Archaeologist uncovers painting that may prove the existence of a mythical horned serpent

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By Ellyn Lapointe For Dailymail.Com

An archaeologist has uncovered a 200-year-old rock painting that depicts an ancient, horned serpent roaming across the land. 

This discovery adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests this mythical creature was more than just a legend. 

Julien Benoit, a senior researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand, found the painting at La Belle France, a rock-art site in northern South Africa. 

It appears to show a long-bodied animal with downward-turned tusks that looks unlike any living animal in the region today. 

A rock painting and unidentified fossils discovered in South Africa may confirm the existence of a legendary 'horned serpent'

The paintings are about ten years older than the first formal scientific descriptions of this horned serpent, which were made in 1845

Analysis revealed that they were made between 1821 and 1835 by an indigenous group called the San. 

According to San legend, this creature was a 'rain animal' from the 'spirit realm,' which means it was probably involved in rain-making ceremonies, Benoit told IFLScience. 

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But scientists, including Benoit, believe it's possible that this myth was based on real dicynodont fossils. 

Dicynodontia is an extinct clade of terrestrial herbivores that typically bore a pair of tusks. Hence their name, which means 'two dog tooth.' They roamed the Earth from the Middle Permian through the end of the Triassic periods. 

They likely died out during the end-Permian extinction that wiped out most other therapsids - the larger clade of terrestrial animals that Dicynodontia belongs to. 

An abundance of dicynodont fossils have been found in the Karoo Basin, a sedimentary basin that spans 60,000 square miles across the central and southern South Africa. 

La Belle France, where the painting was uncovered, is located north of the Karoo Basin. But the painting was found in the immediate vicinity of unknown tetrapod (or four-legged vertebrate) fossils.

The Horned Serpent Panel 

Benoit published his findings this month in the journal PLOS ONE.  

He thinks that a fossil discovery could have led the San to paint the horned serpent, guided by an ancient legend in which their ancestors described these creatures as 'great monstrous brutes, exceeding the elephant or hippopotamus in bulk,' he said. 

Together, the painting and nearby fossils 'suggest a case of indigenous paleontology,' Benoit wrote. Perhaps the San weren't painting a fictitious creature, but rather documenting a scientific finding. 

Benoit told IFLScience that 'many cultures explored the world of fossils before Western scientists did.' 

The rock painting was discovered at La Belle France, a rock-art site in northern South Africa

The fossils were found beneath the star in photo A, and fossils were found at the locations shown in photos B, C and D. 

'The Native Americans knew about fossils before colonization and interpreted them in various ways, some implying they knew they belonged to long-gone animals,' he said.

'The San, in southern Africa, also collected fossils, as exemplified by the Bolahla rock shelter, in which they carried a dinosaur phalanx – which may be, by the way, the first time a dinosaur bone was ever discovered,' he added. 

What's more, the painting of a dicynodont by the San would also suggest that they integrated at least some fossils into their belief system, according to the study.

'During rain-making ceremonies, the San enter a state of trance and enter the realm of the dead to catch rain-animals and bring the rain back to the world of the living,' he said.

'By picking a species such as a dicynodont, that they knew was extinct and thus dead, they likely hoped this rain-animal had some increased potency to bridge the two worlds,' he added. 

But this painting alone is not enough to officially confirm that this legendary horned serpent actually existed, or that the unidentified fossils found at La Belle France are its remains.

It will take additional research to determine whether this ancient monster was fact or fiction. 

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25-09-2024 om 21:21 geschreven door peter  

First image released of 'cylindrical' UFO shot down by US fighter jet over Alaska in 2023

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By Matthew Phelan Senior Science Reporter For Dailymail.Com

This is the first image of  UFO shot down by American fighter jets during a chase near Alaska last year.

The photo shows a seemingly glowing horse shoe-shaped object with ill-defined edges over the Yukon territory in northwest Canada in February 2023.

It was shot down by a US Air Force F-22 stealth fighter on a joint mission with the Canadian Armed Forces following the now infamous Chinese spy balloon drama of February 2023.

Redacted documents show the image was designated as 'unclassified' within just days of the now 19-month-old incident, yet Canada's defense department did not release it to the public.

Canada has released the first-ever image of the UFO shot down during a chase above Alaska and the Yukon that followed the Chinese spy balloon drama of February 2023 (above)

The odd pic shows a seemingly circular white object that had been shot down by a US Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter in a joint mission with the Canadian Armed Forces. Above, another USAF F-22 Raptor during an air show over Toronto, Canada on August 31, 2024

A possible reason, as one public affairs official with Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) warned colleagues, was internal fears that releasing this unclassified UFO image 'may create more questions/confusion.'

This official, a director of communications named Taylor Paxton, advised military colleagues that this confusion would be inevitable 'given the current public environment and statements related to the object being benign.' 

Paxton suggested that any move by the Royal Canadian Air Force to publish the photo on social media would likely only raise more inquiries from the general public and the press 'regardless of the text that will accompany the post.' 

The craft was one of three shot down over Alaska, Yukon and Lake Huron between Feb 10 and 12 2023.

The three objects were reportedly much smaller than the Chinese spy balloon that was grounded off the coast of South Carolina days earlier.

The new emails, obtained along with the eerie new UFO photo by CTVNews.ca reporter Daniel Otis via an open records law request, also included efforts by members of Canada's armed forces to better understand the craft that had been shot down.

One email from Canadian Brigadier-General Eric Laforest described the UFO as a 'cylindrical object.'

'Top quarter is metallic, remainder white. 20-foot wire hanging below with a package of some sort suspended,' Brig. Gen. Laforest wrote. 'Best description that we have.'

The suspected spy balloon was one of four airborne objects gunned out of the sky by the US over eight days of February 2023. One unusual feature of the newly released UFO photo is that it had already been designated 'unclassified' within just days of these 19-month-old incidents

A possible reason, as one public affairs official with Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) warned colleagues, was the Canadian military's own internal fears that releasing this UFO image 'may create more questions/confusion'

Dark portions visible along the top center of the UFO in this newly released image may depict either that upper metallic region or the remains of the alleged 'package.' 

But this release only adds more mystery to the wave of espionage-tinted UFO activity that surrounded the confirmed downing of an authentic Chinese-government spy balloon earlier that month off the coast of North Carolina's Myrtle Beach.  

Iain Boyd, a professor of aerospace engineering and director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado, described the Canadian government's reticence to release the image as an issue of national security — despite the image's 'unclassified' designation. 

'It comes down to these episodes illustrating a potential vulnerability in the U.S./Canada defensive system,' Boyd opined. 

'Certainly the failure to provide more information has fed conspiracy theories,' as he told CTVNews.ca, 'but the military will likely accept that outcome over disclosing information that may help an adversary identify defensive weaknesses.' 

According to the report for CTV News, the network's journalists plan to petition the Canadian military for a higher resolution version of this UFO image.

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25-09-2024 om 20:52 geschreven door peter  

• The last time comet C/2023 A3 passed Earth humans were about to leave Africa
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By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline 

It was last witnessed by some of the first humans to venture out of Africa 80,000 years ago. 

Now, comet C/2023 A3 – also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS – is finally making its return journey to Earth. 

The comet, which will look like a faint star-like blob with a hazy tail, should be viewable just before dawn on four consecutive mornings, from Friday to Monday.

Comet C/2023 A3 was only discovered early last year, but based on its orbital trajectory scientists estimate that it last passed Earth 80,000 years ago. 

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, posted a stunning clip of the comet from his unique vantage point.  

You can see the comet later this week by looking for the moon, which is in its waning crescent phase. The position of the comet varies in relation to the moon depending on the date

The comet not seen by humans for 80,000 years is described as looking like 'a fuzzy star with a misty tail'. It's pictured here (top right) in this stunning snap, posted as NASA's 'Astronomy Picture of the Day' on Monday

The eight-second time-lapse video clip shows the celestial object from the space station's cupola windows. 

'This comet is going to make for some really cool images as it gets closer to the sun,' Dominick said in his X post. 

Stuart Atkinson, a space enthusiast and amateur astronomer based in Cumbria, said the comet will look like 'a fuzzy star with a misty tail'. 

'It will be beneath the moon, very low in the east,' he said in an X post. 

Although it should be seen with the naked eye on both hemispheres, there's no harm having a pair of binoculars handy to increase visibility.  

According to The Sky Live, comet C/2023 A3 is 157.1 million miles away from Earth, as of 12:00 BST Tuesday. 

It is getting closer to us all the time, travelling at about 70km per second (150,000 miles per hour). 

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, posted a stunning clip of the comet from his unique vantage point

C/2023 A3 was first documented only last year by telescopes in South Africa, Chile and Hawaii as it came closer and closer to Earth 

It will reach 'perihelion' – its closest point to the sun in its 80,000 year orbit – on Friday, September 27.

Perihelion is when a comet is at its brightest and therefore most visible for Earthlings.

The comet should also be visible on Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings, although its position in relation to the moon will change slightly. 

The best time to see it on these days is around 40 minutes before dawn, when it's yet to be obscured by the sun's glare.  

In the UK, 40 minutes before dawn is around 06:15 BST, meaning some morning commuters will get a chance to see it before leaving for work. 

Minjae Kim, a space expert at the University of Warwick's astronomy department, told MailOnline: 'The comet will be visible as a pre-dawn object. You can look very low in the east before sunrise.

'C/2023 A3 has an orbital period of approximately 80,000 years, classifying it as a long-period comet. 

'This means its behaviour and appearance can be unpredictable, with potential changes in brightness and tail development as it approaches the sun.

'If predictions hold, it could be visible to the naked eye, appearing as a fuzzy star with a tail stretching across the sky. 

'Otherwise, binoculars or a small telescope may reveal more detail in the comet's structure and tail.' 

For those who miss it this weekend, Dr Kim said the comet should be visible again between October 10 to October 20. 

Images of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) obtained on 2023-02-24 at remote telescopes by amateur astronomer

Comets are large objects made of dust and ice that orbit the sun. NASA describes them as 'leftovers' from the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago (artist's depiction) 

Comets, nicknamed 'dirty snowballs' by astronomers, are balls of ice, dust and rocks that typically come from the ring of icy material called the Oort cloud at our solar system's outer edge. 

Surrounding a comet is a thin, gassy atmosphere filled with more ice and dust called a coma.

As they approach the sun, comets melt, releasing a stream of gas and dust blown from their surface by solar radiation and plasma and forming a cloudy, outward-facing tail.

Comets move toward the inner solar system when various gravitational forces dislodge them from the Oort cloud, becoming more visible as they venture closer to the sun's heat.

And fewer than a dozen comets are discovered each year by observatories worldwide.

Starwalk, an astronomical app for stargazing, describes comet C/2023 A3 as 'most anticipated comet of the year'. 

At the end of November, another comet, called 333P/LINEAR, should be visible with large binoculars or a small telescope. 

But it only has an orbital period of eight years – barely anything compared with comet C/2023 A3, which is truly a once-in-a-lifetime sight. 

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24-09-2024 om 22:37 geschreven door peter  

NASA discovers mysterious 'zebra rock' on Mars that's unlike anything the space agency has seen

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By Ellyn Lapointe For Dailymail.Com

NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover has spotted a strange 'zebra rock' on the red planet. 

The black-and-white striped rock is unlike any rock seen on Mars before, standing out against the planet's reddish-brown surface - NASA says it could be a sign of exciting discoveries to come.

While the rover was driving across some 'unremarkable pebbly terrain,' a team of NASA scientists noticed a rock in the distance with 'hints of unusual texture,' the space agency said.

'Freya Castle' is an unusual, 'zebra-striped' rock that was recently discovered on the surface of Mars. Scientists still aren't sure exactly what it is or where it came from. 

The rover snapped photos of the rock, now dubbed 'Freya Castle,' and beamed them back to Earth a couple days later. 

'Since Freya Castle is a loose stone that is clearly different from the underlying bedrock, it has likely arrived here from someplace else,' NASA said. 

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Freya Castle measures roughly eight inches across, and early interpretations of its unique texture suggest that igneous and/or metamorphic processes could have created its stripes, NASA wrote in a statement.

Igneous processes are geological activities that are related to the melting, movement and cooling of magma and lava. 

Magma is molten rock that lies below the planetary surface, while lava is molten rock that is above the earth's surface. 

For a billion years, Mars was a highly volcanically active planet, which could have created the conditions necessary for the zebra rock to form.

NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover snapped photos of this strange rock while driving across some 'unremarkable pebbly terrain' (Illustration) 

Metamorphic processes are changes in the composition of rocks due to high heat and pressure. 

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24-09-2024 om 21:54 geschreven door peter  

More than 300 mysterious Nazca glyphs are discovered in Peru - including a Wall-E-style person, alien-like figures, and killer whales with KNIVES

• 303 new geoglyphs are discovered in the soil of Peru's Nazca Desert
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By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline

For nearly 100 years, scientists have been perplexed by the famous Nazca geoglyphs – ancient patterns in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. 

Now, with the help of AI, researchers have discovered another 303 drawings – and they're possibly the most bizarre yet. 

Among them are alien-like figures, killer whales holding knives, cats, camels and a figure that looks like Pixar's Wall-E robot. 

Photos show some of the new discoveries, with lines manually added on to the images to emphasise the original lines, which have faded due to erosion. 

The mysterious Nazca glyphs may date back to 400 BC, but scientists are still unsure what their exact purpose was, if any. 

More than 300 mysterious Nazca glyphs are discovered in Peru including a Wall-E-style person (top left) and alien-like figures

The actual purpose of the mysterious Nazca Lines has long puzzled archaeologists.

Pictured: killer whales (orcas) holding knives 

The 303 newly discovered geoglyphs have been detailed by a group of researchers at Yamagata University in Japan and IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center in New York in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

'It took nearly a century to discover a total of 430 figurative Nazca geoglyphs, which offer significant insights into the ancient cultures at the Nazca Pampa,' says the team in their paper. 

'Here, we report the deployment of an AI system to the entire Nazca region, a UNESCO World Heritage site, leading to the discovery of 303 new figurative geoglyphs within only six months of field survey.' 

The researchers scanned aerial images of the Peruvian site with IBM's AI because it can identify markings in the landscape that the human eye would otherwise miss.

Of the 303 newly discovered geoglyphs, 178 were individually suggested by the AI, which had been trained to search for them in drone photos. 

They predominantly depict wild animals such as orcas and domesticated camels, and human-related motifs, including alien-like humanoids.

There's also what appears to be pairs of primates playing together, including one pair with large tails, holding balls, and a feline with a surprised expression. 

Many are simply uncategorisable, but appear to show various distorted forms of the human figure, including a head with spiky hair and another head on a pair of legs. 

They predominantly depict wild animals and human-related motifs, including humanoids and domesticated camels

Many are simply uncategorisable, but appear to show various distorted forms of the human figure, including a head with spiky hair and another head on a pair of legs

The Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs - large motifs made in the ground - located in the Nazca Desert of southern Peru

However, the purpose of the mysterious Nazca Lines has long puzzled archaeologists. 

Some believe they were intended to act as a kind of observatory, to point to the places where the sun and other celestial bodies rose or set in the solstices. 

Other theories suggest that they were created to be seen by the gods in the sky, but they may also have just been artistic expressions much like the ones we see today. 

Often, a geoglyph is too big to be appreciated at ground level, so only when one is high enough in the air can they discern the shapes of some of the designs.

For this reason, the intricacies of many of the designs were not fully realised until airplanes were invented and the artwork was seen from the sky.

Photos released show some of the new discoveries, with lines manually added on the images to emphasise the original lines, which have faded due to erosion

Pictured: a Homer Simpson-style human Nazca geoglyph previously found by the researchers 

A spider geoglyph at Nazca. The figure is said to be 150 feet long and made out of one continuous line 

The Nazca lines were apparently first spotted in 1939 when a pilot flew over the Nazca plains of the Peruvian coastal highlands, although it's likely they were seen by locals on hilltops much earlier. 

Contrary to the popular belief that the figures can only be seen from the air, many are actually visible from the surrounding foothills too. 

According to the experts, IBM's AI could lead to even more geoglyphs being discovered – possibly thousands. 

'AI may be at the brink of ushering in a revolution in archaeological discoveries like the revolution aerial imaging has had on the field,' they say in their paper.

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24-09-2024 om 21:30 geschreven door peter  

Legendary Film Director Claimed His Soundman Heard President/CIA Director George Bush Sr. Say Aliens Are Real & He Saw a Dead One

In 2020, filmmaker David Hoffman released a video on his YouTube channel, which now has over 1 million subscribers, where he shared an unusual experience from when he directed a political interview with George Bush during Bush’s vice-presidential campaign alongside Ronald Reagan.

“I am not a documentary filmmaker who believes in conspiracy theories. And I am not a scientist or an astronomer. I made this video for my subscribers because I do believe that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and aliens are real because of what happened to me.” — filmmaker David Hoffman

Before filming began, Nigel suddenly stopped recording and told Hoffman that he had overheard Bush say something startling: “Hey, you know those little green people? They’re real. I saw one dead.” This statement appeared to refer to aliens, specifically the stereotypical “little green men” associated with extraterrestrial life.

Though the moment wasn’t captured on tape, Hoffman and his soundman were both struck by what Bush allegedly said, and they never forgot the incident. Hoffman seems to suggest that it’s possible Bush could have seen a dead alien, although the story remains unverified and relies on the soundman’s word. (Source)

Now I wonder what happened to Jimmy Carter. Former NASA researcher Ed Harris claims that the story of President Carter crying after being briefed on classified UFO information is true. Even Richard Dolan writes about this in his book.

After being repeatedly stonewalled, Carter was given “the talk,” which reportedly left him deeply sobbing and visibly disturbed for weeks. He was told that major religions, including Christianity, were created by extraterrestrials to prevent humans from destroying themselves while they ran experiments on us, and that they made us. Carter, a deeply religious man who had witnessed a UFO with six other people, realized that releasing such information could cause tremendous economic and social upheaval.

Below you can read Ed Harris’ statement on the subject that he wrote on Quora:

Yes, the incident of Jimmy Carter crying after being briefed about classified information regarding UFO’s is largely believed to be true by the serious researchers on the subject. As a forewarning, the following information is very unsettling and will explain why Carter never “kept his promise” of revealing classified UFO information to the public.

According to the story that was corroborated by more than one witness, U.S. presidents are only given a cursory overview of the subject. Apparently, the CIA runs the program, only provide information to the President on a need to know basis, and do not consider presidential curiosity as sufficient need to know. This was implemented after Kennedy, and all presidents after him have been given only summary briefings (some presidents for unknown reasons were given more than others).

Okay on to your question. President Carter is a deeply religious man who had also witnessed a UFO with 6 other people. Everyone thought that he would be the one to f inally release UFO info to the public but as the story goes, he was repeatedly stonewalled. Eventually, the CIA had “the talk” with him, and afterward it was reported that he sunk his head in his hands and not only began to deeply sob, but was visibly disturbed for some weeks afterward.

What was he told and shown?

He was told that the major religions including Christianity were programs created by extraterrestrials to prevent us from destroying ourselves while they ran their experiments on us – and that they made us. At this moment it became clear to Carter that such information could cause tremendous economic and social upheaval. I should add that I am not only a Christian but a clergyman, so I am in no way attempting to promote atheism here. In fact, how God fits into this might be an interesting separate post. Nevertheless, these are the facts as I know them to be.

Author and world’s leading UFO researcher Richard Dolan also writes about this incident in his book “UFOs and the National Security State: The Cover-Up Exposed.” According to his book, there are claims that President Carter was given a UFO briefing at the White House on June 14, 1977, which he was then bound to secrecy about. (Click here to read the full article)

Cordell Hull saw Aliens in Glass Containers, 1939

Roswell UFO crash started a lot of alien conspiracies, but do you know that many years before that incident, dead alien bodies had been stored in a container in the basements of the Capitol Building, Washington DC? (Source)

This story first came into the limelight in 2002, when Willian Jones, a director of the Ohio branch of MUFON received an interesting letter from a woman named Lucile Andrew, the daughter of Reverend Turner Hamilton Holt.

The letter held the top-secret information told by Holt to his daughter about one of his meetings with his cousin Cordell Hull who had been the US Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 and was also elected as US Senator from 1931 to 1937. He had also received the Nobel Peace Prize and was one of the people who established the United Nations

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The letter contained the information that Hull would never want to come out until he was alive but at the same time, he could not stop himself from sharing it with his cousin Holt who served at the Shenandoah Christian Church in Greenwich, Ohio.

According to the letter, one day when Holt was in Washington D.C., he was contacted by Hull who wanted to show him something extremely secret and asked him to never disclose it to anybody. Holt agreed, and Hull took him to a place under the Capitol Building where he showed him an amazing sight. There is no exact information about the time frame of this secret but Hull served under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt until his resignation in 1944.

It was a huge room with four glass containers. In each container, there were bodies of dead humanoids in a special liquid (presumably formaldehyde), about which Holt and Hull had no idea. According to the description of their body structure, they were clearly not humans. There also was a “wrecked round craft” in the adjoining room.

“My father wanted my sister and I to make this information known long after he and Cordell were dead because he felt it was a very important bit of information,” Lucile wrote. “We have researched your group (MUFON) and feel it is the most reliable group in the country. We hope that you will research and search for this information. The jars with creatures in formaldehyde and the wrecked craft are somewhere!

Cordell said they were afraid that they would start a panic if the public found out about it. Sincerely, Lucile Andrew, Ashland, Ohio.”

The letter said that the incident happened in 1939, years before the stories of UFOs and alien encounters hit the newspapers. There is no doubt that Cordell Hull was one of the greatest politicians in US history and according to his credibility, it is difficult not to believe his story. Holt married a woman named Vina May Clark and they both had three daughters. Two daughters claimed that Holt had told them about the creatures but he had never said where they came from. “He said the color of this material wasn’t a color that he had seen before, but for the lack of a better word he used “silver.” Reverend Holt was not the sort of person to make up such a wild story and, the sisters feel that by telling the story they are following their father’s wishes.”

Below is the video where two sisters from Ohio tell the story of how their father was taken to the sub-basement of the capitol and shown what appears to have been alien bodies and a craft.

Barbara A. Wolanin, the curator U.S. Capitol building said: “She had never heard about these creatures being stored at the Capitol, but she did confirm there was a sub-basement that was divided into storage rooms back then.” When Hull left his job, he wrote his memoirs, but there is no mention of this story in his papers in the Library of Congres

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24-09-2024 om 21:05 geschreven door peter  

EXCLUSIVE - Terrifying link between UFOs and NUKES laid bare

• READ MORE Indian nuclear plant reports strange craft 

By Rob Waugh For Dailymail.Com

They may not come in peace, after all.

Over the decades, dozens of UFOs have been witnessed around nuclear weapons sites.

Former Pentagon investigator Luis Elizondo said earlier this year the encounters could be reconnaissance missions for a potential invasion.

But in his new book, researcher Robert L Hastings, who has devoted decades to interviewing dozens of U.S. military personnel who have seen UFOs near nuclear sites, believes the reality may be more complex.

Were aliens present at the Castle Bravo nuclear test? 

Hastings looks at dozens of cases that have occurred since the United States detonated its first atomic bomb at the Trinity test site in 1945.

But the connection between UFOs and nuclear sites has persisted in India, Russia and elsewhere across the globe.

In fact, 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.

UFO sightings over America's nuclear arsenal appeared to shift their interest from the making of the bombs to silos and bomber bases as the Cold War arms race grew (above)

In his book, UFOs and Nukes, based on interviews with more than 150 veterans, Hastings reveals 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.' 

Hastings writes: '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.' 

As to why they choose to buzz around the world's most dangerous military sites, there are several theories. 

Perhaps the visitors have empathy for humankind and wish to warn us of the dangers of nuclear warfare, Hastings writes.

'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.'

The more mundane explanation is that the sightings are simply foreign nations' tech spying on high priority targets. 

Los Alamos

Established in 1943 as the base for the 'Manhattan Project' led by Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos was the birthplace of nuclear weapons.

But Hastings says that even at this early stage, there were sightings of unusual craft.

An FBI memorandum, dated January 31, 1949 refers to observations of 'Flying Discs, Flying Saucers, and Balls of Fire'.

The sightings began as early as December 1948, Hastings reveals.

The memo said, 'This matter is considered top secret by Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.'

Hastings said that multiple UFO sightings were also seen at Sandia Base in Albuquerque, where further atomic weapons were tested, and at Oak Ridge Laborabory, a fissile materials production site.

Los Alamos was the birthplace of America's nuclear deterrent

Hastings writes, ' For whatever reason, those piloting the UFOs—whose origin and intentions were unknown—appeared to be very interested in the facilities associated with America's atomic weapons program.

The Castle hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll tested high-yield weapons - and Castle Bravo was the largest nuclear device ever detonated by the United States.

But Hastings says that documents uncovered long after the tests reveal the presence of unknown craft.

The Castle Bravo detonation was preceded by mysterious radio blackouts, Hastings says.

In 1998, Patricia Broudy, the Legislative Director of the National Association of Atomic Veterans, found a reference to UFO sightings during the Castle tests, going through 500 pages of documents relating to logistics.

The document was later removed from official records, Hastings claims.

Atomic Energy Commission's flagship the USS Curtis

In a transcribed ship's deck log from April 7, 1954, sailors and Marines aboard the Atomic Energy Commission's flagship the USS Curtis (which had transported the 'special devices', or hydrogen bombs to the test area), saw a luminous object fly over the ship at high speed.

Marine corporal Joe Stallings said he had been approached by multiple sailors and marines, who had seen the UFO which was 'the talk of the ship'.

The missile 'set to launch'

Hastings says that of all the dozens of interviews he recorded with former Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch officers ove rthe years, one stands out as 'perhaps the most disturbing'.

In a 2007 interview with David H Schuur, Schuur revealed that a UFO activated the launch sequence of his Minuteman missiles.

A Minuteman launch site at Malmstrom in Montana

Schuur, a Minuteman crew member from 1963 to 1967, said that a 'bright, hovering object' appeared to be sending messages to six or seven of the missiles at the site.

Schuur said 'It was as if the object was scanning each missile, one by one.'

Some of the missiles began to display a 'launch in progress', Schuur said.

'That means the missile has received a launch signal. When that happens, we get an indication in the capsule that a launch command has been received by that missile, Schuur said.

'If that happens, without proper authority, you flip what's called an 'Inhibit' switch, to delay the launch for a given period of time. 

'If an Inhibit command comes in from another launch capsule, that shuts down the launch totally. 

'But if that second command doesn't come in, the missile will wait for a specified period of time and then launch automatically.'

An operational test launch of an Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile

The crew pressed the 'inhibit' switch and the missiles didn't launch - and commanders at the base told him not to mention the incident again.

The Soviet sightings

In 1984, a strange craft was spotted 'quite close' to the Soviet Katta-Kurgan tactical nuclear missile base, located in what is Uzbekistan today.

The site was believed to have multiple mobile tactical missiles.

Missile technician Shamil Yuaihmetov reported seeing a metallic-appearing, cigar-shaped object slowly descending at a 45-degree angle.

As the object descended, it emitted a hissing sound.

A Soviet SS-4 medium-range missile in Red Square

Hastings writes: 'The next day, in a nearby vineyard, three apparent landing-gear marks, in an equilateral triangle pattern, were found within an area of damaged vines measuring 30 by 80 meters. 

'Each depression was a half-meter deep and seemed to be created by a hemispheric or globe-shaped landing pad.'

The Soviet military investigated, but the findings are not available to researchers, Hastings says.

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23-09-2024 om 23:08 geschreven door peter  

• Carpentopod made by Dutch expert has two motors that power 12 crab-like legs
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By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline 

There are few things more annoying than sitting down on the sofa before realizing you left your drink on the table 10 feet away.

But instead of having to get up to retrieve it, what if the table could come to you?

That's a dream turned to reality by one expert in the Netherlands, who has built a 12-legged, remote-controlled walking table.

Like a cross between The Luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels and Theo Jansen's Strandbeest sculptures, Carpentopod has two motors that power 12 legs – six on either side.

Amazing footage shows the table making its way over to the user with a full bottle of beer perched on top, without spilling a drop.  

The remote-controlled Carpentopod has two motors that power 12 legs - six on either side. Amazing video shows it making its way over to the user with a full bottle of beer perched on top

The Luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels (pictured) is a trunk with legs - and has a nasty habit of biting people 

Carpentopod was built by Giliam de Carpentier, a programmer and carpenter based in Amsterdam, who detailed his creation in a lengthy blog.

He said Carpentopod is 'relatively practical and aesthetically pleasing to have' in the home, further describing it as a 'fusion of the robotic with the organic'.  

'Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged "Carpentopod2 table project,' he said.  

'I choose its name by combining old Latin and Greek words – carpentum (being a carriage), and pod (for feet or legged).'

Carpentopod started off as a software design before de Carpentier employed his carpentry skills to bring it to life. 

Just like Theo Jansen's wind-powered Strandbeest sculptures, Carpentopod features a clever internal rotating mechanism that lifts up one leg when the leg directly opposite is on the ground. 

When it needs to change direction, legs on only one side of the table will move – much like rowers' oars in a boat. 

Carpentopod started off as a software design before Giliam de Carpentier employed his carpentry skills to bring it to life

Carpentopod blends into the surroundings - meaning guests could be taken by surprise once it starts moving

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'As each individual leg in the Carpentopod linkage is only a third of the walk cycle on the ground, the table itself therefore would require twelve legs to be stable at all times,' de Carpentier said. 

'Between the six legs on one end and the six on the other, I also left room for a hollow central "belly" to contain the electronics, motors and battery.' 

The programmer can move his table with a remote, but until then it blends into the surroundings – meaning guests could be taken by surprise once it starts approaching. 

He acknowledges its similarity with The Luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels – a trunk with legs that has a nasty habit of biting people. 

'To make this not look all angular, I designed the frame and belly to be curved, like an upside down treasure chest,' de Carpentier said.

Theo Jansen's inspiring Strandbeest sculptures (pictured) are able to move on their own, sometimes propelled by wind

'This probably contributed to some people commenting that it looks likes The Luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. 

'But I promise this similarity is purely coincidental and that a Carpentopod table is far less dangerous.' 

The device seems to have several prospective buyers already, with commentators calling it 'incredible' and 'inspiring'.

One person posted on de Carpentier's blog: 'Oh please, can I buy one? Amazing.' 

Another user said: 'I love every single bit about that.' 

They added: 'The amount of work with regard to the (lack of) usefullness makes it even more fantastic in my views.' 

Someone else posted: 'The clackety clack of its little legs… sublime', adding: 'This is certainly the best thing I've ever seen.' 

Although de Carpentier admitted 'many people have asked if they could get one', he said he's not currently 'making these on demand'. 

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23-09-2024 om 22:40 geschreven door peter  

This Man Went To Find Giant Alien Pyramid Buried Deep in the Alaskan Wilderness & Never Seen Again

Nathan Campbell was last seen on June 13, 2020, near Carey Lake, Alaska. He told his bush pilot that he was searching for the lost pyramid of Alaska. In May 2020, a small floatplane flew 41-year-old Campbell deep into a remote part of Alaska. During the flight, he told the pilot he was searching for Alaska’s lost pyramid. No one has seen Campbell since.

The National Park Service wasn’t told he was missing until mid-September, 2020. They began searching a remote area in Denali National Park and found supplies he had left at Carey Lake, where the plane had dropped him off. They also found a collapsed tent some miles away. Inside the tent was a damaged diary, likely chewed on by animals. (Source)

The diary didn’t offer many clues about what happened to him. It mostly described his daily camp activities. The last entry said Campbell had left the tent to “get water.” After finding the diary, Alaska State Troopers added Campbell to their missing persons list, but the notice didn’t give much more information.

On May 27, 2020, Campbell hired a small plane in Talkeetna, Alaska, to take him to a remote lake in Denali National Park. He brought basic camping gear, a lot of food stored in plastic tubs, and a satellite communicator to stay in touch with his wife and kids. His plan was to spend four months alone in the wilds of Interior Alaska.

Campbell chose a very isolated spot for his summer trip. The plane dropped him off at Carey Lake, a small blue lake surrounded by hundreds of miles of untouched wilderness. The area was tough to navigate, filled with dense bushes and deep beaver ponds. If he wanted to get to the nearest town, Lake Minchumina (which only has 13 residents), he would need to walk for a week through difficult terrain. If he was looking for solitude, he definitely found it.

However, Campbell wasn’t there just for a vacation; he had a specific purpose. During the long flight to Carey Lake, as they flew over the vast green forests below, Campbell opened up to his pilot, Jason Sturgis, about his plans for the summer.

“He was a pretty quiet individual,” said Jason Sturgis, the charter pilot who flew Campbell to Carey Lake, but Campbell revealed his interest in the rumored pyramid as the plane approached its landing after a long flight across the Alaska Range from near Talkeetna.

“His ‘Indiana Jones adventure’ is what he called it,” Sturgis said.

Campbell went to Carey Lake because he was searching for something very mysterious: the Black Pyramid. This huge underground structure is said to be four times bigger than the famous Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and is believed to be thousands or even millions of years old. Some conspiracy theorists think the pyramid is so important for national security that any evidence of it—and the military base that supposedly protects it—has been erased from satellite images.

For many years, bush pilots, trappers, and local people have traveled around Carey Lake, but a quick look through old newspapers from Fairbanks shows few mentions of a giant alien pyramid or a secret base in central Alaska. However, before Nathan Campbell arrived, nobody had really been searching for it. His reasons for looking in this remote part of Alaska, if you consider the strange logic of conspiracy theories, seem to make sense.

If you have not yet heard of the lost pyramid of Alaska, it is understandable. News of the structure has not crept into the mainstream media, but if you type “Alaska pyramid” into Bing’s search engine you will find the fictional structure has attracted plenty of attention from alternative and fringe media.

“World’s oldest pyramids found in Alaska shocks the scientific community,” New Earth Media headlined in 2017. “An underground pyramid giving out giant amounts of energy is being ‘covered up’ by the U.S. government, a documentary has revealed,” Daily Star reported in 2019.

“Traces of GIANT PYRAMID Beneath Alaska Uncovered by Journalist,” Russia’s, state-owned Sputnik News disclosed before going on to claim that “a nuclear blast that occurred in China nearly 30 years ago apparently led to a surprising discovery hundreds of kilometers away, in Alaska, where US government seismometers detected some peculiar geological anomalies, which in turn led a number of dedicated enthusiasts to pursue claims of a massive pyramid located far below the surface of the frozen peninsula.”

Sputnik cited as its source “the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens TV show journalist Linda Moulton Howe (who) was contacted by an ex-naval worker who told her on condition of anonymity that his father, an engineer, was able to see the pyramid while he was working on a top-secret government project.”

According to, Craig Medred, an independent Alaska journalist, There are no government projects, either secret or otherwise, within 50 miles of Carey Lake. If there were any, people would notice them because these types of projects need access, such as roads, airports, or even a landing spot for a helicopter. At the very least, there would need to be a clearing by a lake to bring in supplies by a floatplane.

All these things would be easy to spot in the wild and remote areas of Alaska. The story from Sputnik mentioned a Naval officer who supposedly said there was a large pyramid and that they “would go down to the base of a huge pyramid using the elevators.”

However, building elevators that go hundreds of feet underground would be a major construction project. This would be something that small planes flying over the area could easily see. Small, single-engine aircraft are as common in Alaska as cars are in the lower 48 states. Planes fly almost everywhere, all the time.

While Alaska has grown, and fewer people now own planes, the state still has six times as many private pilots and 16 times more planes per capita than the rest of the U.S., according to the Alaska Department of Transportation. The wild, undeveloped land of the state makes it easier, not harder, for planes to spot large construction projects from above. But those who believe in the idea of a hidden pyramid (or pyramids) in Alaska don’t see it that way.

As writer Anthony Tyler said in an article for The Last American Vagabond, “good parts of Alaska are ‘totally uninhabitable under their current climate conditions…and the government presence overall in the state is pretty overwhelming, with an Air-Force/Army joint base nearly the size of Anchorage right outside of the city itself.’”

He argued that it would actually make sense for the government to hide secret facilities in such remote areas. Tyler writes, “It would almost seem silly for the government to not utilize these tactical advantages.” He then raises the question, “Why can’t people see this from the sky?” The answer, according to him, is because “the pyramid is supposedly located underground.” And, even more surprisingly, he claims that it’s said to be “four times the size of Giza.”

Tyler even speculated on how the pyramid could have ended up hidden, saying that “the ability for an earthquake to subsequently collapse the pyramid in a sort of catacomb underneath the Earth’s surface would be theoretically possible if one took into account Charles Hapgood’s Earth crust Displacement Theory.” He admits, though, that “even this is a wild and unlikely truth.” Instead, the legend suggests that the pyramid is thousands of years old and “was not built by humans.” (Source)

In June, Campbell, who had just turned 41, decided to go on a solo adventure in the Carey Lake area, looking for pyramids. It’s unclear why he chose to do this alone. Sturgis, the pilot who dropped him off, said he felt uneasy about leaving Campbell without a set pickup date, but Campbell reassured him.

He told the pilot that he had a Garmin InReach device, which could help him communicate and share his location via GPS. Campbell explained that if he needed an early pickup, his wife would contact the pilot. Otherwise, he planned to stay until late August or early September.

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Campbell was well-prepared, bringing along some large containers of food and a big backpack. Sturgis recalled that Campbell took fishing gear with him too, which was later found by park officials at Carey Lake. Campbell stayed in touch with his wife through the InReach device until mid-June.

After that, his wife stopped hearing from him. “It was a Friday she called me,” Sturgis said, explaining that she reached out in June, concerned because there had been no contact. Sturgis asked her for Campbell’s last known GPS coordinates, which showed that he was about five miles away from the lake. Unfortunately, Sturgis couldn’t land his floatplane in that area to check on Campbell. He advised Campbell’s wife to call a helicopter company to go and check the location.

Sturgis assumed the helicopter search would happen, but after a while, he forgot about the situation. “I just figured they did that,” he said, until September, when he got a call asking him to go and pick up Campbell. By that time, the man had been reported missing, and both the state authorities and the park service had begun searching for him.

Another pilot, David Lee, said the situation was strange. He had considered starting his own search mission for Campbell before the park service began theirs. “It’s pretty bizarre,” Lee said, adding that someone should have started looking for Campbell sooner, given that he’d been out of contact for nearly three months. However, he admitted, “I don’t know if it would have made any difference.”

Campbell is not the first to disappear into the wilderness on the north side of the park. About 50 miles to the east, a young man named Chris McCandless moved into an abandoned and deserted bus along an abandoned and overgrown road in April 1992.

The 24-year-old son of a comfortably well off East Coast family, McCandless fled into the wild for reasons that will never be known. Some have suggested he was struggling with mental illness. Whatever the case, McCandless was found dead of starvation in the bus in the fall of the year, and four years later writer John Krakauer authored a book portraying McCandless as a young man on a search for the meaning of life who died tragically after accidentally eating poisoned seeds.

The book became a bestseller that turned the dead McCandless into a mythical figure. The idea McCandless accidentally poisoned himself was eventually debunked, but it didn’t matter.

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22-09-2024 om 23:33 geschreven door peter  

This Professor Claimed That Out of 225 Cases Studying Reincarnation, 75 Had Birthmarks Corresponding with Past Life Memories.

In his book Reincarnation and Biology, Ian Stevenson documented 75 cases of people with birthmarks and defects on the head and neck, which he believed might be linked to past lives. Stevenson’s cases with 19 similar cases found in a systematic review by Laura Borges Kirschnick and her colleagues. Stevenson’s reports were much longer and more detailed than those found in journal publications (averaging 9 pages vs. 2.1 pages). Additionally, the cases in the journals didn’t represent the same variables Stevenson used in his research.

Reincarnation research is unusual because it relies heavily on books rather than just journal articles. Stevenson’s books are considered key resources in this field, and literature reviews should include books alongside journal papers. Finally, a trustworthiness scale is suggested to help researchers evaluate reincarnation case studies.

Ian Stevenson (October 31, 1918 – February 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American psychiatrist, the founder and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years.

Stevenson began studying children who claim to remember previous lives— an endeavor that will surely be remembered as the primary focus of his life’s work—almost by accident.

Recently in this journal, Laura Borges Kirschnick and colleagues published a review of birthmarks and birth defects of the head and neck region in reincarnation cases, following the 2020 PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews. (Source)

Birthmarks and birth defects have different causes, and many of these causes are not fully understood. Some people believe that certain birthmarks might come from past lives, even though this idea sounds strange.

In a study of newborns in Thailand, which is often studied for reincarnation, the most common birthmarks were Mongolian spots (66.7%) and sebaceous gland hyperplasia (60.9%). The most common vascular birthmarks were salmon patches (36%), while infantile hemangiomas (1.1%) and port wine stains (0.7%) were much rarer.

Birthmarks thought to be linked to reincarnation are mostly large spots and moles, sometimes lighter or darker than the skin around them, and areas without hair, especially on the head. Birth defects that seem connected to reincarnation are usually very rare types.

Reincarnation is a debated idea, but it seems interesting in cases where birthmarks match the location and look of fatal wounds or scars on people who have died. Some people also remember details about the lives of these deceased individuals, which adds to the belief in reincarnation. Additionally, they may show behaviors, emotions, and personality traits similar to those who have died, making the idea feel even more real.

The main researcher on this topic was Ian Stevenson from the University of Virginia. He spent the latter part of his career studying what he called “cases of the reincarnation type.”

In 1997, he published a large two-volume work called Reincarnation and Biology, focusing on physical differences in these cases. This study included reports of 225 cases from places like Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe. Most of the birthmarks and defects matched fatal injuries, but some were related to other scars, like earring holes or tattoos. A few were linked to marks made after death, which is a common practice in South Asia.

Ian Stevenson outlines his views on evidence for life after death in this video from 2004, emphasizing that his findings go beyond the accounts of children who claim to remember past lives.

Stevenson identifies six significant sources of evidence for life after death:

Apparitions: He refers to these as “hallucinations of the mentally well.” These are experiences where individuals claim to see or sense the presence of someone who has died. Stevenson considers these phenomena important in the discussion of life after death.

Near-Death Experiences (NDEs): He mentions experiences of individuals who come close to death but survive. These experiences have gained significant public interest, as many report profound and transformative insights during such moments.

Statements from the Dying: Stevenson points out that those who are nearing death often make comments or express thoughts that deserve attention. These statements may reflect insights or awareness beyond the ordinary understanding of life.

Possession Experiences: He describes instances where a person’s personality seems to disappear, replaced by the characteristics of another individual. This phenomenon raises questions about the nature of identity and consciousness.

Mediumship: Stevenson discusses people who claim to communicate with the deceased. He refers to these deceased individuals as “discarnate personalities.” He believes that some mediums can relay credible messages from those who have died, suggesting a form of continued existence after death.

Vivid Dreams: Finally, he intends to share accounts of significant dreams experienced by a colleague, which he believes provide additional evidence supporting the idea of life after death.

Ian Stevenson wrote a synopsis, Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect, that contained color photographs of some of the marks and defects along with far fewer pages than the two-volume set (Stevenson, 1997b). Cases with such lesions continued to be found, and several of us, led by Ian, later published a paper of additional birthmark/birth defect cases that included two American cases (Pasricha et al., 2005). (Source)

He was interested in how certain children acted. He wrote a paper about fears, called phobias, that many of these children had, often connected to how they said they died in a past life. In his study of 387 cases, he found that 36% of the children showed these fears. These fears often appeared when the kids were very young, sometimes even before they talked about their past lives.

For example, he mentioned a baby girl in Sri Lanka who was so scared of baths that three adults had to hold her down to give her one. By six months old, she was also afraid of buses. Later, she talked about the life of another girl who had died after stepping back to avoid a bus and falling into floodwater. Ian observed that the fears often lessened as the children stopped discussing their past lives, but this didn’t always happen.

Stevenson wrote about children’s play in a study he did. He found that in 278 cases, nearly a quarter of the children played in ways that connected to lives they described, even though these lives were different from their families and had no role models. For example, one boy played as a biscuit shopkeeper so much that he fell behind in school, while a girl in India enjoyed sweeping and even cleaned up after her younger brothers, surprising her Brahmin parents.

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Ian also looked at Burmese children who said they lived as Japanese soldiers during World War II. Many of these kids showed behaviors that were unusual in Burma but typical of Japanese soldiers, like wanting to wear Japanese clothes instead of traditional Burmese attire and preferring raw fish over spicy Burmese food. Some also displayed traits like being hardworking and, like the soldiers, being cruel.

Ian believed this research was very important because it suggested there might be a third factor in how personalities develop. He pointed out that not all unusual behaviors can be explained by genetics or the environment alone; he thought some personality traits of the deceased people might have influenced the children in ways that couldn’t be easily explained.

Question: If reincarnation were widely accepted, how would it change the world?

Ian Stevenson answered: It would lessen guilt on the part of parents. They wouldn’t have as much of a burden that, whatever goes wrong with a child is all their fault, either through genes or mishandling during the child’s infancy. People themselves would have to take more responsibility for their own destinies. . . . I don’t expect any great moral transformation. On my first trip to India I met a respected Indian monk, a swami. I told him I had come out to see what evidence there was in India for reincarnation. He remained silent for a long, long time. Then he said, ”We here in India regard it as a fact that people are reborn, but, you see, it doesn’t make a difference because we have just as many rogues and villains in India as you have in the West.” (Source)

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22-09-2024 om 23:18 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Created a ‘5D Memory Crystal’ & Encoded the Entire Human Genome Into It that can Last for Billions of Years

Scientists have encoded the entire human genome into a ‘5D memory crystal.’ In the event of extinction, this could be discovered by some conscious entity and bring our species back to life. The disk is as durable as quartz and can last for billions of years.

Researchers have created a special “5D memory crystal” that holds the encoded human genome. This crystal is meant to ensure that if humanity ever faces extinction, our genetic code will survive. Even if that doesn’t happen, future intelligent beings could still find it, even billions of years from now. Tech billionaire Elon Musk suggested storing “all of the human knowledge”.”We should write all of human knowledge into these crystals,” said Musk in a post on X. (Source)

For more than ten years, the best material for storing data has been crystal. In 2014, a team of researchers led by Professor Peter Kazansky from the University of Southampton created a special kind of glass disc. This disc can store 360 terabytes of data and last for 300 quintillion years at room temperature. Even if heated to 374 degrees Fahrenheit, it will still last as long as the universe has existed—about 13.8 billion years. It can also handle extreme heat, cold, pressure up to 10 tons per square centimeter, and cosmic radiation. This makes it the Guinness World Record holder for the most durable digital storage medium. With concerns about today’s unreliable digital storage, this crystal disc is one of the best options for safely keeping electronic information.

The crystal can survive high temperatures, pressure, and cosmic radiation, and it even holds the Guinness World Record for the most durable storage medium. With concerns about how long today’s digital storage methods will last, this crystal is seen as a perfect way to keep important information safe for the future.

Prof. Kazansky’s team is working on putting the entire human genome, which is 3 billion characters long, onto a crystal the size of a coin. The researchers use lasers to write the DNA code into tiny holes in the glass that are only 20 nanometers wide.
Unlike regular storage methods that only use two dimensions, the crystal combines “two optical dimensions and three spatial coordinates,” which is why they call it “5D.”

Inspired by the Golden Discs sent on the Voyager mission, this crystal also has a guide to explain how it works. It includes drawings of humans, basic elements like hydrogen and oxygen, the structure of DNA, and other key details needed to create a human. Prof. Kazansky and his team admit that current technology can’t use the disk fully yet. But with advances like the creation of a synthetic bacterium in 2010, there’s hope that someday humans, plants, and animals could be made artificially.

“We know from earlier research that we can create genetic material from simple organisms and bring them to life in the lab,” Prof. Kazansky said. “The 5D memory crystal opens new doors for scientists to create a long-lasting store of genomic information, which could help revive complex life forms like plants and animals, if  science advances enough.”

“Their work is super impressive,” said Thomas Heinis, who leads research on DNA storage at Imperial College London and was not involved in the study. However, he says questions remain about how such data could be read in the future. “What Southampton presents probably has a higher durability, however, this begs the question: what for? Future generations? Sure, but how will they know how to read the crystal? How will they know how to build the device to read the crystal? Will the device be available in hundreds of years?” he added. “I can barely connect my 10-year-old iPod and listen to what I listened back then.”

The crystal containing the human genome is stored in the Memory of Mankind archive, which is a time capsule located in the world’s oldest salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. If all goes well, it will remain there until needed, although we hope that time never comes.

Prof. Kazansky said that while we can’t yet create humans, plants, or animals from just genetic information, the 5D crystal could store this information for the future when such technology might exist.

He referred to Dr. Craig Venter’s team, who created a synthetic bacterium in 2010. “We know from other work that simple organisms’ genetic material can be made and used in a lab to create a living specimen,” said Prof. Kazansky. “The 5D crystal could allow researchers to store genomic information forever. This way, if future science makes it possible, plants and animals might be restored.” (Source)

The crystal is kept in the Memory of Mankind archive, a special time capsule in a salt cave in Hallstatt, Austria.

The university spokesperson added, “When designing the crystal, the team thought about the possibility of it being found by another species or machine far in the future. It could be so far in the future that there’s no context for the data.”

The key shows basic elements (hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen), the four DNA bases (adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine), their structure, how they fit into the DNA double helix, and how genes go into chromosomes that can be inserted into a cell. Prof. Kazansky explained, “The key on the crystal helps anyone who finds it understand what data is inside and how to use it.”

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22-09-2024 om 23:03 geschreven door peter  

UFO flying across the sky in San Antonio and Hondo, Sept 18, 2024, video, UAP Sighting News.

This is obviously a real UFO, alien spacecraft seem flying over Texas. This is a puzzling sighting left residents of San Antonio and Hondo intrigued on Wednesday evening. Kristen Allen was on her way to drop off her daughter at gymnastics practice when she noticed an unusual object flying through the sky. Using her phone, she quickly recorded the phenomenon, capturing a glowing object moving southbound along Bulverde Road just after 5 p.m., during sunset.

“It appeared to be descending straight down, but it was quite distant,” Kristen recounted. Curious and unsure of what she had witnessed, she shared the video with her husband, Ryan. After he posted it on social media, several acquaintances confirmed they had also seen the strange object.

Adding to the intrigue, Samantha Gonzales snapped a photo of the object over Hollywood Park in northern San Antonio, and Christina Alexis, located nearly 60 miles away in Hondo, also managed to record the mysterious sight. Her footage depicted the object with a striking red glow across the night sky.

“I noticed the glow became more pronounced as you moved further west,” Ryan Allen observed.

While the Allens remain uncertain about what the object could be, their young sons have their own theories. “We thought it might be a missile,” said Gage Allen. His brother, Trace, offered a different perspective: “To me, it looked kind of like a plane.”

The family, along with other witnesses, continues to seek answers, speculating on what the strange sighting could have been.

Scott C. Waring

• https://youtu.be/5XLTqEZb1x0

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22-09-2024 om 22:22 geschreven door peter  

Nieuw onderzoek onthult eindelijk hoe El Niño 252.000 jaar geleden de grootste massa-uitsterving ter wereld veroorzaakte

door Janine

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Heel lang geleden veroorzaakte een klimaatfenomeen de grootste massale uitsterving op onze planeet. Nu heeft een nieuwe studie ontdekt hoe en waarom.

Massale uitsterving 252 miljoen jaar geleden: El Niño

Ongeveer 252 miljoen jaar geleden, in het Perm-Trias-tijdperk, veroorzaakte het klimaatfenomeen dat bekend staat als El Niño de grootste massa-uitsterving die ooit op onze planeet heeft plaatsgevonden, dat stelt een nieuwe studie, waarin werd onderzocht waarom dit gebeurde en vooral met zulke effecten.

El Niño veroorzaakt periodiek een aanzienlijke opwarming aan de oppervlakte van de Stille Oceaan in de centraal-zuidelijke en oostelijke delen. Dit gebeurt in december en januari, meestal om de vijf jaar, wat kan variëren tussen drie en zeven jaar. Toen de mens echter nog niet op aarde was verschenen, speelde dit fenomeen een sleutelrol bij het veroorzaken van een ongekende uitsterving, die de hele aardbol en bijna al zijn levensvormen trof.

Waarom het leven op het land verdween door El Niño

University of Bristol and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

De wetenschap heeft al geruime tijd een verband gevonden tussen de verdwijning van leven op aarde 252 miljoen jaar geleden en krachtige vulkaanuitbarstingen in wat nu Siberië is, die aanleiding gaven tot de uitstoot van kooldioxide die tot een snelle opwarming van het klimaat leidde. Hierdoor stortten terrestrische en mariene ecosystemen onvermijdelijk in.

Het is echter nooit begrepen waarom het leven buiten de zee deze situatie niet kon weerstaan: insecten zijn, net als sommige planten, behoorlijk veelzijdig en bestand tegen verandering, maar desondanks zijn ze uitgestorven. Alexander Farnsworth van de Universiteit van Bristol legde uit dat de opwarming van het klimaat op zichzelf deze gevolgen niet kan veroorzaken: zoals nu het geval is: “wanneer de tropen te warm worden, migreren soorten naar koelere en hogere breedtegraden. Ons onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat toegenomen broeikasgassen niet alleen het grootste deel van de planeet warmer maken, maar ook de weer- klimaatvariabiliteit vergroten, waardoor het nog ‘wilder’ wordt en moeilijker voor het leven om te overleven”.

“Veel intensere en langdurige El Niño-gebeurtenissen” 252.000 jaar geleden

Volgens Yadong Sun van de China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, co-hoofdauteur van het onderzoek, “slaagde het meeste leven er niet in om zich aan deze omstandigheden aan te passen, maar gelukkig overleefden sommigen, zonder welke we hier vandaag niet zouden zijn. Het was bijna, maar niet helemaal, het einde van het leven op aarde.”

Het niveau van de opwarming van het Perm-Trias werd geschat door zuurstofisotopen te analyseren die werden gedetecteerd in de gefossiliseerde tandresten van conodonten, zeer kleine organismen. “Eigenlijk was het overal te warm”, legt Farnsworth uit. “De veranderingen die verantwoordelijk waren voor de vastgestelde klimaatpatronen waren ingrijpend omdat er veel intensere en langduriger El Niño-gebeurtenissen waren dan die vandaag de dag worden waargenomen. De soorten waren simpelweg niet in staat om zich snel genoeg aan te passen of te evolueren.”

Tegenwoordig duren deze fenomenen slechts één of twee jaar, terwijl El Niño 252 miljoen jaar geleden veel langer duurde, met ongeveer tien jaar ononderbroken wereldwijde droogte. Dit verklaart ook de grote hoeveelheid plantaardige koolstof in de rotsen in die tijd. Het verdwijnen van planten verhinderde ook de opname van CO 2 uit de atmosfeer. Als mariene soorten langer overleefden, konden op het land “alleen soorten overleven die snel konden migreren, en er waren niet veel planten of dieren die daartoe in staat waren.”

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22-09-2024 om 21:47 geschreven door peter  

The Mysterious 1803 Utsuro-bune: UFO Sighting or Foreign Shipwreck?

In 1803, an event occurred off the coast of Japan that has puzzled scholars, folklorists, and UFO enthusiasts alike. A strange vessel, described as unlike anything seen before, was discovered by local fishermen off the coast of Hitachi Province (modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture). This mysterious object, often referred to as the “Utsuro-bune”, meaning “hollow ship” in Japanese, contained a foreign woman whose origins, language, and appearance sparked confusion and intrigue.

Japan’s Isolated State in 1803

To fully understand the significance of this event, it’s essential to consider the historical context. At the time, Japan was an isolated nation, following the sakoku policy, which had been in place since the early 1600s. Under this policy, Japan had closed its borders to nearly all foreign influence, trade, and travel. Foreigners were rarely allowed to enter the country, and Japanese citizens who left were often prohibited from returning, on pain of death.

This isolationist stance made the arrival of a strange vessel and its foreign occupant an extraordinary occurrence. Japan’s self-imposed seclusion meant that any encounter with outsiders was rare and often viewed with suspicion or fear. The story of the Utsuro-bune is particularly fascinating because it happened decades before Japan’s borders reopened to the world in the 1850s.

The Mysterious Vessel and Its Occupant

According to accounts, the vessel that the fishermen discovered was circular, resembling a modern UFO in shape, and made of materials that were unfamiliar to those who found it. Some accounts describe the boat as being about 10 feet wide, made of wood and metal, with windows or glass panels that allowed the occupants to see inside.

The most striking aspect of the encounter, however, was the enigmatic woman inside the craft. She appeared to be in her twenties, had pale skin, and was dressed in clothing that did not resemble the traditional attire of Japan. Her hair was reportedly a reddish color, and she carried with her a box that she protected fiercely, refusing to let anyone near it.

The woman spoke a language that the locals could not understand, and all attempts at communication failed. She seemed to be of foreign origin, though it was impossible for the fishermen to determine where she might have come from. After some time, the villagers, unsure of what to do, set the vessel adrift, allowing it to float away, along with its mysterious occupant.

Interpretations of the Utsuro-bune Incident

Over the centuries, the Utsuro-bune incident has been the subject of much speculation, leading to various interpretations and theories about what truly happened that day.

1. Historical and Cultural Context: Many scholars believe that the incident was a case of shipwreck involving a foreigner who had drifted to Japan by accident. Some theories suggest that the woman might have come from nearby countries, such as Korea or Russia, which were known to have some maritime contact with Japan. The unusual vessel and her unfamiliar appearance could be explained as the result of cultural differences and the isolationist policies of Japan at the time.
2. Folklore and Mythological Interpretation: Some historians see the Utsuro-bune story as a piece of folklore, meant to convey a moral or spiritual lesson rather than report an actual event. It could have been a symbolic tale representing the foreign threats or mysterious encounters with outsiders that Japan had little experience dealing with during its isolationist period. These stories often became embellished over time, leading to the more mystical elements of the narrative.
3. Extraterrestrial Explanation: In more recent times, the Utsuro-bune incident has caught the attention of UFO enthusiasts who see it as evidence of extraterrestrial contact. They point to the strange, circular shape of the craft and the mysterious nature of its occupant as clues that this could have been an early UFO encounter. While this theory is popular in modern UFO lore, it is largely based on speculative interpretation rather than historical evidence.

Could It Have Been a UFO?

The idea that the Utsuro-bune was an early example of a UFO encounter is certainly intriguing, especially given the unusual details surrounding the story. The vessel’s shape and construction, combined with the mystery surrounding the foreign woman, make it tempting to speculate about otherworldly origins.

However, it’s important to remember that this theory lacks concrete evidence and relies on a modern reinterpretation of a centuries-old tale. Most historians agree that the story is more likely a cultural legend or a case of an actual foreign shipwreck, with the strange details being products of Japan’s isolationist policies and the fishermen’s unfamiliarity with foreigners.

The 1803 Utsuro-bune incident remains one of Japan’s most curious historical mysteries. Whether it was a simple shipwreck involving a foreign woman, a fantastical piece of folklore, or a potential UFO sighting, the story continues to capture the imagination of people around the world. While the truth behind the strange vessel and its occupant may never be fully known, the Utsuro-bune remains an enduring enigma, illustrating the fascination with the unknown that transcends cultures and centuries.7

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22-09-2024 om 21:33 geschreven door peter  

Ret. US Army Colonel Claimed Aliens In Roswell UFO Crash Were Bio-Robots Built For Space Travel

The information about the  Roswell crash and so-called Extraterrestrial Biological Entities revealed by retired US Army Officer Philip James Corso was a breathtaking move in the history of UFOlogy. In his 21 years of serving, he claimed to have alleged involvement in the research of extraterrestrial technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell incident.

Roswell Revisited -- (Colonel Phillip J. Corso)

Born in 1915, Corso served in the US Army from 1942 to 1963, retiring from the rank of lieutenant colonel. According to him, the US policy was clear that UFOs and aliens do not exist. They were led to believe in it. But there were some great men who expressed themselves as believers. Some of them were Gen. Douglas McArthur, Gen. George Marshall, Werner Von Braun, President Ronald Reagan, Gen. Nathan Twining, Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, and many others.

Corso emphasized that the advancement in the technology that the world achieved in the past decades could not be possible without the helo of other worlds. Scientists such as Dr. Herman Oberth, Stanton T. Friedman, Robert Sarbaeher, W.E. Smith, Dr. Werner Von Braun, etc., are disregarded or ridiculed when they say, “we cannot take the credit for our record advancements in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped by people of other worlds.”

He highlighted the intervention of aliens in human history by referring to Sumerians who stated that the EBEs were the most advanced in the studies and manipulations of DNAs, who were adroit in cloning. “We believed that the beings of the Roswell crash were clones. The Sumerians called them IGIGIs. They were used to ferry the ‘Gods’ to earth and continuously stayed in subspace and circled the globe-earth,” Corso explained.

During his military career, Corso was granted nine clearances above “Top Secret.” These included cryptographic, satellites, code and intercept special operational clearances, and the “Eyes Only” category of special White House (NSC) matters. This allowed him to have an eye on matters within the government which included UFO information.

He was the Chief of the Foreign Technology Division in the US army R&D. He received the piece of information that a sample recovered from the Western US desert was believed to be from a UFO. The material had immense strength but at the same time was as light as feather. It was perfect for space travel and no space debris could harm it.

Corso concluded UFOs existed. His team had reports of objects from a mother ship and they believe what was recovered were parts of sphere-type probes. Usually, four or five of these came from every saucer. He further explained that the radar images of formations are probably these probes surrounding one or two flying saucers. They dissolved in a transparent alignment of atoms.

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Philip Corso’s Roswell Story

On visiting the crash site, Corso was convinced that it was the UFO. His faith in UFOs came from his work in R&D, where the radars once locked an object flying over 3000 miles an hour.

Upon examination of the items recovered from the crashed craft, a harness-type system was discovered. Corso argued that many technical discoveries that appeared in the following decades, such as Kevlar body armor, optical fiber, transistors, night vision devices, and the integrated circuit chip were a direct result of what scientists studied and found inside the alien spacecraft. He also claimed that his job had been to transfer the alien technology to American companies.

The craft inside was illuminated by a yellow-greenish light. The light appeared to emit from solid metal, possibly a variation of the atom alignment within the structural members of the craft. This was discovered early from small pieces. When a light was applied at one end, the whole piece would light up and glow. This was thought to be a variation of the fiber optic tubes. It is not known if the source of the yellow-greenish light or glow was ever found.

In 1957, while in command of the Army’s Missile Firing Range at Red Canyon, New Mexico, part of the White Sands Proving Grounds, Coros came up against a most perplexing problem. There had been much speculation that UFOs engage in time travel. He later discussed this with German scientists and they were of the opinion that this was the fact – the UFOs’ terrific acceleration and flashy disappearance and appearance is caused by exit and entry into a time dimension.

An interesting version that Corso advanced was that the two UFOs were entering our time zone at the same instant, they collided. One went on to crash at  Roswell, the other was damaged and debris fell into our time zone. It accelerated at terrific speed, exceeding its own limits, and fell, just west of Red Canyon, in the White Sands area, but it had gained 10 years and crashed in 1957.

In 1997, Corso and writer William J. Birnes published a book that revealed many secrets and mysteries that took place during the events of Roswell in 1947. The book “The Day After Roswell” immediately became a sensation among UFO researchers and conspiracy theorists.

In the book, there are so many strong revelations about aliens that even ufologists considered it partly fictional or much exaggerated. At the same time, Corso suddenly died of an unexpected heart attack just a few months after the publication of his book. Conspiracy theorists believed that he was simply silenced by higher authorities because he had revealed many things.

In general, according to all the facts stated above, it does not prove that in the late 1990s, he was influenced by extraterrestrial beings. He also repeatedly participated in interviews with the American late-night radio talk show “Coast to Coast AM.”

He had repeatedly argued that the US government was hiding the truth about UFOs and aliens to profit from it in the tech sector. In the book, he described not only the UFO technology but also talked about the alien bodies found during the crash.

According to him, Grey aliens, also referred to as Zeta Reticulans, were not really aliens, but bio machines specially created to work on other planets. He wrote that as far as he knew, no one had encountered real aliens, and all eyewitnesses or abductees had seen only big-headed and black-eyed “bio machines.”

To prove his claim, Corso described what he had seen during the autopsy. He wrote that those aliens were without any digestive system, and their bodies were linked to the spacecraft as if they were controlled through ships.

He wrote further that those extraterrestrial biological objects, as indicated in the autopsy reports, were humanoid robots specially designed to travel long distances in space and time.

• https://www.openminds.tv/pdf/ufo-files/DawnOfANewAge.pdf
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-465276/Roswell-officers-amazing-deathbed-admission-raises-possibility-aliens-DID-visit.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/05/us/senator-regrets-role-in-book-on-aliens.html

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22-09-2024 om 01:36 geschreven door peter  

22-09-2024 om 01:14 geschreven door peter  

Nederlander bewijst bestaan van mysterieuze monstergolven in diepzee: ze zijn extremer dan extreem

Jeannette Kras

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22-09-2024 om 00:54 geschreven door peter  

22-09-2024 om 00:20 geschreven door peter  

De aarde staat op het punt een nieuwe maan te krijgen, maar slechts voor even: dit is wanneer het zal gebeuren

door Janine

Freepik

De Aarde zal voor korte tijd een nieuwe Maan krijgen, net alsof het een tweede satelliet van onze planeet is. Maar wat is het en hoe lang zal het duren?

De aarde zal twee maanden lang een mini-maan hebben

De enige natuurlijke satelliet van de aarde is de maan, maar binnenkort krijgt onze planeet er nog een kleinere bij. Dat zal eind september gebeuren, gedurende ongeveer twee maanden. Maar hoe is dit mogelijk?

Het zal een tijdelijke new entry zijn, maar wel een die in alle opzichten een mini-maan voor onze planeet zal zijn. Concreet zal het fenomeen plaatsvinden tussen 29 september en 24 november 2024. Het zal echter niet eenvoudig zijn om het met het blote oog waar te nemen.

Het is namelijk een kleine asteroïde met de naam 2024 PT5, die op 7 augustus voor het eerst werd gedetecteerd door ATLAS, het Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. Mini-manen zijn in feite hemellichamen die voor kortstondige perioden worden gevangen door de zwaartekracht van de aarde, en het is precies dit dat de nabije toekomst van 2024 PT5 zal zijn.

Asteroïde 2024 PT5, onze nieuwe mini-maan

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Wikimedia commons - Public domain

Het ruimtegesteente in kwestie is slechts tien meter breed, waardoor het observeren ervan zonder speciale telescopen een nogal moeilijke onderneming is. Hoe dan ook zal 2024 PT5 eind deze maand onze Maan gezelschap houden, die al zo'n vier miljard jaar een satelliet van onze planeet is, totdat hij terugkeert naar zijn thuisbasis, een asteroïdengordel die rond de zon draait en de aarde volgt.

Deze verschijnselen zijn niet zo zeldzaam, aangezien er niet veel decennia verstrijken tussen het verschijnen van de ene mini-maan en de andere. Een nieuwe studie heeft echter de komst van de volgende dergelijke gebeurtenis aangekondigd door interessante informatie te verstrekken. Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, professor aan de Universidad Complutense en hoofdauteur van het werk, legde uit dat het kleine hemellichaam tot de secundaire Arjuna-asteroïdengordel behoort, die bestaat uit ruimtegesteenten die banen volgen die vergelijkbaar zijn met die van de aarde, met een afstand tot de zon van ongeveer 150 miljoen kilometer.

Mini-maan 2024 PT5: zal het te zien zijn?

Planetoïden en kometen uit de Arjuna-gordel kunnen ons langzaam naderen met een snelheid van ongeveer 3.540 km per uur, waarbij ze zich op een afstand van 4,5 miljoen km bevinden. Op dat punt kan de geocentrische energie van het ruimteobject negatief worden, waardoor het in alle opzichten een tijdelijke aardse mini-maan wordt.

2024 PT5 zal geen volledige baan om onze planeet maken, maar zoals gezegd na twee maanden terugkeren naar de basis. Bij andere soortgelijke fenomenen kunnen mini-manen langer blijven, één of meer volledige banen maken en dan meerdere jaren blijven. Zodra zijn werk is voltooid, zal PT5 uit 2024 uit de baan van de aarde worden verdreven en teruggebracht naar die van de zon, waardoor deze door verstoringen van de zwaartekracht zal verdwijnen.

Hij is niet alleen niet met het blote oog te zien, maar zelfs amateurtelescopen zullen hem waarschijnlijk niet kunnen waarnemen vanwege zijn kleine formaat. Professionele astronomische instrumenten met een minimale diameter van 76 cm, uitgerust met een CCD- of CMOS-detector, zullen het echter wel mogelijk maken om het magische schouwspel van de tijdelijke mini-maan vast te leggen.

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21-09-2024 om 23:33 geschreven door peter  

Top secret China spaceplane releases a mystery object into Earth's orbit - and no one knows what it is

• READ MORE: China's spaceplane released strong signals over North America 

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

China’s top-secret spaceplane has released a mysterious object into Earth’s orbit just 372 miles above the surface.

The US Space Force is monitoring the situation, but the purpose of the object ejected on May 24 is unknown.

A Harvard astrophysicist first spotted the object, speculating it could be a subsatellite deployment, or a piece of hardware ejected before the spaceplane ends its mission and deorbits.

The craft - named Shenlong after a spirit dragon from Chinese mythology - launched last December and has since been found to release several objects into orbit with some sending strong signals over North America.

China has been very secretive about the spaceplane, only describing the purpose as providing 'technical support for the peaceful use of space.’

The craft launched one day after the US scrubbed the flight of its ‘spy’ plane, which the US Space Force chief said was 'no coincidence.'

'It's probably no coincidence that they're trying to match us in timing and sequence of this,' General Chance Saltzman, Space Force's Chief of Space Operations, said.

And while China’s spaceplane has since fallen under the radar, the mysterious object is raising concerns.

Jonathan McDowell, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, first spotted the object and shared his findings on X.

‘This object could be a subsatellite deployment, or it could be a piece of hardware ejected prior to end of the mission and deorbit (the spaceplane's first flight did something similar),’ McDowell shared.

‘Will be interesting to see if the plane maneuvers or lands soon.’

China’s spaceplane is currently on its third mission, and US officials have said that its capabilities are somewhat similar to America's X-37B (pictured) that launched on December 29, 2023

Amateur astronomer Scott Tilley was tracking China’s spaceplane in December when it ejected six objects, which emitted signals over North America.

Tilley said he believed the signals targeted a ground station or boat near British Columbia, Canada, where he lives.

'When the spaceplane passes over me, it only emits on a certain trajectory of pass that appears to favor a location south to southwest of me.

'I.e., on higher elevation passes over me, there are no signals, but on ocean-hugging passes to my southwest, all of my observations of the object have occurred.'

Tilley has teamed up with a group in Switzerland that specializes in optical-band space surveillance, and the collaboration has been keeping a close eye on the plane since it launched on December 15.

China’s spaceplane is currently on its third mission, and US officials have said that its capabilities are somewhat similar to America's X-37B that launched on December 29, 2023.

The launch followed more than two weeks of false starts and delays attributed to poor weather and unspecified technical issues, leading ground crews to roll the spacecraft back to its hangar.

It came two weeks after China's  spaceplane launched on its third mission to orbit since 2020.

The US Boeing-built vehicle, roughly the size of a small bus and resembling a miniature space shuttle, is built to deploy various payloads and conduct technology experiments on years-long orbital flights. 

The planned duration of the latest X-37B mission was not made public, but it will presumably run until June 2026 or later, given the prevailing pattern of successively longer flights.

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21-09-2024 om 23:21 geschreven door peter