis is correct and advanced civilizations are keeping their distance to avoid being detected. As Crawford told Universe Today via email:
“There are only two possibilities; either ETI exists, or it does not. As several people have noted over the years, either answer would be astonishing, yet one must be true. All we know is that we see no evidence for ETI, despite the number of planets and the great age of the Universe which would, naively, seem to imply that ETI should exist and perhaps be common. This is the FP. However, if ETI exists there are only two possibilities consistent with the fact that we don’t observe them. Either:
We would never expect to observe them because space is so big, etc.
We don’t observe them because they have taken steps to ensure that we don’t ( this is the ZH).”
Are we in a Zoo?
The term was coined in 1973 by John A. Ball, a Harvard astrophysicist and scientist with MIT’s Haystack Observatory. In a study of the same name, Ball addressed various proposed resolutions to the Fermi Paradox and some common assumptions made by SETI researchers. Among them is the belief that intelligent species exist in our galaxy, that they are older and more advanced than we are, and that they want to make contact with other intelligent species (including us). In contrast, Ball argued that advanced species are “deliberately avoiding interaction and that they have set aside the area in which we live as a zoo.”
In summary, the Zoo Hypothesis predicts that we shall never find them because they do not want to be found, and they have the technological ability to ensure this. This theory is similar to the Planetarium Hypothesis, which also posits that advanced civilizations have the means to elude detection from our instruments. Unlike the Planetarium Hypothesis, the Zoo Hypothesis assumes that the intentions of the ETCs are benign, which could include wanting to avoid interfering with our technological or social development (i.e., the “Prime Directive” from Star Trek).
The central region of the Milky Way, also known as the Zone of Avoidance. Credit: ESO/S. Brunier
As to which possibility is more likely to be true – i.e., intelligent life is non-existent (or extremely rare) vs. they are hiding from us – Crawford and Schulze-Makuch have somewhat opposite views. “For reasons given in the article, my own view is that life (and technological life especially) is likely to be so transformative that we really should see evidence of it if it exists and isn’t hiding,” said Crawford. “Therefore, I think if it does exist, then probably it must be hiding – aka the ZH. My own view is that it is more likely that ETI does not exist than that it is hiding.”
“I think that the Zoo Hypothesis is more likely,” Schulze-Makuch countered. “I believe so because (1) of the Copernican Principle. While I do think that humanity is something very special, being a technologically advanced life form, I can´t fathom that we are truly unique or so rare in that capability that – for practical reasons – nothing is out there.” The second reason, said Schulze-Makuch, has to do with the recent release of the so-called UFO Report, which demonstrated that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) are far more common than previously known:
“While we can´t make a true scientific argument based on these, given their speculative nature, there are so many cases by now, quite a few with multiple lines of evidence, that we cannot simply ignore it. And if some of them can actually be attributed to ETI, it would mean that they don´t interfere with Earth matters or at least not to a large extent or clearly visible to us.”
This perhaps raises another possible resolution: humanity has been looking for technosignatures in the wrong places. Perhaps, rather than simply observing distant stars for signs of transmissions or other technological activity, we should also look for evidence of advanced civilizations closer to home. This is the path being pursued by Professor Avi Loeb and his colleagues at the Galileo Project, which hopes to complement conventional SETI by searching for evidence of ETC technology and artifacts within our Solar System.
What to Do?
Regardless of which possibility could be true, there’s the inevitable question: how do we find out? According to Crawford and Schulze-Makuch, the only thing we can do is to keep exploring the Universe systematically. This includes SETI surveys and searches for ETC artifacts within the Solar System because, as they write, “we can only assert an absence of evidence if we have searched for evidence sufficiently hard.” In the meantime, exoplanet studies are transitioning from discovery to characterization, which will be aided considerably by next-generation telescopes like theJames Webb Space Telescope.
This artist’s impression shows a Super-Earth orbiting the Sun-like star HD 85512 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). Credit: ESO
The ability to determine the chemical composition of exoplanet atmospheres could ultimately reveal indications of life or biological processes (“biosignatures”), thus putting tighter constraints on habitability. As they indicate, “such observations have the potential to constrain the prevalence of abiogenesis in the Universe, and possibly also the prevalence of biological complexity and intelligence.” Herein lies another difference between the Zoo and the Planetarium Hypothesis, which is that the former is more likely to be discoverable. As Schulze-Makuch summarized:
“If we are living in a simulation of some sort, we may never find out. But if the zoo hypothesis is correct, we would eventually. Our technology is getting more and more sophisticated, so we would catch up to ETI, and even if ETI could still hide their spacecraft, eventually, we would see their home worlds. But even hiding their spacecraft would get more and more difficult, and as sophisticated as they are, they would not be error-free, and accidents would happen. It is then tempting to attribute some of the UAP sightings as such… and this is still very speculative, but with more and more sensors coming online, we should be able to get a clearer picture soon.”
“Given our technological progress (and assuming the Zoo Hypothesis is correct), I think we might get some proof of ETI within 15 years (and I have bet a bottle of whiskey with Ian on this). But the timeline is, of course, difficult to predict and depends to a large degree also on how fast the progress will be, and how attentive the “Zoo keepers” are or what their aim is.”
As always, all we can do is search in anticipation of what we may find. At this point, there are literally hundreds of scenarios of where ETCs may be and why they’ve eluded detection for this long. Being able to test these theories with greater and greater precision in the coming years is going to be mighty exciting, almost as exciting as the prospect of finding something someday!
China is vastberaden om de wereldwijde race voor kernfusie te winnen. Het is al een van de meest geavanceerde landen op dat gebied, maar laat nu opnieuw zien hoe ambitieus het is door een uitzonderlijk consortium op te richten. Het brengt de crème de la crème van China op het gebied van kernfusie samen.
In het nieuws: China richt een consortium op voor kernfusie.
China heeft onlangs aangekondigd dat het een consortium zal vormen met de beste bedrijven en universiteiten van het land.
De organisatie, genaamd Controllable Nuclear Fusion Innovation Consortium, zal worden geleid door de China National Nuclear Corporation.
Het omvat met name de grootste staal- en energiebedrijven van China, zoals de China Three Gorges Corporation (een vooraanstaande speler in hernieuwbare energie, vooral in waterkrachtcentrales), de State Grid Corporation (de grootste netwerkbeheerder, transporteur en distributeur van elektriciteit ter wereld) en de China Baowu Steel Group (wereldwijd de grootste staalproducent).
In totaal zijn er 25 staatsbedrijven die deel uitmaken van het consortium. Samen met enkele van de beste onderzoeksinstituten en universiteiten van het land zullen ze proberen de ontwikkeling van kernfusie te versnellen.
China is al goed op weg in de race naar kernfusie
De context:
China behoort tot een van de meest geavanceerde landen ter wereld op het gebied van onderzoek naar kernfusie. Het belangrijkste doel is om het punt te bereiken waarop een fusiereactie zichzelf in stand houdt, zonder constante toevoer van energie.
Een van de opmerkelijkste experimenten is de “kunstmatige zon”. Via deze tokamak, een apparaat waarin een plasma kan worden beheerst door middel van magneten, waar men al vele jaren aan werkt, zou China al temperaturen van 70 miljoen graden Celsius hebben bereikt. Dit is vijf keer hoger dan de maximale temperatuur die op de “echte” zon is geregistreerd.
Het is vermeldenswaard dat China ook deel uitmaakt van de International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Dit project omvat 35 landen die ’s werelds grootste tokamak ontwikkelen, in Frankrijk. (cv)
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