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...
14-02-2024
UFO Sighting Astonishes Chinese Authorities
UFO Sighting Astonishes Chinese Authorities
In an event that caught the attention of the world, an unprecedented aerial phenomenon brought one of China’s busiest airports to an unexpected halt, igniting widespread curiosity and concern among both the public and government officials. This incident, occurring on July 7th, 2010, at Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan International Airport, not only disrupted air traffic but also propelled China into a new era of engagement with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
The Incident That Shook the Skies
On a seemingly ordinary day, the routine flow of flights at Xiaoshan International Airport was abruptly interrupted when pilots and air traffic controllers reported the sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) hovering above the runway. The appearance of this enigmatic object was so alarming that it led to the temporary shutdown of the airport, affecting 18 flights and diverting them to alternative locations. The maneuverability and unusual shape of the UFO sparked a wave of speculation and intrigue, with neither civilian observers nor military experts able to offer a definitive explanation for what was witnessed.
The Ripple Effect
The impact of the sighting extended far beyond the immediate disruption of air traffic. Behind the scenes, it set off a wave of concern among Chinese officials, prompting an investigation into the nature and origins of the phenomenon. This event marked a turning point for China, a nation known for its reticence on matters of national security and unidentified aerial phenomena. The incident at Xiaoshan International Airport became a catalyst for a broader reconsideration of China’s stance on UFOs and UAPs.
China’s Evolving Approach to UAP Investigation
Historically shrouded in secrecy, China’s approach to UAP research has been as enigmatic as the phenomena themselves. However, the incident served as a wake-up call, revealing the necessity for a more open and systematic investigation into these unidentified aerial conditions. By June 2019, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force’s Early Warning Academy publicly acknowledged the increasing frequency of such phenomena and announced the establishment of a new task force dedicated to their study.
This acknowledgment represented a significant shift in policy, showcasing China’s readiness to engage more transparently with the global community on the issue of UAPs. Furthermore, China’s strategy for investigating UFO reports involves close collaboration with independent UFO organizations across the nation. These groups, boasting memberships in the millions, operate with the understanding that their activities are monitored by Chinese authorities, ensuring a controlled yet surprisingly open platform for UFO research.
Pioneering the Use of AI in UAP Analysis
Perhaps most notably, China has declared its intention to become the world’s first country to employ artificial intelligence (AI) in the analysis of UAP-related data. This innovative approach aims to uncover patterns and insights that may elude human researchers, representing a leap forward in the methodical study of UAPs. By harnessing AI, China is positioning itself at the forefront of UAP research, seeking to understand the phenomena in a way that could redefine the global conversation on UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
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The UFO incident at Xiaoshan International Airport has undeniably propelled China into a new phase of openness and innovation in the realm of UAP research. By breaking away from decades of secrecy and embracing collaboration and advanced technology, China is not only challenging its own historical stance but also encouraging a global reevaluation of how societies approach the mystery of UFOs. As the world watches, the journey of unraveling the enigma of unidentified aerial phenomena continues, with China now playing a pivotal role in this global quest for understanding.
Atlantic current shutdown is a real danger, suggests simulation
Atlantic current shutdown is a real danger, suggests simulation
The most detailed computer model run so far shows that melting ice sheets could cause the collapse of the major ocean current that warms Europe, but it's still unclear how likely this is to happen
Is there a serious risk of the Atlantic current that warms Europe slowing to a halt as the planet heats up? Yes, according to the most detailed computer simulation run so far – but the likelihood of this scenario is still very uncertain.
“We’ve demonstrated with our current setup that it is indeed possible,” says René van Westen at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
At present, warm water that is extra salty due to evaporation flows north from the tropics along the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, keeping Europe much warmer than it would otherwise be. As this water cools, it sinks because its high salinity increases its density. It then flows back to the tropics and into the southern hemisphere along the ocean bottom.
This is known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC. Studies of past climate suggest that episodes of dramatic cooling around Europe during the past 100,000 years or so are linked to a slowdown or complete shutdown of the overturning current – a so-called tipping point, where small changes can make a system flip into a different state.
The cause is thought to be the melting of ice sheets. If lots of fresh water enters the North Atlantic, it reduces the salinity and thus density of surface water, meaning less of it sinks.
But modelling this has proved tricky. Most simulations of a shutdown involve adding unrealistically large quantities of fresh water all at once. And in some recent simulations with more advanced models, no shutdown has occurred, leading some to doubt whether this is a potential tipping point at all.
Now van Westen’s team has done the most sophisticated simulation so far, requiring a total of six months on the Netherlands’ national supercomputer, called Snellius. That was very expensive, he says.
Unlike in previous simulations, the team added fresh water gradually, rather than in one go. This produced a positive feedback that amplified the effect: as less water sank because of the reduced salinity, less salty water flowed north, reducing salinity still further.
This eventually shut down the overturning circulation, causing temperatures to rise in the southern hemisphere, but plummet in Europe. For instance, in the model, London cools by 10°C (18°F) on average and Bergen in Norway by 15°C (27°F). Other consequences include local sea level rises in places such the US East Coast.
What’s more, some of the changes seen in the model ahead of the collapse correspond with changes being seen in the real Atlantic in recent decades.
However, to produce this collapse, the researchers had to run the model for 2500 years. And they had to add a huge amount of freshwater – less than in previous simulations, but still around 80 times more than is currently entering the ocean as Greenland’s ice sheet melts. “So that is absurd and not very realistic,” says van Westen.
Moreover, the simulation didn’t involve any global warming. The team now plans to rerun the simulation to include it.
While the model suggests it will take a lot of fresh water and many centuries to halt the overturning circulation, there are several reasons to think climate models underestimate the risk of non-linear changes like the Atlantic tipping point, says Ditlevsen.
Climate models have to divide the world into large cubes to make computations feasible, which has a smoothing effect, he says. The models are also tuned based on how well they simulate the 20th-century climate, when there was a linear relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting changes, which might not hold true in the future.
“We should expect the models to be less sensitive than the real world,” says Ditlevsen.
Samengevat. Wetenschappers van de Universiteit Utrecht hebben een kritiek klimaatkeerpunt gemodelleerd dat grote delen van Europa in een diepe vrieskou zou kunnen dompelen, veel eerder dan gedacht. Dit keerpunt betreft de instorting van de AMOC, een belangrijke stroming in de Atlantische Oceaan, die warm water naar het noorden brengt en het weer in Europa mild houdt.
De ineenstorting van deze stroming zou wereldwijd het weer veranderen, met Europa als zwaarst getroffen regio. Het scenario benadrukt de urgentie van klimaatonderzoek en de noodzaak voor proactieve aanpassingen om potentiële catastrofale gevolgen te beperken.
Op dit moment stroomt warm water dat extra zout is door verdamping vanuit de tropen langs het oppervlak van de Atlantische Oceaan naar het noorden, waardoor Europa veel warmer blijft dan het anders zou zijn.
Men schat dat de AMOC nu al 15% zwakker is dan in 1950. Volgens het Britse Met Office “suggereren klimaatmodellen dat de AMOC in de 21e eeuw zal verzwakken naarmate de broeikasgassen toenemen.
De studie wijst op smeltende ijskappen als mogelijke oorzaak voor deze ineenstorting door veranderingen in zoutgehalte en temperatuur, wat de dichtheid van water beïnvloedt.
De langzame afname van de AMOC zou in minder dan een eeuw kunnen leiden tot een plotselinge instorting, iets wat voorheen als een theoretisch concept werd beschouwd.
Mogelijke totale instorting tussen 2025 en 2095
Zoom in.Recent onderzoek suggereert dat klimaatverandering de stroming van de AMOC vertraagt, met een mogelijke totale instorting tussen 2025 en 2095.
Het Nederlandse team heeft geavanceerde modellering gebruikt om vroege waarschuwingssignalen van dit kantelpunt te identificeren. Dat leidt tot nieuwe inzichten in de stabiliteit van de AMOC.
Zoom out.Een ineenstorting zou leiden tot bijna onomkeerbare klimaateffecten op menselijke tijdschalen, met name voor Europa, waar temperaturen drastisch kunnen dalen.
Er is een dringende behoefte aan meer onderzoek om een duidelijker tijdsbestek vast te stellen, inclusief modellen die toenemende niveaus van CO2 en globale opwarming omvatten.
De auteurs roepen op tot “het beste hopen maar op het ergste voorbereid zijn” door te investeren in onderzoek voor betere schattingen van kantelpunten, het beoordelen van potentiële impact en het ontwikkelen van aanpassingsstrategieën
Rogue Space Systems has announced the failure of its Barry 1 satellite, which occurred before the company could test a controversial quantum drive propellantless propulsion system.
In a posted statement, the company said Barry 1 was able to complete a portion of its primary mission, including tests of their Scalable Compute Platform (SCP). Unfortunately, they lost contact with the satellite before they could perform any tests of IVO Ltd.’s Quantum Drive.
“Rogue’s Barry-1 satellite didn’t make it all the way through LEOP (Launch and Early Orbit Phase),” said IVO founder and President Richard Mansell in an email to The Debrief. “Sadly, we never even got to turn on the Drives!”
POWER SYSTEM ISSUES HAUNTED QUANTUM DRIVE HOST SATELLITE SINCE LAUNCH
According to the Rogue Space Systems statement, Barry 1 experienced ongoing power-system issues on the satellite’s bus immediately after its November 11th, 2023 launch and all throughout LEOP. Then, after two months of operations, the company said on February 9th, 2024 that they lost all communication with the satellite.
“Rogue Space Systems operations team is announcing the suspension of the active phase of our first on-orbit mission,” the company explained. In that same statement, Rogue says they are currently investigating the cause of the failure and are also trying to reestablish communications with Barry 1.
There has been no statement from Rogue on whether or not the bus failure was related to the original third-party equipment failure that delayed the mission’s original launch last October. However, the company did note their frustration at not being able to complete the Quantum Drive test, as well as their intent to pursue future launch opportunities with IVO.
“I’d like to take the opportunity to praise IVO for being a great customer,” said company CEO Jon Beam, “and we are in discussions on a second attempt during one of our upcoming new missions.” This includes a slate of Rogue hosting missions scheduled for some time in 2025.
In an email to The Debrief, IVO’s Mansell confirmed they are exploring future launch opportunities with Rogue. However, they are also exploring other potential options that may get their Quantum Drive to space as soon as possible.
“We have appreciated all that Rogue has done for us and look forward to hitching another ride with them,” Mansell said. “At the same time, they know that the sooner we can obtain a ride to space, the better. Therefore, we are also exploring additional opportunities to get to orbit.”
“The more Quantum Drives we can get into space, the better,” he added.
DRIVE PART OF CONTROVERSIAL CLASS OF PROPULSION SYSTEMS
Unlike a conventional satellite propulsion system that uses some form of propellant, the Quantum Drive is part of an emerging yet controversial class of experimental propulsion systems that claim to generate measurable thrust without any propellant. Such claims go against the conventional understanding of momentum and inertia by directly violating Sir Isaac Newton’s second laws of motion.
More than one of these experimental propellant-less propulsion systems has appeared to create thrust in a lab environment, including the controversial EMDrive, whose thrust was confirmed both by Chinese scientists and NASA Eagle Works lab boss Harold G. Sonny White.
Still, before the Quantum Drive, none of these concepts had the opportunity to be tested in the vacuum of space, and all of their claims of thrust produced in the lab are still hotly debated by conventional physicists. As such, the failure of Barry 1 to perform the Quantum Drive test has been met with a combination of frustration and hope in the Alternative Propulsion Community.
“The new era of space exploration is characterized by pushing technology to the limits, failing fast, and learning from mistakes,” Tim Ventura, host of the bi-weekly Alternative Propulsion Engineering Conference (APEC), told The Debrief. “I would compare IVO’s setback to the countless Starship prototypes that exploded on the pad during testing – a small loss today in pursuit of larger gains for all humanity tomorrow.”
Fortunately for supporters of the controversial propulsion concept behind these types of drives, the Quantum Drive itself did not fail, but was simply unable to be tested.
For future test flights, Mansell said that IVO will be using the same basic design of the Quantum Drive that showed thrust in the lab. However, they do expect to include some recent improvements as well as any customizations needed to conform the drives to their host satellites.
“The overall configuration of the Drives will not change,” Mansell told The Debrief. “While waiting for the Barry-1 tests, we have been continuously working to improve the Drives. Those improvements will be part of the next set that goes to space.”
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On November 17-18, 2023, a symposium of academics, current and former government officials, and other leading voices in the study of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) convened for the inaugural Sol Foundation Initiative for UAP Research and Policy event in Palo Alto, California.
Hosted by the Nolan Laboratory and the Stanford School of Medicine, the event’s stated objectives were to “propose tangible government policies, programs of research, and investment strategies that can meet the challenge of the phenomena,” along with elevating the dialogue and generating new approaches toward resolving it.
The invitation-only event was the first public manifestation of the Sol Foundation and its objectives since the think tank’s official launch on August 15, 2023.
“Welcome to Stanford,” said Garry Nolan, Ph.D., the Sol Foundation’s Executive Director of the Board, as the symposium commenced. “The objective here is to legitimize and professionalize and then to seek from you your ideas.”
Over the course of the next two days, speakers that included Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, Ph.D., computer scientist and venture capitalist Jacques Vallée, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Wilmington religious studies professor Diana Walsh Pasulka, Ph.D., Canadian House of Commons member Larry Maguire MP, former NOAA Administrator Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet, Ph.D., U.S. Army Colonel Karl Nell, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon, and many others presented papers and short talks on various approaches toward the study and resolution of UAP, as well as what the impact of these phenomena could represent across various sectors of society
At the event’s conclusion on Saturday, November 18, a surprise appearance was also made by David Grusch, a former U.S. intelligence officer who first came forward publicly last June with allegations about the existence of a secret program involving UAP and craft of non-human origin acquired by the U.S. government that has been illegally withheld from Congress for decades.
“This is why we have the Sol Foundation,” said Grusch, who it has since been revealed was also a co-founder of the California-based foundation, while joining the event remotely from Washington DC. “We need to basically create a parallel track of research and independent discovery that aren’t necessarily dependent on the U.S. government to provide us all the answers.”
Now, for the first time, videos of presentations featured during the November 2023 symposium will be made available to the public and can be viewed on the Sol Foundation’s official YouTube channel.
“The objective of that is to show openly what it is that the Sol Foundation wants to talk about,” Garry Nolan told The Debrief in advance of the videos appearing online
“That’s an all-of-society approach. Everything from science to religion, to sociology, to government. We represented aspects of that in all of these talks.”
“Those will all be going public,” Nolan said, adding that the foundation “will welcome now the engagement that comes from that.”
Sociocultural anthropologist Peter Skafish, the Sol Foundation’s Director of Research, told The Debrief that one of the uniting goals he and Nolan shared in launching the Sol Foundation and selecting the speakers for its first symposium involved their acknowledgment of the different approaches toward understanding UAP and that providing an academic floor where they could all be discussed would be a necessity.
“We understood the different parts,” Skafish said. “The intellectual, and social, and political, and I would say ontological quandary of UAP. We both had experience with interacting with people out of federal government on this. We both understood the complexities of the kinds of experience with this that experiencers have.”
“We both understood the need to do this—to study this—in a way that is rigorously and normatively academic and intellectual,” Skafish said, “and adheres to all the standards and takes place within the institution.”
“Yet we also understand that you’re going to have to break some rules,” Skafish added, “and transform some things to pull this off because we don’t actually know that our existing frameworks fit here.”
Drawing from his personal background in the social sciences, Skafish emphasized that information gleaned from those who have had firsthand experiences with UAP, while being viewed as lacking in substance for professionals in the physical sciences, are of great value to sociologists, historians, psychologists, and others in similar disciplines.
“We need to listen to people,” Skafish said. “We wanted to make sure that people, both in attendance but also looking at this from the outside, would understand that it’s not just going to be a matter of having certain kinds of hard data, whether it’s from the government or from astronomical projects.”
“It’s gonna be about the testimony that human beings have to offer about this,” Skafish told The Debrief, “and learning to listen to that in both an open and a responsible manner.”
The Sol Foundation, too, has become the target of some of the recent controversy and at least a few of the disparaging appraisals that seem to be inescapable artifacts of modern social media culture. Asked about these criticisms and the recent statements made by the former AARO director, Skafish told The Debrief that he is sympathetic to both sides of the current debate. However, he sees his and Nolan’s work as attempting to navigate beyond the discord that often preoccupies those who follow the UAP topic.
“Rather than weigh in on which perspective is true and which is false,” Skafish says, “I’m sympathetic to, actually, all parties here, including very skeptical parties.”
Skafish told The Debrief that the Sol Foundation works to remain focused on how it can provide guidance and make research-oriented contributions to the field.
“I would say what we’re trying to do is really take, ourselves, an evidence-based approach about matters of fact which are social, historical, political [and] legal in nature, and get to the bottom of things to the extent that can be done,” Skafish said.
“If there’s not a ‘there’ there, fine. If there is a ‘there’ there, and we have credible testimony coming from a lot of people in federal government about that, then Congress certainly should pursue that. And academics as well, and journalists should also be pursuing that, asking questions about it, and we’ll eventually settle the matter that way.”
“There is so much emotion in the discussion,” Nolan added, also acknowledging recent commentary featured in Scientific American and from those in the broader scientific community who do not seem to reflect the Sol Foundation’s willingness to engage with the UAP topic.
“I don’t want to get distracted by that,” Nolan said. “Let’s actually now start talking about the data.”
Nolan said that while there has been an obvious effort toward reaching a renewed degree of government transparency on the UAP issue in recent years, he also believes there has been enough pushback from officials to elicit a renewed effort by academics like himself in properly engaging with the topic and interpreting the available data.
“If there’s nothing there to see, let me see the data,” Nolan argues. “And if the remaining five percent you can’t classify yet—and I mean classify in the terms of a scientific classification—then don’t say that there’s no evidence of anything. Don’t conclude that there’s no evidence of anything if in the remaining five percent the evidence exists.”
Reflecting on the November symposium and the lectures the Sol Foundation has now made available for viewing online, Skafish told The Debrief that he felt those in attendance at the event were as important as the speakers it featured.
“That audience was as important to me in organizing as the lineup of speakers was,” Skafish said, “and we were very deliberately careful in evaluating the requests for invitations to make sure that we had people from a broad swath of professions and institutions present.”
“We want the Sol Foundation to be a kind of nerve center in which serious professionals across academia, across government, within investment and technology communities, within civil society institutions such as religious bodies, to be able to come together and be able to network, to listen to cutting-edge research on this, and to be able to incubate their own projects while they’re in a space with a lot of other like-minded individuals.”
“We really see ourselves as being in service to people who are serious about this,” Skafish said.
“And our meetings are going to be an opportunity for that.”
On September 27, 1989, in South Park along Mendeleev Street in Voronezh, Russia, many people claimedto have seen a UFO landing. Several children were playing in the park, and at the bus stop, there were about 20 adults that suddenly saw a pink light in the evening sky, from which a dark red ball emerged. At first, it seemed to float and then slowly descended.
It took about a minute before the UFO gently lowered to a height of 15 meters above the park, and then slowly circled above it for a short time. After that, the UFO, which was approximately 10 meters in diameter, flew away.
A few minutes later, another UFO appeared in the same place, and the people saw a giant alien. It was looking around, dressed in a silver suit and bronze shoes. The alien did not have a real head, only something like a hump between its shoulders.
Three eyes could be seen on this hump, and the eye in the center was intensely turning forward and backward. When the creature disappeared into the ship again, the hatch closed, and the craft descended and approached with a loud hum.
The brightly-glowing ship stopped one meter above the ground, rocking back and forth. Four landing pillars emerged from the base of the object and sank to the ground.
According to eyewitnesses, the object was oval, egg-shaped, approximately 15 meters long and 6 meters high.
After the landing, a hatch slowly opened, and two grim humanlike figures (one of them was 3-4 meters high) came out.
The aliens were moving like robots. The shape of the aliens was described as boxes with arms and legs, and buttons were glowing on their chests.
At that very moment, a boy from the group of children playing nearby screamed in fear. The tall alien cast his gaze at him with his central eye, without moving his head. A light came out of his eye and hit the boy, which made him motionless for several minutes.
The two creatures returned to their flying machine, and the witnesses thought the aliens were about to disappear. But after a few minutes, they returned, and now, the giant was holding a silver 1.2-meter long pipe in his hand, which it pointed at a 16-year-old boy who dared to get too close to a flying object.
To the horror of witnesses, the boy suddenly disappeared without a trace. Then the creatures turned around and slowly climbed the ladder into their flying machine, entered it, and closed the hatch. The ship rose above the ground, soared into the air, and flew away at an ever-increasing speed.
It dodged to the side, passed over a tall residential building, and disappeared into the sky very quickly. The witnesses said that exactly at the moment when the spacecraft disappeared, the 16-year-old boy appeared in the park again.
Russian News Agency TASS was the first one to announce this shocking UFO landing incident happened in Voronezh on October 9, 1989.
Russian journalist Vladimir Lebedev said he had talked with many witnesses, including three children (Zhenya Blinov, Vasya Surin, and Yulia Sholokhova).
When the children were asked to draw the UFO, their sketches were the same, and the object had a banana shape.
Journalist Lebedev also claimed that there had been three landings between September 23 and 29 during that time. This meant that the Voronezh UFO incident was the second landing.
Many media houses called the “Voronezh UFO incident” a hoax because of the lack of photographic and medical evidence. Nevertheless, other news agencies like The Washington Post showed some interest in the incident.
THE US military is in possession of video footage showing a UFO intercepting and disabling a nuclear missile with laser beams, according to whistleblowers.
Retired US Air Force officers say the disc-shaped object circled an unarmed dummy warhead during a routine test after it detached from an Atlas missile booster.
Lieutenant Bob Jacobs and Major Florenze Mansmann say they saw the recording of the 1964 encounter before the tape mysteriously disappeared.
The former officials were part of a team responsible for capturing footage of missile test launches in California with telescopic photography and videography equipment.
Two days after they recorded the video, they say that two plain-clothed CIA agents confiscated the clip and ordered them to keep schtum.
And now the new whistleblowers have revealed another UFO encounter which they claim happened on September 15, 1964.
It has now been thrown into the spotlight due to an investigation by author Robert Hastings.
According to a post made by Hastings on The UFO Chronicles website earlier this month, former intelligence officer, Luis Elizondo, claimed to have also seen the video.
Elizondo says he was the former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) program to study UFOs.
He says he has been involved in several high-profile leaks of military footage allegedly showing UFOs.
An anonymous source revealed to Hastings that Elizondo confirmed the details of the event in internal interviews.
In the 1960s, Jacobs was at the helm of a military telescopic photography site in Big Sur, California
The site captured the video as the missile blasted through the air travelling several thousand miles per hour over the Pacific Ocean.
At the time, Mansmann was the chief photographic imagery analyst at Vandenberg Air Force Base - now called Vandenberg Space Force Base - in Santa Barbara County, California.
The Cold War was progressing testing sophisticated and secret military hardware and some UFO sceptics have claimed that reports of UFOs provided cover for these tests.
The craft caught on camera was domed and disc-shaped, according to Jacobs and Mansmann
In a letter Mansmann wrote about the sighting he said it was a "classic disc, the centre seemed to be a raised bubble...the entire lower saucer shape was glowing and seemed to be rotating slowly."
He added: "At the point of beam release...the object turned like an object required to be in a position to fire from a platform...but again this could be my own assumption from being in aerial combat."
Forty years later, a US Senate investigator told Hastings that Elizondo had confirmed this description in an official interview last year.
"During that briefing, the former AATIP director confirmed the existence of the video, the details regarding what it showed, and the location of a copy of it in AATIP’s workspaces," Hastings wrote in the new post.
Although Mansmann told Jacobs not to discuss what they had seen, Jacobs began to talk about the event in 1982, as he thought enough time had passed and he could speak freely.
But his claims were dismissed by skeptics, and he was even subjected to harassment and death threats.
Hastings' new report appears to match with Elizondo's recollection of the video.
When investigators went to look for the DVD recording of the video, where Elizondo had told them it was, it was not there, according to Hastings.
And although the recording is missing and the story of Elizondo viewing the recording comes secondhand from an investigator, Hastings said he has additional evidence to support it.
He wrote: "On November 10, 2023, a highly-reliable source - who I am not at liberty to identify - told me that UAP [unidentified anomalous phenomena] whistleblower David Grusch has privately confirmed that Elizondo also told himabout having screened the Big Sur film, and that it did indeed capture an amazing, UFO-related, dummy warhead-interference event."
He added that It seems that the video may have been lost when the Pentagon destroyed Elizondo's files and emails.
This would have occurred in 2017 after he resigned as AATIP director, which he claimed was in protest of the Pentagon covering up UFO matters.
He continued: "This highly unusual move by the Pentagon is in direct violation of a legal Preservation Order that was mandated based on Elizondo’s other duties at the time."
And finished: "The order requires all of Elizondo’s electronic and hard copy files to be preserved indefinitely, including email and correspondence."
Apart from the video, there is some limited evidence supporting the story.
A declassified but unreleased set of radar data of the September 15, 1964 event apparently confirmed that an unidentified aerial object was observed near the dummy warhead during the missile test, a source told Hastings.
The analysis of the radar data suggested that the unidentified object could have been debris.
It's also possible that it was "chaff," metallic objects meant to confuse radar to prevent enemies from pinpointing the exact location of a warhead.
Hastings wrote: "So, perhaps the mysterious target tracked on radar near the warhead was merely the chaff."
He added: "On the other hand, it may have indeed been the actual UFO, whose presence the author of the radar data report would probably not have known about, given the incident’s Top Secret status."
It comes as a congressman who attended a "James Bond-style" UFO briefing revealed he believes the US government is covering up evidence.
Rep. Tim Burchett attended the meeting after shocking testimony was given by whistleblower and former US intelligence officer David Grusch.
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Multiple US military whistleblowers reveal how a disc-shaped UFO intercepted nuclear missile and disabled it with 'laser-beams' in mid-air over California
Multiple US military whistleblowers reveal how a disc-shaped UFO intercepted nuclear missile and disabled it with 'laser-beams' in mid-air over California
Multiple former military officials report seeing video of a UFO disabling warhead
The video was taken on September 15, 1964, but has gone missing in years since
The US military is in possession of a video of a UFO apparently disabling a nuclear warhead during a routine test, according to multiple former officials.
They claim the video in question captured a saucer-shaped craft circling the unarmed, dummy warhead shortly after it detached from the Atlas missile booster, then shooting four beams of light at the warhead, disabling it.
Retired US Air Force officers Lieutenant Bob Jacobs and Major Florenze Mansmann claim to have viewed the recording of the 1964 encounter before the tape went missing.
The former officials were part of a team responsible for capturing video of missile test launches in California with telescopic photography and videography equipment.
Two days later, after they screened the video, they claim that two plain-clothed CIA agents confiscated the footage and swore them to secrecy.
The incredible account is part of a pattern that some UFO experts have identified, where UFOs seem to interfere with nuclear weapons.
Retired Air Force Major Florenze Mansmann claimed he saw a flying saucer disable a dummy nuclear warhead during a missile test. He was ordered not to breathe a word of what he had seen
The alleged incident occurred nearly six decades ago, on September 15, 1964, but it has more recently come into public knowledge due to author Robert Hastings investigating it.
Luis Elizondo acknowledged the existence of the video and claimed he has seen it, according to a February 10 post by Hastings on The UFO Chronicles website.
Elizondo says he was the former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) program to study UFOs, and he has been involved in several high-profile leaks of military footage purporting to show UFOs.
Graphic re-creation of what happened in the 1964 video when a UFO allegedly intercepted the Atlas rocket over the Pacific Ocean
An unnamed source revealed to Hastings that Elizondo confirmed the details of the event in internal interviews.
Back in the 1960s, Jacobs was in charge of a military telescopic photography site in Big Sur, California, which captured the video as the missile traveled several thousand miles per hour in its planned flight path over the Pacific Ocean.
At the time, Mansmann was the chief photographic imagery analyst at Vandenberg Air Force Base - now called Vandenberg Space Force Base - in Santa Barbara County, California.
The Cold War was progressing apace, including lots of black ops programs testing sophisticated and secret military hardware. Some UFO skeptics have claimed that reports of UFOs provided cover for these programs.
Lieutenant Bob Jacobs, at the middle and bottom, pictured with his crew. Jacobs reported his sighting in the press in 1982 but was ridiculed and threatened for his claims
The craft inadvertently caught on film was domed and disc-shaped, according to Jacobs and Mansmann.
It was a 'classic disc, the center seemed to be a raised bubble...the entire lower saucer shape was glowing and seemed to be rotating slowly,' according to a letter Mansmann wrote about the incident in 1983.
'At the point of beam release...the object turned like an object required to be in a position to fire from a platform...but again this could be my own assumption from being in aerial combat.'
Forty years later, a US Senate investigator told Hastings that Elizondo had confirmed this description in an official interview last year.
'During that briefing, the former AATIP director confirmed the existence of the video, the details regarding what it showed, and the location of a copy of it in AATIP’s workspaces,' Hastings wrote in the new post.
Despite Mansmann telling Jacobs not to discuss what they had seen, Jacobs began to talk about the event in 1982, thinking enough time had passed since the event that he could speak freely about what he saw.
But his claims were dismissed by skeptics, and he was even subjected to harassment and anonymous death threats.
Hastings' new report appears to match up with Elizondo's recollection of the video.
Luis Elizondo, former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) told a Senate investigator that he had seen the 1964 video
When investigators went to look for the DVD recording of the video, where Elizondo had told them it was, it was not there, Hastings reported.
And although the recording is missing and the story of Elizondo viewing the recording comes secondhand from an investigator, Hastings reported that he has additional evidence to support it:
'On November 10, 2023, a highly-reliable source - who I am not at liberty to identify - told me that UAP [unidentified anomalous phenomena] whistleblower David Grusch has privately confirmed that Elizondo also told him about having screened the Big Sur film, and that it did indeed capture an amazing, UFO-related, dummy warhead-interference event.'
It seems that the video may have been lost when the Pentagon destroyed Elizondo's files and emails, Hastings wrote. This would have occurred in 2017 after he resigned as AATIP director, which he claimed was in protest of the Pentagon covering up UFO matters.
'This highly unusual move by the Pentagon is in direct violation of a legal Preservation Order that was mandated based on Elizondo’s other duties at the time,' Hastings wrote. 'The order requires all of Elizondo’s electronic and hard copy files to be preserved indefinitely, including email and correspondence.'
Beyond the video, there is some limited evidence supporting the story.
A declassified but unreleased set of radar data of the September 15, 1964 event apparently confirmed that an unidentified aerial object was observed near the dummy warhead during the missile test, a source told Hastings.
The analysis of the radar data at the time suggested that the unidentified object could have been debris. It's also possible that it was 'chaff,' metallic objects meant to confuse radar to prevent enemies from pinpointing the exact location of a warhead.
'So, perhaps the mysterious target tracked on radar near the warhead was merely the chaff,' Hastings wrote. 'On the other hand, it may have indeed been the actual UFO, whose presence the author of the radar data report would probably not have known about, given the incident’s Top Secret status.'
Individuals hoping to find aliens and UFOs in the US will likely have the best luck in spotting them out west.
According to data submitted by the National UFO Reporting Center and the US Census Bureau, more than 100,000alien sightings have been submitted to the Reporting Center between 2000 and 2023.
Unveiling America’s UFO Hotspots: A Journey from Coast to Coast
Today, the national average of alien sightings between those years nationwide is 34.3 per 100,000 residents.
But, one county that is known for being home to maybe the most famous alien landmark ranks on top of the list. Lincoln County, Nevada, home to Area 51, is the county with the most of the list.
The county is home to a whopping 820.9 sightings per 100,000 residents.
Other areas that have all had nearly 500-600 alien sightings between 2003 and 2023 are Alpine County, California, Petroleum County, Montana, and La Paz County, Arizona.
According to data submitted by the National UFO Reporting Center and US Census Bureau, more than 100,000 alien sightings have been submitted to the Reporting Center between 2000 and 2023. Lincoln County, Nevada , home to Area 51, is the county with the most of the list.
Area 51 is one of the most famous classified air force bases that has been full of urban legends regarding aliens and UFOs
Area 51 is one of the most famous classified air force bases that has been full of urban legends regarding aliens and UFOs.
Eric Taber has been a defense aerospace contractor for 13 years and has held a security clearance to work on military aircraft.
In a recent interview with DailyMail.com, he revealed the story his late great uncle Sam Urquhart, an Area 51 contractor, told him about a UFO at the mysterious desert base.
Taber testified in May to the Pentagon's UFO investigation unit, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), who are collecting accounts of alleged government possession of non-human craft.
The claim – though an unverified story from a now-deceased witness – is part of a long history of rumors about potential extraterrestrial craft or futuristic spaceships stored at the Nevada desert airbase near Groom Lake, north of Las Vegas.
Urquhart began his job at Area 51 working for defense contractor EG&G, which later partnered with Raytheon to become JT3 LLC and subsequently JT4 LLC.
'He was head of security for his engineering group, and a data configuration specialist. His group did radar cross-section testing.
'I kept asking him about UFOs. He said 'I know nothing'. Then one day we were on his back porch and he said 'Ok, I'll tell you about one craft that I knew of.'
'He said, 'When I first got there in 1997, I had a personal conversation with a senior EG&G engineer whose group was tasked with trying to reverse-engineer an object that was brought there by some CIA people in the 1980s.'
'It was supposedly just found in a remote desert location fully intact.
'The senior EG&G engineer described to my great uncle that it was egg-shaped, about the size of an SUV, smooth and seamless, metallic-looking, silverish gray in color, with no control surfaces, no flaps, no inlet, and no exhaust, and no writing or symbols on the outside.
'These are the best and brightest engineers you can think of. They tried to no avail to figure out what the power source was, how to activate it, and how it works. They tried to induce electricity to it.
'X-rays couldn't penetrate it; it showed up on X-ray as a solid object. They tried to open it and penetrate its hull; they couldn't.
'They said that they were able to take some very small samples of the material. And I'm not an expert in chemistry, but I guess from the isotope ratio or the mixture of elements, they concluded it was not made on Earth.'
But, Area 51 and Nevada aren't the only places where UFO sightings are common. Arthur County, Nebraska, placed second on the list with 618.6 sightings. The tiny county is home to just 434 people.
Third on the list was Alpine County, California, which is home to 1,204 people and the population votes entirely by mail.
Petroleum County, Montana, was fourth on the list and was the last of the state's 56 countries to be organized. It is home to just 524 people and two rivers.
Fifth on the list was La Paz County, Arizona, which is home to about 16,557 people. The county is located in rural western Arizona and home to several ghost towns.
La Paz County in Arizona (pictured) also ranked high on UFO sightings. The county is home to about 16,557 people.
According to veteran scientist and intelligence officer Sean Kirkpatrick, individuals who believe in aliens may hold a position in the US government.
'True believers are not just outside of government; many of them are inside government,' said Kirkpatrick.
Nevada's late US Senator Harry Reid was one such believe of extra terrestrial life.
'Senator Harry Reid was a true believer and thought that 'Hey, the government is hiding this from congressional oversight,'' the scientist stated.
More discussions have occurred over the years from individuals looking to get answers on the existence of aliens and UFOs.
US representative Robert Garcia even voiced an opinion about unidentified aerial phenomena last year.
'UAPs, whatever they may be, may pose a serious threat to our military and our civilian aircraft, and that must be understood,' he stated.
'We should encourage more reporting, not less on UAPs. The more we understand, the safer we will be.'
Mysterious footage shows a group of UFOs flying above Philadelphia - with two of the crafts even strangely merging together
Late last year, President Joe Biden's December visit to Los Angeles for a campaign fundraiser caused such a hullaballoo even aliens may have wanted to see what all the fuss was about
At about 4:14 PM on November 7, 2006, a ramp employee at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago spotted a metallic, saucer-shaped craft hovering in the sky. Pictured: An image of the UFO believed to be taken on an airport employee's phone
There have been countless UFO sightings across America in recent years. Earlier this year, mysterious footage shows a group of UFOs flying above Philadelphia - with two of the crafts even strangely merging together.
A witness uploaded the bizarre video of the sighting on Reddit and described the large cluster of lights as 'spinning and darting back and forth.'
The user said the multicolored lights were flying 'very high' above Philadelphia.
The sighting, which lasted for five minutes and was witnessed by at least 12 United Airlines staffers, made international headlines thanks to a tape of Federal Aviation Administration radio communications released via the Freedom of Information Act.
Although the FAA attributed the incident to a 'hole-punch cloud' and astronomer Mark Hammergren, then with Chicago's Adler Planetarium, agreed, the case has remained unresolved — and tantalizing to UFO researchers ever since.
Andrew McAuley was born on August 7, 1968, in Gurn, Australia. Growing up, McAuley and his brother engaged in various outdoor activities, such as swimming, climbing trees, and diving from cliffs, fostering a fearless and adventurous spirit. This early exposure to the great outdoors laid the foundation for McAuley’s extraordinary exploits in the years to come.
McAuley’s journey into kayaking began during a trip to South America in the late 1990s. Encountering a severe storm while mountaineering, McAuley and his friends navigated through mountain gorges using kayaks. This experience revealed the raw power and freedom of kayaking, leaving a lasting impact on McAuley.
In the early 2000s, McAuley’s kayaking exploits gained momentum. In 2003, he achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first person to kayak solo across the notorious Bass Strait, a treacherous 250 km stretch of water between mainland Australia and Tasmania. This journey, completed in 35 hours, showcased McAuley’s skill, determination, and meticulous planning.
Not content with this accomplishment, McAuley embarked on a nearly 600 km journey across the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia in the following years. This week-long expedition tested his endurance, resilience, and ability to sleep in his kayak – preparing him for even greater challenges.
Antarctic Expedition and Recognition
McAuley’s reputation as an adventurer was solidified in 2005 when the Australian Geographic Society awarded him the Adventurer of the Year. His journeys were not merely about personal achievement; they were about venturing into the unknown and facing life-threatening situations.
In 2006, McAuley led an Antarctic expedition where kayakers covered an 800 km stretch along the Antarctic coast. This experience further honed McAuley’s skills and deepened his expertise in navigating through perilous conditions.
The Ultimate Challenge – Tasman Sea Crossing
McAuley’s ultimate challenge lay in the Tasman Sea, a vast and volatile stretch of water between Australia and New Zealand. Considered one of the most dangerous and unpredictable oceans globally, the Tasman Sea presented a daunting challenge that had defeated many before him. Undeterred, McAuley aimed to be the first to cross it solo in a kayak.
The preparation for the Tasman Sea crossing was exhaustive. McAuley worked closely with engineers to design a kayak capable of withstanding the sea’s worst conditions. The resulting kayak, named Mirage, featured a specially designed capsule known as Casper. This capsule, made from fiberglass, was watertight and buoyant, providing McAuley with shelter during storms and allowing him to sleep relatively comfortably.
The Voyage Across the Tasman Sea
The Tasman Sea crossing was not just another expedition for McAuley; it was the ultimate test of his mettle. Stretching approximately 2,000 km, the Tasman Sea was notorious for its rough conditions, including treacherous waves, unpredictable weather, and strong currents.
McAuley’s meticulous planning included researching weather patterns, studying previous attempts, and understanding the sea’s behavior. Physical fitness was paramount, and McAuley underwent a rigorous training regimen to prepare his body for the continuous strain of paddling and the challenges of being confined to a small space.
Andrew McAuley’s solo sea kayak journey across the Tasman Sea was a monumental undertaking. The stormy southern ocean proved to be a formidable adversary, with relentless waves transforming it into a tumultuous sea of mercury. Amidst this chaos, McAuley found himself battling the elements, struggling to keep his touring kayak afloat. The howling wind whipped the waves into a stinging spray, creating a hostile environment for the intrepid adventurer.
“I GUESS I’M REALLY DRAWN TO A JOURNEY LIKE THIS—IT’S A REAL PERSONAL CHALLENGE. THERE’S A GREAT DEAL OF SATISFACTION IN COMING UP WITH AN ADVENTURE THAT’S UNLIKELY AND IMPROBABLE.”
– Andrew McAuley
As McAuley pressed on with his journey, one night in January 2007, he found himself in the midst of a ferocious storm. He was two-thirds through the 1,600-kilometer open ocean crossing from the east coast of Tasmania to New Zealand’s South Island. Locked up in his kayak for 28 hours, McAuley faced the relentless fury of the storm, both external and internal battles raging simultaneously.
“THIS REALLY IS EXTREME. IT’S FULL ON. I REALLY COULD DIE.”
– Andrew McAuley
Days later, with the storm behind him and the seas relatively calm, McAuley vanished. The mountaintops of New Zealand’s southern Alps loomed on the horizon, and the paddling community, along with his family and friends, was left grappling with a perplexing mystery. What had happened to the experienced adventurer so close to completing such a challenging journey?
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– André Gide
Andrew McAuley had been drawn to this adventure by a deeply felt inner voice, seeking personal challenge and satisfaction in the face of the unlikely and improbable. He was no stranger to risk, having spent nearly a decade preparing for the journey. McAuley, an IT consultant from suburban Sydney, had a diverse adventurous background, previously dedicating his energies to mountaineering and making first ascents in challenging terrains like Pakistan, Patagonia, and Australia.
“When you do [a trip like this], you are exposing yourself to criticism. I take risks, but they are calculated risks, and I want to be beyond criticism.”
– Andrew McAuley
The solo sea kayak crossing was not taken lightly by authorities. Both Tasmanian police and Australia’s search and rescue service had cautioned against the inherently dangerous trip. McAuley’s kayak, a standard 19-foot Mirage modified for sleeping inside the cockpit, underwent thorough testing to ensure its seaworthiness. A yellow fiberglass canopy, humorously named “Casper,” provided self-righting capability and protection during storms.
“We had strongly advised against the trip to start with because we believed it was inherently dangerous.”
– AusSAR spokesperson
McAuley’s journey took him below the 40th parallel, known as the Roaring Forties, a region feared by sailors for its treacherous weather and storms. Two-thirds into his voyage, he faced a 40-knot gale that knocked out his spare satellite phone and tracking beacon. Surviving the storm, McAuley sent a triumphant text message to his family when he was just 120 kilometers away from his destination.
“See you 9 a.m. Sunday!”
– Andrew McAuley
Tragically, McAuley disappeared shortly after this message. A scrambled radio call with distressing words led to a search that uncovered his upturned kayak in near-perfect condition, just offshore of Milford Sound. The cockpit canopy was missing, but the paddle, satellite phone, GPS, and emergency beacon were inside and functional. Despite extensive search efforts, McAuley was not found.
“The EPIRB is a last resort. It is far better (if possible) to make contact by phone or radio and let people know the exact situation—rather than the huge panic and search that an EPIRB generates.”
– Laurie Ford
Speculation arose about McAuley’s fate, with the kayak’s designer suggesting that he may have capsized without the cockpit cover and became separated from his kayak. The mystery of Andrew McAuley’s disappearance continues to perplex, leaving the paddling community and McAuley’s loved ones with unanswered questions about the fate of this adventurous soul.
McAuley’s past experiences of capsizing twice, coupled with the complicated re-entry procedure due to the cockpit cover, video camera, and other deck-mounted gear, made him cautious about a potential capsize during his Tasman Sea journey. His kayak had an oversized cockpit and lacked a standard seat, making rolling impossible. Modifications, such as removing the seat for sleeping and accessing gear, were necessary. He sat on a beanbag, doubling as a pillow, and retrieved gear from the rear compartment by lying down and rolling onto his stomach, using strings to pull his gear forward.
“Responsible adventure is character-building and good for people, but I felt that to continue on this occasion was not on.”
– Andrew McAuley
Paul Hewitson, the kayak’s designer, speculated that McAuley, with the mountains in sight, might have been eager to reach land and pushed too hard. Facing a small cold front, he might not have worn his drysuit, a decision he planned to make in rough weather. Disaster often strikes those nearing safety, and McAuley, possibly fatigued, may have prioritized making miles over seeking shelter beneath the canopy.
“Andrew thinks the same as I do on this subject… The EPIRB is a last resort. It is far better (if possible) to make contact by phone or radio and let people know the exact situation—rather than the huge panic and search that an EPIRB generates.”
– Laurie Ford
After a possible capsize, McAuley might have unscrewed the rear hatch to access his VHF radio and drysuit. During the struggle into the drysuit, he could have become separated from the kayak, along with the Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB). McAuley’s decision not to trigger the EPIRB immediately raised questions, but Tasmanian kayaker Laurie Ford suggested that McAuley, like himself, considered the EPIRB a last resort. McAuley may have intended to use it once he was in the drysuit, but the kayak’s separation thwarted his plans.
“It was the separation from the kayak that brought him undone.”
– Laurie Ford
Tragically, McAuley had overlooked a crucial detail—attaching the EPIRB to himself, not the boat. Ford speculated that a strobe light might have increased the chances of being spotted by rescuers on the first night of the search.
“Andrew thinks the same as I do on this subject… It is far better (if possible) to make contact by phone or radio and let people know the exact situation—rather than the huge panic and search that an EPIRB generates.”
– Laurie Ford
In McAuley’s final days, he acknowledged the possibility of miscalculations, pushing boundaries too far, and the extreme nature of his adventure. A self-portrait taken near the end of his journey revealed a stark contrast to the confident athlete seen in earlier photographs. At a memorial service, a haunting message recovered from McAuley’s kayak emphasized the severity of his endeavor:
“THIS REALLY IS EXTREME. IT’S FULL ON. I REALLY COULD DIE.”
– Andrew McAuley
Despite the public criticism of extreme adventuring, McAuley’s family, especially his wife Vicki, emphasized that it was Andrew’s drive to explore his limits that defined him. In the face of inevitable questions about the perceived selfishness or imprudence of his adventure, Vicki highlighted a quote from André Gide on McAuley’s website:
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– André Gide
Andrew McAuley’s attempt to cross the Tasman Sea solo in a kayak was an epic journey that left an indelible mark on the world of adventure. McAuley’s story became a beacon for discussions on safety, preparedness, and the spirit of exploration within the kayaking community and among solo adventurers worldwide.
The legacy of McAuley’s journey extended beyond his final voyage. It prompted discussions on safety protocols, risk management, and the importance of advanced preparation for solo expeditions. McAuley’s story inspired innovations in kayaking equipment and technology, leading to improved safety measures and communication devices.
His disappearance remains a profound mystery, fueling continued speculation and intrigue within the adventure community. McAuley’s enduring impact is reflected in the changes and conversations sparked within the kayaking community, emphasizing the delicate balance between the human spirit’s desire to explore and the respect owed to the unpredictable forces of nature.
After Three Years on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends
After Three Years on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends
Perseverance Checks Out Ingenuity: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen Aug. 2, 2023, in an enhanced-color image captured by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover.
NASA has proven powered, controlled flight is possible on other worlds, just as the Wright brothers proved it was possible on Earth.
NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers, imagery of its Jan. 18 flight sent to Earth this week indicates one or more of its rotor blades sustained damage during landing and it is no longer capable of flight.
Originally designed as a technology demonstration to perform up to five experimental test flights over 30 days, the first aircraft on another world operated from the Martian surface for almost three years, performed 72 flights, and flew more than 14 times farther than planned while logging more than two hours of total flight time.
“The historic journey of Ingenuity, the first aircraft on another planet, has come to end,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “That remarkable helicopter flew higher and farther than we ever imagined and helped NASA do what we do best – make the impossible, possible. Through missions like Ingenuity, NASA is paving the way for future flight in our solar system and smarter, safer human exploration to Mars and beyond.”
NASA to Discuss Ingenuity Mission in Media Call Today
In addition to video comments shared from Nelson about the mission’s conclusion, NASA will host a media teleconference at 5 p.m. EST today, Thursday, Jan. 25, to provide an update on Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
Audio of the call will stream live on the agency’s website.
Participants in the call are expected to include:
Lori Glaze, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s headquarters in Washington
Laurie Leshin, director, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity project manager, NASA JPL
Ingenuity landed on Mars Feb. 18, 2021, attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover and first lifted off the Martian surface on April 19, proving that powered, controlled flight on Mars was possible. After notching another four flights, it embarked on a new mission as an operations demonstration, serving as an aerial scout for Perseverance scientists and rover drivers. In 2023, the helicopter executed two successful flight tests that further expanded the team’s knowledge of its aerodynamic limits.
“At NASA JPL, innovation is at the heart of what we do,” said Leshin. “Ingenuity is an exemplar of the way we push the boundaries of what’s possible every day. I’m incredibly proud of our team behind this historic technological achievement and eager to see what they’ll invent next.”
Ingenuity’s team planned for the helicopter to make a short vertical flight on Jan. 18 to determine its location after executing an emergency landing on its previous flight. Data shows that, as planned, the helicopter achieved a maximum altitude of 40 feet (12 meters) and hovered for 4.5 seconds before starting its descent at a velocity of 3.3 feet per second (1 meter per second).
However, about 3 feet (1 meter) above the surface, Ingenuity lost contact with the rover, which serves as a communications relay for the rotorcraft. The following day, communications were reestablished and more information about the flight was relayed to ground controllers at NASA JPL. Imagery revealing damage to the rotor blade arrived several days later. The cause of the communications dropout and the helicopter’s orientation at time of touchdown are still being investigated.
Triumphs, Challenges
Over an extended mission that lasted for almost 1,000 Martian days, more than 33 times longer than originally planned, Ingenuity was upgraded with the ability to autonomously choose landing sites in treacherous terrain, dealt with a dead sensor, cleaned itself after dust storms, operated from 48 different airfields, performed three emergency landings, and survived a frigid Martian winter.
Designed to operate in spring, Ingenuity was unable to power its heaters throughout the night during the coldest parts of winter, resulting in the flight computer periodically freezing and resetting. These power “brownouts” required the team to redesign Ingenuity’s winter operations in order to keep flying.
With flight operations now concluded, the Ingenuity team will perform final tests on helicopter systems and download the remaining imagery and data in Ingenuity’s onboard memory. The Perseverance rover is currently too far away to attempt to image the helicopter at its final airfield.
“It’s humbling Ingenuity not only carries onboard a swatch from the original Wright Flyer, but also this helicopter followed in its footsteps and proved flight is possible on another world,” said Ingenuity’s project manager, Teddy Tzanetos of NASA JPL. “The Mars helicopter would have never flown once, much less 72 times, if it were not for the passion and dedication of the Ingenuity and Perseverance teams. History’s first Mars helicopter will leave behind an indelible mark on the future of space exploration and will inspire fleets of aircraft on Mars – and other worlds – for decades to come.”
More About Ingenuity
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by NASA JPL, which also manages the project for NASA Headquarters. It is supported by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley and NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity’s development. AeroVironment Inc., Qualcomm, and SolAero also provided design assistance and major vehicle components. Lockheed Space designed and manufactured the Mars Helicopter Delivery System. At NASA Headquarters, Dave Lavery is the program executive for the Ingenuity Mars helicopter.
DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 agle@jpl.nasa.gov
Perseverance Spots Ingenuity at Its Final Airfield
February 06, 2024
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic showing the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at its final airfield on Feb. 4, 2024. The helicopter damaged its rotor blades during landing on its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024. The Ingenuity team has nicknamed the spot where the helicopter completed its final flight “Valinor Hills” after the fictional location in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels, which include “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
The six images that were stitched together to make up this mosaic were captured from about 1,475 feet (450 meters) away by the rover’s Mastcam-Z imager. Shown here is an enhanced-color view that exaggerates subtle color differences in the scene to show more detail.
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the project for NASA Headquarters. It is supported by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley and NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity’s development. AeroVironment Inc., Qualcomm, and SolAero also provided design assistance and major vehicle components. Lockheed Martin Space designed and manufactured the Mars Helicopter Delivery System.
Arizona State University leads the operations of the Mastcam-Z instrument, working in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, on the design, fabrication, testing, and operation of the cameras, and in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen on the design, fabrication, and testing of the calibration targets.
A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
JPL which is managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
Mars Report: The Most Extreme Flights of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
February 01, 2024
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter pushed aerodynamic limits during the final months of its mission, setting new records for speed, distance, and altitude. Hear from Ingenuity chief engineer Travis Brown on how the data the team collected could eventually be used in future rotorcraft designs.
Ingenuity was originally designed to make up to five flights – but completed 72 before sustaining rotor-blade damage that rendered it unable to fly. NASA announced the end of the helicopter’s mission on Jan. 25, 2024. The maximum altitude achieved by the helicopter during its mission was 79 feet (24 meters), on Flight 61. The maximum groundspeed was 22.4 mph (10 meters per second), reached during Flights 62, 68, and 69. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California built and manages operations for Ingenuity and the Perseverance Mars rover.
Travis Brown: The Ingenuity Mars helicopter was designed to push the limits. And I'm going to show you how we've taken it to the extreme.
Today, we're here in the aerial vehicles lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where we develop prototype helicopters.
Ingenuity started off as a tech demo to push the aeronautical boundaries over the course of five flights.
Then we transitioned into an operational demo phase where we partnered with the Perseverance rover to do science and scouting.
But about a year ago, when the Perseverance rover started racing up the Jezero Crater delta, we actually found that we had to work pretty hard to stay ahead of the rover.
We decided it was time to shift gears again, once again pushing the boundaries of Martian flight.
This campaign really began in earnest with Flight 49, where we simultaneously set new speed and altitude records.
By Flight 62, we had nearly doubled our max speed and doubled our max altitude.
We also tested different landing speeds - faster to save energy and slower to reduce landing loads. Both of these strategies may be used on future helicopters.
We performed a type of flight testing called system identification.
This is a crucial but risky procedure that helps us understand the vehicle's performance by how it responds.
Our team also devised new ways to target the high-resolution camera, which allows us to provide advanced reconnaissance imaging for the rover.
And we were able to take stunning shots like this one of Belva Crater from Flight 51.
In addition, Ingenuity conducted several first-of-their-kind experiments on Martian wind and dust movement, which gave us new insight into the Martian atmosphere.
What we've learned will help us design the next generation of Martian rotorcraft.
We're testing more efficient blades.
We’re also working on a Mars Science Helicopter concept that could potentially transport heavier payloads and take us to more exciting locations on Mars.
When people look back at ingenuity, I really hope that they see how much this one small helicopter has done to elevate the limits of human achievement.
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The Legacy of Ingenuity: The Frontier of Extraterrestrial Flight
January 25, 2024
On April 19, 2021, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it completed the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. It flew for the last time on January 18, 2024.
Designed to be a technology demonstration that would make no more than five test flights in 30 days, the helicopter eventually completed 72 flights in just under 3 years, soaring higher and faster than previously imagined. Ingenuity embarked on a new mission as an operations demonstration, serving as an aerial scout for scientists and rover planners, and for engineers ready to learn more about Perseverance’s landing gear debris.
In its final phase, the helicopter entered a new engineering demonstration phase where it executed experimental flight tests that further expanded the team’s knowledge of the vehicle’s aerodynamic limits.
Researchers pose with a fragment of asteroid 2024 BX1 they found in Germany. The rock is a very rare type of meteorite called an aubrite.
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Just after midnight on January 21, a roughly three-foot-long asteroid fell through Earth’s atmosphere—burning up in a blazing fireball seen across much of Europe and crashing to the ground as fragments of meteorite near Berlin, Germany.
When scientists arrived on the scene to recover and classify the pieces, they discovered something remarkably rare: The rocks belonged to an extremely uncommon group of meteorites known as aubrites, which remain mysterious to researchers. Just 80 of the roughly 70,000 recovered meteorite fragments had been classified as aubrites prior to this new impact.
“Currently, there isn't an agreed-upon origin of aubrites, and several candidates have been put forward: the Nysa asteroid family, asteroid 3103 Eger and even the planet Mercury,” Denis Vida, a meteor physics researcher at Western University in Canada, tells Robert Lea of Space.com. “They make up only 1 percent of all known meteorites, making it very rare indeed.”
Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky first spotted the asteroid, named 2024 BX1, about three hours before impact, and NASA tracked its trajectory to predict where it would fall—in itself a rare feat. The object did not harm any people.
As news of the impact spread to the public, meteorite hunters began scouring Ribbeck, a village near Berlin, for fragments of the rock. But the search proved particularly challenging. Unlike most meteorites, which have a thin crust of black glass, aubrites do not appear glossy or dark in color.
“Aubrites look more like a gray granite,” Christopher Hamann from Berlin’s Natural History Museum says in the statement. “It looks completely different than most other meteorites. Aubrites are therefore difficult to detect in the field.”
Peter Jenniskens, an astronomer at the SETI Institute, flew to Germany from California hours after he heard about the 2024 BX1 impact, reports Jonathan O’Callaghan of the New York Times. Though he had participated in three other meteorite searches in the past, it took several days for Jenniskens and a team of students and volunteers to come across these fragments about the size of a walnut.
“They were devilishly difficult to find, because from a distance, they look like other rocks on Earth. Close up, not so much,” Jenniskens says in the statement. “We only spotted the meteorites after a Polish team of meteorite hunters had identified the first find and could show us what to look for.”
The advice proved valuable—two hours after receiving the pointers, Jenniskens’ team found their first fragment. By the time they stopped looking, their search had revealed more than 20 meteorite pieces.
The official classification as an aubrite, following a mineralogy assessment conducted with an electron beam microprobe, came from Berlin’s Natural History Museum. Then, the International Nomenclature Commission of the Meteoritical Society confirmed it, reports Kelly Kizer Whitt for EarthSky. The museum collection contains a fragment from the first known aubrite meteorite that fell in 1836 near the village of Aubrés in France, which became the type’s namesake.
“Based on this evidence, we were able to make a rough classification relatively quickly,” Ansgar Greshake, scientific head of the museum's meteorite collection, says in the statement. “This underlines the immense importance of collections for research. So far, there is only material from 11 other observed falls of this type in meteorite collections worldwide.”
A meteorite that fell near Berlin on Jan. 21 was found be an aubrite, a rare class with unknown origins that some scientists argue may be pieces of the planet Mercury.
Credit...Peter Jenniskens/The SETI Institute
While Mercury remains a potential origin of aubrite meteorites, some astronomers find it unlikely in this case. The initial calculated orbit of 2024 BX1 appears wider, suggesting it came from outside of Earth’s orbit, per the Times.
“Therefore, this object could not have come to us directly from Mercury,” Marc Fries, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, tells the publication.
In a way, though, it might have come indirectly from Mercury, since the inner planet may have projected aubrites to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter long ago. One of these might have just made its way to Earth, and that could account for the wide orbit. But Fries remains doubtful, per the Times.
Despite the uncertainty regarding the meteorite’s origin, its fragments hold information that can help scientists better understand the universe.
“With this being a fresh fall, enabling quick lab analysis and such an accurate orbit, I am confident that this rock will get us one step closer to understanding the origin of aubrites and help piece together the story of the formation of the solar system,” Vida says toSpace.com.
A handful of meteorites crash-landed outside Berlin in late January and, after further inspection, turned out to be one of the rarest types of space rock ever recovered on Earth.
Last month, a three-foot-wide asteroid plummeted to its fiery doom in Earth’s atmosphere. Astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky of Konkoly Observatory in Hungary spotted the small asteroid, formally called 2024 BX1, only a matter of hours before it collided with Earth’s upper atmosphere. The next few hours were a frenzy of activity, with astronomers from NASA, the ESA, and several universities working together to track the meteor’s trajectory through the sky.
High above the ground, 2024 BX1 broke apart in a bright fireball, and astronomers at the Czech Academy of Sciences calculated where the pieces would fall (south of the German village of Ribbeck, outside Berlin) based on the weather, particularly strong winds. SETI Insitute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens and a team of staff and students from several universities combed the fields around Ribbeck for meteorites: fragments of the asteroid that had survived the heat and friction of falling through Earth’s atmosphere.
Recent testing at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin showed that the meteorites are an extremely rare type of space rock called aubrites.
Aubrites make up only about 1 in 10,000 recovered meteorites. They look like gray granite with a thin crust of translucent glass, and they’re made of magnesium silicate minerals with almost no iron mixed in, which is highly unusual for a meteorite. Their big, chunky crystals are evidence that aubrites formed from cooling magma.
Aubrites probably formed as part of an asteroid, only to end up broken off by impacts with other drifting space rocks; 3103 Eger is the leading candidate. Some astronomers, however, have suggested that aubrites may actually be long-lost chunks of the planet Mercury.
Data shared by the National UFO Reporting Center shows The US hotspot for UFOs is Lincoln County, Nevada.
Lincoln County saw the most UFO sightings across all US counties between 2000 and 2023, at 820.9 per 100,000 residents, the non-profit reported, according to Axios.
East Coast hotspots included upstate New York’s Hamilton County (451.9) and Dare County, North Carolina (371.4).
The Center, which operates off user-submitted reports of unidentified aerial phenomena, says nearly 113,000 alien sightings have been submitted between 2000 and 2023.
The states with the most sightings in 2023 were California (440), Florida (293), Texas (230), Washington (212) and New York (156), the Center reported.
Overall, the sightings reported in 2023 (4,186) were down 19% from 2022 (5,174), the Center said.
The Texas incident occurred on Jan. 4 over the small town of Forney at about 9:20 p.m., and featured a glowing object resembling a computer cursor in the sky.
“That is not a motherf–ing airplane!” the witness, an unnamed Texan is heard exclaiming on the 13-second video. The Center purposefully withholds names of witnesses to protect their identities.
Meanwhile, the Utah sighting took place in May 2021 near Arches National Park, and resembled a scene out of “Top Gun” with two spherical metal objects soaring by on the same flight path.
“There’s certainly a sign that there’s something anomalous going on and it would be nice if the government paid more attention and did some serious research,” Stepien said of the two peculiar clips, adding, “You can tell by the way that one guy [the Texan] is talking that he’s pretty blown away by what he’s looking at. A V-shaped craft.”
Last fall, the Pentagon launched a new portal where current and former service members, government employees and contractors can report UFO sightings.
The online form will help the Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office compile accounts of unidentified aerial phenomena sightings to include in its congressionally mandated Historical Record Report, which is due to Congress by June 2024.
The Pentagon investigated nearly 300 UFO — or, as they have since tried to rebrand them, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena [UAP] — sightings between April 31, 2022, and April 30, 2023, according to a report submitted to Congress last year.
Some of these flying objects exhibited “concerning performance characteristics” including high-speed travel and “unusual maneuverability,” according to the report, which noted, “none of these UAP reports have been positively attributed to foreign activities.”
Unveiling America’s UFO Hotspots: A Journey from Coast to Coast
Unveiling America’s UFO Hotspots: A Journey from Coast to Coast
Unveiling America’s UFO Hotspots: A Journey from Coast to Coast
In an era where the unknown beckons with a mix of intrigue and mystery, the United States stands out as a canvas painted with the extraordinary. Recent data has illuminated the contours of this canvas, revealing the hotbeds of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings across the nation. A fascinating map, compiled from submissions to the National UFO Reporting Center between 2000 and 2023, showcases nearly 113,000 instances where the sky whispered secrets of the cosmos to those willing to look up.
The map highlights a national average of 34.3 UFO sightings per 100,000 residents, a testament to America’s keen interest in celestial phenomena. Yet, certain locales emerge as veritable nexuses of extraterrestrial activity, drawing the curious and the skeptical alike into their orbit. Lincoln County, Nevada, with its legendary Area 51, leads the pack with an astounding 820.9 sightings per 100,000 residents. This county, synonymous with UFO lore, is but the tip of the iceberg in a list that includes Alpine County, California; Petroleum County, Montana; and La Paz County, Arizona, each with sightings nearing the 500-600 mark within the same period.
These numbers not only quantify the sightings but also narrate the evolving relationship between humans and the universe’s mysteries. They speak of nights spent under stars, of eyes scanning the heavens, and of the relentless human quest for understanding.
In a reflection of this quest’s penetration into popular culture, the 2024 Super Bowl bore witness to an unprecedented melding of entertainment and enigma. A Squarespace commercial, directed by none other than Martin Scorsese, took the grand stage with a UFO-themed spectacle. Costing approximately $7 million for a 30-second slot, this ad ventured where few have dared, integrating UFOs into the tapestry of the Super Bowl’s illustrious advertising space.
The commercial humorously depicted humans, engrossed in their phones, oblivious to the dramatic antics of UFOs vying for attention overhead. Scenes interspersed with real soundbites from congressional hearings and news segments lent a grounding reality to the fantastical display. One particularly striking moment showed a woman on her phone, scrolling past a video labeled “Proof of Extraterrestrials” in favor of a cat video, a poignant commentary on modern-day distractions.
This blend of humor and reality serves not only as entertainment but as a reflection of a society at a crossroads. With the increasing legitimacy given to UFO sightings, as evidenced by the detailed map of hotspots and the mainstreaming of UFO discussions through platforms like the Super Bowl, America finds itself navigating a new era of curiosity and skepticism.
The Super Bowl commercial, titled “Hello Down There,” does more than just sell a product; it encapsulates a moment in time where the line between the known and the unknown blurs. It reminds viewers that, sometimes, looking up from our screens can reveal a universe of possibilities waiting to be explored.
As we chart the course through America’s UFO hotspots, from the deserts of Nevada to the remote expanses of Montana, the journey is as much about the destinations as it is about the quest itself. It’s a journey fueled by the human spirit’s unquenchable thirst for knowledge, a testament to our eternal desire to understand what lies beyond our reach. In the end, the map of UFO sightings and the spectacle of a Super Bowl commercial are but chapters in humanity’s ongoing story with the stars—a story that, day by day, grows ever more fascinating.
Early Mars was Tectonically and Volcanically Active, Study Suggests
Early Mars was Tectonically and Volcanically Active, Study Suggests
The relatively well-preserved ancient crust of Mars provides a natural window into early planetary evolution not available on Earth. Mars has generally been considered a one-plate basaltic planet, though recent evidence suggests magmatic evolution resulting in felsic crust might have occurred sporadically. New research shows multiple lines of evidence for diverse volcanism and complex volcanotectonics in the southern highlands of Mars within and around the 3.5 to 4-billion-year-old Eridania basin.
A topographic map of the Eridania region of Mars; volcanic structures described by Michalski et al. are classified by morphology and morphometrics.
Image credit: Michalski et al., doi: 10.1038/s41550-023-02191-7.
Contrary to Earth, present-day Mars has little to no volcanic or tectonic activity.
Further, almost half of the planet’s surface is more than 3.5 billion years old, indicating that there has been no extensive crustal recycling — a phenomenon usually powered by tectonics such as those on Earth in which surface material is recycled into the mantle — since then.
Recent discoveries suggest that this was not always the case, but Mars’ geological activity in the first billion years after its formation is still unclear.
“Geological exploration of other rocky planets provides clues to early crustal evolution and volcanotectonic processes because other bodies exemplify comparable geosystems with variable mass, gravity and composition,” said Dr. Joseph Michalski from the University of Hong Kong and his colleagues.
“Observed through the lenses of different gravity fields, bulk planet compositions and heat flow, it is possible to test models for crustal resurfacing and so discover the steps that led to plate tectonics and other forms of crustal recycling.”
“The planet Mars represents a particularly valuable puzzle piece in this regard.”
The authors studied the morphology and mineralogy of the Eridania region in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
They analyzed remote sensing data from various orbiters, including NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The Eridania region offers the strongest crustal remnants of Mars’ ancient magnetic field and various signatures of volcanism.
The researchers identified 63 instances of four different types of volcanoes (volcanic domes, stratovolcanoes, pyroclastic shields, and caldera complexes) with possibly hundreds more in the Eridania region alone, likely leftover from a vigorous period of geologic activity approximately 3.5 billion years ago.
This suite of observations is consistent with the presence of crustal recycling on early Mars driven by vertical tectonics, a kind of tectonic process precursor of full plate tectonics on Earth.
Such a variety of volcanic structures could be more widespread on ancient Mars than previously thought.
“The observed remnants of this activity may be the closest analogue on the planet to the hydrothermal origin of life scenarios proposed for Earth,” the scientists said.
Their paper was published today online in the journal Nature Astronomy.
J.R. Michalski et al. Diverse volcanism and crustal recycling on early Mars. Nat Astron, published online February 12, 2024; doi: 10.1038/s41550-023-02191-7
Een heel diep gat in China Het Tarim-bekken in de olierijke autonome regio Xinjiang Uygur is door China gekozen als locatie om een gat van 10.000 meter diep te graven. De vraag is, met welk doel?
De kern van de aarde China heeft al decennia lang een grote interesse in het verkennen van de aardkorst. Het lijkt erop dat ze nu klaar zijn om hun onderzoek naar de aardkorst te intensiveren door zo diep mogelijk te boren.
Een stap verder In feite heeft de Aziatische reus al jaren het binnenste van de aarde verkend, maar met dit gat willen ze plekken verkennen waar nog nooit iemand is geweest.
Mineralen en energiebronnen Volgens China Daily is het primaire doel om mineralen of energiebronnen te ontdekken die kunnen bijdragen aan de verbetering van de economie van het land.
Preventie van natuurrampen De Chinese president Xi Jinping meldde in 2021 dat dit megaproject ook zal dienen om toekomstige natuurrampen zoals vulkaanuitbarstingen of aardbevingen te beoordelen en mogelijk te voorkomen.
10 geologische lagen Om dit te bewerkstelligen werd het plan gemaakt om de diepste put in de geschiedenis van China te boren. Volgens Bloomberg zal een smalle boorput doordringen tot 10 verschillende geologische lagen in de continentale korst.
Op zoek naar het verre verleden Het doel is om het systeem krijt in de aardkorst te bereiken. Het door de staat gerunde persbureau Xinhua meldt dat ze rotsen verwachten tegen te komen van meer dan 145 miljoen jaar oud.
Kolossale machines Om dit project uit te voeren, zal China een booreiland van 2.000 ton gebruiken met hightech boorbits en boorpijp, meldt Interesting Engineering.
Problemen met het milieu Volgens Xinhua ligt het gekozen gebied voor deze bijna oneindige put in het stroomgebied van de Tarim-rivier en grenst het aan de Taklamakan-woestijn. Dit zal vanwege het zeer droge klimaat voor uitdagingen zorgen.
Zee, bergen en woestijngebied Dit is een gebied met een zeer uitdagend landschap. Bovendien zijn er ongunstige ondergrondse omstandigheden. Dit zal het boren nog complexer maken.
Wat als ze 11.000 meter bereiken? Desondanks kan de boorinstallatie die voor de put wordt gebruikt een diepte bereiken van 11.000 meter. Het is dus niet uitgesloten dat de put uiteindelijk dieper zal worden dan aangekondigd.
Voorbereidingen van het complexe project Op dit moment bereidt het team dat verantwoordelijk is voor dit complexe project de werkzaamheden voor. Dit zodat ze op een later moment met de opgraving kunnen beginnen.
Een ongekend project "Volgens Sun Jinsheng, een onderzoeker aan de Chinese Academy of Engineering, is de moeilijkheidsgraad van het project vergelijkbaar met het besturen van een grote vrachtwagen op twee dunne staalkabels," meldde de Economic Times.
Niet het diepste gat op aarde Ondanks het 10.000 meter diepe Chinese gat, is Kola Superdeep nog steeds de diepste put ter wereld. Dit is een Russische put die tussen 1970 en 1992 door de Sovjet-Unie is geboord.
Alien City On Planet Mercury, And A Platinum Pyramid, UFO Sighting News. Video.
Alien City On Planet Mercury, And A Platinum Pyramid, UFO Sighting News. Video.
Now the structures I show in the video are huge and the first seen in the video is about 1.5 miles high and 5 miles across. The platinum pyramid is about 10 miles across and 3 miles high with a glowing top stone. Just wanted to share this with you all, hope you like it.
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UFO turns USO as it falls into ocean over Hawaii, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO turns USO as it falls into ocean over Hawaii, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 10, 2024
Location of sighting:Hawaii
Now this blinding light was seen falling from the sky, well not really falling, but traveling like a plane across the sky. Its was burning and parts of it falling off. It's clearly too slow to be meteor but too fast to be space junk. This is a damaged alien ship coming into our atmosphere and traveling to the nearest alien base for repairs. And the base just so happens to be 5km below the ocean floor. Watch the video and judge for yourself. It's 100% alien.
Beroemdheden die ufo's hebben gezien Sinds een Amerikaanse legerofficier beweerde dat de Amerikaanse regering buitenaardse ruimtevaartuigen en 'niet-menselijke biologische overblijfselen' heeft, is de wereld volop bezig met de vraag of er buitenaards leven onder ons is. Er zijn veel ufo-waarnemingen geweest, waaronder die van beroemdheden.
Opleving van de kwestie De verklaringen van voormalig luchtmachtofficier David Grusch over mogelijke 'ufo's' hebben veel opschudding veroorzaakt. Te midden van deze 'buitenaardse controverse' kunnen we melden dat er enkele beroemdheden zijn die zonder angst voor kritiek publiekelijk hun vermeende ervaringen met buitenaardse wezens hebben ged
Miley Cyrus werd achtervolgd door een ufo Miley Cyrus beweerde dat ze visueel contact had met een buitenaards wezen. "Ik reed met mijn vriend door San Bernardino en ik werd achtervolgd door een soort ufo. Ik weet vrij zeker wat ik zag (...). De beste manier om het te beschrijven is als een vliegende sneeuwschuiver. Het had een grote ploeg aan de voorkant en het was knalgeel. Ik zag het vliegen, mijn vriend en andere auto's op de weg stopten ook om te kijken, daarom geloof ik dat wat ik zag echt was...
Miley Cyrus: 'het keek me aan en we maakten oogcontact' "... Ik trilde de vijf daaropvolgende dagen. Ik was naar de klote. Ik kon niet meer op dezelfde manier naar de lucht kijken. Ik dacht dat ze misschien terug zouden komen. Ik voelde me niet bedreigd, maar ik zag een wezen vooraan het vliegende object zitten. Het keek me aan en we maakten oogcontact, en dat heeft me denk ik echt aangegrepen, het kijken in de ogen van iets wat ik niet kon begrijpen. Je hebt helemaal gelijk dat het een vorm van narcisme is om te denken dat wij de enige wezens zijn in dit enorme universum", vertelde Miley aan Rick Owens van het tijdschrift Interview.
Kurt Russell: getuige van de 'Phoenix Lights' Een van de meest iconische lichtgebeurtenissen aan de hemel zijn de zogenaamde 'Phoenix Lights'. Het waren 6 lichten die een driehoekige vorm hadden en werden gezien terwijl ze van Phoenix naar Tucson in Arizona (VS) vlogen eind jaren 90. Dit werd gemeld door meer dan 20.000 mensen, waaronder acteur en piloot Kurt Russell.
Kurt Russell: zag de lichten vanuit zijn vliegtuig "Ik zag (vanuit zijn vliegtuig) zes lichten boven het vliegveld in een duidelijke V-vorm en meldde ze aan de verkeerstoren. Ze vertelden me dat ze niets hadden gezien of zagen, waarop ik antwoordde dat ik het als ongeïdentificeerd zou verklaren. Het waren zes objecten en ze vlogen. Het is de meest geziene gebeurtenis wereldwijd", zei Russell in een interview.
Demi Lovato: op afstand blijven Demi Lovato zei in een interview met E! News dat ze in Californië een ervaring had met buitenaardse wezens die haar kijk op de wereld veranderde. "We gingen naar de woestijn in Joshua Tree en ik zag een blauwe bol op ongeveer 15 meter afstand, misschien minder, en het zweefde boven de grond, het was alsof het afstand van me hield", zo vertrouwde ze toe aan E! News.
Demi Lovato: een verandering in haar leven Maar dat was niet de enige keer dat ze zo'n ervaring had, want op haar 28e verjaardag zag ze ook al ufo's. "We keken naar de sterren en plotseling verscheen er iets recht boven ons in de lucht, enorme lichten die een soort vraagteken in de lucht vormden. Ik realiseerde me dat mijn leven waarschijnlijk op een spirituele manier zou gaan veranderen", aldus Demi.
Camila Cabello ontdekte ufo's in haar video's In 2022 zei Camila Cabello in een interview met Jimmy Fallon dat ze ufo's had gezien tijdens een familievakantie in Chili. "Ik was foto's en video's aan het maken van mijn ouders. Toen begon mijn vader door de foto's te bladeren en hij zag toen we deze clips vertraagden twee objecten. Serieus, ik vertraagde de video en ik denk dat we waarschijnlijk een ufo hebben vastgelegd," legde de zangeres uit.
Camila Cabello: 'de buitenaardse wezens vertrouwden mij' Camila aarzelde om de video die ze had gemaakt te laten zien: "Ik twijfelde echt om hem hier te laten zien, want als de buitenaardse wezens me vertrouwden, omdat ik daar was, wil ik niet dat ze denken dat ik ze nu uitbuit. Ik zweer het, het is geen vogel, het is ook geen stipje op de mobiele telefoon, want je kunt het duidelijk zien bewegen van achter de berg, heel dicht bij de camera. Ik denk echt dat de buitenaardse wezens mij vertrouwden op het moment dat ik dit vastlegde," zei ze.
Nick Jonas zag ufo's vanuit zijn tuin Nick Jonas beweerde dat hij drie ufo's heeft gezien. "Het was waarschijnlijk ongeveer acht jaar geleden, ik was in de achtertuin van mijn huis in Los Angeles. Ik keek omhoog in de lucht en zag drie vliegende schotels. Ik draaide me om naar mijn vriend en vroeg hem: 'Zie jij wat ik zie of word ik gek?' Ook hij zag wat ik zag," vertelde de zanger in 2015 in het programma 'This Morning'.
Nick Jonas: 'die lichten gaven me kippenvel' "Ik keek op internet en zag dat er twee weken eerder drie identieke waarnemingen waren geweest. Mijn vriend, ik en andere mensen uit Los Angeles zagen het allemaal. Die lichten gaven me kippenvel, maar op een goede manier", zei hij hierover.
Khloé Kardashian: een ufo die boven Californië vliegt Khloé Kardashian zei dat ze ooit vreemde lichten en een ufo boven Californië zag vliegen, waardoor ze zeker weet dat er leven is op andere planeten.
Khloé Kardashian: een buitenaards pad Bij een andere gelegenheid, als onderdeel van haar realityshow 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians', ging Khloé met Tristan Thompson naar een pad in Malibu, Californië, om 'buitenaardse wezens te gaan spotten'. "Malibu heeft veel ufo-waarnemingen aangetrokken. Toen ik op onderzoek uitging, ontdekte ik dit pad en dit pad zou verbazingwekkende buitenaardse energie hebben. Ik ben weer zo enthousiast. Wandelen, buitenaardse wezens, is er iets beters?", zei de socialite op dat moment erover.
Olivia Newton-John: verbazingwekkende snelheid Wijlen Olivia Newton-John zei dat ze als tiener een object zag dat met "verbazingwekkende snelheid" over de velden in Cambridge, Engeland vloog. Sindsdien geloofde ze in dergelijke gebeurtenissen.
Olivia Newton-John: mogelijkheid bestaan ufo's In een interview zei ze: "Tegenwoordig geloven de meeste mensen in Engeland in de mogelijkheid van het bestaan van ufo's. Hoeveel mensen zouden daar twintig jaar geleden aan gedacht hebben?"
Dan Aykroyd: onderzoek naar buitenaards leven Dan Aykroyd, vooral bekend door zijn optreden in de film 'Ghostbusters' (1984), heeft zijn hele carrière onderzoek gedaan naar het bestaan van buitenaards leven.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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