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 in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek blijkt een beetje gek te doen
Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek blijkt een beetje gek te doen
De enorme storm blijkt minder stabiel te zijn dan het op het eerste gezicht lijkt.
Al minstens 150 jaar houden astronomen Jupiters legendarische Grote Rode Vlek, een anticycloon groot genoeg om de aarde op te slokken, nauwlettend in de gaten. Toch blijven er steeds nieuwe verrassingen opduiken. Onlangs hebben onderzoekers de storm met behulp van ruimtetelescoop Hubble van dichtbij bestudeerd. En daaruit blijkt dat de Grote Rode Vlek zich een beetje vreemd gedraagt.
Meer over Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek Planeet Jupiter staat bekend om zijn kleurrijke banden en reusachtige, wervelende stormen. De bekendste storm is – misschien zelfs de bekendste in het hele zonnestelsel – de Grote Rode Vlek; een gigantische anticycloon die al heel wat jaren op de gasreus woedt. De Grote Rode Vlek is een immense atmosferische wervelwind, zo is hij bijna net zo groot als de aarde in diameter. Aan zijn buitenranden razen de winden met snelheden tot 450 kilometer per uur. De rode kleur ontstaat door chemische reacties in de atmosfeer, wat een opvallend contrast vormt met de bleke wolken van de gasreus. De Grote Rode Vlek heeft generaties van wetenschappers gefascineerd. Dat heeft onder andere met zijn omvang te maken, maar ook met het feit dat de storm zelfs zichtbaar is met kleine telescopen.
Nieuwe waarnemingen De nieuwe waarnemingen van Hubble zijn verzameld in een periode van 90 dagen van december 2023 tot maart 2024. En de nieuwe gegevens tonen aan dat de beroemde rode vlek ‘wiebelt als een kom gelatine’, zo schrijft NASA. Dankzij de samengevoegde Hubble-afbeeldingen waren de astronomen in staat om een time-lapse te maken van het merkwaardige kronkelige gedrag van de storm. Die beelden kun je hieronder aanschouwen.
De nieuwe time-lapse video. De video is gemaakt op basis van waarnemingen van de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop op het moment dat Jupiter zich tussen de 629 miljoen en 824 miljoen kilometer van de zon bevond. Afbeelding: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC); Video: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
Onderzoekers hadden geen idee dat de storm zo gek doet. “Hoewel we wisten dat de beweging in lengtegraad een beetje verschilt, hadden we niet verwacht dat de grootte zou fluctueren”, zegt onderzoeker Amy Simon. “Voor zover wij weten, is dit nog nooit eerder opgemerkt. Dit is echt de eerste keer dat we een goede beeldfrequentie van de Grote Rode Vlek hebben. Dankzij de hoge resolutie van Hubble kunnen we concluderen dat de storm zich ‘in- en uitknijpt’ terwijl hij sneller en langzamer beweegt. Dit was zeer onverwacht. Op dit moment is er ook nog geen verklaring voor.”
Onderzoek naar de Grote Rode Vlek Hubble observeert elk jaar Jupiter en de andere planeten van het buitenste zonnestelsel via het Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy-programma (OPAL). Deze specifieke waarnemingen zijn echter afkomstig uit een programma dat zich uitsluitend richt op de Grote Rode Vlek. Door de mechanismen achter de grootste stormen in het zonnestelsel te begrijpen, kunnen we de theorie van orkanen op aarde in een breder kosmisch kader plaatsen, wat kan bijdragen aan een beter begrip van de meteorologie op planeten rond andere sterren.
Veranderingen De onderzoekers gebruikten Hubble om in te zoomen op de Grote Rode Vlek om zo een gedetailleerd beeld te krijgen van zijn grootte, vorm en eventuele subtiele kleurveranderingen. “Wanneer we goed kijken, merken we dat er elke dag veel verandert”, vertelt Simon. Dit omvat waarnemingen in ultraviolet licht die laten zien dat de duidelijke kern van de storm het helderst is wanneer de storm zijn grootste omvang in zijn oscillatiecyclus bereikt. Dit wijst op minder absorptie van nevel in de bovenste atmosfeer.
Astronomen hebben de grootte, vorm, helderheid, kleur en werveling van de Grote Rode Vlek gemeten over een volledige oscillatiecyclus. De gegevens laten zien dat de storm minder stabiel is dan het lijkt. Afbeelding: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
Gevangen Het lijkt erop dat de Grote Rode Vlek in zeker zin gevangen zit. “Wanneer de Grote Rode Vlek versnelt en vertraagt, duwt hij tegen de krachtige straalstromen die naar het noorden en zuiden strekken”, legt mede-auteur Mike Wong uit. “Dit is vergelijkbaar met een dubbele boterham, waarbij de sneetjes naar buiten worden geduwd als er te veel vulling in het midden zit.” Het tegenovergestelde gebeurt op Neptunus, waar stormen vrij kunnen bewegen in breedtegraad zonder sterke straalstromen die hen op hun plaats houden. Daarentegen is Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek tijdens de telescopische waarnemingen op een zuidelijke breedtegraad gebleven, gevangen tussen de straalstromen.
Nieuwe waarnemingen laten zien dat de Grote Rode Vlek wiebelt en van grootte verandert. Afbeelding: NASA, ESA, STScI, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
Het team is van plan de Grote Rode Vlek te blijven volgen. Ze verwachten dat de storm verder zal krimpen voordat hij een stabiele, minder uitgerekte vorm aanneemt. Maar voor het zover is, hopen de onderzoekers dat andere beelden van Hubble de onderliggende oorzaak van het ontdekte vreemde gedrag van de Grote Rode Vlek zullen onthullen.
Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot, a storm larger than Earth, has fascinated astronomers for over 150 years. But thanks to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, we’re now seeing this legendary storm in a whole new light. Recent observations show that the Great Red Spot is wobbling and fluctuating in size. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Lead Producer: Paul Morris
Behind a Wall of Trees, Archaeologists Discover a Maya City
Behind a Wall of Trees, Archaeologists Discover a Maya City
A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence that the Maya civilization was even more sprawling than known.
In this lidar image released by Cambridge University Press, what archaeologists in Mexico say is a newly discovered lost Maya city, which they named Valeriana, is hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche, Mexico.Credit...Luke Auld-Thomas Et Al, via Reuters
East of the town of Dos Lagunas, past the major highway cutting through Mexico’s south, the forest rises up in a dense wall of grasping roots, spindly branches and veils of brown and green.
Beyond it lies the ruins of an old Maya city, barely a 15-minute walk from the busy roadway but until now unknown to archaeologists, its secrets cloaked over the centuries by unchecked foliage.
“It’s humbling,” said Marcello Canuto, an archaeologist at Tulane University and one of the researchers who have documented the site. “It’s how easy it is not to know what’s just another 100 meters beyond what you can see when the forest is intact.”
The team found the site not from the ground, but by scouring aerial scans taken for the use of ecologists. Upon close examination, the researchers revealed ruins with all of the hallmarks of ancient Maya.
“If you could design for a video game all of the classic features of a Maya city, they would look like this,” marveled Luke Auld-Thomas, a doctoral student at Tulane who spotted the site in the scans. “It’s got temple pyramids, a palace complex, big public plazas, reservoirs, dams, a broad processional causeway linking different complexes across hilltops.”
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Mr. Auld-Thomas said the archaeologists also found the remains of residential buildings, terraces, field walls, garden areas, stabilized hills and other signs of human industry.
And at another site identified by the team, the researchers found a deep sinkhole connected to a partly collapsed cave system, and adjacent to that, an architectural complex surrounded by a ditch shaped like a cross.
“That is the canonical representation of a cave in Mesoamerican art, going back to the very beginning of Mesoamerican art,” Mr. Auld-Thomas said. “I don’t really know what else to make of it. I’ll describe it — and then I cannot venture an interpretation of what it means or when it dates to. It’s super strange.”
The ruins may have been unknown to researchers who spend their days in search of just such finds, but some farmers in Dos Lagunas were “perfectly aware of the site’s existence,” Mr. Auld-Thomas said. He described his own discovery of it as something other than a mere accident — a “mix of deliberation and serendipity.”
The search began after he heard about other researchers using NASA data collected with lidar, a technology that uses airborne lasers to pierce dense vegetation. Among other things, it allows scientists to scan for hidden structures and landscapes.
The Calakmul Temple, in Yucatán, Mexico, in 2022. A Maya city researchers named Valeriana has been discovered nearby.Credit...Adrian Wilson for The New York Times
“So I just set about digging on the internet, wondering if I could find another airborne lidar set like the one they had found,” he said. “Lo and behold, one turned up.”
He found lidar surveys collected over a decade ago by a group of ecologists mapping Mexico’s forests, and soon saw “a pretty substantial ancient Mayan city, right there mapped in detail.” The ecologists, he said, “were looking at the trees that cover the city, and not the city itself.”
Mr. Auld-Thomas and his colleagues, who published their findings in the journal Antiquity on Monday, call the city Valeriana, after a nearby lagoon. They estimate that it may have had a population of as many as 50,000 people at its peak, which was most likely around the end of the late Classic Maya era, probably between about A.D. 750 and 850.
Kathryn Reese-Taylor, an anthropologist at the University of Calgary who was not involved in the research, said she was “thrilled” by the findings. The work builds on growing evidence, like the discovery last year of another city hidden in the jungle, that the region — long understudied by archaeologists — had a dense and widespread population during the Maya period.
“It’s a sprawl,” Dr. Reese-Taylor said, comparing it to the spread of medium-size cities and their heavily populated exurbs and suburbs across North America.“Apparently, the Maya had the same kind of spread of dispersal.”
Archaeologists have yet to reach Valeriana on foot, as another team led by the archaeologist Ivan Šprajc did last year with the city discovered last year, called Ocomtún.
The newly documented sites appear to be smaller than that city and the largest city of the region, Calakmul, but the findings bolster the idea that there was once widespread settlement across the region. As a map of the Maya Yucatán is slowly created, a dense mosaic of ancient cities, towns, villages, farms and earthworks is emerging.
“It is fascinating,” said Simon Martin, a political anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the work. “This demonstrates, to a high degree of confidence, that the landscape was heavily populated everywhere.”
Dr. Martin, an associate curator at the Penn Museum, said that the growing body of research in the region “has enormous implications for estimating the total population” of the Maya.
“It raises all sorts of questions, too,” he said. “I think it makes the collapse of Classic civilization even more mysterious: The more people there were, the more difficult it is to explain the massive depopulation later on.”
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An aerospace company has unveiled a new hypersonic engine which it says makes a “major breakthrough” in high-speed flight.
Venus Aerospace, a Texas-based company focused on making hypersonic travel a reality, has announced they are producing an advanced propulsion engine that could power high-speed vehicles, including drones and aircraft.
Hypersonic technology is not a new phenomenon – it has been used in ballistic missiles, space expeditions, as well as Nasa’s experimental X-planes.
The company hopes that the Venus Detonation Ramjet 2,000lb Thrust Engine, also known as VDR2, will enable vehicles to travel long distances at high altitudes, all while achieving Mach speeds – a rate that is faster than the speed of sound.
Venus Aerospace said that the VDR2 would offer a single engine that can go as fast as Mach 6, which is 3,600mph.
The company says that the engine should be able to sustain efficient cruising at Mach 4 on journeys of up to 5,000 miles, and will be designed for take-off and landing at various airports with a 30-minute turnaround time.
The ”groundbreaking” product was unveiled at Up.Summit, a gathering in the US state of Arkansas for investors and industry leaders in the transport sector.
Andrew Duggleby, the co-founder of Venus Aerospace, spoke at the summit, saying that the engine “makes the hypersonic economy a reality.”
“We are excited to partner with Velontra to achieve this revolution in high-speed flight, given their expertise in high-speed air combustion."
Eric Briggs, Velontra’s chief operating officer, said: "We can’t wait to dig in, make the first one fly, and ultimately perfect an engine concept that has lived mostly in textbooks but never as a production unit in the air,"
"We couldn’t think of a better partner than Venus. Rocketry pioneers in their own right and ready to tackle the hard problems, we are eager to fly the same path with them."
Both Venus Aerospace and Velontra said that by combining their technologies, they hope to take steps towards high-speed flight in both the commercial and defence sectors.
Venus Aerospace hope to test its engine, using a drone, by 2025. But production of its first hypersonic commercial plane, the Venus Stargazer M400, may not begin until the 2030s.
The 3,461-mile flight between London and New York that takes, on average, eight hours could be achieved in under an hour at Mach 6 speeds.
Yet it is unclear when a fully realised hypersonic commercial plane will become a reality.
Simon Calder, travel correspondent at The Independent – and one of a dwindling number of people who flew on Concorde – said: “I look forward to travelling to the hyperport using my personal jetpack. But perhaps not for a few more decades.
“The absurd costs – environmental as well as financial – involved in flying faster than the speed of sound make it extremely unlikely that London-New York in an hour will be a reality any time in this half-century.”
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A father-daughter team from the United States, Ken and Keli Chaffin, have deciphered a simulated "extraterrestrial" message transmitted from Mars in May 2023 via a radio signal sent by the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). The message, which was intercepted by three observatories on Earth, was part of an artistic project called "A Sign in Space," which aimed to engage citizen scientists in decoding an alien message.
The Chaffins realized that the message contained a diagram representing the structure of five amino acids, the fundamental building blocks of life. According to specialists from the European Space Agency, the Chaffins ran simulations for "days on end" before hitting upon the solution. They "followed their intuition and conducted hours-long simulations every day," ultimately organizing the bits into coherent structures using computer simulations and reversible cellular automata.
Amino acids as depicted in a radio signal beamed to Earth in 2023 by ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. (Image credit: ESA/Ken and Keli Chaffin)
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter beamed the simulated signal towards Earth in May 2023, which was received 16 minutes later. A worldwide community of over 5,000 citizen scientists quickly got to work on the raw data, managing to extract the signal within ten days. In the first phase, this group of amateur scientists successfully extracted the encrypted message from the raw radio signal, showcasing the potential of global collaboration in the event of real extraterrestrial contact.
The project "A Sign in Space" was initiated by multimedia artist Daniela de Paulis, who collaborated with the European Space Agency, the SETI Institute, the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, and INAF, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics. The image contained in the message was designed by de Paulis and a team of astronomers and computer scientists, with support from these institutions. The project was conceived as an experiment to test which methods might be useful for decoding transmissions from extraterrestrial civilizations.
Amino acids are the building blocks of life, and their inclusion in the message raises numerous questions: What do the five biological components represent? Are the implications of amino acids indicative of an attempt to communicate about life itself?
The project encourages the global community to delve deeper into the meaning of this abstract message from Mars. Many questions arise: Are the aliens friendly or hostile? What is the significance of the cellular formations and life forms identified in the message?
According to the European Space Agency, the results of the project "A Sign in Space" showed that if humanity ever receives a signal from real extraterrestrials, citizen scientists could play a crucial role in its deciphering. The involvement of over 5,000 amateur scientists in the initial extraction phase and the subsequent success of the Chaffins in decoding the message demonstrate the power of collaborative efforts and diverse approaches in tackling complex problems.
While the Chaffins' work has provided significant insights into the content of the message, the search for its meaning begins. The true meaning of the message remains a matter of debate, and the project continues to engage the global community in interpreting the implications of this simulated extraterrestrial communication. As the exploration of the message's significance unfolds, the collaboration between scientists, artists, and citizen scientists highlights the interdisciplinary nature of such endeavors.
Earlier, a British scientist announced the discovery of signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. This, alongside the findings from "A Sign in Space," suggests a growing interest and progress in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth.
Now that "A Sign in Space" has been decoded, the global community is invited to discuss the meaning of this abstract message from Mars, while its interpretation remains open. The project aims to explore the reaction of the global community to a hypothetical alien message and to test whether citizen scientists can collaborate effectively in such a monumental task.
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UAP Disclosure 2024: Will Congress Finally Reveal the Truth?
UAP Disclosure 2024: Will Congress Finally Reveal the Truth?
As we approach 2024, discussions about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) are heating up once again, with new Congressional hearings anticipated. The prospect of transparency around UAPs, still often called UFOs, has intrigued the public for decades. Yet, a central question remains: is there a clear, genuine plan for disclosure, or is history set to repeat with vague answers and deferred transparency?
The History of UAP Secrecy and Congressional Roadblocks
The secrecy around UAPs has been a constant feature of government behavior for over half a century. In the 1960s, efforts to hold governmental inquiries into unidentified objects in the skies fell flat, with a significant lack of cooperation from those in power. Similarly, in the early 1990s, Congressman Steven Schiff, representing New Mexico—a state with close ties to UAP lore due to the Roswell incident—pursued the truth behind Roswell. He encountered substantial resistance and alleged illegal destruction of records from the late 1940s, raising suspicions that a secretive agenda was in place to keep UAP information out of the public eye.
Despite many attempts over the years, UAP disclosure has continually run into walls of bureaucratic evasion and claims of national security concerns. Recent history has shown some progress, such as David Grusch’s testimony in 2023, where the former intelligence officer testified before Congress, claiming that the U.S. government possessed both alien technology and “non-human biologics.” His statements drew public attention, but concrete governmental acknowledgment remains elusive.
With fresh hearings set for 2024, many are asking whether anything substantial will be revealed. But the path to transparency remains riddled with challenges.
Congress’s Renewed Interest: A Different Landscape?
Unlike in previous decades, there is now a broader Congressional interest in UAPs. Where Congressman Schiff once stood alone, there are now multiple lawmakers pushing for answers. Many members appear genuinely curious, if not outright concerned, about the implications of UAPs for national security and public trust. However, it remains unclear whether this interest will translate into real action or whether any disclosed information will have lasting significance.
The upcoming hearings present a promising but uncertain landscape. Although some Congressional representatives have shown genuine interest, the broader institutional inertia and entrenched secrecy may mean that, once again, answers will be few and limited. Furthermore, it’s not yet clear which witnesses will testify or what topics the hearings will cover. Some speculate that Admiral Tim Goudet could be a key figure, though his exact role has not been confirmed. Without clarity on the agenda and witnesses, it’s difficult to predict how impactful these hearings might be.
Immaculate Constellation: A Key to Disclosure?
Among the more intriguing claims associated with UAP secrecy is the existence of an alleged program named “Immaculate Constellation.” This program is said to contain a massive repository of information about UAPs, including photos, videos, and documentation gathered over many years. If this database exists, it could represent the most comprehensive collection of UAP evidence in government possession. However, as with many aspects of UAP investigations, there is little verified information available.
The idea of a centralized database filled with UAP evidence is not entirely new; in the 1970s, a similar program was rumored, sparking speculation that Immaculate Constellation could be a continuation or evolution of that initiative. The existence and contents of such a database, if confirmed, could fundamentally shift public understanding of the UAP phenomenon. Whether Congress will pursue or even acknowledge the Immaculate Constellation database remains uncertain, but its potential inclusion in upcoming hearings could be a turning point for disclosure advocates.
Timing and Political Context: Will Elections Cloud the Issue?
The timing of the 2024 UAP hearings, shortly after the U.S. presidential election, adds another layer of complexity. The political climate following the election will likely be highly charged, with accusations, investigations, and possibly contested results affecting the national mood. In this tense environment, Congress may struggle to maintain focus on objective investigation and transparent disclosure about UAPs. Furthermore, the outcome of the election could result in members of Congress transitioning out of office, raising questions about the continuity and stability of UAP investigations.
Given these factors, it’s unclear whether the upcoming hearings will result in significant developments or whether they will be overshadowed by political distractions. The timing of these hearings could mean that even if new information is shared, it might not receive the attention it warrants from either the public or the media.
The Potential for Disclosure: Reasons for Cautious Optimism
Despite these challenges, there is reason for cautious optimism. David Grusch’s testimony in 2023 opened the door to new discussions, and many lawmakers are now publicly voicing a commitment to transparency regarding UAPs. While the official stance remains one of denial, there is growing pressure on government bodies to provide more than just token responses. However, public expectations should remain measured. The government’s longstanding culture of secrecy, reinforced by concerns over national security and public stability, suggests that full transparency remains unlikely in the near future.
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The 2024 UAP hearings are shaping up to be an important moment in the long journey toward disclosure. Yet, questions persist about whether there is a genuine plan for transparency or whether the hearings will simply be a repeat of past disappointments. With growing public interest, increased Congressional attention, and the tantalizing possibility of a vast UAP information database, there is a real chance for meaningful insights.
However, the entrenched secrecy surrounding UAPs and the politically charged post-election climate mean that expectations should be tempered. While the upcoming hearings may not reveal the full truth about UAPs, they represent an opportunity to push for accountability and perhaps set the stage for future disclosures.
Only time will tell if the UAP Disclosure 2024 will mark a turning point or simply another chapter in the ongoing mystery.
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Luis Elizondo, a career US Army counterintelligence specialist, previously ran the military's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Monday night in Philadelphia at a private UFO event, Elizondo dropped what he described as a craft 'looking like the mothership from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind,"' referring to the 1977 Steven Spielberg film.
'Guess what we caught in Romania in 2022? By the way, the US Embassy,' as Elizondo told attendees at the paid event, gesturing to the photo: 'That.'
He went on to describe it as a 'huge mini city floating in the sky.'
But the UFO, which resembles a gleaming disc-shaped craft, has already drawn withering critiques from skeptics, believers and even military UFO witnesses alike, who claim to have traced the photo to, not to the US Embassy, but a Facebook page.
One suggested to DailyMail.com that Elizondo has been lax in his vetting of such images in a bid to add sensational new material to his 'paid speaking engagements.'
Ex-Pentagon official Luis Elizondo (right), who gained fame for blowing the lid off a $22-million, secretive government UFO program, has revealed an image of a UFO 'mothership'
'Guess what we caught in Romania in 2022? By the way, the US Embassy,' as Elizondo told attendees at the paid event, gesturing to the photo (above): 'That'
Veteran US Air Force Staff Sergeant, Jeremy McGowan, who witnessed a dramatic UFO encounter himself in the Middle East decades ago, told DailyMail.com that Elizondo's dubious 'mothership' UFO fits a pattern with the man's past claims.
'This unfortunate situation with Lue follows my experiences with him nearly exactly,' McGowan said. 'I witnessed him exaggerate or outright fabricate information that simply wasn't true.'
Elizondo unveiled the 2022 Romanian UFO photo at an October 28, 2024 event held at The City Winery, a wine bar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for $50-$30 per ticket.
'There's a whole lot more here folks,' Elizondo told the audience in a leaked clip. 'I just want to give you kind of a small taste of what's going on "behind the scenes."'
'We're having pilots, military pilots and civilian pilots in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East, report what unimaginably seems impossible,' as Elizondo began to explain his 'real photo' of a UFO.
'They described it literally 'the mothership,'' Elizondo said.
But despite credible federal reports of 'mothership' UFOs over domestic US military sites — investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), an FBI task force, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) and 16 local sheriff's offices — internet sleuths quickly managed to poke holes in Elizondo's 2022 Romanian UFO.
John Greenewald Jr, a longtime government transparency advocate who runs The Black Vault, quickly tracked the photo back to a September 13, 2023 post in a Facebook group titled 'Mysterious Ancient Discoveries.'
John Greenewald Jr, a longtime government transparency advocate who runs The Black Vault , quickly tracked the photo back to a September 13, 2023 post in a Facebook group titled ' Mysterious Ancient Discoveries' (above)
The higher resolution image of this apparent 'mothership,' which looks at first glance to be piercing clouds with its beatific shafts of light, appears more likely to have originated as the reflection of an indoor chandelier lamp reflected in window glass
'I reverse imaged searched it,' Greenewald posted on X. 'It got more than 182,000 likes and more than 23,700 comments.'
The higher resolution image of this apparent 'mothership,' which looks at first glance to be piercing clouds with its beatific shafts of light, appears more likely to have originated as the reflection of an indoor chandelier lamp reflected in window glass.
The placement of Romania's coal-fired Arad Power Station indicates the image was not taken from the US Embassy, but a building near the Mureș River a few miles away.
America's Embassy in Romania is roughly 400 miles to the southeast of Arad, in the capital city of Bucharest.
While dedicated UFO skeptics were eager to pounce on Elizondo's inaccurate claims, UFO enthusiasts also expressed frustration over the episode.
'Lue is 100 percent using us as pawns to line his pockets,' one contributor to the Reddit forum r/UFOs lamented. 'His most recent book was no.1 seller in the nation.'
'It's muddying the waters and detracting from the important convo,' another opined.
By midday Wednesday, Elizondo was publicly attributing the error to 'a friend in Government' who provided him with the photo 'a couple of years ago.'
Retired USAF Staff Sergeant McGowan, however, told DailyMail.com that Elizondo's error was far from a one-off mistake.
'I've been on the receiving end where Lue has pulled out his cell phone and shown me what he described as highly classified video,' McGowan told DailyMail.com.
The placement of Romania's coal-fired Arad Power Station (above) indicates the image was not taken from the US Embassy, but a building near the Mureș River a few miles away. America's Embassy in Romania is roughly 400 miles to the southeast of Arad, in Bucharest
'For him to think I would believe he would simply carry classified info on an unsecure civilian cell phone is just insulting,' he added. 'And it wasn't just me, multiple podcast hosts were shown video Lue attributed to things they were not.'
For the past two years, McGowan has been notably public about this instance in which Elizondo showed him what he claimed was, in McGowan's words, 'a highly secret video smuggled out of Russia' taken by a Soviet Union probe near Mars.
The video, as McGowan recollected to DailyMail.com, looked to be a decades-old public UFO video from the Soviet's Phobos 2 probe, released by retired Soviet Air Force Colonel Marina Popovich in 1991.
Elizondo had shown the video to McGowan, in hushed tones, in January 2021.
'There is a striking similarity between that public video and what Lue showed me on his phone,' McGowan recollected.
'Only saw it for a few seconds,' he said, 'so the granular details didn't get absorbed.'
McGowan, whose duties in the Air Force included service in Desert Storm attached to Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and drug enforcement missions in Colombia, has been public for years on his own UFO encounter.
In the mid-90s, while serving as a member of the JSOC J2 Security Team for 'Ellipse Foxtrot,' Jeremy McGowan (above) says he was a witness to unusual aerial lights appearing to survey a highly classified cargo container he had been tasked with guarding in the desert
For the past two years, McGowan has been notably public about an instance in which Elizondo showed him what he claimed was, in McGowan's words, 'a highly secret video smuggled out of Russia' taken by a Soviet probe near Mars. The video however had been public since 1991
In the mid-90s, while serving as a member of the JSOC J2 Security Team for 'Ellipse Foxtrot,' McGowan says he was a witness to unusual aerial lights appearing to survey a highly classified cargo container he had been tasked with guarding in the desert.
He spoke to the History Channel about this UFO sighting in the Mid East for the 2020 docu-series 'Unidentified,' which had been hosted by Luis Elizondo.
As McGowan recollected about his appearance on the show in a Medium blog post, he had agreed to this on-camera interview in the hopes of getting back in touch with other witnesses to the event, but felt 'used' by the experience.
'I was supposed to be introduced to investigators and researchers who could help me identify the person with me on that dune and saw what I saw!' he wrote in 2022.
'I left with no answers [...] I sent a few emails to production that were ignored, and I was never extended the courtesy promised to me.'
By midday Wednesday, Elizondo was publicly attributing the error to 'a friend in Government' who provided him with the photo 'a couple of years ago' (above)
Elizondo unveiled the 2022 Romanian UFO photo at an October 28, 2004 event held at The City Winery, a wine bar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , for $50-$30 per ticket
Weeks of reports of mystery 'drones' swept eastern Colorado and nearby areas of Nebraska, Wyoming and Kansas over the winter holidays of 2019 into the new year.
The sightings worried citizens and local law enforcement alike, but odd craft and thier 'motherships' troubled the US military especially for their proximity to some of America's sensitive, nuclear-equipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
'They all seem clustered in an area that has quite a few Minuteman sites,' a redacted official confessed in one email released via FOIA by F.E. Warren Air Force Base.
F.E. Warren security staff spoke to local sheriff's deputies who ' reported seeing a 'mothership' six feet in diameter flanked by 10 smaller drones (some fixed wing, some not).'
'When deputies follow the drones, they clock them at speeds of 60-70 mph,' the redacted base official stated.
UPDATE |October 31, 2023: via a publicist with his book publisher, HarperCollins, Elizondo delivered a response to this story via email at 10:15am Eastern.
The lengthy response, which had previously been posted to social media, can be read in full on Elizondo's profile at X.com.
'Getting public engagement is precisely one of my motivations in sharing these types of photos,' Elizondo's message reads, in part.
'The fact that we now have individuals in social media with the expertise and willingness to conduct the much needed analysis is extremely encouraging to me and is welcome news in my opinion.'
'I am grateful for the public's help in resolving this case,' the former Pentagon official added. '[This] reinforces the notion that we must all remain vigilant and always question the data (including myself), even when that data may be coming from the Government.'
Pentagon chief reveals high res photo of UFO mothership
A survey has revealed the US states that would be the safest places to hide if aliens invaded Earth.
The analysis couldn't come at a better time as public concern over the threat of an alien invasion has skyrocketed.
'Gone are the days when it was regarded as part fringe, part-science fiction, and part conspiracy theory,' said former UK Ministry of Defense UFO investigator Nick Pope.
'UFOs are now being treated as a defense and national security issue, discussed in the United States Congress, and attracting attention from the Head of NASA.'
Nearly two thirds of Americans now believe that aliens exist, and roughly one third consider UFO sightings to be proof - a significant increase from 20 percent in 1996.
And internet searches for 'what would happen if aliens came to Earth' have increased a 2,850 percent in recent months.
Safety officials are prepping for an extra-terrestrial emergency too. In June, the first ever police handbook on UFOs was released, offering guidance to law enforcement on how to respond to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
If you're wondering where you should flee in the event that aliens attack, this survey should point you in the right direction.
A survey has revealed the US states that would be the safest places to hide if aliens invaded
Rant Casino pulled data on the number of UFO sightings and the average duration of 'UFO visits' from the National UFO Reporting Centre Database and aggregated it per US state.
The number of sightings could suggest that aliens have been circling and planning the invasion, and thus the number and duration of sightings in each state may be linked to the odds of an invasion starting there.
Therefore, states with the lowest number of UFO sightings were ranked safest.
Additionally, one of the first things people should due to survive an alien attack is to hide.
Because of this, Rant Casino decided that states with lower population densities may be safer during an invasion, as they would provide more space for people to take cover, evacuate or organize a counter attack.
This means that rural states or those with large uninhabited regions were given an edge over more densely populated states.
Each state received a score on the zero to 10 alien survival index scale.
Virginia came out on top as the safest US state to flee to during an alien invasion, scoring 8.03 out of 10.
The state most likely to survive an alien invasion was Virginia, and the least likely state was Nevada
This state has the highest per capita military presence in the nation, which means it would be well-equipped to defend itself against extra-terrestrial invaders.
Additionally, this state's landscape boasts some strong natural defenses, including 29 caves and 63 percent forest cover that could make it easier to hide from the skyward threat.
Alabama came in second place, scoring 7.9 out of 10.
This state is home to 35 caves and the highest forest coverage among the top safest states. It also has a strong per capita law-enforcement presence, which positions it well for coordinated defense efforts.
What's more, Alabama's relatively low UFO sighting rate of 2.76 per 10,000 people suggests that extra-terrestrials aren't eyeing this state for a potential invasion.
The rest of the top 10 safest states, ranked in order of most safe to least safe, were Minnesota, Massachusetts, New York, Florida, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Alaska and Georgia.
As for the states least likely to survive an alien invasion, it will come as no surprise that Nevada was ranked number one with a score of 5.31 out of 10.
This state, which is home to the infamous Area 51, has a high UFO sighting rate of of 5.41 per 10,000 residents.
Nevada is also mostly desert. The lack of natural cover and water sources would make it a challenging place to hide out if aliens invaded.
Idaho was ranked the second most vulnerable state in part due to its remarkably high number of UFO sightings: 6.95 per 10,000 people.
Plus, this state has the lowest per-capita healthcare workforce in the nation at just lowest per capita healthcare workforce, which would make it difficult to treat people injured during a violent alien attack.
The rest of the top 10 most vulnerable states, ranked in order of most vulnerable to least vulnerable, were Arizona, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Wyoming.
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Fears of an alieninvasion in the US took hold in the 1960s and 70safter reports of UFOs hovering over military bases flooded the nation.
Now, decades later, a UFO expert has claimed that the extraterrestrial spaceships did visit 'every major nuclear missile base' and continue to do so to this day.
Robert Hastings, who has interviewed many Army personnel about the bizarre sightings, said: 'The ones that are currently operational, have been visited repeatedly year after year according to the sources that I have interviewed.'
Hastings recently made waves when he revealed more than 120 former service members had come forward about their encounters with flying objects near nuclear weapon storage and testing grounds.
'A public, grassroots effort must be made in the interim to understand – as best as possible, using the data gathered thus far – the nature and intentions of those who pilot the UFOs,' Hastings penned in his recent book recounting the interviews.
'Or perhaps they have a use for our planet, let's say for scientific purposes, and know that global nuclear warfare will disrupt their data-gathering and/or experiments.'
In his book, UFOs and Nukes, he revealed that investigators are prevented from properly probing the cases because of dubious layers of classification.
One thing is for sure, however, it is 'obvious' that if there are extraterrestrial visitors, they are 'greatly interested in our nuclear weapons.'
A UFO expert claimed that UFOs have long visited nuclear bases and continue to do so. For at least 17 nights in December 2023, swarms of small 'drones' were seen penetrating the highly restricted airspace above Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
Hastings' comments echo a study released in June that analyzed over 500 of the best-supported UFO cases from the heights of the Cold War, which concluded that 'this intelligence understands atomics, and they understand atomic weaponry.'
UFO reports over America's nuclear arsenal appeared to shift from sites where the bombs were made to missile silos and US air bases as the Cold War arms race grew.
The study was conducted by a retired US Air Force staff sergeant, data analyst affiliated with Harvard's UFO-hunting Galileo Project Ian Porrit and a research team.
The group focused on official military and police reports of UFOs from 1945 to 1975, avoiding poorly supported accounts and ambiguous newspaper stories, to focus on cases with multiple witnesses and signal evidence, like radar.
Their study, which only covered US cases, also used reports of UFOs spotted above non-nuclear army bases and nearby civilian centers to act as control groups to test against their findings of any UFO trends at America's sensitive nuclear installations.
The team found that data from 1948 through 1975, showed support to the idea that extraterrestrials, or some other intelligence, has methodically surveilled America's rise to a nuclear power.
'This intelligence understands the developmental cycle. They have some contextual knowledge of what they're looking at and what they're looking for,' Hancock told DailyMail.com, given these shifts in reported UFO sightings over time.
From 1948 to 1952, as America's production of atomic weapons first ramped up, waves of UFO sightings began cropping up over Washington state's Hanford nuclear production complex, as well as Los Alamos and other sites for the Manhattan Project.
Hastings' recent claims come just weeks after new government records surfaced other UFO waves near military sites, including Joint Base Langley-Eustis (pictured)
'What we know now is that inside the Air Force for the first seven to 10 years they sincerely believed it was the Russians,' Hancock told DailyMail.com.
'And when they couldn't prove that,' he said, 'it became very political.'
From 1952 onward, their study found cases of UFOs probing near active nuclear weapons took precedence, with a wave of sightings around America's new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) starting in the 1960s.
'When you get to those ICBM bases, from about 1965 to 1975, these things are occurring at night,' Hancock pointed out.
'And they are they are much more intrusive. They're very low altitude, they penetrate the security perimeters of the base,' he added.
Hastings' recent claims come just weeks after new government records surfaced other UFO waves near military sites, including 17 nights in December 2023 when swarms of UFOs were tracked over Joint Base Langley-Eustis.
These brazen penetrations over Langley — home to at least half the Air Force's F-22 Raptor stealth fighters — led to two weeks of emergency White House meetings.
To date, Langley's mystery UFOs have eluded identification by the Pentagon, police and even NASA's high-altitude research plane, the WB-57F, called in to investigate.
General Glen VanHerck, the commander with North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD), who led the mission to take down the infamous Chinese spy balloon in February 2023, described that Langley wave as unlike any other known case.
'If there are unknown objects within North America,' General VanHerck told the Wall Street Journal, 'go out and identify them.'
Senior ex-Pentagon security official Chris Mellon told DailyMail.com last week that the UFOs were 'swarms of smaller craft' released by 'motherships.'
He explained that was 'part of a much larger pattern affecting numerous national security installations.'
'Two of the notable aspects,' he said, 'are the fact our drone signal-jamming devices have proven ineffective and these craft are making no effort to remain concealed.'
Mellon told DailyMail.com: 'I make no claims regarding their origin, perhaps many are Chinese drones.'
'[But] in some instances,' Mellon took pains to emphasize, 'it is clear they want to be seen as though taunting us.'
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Pentagon Whistleblower Admits Photo of UFO Mothership Was Fake
"Looks like we can put this one bed."
He Admit It
A Pentagon UFO whistleblower has admitted something that often feels unprecedented for anyone involved in the government: that he was wrong.
In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, ex-intelligence official Luis "Lue" Elizondo owned up to sharing a photo purporting to show a UFO that he later learned was fake.
"A photo that was provided to me by a friend in Government a couple of years ago was presented by me two days ago at our engagement in Philadelphia," the former head of the Defense Department's secret UFO tracking program wrote, referencing a private event in the city of brotherly love that took place earlier in the week.
In a clip posted by UFO journalist Steven Greenstreet, Elizondo was seen presenting in Philadelphia on a so-called "mothership" purported to have been seen over Bucharest, the Romanian capital, in 2022.
"Guess what we caught in Romania in 2022?" he told attendees per a video taken from inside the event and posted to X. "By the way, [the photo was taken from] the US Embassy."
Teamwork
Shortly after the presentation, however, digital sleuths discovered that the photo had not been taken from the vantage point of the Bucharest embassy at all.
A power plant in the background of the image suggested it had instead been taken hundreds of miles away in the town of Arad. With a simple reverse image search, Elizondo's fellow UFO hunter John Greenewald, Jr. traced it to its source: a Facebook group called "Mysterious Ancient Discoveries."
Instead of being angry at the revelation that his mothership was more mundane than met the eye, Elizondo lauded the teamwork it took to debunk his claim.
"Looks like we can put this one bed," he wrote. "Excellent work to whoever solved this one and a big thank you! Crowdsourcing works."
"Now let’s see," Elizondo continued, "if together we can figure out the rest."
We've gotta hand it to him: for someone who's made some outrageous claims, including his recent insistence that there was a secret government program meant to "trap" alien tech," Elizondo's humility is welcome.
New View of Venus Reveals Previously Hidden Impact Craters
A synthetic aperture radar image of Haastte-baad Tessera, cut by a set of unique concentric rings that record a newly recognized type of impact crater on Venus, previously only identified on the icy moons of Jupiter.
New View of Venus Reveals Previously Hidden Impact Craters
Think of the Moon and most people will imagine a barren world pockmarked with craters. The same is likely true of Mars albeit more red in colour than grey! The Earth too has had its fair share of craters, some of them large but most of the evidence has been eroded by centuries of weathering. Surprisingly perhaps, Venus, the second planet from the Sun does not have the same weathering processes as we have on Earth yet there are signs of impact craters, but no large impact basins! A team of astronomers now think they have secured a new view on the hottest planet in the Solar System and revealed the missing impact sites.
Venus is the second planet from the Sun and, whilst it’s often called Earth’s sister planet, the reality is really they differ in many ways. The term comes from similarities in size and composition yet the conditions on Venus are far more hostile. Surface temperatures far exceed the boiling point of water, the dense atmosphere exerts a pressure on the surface equivalent to being 3,000 feet under water and there is sulphuric acid rain in the atmosphere! Most definitely not a nice place to head to for your next vacation.
Venus
If you were to stand on the surface of Venus you would see beautifully formed craters. Looking down on the planet from orbit you would see none due to the thick, dense atmosphere. Yet if you could gaze through the obscuring clouds you would see a distinct lack of larger impact basins of the sort we are familiar with on the Moon. Now, a team of researchers mostly from the Planetary Science Institute believe they solve the mystery of the missing craters.
The Moon. Credit: NASA
They have mapped a region of Venus known as Haastte-baad Tessera using radar technology and the results were rather surprising. The region is thought to be one of the oldest surfaces on Venus and is classed as tessera terrain. This type of feature is complex and is characterised by rough, intersecting ridges to create a tile like pattern thought to be the result of a thin but strong layer of material forming over a weak layer which can flow and convect energy just like boiling water. Images from the area in question reveal a set of concentric rings over 1,400 km across at their widest. The team propose that the feature is the result of two back-to-back impact events. “Think of pea soup with a scum forming on top,” said Vicki Hansen, Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist.
Obviously there is no pea soup on Venus but instead, the thin crust layer formed upon a layer of molten lava. Venus of today has a thick outer shell called a lithosphere which is about 112 km thick but when Venus was younger, its thought it was just 9km thick! If an impactor struck the hot young Venus then it’s very likely it would have fractured the lithosphere allowing molten lava to seep through and eventually solidify to create the tesserae we see today.
Confusing things slightly however is that features like this have been seen on top of flat, raised plateaus where the lithosphere is likely much thicker. The researchers have an answer for this though, “When you have vast amounts of partial melt in the mantle that rushes to the surface, what gets left behind is something called residuum. Solid residuum is much stronger than the adjacent mantle, which did not experience partial melting.” said Hansen. “What may be surprising is that the solid residuum is also lower density than all the mantle around it. So, it’s stronger, but it’s also buoyant. You basically have an air mattress sitting in the mantle beneath your lava pond, and it’s just going to rise up and raise that tessera terrain.”
The features found by the time seem to show that two impact events happened one after the other with the first creating the build up of lava and the second creating the ring structure seen today.
This image shows nine candidate landing regions for NASA’s Artemis III mission, with each region containing multiple potential sites for the first crewed landing on the Moon in more than 50 years. The background image of the lunar South Pole terrain within the nine regions is a mosaic of LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) WAC (Wide Angle Camera) images. Credit: NASA
It was 1969 that humans first set foot on the Moon. Back then, the Apollo mission was the focus of the attempts to land on the Moon but now, over 50 years on, it looks like we are set to head back. The Artemis project is the program that hopes to take us back to the Moon again and it’s going from strength to strength. The plan is to get humans back on the Moon by 2025 as part of Artemis III. As a prelude to this, NASA is now turning its attention to the possible landing sites.
The Artemis Project is NASA’s program aimed at returning humans to the Moon and establishing a permanent base there. Ultimately with a view to paving the way for missions to Mars. With the first launch in 2017, Artemis intends to land “the first woman and the next man” on the lunar surface by 2025. The program began with Artemis I and an uncrewed mission which orbited the Moon. Arte is II will take astronauts on an orbit of the Moon and finally Artemis III will land humans back on the Moon by 2025. At the heart of the program is the giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft.
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky.
As the plans ramp up for the first crewed landing, NASA are now analysing possible landing sites and have identified nine potential spots. They are all near the South Pole of the Moon and will provide Artemis III with landing sites near to potentially useful resources. Further investigations will be required to further assess them for their suitability.
The team working upon the analysis is the Cross Agency Site Selection Analysis team and they will work with other science and industry partners. The teams will explore each possible site for science value and suitability for the mission including the availability of water ice. The final list so far, and in no particular order, are;
Peak near Cabeus B
Haworth
Malapert Massif
Mons Mouton Plateau
Mons Mouton
Nobile Rim 1
Nobile Rim 2
de Gerlache Rim 2
Slater Plain
The South Polar region was chosen as a region was chosen chiefly because it has water locked up deep in the shadowed craters. The Apollo missions never visited that region of the Moon either so it is a great opportunity for humans to explore this aged region of the lunar surface. To settle on these 9 areas, the team assessed various regions of the south polar region using potential launch window suitability, terrain suitability, communication capability and even lighting levels. The geology team also looked at the landing sites to assess their scientific value
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt collecting a soil sample, his spacesuit coated with dust. Credit: NASA
NASA will finally settle on the appropriate landing site based upon the decision for the launch date. Once that has been confirmed it will determine the transfer trajectories to the Moon, the orbital paths and the surface environment.
In the vast expanse of interstellar space, Voyager 1 continues its extraordinary journey, defying expectations and pushing the boundaries of human exploration. Launched on September 5, 1977, this intrepid spacecraft has ventured far beyond its initial mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn, now traveling more than 15 billion miles from Earth. As it navigates the uncharted depths of space, Voyager 1 has begun to exhibit anomalous behavior, puzzling NASA scientists and challenging our understanding of the cosmos.
Unprecedented longevity and challenges in deep space
Voyager 1's remarkable endurance has surpassed all initial projections, with the spacecraft continuing to communicate with Earth nearly five decades after its launch. This longevity, however, comes with its own set of challenges. The extreme conditions of interstellar space, coupled with the limitations of 1970s technology, have led to ongoing equipment degradation.
Space radiation has likely accelerated the wear and tear on Voyager 1's components, presenting NASA engineers with unique problems to solve. One of the most critical issues has been the degradation of the spacecraft's thrusters, which are essential for maintaining its orientation and communication with Earth.
The mission team has had to adapt to these challenges, employing innovative solutions to keep Voyager 1 operational. Their efforts have included :
Developing new software to compensate for hardware limitations
Repurposing existing systems for unintended functions
Xarefully managing power consumption to extend the mission's lifespan
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Thruster clogging dilemma and ingenious solutions
Perhaps the most perplexing issue faced by Voyager 1 has been the clogging of its thrusters. These vital components are crucial for keeping the spacecraft's High Gain Antenna pointed towards Earth, ensuring continued communication. The problem stems from silicon dioxide buildup, a result of the aging fuel tank's rubber diaphragm deterioration.
NASA engineers have had to think creatively to address this critical issue. With the first set of thrusters decommissioned in 2002 and the second set showing signs of wear by 2018, the team faced a daunting challenge. The discovery that the openings in the trajectory correction thrusters—the third and final set—had narrowed to a mere 0.0015 inches (half the width of a human hair) further complicated matters.
Carefully analyzing the remaining thruster capabilities
Developing new firing sequences to maximize efficiency
Implementing software updates to optimize thruster performance
Voyager 1's scientific legacy and ongoing discoveries
Despite these technical challenges, Voyager 1 continues to make groundbreaking discoveries and contribute to our understanding of the universe. The spacecraft's crossing of the heliopause—the outer boundary of the heliosphere—marked a historic milestone in space exploration. This achievement has provided invaluable data about the structure and role of the heliosphere in shielding our solar system from cosmic rays.
The information gathered by Voyager 1 has profound implications for future interplanetary missions and our understanding of the cosmos. Some key contributions include :
As Voyager 1 continues its journey, it complements the findings of its twin, Voyager 2, which is now over 12 billion miles from Earth. Together, these probes offer humanity an unprecedented view of the outermost reaches of our solar neighborhood and beyond.
Future implications and the legacy of Voyager 1
The mission team is acutely aware that Voyager 1's remaining set of thrusters may not last indefinitely. Every operational day becomes a testament to human ingenuity and perseverance as the spacecraft pushes further into the unknown. The eventual failure of these thrusters will mark the end of active communication with Voyager 1, but its legacy will endure.
The data collected by Voyager 1 will continue to inform scientific research and exploration for years to come. Its incredible journey has proven that humanity can push the boundaries of exploration to unprecedented extremes, from the icy regions of the outer planets to the edge of interstellar space.
Future missions inspired by the Voyagers will benefit immensely from the lessons learned during this pioneering expedition. As we plan for human expeditions to the outer planets and beyond, the experiences gained from these spacecraft will be invaluable. Interestingly, a hidden population of objects discovered beyond the Kuiper Belt in the outer Solar System further emphasizes the importance of continued exploration and the potential for new discoveries in our cosmic backyard.
Voyager 1's anomalous behavior in interstellar space serves as a reminder of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in space exploration. As we continue to push the boundaries of our knowledge, the spirit of innovation and determination embodied by the Voyager mission will guide us towards new frontiers and uncharted territories in the vast expanse of the universe.
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UFO sightings during northern lights display sparks conversation
Have you ever wondered if we’re not alone in the universe and beyond?
Maybe you know we’re not or you’re still trying to decide, but interest in alien life, at least by those in Alberta, was recently reignited after an orb was spotted in the sky outside Andrew, Alta. during the northern lights display a few weeks ago.
The incident was reported on Enigma Labs, a UFO sightings data network based out of the U.S. They also reported 1,197 UFO sighting submissions in Canada on their network over the past few months.
This marked a total of 14,527 UFO sightings in Canada reported by Enigma, which is the second most on their network behind the United States.
Alejandro Rojas, a UFO expert at Enigma based out of Arizona, told rdnewsNOW that sightings usually coordinate with population.
“Wherever there’s more people, there’s more sightings,” he said. “There’s also outreach; for example, who knows about us and who knows where to report. We have enough connections in Canada that Canadians often participate.”
Enigma allows the public to upload pictures and videos of UFOs across the world which is used by researchers and scientists. It also allows for community scientists and the rest of the users to crowd analyze the sightings. The data collected is from those reported by the public but also through historical databases.
“We’ve found that the northern lights in particular caused a lot of sighting reports and really it’s because people are outside looking at the sky for an extended period of time,” he added.
“When they do that, often they see something they can’t explain.”
Often UFOs seen by people can vary in shape and size but Rojas said there are more frequent types of shapes.
Points of light and spheres are the more common ones reported, which makes sense because people sometimes see what appear to be satellites but are unsure of what they are.
“Those are also some of the most mysterious ones because one of the most frequent types of sightings is seeing what they think is a satellite but then it starts to do something weird like zig zag or speed up,” he said.
One of the most recent reports in Red Deer came in April and August of this year. However, one case was also reported in November 2023.
Red Deer resident Shelby Leclarc said she and her partner have a nightly routine where they’ll watch for satellites and look at the different constellations.
On that night in November she looked up at the sky, and after watching a plane go by she saw multiple moving orange dots in the sky.
They also twinkled like a star but was much more noticeable and moved faster than the plane. The UFO’s were more circular shape and did not make any sound.
“What the heck was that,” Leclarc remembers saying. “Seeing lights you don’t recognize is a little weird. I’ve never seen anything like it since.”
A year ago, David Grusch. a former U.S. intelligence official and whistle blower said at a congressional hearing under oath, that the U.S. government is in possession of non-human space crafts as well as bodies of deceased corpses.
The claims raised many questions and also excitement online and in social media.
Rojas explained that those were just claims without any evidence. However, he did say the government has a lot of secrecy around this topic.
“The manner in which they collect all of that data is classified so they’re not in the best position to share a lot of data with the public,” Rojas said.
“That’s always going to lead to secrecy and speculation about what they know. I haven’t seen any evidence that they really know much.
“I think one thing that’s exciting is that they have admitted they’re having reports of these metallic orb type things. They don’t know what they are and they haven’t figured it out.”
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NASA’s Starliner astronauts to achieve feat … technically … during SpaceX Dragon relocation
Story by Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel
The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft, carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov approaches to dock to the Harmony module at the International Space Station, Sept. 29, 2024, in Earth Orbit.
ORLANDO, Fla. — A parking spot shuffle coming up this weekend more than 250 miles above Earth will mark a unique feat for a pair of NASA astronauts who will become the first to fly in both Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.
NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who flew up to the International Space Station in Starliner, but remained on board when NASA opted to return it back to Earth without crew, are now part of the four-member crew that will fly home on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom next year.
Freedom arrived to the ISS on Sept. 29 with just two crew — NASA’s Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov —leaving room for Wilmore and Williams on that flight home targeting February 2025.
But because parking space is limited at the ISS, all four will climb on board early Sunday for a short trip moving from the Crew Dragon Freedom from the front-facing port of the space station’s Harmony module, and redock it to the space-facing port of the same module.
That will make room for the planned launch of a SpaceX Cargo Dragon on the CRS-31 mission launching from Kennedy Space Center’s Space Launch Complex 39-A as early as 9:29 p.m. Monday carrying 6,000 pounds of supplies.
The ISS has only the two ports capable of parking either SpaceX Dragon or Boeing Starliner spacecraft. The Russian side of the station has its own spots for Soyuz crewed vehicles and Progress cargo vehicles, while the Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft can connect on the ISS’ Unity module.
See SpaceX's Crew-6 Dragon approach space station in this epic time-lapse
For Dragon and Starliner, NASA prefers to bring on new spacecraft to the forward-facing port, so each time a new ship is coming, they have to move the one that’s already there.
So while Crew Dragon Freedom’s trip will take less than an hour, it will be the first time Williams and Wilmore will have traveled in it under its own propulsion.
It will also mark their fourth spacecraft within which they will have traveled, not including the ISS, as both had previously flown on both space shuttle and Soyuz missions.
That’s similar to the record set by NASA’s John Young, who flew in four spacecraft. He flew on two Gemini missions, two Apollo missions, one with a landing on the moon so it meant a ride down and back up to the surface in the Apollo lunar lander, and then two missions of the Space Shuttle Program, including the first
Because of the moon lander’s liftoff from the lunar surface, Young would still hold the record for number of different spacecraft launching off of the surface of a planet or moon.
Other astronauts have at least been inside at least four spacecraft in space, as they either are assigned duties such as unloading cargo from visiting vessels like Cygnus and Dragon, or get a little tour from their fellow space station crew of the ships they flew up on.
The first person to be inside any of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in space was when NASA astronaut Bob Hines floated in after the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test 2 in 2022 after it docked with the ISS when he was part of Expedition 67.
The ISS is now amidst Expedition 72 having been continuously occupied since Nov. 2, 2000.
SpaceX and Boeing were awarded contracts under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to provide U.S.-based launches to and from the ISS until it’s decommissioned.
SpaceX is now in its ninth rotational mission having flown the test Demo-2 mission in 2000 followed by operational flights about every six months since. It has Crew-10 scheduled for February and Crew-11 for as early as next July.
Boeing meanwhile was unable to complete its version of the Demo-2 flight called the Crew Flight Test this summer four years after SpaceX accomplished the feat, but could still find a way to certification by NASA to begin operational missions beginning with Starliner-1 before the end of 2025.
NASA and Roscosmos, meanwhile, continue to do seat swap missions allowing for cosmonauts to ride up on the Crew Dragon flights while astronauts take one of the three seats on board the Soyuz missions.
Now DailyMail.com has spoken to a former Colorado prosecutor and current defense attorney, who has examined one of the over half-a-dozen 'alien' specimens with the help of three independent forensic medical examiners from the United States.
'These were not traditional human fingerprint patterns,' that attorney, Joshua McDowell, told DailyMail.com.
Above, a photo of one of the mummy's unusual fingerprints posted to social media by Jose Baizan and attributed to the Mexican Naval surgeon Dr Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, who has also examined the Peruvian 'alien' mummies on behalf of ufologist Jaime Maussan
In Peru last April - as part of another event hosted by Maussan - a new 'alien' specimen named Montserrat (above) was presented. This photo was taken by Colorado attorney Josh McDowell who told DailyMail.com, one mummies' 'fingerprints weren't consistent with human prints'
The use of fingerprints — or what are technically known as 'friction ridge' skin impressions — dates back as far as 300 BC in China according to the US Department of Justice's Fingerprint Sourcebook.
And criminal forensic investigators in America have long systematized the hunt for unique features ever since these patterns first came into use by US law enforcement in 1902, beginning with three broad types of fingerprint: arches, loops and whorls.
But 'María,' the so-called 'alien' mummy that McDowell and his forensic doctors examined, appeared to have fingerprints that matched no known human pattern.
'We did not see any loops or whorls on the prints of the fingers or on the toes,' McDowell, now principal at the McDowell Law Firm, told DailyMail.com.
'I'm a former prosecutor. I'm a criminal defense attorney. I've seen lots of fingerprints. And these were not classic fingerprints,' the attorney added.
'María's fingerprints weren't consistent with human prints.'
Criminal forensic investigators in America have long systematized the hunt for unique features ever since these patterns first came into use by US law enforcement in 1902, beginning with three broad types of fingerprint: arches, loops and whorls (pictured)
'We did not see any loops or whorls on the prints of the fingers or on the toes,' McDowell, now principal at the McDowell Law Firm, told DailyMail.com. Above an image of the specific, so-called 'alien' mummy in question, known as María, who was first made public in 2019
Like most of the well over half-a-dozen 'alien' mummy specimens brought to light by Jaime Maussan in the past year, María was discovered caked in diatomaceous earth: white, powdery aquatic fossils left behind by a type of plankton known as diatoms.
'Much of her body is covered in diatomaceous earth,' McDowell explained, 'however, on the fingers that were exposed, the epidermal ridges I saw appeared to be in mostly straight lines.'
McDowell and the three US medical examiners who journeyed with him to Peru to examine the bodies last April have emphasized that it would be 'extremely premature' to make any definitive statements about these mysterious mummies.
McDowell told DailyMail.com that there may yet be a terrestrial explanation for the unusually straight 'friction ridge' skin patterns on María's fingers and toes.
'It could possibly have something to do with the way her skin was preserved,' he advised. 'It's very odd.'
McDowell, previously a deputy district attorney for Colorado's Fourth Judicial District Attorney's Office, brought a city coroner from Denver as well as a forensic anthropologist from Maryland's State Medical Examiner to Peru to inspect María.
The third expert, McDowell's father Dr John McDowell, is a forensic odontologist and retired professor at the University of Colorado — who once worked to identify victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center via their dental records.
Joshua McDowell emphasized to DailyMail.com that 'no determination has been made about what the nature of the specimens is at this date,' adding that his teams' effort to identify the true nature of these 'alien' mummies is very much still active.
'I've been to Mexico a couple times, spent a week in Peru,' the attorney said. 'Two to three hours a day, I'm dealing with something on this.'
'So far we have tomographies [CT scans] and fluoroscopy analysis,' Maussan told DailyMail.com describing the x-ray and ultrasound data on the mummies that he unveiled at West Hollywood's Mondrian Hotel at a prior March 12, 2024 press event (pictured above)
Above, two of Maussan's collaborators, documentarians Serena DC (right) and Michael Mazzola (left), pose with a new 'alien' mummy from this March - which they said has 30 percent 'unknown' DNA
This past January - after two mummies were seized by Peruvian customs - Flavio Estrada (right), a forensic archaeologist with Peru's Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Lima, said that the alien bodies are 'dolls' made of animal parts
María is one several specimens that have been dubbed 'the Nazca mummies,' after the province in southwestern Peru where these bodies were allegedly unearthed.
Most of these specimens have gained fame and infamy, in part, due to their elongated heads and their three-fingered hands which resemble decades of anecdotal accounts and UFO lore about extraterrestrial 'grey' beings.
Maussan and his colleagues have had an eventful year pushing for wider scientific interest in the apparently alien bodies, including two bitter clashes with Peru's Ministry of Culture, who have described the mummies and man-made hoaxes.
In January, Flavio Estrada, a forensic archaeologist of the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Lima of the Public Ministry, told a press conference that two of the alien bodies seized by Peruvian customs were 'dolls.'
'The conclusion is simple,' Estrada said, 'they are dolls assembled with bones of animals from this planet, with modern synthetic glues, therefore they were not assembled during pre-Hispanic times.'
But María, like several of the other Nazca mummies, does not resemble the smaller, more doll-like specimens seized at the border or presented to Mexican congress.
The new — albeit provisional — fingerprint analysis suggests some of the Nazca mummies are either not dolls or were constructed of more grim, unusual material.
In March 2024, Maussan published a report on the DNA of the Nazca 'tridactyl' mummies - a report that he described as having been performed by 'the top specialist in Molecular Biology and Genetics of Peru' (page one above)
Ten scientists with San Luis Gonzaga National University of Ica (UNICA), according to Maussan's statement in March, concluded 'their DNA [i.e. the Nazca mummies' DNA] contains 29 percent that does not belong to the evolutionary chain of the Earth' (page two above)
But the larger Nazca mummy specimens also have their critics.
'The Spanish, when they arrived in the 16th Century observed and commented on individuals walking around with very specifically shaped skulls,' as Heaney told DailyMail.com, 'and they recognized and saw them doing it using these bandages.'
This specific 'alien' mummy, María, was first debuted at a November 6, 2019 press event held at Peru's San Luis Gonzaga National University of Ica (UNICA) alongside three other Nazca 'tridactyls' (three-fingered bodies): 'Wawita,' 'Albert' and 'Victoria.'
Maussan, who was a party to McDowells' trip to UNICA to inspect these mummies, unveiled a new 'alien' specimen named Montserrat during the recent April 2024 trip.
Maussan has pushed for wider scientific interest in the apparently alien bodies, including a presentation before Mexico's Congress (pictured)
'Would you consider I would take the bodies to the Mexican Congress putting in danger 50 years of [my journalism] career to present fake bodies?' he asked at a press event this March
The previous month, Maussan published a report on the Nazca 'tridactyls' DNA that he described as having been performed by 'the top specialist in Molecular Biology and Genetics of Peru.'
Ten scientists with UNICA, according to Maussan's statement that March, concluded 'their DNA [i.e. the Nazca mummies' DNA] contains 29 percent that does not belong to the evolutionary chain of the Earth.'
McDowell's US team of forensic medical examiners were more circumspect in their analysis after their trip to UNICA the following month.
'We would want actual, very definitive DNA studies done at high complexity laboratories,' the US team said at their mid-April 2024 press conference.
'The carbon dating needs to be repeated with more sophisticated methods. Those are things that we're looking for,' they added. 'Our preliminary investigation really just led to the fact that more investigation is needed.'
Dissection has begun on hands from one of Peru's hotly debated 'alien mummies' — seen in an eerie new video revealing bones and odd metallic structures.
Worldwide controversyhas followed these now roughly dozen or so small peculiar specimens, often referred to as the 'Nazca Tridactyls' after the region in Peru where they are believed to have been taken by anonymous local 'huaqueros' (tomb raiders).
Now, doctors claimed to have removed a 'light metal' implant from the new specimen's palm, a reporter who is working with medical professionals involved in the investigation told DailyMail.com.
The short video documents the moment one physician carefully pulls the suspected 'alien implant' from the Nazca Tridactyl's severed, three-fingered hand with tweezers.
Mexican Navy forensic doctor Dr Jose Zalce Benitez — who devoted his free time to remove the metal — said: 'It is a very complex metal alloy that requires special knowledge and techniques to be able to achieve it with such quality and purity.'
'It was possible to identify elements such as aluminum, tin, silver, copper, cadmium and osmium among others in smaller quantities and percentages,' Dr Zalce added.
The video also depicts what appears to be one of the mummified hands peeled back to reveal two of its 'metacarpal' or 'palm' bones.
Mexican Navy Forensic doctor Dr. Jose Zalce Benitez, working with a colleague, removed an 'implantation of light metal' from the hand (pictured) of a tiny, 2-ft-tall specimen - believed by some to be an 'alien mummy' - as reporter Fernando Correa Dominguez told DailyMail.com
Dissection has begun on these hands from one of Peru's macabre and hotly debated 'alien mummies' - seen in eerie new videos revealing two of its apparent 'metacarpal' or 'palm' bones (above) as well as a thin, eerie metallic structure
'This tridactyl hand, from which I obtained the metal, does not belong to any of the bodies presented at the Mexican Congress,' Dr Zalce emphasized.
'This hand is part of a series of loose pieces that belong to the place where the tridactyl bodies of Peru were found,' the physician and forensic expert clarified.
The doctor's volunteer investigation into these unusual, potentially extraterrestrial bodies dates back to his testimony before an open hearing of Mexico's Congress last year, during which two similar alleged 'alien' corpses were presented.
Since that September 12, 2023 congressional presentation, two distinct sizes of these alleged 'alien mummies' have been subjected to public scrutiny — but the new video examination relates to the smaller and more controversial of the specimens.
The alleged 'metal implant' can be see looking like a torn patch of silvery reptilian scales in the new video, as it is tilted toward the camera by Dr Zalce's gloved hand.
Reporter Fernando Correa Dominguez explained to DailyMail.com that the hand had been carefully rehydrated by the doctors to better remove the 'metal implant.'
Initially, Correa noted, 'they did not see any moisture inside the hand, [only] dehydrated skin tissue was observed inside the tendons and muscles.'
Dr Zalce described the procedure in more detail: 'We used a forensic technique to protect the tissue and minimize its degradation [...] a special serum that is used for the rehydration of corpses that has very specific concentration percentages.'
Correa told DailyMail.com that this hand from this alleged non-human mummy had been rehydrated by Drs Zalce and Rangel to better remove the 'metal implant' (above)
Above: 'The metal implant,' as Correa explained from Mexico on Wednesday, 'looks like aluminum and tin: a very light alloy [...] However, it is not possible to confirm what type of metals it contains until it is subjected to metallurgical analysis
'We use sterile swabs with a soft surgical cotton tip to avoid any type of damage or contamination to both the metal sample and the tridactyl hand,' Dr Zalce elaborated.
'This technique is used by the FBI and helps recover data or information from relevant evidence in forensic investigations,' the physician noted.
Correa, who took credit for bringing Dr Zalce onto this project, added that the severed 'tridactyl' hand closely resembles the hands present on the specimens brought before Mexican Congress last year.
That spectacle within the nation's highest legislative body had been spearheaded by UFO researcher and broadcaster Jaime Maussan, Correa's boss for over two decades at the paranormal-focused TV news magazine 'Tercer Milenio.'
'It is a hand from small bodies,' Correa told DailyMail.com, 'such as the mummies of Josephina, Victoria and Louise' as the mummies have been nicknamed by the team.
These purported beings — typically just under two feet (60.96 centimeters) long — have originated from sites in Peru along with larger, more human-sized specimens, similarly coated in white, powdery algae fossils known as diatomaceous earth.
Critics, including top Peruvian officials from the Ministry of Culture, have claimed the smaller bodies are grim fabrications, based on two specimens seized by customs.
Dr Flavio Estrada, a forensic archaeologist with Peru's Institute for Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, concluded the seized bodies were grisly dolls, 'assembled with bones of animals from this planet, with modern synthetic glues.'
Radiologist technician Guillermo Ramirez examines an x-ray of one of Maussan's 'Nazca mummy' specimens (above) at Noor Clinic, in Huixquilucan, Mexico on September 18, 2023
'They're not extraterrestrials,' Dr Estrada pronounced after his group's examination last January. 'It's totally a made-up story.'
But Colorado attorney Josh McDowell has told DailyMail.com that these two alleged mummies, which were confiscated by Peruvian customs from courier DHL at an airport in Lima, only superficially resemble those brought before Mexico's congress.
These contraband specimens, he said, also did not resemble those kept at the University of Ica in Peru, where many of the Nazca Tridactyls are currently stored.
McDowell said that the seized 'mummies,' dressed-up in miniature imitations of traditional Andean dress, had merely been bootlegs made by an artist who intended to cash-in on the 'Nazca mummy' craze.
'The artist that made them said as much,' he continued.
'There is a way to obtain definitive answers as to what these specimens are through genetic testing and additional forensic examination,' McDowell emphasized.
'It would mean a true collaborative effort with a multidisciplinary team of scientists, working with the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, to complete the studies legally, ethically and with respect to the cultural heritage of Peru.'
The prolific UFO researcher and broadcaster Jaime Maussan (left) was Correa's boss for decades at the paranormal-focused TV news magazine 'Tercer Milenio.' Above, Correa (right) and Maussan pose beside a statue of a 'grey alien' in Tercer Milenio's studio in Mexico City
But whatever the truth behind these two seized 'alien mummies,' Correa said that the hand dissected by his partners closely match those presented to Mexico's congress.
'Dr Ricardo Rangel, molecular geneticist, and Dr Zalce, a physician expert in forensic sciences, are the two scientists with the most experience in this case,' he said.
'I invited them from the beginning to analyze the bodies of the Nazca mummies.'
Correa noted that Rangel and Zalce's study of this specimen's hand greatly resembled the internal structure of Maussan's prior Nazca bodies, scanned via a noninvasive x-ray-like method, high-resolution computed tomography.
'Both agreed on the inside of the hand,' Correa said.
'There is anatomical correspondence with this member that comes from the same place where the other specimens were found: a cave in the Peruvian desert,' he said.
But even some sympathetic observers and amateur 'ancient alien' archeologists online have voiced their doubts about the hand as depicted in the new video.
Posters on the Reddit forum r/alienbodies likened the interior seen in the new alien hand video to 'wet sludge and bones' or hastily stuffed 'with ground coffee beans.'
'The more I learn about these,' one opined, 'the less authentic I believe them to be.'
For his part, Dr Rangel, whose past research work has focused on a form of gene called Human leukocyte antigens (HLA), has focused the most of his studies on DNA samples taken from the Nazca mummies over the past few years.
In one of his 2023 assessments of the specimens, he asserted that 'there is a probability greater than 50 percent that this organism is not related to living beings known to date on our planet.'
The Pentagon's former chief UFOinvestigator has revealed a sensitive new government program to recover 'alleged alien tech' in the event of a 'shoot down.'
Dr Sean Kirkpatrick — a longtime CIA scientist who headed the US military's UFO-chasing All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) — admitted to the program's existence when pressed during a new interview.
The retrieval program's protocols were for 'any UAP recovery' involving 'everything from balloons to drones to alleged alien tech,' as Dr Kirkpatrick told podcast host John Michael Godier.
In recent years, Pentagon brass, NASA experts and academics have all reframed what were once called 'flying saucers' as 'unidentified anomalous phenomena' (UAP).
The revelation is the first time that the US government has officially acknowledged a UAP or UFO retrieval program, despite decades of speculation and whistleblower testimony that America has already been in possession of alien craft for decades.
This week, the Pentagon's North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) admitted that America's military installations have been plagued, since 2022, by at least 600 so-called 'drone' incursions, many still unexplained.
This model of a sunken and deteriorated Soviet K-129 submarine was created by the CIA during its 1971-74 AZORIAN mission - one of the most elaborate terrestrial 'crash retrieval' missions undertaken in secret by the US intelligence community and now declassified
The now retired director of the Pentagon UFO office, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick (above), spent 2023 engaged in heated public sparring with UFO whistleblowers over alleged retrievals of alien spacecraft dating back to the Cold War-era
Classified documents suggest that the new UFO crash retrieval program began in early 2023, with a focus on 'response and recovery and material transfer.'
Dr Kirkpatrick initiated high-level meetings formalizing AARO's version of a UFO crash retrieval program in January and February 2023 — according to the redacted documents released last September via the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
As one scheduling email explained: 'The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the disposition of funding within the context of safety and security implications of UAP.'
Establishing 'a receiving point' for any and all recovered UFO materials was one key issue to be addressed, the meeting memo added.
'The problem is those types of activities are already covered under Foreign Materiel Collection and Analysis,' as Dr Kirkpatrick told Godier and listeners to his Event Horizon podcast Thursday.
'There's already a process and procedures in place for many of these things,' he continued. 'So this conversation was really to start [asking]: How do we document that for UAP? And, what kind of procedures do we need to put in place?'
Since at least the dawn of the Cold War, America has had crash retrieval programs, led by the CIA, but comprising all branches of the US military.
'Equally important was retrieving US fragments that had landed in foreign nations to prevent the Soviets from recovering and exploiting them,' according to curator James E. David of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
Dr Kirkpatrick's latest disclosure adds context to an intriguing release of 78-pages worth of redacted plans between AARO and US Space Command (above), where the physicist had previously served as deputy director of intelligence from 2019 to 2021
Space Command was only the just one of the branches AARO consulted.
Leadership from the White House's Joint Chiefs of Staff also weighed in on the UFO recovery effort, including its directorates for intelligence (J2), operations (J3), strategy and policy (J5).
'AARO is Congressionally directed to come up with not just standard reporting procedures, but also mitigation and response procedures in the event of a shoot down or a collection of any sort of UAP,' Dr Kirkpatrick said.
'To do that mitigation and response, as well as standardized reporting,' he added, 'will occur through all of the combatant commands.'
'Because they already have people in place that would collect [crashes].'
'Like, if we shot down another Chinese high altitude balloon, it's that team that would go and collect it, right? It's those procedures and processes on how it gets notified and how we go and get it.'
Space Command records obtained via FOIA show that Dr Kirkpatrick had meetings to establish AARO's version of a UFO-specific crash retrieval program on April 10 with Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, Commander of US Northern Command.
General VanHerck, who led the mission to takedown the infamous Chinese spy balloon back in February 2023, has also taken a hard stance on domestic UFO cases.
'If there are unknown objects within North America,' he said of the recent wave of baffling drone swarms over US bases, 'go out and identify them.'
Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch (center) testified under oath before Congress in July 2023 alleging widespread illegalities stemming from a long-secret UFO 'crash retrieval' program. Grusch and Dr Kirkpatrick sparred publicly over these claims that summer
Whistleblowers with knowledge of a classified UFO 'reverse engineering' program have opted to testify to the Senate intelligence committee, in part over their reported mistrust of Dr. Kirkpatrick and his Pentagon UFO office. Above, a page from Project 1794 declassified in 2012
General VanHerck, who also has a leadership role over NORAD, has pled with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to authorize more electronic eavesdropping equipment to solve the severe national security mysteries involving the drone UFOs.
But the general has also acknowledged that strict rules govern the use of this level of espionage tech over US soil.
Although Dr Kirkpatrick told Event Horizon's listeners that he found no evidence that the US government has previously recovered an alien spacecraft via its past crash retrieval programs, several of his predecessors have contradicted his claims.
Dr James Lacatski, a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst and missile expert who managed one UFO-centered program from 2008-2012, has claimed that the US not only has recovered alien spacecraft but that officials have gotten inside one.
This craft, as he briefed then US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2011, had 'no intakes, exhaust, wings, or control surfaces […] no engine, fuel tanks, or fuel.'
Dr Lacatski's book, 'Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations,' was co-authored with Las Vegas-based investigative reporter George Knapp and biochemist Dr Colm Kelleher.
Dr Kelleher had worked alongside Dr Lacatski from the private contractor side of the DIA's once highly secretive UFO program, the Advanced Weapons System. Application program (AAWSAP).
When asked by UFO documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell whether or not he himself had entered this recovered UFO, Dr Lacatski replied: 'I can't answer that.'
DailyMail.com has reached out to Dr Lacatski for comment and will update this article if he replies.
Netflix's The Manhattan Alien Abduction revisits the alleged 1989 alien kidnapping of Linda Napolitano from the 12th floor of her Manhattan apartment. At about 3 a.m., November 30th that year, she insists that three gray-colored bipedal aliens removed her from her bedroom using a blue light stream that paralyzed her before lifting her into the sky and onto a reddish-orange spacecraft, which then veered off toward the Brooklyn Bridge. Once aboard their craft, these other-worldly beings, claims Napolitano, performed a series of unspecified experiments on the housewife by inserting a metallic device in her nose, before returning her to her home in New York.
She described the aliens as having black eyes; they were allegedly able to communicate with her telepathically - telling her in some strange language to be quiet - before she wound up unable to move as the blue beam lifted her into the night sky and onto the ship. In The Manhattan Alien Abduction, one of several UFO documentaries,she remembered an examination room where a metallic device was inserted into her nose, and then waking up back in Manhattan in bed next to her husband as if nothing had happened. According to her, her first thought was that she'd dreamed the entire episode, until she noticed a lump in her nose.
Linda Napolitano Has Sued Netflix Over The Manhattan Alien Abduction
Napolitano Says The Film Is Unflattering
The story generated some headlines in the early 1990s, butgained traction with the publication of UFO investigator Budd Hopkins' book Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge Abduction, in 1997. Hopkins' book attracted significant skepticism over Napolitano's claims, but the author reported that he had interviewed more than 20 witnesses to the event, which lent the tale some credibility. Despite this, Netflix's The Manhattan Alien Abduction docuseries firmly suggests that Napolitano's story is entirely fanciful, which has so riled up the alleged abductee that she has taken the matter to court.
According to Forbes, Napolitano has sued the streamer in the New York Supreme Court, claiming The Manhattan Alien Abduction is defamatory because it depicts her in an unflattering light and, she alleges, steals Budd Hopkins' work. She is joined in the suit by the author's estate and is asking a judge for damages and to halt the release of the film. Included in the suit are Netflix, Top Hat Productions, several producers, and Carol Rainey, Hopkins' ex-wife, who appears in the series claiming that Napolitano was "pulling the wool over Budd's eyes” when researching the book.
Over 30 Years Later, Linda Napolitano Is Still Sticking By Her Alien Abduction Story
She Insists The Witnesses Prove She's Telling The Truth
In the suit, Napolitano challenges that the show sets her up as "a villain for purposes of controversy and conflict," and "defames her persona and character," and will "destroy her reputation as an honest and decent person.” Now 77, Linda Napolitano still lives in New York and is sticking resolutely to her story, despite the content in The Manhattan Alien Abduction and the evidence provided by Carol Rainey and others painting her abduction event as, at best, hallucinatory.
Sci-fi films have always been fascinated by aliens kidnapping humans, and these films capture the terror, and sometimes the humor, of alien abduction.
“If I was hallucinating,” she told Vanity Fair in 2013, “then the witnesses saw my hallucination. That sounds crazier than the whole abduction phenomenon." The Manhattan Alien Abductionis Netflix's attempt to sort the fact from the fantasy and to tell Napolitano's story objectively and in light of all the evidence. Like almost all alien abduction narratives, Napolitano's extraordinary claims can't be proven based on the evidence available and will likely remain so. Even If Linda Napolitano's claims aren't taken seriously, she is sticking to her story to the very end: “I’ll tell you,” she says, “I wish I was psychotic — at least there is treatment for that.”
While new rockets and human missions to the Moon are in the press, NASA is quietly thinking through the nuts and bolts of a long-term presence on the Moon. They have already released two white papers about the lunar logistics they’ll require in the future and are now requesting proposals from companies to supply some serious cargo transportation. But this isn’t just for space transport; NASA is also looking for ground transportation on the Moon that can move cargo weighing as much as 2,000 to 6,000 kg (4,400 to 13,000 pounds.)
In a recent press release, NASA asked U.S. industry to submit proposals for logistics ideas and solutions to help the agency land and move cargo on the lunar surface during the upcoming Artemis missions.
“NASA relies on collaborations from diverse partners to develop its exploration architecture,” said Nujoud Merancy, deputy associate administrator, strategy and architecture in the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Studies like this allow the agency to leverage the incredible expertise in the commercial aerospace community.”
In the two white papers, NASA outlined the “gaps” they have lunar logistics and mobility as part of its Moon to Mars architecture. In the first paper, “Lunar Logistics Drivers, Needs,” NASA said that as the Artemis missions and goals are conceptualized and planned, it is imperative to accurately predict logistics and resupply needs, not only for mission goals but for the very important need of keeping the humans alive and healthy. They need to have a good plan and the ability to transport landed cargo and exploration items from where they are delivered to where they are used.
“The total amount of logistics items required to keep the crew alive and healthy, to maintain systems, and to perform productive science and utilization can be relatively large,” the authors wrote. “It can also heavily influence the design of the architecture and exploration missions. The architecture must therefore be based on comprehensive, accurate estimates of logistics item needs and include assessment of a suitable logistics sub-architectures to deliver those needs.”
How to provide various things like food, water, air, spare parts, and other similar products required to sustain life, as well as maintain all the various systems and structures are key to having productive science and utilization activities. NASA also expects they will need to move all these supplies around on the Moon, including to the lunar South Pole where they plan to send crews in the future. The paper outlines the importance of accurately predicting logistics resupply needs, as they can heavily influence the overall architecture and design of exploration missions.
An artist’s conception shows NASA’s generic concept for the Lunar Terrain Vehicle. (NASA Illustration)
NASA’ said their current planned lunar mobility elements, such as the Lunar Terrain Vehicle and Pressurized Rover, have a capability limit of about 1,760 pounds (800 kilograms) and will primarily be used to transport astronauts around the lunar surface. However, future missions could include a need to move cargo totaling around 4,400 to 13,000 pounds (2,000 to 6,000 kg). That’s why NASA wants input from companies who have experience in this area.
But to be able to move cargo around to various places on the Moon, NASA first needs to get the supplies to the lunar surface. The second white paper, “Lunar Surface Cargo,” looks at the lunar surface cargo delivery needs, compares those needs with current cargo lander capabilities, and outlines considerations for fulfilling this capability gap. NASA said that access to a diverse fleet of cargo landers would empower a larger lunar exploration footprint, and that a combination of international partnerships and U.S. industry-provided landers could supply the concepts and capabilities to meet this need.
“Given diverse cargo needs of varying size, mass, delivery cadence, and operational needs, a diverse portfolio of cargo lander capabilities will be necessary to achieve NASA’s Moon to Mars Objectives,” the paper says. “Encouraging the development of varied cargo lander concepts and capabilities will be key to establishing a long-term lunar presence for science and exploration.”
Planned and potential cargo to the lunar surface. Credit: NASA
While the request for proposals doesn’t explicitly seek new concepts for landing vehicles, it does ask for integrated assessments of logistics that can include transportation elements.
“We’re looking for industry to offer creative insights that can inform our logistics and mobility strategy,” said Brooke Thornton, industry engagement lead for NASA’s Strategy and Architecture Office. “Ultimately, we’re hoping to grow our awareness of the unique capabilities that are or could become a part of the commercial lunar marketplace.”
This is What it Sounds Like When the Earth’s Poles Flip
Is there something strange and alien confined deep inside the Earth? Is it trying to break free and escape into the heavens? No, of course not.
But in a new soundscape from the ESA, it sure sounds like it.
About every 450,000 years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip. North becomes south and vice versa in a phenomenon called geomagnetic reversal. This discovery was shocking since the planet’s magnetic field is such a foundational part of our environment. However, these reversals appear to be mostly harmless to life.
Geomagnetic reversals are chaotic events. Though they occur on average about every 450,000 years, there’s no pattern to them. There have been about 183 of them in the last 83 million years, leading us to the 450,000-year number. But the last one was 780,000 years ago, and some say that we’re overdue for the next one.
Sometimes, the events are excursions rather than full reversals. That’s when the field shifts for several hundred years and then returns to its original orientation, like the Laschamps event about 41,000 years ago. In an excursion, the field reverses in Earth’s outer core while its inner core remains unchanged. These happen more frequently than full reversals, but their exact number and timing are more difficult to determine since their effects aren’t global.
The evidence for these reversals and excursions is found in paleomagnetism. Paleomagnetism measures the orientation of magnetic elements like iron in volcanic rock as it cools. By determining the age of the rock, scientists can determine the orientation of Earth’s magnetic field when the rock solidified. The history of Earth’s magnetic reversals is recorded where new magma cools as the seafloor spreads.
Magnetic stripes are the result of reversals of the Earth’s field and seafloor spreading. The new oceanic crust is magnetized as it forms and then moves away from the ridge in both directions. This diagram shows a ridge (a) about 5 million years ago, (b) about 2 million years ago, and (c) in the present. Image Credit: By Chmee2 – derived from File:Oceanic.Stripe.Magnetic.Anomalies.Scheme.gif, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18557170
During these excursions and reversals, the magnetic field’s strength weakens. During the Laschamps event, which lasted several hundred years, the field weakened to only 5% of its normal strength.
Earth’s magnetic fields deflect cosmic rays away from Earth, and at only 5% of its normal strength, the field lets in far more cosmic rays than usual. Cosmic rays are high-energy particles, usually protons or atomic nuclei, that come from the Sun and from objects both inside and outside of the Milky Way and travel at relativistic speeds. When they strike Earth’s atmosphere, they produce showers of secondary particles.
No matter how often they occur or what causes them, scientists are pretty sure that the Laschamps event was the latest excursion, and the European Space Agency decided it would be good if we knew what it sounded like.
The ESA launched its three-satellite Swarm mission in 2013 to study Earth’s magnetic fields. Swarm measures magnetic signals not only from the core but also from the mantle, the oceans, and all the way up to the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark and the German Research Centre for Geosciences used Swarm data and data from other sources to create a soundscape of the Laschamps event.
The scientists used recordings of natural sounds, such as rocks falling and wood creaking, and blended them into alien-like sounds that were both familiar and strange. The result sounds Earthly, subterranean, natural, and creepy all at the same time as if some ancient part of the Earth is writhing around inside the planet, which, in a way, it is.
The first version was created in 2022 and was played as a sort of public art installation in Copenhagen. There were 32 speakers, and each one played the sound represented by changes in the magnetic field at 32 locations around the world.
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