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...
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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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.
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07-08-2024
Scientists are getting serious about UFOs. Here’s why
UFOs have been rebranded as unexplained anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, and are now getting attention from mainstream scientists.
Matt Chinworth
Scientists are getting serious about UFOs. Here’s why
Understanding what are now called UAPs is crucial for national security and aircraft safety
For millennia, humans have seen inexplicable things in the sky. Some have been beautiful, some have been terrifying, and some — like auroras and solar eclipses before they were understood scientifically — have been both. Today’s aircraft, balloons, drones, satellites and more only increase the chances of spotting something confounding overhead.
In the United States, unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, came into the national spotlight in the late 1940s and early ’50s. A series of incidents, including a supposedly crashed alien spaceship near Roswell, N.M., generated something of an American obsession. The Roswell UFO turned out to be part of a classified program, the remnants of a balloon monitoring the atmosphere for signs of clandestine Russian nuclear tests. But it and other reported sightings prompted the U.S. government to launch various projects and panels to investigate such claims, as Science News reported in 1966 (SN: 10/22/66), as well as kicking off hobby groups and conspiracy theories.
In the decades since, UFOs have often come to be dismissed by scientists as the province of wackos and thus unworthy of study. The term UFO has a smirk factor to it, says Iain Boyd, an aerospace engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder and director of the school’s Center for National Security Initiatives.
But government agencies and officials are trying to change that attitude. Among the biggest concerns is that the stigma associated with reporting a sighting has the side effect of stifling reports from pilots or citizens who might have valuable information about potential threats in U.S. air space — such as the Chinese spy balloon that traversed North America and made headlines last year.
“If there’s something interfering with flights, people or cargo, that’s a problem,” Boyd says.
To help reduce the stigma, many serious investigators now refer to UFOs as “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAPs, coined by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2022. “The term UAP brings science to the issue,” Boyd says. It also rightly broadens the view to include natural atmospheric phenomena as well as things outside the atmosphere, such as satellites and particularly bright planets such as Venus.
An independent team of experts (shown meeting in 2023) suggested NASA help fill in gaps in collecting UAP data.Joel Kowsky/NASA
Investigators of all types have a lot of questions about UAPs that they believe deserve serious scientific scrutiny: Which UAPs are something real and which are merely artifacts of the sensors that detect them? If real, which may be a threat to aviation? A threat to national security? Do they point to some unknown natural phenomena?
Answers may be forthcoming. In June 2022, NASA announced an independent study to determine how the agency could lend its scientific expertise to the study of UAPs. Meanwhile, military and commercial pilots have felt more comfortable making reports and even providing videos taken during close encounters. Some of those reports were discussed as part of congressional hearings in 2022 and 2023, which were covered widely by the media and in part focused on more government transparency (SN: 5/19/22). Those were the first open hearings since the mid-1960s.
Americans for Safe Aerospace, an advocacy organization with a focus on UAPs, supports legislation that would help provide a way for pilots to confidentially report potential sightings to the government.
And government agencies increasingly recognize publicly that strange phenomena in the skies are worthy of attention — whether the phenomena are signs of aliens or not. In 2022, the Pentagon established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to serve as a clearinghouse for government reports of UAPs and for analysts determining if UAPs pose threats. The National UFO Reporting Center, a nonprofit established in 1974, and other organizations continue to collate reports from the public.
By bringing UAPs into the realm of science, the hope is to make the unexplained explainable.
Where do UAP sightings occur?
Since its founding, the National UFO Reporting Center has kept a database of UAP sightings, including past and recent incidents reported through its telephone hotline, the mail and online. The database includes almost 123,000 sightings in the United States from June 1930 through June 2022. It’s a trove of data that few if any peer-reviewed scientific studies have used, says Richard Medina, a geographer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
For a study reported in 2023, Medina and colleagues scoured the database to see if they could identify which factors, if any, might affect the number of sightings in a particular area. They focused on the almost 99,000 reports, or about 80 percent of the total, that came from the continental United States from 2001 through 2020. They stuck to the continental United States because tree cover was a factor they were studying, and detailed maps of forested land aren’t available for Alaska’s interior.
First, the researchers calculated the number of UAP sightings that occurred in each county in the Lower 48 states for the 20-year period. Then, they tried to correlate the number of sightings per 10,000 people that lived in each county with environmental factors.
In their sights
An analysis of nearly 99,000 reported UAP sightings pinpointed U.S. counties with a particularly high number of reports per 10,000 people (reddish counties), a low number of reports (blues) and an average number (white). One factor that appears to boost the number of UAP sightings is proximity to an airport or military installation, a hint that aircraft may account for many UAPs.
R.M. Medina, S.C. Brewer and S.M. Kirkpatrick/Scientific Reports 2023 (CC BY 4.0)
As expected, UAP sightings weren’t as frequent in counties with a lot of tree cover and large amounts of nighttime light pollution, the researchers reported in Scientific Reports. Average cloud cover didn’t seem to affect the number of sightings one way or another — but maybe that’s because the team looked at average cloud cover over the course of the year, not the amount of cloud cover at the time of the sighting, Medina suggests.
What did boost the number of sightings substantially was proximity to airports or military installations. Although this analysis doesn’t specifically say that many UAPs in such areas can be attributed to aircraft associated with those facilities, the data are suggestive, Medina notes. At such sites, aircraft are likely to be closer to the ground and more visible than at other places, he adds.
And many of those aircraft could have been classified or experimental craft, according to a report issued earlier this year by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. After undertaking an analysis of reports made to or by the government since 1945, that office found that many sightings could be attributed to never-before-seen craft such as rockets, drones or aircraft incorporating stealth technologies. The analysis found no evidence that any UAPs were signs of extraterrestrials and no evidence that the U.S. government ever had access to alien technology.
A second report, with new analyses focused on more recent sightings, will be released later this year.
What are UAPs?
The task of pinning down the sources of UAPs has become easier thanks to the ever-growing analytical prowess of computers and advanced visualization tools. “What used to take months of analysis before can now be done in just a few minutes,” says Mick West, a retired software engineer in Sacramento, Calif., who runs the website Metabunk.org, where people can post and discuss UAPs and other unusual phenomena.
Take, for instance, an enigmatic sighting of lights in the sky over the Great Plains one night early in 2023. Video of the UAP taken by a commercial pilot in flight caused a stir when it was posted online soon after the sighting, West says.
Whoever posted the video didn’t include specifics about the sighting, other than to say it was taken somewhere over the central United States on a particular date. A pattern of lights on the ground, which turned out to be warning lights atop turbines in a large wind farm, helped investigators on Metabunk locate the plane as somewhere in western Oklahoma.
Certain details about the sighting, such as flashes of lightning on the distant horizon, wouldn’t have occurred on the supposed date of the video, West notes. Using public meteorological databases about the times, dates and locations where lightning strikes occur, the Metabunk crew figured out the video actually had been taken a few days earlier than reported. The date, in turn, helped the group figure out which flight the video was taken from.
Not an alien
In 2023, a commercial airline pilot took a video of a UAP (white arrows, top left), which was posted to the website Metabunk.org. Using the pattern of lights on the ground, Metabunk sleuths determined the UAP was filmed above Oklahoma. Further investigation revealed the date of the flight and flight path (yellow line, right). Computer simulations of the sky helped pinpoint Starlink internet satellites as the source of the mystery lights (bottom left).
Mick West
Then, knowing the date, time and precise coordinates, West and collaborators used computer simulations to re-create what the sky would have looked like in the direction where the UAP was seen. The mystery lights were actually a cluster of Starlink satellites reflecting sunlight from below the horizon as they swooped across the sky. With the first batch launched in 2019, Starlink satellites now circle Earth in the thousands, providing internet service for locales worldwide (SN: 3/12/20). Their movements and patterns in the sky “are still a mystery to some pilots,” West says.
West suggests that people are often too quick to jump from “I saw some lights in the sky” to “Aliens!” With so many possibilities for what UAPs might be — optical illusions, meteorological phenomena and aviation-related sightings, plus more — the experience generally turns out to be more mundane than observers imagine, West says.
“We’re not really looking for aliens,” he explains. “We’re looking to explain what people are seeing.”
The study of UAPs needs more and better data
Good data are key to deciphering UAPs, but they’re often in short supply. Although many reports by pilots include images taken by onboard sensors or with handheld video cameras, those instruments often aren’t sophisticated enough to capture the necessary details. The same is true for sightings reported from the ground, where the specifics of a presumed object’s direction and speed as well as general environmental conditions are often lacking.
By contrast, NASA has a wealth of data from satellites that monitor Earth. Though they don’t have the resolution to spot relatively small objects the size of most UAPs, the satellites are poised to play a supporting role, says astrophysicist Thomas Zurbuchen. Now at ETH Zurich, he’s a former associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. NASA satellites could be key in providing details on any environmental conditions that may coincide with UAPs, according to the NASA team’s report, released in September 2023. Data collected by commercial satellites can play a similar role.
Gathering and analyzing data is a good way to address what UAPs are, Zurbuchen says. “We should be excited about things we don’t understand, whether they’re natural phenomena, balloons or other things,” he says. “We currently don’t understand what’s flying in our airspace, not to the level that’s needed.”
Boyd also emphasizes the need for better data. The sensors typically used on planes today “weren’t designed to detect UAPs, and the signals that we do pick up are sometimes hard to interpret,” he says. Yet getting the right data may prove challenging and expensive. Integrating new types of sensors into the already-complicated electronic systems of military and commercial aircraft would be something of a “needle-in-a-haystack type of endeavor,” Boyd says. “There are more than 100,000 flights per day; how many have actually seen anything?”
Explained anomalous phenomena
Although many UAPs remain puzzling, experts have identified some common sources. Saucer-shaped lenticular clouds, birds in flight, thermal fluctuations in the atmosphere and other natural phenomena explain some sightings, as do celestial objects like Venus. And while no alien technology has been linked to UAPs, human tech has, including weather balloons, satellites, drones, airborne trash and military aircraft. Last year, a particularly spooky spiral in the sky over northwestern Canada turned out to be vapor from unspent fuel released from a SpaceX rocket.
Lenticular clouds
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Birds in flight
Diana Robinson Photography/Getty Images
Venus in the sky
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Weather balloon
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Vapor from unspent fuel released from a SpaceX rocket
Todd Salat
Perhaps ground-based instruments are the way to go. Several research teams are developing suites of instruments that can observe a broad range of characteristics and be deployed to sites where UAPs are frequently seen. Some of these packages could be ready to deploy late this year.
Wes Watters, a planetary scientist at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, is on one team now developing such instrument packages. The observatories are intended to “determine whether there are measurable phenomena in or near Earth’s atmosphere that can be confidently classified as scientific anomalies,” he and colleagues proposed in the March 2023 Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. Or, in simpler terms, “to figure out what’s normal versus what’s not normal,” he explains.
Designing such observatories is complicated by the fact that not all UAPs are the same. But previous fieldwork, as well as the observations made by people during UAP sightings, is a rich source of information about what measurements could be useful, Watters says. Besides sensors for detecting and characterizing a UAP itself, instrument packages will collect weather data, which could help researchers interpret the other measurements.
Watters and colleagues are developing three styles of instrument packages as part of the Galileo Project. Led by Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb, the project seeks to bring the search for signs of extraterrestrial technologies into mainstream scientific research.
The most elaborate instrument package will sport arrays of wide-field cameras for targeting aerial objects and triangulating their positions; narrow-field cameras for tracking objects across the sky; radio antennas and receivers; microphones that can detect sound across a wide range of wavelengths; and computers that can integrate, process and analyze data. These weather-resistant systems will function autonomously 24/7 and be deployed at sites with electrical power and internet connectivity.
These observatories will likely cost around $250,000 each and be deployed to at least three sites for up to five years.
A second, more portable option will be designed for rapid deployment for up to two weeks to sites that don’t have access to electrical power or internet. Each costing about $25,000, these simpler packages will be monitored daily, with data recorded and then processed later and elsewhere. The instruments won’t necessarily be weatherized, restricting their operation to mild-weather locales.
The third, simplest and least expensive package will host low-end, consumer-grade sensors and instruments, Watters says. They’ll be easy to maintain, monitor the sky within a radius of five kilometers and operate continuously for up to a year, relying on solar and battery power if need be. Groups of these packages can be networked together to cover a broad region. Each package will probably cost about $2,500.
With these sorts of instrument packages — and open minds, Watters suggests — researchers are bound to make new discoveries. “It’s impossible to make sense of these phenomena until we collect the right kinds of data,” he says.
In their 2023 report, Watters and colleagues noted that though several teams are developing or using instrument packages, none have yet reported detection of UAPs in peer-reviewed papers. The Galileo Project, including Watters’ team’s research, is funded by private donations, including a recently received $575,000 grant to establish and monitor a ground-based observatory somewhere in the Pittsburgh area.
The goal is not to explain away UAPs, Watters says. Instead, he notes, “we’re about identifying and characterizing what they are or might be.”
Brit saw 'caravan-sized UFO' 50 years ago – he kept quiet until now for one key reason
Brit saw 'caravan-sized UFO' 50 years ago – he kept quiet until now for one key reason
Gordon Mackerracher said when he was 17-years-old he spotted a a brown metallic conical structure that was the size of a caravan as he walked down a rural road in West Lothian, Scotland.
Gordon Mackerracher has decided to share his story of when he believes he encountered a strange flying object
(Image: Callum Moffat)
A retired primary school caretaker says he's kept his encounter with a UFO secret for five decades.
Gordon Mackerracher said he was 17-years-old in 1974 when he spotted a brown, caravan-sized metallic conical structure above a rural lane in West Lothian, Scotland.
The now 67-year-old remembers watching the aircraft as he hurriedly made his way to a phone box on Langton Road to call air traffic control at Edinburgh Airport.
He claims staff at the control tower explained no aircraft had entered or left the surrounding airspace in the past hour.
Gordon said he remained tight-lipped about his experience for so long because did not want to be branded as an “idiot” or associated as someone who saw “space people''.
The rural road where Gordon says he saw the UFO(Image: Callum Moffat)
He said: “I never told a soul. I was too scared because I did not want to be classed as an idiot, so I just kept quiet about it when I got back to my parents. Not once did I think my mind was playing tricks on me as I knew exactly what I saw. I had no interest in UFOs at the time or even thought about them or anything like that.
His experience stayed in the family with his son Ross also learning of what happened 50 years ago.
Despite his concerns around other people’s perceptions, Gordon grew in confidence after reading Arthur C Clarke’s ‘Mysterious World’ which contained a near identical drawing of a UFO craft that was spotted by a Yorkshireman around the same time.
Describing the night he say the object in 1974, Gordon said he left the cottage of a girl he was dating to travel down a road which connects the villages of Kirknewton and East Calder.
Gordon said he remained tight lipped about his experience because he did not want to be branded as an 'idiot' or associated as someone who saw 'space people'(Image: Callum Moffat)
He said: “I don’t know why but I looked to my left and in the sky above me was this brown conical craft travelling in total silence.
“I could see the moonlight shining off it. It was funny, as I don’t remember being scared when I watched it, although it is possible I was at the time.
“I headed to the phone box on Langton Road which was about a 20 minute walk and phoned the control tower at the airport. I told them I saw a conical object flying in the sky that was completely silent.
“They went away to check and when the guy came back he told me that nothing had taken off or arrived at Edinburgh in the past hour. He said their radar did not capture anything during that time either.
“At first I thought it was maybe circling round to land at Edinburgh airport but obviously not. I just told the controller that it didn’t matter and headed home.”
The first time he opened up was several years later to his wife Margaret when they were watching a show that mentioned extraterrestrial encounters.
“Not once did I think my mind was playing tricks on me as I knew exactly what I saw. I had no interest in UFOs at the time or even thought about them or anything like that.
“The first time I mentioned it was after I got married and something came on TV about UFOs. I told my wife about the encounter and she just said ok. I later told my son about it as well. Neither of them are really believers or non-believers, it never really comes up between us.''
China’s super-secret space plane spotted above Europe
China’s super-secret space plane spotted above Europe
Story by Andrew Paul
So little is known about Shenlong, China’s ultra-secret, reusable space plane that there aren’t even publicly verifiable photos of the experimental aircraft. But that doesn’t mean knowledgeable astronomy enthusiasts can’t catch glimpses of the vehicle as it orbits Earth, as was recently the case for Felix Schöfbänker in Upper Austria. Based on his July 30 images first highlighted by Space.com, Schöfbänker theorizes he possibly identified a pair of previously unknown features on Shenlong’s underside—potentially a pair of solar panels that help power the craft.
China’s Shenlong space plane captured in orbit on July 30, 2024.
Credit: Felix Schöfbänker
Space planes like Shenlong are designed for multi-year, uncrewed orbital missions after hitching a ride aboard a rocket. Upon mission completion, however, the vehicles are capable of returning to Earth and landing on runways similar to conventional aircraft. China’s mysterious robotic vehicle has completed at least two confirmed missions since 2020, the second of which lasted 276 consecutive days in orbit above Earth. During that excursion, Shenlong deployed at least one free-flying object that experts believe may have been either a small satellite or external craft designed to monitor the plane itself. Its current mission began after launching from a Chinese space agency facility in the Gobi Desert on December 14, 2023. Since then it has released at least seven confirmed objects of unknown purpose into orbit. Thanks to the new images, it seems that it might receive at least some of its power sources through solar panel arrays.
“I am not really sure if they are solar panels or some other features like an antenna or something of that nature,” he added on Monday.
Altitude, time, and angle details during Shenlong’s sighting on July 30, 2024.
Additional information inferred from the data includes apparent confirmation that the space plane recently lowered its orbit down to about 217 miles above Earth, and that it does appear to measure somewhere within its previously estimated 30-foot length. Although its wings are not visible in the grainy imagery, it is still believed that Shenlong’s wingspan is at least wide enough to necessitate small cutouts in China’s Long March 2F rocket used to deliver it into orbit.
Shenlong isn’t the only experimental space plane currently conducting secretive missions above Earth. The US Space Force’s X-37B, built by Boeing and slightly smaller China’s aircraft, has been working on its own endeavors since its latest launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on December 28, 2023. Two Boeing X-37 variants are believed to exist, and have completed six previous missions so far—its last excursion lasting a total of 909 days in orbit.
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Shenzhou 15 Crew Launches To China's Tiangong Space Station (Space.com)
Mars Once Hosted Lake Larger than Any on Earth: Lake Eridania
Mars Once Hosted Lake Larger than Any on Earth: Lake Eridania
This new image from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft shows Caralis Chaos, broken-down and dried-up remnants of a vast ancient Martian lake named Lake Eridania.
This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Caralis Chaos, a Martian region where copious water is thought to have once existed in the form of an ancient lake known as Lake Eridania.
Image credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin.
Lake Eridania once held more water than all other Martian lakes combined and covered an area of over a million km2.
The lake was larger than any known lake on Earth, containing enough water to fill the Caspian Sea nearly three times over.
It likely existed around 3.7 billion years ago, first as one large body of water and later as a series of smaller isolated lakes as it began to dry out.
Eventually Lake Eridania disappeared completely, along with the rest of the water on the Red Planet.
“The lower-left part of the frame features the remains of an old lakebed,” the Mars Express researchers said.
This oblique perspective view was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express. It shows a region of Mars known as Caralis Chaos, where copious water is thought to have once existed in the form of an ancient lake.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
This colour-coded topographic image shows a region of Mars known as Caralis Chaos, where copious water is thought to have once existed in the form of an ancient lake. It was created from data collected by ESA’s Mars Express on 1 January 2024 (orbit 25235) and is based on a digital terrain model of the region, from which the topography of the landscape can be derived. Lower parts of the surface are shown in blues and purples, while higher altitude regions show up in whites and reds, as indicated on the scale to the top right. North is to the right. The ground resolution is approximately 15 m/pixel and the image is centred at about 38°S/177°E.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
This tan-colored slice of ground is smoother to the left and becomes covered in small hills and mounds to the right. Wriggly, uneven ridges cut horizontally across the frame, while two prominent fault lines cut down vertically on the left and right. Large and small craters are peppered across the terrain. The worn-away boundaries of a once-colossal lakebed can be seen curving up and away from the bottom-center to the top right; this skirts around the largest crater seen here, which sits in the middle of the picture encircled by rough, irregular valleys and channels.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
“The boundaries of this bed can be seen curving up and away from the center of the frame, skirting around the large central crater.”
“The old lakebed is now filled with lots of raised mounds, thought to have formed as ancient Martian winds swept dust across the planet.”
“This dust was later covered and altered by water, before drying out again and breaking apart.”
Alongside water, there are clear signs of volcanism at play in and around this region, known as Caralis Chaos.
“Two long cracks run horizontally through this image, cross-cutting both the aforementioned lakebed and the smoother ground to the top,” the scientists said.
“These are known as the Sirenum Fossae faults, and formed as Mars’ Tharsis region — home to the largest volcanoes in the Solar System — rose up and put immense stress on the Martian crust.”
“Volcanic stress is also to blame for the many wrinkle ridges found here.”
“These appear as wriggly lines weaving across the frame vertically.”
“Wrinkle ridges are common on volcanic plains, forming as new lava sheets are compressed while still soft and elastic, causing them to buckle and deform.”
“The impact craters here, created as space rocks collided with Mars, are also fascinating.”
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Een team onderzoekers liet zich inspireren door de neushoornkever om een piepkleine robot te maken door enkele van zijn meest bijzondere vliegeigenschappen na te bootsen.
De passieve spanwijdte van de neushoornkever
In de natuur is er een insect, de neushoornkever, wiens vlucht een bijzonderheid heeft die we als “speciaal” kunnen omschrijven: hij kan zijn achtervleugels uitklappen en sluiten zonder de hulp van spieren. Een eigenschap die alleen dit beestje bezit en die de aandacht heeft getrokken van een internationaal team van onderzoekers, dat een micro-robot wilde maken die net als de neushoornkever met zijn vleugels kan klapperen en dezelfde passieve opening van de vleugels kan imiteren.
Het doel? Aantonen dat deze unieke manier een gecontroleerd vluchtpatroon met een hoge stabiliteit kan produceren. Om het project tot leven te brengen, observeerden de onderzoekers Allomyrina dichotoma insecten tijdens hun vlucht en filmden ze hun bewegingen in slow motion met speciale camera's die op hoge snelheid werden gesynchroniseerd. Vervolgens creëerden ze de minirobot die met dezelfde techniek zijn vleugels kon openen en intrekken.
De micro-robot bootst de vliegtechniek van de gevleugelde neushoorn na
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Door het onderzoek ontdekte het team dat de neushoornkever elastische energie en de kracht van de puls gebruikt om zijn achtervleugels passief uit te schuiven tijdens de vlucht, terwijl hij zijn harde en robuuste voorvleugels, dekschilden genoemd, gebruikt in plaats van zijn borstspieren om ze in te trekken. Op basis van deze informatie bootsten de onderzoekers dezelfde modus operandi na in de micro-robot, waarbij ze niet alleen met succes de vleugelverlenging tijdens het opstijgen nabootsten, maar ook de stationaire vlucht in de lucht en het intrekken van de vleugels tijdens de landing of in het zicht van een botsing.
Deze resultaten verrijken volgens het team onze kennis over de vliegmodus van gevleugelde insecten en maken de weg vrij voor de creatie van robots van microformaat. Voor deze levende wezens zijn vleugels essentieel voor een groot aantal vitale activiteiten, zoals het zoeken naar voedsel en het ontsnappen aan roofdieren. Deze instrumenten zijn zeer delicaat, maar tegelijkertijd van fundamenteel belang en moeten daarom worden beschermd: om dit te bereiken vouwen talrijke insecten ze naar het lichaam toe, om zo mogelijke schade te voorkomen wanneer er niet wordt gevlogen.
De middelpuntvliedende kracht van de vleugels is het geheim van de gevleugelde neushoorn
Eerder onderzoek ging ervan uit dat het open- en dichtklappen van de vleugels bij gevleugelde neushoorns door de spieren werd geregeld, maar dit was nog nooit aangetoond. In feite opent deze kever zijn vleugels in twee verschillende momenten: eerst worden de dekschilden volledig opgetild en onmiddellijk daarna is er een gedeeltelijke opening van de achtervleugels, die lijkt te worden bepaald door de opgeslagen elastische energie in plaats van door spiergebruik.
Op een tweede moment klappen de vier vleugels synchroon met een volledige opening van de achtervleugels. Volgens het team bevordert de centrifugale kracht van de slag de passieve opening van de achtervleugels. De micro-robot valideerde deze overwegingen en was uitgerust met een elastische pees die het sluiten en openen van de vleugels vergemakkelijkt en geactiveerd wordt tijdens het slaan van de vleugels. Dankzij dit model kon worden aangetoond dat de centrifugale kracht die alleen al door de vleugelslag wordt opgewekt, voldoende is om de vleugels op te tillen.
A prominent extraterrestrial-hunting scientist thinks that more than 50 tiny, metal spheres pulled from the Pacific Ocean might be the work of intelligent aliens. Others are skeptical.
A close-up of one of the 'anomalous' metal spherules pulled from the Pacific Ocean in June. Objects like these are abundant and nearly impossible to trace.
(Image credit: Avi Loeb/ Medium)
For earlya decade, hundreds of tiny magnetic spheres shed by an extraterrestrial visitor lay deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. Now, the minute pellets have been dredged up by a scientific expedition — and they're fueling a media frenzy that some scientists feel is unearned.
Image: Avi Loeb
In 2014, a fireball blazed across the sky above Papua New Guinea, shedding debris as it passed. A U.S. government sensor stationed nearby measured its speed at more than 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h), and NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) detected its fall. The meteorite splashed down in the ocean about 53 miles (85 kilometers) offshore.
Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, is on a quest to find it. Based on its extreme speed and trajectory upon entry into Earth's atmosphere, Loeb believes the object, which he dubbed Interstellar Meteor 1 (IM1), is a relic from another star system. He also thinks it might potentially harbor alien "technosignatures" — traces of technology crafted by nonhuman entities — according to an interview Loeb gave with the Daily Beast.
This is not the first time Loeb has hypothesized that our solar system has been visited by alien technology. Five years ago, he and fellow Harvard researcher Shmuel Bialy proposed that the weird interstellar object 'Oumuamua, which whizzed through our solar system in late 2017, was an autonomous alien probe similar to a light sail. Theirpaper on the object garnered a flurry of media attention, as well as both pushback and praise from the larger scientific community.
Image: Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb, left, and his team inspect the magnetic sled harvest on a rainy night in June.
Courtesy of Avi Loeb
Now, backed by funding from crypto multimillionaire Charles Hoskinson, Loeb is leading an expedition in the Pacific Ocean to recover IM1. So far, the crew has pulled up more than 50 magnetic spherules — minuscule orbs made of iron, magnesium and titanium — that may be pieces of the meteor. In a recent blog post, Loeb described these spherules as "anomalous" — presumably due to their low nickel content, a common ingredient in meteorites.
"This has been the most thrilling experience in my scientific career," Loeb said of the expedition in a recent interview with Motherboard.
However, many scientists harbor doubts about the spherules' origin. In fact, they say these particular pellets might not be associated with the 2014 fireball at all.
"It's been known for a century that if you take a magnetic rake and run it over the ocean floor, you will pull up extraterrestrial spherules," Peter Brown, a meteorite specialist at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, told Live Science. Such debris has accumulated worldwide on the seafloor over millions of years from meteors dropping tiny bits of molten metal as they pass overhead, Brown added. Factoring in shifting ocean currents and sedimentary movements, "it essentially would be impossible to say that this particular spherule comes from a particular event."
Harvard professor Avi Loeb said his team of scientists have determined that these fragments from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua New Guinea in 2014 are indeed interstellar in origin.
Brown also recently co-authored a paper calling into question IM1's interstellar pedigree. The claim that the meteor came from outside our solar system is based on its ridiculous speed upon entering our atmosphere. However, Brown said, "particularly at higher speeds, the U.S. government sensors tend to overestimate speeds." A lower speed would also account for the object's unusual brightness profile, which didn't match what would be expected for a metallic meteor moving at over 100,000 mph (160,000 km/h), Brown said.
Of course, this doesn't mean the meteorite isn't from another star system — just that it doesn't have to be. To date, there have been no confirmed interstellar meteorite impacts on Earth, though Brown himself has spent 20 years searching for one.
As for the possibility that this is evidence of extraterrestrial technology, most of the scientific community is skeptical. "That would be an extremely cool result," Brown said. "But I don't see any evidence that would necessarily back you into such an extreme hypothesis."
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Coast to Coast AM: Trading Antarctica for Alien Technology: The Untold Story
Coast to Coast AM: Trading Antarctica for Alien Technology: The Untold Story
The radio show “Coast to Coast AM,” known for its intriguing discussions on paranormal phenomena, recently featured an episode exploring the tantalizing possibility of a secret agreement between humans and extraterrestrials. The episode, titled “They Gave Us Alien Tech, We Gave Them Antarctica,” delved into the fascinating claims of Len Casten, a former U.S. Air Force member, who has devoted much of his life to researching UFO phenomena.
The Encounter That Sparked a Lifelong Quest
Len Casten’s journey into the world of UFO research began with a personal encounter. As a young man in the U.S. Air Force, he witnessed a mysterious craft, glowing green and gold, silently soaring across the sky. This sighting, corroborated by radar reports of unidentified flying objects, planted the seeds of curiosity in Casten’s mind. Although it would take years before he fully grasped the significance of his experience, it ultimately led him to join the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and pursue a lifelong interest in extraterrestrial phenomena.
Alien Involvement in World War II
One of the most controversial topics discussed on the show was the alleged involvement of aliens in World War II. According to Casten, Hitler’s development of advanced weaponry, such as anti-gravity aircraft, was not achieved solely by German scientists. Instead, he suggests that the Nazis received extraterrestrial assistance, potentially from a malevolent race known as the Reptilians. This alliance, he argues, was aimed at world domination, with the extraterrestrials seeking to use the fascist movement as pawns in a larger cosmic game.
Operation Highjump: The Battle for Antarctica
The episode also covered Operation Highjump, a U.S. military expedition to Antarctica in 1946. Officially described as a research mission, Casten claims it was a full-scale military invasion intended to destroy a secret Nazi base. This base, reportedly discovered by British intelligence, was believed to house remnants of the Nazi regime, including advanced technologies developed with extraterrestrial aid. However, the mission allegedly ended in failure when the fleet was confronted by flying saucers, forcing a hasty retreat.
Eisenhower’s Alleged Treaty with Aliens
A significant portion of the episode focused on President Dwight Eisenhower’s purported meetings with extraterrestrial beings in 1954. The first encounter was with the Nordics, a group of aliens who offered to share advanced technology and spiritual wisdom in exchange for the abandonment of nuclear weapons. When this offer was declined, a second meeting occurred with the Grays, resulting in the signing of a controversial treaty. This agreement allegedly allowed the Grays to abduct humans for experimentation in exchange for sharing advanced technology, including weaponry.
The Hybridization Agenda
One of the most unsettling aspects of the discussion was the Grays’ alleged hybridization program. Casten explained that the Grays, facing the decline of their race, aimed to revitalize themselves through genetic manipulation, creating hybrids with human DNA. While some theorists, like Dr. David Jacobs, view this as a prelude to a future takeover, others speculate that it could be a strategy to ensure survival in the face of an impending global catastrophe.
Presidential Awareness and Secrecy
The show also touched upon the knowledge and involvement of various U.S. presidents in extraterrestrial affairs. From Truman to Bush Sr., each president reportedly had different levels of awareness regarding UFOs and alien interactions. The ongoing secrecy surrounding these topics is often attributed to the embarrassment and potential public panic that would arise from acknowledging such agreements and activities.
Time Travel and Dimensional Theories
Adding another layer of complexity, the episode explored theories suggesting that some extraterrestrials might be time travelers or multidimensional beings. These ideas challenge traditional notions of space travel, proposing instead that aliens may traverse time or dimensions to reach Earth, bringing with them technology and knowledge far beyond our current understanding.
The Cosmic Struggle: Good vs. Evil Alien Races
Throughout the episode, a recurring theme was the cosmic struggle between benevolent and malevolent alien races. The discussion highlighted the potential for humans to align with more advanced and benevolent extraterrestrial civilizations, which could aid in creating a utopian society on Earth. However, this vision is hindered by the alleged alliances between certain military factions and tyrannical alien races.
Crop Circles and Ancient Aliens
The episode also delved into the mystery of crop circles and their possible extraterrestrial origins. While some crop formations are believed to be human-made, others exhibit complexities that suggest non-human creation. This topic ties into broader theories about ancient aliens and their influence on human civilizations, including the construction of monumental structures like the pyramids.
As the episode concluded, the hosts speculated on the potential for future disclosure of extraterrestrial presence and interactions. While official government acknowledgment seems unlikely, the possibility remains that extraterrestrials themselves might reveal their existence to humanity. Until then, the mysteries surrounding UFOs, alien technology, and secret agreements continue to captivate and intrigue audiences worldwide.
There are already dozens of claims in favor of extraterrestrial visitation. Today, numerous astronauts and government officials support the UAP phenomena, and some are highly positive that they could have an alien origin. The Honorable Paul Hellyer (1923-2021), former Canadian Minister of Defense said extraterrestrials have been visiting our planet for thousands of years and it is likely that at least two of them are working with the U.S. government and sharing their highly-advanced technologies with humans.
In the 1960s, Paul Hellyer, a high-ranking official during the Cold War, asserted that he had discovered with certainty about the existence of aliens while serving in the military. He said that people from other worlds had been coming to Earth for a very long time. He insisted that a lot of the stuff that makes up our high-tech gadgetry had been gifted to us by overly-advanced ETs.
Hellyer had long expressed his views on extraterrestrials in public. He testified at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in May 2013 in Washington, DC. Five former members of U.S. Congress and one former U.S. senator listened to more than thirty hours of testimony from government officials, military personnel, researchers, and witnesses.
Huffington Post Canada described that, as part of his testimony, Hellyer stated that “aliens are living among us and that it is likely at least two of them are working with the U.S. government.” More specifically, Hellyer announced that at least four species of extraterrestrials had been visiting Earth for thousands of years. According to Huffington Post Canada, he also stated that some extraterrestrials originate from the “Zeta Reticuli, the Pleiades, Orion, Andromeda, and Altair star systems” and “may have different agendas.”
He first spoke openly about his belief governments are covering up an alien presence back in 2005, saying UFOs are as plentiful in our sky as airplanes. “Much of the media won’t touch it, so you just have to keep working away at it and we will get a critical mass and one day they will say Mr. President or Mr. Prime Minister, we want the truth and we want it now because it affects our lives.”
In 2013, Hellyer appeared on the RT interview show SophieCo with Sophie Shevardnadze to discuss extraterrestrials and UFOs. Shevardnadze asked Hellyer, “Why do you say that UFOs are as real as airplanes flying over our heads?” Hellyer replied, “Because I know that they are. As a matter of fact, they’ve been visiting our planet for thousands of years.” He further stated military action had brought down UFOs, and humans had adapted alien technology for use on Earth. (Source)
He said: “As far as technology is concerned, they are light years ahead of us, and we have learned a lot of things from them. A lot of the things we use today we got from them, you know – led lights and microchips and Kevlar vests and all sorts things that we got from their technology and we could get a lot more too, especially in the fields of medicine and agriculture if we would go about it peacefully. But, I think, maybe some of our people are more interested in getting the military technology, and I think that’s wrong-headed, and that’s one of the things that we are going to have to change, because we’re going to have to work together, all of us, everywhere on the planet.”
Hellyer takes us to where he saw his first UFO, and points. Credit: Motherboard
Shevardnadze asked: “Have you ever had your own encounter with aliens?” Hellyer replied: “Not encounter with aliens, no. I’ve seen a UFO, about 120 miles north of Toronto, over Lake Muskoka, where I have a cottage. Two years ago, at Thanksgiving, which is October, [my wife?] said that she wanted to go out and look at the stars, so… I’m not much of a night man… but I put on my cap and went out with her and she looked into the eastern sky and said, ‘There’s a star,’ and I turned the other way and said, ‘Oh, there’s a much brighter one over here,’ and she looked there and we watched it until our necks almost broke for about 20 minutes, and it was definitely a UFO because it could change position in the sky by three or four degrees in three or four seconds.”
Shevardnadze further asked Hellyer if shooting down those UFOs was risking an interstellar war, and, if so, “should we be creating a Star Wars force to defend ourselves from possible invasion or something like that?”
Hellyer said: “I think it’s a possibility, but it’s a possibility especially if we shoot down every UFO that comes into our airspace without asking who they are and what they want. Right from the beginning, we started scrambling planes, trying to shoot them down, but their technology was superior enough that we weren’t able to get away with it, certainly not for a long while.”
He continued: “During that period of time they could have taken us over without any trouble if they wanted to, so I think, rather than developing our own Star Wars to protect ourselves against them, we should work with the benign species that are of a vast majority and work together, and rely largely on them, of course, and cooperate, so that we would be contributing something at the same time; I don’t think there’s any point in us developing a galactic force that would tempt us to ride on our own and get into mischief, which is one of the things that some of them are concerned about.”
On countering physicist Stephen Hawking’s assertion that any alien visitors to Earth would likely be malevolent, Hellyer argued that not only have aliens already visited Earth but that they have helped contribute to humanity’s technological progress. He said earthlings owe a lot to their alien friends. “Even that computer screen on your desk,” he said, “can trace its origins to spaceships. Microchips, for example, fiber-optics, they are just two of the many things that allegedly — and probably for real — came from crashed vehicles,” Hellyer added. (Source)
Hellyer was not the only one speaking of a partnership between humans and extraterrestrial intelligence. The former head of the Israeli space security program and retired general Haim Eshed also claimed that a sort of agreement had been made between aliens and the US government to keep silent on their experiments on Earth and secret bases on Mars.
Mr. Eshed said that aliens and “Galactic federation” do exist and have been working with the US and the Israel government for years, but they keep it a secret to avoid mass hysteria. According to him, President Trump was aware of it and has already been in contact with space aliens. He further said that the aliens have been waiting for humans to evolve and reach a certain stage to actually understand space and spaceships. Besides, they signed a contract with humans to do experiments on Earth and also research with them to learn the fabric of the universe.
A potentially revolutionary new technology that could greatly advance optical communications, surveillance, and photonic device isolation has something in common with the most captivating construction design of the ancient world: the pyramid.
Researchers at UCLA have produced a revolutionary new design for diffractive deep neural networks, or D2NNs, that they say significantly enhances unidirectional image magnification and demagnification. Dubbed Pyramid D2NNs, the new design architecture lives up to its name by introducing a pyramid-structured network that offers high-fidelity image formation while reducing refractive features, all by aligning its layers in the same direction of image magnification and demagnification.
What Are Diffractive Deep Neural Networks?
D2NNs are constructed from individual transmissive layers that are optimized through deep learning, allowing them to perform computation almost entirely through the use of optics.
In their recent research, the UCLA team, led by Professor Aydogan Ozcan, worked with a pyramid-shaped diffractive optical network, a design that allowed the team to achieve unidirectional imaging with fewer diffractive degrees of freedom.
The result is a design that helps to ensure high-fidelity image formation, but only in one direction. By contrast, significant image inhibition occurs in the opposite direction, conditions that are key for use with applications where imaging in one direction (i.e., unidirectional imaging) is required. Such fields include defense and security technologies, telecommunications applications, and systems used for privacy protection.
Artist’s concept of the pyramid diffractive optical network designed by Ozcan and his colleagues at UCLA
(Credit: Ozcan Lab / UCLA).
The team was also able to demonstrate modularity and scalability for their novel pyramid-structured system by cascading several P-D2NN modules. This allowed them to achieve even greater magnification or demagnification factors.
The Pyramid Mystery
The pyramid shape has long captivated human minds, and there is arguably no better example of this than the enigmatic pyramids at Giza.
In simple terms, a pyramid is a three-dimensional shape resulting from the construction of triangular faces arising from a polygonal base. Each of the points of the triangular portions meets at the highest point or apex.
This gives rise to a unique shape where weight is evenly distributed, which allowed ancient architects to rely on this design for the construction of some of the largest structures ever built, with the most famous examples comprising the Giza pyramids, monuments that are still impressive by today’s engineering standards, and which have proven their resilience by persisting for thousands of years. Given their enigmatic appearance, the pyramids have also contributed to a number of fringe ideas over the years, involving the mysterious powers the monuments at Giza may possess themselves or purported technologies (many of them pseudoscientific) based on the pyramid shape and powers it allegedly possesses.
The famous pyramids at Giza
(Credit: Osama Elsayed/Unsplash).
For the UCLA team, the pyramid structure offered real-life advantages in that the ascending structure allowed them to scale the layers of the new D2NN in such a way that aligns with the direction of image magnification or demagnification. In other words, the pyramid shape offers a sort of guide that either enlarges or shrinks the image in question in a controlled manner. The result is that high-fidelity imagery is able to pass progress through the network, but only in the desired direction.
During their research, the team also succeeded in experimentally validating the new P-D2NN system by using terahertz (THz) illumination. 3D-printed diffractive layers were tested under continuous-wave THz illumination, producing results that the team says very closely matched earlier numerical simulations.
Applications and Future Prospects
The system is ideal for various applications, including technologies that provide optical isolation for photonic devices and decoupling of transmitters and receivers in telecommunications. In the coming years, the new pyramid-shaped system could also benefit security and even surveillance technologies.
Overall, the team’s P-D2NN architecture represents a considerable advancement in optical imaging technology, which its developers believe could help pave the way toward a range of future innovations and applications. All of which, of course, relies on one of the most iconic and captivating ancient monumental shapes in human history.
The team’s findings were published in the journal Light: Science & Applications on July 31, 2024.
According to some, the extraterrestrial worked at Area 51 for some years. Alien Autopsy room, UFO Museum in Roswell. Credit: John Manard, Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 2.0/Wikipedia
Conspiracy theories have created J. Rod the Alien —an extraterrestrial person— who is said to have been employed by the US government in Area 51.
The J. Rod tales initially surfaced in the 1980s, and several novels and TV series have helped to promote them.
According to these tales, J. Rod is a tall, slender alien with large, almond-shaped eyes. He is said to have been a survivor of a UFO crash in Kingman, Arizona, in 1953.
After the crash, J. Rod was taken to Area 51, where he helped scientists and engineers to reverse engineer the alien technology. He is also said to have shared knowledge about his home planet and the universe with the U.S. government.
A recent documentary on the History Channel renewed interest in the tale and sparked further speculation and conspiracy theories.
According to alien author Preston Dennett, the extraterrestrial “allegedly worked at Area 51 for some years.” He went on, “J Rod’s job was to assist in reverse engineering technology that was reportedly from the 1953 Kingman UFO crash. Giving the technology that we need today. Most of the electronic devices we are using today.”
The stories of J. Rod are based on the accounts of several individuals, including military personnel and civilian contractors who worked at Area 51. These individuals claim to have seen J. Rod with their own eyes and to have spoken with him.
Bill Uhouse, a former Navy pilot who claimed to have researched the UFO that crashed in Kingman, was stationed at Area 51 in the mid-1960s.
In an interview from 2000, he claimed to have had direct communication with J. Rod and stated that the alien “sounded just like you” and “tried to answer questions.” The alien spoke perfect English; not an animatronic android or a CGI, the alien was real.
Dan Burisch, another individual, says he was employed as a microbiologist to care for J. Rod and ensure he stayed well. He said the government made him take tissue samples from the captured alien and claimed they became friends during the two years he worked on the project.
1953 Kingman, Arizona UFO crash
The Kingman UFO crash is one of the “best verified” in the United States, Dennett also claimed.
Conspiracies say the object crashed on May 21, 1953, eight miles northeast of the Kingman Airport in the Arizona desert.
Government officials supposedly sent a team of around 40 scientists to the crash site to investigate, and they allegedly found a UFO.
“The object was described as metallic, 30 feet wide and three and a half feet high, oval-shaped with portholes,” the author said.
“Inside were two to four, four-foot-tall humanoids, deceased according to most sources, with large eyes and wearing metallic suits.”
Engineer Arthur Stancil was allegedly one of the ones who helped recover the UFO and concluded it struck the ground at 1,200 mph but was strangely undamaged.
“The object was not built by anything, obviously, that we know about on Earth,” he said. “It was more like a tear-drop-shaped cigar … like a streamlined cigar.”
What happened to the alien?
The whereabouts of J. Rod are unknown. There is no concrete evidence to support his existence, and experts believe that he is a hoax.
One theory espoused by UFO enthusiasts is that J. Rod is still alive and living in seclusion. Some others suggest that he was eventually released from Area 51 and allowed to return to his home planet.
It is also possible that he remains under the control of the U.S. government, perhaps in a secret facility or on a remote island, some believe.
Another possibility is that J. Rod is deceased. Some accounts suggest that he died while working at Area 51, while others claim that he was killed by the government.
Maya Jama has asked fans 'what is going on here?' after sharing a video of what appears to be a UFO.
TheLove Islandhost, 29, took to Instagram on Tuesday to reshare a video of several holidaymakers running towards the apparent floating spaceship to get a better look. Alongside the video, Maya wrote: "Has anyone seen this? What the f**k is going on here?".
On Redditt, several holidaymakers shared their experience of witnessing the so-called spaceship. One wrote: "It was 100% a UFO. There is literally no denying it. It was flying at the speed of light and in all different directions - it wasn't a plane."
Another echoed: "I have actual chills from how terrified I was. It felt like it could have been the end. There were strange flashing lights and it was zig-zagging around the sky. Everyone was screaming. It was a really eerie experience and it's not something to be laughed at." Someone else replied: "We are not alone, that's for certain."
Maya is currently living it up in Ibiza
( Image: @mayajama/Instagram)
Maya shared the video on Instagram
( Image: mayajama/Instagram)
TV favourite Maya has been living it up in Ibiza following her split from UK rapper Stormzy. She cut a stunning appearance as she donned a flattering white bikini under a white shirt and baseball cap on Monday. And what better place to sit back and relax than in the Spanish island of Ibiza, as she soaked up the sun not to mention the night life.
And true to form, Maya shared her trip with her fans on social media. The TV personality visited DC10, which is one of the most well known outdoor clubs in Ibiza - and left fans excited. So much so, on the back of one of her posts, a mother of one of her fans reached out to thank the star for being so warming towards her daughter.
The fan paid an astonishing 200Euro in order to gain access to the club's VIP area and was warmly greeted by Maya who hugged her tightly. The mum of the fan wrote: "Maya, you made my daughter and her friend sooooo happy last night. They were in De10 for solid grooves.. only tickets left were VIP at €200 each but they were desperate to go so paid it.. They seen you in the VIP area and were smiling at you and you came over hugged them and spoke to them.."
She added: "I had a text at 6am when I woke up saying they met the 'queen' and they've never had such a good night or felt so boujee.. #actofkindness. She's only 20 and just getting over a break up so it was so good to see her smiling again. Thank you so much for being so kind and natural. You're a role model, inspiration, down to earth and my daughter Mia is right, you're a queen!"
In response, Maya said: "Girls be kind to girls when you’re out!" Last month Maya and Stormzy confirmed they had split for the second time. The couple first started dating in 2014 but broke up five years later. But this time it appears there is no chance of the couple rekindling their romance for a third time.
Addressing their split, Maya wrote: "We've been laughing whilst drafting this because we never, ever, in a million years thought we'd be the couple announcing a breakup. But for the sake of clarity and, more importantly, to allow us the space and grace that's needed for us both to be able to navigate this next bit of our lives with peace, we thought it might be best to." She added: "We fell madly in love in 2014, broke up in 2019, and then spent five years manoeuvring life apart."
During the time of their split in 2019, Maya dated and also got engaged to basketball player Ben Simmons. But their relationship failed to stand the test of time and they ended things.
For decades, a massive anomaly sprawling across 1.2 million square miles on the Indian Ocean floor has baffled scientists. This phenomenon, known as the “gravity hole,” has sparked endless debate and curiosity. Read on as we uncover this mystery, officially named the Indian Ocean Geoid Low.
The Indian Ocean’s Gravity Anomaly So, what’s the deal with this vast region of the Indian Ocean that sits up to 106 meters below the global average sea level? It turns out there’s a significant dip in Earth’s gravity here. This gravitational anomaly has puzzled scientists for years, but recent studies are shedding light on its origins and linking it to deep geological processes.
Understanding the Geoid Low Geologists have a term for this “hole”—a geoid low, where Earth’s gravity is weaker than average. It might sound alarming, but it’s just a natural part of our planet’s gravitational landscape. Recent research suggests that molten rock plumes rising from deep beneath Africa are responsible for this phenomenon; these plumes are at the edge of an ancient sea bed.
Earth’s Shape and Gravitational Variation Ideally, Earth would have uniform gravity, but it’s not a perfect sphere. It’s flatter at the poles and bulges at the equator, causing variations in gravity. Different regions exert varying gravitational pulls based on the crust, mantle, and core mass distribution. Such complexity contributes to gravitational anomalies like the low geoid of the Indian Ocean.
The Potsdam Gravity Potato To visualize these gravitational tugs, scientists use gravity measurements from sensors and satellites to create models like the “Potsdam gravity potato.” The model highlights Earth’s gravitational highs and lows, helping scientists understand the mass distribution beneath the surface. It’s like taking off each layer of an onion, discovering more with every peel.
Discovery and Confirmation of the IOGL The Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL) was discovered by Dutch geophysicist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz in 1948 during a ship-based gravity survey. Since then, subsequent shipboard expeditions and satellite measurements have confirmed its presence. This IOGL is the planet’s most prominent gravitational anomaly, covering over three million square kilometers.
Investigating the Origins Researchers Attreyee Ghosh and Debanjan Pal compared various computer models of the region’s formation over the past 140 million years. Each model used different variables for the convection of molten material within the mantle. Their goal? To pinpoint the cause of the IOGL. Their findings point to a distinctive mantle structure influenced by ancient geological events.
The Role of the Mantle and the African Blob The study suggests that the IOGL is due to a unique mantle structure combined with an adjacent disturbance under Africa known as the “African blob.” This large low-shear velocity province (LLSVP) consists of hot, low-density material, thought to be remnants from ancient seafloor slabs, which influence the region’s gravitational characteristics.
Connection to the Tethys Ocean Geologists believe Tethyan slabs, remnants of an ancient seafloor from the Tethys Ocean, form the African blob. Over 200 million years ago, the Tethys Ocean existed between the supercontinents Laurasia and Gondwana. As India moved northward, it created the Indian Ocean and left behind these geological traces.
Evolution and Persistence of the IOGL Around 20 million years ago, the geoid low probably formed its current shape as plumes began spreading through the upper mantle. The mantle material flow from the African blob sustains this anomaly. As long as these flows continue, the geoid low will persist.
Future Implications The IOGL will eventually dissipate when temperature anomalies cause it to move, which could take many millions of years. Studying this geoid low provides valuable insights into Earth’s internal processes and the dynamic nature of its mantle.
AI Focused Alien Photo From 1930 Alaska, eyewitness killed, UFO Sighing News. Video.
AI Focused Alien Photo From 1930 Alaska, eyewitness killed, UFO Sighing News. Video.
Date of sighting: 1930s Location of sighting: Lake in Alaska, USA
I decided to take this old 1930s photo of a creature that was photographed in Alaska and run it though ai correction to see if it brings out any detail, or perhaps corrects it so we can see what it really is, however it was not a deer or animal as some have speculated, instead a white, thin alien figure with a big head is seen. This seems accurate to me. It is definitive proof that something human-like small and wearing white was recorded on that day...but I don't believe it to be human, but alien.
Scott C. Waring
The picture was taken in the early 1930s by the sender's grandfather, who lived in Alaska. The entitiy was first seen when the grandfather was on his way to a lake. He chased the entity until he got close enough to take this one picture. It was some four months before the photograph was developed, being in in a remote, sparsely populated area. The sender received the picture from his grandfather only last week. His grandfather died the day after giving him the photo, and relating his story.
We weten al eeuwen dat de aarde slechts een punt is in een steeds groter wordend heelal, en het is vaak moeilijk om je deze afstanden zelfs maar voor te stellen. De bijna 400.000 kilometer die ons van de maan scheiden, verbleken in vergelijking met de 150 miljoen kilometer die nodig is om de zon te bereiken, en het is hoe dan ook een heel klein deel van de Melkweg. Alles rondom onze planeet is lege ruimte, of bijna, maar waar begint de ruimte dan? Dit is een minder banale vraag dan het lijkt: laten we eens kijken waarom!
Ruimte en het idee van ruimte
Wanneer een astronaut zich klaarmaakt om naar het Internationale Ruimtestation te gaan, zeggen we vaak dat hij de ruimte in gaat. Wanneer hij zich al in het ISS bevindt en buiten de structuur een taak uitvoert, spreken we van een ruimtewandeling. Maar is het dat echt? Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het een “eenvoudige” kwestie van grenzen: waar eindigt de aarde, waar begint de ruimte? Het zijn vragen die banaal lijken, maar verbonden zijn met de vraag wat een planeet is, of beter gezegd: wat onze planeet is.
We weten dat de aarde een atmosfeer heeft die ons in staat stelt om op het oppervlak te leven, dus de ruimte moet beginnen wanneer de atmosfeer eindigt, toch? Helaas strekt de atmosfeer van de aarde zich uit tot ongeveer 800 kilometer boven het oppervlak, met een grens verder weg dan de reizen van Gagarin en andere astronauten, zelfs hoger dan het ISS. Misschien begint de ruimte wanneer het effect van de zwaartekracht van de aarde eindigt, maar dan zouden we 21 miljoen kilometer van onze planeet moeten verwijderen en dichter bij Venus moeten komen. Dit is geen bevredigende maatstaf: zoals we al zeiden, we moeten op basis van conventie vaststellen waar de ruimte begint.
Van de atmosfeer tot de thermosfeer
NASA
Zoals vaak gebeurt bij metingen, is het noodzakelijk om een criterium vast te stellen, een bevredigende meting die ons in staat stelt te zeggen waar de ruimte begint. Volgens de Internationale Astronomische Federatie ligt de rand van de ruimte 100 kilometer boven zeeniveau. Daar is de atmosfeer al zo ijl dat gewone vliegtuigen niet kunnen vliegen: een bijna empirische meting, zoals die waarbij het begin van de ruimte op ongeveer 80 kilometer wordt geplaatst, de limiet die door de Amerikaanse X-15-raket in de jaren zestig werd overschreden. Maar is dit genoeg?
Een meer wetenschappelijke methode is die waarbij het einde van de aarde en het begin van de ruimte op ongeveer 118 kilometer boven zeeniveau worden geplaatst. Hier is sprake van een overwicht van deeltjes die uit de ruimte komen vergeleken met deeltjes die van de planeet komen: kortom, er is nog steeds een atmosfeer, maar de dingen worden verwarrend. Een paar honderd kilometer hoger bevindt zich de thermosfeer, het gebied van de atmosfeer waarin het Internationale Ruimtestation zich bevindt. Als er een grens is tussen de aarde en de ruimte, zou dit de grens kunnen zijn, ook al is niet iedereen het daarmee eens.
Waar begint de ruimte?
Zoals we hebben gezien, is het beantwoorden van deze vraag niet zo eenvoudig als het lijkt. Er is geen fysieke barrière die ons in staat stelt te zeggen waar de aarde eindigt en waar de ruimte begint, en er is zelfs geen enkele grens die onze taak gemakkelijker maakt. Er zijn veel grenzen, elk met uitstekende argumenten. De waarheid is dat we mensen zijn en beslissen wat ruimte is en wat niet: dit zijn conventies die meer vertellen over onze doelen en doelstellingen dan over de werkelijke ruimte.
Tegenwoordig heeft de IAF het begin van de ruimte gedefinieerd volgens de Kármánlijn, maar we hebben al gezien dat er meerdere interpretaties zijn, die allemaal legitiem zijn. Op dit moment hebben we het over 100 kilometer, 118 kilometer of de 400 kilometer hoogte van het ISS. In de toekomst zal het toenemende onderzoek ons misschien in staat stellen andere metingen van de ruimte te geven die uiteindelijk alleen maar metingen van onszelf zijn. Of weinig meer.
Unlocking UAP Mysteries: The Scientific Breakthrough of the MUPAS Experiment
Unlocking UAP Mysteries: The Scientific Breakthrough of the MUPAS Experiment
The existence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) has long been a subject of fascination and debate. Despite numerous eyewitness accounts and anecdotal evidence, mainstream science has traditionally been hesitant to investigate UAPs due to a perceived lack of empirical data. However, a groundbreaking research initiative known as the Modular Unidentified Phenomenon Alert System (MUPAS) is changing the landscape of UAP research by providing scientific evidence to support the existence and effects of these mysterious phenomena.
The MUPAS Initiative
The MUPAS experiment, led by physicist and engineer Jim Segala, represents a pioneering effort to scientifically study UAPs using a combination of advanced technology and human experience reports. Launched in 2018, MUPAS has recorded over 600 verified UAP cases, combining environmental sensor data with participant observations. This approach provides a comprehensive understanding of the phenomena and their potential impacts on humans and the environment.
Advanced Data Collection
The core of the MUPAS initiative lies in its custom-built sensor systems designed to capture a wide range of environmental signals. These sensors monitor:
Radio Frequency (RF): Analyzes electromagnetic signals that might be associated with UAP activity.
Gravimetric Changes: Measures alterations in gravitational fields that could indicate the presence of unknown crafts or phenomena.
Gamma Radiation: Detects spikes in radiation that are often reported during UAP encounters.
Microwaves: Monitors microwave emissions that may correlate with sightings.
By continuously collecting data on these signals, MUPAS aims to identify patterns and anomalies that coincide with UAP reports.
Correlating Human Experiences with Environmental Changes
A unique aspect of the MUPAS experiment is its integration of human experiencer reports with environmental data. Participants in the study are encouraged to document their encounters, including any physical or psychological effects experienced during or after the sighting. This information is then cross-referenced with data collected by the sensors to identify correlations.
One notable example from the study is Case 316, where a participant reported an intense experience of disorientation and confusion, stating, “If I were to ever say I was abducted, it would have been last night.” During this time, the MUPAS sensors recorded significant spikes in gamma and microwave radiation, suggesting a direct interaction between the UAP and the participant.
Statistical Significance and Scientific Rigor
A key achievement of the MUPAS experiment is its ability to predict UAP interactions with a high degree of statistical confidence. The data collected has reached a 4.8 Sigma confidence level, approaching the 5 Sigma standard often used in scientific research to denote statistical significance. This level of accuracy indicates a strong correlation between the environmental changes detected by MUPAS and the human reports of UAP experiences.
Addressing Skepticism in the Scientific Community
Despite the compelling findings of the MUPAS experiment, skepticism remains prevalent within the scientific community. Critics argue that the phenomena reported are often anecdotal and lack empirical evidence. However, Jim Segala and his team are addressing these concerns by adhering to the scientific method and employing rigorous data collection techniques.
Segala emphasizes the importance of creating hypotheses based on observable data and testing these hypotheses using verifiable scientific methods. By doing so, MUPAS is challenging the notion that UAPs cannot be studied scientifically and is providing a framework for future research in this field.
Expanding Participation and Public Involvement
The MUPAS initiative is not limited to a select group of researchers; it encourages public participation and aims to expand its reach through crowdfunding and community involvement. By equipping more individuals with sensors and promoting collaboration, MUPAS seeks to gather a larger dataset and enhance its understanding of UAP phenomena.
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The findings of the MUPAS experiment have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of UAPs and their impact on the natural world. If UAPs consistently cause measurable environmental changes, they could provide new insights into unexplained physical phenomena and challenge existing scientific paradigms.
The MUPAS experiment represents a significant step forward in the scientific investigation of UAPs. By combining advanced sensor technology with participant experiences, MUPAS is providing empirical evidence to support the existence of these phenomena and their potential effects. As the project continues to grow and gain traction, it holds the promise of advancing our understanding of UAPs and fostering a more open-minded approach to studying unexplained aerial phenomena.
A team of North Carolina State University Engineers has devised a shapeshifting robot inspired by the ancient Japanese paper-folding art of Origami, capable of functions ranging from space exploration to disaster relief.
By implementing hierarchical concepts observed in nature, the team’s approach combines simple and efficient kinematics with “rich shape-morphing capability” to successfully mitigate the complexity and power use issues holding back earlier concept work from real-life implementation. The researchers believe these improvements could pave the way to a simpler, more malleable shape-shifting robot for practical use.
“The question we’re asking is how to achieve a number of versatile shapes with the fewest number of actuators powering the shapeshifting,” said Jie Yin, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, in a press release announcing their work.
“Here we use a hierarchical concept observed in nature – like layered muscle fibers – but with plastic cubes to create a transforming robot.”
A prototype of the transforming robot Shapeshifter is tested in the robotics yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Shapeshifter is made of smaller robots that can morph into rolling spheres, flying drones, swimming submersibles, and more.
An illustration of an early concept of Shapeshifter imagines the robots on Saturn's moon Titan. In the picture, the Shapeshifter breaks into smaller pieces that can investigate a methane waterfall from the sky.
An illustration of the small robots that form Shapeshifter. Dubbed "cobots," they each have a propeller for flying and can combine to form a sphere, rolling on the ground to save energy
In that same release, team leader Yin explained that they looked at the hierarchical construction of human muscle, of fiber wrapped in connective tissue, with those bundles once again joined by another layer of connective tissue. To this hierarchical concept, they added a combinatorial principle that the robot could split into sub-pieces or even into smaller autonomous units. According to the team’s new paper recently published in the journal Nature Communications, the combination of these two ideas provided the jumping-off point to rethink how a shape-shifting robot could be composed,
In that work, the team also looked at the issues plaguing previous work, including one Origami-inspired robot previously covered by The Debrief that was otherwise promising. Plus, while advances have been made in other biologically inspired robots, they have so far struggled to compare to the real thing.
For example, the variety of shapes that many robots could put themselves into was limited. Also, those with a more diverse array of potential forms quickly became a complicated mess of intricate control systems and actuators. Their transformations were difficult, lengthy, and tapped too much energy.
In an effort to overcome those limitations, the team designed a robotics framework that can bend, fold, and reshape itself into a variety of forms. In their shape-shifting robot’s final structure, four, six, or eight cubes are connected by an equal number of hinges acting as joints. These joints are also rotational, increasing the angles available to a single pivot.
Adding to the robot’s versatility, the servomotors that control them are controlled by Bluetooth and powered by rechargeable batteries.
Mori3: A polygon-based modular robot
Printing Out a Transforming Robot
To construct their test model, the team relied on 3D printing. First, they printed rigid ABS plastic panels, which were then connected into hollow cubes and joined with flexible hinges. According to the researchers, this design does not just make assembly easy; it becomes a snap to disassemble and change the hierarchy. Additionally, the model tested to have a significant amount of strength. For example, it could support two and a half times its weight even when deployed as a multistory structure. Simpler uses, such as bridges and tunnels, could bear even greater stress, over three and a half times its weight.
“We want to make a more robust structure that can bear larger loads,” said Yanbin Li, an NC State postdoctoral researcher and co-corresponding author of the paper. “If we want a car shape, for example, how do we design the first structure that can transform into a car shape? We also want to test our structures with real-world applications like space robots.”
The efficiency of this robust design relies on allowing for many possibilities while finding the simplest solution. While one robot is equipped with 22 motors controlling 36 joints, it only needs to use up to three at a time for a transformation. This includes rearranging itself from a dense cube into a fully open structure, a feat that was accomplished with only two motors actively driving 16 of its joints.
The Mori3 robot standing up.
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This reduced transformation times to two minutes from the hours described in earlier work.
When highlighting the design’s efficiency, the paper’s authors noted that at its maximum expansion, the robot could occupy 200 times the initial volume of its components when packed flat. Based on its unprecedented speed of transformation and compactness for transport, the team identified the robots as perfect for use as emergency shelters or other structures needed in rapid deployment situations.
When operating on a planet’s surface, large-scale functions like transforming into a shelter or acting as a cargo robot are possible. In one proposed application, the separate pieces split into multiple robots with separate functions, an idea common in Japanese science fiction entertainment. This level of malleability also allows the shape-shifting robot to assume a more aerodynamic shape for either pointing down and landing or pointing up and taking off without turning the entire structure around. Such a robot could significantly cut down the needed equipment, while simultaneously increasing its own safety and efficiency.
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The Future of Space Exploration May Be In Transporting Less
In their paper, the researchers also illustrate an example of how such robots could be used in space exploration. This is consistent with recent work in the field that has been trying to identify ways to make devices more reclaimable and cost-effective. In a previous story, The Debrief looked at the ways engineers have been attempting to make space vehicles reusable.
One example highlighted by the NC State researchers is how it can form itself into a large, flat slab for solar panels, maximizing the surface area for energy collection. It can also reconfigure itself to create holes in its surface for objects to pass harmlessly through, avoiding collisions with small space objects. Such a feature would also allow it to generate docking ports for other spacecraft or even convert itself into a living space for future astronauts.
“We think these can be used as deployable, configurable space robots and habitats,” said Antonio Di Lallo, an NC State postdoctoral researcher and co-first author of the paper. “It’s modular, so you can send it to space flat and assemble it as a shelter or as a habitat, and then disassemble it.”
Whatever form the shape-shifting robots ultimately take, the researchers agree that ease of use will be critical to their overall value.
“For users, it needs to be easy to assemble and to control,” Yin said.
Ryan Whalen covers science and technology for The Debrief. He can be reached at ryan@thedebrief.org.
The Bureau is said to be concerned about the findings at the research centre, fearing the discovery could lead to members of the public gaining access to thousands of documents.
The FBI memo reportedly reads: “An investigator for the Air Force states that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico.
“They were described as being circular in shape with raised centres, approximately 50 feet in diameter.
FBI UFO Document Is The Most Popular Of All Its 'Vault' Files
“Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture.
“According to Mr (name blanked out), the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling mechanism of the saucers.”
Whatever the details of this reportedly top secret memo, the truth is out there…
FBI's 'flying saucers' online memo intrigues public - CNN.com
The most common and yet interesting question that many people ask is: Are we alone in this universe? The answer has taken a great turn from “Maybe yes” to “Maybe no” in the past few years. There is a long list of credible personalities who never denied the presence of non-human intelligent life among us. Moreover, a few of them are certain that aliens are on Earth. American billionaire Robert Bigelow said something shocking about aliens in November 2017.
According to Robert Bigelow, famous in the aerospace industry for the manufacture of inflatable modules such as those tested out at the International Space Station, there are extraterrestrial beings living among humans. He said that he is “absolutely convinced” aliens live among humans on Earth. During the interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes, reporter Lara Logan asked Bigelow if he believes in aliens. He replied: “I’m absolutely convinced. That’s all there is to it.” He further said: “There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence.”
He continued: “I spent millions and millions and millions – I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.” “You don’t have to go anywhere” to find aliens and they are here right in front of people. Bigelow had his own close encounters but declined to go into detail.
When award-winning journalist George Knapp asked his comment on this interview, he said: “There are different ways to go at this. So one is from a hardware standpoint. The other one is from the presence standpoint, ET presence. And, you know, a lot of people say, well, whether they’re, you know, that they can be among the population, whether they’re hybrids, or there’s some other kind of, really look alike, you know, kind of thing. But so, so you can look at it in different kinds of ways. And, and so, I know of a really good high quality researcher who has fantastic academic credentials and background. And he would be predisposed to the latter, saying that, yeah, it could be among us, you know, but he’s probably on the more extreme, he’s definitely on the more extreme. Others would say, well, we’re safe in saying that there’s hardware, you know, so that’s among us, and hardware kind of context.” (Source)
Skinwalker Ranch, a property located in northeastern Utah has been the subject of alleged paranormal activity, including UFO sightings and other strange occurrences. The ranch gained notoriety in the 1990s when it was purchased by Mr. Bigelow, who funded a number of studies of the phenomena reported at the ranch.
However, the specifics of what has been reported at the ranch and the credibility of those reports have been the subject of much debate and skepticism. Some people believe that the ranch is a hotspot for extraterrestrial activity, while others believe that the reports of strange occurrences at the ranch are the result of hoaxes or misidentifications of natural phenomena.
Bryant “Dragon” Arnold (Chief Security Officer on Skinwalker Ranch), Casey Smith, Erik Bard and Kaleb Bench, from left, check the radiation in a sinkhole pit on Skinwalker Ranch, in a moment from History’s series “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.” Image via The Salt Lake Tribune
Following his interview with Mr. Bigelow, Knapp then asked if the entities at Skinwalker Ranch would be investigated through the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (which he founded in 2020 after his wife passed away). Besides, he wondered that if they are among us, can they also be considered alien? Bigelow said: “Well, if you if you follow the literature and pay attention to a lot of other kinds of sources, they absolutely are.”
Further, Mr. Bigelow shared his personal experiences and losses that prompted his interest in life after death, as well as UFOs. He talked about possible links between consciousness research and UFOs. He also talked about the risks of trying to establish communications with the unknown.
“That’s been mainly what I’ve been doing except for the skinwalker ranch thing for 20 years as the space world has been huge in my life to pursue the legitimate parochial kind of you know using fire engines rockets to get you there. We didn’t expect anything like this to happen and so there this is different. This is the holy grail and is different than the second holy grail. If the second one is ‘Beings’ (E.T.), then the first one: Is there any part of your consciousness that survives your bodily death? That’s a big deal. That’s a huge story. That’s gigantic.”
“Be a little careful about what you wish for. So on the face of it, communication sounds great and that by the way has been tried forever ever since the oracle of Delphi. I mean you can go back thousands of years and that’s been attempted. So It’s not now you know the last 100 years through electronics and using some kind of electrical apparatus to try to have some kind of communications. And you know communication can be at all different kinds of levels. There might be communication that just causes you an awareness.”
Then Knapp asked him what triggered his curiosity about UFOs, possibly it was after Bob Lazar’s story came out. Mr. Bigelow replied that he was already into UFO research. He was looking at UFO stories worldwide to understand what they actually were.
In 1992, he started the Bigelow Foundation with Bob Lazar, who worked on reverse-engineering recovered extraterrestrial craft at Area-51. Mr. Bigelow also backed Dr. John E. Mack, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard who wrote two popular books about his work with people who told him they had been abducted by aliens, and Budd Hopkins, an artist who became an abduction investigator and also wrote popular books.
Mr. Bigelow’s investigative team, headed by Colm Kelleher, the institute’s scientific administrator and biochemist, documented their own paranormal events, according to a 2005 book “Hunt for the Skinwalker,” by Dr. Kelleher and Mr. Knapp.
Mr. Bigelow said he saw “interdimensional” forces at play through portals at certain paranormal hot spots like Skinwalker. But he also said he had frequently visited the ranch without experiencing the kind of chilling events others reported, as if some intelligence were selecting the people to act upon. “I slept like a log every single night,” he said. And no human was physically harmed, but he said he and other visitors often carried strange things home, like a sulfurous stink in a certain part of his house. His wife felt the presence of a faceless creature pressing down on her side of bed. (Source)
Bigelow amassed his fortune through the hotel chain Budget Suites of America and used this money to fund his UFO study. In an interview with The Associated Press, he said that UFOs are “under our noses” and wondered why news organizations had not extensively covered UFO sightings.
In 2008, Mr. Bigelow secretly created BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies) to study the UFO mystery and related phenomena. The public did not know that he had signed a contract with the Defense Intelligence Agency to do an investigation under the AAWSAP program.
His political influence has been strong when it comes to UFO study. He once convinced his friend and then-Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid to allocate $22 million to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which investigated UFO reports from 2007 to 2012. The majority of the funds were sent to Bigelow’s company to investigate, and the allocation was not made public until a 2017 New York Times investigation. The Pentagon stated that the program was terminated in 2012, although Reid later stated that he had no remorse about the expenditure.
Later, he and his team hired dozens of investigators, scientists, and support staff to work on putting together a huge database of original investigations and UFO files from other countries. The now-famous 2004 Tic Tac encounter off the coast of Southern California was one of the cases that BAASS looked into.
Newly discovered evidence suggests that 42,000 years ago, ancient humans likely used various forms of maritime capabilities, an advanced form of technology for the period in which it was used, to traverse the world’s oceans.
In Southeast Asia, new evidencs points to the use of watercraft that allowed ancient sailors to colonize a portion of the more than 13,000 islands that make up modern day Indonesia, including the remote Tanimbar Islands.
“The question of how our early ancestors arrived there from Southeast Asia is one of the most captivating in prehistoric migration, mainly because of the vast distances covered and advanced seafaring skills that would have been required,” explained Mr. Hendri Kaharudin, a PhD candidate at the Australian National University (ANU) and the lead author of the study outlining the advanced maritime technologies employed by these early sailors that helped them reach the Tanimbar Island of Elivavan.
“This discovery marks one of the southern route’s earliest known sites, making it a crucial piece of the puzzle,” Mr. Kaharudin added.
42,000 Years Ago, the First Human Migrants Sailed to Tanimbar
While scientists have often theorized about the first arrival of human migrants in Indonesia from Southeast Asia, no concrete theory is universally accepted. According to the team’s research published in Quarternary Science Reviews, recent discoveries made on the Indonesian Tanimbar island of Elivavan revealed that people first arrived there around 42,000 years ago.
“Along with tiny fragments of pottery, we also found evidence of things like bones, shells, and sea urchins that point to the island’s role as a hub for early maritime activities,” Mr. Kaharudin said.
A) View of Elivavan rock shelter and the test pit location; B) The location of Elivavan rock shelter (yellow arrow) seen from the narrow strait between Fordata and Larat islands. Image Credit: Kaharudin, et. al.
To reach this remote location, ancient mariners would have had to traverse exceedingly long distances over treacherous seas. Mr. Kaharudin said these ancient mariners would have had to traverse bodies of water over 100 kilometers in the distance “regardless of their direction of travel.” According to the press release announcing the new findings, “the risky nature of the sea crossings suggests the colonists had developed advanced maritime technology by around 42,000 years ago.”
If the discoveries made on Elivavan ultimately confirm the first route to Indonesia taken by ancient mariners over 42,000 years ago was a southern one, it will solve a long-standing debate between scientists about which route these original colonists took to get there.
“There are two main routes that have been explored as possibilities since the mid-20th century, a northern path via islands like Sulawesi, and a southern track passing near Timor and the Tanimbar islands,” Kaharudin explained. This particular location, which lies along the southern route, is significant, the researcher notes, as “Tanimbar is located just off the ‘Sahul shelf’, which encompasses modern-day Australia, as well as New Guinea.”
Map of Wallacea, delineating Birdsell’s northern and southern migration routes. The map also highlights the oldest Pleistocene sites on each island. Along the northern route, the following sites are indicated: 1) Leang Karampuang, Leang Tedongnge, and Leang Bulu Sipong 4, 2) Goa Topogaro, 3) Leang Sarru, 4) Daeo 2, 5) Golo, and 6) Kelo 6. On the southern route, the following sites are highlighted: 7) Liang Bua, 8) Lua Meko, 9) Makpan, 10) Laili, 11) Asitau Kuru, Lene Hara, Matja Kuru 2, 12) Here Sorot Entapa, and 13) Elivavan. The last two sites represent connections to Sahul: 14) Leang Lemdubu, currently in the Aru Islands but once connected to the mainland during the Pleistocene, and 15) Madjedbebe, the oldest known site in Sahul. Image Credit: Kaharudin et. al.
To make such a dangerous crossing, the researchers believe that these ancient seafaring humans likely hopped along the coasts, moving from island to island as they slowly spread out. This strategy evolved over time, the researchers note, meaning that the colonization was not a single event but “a gradual process involving successive waves of seafaring populations.”
“Coastal communities likely navigated shorelines, exploiting marine resources and establishing resilient settlements along their journey,” Mr. Kaharudin explained. “This island-hopping strategy facilitated cultural exchange and adaptation, shaping diverse societies across the land mass.”
Studying Remote Locations Could Uncover More About Ancient Human Life
Although the discovery of human occupation on Elivavan of the Tanimbar Islands over 42,000 years ago is significant, the researchers behind the discovery note that there is still much more work to be done. This includes taking a closer look at the area where these discoveries were made to paint a more complete picture of these early seafaring humans. In fact, according to Kaharudin, it is the exploration of these remote locations that could answer the mysteries of ancient human migration.
“As more work is done in lesser-explored regions like the Tanimbar Islands, I expect we’ll uncover more about early human life and migration patterns,” he explained.
Christopher Plain is a Science Fiction and Fantasy novelist and Head Science Writer at The Debrief. Follow and connect with him onX,learn about his books atplainfiction.com, or email him directly atchristopher@thedebrief.org.
Floating LEAVES Could Characterize Venus’s Atmosphere
Venus’s atmosphere has drawn a lot of attention lately. In particular, the consistent discovery of phosphine in its clouds points to potential biological sources. That, in turn, has resulted in numerous suggested missions, including floating a balloon into the atmosphere or having a spacecraft scoop down and suck up atmospheric samples. But a team of engineers led by Jeffrey Balcerski, now an adjunct at Kent State University but then part of the Ohio Aerospace Institute, came up with a different idea years ago – use floating sensor platforms shaped like leaves to collect a wide variety of data throughout Venus’ atmosphere.
The Lofted Environmental and Atmospheric Venus Sensors (or LEAVES) project was funded by NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program in 2018. The mission design is simple enough: design lightweight platforms with a wide surface area, attach some low-cost and weight sensors to them, release them from a mothership transiting into orbit around Venus, and let those platforms float down through the Venusian atmosphere over the course of a few hours, all the while sending back atmospheric, chemical, and temperature data to the mothership.
There are a few enabling technologies behind the idea. The first is a lightweight yet robust and deployable structure that could support a platform of sensors and not be destroyed by Venus’s notoriously hellish environment. Designing this structure required understanding expected flight times and geolocation requirements, as well as the requirement that the system must be trackable by orbital radar in order to communicate back to the mothership. The resulting design resembles the famous inverted pyramid at the Louvre.
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Inside that structure, the second enabling technology sits—harsh environment sensors designed to operate in Venus’s extreme environments. Chemical, pressure, and electrical sensors have undergone extensive development work over the past few years, and some are approaching readiness for use on Venus. They are also lightweight, allowing the structure to descend slowly, which is necessary to complete its mission goals.
After receiving the NIAC Phase I grant, the team led by Dr. Balcerski got to work modeling LEAVES’ structure and mission design. They quickly realized that delivery methodology and a system’s light weight would be critical to future missions. As such, they modeled depositing a series of upwards of 100 LEAVES throughout Venus’ atmosphere, each of which would be networked back to the mothership that deposited them as part of its planned orbital maneuver. They also thought there were several planned Venus missions, such as DaVINCI, which could easily take LEAVES on as a secondary payload with no real risk to mission success or uptime, as the LEAVES would fall and be destroyed by the lower Venusian atmosphere in a matter of hours.
But those hours of data, relayed back to the mothership and then on to Earth, could provide invaluable insights into the inner workings of Venus’s atmosphere. LEAVES would be able to reach a wide altitude range—it is estimated to operate between 100 km and 30 km in altitude. It could also be spread literally all over the world, allowing for a more complete picture of the Venusian atmosphere than other mission designs, which would only capture a small vertical slice of the atmosphere.
Venus’s environmental is rough on technology, to say the least. Fraser discusses the new technologies that could one day survive on its surface.
Given the potential impact of what we might find in the Venusian atmosphere, any mission designs that allow us to capture a large amount of information about a wide swath of it would be welcome. Dr. Balcerski and his colleagues think they have advanced the LEAVES concept to a Technology Readiness Level of 3-4. However, they haven’t yet received further support for LEAVES, and development appears to be on hold. But, given the increasing interest in exploring the Venusian atmosphere, perhaps it’s time to look at this lightweight, inexpensive way of doing so again.
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