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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30-04-2016
Zap! This Awesome Laser-Armed Telescope Is Fully Operational (Photos)
Zap! This Awesome Laser-Armed Telescope Is Fully Operational (Photos)
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
The Four Laser Guide Star Facility for the adaptive optics system on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile is activated for the first time in this amazing view taken on April 26, 2016. The lasers help the Very Large Telescope cancel out the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere and take sharp images of the night sky.
Credit: ESO/F. Kamphues
Move over Death Star, there's a new laser-toting installation in town, and this one will give astronomers a better view of galaxies far, far away.
These spectacular views of lasers firing up into the cosmos come from the European Southern Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert, where scientists activated the new Four Laser Guide Star Facility for the first time this week. The laser system, which switched on Tuesday (April 26), is part of an advanced new adaptive optics system on ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory.
The Four Laser Guide Star Facility for the adaptive optics system on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile is activated in this stunning first-light image taken on April 26, 2016.
Credit: ESO/F. Kamphues
Adaptive optics systems allow telescopes to adjust the shape of their mirrors to filter out the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere. The new Four Laser Guide Star Facility, which ESO touted as the most powerful of its kind in the world, fires four 22-watt lasers into the upper atmosphere, where they hit sodium atoms and make them glow like artificial guide stars to serve as a reference for the VLT's adaptive optics system.
Looking more like science fiction than science, the Four Laser Guide Star Facility on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile fires its lasers into the night sky from Paranal Observatory during first light on April 26, 2016.
Credit: ESO/G. Hüdepohl
"The artificial stars allow the adaptive optics systems to compensate for the blurring caused by the Earth's atmosphere, so that the telescope can create sharp images," ESO representatives wrote in an image description. "Using more than one laser allows the turbulence in the atmosphere to be mapped in far greater detail, to significantly improve the image quality over a larger field of view.
The Four Laser Guide Star Facility for the adaptive optics system on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile sees first light in this view taken on April 26, 2016.
Credit: ESO/S. Lowery
ESO representatives said the techniques developed to build the Four Laser Guide Star Facility will inform work on the adaptive optics system for a giant new telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope, which is slated to begin operations in Chile in 2024. ESO officials billed the new telescope, with its 128-foot (39-meter) main mirror, as "the world's biggest eye on the sky."
Our universe may live in one bubble that is sitting in a network of bubble universes in space.
Credit: Sandy MacKenzie | Shutterstock
Is our universe unique? From science fiction to science fact, there is a proposal out there that suggests that there could be other universes besides our own, where all the choices you made in this life played out in alternate realities. So, instead of turning down that job offer that took you from the United States to China, the alternate universe would show the outcome if you decided to venture to Asia instead.
The idea is pervasive in comic books and movies. For example, in the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot, the premise is that the Kirk and Spock portrayed by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto are in an alternate timeline apart from the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy versions of the characters.
The concept is known as a "parallel universe," and is a facet of the astronomical theory of the multiverse. There actually is quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse. First, it is useful to understand how our universe is believed to have come to be.
Arguing for a multiverse
Around 13.7 billion years ago, simply speaking, everything we know of in the cosmos was an infinitesimal singularity. Then, according to theBig Bang theory, some unknown trigger caused it to expand and inflate in three-dimensional space. As the immense energy of this initial expansion cooled, light began to shine through. Eventually, the small particles began to form into the larger pieces of matter we know today, such as galaxies, stars and planets.
One big question with this theory is: are we the only universe out there. With our current technology, we are limited to observations within this universe because the universe is curved and we are inside the fishbowl, unable to see the outside of it (if there is an outside.)
1. We don't know what the shape of space-time is exactly. One prominent theory is that it is flat and goes on forever. This would present the possibility of many universes being out there. But with that topic in mind, it's possible that universes can start repeating themselves. That's because particles can only be put together in so many ways. More about that in a moment.
2. Another theory for multiple universes comes from "eternal inflation." Based on research from Tufts University cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin, when looking at space-time as a whole, some areas of space stop inflating like the Big Bang inflated our own universe. Others, however, will keep getting larger. So if we picture our own universe as a bubble, it is sitting in a network of bubble universes of space. What's interesting about this theory is the other universes could have very different laws of physics than our own, since they are not linked.
3. Or perhaps multiple universes can follow the theory of quantum mechanics (how subatomic particles behave), as part of the "daughter universe" theory. If you follow the laws of probability, it suggests that for every outcome that could come from one of your decisions, there would be a range of universes — each of which saw one outcome come to be. So in one universe, you took that job to China. In another, perhaps you were on your way and your plane landed somewhere different, and you decided to stay. And so on.
4. Another possible avenue is exploring mathematical universes, which, simply put, explain that the structure of mathematics may change depending in which universe you reside. "A mathematical structure is something that you can describe in a way that's completely independent of human baggage," said theory-proposer Max Tegmark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as quoted in the 2012 article. "I really believe that there is this universe out there that can exist independently of me that would continue to exist even if there were no humans."
5. And last but not least as the idea of parallel universes. To go back to the idea that space-time is flat, the number of possible particle configurations in multiple universes would be limited to 10^10^122 distinct possibilities, to be exact. So, with an infinite number of cosmic patches, the particle arrangements within them must repeat — infinitely many times over. This means there are infinitely many "parallel universes": cosmic patches exactly the same as ours (containing someone exactly like you), as well as patches that differ by just one particle's position, patches that differ by two particles' positions, and so on down to patches that are totally different from ours.
Arguing against a parallel universe
Not everyone agrees with the parallel universe theory, however. A 2015 article on Medium by astrophysicist Ethan Siegal agreed that space-time could go on forever in theory, but said that there are some limitations with that idea.
The key problem is the universe is just under 14 billion years old. So our universe's age itself is obviously not infinite, but a finite amount. This would (simply put) limit the number of possibilities for particles to rearrange themselves, and sadly make it less possible that your alternate self did get on that plane after all to see China.
Also, the expansion at the beginning of the universe took place exponentially because there was so much "energy inherent to space itself," he said. But over time, that inflation obviously slowed — those particles of matter created at the Big Bang are not continuing to expand, he pointed out. Among his conclusions: that means that multiverses would have different rates of inflation and different times (longer or shorter) for inflation. This decreases the possibilities of universes similar to our own.
"Even setting aside issues that there may be an infinite number of possible values for fundamental constants, particles and interactions, and even setting aside interpretation issues such as whether the many-worlds-interpretation actually describes our physical reality," Siegal said, "the fact of the matter is that the number of possible outcomes rises so quickly — so much faster than merely exponentially — that unless inflation has been occurring for a truly infinite amount of time, there are no parallel universes identical to this one."
But rather than seeing this lack of other universes as a limitation, Siegal instead takes the philosophy that it shows how important it is to celebrate being unique. He advises to make the choices that work for you, which "leave you with no regrets." That's because there are no other realities where the choices of your dream self play out; you, therefore, are the only person that can make those choices happen.
On devine une petite silhouette de 3 à 4 cm de hauteur
Cette silhouette correspond bien à de petits personnages ou statuettes déjà observées auparavant, avec l'hypothèse d'une ancienne race de martien de très petite taille !
On peut deviner en zoomant à 500 une tête allongée, un thorax muni d'un vêtement, un bras et deux jambes avec bottes; les mains semblent être gantées.
A gauche de la silhouette on imagine un pont de pierre qui mène vers une allée sableuse longeant sur la gauche un mur de pierre en strates.
Astronomen hebben een staartloze komeet gevonden, dat bestaat uit het materiaal uit het binnenste deel van het zonnestelsel uit de tijd dat onze planeet ontstond. Deze ‘bouwsteen’ schuilt al miljarden jaren in de Oortwolk: de vrieskast van ons zonnestelsel.
De meeste planetoïden en asteroïden zijn overgebleven brokstukken uit de tijd dat er planeten ontstonden. Veel bouwstenen klonterden samen tot planeten, maar er bleef ook veel ruimtegruis over. Deze brokstukken treffen we vandaag de dag vooral aan tussen de banen van Mars en Jupiter.
Artistieke impressie van de staartloze komeet C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS).
Wat maakt deze staartloze komeet nu uniek? Het grote verschil is dat deze komeet niet gebakken is door de zon. “Dit is de eerste ‘rauwe’ planetoïde die we zijn tegengekomen: hij komt uit de beste diepvries die er is”, zegt hoofdauteur Karen Meech van de universiteit van Hawaï.
Het object C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS) is gevonden met de Pan-STARRS1-telescoop. Het object heeft een omlooptijd van ongeveer 860 jaar, wat betekent dat hij uit de Oortwolk komt. Vrij recentelijk is de weinig actieve komeet dichter naar de zon geduwd. De komeet heeft geen staart en is daarom vernoemd naarde staartloze kat, vandaar de koosnaam Manx-komeet.
De komeet heeft ruim vier miljard jaar doorgebracht in de Oortwolk.
Een foto van het object, gemaakt door de Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.
Het weerkaatste licht van de planetoïde is geanalyseerd door wetenschappers. Wat direct opviel was dat de Manx-komeet een bijzondere komeet is. Zo zijn kometen doorgaans gemaakt van ijs, maar dat geldt niet voor dit object. C/2014 S3 is rotsachtig. Astronomen concluderen nu dat het object bestaat uit vers materiaal uit het binnenste deel van het zonnestelsel. Het is al miljarden jaren opgeslagen in de ijskoude Oortwolk en om nu weer terug te gaan naar de geboorteplek.
“We hebben de eerste rotsachtige komeet ontdekt en zijn op zoek naar andere”, zegt onderzoeker Olivier Hainaut van ESO. Er zijn vijftig tot honderd van deze Manx-kometen nodig om te kijken of bestaande modellen over het ontstaan van het zonnestelsel kloppen. “Afhankelijk van hoeveel we er gaan vinden, zullen we weten of de reuzenplaneten door het zonnestelsel hebben gedanst toen ze jong waren, of dat ze rustig zijn opgegroeid, zonder al te veel van hun plek te komen.”
De resultaten van het onderzoek zijn te lezen in een paper in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Science Advances.
Tripje naar Mars duurt dankzij nieuwe aandrijving nog maar 30 minuten
Tripje naar Mars duurt dankzij nieuwe aandrijving nog maar 30 minuten
Caroline Kraaijvanger
In dertig minuten naar Mars. Het klinkt te mooi om waar te zijn. Maar wetenschappers achten het mogelijk. En wel met een nieuwe aandrijving waar momenteel hard aan wordt gewerkt.
Als mensheid hebben we de afgelopen decennia – want zolang doen we nog niet aan ruimtevaart tenslotte – best wat gepresteerd. Er rijden robots rond op Mars, mensen bezochten de maan, er draait een ruimtesonde rond komeet 67P/C-G en zo kunnen we nog wel een tijdje doorgaan. Maar als we puur kijken naar de afstanden die de mensheid heeft afgelegd, hebben we het helemaal niet zo ver geschopt. Volgens de laatste berichten zijn we er nog niet eens in geslaagd om ons eigen zonnestelsel te verlaten: hoewel ruimtesonde Voyager 1 al meer dan 45 jaar onderweg is, zou deze zich nog altijd niet in de interstellaire ruimte bevinden.
Grote afstanden Het verlangen om veel grotere afstanden af te leggen en veel verder gelegen bestemmingen te verkennen, is er. Maar de technologie om daar snel te komen, ontbreekt. Het heelal is groot en uitgestrekt. Om daar een goed beeld van te krijgen: een enkele reis naar Mars duurt met de huidige technologie al snel zo’n 250 dagen. En een reis naar de dichtstbijzijnde ster – die zo’n 4,2 lichtjaar van ons verwijderd is – zou met de huidige technologie duizenden jaren duren.
“TIEN JAAR GELEDEN WAS WAT WIJ VOORSTELLEN NOG PURE FANTASIE”
Bijna net zo snel als het licht Het moge duidelijk zijn: als we ooit werkelijk het heelal willen gaan verkennen, zullen we met een nieuwe aandrijving moeten komen die ons in staat stelt om in korte tijd heel grote afstanden af te leggen. Bij voorkeur een aandrijving die het mogelijk maakt om te reizen met een snelheid die enigszins in de buurt komt van de snelheid van het licht (sneller reizen dan het licht is volgens de speciale relativiteitstheorie sowieso onmogelijk). Het klinkt als sciencefiction. Maar dat is het dankzij een aantal nieuwe ontwikkelingen niet langer. De technologie om te reizen met een snelheid die ongeveer drie keer kleiner is dan de snelheid van het licht is reeds aanwezig en kan de ruimtevaart op z’n kop gaan zetten, zo stellen wetenschappers. “Tien jaar geleden was wat wij voorstellen nog pure fantasie,” zo schrijft Philip Lubin, verbonden aan de University of California, Santa Barbara in dit paper. “Het is niet langer fantasie.”
Een artistieke impressie van een door lasers aangedreven ruimtevaartuig. Afbeelding: Philip Lubin / A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight.
Zeilen en lasers Waar heeft hij het over? Over een aandrijving die mede mogelijk gemaakt wordt door licht, afkomstig van lasers. Hij duidt de aanpak aan als ‘photonic propulsion‘. Een ruimtevaartuig dat op deze manier wordt aangedreven, zal uitgerust worden met grote zeilen. Lasers vuren vervolgens – vanuit een baan rond de aarde – fotonen (lichtdeeltjes) op deze zeilen af. Deze lichtdeeltjes hebben geen massa, maar wel energie en impuls. Wanneer de lichtdeeltjes door het zeil gereflecteerd worden, staan ze een kleine hoeveelheid kinetische energie af. Het mooie aan de ruimte is dat het ruimtevaartuig helemaal geen weerstand ondervindt en als lichtdeeltjes het blijven trakteren op kinetische energie, kan het ruimtevaartuig heel geleidelijk uiteindelijk een snelheid bereiken die ongeveer net zo groot is als een derde van de snelheid van het licht.
Dertig minuten In theorie zou een klein ruimtevaartuig (dat ongeveer 100 kilo weegt) met behulp van deze aandrijving in drie dagen op Mars kunnen arriveren. In theorie kan elk ruimtevaartuig – ongeacht de massa – op deze manier worden aangedreven. Maar hoe groter (en zwaarder) een ruimtevaartuig is, hoe langer de reis duurt. In eerste instantie ziet Lubin – met het oog op interstellaire missies – dan ook het meest in wat kleinere ruimtevaartuigjes. Als het systeem helemaal doorontwikkeld is en de lasers maximaal kunnen worden benut, kunnen piepkleine ruimtevaartuigjes het absurd ver schoppen. “Een wafeldun ruimtevaartuig met een 1 meter groot zeil kan in 10 minuten tijd 26 procent van de snelheid van het licht bereiken, Mars in 30 minuten bereiken, Voyager 1 in minder dan drie dagen passeren (…) en Alpha Centauri in zo’n twintig jaar bereiken.”
Waar zit de rem? Overigens is deze aandrijving niet zo geschikt om een ruimtevaartuig in een baan rond bijvoorbeeld de dichtstbijzijnde ster te brengen. Er is namelijk één probleem: het ruimtevaartuig kan heel moeilijk tot stilstand worden gebracht. In eerste instantie zullen ruimtevaartuigen die op deze manier worden aangedreven dan ook enkel langs objecten in de ruimte kunnen scheren. Maar goed, dat mag de pret niet drukken. New Horizons scheerde ook alleen maar langs Pluto en kijk wat dat opgeleverd heeft!
Hoewel de technologie volgens Lubin voorhanden is, moet er nog wel wat werk verzet worden alvorens de eerste ruimtevaartuigen met behulp van lichtdeeltjes de interstellaire ruimte gaan verkennen. Maar Lubin lijkt vastberaden deze vorm van aandrijving werkelijkheid te laten worden. En ook NASA ziet wel iets in het idee. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie gaf Lubin vorig jaar een beurs om nader onderzoek te doen. Zou het dan zomaar het begin zijn van een nieuw tijdperk in de ruimtevaart? Een tijdperk waarin we kleine ruimtevaartuigjes naar de hoeken van ons zonnestelsel en misschien zelfs wel naar plekken daarbuiten sturen? Als het aan Lubin ligt wel. “Het is tijd om te beginnen aan deze onvermijdelijke reis ver van huis.”
In de Kuipergordel bevinden zich meer dwergplaneten dan Pluto. Neem bijvoorbeeld de dwergplaneet Makemake, die in 2005 is ontdekt en een doorsnede heeft van circa 2.000 kilometer. Wetenschappers hebben nu ontdekt dat Makemake een maantje heeft.
Makemake is na Eris en Pluto het grootste bekende Kuipergordelobject. Toch is Makemake kleiner dan onze maan, die een doorsnede heeft van 3.474 kilometer. De aarde is nog een stukje groter: 12.742 kilometer. De naam Makemake is afgeleid van de mythologie van de Rapa Nui, de oorspronkelijke bewoners van Paaseiland. Voor hen was Makemake de schepper van de mensheid.
Hubble ontdekte het maantje tijdens observaties in april 2015. Deze ruimtetelescoop heeft een scherpe resolutie en kan zwakke objecten naast heldere objecten zien. Hierdoor De nieuwe maan heeft de nickname MK 2 gekregen en is 1.300 keer zwakker dan Makemake. De afstand tussen MK 2 en Makemake is 21.000 kilometer. Het nieuwe maantje heeft een diameter van 160 kilometer.
ATMOSFEER
In tegenstelling tot Pluto heeft Makemake geen atmosfeer. “Dat er geen spoor van te bekennen is, laat zien hoe veel we nog over deze mysterieuze hemellichamen moeten leren,” concludeerden de onderzoekers in 2012.
“Waarschijnlijk zien we de baan van de maan vanaf de zijkant”, zegt onderzoeker Alex Parker, die verantwoordelijk was voor de analyse van de afbeeldingen. In vakjargon wordt dit ‘edge-on’ genoemd. “Het komt er op neer dat we de maan vaak niet zien, omdat het object dan schuilt in de gloed van Makemake.”
Belangrijke vondst voor de astronomie Dankzij de vondst van het maantje kunnen astronomen nu het totale gewicht van het systeem berekenen. Dit geeft inzicht in hoe de Kuipergordelobjecten zijn geëvolueerd. “Makemake is een zeldzaam Pluto-achtig object, dus de ontdekking van een begeleider is van groot belang”, concludeert Parker. “Nu kunnen we Makemake veel beter bestuderen.” Toen Pluto in 1930 werd ontdekt, werd het totale gewicht honderden keren te hoog geschat. Pas toen er in 1978 een maan werd aangetroffen – Charon – konden astronomen een goede berekening van het totale gewicht van het systeem maken en viel Pluto door de mand als planeet. “Zo’n grote impact kan de vondst van een satelliet dus hebben”, aldus Parker.
Er zijn nog meer observaties nodig om meer te weten te komen over het gedrag van MK 2. Het lijkt erop dat de maan een ronde (en dus geen ovale) baan om Makemake heeft. Het maantje doet er minstens twaalf dagen over om één rondje te voltooien.
De maan MK 2 is duidelijk zichtbaar op deze nieuwe Hubble-foto.
Warmer en donkerder dan Makemake De ontdekking van de begeleider lost wellicht een mysterie op. Eerder onderzoek wees uit dat Makemake’s oppervlak zo wit als sneeuw en zeer koud is. Toch zijn sommige plekken warmer dan andere plaatsen. Er is tot nu toe geen verklaring daarvoor gevonden. Het kan echter heel goed komen door MK 2. Deze maan bevond zich tijdens de metingen wellicht voor Makemake, waardoor de astronomen het oppervlak van de maan analyseerden.
Het is geen gek idee dat MK 2 donkerder en dus ook warmer is dan Makemake. MK 2 is zo klein, dat het object niet genoeg zwaartekracht heeft om een heldere ijskorst vast te houden. Daarom lijkt de maan waarschijnlijk meer op kometen en andere Kuipergordelobjecten, die bedekt zijn met donker materiaal.
Een artistieke impressie van Makemake met haar maan MK 2. De afstand tussen dit duo en de zon is vijftig keer groter dan de afstand tussen de aarde en de zon.
Wetenschappers overtuigd door nieuwe data: “Wij zijn niet de eerste geavanceerde beschaving” - Het Nieuwsblad
Wetenschappers overtuigd door nieuwe data: “Wij zijn niet de eerste geavanceerde beschaving” - Het Nieuwsblad
Foto: ss
We zijn mogelijk dan toch niet de eerste geavanceerde beschaving in het universum. Dat is de conclusie die wetenschappers trekken uit nieuwe gegevens van de Kepler-satelliet van ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA. Al nemen lang niet alle wetenschappers de conclusie ernstig.
De Amerikaanse astronoom en astrofysicus Frank Drake stelde in 1961 een wiskundige formule op die een schatting moest maken van het aantal intelligente beschavingen in ons universum. Een groep wetenschappers van de universiteit van Rochester hebben die ‘Vergelijking van Drake’ na 55 jaar een update gekregen. Ze deden dat op basis van de nieuwe gegevens van de Kepler-satelliet van de NASA. Die data gaan (onder meer) over het aantal exoplaneten in ons Melkwegstelstel waar misschien leven mogelijk is.
De onderzoekers kwamen tot de conclusie dat de kans “bijzonder klein” is dat onze beschaving de eerste geavanceerde beschaving van het universum is. “Kleiner dan één op tien miljard, zelfs”, luidt het. “En uit de gegevens van Kepler kunnen we afleiden dat die kansen eigenlijk veel hoger dan dat liggen, wat het bijna zeker maakt dat onze beschaving niet de eerste is”, aldus hoofdonderzoeker Adam Frank.
Fermiparadox
Experts zijn het er echter onderling nog niet over eens hoeveel belang we moeten hechten aan de Vergelijking van Drake. Als er intelligent leven in het universum aanwezig was, waarom heeft dat zich dan nog niet kenbaar gemaakt aan ons, vraagt de Italiaans-Amerikaanse natuurkundige Enrico Fermi zich af in zijn Fermiparadox. Andere wetenschappers noemen het opzet van Drake ‘wishful thinking’ en zeggen dat de wetenschappelijke waard e van de formule nihil is.
Zijn wij alleen? Wetenschappers: “Wij zijn niet de eerste geavanceerde beschaving”
Zijn wij alleen? Wetenschappers: “Wij zijn niet de eerste geavanceerde beschaving”
Wetenschappers concluderen op basis van gegevens die met de Kepler-satelliet van NASA zijn verzameld dat we niet de eerste geavanceerde beschaving in het heelal zijn.
De Amerikaanse radioastronoom Frank Drake stelde in 1961 een wiskundige formule op die een schatting moest maken van het aantal intelligente beschavingen in ons heelal. Wetenschappers van deUniversiteit van Rochester hebben deze vergelijking van Drake na 55 jaar geupdate met nieuwe gegevens van de Kepler-satelliet.
Bijzonder klein
De gegevens hebben onder andere betrekking op het aantal exoplaneten in de Melkweg waarop misschien leven kan bestaan. De onderzoekers hebben geconcludeerd dat de kans bijzonder klein is dat onze beschaving de eerste geavanceerde beschaving van het universum is.
“Kleiner dan één op 10 miljard,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Adam Frank. “En op basis van de gegevens van Kepler kunnen we bijna met zekerheid zeggen dat onze beschaving niet de eerste is.”
Fermiparadox
Volgens sommige onderzoekers is de formule van Drake wensdenken en is de waarde eigenlijk nihil. “En als er intelligent leven in het heelal is, waarom heeft dat zich dan nog niet kenbaar gemaakt aan ons?” vraagt natuurkundige Enrico Fermi zich af in zijn Fermiparadox.
Het onderzoek is verschenen in het tijdschrift Astrobiology.
UFO Mothership 10+miles across In Low Earth Orbit, April 29, 2016, UFO Sighting News
UFO Mothership 10+miles across In Low Earth Orbit, April 29, 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: April 29, 2016 Location of sighting: Orbiting Earth News source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/04/29/pic-of-the-week-strong-thunderstorm-explodes-high-into-the-stratosphere/ This mothership was caught on camera from the Intenational Space Station as it made a low orbit. They are trying to call it a severe storm, but look closely at its lines. This cloud has a line all around its edges that are evenly spaced from end to end. There is something hiding inside of a cloud cloak. The Washington Post states, "The updraft is so strong in this case, it can actually punch through the tropopause and into the stratosphere. Overshooting tops can be anywhere from 40,000 feet to 60,000 feet high." Or in other words, this cloud is flying unusually higher than it should be. Yeah...because its a mothership. It will of course vanish over the ocean where it will submerge and go on its way to an underwater alien base. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Scientists State: Advanced Alien Civilizations DID Exist Before Us
Scientists State: Advanced Alien Civilizations DID Exist Before Us
It seems that after all, we may not bee the only intelligent civilization in the known universe.
In 1961, astrophysicist Frank Drake came up with an equation that calculates the number of advanced civilizations likely to exist in the Milky Way galaxy. Today, researchers have revolutionized this equation using new data from the Kepler satellite. The results are fascinating.
Scientists have concluded that human beings aren’t the only intelligent civilization in the universe after a recent revision of the famous Drake Equation of 1961, which estimates the number of potential intelligent civilizations in the universe.
Scientists adapted the Drake Equation adding data from NASA’s Kepler satellite on habitable planets in the cosmos. Researchers modified the Drake Equation from specifically detailing the number of extraterrestrial civilizations that exist now, to being about the chance of civilization, being the only one ever existed.
The new research indicates that unless the odds of intelligent lifeforms evolving on habitable planets are extremely low, then life on Earth is not the only one that evolved to an advanced stage.
Scientists explain that the chance of an advanced civilization developing would need to be less tan one in 10 billion trillion, for our civilization to be the only intelligent one in the known universe.
However, data obtained from Kepler changes everything placing the odds at a much higher percentage, meaning that technologically advanced civilizations are likely to have evolved at a certain point in the life of the universe.
A New Empirical Constraint on the Prevalence of Technological Species in the Universe
Researchers turned to the specific question, ‘‘Has even one other technological species ever existed in the observable Universe?’’
Adam Frank, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester and co-author of the paper stated that: ‘The question of whether advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in the universe has always been vexed with three significant uncertainties in the Drake equation.
‘We’ve known for a long time approximately how many stars exist.
‘We didn’t know how many of those stars had planets that could potentially harbor life, how often life might evolve and lead to intelligent beings, and how long any civilizations might last before becoming extinct.’
‘Thanks to Nasa’s Kepler satellite and other searches, we now know that roughly one-fifth of stars have planets in ‘habitable zones,’ where temperatures could support life as we know it.
‘So one of the three big uncertainties has now been constrained.’
However, a question that remains a puzzle is how long civilizations might have survived.
‘The fact that humans have had rudimentary technology for roughly ten thousand years doesn’t really tell us if other societies would last that long or perhaps much longer,’ he explained.
However, authors of the study Frank and Woodruff Sullivan of the astronomy department at the University of Washington discovered that they could eliminate that term altogether by simply expanding the question.
“Rather than asking how many civilizations may exist now, we ask ‘Are we the only technological species that has ever arisen?” said Sullivan. “This shifted focus eliminates the uncertainty of the civilization lifetime question and allows us to address what we call the ‘cosmic archeological question’—how often in the history of the universe has life evolved to an advanced state?” (source)
Frank and Sullivan mixed things up, refreshing the Drake equation. Instead of taking a guess at the odds of intelligent life developing, they calculated the change against it occurring for humanity to be the only known advanced civilization out there. Researchers calculated the chance between a universe where mankind has been the sole experiment in civilization and another one where other advanced civilizations might have developed before the rise of advanced lifeforms on earth.
“Of course, we have no idea how likely it is that an intelligent technological species will evolve on a given habitable planet,” says Frank. But using our method we can tell exactly how low that probability would have to be for us to be the ONLY civilization the Universe has produced. We call that the pessimism line. If the actual probability is greater than the pessimism line, then a technological species and civilization have likely happened before.” (source)
Sullivan and Frank calculated how unlikely would it be for advanced life to exist if there has never been another one developing somewhere in the ten billion trillion stars in the universe or even among our own galaxy’s hundred billion stars. This approach changed the way we look at the Drake equation and the likelihood we are alone in the universe.
“One in 10 billion trillion is incredibly small,” says Frank. “To me, this implies that other intelligent, technology producing species very likely have evolved before us. Think of it this way. Before our result, you’d be considered a pessimist if you imagined the probability of evolving a civilization on a habitable planet were, say, one in a trillion. But even that guess, one chance in a trillion, implies that what has happened here on Earth with humanity has in fact happened about a 10 billion other times over cosmic history!” (source)
However, on a smaller scale, the universe are less extreme. Researchers speculate that another technologically advanced species likely evolved on a habitable planet in our galaxy if the odds against it are better than one chance in 60 billion.
“The universe is more than 13 billion years old,” said Sullivan. “That means that even if there have been a thousand civilizations in our own galaxy if they live only as long as we have been around—roughly ten thousand years—then all of them are likely already extinct. And others won’t evolve until we are long gone. For us to have much chance of success in finding another “contemporary” active technological civilization, on average they must last much longer than our present lifetime.”
“Given the vast distances between stars and the fixed speed of light we might never really be able to have a conversation with another civilization anyway,” said Frank. “If they were 20,000 light years away, then every exchange would take 40,000 years to go back and forth.” (source)
Franck and Sullivan point out in their revolutionary study that even though there aren’t other advanced civilizations in the Milky way, the results of the study have a profound scientific and philosophical meaning.
Researchers map 8,000 Galaxies and make an Amazing Discovery
Researchers map 8,000 Galaxies and make an Amazing Discovery
Scientists have managed to map 8,000 Galaxies located near the Milky Way and have made a mind-boggling discovery.
Imagining where we are located in the universe is a really hard thing to do, mapping our place in the cosmos is perhaps even a greater challenge for scientists. While experts try and figure out the exact number of galaxies in the universe, the general consensus is that there are somewhere around 100 and 200 billion galaxies in the known universe. This figure, however, could be much larger speculate many researchers suggesting that everything we know about the universe is only a small fraction of what is out there in reality.
Imagine just how many galaxies are out there, and then try and think about the sheer number of stars in each galaxy, you will probably end up with a number in the trillions. Now add into all of the above mentioned, the possibility that at least one of those stars, has a planet similar to Earth and then ask yourself, just how likely is it, that we are the only species in the universe?
But let’s not travel too far. Let us take a glimpse at our galaxy the Milky Way, which measures approximately 120,000 light years across. Lets do some math: 1 Light Year equals to 5,878,625,373,183.607731 Miles! Consequently, 120,000 Light-Years are a staggering 7.054351e+17 miles!
ly -> mi
mi = ly * 5.878626e+12
mi = 120000 * 5.878626e+12
mi = 7.054351e+17
But anyway, let us forget math for a second here and try to imagine the incredible size of just one galaxy, the Milky way. Our galaxy alone contains some 400,000 billion stars, and the number of planets accompanying each one of those stars is just mindboggling.
However, we need to start from somewhere in order to understand our ‘physical’ place in the universe. We have to start mapping our cosmic neighbourhood, and a team of scientists has done just that, by gathering data for more than 8,000 galaxies that are in the vicinity of the Milky Way.
To get an idea of the cosmic map surrounding the milky way galaxy, researchers worked very hard in order to map the movement and position of each galaxy in space. They discovered that the Milky Way is in fact part of a breathtaking GIANT system that ‘holds’ together a number of different galaxies, referred to as a ‘Super Cluster’.
Perhaps an even greater discovery is the fact that ‘something’ in the universe is ‘pulling’ our galaxy, the Milky Way, and other galaxies towards IT at an incredible speed of 22 million kilometers per hour.
This unknown force which has been dubbed as “The Great Attractor” is pulling our galaxy and everything around it towards a particular point in space, located approximately 250 million light-years away. Basically, the Great Attractor is considered by researchers as a ‘gravitational anomaly’ located within the vicinity of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster at the center of the Laniakea Supercluster.
Adding to the mystery is the fact that the ‘Great Attractor’ happens to lie in a direction in the sky referred to as the ‘Zone of Avoidance’. Towards that direction, there is so much dust and gas that our satellites and telescopes can’t see very far in the visible spectrum.
As you can see, the universe is incalculably large, and we are part of just one small system that moves through space at an incredibly fast speed.
The Palermo Stone –Evidence of Ancient Astronauts?
The Palermo Stone –Evidence of Ancient Astronauts?
The Palermo stone is one of the most important ancient Egyptian texts describing the Predynastic rulers of Ancient Egypt, who reigned over the land of the Pharaohs for hundreds of years before the arrival of the first ‘human’ Pharaoh Narmer (Menes).
People around the world have been fascinated with the idea that in the distant past, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations visited Earth and helped kick-start advanced life on our planet. This idea, however, is firmly rejected by many people who believe that no such thing ever happened, despite the fact that there are numerous discoveries that point to a very different human history, contradicting what mainstream scholars are suggesting.
Numerous ancient texts, depictions, and monuments have been interpreted as evidence supporting the Ancient Astronaut Theory. Moreover, millions of people have remained open-minded about the possibility that our civilization is not the first to call planet Earth their home.
Around the world, researchers have discovered numerous artifacts which point towards the possibility that history, as we have been told, is inaccurate, and that there are multiple parts of history which have been purposely distorted.
While this idea remains a controversial subject, and many people are against that notion, certain ancient texts, like the one, found written on the Palermo stone, could be the ultimate evidence we have been looking for all this time.
The Palermo stone, commonly known as the Royal Annals, is one of the most important sources for the study of the ancient Egyptian civilization, and its extensive history on Earth.
The stone obtained its name from the Palermo Archaeological Museum in Sicily where one of the largest fragments is housed. Other parts of this important piece of ancient Egyptian history can be found in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and the Petrie Museum in London. The stone its isn’t in perfect condition since only a few fragments have been recovered, and many are very damaged.
While the exact date of the creation of the Palermo stone remains a mystery for scholars, the most widely accepted date is believed to be the Old Kingdom, in the twenty-fifth century B.C.
What makes it so unique?
Well, among other similar ancient texts, the Palermo stone lists the predynastic Kings of ancient Egypt, and the Pharaohs that ruled over Egypt in the first five dynasties. The most controversial part of the Palermo stone are the Predynastic kings, which have been labeled as mythological beings by mainstream scholars. The document, in hieroglyphic writing, accounts for 120 predynastic kings who reigned before the ancient Egyptians officially existed as a civilization. Interestingly, the names of the mysterious “gods” and “demigods” appear in the Egyptian royal genealogies as well. The Similarities between the Palermo Stone, the Turin Royal Canon and the Sumerian King List are fascinating, since all three mention a time when ‘Gods’ lived on Earth and ruled for hundreds, and even thousands of years.
In addition to the above, the Royal Annals also list the most extensive information available on taxation in ancient Egypt, their religious ceremonies, levels of the River Nile and military campaigns among other important details. More importantly, it is considered as one of the primary sources from which Manetho, an Egyptian historian, and a priest from Sebennytos, compiled the most extensive history of ancient Egypt.
Manetho is well known for his work “Aegyptiaca” in which he divided the rulers of ancient Egypt into dynasties, eventually leading to the formation of the modern system used for the dating of the ancient Egyptian history.
The Palermo stone was written on black basalt and is believed to have had around two meters in height when it was complete. Regrettably, its importance was not immediately recognized to the point that the important piece of history was once used as a doorstep.
The Palermo stone has helped researchers come to the conclusion that ancient Egyptians developed superior technology in order to smelt copper, which ultimately allowed them to create incredible copper statues as early as the Second Dynasty. Interestingly, it also documents a time when forthy ancient Egyptian ships, brought wood and precious stones from an unknown region of Egypt, taking place during the reign of Sneferu.
The Palermo Stone also records the construction fo the first stone building during the reign of Neka, which predates the Step Pyramid of Djoser.
As you can see, there are several ancient texts that describe with great accuracy a time when beings, possibly misunderstood as Gods, came down from the heavens and ruled over mankind. Moreover, similar accounts of ‘Gods’ that came down from the heavens can be found in numerous ancient cultures all across the planet. This is why many might interpret the Palermo stone as one of the most incredible and important ancient texts, that document a time when ‘otherworldly’ beings ruled over the planet.
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The “Gate of the Gods” at Hayu Marca is a Stargate and Declassified FBI documents prove it works?
The “Gate of the Gods” at Hayu Marca is a Stargate and Declassified FBI documents prove it works?
This mysterious and enigmatic stone monument is evidence of the incredible skills of our ancestors who inhabited the region of what today is known as Peru. This huge ‘stargate’ is one of the most impressive monuments in the region, but the truth behind it could be far greater than any of us thought possible. The so-called Stargate was discovered by Jose Luis Delgado Mamanu, a local mountaineering guide who was exploring the area. While enjoying the view at the Hayu Marca mountain region located in southern Peru, he came across the giant door-like structure which was carved out of a huge rock that measures seven meters in height and seven meters in width, with a mysterious ‘door-like’ feature at its center.
According to some legends, the smaller ‘door’ represents the entrance for mortal souls, while the larger and more symmetrical ‘entrance’ accounts for the entrance used by deities to access our realm. Curiously, Mamani stated that he had long before dreamed about this structure and saw what appeared to be a door covered with pink marble with several figures located to the sides.
Local legends say that in the distant past, an Incan priest called Amaru Muru, from the temple of the seven rays fled from his temple with a sacred golden disk known as “the key to the gods of the seven rays.“ The priest hid in the mountains of Hayu Brand afraid that the Spanish might take the key from him.
Later the priest arrived at the “Gate of the Gods” at Hayu Marca, where he showed the key to several priests and shamans of the area. After they performed a ritual, the door opened with a blue light emanating from it. The priest, Amaru Muru handed the golden disk to one of the shamans and entered the door, he was never seen again.
These visions are closely linked to the legends of the native Indians of the area that tell that this “door” was a “gateway to the land of the Gods.” Legends speak that in the distant past, great heroes crossed into the land of the gods, enjoying a prosperous and glorious immortal life.
But… is it just a theory?
Is it possible that mysterious places like the “Gate of the Gods” at Hayu Marca are mysterious monuments that go far beyond our ‘rational’ understanding? Is it possible that like many other monuments, this too is part of the global network of ancient sites, with technology not understood by today’s generation?
The “Gate of the Gods” at Hayu Marca resembles the Puerta Del Sol de Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) and five other archaeological sites in the vicinity. Mysteriously if we draw straight lines between the Gate of the Gods” at Hayu Marca, the Puerta del Sol de Tiwanaku and other archaeological sites, we get a strange cross that joins at the center at the plateau of Lake Titicaca, one of the most sacred places in the region.
Is it possible that there are “portals” located on Earth which are connected to other galaxies? Planets? Dimensions? And that one of those portals is the “Gate of the Gods” at Hayu Marca? Is it possible that these ancient texts are more than just stories of the past? And that there is something genuine and unique about them? We look forward to finding out more about these mysterious locations and their hidden secrets.
If the Hayu Marca gate of the gods is, in fact, an ancient stargate, is it possible that others exist elsewhere on the planet? And if so… where do they lead?
Interestingly, I cannot help and make a connection between the gate of the gods at Hayu Marca and a document declassified by the FBI not long ago stating that Beings from OTHER dimensions visited Earth. The official link from the FBI vault can be found here:
According to reports and “Declassified” documents, we have been visited by numbs extraterrestrial species, some of these, are not only from other planets, but from other dimensions. Some of these beings originate from an ethereal plane coexistent with our physical universe. These “entities”, which could “materialize” on our planet appeared as giant translucent figures.
Is it possible that these beings sued Stargates like the one at Hayu Marca to travel between dimensions? And what if, all of this is more than just a theory, a theory that we have failed to understand due to our skepticism towards these subjects?
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Filer’s Files # 18 – 2016 Fire Officers UFO Guide - PART I
Alleged Structures on Venus
Filer’s Files # 18 – 2016 Fire Officers UFO Guide - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Venus Film Released, Fire Officers Guide to Disaster Control, and Gravitational Waves Found.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiama, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, India, Island of Punaauia, French Polynesia, Italy, and England and Scotland in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
George A. Filer III
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
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Special Projects
Venus Film Released
This person not only found these structures, but also made a CGI duplicate so we can see what it truly looks like. I am impressed with his video. Nice detail and it really highlights the structures on Venus well. Note, the entire surface of Venus is covered in structures. Val Valiant Thor said he lived there, but most inhabitants like him, live below the surface. Scott C. Waring Website
Tower om Venus
President Eisenhower had three secret meetings with Captain Val Valiant Thor From Venus – 2 Witness Speak Out!
Mundodesconocido of Youtube states: The Magellan spacecraft was the first planetary explorer to be launched by a space shuttle when it was carried aloft by the shuttle Atlantis. Although Venus has a dense atmosphere, the surface reveals no evidence of substantial wind erosion. Magellan collected radar images of 98 percent of the planet’s surface. Magellan collected radar images of 98 percent of the planet’s surface The Magellan probe sent to Venus that operated in the late 80s and 90s, collected an enormous amount of images that have finally been published by NASA in which huge cities, artificial structures and all kinds of elements that seem to obey constructions appear intelligent effected by some kind of alien race that inhabited or colonized the second planet in our solar system, in the following video, we show those buildings that we have found and their interpretations in 3 Dimensions of them. Website
A Fire Officers Guide to Disaster Control
(2) The following is a manual for Fire Officers responding to UFO incidents. I am quoting this for information and education purposes only.
Chapter 13 – Disaster Control and UFOs
“The Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942.
Few residents of the United States, except for those in Hawaii, have experienced an enemy attack on their hometown in this century; some think they have. The Great Los Angeles Air Raid of February 26, 1942, began at 2:25 A.M. when the U.S. Army announced the approach of hostile aircraft and the cities air raid warning system went into effect for the first time in World War II. “Suddenly the night was rent by sirens. Searchlights began to sweep the sky. Minutes later gun crews at Army forts along the coastline began pumping the first of 1,433 rounds of ack-ack into the moonlight. Thousands of volunteer air raid wardens tumbled from their beds and grabbed their boots and helmets. Citizens awakened to the screech of sirens and, heedless of the blackout warning, began snapping on their lights . . . The din continued for two hours. Finally, the guns fell silent. The enemy, evidently, had been routed. Los Angeles began to taste the exhilaration of its first military victory.
“THE UFO THREAT–A FACT
In this chapter, we will now turn our attention to the very real threat posed by Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), whether they exist or not. The well-documented and highly publicized War of the Worlds radio drama by Orson Welles shows how even a perceived existence to alien creatures can cause very real disaster-like conditions and panic among a given populace. In addition, if the apparent visits by alien beings and their space vehicles should pose any type of threat, it will, as always, be the fire service that is called upon to provide the first line of life-saving defense and disaster mitigation.
On April 25,1991, radio station KSHE in St. Louis, Missouri. was fined $25,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for broadcasting a mock warning of a nuclear attack during the Persian Gulf War. The seriousness with which the FCC treated this case is indicative of the very real panic that can be created from even illusionary or fictional phenomena. Certainly if these unexplained events become more prevalent, the possibility of panic could be even greater; and again, the fire department will be the agency called upon to handle the situation. Hence, as we near the year 2000 and move beyond, any comprehensive disaster plan should address the potential for panic and other deleterious effects that might befall a populated area when unexplained phenomena occur. We will see, as we continue our discussion in this chapter, that widespread blackouts, communication disruptions, and other potentially disastrous conditions have been linked directly to UFO sightings.
Hence, fire service leaders who want to ensure that their disaster planning is complete will not neglect an appendix to outline those things that could be done in preparation for the occurrence of such phenomena. Throughout this book, many of the references to actual events are based on the experiences of both of the authors. However, in this area of UFOs and their potential, we are relying largely on the research and experiences of Charles Bahme. Chuck has made a considerable study of this subject and is acquiring many publications and VCR tapes to augment his library on this and related phenomena. His interest in UFOs was greatly heightened when Congress in 1969 adopted a law (14 CFR Ch. V Part 1211- Extraterrestrial Exposure) which gave the NASA Administrator the arbitrary discretion to quarantine under armed guard any object, person, or other form of life which has been extra terrestrially exposed.
The very fact that our congressmen believed there was a necessity for such drastic authority made Chuck wonder if they had only our astronauts in mind when they adopted it. Could it be applied to anyone who has had a UFO encounter? Whether it has or not is not likely to be a topic for public dissemination. UFO Discussion–Why Now? The subject of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) was not included in previous editions of this book. The first edition was the Handbook of Disaster Control, which Chuck personally published in 1952 following his release from active naval duty in the Korean War. Although his services in the conflict as Security Coordinator for the Chief of Naval Operations involved the creation of a worldwide disaster control organization for the protection of the physical properties of the Navy, it must be admitted that the directives approved for this new organization did not reflect any significant concern for a flying saucer threat to its shore establishment. That was in the 1950s. Now that we are in the 1990s, it is doubtful that our military security forces would brush off the UFO potential so lightly. This change of attitude was evidenced as far back as December 24, 1959, when the Inspector General of the Air Force issued the following Operations and Training Order: “Unidentified Flying Objects–sometimes treated lightly by the press and referred to as ‘Flying Saucers’–must be rapidly and accurately identified as serious Air Force business….”
There is no uncertainty about the reality of the war between nations on our planet and the disastrous effects of military actions. The 200 sorties flown every hour against Iraq in the Persian Gulf provided ample evidence of global war’s destructive power. On the other hand, there are many persons who may believe that a discussion of the theoretical harm that could be caused by a real or imaginary invasion of UFOs would be ‘far out!” But this is not so for the thousands of witnesses of unexplained aerial phenomena. To them it is also serious business. Chuck’s interest in UFOs commenced during the early morning hours of August 26, 1942, while he was roller-skating from his house to the nearest fire station a few blocks away; the wail of sirens had signaled his recall to fire duty, and with the stringent blackout orders in effect. Driving was not wise; besides, it was much more exciting to be out in the open where he could see the spectacular aerial “fireworks” that filled the heavens all around him. Few residents of the U.S. had ever experienced a real or imaginary invasion of UFOs like that which occurred in what has become known as “The Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942.” The Army announced the approach of hostile aircraft and the city’s air raid warning system went into effect for the first time in World War II. The defense to this “attack” is described in dramatic terms in the opening paragraph of this chapter.
But, what enemy had been routed? No one ever knew. All the fire fighters saw in the sky were the 15 or 20 moving “things” which seemed to change course at great speed apparently unaffected by the flak from bursting shells all around them. Rumors that one had been shot down were never verified, nor was the explanation that these zigzagging invaders were weather balloons ever taken seriously. In any event, for Chuck, that unforgettable episode aroused a continuing interest in UFOs, rivaling his professional fields of law and fire protection. The fact that he subsequently was a member of a group whose sighting of a flight of UFOs was then authenticated by airport radar helped to sustain that interest. UFO Background Information With no intention of trying to prove or disprove the authenticity of the numerous UFO encounters often related by very credible witnesses including airline and military pilots, astronauts, police officers, fire fighters, members of Congress, and even a U.S. President, the balance of this chapter will present a brief history and nature of UFOs and their alleged occupants; their widespread sightings over the globe since ancient times; their appearance, propulsion origin, and possible motives for continuing reconnaissance. A quick look at some of the classic accounts of encounters documented in numerous foreign and U.S. publications might help us judge the magnitude of their threat, if any, to social stability, and, if deemed desirable, propose a fire service plan for coping with some of the conceivable catastrophic effects that UFOs could produce on cities and densely populated areas. For readers who already have made up their minds that there is no such thing as a UFO notwithstanding the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it should be pointed out that there is circumstantial evidence that disastrous effects have already been attributed to UFO activity in more than one nation, including the United States.
UFOs–What Are They? William Shakespeare put a fitting observation in the mouth of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark that went like this: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy.” Whether Hamlet was referring to those strange lights or objects that appear in the sky or near the ground and have no known cause, we will never know, but the World Book Encyclopedia defines such things as UFOs. Several theories have been propounded as to what they might be. Some scientists believe that they are of extraterrestrial origin–coming from other planets. Military officers conjecture that they might be alien aircraft. Some attribute them all to natural causes, such as meteors, comets, sundogs, light reflections, marsh gas, ball lightning, even though they must admit that scientists cannot explain all UFO reports in that manner. Still others are inclined to believe that they may be forms from other dimensions, which can materialize and dematerialize at will perhaps by making a wavelength or frequency transition so as to become invisible to humans. Some believe they are time travelers from the future.
UFO Classification System Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Northwestern University Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and an advisor to the Air Force’s Blue Book Project. Adopted a very simple classification system based solely upon the manner of observation: 1. Nocturnal lights two. Daylight disks three. Close encounters (day or night) four. Radar readings. He concluded that this system tells us nothing about the nature of the UFOs, but can suggest a means for gathering data. He found that while a large number of such reports were readily identifiable by trained investigators as misconceptions of known objects or events, a small residue (about 1.000) were not. These came from credible witnesses from such widely separated places as Canada. Australia. South America and Antarctica. He concludes with “Although I know of no hypothesis that adequately covers the mountainous evidence, this should not and must not deter us from following the advice of Schroedinger: to be curious, capable of being astonished, and eager to find out.” Dr. Hynek has an excellent, well-illustrated article on UFOs in a 1982 book, which gives a detailed history of the UFO sightings, together with the reports of some well-known people who made them, including President Jimmy Carter while governor of Georgia. Shapes of UFOs Witnesses have described the shapes of UFOs as anything varying from a sphere to a boomerang.
Some have resembled flying saucers with a lid; others a glowing tube; some as semi-spherical with colored apertures; some with reddish-orange glows, or fire-like or sparking discharges. Incredible speed and maneuverability’s not attainable by aircraft of any kind are commonly observed. Many of the books and articles in Appendix H have excellent photographs of these unexplained visitors–photos that have been checked by experts for their authenticity. History of UFOs: For hundreds of years mysterious objects in the sky and strange moving lights have been reported by many people, including the military pilots in World War II who called them foo fighters, (“Where there’s Foo, there’s Fire”). In the middle of the 1900s, flying saucers were increasingly observed in the United States and other countries. Scientists at the University of Colorado hired by the Air Force from 1966 to 1968 to study this type of aerial phenomena could explain most of the UFO reports as a star (Venus), meteor, planet, balloon, rocket, artificial satellite, etc.
Sometimes atmospheric conditions, aircraft exhaust trails, or unusual lighting conditions may produce optical illusions that observers thought were UFOs. After investigating more than 12,000 reports, the U.S. Air Force was unable to explain where the unexplained UFOs come from, but apparently concluded that they did not threaten the national security. The emphasis of the university’s team, headed by Edward U. Condon, seemed to be more concerned with the establishment of the emotional stability or instability of those who reported the sightings than with other evidence.
Psychiatrists have examined the witnesses who claimed to have encountered UFOs and even been taken aboard their craft, such as the two shipyard workers in Mississippi, and found that they are not unbalanced people. “They’re not crackpots. There was definitely something here that was not terrestrial.” Dr. J. Allen Hynek agreed, and added. “Where they are coming from and why they are here is a matter of conjecture. But the fact that they were here on this planet is beyond a reasonable doubt.”
The Air Force after 20 years of being deluged with UFO sightings and spending millions of dollars on their investigation, decided to drop the inquiry business and turned the project over to a Kensington, Maryland, group called NICAP (National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena). This left NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) with part of the task of trying to run UFO sighting reports, including many by its own Apollo and Skylab astronauts. By 1974 over a score of astronauts saw and photographed UFOs during their flights beyond the earth’s atmosphere. Early in the Apollo 11 mission, which culminated in the moon walk, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins reported sightings of what seemed to be a UFO during the first half of their flight to the lunar surface. There were many more sightings by U.S. and Soviet Astronauts. On November 11, 1966, Gemini XII astronauts Jim Lovell and Edwin Aldrin said that they saw four UFOs linked together, and on October 12, 1964, three Russian astronauts aboard Voskod reported that they were surrounded by a “formation of fast-moving disc-shaped objects.”
UFO Organizations In addition to NICAP, some of the other organizations that study UFO phenomena are MUFON (Mutual UFO Networks), CAUS (Citizens Against UFO Secrecy), GSW (Ground Saucer Watch), CUFOS (the Center for UFO Studies), and APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization), an Arizona nonprofit scientific and educational organization, founded in 1952.
Why the Secrecy?
In their book UFOs Over America, authors Jim and Carol Lorenzo charge that the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) has been closely involved in the collection and suppression of UFO information. “Witnesses to the phenomena have been bribed, coerced, and threatened by the CIA, who wanted valuable evidence given to them alone.” One reason given is that military intelligence may view the UFOs as a tool of either a known or an unknown potential enemy. “If these vehicles prove evasive and surreptitious, all the more reason to suspect them…. the probability looms large that the minds behind these vehicles may well be gathering intelligence of their own.”
Another reason for secrecy may lie in the hope of obtaining knowledge relating to advanced propulsion methods and anti-gravity systems before other potential enemies on earth may acquire it. Hence, though many nations are secretly investigating UFOs, they are reluctant to share their findings. Robert Lofton, in his book Identified Flying Saucers, claims that the Air Force became the “goat” in the effort of the CIA to debunk many sightings by pilots, radar technicians, and reliable civilian observers. He thinks that the suppression of information about how dangerous UFOs can be is wrong. After citing a case where a child was burned over 50 to 60 percent of her body by a low flying UFO and then taken to an Air Force hospital, no one would explain why her clothes were not burned at the same time. He also describes another burn case in New Mexico and another man who recently received a sledgehammer like blow that knocked him unconscious by the force field of a 100-foot diameter UFO. “The public ought to be told the danger! Nothing helps rumors and panic more than ignorance.
” Major Donald Keyhoe describes in his book Aliens from Space, The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects the difficulties he had in 1957 in trying to get the truth from government agencies after he was director of NICAP, the world’s largest UFO research organization with over 30 subcommittees in the U.S. and abroad.
According to some UFOlogists the attempts at cover-up by the CIA extend to destruction of evidence that it could not confiscate. Apparently, some of our nation’s important leaders have been denied access to some UFO secrets in the possession of an agency of the United States, the very existence of which is classified above top secret. Unleashed by the policy of Glasnost (greater openness) the Soviet media felt free to include accounts of UFO sightings. A Tuss report of October 10, 1989, reported a large shiny ball or disk hovering over a Voronezh park; residents saw the UFO land and three creatures similar to human beings emerged, accompanied by a robot. Apparently, the Russians felt no need to suppress this report, which was poked fun at in Newsweek and Time magazines but not in U.S. News, and World Report:’’
“A scant few decades ago, both the U.S. government and the media treated flying objects as no laughing matter–which even Congress looked into. In 1966, Representative Ford responded to a rash of sightings in his home state of Michigan by calling for, and getting, a House hearing on UFOs.” UFO Missions Many reasons have been advanced for the purpose of the UFOs visits to our planet. Although some of the persons who apparently have been the subjects of genetic investigation, such as the family of Whitley Streiber (shown) may not agree, the majority of those who have studied possible UFO visitors feel that they are friendly.
Whitley Streiber
Mr. Streiber described his experience as terrifying, and believes that these “little figures with eyes that seem to stare into the deepest core of being are asking for something. Whatever it is, it is more than simple information. The goal does not seem to be a sort of clear and open exchange that we might expect; whatever may be surfacing, it wants far more than that. It seems to me that it seeks the very depth of soul; it seeks communion.” From the thousands of reports he has studied. William Spaulding, aerospace engineer and head of the Arizona-based Ground Saucer Watch, believes that a pattern indicates that UFOs are here on a surveillance mission: the fact that a majority of sightings occur around our military installations, research and development areas leads to the conclusion that a methodical study is being made of the earth and its defensive and offensive capabilities. “The phenomena is not unlike our own space explorations: scout ship survey: soil samples; landing.”
In his book Incident at Exeter, John Fuller discusses the seeming affinity of UFOs for electrical power lines in the northeastern part of the United States. In a later section of this chapter dealing with the effects of UFOs on our terrestrial activities, we will see how this affinity may have been responsible for causing 36 million people to lose power over an area of 8,000 square miles. Because of our recent adventures into space, there are some who speculate that UFOs are more concerned with what we will do there than in settling here. In any event, the Air Force’s official publication (issued by the Government Printing Office 1968) called Flying Objects says that ‘No UFO has been determined to represent a threat to our national security. ‘Thatconclusion, however, should not rule out less disastrous consequences than the overthrow of our government. ISBN-13: 978-0912212265 Website
Gravitational Waves Found
For decades, those who had contact with aliens, or contact with UFOs and how they work said that that the disks ride gravitational waves like a sailboat on water. That the disk three propulsion units allows it to ride these waves, and since the waves travel at or faster than the speed of light, time travel is possible. Just a few weeks ago, scientists also announced some new elements discovery. Element 115, if cut into a coin-size piece, can power a UFO for over 20 years nonstop, is now recognized by scientists to exist. It seems it is possible to build a light speed capable ship.
Physicists working with a powerful observatory on Earth announced Thursday that they have finally detected ripples in space and time created by two colliding black holes, confirming a prediction made by Albert Einstein 100 years ago. The merger of two massive black holes created these ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, 1.3 billion years ago. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) on Earth detected them on Sept. 14, 2015, and scientists evaluated their findings and put them through the peer review process before publicly disclosing the landmark discovery today.
While this finding potentially opens an up a new way to learn more about how the universe works, there’s one question in particular non-scientists seem to want answered: Can we finally travel through time now? First, it is not a bad question. Think about space-time as a fabric that stretches through the universe and is affected by matter like stars, black holes, planets and other cosmic objects. Massive bodies warp space-time around them, creating what we feel as gravity on Earth. It would follow that learning more about it could lead to some kind of understanding of how to manipulate space-time to somehow travel through time.. Scientists Announce Discovery Of Gravitational Waves, Paving Way To Light Speed Travel! Feb 2016, UFO Sighting News. Thanks to NASA.
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Filer’s Files # 18 – 2016 Fire Officers UFO Guide - PART II
Filer’s Files # 18 – 2016 Fire Officers UFO Guide - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Alaska Object
Anchorage— The object was traveling at approximate 500 mph, blue in color at less than 500 feet altitude and then came to an abrupt stop on April 21, 2016.
At which point it changed color to blue-white and ascended 45 degrees slowly while changing direction and dropping out of sight. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arizona Object
Phoenix — My wife and I saw very bright object in the north sky over Chandler) at 7:30 pm on April 21, 2016. We found a good vantage point and parked the car. We observed six very bright orbs. They would glow very bright and then stop and fade in and out, stop and glow. We went home and I saw 2-3 objects and got video and stills. On three occasions lights appeared in the same spot in the sky. It would glow white and light blue or solid white with a center halo and light. It always moved north horizontally and faded in and out until 11:30 pm. At that time, I went to bed. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Objects
I was driving with a friend. I felt compelled to take pictures of the sunset, so, I pulled over. We were in an orange grove for ten minutes snapping off random pictures with our cell phones; we saw nothing unusual. When I transferred the photos to my computer, I was amazed and saw white light-orbs near my truck. Also of interest is the white fog creeping in over the orange trees. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orbs
Edinburg — Visitors were seen on April 14, 2016. This picture was taken this evening at 1:17 am. It’s just hard to believe that people around here don’t even notice the different objects in the sky.
I guess they’re not interested like I am. Take Care, Pam Stark
Indiana Light
Chennai — I was busy chatting with my friends and my brother noticed this weird glowing object moving in sky on December 9, 2015. He managed to record this with the Mobile camera for more than a minute. He called me up showing this weird glowing object. The object was moving from northwest in a straight direction and slowly it disappeared in the dark sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Light
Garden City— I am submitting this event for a person that confided in me because they didn’t know what to do about it on April 1, 2016. The subject was attempting to take a picture of the sunrise when looking through the phone viewing screen it was notched that another object was present, a large glowing object that was causing the clouds to turn red. The object was not visible unless viewed through the phone as it evidently can detect wavelengths of light outside normal human eye sensitivity. In reviewing the pictures, which were taken within 6 seconds of each other the object, moved in an upward direction. The object does not appear to be a reflection as the pictures can be aligned perfectly with the only movement being the object’s location. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Orbs
Mounds View – On April 22, 2016, I took this photo of a large group of orbs flying overhead.
Thanks to MUFON CMS’
Missouri Cylinder
Richard-Gebaur Air Force Base — On or about March 29, 2003, I was driving from Dallas to Mankato, Minnesota. Staying off the toll roads I ended up on a road going around south of Richard-Gebaur AFB. Driving down an incline on West Markly Road. I saw a lake with white caps due to a hurricane in the south. I made a left turn on the road, crossed a small one-lane bridge, and saw a landed cigar shaped craft about 25 feet tall and unknown length since it was sitting in a canyon, I could only see three rows of portals. I tried to stop because my video camera was in the back seat. Note: A representation picture. CMS
New Mexico Orb
Farmington– My fiancée, children, best friend and I who were abducted with were driving to the four corners on March 29, 2016. We all felt incredible amounts of energy and shot pictures off at the clouds. We couldn’t see things with our naked eyes but the camera picked up a UFO in the clouds. There were unexplainable cloud formations that were running vertical that should have run horizontal. There were greenish florescent orbs, lightning bolts shooting down at structures that looked like Stone Henge. There was a white tubular UFO. These photos must be blown up; you will see multiple UFO’s in and out of the clouds! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Objects
Portsmouth — On April 16, 2016, they lights were in southern Ohio traveling northwest going fast. They stayed in formation except two in back would vary.
Note: The photo shows a formation of several lights. Chinese lanterns may not be a valid explanation given that the objects were seen to be moving rapidly. A check of winds aloft shows that winds were from the southeast at 15 MPH. This is indicative that the lights were moving with the wind. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Virginia Lights
Virginia Beach — On the evening of March 9, 2015 around 8:50 PM upon leaving Brenneman Farms Marketplace, I filmed these pulsating red/orange orbs in the night sky.
As I walked to my car, I saw a number of pulsating orbs directly overhead. It took me a moment to get my phone camera rolling, at which point the largest group of orbs had faded out into the NE sky. At least ten orbs were in procession gaining altitude until they faded out. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UFOs Worldwide
Australia Flashing Light
Mackay— Every year Australians celebrate the ANZAC DAY dawn service on April 25, 2016. We gather to celebrate those service members lost at war. Today I was standing listening to the speeches when looking up to the horizon a very bright flashing light caught my eye. It was like a triple strobbing before it went out. After about 8-10 seconds, it lit up once more only this time it was not as bright and it looked like a lighthouse light. . The crowd around me then began to follow its path. It was an extremely solemn quiet occasion, the object gave no sound. We could see a dark sphere when the light was off and it moved slowly northwest across the sky. At one stage, it gave out another bright burst of light before we lost sight at 30,000 feet altitude without navigation lights.
I also have never seen a satellite this low. We should have seen the sun reflecting off it. The crowd around me was looking up and pointing in bewilderment. It looked like a black/charcoal sphere that seemed to fully light up before going dark again. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oshawa — On April 19, 2016 while at home I was admiring a relatively clear sky with a thick white trail. Then after about thirty seconds, I noticed a perfect white ring beside the trail. Having camera in hand I took three shots to capture the moment at 6:24 PM. After about ten seconds, it just started to disappear – like the jet’s trail. In all my time in sky watching even the jets that have heavy trails have never seen this before. I have seen something similar ‘after’ the entire trail starts to break up – there may be some ring like shapes. Yet this is not the case as illustrated while the trail is still whole. I do wonder what could have formed a perfect ring. This was strange to witness Thanks again for Filer’s Report. Enjoy Paul Shishis
Czech Republic
Prague– I was on a Segway tour with my friends at sunset, and I turned around and snapped this photo of a popular museum. Upon looking at the photo that night, I noticed the circular lights to the right above the museum. A pair of lights, then a single one, then another pair, and below it another two pairs. I then noticed a small, faint line of lights in a straight line on both sides of the museum. I returned to the museum the next evening, and saw no wires, and the lightening poles are much shorter than where the lights appear to be. I am not sure, if this is UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Egypt Fireballs
Red Sea – I saw three fireballs at one point in the sky, but it is odd to find three stars looking that way. But then they moved and disappeared into the horizon on April 22, 2016. Then two more lights came closer in the east, which is the point where they seemed to stop. One light would take off until it fades, the next light follows, until they are both gone. Two more lights show up three times that looked like fire flakes. CMS
France Rectangle
Rennes — I saw a light from my window white orbs moving, faster than an airplane on April 26, 2016. Then I saw above the building next to mine a UFO with three red colours flashing. It was descending behind the building so I couldn’t witness more.
Then others orbs, and 20 minutes later, a “flying saucer” with pulsing colored lights. I also saw something looking like a really big shooting star low in the sky! Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Lights
Goa — On March 17, 2016, my best friend (aka “Hunter”) and I were just relaxing on the Baga Creek Beach Area at around 10 PM. All of a sudden, “Hunter” spotted three red lights in the sky that were stationary not moving at all and it made no sound at all. We could not explain what it was, but it was a cool UFO Sighting.
Note: The lights show up when the witness zooms in with his camera. Thanks to William Puckett, DirectorWebsite
Island of Punaauia, French Polynesia
The above photo is only half of the ship, with the same half matched to it so that we can see the full view of the alien craft. Don’t confuse this with being a simple cloud. This is a 100% alien tech that can create a cloud to hide inside of. The cloud however may be only a hologram. Source:Website Website
Italy Light
Ponza — My brother in law sent the pictures a few minutes after the sightings on March 15, 2015. We had been talking about these strange events happening in Ponza all the time.
Family members claim these lights show up all the time a few miles out to sea.1 giant one that is visible, almost every evening appears in the eastern sky on Website
United Kingdom Lights
Liphook, Hampshire — Last night April 19, 2016, I was witnessing an orange glowing light that was moving strangely in the sky. The light appeared and disappeared three times in same place in very strange pattern movement. I saw it and tried to take picture with my mobile phone. It’s definitely a strange unexplained sighting of a very large light. Each of three sightings lasted about a half of a minute. This time there were three orbs, but my camera just focused on one of them, and when I zoomed it, it looks like two orbs in one orb. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Scotland Triangle
Firth of Forth — Possibly dated in April 1991-92 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, I definitely saw whilst on top of a big wheel at the fairground two objects. Whilst looking over to Edinburgh and north over the Firth of Forth Fjord. I spotted a large dark triangular shaped craft stop dead in its tracks. Then it sped off fast west down the Forth. Another craft it shape and color followed exactly same trajectory. Craft descriptions are two triangular orange/red lights. The sighting lasted minutes as the big wheel was letting people off the ride.
Nothing I have seen since explains the fast speed of these craft or exact precision in flight. Both stopped in the same place then flew fast west. Best regards Lori Kozak
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THE ANCIENT RACE OF 'WHITE GIANTS' DESCRIBED BY AMERICAN INDIANS
THE ANCIENT RACE OF 'WHITE GIANTS' DESCRIBED BY AMERICAN INDIANS
Many legends of various Native American tribes, from the Comanches in the north to the manteños in the south, speak of a mysterious race of giant white skin were wiped from the face of the earth.
Choctaw In his book "History of the Choctaw Indians, Chickasaw and Natchez" (1899), Horatio Bardwell Cushman writes: "The tradition of the Choctaw that has long been a race of giants inhabited what is now the State of Tennessee, beings with which their ancestors fought when migrated from the west ... its tradition states that nahullo had an impressive stature. " Cushman says that, over time, the term "Nahullo" became common to refer to all white people, but originally was specifically used to designate a race of white giants with which the Choctaws entered deadly contact after cross the Mississippi river
Comanche In 1857, the chief Ray Vibrante Comanche, a Native American tribe of the Great Plains, said the following about an ancient race of white giants "many moons a race of white men, 3 meters high ago, and much more prosperous and powerful than any pale face who now lives here lived a great part of the nation, extending from the place where the sun rises to where it sets. Its fortifications crowned the tops of mountains, protecting their cities in the intermediate valleys. They exceeded any other nation that has bloomed sooner or later.
It was a brave, proud and warlike race, for which white men today would be only pygmies. " The chief explained that when this race became too conceited and forgot about justice and mercy, the Great Spirit destroyed, leaving only a legacy of their society mounds are still visible in the North American plateaus. "It was a brave, proud and warlike race, for which white men today would be only pygmies." "It was a brave, proud and warlike race, for which white men today would be only pygmies."
This story was documented by Dr. Donald 'Panther' Yates, a researcher and author of books on Native American history. Navajo Yates also mentions beings known as "starnake" by the Navajo, "A majestic white race endowed mining technology giants that dominated western North America, enslaving inferior tribes. They died or returned to heaven. " Azteca In Aztec mythology, with the Legend of the Suns, is aware that humanity Quinametzin were created during the Sun of Rain. Its ruler, according to some versions of the myth, was the god Tlaloc, who corresponded him the sun shone during the third cosmogonic epoch, which ended when Quetzalcóatl made Quinametzin rained fire and burned to death. Men dragging a dead giant, Vatican Codex.
Men dragging a dead giant, Vatican Codex. At Quinametzin were believed to be the builders of the city of Teotihuacan and Tlachihualtepetl on the main temple rose to the Feathered Serpent in Cholula. The tlaxcaltecas recounted that, near the Spanish Conquest times, they themselves had fought the last Quinametzin. Manta In 1864, Pedro Cieza de Leon, a conqueror, but above all, chronicler and historian of the Andean world, wrote in his "Chronicle of Peru 'how manteña native culture (in what today would be the modern Ecuador) he described a legendary race of giants, "There are reports concerning giants in Peru, who have arrived at the coast at the point of Santa Elena.
The natives were dismayed to see a boat made of reeds reaching its shores with a cargo of creatures, so high that knee to the floor were as big as a man of great stature. His limbs were deformed in proportion to the size of their bodies, and their heads was something monstrous to do with hair hanging to his shoulders. His eyes were as large as small plates ".
In his chronicle, Leon said that the degenerate sexual habits giants proved repugnant to the natives, so "heaven" he will eventually exterminated. Paiute The Paiute, a native American tribe in the area of Nevada, has an oral tradition that reported the former white settlers on a race of red-headed giant that their ancestors were known as the "Si-Te-Cah" and who lived in a ancient cave.
This history was recorded by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, daughter of an Indian chief Paiute, in his book "Life among the Paiutes: Torts and Claims" (1882), which describes the "giants" assumptions as bloodthirsty creatures, hostile and cannibalistic. In this story, the Paiute tell a great battle, which occurred at the site now known as the Lovelock Cave, which led to the extermination of creatures. Lovelock skulls taken from the cave.
Lovelock skulls taken from the cave. Photo taken about 40 years ago by researcher Don Monroe. In the early twentieth century, archaeologists found thousands of objects inside the cave giving rise to a prolonged excavation and speculation about the possibility that the Paiute legend was real, because, among other surprising objects which would end largely in private- collections were unearthed bones with marks of cannibalism, sandals almost 40 cm, and skulls with red hair.
Army Chief of Staff warns of “hybrid armies” and “little green men"
Army Chief of Staff warns of “hybrid armies” and “little green men"
In a speech last week at Norwich University, General Mark A. Milley, Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army, told the audience, many of whom were ROTC cadets, that in the future the cadets will be dealing with, among other things, “hybrid armies” and “little green men.” Some UFOers have assumed this to be an admission that armies of aliens and their alien/human hybrids are threatening the Earth. However, both of those are military terms that mean something entirely different.
Milley made the remarks at an event marking the 100th anniversary of the ROTC program. His speech emphasized the qualities that will be important for the cadets in the future, especially given the increasing complexity of world conflicts.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, speaks at Norwich University during its Reserve Officer Training Corps Centennial Symposium, April 21, 2016. (Photo: Staff Sgt. Chuck Burden/Army)
“If the world if (sic) 1916 was complex, or the world of 1945 was complex, the world of 2016 is intensely complex, and I can tell you that from personal experience,” he said. “You’ll be dealing with terrorists, you’ll be dealing with hybrid armies, you’ll be dealing with little green men, you’ll be dealing with tribes, you’re going to be dealing with it all, and you’re going to be dealing with it simultaneously.”
General Mark A. Milley, 39th Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army. (Credit: U.S. Army)
His statements appear to be shocking. He seems to be telling the cadets that he knows from experience they will be fighting aliens! And what about hybrid armies? What are those? They sound terrifying.
Those familiar with terminology used in the study of alleged alien abduction know hybrids to be beings that are half alien and half human. This has lead some websites to proclaim that the Army has admitted they are preparing for battle with aliens!
However, this is not the case. Both of these are terms that are being used by the military to mean something other than aliens. “Hybrid armies” is actually referring to the mix of conventional and non-conventional nature of many of our enemies. For instance, some of them are non-state combatants, or terrorists that do not belong to a recognized state, like ISIS.
These armies might also be using a mixture of tactics, such as an army that includes cyber warfare. It is a new term, but essentially represents the complex and non-traditional makeup of combat forces.
So what about the “little green men?” These are the forces that were seen in the Ukraine that the are believed to be Russian special forces. They are Russian forces deployed in Ukraine and Crimea, but they wear unmarked uniforms and drive unmarked vehicles. Russia has denied they have deployed these forces. It has been a strange case of everyone knowing who they really are, but their identities being officially denied.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley is not briefing cadets about an alien threat. He is actually talking to soldiers serving in Erbil, Iraq, Dec. 18. Milley was on a five day tour of the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (Photo: Staff Sgt. Chuck Burden/Army)
So, Milley was not warning the cadets about aliens, but perhaps just as scary, he was warning them about the complex makeup of the enemies they will face. This includes terrorist, armies without states, cyber warfare, and unidentified armies working covertly.
If Milley is hiding a secret about the U.S. engaging in a secret battle with aliens, he hasn’t let it slip, yet. Either there is no such battle, or he figured he freaked out the cadets enough. He might have reckoned adding the aliens thing could have made them all go screaming out of the room.
Eyewitness states: I was browsing some live cams and stopped in at the Elk refuge, and this happened haha! In the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night at an Elk refuge near Yellowstone. It is probably a passing vehicle that caused the reflection, but I am sure some will think it is the handiwork of aliens and that the reflection is a tiny spaceship :)
This UFO is there now, click the link above before its gone. I have been watching this cam for several years now and this UFO has changed positions since them. This is a parked UFO, placed in the air over the aliens home so that no one will find it by accident. The UFO is invisible to the name eye, however we only see it because of the light below that has infrared light emanating from it. IR light reveals it to the security cam in the distance. Since the night cam is now in IR mode (night time) we can see it, up until just after sunset...its still there. Then its cloak works and it turns invisible, because the live cam turns off its IR mode and goes into normal color mode. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovered an Earth-like planet circling a nearby star within the Goldilocks zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f is around 500 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation. The habitable zone, also identified as the Goldilocks zone, is the area around a star within which planetary-mass objects with enough atmospheric pressure can sustain liquid water at their surfaces. While it has been projected that there are at least 40 billion Earth-sized planets circling in our Milky Way Galaxy, this specific finding is labelled the first Earth-sized planet to be discovered in the habitable zone of another star.
What does this mean?
In addition to Kepler-186f, there are 4 other planets that circle a nearby star within the Kepler-186f system. What this means is that if the neighbouring star to this planet is just like our Sun, then the likelihood of life on this planet exponentially increases.
“We know of only one planet where life survives – Earth. When we hunt for life outside our solar system, we emphasis on discovering planets with features that mimic that of Earth,” said Elisa Quintana, research scientist at the SETI Institute at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and lead author of the paper issued on 27th January in the journal Science. “Discovering a habitable zone planet similar to Earth in size is a major breakthrough.”
The neighbouring star to Kepler-186f has half the mass and size as our solar system’s Sun and only gets one-third of the energy that we get from our Sun. Kepler-186f circles its star once every 130 days.
Delta Force agent claims they were 'abducted by UFO' in shock complaint to US military
Delta Force agent claims they were 'abducted by UFO' in shock complaint to US military
A SERVING US senior anti-terror special agent sensationally claimed her own commanders sent her insane by poisoning her with uranium and following her with drones, because she knew too much about a friendly fire incident.
The woman made the shocking allegations while still a serving commander with Delta Force
The woman even claimed to have been abducted by aliens in a UFO during her ordeal, www.express.co.uk can exclusively reveal.
Details of the Delta Force Afghanistan veteran commander's extraordinary allegations against the military and US Government emerged after the US Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) released part-redacted documents following a probe it carried out into the claims of harassment.
The US Delta Force is a US Army unit similar to the UK SAS and used for hostage rescue, including the October 2015 release of 20 prisoners from an Islamic State (ISIS) prison near Hawija in Iraq, counterterrorism, and assassinations or surveillance of high-value targets.
The allegations bears startling similarities to the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, 43, who is believed to have been killed by the KGB on orders of the Kremlin and died from uranium poisoning in London in 2006.
It also resembles plots from US TV CBS series Homeland in which special agent Carrie Mathison played by Clare Danes has suffered a number of mental breakdowns, and Person of Interest whereby subjects of surveillance are followed by cameras.
The woman, whose name has been redacted from the report along with other personal details, made the complaint on September 5 2013 at NCISRA Camp Pendleton in California.
The released report said the woman: "Claimed upon her return from a deployment with the US Army Delta Force in Afghanistan she became ill.
"(She) stated she was infected with a nano-partical which was provided to her via food, vaccines, and through the air because she had knowledge of a friendly fire incident wherein a soldier was killed in action.
"(She) stated after an illness caused from (redacted) she was returning home from work in Los Angeles, california, to Burbank, when she noticed she was being followed.
"(She) claimed she was being followed by a US drone or unidentified flying object (UFO)."
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Alexander Litvinenko was given uranium allegedly by order of the Kremlin
The woman, who rose to the rank of commander and held secret security clearance at the time of her complaints, claimed she photographed the "drone" but did not have them available when she was interviewed by investigators about her complaint.
Investigators reported a series of bizarre experiences she claimed to have had, which cast question marks over her sanity, after taking up mediation to "calm her ongoing illness and government tracking of her."
These included an out-of-body experience during meditation, when she claimed to ascend into a space craft, meeting an alien calked Ashtar who claimed "they war eloping for her," and being burnt on the legs by an "electro-magnetic pulse weapon."
she was infected with a nano-partical which was provided to her via food, vaccines, and through the air because she had knowledge of a friendly fire incident wherein a soldier was killed in action
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The woman said in June 2013 she was travelling to be promoted from Lieutenant Commander to the rank of Commander when she went to Virginia Beach because it was the last place she saw her "soul mate," a US Navy Seal Team 6 member who was killed on duty in Iraq.
Members of that elite squad famously took out Osama bin Laden.
But she visited the Hampton Inn, had an alcoholic drink, then swam in the sea, where she had an out-of-body experience and removed all her clothes, it said.
Police arrested her for indecent exposure and she spent six days in a cell, it said.
She was then transferred to the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia.
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A page from the NCIS report and (inset below) a section in close up
Investigators said they contacted the medical facility in question, which confirmed staff thought she was not taking medication.
The report said an unnamed person said the veteran "will be processed for separation from the US Navy."
But staff at NCISRA Camp Pendleton chose not to investigate further after interviewing her.
Instead, the report said two personnel informed her "due to the location these incidents have occurred," they had no jurisdiction, and she needed to report it to counterparts in those areas.
It is not clear from the report if the woman took her complaint elsewhere or what became of her.
'American Sniper' Chris Kyle
US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, dubbed the ‘American Sniper’, was murdered on a gun range at Rough Creek Lodge in Texas on Saturday 2nd February 2013. Bradley Cooper starred as Chris Kyle in blockbuster American Sniper.
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Navy SEAL Chris Kyle holds a 308 sniper rifle at his home on 6 April 2012
The report added she: "Claimed she was physically assaulted by members of (the medical centre) while she was admitted to the psychiatric ward."
After being discharged, she said she had another out-of-body experience while with an unnamed person in a restaurant in Burbank.
During this episode, she yelled at staff that the unnamed person with her was "a terrorist responsible for" the 9/11 terror strikes, before leaving and being arrested by police, then admitted to the Naval Medical Center in San Diego.
The report said she stopped taking prescribed medication after being released amid claims she was falsely diagnoses with mental health issues and "the US Navy was attempting to kick her out after 14 honourable years."
She chose to snub a book medical appointment on the day she made the complaint, claiming she did not need treatment.
But the release of the documents has caused a buzz on conspiracy their websites.
Jack Brewer said in an article on the UFO Trail blog site: "I very much appreciate Greenewald's efforts due to my interest in the activities of NCIS."
He pointed to the book Chameleo: A strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security by Robert Guffey.
In the book Mr Guffey claimed the NCIS had used interrogation techniques that induced perceptions in the subjects which were like the experiences of so-called alien abductees.
Mr Brewer also points to the 2015 Hoffman report to the American Psychological Association which looked at national security interrogation and torture methods and said the NCIS had used "ethically very marginal" techniques on a "petty officer who was screened for hypnosis."
Express.co.uk has asked the NCIS to comment on the allegations and if the complain ever resurfaced and awaits a response.
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Nieuw boek over mensen die zeggen dat onze overheden samenwerken met aliens
Nieuw boek over mensen die zeggen dat onze overheden samenwerken met aliens
Bijna 41 jaar geleden werd een man uit Arizona op weg naar huis naar eigen zeggen ontvoerd door een UFO. Zijn naam is Travis Walton. Vijf dagen na de vermeende ontvoering, op 5 november 1975, dook hij weer op.
Zijn verhaal is opgenomen in het nieuwe fotoboek Phenomena van de Deense fotografen Peter Helles Eriksen, Sara Galbiata en Tobias Selnaes Markussen. “Het is een gedeelde interesse,” zei Galbiata over het onderwerp UFO’s en aliens tegen CNN.
De foto’s die in het boek staan zijn gemaakt in Arizona, New Mexico en Nevada, inclusief Area 51, de Amerikaanse legerbasis vlak bij het plaatsje Rachel. In Phoenix werden op 13 maart 1997 de beroemde Phoenix Lights gezien.
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“In Denemarken of in Europa is het nog steeds een soort taboe: als je in UFO’s gelooft praat je daar verder niet over,” zei Galbiati. “De meeste mensen zullen denken dat je gek bent. In Amerika is dat anders.”
Galbiati, Eriksen en Markussen waren blij verrast over het aantal mensen dat mee wilde werken aan het boek. “Ik kan niet zeggen dat iemand die een verhaal over een ontvoering vertelt zit te liegen, omdat ik er niet bij was,” zei Galbiati. “Ik zal daar verder dan ook niet over oordelen.”
Professor Frank Kinbler van het New Mexico Military Institute verzamelt in zijn vrije tijd bewijs op de crashplek bij Roswell (Phenomena)
Tijdens een bijeenkomst over UFO’s en buitenaardse ervaringen was het voor het drietal alsof ze een andere wereld binnenstapten. Een wereld waar ze nog nooit van hadden gehoord.
Sommige mensen die ze ontmoetten geloven dat er 35 verschillende buitenaardse rassen zijn. Een aantal van hen zegt dat aliens hier op aarde zijn en samenwerken met onze overheden.
“Sommigen denken dat ze kwade bedoelingen hebben, terwijl anderen denken dat ze hier zijn om de aarde te beschermen of om ons tegen onszelf te beschermen omdat we een destructief ras zijn,” aldus Galbiati. “We hebben de atoombom gemaakt, we hebben dingen gemaakt waar we geen controle over hebben. Ze zijn dus bang dat we onze aarde en het universum zullen beschadigen.”
Catatumbo Lightning is a phenomena found in Venezuela mostly at the mouth of the Catatumbo River. This small region receives so many concentrated lightning strikes that it is considered the largest generator of tropospheric ozone. It can happen 160 nights a year, up to 9 hours of continuous lightning each night. It originates from a mass of storm clouds that create a voltaic arc at more than 5 km of height, during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour. It occurs over and around Lake Maracaibo, typically over the bog area formed where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake (Wikipedia).
Just when we think we know all about our natural world, there are so many huge mysteries to be found. Lightning has inspired fear and inventions, even horror movie creatures like Frankenstein.
Ball lightning is an atmospheric electrical phenomenon. It travels like a burst of light that is anywhere from pea-sized to a few meters in width and usually associated with lightning storms. Because it is only witnessed by people and not well reported, the nature of ball lightning is a very difficult thing to peg down.
In 1596, it was reported in England by John Stowe, “There entered in at the west window of the church a dark unproportioned thing about the bigness of a football, and went along the wall on the pulpit side; and suddenly it seemed to break with no less sound than if a hundred cannons had been discharged at once; and therewithal came a most violent storm and tempest of lightning and thunder as if the church had been full of fire.”
St. Elmo's Fireis plasma from a coronal discharge from a pointed object to the atmosphere. Sailors often witnessed it, naming it for the patron saint of sailors. When the air molecules glow from the electrical charge in the atmosphere, it becomes a blue or violet light.
Lightning Glass “fulgurite”is the phenomena when lightning hits sand, like on a beach and bonds the silica and quartz and creates a petrified column of hardened silica/quartz. Red jets and blue sprites are a recently found phenomena
These transient luminescent events occur in the upper atmosphere and were only discovered not too long ago by a high flying craft that witnessed them. Sprites occur high above storm clouds as discharges of positive lightning from the ground to the cloud, and were first discovered in 1989. Whereas sprites are associated with actual lightning strikes, jets are not necessarily associated with them.
These phenomena are witnessed by many and research taking place to understand them better. Funny how science can jump in and chase these atmospheric conditions and not the ones that make paranormal phenomena possible to witness, especially when one considers that the very storms that cause these conditions often coincide with the phenomena we see on investigations.
Phenomena–nature's way of saying “you don't know it all yet!”
Lightning Trivia
10,000 forest fires are started every year by lightning Lightning reaches 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit On average, there are 1800 lightning storms occurring somewhere on the globe at any given time Rubber shoes do not protect from lightning strike damage Most indoor injuries occur from being on the phone during a strike The odds of being struck in your lifetime is actually 1 in 3000
Late on a Tuesday night at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport, an employee was taking trash to a Dumpster outside the air-traffic-control tower when a mysterious glow caught his attention. A massive V-shaped object was hovering off the ground, light emanating from the bottom. “The lights were what I noticed at first … It was very large as it passed beside me,” the witness stated. “I was in total disbelief that it was happening. It made no noise at all.” The reported sighting occurred about 9 p.m. on March 1 at Terminal 4, but was just recently investigated and reported by the Mutual UFO Network witness report database.
An article on the case first appeared on a UFO website. The airport employee described the object’s movement as it traveled over to the Sky Train Station, when he lost sight of the lights. Although he believed that it was otherworldly, he said he was not afraid. “I didn’t feel anything but shock as I pondered what had just taken place,” he reported, along with an illustration of what he saw. “This event lasted just about five minutes or so. I felt calm and no sense of danger or apprehension afterwards. Just a sense of wonder and amazement that something so huge could travel in the air and not make any noise.”
The airport sighting is just one of hundreds of reports of UFOs in Arizona, making the state one of the top places on the planet for purported alien activity, according to reports compiled by the Mutual UFO Network.
ARCHEOLOGIEIn de Nascawoestijn heeft een Japans onderzoeksteam een nieuwe geoglief ontdekt. De zandtekening van een dier dat zijn tong uitsteekt, is meer dan 2.000 jaar oud, zo meldt de website van National Geographic.
De figuur van ongeveer 30 meter lang werd ontdekt op de hoogvlaktes van Pampa de Majuelos, in het zuidwesten van Peru. De site ligt op 12 kilometer van de site met de bekendere Nascalijnen, die in 1994 door Unesco op de Werelderfgoedlijst werden geplaatst.
De nieuw ontdekte tekening lijkt een dier af te beelden, met aan de linkerkant het hoofd met een uitgestoken tong. Aan de rechterkant zit het lichaam met romp en ledematen.
Het zou niet om een echt bestaan dier gaan, zo vermoedt Masato Sakai van de Universiteit van Yamagata. "De tekening van het dier lijkt niet realistisch te zijn, maar lijkt eerder ingebeeld." De weterschapper schat dat de lijnen tussen 2.000 en 2.500 jaar oud zijn.
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OMG NEAR COLLISION UFO STOPS TURBINE WINDMILLS THEN PASSES Through! CRAZY FOOTAGE 2016
OMG NEAR COLLISION UFO STOPS TURBINE WINDMILLS THEN PASSES Through! CRAZY FOOTAGE 2016
OMG NEAR COLLISION UFO STOPS TURBINE WINDMILLS THEN PASSES THREW! CRAZY FOOTAGE 2016 Quote from Source ” The footage was send to me from eye witness. It was captured in Poland (east Europe) near the border with Ukraine. The object came from east direction, it was flying over the Majdan village about an hour. The recording was made at the last moments of object manifestation. You can use the recording if You want, I will appreciate If You will make a note about ours youtube channel. Thanks Have a nice day.” Source Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAftoP477ps
EERSTE TEKENEN VAN KOMENDE POLE SHIFT KONDIGEN ZICH AAN...
EERSTE TEKENEN VAN KOMENDE POLE SHIFT KONDIGEN ZICH AAN...
Eén van de mogelijke gevolgen van de passage van de planeet Nibiru is het fysiek verplaatsen van de noord- en zuidpool van de aarde (pole shift).
Talloze voorspellingen en oude legenden wijzen in die richting, maar ook de waarnemingen van Inuit Eskimo’s en nu ook eindelijk de wetenschap.
Je kunt je voorstellen dat een mini-zonnestelsel met planeten vele malen groter dan de aarde voor de nodige verstoringen zal zorgen, wanneer deze dichterbij ons in de buurt komt.
Wat het bijvoorbeeld zou kunnen doen, is met zodanig grote krachten op de aarde inwerken dat deze fysiek van positie verandert. Dat wil zeggen, een beweging maakt over een bepaalde tijdsperiode wat ervoor zorgt dat wat nu de noord- en de zuidpool is, op hele andere plekken op aarde terechtkomen. Dit is dus niet hetzelfde als het bewegen van de magnetische polen.
We hebben de laatste jaren diverse keren verhalen kunnen lezen over hoe de magnetische polen van positie veranderen. Zodanig zelfs dat sommige vliegvelden hun landingsbanen moesten aanpassen, omdat de landingsbaanpositie ten opzichte van de magnetische pool zoals die op een landingsbaan wordt aangegeven, niet meer klopte.
Tot nu toe is er eigenlijk formeel nog nooit sprake geweest van een afwijking van de fysieke polen, tot begin deze maand toen National Geographic met een verhaal kwam dat de fysieke polen, dus niet de magnetische polen, aan het bewegen zijn. Dat niet alleen, dit betekent ook dat de aardas van positie veranderd.
Omdat toch hiervoor een verklaring gevonden moet worden, gooien we dat dan maar weer op de (hoax) door de mens veroorzaakte wereldwijde opwarming.
Wanneer je dan het artikel echter eens goed doorleest, volgen er zinnen zoals: “Maar, de fysica is zo gecompliceerd, dat natuurkundigen niet veel meer kunnen doen dan maar raden hoe het eigenlijk in de echte wereld werkt”.
Met andere woorden: We hebben geen flauw idee waarom de polen en de aardas van positie veranderen, dus raden we maar wat.
Wanneer we er echter vanuit gaan dat er geweldige krachten op de aarde inwerken die voor zorgen voor die toename in heftige aardveranderingen zoals aardbevingen en vulkaanuitbarstingen, massale dierensterfte, sinkholes, enorme toename vuurballen in de lucht enzovoort, dan wordt alles ineens logisch.
Als de aarde fysiek van positie verandert dan zal bijvoorbeeld de positie van het noordelijk poolijs ook veranderen en in warmere streken terechtkomen, waardoor dit zal gaan smelten. Andere gebieden waar het tot nu toe altijd warm was, zullen in koudere streken terechtkomen. Heeft helemaal niets te maken met door de mens veroorzaakte opwarming van de aarde.
Het wordt in Alaska steeds warmer en bij ons lijkt het steeds kouder te worden. Dit is dan weer niet zo vreemd wanneer je bedenkt dat de fysieke pool verschuift richting Engeland.
De Inuit eskimo’s hadden al veel langer in de gaten dat er wat aan de hand is, zoals wij al schreven in een artikel in 2011:
Na een lange periode van duisternis kwam de Zon begin dit jaar onder meer te vroeg op boven Noorwegen, Groenland en Alaska.
In deze tijd van aardeveranderingen komen de Inuit aan het woord over hun eigen veranderende leefomgeving. Zowel de positie van de Zon en de andere sterren als de windrichting zijn veranderd, zo zeggen zij.
Voor het eerst in de geschiedenis van het meest westelijke stadje van Groenland Ilulissat kwam op 13 januari jongstleden de Zon al op, twee dagen eerder dan normaal. Op 20 januari kwam de Zon op boven de noordelijke Noorse stad Tromsø, een dag vroeger dan andere jaren. De Zon kwam boven Barrow in Alaska vier dagen eerder op dan gebruikelijk.
De Inuit uit de regio Qikiqtaaluk in het territorium Nunavut in Canada merken dat hun gehele leefomgeving aan het veranderen is. Zo hadden ze voorheen exact één uur om op zeehondenjacht te gaan, terwijl het nu tot een uur langer licht blijft in het gebied.
De Inuit volgen de Zon hun hele leven. Ze merken dat de zonsopgang niet zozeer is veranderd, maar dat de Zon op een andere plaats ondergaat.
“De Zon ging altijd bij de hoogste bergtop onder, maar op een bepaald moment ging hij voorbij de bergtop pas onder,” zo zegt Elijah Nowdlak uit Pangnirtung.
Het verhaal van de Inuit klopt dus wel degelijk. De fysieke positie van de aarde is veranderd.
Omdat nu de wetenschap toegeeft dat de fysieke polen aan het veranderen zijn is een deel uit een eerder artikel uit 2013 interessant, over de mogelijke gevolgen van een fysieke poolomkering, de zogenaamde poleshift.
Eén ding is zeker; mochten ooit de polen op aarde omdraaien dan zullen er geweldige krachten op onze planeet losbarsten. Zó groot dat het genoeg is om land te doen zinken en nieuw te laten herrijzen.
Vorige week publiceerden wij de voorspellingen van Moeder Shipton, de Engelse heks en profete die sprak over mensen die naar hogergelegen gebieden zouden vluchten met de komst van Nibiru.
Zij was niet de enige:
Edgar Cayce, ook wel de slapende profeet genoemd, heeft de wereld verbaasd doen staan met de accuraatheid van zijn voorspellingen. Alhoewel ze (nog) niet allemaal lijken te zijn uitgekomen, is dit bij de meesten ervan wel het geval en bleken ze volkomen correct te zijn.
Een opmerkelijke voorspelling die hij deed was op 1 januari 1945. Op die dag voorspelde Cayce dat hij over vier dagen begraven zou worden. Op 3 januari 1945 overleed hij aan een hersenbloeding.
Ook voorspelde hij de dood van twee Amerikaanse presidenten correct, de crash van de aandelenbeurs in 1929, de val van de Sovjet Unie, de opkomst en ondergang van Adolf Hitler en de terugkeer van de Joden naar Israël.
Wat voor ons nu van belang is, is dat Edgar Cayce ook geweldige aardveranderingen heeft voorspeld. Hij voorspelde dat er een punt zou komen waarop de fysieke polen van de aarde zullen omkeren (pole shift).
De korst van de aarde zou in beweging komen onafhankelijk van de kern van de aarde, waardoor het aardoppervlak een totaal ander uiterlijk zal krijgen. Hij deed deze voorspellingen in de periode tussen 1920 en 1930. Hij gaf daarbij aan dat dit zou beginnen in de tweede helft van de vorige eeuw.
Zo zei hij letterlijk:
“De aarde zal op vele plaatsen worden (open)gebroken. In het eerste deel zal je een verandering zien in het fysieke uiterlijk van de Amerikaanse westkust. Er zullen open wateren verschijnen in de noordelijke delen van Groenland. Het grootste deel van Japan zal in de zee verdwijnen. Het noordelijk deel van Europa zal in een oogwenk veranderen. Er zal nieuw land verschijnen voor de oostkust van Amerika”.
Alhoewel Edgar Cayce wel een pole shift voorspelt, is uit deze voorspellingen niet op te maken waardoor dit wordt veroorzaakt. Hij geeft verder ook geen uitleg met betrekking tot al de heftige aardveranderingen.
Iemand die dat wel doet, is Nancy Lieder van Zetatalk. Ook zij voorspelt een pole shift, maar geeft daar ook een hele duidelijke oorzaak voor en wel de komst van de onbekende planeet Nibiru.
Ook voorspelt zij weinig goeds voor Europa als gevolg van deze poolomkering. Echter, in tegenstelling tot Cayce die zegt dat dit allemaal in een oogwenk zal gebeuren, heeft zij het over een geleidelijk onder water stromen van grote stukken van Europa. De delen die dan volgens haar worden getroffen zijn de roodgekleurde gebieden op onderstaand kaartje.
Het gevolg is enorme volksverhuizingen waarbij mensen met grote spoed op zoek gaan naar hogergelegen gebieden. Zo schijnt het dat Rusland, volgens Nancy Lieder, al heeft aangegeven dat ze hun grenzen zullen sluiten als dit gebeurt, omdat ze dan hun handen meer dan vol zullen hebben aan hun eigen bevolking.
Een nadere aanwijzing is misschien te vinden in het zogenaamde Derde Geheim van Fatima. Officiëel is de uitleg daarvan als volgt:
“Het derde geheim was lange tijd alleen bekend bij het Vaticaan. Dit geheim zou in 1960 openbaar gemaakt worden door de paus[1]. Pas in 2000 werd door Vaticaan-woordvoerder Joáquin Navarro-Valls bekendgemaakt. In het visioen figureert een in het wit geklede bisschop die wordt neergeschoten terwijl hij met het kruis tussen talloze gedode martelaren loopt. Dit visioen verklaart achteraf waarom het derde geheim een profetie was van de aanslag die Mehmet Ali Ağca in 1981 pleegde op paus Johannes Paulus II. Die aanslag vond eveneens plaats op 13 mei en de paus gelooft daarom dat het aan Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Fátima te danken was dat de kogel in zijn buik, en niet in zijn hoofd terechtgekomen was. Later werd de operatief verwijderde kogel verwerkt in de kroon van het beeld van Maria van Fátima”.
Er bestaat echter een gerede kans dat het Derde Geheim van Fatima een hele andere boodschap inhield. Zo zei Paus Paulus de Tweede in een vergadering met een groep Duitse bisschoppen toen hem naar het geheim van Fatima werd gevraagd in 1982:
“Wat voor zin heeft het om de wereld te alarmeren en te vertellen dat de oceanen hun bassin zullen verlaten en het vasteland zullen overspoelen waarbij ieder uur miljoenen zullen sterven?”. En dit was niet de enige keer dat deze paus een dergelijke boodschap gaf. In een eerder bespreking met Duitse bisschoppen in 1980 gaf hij een boodschap met ongeveer dezelfde strekking. “Het is volkomen zinloos de mensheid hiervoor te waarschuwen”.
Here is a cool post sent over from Christian Mace, a French UFO research atOvni Paranormal. This UFO is semi transparent and seems to change shape. I am surprised its staying in one place over his home for a long time, but this does prove its not a balloon. Very cool he had several people with him when he saw it. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Eyewitness states: UFO over Melbourne 26th of April 2016 recorded by Peter Maxwell Slattery on 3 camera's with witnesses.
A Swedish team of treasure hunters and deep sea explorers, Ocean X, believe they have discovered a Millennium Falcon alien space ship. They found the strange object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in 2011 and claimed that the apparent alien craft caused unusual technology malfunctions whenever their boats were positioned over it.
Now, the team is desperate to find more funding to conduct more explorations in the area. The alleged mysterious cellular and radio wave activity has brought more interest to alien enthusiasts.
Back in 2012, Ocean X diver Stefan Hogerborn said that anything electric, including a satellite phone, stopped working when they were above the object. Everything just got back to normal when they were about 200 metres away. They tried to get back over the object, and it did not work again.
Extra-terrestrial believers have suggested the object, which measures 61-metre wide and 8-metre tall, looks similar to the fictional Star Wars Millennium Falcon.
However, the discovery on the Baltic Sea floor in 2011 could also be a Nazi battleship gun turret or perhaps an anti-submarine device.
Another suggestion from an expert is that the deep sea item is a glacial deposit that Ocean X found in a low-resolution sonar scan.
Dan Fornani, a seabed sonar scanning expert, said that the data lacks in resolution, detail, and quantification.
Moreover, the sonar image has many artefacts that make it challenging to interpret. Fornani explained that any interpretation of the image would not place too much confidence until a better processing is provided and details of the type of sonar and particulars are given.
Hubble Just Discovered A New Moon Hiding In Our Solar System
Hubble Just Discovered A New Moon Hiding In Our Solar System
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With data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers discovered MK2, a hidden satellite orbiting the second brightest icy dwarf planet, Makemake.
Makemake, a dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt, is recognized as the only distant dwarf planet without a satellite…or so astronomers thought.
Recently, astronomer Alex Parker discovered that the tiny planet actually has a companion, thanks to data from the Hubble Space Telescope. The newly discovered moon is temporarily nicknamed MK2, the friendlier version of S/2015 (136472) 1.
MK2, a faint tiny dot now visible, next its host planet Makemake. Credit: Alex Parker, NASA
MK2’s host planet, Makemake, is the second brightest icy dwarf planet, and experts believe that it’s the reason why the moon has remained invisible, along with the sheer darkness of those parts of the Solar System. The tiny moon is estimated to be 161 km (100 miles) in diameter, orbiting Makemake at around 20,900 km (13,000 miles) away, and is 1,300 times fainter than the planet. In spite of all that, the tiny moon was able to reflect just a bit of light for Hubble to see.
Parker stated that MK2 will give more information about its host planet at greater detail, adding that Pluto’s mass wasn’t even known until astronomers discovered its moon, Charon.
A screen view from OnSight, a software tool developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in collaboration with Microsoft. OnSight uses real rover data to create a 3D simulation of the Martian environment. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
WASHINGTON— NASA is aiming to send astronauts to Mars sometime in the 2030s, but a new technology could help scientists explore the surface of the Red Planet — from its sprawling craters to its enormous volcanoes — from right here on Earth.
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, partnered with Microsoft to develop software that uses the tech giant's HoloLens headsets to allow scientists to virtually explore and conduct scientific research on Mars.
The software, called OnSight, uses real data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars to create a 3D holographic simulation of the Martian landscape. Scientists wearing the HoloLens headsets can virtually walk around on the Red Planet and interact with the environment.
"We may not be able to actually go to Mars yet, but we can go there virtually," said Parker Abercrombie, a software engineer at JPL who investigates different ways that software can enable augmented exploration.
And because the software was created using actual observations, researchers will be able to conduct valuable science, even while being more than 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) away. For instance, scientists could scale an escarpment to survey the view from that vantage point, or get on their hands and knees for a close-up view of the planet's rocky terrain.
"What's really exciting about this is [that] what we're looking at is a reconstruction of Mars from real data sent from the Curiosity rover," Abercrombie said. "This isn't an artist's conception of what Mars looks like. This is actually what Mars looks like."
Additionally, because Curiosity's mission is ongoing, JPL engineers will be able to make modifications based on the latest data.
"As the rover drives and takes more pictures, our reconstructions are constantly being updated and improved," Abercrombie said.
This holographic technology is also helping NASA build new spacecraft and rovers. At JPL, the HoloLens is being used to design the agency's next Mars rover, which is slated to launch in 2020. By projecting a virtual model of the rover in 3D space, engineers can get close-up views of how the various components fit together, add or move parts around easily, and even walk right through the model to see its inner workings. [Our sister site, Tom's Guide, put together a guide on the best VR headsets on the market right now.]
"It allows us to attain perspectives that are difficult, or even impossible, to attain with a physical model," Valderrama said. "It brings them out into the world so that our engineers can begin to reason and communicate about the models long before any physical artifact exists."
But perhaps the most important advantage of integrating NASA's work with augmented and virtual reality is that it helps make space more accessible to everyone, said Alexander Menzies, software lead for augmented and virtual reality development at NASA.
Now, when the agency sends rovers to the Red Planet — and eventually when human astronauts journey to Mars — technology like the HoloLens and virtual reality headsets will allow people all around the world to come along. These "telenauts," as Menzies dubbed them, will be humanity's virtual explorers of the future.
"A new era of space exploration has begun, and this time, we all get to go," Menzies said. "I look forward to seeing you on Mars."
Hubble Telescope Captures Sharpest Image Yet of Mysterious Red Rectangle
Hubble Telescope Captures Sharpest Image Yet of Mysterious Red Rectangle
by Kasandra Brabaw, Space.com Contributor
An image of star HD 44179, surrounded by an extraordinary structure known as the Red Rectangle. This image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA
A striking new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope delivers a deep look into a mysterious cosmic object called the Red Rectangle Nebula.
The Red Rectangle, so named because of its bizarre shape and striking color, is a nebula — a cosmic cloud of gas and particles. In this case, the nebula is formed by the central star, HD 44179, which is reaching the end of its life and shedding most of its mass into space.
The source of the red light emitted by the Red Rectangle baffled scientists for more than 30 years. The same kind of red emission was seen throughout the Milky Way and in other galaxies, but scientists weren't sure what created it. The mystery was finally solved in 2007: The glow comes from strange activity at the molecular level inside clusters of dust.
This new image gives scientists the best understanding yet of the structure of the Red Rectangle, according to a statement from NASA. Instead of a rectangle, it appears that the nebula around the star is shaped like an "X," with ladder-like rungs of glowing gas connecting the four arms.
The star at the center of the Red Rectangle is similar to Earth's sun and is responsible for those evenly spaced lines as it releases gas and other material to create the nebula and its distinctive shape. NASA experts now believe the star is also a close binary (meaning it has a stellar partner), and is surrounded by a dense area of dust, according to the statement.
The star at the center of the Red Rectangle will eventually leave behind a hot white dwarf that will give off brilliant ultraviolet radiation that will cause the surrounding gas to glow.
Showers of high energy particles occur when energetic cosmic rays strike the top of the Earth's atmosphere. Most cosmic rays are atomic nuclei: most are hydrogen nuclei, some are helium nuclei, and the rest heavier elements. Although many of the low energy cosmic rays come from our Sun, the origins of the highest energy cosmic rays remains unknown and a topic of much research. This drawing illustrates air showers from very high energy cosmic rays.
Credit: Simon Swordy (U. Chicago), NASA
Cosmic rays are atom fragments that rain down on the Earth from outside of the solar system. They blaze at the speed of light and have been blamed for electronics problems in satellites and other machinery.
First discovered in 1912, many things about cosmic rays remain a mystery more than a century later. One prime example is exactly where they are coming from. Most scientists suspect their origins are related to supernovas (star explosions), but the challenge is that cosmic ray origins appear uniform when you look across the entire sky.
History
While cosmic rays were only discovered in the 1900s, scientists knew something mysterious was going on as early as the 1780s. That's when French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — best known for having a unit of electrical charge named after him — observed an electrically charged sphere suddenly and mysteriously not being charged any more.
At the time, air was thought to be an insulator and not an electric conductor. With more work, however, scientists discovered that air can conduct electricity if its molecules are charged or ionized. This would most commonly happen when the molecules interact with charged particles or X-rays.
But where these charged particles came from was a mystery; even attempts to block the charge with large amounts of lead were coming up empty. On Aug. 7, 1912, physicist Victor Hess flew a high-altitude balloon to 17,400 feet (5,300 meters). He discovered three times more ionizing radiation there than on the ground, which meant the radiation had to be coming from outer space.
Among the products of these star explosions are gamma-ray photons, which (unlike cosmic rays) are not affected by magnetic fields. The gamma rays studied had the same energy signature as subatomic particles called neutral pions. Pions are produced when protons get stuck in a magnetic field inside the shockwave of the supernova and crash into each other.
In other words, the matching energy signatures showed that protons could move at fast enough speeds within supernovas to create cosmic rays.
Current science
We know today that galactic cosmic rays are atom fragments such as protons (positively charged particles), electrons (negatively charged particles) and atomic nuclei. While we know now they can be created in supernovas, there may be other sources available for cosmic ray creation. It also isn't clear exactly how supernovas are able to make these cosmic rays so fast.
Cosmic rays constantly rain down on Earth, and while the high-energy "primary" rays collide with atoms in the Earth's upper atmosphere and rarely make it through to the ground, "secondary" particles are ejected from this collision and do reach us on the ground.
But by the time these cosmic rays get to Earth, it's impossible to trace where they came from. That's because their path has been changed as they travelled through multiple magnetic fields (the galaxy's, the solar system's and Earth's itself.)
According to NASA, cosmic rays therefore come equally from all directions of the sky. So scientists are trying to trace back cosmic ray origins by looking at what the cosmic rays are made of. Scientists can figure this out by looking at the spectroscopic "signature" each nucleus gives off in radiation, and also by weighing the different isotopes (types) of elements that hit cosmic ray detectors.
The result, NASA adds, shows very common elements in the universe. Roughly 90 percent of cosmic ray nuclei are hydrogen (protons) and 9 percent are helium (alpha particles). Hydrogen and helium are the most abundant elements in the universe and the origin point for stars, galaxies and other large structures. The remaining 1 percent are all elements, and it's from that 1 percent that scientists can best search for rare elements to make comparisons between different types of cosmic rays.
Scientists can also date the cosmic rays by looking at radioactive nuclei that decrease over time. Measuring the "half life" of each nuclei gives an estimate of how long the cosmic ray has been out there in space.
Space radiation concerns
Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere shields the planet from 99.9 percent of the radiation from space. However, for people outside the protection of Earth's magnetic field, space radiation becomes a serious hazard. An instrument aboard the Curiosity Mars rover during its 253-day cruise to Mars revealed that the radiation dose received by an astronaut on even the shortest Earth-Mars round trip would be about 0.66 sievert. This amount is like receiving a whole-body CT scan every five or six days.
A dose of 1 sievert is associated with a 5.5 percent increase in the risk of fatal cancers. The normal daily radiation dose received by the average person living on Earth is 10 microsieverts (0.00001 sievert).
The moon has no atmosphere and a very weak magnetic field. Astronauts living there would have to provide their own protection, for example by burying their habitat underground.
The planet Mars has no global magnetic field. Particles from the sun have stripped away most of Mars’ atmosphere, resulting in very poor protection against radiation at the surface. The highest air pressure on Mars is equal to that at an altitude of 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface. At low altitudes, Mars’ atmosphere provides slightly better protection from space radiation.
Strange "haloed" craters can be seen on Pluto in these images of the dwarf planet from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. Dozens of the strange craters are visible in the black-and-white view (top), while the lower view shows strange methane ice (in purple) around the craters, with water ice (in blue) inside and around them.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
The discovery of strange halo-like craters on Pluto has raised a new mystery about how the odd scars formed on the icy world.
Pluto's "halo" craters are clearly visible in a new image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which made the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015. In the image, a black-and-white view reveals dozens of ringed craters (NASA describes these formations as "haloed") strewn across the dark landscape of Vega Terra, a region in the far western reaches of the hemisphere photographed by New Horizons during its flyby. The craters have bright walls and rims, making them stand out from their darker surroundings.
A glimpse at the craters provided by New Horizons' Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array revealed a surprising connection between the bright halo features and the distribution of methane ice, NASA officials explained in an image description. This methane ice around the craters shows up as a deep purple in an inset view included in the new image. The crater floors and in-between regions, meanwhile, are colored blue to indicate water ice.
"Exactly why the bright methane ice settles on these crater rims and walls is a mystery; also puzzling is why this same effect doesn't occur broadly across Pluto," NASA officials wrote in the image description.
Pluto : How Well Do You Know the Dwarf Planet?
Pluto, the most famous dwarf planet in our solar system, underwent a well-publicized (and somewhat controversial) reclassification that took away its title as the ninth and most distant planet from the sun. So, how well do you know this fascinating world?
So that's yet another mystery for scientists to ponder as the images and data continue to beam back to Earth from New Horizon's Pluto flyby on July 14, 2015. Mission scientists have said the probe's data download should be complete by October or November.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft launched in 2006 and is currently headed out into the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. Last week, mission scientists submitted a proposal for an extended mission that, if approved, would send the probe by the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019.
In an astonishing new video from Brazil, a glowing ball of light appears next to a massive storm cloud and hovers amidst its lightning bolts before slowing disappearing.
According to the man who captured the footage, he and his friend saw the storm approaching during the daylight hours and had an eerie feeling about the oncoming weather.
Thirty minutes later, they spotted the odd ball of light near the storm and decided to film the anomaly.
The 'UFO' seems to float in one spot on the edge of the storm cloud for about three minutes and then simply vanishes.
Some have suggested that the phenomenon in the footage is ball lighting, but others argue against that possibility due to the object's stationary position and fairly long duration.
UFO researchers theorize that the scene is another indication of the phenomenon's interest in our planet's weather, noting similar incidents where object were seemingly caught observing storms.
That said, we also cannot rule out that these anomalies are natural byproducts of the storms that science has yet to fully understand because the phenomenon is so fleeting.
Check out the video and decide for yourself whether the object is an ET craft or merely something from here on Earth.
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MYSTERIOUS GREEN LIGHT ‘UFO’ SEEN ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SKIES WAS AREA 51 ALIEN CRAFT CRASHING WHILE UNDERGOING USAF FLIGHT-TESTING, ACCORDING TO UFO HUNTER [VIDEO]
MYSTERIOUS GREEN LIGHT ‘UFO’ SEEN ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SKIES WAS AREA 51 ALIEN CRAFT CRASHING WHILE UNDERGOING USAF FLIGHT-TESTING, ACCORDING TO UFO HUNTER [VIDEO]
Thousands of people sighted a mysterious bright green and orb-shaped light that streaked across the skies of Southern California on Tuesday night, April 26, 2016, between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. The unexpected aerial display was reported by people living hundreds of miles apart in San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties and as far as Bakersfield in Kern County.
Although experts said that the object was most likely a meteor, a UFO blogger claims controversially that based on his experience of similar incidents in the past while living in Needles, San Bernardino County, in California, he was forced to conclude that Tuesday’s “green light UFO” was an alien craft, or a reverse-engineered replica of an alien craft, that crashed while undergoing USAF flight testing as part of reverse-engineering R&D efforts.
Incredible Moment Shows Fireball (Meteor) caught on DashCamera in Southern California (April 26)
Residents in several cities and communities across Southern California were baffled about the sighting, and questions about the nature of the object sparked debates on social media, including Reddit.
Witnesses snapped pictures and took videos later uploaded online. Several witnesses contacted KTLA-TV, giving reports and submitting images and videos of the green fireball.
Dash cam footage of the mysterious green light was captured in Los Angeles, and it has gone viral online (see above). Many residents expressed astonishment at the size and brightness of the object and described the sight as “spectacular.”
A witness told the San Diego-Union Tribune that the fireball was “[v]ery large, very bright, fast moving vivid green ball followed by a shockingly orange/yellow fire tail.”
“I’ve never seen anything that large, that fast, or that close explode out of the sky,” the witness added. “We almost crashed while driving, we were in such disbelief.”
“Saw it from Point Loma. It was pretty big!”
“I also saw, can confirm, was spectacular.”
“Brightest and most consistent trail I’ve ever seen. ”
“The way the tail sparkled I thought it was really big fireworks.”
The San Diego-Union Tribune reports that the American Meteor Society received more than 60 reports of the fireball as it blazed over the city at about 9:39 p.m.
According to CBS Los Angeles, a spokesperson for the U.S. Strategic Command said the object did not correspond with any of the thousands of man-made space objects being tracked by the command, and thus, it was probably not a man-made object or space junk making re-entry into the atmosphere.
KTLA reports that Dr. Ed Krupp, the director of the Griffith Observatory, said the object was very likely a piece of “interplanetary debris” (that is, a space rock) that entered the Earth’s atmosphere and began glowing brightly after heating up due to friction in contact with the Earth’s dense atmosphere.
Green Light Seen Over Southern California Believed To Be Meteor http://dld.bz/e3Pmk
Green Light Seen Over Southern California Believed To Be Meteor
A green light that streaked across the night sky that was seen from the Mexican border to Central California was apparently a meteor or some other heavenly body falling to Earth.
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He added that the object burned up completely in the air. He said that meteors burning up in the air after impact with the Earth’s atmosphere were not uncommon. They happen regularly, but most incidents go unnoticed.
Some suggested that the fireball was part of the Lyrid meteor shower that peaked last Friday. Gizmodo, for instance, pointed out that Lyrid meteor fireballs tend to be explosive. The color of light emitted by a meteor depends on the type of metal atoms the meteor is composed of. Meteors consisting mainly of magnesium atoms tend to emit a blue-green light, while those composed of sodium atoms emit orange-yellow light.
Mysterious Green Light Streaks Across Southern California Night Sky
A mysterious green light was seen by dozens of people in Southern California on Tuesday night. The phenomenon was reported around 9:30 p.m. by several viewers who contacted the KTLA newsroom. The o…
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However, alien and UFO conspiracy theorists view the incident from a different and unique perspective. UFO Sightings Daily editor Scott C. Waring believes the mysterious green light was an alien craft crashing to Earth.
He claims that his take on Tuesday’s incident was based on past experience. According to Waring, while living in Needles, California, in 2008, residents witnessed a green, glowing, and oval UFO that crashed at a site near the town. Residents later saw government agents in black helicopters and two “Janet planes” rush to the crash site to retrieve the alien craft.
The term “Janet” refers to USAF passenger planes based at the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, which are used to transport government employees and military officials to and from Area 51.
Waring claimed that Tuesday’s green UFO was the same type as the green and oval alien craft that residents of Needles witnessed crashing in May 2008. He claims that alien crafts and reverse-engineered replicas in the hands of the USAF sometimes crash while being tested as part of reverse-reengineering efforts.
A USAF Boeing 737 ‘Janet Plane’ departing from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas [Image via Beer Root/Wikimedia/Public Domain]
According to Waring, “Janet planes” carrying scientists from Area 51 must have been rushed to an airstrip nearest to the crash site to retrieve the UFO before anyone saw it.
He said alien crafts in the hands of government agencies and the USAF often crash during attempts to fly them, probably because USAF scientists, engineers, and technicians are unfamiliar with alien propulsion technology.
Such crafts have to be retrieved hastily by military specialists in black helicopters, backed by teams of government scientists transported to an airstrip nearest to the crash site in “Janet planes,” according to the UFO blogger.
A couple driving through Nevada near the top secret Area 51 were shocked to see a huge plum of dark smoke that appeared to be in the shape of a mushroom cloud rising in the vicinity of the base.
Jimmy and Jackie were driving to the base the US government confirmed existed in 2013, and while approaching from Groom Road, they spotted the smoke.
In a video filmed of the incident that happened in 2012, but was just recently shared to YouTube, Jimmy can be heard saying: 'We are still driving down groom road here and we noticed that there is like weird smoke over here. What could be going on?'
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A couple driving through Nevada near Area 51 were shocked to see a huge plum of dark smoke that appeared to be in the shape of a mushroom cloud rising in the vicinity of the base.
Jimmy and Jackie were driving to the base the US government confirmed existed in 2013 and while approaching from Groom Road they spotted the smoke. They filmed video of their drive that took place in 2012
Jimmy then states that he's not sure 'what's going on,' but says they're not going to stop and will keep driving.
'What the hell is that?' he asks. 'A fire?'
Jackie can be heard replying 'yeah,' as the video shows them traveling towards the mysterious smoke.
The couple, who is never pictured on camera, finally gets near the main gate, which has warning signs not to cross.
They noticed what appears to be a white security jeep that was parked on a hill reportedly monitoring them.
'They're watching us up there,' Jimmy says while aiming that camera at the parked white SUV.
The couple then approaches a group of four people who were also watching the dark smoke billowing.
Whent the couple gets near the main gate, they notice what appears to be a white security jeep (above) that was parked on a hill reportedly monitoring them
The main gate near Area 51 has warning signs (above) not 'to enter this area without permission of the Installation Commander'
The video then jumps ahead to the couple back in the car driving away from the base, as the camera is aimed at the 'big cloud' before concluding.
Earlier in April, Hillary Clinton promised to investigate and declassify government files on UFOs and make them available to the public.
'I would like to go into those files and, hopefully, make as much of that public as possible,' Clinton said Jimmy Kimmel Live!
'If there's nothing there, let's tell people there's nothing there. If there something there, unless it's a threat to national security, I think we ought to share it with the public.'
Apercevoir soucoupes volantes et aliens a constitué, pendant plusieurs décennies, une forme culturelle spontanée, sous-produit des récits de science-fiction, d’espionnage et de conquête spatiale, à l’existence fantomatique. Croyance populaire basée sur la rumeur, elle a toujours présenté les caractéristiques d’une sous-culture dépourvue d’autorité, illustrée notamment par l’extrême variabilité de ses manifestations.
Une des preuves de son statut illusoire est la nature de sa mobilisation au sein des productions culturelles. De la même façon que les représentations religieuses n’existent que dans des œuvres qui partagent ou véhiculent la croyance, la présence de soucoupes ou d’aliens n’est tolérée qu’au sein de récits thématiques précisément définis par cette spécialisation. En d’autres termes, il n’y a pas de soucoupes dans les romans policiers ou les histoires d’amour, mais seulement dans les sous-genres correspondants de la SF – une relégation qui limite leur existence aux marges de la fiction.
Du moins jusqu’à la seconde saison de Fargo (Noah Hawley), série télévisée américaine déclinée à partir du film des frères Coen, diffusée l’hiver dernier sur la chaîne FX, et disponible en France sur Netflix. Sombre histoire de guerre des gangs sur fond de Midwest enneigé, ce feuilleton de dix épisodes comprend en effet deux séquences où apparaissent des soucoupes volantes, dont la présence influe sur le cours des événements, ainsi que quelques autres allusions éparses.
Le caractère incongru de ce Deus ex machina et l’absence de toute explication ou de tout lien entre un contexte extraterrestre et une intrigue policière menée tambour battant a soulevé les interrogations des spectateurs et de la critique. Certains sont allés chercher dans la filmographie des frères Coen (en particulier The Man Who Wasn’t There) la motivation de cette mystérieuse irruption. Mais sa principale explication relève de la dimension contextuelle.
La série est supposée se dérouler en 1979, qui est l’année d’un témoignage célèbre de la vision d’une soucoupe par un policier, à la frontière du Minnesota et du Dakota du Nord, lieu de l’action. De façon plus générale, l’allusion extraterrestre participe de l’évocation d’une atmosphère typique, située quelques années après Rencontres du troisième type (1977) ou Star Wars (1977), dans un film aux reconstitutions particulièrement soignées.
Autrement dit, les soucoupes de Fargo sont pour la première fois mobilisées en-dehors du genre de la science-fiction, au titre de ce que Roland Barthes appelait l’«effet de réel1», le détail qui fait vrai, renvoyant à un contexte extérieur à l’intrigue. La croyance soucoupique faisant partie du décor du Midwest de la fin des années 1970, elle y apparaît au même titre qu’une Imperial LeBaron ou une Corvair d’époque, comme la marque d’une ambiance caractéristique. Il s’agit d’une des premières utilisations du motif extraterrestre en tant que référence culturelle ordinaire, témoignage de la revalorisation des formes de culture populaire par le prisme de la dimension historique.
Roland Barthes, « L’effet de réel« , Communications, 11-1, 1968, p. 84-89. []
An international team of scientists announced this week that they have discovered learning behaviors in colonies of single-celled organisms. The study, published in The Proceedings of Royal Society B, outlines how the slime mold Physarum polycephalum has been observed to change behaviors in response to stimuli and repeat those behaviors later.
Physarum polycephalum
For this experiment, researchers placed a small number of Physarum polycephalum cells in a petri dish across from a food source for the slime to move towards. Next, the researchers placed a small amount of a bitter substance such as quinine or caffeine across the middle of the dish. The slime reacted by moving around the bittering agent through a narrow path the researchers left for it. The next time food was placed opposite the slime, the organism took the same route through the narrow path it previously took to avoid the bittering agent.
The same slime mold has been observed in previous studies to solve simple computational problems or even find solutions to classic “minimal length” problems in mazes. A 2008 Japanese study even found that Physarum polycephalum has a very primitive form of memory, and can anticipate future stimuli. One of the researchers in that study, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, argues that the many-headed slime challenges many of our notions about single-celled organisms:
The organism is able to remember periodic changes that it has not experienced before. This indicates that the organism has a generalized capacity for learning
Physarum polycephalum is typically found growing on decaying leaves or tree trunks and has a yellowish, slimy appearance. Its name in Latin literally means “many-headed slime,” and the name might give some clues as to how the organism displays learning-like behaviors. While it is theorized that the individual cells within this slime mold might be able to share information about stimuli, the specific mechanism that enables these behaviors is still unknown.
Physarum polycephalum “navigating” a maze
The study of this slime mold sheds light on how information sharing works at the cellular level and could potentially lead to discoveries about how learning evolved into the forms of intelligence seen in higher order organisms. So, outdoorsmen and women, the next time you see slime growing up the side of a tree, remember to be courteous – it could be learning from you.
The developers of UFO Detector are currently working on making the software functional on a wide variety of platforms, including Raspberry Pi. (Photo : David McNew | Getty Images)
Many people are interested in what's really up there in the night sky, and now, new software promises to help people keep an eye out for the unknown. UFO Detector, as it's been named, is a computer software program designed to help individuals monitor the sky (day and night) for unidentified flying objects.
The idea is simple — if a UFO is detected, the software will automatically record video of the event in the best possible quality. Of course, users are encouraged to share the recorded video and discuss among other UFO enthusiasts. UFO Detector makes video sharing as easy as one click.
"UFOID provides a platform to share the recorded videos and have them analyzed by other people," states the UFO Detector website. "Whether you are a believer or a skeptic, your opinion matters and is used to identify the objects."
In an interview with OpenMinds.tv, UFO Detector Developer Mark Lakum stated that the idea came about when he thought there had to be "a better way" to study UFO phenomenon. Although the software has been around for a while, Lakum only recently made it open-source. He created UFOID.net in conjunction with it, and the platform now exists for individuals to share their findings as a community.
UFO Detector works with a computer's webcam. The camera must be pointed in the direction of the sky (understandably) in order to capture potential UFO footage. The software allows users to choose which parts of their screen to monitor. It's also supposedly smart enough to rule out interference from objects, such as planes and birds, as long as the user tags them. The goal is to only record supposed UFOs, rather than eat up hard drive space with videos of inactive skies.
On the UFOID YouTube page, UFO Detector users have already posted videos caught with the software, depicting some unusual activity. Many of these videos have hundreds of views, hinting that UFO Detector may actually be achieving its goal of bringing the UFO community closer together.
The developers of UFO Detector are currently working on making the software functional on a wide variety of platforms, including Raspberry Pi. Additionally, a new feature will soon be introduced to prevent the tampering of captured video.
A streak of bright green light appeared above Southern California on Tuesday. What was it? It is being called space junk that just burned up in the atmosphere. What do you think?
A bright green flash has been seen by people hundreds of miles apart shooting across the Californian night sky on April 26, 2016.
U.S. Strategic Command told CBS that the mysterious object does not appear to be man-made, however it was not a tracked satellite in their database, the agency said.
The first video shows the sphere-like object, continued with a footage captured on the dash cam of a car in Los Angeles around that time, shows the object ( space junk fireball/meteor or something else?) falling through the night sky towards the ground.
Another witness on his way home caught the fireball on his dash cam too. Witness: “The camera doesn’t capture it very well but the fireball was sparking a lot and had a green light to it.”
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT CRASH-LANDS IN LAKE WINNIPEG, MILITARY IMMEDIATELY TAKES OVER
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT CRASH-LANDS IN LAKE WINNIPEG, MILITARY IMMEDIATELY TAKES OVER
This particular event which occurred in a desolate place from Canada during extreme-weather conditions forced the military to cover-up tracks once again.
This February, in Manitoba, Canada, on the Jackhead Reservation, rumors spread about a possible UFO crash landing into Lake Winnipeg.
Following this report, the Canadian military has quickly made their way to the highlighted area, blocking all access to unauthorized personnel.
During the military operation, nobody was permitted to enter or leave the reservation, while the residents of the area were visited by troops telling them that an emergency training excercise is ongoing and that they shouldn’t leave their homes until this ends.
This was a curious action because an extremely cold front was already being felt over Manitoba for a last couple of days, making time spent outdoors a dangerous activity.
A man stranded inside the Jackhead Reservation allegedly reported that:
Apparently a disc shaped craft was seen crashing through the ice on the lake, at least one person got photographic evidence but has since been detained by the Canadian military.
The military deployed a large number of troops and equipment, effectively suppressing all view of what crashed into the lake or what they were doing there. Fortunately, some brave citizens facing the harsh weather conditions managed to take a few pictures of the gear used by the military, highlighting the importance of this “exercise” in this eventless area of Canada.
Owned by the Aboriginal people, the Jackhead Reservation is governed by their own laws which do not allow for operations such as these to take place, making the Canadian military intruders under these circumstances.
A native by the name of Dakotah Traverse stated that no major event took place here until now and that UFOs are not a rare sight around these parts either:
My people have been seeing these kind of things for years now. It’s funny that the military has entered my reserve for training – which they have never before, and this sudden and with so much troops. My reserve has never seen this much attention before, especially by the military, but neither from anyplace else. I wouldn’t even call this place a blip on the map, it’s so small.
While people reported seeing military forces dragging a strange disc-shaped object using snowmobiles, the Canadian army officials stated that this was just one big training exercise teaching soldiers on how to deal with a plane crash in the Arctic and rescue maneuvers.
There’s no aliens, just my friends in the air force who are out there helping us on this exercise. I have the commander of that air force contingent sitting right beside me and you know, he assures us that there was not a UFO, but that was him.
It is rather unlikely that an actual training exercise took place because they refused to give in any data about the supposed event. No evidence has been released in order to assure us this was indeed a plane crash training operation.
Whatever the case may be, we have drawn the line, speculating in favor of a UFO landing in the lake that could either have ET origins or it could be a craft designed using the latest military technology (which we believe to be extremely advanced) that crashed as a result of really bad weather
The Fermi Paradox – Aliens Haven’t Made Contact With Us Yet Because They’re Dead
The Fermi Paradox – Aliens Haven’t Made Contact With Us Yet Because They’re Dead
Many attempts have been done throughout the years to communicate with extraterrestrial beings residing in the universe, but to no avail. A recent study has proposed that they may all be dead, so we should focus on preserving life on Earth rather than trying to reach them.
There’s no doubt about the vastness of the universe we live in. Considering this colossal expanse, it’s logical to assume that other intelligent lifeforms reside within. Our technological means have evolved, our understanding of space has boomed over the years, but we haven’t yet found any trace of advanced extraterrestrials. When it comes to why we haven’t achieved this yet, there are countless speculations providing an explanation.
First of all, let’s see how far the universe stretches. According to data gathered throughout the years, there should be billions of other galaxies beside the Milky Way, each of them containing billions of stars, in turn orbited by billions of planets. This only implies that chances for intelligent life to be found somewhere else other than Earth are extremely high. But why haven’t we managed such a feat yet?
According to scientists, other galaxies are out of reach for us. Even if we learn how to travel at the speed of light, time would be an issue whenever considering venturing outside of the Milky Way. So, instead of focusing on finding intelligent life in the entire cosmos, we should only search the galaxy that we find ourselves into. What are the chances of success you might ask?
There are around 100 billion planets in the Milky Way alone, and although just a portion of them could sustain life, there are still millions of planets left with extraterrestrial life, and hundreds of thousands that should be inhabited by intelligent and advanced species. So why haven’t we discovered them so far if they reside in the same galaxy as we do?
The Fermi’s paradox tries to elucidate this mystery. It represents an apparent contradiction between the estimated possibilities (which clearly give high chances for ET life) and the lack of evidence of alien life.
A new study conducted by scientists at the Australian National University suggests that we failed to discover aliens because they all may be dead. As extreme as this sounds, the team has based their hypothesis on certain calculations of planetary birth – the first billion years after a planet forms are unlikely to offer the adequate conditions for life to evolve. Therefor the chances for intelligent life to appear in a short span of time after a planet had formed are slim.
The Universe is probably filled with habitable planets, so many scientists think it should be teeming with aliens,” said lead researcher Aditya Chopra from the Australian National University. “Early life is fragile, so we believe it rarely evolves quickly enough to survive.
Scientists highlighted that 4 billion years ago, Venus and Mars could had supported life, but more than a billion years after they formed, the temperatures changed so drastically that it could had wiped the entire life on the two planets.
The study further adds that our planet remains habitable because of its inhabitants stabilizing the environment. “Most early planetary environments are usable,” says Chopra. “To produce a habitable planet, life forms need to regulate greenhouse gases such as water and carbon dioxide to keep surface temperatures stable.”
Previous studies revealed that Earth maintained its evolutionary state due to a rapid growth of life that ultimately had a benevolent impact on the planet. During Earth’s early stages, the Sun was heating up with 25 percent less intensity. At this point, the oceans on our planet were frozen, but not entirely. The liquid water on the surface interacted with the frozen areas, impacting the radiation coming from the Sun, and ultimately determining the temperatureon the surface.
In extremely rare cases – like on Earth – the relatively rapid evolution from single-to multicellular organisms to complex life forms did not produce enough greenhouse gases to cause runaway negative feedback and heat the planet enough to evaporate all its liquid water,” explains Campbell Simpson at Gizmodo.
If proven to be correct, this hypothesis may solve the dilemma of the Fermi paradox – If the Universe is so vast, encompassing trillions of life-sustaining stars and habitable planets, why haven’t we encountered any aliens so far?
The mystery of why we haven’t yet found signs of aliens may have less to do with the likelihood of the origin of life or intelligence and have more to do with the rarity of the rapid emergence of biological regulation of feedback cycles on planetary surfaces,” concluded astronomer Charles Lineweaver.
If this theory is right, then chances of meeting other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy are extremely unlikely. This thought should make us reflect more on the harmful impact we have on the environment, and eventually try to resolve this planetary crisis we find ourselves into before it’s too late.
Whatever the case, there is plenty of room left for speculation, and there is one theory claiming that advanced species of aliens (Type 3 on Kardashev scale) could be monitoring us until we reach a certain level of evolution. From that point, they will either reveal themselves to us, or send us into oblivion.
[VIDEO] Burning Object Above Arizona Seems to Defy all Explanations
[VIDEO] Burning Object Above Arizona Seems to Defy all Explanations
A strange device has lit up over Arizona, leaving numerous witnesses scratching their heads, as they couldn’t understand what was happening right above them.
There are countless sky anomalies recorded each year, some of them ending up being explained through scientific means, but others continue to defy any rational explanation. If we take into consideration the other bizarre events that don’t make it on the news or social media, the matter takes an even more ample dimension.
From portals opening up behind the moon to peculiar flashes of light coming from the clouds, our world is sure to put an extraordinary spectacle. However, the possibility of those being the product of otherworldly forces that far exceed our imagination is also likely. To add further proof to my claims, I’ll present you a strange event that took place over Snowflake, Arizona recently.
On September 19, 2015, a mysterious light appeared on the sky during sunrise. It was about 6 AM when residents who were awake were surprised of what, at first sight, appears to be a falling object of unknown origins.
It lit up over a cloud, leaving a dense smoky trail behind it. After a few moments of falling, the object becomes visible. It’s surprisingly to notice such a small device (or whatever it is) leaving behind such as dense trail. From 0:22 to 0:32 you can see it pulsating through the air, like some sort of transmitter. After exactly 10 seconds, it begins to release another trail of smoke, almost like being programmed to do so. It dissipates the cloud below as it passes through it, with the smoky trail remaining visible.
At this point, the mysterious object pauses for another 10 seconds before incinerating the sky once more. It repeats the procedure until it reaches the ground. The areas of the sky where the device went through are looking like patches of burning grass, thus raising a lot of questions about the material that’s being released by the falling object.
The first rational explanation when first seeing this is that of a freefalling object. However, this doesn’t seem the case after closely analyzing the video, since a burning object would leave a constant trail of smoke behind it. From what you can see, there’s a small beeping device that’s causing all this, and it appears to be programmed to release something into the air at precise intervals of time.
According to analysts that had been investigating this case, the chances are even for this device to have either military or alien origins, although I consider the military scenario more likely. It is a well-known fact that the government is spraying different chemicals into the air using special chem-planes. But what does this have to do with it, you might ask? Well, since more and more people are becoming aware of what’s happening, they have to implement new methods to continue their actions without the general population noticing.
There’s been another case filmed by a vigilant sky watcher, revealing a close-up of a similar falling device. The only difference is the trail of smoke left behind, which in this case is not visible. Similarities such as the beeping sensor that can be seen from afar, and the relatively small size of the falling object make these two sightings likely to be related.
Other conspirators speak of a possible alien device, but I doubt aliens would make such a fuss considering they have technology way ahead of our time.
The case remains unexplained for now, as it is hard to determine the composition of the burning material, or the exact origins of the device, but the theory suggesting of a new type of military weapon remains viable.
Strong Evidence of UFO Activity Near the Apollo 17 Lunar Mission
Strong Evidence of UFO Activity Near the Apollo 17 Lunar Mission
Numerous anomalies were found by the UFO community upon investigating thousands of official photos from the Apollo 17 mission. If you still don’t believe there’s something out of this world residing on the Moon, you better have a look at this.
Apollo 17 was the final mission of the US’ Apollo program that landed the first astronauts on the Moon in 1972. During the 12-day lunar mission, the crew captured more than 8,400 photos of the lunar surface which are now available on both Flickr and NASA website.
Years after the photos were released, UFO hunters discovered anomalous objects in some of the pictures that strongly resemble space crafts of otherworldly origins. While there are skeptics who try to disprove the ET story, there is viable evidence coming from the UFO community that pushes aside the usual lens flare or reflection hypothesis.
Robert Morningstar, analyst of bizarre phenomenon, has recently revealed on Coast to Coast AM, pictures highlighting a presumed UFO passing behind the Lunar Excursion Module while it was being deployed to the lunar surface from Apollo 17. Besides the spectacular caption of the glowing UFO, it also shows a reflected reaction of an astronaut aboard the Apollo 17 at the sight of the space craft.
It is, to me, the most stunning piece of film to come out of the Apollo program, Morningstar said.
Morningstar claimed that he will have the entire disclosing footage available sometimes this year. Until then, he shared some exclusive photos of the peculiar sighting and dismissed any concerns of the UFO being just an optical illusion or reflection, as it clearly appears to be self-illuminated in the video that he’s going to reveal in the upcoming months.
The recent findings deepen the Apollo17 mystery even further, adding up to the already existing photos showing curious floating objects around the lunar module. In a previous attempt to tell about the extraterrestrial presence, a vigilant UFO analyst revealed yet another picture of a UFO similar to the one posted above. It appeared in the official photos released by the astronauts on the Apollo missions. Could there be a connection between these two cases considering the similarities found in both the shape and light of the objects?
At a closer look, its triangle shape can be observed.
Other reports originating from the Apollo 17 mission revealed the presence of a strange disk-shaped object just behind the lunar module, but this time after it landed on the Moon. It makes its presence noticed in only one picture and its “stalking behavior” is similar to a military craft sent to surveil an area intruded by foreign forces.
UFO researcher Scott C. Waring analyzed the images and concluded the following:
This UFO is following the lunar module, because a military ship sent to measure any security threat that the humans may pose. Like all countries around the world, when a ship enters your territory, it’s met with military craft.
After the Apollo 17 mission came to an end, several records set by previous flights were overcome, including the longest lunar landing flight, the largest lunar sample return, the longest total lunar surface covered by extravehicular activities, and also the longest time spent into the lunar orbit. Apart from this, Apollo 17 remains the most recent manned Moon landing, with no other astronauts setting foot out there since 1972. Could this be but a coincidence?
The considerable amount of days this mission had, as well as the fact that no other manned missions have been engaged until then, raises a lot of question marks.
Is it possible that the astronauts encountered a secret lunar base on the Moon? If so, did aliens restrict human access to the Moon’s surface? Why would the Apollo 17 mission gather so much evidence, take so many pictures, and then never return to explore the natural satellite orbiting our planet?
Whatever the case, the above images clearly indicate some sort of extraterrestrial presence, and while it’s still impossible to prove that the astronauts were intercepted by aliens, the reality of UFOs appearing in many stages of the Apollo 17 mission might be sufficient enough for some to believe that NASA may have a secret pact with aliens and they are not letting us know about it.
Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX wil in 2018 een onbemand ruimteschip naar Mars sturen. Met het project genaamd Red Dragon wil het bedrijf van Elon Musk de technologieën verfijnen die nodig zullen zijn voor een bemande missie naar de Rode Planeet.
"Dragon 2 is ontworpen om overal in ons zonnestelsel te kunnen landen'', zei Musk woensdag op Twitter over een van de ruimteschepen die zijn bedrijf eerder ontwierp. "De Red Dragon Mars-missie is de eerste testvlucht."
Maan Musk, ook de topman van automerk Tesla, voegde eraan toe dat hoewel de Dragon 2 geschikt is voor passagiers, hij er niet verder dan de maan mee zou willen reizen. De Dragon 2 is van binnen ongeveer even groot alseen SUV-wagen.
Meer details over de Mars-missie volgen in september op het Internationaal Astronomisch Congres, dat dit jaar in Mexico wordt gehouden.
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VIDEO: Mysterieuze groene vuurbal verbijstert inwoners Californië
VIDEO: Mysterieuze groene vuurbal verbijstert inwoners Californië
Op dinsdag verscheen een grote groene vuurbal aan de hemel in Californië. Het is niet bekend wat de herkomst van het object is.
Het schouwspel was rond 22.00 uur lokale tijd te zien van de Mexicaanse grens tot aan Bakersfield in het noorden van Californië. Meldingen kwamen binnen uit onder meer San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County en Riverside County.
Het Amerikaanse Strategic Command denkt niet dat het een door mensen gemaakt object was, aangezien het niet in de database met alle satellieten voorkwam.
“Ik zag het terwijl ik Playas binnenkwam. Ik dacht in eerste instantie aan een grote vuurwerkshow. Erg gaaf,” schreef SeahawkTJ op Reddit. Een andere Reddit-gebruiker schreef: “Ik zag het vanaf het dak van mijn flatgebouw. De meest heldere staart die ik ooit gezien heb. Ik verwachtte een explosie te horen. Dit leek meer op de staart van een komeet.”
Wetenschappers van het Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles kunnen niet met zekerheid zeggen wat het is geweest, maar zeiden dat het waarschijnlijk om een stuk ‘ruimtepuin’ gaat dat is verbrand terwijl het de atmosfeer van de aarde binnenkwam, meldt de San Diego Union Tribune.
Disc UFO reported hovering over West Virginia bridge
Disc UFO reported hovering over West Virginia bridge
A West Virginia witness at Winfield reported a brief encounter with a hovering, disc-shaped UFO, before it shot off into the night sky, according to testimony in Case 74089 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Sunrise over the Kanawha River in Winfield, West Virginia. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness and a friend had just parked their vehicle near a bridge as they were waiting to join up with a friend at that location at 10:30 p.m. on November 13, 2015.
“I just pulled in to park so we could wait and before I could even put my car in park, I see an object in the sky,” the witness stated.
The witness first thought the object was someone who lived beside the river shinning a spotlight or even a boat with a spot light.
Winfield Lock and Dam on theKanawha River at Winfield, West Virginia. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
“But it was just so spherical in shape and it was bright. This thing was just hovering right over the river moving from left to right slowly. I was left speechless watching.”
The shortly the object began to move.
“The mysterious object just slowly started going towards the sky, and then, in the blink of an eye, it melted like a teardrop in the sky.”
The witness immediately looked to see if his passenger had seen the object.
“As soon as the object just vanished I shouted to my friend,‘Did you see that?’But unfortunately she was on her phone not paying any attention to what was going on. It all lasted approximately 30 seconds at most.”
Ross Booth Memorial Bridge in Winfield, West Virginia. (Credit: Google)
West Virginia Assistant State Director Dennis Henshaw is investigating. Winfield is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, population 2,301. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
A New Zealand witness at Tauranga Bay of Plenty reported watching a large, glowing object approach swiftly, light up the community and abruptly descend as though landing, according to testimony in Case 74972 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty region. (Wikimedia Commons)
The incident occurred on March 5, 2016, and was reported to MUFON the same day.
“I couldn’t sleep as I had several coffees with friends in the afternoon and so was still wide awake as I lay in bed,” the witness stated. “I noticed a shimmering star changing colors in the distance so went and got my binoculars to look at it more closely.”
The witness thought it was only a star when viewed through the binoculars.
“However as I returned to my bed after putting the binoculars away, my whole room lit up and I thought, ‘What the hell?’ and as I looked out from my two-story window I saw a huge glowing, bright, lime, greenish yellow orb coming up from a southeast direction.”
View over Greater Tauranga, taken from the top of Mauao. (Wikimedia Commons)
The witness noticed that the object was growing larger and larger as it approached very fast.
“Then inexplicably it suddenly left its horizontal trajectory and without a pause, it changed its direction and descended vertically and slightly sloping trajectory. It descended rapidly and in a peculiar momentum unknown to any other Earthly craft that I have seen descend.”
The witness noticed that as it rapidly descended, the suburb was full of light.
Tauranga harbor. (Wikimedia Commons)
“I lost sight of it and it dropped below the roof lines of neighboring houses. Its descent trajectory would have put it on course with the larger of the lakes a block away from the house. I did not see it ascend even though I sat up for about an hour after the event with binoculars at the ready just in case.”
MUFON International is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
UFO Over Las Vegas, Nevada Near Hotels On Feb 27, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Las Vegas, Nevada Near Hotels On Feb 27, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: February 27, 2016 Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Source: MUFON #76076 Dr. Charles Hall worked two years with tall white aliens that had their own base within Nellis AFB. This glowing ship looks a lot like the description that Hall gives about what he saw them fly in. He has stated many times that the Tall Whites like to go to Vegas to relax and enjoy a normal human lifestyle. This ship is probably taking some Tall Whites back to their base. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com To read more about the aliens at Nellis AFB, click on this. US Military Vet worked with Tall White aliens at Nellis Air Force Base, Video, UFO Sighting News. Eyewitness states: I Had Just come out of the Rio Hotel/Casino to catch The E/B Flamingo Bus, I Turned back toward the Hotel Because I Caught this Very Bright White light out of my Peripheral Vision, It was going west, No Sound, No Blinking, or "FAA" I.D. (Anti-Collision) Light's, It Glowed From Within, No External Light's. I Am a Former Private Pilot, and a Aircraft & Technology Enthusiast, I am Familiar with most kind's of aircraft, This wasn't a Helicopter, Or Jet, or Civilian aircraft, when I saw that it was Returning E/B From Behind the Rio Bldg. (on the left) I took out my Cellphone to Video it, took a picture then switched to video, (Both Included) I Think it was a UFO, Unless it was some kind of Homemade Drone, But from my best estimate it was about 300 ft.Alt. Maybe 1/4 to 1/2 mile away, and looked to be about the size of a Mini-Van. I Didn't see it emerge from behind Bldg. #2, And right at that time my bus was arriving, You can hear it in the audio, along with traffic noise, so I had to stop the video (and Further Investigation) Could you please take a closer Look at it and let me Know what you think, I Don't have the equipment to Enlarge the video to see more detail, I Was very excited to observe this, and I think I got one! I Believe that we are not alone, and have Never Been alone. . .and I Hope I Live long enough to experience "Disclosure", and possibly meet, and interact with our Space "Family" Thank You!!
This UFO was found by Streetcap1 of Youtube has shows a blue glowing ship in Earths orbit. The ship is actually moving from right to left of the photo. How do I know it? Because it was caught not one time, but three time in that particular photo. The ship is actually jumping, not flying from place to place. Much like a time traveler would, but instead of time, its space. Check out Streetcap1 and his awesome video channel for more great discoveries. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Mysterious green UFO in Southern California sky baffles onlookers, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious green UFO in Southern California sky baffles onlookers, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: April 27, 2016 Location of sighting: California, USA News source:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/04/27/Mysterious-green-light-in-Southern-California-sky-baffles-onlookers/6211461759967/ I have a strange feeling that on the night of April 27, several mysterious planes landed in the area where the UFO crashed. Janet planes (737 Boeing), which carry secret scientists and search and recovery teams to sites of top secret crashes from Area 51. I believe this alien tech craft in the hands of the USAF has been seen crashing before...in Needles, California May 2008, a small city I once lived in. Back in Needles, a green glowing oval UFO was seen crashing and later retrieved by black helicopters and two Janet planes seen at the local closed airport. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: LOS ANGELES, April 27 (UPI) -- A green light streaking across the night sky over Southern California left witnesses baffled and even experts were short on firm answers as to the cause of the display. Several residents of San Bernardino County and the surrounding region reported spotting the mystery green light in the sky between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tuesday, and at least one resident shared dashboard camera footage of the mystery light. Dr. Edwin Krupp of the Griffith Observatory said the green light may have been interplanetary debris that caught fire to create a meteor while entering the atmosphere. He said the object may have also been man-made debris from a previous space launch. Krupp said there is a strong possibility that the object completely burned up in the atmosphere, meaning it may never be conclusively identified.
I just received this interesting footage of a possible flying saucer flying across the daytime sky above Turin in Italy. This happened on 25th April 2016.
Arizona: UFO Spotted By Sky Harbor Employee at Airport
Arizona: UFO Spotted By Sky Harbor Employee at Airport
On Tuesday at Sky Harbor Airport, a certain employee was outside the building when a strange glowing object passing on the side caught his attention. It occurred at 9 pm and had a massive V-shaped structure. As the object moves, the witness observed its course of action and pattern. The encountered lasted for about five minutes. Since it did not point towards him, the witness believed that it is not a threat to humanity. What the witness felt is a sense of wonder about the massive object traveling in the air without making noises.
In Arizona, airport sightings are the most frequent sightings. In fact, it made the state as one of the hotspots for purported alien activities. According to Arizona’s state director Jim Mann, the sighting has increased in the last ten years. Therefore, he has a strong belief that humans are not the only ones living in the universe. If you can remember, the most famous encounter that is witnessed by many people is the Phoenix lights. It took place in March 1997 when a huge string of illuminated object hovered over Valley skies. Currently, this newly reported airport sighting is investigated. As per Mann, the team is seriously finding the grounds as seen by the witness. While the object may be a natural or man-made phenomenon, it is to be noted that other things hovering in the sky may, at least, be explained as radio-controlled toys or drones.
To get a further investigation, the field agent interviewed the witness irrespective if he is credible or not. However, the spokesperson of Sky Harbor named Julie Rodriguez said that no employee has reported a sighting on the date of the incident. As per Jeff Willes, he also spotted the strange floating objects around the airport. Whether or not the object can be identified, it is still clear that Phoenix is a hotspot destination for curious visitors.
Alien Oceanography: Cassini Reveals a Proverbial Ocean of Organics on Titan
Alien Oceanography: Cassini Reveals a Proverbial Ocean of Organics on Titan
Sunlight glints off of Titan's northern seas this near-infrared, color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona/Univ. Idaho
IN BRIEF
New research using the Cassini orbiter has shown that one of Titan’s largest seas, Ligeia Mare, is composed of pure methane and not ethane, as was previously thought. And it is a terribly rich sea.
But the NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission has changed all that. Little by little, the layers of Titan’s mysteries have been peeled back—and the information they revealed does not disappoint.
Titan’s atmosphere is about 95% nitrogen, with the rest comprising complex hydrocarbons floating in suspension; it has lakes and seas too, which cover about 1.6 million square km (620,000 square mi) of the moon’s surface—roughly 2% of Titan’s total surface area. Most of these liquid bodies are concentrated in the northern hemisphere, with three large seas clustered near the north pole
Only a single large lake exists in the southern hemisphere.
It was thought that these seas were largely composed of ethane, which is copiously produced through photodissociation of methane in Titan’s atmosphere, and precipitates thence to rain down onto the moon’s surface—kind of a hydrocarbonic analogue to our terrestrial “hydrologic cycle.”
But Titan, apparently, still has a few surprises left in store for us.
The data for the study was collected by Cassini’s radar imager, which can penetrate the moon’s thick photochemical smog, from 2007 to 2015.
A false-color radar image of Ligeia Mare, Titan’s vast methane sea. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell
It’s not currently clear why the sea should be so unexpectedly methane-rich. “Either Ligeia Mare is replenished by fresh methane rainfall, or something is removing ethane from it,” speculates Alice Le Gall, lead author of the study.
“It is possible that the ethane ends up in the undersea crust, or that it somehow flows into the adjacent sea, Kraken Mare, but that will require further investigation.”
Indeed it will. Already, the team’s conducted some pretty sophisticated oceanographic surveys of Ligeia Mare—in an extraterrestrial first, the team used the radar instrument to sound the methane ocean’s seafloor and determine its depth. They were startled to learn that Ligeia Mare can reach depths of 160 m (525 ft) at its deepest; moreover, they found that the seabed is composed of a rich sludge of organic compounds.
Illustration of the “hydrocarbonic” cycle of Titan, showing organic compounds filtering into the moon’s methane seas. Credit: ESA
It’s thought that organics, formed from the reaction of methane and nitrogen, precipitate from Titan’s atmosphere and flow into its seas, where they dissolve in the liquid methane and sink to the bottom. Further studies indicated that there’s even something like hydrocarbon “wetlands” along Ligeia Mare’s shoreline.
“It’s a marvelous feat of exploration that we’re doing extraterrestrial oceanography on an alien moon,” beams Steve Wall, deputy lead of the radar instrument team for the Cassini orbiter.
I, for one, can’t wait to see what else they’ll turn up on this weird moon.
SpaceX Racing NASA to Mars, Plans to Land on the Red Planet by 2018
SpaceX Racing NASA to Mars, Plans to Land on the Red Planet by 2018
SpaceX
IN BRIEF
SpaceX plans to send its Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018, the company announced today - marking a major first step toward CEO Elon Musk's goal of sending humans to the Red Planet. The company will reveal the full plan this September.
THE RED DRAGON MEETS THE RED PLANET
A dragon is landing on Mars—yes, you read that right.
The company isn’t saying much regarding how many spacecraft will end up on the Red Planet, but they hinted about a series of Dragon missions, promising more details soon. In a tweet, the company indicated that the capsules would fly on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, which will launch the capsules to the planet to test out how to land heavy payloads on Mars.
Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018. Red Dragons will inform overall Mars architecture, details to come
This would be a huge achievement for Elon Musk’s company, and make SpaceX the first private spaceflight company to land a vehicle on another planet.
RACING NASA
The Red Dragon is a modified version of the spacecraft that SpaceX uses to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station. It’s equipped with eight SuperDraco engines that allow the capsule to land on solid ground, a technique known as a propulsive landing, which allow a more controlled landing. This could be an efficient way to get large amounts of hardware down to the surface of Mars—something NASA still hasn’t quite figured out.
Figuring out the landing technique is important, but it’s just part of what is needed to start a Mars colony.
The company will also need to develop an interplanetary transport vehicle, surface habitats, life support systems, and more (like, a lot more). However, if SpaceX meets their 2018 deadline, it suggests the company may be farther along than even NASA at putting people on the Red Planet.
Musk has said that he will reveal the full extent of his Mars colonization plan this September at the International Aeronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Baffling footage purporting to show an object trailing the International Space Station has emerged from Russia.
The video was reported to show a spacecraft or piece of debris following the station as it orbited Earth last month.
The footage - claimed to have been shot on the ISS's own cameras - was said to have been taken while the satellite was waiting for a supplies delivery.
The object is seen floating behind a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which are used to transport cosmonauts
The appearance of the object in the video has baffled viewers trying to determine what exactly it could be
While some have suggested it is a UFO, others say it is a piece of debris or some other floating matter
It was said the video was recorded by ISS cameras, through the veracity of the claim has not been established
Many have claimed the object is a UFO - but others remain skeptical about the authenticity of the film and the explanations for the object.
Some pointed out that cameras on the ISS record video of significantly better quality than that seen in the short recording.
Meanwhile, the rotation and motion of the object does not look to correspond to that of an object in orbit.
One clue could could lie in the fact a Russian Soyuz spacecraft - used to carry cosmonauts into space - is seen in the footage.
Astronauts on the film's soundtrack make no comment about the object seemingly observing them, it was reported.
The video quickly went viral online where it was hotly debated by viewers. Some described it as a 'companion ship'.
One viewer, identified as Kirill Polishchuk, said: 'Debris from the ISS will have roughly the same speed. It is a thermal insulation board, most likely.'
Meanwhile, today the Cygnus cargo vessel was launched back into space packed full of garbage it had accrued during its time with the ISS.
The capsule, built by private space company Orbital ATK, was pushed out into the emptiness of space using a large robotic arm on the space station as it flew above Bolivia.
Once the spacecraft reached a safe distance from the space station, its engines were due to fire twice, sending it on course for a fiery finale in the Earth's atmosphere.
The spaceship, which was named SS Deke Slayton II after one of Nasa's original astronauts, will burn up in the atmosphere during re-entry.
Astronauts on the film's soundtrack make no comment about the object following them, it was reported
There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations . . . [and] it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.
– Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (source)
You may be thinking that this is absolutely ridiculous. I know many people read the titles of articles like this one and turn their heads and scoff, immediately shutting down the possibility that these could be actual photos of extraterrestrial beings. Why do we hold onto our views so staunchly, at the expense of logic and reason? What prevents us from considering new ideas and new ways of viewing the world? So much new information is emerging every day which challenges the current accepted framework of knowledge, and it can be difficult for our opinions to evolve as quickly as the science. Nonetheless, this is an extremely important topic, especially with the recent disclosures of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) by various governments and defence intelligence agencies, and we must work past our reluctance to accept new ideas. These objects are constantly photographed and tracked on radar, as well as visually confirmed by the pilots who are sent out to see them, and we would be foolish to discount this kind of evidence.
For example, here is one (out of thousands) of documents detailing encounters with UFOs. In this case, like many others, both of the F-4 interceptor pilots reported seeing the object visually; it was also tracked on their airborne radar. Both planes experienced critical instrumentation and electronics going offline at a distance of twenty-five miles from the object. Here is an excerpt from the report:
As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4. (source)
A photo taken by two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots on August 27th, 1957, in McCleod, Alberta, Canada is another example of such evidence. The pilots were flying in a formation of four F86 Sabre jet aircraft. One of the pilots described the phenomenon as a “bright light which was sharply defined as disk-shaped” and which looked like “a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” Another pilot managed to photograph the object, as you can see above.
There are a number of studies published in reputable peer-reviewed journals analyzing these cases. This specific sighting lasted for a couple of minutes, and the case was analyzed by Dr. Bruce Maccabee, who estimated (from available data) the luminosity of the object (the power output within the spectral range of the film) to be many megawatts. The Sturrock Panel also found that a strong magnetic field surrounding the phenomenon or object was a common occurrence:
If it does indeed turn out that there is relevant physical evidence, if this evidence is carefully collected and analyzed, and if this analysis leads to the identification of several facts concerning the UFO phenomenon, then will be the time for scientists to step back and ask, what are these facts trying to tell us? If those facts are strong enough to lead to a firm conclusion, then will be the time to confront the more bizarre questions. If, for instance, it turns out that all physical evidence is consistent with a mundane interpretation of the causes of UFO reports, there will be little reason to continue to speculate about the role of extraterrestrial beings. If, on the other hand, the analysis of physical evidence turns up very strong evidence that objects related with UFO reports were manufactured outside the solar system, then one must obviously consider very seriously that the phenomenon involves not only extraterrestrial vehicles but probably also extraterrestrial beings.
Dr. Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information center for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, also published a paper in the Journal of Scientific Exploration titled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Ariel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” (source)(source)
“An extraterrestrial influence is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously” — 2008 Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel (source)(source)
You can read about this phenomena in more detail from the articles below.
The above information is provided in order to give readers insight into the reality of the UFO phenomenon; whether or not they are extraterrestrial is a completely different question. These objects commonly perform maneuvers and travel at speeds which no known aircraft can achieve, and there have been countless reports of beings from other worlds that are closely associated with this phenomenon. To say that some of these unidentified objects are extraterrestrial in origin is highly plausible. And you can read more about the extraterrestrial hypothesis and why it’s not so far fetched in a specific section of a recently published article HERE.
You can view more of our articles on the UFO/Extraterrestrial topic by visiting the exopolitics section of our website HERE.
“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, ETs, etc. . . . They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking.” – Theodore C. Loder III, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)
Possible Extraterrestrial Beings?
What do you think extraterrestrial would look like? Evolutionary biologist Simon Conway Morris, best known for his study on the Cambrian explosion, believes extraterrestrials are real and that they will look like humans. You can read more about that here.
The picture to your left was released by a professor by the name of Bruno Sammaciccia. A Catholic historian with degrees in psychology and psychiatry, he was the author of more than 100 books and a well-known, distinguished figure in Italian academic circles.
He is thought to have taken this photograph of an alleged 10 foot tall extraterrestrial being in Italy in 1976.
If you read the lore, there are many stories of a mysterious group of extraterrestrials who look like humans and who established underground bases in Italy, meeting with local residents between 1956 and 1978.
Not long before his death, Sammaciccia claimed he had had direct physical contact with extraterrestrials over several decades. Dr. Roberto Pinotti, a leading Italian UFOlogist, has since confirmed his decades-long knowledge of the Sammaciccia cases. When it comes to human extraterrestrial contact in modern history, this case ranks among the most compelling, given the pictures and the number of witnesses involved.
Here is a brief summary of the Sammaciccia contact story as given by UFO researcher Dr. Michael Salla (founder of exopolitics.org):
In 1956 when Bruno Sammaciccia and two friends met with two mysterious individuals who said they were extraterrestrials. One was over 8 foot tall while the other was just over 3 foot. Sammaciccia and his friends, initially skeptical, were eventually taken into a large underground base where they saw more of the alleged extraterrestrials. They also saw their children being educated, some of the advanced technologies they used, and their space ships. Finally convinced that they were really having physical contact with extraterrestrials, Sammaciccia and his friends began to help the extraterrestrials. They began with material support by arranging for truckloads of fruit, food and other material to be transported and unloaded at an extraterrestrial base. Eventually, two truckloads of supplies were being delivered every month to bases in different regions of Italy where Sammaciccia and his assistants lived.
Sammaciccia finally described a violent conflict between two factions of extraterrestrials trying to influence humanity’s development and future. While his ‘Friendship’ faction promoted cosmic unity and ethical development, the other faction promoted technological development at all cost. This led to periodic violent clashes between the factions. Eventually, the underground bases of Sammaciccia’s extraterrestrial friends was destroyed in 1978. Survivors had to leave the Earth but promised to return at a future time when humanity was ready for a more ethical future of humanity interacting with extraterrestrials.
Sammaciccia’s astounding story sounds like an episode from Star Trek, but it is well supported by documentary evidence, some of Italy’s finest UFO researchers, and first hand witnesses of the events described. Some of the witnesses were leading statesmen, scholars and high society figures from Italy and Europe.
Below is a lecture given by one of the world’s foremost researchers of this topic, Timothy Good. He goes into detail about this supposed encounter, as well as many others.
To the left you will see a picture that was given to the world by Phil Schneider.
Phil was a very controversial figure, as was his death. He was born in 1947 and was the son of Oscar and Sally Schneider. Oscar was a Captain in the United States Navy who apparently worked in nuclear medicine and helped design the first nuclear submarines. He was also supposedly part of the famous ‘Philadelphia Experiment,’ as well as Operation Crossroads, a program to test nuclear weapons.
Oscar Schneider is the gentleman to the right of the man with the red circle around his head. Phil (man in the video below, apparently Oscars son, and Oscar appear to resemble each other quite strongly. The man with the circle around his head is the supposed extraterrestrial. The others are apparently some of the world’s top physicists from the time.
Philip claimed to be an ex-government structural engineer who was involved in building underground military bases (DUMB) around the country. We’ve actually published a couple of detailed articles about DUMBs, whose existence is not mere speculation. You can read more about them in these articles below:
Phil had some incredible stories to tell about various moments in his life, one of which was the story of how he lost two fingers and had his body sliced open. While all of this is anecdotal and unverifiable, it is interesting to consider nonetheless, perhaps his missing fingers and the big scar on his body (as shown in the video) are from something else.
Phil passed away shortly after beginning to give lectures on the nature of his work. To this day, his ex-wife continues to raise awareness about the truth behind his death. You can listen to an interview with herhere, and below you can find a lecture given by Phil.
Some Interesting Quotes — A Few Out Of Hundreds
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. . . . We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time. . . . I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.” – Doctor Edgar Mitchell, 6th man to walk on the moon (source) (source)(source)
“I’m skeptical about many things, including the notion that government always knows best, and that the people can’t be trusted with the truth. The time to pull the curtain back on this subject is long overdue. We have statements from the most credible sources – those in a position to know – about a fascinating phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined.” – John Podesta, taken from Leslie Kean’s 2010 New York Times bestseller, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, And Government Officials Go On The Record, in which Podesta wrote the forward
“Decades ago, visitors from other plants warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.” – Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defense Minister (source)
“Some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial (ET) vehicles. Some of those extraterrestrial vehicles actually have ET crews, and some of those ET crews catch and release humans.” — Dr. Don Donderi, a retired McGill University Professor of 40 years in the Department of Psychology (source)
“This thing has gotten so highly-classified . . . it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.” – Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (source)
“There is another way, whether it’s wormholes, or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.” – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Nebraska. (source)
“Everything is in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data.” – General Carlos Castro Cavero (1979); fromUFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2, written by Richard Dolan
Wearing black headsets with tentacle-like sensors stretched over their foreheads, the competitors stare at cubes floating on computer screens as their small white drones prepare for takeoff.
'Three, two, one ... GO!' the announcer hollers, and as the racers fix their thoughts on pushing the cubes, the drones suddenly whir, rise and buzz through the air.
Some struggle to move even a few feet, while others zip confidently across the finish line.
Competitors in the Florida race use specially programmed headbands to monitor their brainwaves - moving the drone when they will it to happen.
HOW IT WORKS
Each of the 16 racers wears an EEG headband.
The EEG headset is calibrated to identify the electrical activity associated with particular thoughts in each wearer's brain — recording, for example, where neurons fire when the wearer imagines pushing a chair across the floor.
Programmers write code to translate these 'imaginary motion' signals into commands that computers send to the drones.
The competition — billed as the world's first drone race involving a brain-controlled interface — involved 16 pilots using willpower to drive drones through a 10-yard dash over an indoor basketball court at the University of Florida this past weekend.
The Associated Press was there to record the event, which organizers hope to make an annual inter-collegiate spectacle, involving ever-more dynamic moves and challenges and a trophy that puts the brain on a pedestal.
'With events like this, we're popularizing the use of BCI instead of it being stuck in the research lab,' said Chris Crawford, a PhD student in human-centered computing.
'BCI was a technology that was geared specifically for medical purposes, and in order to expand this to the general public, we actually have to embrace these consumer brand devices and push them to the limit.'
Scientists have been able to detect brainwaves for more than a century, and mind-controlled technology already is helping paralyzed people move limbs or robotic prosthetics.
But now the technology is becoming widely accessible.
Emotiv and NeuroSky are among startups offering electroencephalogram headsets for purchase online for several hundred dollars.
The models Florida racers used cost about $500 each.
Here's how the technology delivers an abstract thought through the digital realm and into the real world: Each EEG headset is calibrated to identify the electrical activity associated with particular thoughts in each wearer's brain — recording, for example, where neurons fire when the wearer imagines pushing a chair across the floor.
Programmers write code to translate these 'imaginary motion' signals into commands that computers send to the drones.
Professor Juan Gilbert, whose computer science students organized the race, is inviting other universities to assemble brain-drone racing teams for 2017, pushing interest in a technology with a potential that seems limited only by the human imagination.
As our lives become increasingly reliant on Internet-enabled devices, a concept known as the Internet of things, Gilbert and his team want to know how mind-controlled devices can expand and change the way we play, work and live.
University of Florida sophomore Michael Lakin, 19, uses a brain-controlled interface headset to fly a drone during a mind-controlled drone race in Gainesville, Fla.
You might use your mind to unlock your car, or explore a virtual world, hands-free.
It could be applied for real-time monitoring of our moods and states of consciousness.
Researchers are studying whether they can use a big-rig driver's mind to trigger a device that will tell him when he's too tired to drive.
'One day you could wear a brain-controlled interface device like you wear a watch, to interact with things around you,' Gilbert said.
So far, BCI research has largely been about helping disabled people regain freedom of movement.
Recently, an Ohio man using only his thoughts was able to move his paralyzed hand thanks to a chip implanted in his brain.
In Miami, doctors using BCI are helping a 19-year-old man stand on his own after losing the use of his legs in a motorcycle accident.
Dr. Monica Perez talks to Richard Tursi, 19, who is undergoing therapy that uses a brain-controlled technology to help improve his motor functions at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami. Tursi was in a motorcycle accident when he was 16 which left him a quadriplegic. Now he has the limited use of his arms and legs. The therapies have improved his brain function, allowing him to stand and move his arms.
Dr. Mike Urbin views highlighted areas of the brain while working with patient Richard Joseph Tursi at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami.
The idea of collegiate brain-drone races pleases Dr. Bin He, a biomedical engineer at the University of Minnesota who first demonstrated a mind-controlled drone in public in 2013.
'The progress of the BCI field has been faster than I had thought ten years ago,' He said.
'We are getting closer and closer to broad application.'
But as the technology moves toward wider adoption, ethical, legal and privacy questions remain unresolved.
The U.S. Defense Department — which uses drones to kill suspected terrorists in the Middle East from vast distances — is looking for military brain-control applications.
A 2014 Defense grant supports the Unmanned Systems Laboratory at the University of Texas, San Antonio, where researchers have developed a system enabling a single person with no prior training to fly multiple drones simultaneously through mind control.
Tursi, 19, undergoes therapy that uses a brain-controlled technology to help improve his motor functions at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami.
University of Florida PhD student Islam Badreldin, 31, practices driving a brain-controlled vehicle that he modified to work wirelessly in Gainesville, Fla.
In this system, instead of the pilot thinking certain thoughts to move the drones, she looks at a screen with flickering signals, triggering brain activity that translates into specific movements.
'It can accommodate lots of commands, much more than imaginary motion can,' UT scientist Yufei Huang said.
But enthusiasts should think carefully before handing over their brainwaves for purposes that have yet to be conceived or contained, said Kit Walsh, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation with a degree in neuroscience from MIT.
'EEG readings are similar to fingerprints: once I know what the readings look like from your brain in a certain situation,' she said. 'I'll be able to recognize you by that pattern again later on.
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Physicists Made a ‘Black Hole’ in a Lab That May Finally Prove Hawking Radiation Exists
Physicists Made a ‘Black Hole’ in a Lab That May Finally Prove Hawking Radiation Exists
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY NASA/CXC/OCIW/P. MARTINI ET AL.
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IN BRIEF
Scientists may have found signs that phonons, the very small packets of energy that make up sound waves, were leaking out of sonic black holes, just as Hawking’s equations predicted.
SURVIVING A BLACK HOLE
Some 42 years ago, renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking proposed that not everything that comes in contact with a black hole succumbs to its unfathomable nothingness. Tiny particles of light (photons) are sometimes ejected back out, robbing the black hole of an infinitesimal amount of energy, and this gradual loss of mass over time means every black hole eventually evaporates out of existence.
Known as Hawking radiation, these escaping particles help us make sense of one of the greatest enigmas in the known Universe, but after more than four decades, no one’s been able to actually prove they exist, and Hawking’s proposal remained firmly in hypothesis territory.
But all that could be about to change, with two independent groups of researchers reporting that they’ve found evidence to back up Hawking’s claims, and it could see one of the greatest living physicists finally win a Nobel Prize.
UNDERSTANDING THE THEORY
Let’s go back to 1974, when all of this began. Hawking had gotten into an argument with Princeton University graduate student, Jacob Bekenstein, who suggested in his PhD thesis that a black hole’s entropy – the ‘disorder’ of a system, related to its volume, energy, pressure, and temperature – was proportional to the area of its event horizon.
As Dennis Overbye explains for The New York Times, this was a problem, because according to the accepted understanding of physical laws at the time – including Hawking’s own work – the entropy and the volume of a black hole could never decrease.
Hawking investigated the claims, and soon enough, realised that he had been proven wrong. “[D]r Hawking did a prodigious calculation including quantum theory, the strange rules that govern the subatomic world, and was shocked to find particles coming away from the black hole, indicating that it was not so black after all,” Overbye writes.
Hawking proposed that the Universe is filled with ‘virtual particles’ that, according to what we know about how quantum mechanics works, blink in and out of existence and annihilate each other as soon as they come in contact – except if they happen to appear on either side of a black hole’s event horizon. Basically, one particle gets swallowed up by the black hole, and the otherradiates away into space.
The existence of Hawking radiation has answered a lot of questions about how black holes actually work, but in the process, raised a bunch of problems that physicists are still trying to reconcile.
“No result in theoretical physics has been more fundamental or influential than his discovery that black holes have entropy proportional to their surface area,”says Lee Smolin, a theoretical physicist from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada.
While Bekenstein received the Wolf Prize in 2012 and the American Physical Society’s Einstein prize in 2015 for his work, which The New York Times says are often precursors to the Nobel Prize, neither scientist has been awarded the most prestigious prize in science for the discovery. Bekenstein passed away last year, but Hawking is now closer than ever to seeing his hypothesis proven.
The problem? Remember when I said the escaping photons were stealing an infinitesimal amount of energy from a black hole every time they escaped? Well, unfortunately for Hawking, this radiation is so delicate, it’s practically impossible to detect it from thousands of light-years away.
A WAY FORWARD?
The measured thermal spectrum of the Hawking radiation. The solid curve is the measurement. The dashed curve is the theoretical thermal spectrum.
But physicist Jeff Steinhauer from Technion University in Haifa, Israel, thinks he’s come up with a solution – if we can’t detect Hawking radiation in actual black holes thousands of light-years away from our best instruments, why not bring the black holes to our best instruments?
As Oliver Moody reports for The Times,Steinhauer has managed to created a lab-sized ‘black hole’ made from sound, and when he kicked it into gear, he witnessed particles steal energy from its fringes.
Reporting his experiment in a paper posted to the physics pre-press website,arXiv.org, Steinhauer says he cooled helium to just above absolute zero, then churned it up so fast, it formed a ‘barrier’ through which sound should not be able to pass.
“Steinhauer said he had found signs that phonons, the very small packets of energy that make up sound waves, were leaking out of his sonic black hole just as Hawking’s equations predict they should,” Moody reports.
To be clear, the results of this experiment have not yet been peer-reviewed – that’s the point of putting everything up for the public to see on arXiv.org. They’re now being mulled over by physicists around the world, and they’re already proving controversial, but worthy of further investigation.
“The experiments are beautiful,” physicist Silke Weinfurtner from the University of Nottingham in the UK, who is running his own Earth-based experiments to try and detect Hawking radiation, told The Telegraph. “Jeff has done an amazing job, but some of the claims he makes are open to debate. This is worth discussing.”
Meanwhile, a paper published in Physical Review Letters last month has found another way to strengthen the case for Hawking radiation. Physicists Chris Adami and Kamil Bradler from the University of Ottawa describe a new technique that allows them to follow a black hole’s life over time.
That’s exciting stuff, because it means that whatever information or matter that passes over the event horizon doesn’t ‘disappear’ but is slowly leaking back out during the later stages of the black hole’s evaporation.
“To perform this calculation, we had to guess how a black hole interacts with the Hawking radiation field that surrounds it,” Adami said in a press release. “This is because there currently is no theory of quantum gravity that could suggest such an interaction. However, it appears we made a well-educated guess because our model is equivalent to Hawking’s theory in the limit of fixed, unchanging black holes.”
Both results will now need to be confirmed, but they suggest that we’re inching closer to figuring out a solution for how we can confirm or disprove the existence of Hawking radiation, and that’s good news for its namesake.
As Moody points out, Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, had to wait 49 years for his Nobel prize, we’ll have to wait and see if Hawking ends up with his own.
Drone-racing just moved to a whole new level by combining with BCI technology, resulting in a drone race controlled solely by the mind.
A NEW KIND OF RACE
The University of Florida held a fully technology-based sport: The world’s first brain-controlled drone race. Using their brainwaves, 16 pilots flew drones through an indoor course ten yards long. Both drone-racing and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are not new, but this is the first combination of the two, and it’s an efficient method of introducing BCIs to the mainstream eye.
BCI is a system that translates brain signals into commands comprehensible to output devices. Most often, this technology is used to allow individuals who are paralyzed to have control of prosthetic limbs.
HOW IT WORKS
To make this possible, electroencephalogram headsets are calibrated to an individual’s brain. The calibration is pretty much like programming commands on your keyboard for a game, where you specify that certain letters move your character up, down, left, and right. Except in this case, each person’s neuron activity is used, translated, and recorded into these commands.
Human-centered computing Phd student Chris Crawford thinks making BCIs a familiar concept to the public is a good way to spread awareness of the existence and accessibility of the technology. “With events like this, we’re popularizing the use of BCI instead of it being stuck in the research lab,” he says. “BCI was a technology that was geared specifically for medical purposes, and in order to expand this to the general public, we actually have to embrace these consumer brand devices and push them to the limit.”
University of Florida sophomore Michael Lakin, 19, uses a brain-controlled interface headset to fly a drone during a mind-controlled drone race in Gainesville, Fla.
Some experts, however, fear legal, ethical, and privacy issues. For one thing, drones are also being used by the military to kill suspected terrorists in the Middle East, and they are on the lookout for similar BCI technologies.
Kit Walsh, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation with a degree in neuroscience from MIT thinks people should be careful of participating in such activities. “EEG readings are similar to fingerprints: once I know what the readings look like from your brain in a certain situation,” she said. “I’ll be able to recognize you by that pattern again later on.”
E.T. was the perfect extraterrestrial: Cute, smart and — best of all — a perfect pacifist.
Unfortunately, scientists aren’t so sure that an actual intelligent alien would be so benign. In a recent interview with El País, famed physicist Stephen Hawking posited that an alien visitation would put Earthlings in the same position as Native Americans when Columbus landed on their shores.
“Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach,” Hawking speculated. [7 Huge Misconceptions About Aliens]
New research suggests we might want to widen our search for Earth-like exoplanets.
The likelihood that intelligent life is out there is up for debate; less discussed are the conditions necessary to evolve a life-form that’s both smart and nice. But the lessons from Earth suggest that intelligence and aggression might evolve hand-in-hand.
Evolving smarts
No one really knows how humans got to be so clever. What’s clear is that hominin brains began expanding wildly about 2 million years ago. (Hominins include those species after the human lineage — the genus Homo — split from the chimpanzee lineage.) By around 100,000 years ago, humans made the never-before-seen leap toinventing language. And by at least 40,000 years ago, our ancestors were making art.
“We have brains that are three times bigger than those of our closest relatives,” said Mark Flinn, an anthropologist at the University of Missouri who has researched the emergence of human intelligence. Humans have unprecedented abilities to think about each other’s thoughts and motivations, he said, to play out social scenarios in their brains and to think about the past and future.
“The general presumption is that this is just sort of a natural outcome of the evolutionary process, but that’s really giving short shrift to the very special circumstances of human evolution,” Flinn said.
Huge brains are expensive. They take an enormous number of calories to grow and function (up to 50 percent of intake in infancy and childhood, Flinn said) and make humans basically helpless for years after birth.
“Our babies are born as larvae, basically,” said David Carrier, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Utah.
Many anthropologists and evolutionary biologists have tried to pinpoint the special circumstances that make these huge brains worth the expense. Charles Darwin suggested that perhaps males developed cleverness to attract females, much as a male peacock developed showy tail feathers to prove to potential mates that he could strut his stuff. But if brains were just for sexual display, scientists would expect to see big differences between male and female intelligence — females, not having to attract mates, shouldn’t waste so much effort on their brains, much as peahens don’t waste effort on growing shiny feathers (theirs are dull and brown). And female humans are just as smart as males.
Social pressure
Would smart aliens have energy-intensive brains? Hard to say — perhaps E.T. could evolve a more efficient, yet just as clever, organ. But if aliens were sending signals into space or building rockets, they’d have to have achieved an intelligence that far exceeds what is needed to survive. [13 Ways to Hunt for Intelligent Aliens]
Humans have done the same, and researchers can’t quite figure out why. The brain could have evolved to allow humans to use tools, but chimpanzees use tools without developing complex languages, art and culture. One provocative theory holds that pathogens play a role: The brain is vulnerable to infection, wrote Hungarian researcher Lajos Rózsa in a 2008 article in the journal Medical Hypotheses. Showing off one’s cleverness may be a way of showing off how resistant one is to infection. After all, if you’re smart enough to invent language and art, you must be pretty good at battling brain parasites.
So perhaps intelligent aliens might be subject to alien parasites. Flinn and his colleagues favor another theory, though. They argue that humanity underwent a runaway cycle of brain evolution because of hominins’ social nature.
The ecological dominance-social competition hypothesis works like this: Human ancestors reached a point in which their interactions with one another were the most important factor in whether they’d survive and pass on their genes. Finding food and shelter was still important, Flinn said, but it wasn’t the main factor determining evolutionary success. The difference between clever humans and, say, caribou, is that intraspecies relationships drove evolution the fastest in humans, Flinn said. A herd of caribou has social interactions, to be sure: Males have to fight for mates, for example. But a more pressing concern would be avoiding predators and finding food. For hominins, these external issues became relatively less important, the theory goes, while their ability to form coalitions, to have empathy and to behave in such a way as to win friendships from others became key to their survival. [10 Things That Make Humans Special]
In this heavily social context, it became very important to be smarter than the competition. Each generation got a little smarter and a little better at building complex social relationships, which created a feedback loop in which even smarter brains were beneficial.
“The thing about social competition is it’s a dynamic challenge and it’s also creative,” Flinn said. “You need to have the better mousetrap every time. The competition adjusts to the current winning model, so you need to be one better than the current winning strategy.”
The model seems to work with other clever animals, too, he added. Dolphins, orcas and chimps all form social coalitions with each other and depend on their social groups to survive. It’s possible that this social factor would hold for species on other planets, too.
The evolution of aggression
A key part of this theory is competition. Chimps form coalitions that battle against other chimps. And humans are far from peaceful. So if an alien species were to evolve intelligence, would aggression be an inevitable part of the package?
“If you can walk away from a fight and reproduce another day, you do that,” he said. “But if circumstances are such that your ability to reproduce is threatened by a competitor, in that situation it makes sense to fight.”
Environmental factors may determine whether a mate-or-die system emerges. For example, chimpanzees are a particularly homicidal (chimpacidal?) species, Carrier said. Work by primatologist Richard Wrangham at Harvard University and colleagues finds that chimp “wars” arise from a chimpanzee’s territorialism. Small groups of foraging chimps may come into contact with other chimpanzees; killing these competitors (particularly when the foragers have numbers on their side) can be beneficial by opening up access to more resources.
Deadly male-male competition is less of a way of life for bonobos, humankind’s other closest primate ancestor. Male bonobos stick by their mothers and the species is less territorial than chimpanzees. Bonobo foraging groups are also larger, perhaps because their food sources are more abundant, studies have found. Would aliens act more like bonobos or chimps? Hard to say. Researchers are even split on whether humans are more inherently aggressive or inherently peaceful.
A controversial theory holds that aggression was a driving force in human evolution. The “Killer Ape” hypothesis argues that the human ancestors who thrived were those better adapted for fighting. For example, Carrier said, modern humans can form fists, which our closest primate relatives cannot. This particular hand configuration may have evolved primarily for better manual dexterity — but it also could have come in handy as a club. Likewise, when human ancestors started walking on two legs, their face bones also evolved to be stronger and less delicate. This could be due to diet, Carrier said, but male face bones are more robust than female face bones, a sign that male-male competition could be at play. In other words, thick facial bones could be a defenseagainst the fist, a weapon that would have become available once human ancestors became bipedal.
Kind aliens
If intelligence evolves in the context of social competition, and aggression is the natural outcome of competition, it’s hard to imagine that clever aliens could also be kind. Is this the end for hopes of sweet little E.T.?
Maybe not. The social competition model doesn’t work without cooperation, after all. Humans fight, wage war and sometimes murder each other. But humans also form coalitions, care for each other and even build coalitions of coalitions, such as nation-states.
“There are two sides to our nature,” Carrier said. “It’s not that one is any more real than the other. It’s just who we are.”
Humans are unique among Earth life in forming long-lasting alliances between groups, not just individuals, Flinn said. Chimpanzees can’t pull that off, he said, so it’s not clear that aliens could, either.
“On Planet X, it may not be inevitable that social competition results in a morality and a creativity of the sort that allows these intelligent life-forms to negotiate with us for a mutually beneficial outcome,” Flinn said.
On the other hand, chimpanzees don’t explore space. Perhaps a civilization that can band together to reach for the stars has to be cooperative by definition. If that’s the case, humanity might be a greater threat to aliens than aliens are to humanity. Luckily, evolution has given humans the tools for peace.
“We can, in effect, rise above the design, potentially,” Flinn said. “If we understand what our brains are designed to do, we are going to be way more capable of rising above those tendencies that we have.”
What is that thing?! Phoenix Sky Harbor employee reports UFO sighting
What is that thing?! Phoenix Sky Harbor employee reports UFO sighting
BY TY SCHOLES
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PHOENIX — A Phoenix Sky Harbor employee said he spotted an unidentified flying object flying low above the airport while he was working in March.
According to the testimony in Case 75640 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database, the massive object flew less than 500 feet overhead.
The witness reported watching a chevron-shaped UFO fly northwest over the airport while he was “disposing of trash” at about 9 p.m. on March 1.
“The lights were what I noticed at first,” the witness said in the report. “They were white and formed a chevron shape that allowed me to notice the shape of the object. It was very large as it passed beside me. I was near the tower, so I knew it was high, but not too high as for me not to get an idea how large this object was.”
The witness said he did not feel afraid. He submitted a sketch with the report to MUFON.
(Credit: MUFON)
“I didn’t feel anything but shock as I pondered what had just taken place,” he said.
The witness said that the light near the dumpster was out and the lights on his vehicle were turned off, so “no other light source was close enough to hamper my vision.”
He said he felt calm, with no sense of danger as the massive object flew silently above.
“Just a sense of wonder and amazement that something so huge could travel in the air and not make any noise.”
Phoenix has long been a UFO hotspot in the eyes of believers.
More than 10,000 people statewide saw what many believe was a mass UFO event on March 13, 1997, known as the Phoenix Lights.
Although airport officials told Phoenix New Times that no unusual incidents were reported on the night alleged sighting, MUFON field investigators continue to look into the matter.
Proof, that the earth was inhabited by GIANTS -giant footprints!
Biblical references to giants:
Genesis 6:4– ‘There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown’.
Numbers 13:33 – ‘And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight’.
Deuteronomy 1:28 – ‘Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, the people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there’.
2:10 – ‘The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; 11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims’.
2:20 - References to a ‘race’ of giants who: ‘dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; 21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead’:
3:11 – ‘For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man’. (This bed is 6 feet wide, 14 feet long and King Og’s height is estimated at least 12 feet.)
Joshua xv. 14; Judges i. 20; and Numbers xiii. 33– ANAK, father of the Anakim. ‘The Hebrew spies said they were mere grass-hoppers in comparison with these giants’
Moments When a UFO Enters Warp Drive Seen on ISS Live Feed
Moments When a UFO Enters Warp Drive Seen on ISS Live Feed
A peculiar object appeared on the live feed of the International Space Station recently. The UFO moved in tandem with the ISS before gaining altitude and eventually disappearing into the vastness of space, leaving behind a visible beam of green light.
There are several intriguing aspects related to this sighting, and although it may not be a crystal-clear shot of an alien spaceship, the video reveals two rare (if not unique) moments. First of all, whenever such sightings occur near the station, NASA usually cuts the live transmission invoking technical difficulties. Surprisingly enough, the broadcasting remained intact this time. But was this because the UFO was nothing more than space junk, or because human error is still a characteristic thing for our species?
The second aspects involves a ray of green light that followed only moments after the bizarre UFO disappeares from line of sight. The beam appearing over the Earth is clearly visible, and numerous conspiracy theorists consider it to be related to the passing UFO.
Now, there’s a good chance that NASA resisted entering “technical difficulties” mode because the appearance wasn’t the most debatable, and it could easily be debunked as space junk or some other celestial body from our solar system. What they didn’t anticipate was the moment when the UFO entered traveling mode and inevitably left behind the green beam of light associated with warp drive – a faster than light (FTL) spacecraft propulsion system.
Hundreds of people were enjoying the view from the ISS when this happened. One of the eyewitnesses even gave a detailed description of what this moment meant for him:
“During an ISS live NASA UStream, an orb-like object appeared just above the horizon. After remaining in the same relative position for a while, it began to ascend up and out of the UStream camera lens coverage area. Once it left the screen, an energy beam shot up from the earth towards the UFO’s former location. Judging by the distance between the ISS and the location of the energy beam, the relative size of the UFO must have been enormous.”
“I am hoping that someone with technical background can determine the location from where the beam was fired based on the time of the sitting (7:25 p.m. Central European time) and the ISS live feed metering that is displayed at the bottom left of the frames in the video. The video is comprised of multiple screenshots I took during the sitting.”
After closely analyzing the video, I cannot tell if the beam of light originated from the UFO or from somewhere on Earth, but the extreme timing makes it likely to be connected in a way or another. Because the object is moving at a slightly higher speed than the ISS, together with the fact that it changes course and eventually ascends until it’s no longer seen, points towards an alien craft hypothesis. Furthermore, the brightness of the UFO insinuates that it has an artificial design made of a reflective material.
The video brings up more evidence that NASA may be in touch with other advanced species residing in the universe. If this is the case, then it could explain the massive boost in technological advancement in recent years. The possibility of certain world governments collaborating with otherworldly neighbors doesn’t seem far off after all. Whatever their plan is, and whenever they are going to reveal it to the rest of the world we are yet to find out. Hopefully, alien disclosure will happen in our lifetime.
STEEDS MEER AANWIJZIGINGEN VAN MILITAIRE ACTIES OP MARS ( VIDEO )
STEEDS MEER AANWIJZIGINGEN VAN MILITAIRE ACTIES OP MARS ( VIDEO )
Om het grote publiek zoet te houden rijden er een paar primitieve karretjes met een camera rond op het Mars oppervlak.
Terwijl de Bilderbergers zoals ze worden genoemd, al tientallen jaren geleden zijn begonnen met het bouwen van hun geheime ruimtevloot.
De bedenker en maker van de Amerikaanse stripserie The Simpsons, Matt Groening, heeft ondertussen een vermogen verdiend aan de strip die inmiddels al meer dan 20 jaar draait. Er worden bedragen genoemd van 500 miljoen Dollar, maar ook gaan er hardnekkige geruchten dat hij een hooggeplaatste vrijmetselaar is.
De hoofdfiguur Homer in de serie wordt dan ook op een zeker moment lid van een geheim genootschap zoals de vrijmetselaars. Alleen heet het in de cartoon dan de stonecutters.
Na zijn inwijdingsceremonie zit hij met zijn medebroeders aan tafel te feesten en te drinken. Ook wordt er een lied gezongen waarbij ze er trots op zijn dat ze zoveel in de melk te brokkelen hebben en eigenlijk alles controleren.
Iemand die goed kijkt, ziet dat er een Marsmannetje aan tafel zit, die er eigenlijk niet thuis hoort. Ook hoor je wanneer ze hun lied zingen dat ze zeggen dat ze de Marsmannetjes onder controle hebben.
Natuurlijk hebben ze Mars en alles wat zich op die planeet bevindt volledig onder controle. Ongeveer vier jaar geledenschreven wij een artikel over de geheime ruimtevloot, waarvan navolgend een deel:
Aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog verzamelden zowel de Russen als de Amerikanen niet alleen de wetenschappers die werkten aan conventionele raketten, maar ook de vliegende schotel wetenschappers samen met veel van hun uitrusting, om tegelijkertijd zowel een conventioneel als een niet conventioneel ruimteprogramma te kunnen beginnen.
Het duurde niet zolang voordat de conventionele aandrijving begin jaren '60 overbodig werd. De aanwezige raketprogramma’s waren niets meer dan een dure propaganda-operatie voor publieke consumptie, om een fantasieverhaal levend te houden, een die al heel snel sterk afweek van het werkelijke verhaal.
Het geheime ruimteprogramma kwam onder de toenemende invloed van de wereldelite die georganiseerd was in de Bilderbergconferentie, een groep van machtige industriëlen, bankiers en Europese koninklijke families.
Het legerproject uit 1959, Project Horizon, werd in het geheim ingevoerd om zowel bases op de Maan als op Mars te bouwen. Volgens een aantal betrouwbare klokkenluiders worden deze bases gebruikt en onderhouden door de Bilderbergvloot.
Uit een vrijgegeven document van Wright Patterson kunnen we zien dat men in 1956 al bezig was met het plaatsen van nucleaire aandrijving in schotels. De senior wetenschapper van Lockheed, Boyd Bushman, liet in een interview in 1959 technische tekeningen zien van een operationele vliegende schotel, aangedreven door een nucleaire centrale.
Een technicus uit Area 51, Bill Uhouse, claimde dat hij al vroeg in de jaren '60 samengewerkt heeft met een Grey Alien in vliegende schotel simulators waarin piloten leerden vliegen met deze objecten.
In dezelfde tijdsperiode werkte een luchtmacht technicus, Charles Hall, bij Nellis en had contact met de Tall White Extraterrestrials (Grote Witte Buitenaardsen). Zij lieten hem een TW shuttle schotel van binnen zien waarmee je naar de Maan en naar Mars kon reizen, maar niet dieper de ruimte in. Deze schotel had logo’s van alle grote lucht- en ruimtevaartbedrijven in het interieur van de schotel.
Er was een ongeluk met een door kernenergie aangedreven schotel in 1980 waarbij een lekkage ontstond in een reactorvat. Terwijl de schotel was omringd door drie militaire helikopters kregen drie personen de volle laag straling over zich heen. Deze zaak is uiteindelijk tot in het Congres gekomen, zonder enige vorm van compensatie voor de slachtoffers.
Ongeveer 10 jaar geleden slaagde de Engelsman Gary McKinnon erin om de computers van NASA te hacken en ontdekte de code naam “Solar Warden” en roosters voor alle buitenaardse officieren en lijsten met rompnummers van de grote ruimteschepen, groter dan twee voetbalvelden, en hun kleinere beschermers. Maar, vier jaar voordat McKinnon zijn ontdekking deed werd er op het Open Mind Forum al gesproken over Solar Warden en ook dat de Bilderbergers eigenaar zouden zijn van die bewuste ruimtevloot.
Alle bestaande ruimteprogramma’s dienen om de bevolking zand in de ogen te strooien. De Solar Warden vloot bestond in 2005 uit acht grote ruimteschepen, vergelijkbaar met vliegkampschepen, en 43 “beschermers”, wat natuurlijk ook ruimteschepen zijn.
Voor het publiek is er een soort ruimteprogramma voor dummies, waarbij een paar primitieve karretjes door het Marslandschap tuffen en foto’s maken, waarop regelmatig dingen voorkomen die volgens het script niet kunnen.
Uiteraard zijn er complete militaire bases op Mars en daardoor kom je regelmatig zaken tegen die thuis horen in een militaire omgeving zoals je kunt zien aan een aantal recente ontdekkingen in de volgende video.
Naast voorwerpen wordt het natuurlijk ook steeds moeilijker om constructies zoals gebouwen buiten beeld te houden. Of een toren zoals in de volgende ontdekking enkele dagen geleden.
VIDEO: Alien-jagers claimen dat er gebouwen zijn op Venus
VIDEO: Alien-jagers claimen dat er gebouwen zijn op Venus
Volgens alien-jagers is er leven op Venus. In een 20 minuten durend filmpje op YouTube analyseert mundodesconocido foto’s die door NASA-sonde Magellan van de planeet zijn gemaakt. Dat meldt FoxNews.
Van een aantal objecten die hij ontdekte, heeft hij een 3D-model gemaakt. Onder de video schrijft mundodesconocido dat de afbeeldingen ‘enorme steden en kunstmatige structuren tonen die lijken te zijn gebouwd door een buitenaards ras dat de tweede planeet in ons zonnestelsel heeft bewoond of gekoloniseerd’.
Magellan werd op 4 mei 1989 gelanceerd en kwam op 10 augustus 1990 aan bij Venus. De ruimtesonde bracht het planeetoppervlak nauwkeurig in kaart met behulp van radar. Het was de opvolger van de Pioneer Venus.
Hoewel Venus ook wel de ‘tweelingzuster’ of ‘zusterplaneet’ van de aarde wordt genoemd, komt er volgens de NASA in tegenstelling tot de aarde geen platentektoniek voor op de planeet. Magellan onthulde ook dat tenminste 85 procent van het oppervlak van Venus is bedekt met vulkanen. De gemiddelde temperatuur is er zo’n 480 graden Celcius.
Op 13 oktober 1994 verbrandde Magellan in de Venusiaanse dampkring.
This is fantastic news. UFOaustralia site (not up yet) has been gathering UFO gov reports and getting them ready online for readers to go through them. These reports are very important, because it shows that the government in Australia was taking the matter seriously, meaning...they know that aliens exist. Not all UFO reports turn out to be UFOs, but are often other things. So, how to tell what reports are real or not? 1. The more detail in the report, the easier it is to decide if its real or not. 2. Photos or video help tremendously. 3. Eyewitness professions/jobs. 4. Movement of the UFO. (Very important) 5. Number of witnesses, the more the bigger chance its real. 6. The more blacked out lines (sentences covered up with black marker) the bigger the chance of it being real. 7. If photos were mentioned, but mission from the report, its probably real. Gov will often destroy before releasing document.
News states: Queensland UFO Sightings And Research are about to release the biggest collection of official Australian UFO files ever. The files contain official documents from the RAAF, The Department of Air, The Navy and more. The files contain testimony, photographs, newspaper scans, official reports and patents. The full 1.7GB download will be available to the public via our website on May 1st 2016. You might see some familiar names.
Jim Marrs: What Is The Government Hiding About Aliens and UFO’s
Jim Marrs: What Is The Government Hiding About Aliens and UFO’s
In this video Luke Rudkowski interviews Jim Marrs, an American newspaper journalist and New York Times best-selling author. The two discuss the best evidence for extraterrestrial life and the history of government cover ups on this topic. We not only go over the government’s actions but actually evidence with whistleblowers and official government documents.
As most people may already know, Hillary Clinton has been in New York on Monday for her presidential campaign. While visiting East Harlem, she had an interview with the Power 105.1 Breakfast Club. One of the hosts suspects aliens may have been abducted him. He asked Hillary if she was indeed serious about telling the truth on UFOs. Hillary answered positively.
Clinton has confirmed many times in her previous interviews that she will try to declassify files on UFOs if elected as president. However, she made it clear she did not want to release any records that were kept secret due to national security.
While she isn’t sure about extraterrestrial UFOs, Clinton does think that some stories about the subject are true. She believes that people see things, but what they see, she doesn’t know. Clinton believes that the government should try to give people information.
Clinton just keeps discussing UFOs when asked and this attitude has caused a lot of debates. Typical politicians usually not serious about the subject and some even make a joke of it. However, Hillary has repeatedly answered questions about it confidently and promised to look into the issue. Former President Bill Clinton, her husband, had said that he looked into the matter and did not find anything.
Some think that Hillary has no interest in UFOs and just want to get the votes from UFO believers. The National Geographic survey in 2012 showed that 36 percent of Americans think that ETs have visited Earth, and 80 percent believe the U.S. government kept the truth secret from the public.
Het meer zou zo’n 100 bij 10 kilometer groot zijn en is daarmee maar ietsje kleiner dan het beroemde Vostokmeer: het grootste meer dat onder het ijs van Antarctica verstopt zit.
Wetenschappers kwamen het meer op het spoor toen ze satellietbeelden van het oostelijke deel van Antarctica bekeken. Op de beelden was te zien dat in het ijs groeven zaten die wel vaker boven subglaciale meren worden aangetroffen. In januari concludeerden onderzoekers al dat hier een 1000 kilometer lange vallei onder het ijs verborgen moet zitten. Toen al vermoedden onderzoekers dat de vallei verbonden was met een nog onontdekt subglaciaal meer.
Meer En tijdens een bijeenkomst van de European Geosciences Union heeft onderzoeker Martin Siegert nu laten weten sterke aanwijzingen te hebben dat er inderdaad een nog onontdekt meer onder het ijs verborgen zit. Het meer zou zo’n 100 bij 10 kilometer groot zijn en is daarmee maar ietsje kleiner dan het grootste subglaciale meer van Antarctica: het Vostokmeer.
De groeven in het ijs en het vermoedelijke meer.
Afbeelding: Stewart Jamieson / Martin Siegert / ICECAP2.
Radar Siegert benadrukt dat het bestaan van het meer nog bevestigd moet worden. Om dat te kunnen doen, moeten radargolven door het ijs worden gejaagd. Siegert vertelt aan Scientias.nl dat een internationaal team van onderzoekers de benodigde gegevens recent heeft verzameld. “We zullen deze binnenkort gaan bestuderen.”
Verstopt Als er daadwerkelijk een meer onder het ijs zit, heeft het zich heel lang voor ons verborgen weten te houden. Toch is dat niet zo gek, vertelt Siegert. “Voor we dit onderzoek deden, wisten we niets over dit gebied.” Wachten ons in de toekomst nog meer van dit soort grote ontdekkingen op Antarctica? Siegert denkt van niet. “Dit is het laatste onverkende gebied.”
Wat bevindt zich onder het ijs van Antarctica? We krijgen er een steeds beter beeld van. Maar op deze afbeelding is goed te zien dat Princes Elizabeth Land (waar het vermoedelijke meer zich bevindt) nog onontgonnen gebied is.
Afbeelding: Stewart Jamieson / Martin Siegert / ICECAP2.
Vostokmeer en leven Wetenschappers zijn zeer geïnteresseerd in subglaciale meren op Antarctica. Ze zijn vaak bedekt met kilometers ijs en al vele millennia van de buitenwereld afgesloten. Maar onderzoek naar het Vostokmeer heeft al aangetoond dat dat niet wil zeggen dat er in deze meren geen leven mogelijk is. In het Vostokmeer zijn bijvoorbeeld tal van organismen aangetroffen. Het vertelt ons dat het leven op aarde veel meer kan hebben dan gedacht en dat heeft ook weer implicaties voor het leven op andere hemellichamen, bijvoorbeeld op de maan Enceladus die beschikt over een wereldwijde oceaan die bedekt is met een dikke laag ijs.
Het is niet ondenkbaar dat er ook in het meer dat onderzoekers nu denken ontdekt te hebben, leven is. Zodra het bestaan van het meer bevestigd is, is het volgens Siegert dan ook heel aannemelijk dat de jacht op eventueel leven in dat meer geopend wordt.
Herschel maakt schitterende foto's van stervormingsgebieden
Herschel maakt schitterende foto's van stervormingsgebieden
Tim Kraaijvanger
Europese wetenschappers hebben beelden gepubliceerden van stervormingsgebieden in de Melkweg. De foto’s zijn gemaakt door de Herschel-telescoop, die in 2013 zijn laatste adem uitblies.
De foto’s zijn in de periode van 2009 tot 2013 gemaakt op ver-infrarode en submillimetergolflengten. Hierdoor zijn de koudste objecten in het heelal zichtbaar, zoals kosmisch stof. Dit kosmische stof maakt deel uit van het interstellaire materiaal, waaruit nieuwe sterren worden geboren. Kortom: op de nieuwe beelden zie je sterren geboren worden.
De foto’s zijn gemaakt in het kader van de Herschel Infrared Galactic Plane Survey, een onderzoek waarvoor de telescoop uiteindelijk 900 uur is gebruikt. In totaal is twee procent van de gehele hemel in kaart gebracht, waaronder een groot deel van de volledige schijf van de Melkweg. Hier huizen immers de meeste jonge sterren die vanaf de aarde te zien zijn.
De onderstaande beelden liegen er niet om. Er zijn gaspilaren zichtbaar met knopen van gas en stof. In deze gloeiende knopen ontstaan nieuwe sterren. “Deze foto’s zijn niet alleen fantastisch om te zien, maar vormen ook een rijke databron voor astronomen om de verschillende stervormingsfases in ons sterrenstelsel te bestuderen”, legt onderzoeker Sergio Molinari uit.
De beroemde Adelaarsnevel (M16).
RCW 120: een emissienevel op ruim 4.000 lichtjaar van de aarde. De ster – niet zichtbaar op deze foto – heeft een bel om zich heen geblazen.
Op deze foto heeft Herschel zijn ogen gericht op het centrum van de Melkweg. Een drukke bedoeling!
Links zie je de emissienevel NGC 6357, rechts is de nevel NGC 6334 – de Kattenpootnevel – zichtbaar.
De ruwe data zijn te downloaden via het zogenoemde ESA Herschel wetenschappelijke archief. Het gaat hier om in totaal zeventig kaarten. Eind dit jaar kunnen onderzoekers een tweede bundel met gegevens verwachten.
Het is slim van de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie om niet alleen de ruwe gegevens, maar ook de foto’s bij te voegen. Hierdoor zijn de interessante objecten direct zichtbaar. “Astronomen kunnen vervolgens objecten kiezen, die nader bestudeerd moeten worden”, zegt projectwetenschapper Göran Pilbratt.
Het mysterie rond het vreemde object dat op de bodem van de Oostzee ligt
Het mysterie rond het vreemde object dat op de bodem van de Oostzee ligt
Toen het mysterieuze object op de bodem van de Oostzee voor het eerst werd gespot, stonden veel experts voor een raadsel. Tot op de dag van vandaag weet niemand wat het precies is.
Het object doet denken aan een ruimteschip uit een Star Wars-film. Het is in 2011 ontdekt door de Zweedse schatzoekers Peter Lindberg en Dennis Asberg. Duikers die de structuur van dichtbij probeerden te bekijken zeiden dat hun apparatuur uitviel.
Duiker Stefan Hogerborn zei: “Alle elektrische apparaten, inclusief de satelliettelefoon, vielen uit toen we ons recht boven het object bevonden. Zo’n 200 meter bij het object vandaan deed de apparatuur het wel, maar toen we teruggingen viel alles weer uit.”
Niet in de natuur
Veel media besteedden aandacht aan het 60 meter brede en acht meter hoge cirkelvormige object. Volgens sommigen was het een reusachtige paddenstoel. Anderen dachten aan een gezonken Russisch schip of een buitenaards ruimteschip.
Geoloog Steve Weiner concludeerde op basis van monsters die door duikers waren verzameld dat het geen natuurlijke formatie kon zijn. Na analyse van de fragmenten zei hij dat de materialen bestonden uit ‘metalen die niet in de natuur voorkomen’.
UFO
Sommige experts denken dat het een onderdeel is van een oorlogsschip, terwijl anderen menen dat het om een UFO gaat. Hoogleraar geologie Volker Bruchert van de Universiteit van Stockholm zei: “Mijn hypothese is dat dit object, deze structuur, duizenden jaren geleden is gevormd tijdens de IJstijd.”
Maar Lindberg en Asberg zeiden dat de monsters die ze hebben laten analyseren, niet van het object zelf afkomstig zijn, maar uit de omgeving van het object. Het begint erop te lijken dat niemand verder onderzoek naar het object in de Oostzee wil financieren. Het blijft dus de vraag wat daar verborgen ligt.
RUIMTESCHIP MARDUK VOOR KUST VAN CALIFORNIA EN MEXICO? ( VIDEO )
RUIMTESCHIP MARDUK VOOR KUST VAN CALIFORNIA EN MEXICO? ( VIDEO )
Op een aantal plaatsen langs de kustlijn tussen Los Angeles en voorbij de Mexicaanse grens is er enkele dagen geleden een merkwaardig grote UFO gesignaleerd.
Voor de kust van Los Angeles zijn er sporen ontdekt van een buitenaardse onderwater basis en onder de stad schijnt zich een Reptielenstad te bevinden.
Steeds vaker worden verbanden tussen ogenschijnlijk separate gebeurtenissen zichtbaar. Ook nu.
Er is de laatste tijd opmerkelijk veel publiciteit rondom de Anunnaki god Marduk en uiteraard ook de planeet Nibiru.
Volgens de legende is Marduk een Anunnaki (Anakem of Nephilim), een Luceferiaans duivels wezen die tevens de vertegenwoordiger is van de inter-dimensionale zwarte planeet Nibiru, het hemellichaam wat niet zichtbaar is voor astronomen.
In de vorige afleveringen heb ik voorzichtig enkele profielen geschetst van de Anunnaki. Van hun uiterlijk... en kom ik tot de conclusie dat deze wezens, anders dan Zecharia Sitchin meent en aanneemt, minder menselijk zijn en meer reptielachtig.
In 2013 schreven wij een artikel over hoe er al tientallen jaren geruchten de ronde doen over een Reptielenstad onder Los Angeles.
Een stukje uit dat eerdere artikel:
In The Los Angeles Times van 29 januari 1934 stond het fascinerende verhaal van mijn-ingenieur Warren Shufelt.
Er was hem een verhaal verteld door een wijze oude Hopi Indiaan over een ondergrondse reptielenstad vol met schatten.
Shufelt had deze stad weten te lokaliseren door middel van Röntgenstralen en was op dat moment, in januari 1934, bezig met het aanbrengen van schachten om deze stad te kunnen bereiken.
Zo zag het artikel in de krant er uit op die dag in 1934:
Wat wel leuk is en niets met het verhaal als zodanig te maken heeft is dat de eindredactie van de L.A. Times op die dag goed heeft zitten slapen, want er zit een behoorlijke spelfout in het woord “people” in de titel.
Terug naar het echte verhaal. Een interessant gegeven wat misschien ook in onze huidige tijd relevant is is dat de legende waarop het onderzoek van Shufelt was gebaseerd, zegt dat er door de Reptielenmensen ongeveer vier- tot vijfduizend jaar geleden een ondergrondse stad was gegraven na “de grote ramp” die de aarde destijds had getroffen.
Deze zou hebben plaatsgevonden in de vorm van een “grote tong van vuur” die uit het Zuid Westen kwam en die alles wat op haar pad kwam vernietigde. Hierna besloot men om een ondergrondse stad te bouwen om aan toekomstige gebeurtenissen zoals deze te kunnen ontsnappen.
Zo is er een serieuze wetenschappelijke theorie die stelt dat er in het verleden een inslag is geweest van een meteoor die een geweldig vuur/brand in de atmosfeer tot gevolg had. Dit strekte zich uit van Californië tot Europa waardoor een groot deel van het ijs op het Noordelijk Halfrond smolt en in de oceanen terechtkwam. Het gevolg hiervan was dat de gehele waterstromen op aarde uit balans raakten wat weer heftige klimaatveranderingen veroorzaakte (ijstijd).
De legende gaat verder over hoe deze reptielmensen krachtige chemicaliën gebruikten om een netwerk van ondergrondse tunnels en ruimten te maken in plaats van deze te moeten graven. Ze werden aangelegd op hogere en lagere niveaus. De lagere tunnels kwamen uit bij de oceaan en middels eb en vloed kwam daar dagelijks water waardoor automatisch verse lucht naar de hogere tunnels werd gestuwd.
En verder:
De legende van de Hopi Indiaan schijnt in ieder geval te wijzen op een echt gebeurde ramp in het verleden. Werden deze inslagen van meteroren veroorzaakt door een vorige passage van Nibiru? Ook nu zijn er veel aanwijzingen dat deze Red Kachina (planeet X, Nibiru) wederom in de buurt is en hebben we te maken met een sterke toename van het aantal objecten uit de ruimte.
Een jaar na bovenstaand artikel schrijven wij over een bizarre onderwaterbasis die wordt ontdekt voor de kust van Los Angeles.
Onlangs werd er via een het Amerikaanse radiostation, Dark Matter Radio, een bizarre ontdekking bekend gemaakt.
Het betreft een gigantische onderwater ingang net voor de kust van Malibu bij wat men noemt Point Dume. Het is een soort plateaustructuur van ongeveer 2,2 bij 4 kilometer. Het bevindt zich op een afstand van precies 6,66 mijl (10,7 kilometer) vanaf de kust.
De breedte tussen de pilaren is 837 meter en de hoogte daarvan is 192 meter. Het dak van het plateau is 150 meter dik en lijkt zelfs bestand tegen nucleaire explosies. Het geheel bevindt zich op een diepte van 450 meter onder water.
De streek rond Malibu is al jarenlang een “hotspot” voor ufo’s en ook al jarenlang doen er verhalen de ronde over een ondergrondse buitenaardse basis voor de kust. Is dit dan misschien eindelijk de oplossing voor dit raadsel? De ingang is groot genoeg voor grote ruimteschepen en eventueel ook nucleaire onderzeeërs.
Al vanaf de jaren vijftig worden er met grote regelmaat ufo’s waargenomen in dit deel van Californië. In de jaren zeventig was het de gewoonte van veel gezinnen om als uitje naar Point Dume te gaan om daar de veelkleurige ufo’s onder water te zien verdwijnen.
Afgelopen week wordt op diverse plaatsen langs de kust een zeer grote merkwaardige UFO waargenomen.
Dit gebeurt zowel in het Amerikaanse San Diego als het Mexicaanse Tijuana en wel op dezelfde dag, in de avond van 18 april 2016.
Om even een idee te geven hoe het er daar ook alweer uitziet, navolgend een kaart met daarop Los Angeles, San Diego en Tijuana.
In beide plaatsen zagen mensen ongetwijfeld hetzelfde object. In eerste instanties lijkt het op meerdere UFO’s, maar bij nader onderzoek blijkt het om één schip te gaan.
De eerste afbeelding laat zien hoe de mensen in Mexico het object zagen en de tweede die in San Diego.
Hieronder volgen de twee video -opnames, de eerste uit Tijuana en de tweede uit San Diego.
Wanneer je een beetje luistert naar de mensen in de achtergrond en je ziet dit enorme object hangen, laag boven het water, dan krijg je een beetje het Independence Day gevoel.
In de tweede video krijg je pas een indruk hoe groot dit object is, wanneer je ook een vliegtuig hoog in de lucht ziet.
Nibiru en de Anunnaki die er waarschijnlijk uitzien als Reptielen, gecombineerd met de Reptielenstad en de ondergrondse tunnels die leiden naar de oceaan met daarin iets wat lijkt op enorme onderwaterbasis.
Vervolgens op ongeveer dezelfde locatie verschijnt een enorm (ruimte)schip dat in verschillende steden en zelfs landen wordt waargenomen.
Is het dan vergezocht om te veronderstellen dat Marduk even een bezoekje komt brengen aan de ondergrondse Reptielenstad, via de onderwaterbasis voor de kust van Malibu?
Location: Miramar FL Date:Sat April 16 2016 10pm Submitted by Dumford
Witness report:
Had sensing to take dog outside– had to wake him. Seems craft would have been right over me at that time. Rectangular with 10 lights in 2 columns of 2 -front 2 white blinking didn’t appear to be strobe, and other 8 multi colors strady on blue, red, yellow, green …?? While trying to determine if 8 or 10 lights, another craft appeared also rectangular but only 8 lights not multi colored but would go totally black for several seconds – only saw it 2x. Travelling WNW from MIA? Into/across wind, flying too fast for blimps ( such as if lit up underneath) too slow for normal jets… Not enough sound ( if any) for choppers flying any panels of lights to someplace ( direction Eglin?) No “wingtip lights” of red/ green” unable to determine altitude due to unknown actual size. But if ‘ usual’ plane altitude after TO 2 mile ‘down range’ less than 2 mi alt. perhaps? At one point I thought I saw a large light grey disk above it(attached) 3x size of rectangular light ‘panel’ but could be trick of mind/eye as low clouds were moving in and moon light subdued. Called someone immediately who knows ac had worked avionics 40 years and he had no idea. Tweeted later if anyone had seen it also but no replies.
New runway has caused many ac to fly right over at low altitudes for many months. Jets fly low after buzzing sunlife stadium, blimps for games often around..Am close to smaller ap where planes dive in and out picking up dropping banners– but never at night. (North Perry) Used to live ‘at’ HAFB and saw low flying stealth before made public ( it was viewing downrange flight of shuttle liftoff at night) .10 yrs CAP-USAF scanner. Never seen anything like this. Only photoes by iphone are garbage but show squarish blobs of light.
Location: High over Europe Date: 24/04/16 Submitted by Captain Anon
Witness report:
Whilst operating a commercial flight from eastern Mediteranean to UK cruising at 36000′ heading approx 300* over Bulgaria we saw what we initially thought was a satellite moving left to right just under the constelation Canis Minor. It was too slow for a meteor. It initially appeared as bright as the ISS, but quickly faded as it moved horizontally to the right, and faded from view before passing under the right star of Canis Minor. So we thought it was just a satellite and nothing at all unusal. However about 10 minutes later it appeared in exactly the same place and did exactly the same thing again, another satellite perhaps…a real coincidence! Shortly after that there was a bright white flash lower down under Canis Minor, it came and went in a split second. This was not a coincidence so we started to monitor that part of the sky closely and sure enough it reappeared in the same place and followed the same path again. As the occurances continued regularly at about 10 minute intervals it became fainter, however on about the fourth pass another bright short flash appeared underneath and to the right of the object. We observed about six passes before it was too faint to see, or had moved away. What WASN’T it? Not a satellite, although of a similar speed, but repetetive. Not a weather balloon, probably the right height, but too fast and repetetive. Not a commercial aircraft, no nav lights, no strobes nor beacon, and FAR too high. The only thing that makes any sense is an ultra high (military) aircraft flying extremely fast in a race track pattern getting further away from us. BUT this would not explain the two HI flashes. Three of us witnessed this from the flight deck, we were baffled, I have never seen anything like this in 20 years of commercial flying.
Location:Taylors Hill, Victoria, Australia Date: 24th April 2016 Submitted by David
Witness report:
My name is David, I am a skywatcher from Taylors Hill, Victoria, Australia. I would like to share with you one of my recent captures of a Polymorphic UFO that was captured from a viewing platform in my backyard. The object was filmed at 2.50pm on the 24th of April 2016 for one hour. The object was first detected at an elevation of approximately 75 degrees north-east of my location, and roughly 120 degrees opposite the sun. The footage was filmed in 4k resolution with a Panasonic Lumix GH4 paired with a spotting scope at 60x magnification.
Robert Hastings joined George Knapp to discuss UFO incursions at nuclear weapons sites. His new film UFOs and Nukes, The Secret Link Revealed features interviews with US Air Force veterans who were involved in incidents which confirm that unidentified flying objects seem to be able to monitor and even control nuclear weapons. Hastings says the film (and his book) feature “anecdotal evidence from very persuasive sources.” The cases have continued for decades, up to the present day. Hastings’ father was in the Air Force and when he was stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in North Dakota in the 1960s, there were rumors of UFOs hovering over the area. He believes that whatever intelligence is behind the incursions may be essentially asking leading governments if it is wise to continue to possess nuclear weapons.
A man driving along a dirt road at Malvern in Arkansas had a close encounter with a silent UFO more than 150 feet wide on December 15, 2015, approximately an hour before sundown.
The UFO was reportedly hovering low – just above the trees – and passing his destination. He observed it for 30 seconds but did not stop driving out of fear.
The object had strange bright blue lights that were pointed straight at the witness like two square eyes. The witness thought right there that it could see him.
As the witness got closer to the UFO, the treeline blocked his view or perhaps the view of the entity inside the UFO too. After about an hour, he noticed afterburners of a military fighter jet going south without lights.
He estimated the UFO to be between 150 and 200 feet wide. The witness wasn’t sure how long the UFO hovered there.
The witness reported his close encounter to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and it can be accessed in Case 75545 of the network’s witness reporting database.
It seems aliens, in the eyes of UFO hunters at least, aren't content with just building on Mars.
Recently published images of Venus appear to show ‘huge cities, artificial structures and all kinds of elements’, according to one researcher.
He says the buildings were created by some kind of alien race.
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Recently published images of Venus appear to show ‘huge cities, artificial structures and all kinds of elements’ that some say aren’t natural to the planet Martian researchers believe these buildings were created by some kind of alien race, making Venus the second planet in our solar system to be colonized
WHAT MAKES VENUS INTERESTING?
Venus is the second planet from the sun, orbiting at a distance of about 67 million miles (108 million km).
One Venus year lasts longer than a day on Venus.
A year lasts 225 Earth days and the planet spins so slowly that its day lasts as 243 Earth days.
It is a dim, but hot and volcanically active planet and it spins in the opposite direction of most planets.
YouTube and alien hunter mundodesconocido put a video together explaining the large cities he claims he found while analyzing the collection of photos.
He even created 3D models of the structures.
‘Artificial bizarre shapes appear to be cities and seem to have elements that emit light,’ he said in the video.
Mundodesconocido takes viewers on a tour through the 'great city' on Venus, showing raised structures all over the planet that could be alien apartment complexes or just craters on the surface.
These images came from the Magellan probe that was shipped off to Venus in 1989, which arrived a little over a year later to collect data.
Its mission was study land forms and tectonics, impact processes, erosion, deposition, chemical processes and the planets interior.
At least 85 percent of the surface was found to be covered with volcanic flows, which could explain the protruding structures referred to as ‘huge cities’ in YouTube clip.
Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily, published the YouTube video on his blog to share with these findings his followers.
The Venus map used by the researchers: To see an interactive version of it click here
Pictured is the image of which the YouTuber found the alien cities. He shows others how to locate the cities using the map and easily accessible software
Mundodesconocido takes viewers on a tour through the great city on Venus, showing raised structures all over the planet that could be alien apartment complexes or just craters on the surface. These images came from the Magellan probe that was shipped off to Venues in 1989
‘Wow! This person not only found these structures, but made a CGI duplicate so we can see what it truly looks like,’ he shared.
‘Note, the entire…and I mean entire, surface of Venus is covered in structures.’
POLES ON VENUS ARE COLDER THAN ANYWHERE ON EARTH
Venus is the second planet from the sun, orbiting at a distance of about 67 million miles (108 million km).
It is a sad reality that some spacecraft like Nasa's Philae lander don't last as long as they should, while others such as Esa's Venus Express continue to surprise us.
As part of its recent swansong, as the probe plummeted toward the planet, the Express gathered new and unexpected information about the planet's polar atmosphere.
This data has now been studied and reveals the poles are colder than any place on Earth.
They are also covered with rippling atmospheric waves.
Venus Express arrived at Venus in 2006.
It spent eight years orbiting the planet, greatly exceeding the mission's planned duration of 500 days, before it ran out of fuel.
The probe then began its descent into Venus' atmosphere, before the mission lost contact with Earth in November 2014 and officially ended the following month.
Before it plummeted down through the planet's atmosphere, the probe's measurements showed it to be rippling with atmospheric waves and, at an average temperature of -157°C (114K), is colder than anywhere on Earth.
These recent observations show the planet's atmosphere is much more interesting than first thought.
During the final months of its mission, Venus Express orbited the planet low enough to measure drag from the atmosphere.
Our previous understanding of Venus' polar atmosphere was based on observations gathered by Nasa's Pioneer Venus probe in the late 1970s.
These were of other parts of Venus' atmosphere, near the equator, but extrapolated to the poles to form a complete atmospheric reference model.
The Transit of Venus and Why its a rare event (HD)
Its mission was study land forms and tectonics, impact processes, erosion, deposition, chemical processes and the planets interior. At least 85 percent of the surface was found to be covered with volcanic flows, which could explain the protruding structures referred to as ‘huge cities’ in YouTube clip
Mundodesconocido shows viewers different areas of Venus and and shows other conspiracy theorists how to find the structures on their own. These images were taken from the Magellan probe that studied land forms and tectonics, impact processes, erosion, deposition, chemical processes and the planets interior
Some of the other structures spotted on the surface of Venus.
Neptune's largest moon, Triton, has a retrograde orbit, moving the opposite direction around its planet. This orbit contradicts everything we know about how moons form, and it could indicate a secret origin.
A RETROGRADE WORLD
In August 25, 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 mission reached the outer solar system and gave us our first look at the largest of Neptune’s 13 moons, Triton. To begin, Triton is considered to be one of the coldest places in our entire Solar System. The moon’s surface temperature is about -235°C on average, while Pluto averages about -229°C.
Yes, this world is colder than Pluto.
And upon our arrival, we discovered that the this strange moon is, well, even stranger than we assumed. In fact, it is orbiting the wrong way, and it is the only large moon among any of the other planets in the solar system that does this.
Triton has what is called a “retrograde orbit,” which means that its orbit is opposite to Neptune’s rotational direction, indicating that the moon did not form along with its host planet. This orbit contradicts everything we know about how moons form.
AND THINGS GET WEIRDER
If that’s not enough to convince you that it’s clearly no ordinary moon, Triton’s surface is smooth, seemingly like metal. This may be caused by eruptions on the surface, as Triton is geologically active to this day, driven by the radioactive heating from its core. And this heating means that it could have liquid water in its interior, just like Europa.
One theory is that Triton was originally a binary object that visited our solar system from somewhere else. In this case, Triton would have once been a dwarf planet. However, it had a close encounter with Neptune that ended with the loss of the other body, making the former planet a moon.
Sadly, Triton’s orbit is decaying. Scientists estimate that, in approximately 3.6 billion years, it will pass below Neptune’s Roche limit and will be torn apart…so enjoy this little world while you can.
Astronomers Uncover An Invisible, Dark Matter Galaxy
Astronomers Uncover An Invisible, Dark Matter Galaxy
NASA GSFC
IN BRIEF
An image that could change the way astronomers look at "discrepancies" in light distortions in space. The distortions of light around a galaxy nearly 4 billion light-years away is believed to be caused by the gravitational force of an invisible, dark matter galaxy.
INVISIBLE BUT NOT UNDETECTABLE
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) has captured an image with subtle distortions. That, in and of itself, is not too terribly interesting; however, these distortions hint at a hidden galaxy—a dark, dwarf galaxy made up mostly of dark matter…dark matter than happens to be one of the two missing pieces of our universe.
The image captured by ALMA showed faint red arcs surrounding a galaxy (shown in blue light below) nearly 4 billion light-years away. The distortions of light are believed to have been caused by the gravitational force from the dwarf dark galaxy behind it.
Image Credit: ALMA
As NASA says, “we are much more certain what dark matter is not than we are what it is.” We know that dark matter does not emit or absorb light, making it invisible to us as of now. And while we have no known methods of seeing dark matter, all matter has gravitational force, which has an effect on surrounding matter (including light). As predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, the gravitational forces of objects alter light and cause a lensing effect, called gravitational lensing.
This gives clues about surrounding galaxies, even when they are far away or, in this case, invisible.
“DISCREPANCIES” NO MORE
“We can find these invisible objects in the same way that you can see rain droplets on a window. You know they are there because they distort the image of the background objects,” Stanford University astronomer Yashar Hezaveh explained.
The research implies that we may have not been seeing majority of dwarf galaxies because they are made up mostly of dark matter.
For nearly two decades, researchers have been seeing similar distortions but brushed them off as “discrepancies.” This discovery could explain those discrepancies and open up possibilities for ALMA to find similar objects for comparison as well as help astronomers find out more about dark matter.
Called auroras (or northern lights), these swirling light shows are considered "space weather" because they result from geomagnetic storms. Although auroras are always happening — as a result of the solar wind blowing charged particles toward Earth — few people live far enough north or south for regular aurora sightings. Many people travel to witness the celestial show.Night-sky enthusiasts are looking to the heavens for dancing lights in the name of science ─ or Aurorasaurus, as the project is called. The online community is a hub for citizen-scientists to gather and share aurora data via the project's website and mobile apps.
"Using these observations, we can make better short-term predictions of when and where the aurora is for aurora enthusiasts — and scientists," Liz MacDonald, the founder of Aurorasaurus, said in a statement.
After a geomagnetic storm was predicted in 2011, MacDonald saw a viral response online of people sharing aurora-related posts on social media. That storm and the subsequent public reactions allowed for the first wide-scale documentation of aurora activity. This inspired MacDonald to create Aurorasaurus. [Aurora Photos: Northern Lights Dazzle in Night-Sky Images]
Skywatchers upload their observations to the Aurorasaurus website or app, and include information such as location, time, color and type of aurora observed, as well as how high the aurora appeared in the sky, according to the website.
This screenshot of an Aurorasaurus map shows an aurora storm on March 6, 2016. Citizen scientists reported seeing aurora in the midlands of England, the north coast of the Netherlands, and areas in the U.S. such as Maine, New York, Minnesota and North Dakota. Credit: Aurorasaurus
Software then plots the aurora's position based on the observer's location, according to a release by Earth and Space Science News (EOS). The citizen-scientists can also share images, which gives a greater understanding of the aurora as the appearance can change over time or by vantage point. Aurorasaurus uses all this information, as well as tweets on auroras (which the site tracks based on keywords), to pump out a real-time visibility map.
After a particularly expansive showing of auroras during spring 2015, many more citizen-scientists began to share reports online about the colors and heights of the natural light displays.
Most Aurorasaurus data collected thus far originated from geomagnetic storms during March and June of 2015, according to the EOS release. Users filed 170 observation reports around St. Patrick's Day, with many including photos. Hundreds of tweets were also collected for the Aurorasaurus map.
"The short-term vision for Aurorasaurus is to become an interactive hub for aurora enthusiasts at the intersection of citizens and science," MacDonald said in a NASA statement. "Long term, this engaged community can be sustained and evolve together — and the tools can be expanded to be useful in other disciplines within our technological society."
Even some of the tech aboard the USS Enterprise isn't so far-fetched. Think the automatic sliding doors or the wireless earpiece worn by communications officer Nyota Uhura. Credit: Paramount
WASHINGTON — William Shatner knows a thing or two about sci-fi tech. The 85-year-old actor is best known for his portrayal of the fictional Captain James Kirk, the courageous and willful leader of the starship Enterprise from the original "Star Trek" TV series.
The show, which debuted in 1966, exposed audiences to spaceships, intergalactic space travel and a bevy of high-tech, futuristic gadgets. Now, nearly 50 years after the show came on the air, some "Star Trek" technologies exist in real life — everything from automatic doors to cell phones. But, even though humans aren't zooming to distant worlds at warp speed, or using a "transporter" to teleport between two locations, Shatner says some of the series' most out-of-this-world tech may not always be so out of reach.
There are several examples of how real-life inventions took cues from "Star Trek." For instance, the communicator that Captain Kirk uses to talk to his crew is essentially a crude version of today's cellphones; the USS Enterprise's communications officer, Nyota Uhura, uses a futuristic-looking earpiece that today would fit right in with contemporary Bluetooth-enabled options; and the automatic sliding doors seen on the starship Enterprise must have seemed revolutionary at the time, but are now so ubiquitous most people likely take them for granted. The design of the starship's command center, or bridge, was even studied by real-life researchers, Shatner said.
"The Navy did come in and look at some of the ergonomics of the bridge, and apparently copied it," he said. "A captain of a vessel not too long ago [said] some of the bridge stuff on his ship was designed after what our designers had [done]."
Yet, with other concepts from the show — faster-than-light travel, teleportation and time travel — the gulf between science and science fiction seems to be as wide today as it was 50 years ago.
Conceptually, teleporting a human being from one room to another is thought to be impossible, but on an atomic scale, researchers have made significant strides in the bizarre world of quantum teleportation.
"Although a lot of the concepts in science fiction are absurd to our Newtonian minds, anything is possible because of the new language of quantum physics," Shatner said.
Quantum physics describes the strange set of rules that govern the behavior of subatomic particles, including why particles can exist in more than one place at the same time. Quantum teleportation relies on so-called "quantum entanglement," in which particles can interact and become linked so that an action performed on one instantaneously influences the other, even if they are far apart.
Quantum teleportation experiments do not dabble with matter, but rather they aim to beam photons (particles of light that have no mass) between two locations. (In other words, these experiments aren't teleporting humans anywhere, but the findings are valuable for advances in quantum computing.)
In 2015, physicists set a new distance record in quantum teleportation, beaming photons 63 miles (102 kilometers) across fiber optics, or four times farther than had been previously demonstrated.
Now what?
"So, where does that leave us?" Shatner said. "Can you transport all the molecules in a human being? Apparently, it's impossible. Can you transport a replica of that person? [It's] possible, but the amount of computer energy and space is overwhelming. There's so much that we imagine in science fiction that is so delightful to think about."
Time travel is similarly a mystery, though Shatner said people are likely familiar with the sci-fi narrative that involves characters traveling through a wormhole "where time and space is curved," creating a shortcut between two locations in space or time. But, wormholes are hypothetical features, and so far, they have not been proven to exist. [The 7 Silliest Time Travel Concepts in Science Fiction]
And though faster-than-light travel has been popularized in both the "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" franchises, Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity says nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, which is 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) in a vacuum.
Still, Shatner said it's fun to mull over these concepts, and science fiction should always serve as a way to stoke people's imaginations. And from his perspective (at least when it comes to Hollywood), the future is an exciting place.
Artist's impression of the Japanese Hitomi spacecraft (left) and ground-based observation of the damaged spacecraft in orbit.
Credit: JAXA
On a clear night sky, you might spot an occasional shooting star or even glimpse the fast-moving International Space Station as it circles the Earth.
But there are a lot of other objects up there too, including a massive new Japanese x-ray telescope called Hitomi that broke up a few weeks ago, and hundreds of tiny four-inch cube-shaped satellites ("cubesats") that are filling an ever more crowded orbital playground.
Now a group of astrophysical researchers say they can track bits of broken satellites and space junk using regular optical telescopes to record flashes of sunlight that reflect off these wandering probes. This week, they have been watching several big chunks of Hitomi as they tumble uncontrollably through space.
"As these things are going across the sky, they flash as the sunlight reflects on them," said Aroh Barjatya, associate professor of engineering physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. "Using photometry, we wrote a piece of code that centers them and measures the brightness of the object. When you are looking at controlled satellite, the brightness curve behaves in a known way. When you look at Hitomi, it's tumbling up and down. It has spin rate."
Barjatya said the group's observatory is specializing in tracking small cubesats -- many of them inexpensive, short-lived probes launched by university researchers that might fall through the cracks of the Pentagon's space junk tracking system.
"There are hundreds of universities launching them each year," Barjatya said. "We are potentially putting a lot of orbiting objects in the sky, many can breakup and fail and destroy other satellites. It hasn't happened. But as we put more and more up there, there is that possibility."
Barjatya says that half of the cubesats have lost contact with their operators. With a better optical tracking system, he hopes that provide more information about their fate.
The Pentagon's Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base is currently tracking 23,000 objects in space using radar and optical cameras. Their position are posted on this website each day.
JSpOC spokesman Capt. Nick Mercurio agreed that the space above Earth is getting more crowded. Every day, more than 3,000 automated messages are sent out to satellite operators about drifting debris or other satellites that may pose a risk. JSpOC is currently tracking 11 separate pieces of Hitomi since its breakup on March 26, Mercurio said, and has made five notifications warning other spacecraft operators that these bits are getting close to existing satellites.
In 2015, nearly 150 satellites had to be moved from their orbit to avoid colliding with something else. Astronauts aboard the ISS had to boost its orbit four times last year to avoid trouble.
"Low earth orbit is congested," Mercurio said. "Things are moving at 17,500 miles per hour and it can get dangerous. A two-centimeter ball bearing has same impact (energy of a) Jeep Wrangler driving at 70 miles per hour."
The Embry-Riddle team says they hope to improve their imaging capabilities with spectroscopic cameras that will be able to analyze the light reflecting off the space debris to determine whether it's a solar panel, piece of Teflon, aluminum or other kind of metal.
A large "Y-shaped discontinuity" dominates this image of Saturn's moon Enceladus, taken by NASA'S Cassini spacecraft in February 2016.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
A strange Y-shaped feature stretches like a tentacled monster across the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus in a new image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
The giant, sinuous "Y," which appears at the boundary between sunlight and darkness in the photo, is a tectonic feature related to stresses in the icy shell of Enceladus, NASA officials said.
Such "Y-shaped discontinuities" likely arise "when surface material attempts to push northward, compressing or displacing existing ice along the way," NASA officials wrote Monday (April 18) in a description of the image.
"Such features are also believed to be relatively young based on their lack of impact craters — a reminder of how surprisingly geologically active Enceladus is," they added.
Enceladus is famous for the geysers near its south pole, which blast water ice and other material into space continuously. The 313-mile-wide (504 kilometers) moon is thought to harbor a huge ocean of liquid water beneath its icy shell; the geysers offer a way to sample this ocean from afar, without touching down on Enceladus, scientists say.
Cassini has flown through the plume created by the geysers multiple times since its arrival in the Saturn system in 2004. Though Cassini is not equipped to hunt for signs of life, the probe has spotted organic materials — the building blocks of life as we know it — within the plume. (Many astrobiologists regard Enceladus as one of the solar system's best bets to host alien life.)
Cassini took the newly released image on Feb. 15, 2016, at a distance of about 60,000 miles (100,000 km) from Enceladus. The spacecraft has made a series of close flybys of the moon in recent months, to gain more information about its geological history and environment.
The surface of Enceladus is believed to be possibly less than 100 million years old, which would make it one of the youngest surfaces in the solar system. The moon reflects almost 100 percent of the light that hits its surface because it is so icy, scientists say.
"Star Trek Continues" is exactly what it sounds like: A fan-made science fiction series that picks up where the original "Star Trek" TV show left off, putting Kirk, Spock and the rest of the starship Enterprise's crew through a whole new set of adventures in the final frontier. The cast — made up of of talented voice- and stage-actor Trek fans, including Vic Mignogna as executive producer (and Kirk) — works on an exact-replica set, evoking the original show's performances to create what feels like lost episodes from the series itself.
Since its debut in 2013, "Star Trek Continues" has published five episodes online, and the sixth will premiere in May. (Episode 7 is nearly done as well.) The project's crowdfunding campaign to finish Episode 7's post-production phase and film three more episodes is live on Indiegogo until May 4.
Space.com caught up with Mignogna to talk about the show he calls his "love letter" to the original series, the key to "Star Trek" storytelling and what's to come in the next two episodes of the web series. (Plus, Space.com's own Karl Tate explores the set in this Trek-tastic new video.)
Space.com: How did "Star Trek Continues" begin?
(L to R) Chuck Huber, Vic Mignogna and Todd Haberkorn as McCoy, Kirk and Spock for the web series “Star Trek Continues.”
Credit: Star Trek Continues
Vic Mignogna: I've loved the original series of "Star Trek " ever since I was a little boy; I used to eat, sleep and breathe that show, basically. I would make my own uniforms and make my own props, and use my parents' movie camera to round up kids in the neighborhood to shoot little episodes. That show really inspired me when I was 10, 11, 12 years old, 13, 14.
Over the years, I have been developing skills in filmmaking and acting, and all different elements of production, and a few years ago I helped another fan production — I directed an episode for another fan production, and I kind of got bitten by the bug again. So I got a bunch of friends together and we all poured a lot of love and money and sweat and time and effort and talent into starting this web series. And people have really enjoyed it. We've got over 4 million views now, and have won a dozen awards, and people seem to really, really be enjoying it and it's very gratifying.
Space.com: How long did it take from the idea's inception to the first episode going up online?
Mignogna: We started out by releasing some little 3- to 5-minute dramatic vignettes introducing the world to our crew and the actors that were going to be playing those iconic roles, and we released three of those vignettes. They're all online, they're on our YouTube channel. They were basically a preview while we were finishing building all the sets and getting ready to shoot the first episode.
To date, we've been around three years and we've got six episodes: five online, released. The sixth one is done and will be premiering in May at Megacon, and the seventh episode is also done and will be premiering in the fall.
Space.com: Has the project grown in scale over time?
Mignogna: The project already started at its beginning at a higher level of quality than people had heretofore seen in fan production. But I will say with every episode, I feel like our cast and crew have gotten better and better. When we released a first episode, a lot of people were like, "Wow, how could you do any better than this?" And then we would release the second one and people would say, "Oh my gosh, I don't know how you did it, but this one's even better." And then the third one, they would say, "Oh my gosh, this one's even better, and the fourth one's even better, and the fifth one's even better!" So in different ways I think we are improving, but from the very beginning our quality level was extremely high. [See the Evolution of the Starship Enterprise in Photos]
Space.com: How do you decide on the specific plots or issues to focus on for particular episodes?
Mignogna: The original series' stories were very compelling stories that many times had an ethical theme or a moral plot or point or a social commentary, and so I was committed from the very beginning to telling those kinds of stories. And that's exactly what we've done. If you watch our episodes, you'll find that one of the things that makes [them] feel so much like the original series is that we tell very thought-provoking, intriguing, passion-filled stories.
Space.com: Can you say what's coming up in episodes six and seven?
Mignogna: I will tell you this: Our next episode is going to be so groundbreaking, nobody has ever done anything like this. I don't want to give away too much, but I will tell you that the engineering room will be featured prominently. It will be making its screen debut in Episode 6.
Gigi Edgley, who was one of the main characters in Farscape, is our guest star for this episode. And let me just say that there was an element that they incorporated into several episodes of the original series, and no fan production has done this to the degree that we're doing it in Episode 6.
And I will tell you that Episode 7 has already completed shooting. It's a wonderful, very, very thought-provoking episode about a very topical issue, and [I'm] very, very proud of that episode as well.
Space.com: What has been the most difficult part of producing the show?
Mignogna: Oh, my gosh, everything. I have to tell you, whenever you set out to do something at this level of quality, there are so many moving parts, and if you watch our episodes you see that there are tons and tons of elements to this production. Getting the lighting just right, getting the costumes just right, casting it, makeup, camera teams, sound team, props, art direction — there are dozens of moving parts that all have to come together to make it work, and I am so very, very proud of the team that I've assembled. The reason that we're able to do this quality-level work at a fraction of what it would normally cost is because everybody is basically doing it for virtually nothing. They're doing it because they love the original series of "Star Trek," they have a passion for it and they want to pay tribute to it the same way I do.
Space.com: What was it like putting together the replica sets?
Mignogna: The partial bridge was the only thing that had been built of all these sets when we partnered up [to work with another "Star Trek" fan production's set]. And then my director of photography, Matt Busey, did all of the diagrams and architectural drawings for all of the rest of the soundstage. And then a bunch of local volunteers, and just really good "Star Trek" fans, came together, including myself, and we all spent several months building all of the rest of the sets, and then three years ago we shot our first episode on those sets. So now — "Star Trek Continues" is the sole owner of those sets — we call our studio Stage 9, which is named after the soundstage where the original series was shot.
Our cast and crew come together at least twice a year to shoot episodes on those sets. They were patterned after the original series soundstage, and I would say that they were within inches of perfectly accurate to the original sets. [How 'Star Trek' Technology Works (Infographic)]
Space.com: Was there anything particularly hard to put together?
Mignogna: The pieces that were scattered all around the original soundstage were pieces from the 1960s; those pieces don't exist anymore. We need[ed] to come up with our own way to recreate and reproduce those pieces. And I'm very proud of the job we've done, doing so.
Let me say, as amazing as our sets are, at the end of the day, the sets are just a backdrop to the story. If the story isn't any good, if the acting isn't any good, then it really doesn't matter how accurate the sets are. The only reason that our sets need to be accurate is so the audience will immediately accept the setting as the original-series Enterprise or the original series of "Star Trek," and then allow us to tell them a good, thought-provoking story. That's one thing that a lot of fan productions miss. A lot of fan productions build really nice sets, or they make nice costumes, but those things are merely a vehicle to tell a good story. As far as "Star Trek Continues" is concerned, story, story, story is king. That's the most important thing.
Hunt Continues for Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Megamergers
Hunt Continues for Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Megamergers
By Shannon Hall
The Earth is constantly jostled by low-frequency gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries in distant galaxies. Astrophysicists are using pulsars as a galaxy-sized detector to measure the Earth’s motion from these waves.
Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
The sound of merging supermassive black holes does not saturate the universe.
For the past decade, scientists with the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) collaboration have been listening for a constant "hum" of low-frequency gravitational waves.
Theoretical work suggests that this hum — generated by collisions involving supermassive black holes, which contain millions or billions of times more mass than the sun — should be detectable at Earth. NANOGrav hasn't heard the hum yet, a new study reveals, but this lack of detection is an interesting result in its own right, revealing new details of how galaxies might evolve and merge, team members said. [The Search for Gravitational Waves in Pictures]
Gravitational waves — cosmic ripples that distort the fabric of space-time itself — were first predicted by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity in 1916.
The first direct detection of these ripples was announced earlier this year, by researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project. The waves spotted by LIGO radiated outward from a cosmic crash between two black holes that were 29 and 36 times the mass of the sun, respectively.
The $1 billion LIGO experiment bounces a laser beam between mirrors that are positioned at either end of two 2.5-mile-long (4 kilometers) arms. If a gravitational wave passes through the detector, the length of one of these arms will change ever so slightly compared to the other, affecting the arrival time of the laser light by a fraction of a second.
NANOGrav works on the same general principle, but it uses pulsars — dead stars that spin rapidly, up to hundreds of times each second — instead of Earth-based laser beams. And it hunts for supermassive black holes.
Pulsars emit beams of radiation from their magnetic north and south poles. If a pulsar happens to be aligned with Earth just right, astronomers will see flashes of its radiation, just as observers can see beacons of light from a lighthouse. These flashes can contain evidence of gravitational waves.
"As the gravitational wave transits the Milky Way, it stretches and squashes space-time, making the pulsars and the Earth jiggle," Chiara Mingarelli, an astronomer from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, told Space.com. "And we can measure that jiggle by looking at changes in the arrival time in the pulses."
Two pulsars "are like the interferometer arms on LIGO, but instead of being 4 kilometers long, they're 3,000 light-years long,” Mingarelli added. "A pulsar timing array is really a galactic-scale gravitational-wave detector."
NANOGrav currently monitors 54 pulsars throughout the Milky Way using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the two most sensitive radio telescopes operating at the necessary frequencies. Team members are hoping to hear a distinctive low-frequency sound.
"Whereas LIGO has this high-pitched chirp, pulsar timing arrays have a low growl from all these supermassive black holes combined," Mingarelli said. [What Colliding Black Holes Sound Like (Video)]
LIGO, A Passion for Understanding a film by Kai Staats
When two galaxies collide, the supermassive black holes at the cores of each sink to the center of the newly created megagalaxy and swirl around one another. Scientists think that, over time, the black holes' orbits shrink, allowing them to merge and form an even more gigantic supermassive black hole.
But there's a problem with this scenario. While it’s easy to imagine how two supermassive black holes could come to orbit one another, astronomers struggle to model how the behemoths cross the final parsec (about 3.2 light-years) of space between each other to merge. In order to fall toward each other, the black holes have to radiate away energy — but exactly what that energy looks like, and how it changes as the black holes come closer together, is relatively unknown.
The simplest model predicts that black holes merge via gravitational-wave radiation for that entire final parsec. If that's the case, the supermassive black holes would radiate so many gravitational waves that a background "hum" should have been detected by now. But the new analysis of NANOGrav's nine-year dataset did not detect any such background.
However, that result isn’t surprising, said study co-author Justin Ellis, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
"Most people in the field didn't really believe the optimistic model," Ellis told Space.com.
The likelihood that the background noise is relatively weak means that the physics involved are a little messier — and more interesting, researchers said.
There are two possible interpretations of the failure of the NANOGrav collaboration to detect any telltale noise until now. The first is that merging supermassive black holes shrink in their orbits because they interact with stars and gas. If the black holes slingshot stars away from the center of the galaxy, for example, that could cause them to lose the necessary energy and slouch toward the center. This would cause them to merge faster and emit less gravitational-wave radiation.
The other possibility is that the black holes spiral toward each other so slowly — on timescales longer than the age of the universe — that they essentially never merge.
"It’s weird to think that the centers of galaxies just have these massive binaries that just can't get together, but it's possible," Mingarelli said.
Within these models are many knobs that theorists can turn, Ellis said. Researchers can play with how quickly and efficiently supermassive black holes merge via interacting with gas and dust, slingshotting stars away from the center or simply emitting gravitational-wave radiation.
"It's a big parameter space, and this is the first study that can start to cut out some of the edges of that parameter space and limit how far the knobs can be turned," Ellis said.
The new study was published in The Astrophysical Journal.
The incredible mystery of the ‘alien spacecraft’ that lies at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
The incredible mystery of the ‘alien spacecraft’ that lies at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
Unidentified object ... artist Tod Twentytod’s graphic depiction of the “Baltic Sea Anomaly”. Picture: sonofmabarker/YouTube
Maryse Farag and staff writersThe Sun
WHEN the mystery object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea was first spotted in 2011, it baffled experts and excited alien hunters. They still don’t know what it is.
Dubbed the “Baltic Sea Anomaly”, the structure looks like the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars.
It was discovered five years ago by Swedish treasure hunters, Ocean X team, led by Peter Lindberg, its captain, and his co-researcher Dennis Asberg, The Sun reports.
They used a side-scan sonar and found something strange 91 metres below the surface of the water.
Mystery object found in Baltic Sea
It was reported that the divers exploring the anomaly said their equipment stopped working as they approached it.
“Anything electric out there, and the satellite phone as well, stopped working when we were above the object,” professional diver Stefan Hogerborn, part of the Ocean X team, said.
“And then when we got away about 200 metres, it turned on again, and when we got back over the object it didn’t work.”
The 61-metre-wide and eight-metre-tall circular object hit the headlines, with many speculating the anomaly could be a giant mushroom, a sunken Russian ship or an alien spaceship.
“Baltic Sea Anomaly” ... artist Tod Twentytod’s graphic depiction of the object. Picture: sonofmabarker/YouTubeSource:Supplied
A sample recovered by divers was given to geologist Steve Weiner who ruled out the possibility of it being a natural geological formation.
After examining fragments, he claimed that the materials were “metals which nature could not reproduce itself”.
Some experts think it’s a Nazi anti-submarine device or a battleship gun turret.
Other observers believe it is a UFO called the “Roswell of the Ocean”, but there is still no evidence to suggest that the UFO-like object is an alien ship.
Volker Bruchert, an associate professor of geology at Stockholm University, toldLife’s Little Mysteries.com: “My hypothesis is that this object, this structure was formed during the Ice Age many thousands of years ago.”
But Lindberg and Asberg claim the samples they gave for analysis weren’t from the object itself, but from the “vicinity” of the object”, according to Open Minds.tv.
It seems that nobody wants to fund research into the Baltic Sea discovery. The question remains: what really lies beneath?
Location ... the “Baltic Sea Anomaly” was found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Picture: GooglemapsSource:Supplied
Previously unseen Australian UFO photographs dating from the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s. These were all released in official documents including the Royal Australian Air Force.
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Three ancient Manuscripts that suggest Extraterrestrial beings visited Earth in the distant past
Three ancient Manuscripts that suggest Extraterrestrial beings visited Earth in the distant past
These three ancient Manuscripts all describe similar stories where beings, possibly misinterpreted as ‘Gods,’ came from the heavens and ruled over the planet for thousands of years.
Is it possible that ‘beings’, misunderstood as ‘Gods’ came to Earth in the distant past, and ruled over the planet for thousands of years?
If intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations did visit our planet in the distant past would we find evidence of their visitation somewhere on Earth today? Well, according to these three ancient texts the most-searched for pieces of evidence are right in front of us and have been here all along, ever since ancient mankind recorded what they had seen thousands of years ago.
Even though mainstream scholars firmly reject this idea millions of people today firmly believe mankind has been visited by beings not from Earth in the distant past. According to some accounts these beings who were referred to as Gods intervened in numerous way in the evolution and development of civilization as we know it and interestingly there are numerous ancient texts that seem to back up this controversial yet popular theory.
The Sumerian King List, the Royal Canon of Turin and the Palermo stone are three extremely important ancient texts that describe a time in history when beings referred to as ‘Gods’ ruled over our planet.
The Ancient Sumerian King List
The Sumerian King list is one of the most interesting ancient texts ever found on our planet as it details with great accuracy the rulers of the ancient Sumerian Civilization. There are more than a dozen of copies of Sumerian King Lists found in Babylon, Susa, and Assyria and the Royal Library of Nineveh from the VII century BC. All of these are believed to originate from one original list believed to have been written during the Third Dynasty of Ur or even earlier.
However, the best preserved Sumerian King List is called the Weld-Blundell Prism which is a clay cuneiform inscribed vertical prism housed in the Ashmolean Museum.
Written on it is a comprehensive list of all Sumerian kings before and after the great flood. Interestingly it describes Kings who ruled over Earth living for thousands of years.
From the Sumerian King List, we read: “…After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug. In Eridug, Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years. Alaljar ruled for 36000 years. 2 kings; they ruled for 64800 years.”
This ancient document describes a time on Earth when unknown beings lived for thousands of years and ruled over the ancient cities of the region. Researchers have not been able to explain why the unique list blends mythical pre-dynastic rulers with historical rulers who are known to have existed and as such have mixed feelings when it comes to the interpretation of the Sumerian King list.
Scholars today have only partially accepted the Sumerian King list suggesting that the lengthy implausible reigns described within the Sumerian King list are nothing more than mythology.
The Turin Royal Canon of the Turin King List
But if ‘Aliens’ misinterpreted as ‘Gods’ did in fact rule on Earth for thousands of years wouldn’t there be evidence of their existences in different cultures?
Well, the Ancient Sumerian King List isn’t the only ancient text that describes how ‘Gods’ ruled over planet Earth. The Turin Royal Canon is another crucial ancient text that describes the longevous reign of ‘Gods’.
The Turin papyrus –referred to by many as the Turin Royal Canon—is an ancient text written in the hieratic language (a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests). Scholars believe that the original papyrus was a list that included over 300 names detailing precisely the years, months and days of each reign of the kings that ruled over the lands of ancient Egypt.
Interestingly, the part that resembles the Sumerian King List with great accuracy are the final two lines of the column, which seem to represent a resume of the entire document are extremely interesting and remind us of the Sumerian King list. They read: ‘… Venerables Shemsu-Hor, 13,420 years; Reigns before the Shemsu-Hor, 23,200 years; Total 36,620 years’.
The Papyrus of Turin clearly indicates the existence of NINE dynasties that correspond to the predynastic Pharaohs and among them are the Venerables of Memphis’, ‘the Venerables of the North’ and lastly, the Shemsu Hor (the Companions or Followers of Horus) who ruled until the time of Menes, the first mortal Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
The Palermo Stone
Also known as the Royal Annals, the Palermo Stone is considered by many as the world’s oldest history books. This ancient stone is the most important source for the study of ancient Egyptian History. While the exact date of its creation is still a mystery, it is believed to have been created sometime in the fifth dynasty. Just as the Ancient Sumerian King List and the Turin Royal Canon do, the Palermo Stone lists the mythical predynastic kings of Egypt followed by the pharaohs of the first five dynasties.
The Palermo stone is only half of a huge slab of black diorite which initially is believed to have measured approximately 2 meters in length and around 60 centimeters in height. It is currently displayed at the Museum of Palermo. The document, in hieroglyphic writing, accounts for 120 predynastic kings who reigned before the ancient Egyptians officially existed as a civilization. Interestingly the names of the mysterious “gods” and “demigods” appear in the Egyptian royal genealogies as well.
As you can see, there are several ancient texts that describe with great accuracy a time when beings, possibly misunderstood as Gods, came down from th e heavens and ruled over mankind. Moreover, similar accounts of ‘Gods’ that came down from the heavens can be found in numerous ancient cultures all across the planet. For some reason, mainstream researchers have decided to ignore these ancient texts and have put forward their own chronology of ancient Egyptian history and that of other great ancient civilizations.
Illustration of alleged alien body storage morgue at Wright-Patterson AFB.
Reprinted from the February 2014 MUFON UFO Journal
EDITOR’S NOTE:The late Leonard Stringfield was noted for his research into UFO crash/retrievals (CRs). During the mid-1970s he collected reports from pilots, engineers and military personnel who claimed first-hand knowledge. Due to the highly classified nature of these operations, Leonard never released the identities of his sources. His day-to-day dictation notes are now on file at MUFON Headquarters. Historian Michael Schratt is moving through these and presents a series of References from these works.
Reference #13: Additional details emerge in “alien movie.” Leonard received a call from researcher Joan Jeffers who stated that she knew a friend who was based at a Naval Station in Brunswick Maine, who had personally seen the alleged film (sometime around 1955 or 1956). According to the informant, the man in charge of showing this film was a Major Lester Goldberg (attempts by this historian to locate the Major have proven unsuccessful). Source: Leonard
Stringfield dictation notes January 11, 1979. Update to Reference #12 from Part 3: Leonard received a call from “WP” who stated that: “I have seen one (ET body)…..about 1954 at Wright-Patterson AFB”. The body was approximately four feet tall, and was being stored in a round glass container. This military eyewitness also claimed to have seen a craft which was estimated to be 20 feet in diameter. Source: Leonard Stringfield dictation notes.
illustration by John MacNeill.
Reference #14: The Stringfield collection contained an article titled “THE GREAT UFO COVERUP” written by Timothy Green Beckley. Some of the points of this article are certainly worth highlighting in this installment of Retrievals of the Third Kind. According to the article, former astronaut Gordon Cooper made an appearance on the Merv Griffin show on March 27, 1978. During the interview, Cooper made some rather shocking comments that rattled the live audience. The next day, phone lines were jammed as many across the nation tried to contact the producers of the show for further details. Towards the end of the interview, Merv directed the following statement to the former astronaut: “There is a story going around Gordon, that a spaceship did land in middle America, and there were occupants, and members of our government were able to keep one of the occupants alive for a period of time. They’ve seen the metal of the aircraft, and they know what the people look like – is that a credible story”? Expecting a joking reply, Cooper answered the question with the following statement: “I think it’s fairly credible. I would like to see the time when all qualified people not trying to make a dollar selling some weird stories could really work together to properly investigate these stories and either refute or prove them.” However, there were some things during the interview that even he wouldn’t discuss on the air. Fortunately, UFO researcher Lee Spiegel developed a friendship with Cooper, and got him to open up about what he knew. According to Spiegel: “Cooper admitted to me that he could have revealed more on the air, but he decided not to reveal his entire hand because he felt certain that some official eyebrows were going to get raised. He further indicated that he has several friends who were involved in the episode, and knew a lot more than he had about the extraterrestrials that had been found inside this crashed UFO.”
Spiegel was also successful in getting Cooper to discuss his other UFO related experiences. During the early 1950’s, Cooper was assigned to a fighter group in Germany. He clearly remembered the week when an entire formation of disc-shaped craft passed the air base on an almost daily schedule. Cooper continues: “The first day, a weatherman spotted some strange objects flying at high altitude and, before long, the entire fighter group was out looking at these groups of objects coming over.” However, according to Cooper, “unlike fighters, they would stop in their forward velocity, and change 90 degrees, sometimes in the middle of their flight path.” Within days, Cooper and his fellow pilots tried desperately to intercept these strange unknown craft, which were flying far too high, and far too fast for their vintage 1950’s F-84 and F-86 jet fighters. Obviously, the UFOs could out maneuver all American fighter aircraft. Cooper continues again: “We never could get close enough to pin them down, but they were round in shape and very metallic-looking.”
However, years later, Cooper would have another amazing UFO related experience when he was transferred to Edwards AFB in 1957.
What happened on a sunny afternoon when he was on duty is clear evidence that the United States government definitely keeps UFO related secrets from the American public and the world. Even after 56 years, the photographic evidence of this case remains “under wraps.” During the time of the incident, Cooper was project manager at Edwards. After lunch, Cooper assigned a group of photographers to a remote portion of the base. The photographers were equipped with motion picture film cameras, and were there to record precision landings. Cooper described what the cameramen witnessed: “While the crew was out there, they spotted a strange looking craft above the lake bed, and began taking films of it.” The craft was according to Cooper, “hovering above the ground, and then it slowly came down and sat on the lake bed for a few minutes.” Throughout the entire duration of this encounter, the movie cameras were running.”
“There were varied estimates by the cameramen on what the actual size of the object was.”
Cooper continued: “But they all agreed that it was at least the size of a vehicle that would carry normal-sized people in it.” Further statements from Cooper regarding this incident indicate that the craft was approximately 30 feet in diameter, shiny silver in color, and it extended three landing gear legs before touching down on the lake bed. The camera crew got within 20 yards from the craft before it departed. Unfortunately, Gordon Cooper was not outside at the base to actually see the craft himself, but he did see the motion picture films as soon as they were developed. “It was a typical shaped UFO,” he recollects. “Not too many people saw it, because it took off at quite a sharp angle, and just climbed straight on out of sight.” Apparently, Cooper did not initiate an investigation to determine how many people on base actually saw the craft. This was because according to Cooper, UFOs frequently paid visits to the base. After he had reviewed the film at least a dozen times, the footage was placed in a pouch, and sent to Washington D.C. (NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN). After a few weeks, Cooper expected to get a reply from Washington regarding what the cameramen had filmed……none ever came.
Cooper relates: “I’m sure there is a great deal of information up in Washington, if only somebody could just find it.” In the same article, movie producer Peter Kares claims that one of his contacts, who was an ex-Air Force pilot stated that he was present at the scene when a UFO was carried away. He was later harassed, because he refused to sign a pledge stating that he would never talk about what he had inadvertently seen. Others have also run across pieces of the UFO crash/retrieval puzzle. Within the same article, UFO investigator Charles Wilhelm stated that he talked to an electronics expert who was in the Army in the mid-1950’s. The witness claims that he was flown to Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, to observe a special film. According to Wilhelm, “His job was to analyze from the film anything that he could define from his experience in radar technology. After arriving at the base, he was escorted to a guarded building where the film was going to be shown. When he arrived, there were already nine others, plus a Major who was setting up the projector. Before the film, all those all those in attendance were told to take notes and, when the film was over, never to discuss what they had seen with each other or with anyone else. He even signed papers to that effect afterwards. The film began by showing a strange, disc-shaped object with two guards, one on each side of the craft. The ship was sitting on two large blocks, and the technician estimated the craft to be 15 to 18 feet in diameter. Its surface was smooth, except for some tool marks around the door entrance. A ramp extended to the ground. The UFO was either silver or light gray in color.”
Next, the interior of the craft was slowly shown. “There were no meters, no radar screens, no buttons, and no windows of any kind. The only details he was able to see were some type of levers that looked like sticks. The interior was decorated with light pastel colors.” Then, the camera panned outside and off to the right. According to Wilhelm’s informant, “There was a table with three small bodies laid out. The film showed the bodies up close for about five minutes. They were approximately five feet tall, their heads were larger than ours, their fingers were longer than a human’s, their noses were sharper, their ears longer, eyes were closed but looked Oriental, and their body color was ash-looking. They were all dressed alike, in uniforms of yellow with black trimming. Their skin looked quite wrinkled, as though they had been quite old.” Charles Wilhelm insisted that the man who told him this story was absolutely telling the truth. The military contact stated that when the film was over, many who attended the screening had multiple questions. However, the Major refused to provide any details, only stating that the craft was found in New Mexico. Author’s special note: This is now at least the third reference to an unusual film being shown to military personnel which depicted a strange circular-shaped craft, with alleged extraterrestrial bodies. It is not known if this is the same film which was shown to multiple eyewitnesses, or if there were in point of fact three different films.
The following was written by B.J. Booth of UFO Casebook, and used here with permission:
William E. Jones writes, “I thought your readers should be aware of the Cordell Hull story that alien artifacts were in our hands in 1939.”
In early December of 1999, the Center of UFO Studies received a letter from the daughter of the Reverend Turner Hamilton Holt:
“Today I want to share some knowledge that has been, by request, kept secret in our family since sometime in World War II. This concerns something my father was shown by his cousin Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State under Franklin Roosevelt.
“Snip, my father, who was young, brilliant, and sound of mind, told us this story because he didn’t want the information to be lost.
One day when my father was in D.C,. Cordell swore him to secrecy and took him to a sub-basement in the U.S. Capitol building, and showed him an amazing sight:
(1) Four large glass jars holding 4 creatures unknown to my father or Cordell [and],
(2) A wrecked round craft of some kind nearby.
“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.
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 this information.
The jars with creatures in formaldehyde and the wrecked craft are somewhere! “Cordell said they were afraid they would start a panic if the public found out about it.”
Sincerely, Lucile Andrew, Ashland, Ohio.
Cordell Hull was one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th Century with absolutely no apparent reason to tell this story unless it was true, especially at a time when stories of flying saucers and their alien drivers had not yet become part of our culture.
Hull was elected U.S. Senator 1931-1937, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and became the Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in March 1933, the longest in American history until 1944, when he resigned because of ill health.
He was also offered the Vice Presidency and in 1945, Cordell Hull won the 1945 Nobel Prize for Peace.
Reverend Holt and Hull were both born in Pickett County and were cousins and friends. Holt attained a Doctor in Theology degree from Ashland Theological Seminary, and was a minister at the Shenandoah Christian Church in Greenwich, Ohio.
He was a community leader, and wrote a book entitled Life’s Convictions. He married Vina May Clark and they had three daughters. Two of the daughters claim they had been told about the creatures by their father. Lucile’s original letter essentially tells the story as her father told it to her when she was a teenager.
Unfortunately, Lucile said that she was too young to really pay much attention to what her father told her but Allene, the mother of Eloise, the co-author of this story was told the same story as her sister.
Both sisters assured us that they remember the stories independently. Reverend Holt described the entities in the glass jars as “creatures, a term common for his day…” He never referred to them as “aliens” or “extraterrestrials.” He never said where they came from.
Lucile stated that his experience happened in the “late 1930s,” probably 1939. The material that was nearby the less than four feet tall creatures was described as “silver metallic.”
She also remembers him referring to the material as being a “vehicle” that appeared to have been taken apart and was “in pieces.”
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.
Barbara A. Wolamin, “the curator U.S. Capitol building,” chuckled a bit after being told the story. She 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.
She said that the building had been significantly changed over the years, so in a small way, part of Reverend Holt’s story checked out. After Cordell Hull left government service he wrote his memoirs in a two-volume book set.
No reference to this story appeared in these pages, in his papers in the Library of Congress.
Numerous experts and libraries were contacted and there has been no confirmation for the story. If four alien bodies and other world technology were retrieved in 1939, what would that do to our interpretation of the U.S.
Government’s involvement in UFO research? One would assume prior knowledge would have made the government ready for an event like Roswell and that the Roswell retrieval was more efficient because of that.
This is a story that truly deserves further investigation.
Thanks to William E. Jones, MUFON State Director for Ohio. Dr. Irena Scott and CUFOS International.
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Ovni et géographie - conclusion
Ovni et géographie - conclusion
Gepubliceerd op 25 apr. 2016
OEIL Saison 6: Etudes Géo'ufologiques #13. Conclusion de l'étude géo'ufologique Phase 1 Réalisation: Gaëtan.B Gilles.T Avec la participation d' Yves Herbo du site SFH, Luc Chastan du site Base ovni france, Gaëtan de la webtv UFOwallonia, Denys Breysse du projet Bécassine.
THE TOWER ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON FOUND BY SOVIET SPACECRAFT ZOND 3
THE TOWER ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON FOUND BY SOVIET SPACECRAFT ZOND 3
On July 20, 1965, the soviet Spacecraft ZOND 3 took some of the first ever high-quality images of the FAR SIDE of the Moon as the Soviet space probe made its way to Mars. Because of the fact that our planet is ‘tidally locked’ with the Moon, the same side of the moon constantly faces us. Previous to these missions, we had no idea what’s on the ‘other side’ of Earth’s natural satellite.
Zond 3 wasn’t the first!
Two years after the Soviet Union made history by launching Sputnik, it launched Luna 3, the third mission in their lunar program. Luna 3 reached the moon on October 7 when it started taking images of the far side of the lunar surface, covering about 70 percent of the unexplored side of the moon. The spacecraft sent back 17 noisy images before operators in the Soviet Union lost contact on October 22.
Even though the images sent back from Luna 3 weren’t the best, it was the first set of images of the moon’s far side, a first for the Soviets and mankind
Zond 3 would complement the exploring Luna 3 did. Zond 3 was meant to reach Mars, and photographing the far side of the moon was a secondary objective for the Soviet Spacecraft. The Soviets equipped the Zond 3 with extremely useful technologies, equipping the spacecraft with two cameras, infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers, a magnetometer, a cosmic ray detector, a solar particle detector, and a meteoroid detector. Zond 3 made its way to the moon 33 hours after being launched on July the 18th, 1965. Just as it passed the far side of the moon, its cameras started exploring the far side of Earth’s satellite, focusing on the 30% that its predecessor, Luna 3 had missed, taking one picture every two minutes and 15 seconds for a total period of one hour and 8 minutes.
Nine days after Zond 3 had taken the images, they arrived to Soviet operators on Earth. The images sent back to Earth were among the first which allowed researchers to take a peek at the numerous geological formations on the far side of Earth’s natural satellite, but among them, one image caused quite a stir among researchers and Ufologists.
In one of the images of the far side of the moon, a mysterious tower-shaped structure can clearly be seen protruding the lunar surface. In its vicinity, no other similar structures are seen, and Ufologists believe that the mysterious ‘tower’ seen in the Zond 3 image is a crucial piece of evidence supporting their theory that there are alien structures on the far side of Earth’s moon.
The image of the Tower on the moon was obtained on 20 July 1965 by the Russian vehicle Zond 3. At the time, the probe was about 10,000 kilometers above the Moon.
So far, the mysterious structure on the far side of the moon is only one of the many that have been found to date according to Ufologists and UFO hunters.
Several Monoliths across our Solar System?
While some of these structures can be rationally explained as natural geological formations on the surface of the moon, there are some that simply defy every explanation. Is it possible that the tower on the far side of the moon really has an ‘Alien’ origin? And is it possible that there are similar structures across the moon?
Looking at the image from the far side of the moon and the mysterious structure, we cannot help and compare it to the mysterious monolith on Mars’ moon Phobos.
When the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft was mapping the small moon of Mars, Phobos, and sent its incredible images from the small, potato-shaped moon back to Earth satellite Ufologists had a field day speaking about the mysterious structure that was clearly visible on the surface of Phobos. There in plain view, a large rectangular object undoubtedly resembling an artificial monolith stands alone. Nothing in the vicinity has a similar shape or size, so the question is, what is it? What is its purpose? And who placed it there?
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the surface of the moon, surprised many by saying, “We should visit the moon of Mars, there’s a monolith there, a very unusual structure on this little potato shaped object that revolves around Mars once every seven hours. When people find out about that they are going to say, “Who put that there? Who put that there?” Well, the universe put it there, or if you choose God put it there.’
Astronomers didn’t hesitate to quickly offer and explanation about the mysterious structure that had Ufologists scratching their heads. According to astronomers and specialists in images, it’s just another “Extraterrestrial rock”.
A specialist in images from NASA Lan Fleming, who studied Mars and other solar system anomalies examined the picture of Phobos and stated that the so-called monolith is just a physical anomaly and that there are many others found in different part of our solar system
The above photo is only half of the ship, with the same half matched to it so that we can see the full view of the alien craft. Don't confuse this with being a simple cloud. Far from it. This is a 100% alien tech that can create a cloud to hide inside of. The cloud however may be only a hologram. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: UFO - Sunday morning, residents of Punaauia who looked up to heaven witnessed an unusual phenomenon: A flying saucer-shaped cloud parked over Vaitavere. Posted on social networks, snapshots of the phenomenon were seen and shared hundreds of times. Explanation.
Two unidentified flying objects over Virginia Beach
Two unidentified flying objects over Virginia Beach
Here’s one older video of a two bright UFOs flying across the night sky above Virginia Beach.
Witness report:Virginia Beach, VA – On the evening of 3/9/2015 around 8:50pm upon leaving the Hair Cuttery at Brenneman Farms Marketplace, I filmed these pulsating red/orange orbs in the night sky. As I walked to my car, I looked up and noticed a number of pulsating orbs directly over head. At first I thought they might be drones or chinese lanterns. It took me a moment to get my phone camera rolling, at which point the largest group of orbs had faded out into the NE sky. The orbs were moving from the SW horizon, in procession, gradually gaining altitude until they simply faded out in the NE sky. Each orb faded out in the same location. As the orbs faded their diameter gradually decreased. The orbs made no sound and never changed shape, with the exception of decreasing in diameter. In total, I would estimate having viewed 10+ orbs over a period of five minutes. There were two other witnesses in a car nearby. They pulled up next to me as the sighting ended and can be heard in the background. One lady believed the orbs might be drones. This is a possibility as there are numerous military facilities nearby.
The Hum: een mysterieus geluid dat overal ter wereld wordt gehoord
The Hum: een mysterieus geluid dat overal ter wereld wordt gehoord
Overal om je heen zijn geluiden. Misschien lees je dit op een laptop die zoemt, een telefoon in een lawaaierige trein of thuis terwijl er op de achtergrond muziek aanstaat. Zonder al die geluiden zou je normaal gesproken niets horen. Voor veel mensen is dat niet het geval.
Ongeveer twee procent van alle mensen hoort een onverklaarbaar geluid, The Hum geheten. Deze maand heeft het tijdschrift The New Republic aandacht besteed aan deze vreemde bromtoon, een mysterieus rommelend geluid in de verte waar mensen al tenminste vier decennia last van hebben.
Het geluid wordt overal ter wereld waargenomen, van Tasmanië tot IJsland, en wordt vooral vaak gehoord in afgelegen gebieden. Volgens overheden en mainstream onderzoekers zit het geluid tussen de oren.
A purported recording of the Taos Hum anonymously uploaded to YouTube.
Satellieten
De eerste verhalen over het geluid doken op in de omgeving rond het Engelse Bristol in de jaren zeventig. Sindsdien kwamen er ook meldingen uit de rest van Groot-Brittannië en de Verenigde Staten.
Op een Facebookpagina staat dat ‘geavanceerde satelliettechnologie’ wordt gebruikt om ‘mensen te martelen door geluiden en stemmen naar het brein te sturen, wat invloed heeft op het energieniveau en de emotionele staat van de mens’. Volgens sommigen hebben zelfs massale schietpartijen te maken met de bromtoon.
Oorsuizen
Het tijdschrift had een gesprek met Glen MacPherson, de maker van de World Hum Map, maar zit na het interview met meer vragen dan antwoorden. Onlangs schreef The Independent over een studie waaruit blijkt dat de bromtoon vaker wordt gehoord in de buurt van geologische fenomenen diep onder het wateroppervlak en het gevolg kan zijn van ‘microseismische activiteit’ op de zeebodem.
Er zijn ook mensen die zeggen dat de bromtoon te wijten is aan oorsuizen. Maar volgens het tijdschrift kan oorsuizen de vele waarnemingen niet verklaren. Ook David Deming van de Universiteit van Oklahoma stelde vast dat het geluid losstaat van oorsuizen. Waar komt het dan vandaan?
Documentaire die voor het eerst ‘alien’ toonde aan de wereld gratis te bekijken
Documentaire die voor het eerst ‘alien’ toonde aan de wereld gratis te bekijken
De documentaire Sirius, die heel wat stof heeft doen opwaaien, kan nu door iedereen worden bekeken op YouTube. De documentairemakers claimen resten van een ‘alien’ te tonen, die jaren geleden in de Atacamawoestijn zouden zijn gevonden.
De film is gemaakt door Steven Greer, oprichter van het Disclosure Project, en Emmy-winnaar Amardeep Kaleka. Volgens het tweetal is de aarde al meerdere keren bezocht door buitenaardse wezens, maar is dit geheimgehouden onder druk van een militaire, industriële en financiële elite.
De documentaire toont onder meer getuigenverklaringen van vooraanstaande wetenschappers en officiële documenten die het bestaan van aliens zouden aantonen.
De makers claimen achterhaald te hebben welke alternatieve energie buitenaardsen gebruiken om in korte tijd immense afstanden af te leggen. Greer stelt dat ook de mensheid die technologie kan gebruiken.
“Dit is het belangrijkste verhaal ooit dat nooit verteld werd,” zei hij. “Dankzij deze kennis over de werking van UFO’s, die door overheden systematisch verborgen is gehouden, zullen olie en kernenergie overbodig worden. Dat is dan ook de belangrijkste reden waarom regeringen deze informatie nooit openbaar maakten.”
WAAROM WORDEN ER LASERSTRALEN DE RUIMTE INGESTUURD ? ( VIDEO )
WAAROM WORDEN ER LASERSTRALEN DE RUIMTE INGESTUURD ? ( VIDEO )
Enkele dagen geleden werd vanuit het ISS ruimtestation een enorme groene straal ontdekt vanaf de aarde, alsof er een UFO vertrekt die een spoor achterlaat.
Een paar dagen daarna ontdekt een Youtube gebruiker dat er vanaf het Australische onderzoeksstation op Antarctica een groene laserstraal de ruimte in wordt geschoten.
Vanaf het ISS ruimtestation heb je goed zicht op de aarde en er worden ook permanent opnames van gemaakt.
Op 17 april 2016 valt er iets vreemds te zien op die beelden, want er komt iets vanaf de aarde.
Het lijkt alsof er een UFO met grote snelheid vanaf de aarde de ruimte in schiet en daarbij een soort groen spoor achterlaat.
De straal die de ruimte in schiet lijkt misschien niet zo groot, maar volgens experts moet het een enorme UFO zijn geweest, want die straal is honderden kilometers dik.
Die UFO zou dan afkomstig zijn ergens uit de oceaan (hierover publiceren wij separaat morgen meer, stay tuned!)
Enkele dagen later wordt er door de inmiddels bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1 ook een groene straal vastgelegd.
Nu doen ze daar niet echt geheimzinnig over, want deze lasterstraal komt ook voor op de website van het onderzoeksteam.
Wat er alleen niet bij wordt verteld, is waar die laserstraal toe dient.
Het zou natuurlijk voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek kunnen zijn, maar omdat er net ervoor ook een soort vreemde straal vanuit het ISS is waargenomen en Antarctica natuurlijk bekendstaat als een gebied waar ook de Nazi’s zich nog steeds bevinden met hun buitenaardse technologie, is het niet zo vreemd om vragen te stellen.
Toeval, of spelen er meer dingen in de ruimte, waar wij geen weet van hebben?
Wow! This person not only found these structures, but made a CGI duplicate so we can see what it truly looks like. I are really impressed with his video. Nice detail and it really highlights the structures on Venus well. Note, the entire...and I mean entire, surface of Venus is covered in structures. Val Valiant Thor said he lived there, but most inhabitants like himself, live below the surface. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com President Eisenhower had three secret meetings with Captain Val Valiant Thor From Venus - 2 Witness Speak Out!
Mundodesconocido of Youtube states: The Magellan probe sent to Venus that operated in the late 80s and 90s, collected an enormous amount of images that have finally been published by NASA in which huge cities, artificial structures and all kinds of elements that seem to obey constructions appear intelligent effected by some kind of alien race that inhabited or colonized the second planet in our solar system, in the following video, we show those buildings that we have found and their interpretations in 3 Dimensions of them.
Ruimtesonde Rosetta heeft vanaf slechts 12 km(!) afstand spectaculaire foto’s van komeet 67P/C-G gemaakt.
De laatste tijd gaat bijna alle aandacht uit naar ruimtesonde New Horizons die de geheimen van dwergplaneet Pluto onthult. Maar laten we vooral niet vergeten dat er nog veel meer prachtige ruimtemissies gaande zijn. Bijvoorbeeld Rosetta die nog altijd rond komeet 67P/C-G cirkelt.
Spectaculair Recent maakte Rosetta spectaculaire foto’s van de komeet. Op het moment dat deze foto’s gemaakt werden, was de afstand tussen de komeet en Rosetta slechts 12 kilometer. Het betekent dat er heel wat details te zien zijn! Op de foto hieronder zien we een deel van het gebied dat onderzoekers aanduiden met de naam ‘Imhotep’. Het landschap is allesbehalve saai. Er zijn vrij gladde vlaktes en er liggen keien. Onderschat de grootte van die keien vooral niet. Rechts zie je een aantal keien, waaronder de kei ‘Cheops’ die zo’n 25 meter hoog is!
Afbeelding: ESA / Rosetta / NavCam.
Context Hieronder zie je hetzelfde gebied, maar dan in een grotere context. Deze foto maakte Rosetta van een afstand van iets meer dan 14 kilometer.
Afbeelding: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA.
Verder weg en dichterbij Nadat Rosetta deze foto’s maakte, vergrootte de sonde de afstand tussen zichzelf en de komeet flink. Van een afstand van zo’n 1000 kilometer bestudeerde deze recentelijk de atmosfeer en het staartje van de komeet. Deze week heeft Rosetta de afstand tot de komeet weer verder verkleind.
Rosetta zal komeet 67P/C-G nog tot september bestuderen. Daarna komt de missie van Rosetta ten einde. Waarschijnlijk krijgt Rosetta dan opdracht om af te dalen naar het oppervlak van de komeet.
A color scan of the original computer printout of the "Wow!" signal as detected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory in 1977.
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The story behind the famous “Wow!” signal has an eerie quality that has inspired countless science fiction alien encounters and is often lauded as one of the strongest pieces of evidence that we are, in fact, not alone in the universe.
However, its “alien intelligence” authenticity has been questioned since that fabled night on Aug. 15, 1977 at 10:16 p.m. ET when astronomer Jerry Ehman used the Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope to sweep the skies for signals that may have originated from an extraterrestrial civilization.
On that night, Ehman found something. And since that night, astronomers have been trying to figure out what it means.
While pointed in the direction of 3 star systems named Chi Sagittarii, in the constellation of Sagittarius, Big Ear detected a 72 second radio wave burst, a signal far stronger than background noise. On the observatory’s computer printout, Ehman circled the burst with the infamous annotation “Wow!”
This excitement wasn’t an overstatement, it was this kind of signal he was looking for, the kind of signal astronomers thought a technologically-capable alien civilization would produce.
The Big Ear printout contains a bunch of apparently random numbers and letters, but Ehman’s red pen circles a cluster of digits “6EQUJ5" with other circles around a "6" and "7" on separate columns. This particular code first uses the numbers 1-9 and then the alphabet A-Z to denote signal strength. As the burst suggests, the signal strength hit “6" and then blasted through the letters reaching a peak of “U” before subsiding back into the numerical scale at "5." There was then a slight wave trailing the main signal (hence the circled “6″ and “7″). The wave profile of the “Wow!” signal is graphically envisaged here.
However, since that day in 1977, a detection of a signal of that strength has not been replicated. Even after the SETI Institute was founded in 1984, and countless efforts have been made to find another radio burst like the “Wow!” signal, astronomers have been faced with silence in the cosmos; a problem that has only served to intensify the Fermi Paradox unease.
Now, Antonio Paris of St Petersburg College, Fla., an ex-analyst of the US Department of Defense, hopes to solve the mystery and he suspects that an entirely different cosmic phenomenon is to blame.
In an interview with TheGuardian.com, Paris says that his investigative background sent him on a mission to find another possible explanation for the “Wow!” signal and he tracked down two “suspicious” comets that may have been in the vicinity of Chi Sagittarii on Aug. 15, 1977. Interestingly, these comets, called 266P/Christensen and 335P/Gibbs, were only discovered in 2006 and 2008, so weren’t considered as possible reasons for the signal in 1977 as no one knew of their existence.
But what have comets got to do with errant radio bursts?
The “Wow!” signal was recorded in the 1420MHz radio frequency band. It just so happens that cosmic neutral hydrogen naturally radiates at this frequency -- it is therefore an abundant signal that is commonly used in astronomy. This is no coincidence; through alien-hunting logic, should there be an extraterrestrial species wanting to make contact, what frequency would they use? Firstly, as we only have ourselves to use as an alien template, we have to assume that hypothetical aliens will likely use radio waves. Secondly, if they are using radio waves to communicate with us, they would likely use a frequency that other intelligent aliens would be naturally tuned into. 1420MHz is the “universal water cooler,” where intelligent life could check into and potentially chat.
The bummer is, however, that comets contain copious amounts of hydrogen in their atmospheres. Say if the “Wow!” signal was actually caused by the chance passage of a comet through the radio telescope’s field of view, packing a powerful radio surge?
In 2017, Comet 266P will once again orbit in front of Chi Sagittarii and Comet 335P will do so the following year and Paris wants to test this hypothesis. Unfortunately, existing radio telescopes are already booked, so he has to buy or build his own radio antennae in time for the cosmic encounters. He has a crowdfunding campaign set up to raise the $20,000 he needs and is most of the way there.
It may be a long shot, but as is the way with many astronomical studies, all possible phenomena need to be ruled out before a discovery is made and, should Paris’ experiment prove the “Wow!” signal was in fact caused by interference by an undiscovered comet, the universe will get quieter once again, making the Fermi Paradox even more bewildering.
Dr. Michael Salla Lecture at Int. UFO Congress 2015 (HD) "Policies On Extra-Terrestrial Life"
Dr. Michael Salla Lecture at Int. UFO Congress 2015 (HD) "Policies On Extra-Terrestrial Life"
Gepubliceerd op 19 apr. 2016
Dr. Salla will reveal startling first hand testimonies of people claiming to have witnessed events and documents concerning secret agreements with extraterrestrial life. He will analyze the scope and nature of these agreements, and how they influence public policies concerning extraterrestrial life. Human and earth resources, sensitive information and/or advanced technology are exchanged through these agreements, often attaining 'treaty' status. If accurate, the secrecy of these agreements flagrantly violates constitutional principles and processes.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS MAIN PAGE REPORT YOU SIGHTING! UFO photographed over Brazil
Location: NITERÓI – RIO DE JANEIRO – BRAZIL Date:04/21/2016 Submitted by Diogo
Witness report:
I was taking pictures of the full moon of april 2016, at 20:20 local time.
The weather was very clear, a beautiful night.
Didn’t see anything different from the lens, and got surprised while checking the pictures from the camera screen. In one of the pictures I noticed a strange object in the left side of the moon.
In this time of the year in Brazil, the sun falls very early, so when the picture was taken, we were at about 2:30 hours at dark night. I concluded that this object should be in a very high altittude to reflect the sun light, and I don’t know or believe an animal would fly that high. Also it seems not to have own light.
Camera: cannon powershot sx40hs (zoom at full 35x optical – no digital zoom used)
What most shocked me was a video made in USA on january 2016, showing a really simlar object, again crossing the full moon.
$100-Million Plan Will Send Probes to the Nearest Star
$100-Million Plan Will Send Probes to the Nearest Star
Funded by Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner and with the blessing of Stephen Hawking, Breakthrough Starshot aims to send probes to Alpha Centauri in a generation
Proxima Centauri lies in the constellation of Centaurus (the Centaur), just over four light-years from Earth. Image released Nov. 1, 2013.
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For Yuri Milner, the Russian Internet entrepreneur and billionaire philanthropist who funds the world’s richest science prizes and searches for extraterrestrial intelligence, the sky is not the limit—and neither is the solar system. Flanked by physicist Stephen Hawking and other high-profile supporters today in New York, Milner announced his most ambitious investment yet: $100 million toward a research program to send robotic probes to nearby stars within a generation.
“The human story is one of great leaps,” Milner said in a statement released shortly before the announcement. “55 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. Today, we are preparing for the next great leap—to the stars.”
“Breakthrough Starshot,” the program Milner is backing, intends to squeeze all the key components of a robotic probe—cameras, sensors, maneuvering thrusters and communications equipment—into tiny gram-scale “nanocraft.” These would be small enough to boost to enormous speeds using other technology the program plans to help develop, including a ground-based kilometer-scale laser array capable of beaming 100-gigawatt laser pulses through the atmosphere for a few minutes at a time, and atoms-thin, meter-wide “light sails” to ride those beams to other stars. Each pinging photon of light would impart a slight momentum to the sail and its cargo; in the microgravity vacuum of space, the torrent of photons unleashed by a gigawatt-class laser would rapidly push a nanocraft to relativistic speeds.
"Without new methods of propulsion we simply cannot get very far," Hawking said at the announcement. "Light is the most pragmatic technology available."
Deployed by the thousands from a mothership launched into Earth orbit, each nanocraft would unfurl a sail and catch a laser pulse to accelerate to 20 percent the speed of light—some 60,000 kilometers per second. Using a sophisticated adaptive-optics system of deformable mirrors to keep each pulse coherent and sharp against the blurring effects of the atmosphere, the laser array would boost perhaps one orbiting nanocraft per day. Each laser pulse would contain as much power as that produced by a space shuttle rocketing into orbit.
The array would need to be built at a dry, high-altitude location in the Southern Hemisphere, perhaps on a peak in Chile, South Africa or even Antarctica—somewhere within sight of Breakthrough Starshot’s primary targets: the twin stars of Alpha Centauri, which at 4.37 light-years away make up the nearest neighboring star system to our own. NASA has already sent five spacecraft on trajectories taking them beyond our solar system, although even the fastest of these would require more than 30,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri. The nanocraft would make that same interstellar crossing in just 20 years. With no onboard ability to decelerate, they would briefly gather data about any planets in the Alpha Centauri system and beam it back toward Earth before plunging deeper into interstellar darkness and out of communication range.
"If this mission comes to fruition it will tell us as much about ourselves as about Alpha Centauri," Milner said at the press conference.
Breakthrough Starshot is the latest of Milner’s Breakthrough Initiatives, a multidisciplinary collection of projects marshaling private funds to address existential questions about life in the universe. Last year, also with Hawking, he announced the $100-million, 10-year Breakthrough Listen initiative to search more than a million stars and a hundred galaxies for signals from alien civilizations as well as an accompanying $1-million Breakthrough Message initiative to compose potential cosmic communiqués to broadcast to any attentive extraterrestrials. Like Breakthrough Starshot, which involves the most sizeable lump sum ever dedicated purely to achieving interstellar flight, these other initiatives offered similar financial sea changes for their respective fields—which due to their extremely speculative nature have long languished in the hinterlands of federal science funding.
BIG PLANS, SMALL SPACECRAFT
Serious planning for the project began about a year ago, when Milner consulted experts to consider options for practical interstellar travel. One was Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University and new chairman of Breakthrough Starshot’s advisory board who has a reputation for performing groundbreaking work on unconventional research topics.
Loeb and his fellow consultants noted that we already routinely accelerate subatomic particles to near light-speed in modern particle physics experiments, and that the smaller a spacecraft is, the more likely it can be made to travel at an extreme velocity. “Strip an iPhone from its case and interface, and the electronics—including the camera and the communications device—weigh on the order a gram,” Loeb says. “That’s almost everything you need for a nanocraft, and we practically have it right now, thanks to the ongoing miniaturization of electronics.”
After evaluating and dismissing propulsion options as exotic as rockets fueled by antimatter annihilation or nuclear fusion reactions, the consultants narrowed their considerations to laser-powered light sails, a concept dating back to the 1960s. They focused on the recent work of Philip Lubin, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who was just completing a “roadmap” for developing minuscule, laser-powered interstellar spacecraft as part of a modest NASA-funded study. With minor tweaks, that roadmap offered a notional template for Breakthrough Starshot, and Lubin is now one of the project’s key scientists.
“There are two axes to the problem of interstellar flight,” Lubin says. “Things like antimatter or fusion rockets are all on the ‘real’ axis. The known laws of physics tell us they are realistic solutions, even if we don’t know how to realize them. Things like warp drives and wormholes are on the ‘imaginary’ axis—these are what I would call fictional solutions, because no one knows how to do them.” The laser propulsion concept Lubin detailed in his roadmap rates high on his "real" axis, he says, because “it is both realistic and realizable.”
Lubin’s roadmap laid out myriad obstacles that any laser-propelled interstellar mission would have to overcome, such as linking many smaller lasers into a kilometer-scale array and engineering lightweight, gossamer-thin sails strong enough to endure the array’s gigawatt-scale pulses as well as persuading policy makers to allow the construction of a laser system that could in principle be used as a weapon. The probes will also need to transmit observations back to Earth using onboard lasers with just a few watts of power—a problem potentially solvable by using the giant Earthbound laser array as a receiver. But the biggest obstacle of all was simply a matter of cost: At an estimated present-day price of approximately $10 per watt of laser power, building and operating Breakthrough Starshot’s 100-gigawatt array today could cost as much as $1 trillion.
But as steep as that sounds now, the market prices of just 10 years ago would have rendered it a hundred times more expensive. Driven by demand in consumer high-speed telecommunications systems as well as defense-related projects, the cost of critical technologies for a gigantic laser array are now decreasing by approximately a factor of 2 every 18 months, Lubin says. Those exponential rates of change suggest that in 10 years a giant laser array’s per-watt cost would drop from $10 to 10 cents. “Breakthrough Starshot is really about choosing core technologies to scale up massively, and looking at what prevents or enables that scaling,” Lubin says. “If things are static for the next 30 years in terms of cost per watt, we will be in big trouble.”
According to Loeb, however, another obstacle is a more subtle and social phenomenon: the “giggle factor,” or the tendency for far-out concepts to be laughed off. “Any revolution in science or technology has an initial phase where people laugh at it,” Loeb says. “Sometimes the laughter is inspired by valid criticisms of an argument, but can also be because something appears very different and strange…. What is certain is that the mainstream scientific community that works on research you are not supposed to laugh about—research that has a giggle factor of zero, let’s say—keeps making major mistakes in giggling about the wrong things.”
“We are serious people,” Loeb continues. “We will find whether this project is doable or not, and if it is not, we will admit that and move on.”
CENTAURI DREAMS
Following Lubin’s tweaked roadmap, most of Milner’s $100 million is meant to fund research grants to develop solutions to about 20 major technical obstacles identified by the project. Those solutions would then feed into a prototype system that could perhaps be built for a few hundred million dollars more. Provided that photonics and electronics technologies continue their trends of plummeting costs and soaring performance, assembling a fully functional system would require funding on the same scale as the world’s current multibillion-dollar science projects such as the Large Hadron Collider and the James Webb Space Telescope—funding that Milner alone could not provide. Governments would be one possible sponsor; collectives of billionaire philanthropists would be another. Along with Milner and Hawking, the third member of Breakthrough Starshot’s board of directors is Mark Zuckerberg, the wealthy founder and CEO of Facebook.
“This must be viewed as a collective effort, because that is the only way this can be done,” Milner says. “If we can do this within our lifetimes as we hope, that is pretty exciting, but if not, we will pass it to the next generation—not as an idea, but as a developed roadmap and technology. We are not hundreds of years away from this—only dozens…. This $100 million is meant to last for the next few years, to focus on every single one of the potential deal breakers we have found, to see how far we can push and if we hit any roadblocks.”
Besides the present lack of hardware and full-scale funding, one more key item is missing from Breakthrough Starshot’s plans: There are as yet no confirmed planetary targets in Alpha Centauri. In 2012 a team of European astronomers announced their discovery of an Earth-size planet in a three-day orbit around one of the system’s two stars, but further investigation cast serious doubts about those claims. According to Breakthrough Initiatives’ chairman Pete Worden, the former director of NASA Ames Research Center and current director of Breakthrough Starshot, the organization is also planning a second, related initiative to build new ground-based instruments and maybe even a small space telescope to search for and study Alpha Centauri’s possible planets. Such instruments and telescopes could be turned to other nearby stars, too, possibly revealing additional targets for interstellar voyages. Ultimately, nanocraft in their wispy millions could fan out on photons to explore many more stars, transforming what we do and know on galactic scales.
In addition to making practical interstellar flight a reality, Worden says, the Starshot project could also be transformative for other applications closer to home. Starshot’s final laser array could prove useful for detecting and characterizing potentially threatening near-Earth asteroids, and its many deformable mirrors could be repurposed to make the array a massive telescope for gathering starlight rather than creating laser beams. The lasers could also power nanocraft on rapid flybys of all the solar system’s planets, sending probes to Mars in a few hours or Pluto in days for a few hundred thousand dollars per shot.
“Once we launch these things and deliver close-up images of a planet around another star, that begins to define humanity as a whole and humanity’s future,” Worden says. “This is something that, if it works, changes how we think about ourselves as a species and as a planet.”
Already, the planning for Breakthrough Starshot is changing how members of the Breakthrough Initiatives organization view its other related projects, such as Breakthrough Listen, the effort to tune in to deliberate or inadvertent transmissions from cosmic civilizations. If we can seek out potentially habitable planets in other star systems and use lasers to send flotillas of miniaturized spacecraft to investigate them, there is no reason to assume we are the only ones in the Milky Way doing so. The spacecraft themselves would be essentially invisible: A gram-size interstellar probe striking the Earth’s upper atmosphere at 20 percent the speed of light would release roughly a kiloton of energy, indistinguishable from airbursts produced by meter-scale space rocks that regularly pepper our planet at a rate of about once per year. Were it to stream into one of Earth’s more capable ground-based observatories, however, the light from the lasers propelling such probes could conceivably be detected. Most of Breakthrough Listen’s efforts revolve around seeking signs of chatty aliens conversing via radio waves, but the project also funds searches for any glints of laser light from interstellar space.
In remarks prepared ahead of Tuesday’s news conference, Stephen Hawking explained his support for the project as less about science and more about survival. “Earth is a wonderful place, but it might not last forever,” Hawking says. “Sooner or later, we must look to the stars. Breakthrough Starshot is a very exciting first step on that journey.”
Loeb agrees. “At some point, we must find alternatives to living on Earth, and as with any big journey, this has to start with a first small step—you can’t just give up,” he says. “Remember what Oscar Wilde said—‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’ When I look up at the stars at night, they seem like lights in a giant ship sailing through space. And each time I ask myself the same question: Are there other passengers riding in this giant ship, near those lights? If this project comes to fruition, we could visit them and find out.”
April 25, 2016 _ Racer US Army’s Top General says ‘Hybrid Armies’ and ‘Little Green Men’ are Future Threats In an article posted on Army Times, the United States Army’s top general said Thursday as he marked the 100th
US Army’s Top General says ‘Hybrid Armies’ and ‘Little Green Men’ are Future Threats
In an article posted on Army Times, the United States Army’s top general said Thursday as he marked the 100th anniversary of the ROTC program at Norwich University, that “If the world if 1916 was complex, or the world of 1945 was complex, the world of 2016 is intensely complex, and I can tell you that from personal experience,” he said. “You’ll be dealing with terrorists, you’ll be dealing with hybrid armies, you’ll be dealing with little green men, you’ll be dealing with tribes, you’re going to be dealing with it all, and you’re going to be dealing with it simultaneously.”
In today's political atmosphere, UFOs/UAPs and alien life are terms no longer considered political suicide when giving talking points to crowds of thousands. While some political figures have simply hinted that they believe in the possibility of aliens, others have come right out and proclaimed it to be true, while he main stream media seems to simply over look it all.
With John Podesta and Hillary Clinton charging out front on governmental disclosure of information regarding UFOs/UAPs there is a growing list of political leaders who have expressed their beliefs just as well. In a 2014 interview with Jimmy Kimmel, former president Bill Clinton said that he "wouldn't be surprised" if aliens visited the earth.
Former Governor of Arizona Fife Symington has not only publicly shared his belief in aliens, but also claims to have been part of an encounter. The governor said he was a witness to the "Phoenix Lights" in 1997, an incident which many believed to be a large grouping of UFOs hovering in the Phoenix sky. Symington also said that unless it can be proven otherwise, he thinks the lights were "probably some form of alien spacecraft."
In a speech to the United Nations in 1987, Reagan said an alien invasion would unify the world. "Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond," he said. "I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.", and this is just to name a few however, when talking about active military heads discussing extraterrestrials on the record in any capacity is rare if ever, not anymore.
Last Thursday, the Army’s top general, speaking to future leaders of the military said we will be facing hybrid Armies and little green men all at the same time, so what does this mean exactly? Is the US Military engaging in 'Force Readiness' for an alien invasion? Is this another de'facto admission that the government knows more than they have disclosed to the people regarding alien life here on Earth?
In 2016, with Presidential Candidates and Top Military Brass all talking about UFO and ETs one thing is for certain, the bread crumbs are turning into loafs and one can only imagine what comes next. Stay tuned, its going to get real interesting in the coming months.
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Stratolaunch: Biggest Aircraft in History to Launch Spaceships (Infographic)
By Karl Tate, SPACE.com Infographics Artist
Paul Allen's Stratolaunch Systems plans to build a giant carrier vehicle in order to air-launch rockets to Earth orbit.
Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com Contributor
Billionaire investor Paul Allen has unveiled a new company, Stratolauch Systems, to provide private rocket launches into Earth orbit from a giant aerial launch platform made up of the biggest airplane in history. The novel launch system will use a giant twin-boom airplane with a wingspan longer than a football field and launch a rocket and space capsule designed by the private spaceflight company SpaceX. See how the Stratolaunch system stacks up in the SPACE.com infographic above.
Prof. dr. Wubbo J. Ockels is a Dutch physicist, and also the Netherlands original astronaut. He is a Professor of Aerospace Sustainable Engineering and Technology at the University of Delft, and tries to stimulate a mentality change among Dutch citizens.In his mind-bending TEDxAmsterdam talk, Ockels explains how time is created by human beings, as a way our brains can make sense of gravity. The speed of light is constant, because it is made by us: its the clock by which we have calibrated our existence. Based on this premise, Ockels proposes a new way to explore life in our galaxy.
Last week, a plethora of documents pertaining to the US and Britain’s involvement in the War on Terror in Afghanistan was released by the controversial WikiLeaks organization. This has led to much speculation… even in the absence of any tremendous amount of new or otherwise clandestine information the documents were expected to provide.
In the aftermath, some look at the release of information in the military documents as evidence of crimes against humanity; others question whether releasing the names of Afghan operatives who have helped in the counter-insurgency and otherwise aided US forces was wise. But there are a few angles that haven’t been explored; one which comes to mind is how this disclosure might have predictive elements that could outline what future disclosure of UFO documents might be like in the United States.
People in the UFO community have long speculated about what would be necessary to get the United States government to hand over secret documents it is alleged to have pertaining to UFOs. Although there is little question about the fact that there have been some secrets kept over the years, something that is far too often overlooked is the fact that a variety of government agencies have already released previously-classified documents pertaining to UFOs. Among these you can expect to find the CIA, who has a host of them uploaded to their website already and free for the average Joe to browse at his leisure.
But what does this have to do with WikiLeaks? It’s really pretty simple: in spite of a few minor revelations, there was little released with the disclosure of US military documents last week that most media sources didn’t already know, and nothing particularly ground-breaking or traumatic. If the US government were to release its secret UFO files tomorrow, by week’s end UFO truthers, debunkers, journalists, technophiles and insomniacs would have all the relevant details appraised and uploaded in various places; my prediction, however, is that, again, little would be revealed that we don’t already know.
This point is driven even closer to home when we consider how various governments around the world, having released their UFO documents, have little to show for it other than a few new reports, which could be gauged alongside information that has been available to the public for years already. Many foreign nations have maintained such documents, and yet they’ve remained largely unaware of the the intricacies of what exactly UFOs are, or for that matter, what kind of dangers they may present. Why should we assume the US has been keeping information the rest wouldn’t already have? Citing things like UFO crashes (Roswell) wouldn’t be enough justification, since this sort of phenomenon hasn’t been exclusive to American soil, either.
The end result here, rather than to say that UFOs don’t exist, is to accept just the opposite as a stark reality… in addition to the slightly disconcerting notion that governing bodies around the world, in spite of their official interests in the matter, may know less than many of the experts in the field do already. This has been the case with other countries who released UFO files, and it was very similar with WikiLeaks more recently. Could we really expect the ultimate disclosure of UFOs in America to play out on a different stage?
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Eyes Only: How the CIA Kept Tabs on a Civilian UFO Research Group
Eyes Only: How the CIA Kept Tabs on a Civilian UFO Research Group
As most of us know by now, the CIA has indeed kept tabs on the UFO problem in the past, particularly during the 1950s and 60s. This is common knowledge for most these days, particularly thanks to the PR staff at the CIA, and what might be viewed as a “cooperative promotional effort” on their part in advance of the recent X-Files reboot. Namely, the CIA featured a number of their previously declassified UFO files on a page at their website, leading many media outlets to proclaim that the the CIA had “just released its UFO files.”
Not so fast. The files in question had actually been released back in 1978, as their website states. “The CIA declassified hundreds of documents in 1978 detailing the Agency’s investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” the statement reads. “The documents date primarily from the late 1940s and 1950s.” That, of course, didn’t keep the press from jumping and running with a host of cheerfully misleading headlines about the sudden release of the CIA’s “real X-Files”.
Many historians would actually assert that the closest thing to “real” X-Files would actually have been the US Air Force’s Project Blue Book, which oversaw the official collection of UFO reports by government until 1968. Despite being a “legitimate” government UFO study, Blue Book left a lot to be desired, resulting in dissatisfaction from many involved, including the project’s former science advisor, J. Allen Hynek. In fact, Hynek’s dissatisfaction with Blue Book’s handling of UFO reports led him to believe that some other organization may have been receiving and studying a number of UFO reports, altogether bypassing the Air Force and its operations. “There were many times during my twenty years as a scientific consultant to Blue Book,” Hynek wrote in 1977, “that I also wondered whether the very best reports were being kept from Blue Book.”
In likelihood, there were a number of different agencies that were keeping tabs on the UFO subject, and as we have already established, the CIA had indeed been one. More specifically, the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) and its Office of Current Intelligence (OCI) became the departments that oversaw the CIA’s secret UFO inquiry. At the urging of Weapons and Equipment Division head Edward Tauss, the CIA’s UFO study group was advised to keep its interest in UFOs under wraps, “in view of [the public’s] probable alarmist tendencies.” In other words, it was believed that the CIA’s role in UFO research, if made public, might result in legitimization of the phenomenon, and thus actually encourage belief in it.
Former CIA Chief Historian Gerald K. Haines covered this period in his essay, “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90: A Die-Hard Issue” (the article can be read at the CIA’s website). Haines noted that the CIA’s initial report on UFOs prompted Robert Amory, Jr, then Deputy Director for Intelligence, to appoint further UFO studies to the OSI’s Physics and Electronics Division, with A. Ray Gordon in charge during this period. Among the aims and objectives of the CIA’s UFO studies during this time, it was hoped that the relevant OSI divisions could, “coordinate the intelligence effort required to solve the problem.” Haines further notes that, “[Walter B.] Smith also wanted to know what use could be made of the UFO phenomenon in connection with US psychological warfare efforts.”
This is a particularly interesting statement. Rather than suggesting an indirect relationship between world affairs and UFO sightings, employing wording along the lines of “what role the UFO phenomenon may have played in connection with US psychological warfare efforts” (or something to that effect), Haines’ historical overview of the CIA’s internal UFO studies suggests it might have hoped to exploit UFOs. One might consider that a funny thing for an agency to want to do, amidst taking such great care not to appear to be too interested in the subject in question!
Haines goes on to summarize the cooperative effort between the CIA and the USAF, and how the CIA’s concealment of their operations would later help fuel accusations of a coverup:
[T]he CIA Study Group met with Air Force officials at Wright-Patterson and reviewed their data and findings. The Air Force claimed that 90 percent of the reported sightings were easily accounted for. The other 10 percent were characterized as “a number of incredible reports from credible observers.” The Air Force rejected the theories that the sightings involved US or Soviet secret weapons development or that they involved “men from Mars”; there was no evidence to support these concepts. The Air Force briefers sought to explain these UFO reports as the misinterpretation of known objects or little understood natural phenomena. Air Force and CIA officials agreed that outside knowledge of Agency interest in UFOs would make the problem more serious. This concealment of CIA interest contributed greatly to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and coverup.
Returning to J. Allen Hynek, the former Blue Book advisor had written about his suspicions of involvement by parties outside the USAF in 1977 — one year prior to the first batch of UFO files being released by the CIA. While they may not have been theonly other group involved (Stanton Friedman has, for instance, frequently referred to the UFO files kept by the NSA), it is clear that the CIA very well may have been behind some of these operations, of which Hynek had maintained such suspicions.
Hynek wasn’t alone, however. Jim and Coral Lorenzen, founders of the Wisconsin-based Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), had long suspected control from a party outside the Air Force, and had even gone so far as to specify their feeling that this agency was the CIA. In their book UFOs Over the Americas, the Lorenzens devoted an entire chapter to possible CIA involvement in UFO studies, in which they wrote the following:
In Flying Saucer Occupants we presented the dual hypothesis the CIA is conducting an undercover intelligence gathering program relating to UFO phenomenon, and that, for intelligent reasons, it has been for sixteen-odd years the architect of Project Blue Book (the Air Force investigation project on UFOs) and the general Air Force public information policy–the latter being a “cover” program designed to hide the fact that the former exists.
The Lorenzens offered nine points, as featured in their aforementioned previous publication Flying Saucer Occupants, which gave their rational for why the CIA had likely been involved in UFO research at that time (something that, to reiterate, wouldn’t become public knowledge for a number of years). Later in the chapter, they also share a rather telling story about how one of the early members of their fledgling organization had seemingly been spying on them, possibly in conjunction with the kind of CIA surveillance they had suspected.
This individual, a man who had purportedly worked hard to steer the Lorenzens toward metaphysical interpretations of the UFO phenomenon early on, had sent a letter to them dated February 22, 1953, which Coral read, and “flipped it into a file basket on her desk.” Doing so allowed the light to hit the paper in just such a way that faint depressions from the typing of an earlier document (which had been typed on a separate sheet of paper, using this one as a platen) were revealed; in particular, Coral had seen her own name illuminated on the document! Rubbing lightly over the impressions with a soft lead pencil revealed the beginning of “an abbreviated intelligence report”, and after confronting this individual about the apparent memo he had written about Coral, he claimed it was merely something he did “to formalize his feelings about people he met and to define his impressions and that it was strictly a report for his own files.”
Needless to say, this wouldn’t be the best of ways to gain the confidence of others, whether then, or now. The Lorenzens went on to note the possible (or likely?) connection this man had to the CIA, further noting how the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel later in 1953 would go on to name the APRO specifically among organizations that should be watched “because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur.”
As we have examined throughout this article, the CIA’s past involvement with UFO research is well established by now. UFO researchers like J. Allen Hynek suspected the involvement of parties outside the USAF early on, and the Lorenzens and APRO managed to take their assessments so far as to specifically name the CIA amidst their similar suspicions. Whether or not they had been the “architects” behind the USAF’s Project Blue Book, we certainly know that the CIA’s study group was meeting with Air Force officials at Wright Patterson AFB, hence proving that the two groups were in communication on the subject of UFOs.
“Certainly APRO has been watched,” the Lorenzens would conclude. “And, probably, other UFO groups as well.” The words of Joseph Heller come to mind here, where he famously quipped, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” A true statement indeed, and the APRO affair is no doubt only one of many instances where the CIA — and probably other groups as well — have kept tabs on civilian UFO groups for various reasons.
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The Weird Tale of the Man Who Discovered “Gravity Shielding” UFO-like Technologies
The Weird Tale of the Man Who Discovered “Gravity Shielding” UFO-like Technologies
Eugene Podkletnov was, and still is, an enigma. As far as one can tell today, he never worked as a physicist in any official capacity; if anything, the Russian inventor was an engineer by trade — albeit a good one — whose most controversial discovery would be uncovered by mere happenstance.
Regardless of how it happened, in 1992 the the materials science laboratories at Tampere University of Technology in Hervanta, Finland, would become home to a discovery of great intrigue — and great controversy. It remains one that, according to some, may yet shed light on the propulsion technologies behind many reports of UFOs.
Evgeny “Eugene” Podkletnov was born in Russia, and before immigrating temporarily to Finland, had worked to receive his master’s degree at the University of Chemical Technology at Russia’s prestigious 130-year-old Mendeleev Institute in Moscow, before spending more than a decade at the Institute for High Temperatures with the Russian Academy of Sciences. His professional work with Tampere University would begin with the attainment of his doctorate in materials science, a path which led him into studies and testing with various superconductors.
While observing one particular superconductor experiment in 1992, Podkletnoy began to notice something strange; at the time, he felt it might even be a clue to unraveling the secrets of learning to defy gravity altogether. More specifically, while observing a rotating ceramic superconducting disc, Podkletnov noticed that when positioned in close proximity to electromagnets below the disc, the effect of gravity on objects being suspended above it seemed to lessen.
Journalist Charles Platt wrote of the incident in a Wired feature back in 1996, saying that:
“Small objects above the disc seemed to lose weight, as if they were being shielded from the pull of Planet Earth. The weight reduction was small–around 2 percent–but nothing like this had ever been observed before.”
The above statement is correct, at least for the most part. While nothing known to science had proven capable of so much as appearing to lessen the effects of gravity prior to Podkletnov’s experiment, the French physicist Francois Dominique Arago had discovered as far back as 1824 that “a magnet placed near a rotating metallic disc experiences a force tending to make it follow the motion of the disc,” and that furthermore, a needle placed in a fixed position above a spinning copper disc, rather than being allowed to pivot freely, would actually hinder movement of the disc.
In short, something about the movement of a spinning disc, particularly in relation to magnets in close proximity to it, tends to warrant strange observable effects; indeed, Arago had previously recorded that the effects of Earth’s magnetic pull were lessenedon small objects when a metallic disc began to spin from beneath in such a way.
Much like those of Arago, Podkletnov’s observations had been fascinating, though resulting from chance. Recalling the circumstances in his phone conversation with Platt, he described that his curiosity began while noting the strange behavior of pipe smoke, as it began to collect above the spinning superconductor:
“Someone in the laboratory was smoking a pipe, and the pipe smoke rose in a column above the superconducting disc. So we placed a ball-shaped magnet above the disc, attached to a balance. The balance behaved strangely. We substituted a nonmagnetic material, silicon, and still the balance was very strange. We found that any object above the disc lost some of its weight, and we found that if we rotated the disc, the effect was increased.”
In a scientific paper that would follow, Podkletnov would claim that the superconductor was actually managing to serve as nothing less than a physical shield against the Earth’s gravitational field, lessening the apparent weight of the object by as much as 2%. The idea, in theory, could be applied to a wide array of different technologies, although in terms of helping achieve greater lifting efficiency for aerial vehicles (and thus saving energy), the discovery, if valid, could have pointed to an all new field of avionics.
Interesting enough to the researcher of anomalous aerial phenomenon is the curious persistence of the metallic disc, especially in relation to the presence of odd physical effects levied against magnetism and gravity. Could it be that a disc–or as some might call it, a saucer–might really be the most efficient shape to be afforded an aircraft capable propelling itself against the forces of gravity?
In a rather revealing statement made by Podkletnov in 1997, the engineer, now claiming to be working with a chemical laboratory based out of Moscow, gave the resolute Mr. Platt an intriguing update to this story; he claimed that in building a new device based on the earlier observations at Tampere, he had now developed a variation on the new technology that could reflect gravitational waves… and in such a way that might eventually become conducive to new kinds of flight which are akin to that of UFO craft:
“Under specific conditions, applying resonating fields and composite superconducting coatings, we can organize the energy discharge in such a way that it goes through the center of the electrode, accompanied by gravitation phenomena–reflecting gravitational waves that spread through the walls and hit objects on the floors below, knocking them over…The second generation of flying machines will reflect gravity waves and will be small, light, and fast, like UFOs.”
Of course, extraordinary claims require facts and justification in equal measure, and the bold announcement that true “anti-gravity” had been attained drew sharp criticism for Podkletnov’s claims. The same year as his second Wired interview, the engineer withdrew a second paper he had submitted for peer review, claiming that the biased attitudes of a so-called “gravity establishment” had effectively thwarted his credibility, both in the scientific community, as well as at his alma mater; Tampere had allegedly banned him from his own laboratory, and hence he finally retreated back to Moscow to find work.
Despite the controversy surrounding Podkletnov’s claims, companies like Boeing, as well as the American Space Agency, NASA, would allegedly begin taking serious interest in what the engineer had claimed to do. A BBC report from 2002 would later state that Boeing had in fact begun to get involved in anti gravity research:
[D]ocuments obtained by Jane’s Defence Weekly and seen by the BBC show that Boeing is taking Dr Podkletnov’s research seriously. The hypothesis is being tested in a programme codenamed Project Grasp. Boeing is the latest in a series of high-profile institutions trying to replicate Dr Podkletnov’s experiment. The military wing of the UK hi-tech group BAE Systems is working on an anti-gravity programme, dubbed Project Greenglow. The US space agency, NASA, is also attempting to reproduce Dr Podkletnov’s findings, but a preliminary report indicates the effect does not exist.
Boeing later refuted the claims, and denied having any involvement, while admitting (rather strangely) that, if they were to be questioned about anything secret or clandestine, they would be forced to deny it anyway.
Only a handful of other instances would come to light in more recent years, where any attempts at replicating the effects first observed by Podkcetnov were undertaken. One American company, while apparently under-equipped for the tests in Podkletnov’s estimation (following a visit by the controversial engineer to their facilities), nonetheless were alleged to have been “silenced”, according to Podkletnov, due to the ongoing repression leveled by the “Gravity Establishment.” And yet, even with its conspiratorial overtones, it does begin to seem with time that there could be something more to it all; and furthermore, that the difficulties Podkletnov had seen while attempting to secure peer review and other serious academic interest had indeed been squelched by certain members of the so-called “establishment” that he so often spoke of. If anything, this scenario would run almost eerily congruent to what we already know to have happened during the Project Blue Book years with regard to UFOs: officialdom was encouraged to play down or outright debunk UFO reports, based on some strange set of motives which remain quite elusive to this day.
Thus, maybe it’s no surprise, when we consider the parallels that even Podkletnov himself made between his potential discoveries, and existing UFO phenomenon. Could it actually be that for largely the same reasons that UFOs have been given such poor treatment over the last several decades, Podkletnov also suffered at the hands of elitists driving a hidden agenda… and a grouping of people in upper echelons of government (or elsewhere) who likely already know the incredible benefits of antigravity technologies?
Former American President Dwight D. Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens, a former US government consultant has claimed. The 34th President of the United States met the extra terrestrials at a remote air base in New Mexico in 1954, according to lecturer and author Timothy Good. Eisenhower and other FBI officials are said to have organised the showdown with the space creatures by sending out ‘telepathic messages’.
‘Aliens have made both formal and informal contact with thousands of people throughout the world from all walks of life,’ he added. Asked why the aliens don’t go to somebody ‘important’ like Barack Obama, he said: ‘Well, certainly I can tell you that in 1954, President Eisenhower had three encounters, set up meetings with aliens, which took place at certain Air Force bases including Holloman Air Force base in New Mexico.’ He added that there were ‘many witnesses’. Eisenhower, who was president from 1953 to 1961, is known to have had a strong belief in life on other planets.
The Cowboys–Steelers is the NFL rivalry. The Dallas Cowboys are an American football team in the Dallas–Fort Worth. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League. Headquartered in Valley Ranch in Texas, they will move to Frisco in 2016. The Pittsburgh Steelers are another American professional football team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Currently, the team belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League. The Steelers, founded in 1933, are the oldest AFC franchise. The Steelers have stayed competitive ever since and won two more Super Bowls but lose one. Since Super Bowl XXX, the Cowboys were not back to the Super Bowl and had won three playoff games from 1996 onwards.
While the Cowboys and Steelers provided a lot of memorable plays on the field throughout their matchups that took place in 1970, something that happened in the sky took up all the headlines in 1979. On October 28, 1979, the Steelers has defeated the Cowboys in the 9th week of the regular season, which is 14-3. In Super Bowl XIII, another rematch took place. Franco Harris rumbled 102 yards, at the same time, two touchdowns included a 48-yard run that put the game on the ice. However, late in the game, there is an odd object that grabbed the attention away from the field. While no one has ever figured what they were, Thomas White, the Duquesne University archivist, said that the extraterrestrials were kites that bear a resemblance of UFOs. Back in 2011, the odd object appears similarly like two kites that were connected and was moving in the breeze of the wind. He added that he saw the same footage of the kites before. Though the case has not been concluded, it was still one of the strangest moments in the NFL history, which is another interesting experience of Steelers-Cowboys rivalry.
Regardless of whether we have been visited or merely detected, the approach of UFOs was seen as illogical. They were always the subject to the controversy because their existence is debatable. When a person claimed to spot a flying object that is not readily identifiable, they usually connect it to extraterrestrial beings, but at the end of the day, no explicit photos were captured, or videos of the encounter that took place. However, a genuine encounter with a person that doesn’t believe in aliens at all is worth to listen. In the case of Jose Alves, who lives in Brazil, he was fishing near Pontal on November 4, 1954. The night is quiet; the area was deserted, and there’s only a very slight breeze from the east blowing continuously.
Suddenly, he spotted a bizarre vessel hovering in the sky heading towards him. As it moved, he transfixed and watched it carefully. When it landed on a wobbling motion, it was so near to him that he could touch it. The object he saw bears a resemblance of two washbowls that is being placed together that is about ten to fifteen feet in diameter. Because he was frightened, he could not run. Inside the craft, the three little men with close-fitting skull caps in white clothing appeared from a window-like hole. He does not know who these creatures are, but he is confident that they look like a humanoid with dark skin. Alves watched the small creatures collecting samples of herbs, grass, and leaves of trees. They also included filling the shiny metal tube with water from the river. Once they went back to the vessel, they disappeared swiftly and silently.
Alves is a man of few words. He is dedicated to his family. He does not know anything about extraterrestrial beings. As soon as he arrived in his hometown, he shared the story with the residents of Pontal. He had never heard of flying vessels, but he was confident that what he saw bears a resemblance of the little devils.
Artistic representation of the potentially habitable super-Earth Gliese 832c against a stellar nebula background.
Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo, NASA Hubble, Stellarium.
IN BRIEF
Astronomers from the University of Texas have pinpointed the location of a possible Earth-like planet not far from here. It has two identified exoplanets, and a possible third one may be a little like our own.
“WE FOUND ANOTHER ONE”
There are many reasons to explore the cosmos; however, one of the most intriguing reasons is to find another planet with life. We send out probes and we look towards the sky with our telescopes and radar dishes, all in the hope of finding another Earth. We have discovered many planets to date that seem to be rather Earth-like, and we are finding more.
Case in point, astronomers from the University of Texas have pinpointed the location of a possible Earth-like planet not far from here. Of course, it could also be rather unEarth-like. Hopefully, additional research will give us a definitive answer soon.
Gliese 832 is a red dwarf sun half the mass and radius of our own star. It is 16 light-years away from our solar system, and it has two identified exoplanets…and a possible third just cropped up.
The paper discussing the finding, published in arXiv, says that the potential Earth-like planet may exist between the two exoplanets, Gliese 832B and Gliese 832C.
Gliese 832B is a gas giant that is 0.64 the mass of Jupiter, and it orbits its star at 3.5 AU. The other planet, Gliese 832C, is a rocky world about 5 times as massive as Earth, and it orbits the star at a very close 0.16 AU. Both cannot harbor life as we know it, as 832B is a gas giant and 832C is too close to the star.
BASED ON A HUNCH
The already discovered planets were seen because of the radial velocity technique, which measures the gravitational effect of the planets on the star. The astronomers had a hunch that another planet may exist between the vast distance of 832B and 832C. They reexamined the data, and concluded that another planet may exist between them.
The newly discovered planet is still hypothetical at this point, and the researchers put its mass at between 1 and 15 Earth masses (yeah kind of a big margin there), and its orbit is between 0.25 to 2.0 AU from Gliese 382 (1 AU is roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun).
Conclusions such as these are not made definitively, but only so that planet hunters and telescopes such as Kepler know specifically where to look.
Vast bubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way visible from the Southern Hemisphere, was formed by the explosive death of one or more of the cluster of massive stars inside the bubble. Cosmic rays reaching Earth are created and accelerated by similar explosions. (Photo: Gemini South Telescope in Chile; composite by Travis Rector of the University of Alaska Anchorage)
Most of the cosmic rays arriving at Earth from our galaxy come from nearby clusters of massive stars, according to new observations from the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS), an instrument aboard NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft.
Galactic cosmic rays are thought to come from clusters of massive stars called OB associations, named for the blue and blue-white light they emit. Our Sun in a G star in this classification scheme. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
The distance between the galactic cosmic rays’ point of origin and Earth is limited by the survival of a very rare type of cosmic ray that acts like a tiny clock. The cosmic ray is a radioactive isotope of iron, 60Fe, which has a half life of 2.6 million years. In that time, half of these iron nuclei decay into other elements.
In the 17 years CRIS has been in space, it detected about 300,000 galactic cosmic-ray nuclei of ordinary iron, but just 15 of the radioactive 60Fe .
“Our detection of radioactive cosmic-ray iron nuclei is a smoking gun indicating that there has been a supernova in the last few million years in our neighborhood of the galaxy,” said Robert Binns, research professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and lead author on the paper published online in Science April 21.
“The new data also show the source of galactic cosmic rays is nearby clusters of massive stars, where supernova explosions occur every few million years,” said Martin Israel, professor of physics at Washington University and a co-author on the paper.
The radioactive iron is believed to be produced in core-collapse supernovae, violent explosions that mark the death of massive stars, which occur primarily in clusters of massive stars called OB associations.
There are more than 20 such associations close enough to Earth to be the source of the cosmic rays, including subgroups of the nearby Scorpius and Centaurus constellations, such as Upper Scorpius (83 stars), Upper Centaurus Lupus (134 stars) and Lower Centaurus Crux (97 stars). Because of their size and proximity, these are the likely sources of the radioactive iron nuclei CRIS detected, the scientists said.
An incriminating timeline
The 60Fe results add to a growing body of evidence that galactic cosmic rays are created and accelerated in OB associations.
This time lag also means that the nuclei synthesized in a supernova are not accelerated by that supernova, but by the shock wave from a second nearby supernova, Israel said, one that occurs quickly enough that a substantial fraction of the 60Fe from the first supernova has not yet decayed.
Together, these time constraints mean the second supernova must occur between 100,000 and a few million years after the first supernova. Clusters of massive stars are one of the few places in the universe where supernovae occur often enough, and close enough together, to bring this off.
“So our observation of 60Fe lends support to the emerging model of cosmic-ray origin in OB associations,” Israel said.
Corroborating evidence?
Although the supernovae in a nearby OB association that created the 60Fe CRIS observed happened long before people were around to observe suddenly brightening stars (novae), they also may have left traces in Earth’s oceans and on the moon.
Several impressive photos of alleged UFOs over the arctic captured on camera by the Navy in 1971 have been leaked to UFO researchers, and their discovery has been getting worldwide media attention.
UFO researcher Alex Mistretta claims that the images were originally given to him by an anonymous source in Europe. Later, he discovered that they were also published in a French paranormal magazine called Top Secret.
Two of the images from the French magazine Top Secret. The caption reads: “(Top) On this photo, we identify without a doubt a triangular-shaped UFO. It seems to be in trouble. (Bottom) If the order that we have chosen for these pictures is correct, the UFO here seems to now go sideways before plunging into the ocean…” (Credit: Top Secret/TheBlackVault.com)
To further investigate, Mistretta enlisted the help of John Greenewald, who runs the websiteTheBlackVault.com. He asked Greenewald to post the pictures in hopes that Greenewald and others may be able to find out more about the images.
After posting the story last week, it began getting international headlines. A Reddit user that goes by the name SqizCat was also able to find higher resolution copies of the images.
The images are fantastic. They seem to be of large objects aloft over the ocean, some, if not all, taken from the periscope of a submarine. The big question is are they real, and if so, what are they?
Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.
Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.
Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.
Alleged UFO photo taken from the USS Trepang in March 1971.
In his email to The Black Vault, Mistretta listed what his anonymous source told him.
The photos were taken from a United State Navy submarine.
The location was between Iceland and Jan Mayen island in the Atlantic Ocean. (Jan Mayen belongs to Norway, and is only inhabited by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian military.)
They were taken in March of 1971.
The Submarine was the Navy’s USS Trepang (SSN 674) and the Admiral on board was Dean Reynolds Sackett. Obviously, the next step is to try and locate this Admiral Dean Reynolds, if he exists.
The Submarine came upon the object by “accident,” as they were in the region on a routine joint military and scientific expedition. Officer John Klika was the one who initially spotted the object with the periscope.
Greenewald looked into these claims and he says that he found that Admiral Sackett was onboard the USS Trepang at the time listed. He also found that Officer Kilka was also aboard. Further, he found that the USS Trepang was in the area the source claimed at the time the pictures were allegedly taken.
Map of the area the photos were alegedly taken. (Credit: google Maps/TheBlackVault.com)
Image of the USS Trepang (Credit: Hullnumber.com)
Mistretta wrote: “[Kilka] found the investigation interesting reading, and doesn’t know what the pictures represent. I believe them. I feel confident in saying the Trepang was not involved in the taking of the photographs.”
Although Mistretta now believes his source’s information to be inaccurate, Greenewald found clues that indicate the images may still be real, albeit not extraterrestrial.
Greenewald says, “When I first saw these, I noted there was something very Zeppelin-like about some of the photos, but, unlike the actual Zeppelin’s, it did not have a carrier for the occupants.”
By researching the USS Trepang’s whereabouts, he also found this on the site Hullnumber.com: “From 22 February to 22 March [1971], the nuclear attack submarine operated beneath the northern ice cap, conducting extensive tests to provide data for her weapons systems, as well as carrying out scientific experiments concerning the movement, composition, and geological history of the cap itself.”
This lead him to research test balloons. He searched the Library of Congress and found images of test balloons that look very similar to what is in some of the images.
A view of the H.M.S Canning and its observation balloon. – Image discovered by TheBlackVault.com. (Credit: National Geographic.)
Greenewald’s discovery makes it possible, if not likely, that the images are from test balloons being fired upon by Navy submarines. The images he found were from the early 1900s, so the question remains as to whether similar balloons were still being used in the 70s, or are the images colorized version of much older pictures. Given the misinformation that accompanied the images in the first place, it is also possible they are Photoshopped hoaxes.
Although the media has picked up on the story, few, if any, have mentioned the investigation work done by Mistretta, Greenewald, and Murillo. By leaving out this part of the story, they leave out the fact that many UFO researchers are more than just wild-eyed believers, as the media often portrays. Some are actually doing all they can to look for the truth.
Murillo’s UPARS organization will be hosting Mistretta to discuss this case on July 21, 2015 in Los Angeles. You can find more information on the UPARS Meetup site.
Nasa beefs up its team of ‘alien hunters’ – and says we may be on the verge of finding extraterrestrial life.
The Nexss team, includes those who study Earth as a life-bearing planet (lower right), those researching the diversity of solar system planets (left), and those on the new frontier, discovering worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy (upper right)
Nasa beefs up its team of ‘alien hunters’ – and says we may be on the verge of finding extraterrestrial life.
Nasa claims we’ll find aliens in the next 10 to 20 years – and now the agency is revving up its efforts to track them down.
The group has put together a team of ‘extraterrestrial experts’ to see if any of the planets discovered outside our solar system are habitable.
And it says that the amateur astronomers could help with its ‘unprecedented’ search for ET by access research data online.
The initiative, dubbed Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (Nexss), will include scientists from 10 universities including Stanford, the University of California and Yale.
The study of exoplanets is a relatively new field with discovery of the first exoplanet around a star like our sun was made in 1995.
Since the launch of the Kepler space telescope six years ago, more than 1,000 exoplanets have been found, with thousands of additional candidates waiting to be confirmed.
Nasa has set up a website for the public called Planet Hunters which allows anyone to search the data gathered by Kepler, since launching six years ago.
Scientists are also developing new ways to confirm the habitability of these worlds and search for biosignatures, or signs of life.
By applying a ‘system science’ approach, the team hopes to understand on an alien planet’s biology interacts with the atmosphere, geology, oceans, and interior of a planet.
The announcement comes just weeks after Nasa’s top scientist predicted we could be on the verge of finding life on one of them.
During a talk in Washington last month, the space agency announced that humanity is likely to encounter extra-terrestrials within a decade.
THE NEXSS TEAM OF ‘ALIEN HUNTERS’: WHAT WILL THEY DO?
Alien hunters from the University of Berkeley, California and Stanford are tasked with answering the question: ‘What are the properties of exoplanetary systems, as they relate to their formation, evolution, and potential to harbour life?’ They will combine astronomical observations of exoplanets and forming planetary systems with powerful computer simulations and cutting-edge microscopic studies of meteorites. The team from Arizona State University in Phoenix will take a similar approach. This research group will place planetary habitability in a chemical context, with the goal of producing a ‘periodic table of planets.’ Researchers from Hampton University, Virginia, will be exploring the sources and sinks for volatiles on habitable worlds. This research will help determine the past and present habitability of Mars and even Venus. The team centered at Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies will investigate habitability on a more local scale. It will examine the habitability of solar system rocky planets through time. The team from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, will design new spectrometers – optical instruments that measure the spectrum of light – with the stability to reach Earth-detecting precision for nearby stars. A group led the University of Nebraska-Kearney will explore the existence and evolution of exospheres around exoplanets, the outer, ‘unbound’ portion of a planet’s atmosphere. From the University of California, Santa Cruz, a group will investigate how novel maths equations can be used to extract information from light that is emitted and reflected by planetary atmospheres.
‘I believe we are going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth in the next decade and definitive evidence in the next 10 to 20 years,’ Ellen Stofan, chief scientist for Nasa, said.
‘We know where to look, we know how to look, and in most cases we have the technology.’
Jeffery Newmark, interim director of heliophysics at the agency, added: ‘It’s definitely not an if, it’s a when.’
‘We are not talking about little green men,’ Stofan said. ‘We are talking about little microbes.’
The announcement was prompted by the recent discovery of water by Nasa in surprising places.
Jim Green, director of planetary science at Nasa, noted that a recent study of the Martian atmosphere found 50 per cent of the planet’s northern hemisphere once had oceans a mile deep.
Signs of Alien Life Will Be Found by 2025, Chief Scientist Predicts
The same study found that water had been present on the red planet for up to 1.2 billion year.
‘We think that long period of time is necessary for life to get more complex,’ Stofan said.
Nasa associate administrator John Grunsfeld said he is excited about seeing what form life beyond Earth may take.
‘Once we get beyond Mars, which formed from the same stuff as Earth, the likelihood that life is similar to what we find on this planet is very low,’ he said.
‘I think we’re one generation away in our solar system, whether it’s on an icy moon or on Mars, and one generation [away] on a planet around a nearby star.
At the same conference last year, Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden made a more conservative estimate.
He claimed that we will find life within the next 20 years – with a high chance it will be outside our solar system.
Nasa next Mars rover, scheduled to launch in 2020, will search for signs of past life and bring samples for a possible return to Earth for analysis.
Nasa also hopes to land astronauts on Mars in the 2030s, which Stofan says is crucial key to the search for Mars life.
‘I’m a field geologist; I go out and break open rocks and look for fossils,’ Stofan said. ‘Those are hard to find.
‘So I have a bias that it’s eventually going to take humans on the surface of Mars — field geologists, astrobiologists, chemists — actually out there looking for that good evidence of life that we can bring back to Earth for all the scientists to argue about.’
The space agency is also planning a mission to Europa, which may launch as early as 2022. It hopes to find out whether the icy moon is habitable.
Meanwhile, the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will launch in 2018 to scope out the atmospheres of nearby ‘super-Earth’ alien planets.
The Ministry of Defence had agreed to publish its full archive of reported sightings in respo
Details were blanked out for a number of reasons
nse to a deluge of Freedom of Information Act requests.
But the once-secret memo, published on its website, reveals “uncomplimentary comments” were edited out.
Comments on international relations and defence technology were also deleted.
Thousands of pages from the department’s UFO files have been released through the National Archives since 2008, revealing details of reported flying objects and encounters with aliens.
The newly released memo to ministers and defence chiefs, dated September 2007, discusses how to make the largely “low security classification” information public.
The files are considerably less exciting than the ‘industry’ surrounding the UFO phenomena would like to believe
MoD memo
It notes they “include references to air defence matters, defence technology, relations with foreign powers and occasional uncomplimentary comments by staff or police officers about members of the public, which will need to be withheld in accordance with FoI principles.”
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) recorded UFO sightings from the end of the Second World War until it shut its special investigation unit on 1 December last year.
Officials feared publishing only part of the information would “fuel accusations of a ‘cover-up’,” the document reveals.
“Contrary to what many members of the public may believe, MoD has no interest in the subject of extraterrestrial life forms visiting the UK, only in ensuring the integrity and security of UK airspace,” it says.
“The MoD is aware of no clear evidence to prove or disprove the existence of aliens, and consequently the files are considerably less exciting than the ‘industry’ surrounding the UFO phenomena would like to believe.”
The fifth instalment of MoD UFO files was released last week, revealing reports of a large triangular UFO hovering in the skies above former home secretary Michael Howard’s home near Folkestone, Kent, in March 1997.
Mars Tourists Will Be Just as Annoying as Regular Tourists
Mars Tourists Will Be Just as Annoying as Regular Tourists
Visiting Mars might sound like science fiction, but plenty of dreamers think it might soon be possible. SpaceX and Mars One have promised to colonize Earth’s nearest neighbor within decades, and the cold, red planet eventually could become an epic tourist destination.
Julien Mauve envisions what this might look like in his playful series Greetings from Mars. Such a future is all too predictable: seemingly self-absorbed people in space suits roam the awe-inspiring terrain armed with smartphones, cameras and selfie-sticks. Like dogs marking their territory, the earthlings seem more interested in documenting their presence than contemplating the jaw-dropping vistas. “These are all tourist habits that have developed with photography,” Mauve says. “I assume we’ll act the same on another planet.”
Mauve shot the images in April during an eight-day, 4,000-mile road trip during which he meandered from California to Utah. The otherworldly scenery provided a close approximation of the Martian terrain revealed by theCuriosity rover (which explains why movies like John Carterhave been filmed there). He rented replicas of the ESP-A7L space suits worn on the Apollo missions from an LA production company. “They wouldn’t be the suits you’d use for a Mars mission, but my goal was more to get close to the cliché we have in mind when we think of an astronaut,” he says.
Do we travel to discover new places and cultures, or do we travel to take pictures of ourselves and prove that we exist?
He and a friend donned the suits to cavort in the desert like any selfie-sticking oblivious tourists would. Sometimes Mauve triggered the shutter with his phone; other times he set a 10-second timer and ran into the frame. He used Photoshop to remove plants, trees, and other signs of life, then tweaked their colors to conjure the Red Planet’s famously rusty, sulphuric hue.
His photographs are eerily cinematic, and, like the movies, weirdly convincing. Even when the landscapes are recognizably terrestrial—the Grand Canyon or Death Valley, for example—they serve as a reminder that the West once seemed as alien as Mars does today. National parks and photo-op hotspots still draw hordes of shutterbugs eager to prove “I was here.” Mauve doesn’t see any reason why the same thing wouldn’t happen in space, should tourists ever get there.
“The fact that we may witness it in our lifetime, just as our parents and grandparents [witnessed the moon landing] in the ’60s, makes it even more exciting,” he says. “The Internet nearly broke when Felix Baumgartner jumped from the stratosphere, so just imagine what will happen the day we step foot on Mars.”
Despite his optimism about space travel, Mauve’s images ultimately are a parody of how snapping and sharing a photo has become the culmination of every exploratory experience. Travelers don’t even have to wait to get home and have their film developed at the local Walgreens; they can shoot and post a photo within seconds. “There is no being far away anymore,” he says. “So we might ask ourselves: Do we travel to discover new places and cultures, or do we travel to take pictures of ourselves and prove that we exist?”
A WOMAN who claims to have been abducted by aliens more than 20 years ago has visited Torquay to speak to resident UFO expert and author Roy Dutton about her experiences.
Roy, who lives in Torquay and is a retired aerospace engineer, has spent over 50 years studying UFO sightings all over the world.
He is now highly regarded as a UFO expert with a published book and DVD series already under his belt.
'Abductee' Valerie Walters first met Roy in 1990 and the pair have recently met up again to discuss Valerie's experiences for a new book Roy is working on.
The pair first met at a hypnosis session organised to unlock memories about Valerie's extraterrestrial experience.
It was around 1.45am on July 16, 1981, when 26-year-old Valerie and her two friends, Rosemary and Vivienn, were driving home from a night out in Sheffield.
The three friends all saw a strange light in the sky which led to a terrifying experience they will never forget.
Valerie said: "We saw a craft in the sky, it was about 30ft in diameter and hovered directly above the car.
"I was in the back, I didn't remember much at the time — none of us did, things started to come back after the hypnosis.
"I remembered hearing a beeping noise and I started to feel quite drowsy.
"Me and Rosemary saw the craft hovering over the field next to us. I can remember seeing windows and a dome, it had a rim on it. But Rosemary couldn't remember what it looked like."
The three women didn't remember anything else at the time, but 'had lost over half-an-hour' by the time they got home and rushed to their local police station to tell them about their sighting.
"Initially we didn't know anything, we thought it was just a sighting," said Valerie.
"We went to the police to tell them and we heard them laughing in the back."
Valerie added: "I was out of the car looking for the others, then the car was gone.
"I felt something behind me, like I was being picked up by my \\\voice said, 'don't be afraid'.
"Then I felt like I was in a vacuum everything went red in my head — I will never forget that feeling.
"I was in a white wedge shaped room with two humanoid beings, a male and a female both with shoulder length dark hair and hypnotic blue eyes," said Valerie.
"I remembe\\\\\r the beings trying to communicate with me telepathically. They were especially interested in my clothes.
"You'll laugh but the female gestured to try on my shoes, I laughed. I remember laughing at the time. But afterwards, philosophically I wondered whether it was trying to communicate that it wanted to see what it felt like to walk in my shoes."
The women's encounters are detailed in Roy's first book, including a copy of a 'star map' drawn by Valerie.
Roy is now working on a second book, and has met up with Valerie again 20 years later to further discuss her experience.
He said: "I believe they are possibly from a parallel universe, to me that seems to be the most reasonable explanation.
"There have been so many sightings which detail the use of technology which is way beyond our understanding.
"Given my background as an aerospace engineer, I know what is possible in human technology, that is why I got involved."
In this video Luke Rudkowski interviews Jim Marrs, an American newspaper journalist and New York Times best-selling author. The two discuss the best evidence for extraterrestrial life and the history of government cover ups on this topic. We not only go over the government’s actions but actually evidence with whistleblowers and official government documents.
In this video Luke Rudkowski interviews Jim Marrs, an American newspaper journalist and New York Times best-selling author. The two discuss the best evidence for extraterrestrial life and the history of government cover ups on this topic. We not only go over the government’s actions but actually evidence with whistleblowers and official government documents.
In this video Luke Rudkowski interviews Jim Marrs, an American newspaper journalist and New York Times best-selling author. The two discuss the best evidence for extraterrestrial life and the history of government cover ups on this topic. We not only go over the government’s actions but actually evidence with whistleblowers and official government documents.
The TR-3B is Code named Astra. The tactical reconnaissance TR-3B first operational flight was in the early 90s. The triangular shaped nuclear powered aerospace platform was developed under the Top Secret, Aurora Program with SDI and black budget monies. At least 3 of the billion dollar plus TR-3Bs were flying by 1994. The Aurora is the most classified aerospace development program in existence. The TR-3B is the most exotic vehicle created by the Aurora Program. It is funded and operationally tasked by the National Reconnaissance Office, the NSA, and the CIA. The TR-3B flying triangle is not fiction and was built with technology available in the mid 80s. Not every UFO spotted is one of theirs.
The TR-3B vehicles outer coating is reactive to electrical Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder–or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations. A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology.
Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The government will go to any lengths to protect this technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption. The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent. Do not misunderstand. This is not antigravity. Anti-gravity provides a repulsive force that can be used for propulsion. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth’s gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. This causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed–except, of course, those UFOs we did not build.
The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesnt take much propulsion to maintain altitude. At Groom Lake their have been whispered rumours of a new element that acts as a catalyst to the plasma. With the vehicle mass reduced by 89%, the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%.
The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet–then God knows how fast it can go! The 3 multimode rocket engines mounted under each corner of the craft use hydrogen or methane and oxygen as a propellent. In a liquid oxygen/hydrogen rocket system, 85% of the propellent mass is oxygen. The nuclear thermal rocket engine uses a hydrogen propellent, augmented with oxygen for additional thrust. The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can; operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen oxygen propulsion.
What you have to remember is, that the 3 rocket engines only have to propel 11 percent of the mass of the Top Secret TR-3B. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell. Many sightings of triangular UFOs are not alien vehicles but the top secret TR-3B. The NSA, NRO, CIA, and USAF have been playing a shell game with aircraft nomenclature – creating the TR-3, modified to the TR-3A, the TR-3B, and the Teir 2, 3, and 4, with suffixes like Plus or Minus added on to confuse further the fact that each of these designators is a different aircraft and not the same aerospace vehicle. A TR-3B is as different from a TR-3A as a banana is from a grape. Some of these vehicles are manned and others are unmanned.
It all become apparent in Belgium where, after frequent sightings of flying lights and a mid-air near-miss by UFO, at one point Belgian Air Force, anxious to identify the origin of the phenomena, authorized F16 scrambles under condition that the visual observations on the ground were confirmed by the local police and detection on the radar.
One of the consequences of such decision was that, on 31 March 1990 at 00:05 hr, two F16 were scrambled from Beauvechain airbase and guided towards the radar contacts.
A total of 9 interception attempts have been made that night. At six occasions the pilots established a lock-on with their air interception radar. Lock-on distances varied between 5 and 8 NM. On all occasions targets varied speed and altitude very quickly and break-locks occurred after 10 to 60 seconds. Speeds varied between 150 and 1010 knots. At three occasions both F16 registered simultaneous lock-ons with the same parameters. The two F16 were flying approximately 2 NM apart. Owing to the night conditions, no visual contact could be established by either of the F16 pilots.
An Ancient Egyptian necklace of Extraterrestrial origin
An Ancient Egyptian necklace of Extraterrestrial origin
The study obtained incredible results not only because of the origin of the mysterious minerals but because the ancient necklace was manufactured in 3200 B.C.
In 1911, during the excavation of the graves of Naqada, north of Egypt, archaeologists came across what appeared to be a necklace made of iron inlaid with gold and precious stones, but they couldn’t be more wrong.
More than a century later, a study conducted by Egyptologist Thilo Rehren of the University of Hamad bin Khalifa showed that the precious ancient treasure, currently in possession of the Petrie Museum in London, is actually made of meteoric iron. X-ray analysis determined that the necklace was made from thin sheets of iron from a meteorite, molded with a hammer and rolled in the form of beads.
Researchers discovered that the nickel content of this original metal was extremely high, indicating that it originated from a meteorite, and not from Earth minerals as first believed. During the study, scientists identified a distinctive crystalline structure called a Widmanstätten pattern. Scientists say that this structure can only be found in iron meteorites that cooled extremely slow inside their asteroids during the formation of our solar system.
Professor Thilo Rehren, lead author of the Journal of Archaeological Science study said: „The beads were created by ‘multiple cycles of hammering’ and not by the traditional carving or drilling stone techniques that were used on other beads found in the same tomb.“
The study obtained incredible results not only because of the origin of the mysterious minerals but because the ancient necklace was manufactured in 3200 B.C., almost two thousand years before the iron casting technique was developed, proving one more time that the Ancient Egyptian civilization was extremely advanced having developed techniques that were reinvented by ‘modern’ society thousands of years later.
Scientists from the University College London’s Petrie Museum conducted several tests of beads and necklaces, pictured in the image. They used gamma ray scans to demonstrate that the beads, which were originally believed to be made from simple iron, were in fact created using fragments of meteorites thousands of years ago
In an interview with Culture24, Professor Rehren said: ‘The really exciting outcome of this research is that we were for the first time able to demonstrate conclusively that there are typical trace elements such as cobalt and germanium present in these beads, at levels that only occur in meteoritic iron.’
The study allowed researchers to understand for the first time ever, the internal structure of the beads revealing how they were created, showing an extremely advanced knowledge and skill of metal work.
A gift from the ‘Gods’
‘The sky was very important to the ancient Egyptians,’ said Joyce Tyldesley, an Egyptologist at the University of Manchester, UK, and a co-author of the paper on the discovery.
‘Something that falls from the sky is going to be considered as a gift from the gods.’
Dr. Tyldesley added: ‘Today, we see iron first and foremost as a practical, rather dull metal. To the ancient Egyptians, however, it was a rare and beautiful material which, as it fell from the sky, surely had some magical/religious properties.
The Colares Incident: Hostile UFOs Kill Two People, Victimize Dozens
The Colares Incident: Hostile UFOs Kill Two People, Victimize Dozens
One of the most intriguing UFO investigation to date happened in northeast Brazil. In November 1977, a military squad commanded by Captain Uyrange Hollanda came to support the Island of Colares, and the residents of a small fishing village from the Amazon delta, in the vicinity of the Atlantic coast. Reports of unidentified flying object as well as submersible devices have caught the attention of the military who wanted to see if the stories had indeed an extraterrestrial origin.
The mission was entitled Operacao Prato, or Operation Plate, and its first objective was to study the bizarre luminous sightings, as well as helping the villagers who reported being attacked by mysterious beams of light on several occasions.
It all seemed to have a rational explanation until Captain Hollanda and his crew encountered a UFO that lit up right above them. The object had the shape of a disk and made bizarre noise similar to “an air conditioner, or like a bicycle sprocket when you pedal backwards.” During the time the object was hovering, it emitted a yellow glow five times before turning blue and dashing towards the sea.
The report was quickly forwarded to the base commander in Belem, and soon after, Hollande was made leader of one of the biggest UFO investigations in written history. He returned with a team of specialists and photographers who then interviewed more than 300 people, including the fishermen who reported seeing strange blue lights below the watery surface and UFOs that had the ability to submerge, but also fly.
The location proved to be a hotbed for UFOs after all, as more than a hundred photos in full spectrum of various UFOs were shot. The mysterious objects appeared in different shapes and sizes: pyramids, discs, cylinders, and even a 100-meter-long (330 ft) “mother ship” that strongly resembled an oil barrel.
Because most of the victims ended up paralyzed after encountering these otherworldly devices, the locals dubbed them “chupa-chupas,” because it drained the energy of the body, similar to how mosquitos sucked the blood of their victims. However, these UFOs used a ray of green light to stun their victims before burning them with a flash of red light that left visible marks on the skin.
Hollanda concluded that the UFOs were taking blood samples, but the action wasn’t harmful as you would expect, since two people were found dead after the encounter, and thirty-five of them were badly hurt. Because of this, entire villages were evacuated by the locals who were afraid for their lives.
A full report of the investigation reached Brasilia, and Operation Plate was classified. The people involved were ordered to keep their mouth shut and to forget what they have seen in the Amazonian village.
In 1997, Colonel Hollanda decided to break the silence in an interview for a UFO magazine that found out about the operation:
UFO Magazine – If you have created a file, then it tells us that there has already been some progresses in the investigation?
Hollanda – Yes, when I arrived from Brasilia I already had agents who had being sent to investigate occurrences of UFOS, because this thing was already happening so often in the area of Colares, which is a belonging to the city of Vigia, on the coast of Pará.
The mayor of the city sent an officer to the commander of COMAR to inform him that the UFOs were bothering the fishing very much. Some of them could not exert the fishing activity anymore, because the objects navigated under their boats. At times, some objects even dived near them, in the rivers and in the sea. The local population spent the night outside. The people set up fires and used firecrackers to try to drive the invaders away. It was the panic that made the mayor contact the command of COMAR, asking for instructions, and the Brigadier General ordered that I was to investigate the sightings.
UFO Magazine – Was there at some point a participation or instruction from Brasilia (Ed.: the capital, i.e. the government) so that the situation is inquired?
Hollanda – At the time, it did not participate in the discussions. There was only one captain and he received only orders. I was no part of this proceeding and I do not know with certainty as of the decisions that had been taken. But, for the little that I know, the decision was in the hands of the command of COMAR. If it had involvement of Brasilia, I do not know about it.
UFO Magazine – How did you organize Operation Plate? How many sections, how many people, how many missions etc? And did you organize all the tasks?
Hollanda – Well, we were a team. I was at the head of it. We had five agents, all sergeants, that worked in the second division of COMAR. Moreover, we had informers on location, people in the places where the lights appeared, on the field,that helped them. At the time I divided the team in two or three different positions in the country. Clearly, we were constantly in contact with one another, through radio.
UFO Magazine – What was the immediate objective of Operation Plate? To observe flying disks, to photograph them and to contact them?
Hollanda – As a matter of fact I wanted to test this thing off exactly and completely. It wanted to explain it and clear it out. Because everybody spoke in the lights and objects and had even nicknamed them with popular names, such as “Chupa-chupa” (Ed.: “suck-suck” or “absorb-absorb”). And, the Brazilian Air Forces needed to know what was really happening, since this occurred in the Brazilian airspace. The responsibility to inquire was ours. But in the beginning of Operation Plate, what I exactly I wanted was a confirmation the events that were happening.
UFO Magazine – What motivated the local population to call the lights “Cupa-chupa?”
Hollanda – There were a series of stories of people who had been touched by a light ray. All judged that the effect of the ray was to suck blood out of them. And actually we verified some cases and we discovered that several of them, mainly women, had strangest marks on their left breast, and there were two punctures of needle around a brown spot. It looked like iodine burning. And those people had their blood sucked out, in small amount, by those lights.
Therefore they had started to nickname them “Chupa-chupa.” It was always the same thing: a light came out of nothing and followed somebody, generally a woman, who was hit on the left breast. At some times they were men who were hit, with marks in the arms and (pemas.) To tell you the truth, in ten cases, there were more or less eight women and two men.
UFO Magazine – And you have recorded and checked the marks on the people?
Hollanda – Yes, it was all checked and analyzed by doctors, who went with us to the locations at the time. Sincerely, I entered in this as the devil’s advocate. What I exactly wanted was to demystify this story and to say to my commander that this thing did not exist, that it was a collective hallucination. I found that some things were being seen, but that it was not extraterrestrial.
UFO Magazine – What did you think it was, then, that was being seen and attacked the people?
Hollanda – I do not know. Perhaps the plumage of an owl reflecting the light of the moon or some other thing of this sort. It was thought it might be extraterrestrial, but I did not think so. I went there for verifying that this thing was really happening. I spent at least two months to get an answer for my commander, when I came back from the mission, I had discovered nothing.
The first the two months of Operation Plate, I saw nothing that could change my opinion. At one point we spent one week in the weeds and came back only on the Sunday, we lived a little bit like a family. At each report, my commander asked:
“Did you see something?” And my response was always: “We saw strange lights, at least, but nothing extraterrestrial”. In fact, we saw lights that never blinked, that passed at a low altitude, but nothing very strange.
UFO Magazine – This was during the night. What happened during the day? Were there other activities during Operation Plate?
Hollanda – Yes, we had other things to do, that were part of the objectives of the operation. We made interviews with people who had had experiences, we prepared the places to spend the night and searched “hot” spots for night watches. When we discovered that something appeared in such a place, we (…). We made a survey of the situation, and we always registered the names of the involved people in a proper form.
UFO Magazine – What procedure or methodology was used to collect information?
Hollanda – We always recorded the name of the person who had the experience, the place where it occurred, the date and time etc. We made a description of each fact that occurred in the same locality. Thus, if three cases in a night happened, people heard three witnesses. Some of the descriptions were common, the other had most strangeness. At times we received stories from things that we could not prove to be authentic, as dematerialization of entire walls or roofs, for example.
UFO Magazine – What do you mean? Do you have some example to illustrate this type of events?
Hollanda – Yes. The first lady that I interviewed in Colares, for example, told me absurd things. We came by the helicopter from Belém just to hear a woman who had been attacked by the Chupa-Chupa. We really did see that she had a mark in the left breast. It was brown, as if it was a burning, and had series of holes in a line. When we talked, told to me that a child was seated in a net trying to put a child to sleep when, suddenly, the environment started to change of temperature. She found it rather pleasant, but she could not imagine what happened next. Then, lying in the net, she saw that the roofing tiles had started to be colored, in live coal color. After that, they changed to be transparent and she could see the sky through the roof. It was as if the roofing tiles had turned into glass. She saw the sky and even the stars.
UFO Magazine – Were strange stories such as this very common during Operation Plate?
Hollanda – Very common, and it scared me a lot, because I had never heard anyone speak about such things. When I heard of such cases, I was both worried and even more curious. These people seemed to be sincere. For example, through the hole that the woman described she saw a green light shining in the sky. The lady was half asleep, until, after that, a red ray that left the UFO reached her left breast. It was strange that in the majority of the cases the people were hit at their left side. There was more: exactly at the time where we were speaking of this, a girl came to us and said:
“Look at the thing that is passing above.” When I left the house, I saw the light that the young girl was pointing, flying at a reasonable speed, although the sky was sufficiently covered. It was not very quick and it blinked as it was going to the North. It looked like a satellite, except that this light turned back on its route – and satellites do not do this!
Soon after that, there was something even stranger. But I could not exactly say if it was an extraterrestrial ship. By the way, I was not there to cover up anything that appeared as being a flying disk.
UFO Magazine – Did you use some type of radar equipment that could confirm or follow these phenomena?
Hollanda – No. All the airports have fixed radars. We did not carry anything of this type.
UFO Magazine – Were the attacks that were happening with certain frequency communicated to the Government, to the state or municipal authorities?
Hollanda – Yes, clearly. Some doctors of the Ministry of Public Health of Pará had been sent by the government to examine the people. They analyzed the burnt skins and took the patients statements, but they did not do anything more than that – never. Some victims recovered easily. Others were very terrified. Some have been nauseates, or fell asleep for days. A citizen once came to look for me and said that next to his house a light had appeared, that focuses a shining ray towards him. He told me that he has been so terrified that he ran inside his house, caught a weapon and pointed it to the light. Then stronger rays came and caused him to fall. The poor men spent two weeks with locomotion problems (Ed.: Because he fell), but did not have anything more serious.
He has not been hit by anything solid, as a shot, for example. It seems that the nature of this light was that of a very strong energy that left people paralyzed. I believe that the federal authorities were informed of this type of attack on human beings that were happening in the region, but I am unaware of any tests. I only received orders from my commander, nothing more.
UFO Magazine – If these depositions had been collected since the beginning of the Operation Plate, when were the first close encounters with UFOS in that region begin?
Hollanda – It was sufficiently significant. Certain night, our team was searching the Island of Mosqueiro, in a place called Bahia do Sol (Ed.: Sun Bay) (Publisher: a known health-resort of Belém, near Colares), therefore we had information that these things were happening there. And as we were investigating all and any indication of ufological occurrences, we settled ourselves in the place. In this period, the agents who had more time than I to devote to this operation – since “I caught the train when it was already started” -, they questioned me all the time, after they saw some lights, as if I was already convinced of the existence of the phenomenon. As I was still undecided, they said to me: “But captain, do you still not believe?” I answered that I wasn’t, that we needed more tests to believe that those things were flying disks. I had not seen any ship at that time. Only light, many and varied. I was still not satisfied.
Less than two months after the interview, Hollanda was found hanged inside his home. While the official investigation speaks of a suicide, there are some who suspect the incident would have been much more than that.
Documents from the infamous Operation Plate were released by the Brazilian military in late 2009, and four years later, officials from the Brazilian Air Force, Navy, and Army joined forces with civilian UFO researchers to further investigate the UFO phenomenon.
The Government’s ABC of UFO Activity: Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book
The Government’s ABC of UFO Activity: Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book
On June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold, a reputed American aviator and businessman, witnessed a formation of vivid colored, crescent-shaped crafts hasting at speeds of over 1,200 knots in the vicinity of Mount Rainier, Washington. After comparing their flight with “a saucer when you skip it over the water,” the term “flying saucer” came into existence.
After this event, the public’s interest for the phenomenon quickly boosted, and soon after, the Air Force saw an increase in calls from people asking them to investigate what Arnold reported. The government began looking into this matter of UFOs or “flying disks” – as UFOs were usually referred to back then. However, early concerns of unidentified flying objects consisted in a possible Soviet invasion using advanced technology stolen from Nazi scientists captured during the war rather than an extraterrestrial invasion.
Being on the brink of a dangerous Cold War with Stalinist Russia,the government was afraid of a possible intrusion of the American airspace by technologically-advanced flying devices owned by the Russians, so they decided to reach into the matter for further clearance.
In late 1947, Project Sign was initiated by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Believe it or not, Sign represented a genuine attempt to document “flying disks” in an exhaustive scientific manner, using some of the finest minds from the military and scientific community alike.
After analyzing the situation, the rumors of a possible Soviet invasion in their so-called “Horten disks” was quickly dismissed, along with the possibility of experimental American aircrafts. The report concluded that UFOs are likely to be real, and also extraterrestrial in nature. The Air Force seemed satisfied with Sign’s twelve months of intense investigation, so a final report was forwarded to the Pentagon where a heated debate about national security started.
On one side were the Air Force officers who supported the novel idea of otherworldly visitors, while on the other were those who considered that such information should remain classified because it could stain the confidence that people have in the military. Because of the war threat, the Americans couldn’t risk to make this information public, so USAF Chief of Staff, General Hoyt Vandenberg had the documents erased and Sign dismissed.
Project Grudge took over Sign in 1949, its mission being deliberately debunking the UFO phenomenon in every possible way. Fearing an unprecedented public panic prior to the Roswell incident, USAF started dismissing all UFO sightings. Project Grudge presented them as regular aircrafts, weather balloons, meteors, optical illusions and other rational explanations.
Various civil academics supported the above mentioned, together with USAF Air Weather Service and United States Weather Bureau, and soon enough, Grudge started to ridicule the UFO phenomenon. It concluded that UFOs were nothing more than hoaxes set up by psychopaths to create mass hysteria, and even suggested that all sightings to be forwarded to the psychological warfare division. Sadly enough, after several solid UFO reports, the government aimed at debunking the entire phenomenon, all in the name of national security (or their wellbeing).
Project Grudge came to an end in 1952 when high-rank Air Force officials pressured the government to enhance the project because of an increasing number of unusual radar signals reported all over America. Captain Edward J. Ruppelt was assigned to this task, and Project Blue Book was then operational.
It continued to investigate the UFO phenomenon until 1969. By then, a total number of 12, 618 sightings were store in the Air Force archives, 701 of them remaining unexplained, including a sighting over New Mexico related by a police officer who claimed to had seen a flying disk marked with a red insignia and piloted by “child-like beings” that left scorch marks and lots of physical evidence behind.
SHOCKING:This Selfie From Hell Is Making People Faint All Over The World!
SHOCKING:This Selfie From Hell Is Making People Faint All Over The World!
This innocent selfie is guaranteed to leave a shocking impression on you – you will NEVER take selfies alone in your house again after watching this video.
Initially you see a woman innocently taking a selfie with her house as the background. She was quite horrified when she took a selfie and a figure of a man was captured behind her! She took another selfie and the man appeared to be getting closer to her… What the?? I don’t want to give too much away, but the ending of this video is quite unexpected and absolutely terrifying.
NASA experts claim to have intercepted an intergalactic distress call from an alien civilization that had already peaked and was actually dying when saber-tooth tigers still roamed the earth.
The 80,000-year-old SOS was received and digitally recorded in late January 1998.
But only in recent weeks have radio astronomers and language experts found the key to the complex mathematics-based language that enabled them to translate the 'frantic plea for help'.
The world press has been suspiciously silent about the startling message, though lengthy scientific reports are scheduled for publication in two professional journals, Radio Astronomy and Universe.
According to a highly placed NASA source in Houston, Texas, noted Russian space scientist Dr. Viktor Kulakov is leading a United Nations research team from a state-operated observatory 50 miles northwest of Moscow.
Dr. Kulakov told Universe that the signal emanated from a point beyond the galaxy nearest to our own, Andromeda, and was sent by beings that had apparently achieved a civilization no more advanced than our own here on Earth.
“The simple fact that we received and decoded the message proves beyond any doubt that their knowledge and technology were, at the very best, within our reach.” Dr. Kulakov explained.
“And while there are years of study ahead of us, I can say with certainty that the death of their civilization was not the result of some cosmic catastrophe. It was the result of the civilization turning on itself, possibly with devastating nuclear weaponry.”
Dr Kulakov flatly refused to provide either of the magazines with a transcript of the message, but he did say it began with the plea, “Help us,” and went on to give data pinpointing the exact position of the doomed planet.
"There was a quite lucid account of apocalyptic devastation, hellish explosions, widespread death and terminal illnesses,” he said.
“A Shower of meteors? Perhaps. But what stikes me, and this is just a feeling, is an underlying acceptance of guilt. It’s as if the senders of the message are acknowledging blame for what happened.”
"Whatever it was, they apparently had no means to evacuate the remaining population. Interplanetary space travel was available to them, but only on a very limited level. The message makes it very clear that they were trapped on their world,” said Dr. Kulakov.
A Kansas witness at Clearwater recalled a UFO incident from the 60s when she and two family members had an encounter with a disc-shaped UFO that shot a beam of light inside their vehicle, according to testimony in Case 75494 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness encountered a disc UFO hovering over power lines. Pictured: Facing east in Clearwater, Kansas. (Credit: Google Maps)
The witness was driving eastbound through Clearwater about 8 p.m. in March 1966 or 1967.
“We noticed a very black object hovering above the power lines alongside a train track,” the witness stated. “It had small windows and was lit up on the inside.”
All three family members reacted at about the same time, asking, “What is that?”
The object then started to travel in the direction of their car, flew over the car and then hovered in front of the car closest to the passenger side.
The UFO moved over the vehicle and shown a light into their car. Pictured: Facing east in Clearwater, Kansas. (Credit: Google Maps)
“My brother had either stopped the car or it has stopped on its own. There was a very bright, yellow beam of light that was directed at the car and lit up the inside. We all sat very still and didn’t move until I looked at my brother and said, ‘Don’t stare, just go!’”
The witness studied the object.
“About that time the yellow beam of light went out and a door in the bottom of the object closed, then the object took off at a 45-degree angle and dissipated into the air in about three seconds. The car started and we started traveling east on the rural road. We were all silent and I remember feeling angry, nauseated and upset at the incident. I didn’t want to even think about it because it was so unpleasant.”
The object eventually turned off the light and moved away, leaving the passengers feeling nauseated. Pictured: Facing east in Clearwater, Kansas. (Credit: Google Maps)
Another family member attempted to find out what happened.
“When we got home my mother called the Air Force base close to our home and they denied having any knowledge of anything. I am an elderly woman who has always wanted an explanation as to what this was but doubt that I will ever know. There were no cell phones to take pictures in those days.”
Kansas MUFON Assistant State Director Larry Jordan and Field Investigator Rick Carver are investigating.Clearwater is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, population 2,481. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Antartica Expedition Find Meteorites To Help Answer Questions About Solar System Evolution, UFO Sighting News.
Antartica Expedition Find Meteorites To Help Answer Questions About Solar System Evolution, UFO Sighting News
Date of discovery: April 2016 Location of discovery: Antartica Who hasn't dreamed about this? Walking along, and finding a hand size meter right there on top of the snow. Traveling from across the universe, over the course of billions of years. Some of these meteorites may actually be ancient alien tech, and some even contain the rare element 115, which Bob Lazar said was so powerful, a coin size piece would power a alien disk for 30+ years. Such a meteor has been found twice, both in Africa and both disappeared from the Internet within weeks. Also many rocky meteorites have been found to contain ancient signs of early life fossils. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Meteorite Hunters In Florida Find Four Meteorites, Photos, UFO Sighting News. News states: A team of eight scientists spent two-months in the frozen landscape of Antarctica as part of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET), a 40-year program that has helped reveal information about asteroids, other bodies of our solar system and the red planet which will assist NASA on its Journey to Mars. The team recovered nearly 570 new meteorite samples from the Miller Range of the Trans-Antarctic Mountains during the expedition. Samples recovered from recent seasons include rare and scientifically valuable pieces of Mars and Moon, as well as rocks formed very early during the formation and evolution of the solar system that hold clues to the origin of volatiles, planets and the organic compounds essential to life. The meteorites collected give us important clues about the early solar system, but even the thousands of meteorites recovered over the years represent a tiny part of the larger puzzle, including a find in the 1990s that produced evidence that sparked a vigorous debate about whether life could have existed on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago. Meteorites are currently the only way to acquire samples from Mars as well as new samples of the moon that are different from – and originated far from – the Apollo landing sites, as well as a variety of asteroid bodies.
.Alien-like creature found in mans yard in Arizona, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
.Alien-like creature found in mans yard in Arizona, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of discovery: 2016 Location of discovery: Arizona, USA This is a strange creature. If it had been found in Chernobyl I would defiantly know its cause, but Arizona? If this mutation was caused by radiation, then the place in Arizona that found this is in a lot of danger. It looks like a human-alien hybrid and has flippers to boot. Whatever the creature is, one thing is clear, its an infant. True evidence of genetic manipulation gone wrong. This has many similarities to the alien found back in India in 2015. Click here to view that India post, Human-like creature found during excavation in Jodhpur, India July 2015, UFO Sighting News. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I was contacted not long ago by a man from Arizona who said he had found a very strange creature in his yard. He told me it looked like it had gills under the head and that something was "growing out of it's head like a flesh antennae!" He was spooked by it and said that he believed this belong with me at the Freakshow. I told him that I would love to see it and I gave him my email. I thought he would send photos, but he never did. A few weeks later, a box showed up at the Freakshow with the creature in a jar of alcohol. This is the creature he told me about and it is STRANGER than I could have imagined……it is truly the Most Alien Creature I have ever seen in my life. Let me know what you think it is…..it is a mystery to everyone who sees it in person.
Orange UFO Over Ocean Along San Diego, CA On April 18, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Orange UFO Over Ocean Along San Diego, CA On April 18, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Above photo has added light to see more detail.
Date of sighting: April 18, 2016 Location of sighting:San Diego, California, USA Here is a cool lights of UFO moving together over San Diego this week. I tried to add light to them to see if there were wings or a body behind, but could find none. The lights seem to be coming from a single UFO, not a fleet. They stay together, as if attached. When I added light to the photo, it shows a UFO body behind it. Very cool and strange sighting. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Here is a similar sighting;Glowing UFOs Seen Over Ocean At Vero Beach, Florida On Sept 25, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Austin Truitt of Youtubestates: Right above the ocean 1 object appeared, then 2, then 3 and 4. Then all the objects vanished at the same time. Then a few minutes later 10 or 11 objects all appeared back in the same spot in a strange formation. This is when I started recording. After a few more minutes they fade out 1 by 1 as my camera goes out of focus. Filmed from the beach in San Diego, California. Seen from Tijuana, Mexico also.
This day in UFO history: Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident (1964)
This day in UFO history: Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident (1964)
Among the UFO sightings, one of the most intriguing cases was the evidence of physical trace of alien landing that took place in 1964. Lonnie Zamora witnessed the landing of an unknown spacecraft. For over 40 years, this encounter has become one of the major outbreaks, and one of the cases that will never be forgotten. The Zamora incident took place on April 24, 1964, on the southern outskirts of Socorro, New Mexico. At about 5:50 p.m. of the same year, 31-year-old Lonnie Zamora was alone in his patrol car when he heard a roaring sound and saw a flame at some distance away. The sound was accompanied by an orange and bluish flame rising into the air. As soon as he heard the sound, he thought there was an explosion. Abandoning the chase for the speeder, he radioed his activities to the dispatcher. As he proceeded towards the flame and smoke, the aftermath seemed to reappear and disappear due to the dipping and rising roads he traveled. As soon as he arrived at the location, he noticed a shining object in the distance. His first reaction was that it was an overturned automobile, and its tank had been exploded. However, when he looks closely, he discovered that it comes with an oval-shaped object without doors or windows.
Regaining his composure, Zamora radioed the sheriff’s office the incident’s details. Next, he saw the object lifting off the ground, and flying in a straight line for 15 miles. Zamora told Major Connor and Capt. Holder that the noise was a roar, not a blast. It changes from high to low frequency and then stopped. The sound lasted for about 10 seconds. Several witnesses emerged to report the event, which included the physical evidence and conspicuous flame, left behind immediately afterward. Some physical trace were burned soil and vegetation, scrapings, metal ground and landing impressions. Despite being the most perplexing reports, the event, and its evidence redeemed the best documented.
Former US Navy Pilot Says Huge Fireball Maneuvered Above the Hanford Atomic Plant During World War II
Former US Navy Pilot Says Huge Fireball Maneuvered Above the Hanford Atomic Plant During World War II
First Attempted Intercept of a UFO by a Military Fighter?
UFO incursions at U.S. atomic/thermonuclear weapons sites, from the 1940s onward, are detailed in thousands of declassified Army, Air Force, Navy, FBI, and CIA documents. Moreover, hundreds of U.S. military veterans have now discussed their involvement in one or more of those incidents in video interviews.
One of them, former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Clarence R. “Bud” Clem, says that a UFO monitored one of our fissile materials facilities—the Hanford plutonium-production plant in Washington State—on three different nights in January 1945, some seven months before Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. Clem says that members of his Navy Hellcat F6F fighter squadron chased them away.
UFOs and Nukes researcher Robert Hastings first learned of the incidents when Clem wrote to him in 2009, but it was not until December 2013 that funds became available to capture the former fighter pilot on video. The edited, four-minute interview may be seen here:
In July 2014, UFO historian Jan Aldrich revealed that his research group, Project 1947, had secured World War II-era documents from Headquarters Fourth Air Force, which referred to overflights of the Hanford site by “unidentified aircraft”. One of them, dated January 23, 1945, and directed to the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces and the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Training, states:
Resulting from an unidentified aircraft flying over the Hanford Engineering Company Plant at Pasco, Wash. on at least three nights in the past month (this Company is engaged in undisclosed projects for the War and Navy Departments) this HQ was requested by [Western Defense Command], about ten days ago, to move one [battery] of searchlights from Seattle to the Pasco plant. The Thirteenth Naval District has made arrangements for Naval Air Station, Pasco, to employ both radar and fighter aircraft in attempting interception of these unidentified aircraft. The airspace over the Hanford Company is both a Danger area and a Restricted area. Our battery of searchlights has been in place since 15 January; one incident has occurred since that date in which a brief radar contact was made—attempted night interception again failed.
So here we have an official document referring an unidentified aircraft flying over the Top Secret Hanford atomic materials production plant on three occasions in January 1945. At least one of those “aircraft” was tracked on radar and successfully eluded the U.S. Navy fighter sent up to intercept it.
In conclusion, declassified military documents confirm the events described by former USN fighter pilot Bud Clem. Unfortunately, when Robert Hastings attempted to notify Clem of the discovery of those documents by Jan Aldrich, in July 2014, he learned that Clem had passed away the previous month.
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I’m Not A UFO Expert But I Play One on TV
I’m Not A UFO Expert But I Play One on TV
Smithsonian Channel’s New Debunking Series
Smithsonian Channel’s series UFOs Declassified, which originally aired in January 2015, is currently being rebroadcast. While attempting to appear objective—considering both sides of the UFO controversy—the carefully-crafted overall impression is that “science and logic” have clearly demonstrated that no credible evidence for UFOs as an anomalous phenomenon exists.
However, persons having a detailed knowledge of the cases covered will quickly discern that the impression is disingenuous, shaped by the misstatement of facts, the omission of other relevant facts, faux logic, and a reliance on skeptical “experts” who have never studied UFOs but nevertheless attempt to present themselves as authority figures on the topic.
One episode concerns the events at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, and nearby Rendlesham Forest, in December 1980. Despite verified reports of radioactivityat one UFO landing site, and authoritative testimony by the two U.S. Air Force air traffic controllers at Bentwaters who say they tracked a bona fide UFO, the program claims that there is “no hard evidence” to support the statements of USAF personnel who have long said that multiple UFOs were indeed present during the week between Christmas and New Year’s. (Radar data are empirical—hard evidence—as are radioactivity readings; the fact that reports detailing those data have been suppressed in no way alters this fact.)
The producers of the Smithsonian series contacted me in 2013 and asked me to participate in the Rendlesham Forest episode, presumably due to my having interviewed several former USAF personnel about their UFO sightings at the twin bases, primarily at the Bentwaters Weapons Storage Area (WSA)—a tactical or “battlefield” nuclear bomb depot—where a spherical UFO maneuvering at close range was observed by guards posted at the facility. I declined the producers’ offer, strongly suspecting a less-than-objective presentation.
Why? Smithsonian’s UFO-debunking track record was established long ago. For years, the only UFO book available at their National Air and Space Museum’s bookstore was Curtis Peebles’Watch the Skies! A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth—a notoriously facile assessment of the phenomenon based on U.S. Air Force propaganda, amateur psychoanalyzing and naked bias—published in 1994 by Smithsonian Institution Press.
Given that a long-time assistant director of the museum was Frederick C. Durant III—the CIA consultant responsible for the agency’s 1953 Robertson Panel Report, which secretly recommended that UFOs be “debunked” and further suggested that the media might play a key role toward that end—perhaps the bookstore’s choice of UFO literature is not surprising. More recently, Smithsonian Books published UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth. In short, anyone who hoped that the Smithsonian Channel’s UFOs Declassified television series might offer an objective assessment of the phenomenon was destined to be disappointed.
Shortly after telling the show’s producers to take a hike, I advised retired Col. Charles Halt—the highest-ranking officer to go on-the-record about UFO activity in Rendlesham Forest and the two bases—not to participate in the program as well. Fortunately, he took my advice. Last week, after I summarized the factually-inaccurate and highly-biased episode for Halt, he responded, “I’m sure you have figured it out—there’s a link between the Smithsonian Channel and what I’ll call the ‘group’.”1
Halt was referring to the U.S. intelligence community’s use of the mass media to spin or suppress UFO-related information, a practice thoroughly documented by the late journalist Terry Hansen in his book The Missing Times, which is available as a $2.99 e-book at Amazon.
In one article, Hansen wrote, “In my book … I reported on new evidence that CBS TV was among the CIA’s ‘media assets’ that participated in this covert UFO-debunking program. In 1966, CBS broadcast UFOs: Friend, Foe or Fantasy, narrated by Walter Cronkite, as part of its ‘CBS Reports’ documentary series. Cronkite assured his viewers, using false and misleading information, that all UFO reports were due to mistaken perceptions. In short, there was nothing for the public to worry about, he said. A hand-written letter by Robertson Panel member Dr. Thornton Page, discovered in the Smithsonian’s archives by Prof. Michael Swords, confirms the CIA’s long-suspected role in the program. In the 1966 letter, Page related to a CIA associate that he ‘helped organize the CBS TV show around the Robertson Panel’s conclusions.’”2
ARMCHAIR EXPERT ANALYSIS
One of the skeptics interviewed on Smithsonian’s Rendlesham Incident program, SETI astronomer Seth Shostak, mocked the idea that alien visitors—if they were indeed aboard the reported UFOs—would be interested in human military activity or show any concern over our possession of nuclear weapons, a great many of which were stored at the RAF Bentwaters Weapons Storage Area at the time, according to a former high-level NATO nuclear security specialist who I interviewed in 1994. This has been confirmed by the Natural Resources Defense Council whose 2005 report, “Nuclear Weapons in Europe”, estimated that Bentwaters’ “hot row” bunkers held up to 100 tactical nuclear bombs.3
Shostak, whose dubious insights into the behavior of alien races is best illustrated by his unshakeable conviction that those civilizations would devote time and effort to communicating with other races across the vastness of the universe via radio waves—a belief for which, after a professional lifetime of searching, he has zero evidence—is currently the go-to-guy for production companies seeking a supposedly astute-but-skeptical authority on the UFO phenomenon.
Referring to Shostak’s participation in the Smithsonian show, Col. Halt wrote, “I served on a panel with Seth. He was the least scientific ‘expert’ I’ve met in years. I suspect he really knows there’s no reason to search the heavens when whatever or whoever is already here! He’s obviously part of the problem and realizes his SETI program is a waste of money and the truth will kill it.”4
Regardless, on the program Shostak said that advanced aliens’ alleged interest in humans’ primitive nuclear weapons would be akin to “my going back to the Roman Empire and looking at the area where they make their spears”, a clearly implausible notion in his eyes. If they are “hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us”, he said, “it doesn’t make any sense to me.”
Oh yes, Seth, the Romans’ pointy-stick technology is clearly an appropriate analogy for our own potentially civilization-ending, planet-polluting nuclear weapons. Those spears’ impact on humanity’s long-term survival was exactly the same. And there is absolutely no reason why an advanced race of beings would be interested in monitoring a semi-savage, warlike species that suddenly came into possession of nuclear weapons at the same time it began developing space-faring technology. No reason at all.
Shostak’s perpetually clueless attitude toward the revelations contained in hundreds of declassified documents and scores of military witnesses’ statements—regarding a UFO-nuclear weapons link—is well-known, having been smugly expressed in both published articles and private correspondence. Those documents confirm numerous UFO incursions at nukes-related facilities—by aerial craft having capabilities orders-of-magnitude beyond human technology, according to the radar data—decade after decade.
More importantly, the military witnesses who have belatedly gone on-the-record—including former U.S. Air Force ICBM launch officers whom the U.S. government trusted to initiate World War III, if it ever came to that—have implicated UFOs in the shutting down or temporary activation of American nuclear missiles, repeatedly, during the Cold War era.
Furthermore, documents smuggled out of Russia substantiate the occurrence of such incidentsat Soviet missile sites. Apparently, someone having advanced technology—an outside third party—is intent on blunting both American and Russian, uh, spear-tips.
Not that any of this is meaningful to Shostak. No, unless there was a scientist sitting in the missile launch capsule taking notes, along with the launch officers, when one of these dramatic incidents occurred, he thinks there is no reason to take seriously anything the witnesses have to say.
As the program’s narrator expressed it, all of these nuclear weapons-related UFO sightings—as reported by military eyewitnesses, including those at RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge—can be explained as due to a collective “extraordinary imagination” and a psychological “overreaction” to prosaic phenomena resulting from the witnesses’ anxiety about possible enemy penetration of nuclear sites.
The reason the Air Force suppressed these incidents, the producers claim, stemmed from the tensions of the Cold War whereby the military brass frantically attempted to hide from the Soviets the fact that persons guarding our nukes would so easily freak-out over unexplained events that, according to the narrator, cooler heads would later discover to have ordinary explanations.
Yeah, that might be the reason, Smithsonian dudes, however, the orchestrated cover-up—as confirmed by Col. Halt—was far more likely the result of the Air Force’s now-documented knowledge of, and anxiety over, the great many other UFO incidents at bases involved with nuclear weapons over the previous three decades, during which the mysterious interlopers were often tracked on radar and sometimes chased unsuccessfully by jet fighters, after first hovering at low altitude over ICBM silos, strategic bomber alert pads, and Weapons Storage Areas. Indeed, declassified files and vetted eyewitnesses, presented in my book and at my website, identify no fewer than eleven UFO incursions at such sites during the previous six years alone.
In short, by the time of the Rendlesham Forest incidents, Air Force counterintelligence agents—primarily those assigned to the Office of Special Investigations—had already debriefed hundreds of missile launch and targeting officers, bomber crews, fighter pilots, radar operators and Security Policemen regarding their knowledge of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites. The fact that those persons’ testimony was taken deadly seriously is illustrated, in one instance, by the Air Force implementing a Security Option 3 alert for all nuclear weapons facilities in the fall of 1975, following the so-called “Northern Tier [Base UFO] Incursions.”
Maybe, just maybe, that’s the reason the Air Force chose not to publicize the events at the twin RAF bases and in the nearby forest. Far from being an embarrassing episode for the top commanders—who supposedly attempted to hide what the program’s producers portray as panicky behavior by USAF security forces—the incidents were actually the latest confirmation for those in-the-know at the Pentagon that someone, clearly not the Soviets, was intent on monitoring and even tampering with its nuclear weapons—an ominous situation that would definitely have to be kept from the American public and yes, the Russians, for as long as possible.
MORE FALLACIOUS CLAIMS
Tim Printy, another self-appointed UFO expert interviewed on the Smithsonian program, is a veteran himself, having been a career U.S. Navy submariner. Obviously confident in the wisdom of his insights, Printy helpfully noted that although the horrific effects of a nuclear blast are dramatic close-up, they would be barely noticeable “from space”. In other words, arriving aliens would surely monitor human activity from afar, perhaps from the Moon or in Earth-orbit, and probably wouldn’t even know that humans had detonated nukes—at least 2,053 times—over the past 70 years.
Printy’s irrelevant, faux-logical statement rests solely on his own steadfast rejection of the testimony of scores of veterans who insist that UFOs have hovered at low altitude over ICBM silos at Malmstrom, Minot, Ellsworth, F.E. Warren and other Air Force Bases—or those I’ve interviewed who say that several UFOs were detected on radar, maneuvering near the huge Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb mushroom cloud in the spring of 1954.
Indeed, the declassified deck log from the U.S.S. Curtiss AV-4, the Navy’s flagship during the Castle series of tests, states that on “7 April … an unidentified luminous object passed over ship from bow to stern, yellowish-orange in color, traveling at a high rate of speed and a low altitude”.5 One of those aboard, former U.S. Marine Joseph Stallings, told me that once the UFO was clear of the ship astern, it suddenly performed a series of zigzag maneuvers before racing away at extremely high speed.
So, visiting aliens would only observe our nuclear testing from space, Mr. Printy? Or perhaps you have another plausible explanation for what your fellow veterans fearlessly report? Rather than dismissing their testimony out-of-hand, as you’ve done for years, can you explain how either U.S. or Soviet technology could account for the many incidents they report? Or were they all just being “overly imaginative” when they sighted anomalous aerial craft penetrating restricted airspace over various nukes-related sites?
Regarding the Rendlesham Forest Incidents, Printy—taking his cue from statements made years ago by skeptics Phil Klass and James McGaha—claims that Col. Halt’s sighting of what appeared to be a winking, eyeball-shaped object moving through the trees, was actually the flashing beam of the nearby Orford Ness lighthouse. Printy says that because Halt’s repeated, tape-recorded exclamations, “There it is again”—when observing the periodic “winking” of the eyeball—occurred at five-second intervals, the same duration between the beam’s flashes, Halt had to have been looking at the lighthouse, not a UFO.
Of course, Printy (and the others) completely ignore the fact that Halt has publicly stated, for decades, that the UFO and lighthouse were both visible at the same time. He said, “The lighthouse was visible the whole time … it was readily apparent, and it was 30-to-40 degrees off to our right.”6 Printy probably isn’t even aware of this fact, given that his, ahem, expertise on the Rendlesham Forest incidents primarily involves repeating the skeptical claims of others while at the same time ignoring those Air Force personnel whose eyewitness testimony undercuts his own knee-jerk rejection of the UFO reality.
Printy also ignores—or is unaware of—Halt’s statements regarding the reflection of another brightly-glowing UFO he saw in the windows of a nearby house, after the Security Police team he was leading moved from the forest into an open field. While the windows were facing Halt and the SPs, they were not facing the coast and the lighthouse and could not, therefore, reflect the Orford Ness’ flashing beam.
If the producers of the Smithsonian program were aware of these facts, which completely refute Printy’s bogus claims, they sure as hell weren’t going to share them with the audience, given their obvious intention to debunk the case.
PILING ON
A third naysayer interviewed on the show, Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, delivered all of his predictably dismissive lines with his trademark smirk, undoubtedly meant to convey just how silly and pointless any discussion of UFOs is. He did, however, make one arguably valid observation: “We need physical evidence or we just don’t have a case.”
Yes, physical evidence, if it’s available, is indeed important—which is why I earlier mentioned the much-higher-than-background radiation readings taken in the three landing gear impressions found in the forest on December 26th, whose significance has been confirmed byscientists working for the British Ministry of Defence, according to retired MoD UFO specialist Nick Pope.
Although this information has been in the public domain for years, skeptics almost always ignore it or, on rare occasions, try to explain it away. This is a classic case of their moving the goalposts: fervently lamenting the lack of physical evidence in most UFO cases but then ignoring or rejecting that evidence, when it’s available, as inconclusive.
At the other end of the spectrum, one scientist who actually studied the UFO phenomenon for years, the late Dr. James E. McDonald, wrote:
From time to time in the history of science, situations have arisen in which a problem of ultimately enormous importance went begging for adequate attention simply because that problem appeared to involve phenomena so far outside the current bounds of scientific knowledge that it was not even regarded as a legitimate subject of serious scientific concern. That is precisely the situation in which the UFO problem now lies. One of the principal results of my own recent intensive study of the UFO enigma is this: I have become convinced that the scientific community, not only in this country but throughout the world, has been casually ignoring as nonsense a matter of extraordinary scientific importance.7
Courageous visionaries like McDonald are few and far between in the scientific community, while persons incapable of thinking outside of the box, like Seth Shostak, are much more numerous and far more vocal—haughtily dismissing a topic they know little or nothing about. Meanwhile, the very few scientists who have actually investigated UFOs—despite the distain and ire directed toward them by their dubious-but-uninformed colleagues—are almost always ignored by the media.
Consequently, persons such as astrophysicist Bernard Haisch or psychologist Don Donderi—who have analyzed UFO sightings and/or alien abduction reports, and have concluded that they point to anomalous phenomena worthy of study—would never be invited to participate in Smithsonian’s UFOs Declassified farce. However, for those who are interested in facts, not disinformation, their informed findings are available online including at Amazon’s book store.
The reality of UFO incursions at American nuclear weapons facilities has been convincingly established. Hundreds of U.S. military veterans now openly discuss these ominous incidents and thousands of declassified government documents affirm their assertions.
Over the past four decades, noted researcher Robert Hastings has interviewed more than 150 of those veterans regarding their involvement in one case or another. On September 27, 2010, CNN live-streamed his UFOs and Nukes press conference in Washington D.C. during which former U.S. Air Force missileers described occasions when several ICBMs mysteriously malfunctioned moments after a disc-shaped craft was observed hovering near their underground launch silos.
Hastings’ intriguing documentary film, UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed, is now available at Vimeo On Demand. Unlike many of the UFO “documentaries” found on network television nowadays, which contain far more speculation than fact, this film rigorously examines the officially-still-hidden history of UFO activity at nuclear weapons laboratories, test areas, storage depots and missile sites—using authenticated files and the testimony of vetted military eyewitnesses.
The evidence presented makes clear that humans’ deadliest weapons have been—ever since their development and use during World War II—under intense scrutiny by still-unidentified observers. Significantly, documents smuggled out of Russia in the 1990s confirm that Soviet nukes were also the focus of UFO interest during the Cold War era. More recently, U.S. Air Force personnel have alleged a UFO involvement in one large-scale missile-disruption incident in October 2010. In short, the situation is still unfolding.
When asked to explain the purpose of the film, Hastings says, “Public education. Someone possessing tremendously advanced technology has monitored and even tampered with American and Russian nuclear weapons for decades. My view is that UFOs are piloted by beings from another world. Regardless, these stunning, nearly unbelievable developments must not be kept secret by a handful of government and military officials. We all have a right to know the facts.”
Have you ever looked into the sky and wondered whether we alone in the universe?
Many people think that in such a vast universe, there must be something else out there.
But for Gary the very thought was preposterous.
That was, until one night in March 2013 when he was recovering a vehicle in Barlaston.
It was a Friday night when he received the call to attend to a breakdown of the car.
He was sent to Rough Close and what he didn't know was that this was to be a call he would never forget.
It was shortly after midnight and the weather was heavy with rain.
A lady had broken down some way from home and required Gary's assistance.
As he pulled up in the lower car park, overlooking Wedgwood, he saw the lady and her car.
Gary introduced himself and began to investigate the problem with the car.
As he continued to work under the bonnet, he heard a strange sound coming from the field not far away.
"It sounded like a swishing noise accompanied by a low buzzing," he told me.
"We both looked towards where the noise was coming from and we froze with fear when we first saw it.
"The initial thing we noticed was a light radiating from the field where the noise was coming from.
"Whatever it was it had just began to lift off the ground and was heading directly upwards."
Gary described the craft as black in colour and a shaped like a cigar and he estimated it to be approximately 50 feet in length.
Both the lady and Gary stood transfixed on the glow of this unknown object.
"When I glanced at the woman she was actually smiling, it felt euphoric and stimulating not scary at all," he explained.
When the object reached approximately 20 feet into the air it slowed down and changed direction, swinging around to face towards them.
Gary said: "That was the only time I felt concerned, it seemed to notice us and that felt surreal."
Then the lady that Gary had come to help, started to walk slowly towards the object.
He watched with uncertainty and fear as she seemed to be in some kind of trance.
He moved quickly towards the lady and stood in front of her.
"I was trying to stop her but she seemed drawn towards the object and continued to try and get past me - keeping her eyes fixed on the craft at all times."
Eventually he shouted over to her and she seemed to snap out of the trance.
At the very same time, the object let out a deep pulsing sound before going off into the sky before it disappeared completely.
Following the silence, Gary talked to the woman who claimed that although she could remember seeing the light in the field, she couldn't remember walking towards it.
When I asked Gary what he thought had been happening he told me: "I actually think the craft had been waiting for someone to come past and caused the woman's car to breakdown.
"Once she pulled over it was waiting for the right time to abduct her but I showed up and prevented that from happening by just simply being there.
"It was strange but once the craft had gone her car started back up and I couldn't find any fault with it"
So the next time your car starts to play up, it might be worth considering who is actually watching you…
“Three leading French physicists claim to have made a ‘sensational breakthrough’ into the mysteries of how UFOs are powered.
Dr. Jean-Pierre Petit, Dr. Claude Poher and Dr. Maurice Viton, have constructed what they term a “UFO engine’ or, The Petit-Viton Magnetohydrodynamic Motor’ by using, so they say, a combination of both electromagnetic and nuclear energy.
The French scientists claim fantastic results and tremendous power output in the order of 1,000 million watts. The ufo engine was built at the Astronomical Observatory in Marseilles.
Possibly one of the most amazing developments of the French ufo engine, is that the physicists claim to have discovered how to suppress the shock waves which slow down any object moving through the air. Petit said:
“It all comes down to standard physics. An electromagnetic field can create a low pressure area under an aerodyne, or flying saucer. To this can be related the peculiar property of plasma. Plasma’s magnetic field is frozen inside while it expands at unimaginable speeds, producing an electrical current. Using plasma, a belt of “free air’ can be created. The molecules of air in front of this belt are pushed aside without piling on top of each other, as they do when a normal aerofoil passes through the atmosphere fast enough to break the sound barrier.
We’re not saying we’re solved the problem, but we think we have cracked the principle behind the effects observed in unidentified-flying-objects”.
As a matter of interest, one of the physicists who co-developed the ufo engine is now head of an official French ufo research group. Dr. Claude Poher, formerly in charge of the Astronomy Department, Scientific Systems, Projects Division and Sounding Rockets Division of the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), is now director of GEPAN (Groupe d’Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non Identifies)”.
Scientists Find Evidence of a Recent Nearby Supernova, And Its Remnants Are Hitting Earth
Scientists Find Evidence of a Recent Nearby Supernova, And Its Remnants Are Hitting Earth
Vast bubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way visible from the Southern Hemisphere, was formed by the explosive death of one or more of the cluster of massive stars inside the bubble. Cosmic rays reaching Earth are created and accelerated by similar explosions. (Photo: Gemini South Telescope in Chile; composite by Travis Rector of the University of Alaska Anchorage)
Washington University in St. Louis
IN BRIEF
Astronomers have detected cosmic ray particles that hint at a number of recent, nearby supernovae. A growing body of evidence, including lunar samples and material from the Earth’s oceanic crust, seems to confirm the findings.
TINY IRON NUCLEI
New data from the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS) onboard NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft is hinting at an unexpectedly violent past for our solar neighborhood.
In fact, it suggests that one or more stellar explosions may have occurred nearby, and within only the last few million years—close and recent enough that our australopithecine ancestors may have beheld the cosmic spectacles in the ancient East African skies.
Cosmic “rays” are actually not rays at all, but are tiny charged particles—atomic nuclei stripped of their accompanying electrons and accelerated to relativistic speeds by enormous and incomprehensible energies that are, in many ways, only dimly understood.
One particular type of these nuclei, a rare iron isotope called 60Fe, is especially important, as it acts like a tiny clock, measuring by its very existence the age and thus the distance of the cosmic catastrophe that created it. 60Fe has a half-life of 2.6 million years, in other words, in any given sample of 60Fe nuclei, half of it will have decayed to a more stable element after 2.6 million years has elapsed.
It’s not a common sort of material; after 17 years in space, and after registering 300,000 galactic cosmic ray particles of ordinary iron nuclei, CRIS has only detected fifteen60Fe particles.
But these small particles tell a big story.
A map of the solar neighborhood, showing the Sun in relation to the Scorpius-Centaurus Association, where the recent supernovae are thought to have originated. Credit: Linda Huff (American Scientist), Priscilla Frisch (U. Chicago)
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
The research, published in the April 14 issue of Science, is the most recent clue in a steadily increasing body of evidence that a supernova detonated near our Solar System in the past few million years, and polluted the system with the byproducts of the explosion.
According to Robert Binns, lead author of the paper, “[o]ur detection of radioactive cosmic-ray iron nuclei is a smoking gun indicating that there has been a supernova in the last few million years in our neighborhood of the galaxy.”
Galactic cosmic rays are thought to come from clusters of massive stars called OB associations, named for the blue and blue-white light they emit. Our Sun in a G star in this classification scheme. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
It’s thought that radioactive 60Fe nuclei are generated in the core-collapse explosions of giant O- or B-class stars, which tend to aggregate in immense star formation clouds and clusters called “OB Associations.” The gregarious nature of these stars is important to the formation of60Fe cosmic rays—the nuclei are first thrown into space from the explosion of one star, and then accelerated to relativistic speeds by the explosion of a second, nearby star shorty thereafter (within a few 100,000 to a million years).
It’s sort of a team effort.
What are cosmic rays?
Cosmic rays were discovered before World War I but named in the 1920s by the famous physicist Robert Millikin, who called them “rays” because he thought they were a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.
But in the early 1930s, Arthur Compton, later chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, organized a collaboration of eight research groups to measure cosmic-ray intensity at 69 locations around the Earth. Variations in the intensity with magnetic latitude showed that cosmic rays were deflected by the Earth’s magnetic field, and must therefore be charged particles (the nuclei of atoms stripped of their electrons) rather than electromagnetic radiation.
Of these nuclei, 90 percent are hydrogen nuclei (protons), 9 percent are helium nuclei and only one percent are the nuclei of heavier elements. But that one percent provides the best clues to how the particles are created.
Although energetic particles coming from our sun are sometimes called cosmic rays, astrophysicists prefer to call these comparatively low energy particles SEPs, or solar energetic particles.
They reserve the term “cosmic ray” for particles coming from outside our solar system, either from our galaxy or beyond. These fall into two groups based on their energies.
Most of those now thought to be created by supernova explosions in or near our galaxy have energies of 109 and 1010 eV — although they can have energies as high as 1015 or higher — and a flux of about one per second per square centimeter. (The molecules in our atmosphere have kinetic energies of about 0.03 eV.)
But there are also cosmic-ray nuclei that are several billion times more energetic, and much rarer. They have energies of 1019 to 1020 eV and fluxes more like one per square kilometer per century. The source of these extremely rare particles is still unknown.
So it seems the explosions likely happened sometime between 2.2 and 2.6 million years ago. As for a culprit? Astronomers think the supernovae probably occurred in the Scorpius-Centaurus Association, roughly 400 light-years away, and most notable as the home of the red supergiant Antares—which may soon be the next supernova to bombard our Solar System with 60Fe nuclei.
Filer’s Files #17 -2016 Two Roswell UFO Crashes - PART I
Object above New Jersey on April 19, 2016
Filer’s Files #17 -2016 Two Roswell UFO Crashes - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Secret Air Force Evaluation of Flying Discs, UFO Crashes in New Mexico, Generals Fly to New Mexico, Roswell Debris and Message, General Exon Confirms Alien Crash, and Hyper-sonic Missiles.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Columbia, France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Switzerlandy, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
George A. Filer III
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Special Projects
Secret Air Force Evaluation of Flying Discs
Several military personnel have given sworn testimony that a UFO that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in June 1947 was taken to Wright Field the home of the Air Material Command. I have been informed that General Twinning personally saw the captured aliens and their craft. This is a transcription of General Nathan Twinning’s letter as Commander Air Material Command to higher headquarters. He indicates his best engineers and scientists examined the craft.
Later General Twining was promoted to Chief of Staff of the Air Force and on August 15, 1957, President Eisenhower in the Cabinet Room of the White House formally swore in General Twining as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the highest military position in the U.S. This is a transcription of General Nathan Twinning’s letter as Commander Air Material Command, dated September 23, 1947.
SUBJECT: AMC Opinion Concerning “Flying Discs”
To:Commanding General Army Air Force
Washington 25, D.C.
ATTENTION: Brig. General George Schulgen AC/AS-2’
As requested by AC/AS-2 there is presented below the considered opinion of this command concerning the so-called “Flying Discs.” This opinion is based on interrogation report data furnished by AC/AS-2 and preliminary studies by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory, Engineering Division T-3. This opinion was arrived at in a conference between personnel from the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2, Office, Chief of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propeller Laboratories of Engineering Division T-3.
It is the opinion that:
The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. b. There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. c. There is a possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors. d. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and motion which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled manually, automatically or remotely.
The apparent common description is as follows:-
(1) Metallic or light reflecting surface. (2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances where the object apparently was operating under high performance conditions. (3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top. (4) Several reports of well-kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects. (5) Normally no associated sound, except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted. (6) Level flight speeds normally above 300 knots are estimated.
It is possible within the present U.S. knowledge — provided extensive detailed development is undertaken — to construct a piloted aircraft, which has the general description of the object in sub- paragraph (e) above which would be capable of an approximate range of 7000 miles at subsonic speeds.
Any development in this country along the lines indicated would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable expense of current projects and therefore, if directed, should be set up independently of existing projects.
Due consideration must be given the following:-
(1) The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin – the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this Command.
(2) The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits which would undeniably prove the existence of these subjects.
(3) The possibility that some foreign nation has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge.
It is recommended that:- Headquarters, Army Air Forces (AAF) issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification and Code name for a detailed study of this matter to include the preparation of complete sets of all available and pertinent data which will then be made available to the Army, Navy, Atomic Energy Commission, JRDB, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Group, NACA, and the RAND and NEPA projects for comments and recommendations, with a preliminary report to be forwarded within 15 days of receipt of the data and a detailed report thereafter every 30 days as the investigation develops. A complete interchange of data should be affected.
Note: General Twining flying discs are real and not visionary or fictitious. He suggests it is possible within the present U.S. knowledge — provided extensive detailed development is undertaken — to construct a similar piloted aircraft. His later positions of leadership would provide the authority to build copies of the alien craft.
The extraordinary recovery of fallen airborne objects in the state of New Mexico, between 4 July – 6 July 1947: This Summary was prepared by Headquarters Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, Scientific and Technical Branch, Counterintelligence Directorate, as requested by A.C. of S., G-2, at the expressed order of Chief of Staff.
At 2332 MST, 3 July 47, radar stations in east Texas, and White Sands Proving Ground, N.M., tracked two unidentified, aircraft until both dropped off radar. Two crash sites have been located close to the WSPG. Site LZ-1 was located at a ranch near Corona, approx. 75 miles northwest of the town of Roswell. Site LZ-2 was. located approx. 20 miles southeast of the town of Socorro, at Lat.3 3-40-31, Long. 106-28-29, with Oscura Peak being the geographic reference point. 3. The AST personnel were mainly interested in LZ-2 as this site contained the majority of structural detail of the craft’s airframe, propulsion and navigation technology. The recovery of five bodies in a damaged escape cylinder precluded an investigation at LZ-1.
On arrival at LZ-2, personnel assessed the finds as not belonging to any aircraft, rocket, weapons, or balloon test that are normally conducted from surrounding bases. First reports indicated that the first crash investigators, from Roswell AAF that LZ-1 was the remains of a AAF top secret MOGUL balloon project. When scientists from the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory arrive* to inspect LZ-2, it became apparent to all concerned that what had crashed in the desert was something out of this world. See full report at: PDF File
Generals Fly to New Mexico
General Twining and General Chidlaw had orders to attend a July 8th three day Bomb Commanders Course at Sandia Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This excuse for the trip seemed very unusual for generals to attend. Sandia was the principal nuclear weapons installation of the United States Department of Defense where a crashed UFO propulsion system would likely be taken. General Twining flight logs of 1947 have been released in the past few years and have been reviewed, so his whereabouts between July 7th and July 9th 1947 have been confirmed and authenticate part of this document. This trip to New Mexico was Twining’s one and only trip during summer of 1947. IPU Summary Page 4 states the following:- 7th July 1947 – Twinning went to Alamagordo AAF for a secret meeting with AAF Chief of Staff Spaatz and to view recovered remains of craft from crash landing site 20 miles northwest of Socorro. 8th July 1947 – Twinning went to Kirtland AAF/ Sandia to inspect parts recovered from powerplant. 9th July 1947 – Twining and staff went to White Sands Proving Ground to inspect pieces of craft being stored there. 10th July 1947 – Twining made inspection of R&D facilities at Alamogordo and then returned to Wright Field. A local newspaper states that an interview with Twining took place at Kirtland on 8th July 1947.
There was no record of meeting with President Truman on Twining’s pilot flight log, but his pilot said Twining sometimes made secret flights himself, with Truman actually flying the plane. There is also information about Twining meeting with President Truman on 25th September 1947 as reported in Humelsine dictation to President Truman on this date.
I talked with the archivist at the Truman Archives, Sandia, and one at Air Force Library and visited the crash site.
What is interesting is that the top Air Force Generals and posibly President Truman all apparently visited the Southwest where two UFOs are believed to have crashed in July of 1947.
I visited the Truman Library and they claimed that the President stayed with his sick wife during this period in Independence, Missouri. The news media pretty much left him alone because of the concern for his wife’s illness. I asked if it was posible for Truman to have left Missouri. They felt it was possible particularly if he was flown in military aircraft.
I interviewed Mrs. Roger Ramey who would not confirm the Roswell crash. She indicated, “Her husband was very upset about being forced to make statements, he did not want to make about a weather balloon, he was a very proud man and would never lie unless ordered to do so.”
Mrs. Ramey confirmed that General Ramey and herself and become good friends with President Truman and had dinner with him several times. I suggested it was very unusual for military personnel to become friends with a President and I asked how it happened? She indicated that her husband and the President had worked together on important classified projects. She would not confirm that this was the Roswell crash.
Brigadier General Roger Ramey headed the 8th Air Forces that included the Walker Field in Roswell, New Mexico. Later he was Air Force Director of Operations Left the service a three-star general and Director of the Air Defense Command. He was a key player in the UFO obtained from LZ 1 and iss ued the stor that the crashed UFO was a weather balloon.
General Ramey Researcher Tom Carey reports, “I was able to interview Mr. Marion Brimberry a former Air Force air crewman. It was clear to me that he was sorry that he ever said anything about it in the first place. It was like pulling teeth to get him to say anything to me. In brief, all he would tell me was that, back in late 1947 or early 1948 when he was stationed at Ft. Worth Army Air Field, he was part of a flight crew waiting on the tarmac for a B-29 to taxi up for boarding. In the group waiting was Brigadier General Roger Ramey who was talking to some of the officers in Brimberry’s crew. Brimberry told me that he overheard Ramey tell one of the officers that, “It [the weather balloon story] was the biggest lie they ever made me tell.”, and that the real stuff was really, “Out of this world.” That’s basically all that I could get out of Mr. Brimberry who is a very reluctant witness. Thanks to Tom Carey co author of “Witness to Roswell” that provides actual eyewitness testimony to the recovery of a UFO in 1947 just outside of Roswell, NM.
Roswell Debris and Message
Apparently, in early July 1947, Major Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer of the 509th Bombardment Group, at Roswell, recovered flying saucer wreckage from a ranch near Corona, NM.
General Ramey with message and Major Marcel
The recovery was announced in the news worldwide and Marcel was ordered to courier the debris to General Ramey’s office for examination. A special B-29 flight flew Marcel to Fort Worth and he was directly to the General’s office carrying meat wrapper paper packages, which held the debris. Johnson told me he worked for Fort Worth Star Telegram and was assigned on the afternoon of July 8, 1947, to take photos of General Ramey and two other officers in the general’s 8th Air Force HQ offices. Bond told me, “He was ushered into the General’s office and the debris was still wrapped, so he helped unwrap the debris and displayed it so photos could be taken.
Both Johnson and Marcel felt the debris material was unusual and smelled like it had been burned in a crash. The general was away from his office but expected to return shortly. Johnson first assisted with the debris unpacking and then “posed” Marcel with what later was described by the major as some of the “less impressive pieces” of the wreckage. When General Ramey returned to his office holding a piece of paper, Johnson photographed him alone examining the pieces of wreckage and then Colonel Thomas J. DuBose joined him in other shots. Johnson felt he photographed very unusual debris, which was not a weather balloon since they do not burn when landing.
In 1998, after my call to Johnson obtained copies of the photos and noticed anomalous objects and symbols in the debris. He felt the debris was treated in a very special way, indicating it was unlikely to be a simple weather balloon. Johnson contacted two members of the MUFON Orange County to show them his findings. He formed the Roswell Photo Interpretation Team (RPIT) to study the photographs with the new computer technology.
Blow up of the debris shows symbols
RPIT members included Ronald Regehr, Marilyn Ruben, Neil Morris of the UK (photo above) Dave Rudiac, and others who feel the debris is not a Mogul balloon or its radar reflector.
Obviously, it is difficult to determine the exact identity of the debris, but it does not appear to be any known standard aviation type wreckage. The beams seem to have writing or symbols similar to symbols found on Mars. Last week multiple Ys were found on Mars
The message in General Ramey’s hand confirms that a disc crashed with victims. Further the debris wreckage was being shipped to Fort Worth.
To: Vandenburg
1)**************************************NEAR OPERATION AT THE
2) **RAN)CH AND THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK YOU FORWARDED TO THE
3) ***T)EAM AT FORT WORTH, TEX.
4) *****S*S IN THE “DISK” THEY WILL SHIP FOR A1-8TH ARMYAF**
5) BY B29-ST OR C47. WRIGHT AF ASSIST FLIGHTS AT ROSWELL. ASSURE
6) THAT CIC-TEAM SAID THIS MISTAKEN MEANING OF STORY AND THINK
7) LATE TODAY NEXT SENT OUT PR OF WEATHER BALLOONS WOULD WORK
8) BETTER IF THEY ADD LAND DEMO RAWIN CREWS.
Signed Ramey
EDITORS NOTE:Again I wish to thank those research groups, Dave Rudiak, Tom Carey and Don Schmitt, Don Burleson, Neil
Morris and the Roswell Photo Interpretation Team that are making new evidence available to us
Reporter James Bond Johnson photographs provide the sole photo coverage of what has proved to be the “Story of the Century!” The wreckage has not been seen in over fifty years. The RPIT initial discoveries also included the debris had foil like material that is covered by organized symbols or glyphs such as would be utilized in writings similar to ancient Egyptian glyphs. The beams have very prominent organized symbols or glyphs embossed in bas-relief, appear to be hollow, and fabricated from some type of possibly ceramic material, but NOT balsa wood as used in a Mogul train! We send our condolences to his family and friends.
The Air Force took flying discs seriously in the 1940s and realized that unknown aircraft demonstrating such superior performance constituted a threat to national security.
General Exon Confirmed the Alien Crash
I called Brigadier General Arthur E. Exon several times concerning the Roswell crash before he died in 2005. General Exon was very reachable and friendly. I identified myself as a retired intelligence officer and flyer and President of an Air Force Association Chapter that was interested the alleged Roswell crash. He told me he had been the Commander of Wright Patterson Air Force Base and knew quite a bit about Roswell. Exon was very specific that everybody “from Truman on down” had known about the Roswell incident from the day it happened, and that “It was known to be an alien spacecraft almost as soon as we got on the scene.” Truman ordered everything about UFOs, the crashes, and aliens was highly classified.
Don Schmidt gave me a copy of his and Tom Carey’s excellent book “Witness To Roswell.” I was particularly interested in their interview with General Exon. This is the book’s version of their interview, which is essentially the same information he told me.
General Exon, as a lieutenant colonel, was assigned to Wright Field in July of 1947, and was there when the wreckage from the Roswell crash came in. He was aware of the recovery in New Mexico and some colleagues performed the tests on the metal, trying to determine what it was. In July 1947, he learned from other colleagues that the bodies had arrived on the base. All described to us what happened after; the flight reached the Foreign Technology Division (FTD).
Exon, then a lieutenant colonel, was an administration student in technology at the FTD. “We heard the material was coming to Wright Field,” he said. Analysis of the debris was performed in the FTD’s various labs: “Everything from chemical analysis, stress tests, compression tests, flexing. It was brought into our material-evaluation lab. I don’t know how it arrived, but the boys who tested it said it was very unusual.” Exon also described the material: “Some of it was very thin but awfully strong and couldn’t be dented with heavy hammers….It was flexible to a degree.”
According to General Exon, “Some of it was flimsy and was tougher than hell, and the [rest] was almost like foil but strong, it had them [the FTD analysts] pretty puzzled.” The lab chiefs at Wright Field set up a “special project” for the testing of the material. “They knew they had something new in their hands,” continued Exon, “the metal and material was unknown to anyone I talked to. Whatever they found, I never heard what the results were.” When asked what he thought about the components’ physical makeup, he said, “…I don’t know, at that time, if it was titanium or some other metal…or if it was something they knew about and the processing was something different.”
There was another location where … apparently the main body of the spacecraft was … where they did say there were bodies.
They were all found, apparently, outside the craft itself but were in fairly good condition. In other words, they weren’t broken up a lot”
General Exon experience with the recovered Roswell remnants wasn’t limited to the work at Wright Field. A number of months later, he flew over central New Mexico near Corona and checked out the crash sites. There were two distinct sites. At the northwest [site], pieces found on the [Foster] ranch, those pieces were mostly metal.” The general also confirmed having seen the gouge that others had reported. Exon said, “I remember auto tracks leading to the pivotal sites and obvious gouges in the terrain.” When asked about the bodies, he said, “I know people that were involved in photographing some of the residue from the New Mexico affair near Roswell. There was another location where…apparently the main body of the spacecraft was…where they did say there were bodies.”Asked if the bodies had been sent to Wright Field, Exon said simply, “That’s my information…people I have known were involved with that.”
According to Exon, the instant they understood the nature of the find, General Ramey would have alerted the chief of staff, Dwight Eisenhower. Once they had the information in Washington, control of the operation would have come from the Pentagon. The men at Roswell would have been tasked with the clean-up because they were there, on site, but the responsibility for the clean-up would have moved up the chain of command and into the Pentagon and the White House.
He told me that he thought the craft was heading SE or NW based on the debris field and he mentioned the craft was up against a hill or mountain. In 1948, following completion of a two-year industrial administration course at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, (W P) Ohio, he was assigned to Air Materiel Command Headquarters, as chief of the Maintenance Data. From 1964-66, he was he commander of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and access to many of the key labs. I get the impression he was continuing to get intelligence data on UFOs from various scientists on base some seventeen years after Roswell.
He obviously had an interest in UFOs, and as Base Commander he would have access to almost everywhere on base including where the actual craft debris was being stored, He said other UFO-related field operations were staged at W-P during his tenure. Teams of men would fly in from Washington on an investigation. W-P would supply them with planes and crews for their operations
He was assigned to Air Materiel Command Headquarters, as chief of the Maintenance Data Section from August 1951 until April 1952. Exon did emphasize that he was told these things by men who were directly involved and whom he knew well and trusted. He mentioned knowing some of the photographers who photographed the sites.
He was a pilot with 135 combat missions during World War II and his aircraft was severely damaged by an exploding ammunition dump and he was forced to bail out over enemy territory. Captured, he spent just over a year in German prisoner of war camps. On August 20, 1965, he was promoted to brigadier general. General Exon had a most impressive military career and it is doubtful he would lie about Roswell.
Both Roswell commander Colonel Blanchard’s and General Ramey’s wife were aware that the crash was likely extraterrestrial. Exon elaborated, “I know that at the time the sightings happened, it was [up] to Gen. Ramey…and he, along with the people at Roswell, decided to change the story while they got their act together and got the information into the Pentagon and into the president.”
Note: Foreign Technology Division (FTD) was initially called T-2 Intelligence not FTD in 1947. FTD didn’t come about until 1961. It was T2 Intelligence up until May 1951 when it became Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) as a field activity of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Thanks to General Exon Website
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The US, Russia and China are embroiled in a high-speed arms race – and many are now worried it could go nuclear. The Pentagon says it wants to fly hypersonic missiles by 2020. Officials have said that weapons that fly at five times the speed of sound, or 3,500mph, will only carry conventional missiles. But that hasn’t stopped a number of experts voicing concerns that other nations will use the technology to launch a nuclear strike. Read more: Website
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Filer’s Files #17 -2016 Two Roswell UFO Crashes - PART II
Filer’s Files #17 -2016 Two Roswell UFO Crashes - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Arizona Orbs
Phoenix— I was in my backyard and scaned the sky on April 17, 2016, and seen a star like hovering object. I got my 50x camera and when I got back it was gone started scanning the sky and found it over 1 mile to the left.
I was able to track it as it moved all over the sky form right to left. I lost the unknown object as it became too far and high in the sky.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Lights
South Gate — Amazing live capture of a perfectly spherical orb was made on April 17, 2016. This is not a balloon because it did not have the typical characteristics of a balloon.
It was not oblong, it did not have a drip point on top nor a necktie on the bottom. It stayed stationary in the sky for about 8 minutes and then moved slowly away.
Apparently, it didn’t realize I had a telescope which captured this object at 156X optical. There were about 15 people witnessing this object at our UFO Sighting event. The video is amazing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
Outside on my porch, I see different UFOs all the time.
On April 17, 2016, it was the first time I got pictures
It is still holding its position. My wife also saw it.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orb
Aurora– Arriving home I saw a plane or drone (not positive which) and a blue light that looked like a star but was too low in the sky and was moving in April 2016.
The blue light stopped and changed into a donut shaped disc and stayed still. However, it looked like it was vibrating. The plane/drone changed directions.
I pulled into a parking lot and took some videos. In the last video, I look down and when I look back, it is gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Edinburg — Visitors were seen on April 14, 2016. This picture was taken this evening at 1:17 am. It’s just hard to believe that people around here don’t even notice the different objects in the sky.
I guess they’re not interested like I am. Hope you are well.
Take Care Pam Stark
New Jersey Object
I was outside watching the sky, like always watching the sky and on April 19, 2016. The first object was just a ball of red hue. The second object was going in and out of the dark cloud.
I felt amazed and stunned like am I really seeing this and what could it be. The objects went out of view. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Object
Bronx – On April 12, 2016, I took the video in the Bronx at 8:27 AM, and then played it back in milliseconds catching several different shapes. They appear in the sky then vanish.
A circular object appeared a few times and then and it would vanish. There were other strange shaped craft. I decided to record the video in the rain, and play it back really slow and see if I could catch anything.
Note: The object in the above photo could be a raindrop near the lens of the camera. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
North Carolina Triangle
Between Faison and Warsaw – I saw two flying objects in the sky on April 14, 2016. [Object 1] appeared to be a helicopter. – [Object 2] was close behind it and had brighter lights and a noticeable blinking light like a normal plane.
•As I got closer I noticed Object 1 didn’t have a blinking light like most aircraft do and had a red light on top where I thought was the tail of the helicopter.
I presumed it to be military as there are not any commercial airports nearby for it to be so low to the ground. It got closer and appeared to be triangular. From underneath, it had a bright light at its frontal point and two dimmer lights at the rear points. All three lights were much dimmer than Object 2. The red light was no longer visible, possibly being located on the top of the aircraft. Both Objects were of similar size and I lost sight of them as they passed very low to the ground.
I realized one was following the other and Ft Bragg Army Base (which has an airfield) was relatively close. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Light
Sutherlin — I pulled into the local dog park so I could stop and take pictures of the many chemtrails that were being laid out that morning of April 1, 2016.
One had spread out to cover the sun.
I was taking a panoramic photo and when I looked at the photos and saw an orb shaped object close to the sun. I did not notice it at the time I later used my touch screen to zoom in on it and saw the interesting surface pattern.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Men in Black
Murfreesboro — The men in black are watching me. They keep hassling me about people, celebrities, technology. Music, ufos and history.
I’m running out of options. I need assistance as soon as possible. It’s an emergency, they threaten my life and my freedom. You guys are my only hope. They keep revealing things about UFOs, and aliens.
Shadow beings and paranormal things they used electromagnetic energy on me. They cast images on my door, wall and the TV.
This situation needs to be taken care of as soon as possible. . Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Disc
Lynnwood— While driving on the freeway and sighting some unusual clouds, I took a few photos with my cell phone. Upon viewing the pictures, I had captured more than I had anticipated. One cloud was shaped like a giant bird and directly across from that was a hand. In between the two objects was a ball of light that gave off rainbow colors. All of what I saw intrigued me so I took the photos.
I am a great grandma and can forward the photos. I have two specific pictures and one is a round disc object. You will see what appears as a giant bird with wings open. The photos were taken from my car window on April 6th in the afternoon around 4:PM. Note: The object could be a “blimp” or some sort of suspended debris. Wind blown debris is not likely as winds were only around 10 MPH. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Wisconsin Lights
Middleton — I went outside, after getting a telepathic communication asking if I wanted to see “them” on April 15, 2016. So, I decided that I would go outside and saw a green meteor like object zipping in a southwest direction. This led my eyes to what looked like a triangular constellation. The three star-like points of light then rotated around a second or two, but keeping the original triangular shape. After that, they left formation, one flew closer to the other, but then all three went off in different directions.
I see UFOs weekly and the most recent sighting was 500 feet above the ground and spinning off plasma, which arced away from the craft like a solar flare. I also get telepathic communications with Humans and ETs very frequently. ETs are polite and friendly. I definitely have an implant for telepathic communications, and there are some childhood memories of mine that might point to alien contact when I was young. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Boomerang
Mudgee — He is using an infrared converted cam to see these UFOs on March 27, 2016.
A normal camera cannot see most of these. Colourufo of Youtube is an expert at it and hunts on almost a daily basis.
Eyewitness states: The camera used was a CANON. A.X 25. Full H D. camera.Scott C. Waring Website
Brazil Orb
Uberaba — There were at least two objects (two could be seen from the witness’ apartment) standing still in the sky at night on March 18, 2016…
The objects were blinking red, blue and white, in an uninterrupted cycle, for more than for 40 minutes. Then they just disappeared, vanished in the night, suddenly, as if they appeared in first place.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Sightings
Mount Fores — My wife and I were driving when she asked, “What’s that”. The bright ball came so fast at us; we had to duck in the car because we thought it was going to hit the car. We just turned right away. Two or three came flying at us. I just hit the button to snap pictures.. In a few minutes, it was all over. You can see a glowing ball in the pictures with rays around the ball (like the planet Saturn). It shows in the pictures also they touch the pavement it was flying at a speed you couldn’t imagine, and instantly stop! In addition, it took off as fast as it came. We have a strange photo of a house on our street with figures staring out. Eyes to the sky.
Lions Head – I had been taking a series of photos from Tobermory to Lions Head Ontario, of an unusual looking cloud or plane trail formation on April 2016. I took pictures on and off for the hour’s drive there.
I was feeling ill, so I excused myself, went back to the truck, saw an unusual cloud formation, and took another picture. I noticed the sphere in the picture and proceeded to take a second picture, and the sphere, was not present, in it.
I do not know if this is a camera thing or a real orb. I have 35 pictures in total following the cloud/plane exhaust formation?
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Columbia Disc
Pereira— During our trip to the “Otun National Park” in Colombia, located 17 km of Pereira, we were walking following the Otun River taking pictures of birds and trees. We made a short stop in a bridge searching for ducks, so I decided to take some picture of the river and vegetation. Two days after that, I was checking the pictures in my PC, and then I saw the strange object in my picture. We never heard a sound or something abnormal. Could be an UFO? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Czech Republic
Prague– I only see the objects on my photos later on my computer. On the first photo, the object is nearly perpendicular.
On the second, as same as the third snap, an object is oriented horizontally. All three snaps are during only two seconds, from 16:59:03 to 16:59:04 Prague time, on April 04 and 05. Interesting is big distance the object covered. I think I saw the same object on the other photos.
I don´t know what is it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
French Circles
Les Forges – I was early awakening for any reason. I went to my car and saw that five large circles of light, in the sky beneath the village.
I live with my wife and kids since 1990.
It stayed 10 minutes and disappears. It’s not an usual lights phenomenon, even if the day was coming. I am observing Nature until I am a kid. It is something special; I do not know why I am sure of it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
German ISS Orb
During an ISS live NASA UStream, an orb-like object appeared just above the horizon on April 17, 2016. After remaining in the same relative position for a while, it began to ascend up and out of the UStream camera lens coverage area. Once it left the screen, an energy beam shot up from the earth toward the UFO’s former location.
Gauging by the distance between the ISS and the location of the energy beam, the relative size of the UFO must have been enormous. I am hoping that someone with technical background can determine the location from where the beam was fired based on the time of the sighting (7:25 p.m. Central European Time) and the ISS live feed metering that is displayed at the bottom left of the frames in the video. The video is comprised of multiple screenshots I took during the sighting. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Norway Light
Ski— Quick observation, glowing object moving southwards. I was out on the terrace looking up and there it was.
I believe this was not an airplane. Object was moving fast at a high altitude, and it looks like it was about to turn right, just before it disappeared behind a cloud. I did not feel anything specific; I have just starting to look up to the sky when I have the opportunity. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Russia Object
Áàðíàóë — UFO was filmed in the Altai Territory in Barnaul on January 27, 2016.
The object was very high was in the form of a dark flat disc or cylinder.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Switzerland Black Object
I was playing football in my garden and suddenly black Object hovered over my house. First, I did not realize that at the time because it was in a few seconds disappeared. I thought the thing saw me because like 5 seconds it was over me. I feel like someone was watching me. After, I was standing there and did not know what I really saw. I tried to watch the object but it was fast and in a few seconds, it was over the whole of Switzerland to the Swiss Alps. It was like Star Trek or something fast. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Cylinder
London — On March 8, 2016, a cylinder like object was filmed over London.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Some Swedish Contact Cases
Some Swedish Contact Cases
Author Anders Lidén from Sweden sent in these contact experiences. The first case involves Gösta Carlsson, known in Sweden as the Pollen King.
Case 1
In 1946, in the village Ängelholm in Southern Sweden, Gösta Carlsson (1918 - 2003) had a UFO experience that changed his life.
Gösta and his father had a bee farm where they tried to get out as much pollen as possible. Gösta worked at SJ, the Swedish Railway Company, and had no knowledge whatsoever about medicine or biology, etc. He was an engineer.
One day, he went for his evening walk near the so-called "Siberia Forest" when, around 8 pm, he saw a flying saucer land about 30 meters from him. (There is a monument at the place today to commemorate his experience). Gösta saw 3 human-like, beautiful beings walking out from the spaceship and they communicated with him telepathically. Gösta got some insights from them about how to get out more pollen from the bees. He kept his secret for many years (until 1971 when he went public to tell his story) and used his insights to start the production of pollen-based medicine. In 1956 they succeeded and they started the company Cernelle, and Gösta became a multimillionaire. He invested a lot of his money in the local hockey team Rögle BK, and in the sixties the team, against all odds, reached the top in Swedish hockey league. In 1963 Gösta started a daughter company Allergon where they produced substances for production of medicines for allergies.
Gösta was a very simple man. He was never into new age or never talked about wisdom. When he released his story he referred to not only this meeting in 1946. He had several more meetings with them through his dreams where they told him things. The beings told him they came from the Pleiades. There specifically was one woman he had contact with. At their physical meeting the beings gave Gösta three things: a ring, a rod, and 2 cups.
Gösta and his colleague the engineer Curt Bergquist from Cernelle did some research on the objects. No one else had access to these things Gösta got from the beings. Curt was asked about it after Gösta's death and he answered that they were very strange. The rod was hexagonal and seemed to be made of some kind of quartz. One of the corners was melted and it had some inscription that he could not read/understand.
Gösta became famous for his story and when he told it 1971 he was visited by media from all over the world. Curt said that he didn't know what the things are and he doesn't know what to believe about Gösta's experience. But he said that usually Gösta was proven right, sooner or later, about what he had told earlier. Gösta never changed or denied his story.
In the mid 1980's, a friend of mine had an experience. He worked at Volvo Cars as a mechanical engineer in Gothenburg. One of his colleagues, a man named Lars, was a quiet outsider. At that time, my friend was already a very spiritually experienced man and he had empathy for Lars and his behavior. So my friend made contact with Lars and they became friends on working time.
It's important to understand that my friend at that time had some close contact with ET´s from his apartment in Gothenburg. Once he was watching television the picture disappeared and he was contacted through his television by beings from the Pleiades. They asked him to come and visit them outside, on a specific time and address. He told me this happened several times and the beings were always right on time. They met him both physically and through out-of-body experiences. They had conversations about cosmic and spiritual questions and about their work. They could tell him where they had their bases on Earth and the research they were doing.
My friend once had big problems with paying his telephone bill. He didn't know how to get the money to pay it. Some day after work Lars came to visit my friend. They had a cup of coffee and some ordinary discussions. Lars didn't say much and did not tell very much about himself. When Lars stood up to go back home, he took out some money from his pocket and gave to my friend. After he left, my friend counted it, and it was exactly the amount he needed to pay his phone bill. The next day Lars was gone and never again showed up at work.
My friend asked his contact from the Pleiades about Lars and they told my friend that Lars also came from the Pleiades. It took several years until my friend met Lars again, at an airport, but they never had a chance to talk. The people from the Pleiades told my friend that they will have the chance to meet again, later in life.
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UFO Over Beach Of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Reported This Week, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Beach Of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Reported This Week, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 14, 2014, but submitted this week. Location of sighting: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Source: MUFON #75971 The report came in the week and shows a UFO in the far upper right corner of the photo...don't make me say that twice...focus guys. UFOs are frequently seen over Mexico and are believe to enter underground bases in the mountains and below many of Mexico's volcanos. Even the ancient Aztecs said that the gods entered and left from the mouth of Mexico's volcanos....but we all know those were UFOs. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states:
Picture taken in puerto vallarta, mexico in December 2014 during the daylight in between dec 14 to 21. Vacationing at Hilton resort Puerto vallarta. Looked back at picture today April 20th 2016 and noticed strange object in photo. Never noticed it before.
Multiple UFO sightings! Large disc shape UFO captured over Mudgee. Australia. 21.04.2016. UFO Sighting News.
Multiple UFO sightings! Large disc shape UFO captured over Mudgee. Australia. 21.04.2016. UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: April 21, 2016 Location of sighting: Mudgee, Australia Infrared cameras are the preferred tool of the true UFO hunters. There is no escaping in daytime shooting with an IR camera and this video is 100% proof that UFOs exist and are easily seen with IR converted camcorders. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: The large object was above my house, under the cloud. You can see this object was changing the directions twice and speed up.The camera was using: CANON. X A.25.Full H D camera. The filter: HOYA 850. Infra red optical filter. Night Shot position ON! Daylight capture.
Join Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt as he welcomes back Coast to Coast AM Investigative Reporter Linda Moulton Howe in this revealing Part Two of The UFO Breakthrough interview. In this episode, they go even deeper to outline the bizarre series of events that led two top political figures, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and President Harry Truman to collaborate and coverup their discovery that alien beings that were discovered at a crash site in 1941 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The beings were eventually taken to Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. (before the creation of the Pentagon) during World War II and according to new research, kept in a liquid state in jars in an underground base below the Capitol before being used in a bizarre Masonic Ritual to enact UFO Secrecy that would be maintained right up to the present in 2016!
Using official photographs from space crafts, Artist Michael Benson's recreates photos of the universe in true color - just as how the naked eyes would see it.
AN OUT OF THIS WORLD VIEW
If there’s one word that the latest space tourism projects are hyping to try to get more tourists to drop some serious cash (as much as $150,000 per ticket) for a trip to the edge of space, it’sview.
From crafts that have dozens of windows lining the rocket’s sides and ceiling to the ability to “roll the vehicle” using thrusters—all space tourism programs promise their passengers an unobstructed view of the cosmos beyond Earth.
But for those not leaving Earth anytime soon, this exhibition is probably the closest one can ever get to seeing such an ‘out of this world’ view with their own eyes.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Dr. Paul Geissler
WHERE SCIENCE MEETS ART
“I feel like if these places are so alien to our direct experiences anyway, then they should be colored the way they would be seen,” says Benson, referring to his process in creating the true color prints.
He takes raw data from the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) and European Space Agency (ESA) missions and painstakingly, in his words, translates them into something that human eyes can recognize.
Because cameras aboard spacecrafts like New Horizons and Cassini capture images showing visible light (reds and blues) as well as invisible light (ultraviolet and infrared), most of the images available online aren’t in ‘true color.’
Benson takes all photos shot through visible light filters – light which the eyes can see – and tiles them together to create a true color composite.
“Astronomy is about our position in the universe, and that doesn’t just belong to science,” he says. “I am making the case that this is art.”
New Horizons May Have Spotted Gravity Waves Rippling Across Pluto
New Horizons May Have Spotted Gravity Waves Rippling Across Pluto
Futurism M.A
IN BRIEF
NASA scientists have discovered gravity waves bouncing around in Pluto’s hazy nitrogen atmosphere—another revelation about the active atmospherics and geology of this surprising little world.
A RIPPLING HAZE
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been returning some pretty amazing information about the former planet, Pluto. One of its most interesting discoveries was the weird “layered” atmosphere, composed of a photochemical smog, settling out of the upper atmosphere.
But now the probe has witnessed an even more curious atmospheric effect around the pygmy planet. After its flyby last year, New Horizons directed its cameras toward the now rapidly retreating Pluto, hoping to catch it eclipsing the Sun—a maneuver that permitted its cameras and spectrographs to analyze the chemical makeup of Pluto’s atmosphere.
What the probe witnessed startled observers—brightness variations in the haze layers of Pluto’s nitrogen atmosphere, which created the illusion of the dwarf planet’s surface rippling, almost like a heat mirage. The animation below, which was compiled from images obtained byNew Horizon’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14 of last year, shows the observed effect.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwR
GRAVITY WAVES
NASA scientists were curious to know what was up. Their answer was gravity waves—not the same as the gravitational waves that have been in the scientific news of late, but a more mundane phenomenon (also called “buoyancy waves”) that can be found on several planets in the Solar System, including Earth.
Atmospheric gravity waves result from the effects of high mountains—of which there is no dearth on Pluto—pushing airflow up, where gravity then begins to drag the airmass down again.
“When I first saw these images and the haze structures that they reveal, I knew we had a new clue to the nature of Pluto’s hazes,” explains LORRI Principal Investigator Andy Chen. “The fact that we don’t see the haze layers moving up or down will be important to future modeling efforts.”
The newly discovered Plutonian phenomenon is a strange one, as the brightness fluctuations vary by as much as 30%, despite the fact that the haze layers themselves do not change at all—extending 200 km (120 mi) above Pluto’s surface, no more and no less.
We can look forward to more interesting news from Pluto’s neighborhood—it’s expected that it will take 16 months just to download all of New Horizon’s vast wealth of data back to Earth.
Leven we in één van de vele ‘zeepbellen’ in een reusachtig multiversum?
Leven we in één van de vele ‘zeepbellen’ in een reusachtig multiversum?
De meeste wetenschappers zijn van mening dat het universum uitdijt. Maar als het universum uitdijt, waar dijt het dan in uit? Volgens Fraser Cain van Universe Today is ons heelal mogelijk één van de vele bellen in een reusachtig multiversum.
“In het multiversum is elk universum een soort zeepbel in de kosmische leegte,” zei hij. “Zie het als een kosmisch schuim waaruit verschillende bellen ontstaan.”
Volgens deze theorie zijn de natuurwetten in elk van deze universa volstrekt anders. In ons heelal worden de natuurwetten bepaald door een aantal factoren, die in ieder universum verschillend zouden zijn.
Temperatuurschommelingen
“Misschien werkt de zwaartekracht in een ander universum juist afstotend,” zei Cain. In het grootste deel van die andere universa zou leven zoals wij dat kennen niet kunnen bestaan.
“Leven dat in staat is om het universum waar te kunnen nemen heeft zich moeten ontwikkelen in een universum waarin leven kan ontstaan,” legde hij uit. Het klinkt misschien vergezocht, maar er zijn manieren waarop astronomen deze theorie kunnen testen.
Als de bellen zich ver genoeg uitstrekken in het multiversum, beginnen ze ‘op elkaar te botsen’. Er is al enig bewijs dat ons universum interacteert met andere universa. Wetenschappers hebben in de kosmische achtergrondstraling bijvoorbeeld temperatuurschommelingen oftewel anisotropieën gevonden.
As van het kwaad
De meeste temperatuurverschillen kunnen worden verklaard, maar er is één gebied in het heelal dat zo vreemd is dat onderzoekers die het ontdekt hebben het ‘de as van het kwaad’ hebben genoemd.
Volgens één theorie is ons heelal op die plek op een ander heelal gebotst. Maar wees gerust: het gebied bevindt zich op miljarden lichtjaren afstand van ons.
UFO hunters in Britain claimed to have spotted unusual lights circling over Liverpool. Residents in Kirkby, Anfield, and Bootle took to social media to share their bizarre sighting at around 9 in the evening.
Stephen Carrison asked his followers if someone knows the reason for the zigzagging lights in the sky over Bootle and Walton. Equally confused Jamie Morris wrote on Facebook about spotlights that did not change the pattern they were moving.
Some downplay suggestions of space alien life, with Louise Austin suggesting a local circus as responsible. Austin said she drove past in the area at around 9 in the evening, and the lights were beaming in the sky.
Christopher Baker gave the same suggestion saying that the lights were 100 percent from the circus as he saw them shining in the same direction from his loft window.
The impressive clip comes just a few days after odd lights over London were captured on photos. Some speculated that space UFOs emitted them.
Many UFO experts believe that the beautiful architecture of the capital could easily get the attention of extraterrestrials, which seem to be interested in discovering human history.
The Firesound is a firefighting flying saucer.The bright yellow, meter wide, autonomous disc is designed to patrol parks and forests, constantly looking for danger using smoke sensors and thermal cameras.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
IN BRIEF
Inventor Charles Bombardier has developed the Firesound drone, a multipurpose UAV that fights forest fires with sound, and can be used to detect the early stages of a fire and even seek out missing persons.
THE COMING OF THE SAUCERS
If, sometime in the near future, you hear stories of strange flying discs hovering around our national parks and forests, don’t be alarmed.
It’s not a Martian invasion, or an assault by cattle-mutilating Greys. It’s actually something far more benevolent—the Firesound, a futuristic firefighting drone concept developed by theorist and inventor Charles Bombardier.
“There’s a whole lot of ideas that are sitting on the shelves of scientists, that could be turned into a creative content like the Firesound,” Bombardier says, explaining how the idea was conceived. “It just need somebody to go find them, and expand on them.”
His inspiration came when he decided to combine this sonic firefighting technique with low-cost drone technology.
UFOS TO THE RESCUE
Concept art for the Firesound drone. Credit: Charles BombardierThus the Firesound was born. It’s an electric drone that uses a hydrogen fuel cell, and it stays aloft through the lifting action of four fans spaced along the disc’s edge. Rear and forward air intakes, as well as exhaust vents on the undercarriage, allow for directional changes.
It’s a very simple concept, one which Bombardier envisions using for a broad range of activities in national parks and forests. It can, for example, be used to monitor forests for signs of incipient fires, or seek out unattended campfires or other human misdeeds (which account for some 90% of forest fires).
The Firesound could detect fires in these early stages, using infrared sensors, and then swoop in and extinguish them using sound waves in the 30 to 60 Hz bass range. The beauty of sound waves is that the drone doesn’t have to carry heavy foams and other fire retardants, a consideration that greatly hampers current firefighting efforts.
Even better, the Firesound could be used to seek out missing persons or injured hikers, and even remain near them to provide them with limited WiFi coverage—so that they have a means of communication with the outside world.
For now, Charles Bombardier is content to simply moot the idea, and let others develop it into a functioning and useful technology.
So next time you enjoy a national park or forest, keep an eye on the sky—the truth is out there.
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Nick Pope : « Quand j’enquêtais sur les ovnis pour le gouvernement »
Nick Pope : « Quand j’enquêtais sur les ovnis pour le gouvernement »
Nick Pope a enquêté sur les OVNIS pour une division du ministère britannique de la Défense maintenant défunte. Il fait valoir qu’il est temps de relancer le programme pour des raisons qui ont rien à voir avec les petits hommes verts.
Crédit photo ufointernationalproject.com/
Un article de Nick Pope – 22 Mars 2016
Traduction Era pour Area51blog
En 1950, Sir Henry Tizard, le conseiller scientifique en chef du ministère de la Défense (MOD), a été intrigué par les observations d’ovnis relayées dans les journaux Sir Henry a dit aux responsables du MOD que le sujet ne devait pas être rejeté sans d’abord procéder à une étude scientifique appropriée. Un petit comité a été créé à son instigation. Son nom: Le groupe de travail sur les soucoupes volantes (Flying Saucer Working Party).
Le comité sortit son rapport en Juin 1951, concluant que les observations d’OVNIs pouvaient être expliquées par des méprises, des canulars ou des délires. La recommandation fut qu’on n’utilise plus aucune ressource gouvernementale pour cette étude.
Mais l’année suivante, des pilotes de la Royal Air Force (RAF) et d’autres militaires furent témoins d’ovnis au cours d’un exercice de l’OTAN. Ces OVNIS semblaient capables de vitesses et de manœuvres extraordinaires; on put suivre certains d’entre eux sur le radar militaire. En 1953, le MOD a décidé que tous les rapports d’OVNIS devraient être étudiés.
Cependant pas par souci des petits hommes verts
J’ai travaillé pour le MOD pendant 21 ans. De 1991 à 1994, je fus affecté à une division où mes fonctions consistaient à superviser ces enquêtes. Le moins que je puisse dire est que ce fut un travail passionnant.
Un OVNI, il faut se le rappeler, fait référence à tout objet volant non identifié – pas nécessairement extraterrestre. Alors que les enquêtes du MOD visaient à déterminer s’il y avait des preuves d’une menace, nous pensions plus aux Russes qu’aux Martiens. La théorie était que certaines observations pourraient impliquer des avions espions soviétiques ou des bombardiers sondant nos défenses aériennes pour tenter d’évaluer l’efficacité de notre système de radar, des avions et des pilotes. La position du gouvernement britannique était pratiquement identique à celle des États-Unis, où les observations d’OVNI ont été étudiées par l’US Air Force (USAF) depuis 1947, dans ce qui fut connu plus tard sous le nom de projetBlue Book.
Que signifiait dans la pratique travailler dans la vie réelle sur ces divers dossiers classés X ? A un moment je pouvais rédiger des « lignes toutes faites » que le bureau de presse du MOD pouvait utiliser en réponse à la requête d’un journaliste. Le suivant je pouvais envoyer des informations à un enfant pour un projet d’école ou le traçage des observations d’OVNI sur une carte, la recherche d’exemples. Nous laissions tout tomber si un membre du parlement nous demandait – informant largement les ministres de la défense afin qu’ils puissent répondre de façon polie, factuelle, mais dédaigneuse.
C’était moins Men in Black et plus Men in Grey
L’activité au jour le jour tournait autour de l’étude des observations nouvellement signalées : interroger les témoins, la vérification des enregistrements radar, et l’analyse des photos et des vidéos si nous avions eu la chance de les obtenir (c’était l’époque avant que tout le monde ne soit équipé d’ un téléphone mobile). Ce n’était pas tout à fait aussi glamour que ne le montrent les films de science-fiction : C’était moins hommes en noir (Men in Black) et plus hommes en gris.
Nous recherchions des explications classiques pour les observations, en essayant de les corréler avec des lancements météo de ballons, des pluies de météores, rentrées de fusées et une foule d’autres choses que les gens confondent avec des ovnis.
Rencontres extraterrestres
Bien que le MOD ne voulait pas être perçu comme faisant la chasse aux extraterrestres, c’est exactement ce qui est arrivé, grâce à la culture populaire.
Au fil des ans, des livres, des films et d’autres médias ont rendu le terme « OVNI » synonyme de « vaisseau spatial extraterrestre ». Beaucoup de gens croyaient que les gouvernements couvraient la vérité sur les ovnis. Ceci, couplé avec le fait que le MOD est une organisation intrinsèquement secrète, a conduit les gens à penser que nous étions impliqués dans une conspiration sinistre.
Bien que le MOD ait certainement minimisé l’ampleur réelle de son intérêt et son implication dans le sujet, j’ai bien peur que nous n’ayons aucun ovni écrasé caché où que ce soit.
« Sur environ 12.000 observations ayant fait l’objet d’une enquête par le programme, environ 5% restent inexpliquées »
Cela ne veut pas dire que nous ne disposions pas de cas fascinants dans nos fichiers. Sur environ 12.000 observations ayant fait l’objet d’une enquête par le programme, environ 5% restent inexpliquées » Nous étions particulièrement intéressés quand OVNIS avaient été vus par des policiers, des militaires et des pilotes, surtout s’il y avait une certaine corroboration en termes de preuve radar, ou des films et des photos qui pouvaient être analysés par notre personnel technique.
Les observations d’OVNIS les plus connues du Royaume-Uni ont eu lieu sur une période de trois jours en Décembre 1980 et sont collectivement connus comme l’incident de la Forest de Rendlesham.
Un OVNI a été vu près de bases aériennes de Bentwaters et Woodbridge, et à un moment a atterri dans la forêt voisine. Le MOD a conclu que les niveaux de radiation sur le site d’atterrissage semblait « nettement supérieur à la moyenne ». Les enquêtes séparées du MOD et de l’USAF (Bentwaters et Woodbridge étaient les bases américaines) se sont avérées peu concluantes.
Aujourd’hui, on se souvient de l’incident de la Forêt de Rendlesham avec « a trace de l’OVNI » du parc (Credit: Clynt Garnham/Alamy)
Un autre cas fascinant, généralement appelé l’incident de Cosford, a eu lieu les 30 et 31 Mars 1993. Des observations multiples sont venues de partout dans le Royaume-Uni sur une période de six heures durant la nuit ; des témoins incluant la police militaire d’ une base aérienne et l’agent météorologique d’une seconde. Ce dernier a décrit avoir vu un vaste engin de forme triangulaire survoler lentement a base, en émettant un bourdonnement sonore basse fréquence, avant de soudainement accélérer au loin, beaucoup plus rapidement qu’un jet militaire.
En dépit de ce cas inexpliqué (et des autres) nous restons sceptiques à propos des extraterrestres.
Une autre théorie a été exposée dans une évaluation des renseignements hautement classifiés nom de code Projet Condign. Condign était le seul domaine où les théoriciens du complot ont eu raison – mais pas pour les raisons qu’ils croyaient. Le gouvernement du Royaume-Uni – et d’autres gouvernements aussi, je suppose – dissimulaient en effet des informations sur les OVNIS, mais pas sur les extraterrestres. «Aucune preuve n’existe pour suggérer que les phénomènes observés soient hostiles ou sous tout type de contrôle, autre que celui des forces physiques naturelles», a déclaré le rapport, qui a été achevé en 2000 et rendu public en 2006.
Au contraire, nous pourrions avoir affaire à des phénomènes atmosphériques exotiques – et le personnel scientifique et technique du renseignement au MOD croyait que s’ils étaient canalisés, ceux-ci pourraient être en mesure d’être appliqués au domaine militaire. Comme le dit le résumé du rapport final du projet Condign : «Il est recommandé qu’une enquête plus approfondie soit faite sur les différentes caractéristiques des plasmas afin de permettre de nouvelles applications militaires . »
Ceci est le dernier secret obscur sur les ovnis, car un phénomène naturel qui pourrait être militarisé serait très attrayant pour les militaires de toute nation.
En 2009, après près de 60 années de recherche officielle et d’enquête, le MOD fermait le département dédié aux OVNIs dans une vaste série de coupes budgétaire de la défense. Aucun communiqué ne fut adressé à l’attention du public. Au lieu de cela, ojn a glissé l’information en modifiant une déclaration sur le site internet du MOD qui indiquait aux gens comment signaler les observations d’OVNI.
Il y a des méprises avec des engins actuels qu’on prend pour des ovnis, comme ce drone sans pilote X-47B sur la base aérienne militaire Edwards en Californie (Credit: US Air Force Photo/Alamy)
La nouvelle version déclarait : « Le MOD n’a aucune opinion sur l’existence ou non d’une vie extraterrestre. Cependant, sur une période de plus de cinquante ans, aucun rapport d’OVNI n’a révélé la moindre preuve d’une menace potentielle pour le Royaume-Uni « .
La déclaration poursuivait en disant que la recherche OVNI était maintenant « une mauvaise utilisation des ressources de la défense » et que à compter du 1er Décembre 2009, les enquêtes cesseraient. Le MOD ne serait plus habilité de répondre aux témoins d’OVNIS.
Une nouvelle tendance concernant les dossiers classés X ?
Suite aux carences officielles , certains témoins d’OVNIS s’orientent désormais vers les médias pendant que d’autres témoins préfèrent les organisations civiles tel que la British UFO Research Association ou des associations privées . D’autres encore, ne rapporteront rien du tout concernant leurs observations.
Alors que des scientifiques ou des universitaires qui veulent étudier le sujet préfèrent les explications astronomiques, météorologiques ou psychologiques pour expliquer les observations et les expériences des gens, ils trouvent que l’absence d’une base de données centrale rend un tel effort difficile, voire impossible.
Mise à part l’étude académique, l’omniprésence des drones est un rappel opportun que nous devons être au courant de tout dans notre espace aérien. Les drones peuvent être utilisés pour l’espionnage, alors que certains analystes de la sécurité ont exprimé la crainte que des terroristes puissent les utiliser pour transporter des explosifs, ou pour heurter des avions de passagers.
Plus généralement, que nous soyons croyants ou sceptiques sur le sujet de la fréquentation extraterrestre, nous devrions être curieux à propos d’un mystère qui dure depuis près de 70 ans. C’est notre désir de chercher la connaissance pour l’amour de la connaissance qui nous rend humain. Combien d’incidents fascinants qui se déroulent actuellement n’obtiennent qu’ un simple coup d’œil rapide d’amateurs, ou ne sont pas signalés du tout ?
Les lanternes chinoises vues de loin embrouillaient le MOD pendant son projet UFO (Crédit: Zoonar GmbH / Alamy)
Un nouveau projet OVNI pourrait être plus ciblé que le précédent et filtrer les cas en écartant rapidement les centaines d’observations de lanternes chinoises qui embrouillaient le ministère de la défense durant les dernières années du projet OVNI. Parallèlement à l’étude des meilleurs nouveaux rapports, les cas classiques tels que l’incident de la forêt de Rendlesham et Cosford pourraient faire l’objet d’une nouvelle enquête, de la même manière que la police entreprend un nouvel examen des « cold case » (enquêtes criminelles non résolues qui demeurent ouvertes dans l’attente d’un nouvel indice – note du traducteur- ) On devrait pouvoir faire tout cela à partir de ressources existantes parce que le MOD a déjà toutes les capacités nécessaires pour enquêter sur les ovnis, qu’il s’agisse des systèmes de radars militaires ou l’analyse pointue de l’imagerie.
Il existe un énorme intérêt du public dans ce domaine. Lorsque le Royaume-Uni a obtenu son Freedom of Information Act, le MOD a reçu plus de demandes au sujet des OVNIS que tout autre sujet. Poussé par cet intérêt, un projet en cours de déclassifier les fichiers OVNIs du MOD a entraîné la publication de près de 60.000 pages de documentation, y compris les rapports d’observation autrefois classés X au MOD. Chaque fois qu’un lot de fichiers OVNI est publié, il fait de nouvelles manchettes dans le monde entier. Le dernier lot de dossiers sera rendu public cette année
Sans un endroit où les gens peuvent aller quand ils observent quelque chose d’étrange, nous ne pouvons pas être pleinement informés de ce qui se passe dans notre espace aérien. Et, après tout, même si nous sommes seuls dans l’univers, nous ne sommes pas seuls sur Terre…
UFOTV Presents - FIRE IN THE SKY: THE TRAVIS WALTON STORY – MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM
UFOTV Presents - FIRE IN THE SKY: THE TRAVIS WALTON STORY – MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM
Published on Apr 20, 2016
UFOTV® Accept no Imitations! (Please vote thumbs-up for UFOTV®!). Travis Walton was abducted by Aliens on November 5, 1975, while working with a logging crew at a remote location, and remained missing for five days. When the remaining men from the logging crew reported their encounter with the UFO and ensuing abduction to the authorities, the men were suspected of murder, and for five days authorities mounted a massive manhunt in search of Travis Walton, or his body. Then Walton reappeared, disoriented, suffering post traumatic stress and unable to tell the whole story of his terrifying encounter. The Walton case is the only alien abduction case with corroborating eyewitnesses, receiving mainstream publicity and remains today one of the best-known instances of alien abduction in history. UFO historians agree, few abduction reports have generated as much controversy as the Travis Walton case. In this presentation, Travis Walton relates in his own words, the best documented account of an alien abduction yet recorded, the story of his harrowing ordeal at the hands of his alien captors and his return to a disbelieving world of hostile interrogators and exploitative press. Travis recounts his struggle to get a fair hearing, and confronts his detractors with a stinging rebuttal. At the time of the event, Travis Walton recklessly left the safety of his logging truck to take a closer look at what appeared to be a UFO. Suddenly, as he walked toward the light, Walton was blasted back by a bolt of mysterious energy. His companions fled in fear. Get the facts about this shocking story from Travis Walton him self, the man that was captured by aliens, held for five days against his will, and lived to tell about it.
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London designer Phil Pauley is a modern day Jules Verne who has spent the past 20 years designing an underwater city . For Pauley, Sub-Biosphere 2 is more than just a fantasy - it’s a viable structure he hopes to see built in his lifetime. The self-sustaining, futuristic biosphere is designed to house 100 inhabitants underwater, and it’s the latest in a slew of projects that aim to ease housing shortages for a growing global population.
Phil Pauley Sub biosphere 2
The Central Support Biome controls and monitors life systems within the complex, including fresh air, water, food and electricity as well as atmospheric pressure control. Inside, the system will have a seed bank for growing hydroponic crops to feed the 100 inhabitants.
Phil Pauley Sub biosphere 2
London designer Phil Pauley is a modern day Jules Verne who has spent the past 20 years designing an underwater city . For Pauley, Sub-Biosphere 2 is more than just a fantasy - it’s a viable structure he hopes to see built in his lifetime. The self-sustaining, futuristic biosphere is designed to house 100 inhabitants underwater, and it’s the latest in a slew of projects that aim to ease housing shortages for a growing global population.
Phil Pauley Sub biosphere 2
Whether Pauley’s underwater world will see the light of day remains to be seen, but in the meantime the design consultant is seeking a publisher for a trilogy of self-penned science fiction books that appropriately take place in a civilization that lives under the sea.
Phil Pauley Sub biosphere 2
The surrounding individual pods would be split with ten stories above water and ten beneath the surface. The entire complex would be 1,105 feet wide, with anchoring on the sea floor.
Phil Pauley Sub biosphere 2
The Central pod would rise forty stories above water, while additional twenty would be submerged beneath the sea.
Phil Pauley Sub biosphere 2
Whether Pauley’s underwater world will see the light of day remains to be seen, but in the meantime the design consultant is seeking a publisher for a trilogy of self-penned science fiction books that appropriately take place in a civilization that lives under the sea.
Phil Pauley Sub biosphere 2
The network is made up of a Central Support Biome surrounded by eight spherical Living Biomes.
Researchers have developed a method of 3D printing cheese that could make it healthier, and it could also increase the options available to those with lactose intolerance.
DAIRY DEFICIENCY
Good news for anyone who suffers from dairy intolerance—avoiding and finding passable alternatives for it isn’t your only solution. Thanks to advancements in technology, you could possibly be printing the next cheese platter you serve at a dinner party.
But why bother when we already have alternatives available for those with an intolerance? Because unlike available options that we have now made of artificial cheese of dairy-free substitutes, 3D printed cheese will still be dairy-based—except it can be made minus all the bad stuff.
It basically uses a protein found in milk called sodium caseinate, which has a liquid feel but can easily solidify after it is released by the 3D printer. This means the consistency and flavor could be closer to the real thing.
CHEESE LOVERS
Take note that, like most cheese or any other dairy alternative, it only promises to be “close” to the real deal. Solidified sodium caseinate doesn’t necessarily translate to cheese, as it will require additional ingredients to ensure that the flavor and texture of the printed materials stays true to the original.
Because the entire process is still in its early stages, there is still very little information on what these additional ingredients might be. But since the goal of the 3D printed cheese is to become a healthier alternative, then it should be a low-fat, high-protein, lactose-free version that still tastes as amazing as real cheese.
The process also doesn’t completely take cows out of the equation, much to the disappointment of numerous environmentalists who are trying to draw focus on the world’s reliance on livestock. Milk still needs to be taken from cows to get the sodium caseinate—but this new process does present a lot of benefits by way of minimizing waste from spoilage.
Like many people, I have a love/hate relationship with dairy. I’m a big fan of chocolate and most ice creams, but when it comes to milk itself, I really dislike the flavor. With a few exceptions, I’m pretty anti-cheese, too, which baffles some of my cheese fanatic friends to the point of outrage. In another example of how life isn’t fair, I know several people who love all things dairy but had to stop consuming it all thanks to a lactose intolerance development. (Those are the people who hate me the most, because unlike them, I can have cheese, but I choose to throw away that gift.)
For all of us – those who dislike dairy, and those who are disliked by dairy – creative solutions must be found in order to maintain healthy levels of calcium and to have something to put on cereal. Thanks to a lactose intolerant family member, I’ve become well acquainted with the growing range of cowless milks – rice milk (or, as a young cousin calls it, “rice juice” – even more appetizing), almond milk, soy milk, coconut milk, etc. I can’t say I’m a big fan of those alternatives either, but never would I have thought of 3D printed milk as something that could…well, be a thing. Turns out it is, though – or will be, if some Dutch scientists succeed.
Researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands have partnered with dairy cooperativeFrieslandCampina to explore 3D printed dairy products. Why? Cheese addicts, rejoice: one day you may be able to feed your habit without guilt. Unlike cheese alternatives available now, 3D printed cheese would still be dairy-based, just with the bad stuff – i.e., the high cholesterol content – removed. The key is sodium caseinate, a protein found in milk. It’s a natural 3D printing material, as, according to Wageningen professor Maarten Schutyser, it has a “liquid feel” but quickly solidifies once extruded from a 3D printer.
Solidified sodium caseinate does not equal cheese, however, and that’s where things get nebulous. Additional ingredients would have to be added to the printer to get the final extruded product to match the flavor and texture of cheese or butter, and the project is still very much in the experimental stages in terms of what those ingredients might be or how they might be combined. Ideally, the final product would be high-protein, low-fat, great-tasting and lactose-free dairy with a lower environmental impact than traditionally manufactured cheese. But after all that tinkering, is it still “real” milk, or cheese, or butter? (When is a cheese not a cheese? Discuss.)
It’s easy to be skeptical about such an endeavor. As environmentalists raise concerns about our reliance on livestock, 3D printed dairy doesn’t take cows out of the equation. Cows’ milk is still required to obtain the sodium caseinate for the base of the product, but if sodium caseinate is the only thing still making it technically dairy, why not just stick with the already existing alternatives? (It’s also interesting to note that sodium caseinate is an ingredient in “non-dairy” creamers, so apparently the term “dairy” is up for debate.)
The environmental benefits would likely come from reduced waste from spoilage during the production process, but again, the question of whether 3D printing dairy products will be worth it is still very much up in the air. Right now, it’s an experiment, and whether or not it will actually come to fruition (milk-ition? I’m sorry. Really, I am sorry.) remains to be seen. The same can be said for most 3D printed food, actually, as researchers study ways to print new foods rather than just extruding chocolate pastes into fun shapes, which is essentially what 3D food printers currently do. The ultimate question is whether 3D printing can be used to create foods that are healthier, better-tasting, or that otherwise hold a big enough advantage over their traditional counterparts to make them more than just a novelty.
Then there’s the question of public reception. GMOs are the bogeyman of the moment, and raw or paleo diets are the current fad as nutritionists exhort us to stop eating processed foods. Will people trust milk products that have been so altered and, well, processed? Surveys have shown that the majority of people are still pretty queasy about the idea of 3D printed food. It’s all a question of whether scientists truly can develop 3D printed foods whose benefits clearly and significantly present themselves, and even then it’s going to take some serious marketing to get the public on board. But we’ll never know unless we try. What do you think about this? Talk about it in the 3D Printed Dairy forum over at 3DPB.com.
A scientist just unveiled a new idea regarding how EmDrive, the 'impossible engine' that functions without fuel, actually works. But don't plan on heading to the stars just yet.
THE SPACE TRAVEL OF THE FUTURE?
EmDrive is at it again, it seems. Recently, Mike McCulloch, from Plymouth University in the U.K., unveiled a theory that aims to explain how this physics-breaking mode of travel couldactually work. And his theory has some proponents of this method of transport rather excited.
But before we go into the newly proposed theory: A quick summary of what EmDrive actually is.
In short, EmDrive could allow us to explore our universe in ways that, today, we can only dream about…if it’s ever developed, that is. It works (or should work) thanks to microwaves. The claim is, you bounce microwaves back and forth inside a truncated cone, and the result will be a thrust toward the narrow end of the cone.
That seems simple enough, yes? After all, you are just converting kinetic energy into another form of energy.
Well, here is the kicker: The total momentum increases as the device begins to move. That is like placing yourself inside a box, pushing on the side, and generating thrust. Sounds silly, doesn’t it? Well, here is another kicker: To date, a number of teams around the world have built their own versions of the EmDrive. And they generate thrust…but only a tiny amount.
And, alas, we don’t know where this increased momentum comes from. Critics assert that this is a violation of the law of conservation of momentum (which is part of the fundamental physics that governs our universe). Moreover, scientists assert that there are other effects that could, in essence, be producing a false positive and generating this increased thrust.
To that end, a host of scientists have been trying to work out whether this is an anomaly or if it actually works (and if so, how). This is where McCulloch comes in.
EmDrive. Credit: Elvis Popovic
A NEW IDEA
In short, the new theory is based on ideas regarding inertia and the way objects move under very small accelerations. It has to do with something called “the Unruh effect.” This asserts that an accelerating object experiences black body radiation, meaning that the universe warms up when you accelerate. And in this regard, according to McCulloch, inertia is the pressure the Unruh radiation exerts on an accelerating body.
As MIT notes, “at very small accelerations, the wavelengths of Unruh radiation become so large they can no longer fit in the observable universe. When this happens, inertia can take only certain whole-wavelength values and so jumps from one value to the next. In other words, inertia must quantized at small accelerations.”
Thus, the inertia of photons that are inside of the aforementioned truncated cone have to change as they bounce back and forth. And to conserve momentum, this must generate a thrust.
The Unruh effect (basically) says that an accelerated object should see a thermal background due to background quantum fluctuations. The calculation of the Unruh effect is straightforward, and isn’t controversial. Unruh radiation is (basically) the idea that in the detection of this thermal background you can trigger the emission of real particles. In other words, can you create real radiation ‘out of the vacuum.’ So they are claiming Unruh radiation is real, and causing the EM effect.
So. Is this the solution we needed? Well, maybe not.
In the end, there are a number of ways that individuals have attempted to explain EmDrive, and to date, none of them have been shown to provide a conclusive answer. And while MuCulloch’s idea is based upon long established theoretical ideas, he applies the ideas is rather unconventional (and controversial) ways.
Koberlein notes that the work, in itself, is certainly valuable, stating, “they are trying to fit the results to a model, and looking for testable predictions, both of which are great.” However, he clarifies, saying that we need to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism.
In relation to the idea that the Unruh effect is responsible for inertia, he asserts, “the quantized inertia idea at least makes some predictions that can be tested, so that’s not bad;” however, this does not mean that it is responsible for the thrust that is seen in relation to the EmDrive. He continues, “the idea that the EM effect can account for the flyby anomaly is weak tea. To begin with, just because it can be made to fit under certain assumptions, it isn’t the same as predicting an effect. Secondly, there are lots of proposed explanations for the flyby effect, most of which are more mundane and don’t require exotic physics (such as radio chirps).”
So it seems that it may be a little early to assert that we have figured out how EmDrive really works. As Koberlein concludes, “The biggest challenge they still have is that these results are so extraordinarily small that lots of things can explain them. They aren’t there yet, though.”
SCIENTIST CONFIRM THE EXISTENCE OF ALIEN ENTITIES 2016! (A MUST WATCH!)
SCIENTIST CONFIRM THE EXISTENCE OF ALIEN ENTITIES 2016! (A MUST WATCH!)
Published on Apr 16, 2016
HAVE (ITE) INVISIBLE TERRESTRIAL ALIEN ENTITIES BEEN DISCOVERED IN 2016? Apparently as it turns out, We are not alone in the Universe. Scientist at the Thunder Energies Corp. have found and proved the existence of intelligent life just outside our atmosphere. Thunder Energies Corp (TNRG:OTC) has recently detected invisible entities in our terrestrial environment with the revolutionary Santilli telescope with concave lenses (Trade Mark and patent pending by Thunder Energies). Thunder Energies Corporation has previously presented confirmations of the apparent existence of antimatter galaxies, antimatter asteroids and antimatter cosmic rays detected in preceding tests. In this breaking news, Thunder Energies presents evidence for the existence of Invisible Terrestrial Entities (ITE) of the dark and bright type.
"This is an exciting discovery. We do not know what these entities are; they’re completely invisible to our eyes, our binoculars, or traditional Galileo telescopes, but these objects are fully visible in cameras attached to our Santilli telescope,” stated Dr. Ruggero Santilli, CEO Thunder Energies Corp.
While it's deep space capabilities are well documented in scientific journals, it was only by chance that our telescope detected invisible terrestrial entities within the earth's atmosphere. Scientifically, this should be impossible because when ordinary matter and anti-matter come into contact, the annihilate one another.
So, what are these invisible terrestrial entities (ITE) that have been observed and photographed? These entities defy our current scientific knowledge. Some appear to move at highly erratic speeds while others appear to be almost stationary. Some ITE appear as dark entities while others give off a luminous glow. To say anything beyond this would be speculation. What I can say is that these entities are invisible to the human eye and to conventional telescopes and binoculars; they can only be observed with our telescope.
Dr. Santilli has developed his telescope with concave lenses also for the study of other forms of light besides antimatter light. Thunder Energies Corporation is supporting research for the possible conversion of matter-light, from its conventional form with positive index of refraction, into a form with negative index of refraction without its necessary origination from antimatter (TEC international patent pending).
What do you think about this? Are Invisible entities peering down on earth from space? And if so, Have they always been there? And what is their purpose? Mr. Anthony Patch gives a very in depth look at what Scientist at the Thunder Energies Corp. have really found. We hope this helps answer any questions on this fantastic recent finding.
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Atlantis: Examining the Legendary Tale of Plato
Atlantis: Examining the Legendary Tale of Plato
Around 360 BC, in his dialogues of Timaeus and Critias, the Greek philosopher Plato introduced an incredible story, a tale of an enigmatic island civilization which has since captivated the imagination of every generation that followed. This was the story of Atlantis, thought to be one of the most advanced societies of the ancient world, an idyllic island paradise of skillful navigators capable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean to conquer and explore!
"For it is related in our records how once upon a time your State stayed the course of a mighty host, .....and it was possible for travelers of that time to cross from it (from Atlantis) to the other islands and from the islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses the veritable (Atlantic) ocean ..."
– Plato
Plato’s Tale
Today, popular theories place Atlantis in locations like off the coast of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, around the Azores islands in the middle of the Atlantic, somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle off the coast of the United States, or even in more exotic locations such as Antarctica and Indonesia. Of course more mainstream studies point to the tiny island of Santorini, the island of Crete, Malta, Spain, and other archaeological sites around the Mediterranean. Overall, there are countless theories on the location of Atlantis, while more seem to surface every year.
Artist’s representation of Atlantis. Source: BigStockPhoto
Despite all the scientific and nonscientific speculation though, and due to the lack of tangible evidence in the past, the vast majority of modern historians believe that Plato’s tale of Atlantis is either a myth, or they assume Plato crafted a story around a fictional place while using a mix of real elements from later times.
Is it possible then that the story of Atlantis was entirely a figment of Plato’s imagination? It is certainly possible, although if the story is not real, how otherwise can we explain the tangible evidence that supports Plato's story, including a recently discovered site that perfectly matches Atlantis' description.
Essentially, and contrary to a common belief that Plato’s Atlantis may have been somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, a recent study shows that Plato's island of Atlantis was in the Mediterranean Sea and just few kilometers north of the island of Santorini. This now-underwater primary island, along with the island of Santorini, fits Plato's entire description of Atlantis.
Lost in Translation
To successfully decode Plato’s puzzle, and to ensure that the meaning from the original Greek story was not lost during translation, the English version was compared to the Greek format which has entirely different syntactic structure. (Actually, when it comes to Greek, sometimes even a single comma can cause a short sentence to have two different meanings. A good example is a famous quote from the oracle of Delphi. "Go, return not die in war" can have two entirely opposite meanings, depending on where a missing comma is supposed to be - before or after - the word "not.") This recent evaluation of Plato's text revealed that simple errors and flawed interpretations by early translators led many researchers in the past to look for Atlantis in all the wrong places. Consequently, unlike all past “discoveries,” including recent ones that led to more speculation rather than real evidence, for the first time, there is a tangible site where all the physical characteristics perfectly match Plato’s account.
Lost Island Found
It seems that 11,000 years ago, according to Plato the story of Atlantis took place, many of the Cyclades Islands were connected by a flat terrain, today called the “Cyclades Plateau.” This now-400 feet (122 meters) underwater plateau formed the body of a large island, while the modern islands of the Cyclades fashioned rows of mountains that emerged in all the “right places,” when those are compared to Plato’s story!
Just as Plato described Atlantis, the northern portion of this island was entirely comprised of mountains which reached the shores. There was an oblong valley directly below this mountainous region, and a second valley closer to the center of the island that was encircled by low rise mountains. This central valley was two thirds in size of the oblong valley. Moreover, Santorini itself, a setting of an island within an island, and a place where many mainstream archaeologists in the past had placed the crown-city of Atlantis, falls precisely within 5.6 miles (nine km) from the grand island, and as Plato depicted (See image below, from the book “ Uchronia Atlantis Revealed ”.)
“....an island comprising mostly of mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south extending in one direction three thousand stadia (about 555km 2), but across the center island it was two thousand stadia (about 370km 2). Fifty stadia (9km) from the coast was a mountain that was low on all sides…broke it off all round about…the central island itself was five stades in diameter (about 0.92km)”.
- Plato
(Image courtesy author)
Interestingly, and just as Plato mentioned, this super-island drowned by the sea at around 8000 BC during the rapid rise of the Mediterranean and just prior to the flooding of the Black Sea (see 2005 UNESCO study). So, in light of this latest discovery, having a site that finally matches Plato's description of Atlantis, is it possible to accept that Plato's story was based on a real setting and a prehistoric civilization known to ancient Greeks? Of course it is, especially since disproving a perfectly matching site may be even more difficult than finding such a site to begin with.
Consequently, earlier this year, the same image was sent to a popular blog site (one that prides itself to contain the most comprehensive data on Atlantis) with the following comments:
" ....if we remain true to Plato’s account and look for a setting at around 9600 BC, the place on the image must have been the prehistoric site Plato was talking about, whether ‘Atlantis’ as we know it was real or not. As you see, the geography is perfectly identical, the volcanic geology is there, and the flora and fauna (including elephants) chronologically match the topography. Furthermore, a pre-Bronze Age civilization in the immediate area further reinforces this likelihood. If Plato’s Atlantis was ever real, this site offers the perfect match! As you also know, before any geographical area qualifies to be considered the site of Plato’s Atlantis, the 2005 conference of Milos established two dozen criteria. This site meets most of these criteria while the remaining few, especially past suppositions ‘hinting’ to its possible location being somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, are also explained when properly interpreting Plato from ancient Greek to English.… Obviously, it is no longer considered a farfetched hypothesis to accept that, 10,000 years ago, humans were more advanced and just as Plato asserted. Along with the ancient city of Jericho in Palestine, which long ago was determined that some of its structures date back to the 10th millennium BC, the mega-site of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey (12000BC), as well as the submerged city off the coast of West India in the Gulf of Cambay (8000BC), prove conclusively that prehistoric humans had progressed earlier than anthropologists previously thought.”
- Christos A. Djonis
Regardless of the many archaeological discoveries though, which clearly point to past advanced civilizations, it seems that most skeptics continue to argue, as this blogger did, that “Plato’s 9,000-year-old Atlantis conflicts with common sense and archaeology.” In fact, he also indicated that “since several details in Plato’s story are not compatible with the 10th millennium BC (horse races, triremes, the city of Athens, Egypt, etc.), that leaves no doubt in his mind that Atlantis was a myth.”
Subsequently, in order to demonstrate how important supportive details are to a true story, and to show how Plato's story suffers from verifiable details, a few days later he posted an article in his regular blog in which he outlined the military and the ‘population of Atlantis,’ (which he based on three different past theories) and pointed out that those theoretical numbers cannot be right.
While, of course, this can be explained in a couple of ways, one being the so-called ‘expert’ opinions in the three conflicting examples are wrong, conversely, he never discussed or explained away the ancient island on the image proposed. Apparently, as other skeptics often do, he formed an opinion he based either on modern interpretations of the story, or on oddities from Plato’s own account, as if every “true story” we are ever told always turn out to be real down to the last detail.
Fictions Turned Reality
So, were the Atlantians truly a prehistoric civilization as Plato claimed, or was that a myth? Was the story of Atlantis entirely a product of Plato’s imagination, or is it possible he created a fable around a real setting and an ancient civilization known to ancient Greeks, which in order to successfully communicate some of his philosophical ideas, (divine vs. human, ideal societies vs. corrupt) he filled with familiar matter and details from later times. Could this ideological story otherwise appeal to his audience if they could not connect or relay to it?
A parallel example, of Plato’s legend of Atlantis, is Homer’s Iliad. Just as in the case of Atlantis, for several centuries we thought that the city of Troy—the centerpiece in Homer’s epic saga—was a myth. All that changed obviously when Heinrich Schliemann, an amateur archaeologist, found Troy in 1868 while following location tips from Homer’s book.
In the case of Troy, after discarding all the details regarding beauty queens, demigods, Trojan horses and scaling back the armies to more rational levels, it was ultimately acknowledged the setting, as well as the bulk of this story, were real. Essentially, Homer’s entirely fictional story, which he filled with principles and common elements from his own time, apparently revolved around a true setting and a real incident which took place nearly six centuries before his time.
The walls of the acropolis belong to Troy VII, which is identified as the site of the Trojan War (c. 1200 BC). ( CC BY-SA 3.0 )
Another example that proves the “true part” of a story does not always rest in the details, is the account that surrounds the historic Battle of Thermopylae. In this case, we have ancient reports of a famous battle which in order to reasonably authenticate, we had to know the factions involved as well as their military force. Do we have such a legitimate testimony? Not exactly! What we have is far from real. More specifically, Herodotus wrote that King Leonidas, with 300 Spartans, along with few thousand Greeks, fought against 2.6 million Persians, followed by two million support personnel. The poet Simonides reported that the Persian army reached four million. Ctesias, a Greek physician and historian downscaled the Persian forces to 800,000.
Greek phalanx formation based on sources from the Perseus Project. ( Public Domain )
Just as in the case of Atlantis, once more, we are presented with conflicting and grossly exaggerated figures. If these guys were the ‘credible’ sources we got this true story from, why then did we discard their details and create our own? After brushing aside the troop count as quoted in all ancient accounts, modern calculations indicate that the Persian force could not have been higher than 300,000 troops.
In the case of Thermopylae, amongst other debatable details, did the ancient Greek historians inflate the size of the Persian army? Of course they did, as the story undoubtedly sounds better that way. Ultimately though, and regardless of the enormous inconsistencies in the facts, we accept this story as real. Interestingly, Troy and Thermopylae are not isolated cases in our recorded history, which is full of stories with serious discrepancies and circumstances where mythological places, or “fairy-tales,” eventually turned out to be true. Such, among others, was the Palace of Knossos in Crete, which it was associated with the Minotaur (a mythical beast of half man and half bull.)
Fundamental Questions
So, a fundamental question remains. Was Atlantis simply a cautionary tale or is it possible that Plato crafted a tale based on a real setting and a prehistoric civilization known to ancient Greeks, while he supplemented all the ‘modern’ details (including the familiar Minoan aspects) as Homer similarly did few hundred years before him? If true, the ‘true-part’ of this story, as in the case of Troy, should not rest in the details, but in the detection and authentication of Plato’s “lost island.” Identifying a perfectly matching site, one that preferably exhibits signs of an advanced civilization in the area, should be the first step in solving this mystery.
Is it possible then that the “mighty host” who “stayed the course” (inhabited the path) to mainland Greece be that of the prehistoric island of the Cyclades Plateau? Certainly every element of this site seems to match Plato’s given chronology as well as physical description. If so, can the signs of an early Neolithic presence in the immediate area be the remnants of an even older civilization that was able to recover on the surrounding islands after the Great Flood at the end of the last Ice Age? And finally, was that lost civilization capable of navigating to the Americas via island hopping as Plato claimed?
According to the same study, and as best demonstrated in the book “ Uchronia Atlantis Revealed”, the enormous island/continent Plato mentioned on the opposite side of the Atlantic, “across from the Pillars of Hercules" (Strait of Gibraltar,) one that “encompasses that veritable ocean” and is “larger than Libya and Asia combined," was that of America and not of Atlantis, as many had speculated in the past (see also Ancient Origins article titled, The Legendary Hyperborea and the Ancient Greeks: Who Really Discovered America? )
Traveling Genetics
If so, can this very early knowledge of the American continent best explain how haplogroup X, a Middle Eastern gene, found itself in the region of the Great Lakes 10,000 years ago? If an advanced Mediterranean culture did not travel to North America via island hopping as Plato claimed, how else then can we justify that elevated concentrations of haplogroup X also ‘strangely’ exist in Scotland, Orkney Islands, Faroe Islands, and Iceland, essentially all the island stops on the way to North America from Europe. Finally, how do we otherwise explain that official mtDNA maps show that the highest concentration of haplogroup X away from the eastern Mediterranean exists on the east coast of North America, around the Great Lakes, and not in Alaska or alongside the west coast of the United States, where mainstream scientists maintain haplogroup X infiltrated the American continent. The fact that there is no conclusive scientific explanation to justify the lack of haplogroup X in the enormous void between Altai Republic in southern Russia and the greater region of the Great Lakes, unquestionably raises legitimate doubts on the Bering Strait hypothesis.
mtDNA Map: Spread of Haplogroup X (Courtesy author)
As for the Solutrean/Clovis theory (Europeans simply made it to America on a partial ice sheet via the Atlantic), how can the supporters of this hypothesis rationalize that out of a dozen distinct haplogroups in Europe at the time (H,V,J,HV,U,T,UK,X,W, and I), only haplogroup X conveniently made it to North America?
If we ignore Plato's claim that a particular race of prehistoric Mediterranean navigators (in a contained environment) crossed the Atlantic via island hopping 10,000 years ago, and simply assume that 10 millennia ago the path to North America was open from both directions (the north Atlantic as well as the Bering Strait), how do we explain that only a single European/Mediterranean gene managed the journey to the New World via the Atlantic, while on the opposite side, every one of the four Asian haplogroups (A,B,C and D) sequentially followed each other to America through the Bering Strait?
Finally, as for the general notion that Atlantis “was swallowed by the sea and vanished” this is simply another misconception.
"But at a later time there occurred portentous earth quakes and floods, and one grievous day and night .... And the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished."
- Plato
We must not ignore that in the same paragraph Plato points out that Atlantis' demise came after several “portentous earthquakes and floods.” The mention of earthquakes and floods in the plural not only confirms that the island’s destruction was gradual but this statement further corroborates that the periodic floods were most likely associated with the rise of the oceans as earlier indicated. Furthermore, the remark “one grievous day and night”, more of a stock phrase among Greeks, does not necessarily imply that the island was lost within 24 hours, but that the end event occurred at some unknown point in time.
Not speaking in literal terms but poetically, Plato said the island on that very day was “swallowed” (claimed) by the sea, and it “vanished.” In another paragraph though, he accurately describes the particular region and explains that once the flood cycle finally ended, the mountain tops of Atlantis remained above water and formed small islands (just as in the case of the modern Cyclades). Poetically once more, he compared these small islets to the “bones of the wasted body” of the "country" that once was there.
"The consequence is, that in comparison of what then was, there are remaining in small islets only the bones of the wasted body, as they may be called, all the richer and softer parts of the soil having fallen away, and the mere skeleton of the country being left."
A Mexican researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), one of Europe’s top universities, has designed an amazing device which can help in locating cancerous tumors in the brain.
The device is conceived by David Oliva Uribe, president of the Mexican Talent Network Abroad chapter in Belgium. The device will help surgeons differentiate between cancerous and healthy tissue in the brain.
Removing brain tumors requires a high level of precision; there’s almost no room for error as even a single mistake can lead to brain damage, motor impairment, or failure in controlling vital organ function.
This device, known as a “smart scalpel,” is the size of a scalpel, but the tip is spherical and of a diameter smaller than one millimeter. Using this device, doctors can discover exactly where the tumor is and remove it more precisely.
Uribe explained, “Although imaging techniques such as an MRI and an ultrasound locate a tumor accurately before the surgery, during the cranial opening and throughout the surgical procedure there are many factors that can lead to the loss of this position, so the resection (the removing of the tumor) depends on the experience, as well as the senses of sight and touch of the surgeon.”
The device has been tested on tumors in pig brains with successful results, making it feasible to be adapted for use on humans as well.
Nidhi Goyal
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In the volcanic Gegham and Vardenis Mountains of Armenia, architect Suren Petrosyan discovered unique and mysterious astrological rock art paintings.
Experts have different opinions on the creation chronology of the rock art paintings found in the basin of Lake Sevan and along the slopes of Mount Aragats. Some think these rock art paintings were created in the third to second millennium BC, others claim about the fifth to fourth millennium BC, and there are researchers who date them to 10th millennium BC. It is not surprising, since the study and chronology of rock art paintings is very difficult.
The dramatic volcanic landscape of the Gegham Mountains, Armenia (MEDIACRAT, CC BY-SA 3.0 )
However, there is no doubt that these rock art paintings illustrating stellar maps have thousands of years’ history.
When you visit the mountains where these astrological paintings—some made with a natural paint made of red volcanic mineral, others carved into the rock—have been created, immediately you notice the wide skies which seem almost too close to the Earth. The starry sky is especially clear and bright, which inspires one to go back to the past and for a moment to appear beside our ancestors, and see how they saw.
And at a time when there were no magnifying devices, the fact that the Armenian Highland is high enough above sea level (1700 to 1800 meters, or 5577 to 5905 feet), and about 500 to 600 meters (1600 to 2000 feet) high from the neighboring countries, contributed to witnessing breathtaking clarity of the starry sky.
In this regard, great importance was placed on rock art paintings on the hill called “Sheikhi Chingil” in the Gegham mountains, and on the peak of Sevsar in Vardenis Mountains—the former above sea level about 3500 meters (11,482 feet), and the latter at about 300 meters (984 feet).
Celestial Rock Art
These rock art paintings differ from the rest of Armenian petroglyphs because they are exclusively dedicated to the worship of the heavenly bodies, including the sun, moon, planets, stars, and unusual compositions of figures. In these places even the so-called “ordinary” rock art paintings are inextricably linked to the starry sky.
Many Armenian scientists have studied these unique ancient astronomic centers and their stellar maps, but historian and archaeologist Harutyun Martirosyan came to conclusion that the ancestors of Armenians, while worshiping the heavenly bodies, recognized several important quantitative and qualitative patterns of the celestial world.
Accordingly, it is clear that the heavenly bodies that were carved into the rock were based on accurate observations, that thousands of years ago our ancestors have differentiated not only the sun and the moon, but also planets, stars, and constellations which were separated into respective images and symbols only in the third millennium BC.
Obviously, ancient man not only noticed, but also depicted the movement of the stars that helped them to clearly understand and mark day and night, and the passage of time—seasons, days, even hours. Our ancestors differentiated the long, medium and short days based on the movements of the near and distant stars and planets.
Thus, Armenians’ ancestors’ understanding of the night sky came from religious circles.
The Sun and Moon: Siblings in the Sky
If we look at the disks of the sun in our rock art paintings, then you see that they are portrayed differently: in varying positions, the disks of the sun portray the morning, noon and evening. The sun is depicted through four concentric circles according to its rotation.
Rock art at the Sevsar Astrological Observatory, Armenia. (Photo courtesy writer.)
Armenians’ ancestors believed that the sun and the moon are siblings. That's why they often depicted the moon, like the sun, in the circle. However, unlike the sun, the moon was depicted with two concentric circles, that reflects two main stages of the moon.
Drawings detailing the rock art symbols (Image courtesy writer)
Following the sun, moon and stars movements, regularities, and their quantitative expressions, ancient Armenians generalized all these in numbers, studying count and arithmetic from nature.
So they gave the sun one point, the sun and the moon two points, the moon and the stars three points, five points they gave to the planets and added to the sun and the moon, it becomes seven points. And the number 7 occupies the main place in all initial calculations of man, especially since it exactly matches with the changes of the moon phases.
That is why, in “Sheikhi Chingil” rock art paintings we are repeatedly met with such groups of heavenly bodies, of which the sum is 7.
Numbers of Astronomy
The first of rock art painting is relatively small, and has inner and outer frames. There are 28 long rays on big frame.
Drawings detailing the rock art symbols (Image courtesy writer)
If we consider that the moon is seen from the region of Armenia for only 28 days during the month, then we have to accept the full relationship of the duration of the lunar month and the “Sheikhi Chingil” ray numbers. So it becomes obvious that we are really dealing with the calculations of lunar month which consists of four weeks, the beginning of which was determined by the specific observations.
Based on these images, we can assume that one of the highest places of the Gegham Mountains, “Sheikhi Chingil”, was a temple-observatory for the ancient Armenians, from where they watched the bright bodies of light in the sky, counted the number of days and months, and they made predictions based on the observed movements.
Ancient Astronomy at Sevsar
The rock art paintings of Sevsar, which are one of the most unique rock art paintings in the world, both by form or by its content, are hugely significant. By studying the rock art depictions, researchers came to the conclusion that Sevsar was an ancient astronomic center.
Rock art at Sevsar, Armenia. There are 15 pictured rock-pieces within an area of 50 by 20 meters (164 by 66 feet). (Photo courtesy writer).
On this collection of "star maps" there are a large number of images similar to constellations, which are divided into groups. One group has seven points, the other one 38 points, and four semi-spherical figures are carved separately. There are 56 points on a stone, so we can see here the same 7, 14, 28 numbers as at “Sheikhi Chingil” in the remote mountains. So using this star map, we can find the number of days in two lunar months.
This fact allows us to multiply the number 28 by 12, and we will get 336, which is equal to 12 lunar months’ duration. And if we multiply all 60 figures of rock art paintings by 6 (30X12), then we will get 360, which is also close to the solar year duration.
Ancient rock art paintings featuring symbols of lunar and solar events. (Photo courtesy writer).
Ancient rock art paintings featuring symbols of celestial events. (Photo courtesy writer).
The second stone of Sevsar contains a number of celestial bodies which show the calculation of the ‘tropical month’ or vernal equinox. Semi-spherical bodies are arranged in three rows and each of them has 31 points (total of 62), and the tropical month has 31 days.
Solar Calendar
The third rock of the Sevsar occupies six square meters (65 square feet) and presents a marvelous calendar.
On this “star map” four groups of celestial bodies are clearly distinguished, including geometrical images, human and animal figures, etc. Seven figures are placed in the center of the map which seems to be a solar system.
Here we can see two of 12 constellations: “Aries” the Ram and “Gemini” the Twins, from which begins and ends the solar rotation of the spring cycle.
Constellations are depicted as humans, animals and geometric figures. (Image courtesy writer).
The number and layout of figures in the rock art paintings leads to the conclusion that the ancestors of Armenians were predicting the four seasons which directly were depended on the sun's position.
Pursuant to the Solar Calendar of Armenian ancestors, half of the year contained 186 days. Surely the Sevsar calendar contained an almost unerring number of days of a half year.
It is surprising that the 365 days of the modern calendar are also reflected in Sevsar rock art paintings, which is in "Aries" Constellation.
Having such a perfect calendar and being able to determine the exact time of the precise half day of summer solstice by the shortest shadow of the sun, our ancient chroniclers could arrange, through exact calculations, the sequence of holidays and rituals.
The neighboring Mesopotamia and Egypt in third millennium BC were using not only the calendar, but also used sand and water clocks, however, it is obvious that the earliest Lunar-Solar calendar (about fifth to fourth millennium BC) in Armenia undoubtedly is more progressive compared to the astrological calendars of Egypt and Babylon.
All the evidence that we have at our disposal confirms that the ancestors of Armenians practically knew some patterns of movement of celestial bodies, the recognition and use of which was one of the main conditions for their progress, especially in agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting, and the arts.
Death Plunge Of Venus Spacecraft Reveals Surprisingly Cold Temperatures On The Hottest Planet
Death Plunge Of Venus Spacecraft Reveals Surprisingly Cold Temperatures On The Hottest Planet
by Jonathan O'Callaghan
photo credit: Venus Express began entering the Venusian atmosphere in June 2014. ESA/C. Carreau
In December 2014, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express probe was purposefully sent to its death in the atmosphere of Venus at the end of its mission. Now, scientists have revealed some of the science returned from that fatal plunge – and the results are truly fascinating.
The dip into the Venusian atmosphere began in June 2014. The spacecraft, which launched in November 2005, was nearing the end of its mission. With limited fuel available, scientists decided to make the most of a unique opportunity to probe unexplored regions of Venus, namely its upper atmosphere and its poles. The findings from this finale have now been published in the journal Nature Physics.
"None of Venus Express' instruments were actually designed to make such in-situ atmosphere observations,” said lead author Ingo Müller-Wodarg of Imperial College London, UK, in a statement. “We only realized in 2006 – after launch! – that we could use the Venus Express spacecraft as a whole to do more science."
What these results reveal is that parts of Venus are much, much colder than expected. The average temperature on Venus makes it the hottest world in the Solar System, with its thick atmosphere trapping heat and giving rise to scorching temperatures of 460°C (860°F) on the surface.
But measurements taken by Venus Express at an altitude of 130 to 140 kilometers (81 to 87 miles) above the surface have revealed the atmosphere near the poles has temperatures far below that on Earth. In fact, the polar atmosphere on Venus drops to -157°C (-251°F), which is 70 degrees colder than expected. It is also 22 to 40 percent less dense than thought.
"These lower densities could be at least partly due to Venus' polar vortices, which are strong wind systems sitting near the planet's poles,” said Müller-Wodarg. “Atmospheric winds may be making the density structure both more complicated and more interesting!"
Venus Express used the atmosphere of Venus to slow its velocity, known as aerobraking. ESA/C. Carreau
Another interesting finding was that the polar region is dominated by something known as atmospheric gravity waves. Don’t be fooled by the name, though; these are nothing to do with the more widely-known gravitational waves. Instead, atmospheric gravity waves are ripples in the atmosphere that travel vertically, from low to high altitudes, as the density decreases. We actually have some of these on Earth.
Venus Express found that there were atmospheric waves originating from the upper cloud layer on Venus, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) above the surface. In addition, larger-scale waves caused by the planet’s spin, known as planetary waves, were also found to be present.
To make these findings, Venus Express was required to perform aerobraking maneuvers, using the Venusian atmosphere to slow the spacecraft’s velocity. And this maneuver could have implications for the European Trace Gas Orbiter, currently on its way to Mars, which will use a similar technique to measure the composition of various gases in the Martian atmosphere.
Venus Express may have died a fiery death more than a year ago, but results from the mission are still turning up some surprises. And with Japan’s Akatsuki mission recently beginning its own science mission around Venus, it's clear there is still much to learn about the second planet from the Sun.
De homo sapiens sterft uit... Maak kennis met de cyborg
De homo sapiens sterft uit... Maak kennis met de cyborg
Nathalie Pérez
Zeg jij nee tegen een chip in je brein waarmee je sneller kunt denken en werken? Wil jij geen sterkere ledematen als je eigen armen en benen versleten zijn? Zeg maar jawel, want ook jij wordt een cyborg!
Een cyborg is gedeeltelijk mens en gedeeltelijk machine. Al vanaf het begin van de Science Fiction films en series zien we regelmatig cyborgs op het witte doek. RoboCop is een cyborg, Iron Man is cyborg en Darth Vader uit Star Wars is ook een cyborg. In de toekomst lopen we cyborgs misschien wel gewoon tegen het ‘lijf’ op straat. En wie weet.. worden we er zelf een, zodat we nét wat beter kunnen denken, werken, ons voortbewegen en bouwen. Die toekomst is nabij, want cyborgs zijn al volop in de maak!
Nieuwe organen, pacemakers en gerepareerde zintuigen De wetenschap komt steeds met nieuwe dingen om ons lichaam sterker en beter te maken. In principe wordt het nu alleen nog voor medische doeleinden gebruikt, bijvoorbeeld als je hart niet goed meer werkt of als je invalide bent. Je krijgt dan een pacemaker of een prothese. Op dit moment wordt er ook gewerkt om nieuwe organen te maken voor mensen waarvan het eigen orgaan niet (meer) goed functioneert. Voor die kunstorganen worden synthetische stoffen gebruikt die vervolgens in het lichaam geïmplementeerd worden. Een stukje kunststof smelt samen met het lichaam en het lichaam kan er langer tegenaan. Verder is er voor slechthorenden en doven de Cochlear en zijn wetenschappers aan het werk om blinden elektroden in het netvlies te geven waardoor ze weer kunnen zien. Met de wetenschap kunnen we dus flink aan het lichaam en de zintuigen sleutelen. Alleen ben je dan niet meer alleen mens; je bent deels gefabriceerd en dus een cyborg.
Protheses besturen met je brein Zo leven er al duizenden mannen en vrouwen met een pacemaker bij hun hart. En krijgen mensen die bijvoorbeeld door een ongeluk een deel van hun been of arm kwijt zijn een prothese. Protheses zijn steeds minder goed van een echte armen en benen te onderscheiden. Sommige protheses smelten zelfs helemaal samen met het zenuwstelsel, waardoor de drager ze kan besturen met het brein. Gewoon alsof het een eigen arm of been is, met eigen bestuurbare vingers en tenen. Natuurlijk is bewegen nog niet zo gemakkelijk en soepel als bewegen met een echt menselijke ledemaat; het begin is gemaakt en dat betekent ook geen fantoompijn meer in de toekomst!
Jesse Sullivan leert zijn bionische prothese te besturen – DEKA Research and Development & The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Voor de mensen die liever geen stalen arm aan hun lichaam laten monteren, is er een robot die je kunt besturen met je eigen gedachtes via een chip in je brein. De mogelijkheden door deze uitvinding zijn werkelijk eindeloos, want als we in de toekomst organen, weefsels, huiden etc. kunnen namaken, kunnen er levensechte robots gebouwd worden die je gewoon zelf kunt besturen via een ingebouwd chipje. Eigenlijk hoef je dan zelf niet eens meer de deur uit, als je daar geen zin in hebt.
Verlamde vrouw bestuurt robotarm met haar gedachtes – Nature Videos
Beter met meer vingers Natuurlijk willen we wél zelf blijven bewegen en de deur uit gaan (meestal dan). Kunnen we dan misschien béter bewegen met wat elektronische toevoegsels? Met een pacemaker, prothese of robotarm verleg je namelijk niet de grenzen van de mens. Een robotarm is dan wel sterker dan de arm van een mens, en een pacemaker kan in combinatie met een nieuw, synthetisch hart misschien wel honderden jaren meegaan; deze uitvindingen geven je geen éxtra functies. Als je toch een cyborg wordt, wil je natuurlijk ook iets extra’s kunnen of iets beter kunnen. Protheses (bionische protheses) geven wel die extra functionaliteit. Je kunt dan met prothese beter functioneren dan met een normaal lichaamsdeel. Zo kreeg drummer Jason Barnes, die zijn onderarm verloor door elektrocutie, een speciale robotarm om mee te drummen. Hij kan nu dingen, die een normale drummer echt niet kan…
New Scientist
Met robotonderdelen, en dus als een cyborg, kunnen we in van alles beter worden! Maar heel bewonderenswaardig is zoiets nou ook weer niet, vindt wetenschapper Kevin Warwick, beter bekend als captain cyborg. “Ik wil onze mogelijkheden niet uitbreiden en verbeteren. Ik wil ons nieuwe mogelijkheden geven.” Warwick is sinds 1998 al bezig om zichzelf om te toveren tot een mens met extra functies, een cyborg dus. Want je bent toch past écht cyborg als je dingen kan die je als gewoon mens nooit zou kunnen en waarvan je misschien nooit zou durven denken dat je ze ooit zou kunnen.
Gedachtecommunicatie Een droom van Warwick – waar hij zijn hele ziel en zaligheid in gooit – is om telepathisch te communiceren met zijn vrouw. “Met gedachtecommunicatie kunnen we onze hele manier van communiceren veranderen,” vertelt Warwick aan Scientias.nl. Onze communicatie via taal is eigenlijk heel traag. “Gedachtecommunicate zou een veel rijkere vorm van communicatie zijn. Het kan een hoop misverstanden uit de weg ruimen en het zou onze intelligentie ontzettend verbeteren.”
JEZELF UPLOADEN
In de film Transcendence maakt wetenschapper Will Caster een kloon van zichzelf die hij vervolgens uploadt met zijn eigen gedachten, ervaringen, herinneringen en zelfs gevoelens. Het is goed mogelijk dat we over niet al te lange tijd onszelf daadwerkelijk kunnen klonen en ons brein via een computer kunnen uploaden. Als dit lukt, kunnen we oneindig lang leven.
Warwick stopte in 1998 voor het eerst een chip in zijn lijf. De siliconenchip in zijn arm stond in verbinding met een computer, waardoor Warwick in de hallen en kamers van zijn universiteit alle deuren, lichten en computers kon bedienen door gewoon zijn vinger te bewegen. Nu vinden we dit in 2015 niet meer zo bijzonder, al kan zo’n chip in je brein je ook voorzien van allerlei informatie, je een immens geheugen geven en van je eigen brein een razendsnelle denkmachine maken. Met een chip in je brein kun je het brein een flinke uitbreiding geven. Maar Warwick wilde meer. Hij gaf zichzelf in 2002 een chip waarmee zijn zenuwstelsel verbinding maakte met een computer. Zijn vrouw kreeg er ook een. De informatie van het ene zenuwstelsel stuurde de computer door naar het andere zenuwstelsel. De vraag was of het brein deze informatie van een ander brein kon implementeren. “Dat kan,” vertelt Warwick. “We zijn nu zover dat onze zenuwstelsels met elkaar kunnen communiceren, als in een soort morse code. Heel apart en natuurlijk ook heel intiem. De volgende stap is de elektronen bij onze hersenen plaatsen, waardoor onze breinen met elkaar in verbinding staan. Hopelijk kunnen we dan communiceren in emoties, kleuren en gevoelens,” zegt Warwick.
Extra zintuigen De gekste proef die Warwick op zichzelf heeft uitgevoerd was met het Utah Array implantaat. “Het was erg grappig om uit te proberen om als een vleermuis ultrasonische zintuiglijke informatie op te nemen. Het lukte, en mijn brein kon de nieuwe soort informatie gebruiken. Met een blinddoek om kon ik dingen voelen. Mijn collega’s kwamen met een bord op me af en dat was wel eng. Ik voelde dat er iets snel op me af kwam, maar ik zag niets.”
Ons brein is dus daadwerkelijk in staat om allerlei andersoortige prikkels te gebruiken als (zintuiglijke) informatie. Ons brein kan zich daarop aanpassen. Hierbij eindigen onze mogelijkheden niet bij zien, horen en voelen. We kunnen ingewikkelde informatie ook direct ‘weten’. Gedachtes, emoties en gevoelens kunnen in een fractie van een seconde bij je binnenkomen. Misschien hoeven we hierdoor in de toekomst helemaal geen moeite meer te doen om onze gedachtes, meningen en gevoelens onder woorden te brengen. Je kunt elkaar als cyborg, met een chipje in je brein, gewoon van alles toezenden. Telefoons? Whatsapp? Dat is straks zo 2015…
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Interview Kevin Warwick De foto bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door JD Hancock (cc viaFlickr.com).
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Bestaat er een aardachtige planeet op 16 lichtjaar van de aarde?
Bestaat er een aardachtige planeet op 16 lichtjaar van de aarde?
Tim Kraaijvanger
Astronomen stellen in een nieuw paper dat er op zestien lichtjaar van de aarde mogelijk een leefbare exoplaneet bestaat. De bevindingen zijn gepresenteerd in een nieuw paper op Arxiv.org. Aangezien het paper nog niet is geaccepteerd voor publicatie in een wetenschappelijk tijdschrift – vaak op basis van een peer review – moeten we nog even wachten op de daadwerkelijke bevestiging.
De nieuwe exoplaneet maakt deel uit van het systeem Gliese 832. Dit is geen onbekend planetenstelsel, want Gliese 832B en Gliese 832C kennen we al. Gliese 832B is een gasplaneet, die iets kleiner is dan Jupiter. Gliese 832C is een superaarde, die vijf keer zo zwaar is als onze planeet. Deze exoplaneet draait op een afstand van 0,16 astronomische eenheden om de moederster Gliese 832. Aangezien 1 astronomische eenheid gelijk is aan de afstand tussen de zon en de aarde, is 0,16 AE erg dichtbij. Daar moet wel bij gezegd worden dat de moederster Gliese 832 een zwakke ster is in vergelijking met onze zon. Deze rode dwergster straalt minder licht en warmte. Toch is het op Gliese 832C waarschijnlijk te warm voor (intelligent) leven. De exoplaneet stond in 2015 wel op de zevende plek in de top tien van aardachtige exoplaneten.
De nieuwe exoplaneet is nog niet direct waargenomen. Astronomen Suman Satyal, J. Griffith en Z. E. Musielak beweren in het paper dat er wel bewijzen zijn dat er een derde planeet bestaat tussen de banen van Gliese 832B en Gliese 832C.
Model Het gat tussen Gliese 832B en Gliese 832C is opvallend groot: ruim 3 AE, oftewel zo’n 500 miljoen kilometer. Dit is ongebruikelijk, zo blijkt uit analyses van andere zonnestelsels. De astronomen hebben een model gemaakt, waarbij ze een planeet tussen Gliese 832B en Gliese 832C plaatsen. Wat blijkt: zo’n systeem is heel stabiel.
Gliese 832B & Gliese 832C Als er een exoplaneet bestaat tussen Gliese 832B en Gliese 832C, dan is deze planeet even zwaar als één tot vijftien aardes en draait deze planeet ergens tussen de 0,25 AE en 2 AE om Gliese 582. Aangezien de leefbare zone rondom Gliese 832 eindigt op een afstand van ongeveer 0,28 AE, is er een ruimte van 0,03 AE over waar een aardachtige exoplaneet kan gedijen. Maar als alles op de juiste plek valt, dan is het jackpot!
Buitenaardse wereld bezoeken Met deze informatie kunnen astronomen gericht op zoek gaan naar een derde exoplaneet om Gliese 832. Wie weet bestaat deze exoplaneet echt en dan kunnen we in de verre toekomst misschien wel een bezoekje brengen aan deze buitenaardse wereld. Met het ruimtevaartuig van Stephen Hawking zou het zo’n 80 jaar kosten om Gliese 832 echt te bezoeken.
Nieuw apparaat vangt energie van klotsend oceaanwater op
Nieuw apparaat vangt energie van klotsend oceaanwater op
Tim Kraaijvanger
Ingenieurs werken aan een nieuw apparaat, dat gebruikt kan worden om de energie van oceaanwater op te vangen. Aangezien er meer dan één miljard kubieke kilometer aan oceaanwater beschikbaar is, kan dit heel interessant zijn.
Het apparaat Triton bestaat niet uit bewegende onderdelen, zeggen de onderzoekers van Oscilla Power. “Wanneer de golven tegen het apparaat beuken, verandert de magnetische polariteit in het metaal, dat we gebruiken om elektriciteit op te wekken”, zegt onderzoeker Meagan Parrish. Deze elektriciteit wordt opgevangen dankzij de flexibele kabels.
Op dit moment is de ontwikkeling van Triton nog in een vroege fase. Het is namelijk de vraag of het apparaat de gigantische krachten van een oceaan kan weerstaan. Het zou natuurlijk jammer zijn als Triton bij de eerste de beste storm al uit elkaar valt. Vandaar dat ingenieurs nu bezig zijn met proeven en het perfectioneren van het ontwerp.
Als alles volgens plan verloopt en Triton ooit echt geïntroduceerd wordt, dan kan één apparaat 2.000 huishoudens van stroom voorzien. Triton kan namelijk 600kW stroom produceren. De mensen van Oscilla Power spreken zelf over 500 huishoudens, maar dat is gebaseerd op het gemiddeld verbruik van een Amerikaans gezin en dat is ongeveer vier keer meer dan wat een Nederlands of Belgisch gezin verbruikt.
Wat vind jij van het idee? Deel je mening onder dit artikel!
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Project SERPO – The Exchange Program with Aliens from Zeta Reticuli (Part I)
Project SERPO – The Exchange Program with Aliens from Zeta Reticuli (Part I)
“First let me introduce myself. My name is [Request Anonymous]. I am a retired employee of the U.S. Government. I won’t go into any great details about my past, but I was involved in a special program.”
Thus began the first in a series of lengthy messages received in 2005 by a UFO discussion group moderated by a former U.S. Government employee by the name of Victor Martinez. The source of the messages requested that his identity remain undisclosed for fear of being prosecuted or even worse. And he had good reason, for calling the nature of his disclosures sensitive was an understatement.
According to the anonymous source, in the early 1950’s the government initiated Project Serpo, a top secret program intended to open communication channels between mankind (represented, of course, by the U.S. Government) and a race of extraterrestrials from Serpo, a planet located in the Zeta Reticuli star system.
Zeta Reticuli is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Reticulum. Although both stars are similar in size to our own sun, spectral analysis shows they are much younger, at around 2 billion years of age. Whether this interval is enough for a highly intelligent, spacefaring species to develop is not up to us to decide. Furthermore, the aliens inhabiting Serpo originated elsewhere in the galaxy.
The incident that led to this interplanetary connection was none other than the Roswell crash. Or, should I say–crashes, because there were two of them: one southwest of Corona, New Mexico and the other near Pelona Peak, which is a rock’s throw away from Datil, NM.
The crash involved two extraterrestrial aircraft. The Corona site was found a day later by an archaeology team. This team reported the crash site to the Lincoln county Sheriff’s department. A deputy arrived the next day and summoned a police officer. One live EBE [extraterrestrial biological entity] was found hiding behind a rock. The entity was given water but declined food. The entity was later transferred to Los Alamos,” the anonymous source wrote.
It’s interesting to note that the entity accepted water. This seems to suggest it might have shared a biology similar to our own and also cements the idea that life on Earth might have originated elsewhere in the universe. The EBE’s refusal to ingest food might have had cultural bases rather than physiological ones. Or maybe it wasn’t hungry enough.
Eventually the Roswell Army Air Field was notified of the crash and promptly intervened. After a thorough examination of the Corona site, all evidence was loaded onto flatbed trucks and carried away to an undisclosed location. A total of six extraterrestrial bodies were recovered and transported to the Los Alamos National Laboratory because the facility had a (then) recently-developed cooling system that allowed scientists to preserve the bodies for subsequent research.
The live alien was kept under strict surveillance at the same facility. Picture this: you’re being held captive by a decidedly inferior species, you’re the sole individual of your kind on an alien planet and the governing powers house you under the same roof as your fallen and frozen brethren. Now that’s adding insult to injury!
Another two years would pass until the second crash site would be discovered. It’s reasonable to expect that no survivors were found but the wreckage containing invaluable technology and desiccated bodies were whisked off to Sandia Army Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In the meantime, the live EBE had already established a means of communication with the scientists and top brass and we can assume they were very eager to know what he had to say. Yes, he, because his species also had male-female gender division.
The alien revealed the name of his homeworld: Eben. Its location was, like the title says, in the Zeta Reticuli star system. He also informed scientists about the various instruments and ultra advanced technology on board the two downed spacecraft. You can envision the power and demonstration hungry military officials pressuring the translators to squeeze more out of their extraterrestrial captive.
Until his death in 1952, the alien version of Robinson Crusoe (one that never gets to make a living on his own, but is rather captured by the savages) continued to provide information regarding the items inside the two spaceships. If we weren’t so understanding, we could probably blame him for all the triangle-shaped UFOs zipping silently above our heads. At least part of those must be man-made and operated, albeit using technology reverse-engineered from these early UFO crashes. Did you honestly believe aliens are responsible for all the sightings?
Before he died, the EBE managed to set up one of the communication devices present aboard one of their vehicles and contact his homeworld. The humans who oversaw this procedure must have been sitting on the outer edge of their seats until the response came back.
But back it came and things eventually turned out way better than they could have hoped for. They Ebens agreed to come visit! The date was set for April 1964 and, showing that punctuality is a must-have trait of advanced civilizations, they touched ground somewhere near Alamogordo, New Mexico. They unceremoniously retrieved the bodies of their kin and engaged in information exchange with the earthlings via a translation device. English was the chosen language, because they were the visitors and courtesy knows no planetary boundaries.
For the betterment of mankind, the Ebens agreed to set up an exchange program. Twelve members were carefully selected for the mission: 8 USAF, 2 U.S. Army and 2 U.S. Navy. Two of them were doctors, three were scientists, two were linguists, two of them handled security, two were pilots and the last one was the leader, an Air Force Colonel.
All of them were given alternate identities and they were effectively erased from all military and civilian records. It was as if they never existed in the first place and that made them ideal candidates for a mission from which they might never return. The 12 went through six months of rigorous training and were given the order to maintain contact with Earth via the already-established communication links.
As per their agreement, the aliens returned in 1965 and left one of their own behind shortly before whizzing lifting up the brave dozen. Their mission was supposed to last ten years, during which regular communication had to be maintained. But the best-laid plans of mice, men and aliens often go astray. The team’s transmissions to Earth HQ were sporadic at best and didn’t always include the greatest of news. Three years into their stay, one doctor and one of the security personnel died. Pneumonia and injury sustained from a fall were the culprits.
Five years after they’d left, communication stopped altogether. The U.S. Government was in the dark regarding Project Serpo, of which they had had such high expectations. But then, in 1978, three years after the agreed-upon return date, the Ebens came back and dropped off seven men and one woman. Two were dead and two had decided to remain behind.
They were placed in quarantine for a whole year during which they had plenty of time to debrief their superiors. As a matter of fact, the complete account they brought back is said to have numbered around 3,000 pages.
According to the crew members, the cosmic journey to Eben lasted only 9 months, despite the distance of 39 light-years that separates us from them.
FTL TRAVEL FTW!
Although it already had a name, the crew nicknamed the planet Serpo, hence the name of the top-secret project. With a diameter of 7,200 miles, it was slightly smaller than Earth. It had two moons, the day was 43 earth hours long and it revolved around its star in 865 earth days. The Eben Solar System numbered six planets. The Ebens had established bases on the one that was nearest to Serpo (nicknamed OTTO) but it was a lifeless world.
Silus, another of the planets in their Solar System had its own native lifeforms but none were intelligent. The Ebens mined it for minerals their homeworld lacked.
On Serpo, the heat was extreme (by human standards) and it took the crew a long time to adjust. Water was readily available but food was a problem. The team only brought enough food with them to last for two years so they eventually had to resort to eating native cuisine. At first, it caused them gastrointestinal problems but they eventually adapted. The human body is one versatile machine.
Arkansas witness drives away from hovering triangle UFO
Arkansas witness drives away from hovering triangle UFO
Arkansas witness drives away from hovering triangle UFO
An Arkansas witness at Malvern did not stop during a close encounter with a silent, hovering triangle UFO more than 150 feet wide, according to testimony in Case 75545 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness was driving along a dirt road heading toward a friend’s home about “one hour before sundown” on December 15, 2015, when the incident occurred.
“It was hovering low above the trees just past my destination,” the witness stated. “Ilaid eyes on it for 30 seconds, but kept driving out of fear.”
The object had unusual lighting.
“The two bright blue headlights were pointed straight at me like two square eyes. I knew it could see me.”
Downtown, Malvern, Arkansas. Malvern is about 20 miles southeast of Hot Springs, Arkansas. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
But the witness soon lost sight of the object.
“As I got closer, the treeline blocked my view or their view thankfully. An hour or so later after dark, I saw the afterburners of a military fighter jet heading south with no lights on the bottom or anywhere else. I calculated the object to be about 150-200 feet wide. I don’t know how long it sat there.”
Arkansas MUFON is investigating this case which was reported on March 31, 2016. Malvern is a city in and the county seat of Hot Spring County, Arkansas, population 10,318. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Ask any ufologist when strange lights were first seen by the residents of Phoenix and they wouldn’t hesitate to tell you it was somewhere around 8:30 pm on March 13, 1997. However, the correct answer might be earlier, by at least 88 years!
According to similar articles in the March 10, 1909 edition of the Arizona Republican and the March 18th edition of the Bisbee Daily Review, “strange lights” were seen over Camelback by Phoenix residents on March 9th. The light was described as being “about the size of a ten-cent piece held at arm’s length” and it “swayed to and fro and then remained stationary.”
“It was too high in the heavens to be the light from a fire on Camelback or one of the other peaks,” the newspapers reported. The light created quite a stir throughout the community and the time it first appeared and the duration of the sighting were carefully recorded as“14 minutes of 8, and blazed up for about 6 minutes.”
“Many varied theories were evoked” to try to explain this “peculiar light” and they ranged from bad to worse:
“One of the oldest inhabitants gave his opinion that the ball of fire held suspended between heaven and earth was a meteor or an asteroid that had become entangled, as it were, in the earth’s atmosphere, very much the same as a fly becomes enmeshed in the strands of a cobweb.”
Another bizarre explanation was described by the articles:
“The Star of Bethlehem theory had its supporters, but others argued that Bethlehem was not in that direction, and that the star, when it appeared, would not be seen perching on the top of Camelback.”
Bisebee Daily Review March 18, 1909. Click to enlarge.
The Republican article offered more details and another wild theory:
“Others of the younger generation were of the opinion that it was the lantern of some marooned aeronaut who had anchored his sky boat to a cactus on account of the high wind.
“The attention of the police was called to the phenomenon and the entire force climbed to the top of the City Hall. The light was plainly visible but none of the learned ones could explain satisfactorily its presence.”
What an exciting night it must have been as Phoenix residents watched in amazement as this light “blazed” over Camelback, while the entire police force rushed to the top of City Hall! And how similar would the reaction of the inhabitants be 88 years later!?
While no explanation could be found for this mass sighting, not all newspaper reports of strange lights were as mystifying, although you wouldn’t know it from some accounts. The Bisbee Daily Review ran a short piece on September 7, 1909, describing “a strange light” in the western sky that had the “habit of appearing about 7 p.m. After that it drifts slowly away till it finally drops behind the White Tank mountains. The strange light has been doing this every night for the past week.”
The Arizona Republican ran a similar article, but also pointed out that Venus was a prominent feature in the western sky during this time, so the mystery was solved. Using the Stellarium program for Phoenix for early September 1911, I confirmed that Venus did appear in the western sky in the evening and set about an hour later in the vicinity of the White Tank mountains.
Bisbee Daily Review Sept 7, 1909
While these September sightings were resolved, another incident in April of 1911 defied explanation as a bright light appeared beneath the clouds for thirty minutes. In the April 16th edition of the Arizona Republican, the following appeared:
“A Strange Light—Many persons last night shortly before nine o’clock and until sometime after saw a curious light in the northwestern sky moving in that direction toward the horizon. It was in view about half an hour. The light was a bright one and seemed to move about like a searchlight. The only suggestion offered was that it was a dirigible balloon. A huge meteor at an immense distance would have apparently moved as slowly but the light could not have been a meteor for that part of the sky was obscured by light clouds at a great distance. The moving light was plainly this side of them.”
On November 15, 1918, the Arizona Republican featured an article with the headline, “Strange Search Light Illumines Country, Mystifies Credulous.” The article described a “strange searchlight of great power and penetration,” which “lighted the country east of Phoenix on Wednesday night. So strong were the rays of this strange light that they were thrown into windows of houses more than a mile away with such intensity that persons were enabled to read by the light.”
At the same time, “the electric lights were out in Phoenix” and the “street railway service was interrupted.” The official explanation for this blackout and the powerful searchlight, with which people could read over a mile away, was that “one of the wires of the high power transmission line in the Wilson district was burned in two, and the current was made to feed a powerful improvised searchlight.”
While not in the Phoenix area, and even earlier sighting was mentioned in the August 14, 1897 edition of The Argus: “A strange light was seen moving in the sky at Tombstone the other evening. It was visible for at least fifteen minutes. The airship theory has been revived.”
Arizona Republican Nov. 15, 1918.
Of course, the years 1896-97 saw numerous mysterious airship sightings across the country. While many credible people saw these “airships,” the August 28th edition of The St. Johns Herald couldn’t resist poking fun at the witnesses by inferring that such sightings corresponded to lightning bug season.
What were these strange lights seen in 1909, 1911, and 1918? The year 1909 was an active one for sightings in the Hudson Valley of New York and New England, and indeed it was during my research into this wave of sightings that I came across these Phoenix cases. As no planes were yet flying at night or carrying lights, any conventional explanations would be limited to some type of balloon or dirigible. Further research would be needed to determine if anyone in the Phoenix area had any type of balloon or lighter-than-air craft that was equipped with a powerful searchlight and batteries, which would have been very heavy. It is not likely for that time period, but the possibility should be explored.
In the meantime, we may need to push back the timeline of the first appearance of the Phoenix Lights from 1997 to at least 1909, and continue the search for other such cases.
UFOs hounding the ISS: NASA finally speaks over 'aliens at space station'
UFOs hounding the ISS: NASA finally speaks over 'aliens at space station'
NASA has finally spoken out following a flurry of claims from conspiracy theorists that alien space craft are monitoring the International Space Station (ISS).
There have been repeated claims UFOs are monitoring the ISS
The US space agency usually stays tight-lipped on the subject - due to the increasing number of seemingly outlandish claims about unidentified flying objects captured on live stream cameras mounted on the space station - but this only appears to fuel further the cover-up conspiracy theories.
Because NASA allows anyone to view the real-time cameras, which point out towards space by going online, many alien chasers devote hours to watching them looking or evidence of alien space craft.
NASA•YouTube
Another anomaly on the livestream put forward as proof of aliens online
NASA has now joined the debate and categorically denied it ever purposefully shuts off the live stream, or that any UFOs or alien craft have ever been detected from the ISS.
The station regularly passes out of range of the Tracking and Relay Data Satellites used to send and receive video, voice and telemetry from the station
NASA spokeswoman
Tabatha Thompson, a NASA spokesperson, told ValueWalk.co.uk that video feeds losing transmission have occurred before and are an occupational hazard.
She said: "The station regularly passes out of range of the Tracking and Relay Data Satellites used to send and receive video, voice and telemetry from the station.
“For video, whenever we lose signal video comes down on our higher bandwidth, called KU. The cameras will show a blue screen indicating no signal or a preset video slate, depending on where you are watching the feed.”
Asked if NASA personal had any hand in stopping the video transmission, she said “no.”
Have NASA spotted a UFO
Mon, November 2, 2015
Stunning images from the International Space Station
NASA
ISS Nasa live cam cuts after 'suddenly locking on to mystery glowing UFO'
NASA also confirmed the theory of UFO hoax buster Scott Brando, revealed by Express.co.uk yesterday, that the alleged UFOs are the result of camera lens flares.
A NASA spokesperson added: "Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artefacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.”
Alien hunters remain convinced NASA intentionally cuts off the camera safer UFOs appear and the explanations are all part of a global cover up.
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Hillary Clinton tells 'alien abductee' national security could block UFO truth bid
Hillary Clinton tells 'alien abductee' national security could block UFO truth bid
US PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Hillary Clinton has conceded she may be blocked from revealing if the truth about alien visitations is "out there" if it is deemed to compromise national security.
Mrs Clinton, and her campaign manager John Podesta, have been claiming for months she will open the so-called top-secret X-Files if she makes it into the White House.
But, taking part in a radio talk show with a man who claims he was abducted by aliens, she accepted she could be blocked.
The Democrat frontrunner was campaigning in East Harlem, New York, when she took part in the Power 105.1 Breakfast Club.
Asked by one of the show's hosts, Lenard McKelvey - also known as Charlamagne the God - who believes he was abducted by aliens several times, if she would really deliver on her quest for truth about UFOs and the top-secret military base Area 51 in the Nevada desert, she said simply, “I am.”
However, she added a caveat that she will not be able to release any files that are closed due to national security.
She said: "I mean, if there’s some huge national security thing and I can’t get agreement to open them, I won’t, but I do want to open them because I’m interested.”
She was also pressed on whether she believes in aliens, adding: "I don’t know. I want to see what the information shows.
"But there are enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen, making them up.
"I think that people see things. What they see, I don’t know. But we have got to try to give people information. I believe in that.”
The disclosure movement has long called for the release of all information about UFOs and alleged alien visitations from world governments, and is huge in the USA, where many sightings are reported.
It has led to some speculation Mrs Clinton may be just paying lip service to secure millions of voters across the country.
I mean, if there’s some huge national security thing and I can’t get agreement to open them, I won’t, but I do want to open them because I’m interested.
Hillary Clinton
Alejandro Rojas, editor and contributing writer for Open Minds magazine and OpenMinds.tv, said in an article about the radio show: "There has been a lot of debate as to why Clinton keeps discussing UFOs when asked.
"Typically, politicians gloss over the topic or make a joke of it. However, she has repeatedly answered confidently that she intends to look into the matter.
"The cynical view would be that Clinton has no interest in the topic, she is just pandering for the 'UFO vote'.”
But he said that politicians who previously dabbled in the issue had damaged their campaign, so she may have a genuine interest.
But, UFO expert Lee Speigel believes the “UFO vote” could number in the millions.
A 2012 National Geographic survey found 36 per cent of Americans believe extraterrestrials have visited Earth, while a staggering 80 per cent think the US government is covering this up for fear of the potential impact on society.
The cryptic site (right) and an alien from a hoax Roswell video
Alien hunter websites have been sent into overdrive after the mysterious discovery was made on Google Maps.
The claimed 'crash site' is around 70 miles from Roswell in New Mexico, where UFO legend has it that a flying saucer crashed in July 1947, and the US military covered it up.
The markings on the ground, seen in Google images, also include some that have been described by some conspiracy theorists as "Nazi occult symbols".
There are several long-standing conspiracy theories about Hitler and the Nazis experimenting with the occult and making contact with aliens in secret bases, including in the Antarctic, which have fuelled speculation about the new discovery.
Pseudo-science and archaeology website Ancient Origins has picked up on the images.
Its website said: "People have claimed that the enigmatic symbol found near Roswell is the result of Nazi occultism and even alien worship, due to its proximity to Roswell, where one of the most famous UFO sightings in history occurred."
But Ancient Origins concluded the patterns were more likely made by the US Air Force as target practice for bombers.
It would not be the first time this has happened.
In 2007, the US Navy was forced into an embarrassing apology after satellite imagery exposed how the Coronado Naval Amphibious Base in San Diego had been designed in the swastika shape.
But others believe the Roswell symbols have been there much longer.
Ancient Origins added: "However, this theory isn’t widely accepted by everyone, as there are many people who believe that the enigmatic symbols spread across the land of New Mexico, date back hundreds of years."
People have claimed that the enigmatic symbol found near Roswell is the result of Nazi occultism and even alien worship, due to its proximity to Roswell, where one of the most famous UFO sightings in history occurred.
Ancient Origins
Adding to the mystery is the fact the patterns are also close to the top-secret Area 51 US military base in the Nevada desert - where alien conspiracy theorists claim the "Roswell crashed UFO" was hidden away in 1947.
Scott C Waring, editor of UFOsightingsdfaily.com, is not one to sit on the fence when it comes to proof of aliens.
In a blog posting he took the leap from speculation to say it was a sign pointing out a hidden underground alien base.
While others wondered why a hidden base would have such an unusual "X marks the spot" highlighting it, he said it was to warn oil drillers to steer clear and avoid the cavernous dwelling.
He blogged: "This is not a symbol of Hitler's Nazis, but is the ancient buddha symbol that means pure goodness.
"Also in the writing in the rectangle above is alien symbols, very similar to those found at the Roswell UFO crash on small metal beams and parts.
UFO Festival in Roswell
Mon, July 6, 2015
Thousands of alien hunters flocked to the world's ET capital to celebrate the 20th UFO Festival in Roswell. Here's a look at some of the festivities.
"So you ask why are aliens writing in the middle of New Mexico?
"There are thousands of oil rigs in this location.
"This is a warning to humans not to damage their base underground."
Even dedicated followers of Mr Waring were not convinced.
Juz Staina posted in response: "I'm a bit surprised with your aviation background you didn't look at all the bombing ranges from back in the war mate, the reason I say this for the first time ever is the battleship is marked for where main guns are and bridge, also the swastika obviously has been added to resemble the basic aiming systems the bombers would have.
"This is the first time in two years I haven't 100% agreed mate!"
Six lights appeared in the skies over Hythe and Folkestone on Sunday morning, and remained there for half an hour.
It had been thought that maybe the lights were caused by flares being shot, but the Ministry of Defence has denied the use of any activity in the area during the period.
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Cow Being Abducted By UFO Over Montana, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Cow Being Abducted By UFO Over Montana, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 29, 2016 Location of sighting: Montana, USA For a long time, farmers of cattle across the planet had to deal with animal mutilations and all the evidence points to most of the incidents having really happened and that the animals were surgically opened, with parts missing. I am currently looking for the person who posted these photo, till then, what do you think? Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: Unbelievable Montana, USA 29/02/2016 Cattle mutilation (also known as bovine excision[1]) is the killing and mutilation of cattle under unusual, usually bloodless and anomalous circumstances. Worldwide sheep, horses, goats, pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, deer and elk have been reported mutilated with similar bloodless excisions, often an ear, eyeball, jaw flesh, tongue, genitals and rectum are removed. Since the time that reports of animal mutilations began, various explanations have been offered ranging from natural decomposition and normal predation, to cults and secretive governmental and military agencies, to a range of unscientific speculations including as cryptid predators (like the Chupacabra), and extraterrestrials. Mutilations have been the subject of two independent federal investigations in the United States.
SIRIUS: from Dr. Steven Greer – Original Full-Length Documentary Film (FREE!)
SIRIUS: from Dr. Steven Greer – Original Full-Length Documentary Film (FREE!)
The Earth has been visited by advanced Inter-Stellar Civilizations that can travel through other dimensions faster than the speed of light. They use energy propulsion systems that can bring us to a new era. Humans have also developed these systems, but those in power have suppressed them in order to keep us at the mercy of fossil fuels. It is time for you to know…and this documentary will let you in. Please enjoy “Sirius” for FREE and share with your friends and family.
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An Arizona witness at an airport in the Tempe-Phoenix area reported watching a chevron-shaped UFO under 500 feet, according to testimony in Case 75640 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was outside at the airport “disposing of trash” about 9 p.m. on March 1, 2016, when the incident occurred.
The tower at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
“The lights were what I noticed at first,” the witness stated.“They were white and formed a chevron shape that allowed me to notice the shape of the object. It was very large as it passed beside me. I was near the tower, so I knew it was high, but not too high as for me not to get an idea how large this object was.”
There were other possible witnesses to the UFO.
“The planes at Terminal 4 were lined up and nothing was moving. I was in total disbelief that it was happening. It made no noise at all.”
Aerial view of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness described the object’s movement.
“As I observed the object,it travelednortheast over to the Sky Train Station. I lost view of the lights then. It was darker than the sky with the exception of the lights emanating from the bottom where it was black.”
The witness did not feel afraid.
“I didn’t feel anything but shock as I pondered what had just taken place. The lights where I was dumping the trash had a nonfunctional light. It was not changed until a few days later. So I knew a glare would not have affected what I had seen. The tug I had used to drive there was off so no other light source was close enough to hamper my vision. This event lasted just about five minutes or so. I felt calm and no sense of danger or apprehension afterwards. Just a sense of wonder and amazement that something so huge could travel in the air and not make any noise.”
Arizona MUFON Field Investigator Valerie Edwards is investigating. The witness provided one illustration with the report, which was filed on April 6, 2016.
Witness sketch. (Credit: MUFON)
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport services both Tempe and Phoenix. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Hillary tells morning radio show UFOs still on agenda
Hillary tells morning radio show UFOs still on agenda
As we all know, Hillary Clinton has been campaigning in New York, and on Monday, while in East Harlem, she sat down with the Power 105.1 Breakfast Club. One of the hosts, who believes he may have been abducted by aliens, asked if she was really going to tell the truth about UFOs. Hillary said, “I am.”
This is one of several times Clinton has confirmed her earlier statement that if she is president she will try to declassify files on UFOs. However, she does add the caveat that she will not be able to release any files that are closed due to national security.
The Power 105.1 Breakfast Club talk UFOs with Hillary Clinton. From left: DJ Envy, Charlamagne tha God, Hillary Clinton and Angela Yee. (Credit: Power 105.1 Breakfast Club/YouTube)
She told the Breakfast Club, “I mean, if there’s some huge national security thing and I can’t get agreement to open them, I won’t. But I do want to open them because I’m interested.”
When asked if she believes in UFOs, Clinton replied, “I don’t know. I want to see what the information shows. But there are enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen, making them up. I think that people see things. What they see, I don’t know. But we have got to try to give people information. I believe in that.”
The Power 105.1 Breakfast Club is hosted by Charlamagne tha God, DJ Envy and Angela Yee. Charlamagne is the host who asked about UFOs, and when he did, Yee was quick to point out that Charlamagne had his own sighting and may have been attacked. Charlamagne confirmed that he believes he may have been abducted several times.
There has been a lot of debate as to why Clinton keeps discussing UFOs when asked. Typically, politicians gloss over the topic or make a joke of it. However, she has repeatedly answered confidently that she intends to look into the matter. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, says he looked into them and did not find anything.
The Power 105.1 Breakfast Club talk UFOs with Hillary Clinton. From left: DJ Envy, Charlamagne tha God, Hillary Clinton and Angela Yee. (Credit: Power 105.1 Breakfast Club/YouTube)
The cynical view would be that Clinton has no interest in the topic, she is just pandering for the “UFO vote.” In the past, the strategy of answering UFO questions straight forward has been detrimental. When presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich was asked during a presidential debate in 2008 about a UFO sighting he claimed to have had with Shirley MacLaine, his answer was met with laughter. Some feel this moment seriously damaged his campaign.
If talking UFOs is damaging to a presidential campaign, then maybe she really does have an interest in UFOs. As we have written about before, there is some evidence that she had discussions about UFOs with the late Laurance Rockefeller, who was a family friend and advocate of serious UFO research.
However, Lee Speigel of the Huffington Post argues in an article about these recent statements that the “UFO vote” could number in the millions. He references a 2012 National Geographic survey which showed that 36% of Americans believe extraterrestrials have visited Earth, and 80% believe the U.S. government is keeping information on UFOs hidden from the public.
As Speigel points out, “That’s a lot of potential, UFO-friendly, registered voters.”
An Australian witness near Melbourne reported watching and videotaping a triangle-shaped UFO with circular, colored lights, according to testimony in Case 58119 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness stepped outside for a cigarette at 8:20 p.m. on July 15, 2014, when a craft of unknown origin was seen.
“It was emitting lots of different colors and was hovering in one spot,” the witness stated.“The thing that made me notice it is that I’ve never seen such displays of color and hovering/movements of this object in other airborne craft such as planes and helicopters.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame #1 from the witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness watched the object for more than an hour.
“I observed it for a long time. It would hover in one spot blinking different color light patterns, and then it would move straight down, sometimes sideways in a rapid motion, or slowly at other times.”
The witness decided to try and photograph the object.
Cropped and enlarged still frame #1, enhanced version, from the witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
“I kept trying to take photos of it on my iPhone which wasn’t giving me very good results. I went inside the house to get my partner to come outside to show her this object. She got her Nikon camera with a zoom lens, and did her best to get the camera to focus on this object, which was proving difficult. She managed to take a few photos that came out really well which showed a triangular-shaped object with lights along the edge. It was not possible to judge the shape of the craft with the naked eye. I also tried to take video footage on my iPhone. It was difficult to hold the phone perfectly still, and I ended up resting my arm on a table in order to hold the phone as still as possible. I also tried to include the clothes line as a reference point and to be able to judge the objects movements.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame #2 from the witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
The object then began to move away.
“After observing it for some 80 minutes, the object slowly moved lower and lower and away from my vantage point until I could no longer see it over the trees. It was difficult for me to tell whether it landed somewhere or just disappeared over the horizon. During the sighting I was puzzled and kept trying to imagine what it could possibly be, as I had never seen anything resembling what I observed.”
Justin Busuttil investigated for MUFON International and closed this case as an Unknown.
“The witness has provided numerous photographs and video footage of a triangle-shaped object illuminated by colored, circular lights which changed color over Glen Huntly, Victoria,” Busuttil stated in his report.“The witness was in his backyard at the time of the event so he could smoke a cigarette. The object was also witnessed by the witness’s partner who took a number of the photographs provided.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame #2, enhanced version, from the witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
The MUFON report included photo analysis.
“Analysis of the photographs provided shows the object as being triangular in shape and illuminated by a number of circular lights that change colors (red/green/blue). The object does not resemble any known commercial aircraft or any conventional military aircraft. Investigation has identified another report made to the Victorian UFO Action (VufoN) where a sighting was reported by an independent witness whose description and photographs provided which support the account. The object appears to be solid, it appears to be moving and not stationary, and has not been able to be identified. There is no evidence or indication the witness has falsified his account of the event or the photographs provided.”
Editor’s note: The still images are closeups of the object being recorded by hand, so they most likely do not accurately reflect the shape of the object. The witness admits it was hard to hold the phone still. Shaking can be seen in the video. That would mean that the images, which are stills from the video, are distorted from motion blur. This sort of blur could make a single light, or a couple of lights, look like a group of lights. You can see this effect yourself by trying to make a video with your phone of a point of light while holding your phone with your hand. Then zoom in on a still of the object in your video.
This race which I called ''Krishna Race'' is part of Andromeda Council. They are benevolent,peaceful and loving.
'A blue man' (his name is Amrishtad)told of how his people had lived on Earth. They had lived in India in a community right in the town but their area was surrounded by a tall wall. Sometimes, he said, humans would climb up the wall to sit on the wall and look at the blue people, and the blue man had thought that it was nice to see them.
He describes his home world as a beautiful divine Kingdom and Paradise. His people have tried to make this world of Earth into a paradise, he tells me. They have been here to share what they have.
He says about Inca/Mayan temples, the dark stone pyramids that we are all familiar with. The blue people stood there, dressed in a head down that placed a fan of feathers across the head. His clothes were like made of belts about the arms and upper body, and he wore a skirt and anklet belts and bare feet. He was ornaments in gold.
The blue people had arrived first to the Inca/Mayan temples. Then the Draconians arrived and started to sacrifice the humans, humans who have no scales.
He told about his people coming from a world that is like a beautiful Paradise, and they've only come here to Earth in ancient times to share that paradise with us humans. First they came to India, and brought with them their scrolls and the symbolism of the golden eagle with the swastika. Originally, the swastika was a Hindu religious symbol. It was only once the Draconians came to Earth and started the Hitler Nazi thing, the Draconians were jealous and felt challenged and threatened by the power of the Blue People, and so as the Draconians have a thing for power symbols and symbolism, they stole the Blue People symbolism of the swastika and the golden eagle, changed it around a bit and made it their own. Mostly as a means of taunting the Blue People, and trying to strip them off their power.
But the Blue People were benevolent Kings in our worlds. The Blue Gods then came to South America to some of the Mayan or Incan civilizations, and became their Blue Gods. According to the story line, the Blue People would have gone to India first, and later to South America. All was well in the Inca/Mayan civilizations, until the Draconian super lords arrived again, to steal their power and to make it their own kingdom.
Krishna Race from their Kingdom of Paradise world wish to come to Earth again.
Note: Amrishtad only showed the temples and isn't know whether those were Incan or Mayan.
China Reveals That a Massive Alien Outpost and Mining Facility is Operating on the Moon
China Reveals That a Massive Alien Outpost and Mining Facility is Operating on the Moon
Ever wondered why no one has set foot on the Moon for decades? And why there’s no permanent outpost already established there? Is it because the Moon is not a viable celestial body to harness, or maybe because all of the above mentioned are already happening, but we are not being told about it?
The answer to these questions may be easier than first anticipated, but complex at the same time. Dr. Michael Salla has pointed out that there is a military industrial extraterrestrial complex (MIEC) on the surface of our ‘natural satellite’, and there’s a strong possibility of an alien regime currently operating on the moon in tandem with humans.
To support his claims and those of many others, the Chinese have released an intriguing photo of what appears to be an artificial complex operating on the lunar surface. The image represents yet another confirmation of secret operations carried out up there, and it may also reveal that the Chinese government has been in touch with otherworldly visitors. That, in turn, would also explain why China has been investing massively in radio telescopes.
The following report will bring further clearance into this matter:
“I was sent some pictures by a source who claims China will be releasing Hi Res images taken by the Chang’e-2 moon orbiter, which clearly show buildings and structures on the moon’s surface. He also claims NASA has deliberately bombed important areas of the Moon in an effort to destroy ancient artefacts and facilities.
Pictures yet to be released clearly show nuclear impact craters and building debris caused by explosions in an effort by NASA to destroy the truth. China is moving toward full disclosure of the Extraterrestrial reality, if these images and future ones are verified genuine then NASA should be investigated for fraud and treason. China will be releasing all the data and images from the Chang’e-2 in the coming weeks and months, let’s hope this is the beginning of a new era.“
There’s a chance that the world governments have a secret pact to exploit the moon for its minerals. This pact may be signed by other ET species residing in the Universe, which could explain why this alliance has a secretive nature. However, since greed is a common trait among humans, there shouldn’t be long until someone is excluded out of this alliance, and eventually disclose this secret project to humanity.
Countless rumors speak of an alien base located on the dark side of the moon – the side we never get to see, and it’s no secret that, in 2009, NASA publicly bombed a portion of the moon for unclear reasons. Other leaked images originating from NASA’s headquarters reveal different structures found up there that are likely to be artificial in nature.
Among the most renowned people to speak of this Moon conspiracy is Milton Cooper, a Naval Intelligence Officer who disclosed that the US Navy Intelligence Community knows of the alien base. The term used to describe it is “Luna,” and according to Cooper, its main objective is to mine the underground for certain materials. He also speaks of a massive mother ship found in the vicinity of the moon used by the aliens to store up materials, and also travel to Earth in small “flying saucers” found on the main ship.
“LUNA: The alien base on the far side of the Moon. It was seen and filmed by the Apollo astronauts. A base, a mining operation using very large machines, and the very large alien craft describing in sightings reports as mother ships exist there,” Milton Cooper revealed.
So, is it possible that what the Chinese revealed is in fact a small fraction of the mining operation facility called Luna? After all, it strongly resembles the drilling devices used by our own species, and there is no one to debunk it as being a natural formation.
For everyone who sees space as the final frontier, is a specific voyage that has opened new doors to discovery. NASA, one of the leading space discovery arenas, is one that has helped to provide new insights to those interested in space. Not only is this a part of the current events, but also invites discovery into the events that are designed to help with the discovery of the history of space science. Unidentified Flying Objects had long been the subject of conspiracy theories in which governments are intentionally concealing the alien existence by removing physical evidence of their presence. There are versions of this story; while others overlap with various other conspiracy theories, some are exclusive.
In a footage, it shows the appearance of a diamond-shaped object nearby the space station. The footage was broadcast live by NASA. However, the live feed was cut suddenly as the object appears to focus. The shocking video has sent UFO hunters and conspiracy theorists into meltdown. Despite being far, it looks massive. As the clip continues, the strange object appears to grow larger.
Suddenly, the screen suddenly turns blue. As soon as the feed restarts, it shows the space station focusing on a different angle. Supposed if the new angle covers up the spacecraft, it failed because the object can still clearly be seen. Therefore, the change of camera shows the existence of the object and not just on the lens. According to Youtube uploader, it is a form of the unexplained object. In an interview, he saw a UFO at the station. The strange object has a diamond-shaped and is changing its shape. Speaking over the footage, when you play this footage quickly, it looks like the object changes its position. NASA was established more than 50 years ago and has been a world leader in studies of our home planet.
Here are new photos of a 8-shaped object hovering high in the sky above Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. This was photographed on 19th April 106.
Witness report:It came so close we all could make out the shape of it the ascended. We, a group of us where sitting at the picnic table talking when one of our group noticed an object approaching from the south east, so I went to my apartment a got my digital camera, when I returned the group where telling me that when it was overhead they could make out the shape of it, which was in a figure eight and solid black in color, I asked where it was and they pointed it out to me just north east of us now. so I started talking picture of it at max zoom of 126x and then it stopped moving and started going up and down in one spot for about five minutes then changed directions and started climbing higher and headed east out of sight. I have pictures but one of them is the clearest.
A color scan of the original computer printout of the "Wow!" signal as detected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory in 1977. Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American Astrophysical Observatory (NAAPO)
The story behind the famous "Wow!" signal has an eerie quality that has inspired countless science fiction alien encounters and is often lauded as one of the strongest pieces of evidence that we are, in fact, not alone in the universe.
However, its "alien intelligence" authenticity has been questioned since that fabled night on Aug. 15, 1977 at 10:16 p.m. ET when astronomer Jerry Ehman used the Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope to sweep the skies for signals that may have originated from an extraterrestrial civilization.
On that night, Ehman found something. And since that night, astronomers have been trying to figure out what it means.
While pointed in the direction of 3 star systems named Chi Sagittarii, in the constellation of Sagittarius, Big Ear detected a 72 second radio wave burst, a signal far stronger than background noise. On the observatory’s computer printout, Ehman circled the burst with the infamous annotation "Wow!"
This excitement wasn't an overstatement, it was this kind of signal he was looking for, the kind of signal astronomers thought a technologically-capable alien civilization would produce.
The Big Ear printout contains a bunch of apparently random numbers and letters, but Ehman’s red pen circles a cluster of digits "6EQUJ5" with other circles around a "6" and "7" on separate columns. This particular code first uses the numbers 1-9 and then the alphabet A-Z to denote signal strength. As the burst suggests, the signal strength hit "6" and then blasted through the letters reaching a peak of "U" before subsiding back into the numerical scale at "5." There was then a slight wave trailing the main signal (hence the circled "6″ and "7"). The wave profile of the "Wow!" signal is graphically envisaged here.
However, since that day in 1977, a detection of a signal of that strength has not been replicated. Even after the SETI Institute was founded in 1984, and countless efforts have been made to find another radio burst like the "Wow!" signal, astronomers have been faced with silence in the cosmos; a problem that has only served to intensify the Fermi Paradox unease.
Now, Antonio Paris of St Petersburg College, Fla., an ex-analyst of the US Department of Defense, hopes to solve the mystery and he suspects that an entirely different cosmic phenomenon is to blame.
In an interview with TheGuardian.com, Paris says that his investigative background sent him on a mission to find another possible explanation for the "Wow!" signal and he tracked down two "suspicious" comets that may have been in the vicinity of Chi Sagittarii on Aug. 15, 1977. Interestingly, these comets, called 266P/Christensen and 335P/Gibbs, were only discovered in 2006 and 2008, so weren't considered as possible reasons for the signal in 1977 as no one knew of their existence.
But what have comets got to do with errant radio bursts?
The "Wow!" signal was recorded in the 1420MHz radio frequency band. It just so happens that cosmic neutral hydrogen naturally radiates at this frequency — it is therefore an abundant signal that is commonly used in astronomy. This is no coincidence; through alien-hunting logic, should there be an extraterrestrial species wanting to make contact, what frequency would they use? Firstly, as we only have ourselves to use as an alien template, we have to assume that hypothetical aliens will likely use radio waves. Secondly, if they are using radio waves to communicate with us, they would likely use a frequency that other intelligent aliens would be naturally tuned into. 1420MHz is the "universal water cooler," where intelligent life could check into and potentially chat.
The bummer is, however, that comets contain copious amounts of hydrogen in their atmospheres. Say if the "Wow!" signal was actually caused by the chance passage of a comet through the radio telescope's field of view, packing a powerful radio surge?
In 2017, Comet 266P will once again orbit in front of Chi Sagittarii and Comet 335P will do so the following year and Paris wants to test this hypothesis. Unfortunately, existing radio telescopes are already booked, so he has to buy or build his own radio antennae in time for the cosmic encounters. He has a crowdfunding campaign set up to raise the $20,000 he needs and is most of the way there.
It may be a long shot, but as is the way with many astronomical studies, all possible phenomena need to be ruled out before a discovery is made and, should Paris' experiment prove the "Wow!" signal was in fact caused by interference by an undiscovered comet, the universe will get quieter once again, making the Fermi Paradox even more bewildering.
The dinosaurs — the so-called tyrants of the Mesozoic era — weren't exactly thriving during their last few million years on Earth, a new study finds.
The new analysis of the dinosaur family tree reveals that dinosaurs were disappearing even before the asteroid hit about 65.5 million years ago. Roughly 24 million years before that impact, dinosaur extinction rates passed speciation rates, meaning that the animals were losing the ability to replace extinct species with new ones, the researchers said.
The findings suggest that these striking extinction rates made the dinosaurs vulnerable to drastic environmental changes, such as the asteroid collision, the researchers said. [Wipe Out: History's Most Mysterious Extinctions]
"This implies that any group of animals that is under prolonged periods of high extinction rate can undergo mass extinction should there be a catastrophic event," said study lead researcher Manabu Sakamoto, a postdoctoral research assistant of biological sciences at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.
The study isn't the first to suggest that dinosaurs were in a major decline before the asteroid event. In previous studies, scientists have recorded the number of species in each geological age and compared those levels to the subsequent ages (each age lasts for millions of years) to get a sense of how diverse the dinosaurs were, Sakamoto said.
But that method focuses on snapshots in time and doesn't take into account the extinction and speciation rate within each branch of thedinosaur family tree. So the researchers of the new study looked at the dinosaur fossil record and the family tree to get a robust picture of when new dinosaur species came onto the scene, Sakamoto said.
"Our study is the first to incorporate such phylogenetic [family tree] information when studying speciation and extinction in dinosaurs," Sakamoto told Live Science. "This is what has allowed us to build a more nuanced and certain picture of dinosaur speciation than has ever before been possible."
Dinosaur detectives
The researchers separately analyzed the three major groups of dinosaurs: the ornithischians (such as Stegosaurus), sauropodomorphs (the long-necked, long-tailed herbivores) and theropods (bipedal, mostly carnivorous dinosaurs, such as T. rex and Albertosaurus).
The sauropodomorphs had the most prominent downturn, the scientists found. The research showed spikes in new species of this type of dinosaur emerging during the Triassic and early Jurassic periods, until about 195 million years ago, when that speciation rate began to slow down. At 114 million years ago, during the early Cretaceous period, species of sauropodomorphs were going extinct faster than new species were emerging, the researchers found.
"The subsequent originations of [the] titanosaurian [group] were not nearly enough to compensate for the continuous loss of sauropods throughout the remainder of the Cretaceous," the scientists wrote in the study.
Duck-billed dinosaurs were one of the few dinosaur groups to thrive during the late Mesozoic period. Credit: Catmando |Shutterstock.com
Theropods had an "early burst" of speciation followed by a speciation slowdown from the late Triassic to the early Cretaceous (about 215 million years ago to about 120 million years ago), when extinction rate exceeded speciation rate, the researchers found.
Likewise, ornithischians show an early increase followed by a speciation slowdown at about 114 million years ago, when extinction rate surpassed speciation rate. But there were a few success stories within this group. The hadrosauriforms (duck-billed dinosaurs) and ceratopsids (the horned dinosaurs, such asTriceratops) did well, likely because they had developed jaws that helped them munch on new food, possibly flowering plants, the researchers said. [Dinosaur Detective: Find Out What You Really Know]
When the researchers considered the three dinosaur groups separately, "We found unequivocal evidence that dinosaurs were in decline up to 50 million years prior to the mass extinction event 66 million years ago," Sakamoto said.
Extinction lessons
It's unclear why the dinosaurs started going extinct so early, but there are clues as to why speciation increased during certain periods, the scientists said. One idea is that rising sea levels cut into the land, fragmenting dinosaur habitats and nudging the beasts to evolve separately into new species in different areas, the researchers said.
However, after dinosaur extinction rates began to rise, another group of animals started thriving: mammals.
"The decline of the dinosaurs would have left plenty of room for mammals, the group of species which humans are a member of, to flourish before the impact, priming them to replace dinosaurs as the dominant animals on Earth [after the impact]," study co-author Chris Venditti, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading, said in a statement.
The new findings may help scientists understand the possible consequences of today's extinctions, the researchers added.
"We live in a time when species are undergoing unprecedented levels of extinctions," Sakamoto told Live Science. "This means that if some major catastrophe hits, then it is highly possible that whole groups of animals [will] be completely wiped out off the face of the Earth."
The study is an interesting one, said Alan Turner, an associate professor of anatomical sciences at Stony Brook School of Medicine in New York, who was not involved in the research.
"Through modeling of speciation dynamics, it appears that dinosaur diversity was declining well in advance of the end-Cretaceous extinction event that killed off all nonavian dinosaurs, as well as numerous other vertebrate groups," Turner told Live Science in an email.
Synchronicity Happens For A Reason — There Are No Accidents And No Coincidences
Synchronicity Happens For A Reason — There Are No Accidents And No Coincidences
by Hellen Elizabeth Williams
Have you stumbled upon an old friend? Seeing someone doing the same thing or speaking the same words as you? Or maybe experienced an accident? Are you thinking ‘Oh! What a coincidence!’ or ‘I could skip accidents like this…’ Well, you shouldn’t, because every single coincidence brings a message to you. In fact, there are no coincidences and accidents — there’s only synchronicity, and everything happens for a reason.
Revealing Synchronicity — The Science Behind Coincidence
The truth is, everything in our life is linked. From the past, to the present and future — every single coincidence or accident we stumble upon is linked. No matter how small or big of a movement is, it is all about synchronicity.
Whether you feel like you are having a perfect day and everything goes smoothly, or experience a bad period in which ‘a lot of coincidences happen,’ the universe is sending you a message. People and things happening in an exact moment is nothing but synchronicity and, fortunately, there is a way to accept it.
Do you know the saying “When the student is ready, the master appears”?
That is exactly how synchronicity is explained. Whenever you are synchronized with something you truly want, you are more likely to meet that thing, which is why similar people meet ‘accidentally’. The thing is, they are tuned in to the exact same frequency, and synchronicity does its best to match them.
Yes, There Is A Way To Create Synchronicity
Now that you understand how the spiritual sync works, it’s time to tell you that…
YOU CAN CREATE SYNCHRONICITY.
‘How on Earth do I do that?’, you may be asking yourself.
Well, synchronicity works best for people who believe it to be true. So, for starters, you should believe in it and stop saying that every event is an accident or a coincidence. The thing is, if you are saying this, you are sending a weak spiritual signal to the universe, as opposed to the strong signal that the universe sends you by syncing everything around you.
By understanding synchronicity and seeing things not as an ordinary, but a committed person, you are able to connect more deeply with your inner sync, and actually don’t work hard to make the things you want happen. Instead, you will just believe in them and let them happen, without any force whatsoever.
So, let’s face it…
Synchronicity is just like a mirror and whatever you commit to and believe in, will reflect back to you.
That being said, if you agree with the law of syncing, you will be able to connect deeply and send strong messages on a spiritual level. Aside from this, you will be a better person, more confident and committed towards every action you bring.
Ina nutshell, understanding synchronicity translates to establishing harmony in everything that you seek — and being ‘consciously aware’ of everything happening around you.
Turning The Tide – And See Chances Work For You instead Of Against You
If you have ever heard of the Murphy’s Law and believe in it, you are on a good way to understanding synchronicity. Yes, it’s a common fact that when something goes wrong, it may just continue going wrong over time.
The idea behind this is that synchronicity can also work against you. However, if you expect bad things to happen and continue believing in the Murphy’s Law, you are syncing with your inner negativity.
The Science Behind The Chance Meeting — Not A ‘Coincidence’
Bumped into someone somewhere? Thinking it’s a coincidence, luck or chance? The real answer in this ‘accident’ is the science of chance meeting.
Moreover, it is the reason for something to happen. There is always a reason and a connection to see someone and experience something. Coincidence is only an illusion.
Our past, present and future are all linked. And although we may not understand everything that happens to us, there is always a reason — and that reason becomes apparent at some point in time.
A Final Word
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have the eyes to see. — Carl Jung
You can start notice synchronicities with people, numbers, events etc.Remember to accept synchronicity in its real form, as a way of spiritual and universal intelligence constantly trying to teach us, reach us and share love, support and guidance.
Learn to be open to synchronicity and start living a meaningful life!
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This “Tesla baby” can produce enough power matching all power generation facilities in Russia when lightning is discharged onto a platform.
A team of Russian scientists are already working on the restoration of the “Tesla tower” for wireless power transmission, developed by Tesla in 1901-1902. The Wardenclyffe Tower, also known as the Tesla Tower, was built near the island of Manhattan (USA) at the beginning of the 1900’s but was not completed for reasons unknown so far. Some speculate that the original Tesla tower was closed due to the lack of funding. Tesla believed that this project was, if completed, one of the most effective electric systems in the world allowing him to produce and transmit electrical energy across great distances.
Nikola Tesla was a genius, a brilliant inventor and the pioneer of wireless power transmission who in 1891, developed the principles of an antenna which is capable of supplying electricity to ANY device without the use of cables or connectors.
Tesla’s project was based on variations in the magnetic flux and, despite the incredible potential of the project, he apparently never managed to thrive beyond mere trials.
The Russian version of Tesla’s tower is located about 40 kilometers from Moscow. Currently, the research complex dubbed as the “High Voltage Marx and Tesla Generators Research Facility” is truly one of a kind and its generators can meet the energy demand for the entire country, although only for a period of around 100 microseconds.
In Russia, experiments or practices related to energy are anything but new. In the 1980’s the Soviets built a tower which “channeled” the energy created from lightning storms and use it for numerous purposes.
this incredible Russia project is unique, and it is something that you probably won’t find anywhere else in the world. Why? Because of its incredible design and even greater charging capacity.
As we described above, this “Tesla baby” can produce enough power matching all power generation facilities in Russia when lightning is discharged onto a platform. Given the high maintenance cost, this “secret” Russian Tesla facility is not operational 24/7 but is only turned on on special occasions.
According to Rossiya-1 TV; When the facility is operating, the static charge in the “hot zone” is so large that the hair of anyone present bristles.
To find out more about this “crazy” electrical facility check out this video where you can appreciate, from the air, the elaborate design of this super-cool facility.
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The shimmering atmospheric lighting displays known as auroras have never looked sharper than in a new ultra-high-definition video that was shot in space.
The stunning time-lapse footage was captured from the International Space Station in 4K ultra high definition (UHD), a video format with a resolution of 3,840 pixels horizontal by 2,160 pixels vertical. (For comparison, full-HD resolution is 1,920 pixels by 1,080 pixels.) The eye-catching video was uploaded by NASA TV to YouTube on April 17.
Auroras are produced when solar particles that are ejected from the sun and carried to Earth by solar winds collide with electrically charged particles in Earth's magnetic field, triggering reactions in the upper atmosphere that release light.
They are most commonly glimpsed on Earth at high latitudes, in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. While auroras are typically green, they can also appear violet, red, blue, while or pink, according to NASA.
To produce the auroras video, NASA partnered with media infrastructure experts at Harmonic, with whom they also launched a new UHD channel featuring 4K content — the first noncommercial UHD channel in North America — the agency said in a statement.
And the auroras are just part of the dynamic activity captured in NASA's videos. The agency has also released 4K UHD footage of lightning flashes, the setting moon, expanses of clouds spread over the oceans, and the sprawl of city lights at night.
This is one video you're going to want to watch as large as possible — trust us, it'll be worth it.
VIDEO: Hoefvormige UFO verschijnt bij ruimtestation ISS, waarna de NASA het beeld op zwart zet
VIDEO: Hoefvormige UFO verschijnt bij ruimtestation ISS, waarna de NASA het beeld op zwart zet
Op beelden die zijn gemaakt vanuit het internationale ruimtestation ISS, is een vreemd hoefvormig object te zien. Het verscheen op de livestream, waarna de NASA het beeld op zwart zette.
Volgens de UFO-jagers van YouTube-kanaal Secureteam10 heeft de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie iets te verbergen. Zij zeggen veel van dit soort objecten rond het ruimtestation te hebben gespot.
NASA zegt dat er geregeld reflecties op beelden van het ISS verschijnen en dat die geen bewijs zijn voor buitenaards leven. “Als je de beelden versneld afspeelt lijkt het object op een UFO die van plaats veranderd,” aldus Tyler van Secureteam10. “Het lijkt in eerste instantie op zijn zij te liggen, maar vervolgens voorover te manoeuvreren.”
“Het is zeker een interessante vondst,” voegde hij toe. “En weer lijkt de NASA de livebeelden uit te schakelen. Dat is de reden dat het scherm blauw wordt. Ze hebben dit vaker gedaan en blijven dit doen.”
De NASA liet in een reactie aan de Britse Daily Mail weten: “Reflecties van ramen van het ruimtestation, het station zelf of lichten van de aarde verschijnen geregeld als artefacten op foto’s en in video’s van het ISS.”
Google Deletes UFO Over Taiwan Military Base, April 2016, Google Works With US Govt. To Hide Aliens. UFO Sighting News.
Google Deletes UFO Over Taiwan Military Base, April 2016, Google Works With US Govt. To Hide Aliens. UFO Sighting News
Date of discovery: Feb 2014 Location of discovery: Fangliao, Taiwan base Google coordinates: 22°20'09.40”N 120°37'28.33”E Google has done it again. I have reported UFOs on Google Earth, about 6 and all have them have been deleted. This one I reported 2 years ago and no, its photo wasn't updated. This UFO is on Google street view and its just gone. (Click here to see my old 2014 post of it.) The location is the same, the trees, leaves, lighting, even the reflection in the mirror on the corner of the road, but the UFO has beed photoshoped out by US government controlled Google. Yes, Google does work with secret organizations in the US govt and they do delete all UFOs found. Thats why every UFO must be recorded on Video. If you see any of the 6 videos I made with UFOs on Google you know they are real, but also that Google has deleted them. Now...using a Google browser? Using a google phone? Trust them that much? Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Below is a old video I made of it.
Faster Than Light! Incredible Illusion Makes Images 'Time Travel'
Faster Than Light! Incredible Illusion Makes Images 'Time Travel'
by Tia Ghose, Senior Writer
Scientists have observed a bizarre phenomenon called time reversal in which light waves seem to travel backward in time. Credit: bunnavit pangsuk /Shutterstock.com
Using a weird phenomenon in which particles of light seem to travel at faster-than-light speeds, scientists have shown that waves of light can seem to travel backward in time.
The new experiment also shows other bizarre effects of light, such as pairs of images forming and annihilating each other.
Taken together, the results finally prove a century-old prediction made by British scientist and polymath Lord Rayleigh. The phenomenon, called time reversal, could allow researchers to develop ultra-high-speed cameras that can peer around corners and see through walls. [In Images: The World's 11 Most Beautiful Equations]
Backtracking sound waves
Lord Rayleigh — the brilliant British physicist who discovered the noble gas argon and explained why the sky is blue — also made a bizarre prediction about sound waves nearly a century ago. Rayleigh reasoned that, because the speed of sound is fixed, an object traveling faster than that while spewing out sound would result in sound waves that would seem to travel in the opposite direction of the object and thus seem to be reversed in time orientation. For instance, a phonograph on a plane traveling at Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound, would seem to play the music backward.
No scientists really doubted this notion, but there was no easy way to test it.
"Using sound, it's something that's really hard to verify and actually hear," said study co-author Daniele Faccio, a physicist at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.
Sound travels at 761.2 mph (1,225 km/h), but that means that, to hear a 3-second clip of music going backward, a supersonic jet traveling at Mach 2 (or twice the speed of sound) would start replaying the music more than a mile from the listener's location. The scattering and absorption of the sound waves in the air would make the music completely inaudible by that time, Faccio said.
Light reversal
But Faccio and his colleagues realized that if Rayleigh's predictions held true, the same effect would occur in other types of waves, such as light waves. Light travels much, much faster than sound, at 670 million mph (1.1 billion km/h). And the wavelengths themselves are tiny, meaning the time reversal can be demonstrated in a normal-size room.
The researchers were also interested in studying this idea because they were developing ultra-high-speed cameras that could peer around corners, and the phenomenon could affect their algorithms.
There was just one problem with testing Rayleigh's prediction with light: Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
To create a faster-than-light source, the team used a strange phenomenon called illumination fronts, which had previously been described in a series of fascinating thought experiments.
The trick behind illumination fronts is that, while an image may be traveling faster than light, the photons themselves never exceed light speed.
Here's how Illumination fronts work. Imagine taking a laser pointer and flicking the point across a vast and distant wall. While the photons traveling from the laser pointer to the wall are moving at their ordinary speed, because the light hits the wall at an angle, the dot on the wall (the illumination front) always moves faster than that. [Science Fiction or Fact? The Plausibility of 10 Sci-Fi Concepts]
Freezing photons in midair
Next, however, the team had to find some way to capture the speedy paths of images as they zoomed across a wall.
"The key piece of equipment was the camera that allows us to essentially freeze light in motion," Faccio told Live Science. [Video: How to Freeze Light]
To catch time reversal in the act, the team created an illumination front by projecting a single line of light on a screen and moving that line across the screen faster than the speed of light. At the same time, they captured the reflected light in motion using a super-high-speed camera. The camera snapped photos in a few picoseconds, or trillionths of a second, during which time photons travel just a few feet.
Sure enough, the camera captured the line on the wall moving in the opposite direction from the way they moved the line, as if it had traveled backward in time.
Self-annihilating twins
In a second experiment, the team verified an even more bizarre effect, called pair creation and annihilation. (Robert Nemiroff, a physicist at Michigan Technological University, predicted this effect for astronomical objects in a study posted online in May 2015 in the preprint journal arXiv.)
Faccio and his colleagues had an illumination front travel across a curved screen. As the speed of the projected lines exceeded light speed, a pair of lines was created, and the two lines moved away from each other. Using a different curvature, the pair of lines moved toward each other, merged and then annihilated each other, the researchers reported Friday (April 15) in the journal Science Advances.
The findings may have implications for the researchers' corner-peering cameras. This kind of "supersight" requires scientists to analyze the paths that light particles take as they bounce and scatter off various objects. Normally, light travels so fast that, to the human eye, the light coming from many different locations seems to appear instantaneously, making it impossible for the eye to resolve these different light paths and "see" behind corners.
But because high-speed cameras can capture the light in motion, researchers can reconstruct the shape of objects that might not be in the immediate line of sight. However, the mathematical calculation of these paths would need to account for the possibility that some of the light rays they see are time-reversed, because they are coming from an illumination front, Faccio said.
The new findings apply to any type of wave, Faccio said. For instance, there may be certain instances when a seismic wave bounces off a slanted piece of rock deep below Earth's surface, pointing to earthquake activity in one direction, when, in fact, the temblor occurred in the opposite direction, Faccio said.
The new paper also has some other interesting implications, said Nemiroff, who was not involved in the current study.
"I am not sure that either Lord Rayleigh nor [the paper's authors] were aware that sonic booms are the sound equivalent of illumination-front pair-creation events," Nemiroff told Live Science in an email. "With light, you first see a flash when a pair event is created, but with sound, you hear a boom."
Researchers fill detectors with gas at CEA lab in France. Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, HIP Institute and the Faculty of Engineering (Cairo University)
A new generation of muon telescopes has been built to detect the presence of secret structures and cavities in Egypt's pyramids, a team of researchers announced on Friday.
Built by CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) the devices add to an armory of innovative, non-destructive technologies employed to investigate four pyramids which are more than 4,500 years old. They include the Great Pyramid, Khafre or Chephren at Giza, the Bent pyramid and the Red pyramid at Dahshur.
The project, called ScanPyramids, is scheduled to last one year and is being carried out by a team from Cairo University's Faculty of Engineering and the Paris-based non-profit organization Heritage, Innovation and Preservation (HIP Institute) under the authority of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.
Launched by Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities, a project called Scan Pyramid aims at scanning the largest pyramids of Egypt in order to detect the presence of any unknown internal structures and cavities.
The technique could lead to a better understanding of the pyramids' structure and how they were built.
The project uses a mix of technologies such as infrared thermography, muon radiography, and 3D reconstruction to look at the inside of four pyramids, which are more than 4,500 years old. They include Khufu, or Cheops, Khafre or Chephren at Giza, the Bent pyramid and the Red pyramid at Dahshur.
Several thermal anomalies were observed on all monuments, but one, particularly remarkable, was detected on the eastern side of the Great Pyramid, also known as Khufu or Cheops, at the ground level.
International researchers from Nagoya University and KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization) in Japan and Laval University, Quebec, Canada, have also joined the project, which is separate from the search for the secret room in King Tut's tomb.
"Now we welcome new researchers from the Irfu, a CEA fundamental research team," Mehdi Tayoubi, co-director of the ScanPyramids mission with Hany Helal, professor at Cairo University's Faculty of Engineering and former minister of research and higher education, said.
Irfu, which stands for Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe, gathers almost 800 researchers on astrophysics, nuclear physics and particle physics.
"These scientists have built dedicated muon telescopes for our mission. They are actually under construction and being tested in the CEA laboratories at Saclay, France," Tayoubi told Discovery News.
"It is really exciting to see how a technology that just came out from a fundamental research laboratory can help us understand 4,500-year-old massive monuments with non visible physics particles," he added.
The new muon devices rely on micro-pattern gas detectors called Micromegas. Extremely precise, they are used to reconstruct particles tracks in high energy physics. For example, CEA's Micromegas have been installed in the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Such muon telescopes will be used in addition to the infrared thermography, muon radiography, and 3-D reconstruction technologies that have already been employed to investigate the pyramids.
So far the researchers have detected striking thermal anomalies on the eastern and northern side of the Great Pyramid at Giza, which could possibly indicate an unknown cavity or internal structure.
A team led by specialist Kunihiro Morishima, from the Institute for Advanced Research of Nagoya University, Japan, installed 40 muon detector plates inside the lower chamber of the Bent pyramid at Dahshur in an attempt to capture cosmic particles.
The technology relies on the muons that continually shower the Earth's surface. They emanate from the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere, where they are created from collisions between cosmic rays of our galactic environment and the nuclei of atoms in the atmosphere.
"Just like X-rays pass through our bodies allowing us to visualize our skeleton, these elementary particles, weighing around 200 times more than electrons, can very easily pass through any structure, even large and thick rocks, such as mountains," Tayoubi said.
Plate detectors placed inside the pyramid allow researchers to discern void areas — these are places where muons cross without problem — from denser areas where some muons are absorbed or deflected.
While the Japanese muon detectors are used inside the pyramids, the new moun telescopes, using gas detectors, will be used outside the pyramids.
"In this way, we can for example better understand some thermal anomalies that have been spotted," Tayoubi said.
"We are not in a hurry to make discoveries as we rather want to build this project step by step. Our goal is to inform about all the actions we take. We hope that other labs with very innovative technologies will join us," Tayoubi said.
The researchers have detailed their findings so far in this video.
The next step will be to announce the first results from the moun detectors placed inside the Bent pyramid at Dahshur.
De dagen van het beroemde 'Wow!-signaal' lijken geteld
De dagen van het beroemde 'Wow!-signaal' lijken geteld
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Wetenschappers zijn een crowdfundingsactie gestart om voor eens en altijd te bewijzen dat het signaal niet veroorzaakt werd door aliens, maar door kometen.
Begin dit jaar schreven we er al over op Scientias.nl: een nieuwe hypothese omtrent het Wow!-signaal. En nu zijn onderzoekers vastbesloten om die hypothese – met een beetje financiële hulp van het publiek – te bewijzen. Zijn de dagen van het mysterieuze Wow!-signaal geteld?
Het wow-signaal: hoe zit het ook alweer? In 1977 waren wetenschappers druk op zoek naar radiosignalen afkomstig van buitenaardse wezens, toen ze opeens een heel opmerkelijk signaal detecteerden. Astronoom Jerry Ehman zette er direct een kanttekening bij: ‘Wow!’. Dit zou wel eens een signaal kunnen zijn dat afkomstig is van aliens. Maar de opwinding was van korte duur. Want één opgevangen signaal is geen signaal: het signaal zou pas van betekenis worden als het de onderzoekers zou lukken om het herhaaldelijk te detecteren. Maar inmiddels is het 2016 en is het ‘Wow!-signaal’ nooit meer gedetecteerd.
EEN VRAAG DIE ONDERZOEKERS ALTIJD BLEEF BEZIGHOUDEN, IS: WAARDOOR WERD DIT SIGNAAL – DAT ZEKER TE WETEN AFKOMSTIG WAS UIT DE RUIMTE – VEROORZAAKT?
De oorzaak Een vraag die onderzoekers altijd bleef bezighouden, is: waardoor werd dit signaal – dat zeker te weten afkomstig was uit de ruimte – veroorzaakt? En begin dit jaar kwamen onderzoekers met een nieuwe hypothese. Het signaal zou afkomstig zijn van..kometen. In hun paper tonen de onderzoekers aan dat zich in het gebied waar in 1977 het Wow!-signaal werd opgepikt op dat moment twee actieve kometen te vinden waren. Die kometen – of de waterstofwolk die rond actieve kometen hangt – zouden het Wow!-signaal hebben veroorzaakt. Dat men als het gaat om de bron van het Wow!-signaal nooit eerder aan deze kometen heeft gedacht, is goed te verklaren. Beide kometen zijn pas recent ontdekt.
Toetsen Het mooie van deze hypothese is, dat we deze kunnen toetsen. De ene komeet – 266P/Christensen – zal op 25 januari 2017 weer in de omgeving van het Wow!-signaal opduiken. En op 7 januari 2018 geeft de andere komeet – P/2008 Y2 – daar acte de présence. Door op die momenten een radiotelescoop op dat gebied te richten, kunnen we het signaal van deze kometen vergelijken met het Wow!-signaal en achterhalen of de kometen de bron van alle opwinding in 1977 waren.
Maar voor het toetsen van die hypothese is geld nodig. Zo’n 20.000 dollar om precies te zijn. En dus zijn de onderzoekers een crowdfundingsactie gestart. Blijkbaar zijn heel veel mensen gefascineerd door hun hypothese, want inmiddels is er al meer dan 18.000 dollar ingezameld. Het lijkt er dan ook sterk op dat de onderzoekers hun doelstelling gaan halen en in 2017 en 2018 daadwerkelijk op jacht kunnen naar deze kometen en wellicht een einde maken aan alle opwinding die het Wow!-signaal al bijna veertig jaar omringt.
Bronmateriaal:
"The Wow! Signal Theory Experiment" De afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door Big Ear Radio Observatory / North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO).
Ruimtesonde Dawn maakt prachtige foto's van gevlekte kraters op Ceres
Ruimtesonde Dawn maakt prachtige foto's van gevlekte kraters op Ceres
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De verrassend heldere kraters van Ceres schitteren op nieuwe beelden die ruimtesonde Dawn van zeer kleine afstand van het oppervlak van de dwergplaneet heeft gemaakt.
Op de beelden zien we onder meer de krater Haulani. Met name de valse-kleuren-foto van deze krater (zie hieronder) geeft meer inzicht in de verschillende materialen in en nabij deze krater. Zo zie je blauwachtig materiaal dat uit de krater lijkt te zijn weggeslingerd. Eerder onderzoek naar Ceres suggereert dat de kleur blauw op valse-kleuren-foto’s geassocieerd moet worden met recent ontstane kenmerken op het oppervlak van de dwergplaneet.
Jonge krater Wetenschappers gaan er dan ook vanuit dat Haulani nog niet zo lang geleden ontstaan is. “Haulani heeft alle eigenschappen die we van een nog niet zo oude inslagkrater zouden verwachten,” stelt onderzoeker Martin Hoffmann. De kraterbodem is grotendeels vrij van inslagen en onderscheidt zich duidelijk van oudere delen van het oppervlak.”
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / PSI.
Oxo Een andere krater die Dawn op de gevoelige plaat heeft vastgelegd is Oxo: de op één na helderste krater die Ceres rijk is. De krater is zo’n 10 kilometer breed en een deel van de kraterrand is naar beneden gestort. Onderzoekers zijn heel geïnteresseerd in deze krater, omdat de minderalen op de kraterbodem heel anders lijken te zijn dan op andere plekken op Ceres.
Oxo-krater. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / PSI.
Dawn arriveerde in maart vorig jaar bij Ceres en heeft de afstand tot de dwergplaneet geleidelijk aan verkleind. De meest recente beelden van de dwergplaneet zijn gemaakt van een afstand van zo’n 385 kilometer. Van zo’n kleine afstand kan Dawn heel gedetailleerde foto’s maken die ons weer meer kunnen vertellen over hoe Ceres in elkaar steekt en aan welke processen – onder meer inslagen – de dwergplaneet werd en wordt blootgesteld.
“Stratoscrapers” and Underwater Villages: Meet the City of the Future
“Stratoscrapers” and Underwater Villages: Meet the City of the Future
Taylor Herring/Samsung
IN BRIEF
“Earth-scrapers” will tunnel 25 stories or more underground, further extending the vertical dimensions of our reach, and floating cities will drift on the waves while towers stretch kilometers into the atmosphere. These are the cities of the future.
Samsung has released its “SmartThings Future Living Report.” It’s a serious look at the topography of the future, at least in terms of its technological promise, and what that will mean for our lives and how we live them. It’s an extrapolation of current technological trends, as all such predictions inevitably are; but it’s less extravagant than most, more restrained and rooted in scientific realities, and it has a convincing ring of truth to it.
Which is exciting, because if the folks at Samsung are right, it means that over the next century or so we’re going to be in for a very interesting ride.
URBAN EVOLUTION
What will the cities of 2116 look like? Spectacular, beautiful, terrifying, and big…really, reallybig.
A future mega-city. Credit: Taylor Herring/Samsung
The metropolis of the future won’t be a far cry from Fritz Lang’s vision: it will culminate that urban trend that began thousands of years ago—the ultimate descendant of Ur and Memphis, Alexandria and Rome.
Advances in lightweight, super strong building materials, such as carbon nanotubesand diamond nanothread, will allow future cities to flout the laws of gravity—enormous “stratoscrapers,” kilometers high, will dwarf the likes of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa and Saudi Arabia’s projected Kingdom Tower.
Throw in the fact that these colossal edifices may be 3D-printedin situ by swarms of drones, rather than laboriously and dangerously built up through human toil, and there is a great likelihood that the shapes and architectural aesthetic of these huge buildings may conform to nothing we would recognize.
In reality, due to the pressures of population and the constraints of space, these buildings will be “arcologies” (“architectural ecologies”), whole vertical cities unto themselves—complete with residential, business, shopping, agricultural, entertainment, and other districts. A cloud of drone-cars will flit around them like bees about a hive, carrying us to different levels; forget sidewalks and dangerous streets.
What about powering these monstrous urban environments? We’ll likely see the arrival of newer, cleaner, and more exotic forms of energy—nuclear fusion, for instance, that long-awaited dream of harnessing the power of the sun, or geothermal or tidal energy stations, or even immense solar panel farms on the moon, beaming power wirelessly to a hungry earth through microwave transmissions.
And it’s not only the heavens that our urban architecture will seek to colonize.
“Earth-scrapers” will tunnel 25 stories or more underground, further extending the vertical dimensions of these future arcologies. The oceans, however, will form the most coveted frontier for urbanization. Think of giant, self-contained, undersea cities floating in the water column; not rooted to the sea floor like the sessile corals or sea lilies, they’ll drift in the oceans like jellyfish, avoiding storms and seeking more congenial climates.
An undersea city. Credit: Taylor Herring/Samsung
They’ll generate fuel and breathable atmospheres through electrolysis—“cracking” seawater to produce hydrogen (for fuel cells and nuclear fusion power) and oxygen for air.
Mechanical energy, from wave action, and solar power will further augment these cities’ reserves, and desalination will distill drinkable water. They’ll be fully independent, beholden to no one, and that raises its own problems—problems of jurisdiction and sovereignty.
Is it possible to have nations and city-states that don’t possess an inch of surface territory?
Predicting the Future: Here’s What Our Homes May Be Like in 100 Years
Predicting the Future: Here’s What Our Homes May Be Like in 100 Years
Taylor Herring/Samsung
IN BRIEF
Samsung SmartThings has released its “Future Living Report,” a forecast of the next 100 years. Among its many predictions are “smart homes,” undersea cities, “synthetic telepathy,” and 3D-printed gourmet meals.
TIME AND AGAIN
Forecasting the future has been one of humankind’s favorite pastimes. We’re usually pretty bad at it, but there’s always been a Cassandra or a Delphic oracle, a Sibyl or a Nostradamus willing to make the attempt.
Images of a futuristic city from Metropolis(1927).
But in more recent times, the art of predicting the future has almost become a kind of mathematics—very disciplined and scientific.
In the early decades of the last century, a number of scientific prophecies were made about what the future—our present—would be like; some of these were naively optimistic, a few were dead-on accurate, others hopelessly wide of the mark.
It’s always been fun to see how these old dreamers envisioned their future. For example, in Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent masterpiece Metropolis, the future was an immense urban jumble of Art Deco architecture, complete with multi-tiered highways and giant machines run by an oppressed working class. The famous science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, in his 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, imagined that we would be living under something called the “Air Dictatorship”—a kind of technocratic world state ruled by air power.
Others focused more on the technological aspects of the future, and the many scientific wonders and gadgets to come. The old comic strip Buck Rogers in the 25th Century had some interesting things to say about this—predicting, among other things, text messaging, cell phones, surveillance drones, and even the Hyperloop, the pneumatic transport system proposed by Elon Musk.
And it is along these lines—though with a more official and academic imprimatur—that Samsung has released its “SmartThings Future Living Report.” It’s a serious look at the topography of the future, at least in terms of its technological promise, and what that will mean for our lives and how we live them. It’s an extrapolation of current technological trends, as all such predictions inevitably are; but it’s less extravagant than most, more restrained and rooted in scientific realities, and it has a convincing ring of truth to it.
Which is exciting, because if the folks at Samsung are right, it means that over the next century or so we’re going to be in for a very interesting ride.
Some of the future predictions found in the Buck Rogers comic strip. Top: drones; bottom: transportation via pneumatic tube. Credit: rolandanderson.se/Hyperlooptech.com
SMART LIVING
According to the report, we can expect some pretty remarkable changes to our homes and our personal spaces, to say nothing of those ordinary, overlooked things that make up so much of our daily routine. As human populations soar, our cities and homes will have to adapt; interior living spaces will change as a cloud changes, easily reconfigured and rearranged to suit our fickle tastes, or accommodate different purposes.
Imagine walls and floors made of a malleable “skin,” and embedded with tiny sensors and actuators so that the shape and size of living spaces can quickly change, or even be divided into smaller rooms; imagine fully programmable “smart homes” that can be controlled remotely, and provide feedback to their owners—yes, there’ll even be an app for that.
Virtual decorations will alter with changing tastes, moods and whims; and the entire interior surface of the home will be implanted with LED technology—television screens and computer displays will form and unform in any room, as needed. Even our furniture will be adaptable, molding to custom fit our bodies, responding to changes in posture, or disappearing altogether when not needed.
A drone flying house. Image credit: Taylor Herring/Samsung
It will be the ultimate evolution of the “Internet of Things.” Misplaced something? Can’t find your keys? No problem. Just use an online search function to find it. Hate the color of that accent wall? Delete it. Need more storage space? Watch new shelves appear, as if by magic.
And the amenities are fantastic. Every home will come standard with a 3D printer; they’ll be able to churn out just about anything you could wish, using downloadable patterns, probably including even complex electronic devices. They may even print out your meals, designed and programmed by the world’s master chefs.
Walk-in “medical pods,” meanwhile, will contribute to the decentralization of healthcare—their imaging sensors will diagnose your ills and, for the more easily treatable maladies, dispense drugs, inject antibiotics, and recommend health regimens. It may even be possible to undergo remote, robot-mediated surgery, in the comfort of your own home.
This barely scratches the surface. Imagine homes whose very building material is salted with dormant limestone-producing bacteria, which awaken upon contact with moisture and repair any cracks or structural damage.
There will be “digestion tanks” full of anaerobic bacteria, to dispose of our waste; and our homes will produce, store, and reuse their own energy, using “microbial fuel cell stacks” and more efficient solar panels to generate electricity, and power-banks like the Tesla powerwall to store it against future use. Personal homes will be almost fully independent of a dangerously overtaxed energy grid.
One hundred years in the future, our houses will be, in almost all respects, semi-living, artificial organisms—closed systems with a metabolism, sensory apparatus, immune response, and an approximation to a nervous system.
We’ll be living in homes that are practically alive. An uncanny thought.
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An Antimatter Drive In Less Than a Decade? It’s Not as Far-Fetched as You Might Think
An Antimatter Drive In Less Than a Decade? It’s Not as Far-Fetched as You Might Think
Artist’s concept of Hbar Technologies’ antimatter probe.
Credit: Steven Howe/Hbar Technologies, LLC
IN BRIEF
Physicist Gerald Jackson thinks he can build an antimatter drive capable of taking us to the stars in less than a decade; all that’s needed is a little ready cash. To that end, his company, Hbar Technologies, is crowdfunding this lofty ambition with a Kickstarter campaign.
HAVE ANTIMATTER, WILL TRAVEL
Gerald Jackson, a former physicist at Fermilab, has a big dream. He thinks that, given unlimited funds, we could have a fully demonstrable, antimatter-propelled spacecraft prototype ready in less than a decade.
But since he doesn’t possess unlimited economic resources, and since the likelihood of any government underwriting a prohibitively expensive program in antimatter propulsion technology is pretty remote, he’s decided to turn to the guerrilla funding tactics of the 21st century: He’s starting a Kickstarter campaign.
The idea is to raise $200,000 to crowdfund initial antimatter propulsion research for Jackson’s company, Hbar Technologies.
It’s an ambitious goal, but the potential rewards are staggering. The creation of a functional antimatter engine would mean drastically reduced travel times for space probes, both within the solar system and in the interstellar spaces beyond. With potential velocities of 40% of the speed of light, it would mean that the stars would suddenly come within our reach; a journey lasting as long as the voyage of the New Horizons probe to Pluto would take us, not merely to the outermost bodies in our solar system, but to whole systems of planets circling nearby stars.
Some experts assert that a more realistic estimate of such a spacecraft’s speed would be about 0.10c (10% of the speed of light), but even this would represent a fantastic speed that is utterly beyond anything we have today, and it would still put a probe in the Alpha Centauri system (the closest alien system to our own) in just 40 years.
The problem is twofold: devising a lightweight propulsion system that doesn’t outweigh the payload by orders of magnitude; and actually getting one’s hands on significant enough quantities of antimatter, a notoriously difficult substance to come across (which, incidentally, is fortunate for those of us made of normal matter).
Jackson thinks he has a solution to the first problem. “[M]y Hbar partner, physicist Steven Howe, and I came up with a very light propulsion system whose mass was comparative to the payload—an antimatter sail,” he explains.
Schematic diagram of the Hbar Technologies concept for an antimatter space probe. Credit: Hbar Technologies, LLC.
MAKING ANTIMATTER
As far as the antimatter production problem—that may be a bit more difficult. Antimatter on Earth can only be found where humans have created it, deep in the hearts of the world’s most powerful particle accelerators—one antiproton at a time.
Jackson and Howe estimated that only 17 grams of antihydrogen would be required to power their antimatter drive, which doesn’t sound like much; however, less than one gram of the stuff has been produced, and none of it has been contained for much more than a day. So to sum: It’s very difficult to store, and its production would require a multi-billion dollar particle collider solely dedicated to churning out antimatter day after day—a fantastically expensive project.
Still, Jackson continues to dream, and it is of such stuff that the future is built. He thinks he’s solved the containment issue, and he wants cash to build a proof-of-concept. The rest, he hopes, will follow in due time.
The glare of Alpha Centauri, one of the brightest stars in planet Earth’s night sky, floods the left side of this southern skyscape.
Credit: Marco Lorenzi (GlitteringLights).
MEET THE CRAFT
Briefly, the spacecraft design outlined by Jackson and Howe is as follows—the probe will consist of four parts: A carbon “sail” coated with depleted uranium, a storage unit containing the requisite antihydrogen in solid form, an antiproton-powered electrical energy system, and a robotic imaging and instrument package (the science payload).
The actual motive principle behind the antimatter drive is a curious one. The antihydrogen is used to induce fission, and will produce 2 GeV (2 billion electron volts) of power—far in excess of anything standard chemical rockets generate. Upon striking a depleted uranium foil within the spacecraft, the antiprotons cause the uranium to fission, producing two “daughter” byproducts which are emitted in opposite directions.
One of these byproducts slams into the uranium-coated sail, imparting its momentum to it like wind bellying the cloth sails of a terrestrial clipper ship. The other byproduct is exhausted like a conventional rocket propellant—that process of “leaving something behind” quoted in the film Interstellar as the only way mankind has ever found of getting from one place to another in space. So there are really two propulsive engines at work simultaneously, which (theoretically) cause the spacecraft to accelerate rapidly to appreciable fractions of the speed of light.
It’s an interesting proposal, and well worth investigation. Perhaps, with Kickstarter funding, Jackson and Howe can start the serious business of making this science fictional technology a reality. That said, they estimate a further $100 million is needed to develop an Earth-based test to prove that the technology actually works…so that may only be something our progeny get to see.
“Crowdfunding may be a good way to show interest in the project when it comes time to find bigger investors or governmental support,” says Jackson.
After that, with sufficient will, and a couple of billion dollars burning a hole in one’s pocket, dispatching antimatter probes capable of 0.40c to the near stars shouldn’t be a problem at all.
Evidence for the existence of a “new” Ninth Planet, 10 times the Earth’s mass and lurking on the outer rim of the Solar System, just got a little bit firmer with the announcement of a new KBO.
But this distant world would be no pipsqueak, like the other icy, planetary embryos that we’ve discovered in the Kuiper Belt.
In fact, Brown and his team calculated a mass for the object of approximately 10 times the Earth’s, suggesting that it was the incipient core of a giant planet (like Jupiter or Saturn) that was jostled in the early phases of the Solar System’s formation, and rudely ejected into an astonishing 149 billion-kilometer (92 billion-mile) orbit, or nearly 75 times more distant than Pluto.
That means the hypothetical planet’s “year” can last anywhere from 10,000-20,000 terrestrial years.
Now, the evidence for the existence of such an object is indirect—specifically, the effect it seems to be having on neighboring outer Solar System bodies, called Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs). Six of these objects had been detected with wildly eccentric orbits, including the large planetoid Sedna, with an orbital period of 11,000 years.
Image of a slide showing the orbits of the KBOs suspected of betraying the presence of a Planet Nine. The orbit of the newly discovered, seventh KBO is the largest (“uo3L91”). Credit: OSSOS via Mike Brown’s Twitter feed.
“Hey Planet Nine fans, a new eccentric KBO was discovered. And it is exactly where Planet Nine says it should be,” Mike Brown tweeted. Furthermore, he says, the new object “takes the probability of this being a statistical fluke down to ~.001% or so.”
Whether this hypothetical, 10 Earth-mass planet is the famed “Nemesis” object, said to be responsible for cometary influxes that cause mass extinctions on Earth, remains to be seen (though astronomers are, understandably, skeptical); but with the detection of uo3L91, the case for something massive lurking in the outer Solar System, and affecting the orbits of distant planetoids, just got a little bit stronger.
But we’ll have to wait and see. Perhaps more such detections will let us nail down the giant planet’s orbital path; maybe then we’ll be able to snap a picture of it with some next-gen Earth-based telescope.
Till then, keep your eyes peeled for more eccentric KBOs.
Scientists Discover Quasar That Emits Jets Reaching 18 Trillion Degrees
Scientists Discover Quasar That Emits Jets Reaching 18 Trillion Degrees
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IN BRIEF
New observations show temperatures in the jet of quasar 3C 273 in a distant galaxy were able to reach 18 trillion degrees Fahrenheit.
18 TRILLION°
Despite their name, black holes can actually light up the sky with huge bursts of radiation that shine brighter than all the surrounding stars. Astronomers believe these jets come from a ring of hot material around the black hole, called a quasar.
Artist’s concept of RadioAstronm the telescope that measured the black hole jets.
We’ve always thought there was a limit to how bright these jets could shine, and consequently how much heat they could produce. As the electrons inside the jet would heat up to over 170 billion degrees Fahrenheit, the jet would produce X-rays and gamma rays, which would interact with each other and then cool down the emissions.
Now though, new observations show temperatures in the jet of quasar 3C 273 in a distant galaxy were able to reach 18 trillion degrees Fahrenheit.
“This result is very challenging to explain with our current understanding of how relativistic jets of quasars radiate,” astronomer Yuri Kovalev said in a statement.
Scientists are still pretty shocked, and the team will need to do more research to figure out just how the quasar got so hot without cooling down. Luckily, they have some impressive technology on their side.
The team credits these results to interferometry, which occurs when multiple telescopes are linked together to get fine resolution of a distant object. Specifically, the team used a radio space telescope linked to several ground telescopes. They’re collectively called RadioAstron, and when they’re linked together, it’s equivalent to using a telescope the size of eight Earth diameters. Their resolution is about 1,000 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope.
Thanks to this highly-detailed view, researchers actually discovered something else about 3C 272. It had previously unknown visible distortions to its substructure, as seem from Earth, caused by peering through the interstellar medium in our own Milky Way.
As our telescopic technology continues to improves, who knows what we might find next.
Vendors at a conference in Aurora sold a range of UFO-related books and paraphernalia. Makayla Smith, 17, was selling alien-faced cupcakes.
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According to legend -- and a Texas historical marker -- early in the morning on April 17, 1897, something strange happened in the small town of Aurora, about 30 miles northwest of Fort Worth.
A cigar-shaped airship was seen falling from the sky when it crashed through a windmill and exploded. The airship, it is said, was not of this world. The pilot – from Mars, people thought at the time – was allegedly buried with Christian rites at the nearby Aurora Cemetery.
The Wise County town recently hosted a conference to commemorate the UFO crash. Folks have different opinions about what happened nearly 120 years ago.
Toni Wheeler first heard the story of the crash when she was a kid growing up in Aurora. An older neighbor would sit on his porch and tell stories.
“Then I started asking my grandfather about it and he would snicker about it,” Wheeler said. “And my grandmother said 'it’s hogwash.' But my uncles would discuss it. Especially my uncle Marvin. He loved to tell tall tales anyway, and he really got on telling all kinds of stories, and Ned’s story was one of them.”
They call him Ned
Many folks in Aurora call the alien Ned. He's the extra-terrestrial pilot that is said to have been buried in in the town. Wheeler came up with the name -- and it stuck.
Wheeler’s family has been in Aurora for several generations. She’s been Aurora’s city administrator for more than a decade.
On Saturday, Wheeler spent the day leading bus trips to the crash site and the old town cemetery. It was part of the Aurora Alien Encounter conference she helped organize.
Researchers have looked into the story for years, testing water in the well where the wreckage was said to be stored, digging metal out of trees at the crash site as proof something exploded, and using radar to see if there really is a Ned in Ned’s grave. In the 1970s, Wheeler says people even tried to exhume the remains.
“You cannot exhume a grave unless you notify the next of kin,” Wheeler says with a smile. “And that’s how the cemetery association got the court injunction in 1972 to keep them from exhuming the remains.”
Author Tui Snyder gave a presentation on the numerous reports of mysterious airship sightings in Texas in the spring of 1897.
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Texas a UFO hotbed
This wasn’t the only UFO sighting in Texas in the spring of 1897. New telescope technology had allowed people to see the face of Mars more clearly than ever, though maybe not quite clearly enough.
An Italian astronomer in 1888 announced he’d seen evidence of canals on the red planet.
“People kind of freaked out,” says E.R. Bills, an author who wrote about the Aurora incident in his book Texas Obscurities. “It was the first serious discussion of maybe there being life. So when this crash happened here, you know, people had heard of that, and that’s why they assumed the pilot was from Mars.”
The Dallas Morning News, taking at face value that it was indeed an extra-terrestrial event, linked Ned's ship to a series of UFO sightings around the country and quoted a U.S. signal service officer who“gives it as his opinion that he was a native of the planet Mars.”
“Papers found on his on his person – evidently a record of his travels – are written in some unknown hieroglyphics, and cannot be deciphered," the newspaper reported.
“The ship was too badly wrecked to form any conclusion as to its construction or motive power. It was built of an unknown metal, resembling somewhat a mixture of aluminum and silver.”
This article appeared in the Dallas Morning News on April 19, 1897,
Embracing the alien story?
There were lots of theories about what happened back in 1897. There still are. Some thought it was a man-made dirigible that crashed, others called it a hoax. Some at the time saw it as a sign of Judgment Day approaching.
These days, in Aurora, there’s more tension over whether the city should embrace the alien story.
"There’ve been people that are a part of our city council, that are a part of other committees throughout the city who have threatened resignation for us being involved in this,” says Amanda Smith, Aurora Historical and Preservation Commission secretary. “It is that serious.”
The conference is just one way the town is cashing in on its lore. There are plans for an alien-themed haunted house this fall. A statue is in the works -- featuring a broken windmill and the flying saucer Ned crashed.
“I live not far from here, and every day – every day – there are people lined up at the cemetery looking around,” Smith says. “And from a business standpoint, and a marketing standpoint, that is an asset we’re not capitalizing on.”
More than just a business opportunity, though, she says embracing the town’s quirky history is a way to preserve its unique identity as it is enveloped into the outer suburbs of Fort Worth. Without that history, she says, “our heritage goes away, and [Aurora] becomes just another part of the conglomerate.”
Smith says she was pleased with the conference’s turnout. The venue, she said, was at capacity. Conference organizers say they want this to be a yearly tradition.
'We're not the only ones out here'
Like a lot of attendees, Richard Wall says he’s had his own UFO encounter. Several years back, he says he saw glowing spheres in the night sky that flew off with a sonic boom. As for the 1897 crash, though, Wall is skeptical.
“I’m sure somebody saw something, and they’re trying to make something plausible of the story behind what they saw,” he says.
His wife, Dolly Moravitz- Wall, shook her head at her husband’s disbelief.
“I believe it,” she says. “I really do. Because there are other beings out there. We’re not the only ones out here.”
The two together share the views that so many people who turned out to learn more about the event: That even if Ned didn’t crash land in Aurora in 1897, it doesn’t mean Ned’s cousins aren’t out there.
The mysterious UFO was first spotted by Scott Waring of UFO Sightings Daily as he watched the live stream.
He then passed the footage on to alien hunter Tyler Glockner who uploaded the video to is YouTube channel secureteam10 .
Narrating the video, Tyler said: “When you play this footage quickly, it looks like the UFO changes its position.
“When we first see it it’s more on its side, but when you cycle through the footage it seems to be maneuvering more on its face.
“it’s definitely another interesting find and once again directly after it appears NASA cuts the feed.
“That’s why you see the screen go blue. they’ve done this, they have been doing this, they have their hand on the chicken switch as they call it.
“I know they monitor these feeds but sometimes they’re not quick enough and UFOs appear.
“We have documented that on this channel for years now.
“The only time when the feed tends to get cut is oddly when these UFOs appear.”
Tyler says the ISS live feed went down in 2014 after a massive yellow disk was spotted hovering over the space station.
And the latest sighting comes after Jadon Beeson, 20, spotted a cigar-shaped object with a blueish hue hovering close to the ISS.
“It was a metallic object, it looks like a Millennium Falcon from Star Wars or something from Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” he told the Mail Online .
“I thought it was all very strange.”
Jadon sent to images to NASA to see what they made of the sighting.
In response a spokesperson said: “Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artefacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.”
The UFO floating home concept from mini yacht-maker Jet Capsule offers a completely off-grid existence.View gallery (12 images)
While you can always head for the hills to wait out the apocalypse, a more stylish option could be a fully sustainable floating home from Italian mini yacht-maker Jet Capsule. The company has drawn up a concept for a saucer-shaped UFO, or Unidentified Floating Object, which offers a completely off-grid existence floating on the ocean.
According to the company's co-founders, Pierpaolo Lazzarini and Luca Solla, the UFO is intended for "living in a floating house and moving slowly around the world." "Slowly" in this case means a leisurely maximum speed of 3.5 knots (6.5 km/h, 4 mph), using a waterjet-propelled Torqeedo Deep Blue 1800 electric motor.
This motor is connected to a battery that draws energy generated from 40 sq. m (430 sq. ft.) of solar panels in a closable lid atop the structure. Additional energy sources can be provided through optional wind and water turbines located on the top and below the main disc of the UFO, respectively, creating enough power to operate the home and motor.
The company says an onboard water generator would be used for converting rain or seawater to fresh drinking water, as well as watering a vegetable garden located on a deck that encircles the structure and measures 12.5 m (41 ft) in diameter.
Two half-spherical shells of fiberglass make up the two stories of the interior housing, with flexible floor plans for various configurations. Generally, the orb-shaped home will consist of a transformable kitchen and dining/living area on a 20-sq. m (215-sq. ft.) top level, with stairs leading down to a 10-sq. m (107-sq. ft.) submerged lower level with bathroom and bedroom surrounded by a large window for viewing sea life.
To keep the craft stable, the UFO uses a special elastic anchor system. "The main structure of the floating object can be aligned with the compass, keeping the position angle oriented on the desired cardinal direction, even in rough sea conditions," say the designers.
The company is currently seeking investors to build the first working prototype, at an estimated cost of US$800,000, with homes produced after that estimated at $200,000, which is actually cheaper than the average price of an, albeit larger, houseboat.
During the past few years, I have written about people who have had strange encounters with alien or unknown beings as well as lost time events. The people involved in these events are often referred to as contactees or experiences or abductees. They are people who are taken against their will having their lives and bodies invaded or used until they are returned confused and with no or little memory of what took place . Many of these people started having strange events occur to them as small children as young as age three. Most of the encounters are vague at best in memory while messages or ideas seem to become implanted in the minds of those taken which they, in turn, feel compelled to explain or share after the abduction or lost time experience.
I have interviewed many people who have been through this time of the event and have found many similar threads that run through this community of people. Today I want to discuss one of those similarities. Among the abduction victims, I have talked to the subject of children or being used for the collection of biological material to use fora inter-species reproduction project seems to be the main concern for these people. The subject comes into the conversation usually by the abductee as this seems to be a topic that weighs heavily on their minds. The idea of being used to produce a child or life form that is only half human and that half coming from them is an idea that pushes the abductees to a point of deep concern and fear. I have been told over and over that their worse fear would be for them to come face to face with a being that they thought was theirs by way of their abductions.
I know this fear has been realized in a few cases where those who have experienced these events have an experience where either children or teens are shown to abductees without explanation. Odd looking children or teens will in strange places appear and walk over and either simply look at or speak a few words tot he abductees before quickly walking away or vanish before the abductee can react to them leaving the abductees with a deep implanted feeling that they were shown their alien hybrid children.
The people who have had this happen to seem to be rare however they all were seriously shaken by the event, They are people who carry the images of these children or teens with fear anguish and upset after the experience making their life harder as they struggle why they are the one who has been chosen to endure these horrid abduction experiences .
I have worked with and have become friends with Randy Maugans who is the host of Off Planet Radio. Randy and I have worked together on his shows and as I mentioned become friends due to the fact we share a great deal in common with our thinking and personal experiences with the unknown.
Randy is a life long experiences with strange events happening to him when he was a small child of about three. He has continued with odd events and lost time scenarios during his entire lifetime. Although Randy radio show covers the subjects of the unknown Randy has only recently started to discuss his own experiences recently.
Randy and I were discussing a show we were preparing to work on together when I started to ask him a bit more about his own encounters. Randy floored me when he mentioned that a few years ago he had a truly upsetting experience that has kept him nervous and confused since.
Randy was working late and took a break at dinner time to go get something to eat. He was sitting at an outdoor table during the summer eating all alone when two strange young people approached him. Randy has agreed to tell us in his own words what took place ;
” I was having dinner at a Chinese take out place one night in September 2010. The place had a covered area with tables outside. It was a nice night so I went out and sat down to eat my dinner. I was the only one there at the time eating. I was busy with my dinner when I felt someone was there or looking at me so I looked up to find two young people standing a few feet away from me.
The moment I notice them both of them walked right up to my table inches from where I sat, One was a teenage male in his late teens the other a teen female a bit younger, They were very strange looking. They were both on the tall side but extremely thin. They wore jeans but they did not look like a normal teen as they had on odd shirts and wore their hair unlike most kids, I know I have a house full of teenagers, They had pale skin and extremely large eyes, The eyes were blue but way too big for their faces and skull. They had straight slit-like pupils not round like ours.The boy had shaggy dark blonde hair the girl dark straight hair with large widows peek.
The two of them stood close and over me until the male bent down a bit and I heard in my head his voice saying “Hello how are you ” He did not communicate this orally it was done mentally. With that, the two of them stepped back and quickly took off into the parking lot area.
The Chinese restaurant is in a strip mall the restaurant is the located on the end being the last store in the strip. I was extremely shaken at what had just happened and got up immediately and stepped out into the parking lot which I could clearly see from my area and searched for them. It was only seconded that passed yet I could not see them anywhere, I knew they did not even have enough time to make it to a car much less disappear from the parking area, I walked around and looked but could not find any sign of them. I returned to my table however was so upset by the event that I was physically shaking and needed to calm down before I was able to drive and return to work.
I knew that the two were not fully human and will tell you that one horrid thought went through my mind as I sat there experiencing this while they were in front of me and every day since. The horror that flowed through me then and still does now is one thought – are they mine?
Once I returned to work I immediately took notes and drew a sketch of what I had just experienced. I have to tell you that this event is one that really has and still does shake me to my bone. “
Below are Randy’s notes and sketch from that day.
Eyes: approximately 1/3 size larger than normal (the drawing is a visual representation, but not exact); (creepy) the irises of both subjects were elliptical, not round. I recall both subjects eyes were light-colored: the male had green-blue eyes; the female’s eyes were nearly translucent with a slight blue tint—it was quite stunning.
The ears were not “pointy”, but slightly more elongated than the average human subject; the lobes were either attached or did not exist’
Hard to show in the sketch, but the cranial (foreheads) were more prominent; i.e.- frontal cranium had a very noticeable protrusion.
The female subject had a noticeable “widows peak”; the male, as I recall did not but the hair was also longish likely more of a forward sweep. Male’s hair was light, or blondish, the female’s hair was dark…black? Can’t say for certain now.
The heights of the subjects were, relative to my height (5’11-1/2”)—male around 5’11”, female around 5’8” or so (sketch, right sideline sketch).
When I saw Randy’s sketch I was a bit shocked as many years ago I talked with a man before the world was discussing these strange events of lost time and abduction to a man who had a few UFO sightings in his lifetime. He was in his 80 years old at the time but sharp and clear in his thinking. He told me of his fear that he had alien children and also had sketched three young children about 12 who looked very much like the ones Randy drew. I wish I had kept the drawing but it was over 20 years since I last saw this man and I was not yet gathering information in the fashion I try to do now and can not longer find his sketch, I do recall the three children had large eyes were very thin and also spoke to him as he said in his head. I talked to one of the abductees that I interviewed over the last few years about what happened to Randy to find out if she knew of any others who had this experience. At once she burst into tears and said: ” This man ( Randy) lived my worst nightmare”. She explained that her worst fear since she had started to be taken in her late teens was that one day she too would be shown children that were alien and half her flesh and blood and the thought has terrorized her for years, I did not know how to comfort her as I think all abductees feel the same way. Randy was just chosen for some reason to be shown what may have been his. Maybe the reason Randy feels compelled to dive into the unknown with his radio shows is due to his experiences with the unknown . Maybe his being shown those two beings was so Randy would discuss it and bring the idea of it out to the public to consider as the time for us to learn more truth in these matters starts to come closer and closer. I believe that the reason those like Randy are the ones taken relates to their biology and DNA as well as blood type . Many if not almost most abductees I have come to know all share the odd coincidence of having RH negative blood factor which is rare in the overall population but usual in the abduction population . You find other factors as well including eye color and family background origins, Many have Irish family lines as well as other similar traits, I think those taken are taken not for who they are as an individual but of the body chemistry they were born with, That also explains why many abduction cases can be known to run in families . Whatever it going on and whatever Randy encountered that night I think it all adds up to the fact it is the time we understand this is knowledge we are being shown and given and realize how important it is to share and learn from it. What Randy experienced and all those who have been taken realize is that this is not a TV horror movie or fiction . These are not new movie trailers we are discussing or scary stories to entertain you, We take our time to tell you these things as they happen to real people just like you all the time and we need to stop being so ignorant of things we do not understand and must start to try to grasp on to the fact that it is time to stop being ridiculous and start wanting to know what the hell is going on out there before it may just be too late, With knowledge and in strength we can continue as a species in ignorance and divided we will fail. You can find Randy Maugans show@ http://radio.offplanetmedia.net/RANSMISS
I had an interesting conversation recently concerning my article about two sisters and their difficulties over a lifetime of lost time abduction encounters.
The conversation was based on the fact that not only have I come to the conclusion that writing about real time abductions was a waste of my time and the Real-Time Abductees time too, but I explained that writing about this group of unusual people and their experiences did not seem to interest the public or any other group or researchers at all. The fact the real time abductees could have been a wealth of data on the subject of abduction and lost time did not seem to be of interest to anyone in any form.
I am sure that a great deal of it was due to the fact that my articles about their experiences were told as they related them, which was in a logical truthful fashion. My articles were not filled with movie script type detailed, colorful descriptions of amazing aliens and their crafts. I do not write horror or fantasy. I write what really goes on, which I feel is just too boring and black and white for the average paranormal reader.
Long ago the lines between good entertainment for fun and real research became so distorted in the subjects we consider “unknown” that truth, fiction, fraud and research became so convoluted that all real answers to real questions have been lost, Trying to work in this area, using fact or truth without the color, became impossible or was so confused that it is at the point of being quite impossible.
Real-time abductions are events that occur to people who are fully awake and alert who are going about the business of their normal daily routines and who are suddenly abducted against their will.
These people suffer lost time and then find they are returned often to a different place from where they were taken . They are very often ill, dazed and at times hurt. They can recall when the event starts, but have little memory of what happened to them before they find themselves awakening hours later.
Some of the abductees have flashed memories of what took place during their abductions. Some return with knowledge or skills or thoughts they did not have before they were taken. Many suffer these events more than once during their life. All are somehow changed during the experience.
During my years of writing about these fascinating people, I promised them that I would answer without embellishment any questions, giving the most truthful answers I could to the questions asked.
It took courage for the abductees to allow me to write about them or to answer questions concerning their experiences. The fact that not one person or group or organization ever wanted any information concerning their ordeals with these strange abductions made these people recoil from reaching out, and closed the door at my attempts at finding answers.
Finally, after all of these years, we have had someone ask a few questions about their abduction events. After a conversation with the abductees, it was decided that I could answer the handful of questions before I end my adventure of writing about this group of people to whom I refer to as The Real Time Abductees.
Adding salt to the wound of rejection for the abductees is the fact that the questions were not even asked directly to me or them, but came by way of an email of a third party who was corresponding with the person who finally did ask a few questions about the abductees encounters.
I found the questions to be thoughtful and decided as my last article on the subject of Real-Time Abduction to answer these questions, I know that there is a wealth of data being lost with these people, however, I have tried my best to find an audience or place that could benefit and learn from them and have found only silence and disinterest in what they have to say or warn us about concerning their abduction encounters,
Below are the questions with the answers following each question:
Question: ”What occurred during the abductions?”
Answer: Nothing during this abduction of the two sisters case as it was stopped ,however, during the battle to stop it both women were hurt as the article about the two sisters explains.
Other abductees do have flash memories of what took place including the recall of multiple beings surrounding the abductee or bright lights making it difficult to see what is going on around them.
The abductees I refer to as the Real Time Abductees have no clear memory of being examined or touched. All of the abductees agree that they have had their memory wiped clean of the events before they are returned. Some flashes of what took place do remain in a few of the abductees . Others feel their abductors wiped too much memory taking with it parts of their lifetime memories that they can no longer remember.
Question: ”What are the lingering health problems?”
Answer: This is a very lengthy list that includes many different problems for different people. I will give the overall problems, which they all share.
The spine , neck and skeleton of the abductees all have been altered leaving them with issues from compression to actual breaks. Many have had large spurs grow in odd places that burrow into the surrounding muscles, leaving them in constant pain.
Almost all have had to seek long-term medical help to deal with some form of spinal and bone issues. It has been common for an abductee to be told that they show that bones they never broke now show clear signs upon being x-rayed of having been broken.
There are cases when a shoulder bone (or other large bone) shows that it was, without question, broken and has healed poorly. Spinal fractures also are commonly found.
One of the abductees, when they had X-rays taken for a different health issue, was asked when in the past they had had the accident when it was found that theypresented both a bad shoulder and broken back, which had healed.
Of course, the abductee had never had “an accident” or any broken bones that they knew of until X-rayed
This is a scenario that plays out often with abduction victims. All of the abductees suffer from a flu-like sickness, with a red, raised rashes on their backs or chests that last for about two weeks after an abduction. It can flare up any time during their lifetimea for a few years after an abduction,
All the abductees have problems with light and they cannot tolerate bright sun or bright lights of any kind, including fluorescent lighting. All of the abductees require very dark sunglasses, and sit in shaded areas as the bright sun both blinds them and causes their eyes to hurt.
Many of the abductees suffer from very large red rashes that come and go, which are uncontrollable and painful. One abductee has a growing reptile-like scale rash spreading across her body that does not respond to any treatment.
The abductees have issues that would be presented in those who have had problems with their adrenal , pituitary and thyroid functions.
This is just a partial list of the problems they deal with. On the other side of the coin, the abductees all have had their IQ increase and have been able to increase their skill sets with ease.
The strangest thing they all share in common and cannot explain is that they return with new knowledge about something tha they did not have before the abduction, or with thoughts or visions of what will happen in the future that always prove to be true.
Question: ”What did the abductors look like?”
Answer: Since the abductee's memory is always wiped or cleaned before they are returned, it is very hard to answer this question. The main combined agreed-to description by the abductees that their abductors are built or shown in a human form with one head, two arms and two legs. Some feel they are hairless with light skin while others feel they are covered in some type of skin or suit.
They do not recall their faces or features. However, they do all agree that they have a badodor, similar to mold and sulfur.
Question: “What was inside the green light?”
Answer: Nothing, but a large sweeping ray of green light that runs from a very hot area that can turn extremely cold in a second. It does have a vibration or hum to it. It is part of a tool used to scoop up their victims.
Question: ”Is there a merger between supernatural and extraterrestrial worlds, or is this a terrestrial demonic attack?”
Answer: There seem to be ways that we do not understand that dimensions we have no knowledge of can intermingle when they are needed. It seems clear in the two sisters' case that the energy of this woman's departed family members were able to manifest in order to protect the woman from her abductor.
No one on this planet understands how the interdimensional worlds work or how those who are part of them enter and exit the dimension that we live in.
In this case, we see that all the things that we do not understand come into focus as a crossing of dimensions, such as those that clearly took place in front of the family, as in the two sisters abduction case.
Obviously, it is a simple case of our not being able to understand the way the universe or how the multi-dimensions work or interact. The fact is that “they” do know how to manipulate and transport them (when needed) between dimensions.
The sisters did not feel this was a demonic issue, but one of her family warning the unknown creature or alien that it needs to stop.
The creature has not returned and, for now, all abductions seem to have ended for the two sisters family.
Time will tell the answers to all of these questions as eventually we will learn how all of this works and we will be able to understand and handle our human dimension with intelligence. For now, we as a species seem simply content with remaining in the dark on many things we do not understand and label “paranormal. ” It is, of course, all science that we simply do not yet grasp.
We received a question last year that was left on my voice mail from a man that I will answer now, as well. The caller asked if any of the abductees were told to tell us anything by the aliens , for example:
Question: “Was the abductee asked any questions about being a human?”
I did not answer this question at the time It was left, as I had just finished and published an article on warnings given by the abductees.
All the abductees have returned with the impressions of both natural and man-made disasters and an immanent world war impressed upon them.
They were also given warnings concerning “giving up our humanity” so easily to technology, which provides easy access to our control. I have written about all of those things repeatedly.
The other interesting question the man left on the voice mail was:
Question: ”Have the aliens had ever asked any of their human captives any questions?”
I thought about this and remembered an older man (who had been taken many times during his life) telling me that he did have an encounter once with a very curious alien who did ask him via thought and images questions that he found very unusual.
The interview with this abductee stuck out in my mind and I was able to locate the notes that I took while talking with him. He was not comfortable with me writing his encounters and until now I had nowhere to write about the part of his interview that discussed the alien questions. The man told me the alien communicated by showing him visions or images or placed thoughts in his head.
The first thing the alien asked was by showing him images or visions of large groups of people eating. Eating around tables, at fast food restaurants and just about every scene you could image of people eating lots of food.
The next thing he was shown were images of people starving to death. All kinds of people from all over the world, many of them children. The images the abductee told me were heartbreaking and made him feel terrible when he viewed them.
The alien wanted to know:
“Why since we have so much food, some have it yet waste it and others die from not having it?”
The alien wanted to know why we do this? He even placed images of rows of farming and piles of freshly caught fish in the man's head. Again the alien asked him why do humans feed some too much and starve others? The abductee told me his mind went blank, as the only answer he had was that he did not know why we do this.
The older abductee was also shown an image of what looked like a science lab of some sort with a handful of people working in the lab, also in the manner of thoughts and images or visions presented to him by the alien was asked why we have the technology, but only a few humans are educated or advancing?
He was also shown a huge movie screen with what looked like thousands of people cheering at zombies or monsters on the movie screen. The alien did not understand why only a few are educated while the majority of the population does not advance, which keeps our planet at a slow growth rate when it comes to science or advancement. The old man knew his captor thought of us as very primitive and ignorant.
I know we think we are superior beings as we walk upon the earth with smartphones and techie gadgets hanging from our belts. The fact is that only a few of us invent anything to build and advance the planet. This seems is confusing to a being who obviously comes from a civilization far different and far more advanced than ours,
Obviously, where they come from everyone is educated and advances. Sad for the human race that we do not do the same.
The last questions the man was asked were very interesting to me and ones that really spoke to the fact that we are as strange to them as they are to us.
The alien asked the man why only two or even one human raise the children. He was shown a single mother and a family with four or five children sitting on a couch with their mother and father. The being that had abducted the old man wanted to know why only one or two adults raise the children.?
Obviously, the alien does not come from a male /female type of union like we do on earth, nor did he seem to understand the family unit as we know it. His confusion on this makes me believe his civilization does not form family units and must raise their young in groups with many adults involved in the care of their young,
The last question really gave me an idea of how our visitors view the human species. The alien asked the older man:
“Why we are self-killing?”
At first, the man thought he was asking about war, which we have as an ongoing constant on this planet. The alien stopped this thought in the man's head quickly and was able to communicate that they already knew we were an extremely violent species. The alien kept repeating “self-killing” …”self-killing.”
The abductee was then shown images of very overweight people eating large plates of food and a man smoking who was nearly invisible under a thick layer of smoke, as well as what looked like homeless people laying on a city street. He was also shown images that he did not understand, but he got the message:
“Why did humans not take care of their human bodies?”
The older abductee told me that he tried to answer the questions to the best of his ability, but could tell his captor remained “confused,” and did not seem to understand what he was trying to convey to him.
The abductee mentioned a few times while telling me about this event that the alien completely lacked any signs of emotion or understanding emotion. He recoiled if the man cried or yelled, or if his fear got the better of him and he shook his fist in anger, or begged to be let go. The man told me that emotion seemed to confuse or even frighten and back off his captors.
I believe this lack of emotion on the alien's part is why the two sisters were able to escape, as well as other people, who also displayed outbreaks of emotion that forced their captors to backed off using the element of surprise by displaying something the aliens simply do not understand.
I was happy to answer these questions in this last article about the Real Time Abductees, but realize that the overall interest in the “reality” of the subject of real time abductions does not exist in the public mind, or considered much within the paranormal community. If it did, I am sure we would have had over the years of sharing the real time abductees experiences more then the handful of questions that I have answered in this article.
This will be the last article I write on abduction as I have other areas of the unknown that I want to explore, and I will be giving my time to that.
If I find things I think my readers will be interested in, I will continue to share them on my blog. For now remain aware of your surroundings as one day you may find you are the one, standing alone, in the dead of night and find you are face to face with a cold and emotionless strange being with a great curiosity as to who or what you are.
Footage has surfaced of three UFO ships hovering over Area 51. Where else would UFOs hang out? The federal government and military remain silent. Could it simply be specialized aircraft the military has been secretly testing? “Dreamland,” the special code word for the infamous Area 51 has been a hotbed for innovative air and space technology. It is kind of like the government version of Google or SpaceX. Are the three UFO ships real? And why daylight? Traditionally, aliens prefer night flying, so we think.
Government and Military Foul Up
The footage of three UFO ships hovering over Area 51 could have been a government and military mistake. Section51 posted the UFO video recorded this month on YouTube. They are narrow. Designed like inverted raindrops with lights. In the video, one is clearly visible. While the other two are faded in the background. If this were a secret military flight test, wouldn’t it be under the cover of darkness? That always seems to be the protocol for UFO sightings as well. There have been no official reports by government officials over the video. And you probably shouldn’t expect one.
Why is Area 51 Still UFO Attractive?
Is there some type of alien beacon that draws in extraterrestrial spaceships? Since 1955, Area 51 has been the home to alien inspired cover-ups and conspiracy theories. The top-secret base is six miles wide and ten miles long. With a recently acquired 85,000 acres surrounding it courtesy of government seizure. Like Las Vegas, which is close to the base. What happens at Area 51 stays at Area 51. And if you attempt to get close, you will be most likely shot by private military contractors with a green light to kill. There are also rumors of underground structures, labs and experimental equipment dug deep into the earth. Sounds like an episode of Lost. Some of the military’s most advanced aircrafts have been birthed from Area 51. Making its existence even more confusing. Aliens or war machines?
Alien Tech for Mars Missions
Is Area 51 testing a mission ready spacecraft for an upcoming Mars mission? It would be the logical place for the government and military to design, produce and test such space age stuff. If all the alien rumors are true, than there are plenty of used UFO parts that can be useful at Area 51. Since it is sort of like a junkyard “U Pull It” for UFOs. The three UFO ships on the recently released video may be tests for a future Mars mission. NASA has already said that they will be using real time analytical systems for the 2020 mission to the Red Planet. Where they will focus on finding evidence of an ancient Martian civilization.
AUGUST 22, 1999 ………..PETAWAWA ARMY BASE ONTARIO CANADA
I was training in Petawawa (Army base) Canada. I was a corporal military police. I was laying prone in my shell scrape covering my arcs of fire. It was approx. 1-3 am overcast in the woods. It was so dark I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. I saw a red light entering my ark coming from my right traveling to my left. At about my 11-12 o’clock position it changed course and floated straight towards me. It was a red floating orb semi transparent that emited little light. I craweled towards it and tried to touch it with my hands. The red floating semi transparent orb that emited little light backed away out of arms reach. It floated up and down slowly as if it was checking me out. I pulled back my arms and rested them under my chest. I stretched my head as forward as it would go.
Still in prone position, I kept my eyes as wide open as I could. I watched this floating red orb semi transparent that emits little light move in closer to my face. It was hovering in front of my nose. Millimetres in front of my nose. I was studying it and I think it was studying me. It was a floating red orb semi transparent that emited little light it was millimetres from my nose. I think it touched me. Next thing I remember it was day light. I wandered into the centre of camp. Two others said they saw a UFO.
The commanding officer said it was a helicopter forget about it. I don’t know what they saw but I know what I saw. A floating red orb semi transparent that barely emited light. This was the first time contact was made. For the record I didn’t fall asleep and imagine or dream this. At the time I thought it was some sort of test or secret weapon. Time was lost.
According to witness Shawn from Yellowstone, he saw a huge unidentified crashing object early this morning, April 18, 2016, not too far from the Super Volcano.
Although there is no additional information about this event, it sparked rumors on social media that it was a UFO that fell from the sky and crashed in Yellowstone National Park.
Since the video published on YouTube about the alleged UFO crash shows only a plume of smoke, we may wonder whether it is just a contrail from a plane flying towards the camera or indeed something entered the atmosphere and exploded above Yellowstone.
Personally I feel it was not a UFO but there is no doubt something weird is going on at Yellowstone and it goes like this:
Yellowstone is one of the most monitored and seismically watched areas on the planet and someone want to use its energy for destruction of the Yellowstone Super Volcano. Are they planning a Yellowstone false flag event which could lead to an extinction level event?
Several days ago thecommonsenseshow received two alarming letters from a geologist and geophysicist who is investigating increasing quake activity in the Yellowstone area, since 2011.
The context of these letters supports the idea of a potential false flag event.
Below some statements from the geologist who has signed a national security agreement which carries with it automatic prison time with no due process:
It looks like the “frackers” were experimenting, in other words, somebody was trying to assess if they could cause a series of eruptions at Yellowstone.
A former colleague who was investigating the same region said they detected electromagnetic interference. It was his feeling that a major eruption and quake could be triggered through a change in directed electronic frequencies.
The quakes in Ecuador are not natural and do not follow expected patterns. The geologist and his colleague believe they are artificially created and could be a test for what is coming to Yellowstone.
I recommend to read the whole article regarding to these two letters at: thecommonsenseshow.
Coming back to the alleged UFO crash, as I said, I don’t think it was a UFO, but I do not rule out that it has something to do with the strange activities in Yellowstone.
Below video of the alleged UFO crash in Yellowstone.
Bosnische piramides zetten gevestigde wetenschap voor raadsels
Bosnische piramides zetten gevestigde wetenschap voor raadsels
De Bosnische piramides halen wetenschappelijke theorieën en de verhalen vanuit het Christendom bikkelhard onderuit.
De Bosnische piramides halen wetenschappelijke theorieën en de verhalen vanuit het Christendom bikkelhard onderuit. Deze piramides in Bosnië blijken 12.000 jaar oud en gebouwd te zijn door bouwers, die beschikten over zeer geavanceerde technologieën. Men gebruikte bijvoorbeeld beter beton dan men nu kent, er is een energiebundel ontdekt bij de piramide van de zon en er is bewijs gevonden van heuse genezingskamers in het ondergrondse labyrint van maar liefst 16 km lang.
Piramides in Europa
Ook ons Europese vasteland is in het bezit van piramides. In Bosnië zijn er vijf: de piramide van de zon, de maan, de draak, de liefde en de aarde.
Zijn de piramides in Egyptische en de Mayacultuur verbazingwekkend te noemen en lijken ze over allerlei magische achtergronden te beschikken. Dat is ook het geval met de piramides in Bosnië. In dit artikel zal de piramide van de zon belicht worden.
Op de afbeelding hierboven ziet u de Bosnische piramide van de zon. Deze piramide is groter dan de beroemde grote piramide van Gizeh.
Door de ontdekking van het bestaan van dergelijke oude culturen in Bosnië-Herzegovina is er een heel ander licht geworpen op de geschiedenis, zoals wij die tot nu toe aannamen. De beschaving hier blijkt maar liefst 12.000 jaar oud te zijn en blijkt bovendien op veel terreinen geavanceerder te zijn dan de onze.
2005- de ontdekking
In 2005 werden voor het eerst op het Europese continent, vijf onder heuvels begraven piramides gevonden. De grootste piramide ter wereld werd er zelfs gevonden: de Bosnische piramide van de Zon. Tegelijkertijd werd het onomstotelijke bewijs geleverd dat er reeds duizenden jaren geleden een geavanceerde beschaving bestond.
Oude geavanceerde beschavingen hebben bestaan
Antropoloog aan de Amerikaanse universiteit in Bosnië-Herzegovina, professor Sam Semir Osmanagich tevens lid van de Russische Academie van Natuur Wetenschappen heeft de ontdekkingen aangetoond, alsmede dat alles wat wij geleerd hebben over de geschiedenis van de mensheid niet klopt.
De mens zou niet het resultaat zijn van evolutie, ook zou er nooit een 'missende link' gevonden gaan worden.
De intelligente mens is het product van genetische technologie, is zijn stelling. Volgens de professor tonen de piramides aan dat de bouwers op het gebied van energie, astronomie en bouwkunde verder waren ontwikkeld, dan waartoe wij nu in staat zijn.
Deze gevonden bewijzen worden maar moeilijk geaccepteerd, omdat de mainstream wetenschappers, historici, antropologen en archeologen zitten vastgeroest in oude aanvaarde stellingen.
Bewijzen van geavanceerde beschavingen:
-In het Libanese Baalbeck zijn stenen gevonden van 1200 ton. Dit is vier keer zo groot, als onze huidige kunde zou kunnen construeren. Wie heeft deze gigantische blokken op zijn plaats kunnen zetten, vormgeven en verplaatsen?
De bouwwerken in Machu Picchu Peru tonen aan dat er vier verschillende beschavingen hebben geleefd, die ieder een eigen bouwstijl hadden. De eerste beschaving bleek het meest geavanceerd te zijn. Volgens de geschiedenisboeken zijn deze bouwwerken aan de Inca's toegeschreven. Nieuwe gegevens hebben echter aangetoond dat piramides in China, Egypte, Mexico en Peru veel ouder zijn dan men tot nu toe heeft aangenomen.
-De Yonugani megalistische monumenten, die zich 80 meter onder de zeespiegel in Japan bevinden tonen ondubbelzinnig aan dat er ongeveer 12.000 jaar geleden reeds een vergevorderde beschaving bestond. Deze beschaving is weggevaagd door een oceaan, toen het water plotseling 80 meter steeg.
-De Cahokia piramides laten zien dat de bouwers in staat waren miljoenen tonnen bouwmateriaal te verplaatsen en daarnaast over verbluffende astronomische kennis beschikten. Men wist het verschil tussen het kosmische en magnetische noorden.
-De oudst gevonden piramides in China en Egypte werden gebouwd met zandsteen en grantiet terwijl jonger piramides met baksteen en modder werden gebouwd.
-De enorme stenen hoofden op Paaseiland. Stenen hoofden die overigens ook een lichaam lijken bezitten. De perfecte granieten blokken van een piramidecomplex in Bolivia: Akapana. De honderden kilometers lange patronen die erop lijken te duiden dat er ooit een enorme stad heeft bestaan. De met laserprecisie gebouwde kamers in de piramides van Giza. Allen zijn ze met de hedendaags geaccepteerde wetenschap niet te verklaren.
Eerste Europese piramides
De eerste Europese piramides werden ontdekt in 2005. Deze zijn bedekt met een dikke laag aarde en vegetatie. Na 6 jaar en 340.000 manuren verder is er al meer informatie aan het licht gekomen dan dat er gedurende 200 jaar onderzoek van de piramides in Egypte aan het licht gekomen is. De vallei van piramiden in Bosnië bestaat uit vijf piramiden en zijn door Osmanagich als volgt benoemd: -De piramide van de Zon -De piramide van de Maan -De piramide van de Draak -De piramide van Moeder Aarde -De piramide van de liefde
De piramide van de zon is van een soort beton gemaakt die wij niet kunnen produceren...
Deze piramide is 73 meter hoger dan de grote piramide in Egypte. Met een hoogte van 220 meter met stip de grootste piramide ter wereld. Deze piramide bestaat uit volledig rechthoekige betonblokken en is zeer nauwkeurig op het kosmische Noorden gericht. (foutmarge van 0 graden, 0 minuten en 12 seconden)
Het beton is extreem hard (tot 133 MP) en absorbeert slechts 1% water. Dit maakt het beton veel beter dan moderne betonsoorten. Volgens koolstofdatering is de laag grond op de blokken zo'n 12.000 jaar oud. Een Pools natuurkundig instituut heeft de ouderdom berekend en kwam tot 10.350 jaar. Dit maakt de Bosnische piramides de oudste (bekende) piramides op onze planeet.
Ondergronds labyrint langer dan 16 km
Onder de vallei der Piramiden is een uitgestrekt tunnelnetwerk gevonden, dat maar liefst meer dan 16 kilometer lang blijkt te zijn. In dit labyrint zijn sculpturen gevonden met een massa van 9000 kilo. (een typisch voorbeeld van oude noeste vooral sterke beeldhouwers...)
Er is ook een grafheuvel van 61 meter hoog ontdekt die gelijk tot de hoogste ter wereld gerekend mag worden en deels bestaat uit kunstmatig gecreëerde betonnen lagen.
Onbekende energiebundel komt uit de piramide van de zon
De piramide van de Zon in Bosnië. Wetenschappers hebben ontdekt dat er uit de top een onbekende, krachtige energiestraal opstijgt. Deze lichtstraal is door middel van technieken zichtbaar gemaakt en niet voor het menselijk oog zichtbaar. Dit is een energiebundel van 4,5 meter breed en heeft een frequentie van 28kHz. Deze energiestraal gaat tegen alle bekend staande natuurwetten in, daar deze sterker wordt naarmate de afstand tot de piramide groter wordt. Dit is het bewijs dat er ooit op onze planeet een vergevorderde energietechnologie heeft bestaan.
Het ondergrondse labyrint beschikt over helende capaciteiten.
De genezingskamers van het labyrint van Bosnië. In het labyrint zijn drie kamers ontdekt en een klein blauw meertje. Ter plekke zijn energiemetingen verricht waaruit bleek dat de ionisatie van de lucht hier maar liefst 43 keer hoger is dan gemiddeld in de buitenlucht. Dit maakt deze vertrekken heuse “genezingskamers”
Metingen in 2011 hebben aangetoond dat er nul negatieve elektromagnetische straling is alsmede geen kosmische radioactieve (achtergrond)straling in de tunnels. De sculpturen die bij de ondergrondse waterstromen werden geplaatst blijken een magische werking te hebben. Zij zetten alle negatieve straling om in positieve. Dit maakt dit ondergrondse complex één van de veiligste ter wereld en is daarom een ideale plek om het menselijke lichaam te doen regenereren en herstellen.
Alles op zijn kop gezet
In Bosnië is in slechts zes jaar tijd een schat van informatie ontdekt. Kennis die is erkend door 55 toonaangevende wetenschappers uit 10 landen. Deze kennis zet praktisch alle tot nu toe voor waar aangenomen wetenschappelijke 'feiten' over de herkomst van de mensheid volledig op zijn kop. Het is voor bijvoorbeeld christenen een uitdaging om deze feiten te plaatsen in de context van de Bijbelse historische verslagen over de zondvloed en de hieraan voorafgaande beschreven komst van wezens uit de hemel... Er wordt dus ook nu nog steeds genoeg gevonden om eens goed een partijtje “out of the box”te gaan denken..
Zo zou de Bosnische piramide van de zon er bijvoorbeeld uit kunnen zien. Als onze hedendaagse wetenschappers nu eens een snelle manier vinden, om die berg af te graven, is dit wellicht wat we dit leven nog kunnen aanschouwen...
UFO-spotter ontdekt buitenaards object, “maar NASA wil het verborgen houden” - Het Nieuwsblad.be
UFO-spotter ontdekt buitenaards object, “maar NASA wil het verborgen houden” - Het Nieuwsblad.be
Beelden van een mysterieus object dat boven de aarde zweefde, hebben het debat over buitenaardse wezens nieuw leven in geblazen. Volgens UFO-gelovers wil NASA de ‘ontdekking’ verborgen houden.
Ruimtestation ISS maakt permanent beelden uit de ruimte. Op die live-feed zou afgelopen zondag plots een object te zien zijn geweest; een object in de vorm van een hoef of diamant dat boven de aarde zweefde. Meteen nadat het object in beeld kwam, werden de beelden plots om nog onverklaarbare reden onderbroken. Na ongeveer een uur worden de beelden hervat. Op dat moment is in de verte nog een klein, wit licht in de verte te zien.
De beelden versterken UFO-fanaten in hun geloof van het bestaan van buitenaards leven. Volgens hen zijn de beelden daar een bewijs van. Het kleine licht in de verte is volgens hen hetzelfde object, maar dan vanop een veel grotere afstand. Dat zou meteen ook de veronderstelling dat het object gewoon een vlek op de lens was, van tafel vegen.
“Beelden uitgezet”
Het object werd door UFO-spotter Scott Waring opgemerkt. Hij zette de beelden op UFO Sightings Daily en zei dat hij een UFO gezien had bij het ruimtestation. “Net op het moment dat de UFO het ruimtestation naderde, vielen de beelden uit. NASA zet de beelden altijd uit als ze een UFO zien, om te voorkomen dat ook het publiek de beelden te zien krijgt en om buitenaards leven verborgen te houden. Maar die poging van NASA is dit keer mislukt!”
Ook 2 weken geleden heeft een UFO-spotter een object boven de aarde zien zweven op de live-beelden van het ISS. NASA zei toen dat het om een reflectie ging.
NEW NASA Massive UFO Sighting NASA cuts live space feed 2016
Meet the Nephilim: A Hybrid species that inhabited Earth
Meet the Nephilim: A Hybrid species that inhabited Earth
The Nephilim were a race of giants who came to dominate before the Great Flood; these mysterious beings are referred to in ancient texts as Giants, descendants from the Fallen Angels. They were the product of illicit relations between fallen angels and human women before the flood and Noah’s Ark.
The word ‘Nephilim’ is the is the untranslated pronunciation of untranslated Hebrew Nephilim: fallen feller: a tyrant or bully, Giant and in some English translation the Nephilim are referred to as giants. Interestingly, in the Greek Septuagint ‘Nephilim’ was used to describe giants.
However, the name ‘Nephilim’ is also used frequently when describing the race of giants who inhabited Canaan at the time of the Israelite conquest according to Numbers 13:33.
However, there is considerable confusion surrounding these mysterious beings which according to ancient texts, were real and inhabited Earth in the distant past.
Looking at ancient texts, we will notice that in the Hebrew Bible, the word ‘Nephilim’ occurs on two occasions, both times in the Torah, the first one being in Genesis 6:1-4, just before the story of Noah’s ark, and the second is Numbers 13:32–33 when spies sent to Canaan reported seeing ‘fearsome giants’.
Genesis 6:4: The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim; and we were in our sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.’
Looking at the definition of the Nephilim, its hard to understand the nature of these beings since Genesis 6:4 makes it hard to understand and differentiate, whether these beings are in fact the ‘sons of God’ or their offspring who are the “mighty men of old, men of renown.” It is perhaps obvious to interpret the Nephilim as how they are described: a hybrid race between TOW DISTINCT BEINGS. This leads us to one of the most important and controversial questions when talking about the Nephilim: Were they a hybrid extraterrestrial species? Well, according to the above facts, the answer is a rotund yes.
Most authors will firmly agree that the Nephilim were, in fact, a hybrid race between the ‘fallen angels’ called the Benei Ha’Elohim (“Sons of God”) in Hebrew, meaning that these beings were not natives to Earth, but were, in fact, heavenly beings, descendants of the fallen angels.
Interestingly, in many ancient religious texts, the Nephilim are referred to as Giants or Titans, while many other ancient texts have failed to explain what these beings were.
In the Bible, it clearly states, and is used as a traditional interpretation, that ‘heavenly beings’ mated with humans, an extremely controversial claim rejected by many.
In the Book of Enoch the following texts is used to describe the Nephilim:
“It happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days, that daughters were born to them, elegant and beautiful. And when the angels, the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamoured of them, saying to each other, Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children. Then their leader Samyaza said to them; I fear that you may perhaps be indisposed to the performance of this enterprise; And that I alone shall suffer for so grievous a crime.
But they answered him and said; We all swear;
And bind ourselves by mutual execrations, that we will not change our intention, but execute our projected undertaking. Then they swore all together, and all bound themselves by mutual execrations. Their whole number was two hundred, who descended upon Ardis, which is the top of mount Armon.
That mountain therefore was called Armon, because they had sworn upon it, and bound themselves by mutual execrations. [Mt. Armon, or Mt. Hermon, derives its name from the Hebrew word herem, a curse.]
These are the names of their chiefs: Samyaza, who was their leader, Urakabarameel, Akibeel, Tamiel, Ramuel, Danel, Azkeel, Saraknyal, Asael, Armers, Batraal, Anane, Zavebe, Samsaveel, Ertael, Turel, Yomyael, Arazyal. These were the prefects of the two hundred angels, and the remainder were all with them.
Then they took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with whom they cohabited; teaching them sorcery, incantations, and the dividing of roots and trees.
And the women conceiving brought forth giants,
Whose stature was each three hundred cubits. These devoured all which the labor of men produced; until it became impossible to feed them; When they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them; And began to injure birds, beasts, reptiles, and fishes, to eat their flesh one after another, and to drink their blood. Their flesh one after another. [Or, “one another’s flesh.” R.H. Charles notes that this phrase may refer to the destruction of one class of giants by another.]
Then the earth reproved the unrighteous.
Moreover Azazyel taught men to make swords, knives, shields, breastplates, the fabrication of mirrors, and the workmanship of bracelets and ornaments, the use of paint, the beautifying of the eyebrows, the use of stones of every valuable and select kind, and all sorts of dyes, so that the world became altered.
Impiety increased; fornication multiplied, and they transgressed and corrupted all their ways.
Amazarak taught all the sorcerers, and dividers of roots: Armers taught the solution of sorcery; Barkayal taught the observers of the stars, Akibeel taught signs; Tamiel taught astronomy, And Asaradel taught the motion of the moon,
And men, being destroyed, cried out; and their voice reached to heaven.” – Enoch 6-7.
From all of the above mentioned, we can understand that, while there are numerous documents making reference to the Nephilim, it is clear that these beings were not natives to Earth and were, in fact, a hybrid species, only half human in nature.
Deze week beslissen Europese topwetenschappers welk initiatief groen licht krijgt om Europa, een maan van Jupiter met kilometers diepe oceaan, te gaan onderzoeken. Verschillende scenario's zijn in de running, een heuse drilboor lijkt het meest waarschijnlijke. Dat meldt BBC.
Welke optie het ook wordt, het zal eerst de steun moeten winnen van het Europese Ruimteagentschap
Jupiter kent vier grote manen: Io, Callisto, Europa en Ganymedes. Europa springt er echter uit: ijsoppervlak beschermt honderden kilometers diepe oceaan, wat wetenschappers doet vermoeden dat Europa potentieel voor buitenaards leven biedt.
De Amerikanen hebben al verschillende initiatieven opgezet die Europa vanaf 2020 moeten exploreren, de Europeanen tot op heden nog geen enkele. Daar moet deze week dus verandering in komen. Europese topwetenschappers gaan in Parijs beslissen welk 'Europa-initiatief' het zal halen. Van aanhangsels bij Amerikaanse missies tot 'ruimteboren': het ene idee klinkt al meer sciencefiction dan het andere.
Het scenario van de 'ijsboor' lijkt het volgens BBC-bronnen wel te halen. Concreet zal de boor het met ijs omgeven oppervlak van Europa proberen te doorboren om zo haar oceaan te verkennen en hopelijk bewijs te vinden voor een habitat waar micro-organismen kunnen groeien.
Welke optie het ook wordt, het zal eerst de steun moeten winnen van het Europese Ruimteagentschap. Die is trouwens al een missie aan het plannen naar een andere Jupiter-maan, Ganymedes. Rond 2022 zou dat initiatief gelanceerd worden.
VIDEODe Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft nieuwe, hogeresolutiebeelden vanuit de ruimte gedeeld. Ze zijn gemaakt met een camera aan boord van ruimtestation ISS.
De bemanning van het ISS beschikt sinds vorig jaar over een zogenoemde RED Epic Dragon camera, die in zeer hoge kwaliteit kan filmen. Nadat de astronauten eerder al de zon en wat experimenten aan boord filmden, maakten ze nu enkele prachtige shots van de aarde.
In de video die gisteren werd vrijgegeven, is te zien hoe het ruimtestation langzaam langs de aarde vliegt. "Misschien niet zo mooi als het uitzicht vanuit de ruimte, maar het komt erg in de buurt", aldus NASA.
6K De hoge resolutie is alleen te zien op 4K-beeldschermen. Daarvoor moeten kijkers de hoogste resolutie op YouTube aanklikken. Hoewel de RED-camera ook in de nog hogere 6K-resolutie kan filmen, is dat tot op heden nog niet gebeurd. Dat heeft waarschijnlijk te maken met de enorme bestandsgrootte, waardoor het erg lastig is om die resolutie vanuit de ruimte naar de aarde te versturen.
Het uitsterven van dinosauriërs begon veel eerder dan door de grote meteorietinslag 66 miljoen jaar geleden. Het verdwijnen van veel soorten zette zelfs al 48 tot 53 miljoen jaar eerder in. Dat schrijft een groep Britse wetenschappers van de universiteit van Reading.
Wetenschappers gingen er steeds van uit dat de grote inslag bij Mexico 66 miljoen jaar geleden het lot van de dinosauriërs bezegelde. De Britten zeggen dat het voortbestaan van de dieren allang in gevaar was. Ze analyseerden de gegevens van ongeveer duizend soorten.
Nagenoeg alle soorten bleken al een tijd niet in staat zich te handhaven. Planteneters bleken overigens heel wat sterker dan vleeseters. Hadrosauriërs en ceratopsidae, die onder meer leefden in wat nu Noord-Amerika is, overleefden opmerkelijk lang.
Waarom de dinosauriërs precies uitstierven, is de onderzoekers nog niet duidelijk. Ze vermoeden dat onder andere vulkaanuitbarstingen en klimaatveranderingen invloed hadden.
Nieuwe soorten De onderzoekers in Reading stelden verder vast dat er een samenhang bestond tussen het ontstaan van nieuwe soorten en de hoogte van de zeespiegel. Met het stijgen van de waterhoogte, werden landmassa's van elkaar gescheiden en ontstonden nieuwe continenten. Op die nieuwe, geïsoleerde stukken land ontstonden nieuwe soorten dinosauriërs.
De wetenschappers hebben hun bevindingen gepubliceerd in Proceedings, een publicatie van de Amerikaanse nationale academie van wetenschappen.
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Rectangle UFO flies by Seattle’s Space Needle
Rectangle UFO flies by Seattle’s Space Needle
A Washington witness at Seattle reported watching a square or rectangular-shaped UFO move silently over the Space Needle, according to testimony in Case 75528 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was outside on an eighth-floor terrace of the Hyatt House Downtown Seattle hotel close to the famous Space Needle structure with four friends at 8 p.m. on March 30, 2016, with mostly clear skies with a bluish, and fading to dark sky.
The witness first thought the object was a fast moving jet on March 30, 2016. Pictured: Seattle, WA. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
“As I looked toward the Space Needle, I saw what first seemed like a fast jet coming from the east, heading due west toward Puget Sound, slightly to the north of us,” the witness stated.“Not a sound throughout sighting.”
The witness described the object.
“Had two white, blinking lights pulsating in unison at approximately 1 Hz, as if each wing, left and right, had a big, white light covering most of the wing surface, but could not discern forward fuselage or tail, hence looked like it was a flying straight wing.”
The object made unusual starts and stops in the sky. Pictured: Seattle, WA. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness first thought the object could be an airplane despite the unusual white lights pattern.
“I am familiar with airplanes; am engineer working in aerospace. Could be soundless if it might be much higher than it seemed; for instance, despite white lights flashing, thought they could still be landing lights.”
The witness paid attention to how the object moved.
“The object flew in a straight line while displaying white, pulsating lights, very fast, but at perceived constant linear speed, as it subtended an angle of approximately 45-degrees from my viewpoint and initial spotting. Covered this angle in not more than 10 seconds. Given estimated altitude of twice the height of the Space Needle or more, that would still be very fast for a soundless flight; much too fast for a small drone, or for a helicopter if higher in altitude; yet could not be high enough to be soundless, which would have meant extremely fast.”
The witness had also wondered if the object might be a helicopter.
“Mentioned helicopter because object came to a complete stop in less than one second, almost right after passing the Space Needle which occulted it for 3-4 seconds. Remained stationary for about five seconds, then made in about two seconds a lateral translation equivalent to about 1.5 times angle subtended by top circular portion of Space Needle, at 90 degrees from original flightpath, i.e. toward south; and stopped again.”
The object accelerated and de-accelerated in ways no common aircraft could maneuver. Pictured: The top portion of Seattle’s Space Needle. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness watched as the object both accelerated and de-accelerated very fast.
“Then started displaying characteristic red/green position lights pattern and proceeded east in somewhat arced trajectory until lostfrom sight within 10-15 seconds.”
None of the guests saw the object.
“Happened too fast to get colleagues to also witness sighting. When I brought it to their attention,the colleague nearest to me didn’t succeed in spotting it despite my pointing toward it, as it quickly became difficult evenfor me to track. Complete loss of sight by the time it had covered another approximately 30-degrees in direction of Puget Sound.”
Washington Field Investigator Timothy Ward closed this case as an Unknown. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
A Canadian organization called Ufology Research recently released their annual UFO report, showing an increase in sightings in 2015 over the last couple of years, and the media has taken notice. Not only the major news outlets in Canada, but also the big ones here in the U.S. and the U.K.
Chris Rutkowski, the head of Ufology Research, who has been inundated with interview requests, says he thinks it might be a case of news outlets looking for anything to cover other than the U.S. elections.
This year’s report, which can be downloaded freely at their website, claims there were 1,267 UFO sightings reported in Canada in 2015, which they say equates to about three or four per day. Although this is the highest number they have seen in the last couple years, it is only the second largest number of UFO sightings reported in a year since 1989, when they began collecting data.
2012 saw the largest number of reports, at 1,981. The report suggests the high number of sightings in 2012 was due to the “end of the word” scenarios that were popular that year due to mythologies related to the Mayan Calendar. Their graphs show that since 1985, besides 2012, sightings have been steadily increasing, mostly, with slight peaks and valleys here and there.
Canadian UFO reports since 1989. (Credit: Ufology Research)
The group obtains its data from several different organizations that collect UFO sightings. They also scours YouTube for UFO sightings to include in their numbers.
Another interesting aspect of the report is data on the shapes, sizes, colors and other aspects of the UFO sightings, including whether they have been determined to be misidentifications or remain unknown after investigation.
In a recent interview with Open Minds UFO Radio, Rutkowski says 12% of the 2015 reports were unexplained. Although, after a closer look, his group whittled that down to 2% to 4%, which is consistent with their findings over the years. To date, they have collected over 17,000 UFO reports.
“Even when you are only looking at a few percent, when you are looking at a database of 17,000 cases, you are still looking at a significant number of cases that will leave you shaking your head,” says Rutkowki.
As for the types of sightings, most seem to be points of light, recorded as “Point Source” in the report. Surprisingly, most UFO reports are of orange objects, at 31%. White and red both came in tied at second at 14%.
Many UFO organizations have recorded an increase in orange colored lights in the sky and often suggest this is due to the growing popularity of Chinese Lanterns. Rutkowski agrees that Chinese Lanterns do account for some of these sightings.
“We have been able to track down quite a few of them to releases of Chinese Lanterns during particular festivals, ceremonies, weddings and so forth. The movie Tangled seem to make it very attractive for people to send up Chinese Lanterns,” explained Rutkowski. “We suspect that is a big part of it. Certainly not all of the cases are ascribable to those types of explanations, but we have to take those into account.”
Scene from Tangled with Chinese Lanterns. (Credit: Disney)
Besides numbers, which might be boring to some, the report also includes a list of the most fascinating cases. This section is called the “Most Interesting Canadian ‘Unknowns’ in 2015,” and includes cases that were found to be very reliable, very strange, and had enough information available to make a substantial evaluation.
All of the cases in this section are very interesting, but one of the most reliable seems to be a case seen by multiple aircraft. The report is from January 10, 2015 at 1 pm in Lumsden, Saskatchewan.
The summary reads: “Multiple aircraft reported a very large object with a small white light in the middle, surrounded by a halo, moving northbound in the vicinity of Lumsden, SK. One pilot reported the object appeared to descend from above FL410. The sighting lasted one to two minutes.”
Chris Rutkowski on CTV. Click the image to see the story. (Credit: CTV)
Many of the reports are also very strange, but one of the weirdest was from September 24, 2015. This sighting reportedly took place in Napanee, Ontario, at 8 pm.
The summary reads: “Bright starlike object in sky began emitting pink ‘tentacles’ then turned inside out. The object became a dark ‘rowboat’ with two lights like ‘cement barriers that lay on the ground in a parking space.’ Above was a large circular ball of blue light. The odd craft gave off a sound that seemed to create a ‘tingy (sic) feeling’ in the witness’ arms. It was the size of a large building and moved slow but steady overhead before moving out of view.”
Rutkowski recounted, “To me, one of the most interesting came from Northern Quebec. A truck driver was driving, last fall, and he said that as he was driving along an isolated part of the road that he saw a light come up on him, a blue light, and he thought it was someone trying to pass. So he pulled over, slightly, to the side of the road, and wouldn’t you know it, this light moved as if to pass, but then when it got level with his truck, the light just simply disappeared. Straight out of Close Encounters the movie.”
Spooky. Lord knows what is going on out there in the wilds of Canada.
For more information on the 2015 Canadian UFO Report, and to download graphs, data and charts, visit survey.canadianuforeport.com.
Quebec leads the country in sightings of UFOs: survey
Canada Had 1267 UFO Sightings in 2015, Quebec Leads The Way
Quebec leads the country in sightings of UFOs: survey
A sketch of a UFO reportedly observed in Falcon Lake, Man. in 1967 is shown in a handout sketch. A new report suggests UFO sightings in Manitoba are older than the province itself.Ufology Research, based in Winnipeg, says there have been just over 2,000 sightings of unidentified flying objects in the province in the last 200 years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
WINNIPEG — The 2015 Canadian UFO Survey says Quebec leads the country when it comes to sightings of unidentified flying objects.
The annual survey by Winnipeg-based Ufology Research was released Monday and says last year had the second-largest number of sightings in the last three decades, with 1,267.
The year with the most UFO reports — a whopping 1,981 — was 2012, which was also supposed to be the year the world ended, according to the Mayan calendar.
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland reported more UFO sightings last year than the year before, but Quebec alone is responsible for about 35 per cent of all reports in 2015.
That’s way up from previous years, when Quebec’s percentage was between five and 15 per cent.
There were 97 reports in Montreal alone, followed by 78 in Toronto and 69 in Vancouver; Edmonton was a distant fourth with just 36 sightings.
The study said the typical sighting lasts about 16 minutes and more than half of the reports were of simple lights in the sky.
The study noted the number of reported UFO sightings remains high and suggested several reasons why, including more secret military flights, better access to reporting sightings, or “even that the downturn in the economy is leading to an increased desire by some people to look skyward for assistance.”
The study also acknowledged “there is no incontrovertible evidence that some UFO cases involve extraterrestrial contact. The continued reporting of UFOs by the public and the yearly increase in numbers of UFO reports suggests a need for further examination of the phenomenon by social, medical and/or physical scientists.”
Assistance is here for those who’ve had a UFO experience
Mary Rodwell assists people who have had 'spiritual multi-dimensional experiences' with extra-terrestrials and space craft.
HAVE you ever seen unusual lights in the sky that you weren't able to explain? Or perhaps lost a chunk of time that you can't account for?
If such phenomena have left you wondering whether we are actually alone in this world and whether the truth really is out there, then Mary Rodwell may be able to help.
Lauded as Australia's top extra-terrestrial researcher, Ms Rodwell, who lives in Agnes Waters, is on the Sunshine Coast this weekend to assist people who have had "other worldly interactions" or believe they have been visited by extraterrestrials.
Speaking at a seminar at Mooloolaba Surf Club, she hopes to offer an explanation and support for people who have had experiences such as seeing "little grey beings or a space craft, or have been visited by beings or taken somewhere".
Doubters should be warned, as Ms Rodwell confirmed that the Sunshine Coast is very much a hot spot for what she describes as "multi-dimensional spiritual experiences".
She said she receives at least one or two phone calls a week from people from the Coast and nearby Hinterland who have had an experience that they cannot explain, whether that be seeing unusual lights in the night sky, feeling they have been visited during the night or having seen actual space craft.
"We see lots of cylindrical and saucer shaped crafts in the area and also lights that do strange things, and it scares people because they don't know what it is.
"I get calls at 10 or 11pm at night from people who are scared to go to sleep because they have seen something and cannot explain what it is, but who do they call? The police to say they've seen some strange lights?
"The fact is that research shows every six minutes someone sees a UFO around the world and many people don't talk about it for fear of being mocked or laughed at."
Ms Rodwell said the world is covered by ley lines, or energy lines like power grids, around which you will find a preponderance of experiences.
Through her research she has documented over 3000 cases globally, with those involved ranging from professionals to children.
Her seminar includes how to distinguish whether the experience was real or not.
"People know the experience is real because they have unexplained marks on their body or implants or new abilities. They may now be able to see energy fields or other spiritual beings like angels or spirits.
"Hallucinations don't change you profoundly like these real experiences do.
"So many people have these experiences and they think that they are going crazy, but I'm here to say you're not and please access support as I know how isolating and lonely it can be when you've had one of these experiences." Source
Are Aliens Real? If They Are, Science Says They Won’t Look Like What You Expect
Will humanity one day find kindred brethren among the stars? It makes for good books and movies, and recent scientific discoveries have suggested planets in the same habitable range of conditions as Earth may be surprisingly common.
But if life has risen on other planets, the differences between Homo sapiens and our new, otherworldly friends are likely to be greater than Star Trek would have you think.
The old sci-fi trope aliens will look a lot like humans, except with some casually rearranged features to make them look exotic, has no basis in science. While the phenomenon of convergent evolution has resulted in many Earth species developing similar traits (such as flight) independently, those features evolved under similar terrestrial and evolutionary conditions.
Wild-eyed tales of little green men have entertained humans for generations. But the only plausible theory for a truly humanoid alien presence in the galaxy might be panspermia, a theory in which some creator either deliberately seeded life on different planets or microbes spread around the universe on space junk. Otherwise, the odds that of all the infinite forms alien life could take, it would mirror humanity, are very low.
It won't look much like Earth life at all, actually.
The unique properties of carbon, which forms double bonds with other carbon atoms "naturally and easily" compared to other elements like silicon, form the basis of all organic chemistry,Scientific American wrote. "Carbon is the main component of sugars, proteins, fats, DNA, muscle tissue, pretty much everything in your body."
But life forms with alternate biochemistries based on elements like silicon could evolve on different planetary conditions. Though water is by far the most common and suitable organic solvent available for life on other planets, it's also possible other compounds such as ammonia or hydrogen sulfide could fill the role. Change any of the building blocks common to life on Earth — or simply change any of the local conditions in which those building blocks are assembled — and the odds other living worlds will much resemble ours fades significantly.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology planetary scientist Sara Seager, along with colleagues William Bains and Renyu Hu, built models intended to detect exoplanets where atmospheric gases are out of equilibrium, thus suggesting biological or mechanical interference in its natural chemistry, New Scientistreported.
For example, "On planets with atmospheres dominated by hydrogen, the model predicts that methyl chloride, dimethyl sulfide and nitrous oxide could indicate the presence of life: Plausible amounts of alien life at the surface could produce them in quantities that are detectable."
Life on these planets might have radically different biological plans, from radial instead of bilateral symmetry to only having one cell. Anything is possible.
It might not want to communicate with us, or destroy us, or even have the desire or ability to do either.
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Alien ambassadors welcoming the Earth into a galactic union, or alternately alien soldiers leveling entire cities using war machines brimming with plasma weaponry, are common fixtures in fiction. But even assuming any alien life humanity discovers out in the universe is complex and intelligent, that intelligence may be so thoroughly alien as to make meaningful interaction unlikely.
In fact, given humanity's proven track record of violence, war and mayhem, and our remarkable adaptiveness to a range of conditions, it's possible other species might view us as a threat worth avoiding at all costs, as joked in the video above.
It's also impossible to predict whether an alien psychology, having little in common our own, would view interspecies contact as more than a curiosity. Physiological and cultural differences may pose an insurmountable difficulty.
"There are plenty of creatures here on Earth that are so astoundingly different from us that we can barely comprehend them," sci-fi author Aaron Rosenberg toldPopular Mechanics. "Try watching an octopus pull itself through a tiny crack in a glass tank sometime, or examine a tobacco hornworm, or look at a praying mantis up close. A real alien would be so far from anything we've ever imagined that we would barely be able to comprehend its existence. And we would seem just as completely, bafflingly bizarre to it."
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HISTORY OF UFOS
HISTORY OF UFOS
In popular culture, the term UFO–or unidentified flying object–refers to a suspected alien spacecraft, although its definition encompasses any unexplained aerial phenomena. UFO sightings have been reported throughout recorded history and in various parts of the world, raising questions about life on other planets and whether extraterrestrials have visited Earth. They became a major subject of interest–and the inspiration behind numerous films and books–following the development of rocketry after World War II.
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The first well-known UFO sighting occurred in 1947, when businessman Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier inWashington while flying his small plane. Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent-shaped objects as several thousand miles per hour and said they moved “like saucers skipping on water.” In the newspaper report that followed, it was mistakenly stated that the objects were saucer-shaped, hence the term flying saucer.
Sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena increased, and in 1948 the U.S. Air Force began an investigation of these reports called Project Sign. The initial opinion of those involved with the project was that the UFOs were most likely sophisticated Soviet aircraft, although some researchers suggested that they might be spacecraft from other worlds, the so-called extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH). Within a year, Project Sign was succeeded by Project Grudge, which in 1952 was itself replaced by the longest-lived of the official inquiries into UFOs, Project Blue Book, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. From 1952 to 1969 Project Blue Book compiled reports of more than 12,000 sightings or events, each of which was ultimately classified as (1) “identified” with a known astronomical, atmospheric, or artificial (human-caused) phenomenon or (2) “unidentified.” The latter category, approximately 6 percent of the total, included cases for which there was insufficient information to make an identification with a known phenomenon.
THE ROBERTSON PANEL AND THE CONDON REPORT
An American obsession with the UFO phenomenon was under way. In the hot summer of 1952 a provocative series of radar and visual sightings occurred near National Airport in Washington, D.C. Although these events were attributed to temperature inversions in the air over the city, not everyone was convinced by this explanation. Meanwhile, the number of UFO reports had climbed to a record high. This led the Central Intelligence Agency to prompt the U.S. government to establish an expert panel of scientists to investigate the phenomena. The panel was headed by H.P. Robertson, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., and included other physicists, an astronomer, and a rocket engineer. The Robertson Panel met for three days in 1953 and interviewed military officers and the head of Project Blue Book. They also reviewed films and photographs of UFOs. Their conclusions were that (1) 90 percent of the sightings could be easily attributed to astronomical and meteorologic phenomena (e.g., bright planets and stars, meteors, auroras, ion clouds) or to such earthly objects as aircraft, balloons, birds, and searchlights, (2) there was no obvious security threat, and (3) there was no evidence to support the ETH. Parts of the panel’s report were kept classified until 1979, and this long period of secrecy helped fuel suspicions of a government cover-up.
A second committee was set up in 1966 at the request of the Air Force to review the most interesting material gathered by Project Blue Book. Two years later this committee, which made a detailed study of 59 UFO sightings, released its results as Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects—also known as the Condon Report, named for Edward U. Condon, the physicist who headed the investigation. The Condon Report was reviewed by a special committee of the National Academy of Sciences. A total of 37 scientists wrote chapters or parts of chapters for the report, which covered investigations of the 59 UFO sightings in detail. Like the Robertson Panel, the committee concluded that there was no evidence of anything other than commonplace phenomena in the reports and that UFOs did not warrant further investigation. This, together with a decline in sighting activity, led to the dismantling of Project Blue Book in 1969.
OTHER INVESTIGATIONS OF UFOS
Despite the failure of the ETH to make headway with the expert committees, a few scientists and engineers, most notably J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., who had been involved with projects Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book, concluded that a small fraction of the most-reliable UFO reports gave definite indications for the presence of extraterrestrial visitors. Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), which continues to investigate the phenomenon.
Aside from Project Blue Book, the only other official and fairly complete records of UFO sightings were kept in Canada, where they were transferred in 1968 from the Canadian Department of National Defense to the Canadian National Research Council. The Canadian records comprised about 750 sightings. Less-complete records have been maintained in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Greece. In the United States, CUFOS and the Mutual UFO Network in Bellvue, Colo., continue to log sightings reported by the public.
In the Soviet Union, sightings of UFOs were often prompted by tests of secret military rockets. In order to obscure the true nature of the tests, the government sometimes encouraged the public’s belief that these rockets might be extraterrestrial craft but eventually decided that the descriptions themselves might give away too much information. UFO sightings in China have been similarly provoked by military activity that is unknown to the public.
POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS FOR UFO SIGHTINGS AND ALIEN ABDUCTIONS
UFO reports have varied widely in reliability, as judged by the number of witnesses, whether the witnesses were independent of each other, the observing conditions (e.g., fog, haze, type of illumination), and the direction of sighting. Typically, witnesses who take the trouble to report a sighting consider the object to be of extraterrestrial origin or possibly a military craft but certainly under intelligent control. This inference is usually based on what is perceived as formation flying by sets of objects, unnatural—often sudden—motions, the lack of sound, changes in brightness or colour, and strange shapes.
That the unaided eye plays tricks is well known. A bright light, such as the planet Venus, often appears to move. Astronomical objects can also be disconcerting to drivers, as they seem to “follow” the car. Visual impressions of distance and speed of UFOs are also highly unreliable because they are based on an assumed size and are often made against a blank sky with no background object (clouds, mountains, etc.) to set a maximum distance. Reflections from windows and eyeglasses produce superimposed views, and complex optical systems, such as camera lenses, can turn point sources of light into apparently saucer-shaped phenomena. Such optical illusions and the psychological desire to interpret images are known to account for many visual UFO reports, and at least some sightings are known to be hoaxes. Radar sightings, while in certain respects more reliable, fail to discriminate between artificial objects and meteor trails, ionized gas, rain, or thermal discontinuities in the atmosphere.
“Contact events,” such as abductions, are often associated with UFOs because they are ascribed to extraterrestrial visitors. However, the credibility of the ETH as an explanation for abductions is disputed by most psychologists who have investigated this phenomenon. They suggest that a common experience known as “sleep paralysis” may be the culprit, as this causes sleepers to experience a temporary immobility and a belief that they are being watched.
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UFO shoots away from Earth causing giant beam of light behind it. April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO shoots away from Earth causing giant beam of light behind it. April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 17, 2016 Location of sighting: ISS, Earths orbit Source: MUFON #75904 Now this is a bit confusing. Is that a UFO leaving earth...maybe, we see its leaving because if you add light to it, the beam gets thinner the farther away it is. Also a UFO is seen, but its to small to be the earth, may possibly be Jupiter, since its very visible in the night sky right now. Hard call. That light however...its thickness its incredible. Covering a width of hundreds of miles. It must have come from the ocean, and left so fast it left a visible trail for a few seconds. Then...it could have been a wormhole, a long tunnel to transport someone or something a far distance. We see the tunnel made then disappear. Nothing to worry about, just time traveling aliens. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: During an ISS live NASA UStream, an orb-like object appeared just above the horizon. After remaining in the same relative position for awhile it began to ascend up and out of the UStream camera lens coverage area. Once it left the screen an energy beam shot up from the earth toward the UFO's former location. Gauging by the distance between the ISS and the location of the energy beam, the relative size of the UFO must have been enormous. I am hoping that someone with technical background can determine the location from where the beam was fired based on the time of the siting (7:25 p.m. Central European Time) and the ISS live feed metering that is displayed at the bottom left of the frames in the video. The video is comprised of multiple screenshots I took during the siting.
Multiple UFOs hovering above San Diego, California 18-Apr-2016
Multiple UFOs hovering above San Diego, California 18-Apr-2016
Here’s one new footage of a multiple unidentified flying objects in the sky above San Diego, California. This happened on 18th April 2016.
Witness report:1 object appeared, then 2, then 3 and 4. Then all the objects vanished at the same time. Then a few minutes later 10 or 11 objects all appeared back in same spot in a strange formation. This is when I started video recording. After a few minutes they fade out 1 by 1 as my camera goes out of focus. The lights were like bright gold/white balls of fire. The Picture is before I began recording. You can see the difference in the formation.
UFO Travelled 120 Miles in 8 SECONDS, Radar Operators Say
UFO Travelled 120 Miles in 8 SECONDS, Radar Operators Say
In its general sense, the Unidentified Flying Object is anything anomalous objects in the sky that are not readily identifiable to the naked eye of the humans. It can be seen while hovering, or immediately after that. Traditionally, UFOs were the subject of claims by government-related conspiracy theories or extraterrestrial life and had long been the subject in fiction. While the aliens were later identified, in most cases, identification is not feasible owing to the poor quality of evidence.
During Britain’s most famous close encounter, two radar operators show how an alien travelled 120 miles in EIGHT SECONDS. Since the incident at RAF Bentwaters took place, Jim Carey, and Ike Barker have given their first in-depth interviews. Guess what? It hailed as the best-documented case in the world. On December 26, a group of security police officers claimed to have seen a triangle-shaped spacecraft outside the base. Two nights later, Lt Col Charles Halt and other USAF personnel claimed to see bizarre flashing lights moving. They watched the moving lights in awe as the bright object fired a laser beam on the ground near their feet before it vanished. Unfortunately, non-believers have debunked the claims as meteors, satellites, or the Orfordness lighthouse. However, as for The Secret Link Revealed, USAF air traffic controllers they tracked was natural. According to Ike Barker, it was not a radar target. It was travelling at high speed. The maneuverability with the object is different.
He added that the phenomenon was fast, and no jet can make an immediate turn. Despite the strange sighting, the radar experts did not report the happenings to their superiors due to their beliefs that it could destroy their careers. But still, they were among the 150 military witnesses who have claimed to have seen the extraterrestrial activity at nuclear weapons laboratories, storage depots, test areas, and missile sites since the 1940s. The testimony highlights how the UFOs were being struck at the base and that they were shining down in the nuclear storage.
Biggest collection of Australian UFO files to be released May 1st 2016
Biggest collection of Australian UFO files to be released May 1st 2016
Queensland UFO Sightings And Research are about to release the biggest collection of official Australian UFO files ever. The files contain official documents from the RAAF, The Department of Air, The Navy and more. The files contain testimony, photographs, newspaper scans, official reports and patents.
Disk-Shaped UFO Approaches the ISS, Live Transmission is Terminated Once Again
Disk-Shaped UFO Approaches the ISS, Live Transmission is Terminated Once Again
A few days ago, more UFO enthusiasts who hunt for space anomalies have witnessed the moment when an unidentified object slowly approached the International Space Station. The sighting would have easily be debunked as a lens flare but, as usual, NASA decided to cut the live feed, thus raising plenty of question marks.
This isn’t the first incident of its kind, as the ISS had similar encounters in the past, all of them ending abruptly with the “technical difficulties” message. This particular UFO appeared as a dim-grey light and lasted for only a few moments before slowly fading away. A different camera installed on the ISS offers another glimpse of the UFO, this time lasting considerably longer. Its shape cannot be precisely determined, but there’s no denial that the object is found in the vicinity of the station.
After NASA noticed the anomaly, they’ve decided to pop-up the “stand by” screen fearing that the peculiar object will reappear. After this moment, the camera is switched and the line of sight of the UFO is lost. If this was only a common phenomenon occurring in space, why would they cut the live transmission so briskly and only a few moments after the mysterious object made its presence noticed?
Uploaded by Streetcap1 of YouTube on April 1st, 2016, the video soon caught the attention of numerous UFO analysts. Here is what Scott C. Waring from ufosightingsdaily had to say about this event: “I have to say this UFO is more classic than most seen at the station. This one seems to have a humped lower and upper section. This UFO did appear on April 1, 2016, so is NASA playing a joke on the nation? I don’t think they have that in them. That’s the last thing they even want to suggest…that they are faking anything…at least I hope they are thinking that.”
According to him, the UFO meets the common characteristics of a flying saucer. After zooming in, the shape of a disk is revealed along with an upper and lower “hump.” The upper side is more prominent than the lower part, indicating that it could be a dome where the command room is located.
However, not everyone shares the same opinion of the object being an actual alien spacecraft. Some skeptics consider it to be a mere dust particle found on the outer camera lens of the ISS which acts like a reflective material whenever the Sun shines through. Others consider it to be nothing more than space junk floating through space, and there are even people who claim the video has been deliberately altered to make it look like a flying saucer.
While some claims could be correct, the fact that this bizarre event has been witnessed by many others since it appeared on the live cameras, coupled up with the sudden loss of signal immediately after the UFO faded away make this likely to be an authentic phenomenon. I cannot deny that there’s plenty of space junk orbiting Earth that could easily pass as a UFO, but the strange behavior and disk-like shape of the object inclines the balance towards an alien spaceship scenario.
If you are not yet convinced that UFOs are making contact or even docking with the ISS, you should take a look at the video below that’s showing yet another unidentified object that’s chasing after the International Space Station as it travels around the Earth at a dazzling speed of 18,000 MPH.
Could this be yet another coincidence or explained phenomenon, or is it possible that NASA is lying to the general public for some unknown reason? Whatever the case, there is plenty of UFO evidence surprised near the station from where you can draw your own conclusions.
FBI Spills the Beans About UFOs and Otherwordly Beings
FBI Spills the Beans About UFOs and Otherwordly Beings
There is no secret anymore that governmental agencies are keeping matters regarding otherworldly visitors out of reach, but the FBI has recently initialized an attempt to redeem their name by declassifying a fully documented report about UFOs and intelligent being from other dimensions that have been visiting Earth.
Numerous scientists from different institutions have recently implied that there could be other worlds co-existing with our own. Today, there is a heated debate about whether or not otherworldly beings are visiting planet Earth. There’s more to this topic than it may seem, as many people consider the possibility of those beings already residing on our planet. There is much room for speculation, but one thing is clear – they have been visiting us for thousands of years if not more, and they are still flying their crafts throughout the planet on a daily basis.
What they are exactly, or from where they come from remains yet a mystery, but it appears that several governmental institutions are slowly preparing the ground for a massive disclosure. Why are they not hastening things up, you might ask? Simply because they don’t consider the world to be ready for total disclosure. But there’s a slight progress that has been done by the FBI towards admitting that aliens are more than just a speculation.
The FBI actually admitted that interdimensional beings are visiting us regularly, and they even showcased a bunch of files from the past that show clear UFO activity. It comes as a surprise for the UFO community to see a governmental agency trying to play on our side, but when considering that such reports of unidentified flying crafts account thousands of years back, we can see why they are trying to make people aware. After all, the recent globalization has brought all the desired and undesired information together for everyone who is interested to just grab it and analyze it. On an overpopulated planet, this is actually a worrying fact. Just imagine if the next day you woke up, the internet would be full of leaked extraterrestrial evidence. How will the world act then? Will they conform to the new world understanding, or will there be chaos as all other rooted beliefs are falling apart?
There has been an unexpected progress towards disclosure. In 2011, a special FBI report dating from 1947 has been declassified and thrown into public grasp.
The “special” FBI agent who wrote the report was a lieutenant colonel whose identity remained anonymous for obvious (national security) reasons. The agent had a pile of data gathered throughout many years of investigating the UFO phenomenon.
According to the “declassified” files, various extraterrestrial beings have been reaching out to us for time immemorial. These beings not only came from outer space, but also from different dimensions co-existing with our own. Human beings have been in contact with them for ages, but for unknown reasons, we decided to follow our own destructive path and keep our mouths shut about these otherworldly visitors.
Below you’ll find a transcript with some of the most valued details from the FBI report:
Part of the disks carry crews, others are under remote control
Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane
These visitors are human-like but much larger in size
They are not excarnate Earth people, but come from their own world
They do NOT come from a planet as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us
The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter
The disks possess a type of radiant energy or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship.
They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace
The region from which they come is not the “astral plane”, but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas.
Students of esoteric matters will understand these terms.
They probably cannot be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar. if a signal system can be devised for that (apparatus)
Addendum: The Lokas are oval shape, fluted length oval with a heat-resisting metal or alloy not yet known the front cage contains the controls, the middle portion a laboratory; the rear contains armament, which consists essentially of a powerful energy apparatus, perhaps a ray.
Apparently, many species have been visiting us, most of them sentient and capable of sustaining contact with humans. The reason why they didn’t reveal themselves to us is because our governments may have a secret pact with them which only allows to reveal their kind when the time is right (when our species is considered mature enough). (source)
The world’s first reusable rocket, New Shepard, flew again to successfully complete its launch and vertical landing at Blue Origin’s testing site in Texas on April 2, 2016.
The rocket was used for the third time with the same hardware, making the test flight somewhat historic. The company aims to dramatically lower the cost of spaceflights by reusing the rockets rather than discarding them.
At present, it costs about $1.5 billion to send a shuttle into space since the costly parts of the shuttle like multi-stage rockets and boosters are detached at different stages of the flight. As the parts cannot be recovered, it increases the cost of the launch.
Blue Origin and its rival SpaceX aim to reduce the cost of spaceflights 100 fold by reusing boosters. Since there won’t be any need to built a new rocket for each launch, a reusable rocket will make it possible to launch satellites and get many more people into space at a lower cost.
Named after the first American astronaut Alan Shepard, New Shepard reached an apogee of 339,138 feet (103.4 km) before vertically landing back on Earth for the third time with the same rocket booster. The engine that powers the rocket restarted at just 3,635 feet (1,108 meters) above the ground level and ramped up fast for a successful landing. The unmanned crew capsule also landed safely nearby under parachutes.
Any problem with the ramp-up or ignition of the engine would have crashed the booster into the ground in just 6 seconds.
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We’ve all seen the hoverboards that tourists at island resorts pay to ride, with a giant hose attached to them, which in my book means they aren’t actually real hoverboards.
However, now it appears Zapata Racing has developed a hoverboard with absolutely nothing attached to the device.
Dubbed the “Flyboard Air,” the details behind the video and hoverboard are a bit murky, but Zapata claims the footage is 100% real.
The features of the Flyboard Air do seem kind of outlandish, however, with Zapata saying it can fly autonomously for 10 minutes with a ceiling of 10,000 feet, not to mention a top speed of 93 miles per hour.
I don’t know about all that, but Zapata Racing certainly knows how to get people talking, so for now, we’ll take a cautious approach before getting too excited about the Flyboard Air.
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Eeuwenoud Peruaans mysterie opgelost vanuit de ruimte
Eeuwenoud Peruaans mysterie opgelost vanuit de ruimte
Met behulp van satellieten is het mysterie van een aantal eeuwenoude unieke bouwwerken in het zuiden van Peru ontrafeld. Het gaat om diepe spiraalvormige gaten in de Nazcawoestijn, vlak bij de beroemde Nazcalijnen. De structuren maken volgens wetenschappers deel uit van een ingenieus watervoorzieningssysteem, meldt BBC Future.
De Nazcalijnen zijn voor veel toeristen even mysterieus als fascinerend. De enorme geometrische figuren vormen het archeologische bewijs voor de aanwezigheid van beschavingen.
Wind
De spiraalvormige, met stenen afgeboorde gaten staan bekend als ‘puquios’. Italiaanse wetenschappers concluderen op basis van satellietbeelden dat de bouwwerken onderdeel zijn van een systeem om grondwater naar boven te halen. Via de spiraalvormen werd er wind in de kanalen gevoerd, waardoor het water werd afgevoerd naar de plek waar het nodig was. Overschotten werden opgeslagen in reservoirs.
Het systeem maakte het mogelijk het hele jaar door landbouw te bedrijven op één van de droogste plaatsen ter wereld, aldus Rosa Lasaponara van het Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis. Dit maakte de regio toch leefbaar.
Kaart
“Dit is zonder twijfel het meest ambitieuze waterproject in het gebied,” voegde Lasaponara toe. Volgens een recente theorie vormen de Nazcalijnen samen een kaart die de locaties van de puquios aanwijst.
De exacte oorsprong van de puquios blijft nog wel onduidelijk. De Nazcabeschaving heeft er geen duidelijke verhalen over achtergelaten en daarnaast kan koolstofdatering niet gebruikt worden voor deze bouwwerken.
I don't know how many times I have said this...aliens don't have to be our height. They can be as small as insects. Humans one day with have the ability to clone humans...tiny humans to be used soldiers to infiltrate places normally off bounds. However if some of these soidiers escapes, they will create a growing population...a new civilization of amazing beings. Mars itself is loaded with evidence of tiny aliens smaller than this, about 3cm, others as tall as this one and others 3-5 meters. Life...it seems...doesn't care if we believe its possible or not.
Despite an acute lack of details, this is one of the most interesting cases involving alien bodies. The story begins in 1996, when Russian police officers found the body of a miniature creature in the town of Kyshtym, in the Chelyabinsk region.Due to its small size and unearthly appearance, media outlets soon began calling it the Kyshtym alien. The local medical examiner who autopsied the body determined it was neither human nor animal. He believed it was a previously undiscovered life form. Dr. Stanoslav Samoshkin was in charge of the morbid anatomy department at the local hospital when authorities brought the alien body for analysis. After a thorough examination, he concluded: “THE CREATURE WAS NOT BY ANY MEANS A HUMAN BEING. THE HUMAN SKULL CONSISTS OF SIX BONES. THE SKULL OF THAT CREATURE WAS MADE UP OF 4 BONES. THERE WERE OTHER DIFFERENCES IN THE SKELETON STRUCTURE. THOSE ANOMALIES DIDN’T LOOK LIKE ANY CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS KNOWN TO DATE.” Measuring nearly 10 inches in length, the mummified body had an enlarged and misshapen head. Its large eye sockets occupied most of its face. When it was alive, the Kystym alien must have looked quite different from us humans. Interestingly enough, it closely resembles Ata, another enigmatic mummified body discovered in the Atacama Desert in 2003. International media dubbed it the ‘Uralian Alien’ and the world was hungry for details. Stories soon began popping up. One of them mentioned the tiny alien had been found while still alive by Tamara Prosvirina, an old and barely literate woman. In August of 1996, Prosvirina heard a voice in her head telling her to go to the local cemetery, where she found the small alien inside a tomb. She took it home, baptized it Aleshenka and wanted to raise it as her son. Unfortunately, the alien died when Prosvirina fell ill and was hospitalized for a few weeks.This isn’t the only story about how the body was found. Other sources say Aleshenka had been found in the possession of Vladimir Nurtdinov, a local man suspected of stealing electrical wire. When his home was raided, he unwillingly gave police officers the small mummy wrapped in red cloth but never said where he got it. Even if its origins were unknown, the Kyshtym alien was a fascinating discovery. Ufologist and paranormal researcher Vadim Chernobrov flew in from Moscow to examine the body and concluded it was ‘sensational.’ Preliminary genetic analysis showed that it was definitely not human: “NO GENE SAMPLES AVAILABLE AT THE LABORATORY MATCH THE GENE,” CHERNOBROV SAID DURING A CONFERENCE ON ALIEN LIFE. “THE EXPERTS IN DNA RESEARCH HAVEN’T COME ACROSS ANY CREATURES WITH SUCH AN ELONGATED DNA MOLECULE.”
It would be great if an independent laboratory could verify Chernobrov’s claims but such a venture is unfortunately impossible. Amidst the commotion caused by the discovery, the mummified alien body vanished without a trace. A somewhat sketchy investigation concluded that somebody must have simply stolen the body from the hospital morgue where it was being kept. Over the years, many attempts to recover Aleshenka have been made. A Japanese TV show even offered a reward of $200,000 for information regarding the alien mummy’s whereabouts but was largely unsuccessful. But the story doesn’t end here. A series of strange accidents led to the idea that that the alien body was cursed. Sources claim that shortly after Moscow researchers started investigating the case, Tamara Prosvirina was fatally struck by a car.
Chernobrov himself inexplicably became paralyzed from the waist down while researching this strange creature. His disease rapidly progressed and was soon dead. Another victim of the curse of the Kyshtym alien was academician Mark Milkhiker who fell ill while conducting his own investigation into this strange case. He suffered a fatal heart attack after returning to Moscow. Tracing and verifying the validity of these claims is difficult and would only prove they are embellishments later added to the story. But the fact of the matter is twenty years ago, somebody found the mummified remains of a creature from another world. If it were to turn up today, ufologists would have a field day.
UFO Orb Over Kemerovo, Russia On April 6, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Orb Over Kemerovo, Russia On April 6, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 6, 2016
Location of sighting: Kemerovo, Russia This glowing UFO over the city of Kemerovo changes colors and looks like an orb. Kemerovo is a major coal mining area and this UFO may be monitoring the damage done to the environment digging up this coal, or from burning the coal. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Location:Brazil Date:August 10, 2010 Witness report: UFO filmed by cameraman Dieison Pires da Silva during emtrevista backstage to TV show in Caxias do Sul -Rio Grande do Sul Brazil, a fact occurred on August 10, 2010.
Location: Taylors Hill, Victoria, Australia Date:20th March 2016 Submitted by David
Witness report:I was out scanning the skies from my backyard on the afternoon of 20th March 2016 at 3pm when i acquired what seems to be an ORB UFO entity through my spotting scope. I immediately began recording with my camera exactly what i was seeing through the scope. The object was heading in a northerly direction overhead just east of my lccation, which is not far from Melbourne Airport. I am regular skywatcher and such sightings are commonplace for this area, i would encourage others to get involved and start filming in a similar fashion. I would be happy to provide some tips to those interesting in becoming active observers.
Coast To Coast AM: UFO Enigmas & Australian Case 17-Apr-2016
Coast To Coast AM: UFO Enigmas & Australian Case 17-Apr-2016
Radio Coast to Coast AM Host: George Knapp Guests: Greg Bishop, Bill Chalker Date:Sunday – April 17, 2016
Author and radio host Greg Bishop, who has been researching and writing about strange phenomena for over 25 years, joined George Knapp in the first half. He discussed various angles of the UFO enigma– including the US government’s cover-ups and disinformation efforts, and his personal experiences with agents such as Rick Doty. While embracing a skeptical viewpoint, Bishop said in close encounter cases, he’s convinced there’s an external, intelligent stimulus that’s not human, but that the ET hypothesis doesn’t seem to be the most likely explanation. Interestingly, he noted that those who have close encounters with UFOs often undergo great changes in their lives. Some experience beneficial effects such as becoming more spiritual or compassionate, while others suffer negative upheavals.
In the latter half, UFO researcher Bill Chalker, talked about one of Australia’s most remarkable UFO incidents. 50 years ago this month in Melbourne, more than 200 students and teachers at Westall High School witnessed an unexplained aerial object that was pursued by five other craft which circled the object. There was evidence that one or two of the craft landed and left behind physical traces. What has made the case difficult to investigate is that there was likely a “heavy hand of officialdom that seemed to come in and almost shut down the case,” both as a cover-up and to quell an element of hysteria at the school
Here are two older clips of a strange unidentified flying objects flying across the sky above New Jersey. This was filmed on 9th April 2010 but just recently submitted to MUFON organization.
Witness report: Outside watching the sky..always watching the sky the first object was just a ball of red hue. The second was one object going in and out of the dark cloud.I felt amazed and stunned like am I really seeing this and what could it be. The objects went out of view.
Breaking news: UFO Crash in Yellowstone 18-Apr-2016
Breaking news: UFO Crash in Yellowstone 18-Apr-2016
These two videos were just published online but there are not any additional info about this alleged UFO crash in Yellowstone National Park, which is located in US states Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
If you have any additional info, please leave comment below.
Stunned photographer claims this could be first REAL snap of an alien flying saucer
Stunned photographer claims this could be first REAL snap of an alien flying saucer
A SHOCKED photographer believes he could have landed the first conclusive picture of a real flying saucer, claiming he snapped a door opening on a silver metallic UFO.
"I said vanished because when I tried to take the sixth photo I could not find it anymore."
The photographer was using a Cannon 450D digital SLR camera with zoom lens at a hotel in the Turkish resort of Kemer, Antalya, on April 3, and has just made the report.
The witness said: "I was sitting and talking with the family. It was a Shiny object with strange movements.
"We thought it was a helium filled metallic balloon. It moved North first and then came back and hovered above the sea.
"I was surprised and then took five shots with my Canon."
The sighting is causing a buzz on UFO websites.
MUFON
The sequence of five pictures in close up
The bizarre-looking object was allegedly caught cruising over the sea, with some suggesting it looked like a flying toasted sandwich maker.
The sighting is being investigated by the world's biggest UFO investigation organisation in case it could be the historic proof alien hunters have been seeking for years.
The witness, who has not been named, reported the sighting and sent pictures to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) based in the USA, which has opened a case file.
The witness said in a brief report: "When you look at the pictures it was like a door opened at the end of the photos.
"When you look at the pictures it was like a door opened at the end of the photos. It becomes the known UFO shape and vanished.
Photographer
The UFOvni2012 YouTube channel has released a short video about the sighting, which has analysed the pictures in close up.
There have been mixed reactions by commentators.
UFO hoax buster Scott Brando, who runs website ufoofinterest.org, said there was no question it was a helium-filled mylar balloon in the shape of an A or a V.
He posted pictures of such balloons online.
Martin Harris posted after watching the film: "It's a curious set of images, but totally inclusive.
"Could be something small and close to the camera or large and distant.
"Maybe someone with more technical knowledge can enlighten us?"
"I said vanished because when I tried to take the sixth photo I could not find it anymore."
The photographer was using a Cannon 450D digital SLR camera with zoom lens at a hotel in the Turkish resort of Kemer, Antalya, on April 3, and has just made the report.
The witness said: "I was sitting and talking with the family. It was a Shiny object with strange movements.
"We thought it was a helium filled metallic balloon. It moved North first and then came back and hovered above the sea.
"I was surprised and then took five shots with my Canon."
The sighting is causing a buzz on UFO websites.
MUFON
The sequence of five pictures in close up
IG
Many think it is just an A-shaped balloon lost in the wind
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Astronomers Just Discovered a New Galaxy Orbiting the Milky Way
Astronomers Just Discovered a New Galaxy Orbiting the Milky Way
Milky Way (Image: ESO / Serge Brunier, Frederic Tapissier via NASA)
NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (SSC/Caltech)
IN BRIEF
Astronomers were surprised to see a never-before-seen dwarf galaxy orbiting our own. Dubbed "Crater 2," the galaxy is the fourth largest satellite of the Milky Way, behind Sagittarius and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
A BIG SURPRISE
The Universe is a big place. We are constantly seeing new and previously unknown things as we look deeper and deeper into the cosmos. To that end, we’ve developed powerful tools to help us see into the many secrets of the Universe…we can see into distant galaxies and scan for possible worlds that harbor life.
Which is exactly why it’s embarrassing when we realize that we don’t see things that are pretty close to our galaxy. It’s like seeing your own backyard for the first time.
Case in point, meet Crater 2.
Astronomers were recently surprised to see a never-before-seen dwarf galaxy orbiting our own. Dubbed “Crater 2,” the galaxy is the fourth largest satellite of the Milky Way, behind Sagittarius and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
Crater 2 is 380,000 light-years away in the constellation Crater (hence, the name), and it was only detected because of a computer that was looking for over-densities of stars in data from images taken by a telescope in Chile.
A FEEBLE GIANT
The precise reason that Crater 2 has eluded human observation is simple enough: It’s a pretty dark galaxy. In fact, it is one of the lowest surface brightness dwarfs ever seen. This is because the stars in the galaxy are stretched out, making the combined light pretty faint.
Also, Crater 2 has lived a pretty quiet life, not having approached any large galaxy. This can be said because it has a round shape, and contact with larger galactic bodies usually bend dwarfs out of shape.
Scientists say that Crater 2 may belong to a small group of satellites, which include the Leo dwarf galaxies and the Crater globular star cluster…that may be merging with the Milky Way galaxy.
The findings were published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Logline: An investigation into the March 13th, 1997 disappearance of four Arizona men exposes a military cover-up of the largest UFO sighting in North America known as “THE PHOENIX LIGHTS”.
Synopsis INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS. THE PHOENIX INCIDENT is based on the largest UFO sighting in North America known as the Phoenix Lights. Blurring the line between fiction and reality, the fact based, sci-fi thriller revolves around the military conspiracy and controversial missing person’s case surrounding the infamous 1997 event. With the support of the victims’ families, along with classified military documentation, cockpit recordings, Air Force pilot interviews, actual FLIR footage, and first-hand recovered video evidence, The Phoenix Incident exposes the military’s engagement with extraterrestrial contact, and the collateral damage of 4 civilians.
Background Thursday March 13th, 1997 marks the date of the Phoenix Lights, the largest mass UFO sighting in US History. The night of the incident, four Phoenix residents vanished in the Estrella Mountain National Park, south of Phoenix. Glenn Lauder (28), Mitch Adams (29), Ryan Stone (27), and Jacob Reynolds (28) were reported missing to the Maricopa County Sheriff's office. The infamous “Lauder Case” has become the longest unresolved missing person’s case in Arizona history.
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Two very important whistle blowers who have worked with extraterrestrial beings, and alien technology. I will update the New Mexico alien crash once i have recieved more information, im waiting for more pics and maybe some footage
Of the more than 600,000 known asteroids in our Solar System, almost 10 000 are known as Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). These are asteroids or comets whose orbits bring them close to Earth’s, and which could potentially collide with us at some point in the future. As such, monitoring these objects is a vital part of NASA’s ongoing efforts in space. One such mission is NASA’sNear-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), which has been active since December 2013.
And now, after two years of study, the information gathered by the mission is being released to the public. This included, most recently, NEOWISE’s second year of survey data, which accounted for 72 previously unknown objects that orbit near to our planet. Of these, eight were classified as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), based on their size and how closely their orbits approach Earth.
Originally launched back in 2009 as the Wide-field Survey Explorer (WISE), the spacecraft relied on its infrared telescope to look for previously undetected star clusters and main belt asteroids. In February of 2011, the mission ended and the spacecraft was put into hibernation. As of December 2013, it was reactivated for the purpose of surveying Near-Earth Objects (i.e. comets and asteroids) for the remainder of its service life.
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has been scanning the entire sky in infrared light, searching for objects that could threaten Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL
This mission not only involves scanning for NEOs at infrared wavelengths, but also characterizing previously known asteroids and comets to provide information about their sizes and compositions. James Bauer, the mission’s deputy principal investigator, explained NEOWISE’s operations to Universe Today via email:
“NEOWISE detects asteroids and comets, both near to Earth and further away, in the asteroid Main Belt for example, using infrared light. Because we look in the thermal infrared, the part of the spectrum where these small solar-system bodies are re-emitting the light they absorbed at other wavelengths, we can detect some of the darkest ones more easily than ground-based observatories, which look at their reflected light from the Sun. We can also get a better idea of the sizes, based on how much infrared light they re-emit. This way we detect and characterize Near Earth Objects that we may want to visit in the near future, and find new ones that may present impact risks as well as opportunities for exploration. NEOWISE has detected over 500 NEOs to date, including more than 81 discovered.”
Paired with ground-based telescopes that examine space in visible-light wavelengths, the data it has provided has told us much in the past two years about asteroids within our Solar System. Since beginning its “second life”, the NEOWISE mission has taken millions of images of the sky and measured more than 19,000 asteroids and comets.
Map showing the location of three NEOs discovered by NEOWISE in 2013 – 2013 UQ4, 2013 US10, and 2013 UPS.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
In addition to characterizing thousands of asteroids and identifying several new ones, the surveys revealed some interesting facts about NEOs that will make monitoring them easier, and help us mount missions to one someday. As Dr. Amy Mainzer, the principal investigator of the NEOWISE mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Universe Today via email:
“NEOWISE results indicate that about a third of the NEOs are extremely dark, which affects how we plan future surveys. With our IR measurements, we can determine NEO sizes, which helps us figure out how much energy a potential impactor would have.Objects that make close approaches to Earth offer both opportunity and risk: asteroids that make close approaches are more likely to be easier to get to from Earth. By finding close approaching NEOs, we can also find the most accessible destinations for future exploration.”
Of the 19,000 asteroids studied, the mission team was able to identify 439 of them as NEOs, and further determined that eight of them can be classified as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs). But before anyone gets to worrying that these objects might collide with us someday, it would be good to keep some statistics in mind.
For starters, since NASA and other space agencies began searching the Solar System for asteroids that have orbits that bring them close to Earth, some14,166 NEOs have been discovered. What’s more, the vast majority (over 13,000) have only been discovered since the year 2000, and over half since 2010. Of these, roughly half (7077) measure 140 meters in diameter.
Picture of the asteroid that exploded over Cherlyabinsk on Feb 15, 2013. Credit: Tuvix/Youtube
Sounds scary, doesn’t it? But not so much when you consider that of these, only 879 are large enough to ever pose a serious threat to Earth (i.e. measuring 1 km or more in diameter). And whereas small objects (i.e. those averaging 4 meters or 13 feet in diameter) strike Earth about once a year, asteroids measuring 1 km or more in diameter have been known to hit Earth at an average of only twice every one million years.
Of course, incidents like the Chelyabinsk meteorite (which measured 20 meters in diameter) remind us that even small NEOs that break up in the atmosphere can have a damaging effect – which in this case included 1,491 reported injuries and $33 million USD in property damage. However, the vast majority of the injuries caused by the airburst explosion were due to a lack of prior warning. Had the population been warned in advance, it is likely that most (if not all) of the injuries could have been prevented.
Knowing precisely where NEOs (and PHAs) are with respect to Earth, their sizes, and what paths their orbits will take, are all crucial to making sure that, in the unlikely event that any of them hit Earth, that they don’t cause harm. And thanks to NEOWISE, we’ve now got tabs on eight more of them. And until such time as we can create some kind of orbital defense platform to shoot incoming PHAs (I’m thinking guided missiles and laser guns!) knowing is all of the battle!
And be sure to check out the new NASA movie below, which beautifully visualizes the data collected by NEOWISE so far:
Residents in the city of Quebec, Canada, have reported an unusual rise in UFO sightings recently.
According to a 2015 survey conducted by Ufology Research, a huge number of Canadians reported weird skyward spheres, blinding lights in the firmament, and bright orbs that rapidly appear and disappear in the sky.
The Winnipeg group’s annual report calls Canada “a nation rich in storytelling,” but stresses that studying reports of sightings means combining witness accounts with the search for “objective truth.”
Is it something man-made? Is it a figment of one’s imagination? Is it driven by contemporary culture’s storytelling about strange celestial sightings? Or could it be, the report asks, “another form of life we cannot begin to understand?”
Quebec accounted for 35% of all reported sightings in Canada last year — a big spike for a province sitting between 5% and 15% in previous years.
“We wish we knew exactly what is going on,” said Ufology Research’s Chris Rutkowski. “There is some suggestion that maybe the media were a little more interested in UFO sightings, that maybe there was a media push in Quebec last year that resulted in more people looking up into the sky.”
UFO Sightings
There were 1,267 reported sightings in Canada last year, the second-highest total in three decades, the report says.
As for cities, there were 97 reports in Montreal, followed by 78 in Toronto and 69 in Vancouver. Edmonton was a distant fourth with just 36 sightings.
Over the years, most sightings have occurred between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. Last year, they lasted an average of 16 minutes. The most common descriptions from survey respondents were “starlike” objects, distant lights, and “simple lights in the sky.” The year with the most UFO reports was 2012, with 1,981. It also happened to be the year when the Mayan calendar predicted the world would end.
The report says sightings of “Hollywood-style flying saucers are, in reality, relatively uncommon in UFO reports.”
But they do exist.
In May 2015, a “metallic sphere descended from high in the sky” in Drummondville, Que., and came close enough for the witness to see “the reflection of the ground on its surface,” the report says.
A month before that, a witness in Brantford claims to have spotted a “large object that was a cross between a boomerang and egg” above the tree line. It displayed “flashing white lights … and two stripes of blue light running … along its underbelly.”
The report suggests some possible explanations for the sightings spike: more secret military flights, it’s easier to report sightings, and the lousy economy led “to an increased desire by some people to look skyward for assistance.”
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UFO Over Downtown Metz, France During Day On Google Map! April 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Downtown Metz, France During Day On Google Map! April 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: April 2016 Location of discovery: En Fournirue, Metz, France Source Google Map URL:https://goo.gl/maps/vLsDbp5piqx French UFO Site:http://ovniparanormal.over-blog.com This UFO was found by a reader of the French UFO site Ovni Paranormal run by UFO researcher Christian Mace. This UFO is tilted to one side...much like Bob Lazar said he saw in area S4. To move he said...the UFO must tilt slightly. This UFO Shows us that. This UFO also has a tiny antenna sticking out of one side. If you look carefully you will see that the bottom has a raised center. This kind of UFO has been seen around the world, often near power lines tapping into communication and information networks. I am in awe at the detail of this UFO. Its just so beautiful. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Russian police officers found the body of a little creature in the town of Kyshtym in the Chelyabinsk region in 1996. The local media dubbed the thing as Kyshtym alien due to its minute size and unusual features. A local doctor did an autopsy on the body and discovered it was neither animal nor human, probably a lifeform that was not yet discovered.
The unearthly body was brought to the anatomy department of the local hospital and the in charge of the anatomy department Dr. Stanoslav Samoshkin made the following conclusion after an examination.
The skull of the creature was made up of 4 bones, but human skull consists of six bones. The skeleton structure of the body was different to a person, and it did not look like any congenital malformations known even today.
The mummified creature measured nearly 10 inches in length with enlarged and disfigured head. It had huge eye sockets that occupied a lot of space in the face. The Kyshtym alien presumably looked different from humans when it was still alive. However, a seemingly the same mummified body called Ata was discovered in the Atacama Desert in 2003.
The international media named the mummified body as Uralian Alien. The exact origins of the Kyshtym alien were not yet established, but it has been a discovery that arouses the attention of people worldwide. Analyst and paranormal researcher Vadim Chernobrov went to Moscow to examine the body and concluded that it was not human after performing a genetic analysis.
The gene samples did not match to the ones in the laboratory. DNA experts failed to find any creatures with the same elongated DNA molecule.
Strangely, the mummified alien body disappeared all of a sudden, thus making it impossible to conduct further research and confirm Chernobrov’s claims. Numerous investigations and searches of the lost body were made, but all have been a failure.
Rumors started to spread about the mummified alien body being cursed. Researchers and people who got involved with the creature had fatal accidents and tragedies, including Prosvirina and Chernobrov.
Massive triangle UFO over Hessdalen, Norway 16-Apr-2016
Massive triangle UFO over Hessdalen, Norway 16-Apr-2016
Here0s one really interesting footage of a triangular-shaped craft hovering in the sky aboveUFO hotspot Hessdalen in Norway. This happened on 16th April 2016.
Massive triangle UFO over Hessdalen, Norway 16-Apr-2016
Massive triangle UFO over Hessdalen, Norway 16-Apr-2016
Here0s one really interesting footage of a triangular-shaped craft hovering in the sky aboveUFO hotspot Hessdalen in Norway. This happened on 16th April 2016.
Massive triangle UFO over Hessdalen, Norway 16-Apr-2016
Massive triangle UFO over Hessdalen, Norway 16-Apr-2016
Here0s one really interesting footage of a triangular-shaped craft hovering in the sky aboveUFO hotspot Hessdalen in Norway. This happened on 16th April 2016.
This day in UFO History: The UFO Chase Story in Portage County, Ohio
This day in UFO History: The UFO Chase Story in Portage County, Ohio
On April 17, 1966, exactly 50 years ago, the dramatic encounters experienced by police officers with low-level structured UFO took place. Ohio officers saw the object appeared from ground level, bathing near Ravenna about 5:00 AM. As soon as the sergeant finds out the existence of the object, he ordered his team to chase it. Just like the pursuit of the cat and mouse, they chase it eighty-five miles across the border into Pennsylvania. On Route 224, Deputy Wilbur ‘Barney’ Neff and Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur had left their scout car to determine the abandoned automobile. According to Spaur, the sighting looked behind him. When he looked back, he saw this thing. When it came up, it started moving toward them.
Barney was still watching the car as it came over the trees. The object was kept on getting brighter. It sounded like a hum as in the case of the transformer being loaded. Sergeant Schoenfelt told his team to follow and retain the object under observation while taking photos of the scene. On Route 183Neff and Spear turned south, then on Route 224, they turned back east which placed the object to their right and left window afterward.
Spaur and Neff saw the mysterious object in silhouette as the sky became brighter with predawn light. As the chase continued, the object started transforming into a metallic appearance. Police cars were trying to catch up with them as Spaur kept up a running conversation with them. Once they made a wrong turn, the object stopped, then came back to their position. Shortly afterward, it passed by on a sheriff’s cruiser in hot pursuit. According to Spaur, when the four officers watched and stood the UFO, there was radio traffic about jets scrambled to chase the mysterious object, and could see these planes coming in.
The Air Force believed that the strange object had been seen. Under pressure from Ohio officials, chief of PROJECT BLUE BOOK, Major Hector Quintanilla had a confrontation with the witnesses, and he refused to alter the identification, even though it pointed out to him that they had seen the object apart from Venus. William B. Weitzel conducted a further investigation obtaining signed statements, taped interviews, sketches, and all relevant data which assembled in a massive report that was made available to investigators.
This day in UFO History: 1897 Texas Encounter: Most Bizarre UFO Story
This day in UFO History: 1897 Texas Encounter: Most Bizarre UFO Story
The number one inquiry against the UFO existence is “Are there enough evidence?” This section provides evidence before you attempt to debunk this claim. First, begin with verified alien quotes from high ranking and credible sources. Keep in mind that hundreds of testimonies are made available to the public. Aurora is a small town in Wise County, Texas, United States. Aurora is best known for the extraterrestrial crash which took place in April 1897, and the legend that the pilot is buried in the cemetery.
Alien Gravesite in Aurora Cemetery
On the same day, people started their day taken spotting an airship moving slowly at a speed ranging from ten to twelve miles. According to the residents, the slow speed was the result of damage or malfunction in the airship machinery. However, several accounts claimed that this mysterious object had never been flying to the Earth before it was being spotted. The UFO gradually flew on the public square before heading towards the Northern area, with the residents watching the encounter. When it reached the Northern Part, it hit the property owned by a Judge J.S. Proctor. Since the impact is high, the aircraft was burst into pieces, leading a terrific explosion. The Aurora residents rushed to discover the debris. Since the area was completely ruined, the debris was scattered. Despite the terrible happening, still no sufficient information with regards to the wreckage type and the debris obtained at the site. According to some rumours, the debris includes hieroglyphic-type etching. On a close examination, the residents spotted a severely disfigured body.
With this encounter slowly gaining prominence, the investigators began investigating this encounter. Attempts were made to examine and exhume the remains of this “unearthly body” which were buried by the residents. The Aurora Cemetery Association challenged this course of action and hence was prosperous in hampering the attempts to exhume the alleged body. The alien body continues to be a mystery, with no information readily available on this subject.
A mysterious giant hole and crater have suddenly appeared in Siberia, Russia. There are not many details right now, but the video captured from a helicopter shows a weird configuration with debris and signs of combustion around it.
In the summer of 2014, some people stumbled across bizarre 30-meter-wide (100 feet) craters in the middle of Yamal Peninsula in Siberia, Russia.
All sorts of theories about their formation have flown around over the past two years, from asteroids to – inevitably – UFOs. However, the reality is perhaps even more startling.
New research from Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, has shown that it is possible for some information to be inherited biologically through chemical changes that occur in DNA. During the tests they learned that that mice can pass on learned information about traumatic or stressful experiences – in this case a fear of the smell of cherry blossom – to subsequent generations.
According to the Telegraph, Dr Brian Dias, from the department of psychiatry at Emory University, said: ”From a translational perspective, our results allow us to appreciate how the experiences of a parent, before even conceiving offspring, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of subsequent generations.
“Such a phenomenon may contribute to the etiology and potential intergenerational transmission of risk for neuropsychiatric disorders such as phobias, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.”
This suggests that experiences are somehow transferred from the brain into the genome, allowing them to be passed on to later generations.
The researchers now hope to carry out further work to understand how the information comes to be stored on the DNA in the first place. They also want to explore whether similar effects can be seen in the genes of humans.
Professor Marcus Pembrey, a paediatric geneticist at University College London, said the work provided“compelling evidence” for the biological transmission of memory.
He added: “It addresses constitutional fearfulness that is highly relevant to phobias, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders, plus the controversial subject of transmission of the ‘memory’ of ancestral experience down the generations.
“It is high time public health researchers took human transgenerational responses seriously.”
“I suspect we will not understand the rise in neuropsychiatric disorders or obesity, diabetes and metabolic disruptions generally without taking a multigenerational approach.”
Professor Wolf Reik, head of epigenetics at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, said, however, further work was needed before such results could be applied to humans.
He said: “These types of results are encouraging as they suggest that transgenerational inheritance exists and is mediated by epigenetics, but more careful mechanistic study of animal models is needed before extrapolating such findings to humans.”
May our DNA Carrying also spiritual and cosmic memories passed down in genes from our ancestors?
Teleportation may stay in the realm of science fiction for the foreseeable future, but scientists say that our brains already react favorably to instantaneously being transported across space.
In a study published in the journal Neuron on Thursday, neuroscientists from the University of California, Davis studied how the brain would react if it were to be“beamed up” from one place to another using a virtual simulation.
When volunteers entered a virtual teleportation device ‒ similar to the ones made famous in the Star Trek franchise ‒ researchers found that that their brains gave off certain “rhythmic oscillations” of electric signals like the ones that a rat brain creates when the animal navigates a maze.
Arne Ekstrom, associate professor at the UC Davis’ Centre for Neuroscience, conducted the study to learn more about how people memorizes routes and learn to find our way around.
“There is this rhythmic firing in the brain during navigation and while remembering things, but we don’t know if it is triggered by sensory input or by the learning process,” Ekstrom said in a statement.
Ekstrom’s team was able to solve this problem by working with three patients diagnosed with a severe form of epilepsy. They already had electrodes implanted on their brains to find out where exactly the seizure activity occurs in their brains and identify possible treatments.
The team took advantage of this by asking the patients to navigate through a street simulation on a computer screen. At some points, they were able to enter a virtual store with a teleporter inside, which took them to a different location on the map that they had already visited.
“Critically, teleportation allowed patients to experience movement to a known location in space in the absence of any sensory feedback because they remained seated on a hospital bed and viewed a black screen during this time,” the research team wrote.
The brain’s oscillations weren’t interrupted, but the rhythm changed depending on how far the virtual teleportation took the participants. This led to the team concluding that the brain’s oscillations are controlled by memory and learning processes.
“The frequency-wise pattern of oscillation prevalence during teleportation contained spatial information capable of classifying the distance teleported,” the researchers wrote.
While one of the three patients in the study demonstrated the same results, the study should not necessarily be taken as conclusive. The three of them share the same severe neurological condition, meaning that they are not a representative sample of the population.
Spacecraft Powered by 'Green' Propellant to Launch in 2017
Spacecraft Powered by 'Green' Propellant to Launch in 2017
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Spacecraft Powered by 'Green' Propellant to Launch in 2017
Credit: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
BOULDER, Colo. — A spacecraft that will test the unique attributes of a high-performance, nontoxic, "green" fuel on orbit is being prepped for launch in 2017.
NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) is set to blast off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station next year aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. The launch is part of the Air Force's Space Test Program 2 (STP-2) mission.
GPIM is the nation's first mission to exhibit, in a relevant space environment, an alternative to the highly toxic and corrosive hydrazine fuel commonly used by spacecraft today. [NASA's Quest for Green Rocket Fuel (Video)]
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Edwards Air Force Base in California developed the new propellant, which is a hydroxyl ammonium nitrate fuel/oxidizer mix called AF-M315E. This fuel is 45 percent denser than hydrazine, meaning more of it can be stored in containers of the same volume. The propellant also offers nearly 50 percent higher performance for a given propellant tank volume compared to a conventional hydrazine system, the researchers said.
GPIM is a technology demonstration mission made possible by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, and it draws upon a government-industry team of specialists.
On-orbit maneuvers
"The spacecraft is finished and in storage," said Chris McLean, principal investigator for GPIM at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, which is the prime contractor for GPIM and is leading the demonstration of the alternative fuel for future space vehicles.
"We're now writing the flight manuals and flight procedures … all the detailed documentation that is required to fly the spacecraft," he added.
McLean said that, as of right now, GPIM is headed for a March 2017 liftoff.
"During the 13-month test period in orbit, we'll be running basically four series of experiments with the propulsion," he told Space.com.
GPIM's on-orbit test of the "green" fuel — whose actual hue is closer to peach — will make use of a set of thrusters that fire in different scenarios to test engine performance and reliability. Planned on-orbit maneuvers also include attitude control demonstrations, spacecraft pointing and hold, inclination change and orbit lowering.
Ideally, the new technology will enable longer spacecraft mission durations, added maneuverability and more payload space, and will cut the time needed for the launch processing of future spacecraft, NASA officials have said. [Satellite Quiz: How Well Do You Know What's Orbiting Earth?]
A technician works on NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) at Ball Aerospace, the prime contractor for the spacecraft.
Credit: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
Hotter than hydrazine
The green propellant propulsion subsystem was built by Aerojet Rocketdyne in Redmond, Washington. GPIM's propulsion hardware uses a catalyst technology pioneered by Aerojet Rocketdyne that breaks down the green fuel, generating gaseous products that come out the engine nozzle to provide thrust.
"That breakthrough in catalyst technology enabled these thrusters to be developed," McLean said.
The American-made green propellant burns hotter than hydrazine, so different metals than those traditionally used were incorporated into GPIM's thrusters to withstand the high temperatures.
McLean said the green propulsion system will fly aboard the tried-and-true Ball Configurable Platform 100 spacecraft bus — a cost-saving approach.
Dry runs
Before GPIM takes to space next year, a number of milestones are on the calendar.
McLean said work is underway to prepare for GPIM's arrival at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, which is next door to Cape Canaveral, and over to SpaceX's launch facilities. Dry runs of green-propellant loading are in order, he said.
"This is the first new fuel there since the 1970s," McLean said. So there are efforts underway to get everyone involved more familiar with the fuel, handling requirements and other procedures, he added.
In addition, McLean said that propellant-loading tests are on tap in about a month at the AFRL in California. "We're going to run a mock loading of the fuel with an actual propellant tank," to make sure no issues crop up in fueling GPIM in Florida, he said,
The processes that are developed with GPIM in Florida will work at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Wallops Island in Virginia and other launch sites, McLean added.
NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) will demonstrate an alternative to traditional hydrazine fuel, which is highly toxic and corrosive.
Credit: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
Cross-country team
Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, said that developing and using green propellant technology not only increases protection for launch personnel and the environment but also offers the potential to reduce space mission price tags. If GPIM achieves its goals, the mission can spearhead widespread use of the fuel on future NASA and commercial missions, he said.
GPIM team co-investigators are based at multiple NASA research centers and the AFRL, with additional mission support from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. The GPIM effort is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
McLean said that NASA, the Air Force and industry participants formed an impressive and very successfully integrated team. The GPIM mission, he added, will showcase the benefits of green propellant and help to improve spacecraft missions in Earth orbit and beyond.
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," to be published by National Geographic this October. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel six-part series coming in November. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades.Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.
XS-1: A US Military Space Plane in Pictures (Gallery)
XS-1: A US Military Space Plane in Pictures (Gallery)
Artist's Concept of DARPA's XS-1 Vehicle
DARPA
The U.S. military is developing the XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane to launch space missions faster and cheaper than ever before. See photos and images of the DARPA-led XS-1 space plane project in this Space.com gallery. Pictured here: An artist's concept of DARPA's Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1).
Northrop Grumman's XS-1 Space Plane Design
Northrop Grumman
On Aug. 21, 2014, Northrop Grumman unveiled its design concept for the XS-1 military space plane. The company is partnering with Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic on the project for DARPA. [Read the Full Story Here.
XS-1 Space Plane Ascent Illustration
DARPA
This DARPA artist's concept depicts the launch of a U.S. military XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane carrying an rocket booster and satellite payload on its back. The XS-1 space plane could launch horizontally or vertically, depending on its final design. Read the Full Story Here.
XS-1 Space Plane Launch Concept
DARPA
A rocket upper stage carrying a satellite payload launches into orbit in this artist's concept of the U.S. military's XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane, a project overseen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Read the Full Story Here.
XS-1 Space Plane: Boeing Illustration
Boeing
This Boeing illustration depicts a possible design for the XS-1 experimental space plane, a robotic reusable military spacecraft envisioned for launching satellites and payloads into orbit. The XS-1 space plane project is overseen by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Read the Full Story Here.
DARPA XS-1 Space Plane Concepts
DARPA
This image, taken from a DARPA presentation, shows several potential designs for the U.S. military's planned XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane, an innovative robotic spacecraft project to launch satellites into orbit cheaply and efficiently.
XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane Project
DARPA
The U.S. military's planned XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane project aims to build a robotic spacecraft capable of launching satellites into orbit much faster and cheaper than ever before. This slide, taken from a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) presentation, depicts some details about the innovative concept.
Air Force's X-37B Space Plane: OTV-2 Hangar
Boeing
DARPA's XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane program is not the first military space plane project. In fact, the U.S. Air Force has two operational robotic space planes in service today. Those two spacecraft, twin versions of the X-37B spacecraft shown above, are capable of long-duration missions in Earth orbit and have flown three missions since 2010.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now entering the second and third phases of its ambitious Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program, which aims to make launching satellites a daily occurrence.
"I can tell you officially now that we have been funded by the [Obama] Administration for the next phase of XS-1," DARPA's Jess Sponable told applauding attendees at the Space Access '16 Conference in Phoenix last week. "What I can tell you right now is that we have $146 million."
DARPA launched the XS-1 program in 2014 with the goal of developing a reusable launch system capable of flying 10 times in 10 days with aircraftlike operability, at a cost of no more than $5 million per flight. [XS-1: A US Military Space Plane in Pictures (Gallery)]
Over the past two years, DARPA has funded Phase 1 studies by three companies: Boeing, which partnered with Blue Origin; Masten Space Systems, which partnered with XCOR Aerospace; and Northrop Grumman, which partnered with Virgin Galactic.
This artist's illustration shows one possible Boeing design for the U.S. military's XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane concept.
Credit: Boeing
The goal of the next phases of the program is to take the program beyond studies to flight tests. The solicitation will be open to all companies, not just the ones that were funded in Phase 1. Sponable said that although he expects more than three bids, the level of detail required for the next phases will make it difficult for new entrants to compete with the companies that are already in the program.
DARPA will kick off Phase 2 with a proposers' day on April 29 in Arlington, Virginia. The agency will send out a solicitation following the meeting, with the goal of selecting a single contractor early in fiscal year 2017. Flights of the vehicle would occur in the 2019 to 2020 time frame.
Sponable said that the $146 million DARPA has received is sufficient to begin to support a single contractor. "That's enough to pick someone and go," he said. "It's probably not enough to fully fund what we have envisioned."
Bidders will be required to bring their own funding to the table as part of a public-private partnership, Sponable said. The days of the federal government fully funding development programs is over, he added.
The initial version of the launch vehicle must be capable of placing a 900-lb. (408 kilograms) payload into low Earth orbit. The contractor will need to show how the vehicle can be upgraded to carry 3,000-lb. (1,360 kg) payloads in commercial operations using an expendable upper stage.
Sponable said that a number of companies are working on small-satellite launch vehicles, whose engines might be used as an upper stage on the XS-1.
A low-cost, reusable launch vehicle capable of flying every day would have numerous military and commercial applications, he added. The military would be able to disaggregate its large satellites into smaller constellations and be able to rapidly and affordably replace spacecraft that failed or were taken out by enemy action.
The emerging commercial small-satellite market is projected to require hundreds of XS-1-class launches annually, Sponable said.
Artist's concept of the space plane being designed by Northrop Grumman, with help from Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, for DARPA's XS-1 program.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
He acknowledged that previous government efforts at producing low-cost launchers have fallen significantly short of the mark.
"This is not new," he admitted. "We've been pursuing this low-cost, aircraftlike access to space literally since the 1960s, and seriously since the 1980s. And we've had failure after failure after failure."
Past efforts have been handicapped by a combination of lofty goals and immature technology at low levels of development, Sponable said. Today, the various technologies needed for low-cost launch are much more mature, giving XS-1 a greater chance at success.
This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The star appears so big just because of the scattering of light by the telescope's optics as well as in the photographic emulsion. Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to the Solar System. Image released Oct. 17, 2012.
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
Stephen Hawking, Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg helm the board for a new initiative, Breakthrough Starshot, whose technology could be used to someday reach Earth's neighboring star Alpha Centauri after just a 20-year journey. Besides being an easy target — it's among the closest stars to the sun — astronomers have been eying our stellar neighbors for potential Earth-like planets.
"This is Alpha Centauri, our neighboring star," Milner said in a news conference yesterday (April 12). "But in space, neighboring does not mean very near. Alpha Centauri is over 4 light-years away […] that's 25 trillion miles. And the problem is, space travel as we know it is slow. If [humanity's fastest-moving spacecraft] Voyager had left our planet when humans first left Africa, travelling at 11 miles a second, it would be arriving at Alpha Centauri just about now." [Alpha Centauri: Earth's Neighboring Star System (Infographic)]
Milner said that his proposed Starshot technology could get a tiny spacecraft to the system, traveling at 20 percent the speed of light, in around 20 years. But barring that, it would be a long trip indeed.
The stars of Alpha Centauri lie 4.3 light-years from us, which is around 270,000 times the distance from the Earth to the sun. To travel that distance within a generation, Milner said, a chemical rocket like the ones we use today would need fuel equivalent to the weight of all the stars in the Milky Way. A fusion rocket could reach the system in 50 years, but the technology is still far from viable. His proposed Starshot technology would make it there in just over 20.
This chart shows most of the stars visible with the unaided eye on a clear night. The star Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern sky (marked with a red circle). It lies just 4.3 light-years from the Earth and one component in a triple star system. Image released Oct. 17. 2012.
From Earth, Alpha Centauri appears as a single point of light: It's one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. Through a telescope, one can make out the system's two stars Alpha Centauri A and its smaller, dimmer companion Alpha Centauri B. Each has a mass that is about the same as the Earth's sun, and they orbit one another at about the same distance that Uranus orbits the sun.
A third star, Proxima Centauri, is slightly closer to Earth — it's actually the nearest star outside the Earth's solar system. That star is much smaller and dimmer: it's just 0.12 times the mass of the sun, or 1.5 times the size of Jupiter, and it shines faintly at a cautious distance from the other two. In fact, some astronomers question whether it's part of the system at all, or just passing through.
Astronomers first realized the bright star Alpha Centauri was a tightly orbiting pair in 1689, and Proxima Centauri was first spotted in 1915.
In 2012, researchers used an instrument called the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher to detect a planet around Alpha Centauri B. The instrument, which is part of the European Space Agency's La Silla Observatory in Chile, measured tiny wobbles in the star that suggested that a planet was orbiting it — likely just a bit bigger than Earth, orbiting its star every 3.24 days.
Since then, researchers have tried to verify the planet's existence using transits — a slight dimming in the star as the planet passes by — but haven't found additional, conclusive evidence. And a re-examination of the original study suggested that the planet might be an artifact of the data processing, according to a report by the deep-space exploration site Centauri Dreams.
Regardless, because of their nearness, the Alpha Centauri twins and Proxima Centauri offer a promising location to look for planets at a distance — especially using direct imaging — if researchers can filter out the complexities of the double star. And they also seem to be a good place to visit. The distance may be vast, but it could be relatively easy for Starshot's nanocraft or other interstellar travelers to blast through and beam back information to Earth about the system with a bit more than a four-year delay. While planets orbiting those stars would see a starscape that is quite different from Earth's, the stars' similarity to the sun would make their habitable zones an intriguing place to look for Earth analogues.
"Astronomers estimate that there is a reasonable chance of an Earth-like planet existing in the 'habitable zones' of Alpha Centauri's three-star system," Breakthrough Starshot representatives said in a statement. "A number of scientific instruments, ground-based and space-based, are being developed and enhanced, which will soon identify and characterize planets around nearby stars."
Virtual Reality Comes to Spaceflight: Rocket Tours and Walks on Mars
Virtual Reality Comes to Spaceflight: Rocket Tours and Walks on Mars
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
Space.com reporter Calla Cofield is thoroughly engrossed by ULA's virtual-reality view of a rocket launch.
Credit: Calla Cofield/Space.com
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — This week, the 32nd Space Symposium took place in Colorado, but it might as well have been at Cape Canaveral. A virtual-reality app created by United Launch Alliance (ULA) dropped me onto a launchpad next to a Delta IV rocket, and watching it take off gave me nearly the same thrill as seeing a launch in person.
Humans should never actually get as close to a rocket launch as I got to the Delta IV rocket that took off in the VR app. Cameras positioned at three different positions on or near the launchpad captured the explosive column of fire that erupted from the bottom of the rocket, and headphones blasted the booming sound. It was astounding to see the details of the rocket body and the pillar flame up close. Two of the cameras were quickly overwhelmed by smoke, but a third let me look up at the rocket as it became a smaller and smaller point of light overhead.
The VR app is for the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset, which provides a 3D, 360-degree view of the launch, meaning the user can "look around" while the video plays. Even though I knew I was just looking at a video, the responsiveness of the system to the movement of my head quickly suspended my disbelief.
The ULA app is available for download from the company's website. Users who don't want to buy a VR headset can use Google Cardboard, which is an assemble-it-yourself cardboard VR headset (smartphone required). It's obviously less impressive than an actual VR headset, but much, much less expensive.
ULA wasn't the only booth with a VR experience — Lockheed Martin also had a short VR tour of the facility where the Orion capsule is loaded onto a specially designed airplane called the "Super Guppy." Additionally, Lockheed Martin had a virtual-reality game in which players navigate a Mars rover along the surface of the Red Planet, trying to reach specific locations without tipping over the rover. Another game lets the user walk around a section of the Martian surface. The company is involved in the development of some very advanced virtual-reality tech, and is trying to use VR as part of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education and outreach. However, the programs we saw at the Space Symposium are not currently available to the public.
A virtual reality game created by Lockheed Martin lets the user drive a rover around on the surface of Mars.
Credit: Calla Cofield/Space.com
However, anyone who wants to take a virtual tour of the Red Planet should consider visiting the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex this summer — the facility is opening a new exhibit called "Destination: Mars," in which visitors don VR headsets that give them a 3D, 360-degree virtual-reality view of the surface of Mars, created using real images taken by Red Planet rovers. Plus, the Red Planet tour is led by a VR projection of Buzz Aldrin! In addition, the exhibit will have a space where visitors (wearing the headsets) can walk around, making it seem as though they are really walking around on the surface of Mars.
Finally, at the Space Symposium, NASA had a virtual-reality tour of the Space Launch System (SLS), the agency's new megarocket that will carry the Orion spacecraft. Once again, the VR tour isn't yet available to the public. A NASA representative said there were restrictions on how much information can be released about the rocket at this stage in its development, but he added that he'd like to see the VR tour made available in the next few years.
DAUGHTER AND MOMS ALIEN CRAFT ENCOUNTER IN FLORIDA
FEBURARY 10, 2015 ……….. MERRITT ISLAND FLORIDA
It was a over cast and cloudy day, with a chance of showers. My four kids just got home from school and they were riding their bicycles, as I was watching them and doing yard work, around 16:00 hrs. I stopped yard work, facing North, to watch the kids and one of my daughter’s, (age 7) rode her bike up to me, stopped and asked me; “What’s that?”…. I looked Westward and saw a black dot, just below the clouds heading Eastward and told her; ” It’s a helicopter…. As I started to go back to doing yard work. My daughter, still looking the this object, yelled out; “It’s a flying car!”…. Me, looking down the neighborhood street, asked her; ” Where?” and she pointed West and said; “No!.. Up there!” As I looked and saw this object get closer; I could see that it wasn’t a helicopter!….
The object looked black in color, with wear..(Like it did a lot of traveling) and rectangular, in shape, with rounded edges. There was a light, white in color with what looked like a thruster in the center? It was traveling in a straight line, as it was slowly rotating and didn’t made a sound. I told my daughter to keep her eyes on it, so that I could get my binoculars out of my truck; in which we both and the truck, were on our driveway. As I looked through the binoculars. I could see that it had no numbers or letters on it and this was not a helicopter nor a plane. Being, that we do live near a very small airport, with Cesena’s flying in and out all the time..
But, it wasn’t a good day to fly, due to the weather and this object wasn’t a drone either, for the fact that it didn’t have any propellers and it was flying too high. It flew Eastward and suddenly changed direction and went back the other way! It flew then, Westward, slowly rotating and then stopped, mid point to were we first saw it. By then; I could see that it had a dome on top, as it had a smaller white light on top of it, too. It hovered for a few seconds, while still rotating slowly and then, it started spinning faster; just below the cloud line, still as I looked at it. It started to look more like a saucer, as it was spinning.
And then, there was like a flash… And the object shot straight up into the clouds!…. Felt like I was in a dream, while looking at this object.. (From the distance and the height of this object. I would say that it had to be approximately 8 ft. high and 40 to 50 ft. wide? And maybe, even the size of a 2 or 3 bedroom home…?)
My daughter and I saw this object for approximately 2 minutes. I made a model of it, out of styro foam because I got a very good look at this object, through my binoculars…. (Not sure how to post the pictures of my model, that I made, on the files part….? Sorry……
NOTE:The above image is real from a sightings in Kanarraville Utah.
Un mystérieux complexe futuriste identifié en Égypte
Un mystérieux complexe futuriste identifié en Égypte
Le mystérieux complexe dans le désert égyptien. Capture d'écran Gentside
S’il y a bien quelque chose dont les amateurs d’OVNI ne manquent pas, c’est de patience. Ces derniers sont en effet capables de sonder chaque recoin de la Terre sur Google Earth, à la recherche de quelques mystérieuses structures susceptibles de confirmer l’existence d’extraterrestres.
Grâce à eux de nombreux monuments à l’identité douteuse sont sortis de l’ombre. Le dernier en date se trouve dans le désert égyptien, à l’Est du Caire. Situé près d’une route, il se présente sous la forme d’un complexe au design futuriste.
UNE STRUCTURE PRINCIPALE ET SIX ANNEXES
Son bâtiment principal se compose de deux ailes en pointe et est entouré de six annexes circulaires. Son existence a été mise en évidence par un internaute connu sous le pseudonyme de «Secureteam10».
L’internaute se décrit comme un informateur et un fournisseur de «vidéos d’OVNI» attestant d’une activité extraterrestre que le gouvernement s’attèle à camoufler. Comme on pouvait s’y attendre, sa nouvelle vidéo sur le monument du désert a déclenché un vif débat sur internet, alimenté par des vagues de spéculations.
Certains voient en cette découverte l’entrée d’une base secrète souterraine. D’autres ont de leur côté exprimé leur scepticisme.
DES THÉORIES PLUS OU MOINS DOUTEUSES
Parmi les théories évoquées, on retrouve notamment celle d’un entrepôt nucléaire, d’une plateforme de lancement de missiles, d’une aire d’atterrissage pour un vaisseau extraterrestre ou encore d’un symbole de la franc-maçonnerie.
Quoi qu’il en soit, une chose est sûre: la position du complexe près d’une route trafiquée n’est pas l’endroit idéal pour construire un bâtiment censé être ignoré de tous, a fait remarquer un internaute. Avec un peu de chance, peut-être que l’identité et la fonction du bâtiment se révèlera d’elle même d’ici quelques temps.
2012: Magnetic Pole Reversal Happens All The (Geologic) Time
2012: Magnetic Pole Reversal Happens All The (Geologic) Time
Schematic illustration of Earth's magnetic field.
Credits: Peter Reid, The University of Edinburgh
Scientists understand that Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. In other words, if you were alive about 800,000 years ago, and facing what we call north with a magnetic compass in your hand, the needle would point to 'south.' This is because a magnetic compass is calibrated based on Earth's poles. The N-S markings of a compass would be 180 degrees wrong if the polarity of today's magnetic field were reversed. Many doomsday theorists have tried to take this natural geological occurrence and suggest it could lead to Earth's destruction. But would there be any dramatic effects? The answer, from the geologic and fossil records we have from hundreds of past magnetic polarity reversals, seems to be 'no.'
Reversals are the rule, not the exception. Earth has settled in the last 20 million years into a pattern of a pole reversal about every 200,000 to 300,000 years, although it has been more than twice that long since the last reversal. A reversal happens over hundreds or thousands of years, and it is not exactly a clean back flip. Magnetic fields morph and push and pull at one another, with multiple poles emerging at odd latitudes throughout the process. Scientists estimate reversals have happened at least hundreds of times over the past three billion years. And while reversals have happened more frequently in "recent" years, when dinosaurs walked Earth a reversal was more likely to happen only about every one million years.
Sediment cores taken from deep ocean floors can tell scientists about magnetic polarity shifts, providing a direct link between magnetic field activity and the fossil record. The Earth's magnetic field determines the magnetization of lava as it is laid down on the ocean floor on either side of the Mid-Atlantic Rift where the North American and European continental plates are spreading apart. As the lava solidifies, it creates a record of the orientation of past magnetic fields much like a tape recorder records sound. The last time that Earth's poles flipped in a major reversal was about 780,000 years ago, in what scientists call the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal. The fossil record shows no drastic changes in plant or animal life. Deep ocean sediment cores from this period also indicate no changes in glacial activity, based on the amount of oxygen isotopes in the cores. This is also proof that a polarity reversal would not affect the rotation axis of Earth, as the planet's rotation axis tilt has a significant effect on climate and glaciation and any change would be evident in the glacial record.
Earth's polarity is not a constant. Unlike a classic bar magnet, or the decorative magnets on your refrigerator, the matter governing Earth's magnetic field moves around. Geophysicists are pretty sure that the reason Earth has a magnetic field is because its solid iron core is surrounded by a fluid ocean of hot, liquid metal. This process can also be modeled with supercomputers. Ours is, without hyperbole, a dynamic planet. The flow of liquid iron in Earth's core creates electric currents, which in turn create the magnetic field. So while parts of Earth's outer core are too deep for scientists to measure directly, we can infer movement in the core by observing changes in the magnetic field. The magnetic north pole has been creeping northward – by more than 600 miles (1,100 km) – since the early 19th century, when explorers first located it precisely. It is moving faster now, actually, as scientists estimate the pole is migrating northward about 40 miles per year, as opposed to about 10 miles per year in the early 20th century.
Another doomsday hypothesis about a geomagnetic flip plays up fears about incoming solar activity. This suggestion mistakenly assumes that a pole reversal would momentarily leave Earth without the magnetic field that protects us from solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun. But, while Earth's magnetic field can indeed weaken and strengthen over time, there is no indication that it has ever disappeared completely. A weaker field would certainly lead to a small increase in solar radiation on Earth – as well as a beautiful display of aurora at lower latitudes - but nothing deadly. Moreover, even with a weakened magnetic field, Earth's thick atmosphere also offers protection against the sun's incoming particles.
The science shows that magnetic pole reversal is – in terms of geologic time scales – a common occurrence that happens gradually over millennia. While the conditions that cause polarity reversals are not entirely predictable – the north pole's movement could subtly change direction, for instance – there is nothing in the millions of years of geologic record to suggest that any of the 2012 doomsday scenarios connected to a pole reversal should be taken seriously. A reversal might, however, be good business for magnetic compass manufacturers.
Something very strange is going on in recent years in the atmosphere on the planet Whether it comes to aliens, changes in the earth’s core or CHEMTRAILS, HAARP? People all around the world take photos of this strange phenomena. Why are they appear and what is the meaning of them? What is going on? Can it affect a human evolution? What do you think about that? Watch the video and judge for yourself.
Wie denkt dat er niets gebeurt op UFO gebied in onze contreien, raden wij aan eens wat vaker naar de lucht te kijken.
Naar aanleiding van de Turkse UFO met inzittenden, nu een opname uit Azië die daar heel veel op lijkt.
Er zijn mensen die per ongeluk vreemde vliegende objecten waarnemen in de lucht, maar ook die er bewust op jagen, de zogenaamde UFO-hunters.
Eén ervan is Dennis uit Twente die ons het volgende verhaal stuurt (dank!):
We waren aan het ufohunten in een gebied waar we al jaren komen om oranje bollen te fotograferen en te filmen.
We reden net de helling op van een berg en ik zag een oranje bol. Dus gelijk de auto uit en net op het moment dat ik de camera aanklik verdwijnt de oranje bol zo in het niets.
Ik maakte toch nog wat foto's in de hoop dat de oranje bol terug zou komen. Maar helaas zagen we er geen enkele meer verschijnen. Thuis gekomen bekeek ik de foto's nog eens of er misschien toch nog ergens vaag een bol op was gekomen maar niets te zien.
Dit was in februari, begin april zag ik het mapje en dacht laat ik nog eens kijken. En toen met vergroten zag ik ineens een langwerpig object met meerdere lichten erop.
Op 7 foto's geschoten van 21.20 tot 21.22 is het object zichtbaar. De 4 beste foto's heb ik in een filmpje verwerkt met de originele foto's en vergroot.
Misschien dat iemand dit wel herkend. Ik spot al lange tijd en bijna dagelijks maar dit heb ik nooit eerder gezien.
Eerder deze week schreven wij een artikel over een UFO die na lange tijd waarschijnlijk weer terug was in Turkije. Naar aanleiding daarvan ontvingen wij het volgende bericht (dank!):
Zat mijn oude ufo's filmpje door te spitten zag iets wat verdacht veel op de ufo die leek open te staan met een inzittende. Het filmpje is van 26 Juli 2012 uit China en het lijkt er veel op.:
Het is inderdaad een heel bijzonder opname, alleen is hij gemaakt in Zuid Korea en niet China volgens de makers, maar kniesoor die daar over valt.
Mars, Mars, Mars...thats all anyone ever seems to care about, and yet, we have so many planets and moons in our solar system. Why are humans focusing so much on one little planet? A fixation perhaps, or maybe, just maybe its something more dark and frightening. I want to suggest that the Earth has been enveloped in a covering that manipulates our thoughts and focus. Meaning, someone, somewhere doesn't want us to look at Venus. Strange since Val Valiant Thor came from there and even walked out of a spaceship in the park near the pentagon. I believe that humanity has been and always will be manipulated by aliens in some way or anther. Just as the smarter humans on this planet manipulate the other 99% making them rich. All I'm asking is that you try to look into finding alien structures on other planets or moons. Just try, or...do you feel something preventing you from carrying though with it? Exactly! Let me show you Venus. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
On the photo below, focus on the walls. Can you see the walls?
Dark Disk Over Mountains In Hessdalen, Norway On April 16, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Dark Disk Over Mountains In Hessdalen, Norway On April 16, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 16, 2016 Location of sighting: Hessdalen, Norway Source Cam:http://www.hessdalen.org/station/stream2.shtml This UFO was found using a special cam set up just to hunt the local UFOs. Hessdalen is a special location where the locals have seen glowing lights move around the sky almost weekly, for decades. Glowing UFOs that have been looked into, but no answers were found. Just aliens leaving and coming from an underground base nearby. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Streetcap1states: It could be a Cloud, but it stayed in situ for 15 minutes, then melded into the background as visibility worsened. It would take hours to upload the entire footage in HD. I'll keep the footage though for when CNN approach me. Streetcap1.
US Military's Satellite-Launching XS-1 Space Plane Could Fly in 2019
US Military's Satellite-Launching XS-1 Space Plane Could Fly in 2019
By Douglas Messier, Space.com Contributor
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now entering the second and third phases of its ambitious Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program, which aims to make launching satellites a daily occurrence.
"I can tell you officially now that we have been funded by the [Obama] Administration for the next phase of XS-1," DARPA's Jess Sponable told applauding attendees at the Space Access '16 Conference in Phoenix last week. "What I can tell you right now is that we have $146 million."
DARPA launched the XS-1 program in 2014 with the goal of developing a reusable launch system capable of flying 10 times in 10 days with aircraftlike operability, at a cost of no more than $5 million per flight. [XS-1: A US Military Space Plane in Pictures (Gallery)]
Over the past two years, DARPA has funded Phase 1 studies by three companies: Boeing, which partnered with Blue Origin; Masten Space Systems, which partnered with XCOR Aerospace; and Northrop Grumman, which partnered with Virgin Galactic.
This artist's illustration shows one possible Boeing design for the U.S. military's XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane concept.
Credit: Boeing
The goal of the next phases of the program is to take the program beyond studies to flight tests. The solicitation will be open to all companies, not just the ones that were funded in Phase 1. Sponable said that although he expects more than three bids, the level of detail required for the next phases will make it difficult for new entrants to compete with the companies that are already in the program.
DARPA will kick off Phase 2 with a proposers' day on April 29 in Arlington, Virginia. The agency will send out a solicitation following the meeting, with the goal of selecting a single contractor early in fiscal year 2017. Flights of the vehicle would occur in the 2019 to 2020 time frame.
Sponable said that the $146 million DARPA has received is sufficient to begin to support a single contractor. "That's enough to pick someone and go," he said. "It's probably not enough to fully fund what we have envisioned."
Bidders will be required to bring their own funding to the table as part of a public-private partnership, Sponable said. The days of the federal government fully funding development programs is over, he added.
The initial version of the launch vehicle must be capable of placing a 900-lb. (408 kilograms) payload into low Earth orbit. The contractor will need to show how the vehicle can be upgraded to carry 3,000-lb. (1,360 kg) payloads in commercial operations using an expendable upper stage.
Sponable said that a number of companies are working on small-satellite launch vehicles, whose engines might be used as an upper stage on the XS-1.
A low-cost, reusable launch vehicle capable of flying every day would have numerous military and commercial applications, he added. The military would be able to disaggregate its large satellites into smaller constellations and be able to rapidly and affordably replace spacecraft that failed or were taken out by enemy action.
The emerging commercial small-satellite market is projected to require hundreds of XS-1-class launches annually, Sponable said.
Artist's concept of the space plane being designed by Northrop Grumman, with help from Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, for DARPA's XS-1 program.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
He acknowledged that previous government efforts at producing low-cost launchers have fallen significantly short of the mark.
"This is not new," he admitted. "We've been pursuing this low-cost, aircraftlike access to space literally since the 1960s, and seriously since the 1980s. And we've had failure after failure after failure."
Past efforts have been handicapped by a combination of lofty goals and immature technology at low levels of development, Sponable said. Today, the various technologies needed for low-cost launch are much more mature, giving XS-1 a greater chance at success.
In special reports, this week’s files cover: John Podesta says UFO Are Real Triangle, Fully Awake Abductees, Navy Future Ghost Ship, ISS UFO, Mars Face, and UFO Sighting Map.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, New York,Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Macedonian. Mexico, Spain,Turkey, and England in the United Kingdom.
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John Podesta says UFO Are Real
Washington (CNN)There has long been an air of conspiracy surrounding theories of alien life, and the head of Hillary Clinton’s campaign said Thursday,”It’s time to do away with the secrecy.
CNN’s Jake Tapper pulled aside Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who was a guest on “The Lead,” to talk aliens. “The U.S. government could do a much better job in answering the quite legitimate questions that people have about what’s going on with unidentified aerial phenomena,” Podesta said.
Podesta has made his interest in the possibility of alien life and conspiratorial leanings toward Area 51 well known. During his time serving in the Obama administration, Podesta tweeted,“Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstillouttherecc: @NYTimesDowd.”
Hillary and Bill Clinton pictured separately with Laurence Rockefeller at his ranch in August 1995
The buzz is noises from the camp of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton amid claims she will force “UFO disclosure” if she makes it to the White House. The disclosure movement seeks release of ALL top-secret and confidential files held by US authorities on anything to do with aliens and UFOs. Conspiracy theorists and UFO-logists claimed various governments have evidence of alien visitations which have been withheld from the public amid fears over potential impacts on religion, science and the rule of law.
Bill and Hillary have long intrigued the movement after making little publicized moves in the 1990s to bring about disclosure after meeting with Laurence Rockefeller. Things really heated up in January when Mrs Clinton said she wanted to open up on what is happening at the mysterious Area 51 military base in Nevada, where UFO conspiracists believe evidence of alien technology is hidden away.
Responding to questions about UFOs during an interview in New Hampshire, she said: “I am going to get to the bottom of it.” Thanks to Paradigm Research Group.
Fully Awake Abductees
Chris Hollywrites, I have been writing about a group of people I refer to as ‘Real Time Abductees’. By real time I am referring to lost time abduction cases that take place when the people being abducted are fully awake. The real time abductions take place while they are going about their daily life when without permission they are taken against their will. I do not interview or write about abductions that take place in a sleep state or while in a trance or encounters that involve telepathic communications. My main interest concerns the real time abduction cases. The abductee I will be writing about in this article is a woman I call the angry abductee as she is the one who has shown the most furry and raw anger at her predicament. The other abductees are also frustrated and full of rage however this woman is the most vocal and open about her anger. This abductee is now in her late 50’s. She is a typical woman of her age with a family and life similar to many women of her generation. To meet this woman you would not notice anything different about her- not at first glance. She appears normal in most every way. She has learned how to blend in to a crowd. She has long blond curly hair that never seems to find a comb , loves her jeans and tee shirts and walks around lost in her own daily routine like everyone else. She is thin and athletic who loves riding horses and swimming all of which keeps her in good shape. You may notice that in public no matter how hot it may be she will be wearing jeans or long pants . If the heat is extreme you will find her in gauze pants or long flowing sundresses but never shorts. Only those close to her have seen her as she exists. Shorts and swimsuits are reserved for the privacy of her home only. The reason for her choice of fashion is due to the abnormal skin condition on her legs from the knee down. She is careful of the sun as well as she can only tolerate it for about 20 minutes. Like the other abductees’ she suffers from the sunlight and is blinded by it. She cannot be outside without dark sunglasses. She has tinted windows in her vehicles and lives on a heavily shaded property.This woman has learned to adapt her life to fit her conditions. Her house and pool is securely hidden from her neighbors. . She manages to live a normal life despite her special needs. She is surrounded by family and friends and does not live alone. She keeps to herself living her life with her family and a selected handful of friends. She is friendly and happy and hides her secrets well.
This woman has endured strange events since she was three years old. She has diluted memories from her childhood but can recall being returned down from a long funnel of neon green light as early as age three. She has had lost time events all of her life . She remembers little of her childhood events other than strange rays of light or suddenly feeling light headed with little recall of what took place until she would find hours had passed and she was late to dinner without a reason why or a explanation of where she had been. She recalls often feeling confused on what took place during her day as a child. Her family considered the events a willful child who simply did not want to stop what she was doing and would often return home late for dinner. When she could not explain cuts and bruises on her body she would be punished for not telling the truth about where she had been. She had a difficult childhood. She remembers complaining about dreadful pains in her legs as a child. The pain would be so severe she would lay on the floor and cry. Her parents gave her an aspirin and a hot bath and thought little of it. Her encounters changed at age 12 when she and a group of teens had a clear sighting of a UFO that flew over the town where she lived on Long Island. The year was 1969 and the UFO sighting was seen by others as well as the group of teens who lived in her town. This sighting was also a abduction case as the group of teens who reported the event had a time loss of three hours that they could not explain. This woman continued having strange encounters with odd bright colored orbs and strange lost time events her entire life.
The events continued until her late 40’s. At that point she became determined to stop the events and went about changing her life style making it difficult for her to be taken by her abductors. She demanded that her abductors leave her alone. She would become loud and act wild and absolutely insane if she sensed an event was about to begin , She would scream and throw things to draw as much attention to her as possible. She found this crazed behavior seemed to stop or startle her abductors which would give her time to escape. She recalls one event in the late 80’s where she was alone in a wooded area. She was on her way to join a group of friends for an outside party located on a friends farm land and needed to cross a open field to the picnic area where they were waiting for her. As she headed across the open land towards the picnic area. Suddenly she could feel the strange dizzy sensation coming over her that she knew well and became furious. She threw her belongings on the ground and started to scream out to the field and woods around her. “Enough, enough – You cannot take me, I do not want to be hurt – you have no right to take me, no more- no more.” She became angry and kept yelling in a rage “no no no “.She threw her fists in to the air cursing and screaming in a wild outburst. To her amazement her rage seemed to stop this abduction. It was the last time she had a lost time abduction experience attempt – however not the last of other strange events that continue in her life. This woman has spent her life trying to avoid alien kidnapping. The strangeness has not stopped only changed as she finds strange objects placed in her pocket book, home, car and yard. She and or family member come across odd objects that do not belong to anyone in the home they quickly remove them, destroy or bury them. Once they offered an object to the authorities to investigate and were treated with insult so they simply bury most items far away where they can do no harm or be handled by anyone. They fear at times they may have more than one paranormal problem at hand involving the unknown. This abductee shares the ability to absorb knowledge quickly and has a large appetite for learning.
She also suffers from numerous health problems that cannot be explained. She too has surgery scarring and has been told she has damage to her internal organs yet has never had an operation. She too has exhibited the body of a woman who has had numerous pregnancies yet only has had one child. She has had an eye color change from a gray to a very vivid bright blue as well as other odd physical oddities she is not able to explain. Like the other abductees all attempts she and her family have made for help or understanding in the medical community have failed leaving her to deal with her problems on her own. Most of the encounters she has endured have all started with her remembering when they begin, and when they end with little recall of the lost time in-between. As far as what took place during her time being taken she has only limited flashes of recall. She does know she is given insight or messages during her lost time events. She tries to understand what it is that she needs to do with the information. She has found little interest from the public including those in the paranormal community. Although she has limited memory of her abductions she knows that those taking her had a human form but seemed to be wrapped in very tight skin like protective suits that were a white blue gray in color. She knows that they memory wiped her as she also has many events that occurred around the time of her abductions that were going on in her life wiped away as well.
After one particular lost time event she endured at age18 she seemed to have lost memory of most of her 15th year of life as well. She can clearly remember her life up until hitting the 15 year mark but there is a large gap of memory until the end of her 15th year. This has been a ongoing problem following most of her lost time events. This abductee feels very strongly about the direction that has been taken with the subjects concerning the UFO alien agenda. She is disgusted with the ‘free- for- all’ that surrounds the abduction issue and refuses to join in with those who combine the fantasy crowd of fools and frauds with those having real lost time encounters. She feels angry at the large number of people who spend their time making up ridiculous claims about events that may fill a lonely gap in their life while doing great harm to those who are enduring difficult kidnappings. Of all the abductee lost time event people I have talked to this woman is by far the most angry at society and the treatment she has endured due to ignorance. This woman thinks we are completely off base on most of our thinking about the alien UFO subject.
She wants the public to grasp what is real from the fantasy bringing a new light to this subject that is presently lost in darkness. She has hope one day those who have had to go it alone and suffer in silence will find compassion and help. This woman feels those who have taken her in the past and who have interfered in her life are alien however she believes they work hand in hand with some fraction of the human race. She feels her government betrayed her and has always known what was going on and why. I found this abductee to be strong and determined to continue to keep her abduction experiences at arms length . She is one of the lucky ones as she has a secure base of those who believe and help her. Be careful out there and always pay attention to your surroundings. NOTE: The above images are renderings. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website. THANKS TO PHANTOMSANDMONSTERS AND CHRIS HOLLY Website
Brazil Releases UFO Documents
The Brazilian Government has disclosed over 600 new pages of previously classified documents, covering UFO reports and military investigations from 1970 to 1979, including photos and films, for the first time.
The content of this material has now been examined and proved to be very interesting and revelatory of Brazilian official strategy to cover UFO cases, often openly regarded as “from external sources” in these new documents, meaning from outside Earth. The cases covered and the methods used to investigate them by the military are also very significant.
On my opinion, the most important material contained in this new declassification are 195 new pages of documents resulted from the Operation Saucer, conducted in the Amazon by the Brazilian Air Force from September to December 1977, that is certainly the biggest *known* official initiative to military investigate UFOs in the world. As I also reported, so far, over 1,400 pages of Brazilian previously classified UFO documents have been released thanks to the efforts of the Brazilian UFO Researchers Committee (CBU), through the campaign UFOs: Freedom of Information Now started in 2004 and articulated by the Brazilian UFO Magazine. This last one has been the biggest disclosure ever in Brazil.
The PDF files of 12 envelopes or folders now released can be can be downloaded at: Website. Please read below a summary of the contents of each envelope or folder and pay special attention to this one: Folder 10 – 1978, downloadable at PDF File, with 195 pages of Operation Saucer material. Brazilian UFO researchers are very excited about these new disclosures that in-questionably prove that our efforts have been profitable for the entire Brazilian UFO Community.
Noah Hughes writes, I know we don’t really communicate on Facebook but we are friends there and I go by the pseudonym William Cipher. I sent you a message but I don’t know if you received it and after reading one of your fabulous weekly newsletters I thought I should send this to you. I was watching a video of the Aurora Borealis taken by the ISS via Vimeo and saw something moving out in space. It’s only for a brief second but you can see it at the top of the center -left part of the screen at around 2:30. Tell me if you find this interesting. Considering the object is traveling away from the atmosphere and at high speeds it can’t be a meteor exhibiting entry. Anyway let me know what you think. Watch this great footage.Video
Mars Female Face
I found this face which has an elongated skull, much like the Egptian queen Nefertiti. The skull lower facial features has an open mouth, as if it was not carved, but was the actual face of an alien upon the moment of his/her death. The had has a small nose, big eye ridges, and the top of the skull area may be hair, or may be reptilian scales. What you are seeing is a person and the pain of death. This is the future? Weapons that turn your flesh into stone to create fear in future generations? The future looks bleak. Thanks to Scott C. Waring WebsiteImage
Message from the Attorney General of Michigan
While driving on a rural end of the roadway on Thursday morning, I saw an infant car seat on the side of the road with a blanket draped over it. For whatever reason, I did not stop, even though I had all kinds of thoughts running through my head. But when I got to my destination, I called the Canton PD and they were going to check it out. But, this is what the Police advised even before they went out there to check. “There are several things to be aware of… Gangs and thieves are now plotting different ways to get a person (mostly women) to stop their vehicle and get out of the car.
There is a gang initiation reported by the local Police Department where gangs are placing a car seat by the road…with a fake baby in it….waiting for a woman, of course, to stop and check on the abandoned baby.
Note that the location of this car seat is usually beside a wooded or grassy (field) area and the person – woman – will be dragged into the woods, beaten and raped, and usually left for dead. If it’s a man, they’re usually beaten and robbed and maybe left for dead, too.
Do not stop for any reason! dial 9-1-1 and report what you saw, but don’t even slow down. If you are driving at night and eggs are thrown at your windshield, do not stop to check your car, do not operate the wipers and do not spray any water because eggs mixed with water become milky, and block your vision up to 92.5%, and you are then forced to stop beside the road and become a victim of these criminals. This is a new technique used by gangs, so please inform your friends and relatives. These are desperate times and these are unsavory individuals who will take desperate measures to get what they want.”
Please talk to your loved ones about this. This is a new tactic being used. Please be safe.
WARNING # 3:
Some knew about the red light on cars, but didn’t know about Dialing 112.
It was about 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon, and Lauren was driving to visit a friend. An UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put his lights on. Lauren’s parents have always told her to never pull over for an unmarked car on the side of the road, but rather to wait until they get to a gas station, etc.
Lauren had actually listened to her parents advice, and promptly called 112 on her cell phone to tell the police dispatcher that she would not pull over right away. She proceeded to tell the dispatcher that there was an unmarked police car with a flashing red light on his rooftop behind her. The dispatcher checked to see if there were police cars where she was and there weren’t, and he told her to keep driving, remain calm and that he had back up already on the way.
Ten minutes later 4 cop cars surrounded her and the unmarked car behind her. One policeman went to her side and the others surrounded the car behind. They pulled the guy from the car and tackled him to the ground. The man was a convicted rapist and wanted for other crimes.
I never knew about the 112 Cell Phone feature. I tried it on my AT&T phone & it said, “Dialing Emergency Number.” Especially for a woman alone in a car, you should not pull over for an unmarked car. Apparently police have to respect your right to keep going on to a safe place. *Speaking to a service representative at Bell Mobility confirmed that 112 was a direct link to State trooper info. So, now it’s your turn to let your friends know about “Dialing 112”
This applies to ALL 50 states.
Metrocosm Map of UFO Sightings
UFO sightings UFO Sightings Map. This map is based on data from the National UFO Reporting Center. It includes over 90,000 reports of UFO sightings dating as far back as 1905,
Lacy’s book is full of recollections not only of his abductions by various aliens, but also of how those abductions have affected his life.
He tells them in such a straightforward, ordinary way, and with so many details, that it’s hard to be skeptical about his story. The details, too, are convincing enough to make anyone at least consider the possibility. After all, what other explanation could there be for a small child being healed of sarcoma after a doctor told his parents that they might as well have another child already as a replacement? What other explanation could there be for Byron’s numerous accounts of having “lost time,” or of his finding scratches and puncture wounds on his body, or of the memories that suddenly resurface about having been brought aboard an alien ship? These questions kept returning to my mind as I read, and I could think of no other answer except to believe that Lacy was telling the truth.
The one complaint I had about the book is the way Lacy presents his story. It does not go in chronological order, which can make it rather hard to follow, and I sometimes had trouble telling when a particular chapter took place. If you stick with it, though, you will find a compelling story that I would recommend to anyone who has had even the slightest question about whether we really are alone in the universe. SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW.
Scoop marks on Byron’s right leg
Byron W. Lacy has written an excellent book that should be read by everyone, because if you suspect you are an abductee this is the book you should read. Lacy, a civil servant, musician, artist, and poet was born in Texas. The young Byron was not expected to survive a childhood case of sarcoma cancer. Yet he did, miraculously. In 1961, he witnessed a flying submarine like thing at close range over his entire elementary school class as they exercised in the yard. Other uncanny events include repeated narrow escapes from deadly car accidents. Only in 2009, after seeing a couple of “stargates” materialize in the sky was Lacy convinced he had been alien plagued and abducted for a generation. His imaginary playmate “pirates” Byron saw, as a little boy were the enigmatic intruders. Byron believes he and fellow “abductees” endured many strange experiences: missing time, bodily implants and mysterious scarring, and “little gray” humanoids. For Byron, it is obvious; skeptics be damned, and countless folks are being abducted. A far-out, disconcertingly readable memoir that flatly declares everything about aliens you read online or see dramatized on TV is true. _Kirkus Reviews, ORDER HERE
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Filer’s Files #16 – 2016 UFOs Are Real - PART II
Filer’s Files #16 – 2016 UFOs Are Real - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Arizona Object
Phoenix— I was riding my mountain bike on Javelina Trail on South Mountain on April 2, 2016 about 7 pm. I noticed an object in the sky that was unusual enough to stop and take a picture and video. The object was solid, large vertical cylinder, with an angled, extended tube or pipe attached to the cylinder’s bottom. It was drifting east and descending slowly. I observed the object for 1 minute and then I continued down the trail to find a better view. I observed the object for another minute before losing sight of it below the horizon. I estimated its height to be between 30-50 feet. This flight path looked to be within 2 miles of Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. It looked like a deflated hot-air balloon, but it was moving too slow to be a crash-landing balloon. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Lights
Ventura — I was walking to my car this morning and noticed a cool pattern of jet trails in the sky. I stopped in the parking lot and quickly snapped 2 photos. It was very bright so I didn’t pay attention to the view on my phone screen. I returned home a few hours later and posted one of the photos on Instagram and titled it “X Marks The Spot”. Weird..because after the fact I noticed a white circle on the right side of the photo. I looked at the other photo and it was in that photo as well. I zoomed in and it looks very odd! I asked a photographer friend of mine if it could possibly be a reflection from the camera lense but she doesn’t think so. My daughter lives in Taft CA and awhile back she say a pattern of lights, similar to the pattern on the orb in my photo, bouncing across the sky at night. Multiple people around Taft witnessed the lights. I thought I would share this with you because I believe anything is possible. I am attaching the 2 photos side by side….the clearest photo…and the zoomed view. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Disc
Denver — Left my home traveling north on April 6, 2016 and saw this object through my windshield. I live halfway between the Denver airport and the downtown area, and regularly see planes. I saw the object, which was flying at a standard height for a plane leaving the airport. I was close enough to make out the detail of it. It looked like a large white cargo plane, but with no wings, tail, and had a round front. By the time I grabbed my phone to take a photo the light turned green and I had to drive on. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
Fleming Island – My stepson and I walked out of house on April 10, 2016 to our other house. He asked, “If I noticed the thing under the moon.” I had to focus my eye to the object and there it was.a small luminus speck at the 7 o’clock position under the moon. I thought it might be a satellite,.but this thing was holding its position. Most of the object wavered in color like atmosphere temperature variations causes stars to alter colors. At 9 PM, it is still holding its position. My wife also saw it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Light
New Llano– I came home from work on March 28, 2016, and the flashing light caught my attention.
I ran into my house and got my camera and shot images and video.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Sphere
Hyannis — I saw that the trail being left by a plane that looked like it was going into sun on April 7, 2016
I thought I would make an interesting /funny picture, so I took a few. I went to show them to my wife the next day and noticed the sphere in the pictures. No idea what it is, but it looks like it actually has lights on it. This took place at 5:15 pm while walking my dog. I never noticed the object while taking the pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Cylinder
Holland– I was taking photos near the airport and an orb seemed to cloak itself within the surrounding sunset on April 10, 2016. It hovered for a while and when we went under the overpass it was out of my field of view. The strange color is reason to believe it was trying to cloak itself. I was walking west and saw a massive object with two arches illuminated by the sunlight. I was already taking photos of other strange objects. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexico Light
Albuquerque– The ufo sighting had unbelievable speed with no sound. It changed form on November 16, 2015.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Object
New York City — My names “D” from the uk and I‘ve been taking photps with my girlfriend on April 3, 2016. I have just been looking back through my previous days photos and seen this object.
Don’t know what it is but looks freaky! In one of the pictures I’ve tryed to zoom in and put some filters on it to see if it shows anything different… but ive sent the original also. Thanks to MUFON CMS’
Oregon Orb
Roseburg– On April 2, 2016, the witness was outside walking her dog. She saw a bright object hovering over Roseburg Airport. The object was oblong shaped and then it appeared to be rectangular shaped. The object was reddish-orange with two dark circles at each end of the object. The object hovered, then moved northeast, southeast and then abruptly disappeared. The witness snapped one photo with her Samsung Galaxy III Cell phone. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Virginia Triangle
Fairfax— While driving the past elementary school athletic field I noticed a bright light in sky on April 7, 2016, that did not move. I parked the car and looked at a dark sky and saw a dark triangular object. Black on black sky with bright white light in the center. The light did not cast a beam. It is hard to determine its size or height of the object in sky. The narrow point of the triangle faced me as it hovered the entire time. I noticed small red and green flashing lights similar to an aircraft’s slowly blinking on and off at either side of the largest two points of triangle. I estimate the size of object to be about twice size of an automobile. I stood and watched it for about 5 minutes. I live in the D.C. metro area 20 miles from Dulles Int’l airport so see various size airplanes often. Never saw anything like this. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Cylinder
Pasco — These are images taken with my cell phone in my backyard in the Tri-Cities Washington area on March 27, 2016, at 3:30 AM. The images are actually taken of a still shot from a video that I have. You need to watch the little ones and in one of them it looks like it shoots a green triangle light plasma thing and I just really want to know what’s going on. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
Adelaide — I went outside for cigarette and checked out Jupiter on April 4, 2016, and to my surprise observed bright light similar to Jupiter only a bit brighter. It was to the left of and above Jupiter. It seemed to move very slowly before diminishing in brightness to nothing all in space of 4-5 seconds Very strange not a planet or ISS. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Warrawong — I was on my balcony having a cigarette with my housemates on April 10, 2016. My house mate had seen an owl in the tree south of our house earlier in the day and was looking to see if it was still there. He noticed something move behind the tree that looked extremely large and moving extremely fast. It was heading south with no lights and no sound. We all had goosebumps rush down our bodies in disbelief and in five seconds it just vanished. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Orb
Peterborough – I was traveling from Peterborough to Whotby, Ontario from job sight NB on Highway 7 I. On November 28, 2015,
I seen weird spiraling end trail in sky with no source or craft in sight. I took a photos from van. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland Strange Bright Craft
I spent two years investigating “chemtrails” using photography and video. I began to notice that some planes seemed uncharacteristically uniform in colour and light. I began investigating the photos of these unusually bright objects. I have many more photos but do not really have time to investigate it further. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Israel Plasma water
Côtes of Israel’s – A large Plasma trace 450 feet long was observed via Google Earth under water. Nearby was a Boeing 737-400 flying above at 32°7’41.48 “N, 34A 46’11.10” E.
I discovered more objects this day but this one was especially interesting under the water, To this day, I watched three times UFOs but I did not have enough accurate information on details such as dates and times, I have about twenty UFO observations with trace plasma traced. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Macedonian Lights
Skopje — I was on my desk and Ii just looked outside the window. 2. I noticed the objects floating above. It can’t be happening, ALIENS. 3. At second thought I was skeptic, maybe it was fireworks, but they stayed there. 4. My hands were shaking, I couldn’t believe my eyes and started filming as they disappeared. 5. I was scared but excited because i’ve witnessed something remarkable. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Webcams Spot Cylinder
Popocatepetl near to Mexico City –The startling video was captured by the Webcams De Mexico, which tweeted from its official account: “This is what could be seen at the staggering video, a flying saucer-esque spacecraft can been seen whizzing past the active volcano of Popocatepetl in Mexico.”
UFO enthusiasts have claimed that it may be some kind of omen after the 5,426 metre tall volcano, which is situated just 70 kilometres from Mexico City, became active just last week. Internet users chipped in with their two cents, with Abraham Vazkez Gomez saying: “I don’t think it’s a plane because the airport is 30 km from the volcano of Popocatepetl towards the northeast and when a commercial plane flies around volcanoes, they set a 7 or 8,000-meter altitude.”
No one has stumped up with an explanation as to why a plane, which would have to be unusually sharp and narrow, would be flying so close to a volcano while it is spewing lava and ash.
Spain Discs
LAS AMERICAS / TENERIFE — I saw this 2 object in the clear sly at 5-5;30 pm from my house. One of these object was like a sheap and the other was like a ball and they are moving in the sky sometimes very fast and sometimes very slowly for this reason I did the pics about them. I saw them along 15-20 minutes very clearly. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Turkey Flying Object
Antalya— We were at the hotel in Kemer on April 3, 2016, sitting and talking with the family when we saw a shiny object with strange movement. We thought it was a helium filled metallic balloon. It moved North first and then came back and hovered above the sea. I was suprised and took 5 shots with my Canon 450d with zoom lens. When you look at the pictures it was like a door opened. It had a UFO shape and vanished. I said vanished because when I try to take the 6th photo I could not find it anymore. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Light
Manchester— Looking out of my bedroom window on April 6, 2016, I noticed two strobe like lights swirling around the sky … Then a bright light appeared between the two.. This light started traveling upwards and grew brighter… It went behind a cloud then it was as if there was an explosion and puff of smoke came from the bottom and formed a smoke like circle… The light then veered to the side and grew brighter and started traveling upwards again … This then disappeared and so did the two strobes
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There has been much talk nowadays about inter-dimensional worlds, especially what with the Large Hadron Collider in CERN officially being fired back up recently to go hunting for them. Whilst we are all considering where the Aliens could be coming from and IF other dimensions are actually a fact rather than Fiction, along comes this VERY important piece of evidence courtesy of the F.B.I!
And this is a very true story people, the FBI admitted that we have been visited by“beings from other dimensions” and the official link from the FBI vault can be foundhere
To be fair it is very surprising that the FBI have shown such a vast amount of interest in the whole study of the UFO phenomena?! But is it really that surprising when people have been reporting UFO sightings pretty much since the beginning of time, no not really!
I guess it could even be possible that there are a lot of science fiction movies that are actually based on real events, or as some may even call them “leaks” to the general public, given by the government in order to deliberately raise awareness among the population? Subconsciously planting that seed into all of our brains that the Aliens truly are with us!
Back in 2011 after there were some important documents which had been “declassified” a report written by a special agent of the FBI in 1947 reached the public.
This particular FBI special agent, who was a lieutenant colonel whose identity has remained anonymous because of “national security” had gathered numerous amounts of data on the UFO phenomena after interviewing and studying the phenomena for many years.
According to some of these exciting yet slightly bizarre unexpected reports and“Declassified” documents, we have been visited by numerous extra-terrestrial beings, some of whom, are not only from other planets beyond our own, but also from other dimensions.
Apparently some of these Alien beings originate from an ‘ethereal plane coexistent’ within our physical universe. These incredible “entities”, that apparently can “materialize” on our very own planet appeared as huge ‘translucent figures’.
Please see below a transcript of some of the most important details of the report that you all need to know about:
1. Part of the disks carry crews, others are under remote control
2. Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane
3. These visitors are human-like but much larger in size
4. They are not excarnate Earth people, but come from their own world
5. They do NOT come from a planet as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us
6. The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter
7. The disks posses a type of radiant energy or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace
8. The region from which they come is not the “astral plane”, but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoteric matters will understand these terms.
9. They probably can not be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar. if a signal system can be devised for that (apparatus)
Addendum: The Lokas are oval shape, fluted length oval with a heat-resistaning metal or alloy not yet known the front cage contains the controls, the middle portion a laboratory; the rear contains armament, which consists essentially of a powerful energy apparatus, perhaps a ray.
Black holes are one of the strangest objects in the universe, preventing anything from escaping their grip – even light.
Now astronomers have discovered something even more peculiar about these enigmatic objects; they are aligned with each other over distances stretching billions of light-years
The remarkable observations were made by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, which found an eerie alignment between enormous interstellar objects called quasars.
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A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years. An artist's impression of the alignment is pictured
Quasars are galaxies with very active supermassive black holes at their centres. They shine more brightly than all the stars in the rest of their host galaxies put together.
A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over vast distances.
These black holes are surrounded by spinning discs of extremely hot material that is often spewed out in long jets along their axes of rotation.
A team led by Damien Hutsemékers from the University of Liège in Belgium used the Fors instrument on the VLT to study 93 quasars that were known to form huge groupings spread over billions of light-years, seen at a time when the universe was about one third of its current age.
When astronomers look at the distribution of galaxies on scales of billions of light-years they find that they are not evenly distributed. This detailed simulation of large scale structure was created as part of the Illustris simulation. The distribution of dark matter is shown in blue and the gas distribution in orange
VIDEO: Scientists find that supermassive black holes are ALIGNED ( see link )
'The first odd thing we noticed was that some of the quasars' rotation axes were aligned with each other — despite the fact that these quasars are separated by billions of light-years,' said Professor Hutsemékers.
The team then went further and looked to see if the rotation axes were linked, not just to each other, but also to the structure of the universe on large scales at that time.
ENERGETIC PARTICLES SPEWING FROM BLACK HOLE IN MILKY WAY
The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be producing mysterious particles called neutrinos, researchers believe.
If confirmed, this would be the first time that scientists have traced neutrinos back to a black hole.
Researchers say the find could help explain how cosmic rays are produced, and solve a key mystery about how the universe operates.
The evidence came from three Nasa satellites that observe in X-ray light: the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Swift gamma-ray mission, and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).
'Figuring out where high-energy neutrinos come from is one of the biggest problems in astrophysics today,' said Yang Bai of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who co-authored a study about these results published in Physical Review D.
'We now have the first evidence that an astronomical source – the Milky Way's supermassive black hole – may be producing these very energetic neutrinos.'
When astronomers look at the distribution of galaxies on scales of billions of light-years they find that they are not evenly distributed.
They form a cosmic web of filaments and clumps around huge voids where galaxies are scarce. This intriguing and beautiful arrangement of material is known as large-scale structure.
The new VLT results indicate that the rotation axes of the quasars tend to be parallel to the large-scale structures in which they find themselves.
So, if the quasars are in a long filament then the spins of the central black holes will point along the filament.
The researchers estimate that the probability that these alignments are simply the result of chance is less than one per cent.
'A correlation between the orientation of quasars and the structure they belong to is an important prediction of numerical models of evolution of our universe,' said Dominique Sluse, a researcher at the University of Liège.
'Our data provide the first observational confirmation of this effect, on scales much larger that what had been observed to date for normal galaxies.'
'The alignments in the new data, on scales even bigger than current predictions from simulations, may be a hint that there is a missing ingredient in our current models of the cosmos,' added Professor Dominique Sluse.
These black holes are surrounded by spinning discs of extremely hot material that is often spewed out in long jets along their axes of rotation (artist's impression pictured)
Researchers Discover “Bizarre” Black Holes That Are All Aligned
Researchers Discover “Bizarre” Black Holes That Are All Aligned
IN BRIEF
Researchers in South Africa have discovered a region of the distant universe where supermassive black holes are all spinning out radio jets in the same direction, which could allow us to better understand the birth, and future of, our universe.
AN UNLIKELY ALIGNMENT
Researchers in South Africa have discovered something “bizarre” in our galaxy: A region of the distant universe where supermassive black holes are all spinning out radio jets in the same direction. Most likely, this is the result of primordial mass fluctuations in the early universe.
That said, this is the first time an alignment of the jets of galaxies over a large volume of space has been seen.
Caption: An image of the deep radio map covering the ELAIS-N1 region, with aligned galaxy jets. The image on the left has white circles around the aligned galaxies; the image on the right is without the circles. Credit: Prof. Russ Taylor
The discovery was made possible by a three-year, deep radio imaging survey of the radio waves coming from a region called ELAIS-N1 using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT).
The jets are produced by the supermassive black holes at the centres of these galaxies, and the only way for this alignment to exist is if supermassive black holes are all spinning in the same direction, says Prof Andrew Russ Taylor, joint UWC/UCT SKA Chair, and principal author of the study.
“Since these black holes don’t know about each other, or have any way of exchanging information or influencing each other directly over such vast scales, this spin alignment must have occurred during the formation of the galaxies in the early universe.”
COSMIC DISTURBANCES
This type of alignment has never been predicted by theories – and an unknown phenomenon like this presents a challenge: How exactly does this discovery fit into our early theories of the universe?
“We’re beginning to understand how the large-scale structure of the universe came about, starting from the Big Bang and growing as a result of disturbances in the early universe, to what we have today,” says Prof Taylor, “and that helps us explore what the universe of tomorrow will be like.”
UFO Ohio? Black ‘flying saucer’ captured in eerie footage (VIDEO)
UFO Ohio? Black ‘flying saucer’ captured in eerie footage (VIDEO)
A UFO, resembling a black “flying saucer” was caught on camera in a spooky video, taken while a father and daughter traveled on an Ohio highway.
The pair were traveling near Chillicothe, Ohio, when the mysterious object appeared, unbeknown to them.
It was only later when the daughter, who was recording aimlessly, looked through her phone’s videos and spotted the strange object in the right corner of the video, flying above the trees.
She showed it to her father, who sent it to Secureteam10, a group that specializes in 'UFO' sightings and conspiracy theories.
The group posted the video to their YouTube page and analyzed what the possible spacecraft could be, noting “odd pins sticking out of it” and its state of hovering just above the treeline.
They ruled out the possibility that the “saucer” could be a drone due to its large size.
YouTube commenters had somewhat different views and many were quick to dismiss the object as an indication of alien life form.
“Doesn't anyone other than myself see that this is a reflection on the windshield?” one user wrote.
Another left a simple explanation, saying, “raindrop, it's a cloudy day.”
The Earth as we know it is made of two planets — and was formed by a "violent, head-on collision," new research reveals.
The collision between Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia formed the moon roughly 4.5 billion years ago, according to a report issued by UCLA geochemists.
Scientists had previously believed that the collision came at an angle of 45 degrees or higher. But the collision was actually more direct, according to the research, which was published in the journal Science.
The scientists studied the oxygen isotopes on Earth and the moon, and found that they were indistinguishable, sharing chemical signatures.
If Earth and Theia collided in a glancing blow, according to the researchers, the Earth and moon would have different oxygen isotopes, with a majority of the moon made from Theia.
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The collision between Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia formed the moon roughly 4.5 billion years ago, scientists say.
"Theia was thoroughly mixed into both the Earth and the moon, and evenly dispersed between them," Edward Young, lead author of the new study and a UCLA professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry, said in a statement. "This explains why we don't see a different signature of Theia in the moon versus the Earth."
Theia — which scientists believe was similar in size to Mars or the Earth — did not survive the collision, but its impact lives on with Earth and the moon.
(CNN)It's enough to make Mulder and Scully seethe with envy.
Nearly 130,000 pages of declassified Air Force files on UFO investigations and sightings are now available in one place online.
Declassified government records about UFOs have long existed on microfilm in the National Archives in Washington, DC. Many of them also live on websites devoted to the topic, sometimes free, sometimes not.
But UFO enthusiast John Greenewald says his database, Project Blue Book Collection, is the first to compile every single declassified document from the Blue Book project -- headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio from 1947 to 1969 -- in one place for anyone to search or download for free.
The collection consists of files from Project Blue Book, Project Sign and Project Grudge, the names given to official investigations into unidentified flying objects by the United States military.
Greenewald's efforts are not motivated by a close encounter or personal experience with unidentified flying objects. He says he's just driven by curiosity.
"I'm a history buff. I think this stuff should be accessible," he said. "Secrets are not bad things; I think we should know about this and it should be in history books."
Greenewald started requesting information related to Project Blue Book through the Freedom of Information Act 15 years ago. His interest was piqued by the first case he received information on about a 1970 UFO incident in Iran, after Project Blue Book ended.
"It defied explanation," he said, "and 5,000 FOIAs later my curiosity hasn't gone away."
Still, Greenewald believes the contents are "just the tip of the iceberg."
"It's all a puzzle," he said. "Just when you think you've got all the pieces to make a picture, you realize it's only a piece of a bigger puzzle."
The Blue Book project was discontinued after a joint review concluded that no significant information had come from it, according to declassified documents on the National Archives website.
Specifically, the review said no UFO "reported, investigated and evaluated" ever gave "any indication of threat to our national security." Nor did the investigations suggest that the sightings "represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge," a 1985 Wright-Patterson fact sheet said.
"Since Project BLUE BOOK was closed, nothing has happened to indicate that the Air Force ought to resume investigating UFOs."
Greenewald is not so sure -- especially not after viewing all the documents, which are full of blacked-out material.
If the U.S. military can't identify some unidentified flying objects, then who can, he wonders? And what are they?
"The biggest takeaway for me is don't believe the company line," he said. "I think something big is going on. How big, I don't think anyone will know for quite some time because government continues to make the rules.
"It's a hard game to when they make the rules and they're the referee."
An artist’s rendering illustrates what a hypersonic missile could look like as it travels along the edge of Earth's atmosphere.Raytheon
The US has reportedly created a new missile as part of the Pentagon's development of hypersonic technology. But the US military has insisted that the weapons will carry conventional missiles rather than nuclear ones, as the arms race with China and Russia grows more intense.
The new missiles – according to information released on 13 April – will reportedly fly at five times the speed of sound (3,800mph) and make them virtually impossible to detect using radar. Researchers are still working on manoeuvre techniques and developing ways of being able to fully control the weapons.
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (Darpa) has spent over $34m (£48m) on hypersonic aircraft and weapon projects. Hypersonic aircraft would be able to fly at between five to 10 times the speed of sound.
New nuclear fears
In an article titled The Problem With The Pentagon's Hypersonic Missile, published by Defense One, three hypersonic projects – including the Lockheed Martin Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 program, the Raytheon Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC), and the Raytheon/Lockheed Tactical Boost Glide – are being examined over whether they would remain conventional weapons, or whether they would spurn the other military superpowers, China and Russia, into developing more nuclear weapons.
The concerns are that hypersonic missiles will allow the US to launch nuclear weapons that could strike targets at longer ranges, in less time than conventional ballistic missiles require, and move so fast current missile defence systems and fighter jets could not intercept them.
Reports suggest that the new generation of missiles can switch between two modes: scramjet –which uses air flowing at supersonic speeds through its engine to further accelerate the missile – and a "boost glide" system – this would extend the range of missiles by making them 'skip' across the Earth's upper atmosphere.
The Pentagon says that the new Hypersonic missile technology would be used in conventional weapons only, but the technology's capabilities are making other nations 'nervous'. (Reuters)
"Hypersonic weapons can be more survivable because of the extreme speed and high altitude. They would be hard to stop,' said JR Smith, director of Raytheon's Advanced Land Warfare Systems.
"At this point, our hypersonics program is really a technology development program, purely focused on 'conventional' payloads, said Stephen Welby, assistant defense secretary for research and engineering at The Pentagon. "There's nothing in the budget related to modelling, researching, or exploring nuclear-armed hypersonics.
"It's 2020 for the missile, 2030…. until you get into something that's refurbishable and probably 2040 until you get into something that's a totally reusable type of capability."
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Akhenaten: The Last Alien Pharaoh Of Ancient Egypt
Akhenaten: The Last Alien Pharaoh Of Ancient Egypt
Ancient texts describe a time in the history of ancient Egypt known as the Predynastic era, where ‘Gods’ ruled for hundreds of years over Ancient Egypt, Akhenaten could easily have been an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh that belonged to that period, only out of place and time. Some Ancient Alien theorists interpret his elongated skull as a sign of extraterrestrial heritage.
Ancient Egypt has one of the most incredible histories on the surface of the planet. Not only are the amazing architectural achievements of the ancient Egyptians noteworthy, but their incredible knowledge in different sciences is also an impressive detail shared by only a few other ancient civilizations around the globe.
However, the Pyramids of the Giza Plateau and the great majestic Sphinx are not the on only mysteries surrounding the ancient Egyptian Civilization, their rulers belong to the list of the most enigmatic details of the ancient Egyptian Civilization, and one Ancient Egyptian Pharoah stands out from the rest: Akhenaten.
Akhenaten, who was known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years. He was the father of Tutankhamun, one of the most famous Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. Many consider Akhenaten as one of the worlds’ greatest and most influential religious innovators. Many consider him as the first monotheist in all of history, a precursor to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Muhammad as prophets who worshiped one God.
However, before Akhenaten, many strange Pharaohs ruled over Ancient Egypt.
One of the most important ancient texts that can tell us more about this time in history is the Papyrus of Turin, which lists all the Pharaohs who ruled over Ancient Egypt.
Not only does this list include all of the ‘official’ historic Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, but it also includes the deities or “Gods” who came from above and reigned over the lands of Egypt before the first mortal Pharaoh of Egypt with a lineage that spreads over 13,000 years. It is a great enigma why mainstream scholars consider this ancient text as pure myth and why most details of the ancient text have been overlooked and omitted from the history books.
“They seem to have no ancestors or periods of development; they seem to have appeared overnight.” – English Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson
The Palermo Stele is another ancient text which mentions the mystery rulers of pre-dynastic Egypt.
Ancient Alien Pharaohs?
This ancient Stele even makes reference to Egyptian God Horus, suggesting that he was a physical ruler of the Ancient Egypt thousands of years ago. Another Egyptian God, Thoth is said to have reigned over the lands of Ancient Egypt from 8670 to 7100 BC. Interestingly, Egyptian High Pries Manetho, who had access to unlimited ancient texts from the Ancient Library of Alexandria, and who wrote for the Pharaoh the history of Ancient Egypt in 30 volumes makes reference to the divine beings that ruled during Pre-Pharaonic Egypt. (source)
According to Egyptian Mythology Akhenaten descended from the gods who arrived on Earth at the time of Zep Tepi and until today, people still believe that this Pharaoh did, in fact, come from the Stars. According to the “Pyramid Texts”, there was a period that emerged from the primordial chaos and the way gods ruled the earth. This time is called “Zep Tepi.”
Many researchers believe that the ancient Egyptian civilization originated in the year 36.900 BC, when ‘Gods,’ who came from the heavens ruled over the land of the Pharaohs. Akhenaten was believed to have bene one of them.
Akhenaten, considered by many as a heretic Pharaoh, was the ruler responsible for taking ancient Egypt towards an entirely different religious lifestyle, trying to reconstruct religion departing from traditional ancient Egyptian polytheism.
“There is only one God, my father. I can approach him by day, by night.” – Akhenaten
Akhenaten, upon becoming Pharaoh ordered all the iconography of previous gods to be removed. He only allowed one emblem, which was a sun symbol, literally a sun disk with curious arms or rays pointing down.
The Aten, or commonly referred to as the ‘Sun Disk’ was illustrated in ancient texts, as a deity, and in The Story of Sinuhe from the 12th dynasty, a deceased king is described as rising as God to the heavens and uniting with the sun-disk, the divine body merging with its maker.
By analogy, the term “silver Aten” was sometimes used to refer to the moon. The solar Aten was extensively worshiped as a god in the reign of Amenhotep III when it was depicted as a falcon-headed man much like Ra
However, Akhenaten was far more mysterious, and his strange looking body has fueled theories suggesting he may not have been an ordinary pharaoh but in fact a mysterious leader who arrived fro the heaven.
The Last Alien Pharaoh?
While Akhenaten is well-known because of the mysterious shape of his head, the list of characteristics is lengthy: an elongated skull, long neck, sunken eyes, thick thighs, long fingers, backward-turned knee joints, a prominent belly that suggests pregnancy and female-like breasts.
The first thing that is strange is his elongated skull, and in all of the statues and depictions of him, we see this elongated skull. In general, his body was sort of like a feminine and masculine mixture. This was, in fact, strange since all other Pharaohs were depicted as strong, imposing figures. Akhenaten however, was not depicted like that, but as a weak, strange looking being with an extremely elongated head.
Why would Akhenaten order the changes he did in the royal iconography to show him as this “weak” Pharaoh? Mysteriously, Akhenaten’s wife Nefertiti was also depicted having an elongated skull. Did they have some genetic anomaly that caused their heads– and body is in general to be misshaped and disproportional? Alternatively, is there something more to this strange Pharaoh and his origins? Is it possible that he was a hybrid human being? With genes and DNA from Extraterrestrials?
A119: The US secret project to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
A119: The US secret project to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
Why would the US ‘nuke’ the moon?
Called “Project A119“, it was one of the most secret projects whose existence has long been denied until recently when declassified documents about the project were released to the public.
The Project referred to as A119, also known as “A Study of Lunar Research Flights,” was a highly secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force with the intention of detonating a nuclear bomb on the lunar surface. It is presumed that the purpose of this study was to demonstrate the superiority of the United States in relation to the Soviet Union and the rest of the world during the Cold War while scientifically speaking, it was meant to answer numerous questions in planetary astronomy and astrogeology.
Full details of the study were presented by Dr. Leonard Reiffel, who led the project in 1958 from a research foundation financed by the United States Army. Carl Sagan joined the research team responsible for the investigation of theoretical effects of a nuclear explosion in low gravity. Sagan revealed his participation in the plan in 1959.
“Project A119” was never carried out, probably because the landing the first man on the moon would contain a better reception from the US population, than detonating a nuke on the moon, which would have kickstarted a space militarization Era. However, another crucial detail was mentioned by project leader Leonard Reiffel when he warned that of detonating such a device on the lunar surface would create a lunar nuclear fallout, which eventually could cause major problems in future lunar research projects and colonization.
The documents proving the existence of “Project A119” remained hidden from the public for about forty-five years. Moreover, despite the disclosure of the files in the early 2000s, the US government has never officially acknowledged its involvement in the investigation. A former executive at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Leonard Reiffel who led “Project A119” in 1958 revealed the existence of documents proving it was more than just conspiracy theorists at work.
During initial planning for the mission, researchers considered using a hydrogen bomb in the first place. However, the United States Air Force vetoed this idea since a Hydrogen Bomb would have been extremely heavy making it hard to transport to the moon. Instead, scientists decided to utilize a W25 Warhead, which is a smaller, lightweight warhead with a relatively low 1.7 kiloton yield.
The Soviet counterpart
According to later reports by the time the US had developed the plan to nuke the lunar surface, the Soviets had developed a similar project which differed from the scenario reported by media. Started in January 1958, it was part of a series of proposals under the codename “E”. Project E-1 entailed plans to reach the Moon while projects E-2 and E-3 involved sending a probe around the far side of the Moon to take a series of photographs of its surface.
LCROSS, NASA and bombing the moon
While the _United States Airforce might have put a hold on “Project A119“, NASA did bomb the surface of the moon for alleged ‘Scientific’ purposes.
Despite the fact that it is strictly prohibited, NASA released a ‘Centaur’ kinetic weapon which ultimately impacted the moon.
‘Officially,’ the main LCROSS mission objective was to explore the presence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. The mission was launched together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on June 18, 2009, as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years.
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The Mystery of the GIANT Swastika near Roswell, New Mexico
The Mystery of the GIANT Swastika near Roswell, New Mexico
Did you know there is a mysterious Swastika symbol located not far from Roswell, New Mexico? In the middle of nowhere, surrounded by different symbols and geometric structures, the controversial Swastika was discovered thanks to Satellite images of the region. But, what on Earth is a giant Swastika doing in the middle of the United States?
The enigmatic symbol has caused quite a debate ever since people saw the mysterious symbol while going through Google Earth, and seeing in the middle of nowhere, not far from Roswell the controversial Swastika.
But who put it there? And how old is it?
Many people have claimed that the enigmatic symbol found near Roswell is the result of Nazi occultism and even Alien worship, due to its proximity to Roswell, where one of the most famous UFO sightings in history occurred.
While many firmly believe the Swastika found near Roswell is in fact the product of Nazi Occultism, it is not. In fact, the original Swastika symbol has nothing to do with the Nazi’s at all.
The Swastika also referred to as the gammadion, is one of the oldest and most widespread symbols on planet Earth. And if you thought it is a symbol that represents evil and death, you are very very wrong. To make it short and clear, the Swastika symbol stands for peace and prosperity and is a very positive symbol.
As we know it today, Swastika is actually a Sanskrit word which means “that which is good” or “all is well” but some translate it to”lucky or auspicious object”, whatever the translation it is a very positive symbol. In Hinduism, it is a very sacred symbol deeply connected with luck and prosperity, and yes, there is a lot to be learned about this ancient symbol which has been misinterpreted since 1900’s. To help understand it, here we have Forty Facts About the Swastika.
While a variation of the Swastika was adopted by the Nazi’s it is still used as a sacred religious symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism, even though many people today are completely unaware of the true origin and meaning of the symbol.
But one of the most important reasons why the Swastika near Roswell was not the product of Nazi Occultism is because, for centuries, Native Americans in New Mexico and other parts of the country used the ancient symbol, predating the Nazi movement by centuries. To the ancient Hopi of North America, the Swastika represents the wandering Hopi clan. To the Navajo clan, the Swastika symbol represents the whirling log; which is a sacred image that represents a legend used in healing rituals
In fact, in other parts of the world, the Swastika has been found to predate many other more popular symbols.
Recent research has shown that the earliest known object with swastika motifs is a bird from the tusk of a mammoth from the paleolithic settlement of Mezine,Ukraine which dates back between 10,000 and 12,000 BCE.
The Swastika was in fact used by the United States military, which brings us to the most likely origin of the Swastika near Roswell.
During World War I, the Swastika symbol was used on the shoulder patches of the American 45th Division.
The most plausible theory explaining the enigmatic Swastika symbol near Roswell is that the ‘Roswell Glyphs’ were in fact created in connection with World War II precision Bombing Practice, used by Pilots from the Roswell Army Air Force Base for target practice. According to reports from locals, there are as many as 17 swastika-like symbols (or better said reverse Swastika’s) spreading across the region of New Mexico. Locals say that the enigmatic symbols are in fact well documented by the air force and the USGS.
It is known that the Army also utilized targets shaped like circles, triangles, ships, docks, and oil tanks.
This is why we believe that the Roswell Swastika isn’t the product of Aliens or Nazi worship, but was used by Pilots during World War II as target practice.
However, this theory isn’t widely accepted by everyone, as there are many people who believe that the enigmatic symbols spread across the land of New Mexico, date back hundreds of years.
What do you think this enigmatic symbol is doing near Roswell?
To check out the symbol for yourself, here are the coordinates to locate the Swastika in Google Maps/Earth:33°12’22.6″N 103°35’05.3″W
WETENSCHAPWetenschappers hebben met behulp van satellietbeelden het mysterie van een reeks eeuwenoude unieke structuren in het zuiden van Peru ontrafeld. De diepe spiraalvormige gaten in de Nazcawoestijn, vlakbij de beroemde Nazcalijnen, zouden deel uitmaken van een ingenieus watervoorzieningssysteem. Dat maakte de BBC bekend.
Het gebied is vooral bekend voor de Nazcalijnen, gigantische figuren van mensen, dieren en planten die werden aangebracht in de woestijn. Maar de lijnen zijn niet het enige bewijs van de Nazcabeschaving, die er van 200 voor tot 600 na Christus leefde.
Het gebied herbergt ook een reeks spiraalvormige, met stenen afgeboorde gaten, gekend als 'puquios'. Al lang werd aangenomen dat het ondergrondse aquaducten zijn, maar verder was er weinig over geweten.
Ingenieus systeem
Een team van Italiaanse onderzoekers denkt nu de antwoorden gevonden te hebben op basis van satellietbeelden. De 'puquios' zouden deel uitmaken van een ingenieus systeem om grondwater naar boven te halen. Onder de gaten bevonden zich kanalen. Via de spiraalvormen werd er wind in die kanalen gevoerd waardoor het ondergrondse water afgevoerd werd naar de plek waar het nodig was.
"De 'puquios' waren het meest ambitieuze hydraulische project in het gebied", zegt onderzoeker Rosa Lasaponara aan de BBC. "Door de toegang tot een onuitputtelijke watervoorraad maakte het systeem het mogelijk landbouw te bedrijven op een van de droogste plaatsen ter wereld."
Ook de Nazcalijnen, enorm populair bij toeristen, hebben volgens de onderzoekers vermoedelijk te maken met de aanwezigheid van water. Eenrecente theorie stelt inderdaad dat de lijnen samen een kaart vormen die de locaties van de 'puquios' aanwijst.
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Netherlands UFO witness recounts military encounter
Netherlands UFO witness recounts military encounter
A Netherlands witness at Soesterberg recalled a UFO encounter in the military from 1991 that left him traumatized, according to testimony in Case 74907 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was outside walking during a night shift watch at a military base near Soesterberg, Netherlands, about 3 a.m. on February 17, 1991, when the incident occurred.
Witness illustration of the object seen on February 17, 1991. (Credit: MUFON)
“Along with another cadet I came at the central parking lot at 3 a.m. and saw a big circle in the sky straight on top off us,” the witness stated.“It had no shape, but only bright lights slowly rotating anti-clockwise and the light points itself didn’t rotate. The colors were in a liquid manner.”
The object was large and the witness wondered exactly what it was.
“I estimate the object about 30 to 50 meters in diameter. The first thing we both thought was a blimp, a zeppelin, the one like Goodyear has with the light screens on the sides. But the fact that it was very low and absolutely stationary and silent made it very, very odd.”
F-4E Phantom II of 32nd TFS taking off, around 1975, at Soesterberg Air Base. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Soon the object began to rotate.
“After some minutes the lights started to rotate faster and suddenly it took off at really incredible speed to the west. A couple of seconds later we felt a short, hard wind blowing which stayed on top of us like a downwash from a helicopter.”
The witness had a clear view of the object.
“If there was a way to describe the speed this thing was going, but I can’t. We had a clear view for over 30 km – that’s 20 miles-plus. This thing covered that distance from stationary in something like 0.10 seconds. I know aviation and have flying experience and I am very technical. This kind of extreme acceleration turns humans into liquid.”
The witness waited 25 years to come forward with the story.
“For many year this has been an unspoken chapter in my life. I didn’t want to speak about the incident because instantly after the encounter, me and the other cadet, became unexplainable very, very ill, and for days suffered a high fever and extreme vomiting. The illness was so bad that it left me traumatized and not able to speak about it for years.”
Soesterberg, Netherlands, today. (Credit: Google)
Soesterberg is a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht, part of the municipality of Soest, population 5,798.Soesterberg Air Base was a Royal Netherlands Air Force military airbase located in Soesterberg, first established as an airfield in 1911.For almost 40 years, United States Air Force facilities at Soesterberg, named Camp New Amsterdam was a major front line USAFE airbase during the Cold War. The base was closed on December 31, 2008, due to budget cuts in the Dutch Army.
Robert Kouba is investigating for MUFON International.
Soldaat: “Ik zag een enorme UFO boven vliegbasis Soesterberg”
Soldaat: “Ik zag een enorme UFO boven vliegbasis Soesterberg”
Een soldaat die gestationeerd is geweest op vliegbasis Soesterberg, zegt in 1991 een enorme UFO te hebben gezien boven de basis. De getuige had op 17 februari 1991 nachtdienst op de legerbasis toen het incident zich voordeed.
“Ik zag om 03.00 uur samen met een andere soldaat recht boven ons een grote cirkel in de lucht,” zegt de getuige. “Het object had geen vorm. Er waren alleen felle lichten te zien die langzaam tegen de klok in draaiden.”
Geen geluid
Het was een groot object en de getuige vroeg zich af wat het was. “Ik schat dat het object een doorsnee had van 30 tot 50 meter,” zegt hij. “We dachten in eerste instantie aan een blimp, een zeppelin, met lichten aan de zijkant. Maar het vreemde was dat het erg laag boven de grond hing en geen geluid maakte.”
UFO boven vliegbasis Soesterberg (MUFON)
Al snel begon het object rond te draaien. “Na enkele minuten begon het sneller rond te draaien, waarna het plotseling met ongelooflijke snelheid wegschoot richting het westen,” aldus de getuige. “Enkele seconden later voelden we korte tijd een harde wind in ons gezicht, zoals bij een helikopter.”
Jarenlang gezwegen
De getuige kon het object goed zien. “Ik kan niet zeggen hoe snel het object vloog,” zegt hij. “Wel konden we tot over een afstand van meer dan 30 kilometer kijken. Dit object legde die afstand vanuit stilstand af in ongeveer 0,1 seconde. Ik ben thuis in de luchtvaartwereld en heb vliegervaring. Door dit soort extreme acceleratie zouden mensen in pulp veranderen.”
De getuige zegt vele jaren te hebben gezwegen over het incident. “Ik wilde er niet over praten omdat we gelijk na de gebeurtenis erg ziek zijn geworden,” zegt hij. “Dagenlang hadden we hoge koorts en moesten we overgeven. Ik was zo getraumatiseerd dat ik er jarenlang niet over kon praten.”
Boven vliegbasis Soesterberg zouden ook in 1979 UFO’s zijn gezien. In februari dat jaar zouden diverse waarnemingsposten UFO’s hebben gezien, maar zoals vaker durfden mensen er niets over naar buiten te brengen. RTV Utrecht besteedde in 2012 aandacht aan het verhaal.
Cigar UFO During Daytime Over Prague, Czech Republic On April 5, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Cigar UFO During Daytime Over Prague, Czech Republic On April 5, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:April 5, 2016 Location of sighting: Prague, Czech Republic News Source: MUFON #75830 This is an interesting report from MUFON today. Its another cigar UFO. I enlarged it and altered the color to make it stand out more as you see in the red boxes. The UFO seems to change shape, but that is because it changes angle slightly. Its not changing shape, just its angle. I'm not surprised that he caught it on his computer instead of seeing it, because the computer screen is so big, and often on a sunny day, its hard to see the tiny screen on a camera or cell photo due to the reflection off the screen. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Sorry, I do not speak english. I only see the objects on my photos later on my computer. On the first photo is object directed nearly perpendiculary. On the second, as same as the third snap, an object is oriented horizontaly. All 3 snaps are during only two seconds, from 16:59:03 to 16:59:04 Prague time, 20160405. Interesting is big distance the object covered I think I saw the same object on the other photos (attached) probably. It is 16:59:31 (4917), 16:55:49 for both 4708 and 4709. On the 4708 is object on the left side up. I don´t know what is it.
A space observer from the UK allegedly captured an image that apparently shows a space craft near Europa, the Solar System’s sixth largest moon.
Some observers say the image is another proof that there’s alien life out there, particularly in areas that haven’t been explored or researched.
Secure Team posted the video online and showed images that were snapped using a Canon 650D camera with a 7D-300mm telescopic lens on a tripod in the back garden.
British Louis Read sent the image to the UFO observers to get some opinions.
According to the video, the spacecraft gets closer to the Europa, one of Jupiter’s 63 moons, and has never been visible since then.
Some experts got so curious about the image, so they increased the exposure of it. They then concluded that it is either a fleet of UFOs or one giant alien structure going about their business.
Space agencies, including NASA, have yet to travel to Jupiter in their quest for more detailed information about the planet, but they are planning to dispatch a probe out there.
NASA is currently exploring Mars with the Curiosity Rover, sending images from the Red Planet back to Earth on a regular basis.
Daytime UFO activity over Evora, Portugal 13-Apr-2016
Daytime UFO activity over Evora, Portugal 13-Apr-2016
I just received this interesting footage of an unidentified flying objects or orbs flying above Portugal city Evora. This was taken on Wednesday, 13th April 2016.
A man from Idaho claimed he had an encounter with a UFO in 1977. The strange object reportedly hovered above a home nearby and traveled towards him. The witness was driving his truck to his home late at night on May 5, 1977.
When he pulled into his driveway, the witness spotted a UFO hovering just over a neighbor’s roof. As he watched the strange aerial thing, he seemed to hear a voice from a male voice saying ‘This is not of this world.’ The witness stopped the truck, got out from it, and watched the bizarre object for 20 to 30 minutes.
Initially, the witness can’t see any detail of the unidentified flying object. It was when the unknown thing passed nearer to him when he saw pulsating, colored lights on the side of the craft.
The witness did not hear any noise or emission from the craft. He described the lights as dazzling but didn’t illuminate the ground or adjacent buildings. The disc was still in the sky over roofs when the witness got tired and went inside.
He reported his sighting almost 40 years ago to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) on March 23, 2016. He included drawings that show the shape of the craft from the side with descriptions or explanations. His testimony is filed under Case 75381 in MUFON’s witness reporting database.
Stephen Hawking wil sonde naar ster Alpha Centauri sturen
Stephen Hawking wil sonde naar ster Alpha Centauri sturen
Tim Kraaijvanger
Stephen Hawking en filantroop Yuri Milner hebben vanavond een nieuw wetenschappelijk project aangekondigd: Breakthrough Starshot. Het doel: een ruimtevaartuig in twintig jaar tijd naar de meest nabije buurster sturen.
Een licht ruimtevaartuig reist op een nader te bepalen tijdstip naar het nabije Alpha Centauri-systeem op een afstand van 4,37 lichtjaar bij de aarde vandaan. Dat is – omgerekend – zo’n 40 biljoen kilometer. Hawking en Milner willen dat deze ruimtesonde deze afstand in twintig jaar overbrugt, wat neerkomt op een snelheid van eenvijfde lichtminuut per minuut.
Aangezien een lichtseconde ongeveer 300.000 kilometer is, moet het ruimtevaartuig dus 60.000 kilometer per seconde afleggen. Dat is vijf keer de doorsnede van de aarde.
Het ruimtevaartuig reist op hoge snelheid naar Alpha Centauri.
Zeilen in de ruimte Hoe gaat dit duo dit plan verwezenlijken? Het ruimtevaartuig van Milner en Hawking weegt niet meer dan een vel papier en gebruikt een zeil – niet groter dan een gemiddelde vlieger – om voort te bewegen. Dit zeil is slechts enkele honderden atomen dik. Een gigantische laserstraal van 100 miljard watt raakt het zeil van dit ruimtevaartuig, waardoor het vliegende zeilbootje flink wordt versneld. Deze straal wordt afgevuurd vanaf een hoge en droge locatie, bijvoorbeeld de Atacamawoestijn in Chili.
Binnen vijftien jaar De verwachting is dat het ruimtevaartuig binnen vijftien jaar gelanceerd kan worden. Tenminste, als de ontwikkelingen op het gebied van nanotechnologie, lasers en microelektronica op het huidige tempo blijven doorgaan. Het feit dat een bekende wetenschapper als Stephen Hawking zijn naam verbindt aan het project is hoopgevend te noemen.
Foto’s van een andere wereld De missie gaat zo’n 100 miljoen dollar kosten. De grote vraag is: wat levert het op? Natuurlijk is het een fantastische prestatie dat een ruimtevaartuig een ander zonnestelsel kan bereiken. Wellicht kunnen er zelfs foto’s gemaakt worden, maar dat gaat spannend worden. Kunnen de gegevens een afstand van vier lichtjaar overbruggen? Hawking en Milner laten het er niet bij zitten en zijn van plan om een ontvanger te bouwen die de gegevens kan ontvangen. We krijgen wellicht voor het eerst foto’s van een andere wereld te zien.
Yuri Gagarin Het is bijzonder dat het project vandaag is aangekondigd. Het is namelijk 55 jaar geleden dat de Russische kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin voor het eerst een rondje om de aarde aflegde. Op Scientias.nl werd in 2011 het jubileum gevierd met een artikel over Gagarin.
Wetenschappers aan boord van het internationale ruimtestation installeren dit weekend de Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM). BEAM functioneert als een soort ruimtetent.
De ruimtetent wordt gekoppeld aan de Tranquility-module. Dit gaat verrassend snel, namelijk in vier uur tijd. De gemiddelde kampeerder prutst misschien wel langer met tentstokken en haringen. Wanneer BEAM is geïnstalleerd, wordt deze module opgeblazen. Eenmaal opgeblazen biedt de ruimtetent zestien kubieke meter extra leefruimte, waardoor de totale ruimte in het internationale ruimtestation met acht procent toeneemt.
Als het aan NASA ligt, worden toekomstige ruimtestations allemaal opblaasbaar. Opblaasbare ruimtestations of modules nemen minder ruimte in en kunnen daardoor makkelijker met een raket vervoerd worden. Ook zijn ze veel goedkoper. De ruimtetent van Bigelow Aerospace kost slechts achttien miljoen dollar. Dat lijkt misschien veel, maar een ruimtestation als het ISS kost vele malen meer, namelijk 150 miljard dollar.
Artistieke impressie van hoe de ruimtetent er uit gaat zien.
De komende twee jaar testen astronauten of de ruimtetent goed functioneert. Beschermt de opblaasbare module de astronauten tegen zonnestraling, ruimteafval en extreme temperaturen in de ruimte? Ontstaan er scheuren of groeien er schimmels aan de binnenkant van BEAM? Hier letten astronauten op.
Na de testperiode zal BEAM losgekoppeld worden, waarna de tent verbrandt in de atmosfeer van de aarde.
Wil jij de installatie van de Bigelow Expandable Activity Module live volgen? Ga zaterdag naar NASA TV. De uitzending start om 11:30 uur Nederlandse tijd. De daadwerkelijke installatie is niet van begin tot eind te volgen, want de plaatsing begint al om 8:15 uur Nederlandse tijd. Om 12:15 uur zijn de werkzaamheden afgerond.
Physicists Send Particles Of Light Into The Past, Proving Time Travel Is Possible?
Single particles of light (photons) to simulate quantum particles travelling through time were just used by scientists from the University of Queensland, Australia. They showed that one photon can pass through a wormhole and then interact with its older self. Their findings were published in Nature Communications.
Closed timelike curves are a concept necessary to understand this experiment(CTC). CTCs are used to simulate powerful gravitational fields, like the ones produced by a spinning black hole, that could theoretically (based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity), warp the fabric of existence so that spacetime bends back on itself. This creates a CTC, almost like a pathway to travel back through time.
“It’s intriguing that you’ve got general relativity predicting these paradoxes, but then you consider them in quantum mechanical terms and the paradoxes go away.” – University of Queensland physicist Tim Ralph (source)
Tim Ralph (quoted above) and his PhD student Martin Ringbauer simulated a Deutsch’s model of CTCs, according toScientific American, “testing and confirming many aspects of the two-decades-old theory.” Although it’s just a mathematical simulation, the researchers (and their team/colleagues) emphasize that their model is mathematically equivalent to a single photon traveling through a CTC. Nothing has actually been sent back through time though; to do that, scientists would have to find a real CTC, which has yet to happen as far as we know. Of course, there always remains the possibility that black budgetscience has.
Think in terms of the ‘grandfather paradox,’ a hypothetical scenario where someone uses a CTC to travel back through time to cause harm to their grandfather, thus preventing their later birth. Now imagine a particle going back in time to flip a switch on the particle-generating machine that created it – this is a possibility that these physicists say they have shown through their simulation.
You can read the specifics of the experiment here.
A pair of glasses has enabled a blind man to read for the very first time in 20 years.
The high-tech specs are the invention of OR-Cam, an intuitive wearable device with a smart camera, is designed to assist people who have a visual impairment.
Luke Hines, aged 27, became blind in one eye and has only 3 per cent vision in the other after he underwent an operation to remove a brain tumor in 1997.
In an interview with the Sun newspaper, Luke, from Devon, England said:
"Something as simple as going to Tesco I used to hate doing because I would just go, get the same things every time and get out of there."
However, with his new specs, shopping has now become a completely different experience.
"Now I can spend hours up there just trying to read everything. It's really nice being able to do it without having to rely on someone else."
The Or-Cam device is a small camera that can be worn in the same way as Google Glass. It is connected by a thin cable to a portable computer and can fit in the wearer's pocket. This then clips onto the wearer's glasses via the use of a magnet, which then offers clear speech as it reads aloud the words or objects pointed to by the user.
Priced at just US$2,500 — it recognizes English-language text.
Luke has suffered greatly due to his handicap and was unable to go to school because of his visual impairment.
However, life has taken a turn for the better and through the use of Or-Cam, Luke is now able to do so much more. He is hoping to go onto college and eventually become a gardener.
In an interview with The Sun, Luke's mother, Jane Jinen said:
"It's such a delight because if it can give Luke a quality of life that we have got and he can go to college, it would just be overwhelming."
Aliens in Aurora: Legend of 1897 UFO crash celebrated Saturday
Aliens in Aurora: Legend of 1897 UFO crash celebrated Saturday
HIGHLIGHTS
Tiny town along Texas 114 is home to alien festival
Cemetery marker shows reported alien’s resting place
At least 300 expected for Saturday extraterrestrial event
BY GORDON DICKSON
AURORA
Toni Wheeler holds fond memories of growing up in the rural town of Aurora, sitting on the porch of an elderly resident named Mr. Mayfield and listening to him tell about the time a UFO crashed into a windmill, killing a spaceman.
“He would tell us it did in fact happen,” said Wheeler, now the city administrator, recounting one of the highlights of her Wise County childhood in the late 1970s. “He said tons of people went rushing up there to the [crash] site, but they made all the kids stay back underneath the hill, because they were afraid it might have a disease.”
The legend of the 1897 crash of an alien spacecraft 27 miles northwest of downtown Fort Worth certainly put Aurora on the map — having been retold in books, movies and TV shows — although many residents would just as soon their community not be known for such a tale.
But many others — Wheeler among them — are ready to embrace the extraterrestrial adventure, and on Saturday they will host the first of what they hope will become an annual event known as the Aurora Alien Encounter.
At least 300 people are expected to turn out for the event at the relatively new MD Resort conference center, south of Texas 114 in the Wise County town.
The festivities are scheduled to include a day of talks with UFO researchers and authors, an alien laser tag competition and shuttle tours of both the residential area where the crash reportedly happened and the cemetery where the alien — nicknamed “Ned” by the City Council — was buried.
Reports of an alien crash
On April 17, 1897, a story attributed to Aurora cotton buyer S.E. Haydon appeared in The Dallas Morning News: “About 6 o’clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing through the country.”
The story went on to explain that an aircraft smacked into a windmill just a few hundred feet north of what is now Texas 114 and crashed into a field.
Supposedly, the pilot was buried in the town cemetery.
The incident occurred six years before the Wright brothers’ first human flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., and nearly 50 years before the much more famous unidentified flying object reportedly crashed in Roswell, N.M.
Today, the roughly 1,400 residents of Aurora are left to decide for themselves whether they believe the story. And it appears that they may never reach a consensus.
“Some of the older residents of this community, you could never change their mind about things,” said Dan McEntire, the city’s historic preservation officer. “A lot of people believe it and a lot of people don’t. It’s just what it is.”
Controversies
Several components of the Aurora incident make it a compelling, mysterious tale.
The plot in the Aurora Cemetery where the alien was supposedly buried was later dug up, and the body (if there was one) removed. An original stone marker with a UFO carved into it disappeared years ago, although today the location is marked with a nondescript, cigar-shaped boulder.
The windmill the spaceship reportedly hit is gone, but a now-closed water well at the base of the windmill still exists on private property near Texas 114.
Folks working on a History Channel show about the Aurora crash in 2008 opened the water well for the first time in about 70 years in search of wreckage that supposedly had been thrown inside. They found bits of metal, but tests on the material were inconclusive.
Chunks of metal hieroglyphics were reportedly found at the crash site, but their whereabouts are unknown.
THIS REPORT INCLUDES MATERIAL FROM THE STAR-TELEGRAM ARCHIVES.
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15-04-2016
Radar operators say UFO travelled 120 miles in 8 SECONDS in Britain's famed close encounter
BYJON DILLON
The astonishing first-person accounts from two witnesses of an actual phenomenon form part of a new documentary as seen in this intriguing trailer
Two former radar operators have revealed how a UFO travelled 120 miles in less than EIGHT SECONDS during Britain's most famous close encounter.
Ike Barker and Jim Carey have given their first in-depth interviews since the incident at RAF Bentwaters, in Suffolk - hailed as the world's best documented case.
They were on duty in the air traffic control tower when the unidentified target was tracked on radar during a spate of bizarre sightings in late December 1980.
On December 26, a small team of security police officers reported seeing a triangular shaped craft land in Rendlesham Forest, just outside the base.
And, two nights later, Deputy Base Commander Lt Col Charles Halt and several other USAF personnel observed strange flashing lights moving through the woods.
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Ike Barker and Jim Carey gave their first in-depth interviews about RAF Bentwaters
The military team watched in awe as the glowing object fired a beam of light on the ground before it flew away.
Meanwhile, reports came in over their radios that the UFO was firing beams into the weapons storage bunkers, which housed the biggest stockpile of nuclear missiles in Europe at that time.
Halt later filed an official report to the UK Ministry of Defence - dubbed the 'Halt Memo' - giving details about the case, which was released under the Freedom of Information Act.
However sceptics have debunked the sightings as satellites, meteors or the Orfordness lighthouse a few miles away.
But speaking in a new documentary called UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed, the retired USAF air traffic controllers say the craft they tracked was not man-made.
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RAF Bentwaters has long been talked on, and Ike Barker and Jim Carey are shining a light on the truth
Ike Barker said: "It wasn't like any radar target I've ever seen.
"It was travelling at an extremely high rate of speed. It passed over the control tower and then it stopped. I've never seen anything like the maneuverability that happened with this object.
"It was orange in colour and it popped into my mind that somebody was flying a basketball out here. There were lights around the centre but not like navigation lights.
"It was more like portholes, as if you were seeing the lights from the inside coming out. It hovered momentarily, reversed its course and went back out a high rate of speed."
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A team of security police officers reported seeing a triangular shaped craft in Rendlesham Forest
Carey, a tech sergeant with the 2164th Communications Squadron, said the unknown target made a sharp right angle turn at high speed before it left the area.
He said: "It was just phenomenal to see it go that fast. I said that can't be one of ours. No jet can make an immediate right hand turn."
The radar experts, who did not report the sighting to their superiors over fears it could ruin their careers, are among more than 150 military witnesses who have reported UFO activity at nuclear weapons laboratories, test areas, storage depots and missile sites since the 1940s.
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Personnel at RAF Bentwaters observed strange flashing lights moving through the woods
Declassified US government and KGB documents from the former Soviet Union have also revealed how missile launch systems have mysteriously malfunctioned, causing panic among military chiefs during the Cold War.
American researcher Robert Hastings, who has produced the documentary and written a book on the ominous incidents, believes these incursions are a warning to humanity.
He said: "My opinion is that those who pilot UFOs are visitors from elsewhere who engage in provocative actions against American and Russian nuclear missile sites to send us a message that we humans are playing with fire - that to engage in nuclear warfare is essentially suicide."
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Researcher Robert Hastings produced the documentary and a book on the incidents
Retired UK police detective Gary Heseltine, who now edits the UFO Truth ezine, said: "The testimony of the two radar operators should once and for all put to bed the ludicrous sceptical theories that the military personal were confused by the Orfordness lighthouse.
"Their testimony clearly highlights that UFOs were interested in the base and that beams were shone down into the nuclear storage bunkers.
"Every high school child, politician and university college student should be shown this documentary."
The new evidence has come to light as Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta told CNN News that the American people "can handle the truth" about UFOs
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Stephen Hawking: There are ‘others out there’ however, we will not find Aliens anytime soon
Stephen Hawking: There are ‘others out there’ however, we will not find Aliens anytime soon
While many people it is not a question whether Aliens exists in the universe, there are others who believe we might not find our cosmic neighbours at all. According to theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, humanity will not find intelligent alien species anytime soon.
This Week, Professor Hawking, Russian Billionaire Yuri Milner and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg presented the most ambitious Alien-hunting mission in the history of Mankind. Called ‘Breakthrough Starshot’, the project costs over 100 million US dollars which will be wisely spent to create the sophisticated nano-spacecraft.
In the conference, a group of researchers together with Professor Hawking and Yuri Milner detailed a project that aims to send a fleet of tiny spaceships into space to the neighboring star system Alpha Centauri in search for extraterrestrial lifeforms.
However, in addition to the incredible project that will change space exploration forever, the audience wanted to know more bout Aliens, and specifically, when scientists might discover them.
Professor Hawking took some questions from reports in advance so that he would have time to prepare the answers.
One of the most interesting comments made by Professor Hawking was about Alien life. Hawking said that it was very unlikely that scientists will find intelligent alien lifeforms in the next twenty years. “The probability is low, probably,” he said.
However, he continued talking about alien life.
“The discoveries of the [NASA] Kepler mission suggest that there are billions of habitable planets in our galaxy alone,” Hawking said. “There are at least a hundred billion galaxies in the visible universe, so it seems likely that there are others out there.”
In the past, Professor Hawking discussed alien life and how he believes an intelligent alien species might threaten our civilization. During the Breakthrough Starshot conference, Hawking was once again asked what humanity should do if we all of a sudden discover intelligent alien life, professor Hawking’s answer was, “We should hope that they do not find us.”
Others seem to share the views of Professor Hawking. Jill Tarter, astronomer, and co-founder of the SETI Institute said that if aliens visit our planet, they could take control of everything thanks to their clearly superior technology. However, Tarter added that aliens capable of finding Earth may be co-operative…
“If they showed up on our doorstep, that means they have technologies that are considerably advanced with respect to ours.” “And because of that, they are going to be the ones that set the rules,” Tarter said in an article published by TechCrunch.
This neutral-benevolent attitude of extraterrestrial visitors has already been proposed by scientists in different countries based on thorough analysis of extensive historical and modern documents.
Along the same lines, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, a colleague of Tarter, said in September last year that an alien civilization might be trying to contact us, but humans could be “too primitive to see those signs.”
Moreover, as the great Carl Sagan once said… “The universe is a pretty big place. If it is just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” ― Carl Sagan in Contact
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Powerful Signal Triggered by Supermassive Black Holes has ‘ Alien ’ Written All Over it
Powerful Signal Triggered by Supermassive Black Holes has ‘ Alien ’ Written All Over it
A bizarre space anomaly has recently been noticed by astronomer. They’ve stumbled over a place in the universe where a number of supermassive black holes have mysteriously aligned and are now sending extremely powerful radio bursts throughout space. Researchers who detected this bizarre phenomenon asserted that such an event has never been captured before, and they are now debating about what could be causing all this.
“Since these black holes don’t know about each other, or have any way of exchanging information or influencing each other over such vast scales, this spin alignment must have occurred during the formation of the galaxies in the early Universe,” explained Andrew Russ Taylor, director of South Africa’s Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy.
The team of astronomers was on the lookout for radio signals in the universe using data collected by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India, when they first discovered the vigorous signal. The GMRT, which is one of the largest and most precise radio telescope arrays in the world, had just finished a three-year-old radio survey that gathered radio waves originating from black holes across several galaxies.
After closely analyzing the data received, they were surprised to discover this never-before-seen phenomenon, where each of the supermassive black holes located at the center of each galaxy were spinning in the same direction. So, what could be causing all this?
Opinions are now split among the researchers investigating this case, and while some of them consider an important event from the early stages of the Universe to be the cause, others are opting for a more recent and controversial cause.
“The alignment of the black holes is probably caused by an overall spin in the structure of this region of space, triggered by fluctuations of primordial matter in the early Universe, way before galaxies even formed,” said Yasmin Tayag in a report for Inverse.
The scientific explanation is vaguely describing the source of this unusual alignment, but at least there is one thing the team mutually agrees upon – an extremely powerful source must have caused the fluctuations that sequenced the black holes to spin the same way. Whatever this source is remains a topic for debate, but there are some who take into account the most exotic of possibilities.
“This is not obviously expected based on our current understanding of cosmology. It’s a bizarre finding,” said astronomer Romeel Dave from the University of Western Cape in South Africa in a recent press release.
In other words, this recent find has perplexed the scientific community, as the phenomenon cannot be explained using the means we have at our disposal. There is much room left for speculation, and judging by the excitement shown by the researchers, I wouldn’t be surprised if they would announce that super-advanced aliens are causing this unusual sequencing.
After all, the probability of supermassive black holes being inhabited by higher beings had already been explored by Russian cosmologist Vyacheslav Dokuchaev from Moscow’s Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“Interiors of supermassive black holes may be inhabited by advanced civilizations living on planets with the third-kind orbits,” he wrote in a paper published in Cornell Univeristy’s online journal. “We could live inside a supermassive black hole eventually, but super-aliens may have already beaten us to it,” he concluded.
With sensitive telescopes such as the South African MeerKAT radio telescope and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) already on the way, it’s likely that the source of all this meticulous space menace will be revealed in the near future. If they’ll detect an exotic species or only a rational phenomenon we are yet to find out, but the scientist in charge of the research seems absolutely amazed of this particular find.
“We really need MeerKAT radio telescope to make the very sensitive maps, over a very large area and with great detail, that will be necessary to differentiate between possible explanations,” said Taylor who is leading the investigation. “It opens up a whole new research area for these instruments, which will probe as deeply into the and as far back as we can go – it’s going to be an exciting time to be an astronomer.”
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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Speaks About Extraterrestrial Civilizations
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Speaks About Extraterrestrial Civilizations
In addition to numerous other politicians, Russian Deputy Primer Minister Dmitry Rogozin has openly spoken out about extraterrestrial civilizations, while claiming that Russia does not hide information on UFOs and Alien life. Is society being prepared for disclosure?
According to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian government does not hide any information about contact with unidentified flying objects.
In an interview, Rogozin spoke out about extraterrestrial civilizations and that the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is one of the main objectives of the Russian Space Agency reports RIA Novosti.
‘One of the greatest scientific, and mankind’s dilemmas is whether or not we are alone in the Universe. Whether somewhere out there is another intelligent civilizations. Given the infinity of space and time, anything is possible,” said Rogozin.
The deputy prime minister also added that the Russian government does not hide any information about contact with unidentified flying objects, suggesting that the Russian government has nothing to hide when it comes to Alien contact.
Earlier this year in January, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) published hundreds of declassified documents about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Most of the files contain images of the 40s and 50s and belong to the digital archive of the agency. While the CIA has not revealed any information about whether or not the agency or the United States Government has established contacts with extraterrestrial beings, the declassified files show the seriousness with which the US government treated these phenomena.
In the last couple fo years, UFO enthusiasts were able to take a peek at countless declassified governmental files about UFOs, and unexplained contact with mysterious flying objects.
Last year, former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon claimed that military chiefs saw Extraterrestrial vehicles observe nuclear weapons test in the New Mexico White Sands in 1945.
The former Astronaut argued that extraterrestrial beings intervened in the Second World War preventing a catastrophic nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Mitchel also claimed that ‘they’ had shot down test nuclear missiles preventing both nations from entering into a nuclear conflict.
He said: “They wanted to know about our military capabilities.
“My experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.
“Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft.”
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin is one of the many governmental officials who have discussed alien life in recent times.
In 2013, Russian Primer Minister Dmitry Medved was believed to have inadvertently confirmed the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life, in a short interview while away from network cameras:
„I tell you the first and last time. Together with a nuclear suitcase the president has a folder, which is top secret and devoted entirely to the report by the Russian secret service which handles the control of extraterrestrials in our country. After the term, the two folders and a small nuclear suitcase are transferred to the new president. How many of them are among us I cannot say because panic might begin.“
Een Europese ruimtesonde die rond de planeet Saturnus vliegt, heeft daar stofdeeltjes opgevangen die van buiten ons zonnestelsel komen. Ze komen uit de 'interstellaire wolk', een hoop gas in de eindeloze ruimte tussen de sterren. Ons zonnestelsel trekt door die wolk terwijl het rond de kern van de Melkweg draait.
Ruimtestof ontstaat wanneer sterren sterven. Zulke deeltjes zijn al eerder gevonden, maar de sonde Cassini heeft voor het eerst gemeten waar ze uit bestaan.
Geen ijsdeeltjes Volgens de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA bestaan de deeltjes niet uit ijs, maar uit elementen als magnesium, silicium, ijzer en calcium. De deeltjes bevatten juist opvallend weinig zwavel en koolstof. Dat kan wetenschappers een beeld geven van de ontwikkeling van het heelal.
De stofdeeltjes hebben een snelheid van 72.000 kilometer per uur. Doordat ze zo snel gaan, worden ze niet gegrepen door de zwaartekracht van de zon en van Saturnus.
Wetenschappers hebben in Mongolië een mummie van 1.500 jaar oud opgegraven. Wat meteen de aandacht trekt, zijn de schoenen van de overledene. Ze vertonen opvallende gelijkenissen met sneakers van het bekende Duitse merk Adidas.
Het graf werd aangetroffen op 2.802 meter hoogte in het Altaïgebergte. Door de koele temperaturen is de mummie al die tijd zo goed bewaard gebleven. Het zou gaan om de eerste volledige Turkse begrafenissite volgens de archeologen van het lokale Khovd museum.
De opgegraven persoon maakte geen deel uit van de elite maar de onderzoeksresultaten tonen aan dat men in die tijd al beschikte over goed onderlegde ambachtslui.
De wetenschappers vermoeden dat het om een vrouw gaat maar verdere research zal nodig zijn om dat te bevestigen. De archeologen gaan de komende tijd de mummie verder uitpakken en eveneens de aangetroffen attributen bestuderen.
Vooralsnog trekt het schoeisel van de mummie de meeste aandacht. Fervente 'believers' van complottheorieën zien er het ultieme bewijs in voor het bestaan van tijdreizen.
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Billionaire’s hunt for aliens will include a fleet of tiny spacecraft
Billionaire’s hunt for aliens will include a fleet of tiny spacecraft
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner is looking for aliens, and putting up a lot of his own money to do it. Adding to the $100 million he pledged to spend on alien hunting projects last summer, he recently announced he will spend another $100 million to create miniature spacecraft to look for extraterrestrial life in our closest neighboring star system, 25 trillion miles away.
Last July, Milner pledged to spend $100 million over ten years to help expand the ability for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to listen to a larger amount of the radio spectrum in their quest to intercept an alien radio signal. This was being done through what he calls Breakthrough Initiatives.
Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking announcing the $100 million Breakthrough Initiative in London. (Credit: Breakthrough Initiative)
In an announcement made earlier this week, Milner introduced a new program called Breakthrough Starshot. This program intends to build “nanocraft” that can sail the 25 trillion miles to Alpha Centauri, the closest solar system, in order to search for alien life and habitable planets.
It sounds like science fiction, but he says most of the technology needed already exists. According to Milner, advancements in microelectronics is what makes it possible. The proposed nanocraft will consist of a small microchip and a sail propelled by laser. The craft will have to be very lightweight, but it is now possible to produce a tiny chip that can include a computer, camera, navigation and communication equipment and anything else the little spaceship will need.
The nanocraft will also be fast, traveling at speeds up to 20% the speed of light. At that speed it will still take 20 years to reach Alpha Centauri, but at least it will not be alone. Milner says they will send a fleet.
“Instead of sending one big expensive machine, you can send hundreds of these,” Milner told Popular Science. “Interstellar medium is dangerous. There are dust particles that can destroy your technology. The math today shows that between the sun and Alpha Centauri something like this, if it flies this way [the thin edge as the leading edge] it will have four collisions of dust particles on the one-micron size.”
Each craft will cost about the same as in iPhone, making a fleet affordable. And with the danger of dust particles obliterating the craft, redundancy will help increase the chances for success.
Once they reach their destination, the little spacecraft will have a few hours to record video and whatever other telemetry they will be able to obtain. The data will then be sent back to earth via lasers. However, because we are talking about such vast distances, the data will still take four years to reach earth, even at the speed of light.
Milner admits there are many challenges ahead. For instance, it will take great precision to aim the lasers sending the data back to earth. There is also the matter of the lasers providing the light to propel the craft.
Artist depiction of Breakthrough Starshot. (Credit: Breakthrough Initiatives)
The light sails will not be propelled by the sun, but by an array of lasers on earth that will take 100 gigawatts. It will only take a few minutes for the lasers to propel the craft to their top speed, but the lasers will need to be very precise.
“If you’re slightly out of the beam, then you’re off completely,” explains Milner. “Can we devise a form of sail that will be stable on the beam? If it moves sideways, then it automatically moves inwards? There are many small and relatively complicated challenges like this.”
Even with the challenges, Milner is confident it can be done.
“It is possible there will be roadblocks, but we can move forward in many of those directions. This first $100 million is really just the proof of concept.”
So what if his nanocraft make it and they do find aliens? Milner says, “I think that there is a possibility of some life, but not intelligent life. So hopefully we will see something, but not too scary.”
Stephen Hawking could be at fault for making Milner worried about scary aliens. Hawking was part of Milner’s SETI announcement last summer, and was also present at the announcement of Breakthrough Starshot this week.
Hawking has expressed a fear that if we meet an advance extraterrestrial civilization, it might not go so well for the human race. At the Breakthrough Starshot event, when asked what Earthling should do if they meet aliens, Hawking replied, “We should hope that they don’t find us.”
However, he says he does think they are out there.
“There are at least a hundred billion galaxies in the visible universe, so it seems likely that there are others out there,” Hawking told the crowd.
It will take a few years to develop the spacecraft, but Milner is motivated to make it happen.
He told Popular Science, “I feel we have responsibility to push this forward if we can. People have been developing this technology, not specifically for this project, but we have this capability now. And I’m convinced that if something is possible, somebody is going to do it. So I think we just really want to see if it’s practically possible.”
Police officer reports UFO caught on surveillance video
Police officer reports UFO caught on surveillance video
A Colorado police officer at Wheat Ridge reported watching multiple unknown lights near ground level during a routine property check where video surveillance backed up the report, according to testimony in Case 57173 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The police officer pulled into Anderson Park at 1 a.m. on June 19, 2014, during a routine patrol, in Wheat Ridge.
The UFO is illustrated in this daytime photo of the area where the office saw the object. (Credit: MUFON)
“As I began driving towards the back I see five or six lights; two red, two blue, and two green, or it was two red, three blue, and one green,” the witness stated.“The lights were near a tree line on the other side of a softball field and about 150 yards away.”
The witness reported that the lights were clustered around each other at various heights in a kind of oval shape.
“I would estimate the lights were clustered around something the size of a car and were about three feet away from each other. The lights looked like LED quality light and were as bright as car headlights, not moving, and each light was about the size of a softball.”
Google Map view of the area showing key locations. (Credit: Google Maps)
The officer watched the lights as he pulled into the park.
“As I drove into the park the lights did not change in intensity or move like a directional light would as you move a flashlight around. As I drove I observed the lights from about the 5 o’clock to the 4 o’clock position covering about 50 yards and there was no change in intensity of the light or any idea as a direction they were pointing; thus giving me the impression they were some kind of dome light or spherical in nature.”
The officer stated that he did not see any beams of light that lit up the grass or trees around it like a car headlight would do.
“I looked at this for about five seconds and then all of a sudden the lights go out simultaneously. To clarify, there is no way the light was emitted from separate sources. The lights went out at exactly the same time and had to have been controlled from a single source.”
Google Map view showing the camera’s line of sight. (Credit: Google Maps)
The officer then called the sighting in on the police radio saying that hewas going to check the park as he had just seen some strange lights.
“The radio works just fine. I go check the area and observe that the trees and grass are frosted over with freezing dew and I could see my breath. The low that night was 52 so it was probably about 55 degrees, possibly lower due to the proximity of nearby Clear Creek. I did not observe this frost anywhere else in the city that night and I was near another water source in a different part of town about two miles away and one hour earlier and did not observe the frosting of the vegetation.”
The officer turned on his spotlight and could see what appeared to be snow falling in the beam of his light.
“I remember thinking, ‘Is it snowing? No it’s too warm. Is this ash from a forest fire? No there’s no fire and I don’t smell smoke.’ I then walked onto the freshly frosted grass and see no signs of disturbance on the grass. There is a bike path near there so I go to the bike path and turn off my flashlight and stand still for about 20 seconds to see if I can hear anything (like kids laughing). As I am standing in the half-moon light my hand goes to my gun and I think to myself slowly, ‘I’m gonna go back to my car.’”
Closeup of objects in video. (Credit: MUFON)
The officer felt odd.
“It wasn’t a physical feeling that made me uneasy, but not knowing what I was dealing with made me feel vulnerable. I went back to my patrol car and throughout the night parked nearby to see if the lights came back and they never did. I went back to the area just as the sun was coming up and did not observe any signs on the ground and the vegetation was no longer frosted.”
The officer attempted to understand what he had witnessed.
“The only rational explanation I can think of is that there were these lights on an ATV on the bike path, but they were arranged asymmetrically and did not appear to be directional. But I would imagine I would have seen the lights move as the ATV drove down the bike path or heard the vehicle driving away. Furthermore, the path goes into the trees and driving an ATV as fast as it would have to have gone for me to not hear it would be insane without lights. There was a traffic signal about 50 yards behind me, but the colors I saw were different hues than traffic signal colors and I have driven that area at that time a hundred times and never seen this. There was no water on my windshield and it was too clear to be a reflection.”
Colorado MUFON Field Investigator Henry Lindsey and MUFON Director of Training Ken St. John investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
Wheat Ridge is located in Jefferson County, Colorado, population 30,166. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
A New Mexico witness in Santa Fe County recalls a UFO event from 1995 when a disc-shaped UFO was caught on camera, according to testimony in Case 75628 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was taking photos of a double rainbow just after a thunderstorm on August 15, 1995.
Witness photo. (Credit: MUFON)
“I took several photos, about six,” the witness stated. “I was directly across the street from the National Cemetery. I did not notice the object when photographed.”
The witness then took the film to be developed at the Fox one-hour kiosk in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“When I went through the photos is when I saw this object in just one photograph. I took the photo to the Sun Spot Observatory in New Mexico. They told me that I was about 500 feet from the object. They told me that the object was going at least 500 mph. They told me that shadows were consistent with all other objects in the photograph. They told me that the camera I was using, a Kodak Instamatic, that this photograph could not have been faked.”
The witness stated that he also received a warning.
“They told me not to show it to people, because I could get into trouble.”
But that warning did not stop the witness from attempting to get more opinions.
Cropped and enlarged version of the witness photo. (Credit: MUFON)
“I went to Kirtland Air Force Base where a friend of mine was a helicopter mechanic. I showed the picture to some pilots. They became very angry with me and told me to get the hell off the base, and that if I ever came back there again, they would report me to base security. One pilot told me that I was a trouble maker, and that he was going to inform base security of my address and have me put in jail. I did not go to jail, and no one ever contacted me about the photograph.”
About two weeks later, the witness stated that he gave the photograph, the original, to a man named Dr. Greer.
Cropped, enhanced and enlarged version of the witness photo. (Credit: MUFON)
“He told me that he had friends in the area that would examine the photo and that he would contact me in about two weeks to tell me about what it was. I never heard back from Dr. Greer. In the past years I have attempted to contact Dr. Greer, but he has never returned my phone calls. I also sent a copy to a man, Stanton Freidman. He told me that the photo was interesting.”
New Mexico State Section Director David Hillendahl is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
UFO over Las Vegas described as moving into a mist
UFO over Las Vegas described as moving into a mist
A Nevada witness at Las Vegas reported watching and videotaping a round UFO with light beaming from the object to the ground level, according to testimony in Case 59760 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Still shot taken from the witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness woke up about 5:30 a.m. on September 12, 2014, and first saw the object.
“As I was walking back to my bedroom I noticed a round ball in the sky that looked similar to the moon, but it had rays of light beaming down from the object,” the witness stated.“One of the rays blinked and that is what caught my attention.”
The witness first thought that the object was a plane, but then noticed something unusual.
“I ran to get my phone to record and by the time I got back to the object, the light was slowly ascending into the object while both light and object simultaneously disappeared.”
Nevada State Director Donna Carbone investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown.
“The object hovered, glowed, cast light, appeared transparent, and was the shape of a circle,” Carbone stated in her report.“Surface was glowing and had a mist/shroud. Apparent size was unknown and actual size was 31-100 feet. Prominent colors were white, exterior lights flashed randomly and other. Emission was a beam and cloud, and sound is unknown. Elevation is unknown as is lowest altitude. Flight path was stationary and direction first observed was in the west as was direction last observed. No landing observed.”
Carbone interviewed the witness for more details.
“The object was above the mountains and it was not going upwards and disappearing, but going back towards mountains and fading. It did not look man-made, but seemed alive and aware and gentle, like a being, as it hovered. Witness was adamant that the object was not a rocket, space junk, or satellite.”
Cropped, enlarged and enhanced version of a still shot from the witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
Carbone came to her own conclusions.
“This is a very interesting case due to the fact it has been on TV, in the newspapers, and on the radio, and not two sources have agreed on what it is. First report I received was a three stage rocket that launched from Guiana in South America. Then I received a report that it was a Navy Trident missile launch from a submarine. And, finally NBC News reported that our government said it was a Russian Satellite breaking up and re-entering our atmosphere, even though Russia denied it. There were also statements that it was “space junk.” So where and who do we believe. All reports came from credible individuals. Then I have my witnesses’ statements from all three reports (59760, 59777, 59758). Two witnesses at Lake Tahoe, one a pilot, state this was not a satellite as it banked and turned. Another witness, a 61-year-old male, who gets up every morning to watch the ISS go overhead, stated that the object hovered, and that it went into a mist. Then I have a 21-year-old female witness, whose hobby is photography. She is adamant that what she filmed is not a satellite, rocket or space debris. She stated she watched this object as it went “backwards” into a mist, and that it almost seemed to be alive.”
While the case appears to be concluded, Carbone is leaving the door open to future interpretation.
“So moving forward who do we believe? For me there are way too many conflicting reports, which finds me in a quandary on what to believe. I have decided to close out all three cases and mark them as Unidentified Aerial Vehicle, until we can receive absolute proof on what this object was. As my witnesses have described it to me, it could even be a mother ship leaving our universe – which has been reported numerous times by other individuals.”
Editor’s note: OpenMinds.tv originally reported on this story in September, 2014, and most experts agree it is a rocket launch of some sort. However, as the MUFON investigator indicated, it is still uncertain whose rocket it was.
Space journalist and historian James Oberg posted this comment on our original story: “Looks like a pretty standard rocket launch, so when you get basics such as azimuth/elevation, angular size and duration, etc., please share. The usual suspects seem to have alibis this time, let’s see what other players were active in this area at this time. As always, it’s important to thank the witnesses for documenting their perceptions.”
Giant Cigar Shaped UFO Passes Near Earths Sun, April 12, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Cigar Shaped UFO Passes Near Earths Sun, April 12, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: April 12, 2016 Location of sighting: Between Earth and Sun Here is a long UFO caught near our sun this week. Its a cigar UFO, which means its shaped like a cigar. These UFOs are actually seen throughout human history. As a matter of fact, back in 1870 one of the earliest cigar UFOs ever caught on photo was seen. Click here to see it for yourself. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Myunhauzen74of Youtube states: We can see the stars, but we do not see the sun. Humans could not observe this effect, because it was the disappearance of the sun for a moment and the sun reappears in space. This was for a time that he felt the man on the planet Earth, but the effect was able to photograph solar NASA observatory. Sun - a hologram? Alien technology? The impact of the UFO? Our Sun in our solar system, a set of values. The sun is the source of light, the sun is the source of the heat, the sun is a portal in the galaxy, the Sun is the a beacon the sun is a gas station, the Sun is the place for silicon life. What do we know about the Sun? NOTHING! Sun - a hologram? Maybe... For more information, please visit http://x-u-f-o.blogspot.com
Giant White Disk Caught Over Cusco, Peru On Video, April 13, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Giant White Disk Caught Over Cusco, Peru On Video, April 13, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 13, 2016 Location of sighting: Pucyura, Cusco, Peru
On the morning of April 13 (2016) An unidentified flying object was sighted by villagers in the town of Pucyura in Vilcabamba (Cusco). Raul Puma (eyewitness) managed to get this video and ensures us that it was something never before seen in the area. "I managed it to film at approximately 07:30 hours, but the object was flying over the area Habaspata very early, sometimes it approached and moved away from where we were not emit any kind of sound and from one moment to another disappeared the clouds ", stated Puma. These are the exact same UFOs that I reported back in Aug 25, 2011 here at USD. (Click here to view old photos). This is a great photo of a disk that is trying to cloak like a cloud. It has the exact same color as the clouds nearby, but it was caught only because it left its cloud and moved across the blue sky. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
This special documentary relates to the UFO incident back in April 11, 2008, exactly 8 years ago. It was well documented and it gives a major credibility to UFO investigations.
ALIEN CRAFT WITNESSED OVER GETTYSBURG BATTLE FIELDS
JULY 8, 1947 …………. GETTYSBURG PENNSYLVANIA
On July 8, 1947, a group of visitors were picnicking at the Pennsylvania Monument when they witnessed half a dozen silver objects fly over the battlefield and disappear in the east, not once but twice. Aghast at the site of these unknown objects slicing across the sky, the couples reported their experience that would be logged up as one of numerous suspicious sightings of “flying saucers” throughout the country that year, described as everything from saw blades to round, silver disks that made little or no noise as they whirled across the sky. Little did this group know at the time how this odd observation was only one incident of the tantalizing craze that would not only grip Adams County, but the nation as a whole-earth was being invaded. Was Gettysburg on the intergalactic list of places to visit? Not since 1938, when Orson Welles’ infamous “War of the Worlds” broadcast gripped many Americans in fear of alien invaders, had America thought for one moment about the threat from beyond the cosmos. But here it was, flying over the Pennsylvania Monument in the broad daylight of a sunny July afternoon.
The post-World War II era saw an explosion of strange sightings, reports of flying saucers, and other bizarre events seemingly beyond reasonable explanation. It was the new science fiction, which extended itself beyond radio broadcasts and books to movie screens all across the country. There was something flying around up there and though no one had any idea of what it may be; “it” had finally made an appearance over Gettysburg National Military Park.
There never was a full explanation or official disclosure about the 1947 sighting over the park. It was simply chalked up as one of the numerous sightings of unidentified flying objects that flourished around the country over the ensuing decades and certainly those picnickers who were enjoying their afternoon in the park on that day in 1947 had no idea they would part of the national sensation of observing “Flying Saucers” and quite possibly the beginning of an alien invasion! And barely four years later, Hollywood would produce the epic film, The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) where a flying saucer landed on the national mall in Washington, DC. Isn’t it unfortunate the script writers did not see this story in the Gettysburg Times first and have Klaatu’s ship land on the lawn beside the Pennsylvania Monument? That’s probably for the best given the nation’s capital was a more pertinent choice in those early years of the Cold War. Park employees will sometimes be questioned as to the existence of ghosts or spirits on the battlefield, but few have ever asked if any of us have seen or witnessed UFO’s coursing across the park sky. Hopefully the interest in that phenomenon faded a long time ago, along with drive-in movies and bell bottom jeans.
NOTE: Actually…the sighting took place the day before (on July 7, 1947 around 3:30 PM). In fact, there was a huge wave of UFO sightings nationwide in 1947…including Pennsylvania, in which 25+ individual reports were made on July 7th & 8th. As well, the Roswell Incident was reported on July 8, 1947. Over the years, there have been UFO sightings around the battlefield, including a witness account I received in 1996 of a small disc landing on top of Devil’s Den. I never did get a confirmation on that one, but the Park Ranger I talked to didn’t think it was worth noting or repeating. I guess he wasn’t looking forward to any future alien questions from the tourists.
Two solid structures in Space at point L1, one million miles away, maybe one of ours meets one of theirs?
A possible alien satellite or ship passing by that monitors our Planet?
Strange white long object probably moving filmed over a 19.3 seconds open shutter and more unexplained anomalies filmed by the SOHO satellite that monitors our Sun. (SOHO images from April 11 to April 13, 2016.)
Jan. 17, 1967; Freetown, IN Francis Bedel, Jr., (23) of Portland, Indiana, was driving on State Highway 135, a two-lane blacktop road, north of Freetown, he later reported to State Police, when a brilliant glowing white light darted into his field of vision. It apparently hovered over the road for a few seconds, then slowly reversed its course. Bedel was so busy staring at the spectacle that he lost control of his car, which left the road and was badly damaged. State Police who investigated said that Bedel was not drinking and was not injured in the crash. NICAP files
Jan. 17, 1967; Same evening; Freetown, IN On the same stretch of highway on the same night, Mr. & Mrs. Phil Patton of Freetown, reported to State Police that a brightly lighted disc-shaped craft, about 30feet in diameter, came down alongside their car. Mr. Patton told State Trooper Conrad that the object moved along the highway right in front of their car and about one hundred feet distant from it. They estimated that it was about 100 feet above the road and they described it as a circular in shape and about the size of a small house. The Patton’s reported to police that they heard no sound from the object but that its outstanding characteristic was the extreme brilliance of its lights, predominately red but with flashing yellow and white along the side or bottom of the thing. After a half a minute, it flashed up and away. According to state police who investigated, the description given by the Patton’s was identical to that given by Francis Bedel, the young man who wrecked his car while watching a similar spectacle, about a mile from the scene of the Patton’s experience. (NICAP files)
A UFO enthusiast and ham radio hobbyist monitoring airline communications heard a UFO report from a commercial airline pilot to the control tower near Nephi, Utah, according to a new report by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a non-profit organization that documents and investigates UFO sightings reports from around the world. Although the ham radio operator — paranormal radio host Pat Daniels — did not record the communication, MUFON investigators were able to obtain a recorded copy from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. MUFON reports that Daniels was monitoring airlines communications on January 14 when, at about 12:12 a.m., he caught what appeared to be a UFO report from an airline pilot. According to the website UFOs Northwest, which first reported the case, Daniels claimed he heard a pilot reporting to the air traffic controller that he saw a one-mile-wide bright orange object flying to his right at a lower altitude and apparently keeping pace with his airplane. The air traffic controller told the pilot that the direction he indicated was towards Nephi in Utah, but insisted that no object was detected on radar.
Daniels promptly reported the details of the communication to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in Utah and the case was investigated by Erica Lukes, the Utah state director for MUFON. She was assisted in the investigations by UFOs Northwest’s William Puckett. The YouTube below contains the audio of Erica Lukes’ interview with Pat Daniels. The team of investigators was able to determine that the flight from which the strange report emanated was the American Airlines flight number 434 that took off from the city of San Francisco, northern California, at 10:08 p.m. PST on Wednesday, January 13, 2016, and landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 5:35 a.m. EST on January 14, 2016. The investigators then filed an FOIA request with the FAA and obtained a set of audio files from the Air Traffic control website. According to Ms. Erica Lukes, she and Puckett spent hours listening to audio communications covering the time frame before they found the communications from the flight they believed the mysterious UFO report came from. However, the two were surprised to find that although the files contained communications from American Airlines flight number 434, the UFO report was missing.
The investigators notified the FAA about the missing report and after a delay of six weeks, the FAA sent voice tapes, tower logs, and radar returns pertaining to the UFO report. The YouTube video below contains the voice communication between the pilot of flight 434 and the control tower. A transcript of the audio by Open Minds website comes below.
“American 434: Tower, American 434.
Tower: 434, go ahead.
American 434: You wouldn’t happen to know what this bright orange square we are flying over is, would ya?
Tower: Uhhhh, no. That’s a good question. I am not sure. Is it off to your right side?
American 434: It is like directly off of our nose right now. It is right below us. We have been watching it for awhile now. I don’t know what it is. It is a perfect square and it is bright orange. What town are we next to? This town right off of our two o’clock (indistinguishable word).
Tower: American 434 that is Nephi. Nephi, Utah.
American 434: Nephi, okay. Cool. Now I will see what I can go find. Thank you.
Tower: You bet.
The pilot’s report sounds ambiguous compared with the report given by the ham radio operator because it is possible to conclude from the transcript that the pilot was only referring to something on the ground far below. But the audio appears to confirm that the pilot saw something below his aircraft he found so baffling that he felt compelled to report to control tower.
The 1970s was the one period, more than any other, in which the monster-hunting community focused on the controversial Bigfoot/UFO connection. Or, depending on your perspective, the lack of connection. Indeed, today, the vast majority of Bigfoot investigators are highly intolerant of the idea that there might be a link between cryptid apes and aliens. Although, I definitely recommend Stan Gordon’s 2010 book, Silent Invasion, which is an excellent study of Bigfoot and Fortean high-strangeness in 1970s-era Pennsylvania. And, it was also in the seventies that the fascination for the UFO-Bigfoot link spilled over into the domain of fiction.
The Six Million Dollar Man was one of the most popular television series of the 1970s. It starred Lee Majors as astronaut Colonel Steve Austin who, while test-flying a new, prototype aircraft, suffers a severe accident in which he loses both of his legs, his right arm, and his left eye. It could have spelled the end of any kind of meaningful life for Austin. Except for one thing: thanks to the work of a secret government agency – the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) – Austin is rebuilt, using sophisticated robotic technology called bionics. In short, he becomes a cyborg: a half-human, half-machine, long before Robocop was on the scene. The long-running series was an immediate hit with the viewing public. And it provoked a spin-off show, in 1976, The Bionic Woman(starring Lindsay Wagner).
“The Secret of Bigfoot” was a two-part Six Million Dollar Man adventure that aired in February 1976. It was, and still is, one of the most popular of all. The story is set in the heavily forested mountains of California – from where a great deal of real-life sightings of Bigfoot have been made. From the outset, the tale is shrouded in intrigue. A pair of geologists, monitoring earthquake activity in the area, have vanished. The OSI, under Steve Austin’s boss, Oscar Goldman (actor Richard Anderson), is working with the geologists, Ivan and Marlene Bekey. As a result, Austin soon plays a leading role in the quest to find the pair. And particularly so when huge, human-like footprints are found in the area.
While Marlene remains missing, Ivan turns up, in a condition of near-hysteria. He is not the only one who turns up. A huge Bigfoot (played by wrestler, Andre the Giant) is soon on the scene, too, and launches a violent assault on Austin’s and Goldman’s encampment. It’s during the attack that Austin wrenches off one of the arms of the hairy monster, which reveals it to be not a flesh and blood animal, but a highly sophisticated robot. We also learn that the Bigfoot is controlled by a group of aliens, who have a secret installation built inside one of the huge mountains.
Austin soon becomes a victim of alien abduction, in which he discovers that Marlene and Ivan were attacked because they had inadvertently uncovered evidence of the alien base. Even worse, OSI’s studies in the area show that the entire West Coast is about to be hit by a devastating earthquake, one that could potentially kill millions. The only available option is to detonate, underground, a small atomic device on the fault line, thus preventing the quake from occurring. Unknown to Austin, the aliens try and prevent the atomic explosion from taking place, since they believe – correctly – that it may also destroy their mountainous, secret abode.
In the final scenes, we see that the atomic explosion does indeed prevent the catastrophic earthquake from occurring. As suspected, however, it also causes major damage to the extraterrestrial facility. We also see Ivan and Marlene reunited. As a result, Austin – with help from Bigfoot, no less – gives the aliens assistance in repairing the damaged parts, and systems, of their base. Careful to ensure that the truth of the alien presence, and of the real nature of Bigfoot, remains hidden, the visitors from beyond wipe out Austin’s memories of the bizarre and near-catastrophic events. Bigfoot is once again the enigma that it always has been.
Such was the success of this particular story, Bigfoot was brought back, in September 1976, for another two-part story: “The Return of Bigfoot.” Again, the focus was on aliens, Sasquatch, and underground bases. To help boost ratings on The Bionic Woman, part-two of the story became the opening episode of the new series of that particular show, in which Austin and the bionic woman herself, Jaime Summers, clash with both ETs and Sasquatch. Andre the Giant, however, was replaced by Ted Cassidy (Lurch, inThe Addams Family), who, in 1977, took on the role yet again, in a one-off episode titled “Bigfoot V.” For fans of The Six Million Dollar Man, “The Secret of Bigfoot” remains a firm favorite. However, it probably makes more than a few Bigfoot-seekers cringe, and particularly so those rigidly in the “Bigfoot is just an unknown ape” camp.
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UNDERWATER UFOs AND UNDERSEA USO BASES, April 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UNDERWATER UFOs AND UNDERSEA USO BASES, April 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of video: April 3, 2016 This is a nice documentary about underwater bases and UFOs. There is a lot of details in it about locations and photographic evidence. Especially of interest is the UFO base just off of Malibu, California...home of the rich and famous...and probably some aliens living on Malibu. That explains a lot. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com UFOTV States: After publishing and article in Fate Magazine and a LIVE appearance on a History Channel Special, both with a focus on Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs), Author and UFO Researcher Preston Dennett received a flood of emails and letters from new witnesses detailing many dramatic USO cases that had never been revealed before. Along the way, he discovered that the Southern California Coast is one of the worlds most active areas for Undersea USO reports. Reports that date back to the late 1940s, and continue to this day. After years of research, Preston Dennett has come to the startling conclusion that there is an Undersea UFO Base in the Santa Catalina Channel, located along the U.S. Pacific Coast. In this presentation he will present the results of his investigations into the USO situation around the world. Includes evidence of Government surveillance of USOs and ensuing coverup, photographs of UFOs and USOs, and a visual presentation of eyewitness accounts. Preston Dennett is a MUFON Certified UFO Field Investigator and the Author of over 16 books and 100 published essays on UFOs, USOs, and Alien Encounters.
Sighting of a metallic UFO could happen almost every day around the world, but photographing a bizarre flying aerial thing with its door open is something very rare. A photographer claimed he spotted and snapped pictures of a shiny object with strange movements on April 3 at a hotel in the Turkish resort of Kemer, Antalya.
He first thought it was a helium-filled metallic balloon. He observed the UFO as it moved away towards the north, returned to where the witness first noticed it, and then hovered over the sea. He then took five photos with his Canon 450D digital SLR camera with zoom lens. The unusual-looking object was reportedly observed flying above the sea. It looked like a toasted sandwich maker flying in the air.
The unnamed witness reported his sighting together with pictures to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). In a short report, the witness stated that he caught a door that was opened at the end of the photos.
The witness claimed that the UFO vanished after taking five pictures of it. The UFOvni2012YouTube channel has published a short video about the alleged UFO sighting with close-up versions of the photos. There have been mixed suggestions from the viewers.
Emmy Award Winning Journalist George Knapp is considered the first reporter to break the story of Extraterrestrial Technology at a secret test facility now known as “Area-51.” In this presentation George will discuss the mystery surrounding Area-51, 25 years after breaking the story and will provide never before heard details from Bob Lazar, the man who claimed to have worked on Extraterrestrial spacecraft at Area 51. George Knapp is the chief investigative reporter for CBS News in Las Vegas, where he has earned the highest honors in broadcast journalism. He is a two-time Peabody Award winner as well as a 24-time Emmy Award-winning journalist whose reporting on Nevada’s infamous Area 51 military base was selected by UPI as Best Individual Achievement by a Reporter.
Artifacts and Legends dating back thousands of years have influenced man’s imagination with theories of alien beings and ancient astronauts from other planets. Sightings of unidentified flying objects of varying shapes, sizes, and other characteristics have been recorded for hundreds of years. Despite the theories claimed by some individuals, the “proof” of extraterrestrial contact, including bizarre artifacts is still uncertain. In fact, the legends are highly mythologized and cannot serve as “history.” In modern times, these stories become straightforward and reflect encounters with third-dimensional entities termed as the “aliens.”
Roaring River UFO
In this case, the UFO was photographed. Eyewitness accounts saw most encounters, but this is unique. It happened during deer season in Cassville, Missouri when a pair of hunters was trying their luck. One of them returned to their site when he saw smoke rising from their camp. He ran and discovered their tent and equipment destroyed. The tent was smoldering, their shoes were smoking, and the aluminum cots were melting. When the pair heard a low humming sound, they were looking for the source. After that, they saw a mysterious object from the valley beyond the burning tree. The good thing is, they were able to capture the object few seconds after it left the ground. The sighting lasted for about 20 seconds.
As it picked up speed, the humming sound of the mysterious object were intensified. His last look at the object was 40° above the horizon. Before it vanished, it accelerated. The UFO was reflecting the sunlight through its aluminum color. The UFO effortlessly flew as it moved into the skies. The space vessel’s diameter was about 25′ and 8′ thick. To capture the object, he used a 620 format Argoflex camera. Despite the testimony and smoking evidence, it is still uncertain that craft and the creatures therein should be held liable for the damages at the campsite.
Is this the best UFO sighting recently? Burning orbs over Graz, Austria
Is this the best UFO sighting recently? Burning orbs over Graz, Austria
Check out this really interesting UFO video of a bright orbs flying across the sky above Graz in Austria. It looks like they combine into one and then vanish away.
That's 25.6 trillion miles! To put that in perspective — if we magically shrank space to the point where the sun was just the size of a ping-pong ball, Alpha Centauri would still be nearly 800 miles away.
The biggest obstacle to achieving this journey so far has been that we don't have a spacecraft that can go anywhere near fast enough.
The New Horizons probe that NASA just sent past Pluto is traveling at an eye-watering 36,000 mph, but it would still take it 70,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri.
So that’s why — according to Hawking — we’re going to build new spacecraft. Tiny spacecraft.
Yuri Milner holding an example of one of the chips that could be the brains of each probe. Image from Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation.
Instead of one large ship, the plan is to launch thousands of small gram-sized probes. The idea relies on computer chips becoming increasingly smaller and more powerful over time — a trend that so far has held true.
We're going to build tiny spacecraft ... powered by LASERS.
Each probe would fly behind lightweight reflective sails — known as lightsails. The lightsails would catch light from big arrays of lasers here on Earth, which could provide propulsion (the probes themselves, meanwhile, could be powered by small radioactive batteries).
These tiny spacecraft powered by lasers could — theoretically — get from Earth to Alpha Centauri IN JUST 20 YEARS.
The lasers could accelerate the craft to speeds over a thousand times faster than what any current spacecraft are capable of, says Breakthrough. They predict they could get the mini-probes traveling up to about 20% the speed of light.
Of course, yes, it'll take time to get this project up and running — about 20 years just for that — and then another 20 years for the craft to get to Alpha Centauri, followed by a nail-bitingly agonizing at least four-year wait to send any pictures the probes take back to Earth.
The price tag on this project? A cool $100 million.
Getting these mini-craft working won't just be cool — they could help prove that lightsails are a good idea.
There are many challenges ahead for Breakthrough's mini-craft, like how to actually even send signals back to Earth from such a distance, but if the project is successful, it has a couple benefits.The mini-craft could take pictures of alien worlds, for instance.
But the biggest benefit could be the proof-of-concept test of the lightsails. If they work, they could become commonplace, helping us explore the solar system and the universe beyond.
But for today, the most important part of the announcement is that it’s about always reaching for the stars — and that's a very good thing indeed.
Image from Jemal Countess/Getty Images.
"Earth is a wonderful place, but it might not last forever," said Hawking in a statement reported by ABC News, “Sooner or later, we must look to the stars. Breakthrough Starshot is a very exciting first step on that journey.”
'Starshot' Interstellar Probes May Hunt for Alien Life Close to Home
'Starshot' Interstellar Probes May Hunt for Alien Life Close to Home
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Jupiter’s icy, ocean-harboring moon Europa, as seen by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute
The tiny robotic spacecraft that Stephen Hawking and his colleagues plan to send between the stars could also revolutionize the hunt for alien life in Earth's own solar system.
Today (April 12), Hawking, several other scientists and billionaire investor Yuri Milner announced Breakthrough Starshot, a $100 million initiative to develop the technology required to accelerate postage-stamp-size, sail-equipped "nanocraft" to 20 percent the speed of light using powerful ground-based lasers. (Milner is bankrolling the project.)
"As a preliminary step, we will visit targets within the solar system," Avi Loeb, who chairs Harvard University's astronomy department and the Breakthrough Starshot advisory committee, said during a news conference today.
Loeb cited Saturn's moon Enceladus, which harbors an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy shell, as a good target for Starshot probes. Geysers erupt continuously from Enceladus' south polar region, blasting material from the hidden ocean far out into space.
"One can imagine flying such a small spacecraft through the plume and detecting molecules that might be indicative of life, fingerprints of life," Loeb said.
Visiting another icy moon that has an underground ocean — the Jovian satellite Europa — would make sense as well, said Breakthrough Starshot advisory committee member Freeman Dyson, a theoretical physicist at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey.
"Supposing there are fish swimming in [Europa's] ocean, occasionally there will be an asteroid impact or a comet impact splashing huge amounts of water out onto the surface, so there should be lots of freeze-dried fish lying around," Dyson said during a phone call with reporters today after the press conference.
Provided the Starshot initiative manages to develop and prove out the required technology — a process that will likely take a number of years — there should be plenty of chances to explore Enceladus and Europa, as well as a number of other objects throughout the solar system, team members said.
Each individual nanocraft will be relatively cheap to manufacture, and many of them could be launched in a short amount of time, Starshot representatives said. Different probes could carry different instruments, together gathering (and beaming home) a diversity of scientific information about a target object or system. Indeed, the Starshot team aims to send hundreds or thousands of nanocraft to Alpha Centauri, for the sake of redundancy and to increase the scientific return.
And, after liftoff, solar system missions will provide almost immediate gratification: A laser-blasted nanoprobe traveling at 20 percent the speed of light would reach Pluto in just three days, Loeb said. (It took NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto last July, more than nine years to reach the dwarf planet.)
"In addition to the very important mission to Alpha Centauri, we're going to explore everything in between, and hopefully detect life," Breakthrough Starshot Executive Director Pete Worden said during the call with reporters.
The 17th annual Isaac Asimov Debate at New York's American Museum of Natural History sold out in just 3 minutes online, host Neil deGrasse Tyson told the audience. The debate featured five experts chewing on the idea of the universe as a simulation.
Credit: AMNH/R. Mickens.
NEW YORK — Is the universe just an enormous, fantastically complex simulation? If so, how could we find out, and what would that knowledge mean for humanity?
These were the big questions that a group of scientists, as well as one philosopher, tackled on April 5 during the 17th annual Isaac Asimov Debate here at the American Museum of Natural History. The event honors Asimov, the visionary science-fiction writer, by inviting experts in diverse fields to discuss pressing questions on the scientific frontiers.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the museum's Hayden Planetarium and host of this year's event, invited five intellectuals to the stage to share their unique perspectives on the problem: Zohreh Davoudi, a nuclear physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at MIT whose recent book probes the universe as mathematics; James Gates, a physicist at the University of Maryland who discovered strange, error-correcting codes deep in the equations of supersymmetry; Lisa Randall, a physicist at Harvard University who thinks the simulation question is more or less irrelevant; and David Chalmers, a philosopher at New York University who regularly questions the reality that conscious minds perceive. [7 Surprising Things About the Universe]
How can we tell?
Humanity might never be able to prove with certainty whether the universe is simulated, Chalmers said.
"There's certainly not going to be conclusive experimental proof that we're not in a simulation," he said near the start of the debate. "Any evidence we could ever get would be simulated!"
But other panelists said that, if the simulated universe has similar physical limitations to our perceived real universe — in which something infinitely complicated cannot be modeled without infinite resources — signs of shortcuts and approximations may lurk in our own world, the way an image breaks up into its constituent pixels when you get close enough to a screen.
Some scientists theorize that our universe is fake, and actually a simulation. Do you think we're trapped in an epic computer simulation?
Yes, we are trapped in the Matrix, Neo.
No, our universe is clearly a real, physical realm.
Davoudi proposed a possible way to spot one of these shortcuts: by studying cosmic rays, the most energetic particles scientists have ever observed. Cosmic rays would appear subtly different if space-time were formed of tiny, discrete chunks — like those computer pixels — as opposed to continuous, intact swaths, she said.
"The more I learned about [reality] later on, as a physicist, the more struck I was that, when you get deep down into how nature works, down into looking at all of you as a bunch of quarks and electrons […] if you look at how these quarks move around, the rules are entirely mathematical, as far as we can say," Tegmark said. If he were a character in a video game or simulation, he'd begin to realize that the rules were rigid and mathematical in just that way, Tegmark said.
While Davoudi proposed searching for concrete evidence of computation in nature, Gates, a physicist who works on superstring theory (an effort to describe all the universe's particles and forces with equations involving tiny, vibrating super-symmetric strings), has found something suspiciously like computation in the theoretical equations that govern how the universe works.
He discovered what looked like error-correcting codes, which are used to check for and correct errors that have been introduced through the physical process of computing. Finding that type of code in a universe that is not computed is "extremely unlikely," Gates said.
"Error-correcting codes are what make browsers work, so why were they in the equations that I was studying about quarks, and leptons, and supersymmetry?" he said. "That's what brought me to this very stark realization that I could no longer say that people like Max [Tegmark] are crazy."
"Or, stated another way, if you study physics long enough, you too can become crazy," he added.
But Randall noted that a universe in which errors were able to spread would quickly break down. So isn't it logical, she said, that the stable universe we find ourselves in could incorporate that type of feedback? The researchers pointed out that a similar error-correction process works during the replication of DNA; organisms whose genetic material got too mangled would not survive. [5 Reasons We May Live in a Multiverse]
Kinds of simulation
The debate also probed different possible simulations and the effects they'd have on our world. For example, Tegmark discussed a famous "world as simulation" argument by philosopher Nick Bostrom: If it's possible to simulate a universe in our world, and humanity gets around to it, it's vastly more probable that we're in a simulation than in real life — there would be far more simulated people "in existence" than real people.
But the argument strikes Tegmark as flawed. For one, he asked, what would prevent an infinite chain of universes each simulating another below it?
A universe simulating ours used different physics than those in our universe, or contained an active being changing the simulation as it went (rather than being a universe run from first principles, as in the simulations Davoudi builds), the question would become, how much could we figure out about the greater universe from within our own? In other words, it would be like Tegmark's video game character trying to understand the operating system his game runs on.
Chalmers added that, if the simulation were perfect, it'd be impossible to get information about the world outside. Only if it were buggy, or interactive, would we be able to find out anything about it. But he'd "refuse to worship" the simulation's creator, regardless of its origin, Chalmers said.
Gates pointed out that such a simulation would mean reincarnation was possible — the simulation could always be run again, bringing everybody back to life.
"It starts to break down a very funny barrier between what people often think is the conflict between science and […] faith," he said.
"If you're not sure, at the end of the night, whether you're actually simulated or not, my advice to you is to go out there and live really interesting lives, and do unexpected things, so the simulators don't get bored and shut you down," Tegmark said. How Computers Simulate the Universe (Infographic))
What it would mean
When pressed, most of the researchers gave their predictions on how likely the world-as-simulation scenario was. Davoudi wouldn't guess, Tegmark said it was 17 percent likely, Gates said there was just a 1 percent chance, Randall said effectively zero and Chalmers said 42 percent. (These estimates reflected a slightly higher likelihood than the guesses they gave just before the debate.)
Tyson likened understanding the universe to trying to figure out the rules of a chess game by just watching the pieces, as originally described by famed physicist Richard Feynman. "Pretty easily, you can say, 'Well, this piece moves this way; this one moves diagonal. You get that," Tyson said. "But later on, that little piece that jumped two reaches the other end of the board and becomes a whole other piece! That's kind of freaky. It's rare, but it happens, and it's an important rule of the game that, most of the time, you don't see. So I'm wondering, how much of a chess game without the instruction manual is the very universe in which we live?"
The question of the universe as a simulation might be more fundamentally about the extent humans can understand their universe from the inside out — that goal is much more essential than getting to the bottom of the simulation question, the researchers agreed.
"We don't know the answer, and we just keep doing science until it fails," Randall said.
Thinking about the world as a simulation is only useful in that it suggests interesting ways to explore the world scientifically, or encourages scientists to further hone their observational skills, she added.
"To the extent that it gives us an incentive to ask interesting questions […] that's certainly worth doing, to see what's the extent of the laws of physics as we understand them," Randall said. "We are trying to figure it out to the extent we can."
You can watch the whole debate on YouTube (and embedded above), courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History.
EXCLUSIVE: 'Plain proof' - 'UFOs' snapped over London are the 'real deal'
EXCLUSIVE: 'Plain proof' - 'UFOs' snapped over London are the 'real deal'
A SERIES of snaps of odd lights captured over the capital are likely to be "proof alien space crafts flew over London", two seasoned UFO investigators have sensationally claimed.
Scott C Waring, a self-style ufologist with a following of tens of thousands online, and Tony Topping, who has appeared on TV as a UFO expert, concluded pictures of bright lights in the skies around Tower Bridge and Canary Wharf were probably emitted by flying saucers or other extra terrestrial crafts.
They studied the photographs after they were shown to them by Express.co.uk.
We sent the images taken in March to five established UFO investigators for their feedback as part of an investigation into why so many images of bright lights or other anomalies are being hailed as proof of alien visitations by so-called online UFO experts.
The images were, in fact, just photographs of planes leaving or descending to London City Airport taken by an Express.co.uk reporter from the roof of the Northern & Shell building in Lower Thames Street at night last month.
JONAUSTIN
One of the pictures of a plane (circled) that two UFO experts believed was an alien craft
The resulting pictures, which were unedited, appeared as blobs of light, similar in appearance to many of the alleged UFO captures which have previously been hailed as strong evidence for alien visitations.
They were sent to the UFO experts, who were not informed they were pictures of planes, to investigate what conclusions they would reach.
Two of the experts concluded they were likely to be conventional aircraft, while another, a former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator added they could also be Chinese lanterns or crane lights.
However, Mr Waring and Mr Topping deduced that aliens had probably flown over London.
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Another plane snapped by our reporter created this odd shape often used as a UFO sighting
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A similar looking object which went viral online after being described as a UFO in the Australian ou
Scott C Waring [USD•FACEBOOK•SWARING]
These were their verdicts:
Scott C Waring is a US ex-pat living in Taiwan and editor of website UFO Sightings Daily.
The site has daily updates on alleged UFO footage and other alien-related posts.
He regularly claims to have obtained conclusive proof aliens exists in his blog posts and appears to be a firm believer that they, not only visit Earth regularly, but have underground bases here:
He said: "I tried to see if I could alter the photo to make out a helicopter or wings, but there is nothing there.
"It's not a helicopter and it is not a plane. It is not a drone, because it is much too big, it looks car sized.
"It does look like it is two separate glowing objects that are flying together. When I put them in negatives format, I can see it has no other structure but the glowing light around it.
"No drone can do that. This has a high probability of being a UFO.
"London is a city that has preserved hundreds of years of architectural marvels. The beauty of those old structures could easily draw the attention of aliens. They seem to be highly interested in learning about human history."
Scott Waring altered the colour of our plane pics to decipher them and concluded them as alien craft
Tony Topping [YouTube]
Tony Topping, 45, from Selby, North Yorkshire, is a UFO expert who tours conferences and gives interviews on TV and radio.
He claims to have first had an alien encounter aged two and to be monitored by security services.
He said: "It is quite surreal. I had a dream about UFOs over this location a few months back.
"These images are pretty good. For your interest the MoD did a document called Project Condign funded to the tune of ££s the conclusion was in some cases that plasma discharge was responsible for this type of UFO.
"Turn your attention to the Indian Press a few years ago and appearing in the India Daily was all kind of surreal information about UFOs. Real unusual as if an information leak was occurring from some kind of think tank and it was getting into the press.
"The conclusion was the UFO is alien and might be a bio plasma type craft, they were detecting them with sonic booms. the craft is self replicating and intelligent.
"I point this out to you as I find the contrast of information about this type of UFO interesting between two countries.
"As for me I do think it is a UFO non human in origin. I have no doubt in my mind more will be seen in that area."
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A crane light appeared like a floating red orb in our pictures
Nick Pope [YouTube]
Nick Pope, 50, worked for the MoD from 1985 to 2006, and between 1991 to 1994, investigated the potential threat of alleged UFOs.
Now based in the US, he tour conferences and comments on the subject in the press.
He said: "These don't strike me as being particularly spectacular and I suspect that what we're looking at here is either aircraft or helicopter lights, a Chinese lantern, or even a light from one of the cranes, reflected onto low cloud - which can occur in certain meteorological/atmospheric conditions.
"Zooming in with pictures like this can be counter-productive, because one loses resolution and distortions increase, leading to a misleading impression that something is more structured than is, in fact, the case."
Scott Brando's Facebook profile picture [FACEBOOK]
Italian Scott Brando, 40, runs website ufoofinterest.org which exposes hoax UFO sightings and reports. He set out to find evidence of aliens, but after investigating thousands of cases, says there has not yet been an alien craft captured on film.
Mr Brando initially asked for more on the location and timing of the sighting before saying simply: "In my opinion they are navigation lights by planes."
He also provided a graphic showing how to identify aircraft lights at night including an image which looked like one of those we sent out.
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A graphic provided by Scott Brando showing plane navigation lights at night
Nigel Watson [Nigel Watson]
Nigel Watson, 61, from Plymouth, Devon, is an author of several UFO books, including the UFO Investigators' manual, which explains how to carry out the research.
He does not believe that a photograph has yet been taken of an alien craft.
He said: "Since the images are out of focus and the motion of the lights is hard to determine.
"Even without that information I'd say the lights from an aircraft - these consist of a green light on the right wing tip and a red light on the left wing tip along with three bright white landing lights.
"If it is not on a steady course it could be a helicopter or even a drone carrying lights."
Before publishing we contacted each of the experts for their reaction to our findings.
Mr Watson said knee-jerk assumptions were muddying the water for real UFO investigators.
He said: "There are ufologists who are quick to brand anything unusual seen or photographed in the sky as evidence of an alien spacecraft visiting our planet.
"On the other hand, there are sceptics who are equally quick to brand any UFO sighting or report as rubbish and come up with a suitable 'explanation' for them, which later proves as unlikely as the alien theory.
"What we need to do is look at each case on its own merits before making a knee-jerk reaction."
Mr Brando added: "Unfortunately, the trend is to establish or assume that any visible light in the sky is of alien origin.
"It happens all over the world. I live in Italy and here too there are many self-proclaimed UFO researchers who, for their own interests, prefer to give an unconventional explanation because it's more fascinating, attracting more readers of books, magazines.
"People have no interest to listen who speaks about aircraft lights (planes, helicopters) or chinese lanterns, nor to buy hypothetical books about lens flares, satellites and birds mistaken for UFOs.
"As long as these self-styled ufologists prepend their interests to serious UFO research, the UFO phenomenon will always be treated as a joke."
Mr Topping said: "My experiences are based on accurate footage I have filmed and analysis of that footage the UFO you sent me reminded me of sightings in Vietnam and of the Project Condign research.
"it is correct that I had brilliant visions of UFOs in the Canary Wharf area. I do wonder if some are plasma discharge.
"Based on that one wonders why there is an anything but syndrome to deny the existence of them by journalists.
"Mistakes do happen of course but you have to walk in another's shoes to know that my conclusions are based on some very strange experiences.
"And so here I am nursing a pint kicking myself that, I did not know the difference between a UFO and a plane on approach and take off but I shall forgive myself.
"You can become obsessed with it and the world of UFOs is a journey to hell.
"I don't know if I have answered your question but behind the scenes there is a brutal secrecy the public do not see and journalists far too busy taking the Mickey, not that you are I think your on a quest to find the truth - the trauma the UFO experience causes is complex."
SpaceX Mars Rocket Engine (Image Courtesy www.gputechconf.com)
SpaceX was founded in 2012 with the express purpose of developing the technology needed for a Mars mission. SpaceX’s work to date for NASA and private companies has simply been the initial steps to gearing up for the Mars mission.
The point of the Mars mission is to make the human species interplanetary to increase its likelihood of surviving indefinitely.
Transporting & Sustaining a Human Colony on Mars
The SpaceX simulation and analytics group has been working on large-scale simulations of rocket processes in rocket engines. Relevant fields of engineering include computational fluid mechanics and plasma physics. SpaceX is in the process of identifying and developing technologies to transport and sustain a human colony on Mars.
Some of the rocket engines under development are based on particle accelerated design, simulation of combustion devices for chemical rocket propulsion, and high-density power generation systems.
“SpaceX is designing a new, methane-fueled engine powerful enough to lift the equipment and personnel needed to colonize Mars. A vital aspect of this effort involves the creation of a multi-physics code to accurately model a running rocket engine. The scale and complexity of turbulent non-premixed combustion has so far made it impractical to simulate, even on today’s largest supercomputers. We present a novel approach using wavelets on GPUs, capable of capturing physics down to the finest turbulent scales.”
Following is a discussion of the full-scale simulation of the SpaceX Mars Rocket Engine by Chris Burns:
The next video is a full presentation on the SpaceX Mars Rocket Engine lasting 46 minutes but is chock full of high-tech, cutting-edge information.
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David enjoys research and writing about cutting edge technologies that hold the promise of improving conditions for all life on planet earth.
In his book, Dr Ellis Silver points to a number of physiological features to make his case for why humans did not evolve alongside other life on Earth
A U.S. ecologist has claimed that humans are not from Earth but were put on the planet by aliens tens of thousands of years ago.
Dr Ellis Silver points to a number of physiological features to make his case for why humans did not evolve alongside other life on Earth, in his new book.
They range from humans suffering from bad backs - which he suggests is because we evolved in a world with lower gravity – to getting too easily sunburned and having difficulty giving birth.
Dr Ellis says that while the planet meets humans’ needs for the most part, it does not perhaps serve the species’ interests as well as the aliens who dropped us off imagined.
In his book, HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH: A SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION OF THE EVIDENCE, the ecologist writes the human race has defects that mark it of being ‘not of this world’.
‘Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth's environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more,’ he told Yahoo.
Dr Ellis says that humans might suffer from bad backs because they evolved on a world with lower gravity.
He also says that it is strange that babies’ heads are so large and make it difficult for women to give birth, which can result in fatalities of the mother and infant.
Dr Ellis says that humans might suffer from bad backs (illustrated) because they evolved on a world with lower gravity. He also says that it is strange that babies' heads are so large and make it difficult for women to give birth, which resulted in fatalities in earlier times
No other native species on this planet has this problem, he says.
He also believes humans are not designed to be as exposed to the sun as they are on Earth, as they cannot sunbathe for more than a week or two – unlike a lizard – and cannot be exposed to the sun every day without problems.
Dr Ellis also claims humans are always ill and this might be because our body clocks have evolved to expects a 25 hour day, as proven by sleep researchers.
‘This is not a modern condition; the same factors can be traced all the way back through mankind's history on Earth,’ he says.
He suggests that Neanderthals such as homo erectus were crossbred with another species, perhaps from Alpha Centauri, which is the closest star system to our solar system, some 4.37 light years away from the sun.
He also believes humans are not designed to be so exposed to the sun as they are on Earth, as they cannot sunbathe for more than a week or two ¿ unlike a lizard ¿ and cannot be exposed to the sun every day
THE 'EVIDENCE' TO SUGGEST HUMANS CAME FROM SPACE SO FAR
Bad backs suggest humans evolved in a world with lower gravity
Sunburn hints humans were not designed to be exposed constantly to the sun
The size of babies' heads present a problem for women when giving birth - difficulty not shared by other species on the planet
Humans are always ill, perhaps beacuse their body clocks have evolved to expect a 25 hour day - unlike Earth's
People just feel like they are not at home on our planet
Dr Ellis said many people feel that they don’t belong and feel at home on Earth.
‘This suggests (to me at least) that mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species.’
‘One reason for this … is that the Earth might be a prison planet, since we seem to be a naturally violent species and we're here until we learn to behave ourselves,’ he said.
Dr Ellis said the book is intended to create debate, instead of being a scientific study and hopes it will lead to people getting in touch with him with further suggestions of 'evidence'.
While other scientists have said some bacteria arrived on Earth from space, Chris McKay, an astrobiologist at NASA, said that to jump to the conclusion that it is alien life is ‘a big jump’.
Was this home? Dr Ellis suggests Neanderthals such as homo erectus were crossbred with another species, perhaps from Alpha Centauri. Star Proxima Centauri is pictured in the star system, which is the closest to our solar system some 4.37 light years away from the sun
Professor Wainwright from the University of Sheffield plans to investigate further, and believes that life is constantly arriving from space that did not originate on Earth.
Dr Ellis says that while his idea is an extreme evolution of that idea, it is intended to be thought-provoking and he claims to have had a largely positive response to it.
He is interested in whether humans came to Earth separately, perhaps by arriving on meteors and comets, before evolving into the species we know today.
‘My thesis proposes that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but evolved elsewhere and was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago,’ he says.
Using official photographs from space crafts, Artist Michael Benson's recreates photos of the universe in true color - just as how the naked eyes would see it.
AN OUT OF THIS WORLD VIEW
If there’s one word that the latest space tourism projects are hyping to try to get more tourists to drop some serious cash (as much as $150,000 per ticket) for a trip to the edge of space, it’sview.
From crafts that have dozens of windows lining the rocket’s sides and ceiling to the ability to “roll the vehicle” using thrusters—all space tourism programs promise their passengers an unobstructed view of the cosmos beyond Earth.
But for those not leaving Earth anytime soon, this exhibition is probably the closest one can ever get to seeing such an ‘out of this world’ view with their own eyes.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Dr. Paul Geissler
WHERE SCIENCE MEETS ART
“I feel like if these places are so alien to our direct experiences anyway, then they should be colored the way they would be seen,” says Benson, referring to his process in creating the true color prints.
He takes raw data from the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) and European Space Agency (ESA) missions and painstakingly, in his words, translates them into something that human eyes can recognize.
Because cameras aboard spacecrafts like New Horizons and Cassini capture images showing visible light (reds and blues) as well as invisible light (ultraviolet and infrared), most of the images available online aren’t in ‘true color.’
Benson takes all photos shot through visible light filters – light which the eyes can see – and tiles them together to create a true color composite.
“Astronomy is about our position in the universe, and that doesn’t just belong to science,” he says. “I am making the case that this is art.”
The VC200 is a 18 rotor drone-hybrid personal flight vehicle. At full power, it can go 95 km/h (60 mph), and it just carried its first human passenger.
MEET VOLOCOPTER
Experts have long talked about using multiple rotors on electric helicopters as an alternative method of personal transport. And today, the company responsible for creating an 18-rotor electric helicopter just managed to successfully complete its first manned test flight—which means our dream of using multicopters just moved one step forward.
The Volocopter VC200 is the world’s first certified multicopter, and while may not be the most impressive or ambitious demonstration of the technology, it show remarkable stability and ease of use. The device doesn’t require constant monitoring of controls, which makes it ideal for users new to the technology.
Check out this video of of its maiden flight in the video below.
VC200 GOES AIRBORNE
Eventually, the VC200 is expected to go up to 95 km/h (60 mph); however, the team behind the tech has yet to test the copter at its full capacity. But with the recent demonstration, designers are confident that they will be able to accept pre-orders for the final product by the end of the year.
It’s likely that early adopters of the device will be exclusively composed of drone enthusiasts, but they hope that the aircraft will one day be used as a reliable means of transportation.
The VC200 is not only easy to operate, it also doesn’t require fuel—which makes it an ideal alternative for personal flights—maybe even one day replacing our traditional road vehicles with multicopter air taxis.
Evidence for the existence of a “new” Ninth Planet, 10 times the Earth’s mass and lurking on the outer rim of the Solar System, just got a little bit firmer with the announcement of a new KBO.
But this distant world would be no pipsqueak, like the other icy, planetary embryos that we’ve discovered in the Kuiper Belt.
In fact, Brown and his team calculated a mass for the object of approximately 10 times the Earth’s, suggesting that it was the incipient core of a giant planet (like Jupiter or Saturn) that was jostled in the early phases of the Solar System’s formation, and rudely ejected into an astonishing 149 billion-kilometer (92 billion-mile) orbit, or nearly 75 times more distant than Pluto.
That means the hypothetical planet’s “year” can last anywhere from 10,000-20,000 terrestrial years.
Now, the evidence for the existence of such an object is indirect—specifically, the effect it seems to be having on neighboring outer Solar System bodies, called Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs). Six of these objects had been detected with wildly eccentric orbits, including the large planetoid Sedna, with an orbital period of 11,000 years.
Image of a slide showing the orbits of the KBOs suspected of betraying the presence of a Planet Nine. The orbit of the newly discovered, seventh KBO is the largest (“uo3L91”). Credit: OSSOS via Mike Brown’s Twitter feed.
“Hey Planet Nine fans, a new eccentric KBO was discovered. And it is exactly where Planet Nine says it should be,” Mike Brown tweeted. Furthermore, he says, the new object “takes the probability of this being a statistical fluke down to ~.001% or so.”
Whether this hypothetical, 10 Earth-mass planet is the famed “Nemesis” object, said to be responsible for cometary influxes that cause mass extinctions on Earth, remains to be seen (though astronomers are, understandably, skeptical); but with the detection of uo3L91, the case for something massive lurking in the outer Solar System, and affecting the orbits of distant planetoids, just got a little bit stronger.
But we’ll have to wait and see. Perhaps more such detections will let us nail down the giant planet’s orbital path; maybe then we’ll be able to snap a picture of it with some next-gen Earth-based telescope.
Till then, keep your eyes peeled for more eccentric KBOs.
BRILLIANT VIDEO UFO INVASION UK OR MILITARY EXERCISE? WATCH THIS 2016
BRILLIANT VIDEO UFO INVASION UK OR MILITARY EXERCISE? WATCH THIS 2016
BRILLIANT VIDEO UFO INVASION UK OR MILITARY EXERCISE? WATCH THIS 2016 Quote from Eyewitness Alan Deacon “This happened end of June 2015, Lansdown, Bath, UK… just before I got camera on the lights, they had formed into two parallel lines and then out again. They kind of form into one straight line here and then out again… it was much more obvious “in the flesh”… I was very conscious of shaking, so tried to put the camera on a fence post, but by the time I got there the lights had pretty much dispersed…:
An Indiana witness at Trafalgar reported watching and photographing an oval-shaped UFO crossing the sky for about 25 minutes, according to testimony in Case 75601 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness image #1. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness first noticed the object in the southwestern sky at sunset while heading west on SR 252 towards SR 135 in Trafalgar about 8:30 p.m. on April 3, 2016.
“The object appeared much brighter than the eight airplanes that could be seen in the sky at the same time,” the witness stated.“The object appeared to be the size and brightness of Venus, and it appeared to get brighter. It did not have a tail/trail when first seen.”
Witness image #2. (Credit: MUFON)
But as the witness drove two miles further west to the Dairy Queen parking lot at 1 Trafalgar Square, it was noticed that the object had developed two tails/trails coming off of what was now identified as the source of light/reflection.
“The object was oval-shaped like a football traveling sideways. It was now not as bright as before, but the two tails were growing in length and diameter. The tails/trails came off the pointed ends and the body of the object would flicker with a silver light.”
In the same sky there were several airplanes that could easily be seen and were quite different in speed, brightness, height, and tail consistency.
Cropped and enlarged view of Witness image #2. (Credit: MUFON)
“The object in question was much higher, slower, brighter, and had two very pronounced tails that looked thicker and were not being quickly dispersed by the wind. The sky was clear and there was plenty of light from the setting sun. We observed the object until it disappeared in the southwestern sky about 25 minutes after first being seen. There were four witnesses and a few pictures taken by cellphone (iPhone 4s and iPhone 6).”
Cropped and enlarged view of Witness image #2. (Credit: MUFON)
Indiana MUFON Field Investigator Patrick O’Brien closed this case as an Unknown.
Trafalgar is a town in Nineveh and Hensley townships, Johnson County, Indiana, population 1,101. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
TWO UFOs LIGHT Over Graz Austria (VIDEO) Feb 10, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
TWO UFOs LIGHT Over Graz Austria (VIDEO) Feb 10, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 10, 2016
Location of sighting: Graz, Austria
Source: MUFON #75777
These glowing UFOs were seen over Austria back in Feb, but recently posted to MUFON site. The two UFOs seem to be watching out for one another...similar to USAF pilots that have a wingman. Also these UFOs are below the clouds, its a cloudy day and their is no blue sky. These are defiantly UFOs, I just wish we had some radar confirmation from the local airport to back it up.
April 2016 UFO ORB captured traveling NE over San Antonio,Texas, Video, UFO Sighting News.
April 2016 UFO ORB captured traveling NE over San Antonio,Texas, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 4, 2016 Location of sighting: San Antonio, Texas, USA Source: www.saufotx.com This excellent footage was taken this week in Texas and what I love about it is that it was taken during the day. Daytime footage gives us much more detail and information that night footage. This UFO is white, like the clouds and is easily seen against a blue sky. This is the perfect conditions for catching UFOs. Because often they are white, you need a blue background to actually see 95% of them. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
SAUFOTX of Youtubestates: April 2016 U.F.O Orb was captured on video traveling over San Antonio,Texas..This day i manage to capture a U.F.O's and its flight pattern's.With some reference points such as telephone pole..Glowing orb of energy seem to be traveling on its own power.Not blown by the wind object is clearly not aircraft/weather balloon/satellite...
There is another Sun and human civilization Inside the Earth
There is another Sun and human civilization Inside the Earth
For several years the scientists preserved the secret of the shocking data of interpretation of photographs of our planet from space. In the ice of the North Pole area a huge hole could be clearly seen.
Soon a similar hole was discovered in Venus. Astronomers were shocked and questioned if these planets are hollow inside and what they have in their cores.
New Physics, new Geography
Russian Physicist Fedor Nevolin became famous after composing the theory of "New Physics". In other words, he explained the birth of the Earth in a different way.
First our planet was a huge cold lump wandering in the Universe. Being influenced by the Sun and the Universe energy, it was heated up to lava state and then started cooling up.
The crust covered the Earth. Meanwhile, the stuff under the crust continued boiling turning into gas, Nedelin believes. Gas expands when being heated. In the core of our planet hollow space aroused, and a part of gas went outside.
Big gas throwing out took place in the North and South Poles. Deep big holes aroused there.
Nedelin is sure the Earth is absolutely hollow inside and can even have a small Sun there.
The Sun energy penetrates there through the holes in the Poles and accumulates in the center.
If one supposes that the Earth is hollow inside and has its small Sun, there can be life as well.
This idea was indirectly confirmed by the report on an American high rank military commander to the North Pole. The report was made secret, and its details became known to the world press only recently.
The man who flew inside the hole.
In 1947 Vice-Admiral of the US Navy Richard Bird went for a research flight over the North Pole. Near the Pole he noticed an unusual spot colored in mixture of yellow, red and violet.
On approaching the spot the pilot could see something like a mountain chain. Bird flew over it and saw (this was his first impression) a mirage v forests, rivers, meadows with animals resembling mammoths.
He could also see weird flying machines and - a city with buildings built from rock crystal. He realized himself to be a second Columbus discovering a new continent! The air thermometer scale began lifting and stopped at +23 degrees Celsius. This was impossible for the North Pole. Radio for the connection with the air base did not work.
Bird's wife who read his register for the flight, told that Vice-Admiral contacted the representatives of the underground civilization who overtook us for one thousand years of development.
The inner planet surface residents resembled people in appearance, but were more beautiful and had the look of spirituality. They had no wars, they found new sources of energy which allowed to use vehicles engines, receive food and light from nothing.
Those people told Bird they tried to contact the outer surface of the Earth residents, but all their attempts were rejected, their flying machines were shot. Finally they decided to assist human beings only when they will be on the brink of self-destruction.
"Inner" Earth residents showed Bird all their civilization achievements and then escorted the pilot to the Pole hole to let him out to our outer word. On return home he discovered that the plane used the fuel for extra 2750 kilometers of flight.
The authorities recommended Vice-Admiral never tell anybody about the world he saw and put him under strict control for the rest of his life.
It appears that Snowden has testified about a well-known legend of Agartha in the form of UFO information.
Snowden’s testimony was as follows:
“The highest levels of government don’t know what to do about UFOs, and the official story that they are all merely weather balloons or natural phenomena has been clearly dismissed. If anything, these documents speak about UFOs as if they are surely guided by an intelligence beyond our own. As it turns out, the most credible and inexplicable sightings are of vehicles that have been spotted leaving the sea floor at hydrothermal vents and directly entering solar orbit.
“Because ballistic missile tracking systems and deep-sea sonar are kept as state secrets, scientists don’t have access to data about these objects. However, most of the contractors at DARPA are sure that there is a species more intelligent than homo sapiens living in the mantle of the Earth. It makes sense, if you think about it, because that is the only place where conditions have been more or less stable for billions of years. Extremophiles may live at different temperatures than us, but they have been able to thrive and develop intelligence at a seemingly accelerated rate. That’s not true, because they’ve simply evolved at the same rate, but without many of the vicissitudes which set back surface life . . .
“The president receives daily briefings about their activities. Analysts believe their technology to be so far advanced that we stand little chance of survival in any potential war. The general sentiment is that we are but ants from their perspective, so there is little chance they would empathize or attempt to communicate with us, and the current contingency plan is to detonate nuclear weapons in deep caverns to ‘sting’ the foe we have no hope of destroying in hopes it would discourage further attacks.”
Critics may allege that what the 30-year-old former NSA and CIA contractor can state with authority about our ultraterrestrial neighbors is already well-known. But the Ground-Penetrating Radar, or GPR, scans, which The Internet Chronicle has shared and confirmed with sources within intelligence community, will only serve to underscore popular bitterness over strategically timed earthquakes and tsunamis.
Just as PRISM shined a new light on goings-on in NSA’s ECHELON computer systems, revealed in the 1990s, the vast complexes of underground cities – laser-etched from pure diamond – apparent in the GPR scans will transform public debate about the balance between liberty and security.
Illustration by Bob Silberg. Figure of man riding flying carpet is from 1880 painting by Viktor Vasnetsov.
NASA
IN BRIEF
The Space Solar Power Initiative (SSPI), a collaboration between Caltech and Northrup Grumman, has developed a system of lightweight solar power tiles which can convert solar energy to radio waves and can be placed in orbit to beam power to an energy-thirsty Earth.
SOAKING IN THE SUN’S RAYS
One of the greatest challenges facing the 21st Century is the issue of power—how to generate enough of it, how to manufacture it cheaply and with the least amount of harmful side-effects, and how to get it to users.
The solutions will have to be very creative—rather like what the Space Solar Power Initiative(SSPI), a partnership between Caltech and Northrup Grumman, has devised.
Prototype of the “multifunctional tile.” Credit: Caltech
“What we’re proposing, somewhat audaciously, is to develop the technology that would enable one to build the largest-ever-built space structures,” says Harry Atwater, a Caltech professor and member of SSPI.
The idea, for beaming solar energy to Earth from space, is ingenious, simple, and may just work—given the needed investment and financial backing. SSPI has engineered a modular approach which ensures low-cost and redundancy. The basic unit is a “multifunctional tile,” a lightweight photovoltaic segment that measures 10 x 10 cm (4 x 4 in), is only 3 cm (1 in) thick, weighs about 0.8 gram (0.03 oz.), and can flatten when assembled for launch.
400 of these basic tiles are assembled into panels, with 900 panels per satellite. Each of these “carpet” satellites can be folded into a small space for launch, and unfurl once in orbit to its full size, about two-thirds the size of a football field.
The concept involves 2500 of these satellites flying in a close formation, forming a solar power surface of 9 square kilometers (3.5 square miles). Each tile is capable of converting solar power into transmissible radio energy, which can be beamed to (and received on) Earth.
POWER FOR ALL
SSPI’s design for modular, space-based solar power. Credit: NASA
The beauty of this system is that there is no need for a costly energy infrastructure on the Earth. This means remote and impoverished regions, lacking a groundwork for energy transmission, are easily furnished with this space-based solar power. Simple antennas and receiving stations are all that’s needed.
Meanwhile, the lightweight tiles—which are cheaply manufactured—mean for a more robust space system. The usual wear and tear of long-term spacecraft, such as solar flare or micrometeorite damage, might knock out a tile or two, but wouldn’t be catastrophic to the spacecraft as a whole.
It’s an intriguing concept, and one well worth the investment. With enough interest, and a mobilization of the electronics industry to build the tiles, and the private space industry to transport them to space, it may just be the future of energy.
An Infant, Rogue Planet Has Been Found Lurking in Our Solar Neighborhood
An Infant, Rogue Planet Has Been Found Lurking in Our Solar Neighborhood
TNS / SETI Institute / Danielle Fuselaar and Franck Marchis
IN BRIEF
Astronomers from Carnegie and the University of Western Ontario have detected the youngest free-floating planet found to date, and it's only 95 light-years away.
THE WANDERER
A team of astronomers has detected a giant, free-floating planet some 4 to 8 times the mass of Jupiter in our neighborhood. The planet is kind of a missing link on the evolutionary scale, existing somewhere in between planets and the “failed stars” known as brown dwarfs.
The object is a “planet” in the truest sense of the word, as the term is derived from the Greekplanētes, “wanderers.” It bears the unromantic mouthful 2MASS J1119-1137 for a name, and it is located some 95 light-years away, which is practically next door from a galactic perspective.
Spotting 2MASS J1119-1137, and recognizing it for it was, took a little detective work. Astronomers have been fooled before—sometimes, something that seems planet-like and nearby turns out to really be nothing more than an old, dying red star, far away in some distant quarter of the galaxy, emitting its final gasps of radiation in the cool infrared.
A COSMIC NEWCOMER
Uncertain of what they had actually found, the team immediately ran the object’s spectrum through the FLAMINGOS-2 spectrograph on the Gemini South telescope in Chile—akin to getting its full DNA profile.
And the results proved that 2MASS J1119-1137 was no distant red giant; it was indeed nearby, and quite small and young. And that was the other half of the problem—determining its age.
They knew 2MASS J1119-1137 must be quite young, since it shone so brightly in the infrared, a pretty sure sign the tiny object retained the latent heat of a recent birth. Through a sophisticated series of line-of-sight measurements, the team determined that the planet was moving with an identical motion and velocity to a cluster of stars called the TW Hydrae association.
This cluster was known to be only 10 million years old; therefore, 2MASS J1119-1137 must be of the same age. Which means it’s pretty young—infantile, in fact, considering our aged Sun clocks in at a great-grandfatherly 4.5 billion years. It’s the youngest free-floating planet known, beating out the previous record-holder, an object called PSO J318.5-22, which, at 23 million years old, is over twice the age of the new champion.
“Discovering free-floating planet analogs like 2MASS J1119-1137 and PSO J318.5−22 offers a great opportunity to study the nature of giant planets outside the Solar System,” observes Kendra Kellogg, lead author of the study.
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The outer door slammed shut and a deathly hush descended on the tiny soundproofed room. Half an hour in here, lying in a kind of dentist's reclining chair, might have seemed a restful prospect - except for the converted motorcycle helmet on my head. Embedded in either side of it, just above my ears, were sets of solenoids. Soon these would be delivering pulses of a magnetic field designed to mimic the firing patterns of neurons in the temporal lobes of the brain.
Welcome to the laboratory of Michael Persinger, a neuro-scientist at Laurentian University of Sudbury, Ontario. Persinger has long claimed that mystical experiences, out-of- the-body excursions and other psychic experiences are linked in some way to excessive bursts of electrical activity in the temporal lobes. It is known that people vary in what is called "temporal lobe lability''. People with high lability have very ''unstable'' temporal lobes with frequent bursts of electrical activity that can be seen on an EEG (electroencephalograph). Such people tend, he claims to be anxious and judgmental as well as artistic. People with low lability, by contrast, rarely show bursts of activity in their temporal lobes and are much less imaginative.
Researchers don't need expensive EEG tests to measure temporal lobe lability. Instead they can use questionnaires designed to test a wide range of experiences and beliefs, from deja vu to headaches. In a series of studies of this kind, questioning about several hundred people in all, Persinger has found that people with high lability more frequently report sensations of floating, flying or leaving the body as well as mystical and psychic experiences. At the extreme end of the scale are people with temporal lobe epilepsy Their temporal lobes produce the violent, synchronized electrical activity associated with seizures - and sometimes they too report deja vu, mystical feelings, odd sensations or hallucinations just before a seizure.
One final connection may be that abnormal temporal lobe activity can occur in response to a lack of oxygen. Persinger is one of several scientists who have argued that this is why people who come close to death experience tunnels, lights and sensations of leaving the body.
In the end, however, these observations are nothing more than correlations They don't prove that neural activity in the temporal lobes causes psychic experiences -or even that it is an effect of psychic experience. What has been missing is a direct demonstration that specific experiences can be created by specific firing of neurons in this part of the brain. Hence the soundproofed room, helmet and magnetic pulses. Persinger believed that by applying magnetic fields across the brain he could cause bursts of firing in the temporal lobes - bursts just like those associated with the odd experiences. If he could produce the experiences this way, the link with the temporal lobes would be certain.
The reason I was willing to subject myself to this procedure was not just idle curiosity The BBC's science programme Horizon had asked me to investigate the origin of the latest American craze in crazy experience - abduction by aliens. The details vary. Not everyone claims to have been taken from their bedroom. Some report abductions from their cars or in the street. And many abductees, although not all, say that they saw children or babies while they were "away". Despite that, the stories are more remarkable for their consistency than their differences. A typical report might run as follows.
"I woke up in the middle of the night and everything looked odd and strangely lit. At the end of my bed was a 4 feet high grey alien. Its spindly, thin body supported a huge head with two enormous, slanted, liquid black eyes. It compelled me, telepathically, to follow and led me into a spaceship, along curved corridors to an examination room full of tables on which other people lay. I was forced to lie down while they painfully examined me, extracted ova (or sperm) and implanted something in my nose. I could see jars containing half-human, half-alien fetuses and a nursery full of silent sickly children. When I eventually found myself back in bed, several hours had gone by."
Some abductees recall their experiences in full detail, but for many the "memories" emerge only when they take themselves to a therapist for hypnotic regression. These tales are easy to mock. Why do the aliens always pick Americans? How come they are clever enough to teleport through walls, and to read and erase our memories - but all we have to do to defeat them is a little hypnosis? And if they really put implants in people's noses, how come these always seem to be sneezed out?
Mind works
Maybe abduction accounts are merely the delusions of the disturbed or the mentally ill. This is easy to counter. Studies of abductees have shown that they are of at least average intelligence, from a wide range of social classes and show no particular signs of mental disturbance or pathology. So what is the explanation? Are alien abduction stories telling us sometime about the way the mind works?
The fundamental question for neuroscience is the precise relationship between subjective experience and neural firing. In some cases things are relatively simple. A flash of light, for example, produces a cascade of electrical responses at the back of the cortex, while listening to someone speak produces a burst of activity in the left hemisphere. Far less obvious, though, is how patterns of brain activity produce complex subjective states - such as the sensation of having been abducted by an alien.
Things are complicated by the fact that some abductors only ''recall'' their experiences under hypnosis. Maybe the hypnotists implanted the ideas, creating "memories" of things that never happened. This takes us to the broader issue of false memories (see "When memory plays us false", New Scientist, 23 July). The key thing here is that ''false memories" are not so different from "true memories''. In a sense, all memories are false. There is no tape recorder in the brain. Rather, research suggests that we use stored information to reconstruct accounts of past events When we retell those events, it is easy to recall our own retelling more clearly than the original experience - even if we've exaggerated it a bit along the way. How, then, can we decide which memories were "real" and which imagined? There is no magic way to the right answer, and some theorists think it just depends on how readily available an image is. If it is clear and detailed and easy to bring to mind, it will be remembered as "real".
When memory is seen this way the phenomenon of false memory seems less bizarre. Take recent experiments by Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist from Seattle, Washington. She invited volunteers into her laboratory and tried to implant in them the "memory'' of being lost in a shopping mall as a young child. The subjects had never actually been lost this way (as far as anyone knew) but their relatives took part by 'reminding'' them of the event. Afterwards the subjects ''remembered'' the events clearly and, even when Loftus tried to debrief them, some remained convinced that it had happened.
What does this tell us about alien abductions? First, we must not be diverted by the red herring of hypnosis. Not all abductees are hypnotised, and "false memories'' can be created without hypnosis. If you come up with a fantasy of an abduction, then you may well recall it as though it is real whether or not hypnosis is involved.
However, false memory cannot be the whole story. In general, we are quite good at distinguishing fantasy from reality, in spite of the blurred edges, and we do not create false memories entirely out of the blue. Even if false memory plays a role in alien abduction episodes, wouldn't there have to be some kind of core event to build the fantasies around? If so, what might this event be?
One suggestion is sleep paralysis. During normal REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, when the majority of dreams occur, the skeletal muscles are paralysed. This is presumably so that we do not act out our dreams, as animals have been shown to do when the brain centres controlling sleep are suppressed Normally, we are unaware of this, but occasionally we can become mentally alert while the paralysis persists. Waking up this way can be extremely unpleasant. Yet it is quite common, surveys show that about 20 per cent of people have experienced sleep paralysis at some time or another.
Trying to move - and failing - makes it worse and often provokes the sense that there is someone or something trying to squash, strangle or suffocate you. Sexual arousal during dreams is common and may add a particularly powerful edge to the experience.
Some cultures have built elaborate myths around sleep paralysis. Fabled demons, the incubus and succubus, come to have sex with their unwilling victims in the dead of night, and during the Middle Ages many a virgin or nun was reputedly visited by the evil incubi who came to tempt them. In myths common in Newfoundland, the Old Hag comes and presses on sleepers' chests, suffocating them and preventing them from moving. And the hill people of Laos and Vietnam talk of a Grey Ghost who paralyses victims in the dark.
Alien abductions may just be a modern equivalent of a sleep paralysis myth. It makes sense that in late 20th century Western culture the spaceship and the alien would form its basis. But why the odd lights and other consistent features?
Eerie lighting is common in another kind of sleep disturbance - the false awakening - in which you dream you have woken up. Although you are convinced you are awake, things don't look quite right and familiar objects can seem lit from within. In this state anything is possible because you are still dreaming, but the apparent familiarity of the environment means that the experiences are more likely to be interpreted as real. This is one variety of what Celia Green, a parapsychologist with an independent laboratory in Oxford, refers to as a "metachoric experience'' where the perceived world is replaced by an imagined replica.
A link between sleep disturbance and apparent abductions is lent some support by the research of the late Nicholas Spanos and his colleagues at Carleton University in Ottawa. They compared groups of people who had had intense UFO experiences, such as abduction, with those who had had less intense experiences and found that the former were more often related to sleep.
Floating or flying
But even if sleep phenomena are part of the answer, that doesn't explain the sense of being taken away bodily, of flying or floating and going on a journey. Enter Persinger and his idea that abduction-like experiences are caused by complex patterns of atoms in the temporal lobes. He argues that people with very labile temporal lobes will naturally have such experiences from time to time. These are particularly likely to occur during sleep and so these people might easily wake up with odd bodily sensations and feelings of floating or flying.
In addition, magnetic effects from earthquakes could be strong enough to set off the necessary firing. To test this he looked for, and found, a strong link between the dates of seismic events and claims of UF0 sightings, abductions and other strange phenomena from past centuries. Nor can hysteria and fear be the sole explanations, he argues. Reports of strange experiences peaked in the weeks and months before earthquakes, says Persinger, when magnetic changes might have been happening, but little else to suggest an imminent seismic event.
Those who believe that abductions really happen have tried to counter this theory by showing that abductees do not score higher on measures of temporal lobe lability. But arguments have raged over whether enough people were tested, and whether their experiences were really abductions. Now, in a bid to settle the issue, Persinger is turning to direct simulations. And this is where my experiences in the lab chamber come into the picture.
I was wide awake throughout. Nothing seemed to happen for the first ten minutes or so. Instructed to describe aloud anything that happened, I felt under pressure to say something, anything. Then suddenly my doubts vanished. "I'm swaying. It's like being on a hammock.” Then it felt for all the world as though two hands had grabbed my shoulders and were bodily yanking me upright. I knew I was still lying in the reclining chair, but someone, or something, was pulling me up.
Something seemed to get hold of my leg and pull it, distort it, and drag it up the wall. It felt as though I had been stretched half way up to the ceiling. Then came the emotions. Totally out of the blue, but intensely and vividly I suddenly felt angry - not just mildly cross but that clear-minded anger out of which you act - but there was nothing and no one to act on. After perhaps ten seconds, it was gone. Later, it was replaced by an equally sudden attack of fear. I was terrified - of nothing in particular. The long term medical effects of applying strong magnetic fields to the brain are largely unknown, but I felt weak and disoriented for a couple of hours after coming out of the chamber.
Of course, I knew that it was all caused by the magnetic field changes, but what would people feel if such things happened spontaneously in the middle of the night? Wouldn't they want, above all, to find an explanation, to find out who had been doing it to them? If someone told them an alien was responsible and invited them to join an abductees' support group, wouldn't some of them seize on the idea, if only to reassure themselves that they weren't going mad?
One last thought. Persinger applied a silent and invisible force to my brain and created a specific experience for me He claimed that he was imitating the basic sequences of the processes of memory and perception and that, by varying those sequences, he could control my experience. Could he have done it from a distance? Could it be done on a wider scale? Suddenly prospects of magnetic mind control seem an awful lot worse than the idea of being abducted by imaginary aliens.
For at least 78 people in Toronto, the truth was also flying right in front of their eyes during 2015, according to the annual Canadian UFO survey.
Conducted by Winnipeg-based Ufology Research, the survey compiles reported UFO sightings across Canada each year appearing in various sources, most of them online. Each year, the group publishes those reports, assigning ratings to each based on strangeness, believability and number of witnesses.
In 2015, Toronto and the surrounding area saw 78 UFOs, ranking below only Montreal, with 97 reports. Toronto’s numbers declined this year, even though total sightings in Canada have gone up. In 2013, the city had 111 sightings, while in 2012 it had 107.
Cataloguing UFO sightings might sound like the work of true believers, but Chris Rutkowski, a science writer and one of the researchers at Ufology research, said the group is only probing for the truth.
“There’s a lot of speculation and sensational information that’s all over the Internet regarding UFOs, but we were concerned that there’s not enough good data in the sense of what is really being seen by people,” Rutkowski said.
What people see, it turns out, can vary wildly. The group takes in all reports, even those of people claiming to be alien hybrids — one reporter in Hamilton claimed to be one of them stranded on Earth, using electromagnetic waves to keep hidden.
The reports are ranked on believability, taking together the number of witnesses, photographic evidence and sometimes interviews with the witnesses.
Rutkowski acknowledged that only about 10 to 12 per cent of sightings are unexplained, and an even smaller percentage — between one and three per cent — are really high-quality unexplained UFOs. Still, with a total of 17,000 sightings since the group started tracking data in 1989, those one to three per cent add up, he said.
“Those are, for example, by pilots, where there is documentation, and we’ve had the chance to speak with the individuals and look at flight plans,” he said.
One such UFO appeared in Toronto in October, when an early-morning observer saw a golden-hued diamond floating above the city. The incident made it into the report’s list of most interesting unexplained UFO sightings.
Skeptics might be surprised to learn that Rutkowski has never seen a UFO, despite an astronomy background and a lifetime of interest in the phenomenon.
“I’ve been out several times looking … for quite a number of years, but nothing has gone by that really made me shake my head and wonder,” he said.
Rutkowski considers himself an agnostic as to whether alien life is out there, visiting us in fast-moving, but shy, saucers, but he thinks people should take UFOs seriously, even if purely as a social phenomenon.
“Whether … there’s aliens visiting us, or there’s a natural phenomenon that needs studying, or perhaps there’s military exercises that are increasing in frequency, this is a real phenomenon and shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand,” he said.
Weird sights over Canadian skies
A photo of a purported UFO seen in Toronto last Oct. 11, which ranked relatively high on the believability scale of a Canadian UFO survey.
Here is a sample of the potentially extraterrestrial sightings Canadians had in 2015:
Jan. 21, 2015 — Fort McMurray, Alta.
Spotted at 10:22 p.m. and classified as a nocturnal light, it was described by the person who reported it as “multicoloured lights flying around changing directions.” The report received a four on the believability scale, which ranges from one to nine, one having the lowest reliability. (The highest rating on any report received in 2015 was seven.)
Jan. 21, 2015 — Fredericton, NB.
Seen for about two hours, this UFO was described as a “stationary light in the sky that appears to change colours,” though it’s hard to make out in the photo. Like the sighting in Fort McMurray, it received a four on the reliability scale.
June 14, 2015 — Summerside, PEI.
The description in the survey calls this UFO only an “object in the sky,” but the photo appears to show a saucer-shaped object hovering or flying over a field. It also received a four on the believability scale.
Oct. 3, 2015 — Vernon, B.C.
This photo scores even lower on the believability scale — a three — and the entry in the database include the question “photoshopped?” It appears to show three white lights close to the ground in Vernon, B.C. The photo also appears to be second-hand, showing a computer monitor showing the photo, instead of the photo directly.
Oct. 11, 2015 — Toronto
This is one of the more believable UFO accounts, meriting a seven on the believability scale. The person who submitted the report described the UFO as a golden-hued, diamond-shaped object that changed colour, “from white to pink to green to near metallic to blue.” The event was also given an “unknown” in the survey explanation field, which means researchers couldn’t come up with a plausible explanation for the object.
UFO watchers were able to spot a Millennium Falcon-like metal object above the Earth via NASA live feed from the International Space Station. The incident, however, was faced with controversy after NASA cut the broadcast. (Photo : Vladimir Pustovit | Flickr)
A UFO watcher spotted a millennium falcon-like metal object while watching a NASA live feed from the International Space Station, drawing questions and pushing the space agency to explain.
The so-called metal spaceship is said to look like it belongs to aStar Wars production set. However, NASA has yet to confirm anything.
Surprising Experience
Among the UFO watchers who got a firsthand experience of seeing the metal object was 20-year-old Jadon Beeson from Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, United Kingdom.
Beeson was watching the live stream footage on his phone on April 5 when he unexpectedly noticed a bizarre-looking object in the background of the actual clip.
He took a closer look and realized that a metal object is above the Earth. He further describes it as having a blue glow and that it remained in its spot for approximately two minutes.
Beeson was able to get a screenshot of what he saw. He sent the photo to NASA, along with his message of inquiry and request for explanation. Up until now, the space agency has not yet responded or made a statement.
The Millennium Falcon-like Metal Object
Beeson described the object as having similar features with the Millennium Falcon, which is one of the spaceships in the Star Wars movies. He adds that it can also pass as an object from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a 1977 fantasy movie whose main characters attempted to contact aliens.
He considers the object very strange, but admits that he has no idea about what it really was. He then hopes that experts can help him find out.
Live Feed Cut
The live feed, which may be viewed from the NASA app for free, was cut short after the suspected UFO surfaced from the gadget screens of Earthlings looking intently at the footage at that time. Such move by the space agency sparks controversies, especially because it has not provided any explanation yet.
This is not the first time that NASA cut its live feed from the ISS. In 2015, people saw what look like UFOs zooming away from the Earth. What's strange is that NASA cut the feed in the middle of the broadcast.
Such action of NASA raises allegations that it is trying to cover up the presence of possible UFOs lurking near the planet.
He said: “I was watching the live stream on my iPhone on Tuesday night and I popped away to see my neighbours and came back an hour later – I had left the stream on on my phone.
“I looked and realised there was a metal object above the earth. It had a blue glow to it and it stayed there for about two minutes.
“It was a metallic object, it looks like a Millennium Falcon from Star Wars or something from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
“I thought it was all very strange.”
The space agency are yet to comment on Beeson’s images.
In the past, NASA have explained that space debris could explain UFO claims.
Ce que les archéologue pensent être un pendentif triangulaire en schiste décoré a été découvert à Star Carr dans le nord du Yorkshire, en Angleterre. Le plus étonnant est qu'un réseau énigmatique de lignes a été gravé sur ce pendentif découvert lors de nouvelles fouilles du Postglacial project de l'University of York sur ce site déjà bien connu et daté du Mésolithique. Il s'agit donc d'un objet gravé il y a au moins 11.000 ans car ce site préhistorique a été l'un des premiers en Grande -Bretagne a être habité en permanence, après la fin de la dernière période glaciaire. Une période où les îles Britanniques ont probablement été dépeuplées à cause de la montée des eaux des fleuves et de la mer.
Ce pendentif de protection, d'après les archéologues, est a relier à d'autres pendentifs mais en ambre, de la même période, trouvés au Danemark, région qui était alors encore accessible par voie terrestre de la Grande-Bretagne et inversement. Les chercheurs croient que les gravures peuvent représenter un arbre, une carte, une feuille, ou des marques de pointage.
"Personnellement, je suis plus heureux avec l'idée qu'ils comptaient quelque chose", dit Nicky Milner, de l'Université de York, " mais c'est impossible de le dire avec certitude".
Le professeur Nicky Milner du département d’archéologie de l’université d’York ajoute qu’il pourrait avoir servi d’amulette de protection pour un chaman. En effet, des coiffes fabriquées à partir de bois de cerfs, portées probablement par un ou plusieurs chamans, ont en effet été découvertes à proximité du lieu où se trouvait le pendentif. Cette découverte liée au chamanisme préhistorique a peut-être une signification spirituelle car les chercheurs ont bien failli la louper. Effectivement, l’artefact a été découvert sur l’ancien emplacement d’un lac et des sédiments s’étaient infiltrés dans les gravures et le trou du pendentif. A tel point que les archéologues pensaient initialement avoir à faire à une simple pierre. Fort heureusement, la microscopie numérique a permis à l’objet de se révéler.
Le Dr Chantal Conneller, de l'Université de Manchester, a déclaré : " Cette découverte passionnante nous parle de l'art des premiers colons permanents de la Grande-Bretagne après la dernière période glaciaire. Ce fut un temps où le niveau de la mer était beaucoup plus bas qu'aujourd'hui. Des groupes de gens traversaient alors le Doggerland (terre maintenant sous la mer du Nord) et jusqu'en Grande-Bretagne.
"Les dessins sur notre pendentif sont semblables à ceux trouvés dans le sud de la Scandinavie et d'autres régions bordant la mer du Nord, montrant un lien culturel étroit entre les groupes d'Europe du Nord à cette époque".
Canadian survey reports increased UFO sightings in 2015
Canadian survey reports increased UFO sightings in 2015
By Daniel Uria
The Canadian UFO survey was released on Monday and reported the second highest number of UFO sightings in 30 years. An overall increase in UFO sightings was reported across the country including a massive upswing in Quebec, where 35 percent of the sightings for the year occurred. A total of 12 percent of the sightings were classified as unexplained with the remainder being simple lights in the sky or cell phone towers. Photo by M. Cornelius/Shutterstock
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, April 12 (UPI) -- A survey of UFO sightings in Canada found that the country saw a general increase in reported sightings in 2015 and the second highest totals in 30 years.
The Canadian UFO survey was released on Monday, revealing statistics about various sightings that took place throughout the country in 2015.
According to the survey, three or four UFO sightings a day were reported adding up to a total of 1,267 for the entire year. The total ranked second only to 2012 when 1,981 reports were made in the midst of the end of the world predictions based on the Mayan calendar.
The 2015 Canadian UFO Survey: Summary of Results
There were 1,267 UFO sightings reported in Canada in 2015, or about three or four each day.
2015 saw the second-highest number of UFO sightings recorded in Canada during the last 30 years, second only to 1,981 reports in 2012, when media attention and pop culture brought attention to the so-called “end of the world” in 2012 according to the Mayan Calendar. There were 1,180 reports in 2013 and 1,021 reports in 2014.
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland had more reported UFOs in 2015 compared with 2014.
In 2015, Quebec had about 35 per cent of all Canadian UFO reports, much more than in previous years, when the percentage was between 5 and 15 per cent. In 2015, slightly less than 12 per cent of all UFO reports were classified as unexplained.
The typical UFO sighting lasted approximately 16 minutes in 2015.
"That ranges from reports from B.C. right across to Newfoundland," science writer Chris Rutkowski, who was one of the writers of the report told the CBC. "We're very puzzled because we don't hear a lot about UFOs anymore although the UFO sightings continue to come in...in 2015, there was an unusual number of cases from Quebec, in fact three or four times."
Several theories for the increase in UFO sightings were presented in the study, including possible increases in military testing and other objects in the sky, increased ability to share and report sightings due to the internet and even an increased desire by some people to look skyward for assistance due to economic downturn.
The study accounts for explainable phenomenon such as lights in the sky and reported that in 2015 just less than 12 percent of all UFO sightings were classified as unexplained.
"We do break those down into high quality cases, where we do have enough information from a number of sources – investigators have gone to a site or we've talked to the witnesses," Rutkowski said. "It brings the unexplained numbers to a more manageable number of one or two or three percent."
Experts verdeeld over ‘bouwwerk van beschaving die zijn tijd ver vooruit was’
Experts verdeeld over ‘bouwwerk van beschaving die zijn tijd ver vooruit was’
Een reusachtige bal die is ontdekt in Bosnië, is momenteel hét onderwerp van gesprek onder archeologen. Als we de Bosnische archeoloog Semir Osmanagic mogen geloven is het de oudste en zwaarste steen die werd gemaakt door mensenhanden.
Hij claimt dat de perfect ronde bol, met een omtrek van 8 tot 10 meter, 1500 jaar oud is en werd achtergelaten door een oude beschaving die zijn tijd ver vooruit was. Hij wordt gesteund door zijn collega-onderzoeker Sam Osmanagic, die beweert dat er nog veel meer bollen zijn gevonden, maar dat deze in de jaren zeventig werden vernietigd omdat er volgens een legende goud in zat.
Natuurlijk proces
Sommige experts zetten vraagtekens bij de verklaring van de Bosnische Indiana Jones. President van de Europese Vereniging van Archeologen Anthony Harding noemt de bewering van Osmanagic bijvoorbeeld ‘een totale absurditeit’.
Mandy Edwards van de Universiteit van Manchester beweert dat de gigantische bal in Podubravlje is ontstaan door een natuurlijk proces van sedimentatie. Het is nu aan Osmanagic om te bewijzen dat hij gelijk heeft.
Vergevorderde technieken
“Deze bol bewijst dat de mensen in dit gebied vergevorderde technieken hadden om objecten te maken,” zei hij. “We hebben hier nooit eerder over geschreven. Maar als ik gelijk heb, is dit de grootse en zwaarste bol ooit gevonden in Europa.”
Osmanagic haalde in 2005 het nieuws met een vondst in Visoko. Hij denkt aan te kunnen tonen dat een cluster van heuvels uit piramides bestond. Eén daarvan zou zelfs groter zijn dan de Grote Piramide van Gizeh.
UFO'S MET INZITTENDEN TERUG BOVEN TURKYE ( VIDEO )
UFO'S MET INZITTENDEN TERUG BOVEN TURKYE ( VIDEO )
In 2007 werden opnames gemaakt die behoren tot de meest spectaculaire ooit van een UFO met inzittenden boven Turkije.
Nu zijn er opnieuw beelden gemaakt van een UFO boven de zee bij Turkije en er zijn mensen die denken dat het om dezelfde gaat als die die al eerder is gezien.
Eén van de meest spectaculaire UFO opnames ooit werden gemaakt in Turkije in 2007. Een nachtwaker slaagde er nacht na nacht in prachtige opnames te maken waarbij zelfs de inzittenden zichtbaar waren.
Nu lijkt het erop alsof dezelfde soort UFO na een afwezigheid van zo’n negen jaar weer terug is. Vorige week is er door een aantal mensen in een hotel in de badplaats Antalya een aantal foto’s genomen.
De getuigen vertellen het volgende:
Wij bevonden ons in een hotel in Antalya. We zaten wat met de hele familie met elkaar te praten.
Opeens zagen wij een glinsterend object dat vreemd bewegingen maakte. Wij dachten eerst dat het een met helium gevulde ballon, metallic ballon was.
Eerst ging het naar het noorden, kwam toen terug en bleef boven de zee hangen. We waren heel verbaasd en hebben vijf verschillende foto’s gemaakt met een Canon zoom lens.
Als je naar de foto’s kijkt, lijkt het in eerste instantie alsof er een deur wordt geopend en in de laatste zie je duidelijk de bekende UFO vorm. Toen wij een zesde foto wilden nemen, was het opeens verdwenen.
Iemand die veel tijd heeft besteed aan het UFO fenomeen in Turkije, waaronder ook de waarnemingen van 2007, is Scott Waring. Hij zegt ervan overtuigd te zijn dat de UFO die we hierboven zien, verband houdt met die uit 2007 of misschien wel dezelfde is.
Daarnaast is hij ervan overtuigd dat er zich ergens voor de Turkse kust een UFO onderwaterbasis bevindt.
Enkele van de meest spectaculaire UFO-opnames ooit zijn ook gefilmd in Turkije. Het begon in 2007 met beelden gemaakt door de nachtwaker Yalcin Yalmin in de Turkse plaats Kumburgaz. Deze opnames waren dermate spectaculair dat zelfs de inzittenden, Grey Aliens, werden vastgelegd op de film.
Deze opnames haalden de Turkse media en de videofilm van Yalmin werd door allerlei experts onderzocht en bleek echt te zijn. (Redactie: kijk goed naar de beelden en laat het eens écht inzinken.... dit is realiteit! Er is Disclosure, ook door watMedvedev nu voor de camera heeft gezegd en nog steeds wordt er op een manier over gesproken onder mensen alsof die Disclosure nog moet komen. Die is er al!) In 2008 werd nogmaals hetzelfde object op de film vastgelegd. Dit wekte ook de belangstelling van onderzoeker Dr. Roger Leir die zelf afreisde naar Turkije en er persoonlijk in slaagde om in 2009 ook wederom deze zelfde UFO te filmen.
In de hiernavolgende video zijn de opnames te zien die in 2007, 2008 en 2009 zijn gemaakt met een toelichting van Dr. Roger Leir.
Het is afkomstig uit hetzelfde artikel dat prominent in beeld kwam toen Filemon in maart 2014 op bezoek kwam voor het maken van een reportage voor de BNN Social Club.
Mensen die zelf UFO’s waargenomen hebben, hoeven niet overtuigd te worden van hun bestaan. Het zijn mensen die zelf nog nooit iets vreemds hebben gezien die soms moeite hebben met het geloven van verhalen.
Hoe de indrukken kunnen zijn van dergelijke gebeurtenissen wordt bevestigd door het volgende bericht dat wij enkele dagen geleden van een lezer ontvingen (dank!):
Ik heb ooit eens 'iets gezien dat niet van deze wereld is. Het was begin augustus 1961 rond 13 uur in de namiddag.
Ik woonde toen te Gent-Sint-Amandsberg. Het jaar van mijn plechtige communie. Ik was toen 12.
Het was een zonnige dag. Er was omzeggens geen wolkje te zien. Ik kan me nog de plaats herinneren waar ik stond toen ik ineens heel hoog in de lucht een felle schittering zag verschijnen.
En dit object bewoog zich ten opzichte van mij van rechts naar links terwijl het steeds groter werd en het dus aan het dalen was. Links van mij is het dan minuten lang roerloos in de lucht blijven hangen en had een zichtbare grote van zo'n 2 meter.
Het was een soort ronde disc met langs de bovenkant een soort van ramen. Kleur zowat grijs-zilverachtig en op diverse plaatsen zwart geblakerd. Ik was toen niet alleen. Veel mensen hebben het gezien. Wanneer het terug in beweging kwam is het binnen de 2 seconden hoog in de lucht verdwenen. Er is van gans de tijd geen geluid van een motor te horen geweest.
Het is natuurlijk reeds lang geleden, maar wanneer je zo iets gezien hebt weet je het zeker. Dat kan onmogelijk van deze wereld zijn.
UFO Shoots Through Clouds Over Cali, Colombia, March 26, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shoots Through Clouds Over Cali, Colombia, March 26, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 26, 2016 Location of sighting: Santiago de Cali, Colombia This UFO is disk shaped and looks similar to the clouds themselves. Its speed is the only thing giving it away. It was caught by Mipropiosoft of Youtube. There are no wings or tail visible so its not a plane. I really wish he had a zoom lens so we could see this close up. Its not a meteor or comet because it has no tail. Odd one. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitnessstates: While recording a cloud for signs of a phenomenon called Jumping Sundogs (Saltarines Dogs) I found an object at high speed across the sky of the city of Santiago de Cali.
Evidence of giant aliens race found mingling with Native Americans, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Evidence of giant aliens race found mingling with Native Americans, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: April 12, 2016 Location of pipe: North Carolina, USA There are actually dozens of reports about contact or witnessing giant aliens (Friendship case, Rocca Pia) and even tiny 3cm tall aliens (Apollo 20 testimony by William Rutledge). There is also a powerful group on this planet that tries to prevent the discovery of such evidence by stealing it and making it disappear, so says records of almost all giant skeletons found around the world and in America. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com LA Marzulli of Youtube states: I was recently in Burnsville North Carolina speaking at a conference there. My host, Emily took to me to father's and uncle's store, Rings and Things and what they brought out from the back room was simply astonishing. IN this video you will see a very large pipe. Is it ceremonial as some main-stream anthropologist will insist, or does this pipe point to the veracity of the Native American Oral tradition which tells us Giants once roamed the land. Come with me as we explore what may be a Nephilim Artifact, with a special appearance by Chied Joseph Riverwind and Dr. Lauralynn Riverwind.
These two ships were brilliantly lit up so I added some contrast to bring out some of its detail. Its surface is cube like, but its design denotes intelligence. The 90 degree angles could not be made in nature. Also these UFO leave no trail like a comet or astroid would do. One day, humanity will be aware of these species and these ships, miles long will be docked over Earths major cities. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Streetcap1 states: Two structures in Space at point L1, one million miles away. Also a white object probably moving filmed over a 19.3 seconds open shutter, appears as a long object. Maybe one of ours meets one of theirs? Streetcap1.
Do aliens exist? Most compelling evidence of alien existence
Do aliens exist? Most compelling evidence of alien existence
Some say it’s obvious we’re not alone, others scorn the very idea and still others yet will hauntingly report their own experiences of alien probings following their casual night-time stroll through the fields of small town America. But with everything from increasingly bizarre reportings from increasingly credible sources, to basic mathematical probability suggesting the likelihood of alien life, these days, scepticism is harder won. Whatever your opinions, you may well find that the following examples have some impact on them.
Ancient evidence
It’s easy enough to write off much recent phenomena, quoting anything from wayward weather balloons to the perpetuation of the legend and UFO sightings in pop culture providing a cohesive image of extra terrestrials for eye witnesses to draw on should someone cry alien. But what’s slightly harder to dismiss is the ancient evidence (i.e. pre the National Enquirer). Enter the ‘The Madonna with Saint Giovannino’, otherwise known as the UFO painting.
"The Madonna with Saint Giovannino" Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons
Created in the 15th century, it depicts the Virgin Mary and in the backdrop of the painting, a man and his dog staring up at a hovering disk-like object that is suspiciously familiar. And this painting isn’t alone either, with everything from ancient cave paintings to Sanskrit Scrolls all depicting alien life. A sighting even crops up in the Bible in The Book of Ezekiel. Either this is compelling evidence, or humanity has a rich tradition of conspiracy theorists.
In the ancient city of Paracas, Peru, archeologists have uncovered mummified remains with elongated skulls dating back to 300 BC.
The famed crystal skulls of ancient Mesoamerica have been a source of mystery and controversy for decades. The handful of known skulls have defied even the most advanced scientific efforts to determine who made them, when, and most puzzling, how. This specimen, owned by the British Museum in London, was originally thought to have been made by the Aztec of Mexico but was later determined to be a fake.
Statistical data
Back in 1961, astronomer Frank Drake devised an equation by which he could estimate the likelihood of the existence of alien life, taking into account a number of factors including the average number of planets able to support life and the fraction that could go on to support intelligent life. This was then implemented in 2001. The result: statistically, hundreds of thousands of such planets should technically exist.
Unsolved sightings
There are more registered sightings of UFOs than there is the word count here to deal with them and the majority of the time, there’s a thorough debunking accompanying them. But throughout history there have been a number that have been harder to explain away, from the to 1853 sighting by a number of students and professors at the Tennessee College campus, to the oft quoted Stephenville Lights case from 2008, with over 200 witnesses spotting the UFO including three policemen who remained anonymous. Consider these compelling cases unsolved.
Astronauts’ claims
If you’re going to believe any reports of UFOs, you might as well trust those coming from the men who have actually been to space (who usually also come with all their teeth and a P.H.D.). The list of those who have made claims of sightings includes Edgar Mitchell, Cady Coleman and Dr. Brian O’Leary, many also referencing government knowledge of alien existence and cover-ups. Buzz Aldrin has also spoken of his own experience on board the Apollo 11 when they saw something flying alongside them. At first they thought it was the final stage of the detached rocket, until mission control confirmed it was 6000 miles away from them…
Government files
While some US presidents have released classified files on the subject of UFOs, with Jimmy Carter famously describing his own encounter, others still have been denied access to classified information on the subject altogether, Bill Clinton claiming to be among them. This has led many believers to suggest there’s a cover up afoot. Clinton has been consistently vocal on the existence of aliens and it’s worth noting his opinions on an ‘Independence Day’ situation too. You know, just in case…
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Stephen Hawking wil ruimtevaartuig naar ster Alpha Centauri sturen
Stephen Hawking wil ruimtevaartuig naar ster Alpha Centauri sturen
Tim Kraaijvanger
Stephen Hawking en filantroop Yuri Milner hebben vanavond een nieuw wetenschappelijk project aangekondigd: Breakthrough Starshot. Het doel: een ruimtevaartuig in twintig jaar tijd naar de meest nabije buurster sturen.
Een licht ruimtevaartuig reist op een nader te bepalen tijdstip naar het nabije Alpha Centauri-systeem op een afstand van 4,37 lichtjaar bij de aarde vandaan. Dat is – omgerekend – zo’n 40 biljoen kilometer. Hawking en Milner willen dat deze ruimtesonde deze afstand in twintig jaar overbrugt, wat neerkomt op een snelheid van eenvijfde lichtminuut per minuut.
Aangezien een lichtseconde ongeveer 300.000 kilometer is, moet het ruimtevaartuig dus 60.000 kilometer per seconde afleggen. Dat is vijf keer de doorsnede van de aarde.
Het ruimtevaartuig reist op hoge snelheid naar Alpha Centauri.
Zeilen in de ruimte Hoe gaat dit duo dit plan verwezenlijken? Het ruimtevaartuig van Milner en Hawking weegt niet meer dan een vel papier en gebruikt een zeil – niet groter dan een gemiddelde vlieger – om voort te bewegen. Dit zeil is slechts enkele honderden atomen dik. Een gigantische laserstraal van 100 miljard watt raakt het zeil van dit ruimtevaartuig, waardoor het vliegende zeilbootje flink wordt versneld. Deze straal wordt afgevuurd vanaf een hoge en droge locatie, bijvoorbeeld de Atacamawoestijn in Chili.
Binnen vijftien jaar De verwachting is dat het ruimtevaartuig binnen vijftien jaar gelanceerd kan worden. Tenminste, als de ontwikkelingen op het gebied van nanotechnologie, lasers en microelektronica op het huidige tempo blijven doorgaan. Het feit dat een bekende wetenschapper als Stephen Hawking zijn naam verbindt aan het project is hoopgevend te noemen.
Foto’s van een andere wereld De missie gaat zo’n 100 miljoen dollar kosten. De grote vraag is: wat levert het op? Natuurlijk is het een fantastische prestatie dat een ruimtevaartuig een ander zonnestelsel kan bereiken. Wellicht kunnen er zelfs foto’s gemaakt worden, maar dat gaat spannend worden. Kunnen de gegevens een afstand van vier lichtjaar overbruggen? Hawking en Milner laten het er niet bij zitten en zijn van plan om een ontvanger te bouwen die de gegevens kan ontvangen. We krijgen wellicht voor het eerst foto’s van een andere wereld te zien.
Yuri Gagarin Het is bijzonder dat het project vandaag is aangekondigd. Het is namelijk 55 jaar geleden dat de Russische kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin voor het eerst een rondje om de aarde aflegde. Op Scientias.nl werd in 2011 het jubileum gevierd met een artikel over Gagarin.
Open Overlay GalleryThe engine on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket restarted at 3,635 feet above ground to get ready for its landing.
BLUE ORIGIN
IN BRIEF
Jeff Bezos' private spaceflight company just relaunched and relanded a rocket. It's the second time that Blue Origin has reused this particular New Shepard rocket and the third time the rocket has gone to space.
BLUE ORIGIN IS AT IT AGAIN
Blue Origin did a really cool thing – for the thirdtime. The private spaceflight company, owned and operated by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, successfully re-launched and re-landed its New Shepard rocket. This is the second time this particular reusable rocket has been launched, but the third time it has been to space (but not high enough to reach orbit).
So you might be thinking, this has already been done a few times. What’s new?
Blue Origin tweaked and added a couple new features to the spacecraft on its third journey. First, the engines restart at 1,097 meters (3,600 feet) in the air in order to gain more stability in sticking the landing. Second, the crew capsule separates from the rocket and lands with its own parachute. Third, two microgravity experiments were placed onboard.
The first experiment mimics the surface conditions on asteroids. Learn about it in the video below.
The second experiment mimics impacts between objects in microgravity. These experiments were investigated and constructed by the Southwest Research Institute, and a physics professor and students from the University of Central Florida, respectively. They couldn’t effectively be executed in the conditions that exist on Earth.
Hence, the voyage up.
THE CLASH OF TWO EGOS
Bezos is pretty darn happy about these accomplishments. But Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, has had his hands full as well.
The two commercial space companies are both in an arms race to create a better reusable rocket. Although Blue Origin claimed to be the first to land its rocket after going into space last November, SpaceX landed and went into orbit. That’s a pretty difficult feat to accomplish, and it requires a whole lot of energy.
Although Blue Origin posted some videos of successful landings, SpaceX records livestreams of its launches and landings for their audience. In any case, one thing is clear, this really is a race to space 2.0. Here’s a video from Blue Origin’s third trip and some spectacular images.
Curiosity Uncovers How Mysterious Mile-High Mounds Formed on the Red Planet
Curiosity Uncovers How Mysterious Mile-High Mounds Formed on the Red Planet
Image of Gale Crater, with the landing zone of the Curiosity rover (circled). The blue line shows where Curiosity has moved.
Credit: NASA/JPL- S
IN BRIEF
On Mars, water-filled craters transformed into dry, mile-high mounds with the help of wind, according to new research. The results explain the complexity of the Gale Crater (the Curiosity rover's landing site).
Now, recent images collected from the Curiosity rover gives us more evidence that water didn’t just exist on Mars in droplets—there was probably a proverbial ocean of it.
GALE CRATER
Curiosity shows that the Gale Crater was once filled with water. Now, it’s a mile-high mound of sedimentary (layered) rock. Curiosity’s detailed analysis of the mound shows that the sediments at the bottom of the mound came from water, while the top sediments were formed by wind. The strange geography of the mound is believed to be caused by Mars’ strong winds that shape the entire planet’s geology.
To test this theory, researchers created a mini-crater on Earth that measured 30 centimeters (12 inches) wide and 4 centimeters (1.6 inches) deep. They filled it with damp sand, then blasted it with wind. Results show the wind’s movement in relation to different stages of erosion.
This image shows the stages of evolution in Mars mounds (top), compared with the mound’s evolution in the wind tunnel experiment (bottom). Warmer colors represent higher elevations. SOURCE: Mackenzie Day.
THE SEARCH CONTINUES
“We went from a filled crater layer cake to this mounded shape that we see today,” saidMackenzie Day, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences. The resulting composition and structure that we see adds more evidence that Mars was once wetter and warmer in previous eons.
The subsequent analysis of 30 different Mars mounds links them to the Noachian period (3.7 billion years ago). The Noachian period could be the culprit in finding out the mystery of Mars’ water, as it’s believed to represent the beginning of its disappearance, turning the Red Planet into a dry and barren giant.
In juli 1947 was het Amerikaanse plaatsje Roswell in New Mexico enige tijd wereldnieuws in verband met het neerstorten van een buitenaardse UFO.
Nu is Rosswel weer in het nieuws, dit keer vanwege een groot hakenkruis in de woestijn en niemand weet waar het vandaan komt.
Via Google Earth worden soms de meest vreemde dingen ontdekt en zo ook het volgende vreemde hakenkruis of swastika in de woestijn van New Mexico in de buurt van Roswell.
Dan ontstaat natuurlijk een scala aan mogelijke verklaringen.
Het begint bij mensen die zeggen dat het er ligt sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog en dat het bij de training van geallieerde piloten werd gebruikt om te leren bommen op de juiste plek te laten vallen.
Anderen zeggen dat het te maken heeft met buitenaards contact en dat het is bedoeld als een soort locatiebaken voor buitenaardse schepen. Dat dit symbool helemaal niet geassocieerd dient te worden met de Nazi’s, maar dat het is bedoeld als een teken van goede wil voor onze buitenaardse vrienden.
Misschien wel de meest waarschijnlijke verklaring is dat het een symbool is dat in de oudheid al werd gebruikt door devroegere bewoners van Amerika.
Vijfduizend jaar geleden zouden Amerikaanse indianen het teken al gebruikt hebben. Ook van de Maya’s, Azteken en Vikingen is bekend dat ze het symbool gebruikten. En, hoewel het teken niet veel gebruikt werd in de zogenaamde Abrahamitische religies, in de vloer van een synagoge in Ein Gedi is, net als in enkele andere oude synagogen, ooit een swastika gevonden.
De oudste swastika’s die gevonden zijn, stammen van 2500 jaar voor Christus. Zowel in het hindoeïsme als boeddhisme is de swastika vaak te vinden op de borst of voeten van Boeddhabeelden. Nog steeds zijn veel tempels in India en Nepal versierd met swastika’s. Het teken wordt daar ook wel zonnerad genoemd en staat soms symbool voor de vier windstreken.
Stem Cell Technique Could Regenerate Any Human Tissue Damaged By Aging or Disease
Stem Cell Technique Could Regenerate Any Human Tissue Damaged By Aging or Disease
IN BRIEF
Taking their cue from salamander regeneration, a team led by the University of New South Wales says that a stem cell therapy capable of regenerating any human tissue damaged by injury, disease, or aging could be available within a few years, thanks to an innovative new technique.
STEM CELL CLAYFACE
While stem cells have worked wonders in medicinal research, showing signs of curing everything from spinal cord injuries to blindness, they’ve always had their shortcomings. But one study is promising a new “game changing” technique for stem cells.
Taking their cue from salamander regeneration, new research led by the University of New South Wales says that a stem cell therapy capable of regenerating any human tissue damaged by injury, disease, or aging could be available within a few years, through an innovative new technique.
The technique involves reprogramming bone and fat cells into “induced multipotent stem cells” (iMS). These cells are special in that they can regenerate multiple tissue types.
There are two kinds of stem cells: embryonic stem cells that during embryonic development generate every type of cell in the human body, and adult stem cells that are tissue-specific, and unable to regenerate multiple tissue types. Embryonic stem cells would be preferable, save that they are prone to form teratomas (tumors composed of different tissue types), and their use is highly controversial.
Credit: Michael Whitehead/UNSW
THE TECHNIQUE
The method used by the researchers is, quite frankly, amazing. They took bone and fat cells in mice, switched off their memory, and transformed them into stem cells.
To be specific, the technique involves extracting adult human fat cells and treating them with the compound 5-Azacytidine (AZA), along with platelet-derived growth factor-AB (PDGF-AB) for approximately two days. The cells are then treated with the growth factor alone for a further two to three weeks.
The AZA relaxes the hard-wiring of the cells by inducing cell plasticity, and this is expanded by the growth factor. Release the iMS into damaged tissue, and they will multiply, healing the tissue.
The technique is a huge step up from other stem-cell therapies, since embryonic stem cell therapies may form tumors, and others use viruses to transform cells into stem cells.
The current trials use iMS from adult human fat cells inserted into mice. Human trials for this technique are expected by late 2017.
If you’re talking about conspiracy theories, sooner or later you’re going to talk about extraterrestrial activity, be it ancient aliens, UFO sightings, abductions, or a combination of all three. Alien-based conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen, but one of them stands oversized grey head and shoulders above the rest, proving itself remarkably resilient even in the face of repeated debunkings: The crash at Roswell, New Mexico.
The Roswell UFO crash
Some time in June of 1947, something crashed to the earth on a ranch in the Roswell, New Mexico area. Something that, if you believe the conspiracy theorists, is, at the very least, a part of a UFO, if not a complete one, possibly including alien life forms, that may or may not have been experimented upon before or after their death. That’s a lot we just dropped on you, so let’s back up some. Here’s what we know.
On July 8, a press release was issued from the Roswell Army Air Field. This initial release acknowledged the crash and claimed that a “flying disc” had been recovered from it, and a subsequent statement from the Air Force claimed that the crash was simply a weather balloon that they had since recovered. They held a press conference, where they showed off wreckage from the crash that seemed to back up the weather balloon claim, and for a moment, it appeared that was that.
Here’s the sticky part though: The thing that crashed to the earth was not a weather balloon. This is not a conspiracy theory or a wild supposition, it’s a fact acknowledged by conspiracy theorists, skeptics and even the United States Air Force. The balloon that crashed to the earth in 1947 was actually part of Project Mogul, an initiative that involved using high-altitude balloons to keep tabs on the Soviet’s atomic bomb tests. But, seeing as the project was top secret at the time, the United Air Force kept the lid on the balloon’s true purpose, a fact that would later help to fuel the countless conspiracy theories around the crash.
Another piece of fuel for the Roswell conspiracy theory is the whole matter of “flying discs.” Prior to the discovery of the crash, civilians had reported sightings of flying discs in the area. Of course, while we can definitely understand how a balloon — especially at night — might resemble a flying disc, in hindsight, it was a poor choice of words for that initial press release, as “flying disc” is remarkably similar to a phrase most commonly associated with alien spacecraft: Flying saucers.
One of the most interesting things about the Roswell conspiracy theory is that it didn’t really pick up steam for more than 30 years. The Air Force’s weather balloon explanation — while not entirely truthful — was more or less accepted by pretty much everyone, until 1978.
That was the year that Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear physicist and author, kickstarted the conspiracy theories with his research into the event, which prominently featured interviews with Jesse Marcel, who accompanied the crash wreckage from its recovery site to the press conference. Two years later, The Roswell Incident was published, a book that, claiming to have interviewed more than 90 witnesses, suggested that the crash was a UFO that contained alien organisms.
Books about the crash site continued to be published through the nineties, as more and more “witnesses” came out of the shadows, and conspiracy theorists combined their reports, secondhand accounts and a general disbelief in official government stories to build up a massive corpus of oftentimes spurious research. In fact, there are so many books and theories about Roswell that the conspiracy theorists can no longer even agree on simple questions such as how the UFO crashed or how many bodies were recovered from it.
The biggest problem with all of these theories — aside from the fact that they took a full three decades to come to light — is the quality of the witnesses. Though The Roswell Incident claims to have interviewed more than 90 of them, only 25 appear in the book, only seven saw the crash’s wreckage, and of those, only five actually touched it. Other books about the subject share this problem, one where they assign firsthand weight to accounts that are, at absolute best, secondhand — and even that’s being generous.
As a result of the steadily growing interest in the Roswell incident, in 1994, the Air Force came clean about what actually crashed in the desert. It was then that they acknowledged that the crash was actually part of Project Mogul. Three years later, the Air Force even addressed reports of alien bodies, by suggesting that the rumors and conspiracy theories are a result of civilian sightings of casualties from military accidents or even just test dummies. Of course, as one might expect, conspiracy theorists discounted these statements as simply another layer of the cover up.
Another one of the more fascinating aspects of the Roswell conspiracy theories is that they feature practically no hard evidence. While other conspiracy theories can point to photos, videos, eyewitness accounts and a slew of other sources to point out inconsistencies in the official stories they are meant to debunk, when it comes to the Roswell UFO incident, it’s the conspiracy theories themselves that are riddled with inconsistencies and claims that are, quite simply, without any real basis in reality. Even the heavily publicized 1995 alien autopsy video was later revealed to be nothing more than a reconstruction of events that were said to have occurred.
Of course, none of that has kept the true believers from continuing to point at Roswell as an example of both UFO activity as well as the government’s commitment to covering it up, leading to it becoming one of America’s most enduring conspiracy theories.
What do you think? Was the 1947 crash near Roswell simply a test balloon, as the Air Force claims, or even now, almost 70 years later, are they still hiding what really happened? Tell us below in the comments.
Aubrey Sitterson is the creator of SKALD, the ongoing sword & sorcery serial podcast, available oniTunes, Stitcher & Podomatic. Follow him on Twitteror visit hiswebsitefor more information.
Northwestern University researchers have managed to 3D print ovaries for infertile mice, allowing them to resume their cycles and give birth.
THE NEWEST FERTILITY TREATMENT
What’s the newest method for treating infertility? 3D printing.
It seems there is no end to what 3D printing technology can create. This time, a group of scientists from Northwestern University managed to print a fully functional ovary that they implanted into mice that had their ovaries removed.
The team produced the ovaries from material similar to jello combined with living cells. Not only did the 3D printed ovaries allow the mice to resume their monthly cycle, they also managed to successfully give birth.
Egg cell under the microscope. Image credit: Shutterstock.com
The process is explained in the press release, “The researchers used a 3D printer to create a scaffold to support hormone-producing cells and immature egg cells, called oocytes. The structure was made out of gelatin – a biological material derived from the animal protein collagen. The scientists applied biological principles to manufacture the scaffold, which needed to be rigid enough to be handled during surgery and to provide enough space for oocyte growth, blood vessel formation and ovulation.”
BIOPROSTHESIS
While the study was conducted on mice, researchers have every intention of expanding it one day to develop a way to create an ovary bioprosthesis for women. This could restore fertility to women who survived cancer, a disease which raises the risk of infertility as adults, or help women who suffer from a host of other diseases and conditions.
“One of the biggest concerns for patients diagnosed with cancer is how the treatment may affect their fertility and hormone health,” said lead study author Monica M. Laronda, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “We are developing new ways to restore their quality of life by engineering ovary bioprosthesis implants.”
The materials used in the experiments are currently already used in humans, applied with a scalable 3D printing method and manufacturing techniques inspired by human biology.
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Matter: Definition & the Five States of Matter
Matter: Definition & the Five States of Matter
By Mary Bagley, Live Science Contributor
A glass holds H20 in three states of matter: ice (solid), water (liquid) and vapor (gas).
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Energy is the capacity to cause change. Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be conserved and converted from one form to another. "Potential energy" is the energy stored in an object due to its position — for example, a bucket of water balanced over a doorway has the potential to fall. "Kinetic energy" is energy that is in motion and causing changes. Any object or particle that is in motion has kinetic energy based on its mass and speed. Kinetic energy can be converted into other forms of energy, such as electrical energy and thermal energy.Physical science, which includes chemistry and physics, is usually thought of as the study of the nature and properties of matter and energy in non-living systems. Matter is the “stuff” of the universe — the atoms, molecules and ions that make up all physical substances. Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.
Five phases
There are five known phases, or states, of matter: solids, liquids, gases, plasma and Bose-Einstein condensates. The main difference in the structures of each state is in the densities of the particles.
Solids
In a solid, particles are packed tightly together so they are unable to move about very much. Particles of a solid have very low kinetic energy. The electrons of each atom are in motion, so the atoms have a small vibration, but they are fixed in their position. Solids have a definite shape. They do not conform to the shape of the container in which they are placed. They also have a definite volume. The particles of a solid are already so tightly packed together that increasing pressure will not compress the solid to a smaller volume.
Liquids
In the liquid phase, the particles of a substance have more kinetic energy than those in a solid. The liquid particles are not held in a regular arrangement, but are still very close to each other so liquids have a definite volume. Liquids, like solids, cannot be compressed. Particles of a liquid have just enough room to flow around each other, so liquids have an indefinite shape. A liquid will change shape to conform to its container. Force is spread evenly throughout the liquid, so when an object is placed in a liquid, the liquid particles are displaced by the object.
The magnitude of the upward buoyant force is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. When the buoyant force is equal to the force of gravity pulling down on the object’s mass, the object will float. This principle of buoyancy was discovered by the Greek mathematicianArchimedes who, according to legend, sprang from his bath and ran naked through the streets shouting "Eureka!"
Particles of a liquid tend to be held by weak intermolecular attraction rather than moving freely as the particles of a gas will. This cohesive force pulls the particles together to form drops or streams.
Scientists reported in April 2016 they had created a bizarre state of matter, one that had been predicted to exist but never seen in real life. Though this type of matter could be held in one's hand as if it were a solid, a zoom-in on the material would reveal the disorderly interactions of its electrons, more characteristic of a liquid. In the new matter, called a Kitaev quantum spin liquid, the electrons enter into a sort of quantum dance in which they interact or "talk" to one another. Usually when matter cools down the spin of its electrons tends to line up. But in this quantum spin liquid, the electrons interact so that they affect how the others are spinning and never align no matter how cool the material gets. The material would behave as if its electrons, considered indivisible, had broken apart, the researchers reported April 4, 2016, in the journal Nature Materials.
Gases
Gas particles have a great deal of space between them and have high kinetic energy. If unconfined, the particles of a gas will spread out indefinitely; if confined, the gas will expand to fill its container. When a gas is put under pressure by reducing the volume of the container, the space between particles is reduced, and the pressure exerted by their collisions increases. If the volume of the container is held constant, but the temperature of the gas increases, then the pressure will also increase. Gas particles have enough kinetic energy to overcome intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together, thus a gas has no definite volume and no definite shape.
Plasma
Plasma is not a common state of matter here on Earth, but may be the most common state of matter in the universe. Plasma consists of highly charged particles with extremely high kinetic energy. The noble gases(helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon) are often used to make glowing signs by using electricity to ionize them to the plasma state. Stars are essentially superheated balls of plasma.
Bose-Einstein condensates
In 1995, technology enabled scientists to create a new state of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Using a combination of lasers and magnets, Eric Cornell and Carl Weiman cooled a sample of rubidium to within a few degrees of absolute zero. At this extremely low temperature, molecular motion comes very close to stopping altogether. Since there is almost no kinetic energy being transferred from one atom to another, the atoms begin to clump together. There are no longer thousands of separate atoms, just one “super atom.” A BEC is used to study quantum mechanics on a macroscopic level. Light appears to slow down as it passes through a BEC, allowing study of the particle/wave paradox. A BEC also has many of the properties of a superfluid — flowing without friction. BECs are also used to simulate conditions that might apply in black holes.
Going through a phase
Adding energy to matter causes a physical change — matter moves from one state to another. For example, adding thermal energy — heat — to liquid water causes it to become steam or vapor — a gas. Taking away energy also causes physical change, such as when liquid water becomes ice — a solid — when heat is removed. Physical change also can be caused by motion and pressure.
Melting and freezing
When heat is applied to a solid, its particles begin to vibrate faster and tend to move farther apart. When the substance, at standard pressure, reaches a certain point — called the melting point — the solid will begin to turn into a liquid. The melting point of a pure substance can often be determined to within 0.1 degrees C, the point at which the solid and liquid phases are in equilibrium. If you continue to apply heat to the sample, the temperature will not rise above the melting point until the entire sample has been liquefied. The heat energy is being used to convert the solid into the liquid form. Once the entire sample has become a liquid the temperature will begin to rise again. Compounds that are otherwise very similar can have different melting points, so melting point can be a useful way to distinguish among them. For example, sucrose has a melting point of 367 F (186.1 C) while the melting point of glucose is 294.8 F (146 C). A solid mixture, such as a metal alloy, can often be separated into its constituent parts by heating the mixture and extracting the liquids as they reach their different melting points.
The freezing point is the temperature at which a liquid substance is cooled enough to form a solid. As the liquid is cooled, particle motion slows. In many substances, the particles align in precise, geometric patterns to form crystalline solids. Most liquids contract as they freeze. One of the important characteristics of water is that it expands when it freezes, so ice floats. If ice didn’t float, there would be no liquid water underneath a frozen body of water and many forms of aquatic life would be impossible.
The freezing point is often nearly the same temperature as the melting point, but is not considered to be characteristic of a substance, as several factors can alter it. For example, adding dissolved substances, or solutes, to a liquid will depress the freezing point. An example of this is using salt slurry to lower the temperature at which water freezes on our roads. Other liquids can be cooled to temperatures well below their melting point before they begin to solidify. Such liquids are said to be “super cooled” and often require the presence of a dust particle or “seed crystal” to start the process of crystallization.
Sublimation
When a solid is converted directly into a gas without going through a liquid phase, the process is known as sublimation. Sublimation occurs when kinetic energy of the particles is greater than atmospheric pressure surrounding the sample. This may occur when the temperature of the sample is rapidly increased beyond the boiling point (flash vaporization). More commonly, a substance can be "freeze dried" by cooling it under vacuum conditions so that the water in the substance undergoes sublimation and is removed from the sample. A few volatile substances will undergo sublimation at normal temperature and pressure. The best known of these substances is CO2 or “dry ice.”
Vaporization
Vaporization is the conversion of a liquid to a gas. Vaporization can occur through either evaporation or boiling.
Because the particles of a liquid are in constant motion they frequently collide with each other, transferring energy when they do so. This energy transference has little net effect beneath the surface, but when enough energy is transferred to a particle near the surface; it may gain enough energy to be knocked completely away from the sample as a free gas particle. This process is called evaporation and it continues as long as liquid remains. It is interesting to note that a liquid cools as it evaporates. The energy transferred to surface molecules, which causes their escape, is carried away from the remaining liquid sample.
When enough heat is added to a liquid that vapor bubbles form below the surface of the liquid, we say that the liquid is boiling. The temperature at which a liquid boils is variable. Boiling point is dependent upon the pressure the substance is under. A liquid under higher pressure will require more heat before vapor bubbles can form within it. At high altitudes, there is less atmospheric pressure pressing down on the liquid, so it will boil at a lower temperature. The same amount of liquid at sea level is under a greater atmospheric pressure and will boil at a higher temperature.
Condensation and deposition
Condensation is when a gas transforms into a liquid. Condensation occurs when a gas has been cooled or compressed to the point where kinetic energy of the particles can no longer overcome the intermolecular forces. An initial cluster of particles initiates the process which tends to further cool the gas so that condensation continues. When the gas transforms directly into a solid, without going through the liquid phase, it is called deposition or desublimation. An example of this occurs when subfreezing temperatures convert water vapor in the atmosphere into frost or ice. Frost tends to outline solid blades of grass and twigs because the air touching these solids cools faster than air that is not touching a solid surface.
It's been said that spiders turn your blood to ice. Well, it turns out that an icy "spider" has been found on Pluto.
The "spider" is actually an unusual geological feature that caught scientists completely by surprise. Pictures taken by from the New Horizons spacecraft, which whizzed by the dwarf planet last summer, show a series of long fractures in Pluto's surface, all extending from a single, central point. We created a video tour of the icy "spider on Pluto image to take a closer look at the weird feature.
"The pattern these fractures form is like nothing else we've seen in the outer solar system, and shows once again that anywhere we look on Pluto, we see something different," Oliver White, a member of the New Horizons geology team from NASA Ames Research Center in California, said in a statement from the space agency. [See More Pluto Pictures from NASA's New Horizons Probe]
A new geological feature on Pluto, informally called a "spider," is puzzling geologists.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
The spider picture shows at least six extensional fractions that converge into a central point. (Of course, six legs would technically make this feature an insect, not a spider.) The longest fracture — informally called Sleipnir Fossa — is more than 360 miles (580 kilometers) long. The fractures also cut across different types of terrain. At north and west, they slice across high plains. To the south, they cut across sharper terrain informally known as Tartarus Dorsa.
Scientists have seen fractures on Pluto before, which they say are created when water-ice crust on Pluto expands and causes the surface to crack. But those fractures tend to run parallel to one another, the NASA statement said. The body of the "spider" may have been created by a focused point of stress, perhaps from material coming up from under the surface in this area, the researchers suggested.
While, so far, this feature seems unique to Pluto and the outer solar system, researchers have seen similar shapes on planets closer to the sun.
"The spider somewhat resembles radially fractured centers on Venus called novae, seen by NASA's Magellan spacecraft [at Venus], as well as the Pantheon Fossae formation, seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft on Mercury," NASA officials wrote in the statement.
This image, captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, shows the location of the spider-like feature on Pluto's surface.
The image was obtained about 45 minutes before New Horizons reached its closest point to Pluto on July 14, 2015. It was taken by New Horizons' Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera with a resolution of roughly 2,230 feet (680 meters) per pixel.
Mars Global Surveyor: A New Generation of Space Probes
Mars Global Surveyor: A New Generation of Space Probes
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Mars Global Surveyor was a new kind of spacecraft: built "faster, better, cheaper."
Credit: NASA
Mars Global Surveyor was a spacecraft that produced data about the Red Planet that will keep researchers busy for some time. Launched in 1996, the orbiter found intriguing hints of running water and confirmed that the famous "Face of Mars" was a trick of the light. Unfortunately, NASA lost contact with Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) in 2006.
A pioneer
MGS was the first NASA spacecraft to reach Mars in almost 20 years, since the Viking missions arrived in 1976. Right from MGS's first moments at Mars, it was a pioneer: it was the first spacecraft at the Red Planet to use the technique of aerobraking to put itself into its final orbit. It was also part of a new concept for building spacecraft after a series of cost overruns and unsuccessful missions.
Soon after reaching orbit, MGS set about generating a great deal of science. It spotted gullies that could have had streams of water rushing through in the ancient past. It snapped pictures of a "Swiss-cheese-like" south pole, and it watched dust devils leaving tracks in the Martian surface. It spotted hematite – a mineral that forms in water. And it took detailed photographs of the infamous "Face on Mars."
When the Spirit and Opportunity rovers reached Mars in 2004, the spacecraft also served as a communications relay for the rovers to send data back to Earth until it fell silent in 2006.
Return to the Red Planet
MGS had been born out of the failure of a previous planned Mars mission. Mars Observer, launched in 1992, was just three days from its planned orbit insertion around the Red Planet when NASA lost contact with it on Aug. 21, 1993.
The failure stung, particularly because flight delays and other matters had nearly quadrupled the projected cost for Mars Observer.
"Originally budgeted at $212 million, Mars Observer wound up costing $813 million," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory noted in a brief history about the mission. "By the time it was launched on Sept. 25, 1992, Mars Observer had come to symbolize out-of-control costs."
Under new administrator Daniel Goldin, NASA embarked on building a "faster, better, cheaper" (FBC) set of spacecraft. The concept was supposed to use small teams and less complicated components to build low-cost spacecraft. The program had a mix of successes and failures, but did birth the wildly popular Mars Pathfinder/Sojourner rover mission that landed in 1997.
NASA started building cheaper spacecraft under the Mars Surveyor program. MGS – at just $154 million (excluding launch costs) in 1996 dollars – was to be the first of a series of spacecraft launching every 26 months. The Mars Surveyor concept was altered after two Mars spacecraft failed in 1998.
Early days on Mars
MGS launched successfully on Nov. 7, 1996, on board a Delta II rocket. From its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center, it bounded into orbit and then fired its engines again to accelerate towards Mars. Ten months later, on Sept. 12, 1997, MGS successfully made it into orbit at the Red Planet.
To save on the cost of hauling fuel to Mars, mission planners used a new technique – aerobraking – to finalize MGS in its orbit around the planet. MGS pushed against the atmosphere gradually in its first several months at Mars to put itself in the final orbit. This technique proved so successful that it was used again for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey missions.
Mars Global Surveyor photographed the "Face on Mars" in greater detail.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
One of MGS' first targets was the "Face on Mars," an infamous feature snapped by the orbiting Viking 1 spacecraft on July 25, 1976. The shadows appeared to be a human face gazing up at the sky, which sparked a generation of conspiracy theories on Earth.
MGS passed over the same location at the Cydonia region on April 5, 1998, to get a more detailed look. Although NASA already knew the "face" came from a trick of shadows, MGS' pictures were in higher-resolution and were used by the agency to debunk the theory. The European Space Agency confirmed the finding in pictures taken with Mars Express in 2001.
NASA carefully selected its first targets to include areas of public interest. Other spots that MGS imaged in the early days included the Viking landing sites and the Mars Pathfinder landing site.
A planet in flux
Mars, revealed by MGS, was a rapidly changing planet that probably had a different environment in the past. Pictures in February 1998 showed a possible ancient river channel. Other snapshots over the years showed slowpoke dunes, regolift drifts and sandsheets on the surface, suggesting that wind was a big factor in shaping Mars history.
As MGS skimmed the planet from pole to pole, it tracked changes in carbon dioxide ice deposits near the south pole of Mars. After three Martian summers of observations, data from MGS revealed that the deposits were shrinking – a possible indication of climate change.
The spacecraft mapped Martian terrain with a laser altimeter, detected traces of magnetic fields with its magnetometer, and mapped at least 20 new impact craters between the time it started operations and the time it fell silent.
When MGS spotted hematite – a mineral that forms in water – from orbit, the discovery spurred NASA to land the Opportunity rover in a hematite-rich area. Just weeks after landing, Opportunity found hematite "blueberries" just a short distance from where it touched down in Meridiani Planum.
End of the extended mission
MGS lasted four times longer than its design lifetime, but the end came rather unexpectedly. On Nov. 2, 2006, controllers ordered MGS to shift its solar panels – a routine adjustment. The spacecraft reported back several errors, but the transmission also indicated that things had stabilized. Then MGS fell silent.
"The spacecraft reoriented to an angle that exposed one of two batteries carried on the spacecraft to direct sunlight," read a NASA press release describing the most likely cause of the failure.
"This caused the battery to overheat and ultimately led to the depletion of both batteries. Incorrect antenna pointing prevented the orbiter from telling controllers its status, and its programmed safety response did not include making sure the spacecraft orientation was thermally safe."
NASA tried for weeks to get in touch with the dead spacecraft, with no success. An independent review board determined that the MGS team did follow the correct procedures to help the spacecraft, but added that the procedures themselves were not strong enough to "catch the errors that occurred".
The agency pledged it would overhaul its procedures to improve other Mars missions. Indeed, NASA has since had more success in resurrecting spacecraft that had software problems.
A notable example is the Mars Odyssey mission, which has entered safe mode several times but been successfully recovered. Odyssey, as a side note, is currently the longest-running Mars mission with more than a decade in service.
But it was MGS that got there first, and that paved the way for more Mars missions to follow. The spacecraft kickstarted a new age of Martian exploration, and provided the first detailed look at the Red Planet in a generation.
Still contributing
Although MGS' mission is long over, there still are occasional science results publicized in the media. For example, in March 2016 NASA released an improved gravity map of Mars that in part used data from MGS. The goal of the map is to better understand variations in the Red Planet's gravity to track the geological history of Mars, such as the differences between the northern lowlands and the southern highlands.
In 2013, researchers suggested that Eden Patera, previously believed to be a crater basin, may instead be remnants of an ancient supervolcano. Based on data in part from MGS, researchers noted a lack of ejecta debris in the region as well as features that usuallly point to volcanism, such as "bathtub rings" created when lava recedes from the area.
Super high resolution microscopes are the most significant development in imaging since the invention of the microscope in the 16th century. Conventional microscopes resolve objects as small as 300 nanometers, also known as the “diffraction limit.” But with a new technology, researchers are able to see molecules such as proteins and lipids and synthetic nanostructures just a few nanometers in diameter.
Prof. Frank Caruso of the Nano Structured Interfaces and Materials Science Group at the University of Melbourne and his colleagues are redesigning and reengineering drugs and other materials on the nanoscale to increase their effectiveness and reduce side effects. With each new generation of drugs or nanoparticles, designers collect information about their effectiveness, using this information to improve the next cycle of development.
According to Caruso, it is important, but challenging, to track how nanoparticles are internalized and processed by cells in the body. Therapeutic agents encapsulated in nanoparticles are released at a specific rate to maximize their effectiveness. The biological machinery of cells can now be studied with these new imaging techniques.
Caruso says nearly every drug on the planet will be vastly improved by this new type of nano engineering that depends on recent breakthroughs in microscopy. The same can be said of materials used in engineering. The following video is an overview of the work being done by Caruso and his team:
Drones have huge potential for growth, but there are serious concerns about safety as accidents like drones crashing into walls or harming people are very common. This is because landing is the hardest part of flying, as the drone has to reduce its speed while approaching the ground without crashing into it.
However the Snap, a drone by Vantage Robotics, offers a simple, alternative way to land. The main body of the drone is attached to the folding propeller assembly by magnets. This feature allows it to come off under impact without incurring any lasting damage.
Snap not only features magnetic break-apart components but also has a high-quality 4k camera. Here are some of the features of this amazing drone:
Snap is thin and ultra-light. Unlike large and heavy drones, Snap weighs about 1.1-pounds. Moreover, its compact body makes it very easy to transport in a backpack.
The Snap has a 4K camera with a Sony Exmor sensor. The 2-axis gimbal-stabilized camera shoots Ultra HD video at 30fps. Slow-motion options are available at 1080p and 720p resolutions.
Snap comes with magnetic breakaway architecture.
Snap can be easily controlled by a smartphone app.
The system is designed to be modular, having waterproof tracking modules and bigger battery packs.
It can cut through 20mph winds and on a full charge, it can last 20 minutes in the air.
With Snap, you can take photos and record videos from near impossible angles, distances, and locations.
In short, Snap is a drone that packs high-quality recording equipment in a lightweight ultra-compact body.
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The world’s brightest X-ray laser currently resides in SLAC’s National Accelerator Laboratory, as part of a $1 billion project.
Apparently laying claims to the world’s brightest X-ray laser just isn’t enough these days, however, because the laser is receiving an upgrade that will make it 10,000 times brighter and 8,000 times faster.
Eventually, the laser will be able to shell out a million pulses per second, enabling it to analyze things in excruciating detail such as the movement of electrical charges.
Laser pulses will be pushed through niobium metal cavities held at minus 456 degrees Fahrenheit.
SLAC says this process manifests “an almost continuous X-ray laser beam with pulses that are 10,000 times brighter, on average, than those of [the original laser] and arrive up to a million times per second.”
“[It]will take X-ray science to the next level, opening the door to a whole new range of studies of the ultrafast and ultrasmall,” noted SLAC’s Mike Dunne in a press release. “This will tremendously advance our ability to develop transformative technologies of the future, including novel electronics, life-saving drugs, and innovative energy solutions.”
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US Navy Spies Learned of Nazi Alliance with Reptilian Extraterrestrials during WWII
US Navy Spies Learned of Nazi Alliance with Reptilian Extraterrestrials during WWII
These startling claims have been made by ex-Navy whistleblower William Tompkins, who in December 2015, released the first volume of his autobiography titled Selected by Extraterrestrials: My life in the top secret world of UFOs., think-tanks and Nordic secretaries. Tompkins says that he approached a Navy Admiral in 2001 to see if he had approval to write about his experiences:
Early in 2001 I called on Admiral Hugh Webster, Navy League Corporate Director, Washington DC and San Diego CA. We had a five hour meeting on my ongoing book–writing concerning the extraterrestrial threats to our planet. After Admiral Webster read portions of my document and backup technical documentation, I asked Hugh, “How much of this can I include in a published book?” He said. “Bill; TELL IT ALL. This is most important to our country. Don’t leave anything out.”
STERRENKUNDEDe Amerikaanse ruimtetelescoop Kepler is weer stabiel, na een storing die een paar dagen heeft geduurd. De missie van de telescoop, het ontdekken van andere planeten, leek tijdelijk in gevaar te komen. Sinds gisteren is Kepler weer actief.
Op 7 april ontdekten vluchtleiders dat de ruimtetelescoop zichzelf in een veilige noodmodus had gezet, ongeveer veertien uur voordat Kepler op het centrum van het Melkwegstelsel gericht zou worden.
De noodmodus is de laagste 'stand' waarin het apparaat functioneert. Deze modus wordt pas ingeschakeld als het ruimtevaartuig in serieuze problemen zit. De noodmodus is bedoeld om meer schade te voorkomen, maar verbruikt ook het meeste brandstof. NASA onderzoekt de mogelijke oorzaak van de storing.
Kepler werd in 2009 op een missie gestuurd om planeten te ontdekken die rondom andere sterren dan de zon draaien. In de jaren die volgden ontdekte de ruimtetelescoop meer dan duizend van deze zogenoemde exoplaneten, waaronder twaalf leefbare planeten die erg op de aarde lijken. Dankzij Kepler heeft de studie naar exoplaneten een enorme stap gemaakt.
Kepler kwam in 2013 ook al in de problemen, toen de gyroscopen uitvielen. Daardoor moest de eerste missie worden afgebroken. Het team slaagde er toen in het ruimtevaartuig op een tweede missie te sturen. Momenteel maakt Kepler - in een andere operationele modus - nog steeds jacht op planeten bij andere sterren, als onderdeel van de K2-missie. Kepler zat middenin die tweede missie toen hij in de noodmodus belandde.
WETENSCHAPEr bevinden zich onder ons genetische superhelden, die ondanks genetische defecten immuun zijn voor bepaalde ziektes. Dat blijkt volgens een internationaal team van onderzoekers, dat 13 mensen vond die op basis van hun DNA een ernstige ziekte hadden moeten ontwikkelen, maar dat niet deden.
Bepaalde ziektes kunnen veroorzaakt worden door fouten in ons DNA. Tal van studies werden al uitgevoerd om te doorgronden welke mutaties leiden tot bepaalde ziektes. Dat gebeurt telkens door patiënten te onderzoeken.
Het zogenaamde Resilience Project ging omgekeerd te werk. De onderzoekers doorzochten DNA-databanken met informatie van bijna 600.000 mensen. Ze ontdekten 13 gezonde mensen die, op basis van hun DNA, een (ernstige) genetische ziekte zouden moeten hebben, zoals het syndroom van Smith Lemli Opitz, taaislijmziekte of het Pfeiffersyndroom.
Sommige mensen lijken echter geboren te zijn met het DNA van een superheld, besluiten de onderzoekers in hun studie, die verschenen is in het vakbladNature Biotechnology. Ze hopen nu te ontdekken wat deze mensen gezond houdt, en of dat mogelijk tot nieuwe therapieën kan leiden.
'Dit is een startpunt om op zoek te gaan naar andere verschillen die de sleutel kunnen bevatten voor nieuwe therapieën'
Stephen Friend, onderzoeker
Maar voorlopig eindigt het veelbelovende verhaal hier. De onderzoekers konden de 13 geluksvogels niet opsporen omwille van de vertrouwensovereenkomst die ze tekenden toen ze hun DNA-staal lieten afnemen. Wát hen tegen ziektes beschermt, kan dus voorlopig niet achterhaald worden.
Net daarom reageren experten maar voorzichtig enthousiast op de studie. Ze bevat geen bewijs, omdat het team niet kan aantonen dat er geen fouten gebeurden bij het testen en dat er geen hiaten waren in de medische dossiers van de betrokken personen. Daarnaast kan niet vastgesteld worden of mosaïcisme, waarbij het genetische defect maar enkele cellen in het lichaam aantast, aan de basis ligt van hun bevindingen.
De onderzoekers geven toe dat hun onderzoek nog in zijn kinderschoenen staat, en plannen een nieuwe studie waarbij de proefpersonen geïdentificeerd kunnen worden. "Dit is een startpunt om op zoek te gaan naar andere verschillen, bijvoorbeeld in het genoom, die de sleutel kunnen bevatten voor nieuwe therapieën", zegt professor Stephen Friend van de Icahn School of Medicine van het Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
"Miljoenen jaren van evolutie hebben veel meer beschermende mechanismen doen ontstaan dan we vandaag begrijpen", zegt dr. Eric Schadt van hetzelfde instituut. "We zien een enorme kans in het uitvissen wat mensen gezond houdt." De onderzoekers denken dat ook andere vormen van bescherming - bijvoorbeeld tegen infecties en dementie - mogelijk via deze benadering opgespoord kunnen worden.
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UFO Over Sea Spotted In Turkey Has Returned Again After 9 Years, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Sea Spotted In Turkey Has Returned Again After 9 Years, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 3, 2016 Location of sighting: Sea Antalya, Turkey Newssource: MUFON #75759 This UFO was seen over Turkey last week and strangly enough, I have been looking in that area on Google Earth to see if I can find the underwater base near Turkey. Sadly Google blacks out 95% of the water so its an impossible task, however its there. I have reported UFOs for many years and an old 2007 Turkey sighting recorded on many nights for many hours by a security guard had the most amazing footage ever. I will place that video below to compare...it looks similar to this MUFON report. This UFO was brought to my attention by UFOvni2012 of Youtube. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: We were at the hotel in Kemer- ANTALYA. Sitting and talking with the family. Shiny object with strange move. We thought it was a helium filled metallic balloon. It moved North first and then came back and hovered above the sea. I suprised and then took 5 shot with my canon 450d with zoom lens. When you look at the pictures it was like a door opened at the end of the photos it becomes the known ufo shape and vanished. I said vanished because when I try to take 6th photo I could not find it anymore.
Old 2007 footage of UFO over ocean at Turkey recorded by security guard.
Huge UFO flying over the volcano Popocatepetl, Mexico April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Huge UFO flying over the volcano Popocatepetl, Mexico April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: April 2016 Location of sighting: Popocatepetl, Mexico This UFO was caught on live cam as it shot past this volcano which is famous for its UFOs. This object almost seems to enter and then exit the volcano sides, but its more likely that its flying past on the other side of the volcano. Nice catch, and gives us something to think about. If this is a UFO, then it would be almost 600 meters across, the width of the mouth of the volcano. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Aliens Warn Drillers Of Oil Field That Below Ground Is ET Base, April 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Aliens Warn Drillers Of Oil Field That Below Ground Is ET Base, April 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Religious Buddha Symbol Meaning Pure Goodness.
Date of discovery: April 10, 2016, but is at least 50 years old. Location of discovery: Whites Sands, New Mexico, USA Google coordinates:33°12’22.6″N 103°35’05.3″W
Lets start off with this, because its most important. This is not a symbol of Hitlers Nazis, but is the ancient buddha symbol that means pure goodness...thats thousands of years old. You see, the Nazi cross turns the other way...and thats why Hitler took the buddha symbol and flipped it backwards, so it would mean pure evil, but here in the photo above is the pure goodnessbuddha symbol. I think I visit enough temples in Taiwan to be able to tell.
Also the writing in the rectangle above is alien symbols. The symbols are very similar to those found at the Roswell UFO crash on small metal beams and parts.
This formation is 600 meters by 491 meters across says Google ruler, if you don't count the circle thats all the way around it. This is far out there in an area called White Sands. This sign is 40 miles East of Roswell, NM the famous crash site of a UFO. There are alien words in the rectangle above. Words that declare ownership of the area. The same kind of writing found on fragments of the UFO that crashed at Roswell 40 miles away
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So, you ask, why are aliens writing here in the middle of New Mexico? Its easy. This is a waring. There are thousands of oil rigs set up in this location. The closest one is just 40 meters away. Drilling down, deep into the ground, right through the ceiling of the oil and even below cutting through the floors of the oil lakes, causing it to spill down into the underground base. Yes, this symbol is there as a warning to humans...not to damage their base underground. The symbol of pure good at its center means that they don't want to pose a threat to us, only to share the land...below the ground. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
A camouflaged UFO was recorded on video lurking behind the clouds. According to the narrator of YouTube channel SecureTeam10, the video shows a UFO in the sky above Frayser in North Memphis, Tennessee.
It may be hard to tell the location of the UFO in the original video, but the exposure-enhanced version of the footage shows a bizarre shadow behind the clouds.
The UFO enthusiast claimed the footage was taken on March 28, 2016, and a man named Mr Schneider sent it to him.
According to the video maker, he heard strange loud booming sounds days before the sighting. He observed the sky more often to identify the source of the noise and even searched over the internet for a possible explanation.
After several days, he seemed to lost hope in getting an account of the strange sounds. The man then reportedly experienced an odd feeling that there was something over him in the sky. He decided to get his camera and started recording the sky. All of a sudden, he saw a massive machine-like structure that appeared to be moving in the sky.
Mr Schneider claimed that the strange aerial thing broke through the clouds for a split second, but it was easier to see with the naked eye.
ORB caught on tape over San Antonio, Texas 5-Apr-2016
ORB caught on tape over San Antonio, Texas 5-Apr-2016
Here’s a new footage of a bright unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above San Antonio in Texas. This was taken on Tuesday, 5th April 2016.
Witness report: April 2016 U.F.O Orb was captured on video traveling over San Antonio,Texas..This day i manage to capture a U.F.O’s and its flight pattern’s.With some reference points such as telephone pole..Glowing orb of energy seem to be traveling on its own power.Not blown by the wind object is clearly not aircraft/weather balloon/satellite..
Russia “UFO’s are real and we know how to Summon them!”
Russia “UFO’s are real and we know how to Summon them!”
Summoning the Aliens
The Russians have recently claimed that they can now predict when UFOs will appear in the skies above them and that they have now learnt how to willingly summon them! The Russians have also claimed that UFO activity is increased when large scale weapons testing is taking place, of which they have been measuring UFO activity by doing so!
According to Vasily Yeremenko, a Major General of FIB in reserve, academician of the Academy of Security, Defence and Law Enforcement:
“We can say that we learned to summon UFOs in Vladimirovka. To do this, we dramatically increased the number of military flights and movement of the equipment. If the intensity on our side increased, UFOs appeared with the probability of 100 percent.”Vasily Yeremenko
Are the Aliens watching our weapons capabilities!?
The Russians have now put together the below three main conclusions:
Modern science is not yet able to identify such phenomena.
The UFOs could be US or Japan surveillance drones.
The UFOs could be extraterrestrial activity.
According to Svobodnaya Pressa, which is a major Russian news website, the Russian Navy have actually now declassified records of numerous encounters with unidentified objects that technologically surpass anything ever built by humanity….leading to the fact that these UFO’s MUST be of an Alien origin!
A special unique Navy group which is headed by Deputy Navy Commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov collected information on reports of unidentified objects, delivered by submarines and military ships.
According to Vladimir Azhazha, a UFO researcher and former Military Navy officer:
“Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water.”Vladimir Azhazha
UFO’s appear to like to stay close to the water!
According to one high level report, a Russian nuclear submarine which was on a combat mission at the time had detected six unknown objects pursuing them. After failing miserably to lose the objects following them, the captain then ordered the submarine to surface, of which the objects followed, departed from the water and flew away at extremely high speeds.
Back in 1982 a group of military divers training at Baikal witnessed a group of what appeared to be humanoid beings dressed in silver suits. Despite the divers trying to catch them, three of them died whilst the other four were injured in this bizarre incident.
According to Captain 1st rank Igor Barklayof Navy Intelligence:
“Ocean UFO’s often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate. Near Bahamas, Bermudas, Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”Captain 1st rank Igor Barklayof Navy Intelligence
Are they watching us and reviewing our ways and actions!?
U.I.P Summary
My what a year 2015 is becoming! We are getting piece of disclosure from every angle it feels like and perhaps it is now time to join all of the dots together!
When the Russians say that they can summon the UFO’s at a guess I think what they actually mean is that mankind’s actions can dictate when they appear. For quite some time now we have heard about UFO’s over looking military exercises and watching over Nuclear weapons storage facilities…..in fact some UFO’s have apparently even managed to turn nuclear weapons off!
Could it be that the Aliens are watching us so closely as they are concerned about what card we are going to play next. As we at U.I.P have stated many times before, nobody should have the right to destroy this beautiful planet with weapons of mass destruction….And perhaps THIS is why ‘they’ are watching us so closely!!
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When Alien Disclosure Arrives, Whose Explanation About The ET’s Will YOU Believe?
When Alien Disclosure Arrives, Whose Explanation About The ET’s Will YOU Believe?
There can be NO denying the fact that the year is speeding along past us and with this the human race is inches closer to the very real realization that we are not alone in the universe, and never actually ever have been! Most major organizations and governments throughout the world have started preparing how to break the news to the world to the masses here on earth – whether this is going to be some kind of microbial life or even some kind of advanced extra-terrestrial life, either way, the planning has begun.
Fist we have to accept the fact that the worlds leading space agency NASA very recently gathered top scientists, philosophers, and theologians from around the planet to discuss how this life changing announcement would be made to the masses – initial suggestions are that the announcement will be made in a way that reflects on the situation at the time. What I mean by this is that IF the ET’s are working with certain key figures on Earth, and perhaps have some agreement in place, the Elite may just drip feed yet MORE information on life beyond planet and even present more evidence of microbial life, using yet more delaying tactics. Or could it be that the ET’s have no more time to waste and they want to introduce themselves to the planet directly?
Multiple congressional hearings have already taken place around the world on this subject and many people who work in the industry are starting to voice their excitement. A gentleman called Mike Gold is one of those who are filled with joy over this news, interestingly he is the Director of Operations for Bigelow Aerospace – even more interesting is the fact that Bigelow Aerospace have been supposedly PAYING MUFON for their sighting reports over the last few year, please more on this here:http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/latest-news/camera-shy-bigelow-and-his-obsession-with-ufos/
When you look at the stats of who believes in Aliens, at least half of all Americans say that we’re not alone in the universe. And over Fifty percent of Americans already believe that there is some form of life on other planets, while only seventeen percent think that there isn’t. A quarter of Americans believe that intelligent extra-terrestrial visitors have already come to Earth and have been doing so for a very long time. And it is not just America that the number of believers is rising, it’s happening all over the world – it is almost like some kind of awakening is happening!?
Another clear area of a build up to disclosure is the fact that we now have many leading figures around the world who can testify that we are NOT alone. Some of these people are hundreds of senior high ranking military and government personnel, academicians, and more testifying to the fact that we are not alone, and that governments have known for decades. Obama can’t hold a serious conversation with a six year old child when it comes to the discussion about Aliens –http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/ufo-photos-and-videos/obamas-nervous-discussion-about-aliens-again/
No matter what the bottom line is well and truly out there.
Obama and 6 year old Macey Hensley on the Ellen DeGeneres Show
We also have all of the declassified information that over the last couple of years have been coincidentally released out into the public domain. It almost feels like in one hand the world leaders want to tell us the truth about the extra-terrestrials, but in the hand they don’t!?
It is incredibly clear that when it comes to information and “news” our world has suffered from a severe lack of truth for way too long. Much of what the mainstream media push out to the world is far from truth, and we’ve all seen the level of control of information in North America and the United Kingdom (for example) consolidated by a handful of lying manipulative media corporations. MANY mainstream media publications have shared so many stories that are completely not true, and the majority of the time it’s responsible for shifting the perception of the masses regarding major global events, 911 is a great example of this. It is rather obvious that the media are trying to brainwash the masses of planet earth – There is SO VERY much that is not presented on our mainstream news, so many incredible stories out there that are hidden by the Elite.
Check out another now famous video of Obama LYING through his teeth about the ET’s:
U.I.P SUMMARY –
Information in our world is EXTREMELY heavily controlled and it is also manipulated and again, used to sway the opinion of the masses. Although That being said, there is very little you can learn about our world by “watching the news” or from picking up a newspaper. More people are starting to realize this, and to quench their thirst for finding out what is really happening on our planet many are starting to gravitate towards non-corporate, alternative media, or a mix of the two.
So, when it comes to the extra-terrestrial phenomenon, when the truth is “officially disclosed,” who are YOU going to believe? Will you sit in front of your television for a detailed explanation or will you actually purchase some books to learn more about it? Will you read more articles on websites like Collective-Evolution?
This is a CRITICALLY important topic that opens up Pandora’s box, and brings questions into play that range from science, to engineering and philosophy, anthropology, ancient history and much more. Who are these ET Beings visiting us pretty much daily and where do they come from, what they actually want and what is going on will not come from your television screen.
In today’s world, the only useful way to gain any sort of knowledge or know what is happening on our planet is to do your own research!
Interesting times lie ahead – It is important to keep a very OPEN mind.
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Experts Now Believe That Humans Come From Another Place In The Universe
Experts Now Believe That Humans Come From Another Place In The Universe
There are many people from around the world who believe that they do not belong from this planet and feel as though they come from somewhere else – Leading researchers now believe that this could actually be true and that the origins of mankind come from another place in the Universe!
Perhaps the idea that humanity once evolved from somewhere else in the universe and migrated to Planet Earth and perhaps even different corners of the galaxy in advanced spaceships may be a far truer story than what we had first thought. Perhaps we are the aliens on this planet? And if this is the case then where do we originally come from??
A leading ecologist and environmentalist who goes by the name of DR Ellis Silver, has recently put together some important evidence which points towards the hypothesis of humans originating from another place in the universe! In Silvers intriguing book called “Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence,” he describes seventeen interesting ideas as to WHY human beings do not originate from planet earth. The book also goes into detail about where we possibly originated from and an alternative timeline for the human race.
Perhaps our REAL home is somewhere out there?
DR Ellis Silver has highlighted some key areas that could confirm that we are elsewhere in the Universe! For instance our unique psychology of human beings could be down to the fact that we do not originate from Earth/this area of ‘space’ – potentially from a planet with low gravity.
Dr. Ellis Silver told Yahoo news:
“Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more, “
“The Earth approximately meets our needs as a species, but perhaps not as strongly as whoever brought us here initially thought. Lizards can sunbathe for as long as they like – and many of them do.”
One of the newspapers asked the question ‘Do we really come from another star system or planet?’ of which the reply back from the Doctor made a lot of sense:
”We are dazzled by the sun, which is also odd, most animals are not.“ Confirmed DR Ellis Silver.
This is very true, in fact Vitamin D which naturally comes from the Suns rays have actually been proven to help humans health conditions. But on the flip side of this our skin burns easily in the Sun too, which could be another indication that we do not originate from this planet.
Sun Worshipping Humans?
Other areas from the book also highlight how a lot of us Humans suffer from bad backs, which is another potential key factor to suggest that we may in fact come from another part of the Cosmos. The leading doctor also considers the fact that humans have an extra 223 genes, according to a study published by Dr. Francis Crick.
According to a paper from bibliotecapleyades:
“Collaborative research from a gathering of exo-scientists postulate that there are genes from over 20 extraterrestrial civilizations in human DNA. These exo-scientists have continued the work of Nobel Prize winner Dr. Frances Crick, and other scholars in this area. Current findings are consistent with reports of Professor Sam Chang, who discreetly released information on his own apparent findings, in association with the Human Genome Project.”
Another interesting area that DR Ellis Silver pointed out, is the fact that us humans can never seem to find the right suitable location/climate to be healthy in – It’s an odd trait which suggests that this planets conditions may be affecting our body’s in a negative manner. The Doctor went on to say:
“We are all chronically ill,” says Dr. Silver. “Indeed, if you can find a single person who is 100% fit and healthy and not suffering from some (perhaps hidden or unstated) condition or disorder (there’s an extensive list in the book) I would be extremely surprised – I have not been able to find anyone.”
“I believe that many of our problems stem from the simple fact that our internal body clocks have evolved to expect a 25 hour day (this has been proven by sleep researchers), but the Earth’s day is only 24 hours. This is not a modern condition – the same factors can be traced all the way back through mankind’s history on Earth.”
The Blockbuster Film Prometheus – which suggests that Humans were placed here on Earth by Alien Beings.
Dr Silver has also suggested that if we didn’t get to Earth by spaceships of an ET origin then perhaps early humans could have been crossbred with another species creating modern humans!?
It has also been suggested that the most probable star system that we came from would probably have been the Alpha Centauri, which is actually the closest system to our own.
“Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring (raw) foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more. Plus there’s a prevailing feeling among many people that they don’t belong here or that something “just isn’t right.”
“This suggests (to me at least) that mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species.” DR Ellis Silver said.
Dr Silver has also come up with another very thought proving clever thought and has even suggested that perhaps Earth is some kind of a Prison Planet, a place where a violent species (such as ourselves) have been placed, out of harms way from perhaps more ‘busier’ parts of the Cosmos! Perhaps we are to stay here until we learn the errors or our ways. Who knows, maybe the UFO’s in the skies above us are the ET’s who sent us here, watching and reviewing our actions?
Dr Ellis Silver has given many interesting and thought – provoking ideas in his book, which are all very relevant to the conditions of not only this planet that we live on, but also the conditions of our body and how this world affects the majority of us!!
(click on image below to see more details on this book).
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I have read this book myself and it is not only incredibly thought provoking, it also makes an awful lot of sense! Us humans always appear to have ‘issues’ with our health, or issues with other people or countries. If we are not having conflicts with somebody else, we then create our own conflicts within ourselves – perhaps Earth is a prison planet for us to learn how not to hate and to get on with one another!?
We are reading more and more nowadays about leading Scientists and experts suggesting that we are not from Planet Earth originally, this is something that 20 or 30 years ago would have been mocked and not taken seriously! But times are changing and our minds are opening – on top of all this the Elite are trying to slowly but surely educate the masses that we are very much NOT alone in the Universe!
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11-04-2016
Jupiter vernietigde superaardes en maakte zo ruimte voor ons
Jupiter vernietigde superaardes en maakte zo ruimte voor ons
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Lang geleden waren er in het hart van ons zonnestelsel mogelijk een aantal superaardes te vinden. Een dolende Jupiter rekende echter met deze superaardes af en maakte ruimte voor onder meer de aarde. Jupiter, bedankt!
Dat schrijven onderzoekers in het blad Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences nadat ze diverse berekeningen en simulaties uitvoerden. De resultaten kunnen onder meer helpen verklaren waarom de rotsachtige planeten in ons zonnestelsel in vergelijking met soortgelijke planeten rond zonachtige sterren een relatief lage massa hebben. “Ons onderzoek suggereert dat Jupiters reizen naar het hart van het zonnestelsel en vervolgens naar de randen van het zonnestelsel een eerste generatie planeten hebben vernietigd en ruimte hebben gemaakt voor de vorming van de rotsachtige planeten met een beperkte massa die ons zonnestelsel vandaag de dag telt,” legt onderzoeker Konstantin Batygin uit.
Vreemde eend in de bijt Bovendien kan het onderzoek helpen verklaren waarom ons zonnestelsel in vergelijking met andere planetaire systemen toch een beetje een vreemde eend in de bijt is. De afgelopen jaren hebben wetenschappers tal van exoplaneten ontdekt en bestudeerd. Uit die onderzoeken blijkt dat ongeveer de helft van de zonachtige sterren in ons deel van het sterrenstelsel omgeven wordt door planeten. Maar die planetaire systemen lijken maar weinig op ons zonnestelsel. Zo is er dicht bij onze zon weinig te vinden: voorbij Mercurius treffen we enkel een beetje puin aan. In andere planetaire systemen is dat heel anders: doorgaans hebben die één of meer planeten die aanzienlijk massiever zijn dan de aarde en dichter bij de ster staan dan Mercurius bij de zon staat. Ook hebben die planetaire systemen juist weer weinig objecten op grote afstand staan, iets wat in ons zonnestelsel juist weer heel normaal is.
“JUPITER ZOU UITEINDELIJK IN DE ZON ZIJN VERDWENEN ALS SATURNUS ER NIET WAS GEWEEST”
Later Batygin en zijn collega Gregory Laughlin stellen dat ons zonnestelsel weliswaar heel anders is dan andere planetaire systemen, maar dat dat nog niet wil betekenen dat planeten in ons zonnestelsel in eerste instantie net zo ontstonden als planeten in andere planetaire systemen. Pas in een later stadium zou ons zonnestelsel zijn gaan ‘afwijken’ en die ‘afwijking’ werd veroorzaakt door Jupiter. Volgens de onderzoekers was het zonnestelsel nog maar enkele miljoenen jaren oud en bevonden de planeten zich nog in de gas- en stofschijf rond de jonge zon toen Jupiter zo massief werd dat deze in staat was om zich los te maken uit de stofschijf. En omdat de zon het gas uit de schijf naar zich toetrok, begon ook Jupiter naar de zon toe te reizen. “Jupiter zou die koers hebben aangehouden en uiteindelijk in de zon zijn terechtgekomen als Saturnus er niet was geweest,” stelt Batygin. Saturnus vormde zich na Jupiter, maar werd veel sneller richting de zon getrokken waardoor deze op een gegeven moment Jupiter tegenkwam. Zodra de planeten dicht genoeg bij elkaar in de buurt kwamen, ontstond een situatie die onderzoekers ‘baanresonantie’ noemen. De twee planeten kregen omlooptijden die zich bij benadering verhouden als eenvoudige hele getallen (bijvoorbeeld 2:1, oftewel Saturnus maakt twee rondjes om de zon, terwijl Jupiter in dezelfde tijd één rondje maakt). In die omstandigheden gingen de twee planeten met hun zwaartekracht invloed op elkaar uitoefenen en energie delen. Die wisselwerking zorgde ervoor dat het gas tussen de twee planeten werd weggeduwd en de planeten zich niet langer richting de zon begaven. De afstand tussen de planeten en de zon werd juist weer groter.
OP DE AFBEELDING
Op de afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel zie je de situatie toen Jupiter richting de zon bewoog (Jupiters baan is wit). Jupiter pakte de bouwblokken van planeten (planetesimalen) mee en zorgde dat deze een excentrische baan kregen (in turquoise) die overlapte met de nog ongestoorde delen van de planetaire schijf (geel) waardoor heel veel botsingen ontstonden.
Planetesimalen Maar hoe beïnvloedde dat de superaardes die in ons zonnestelsel zouden hebben bestaan? Toen Jupiter richting de zon bewoog, zou deze alle planetesimalen – de bouwblokken van planeten – die deze tegenkwam mee hebben gevoerd richting de zon. Toen deze planetesimalen dichter bij de zon in de buurt kwamen, werden hun banen sterk elliptisch, waardoor deze objecten zich gingen begeven door voorheen onaangeroerde delen van de stofschijf. Hierdoor ontstond de ene na de andere botsing tussen die planetesimalen en objecten in die stofschijf. Uit berekeningen blijkt dat elke planetesimaal in die periode gemiddeld elke 200 jaar in botsing kwam met een ander object. De planetesimalen braken daarbij uiteen en brokstukken verdwenen in de zon. De onderzoekers simuleerden wat er zou gebeuren als in diezelfde periode een aantal superaardes in het hart van ons zonnestelsel te vinden was. Ze lieten zich daartoe inspireren door Kepler-11, een zonachtige ster met zes superaardes (die samen een massa hebben die veertig keer groter is dan die van de aarde). Uit de simulaties blijkt dat de superaardes in een periode van 20.000 jaar compleet in de zon zouden verdwijnen door de botsende planetesimalen. “Het is een heel effectief proces,” stelt Batygin. “Je hebt slechts enkele aardmassa’s aan materiaal nodig om tientallen aardmassa’s aan planeten in de zon te dwingen.”
“JE HEBT SLECHTS ENKELE AARDMASSA’S AAN MATERIAAL NODIG OM TIENTALLEN AARDMASSA’S AAN PLANETEN IN DE ZON TE DWINGEN”
De aarde Toen Jupiter weer bij de zon vandaan begon te bewegen, zou een deel van de planetesimalen die met Jupiter mee reisden weer een cirkelvormige baan hebben aangenomen. Vervolgens waren er miljoenen jaren nodig om die planetesimalen uit te laten groeien tot de rotsachtige planeten zoals we die vandaag de dag kennen. Dat komt netjes overeen met de theorie die stelt dat de aarde 100 tot 200 miljoen jaar na de geboorte van de zon ontstond. En aangezien de schijf met daarin waterstof en heliumgas tegen die tijd al lang verdwenen was, kan het onderzoek ook verklaren waarom de aarde geen waterstofatmosfeer heeft. “Wij ontstonden uit puin dat van deze stoffen ontdaan was.”
Op basis van dit onderzoek zou je dan ook kunnen concluderen dat de meeste exoplaneten – omdat het meestal superaardes zijn – een waterstofatmosfeer hebben, omdat ze ontstonden in een periode waarin dat gas nog veelvuldig rond hun ster te vinden was. “Wat dit uiteindelijk betekent, is dat planeten zoals de aarde niet vaak voorkomen.”
De hete superaardes zijn door hun sterren ‘gestript’, oftewel ontdaan van hun atmosfeer. Hun bestaan wordt al lang vermoed, maar is nu dus bewezen.
Het gaat om exoplaneten die heel dicht bij hun ster staan. “Voor deze planeten is het alsof ze naast een föhn staan die op zijn heetst staat ingesteld,” vertelt onderzoeker Guy Davies. “Er is gespeculeerd dat zulke planeten van hun atmosferen ontdaan worden.” En nu is daar dus bewijs voor gevonden.
Kepler De onderzoekers maakten voor hun studie gebruik van gegevens van ruimtetelescoop Kepler. Deze telescoop heeft al duizenden exoplaneten ontdekt door langdurig naar sterren te kijken. Wanneer de helderheid van de ster met enige regelmaat afneemt, kan dat erop wijzen dat rond de ster een planeet cirkelt.
ASTEROSEISMOLOGIE
Een seismoloog houdt zich bezig met trillingen van de aarde (bijvoorbeeld veroorzaakt door aardbevingen). Asteroseismologie richt zich op trillingen in de ruimte, of nauwkeuriger gezegd: trillingen van sterren. Een ster is eigenlijk niets anders dan een enorme bal van hete gassen en deze vibreert. Die trillingen kunnen ons veel meer vertellen over (het binnenste van) een ster.
Gestripte exoplaneten De onderzoekers hebben nu metingen van deze planeetovergangen gecombineerd met asteroseismologie (zie kader). Dat stelde ze in staat om accurater dan ooit vast te stellen hoeveel zonlicht exoplaneten ontvangen en hoe groot de diameter van deze exoplaneten is. En dat heeft nu dus geresulteerd in de ontdekking van een nieuwe klasse exoplaneten: de gestripte exoplaneten.
Intense straling De atmosfeer van deze planeten wordt weggeblazen door de intense straling van hun ster. Deze ‘striptease’ vindt plaats wanneer een planeet die 2,2 tot 3,8 keer groter is dan de aarde 650 keer meer zonlicht ontvangt dan onze planeet. De dikke atmosfeer van deze planeten wordt door de straling van de zon verwarmd en de vluchtige stoffen in de atmosfeer gaan ‘koken’ en verdwijnen in de ruimte. Wat overblijft is een ‘naakte’ planetaire kern, zo schrijven de onderzoekers in het blad Nature Communications. “Onze resultaten laten zien dat planeten van een bepaalde omvang die dicht bij hun sterren staan, waarschijnlijk aan het begin van hun leven veel groter zijn geweest. Deze planeten moeten er toen heel anders uit hebben gezien,” aldus Davies.
Het onderzoek is belangrijk, omdat het meer inzicht kan geven in de evolutie van planetaire systemen. “Het bestuderen van ons eigen zonnestelsel heeft in dit geval niet geholpen,” stelt onderzoeker Mia S. Lundkvist. “We hebben zulke planeten (superaardes, red.) niet hier. De planeten Uranus en Neptunus zijn qua grootte vergelijkbaar, maar zijn heel ver van de zon verwijderd.” Waarschijnlijk gaan we in de toekomst buiten ons zonnestelsel nog heel wat gestripte superaardes ontdekken. En wel dankzij nieuwe satellieten zoals NASA’s TESS.
Waarom beweegt de noordpool ineens richting Groot-Brittannië?
Waarom beweegt de noordpool ineens richting Groot-Brittannië?
Vivian Lammerse
De geografische noordpool is altijd in beweging. Maar nu verplaatst deze zich plotseling richting de Britse eilanden. Hoe komt dat opeens?
De aarde beweegt rond zijn as. Alleen de as staat niet stil, die beweegt heen en weer. Langzaam verschuift hierdoor de geografische noordpool. Sinds het begin van de waarnemingen in 1899 is deze al verschoven met maar liefst 12 meter. Nu hebben onderzoekers van NASA ontdekt dat de noordpool sinds 2000 een abrupte wending heeft genomen. Hun resultaten zijn gepubliceerd in het vakblad Science Advances.
WATERCYCLUS
Elke zes tot veertien jaar is er een kleine verplaatsing van de noordpool. De onderzoekers hebben dit nu in verband kunnen brengen met de veranderingen in de watercyclus in Eurazië. Droge jaren in Eurazië komen overeen met een oostwaartse verplaatsing, terwijl natte jaren voor een westwaartse verplaatsing zorgen.
Verschuiving Tot 2000 verschoof de noordpool langzaam richting Canada. Maar sinds dat jaartal draaide de noordpool plotsklaps. Nu beweegt de noordpool met een snelheid van bijna 17 centimeter per jaar – twee keer zo snel als voorheen – richting het oosten. “(De noordpool, red.) beweegt niet meer richting Hudson Bay, maar zet in plaats daarvan koers naar de Britse eilanden,” zegt onderzoeker Surendra Adhikari. “Dat is een enorme wending.” De onderzoekers hebben wel een verklaring gevonden voor deze onverwachtse verandering.
Smeltend ijs Van 2003 tot 2015 bekeken de onderzoekers met satellietbeelden de watercyclus op aarde. Vervolgens bestudeerden ze wat het effect hiervan zou kunnen zijn op de draai-as. De onderzoekers suggereren nu dat de verplaatsing van de noordpool veroorzaakt kan worden door smeltend ijs op Antarctica en Groenland. Maar dit is niet de enige reden voor de richtingverandering van de noordpool. Zo zou er ‘iets’ zijn ten oosten van Groenland dat het extra zetje geeft.
Op deze afbeelding is de de richtingsverandering van de noordpool in kaart gebracht.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Eurazië Dat ‘iets’ vonden de onderzoekers in Eurazië. Door aanhoudende droogte in dit gebied is er veel water verloren gegaan. Hier is echter veel minder water verdwenen dan op bijvoorbeeld Groenland. Waarom heeft dit kleinere verlies dan wel zo’n sterk effect? De onderzoekers zeggen dat de draai-as erg gevoelig is voor veranderingen die zich voordoen op 45 graden breedte. “Dit is waarom veranderingen op het Indiase subcontinent zo belangrijk zijn,” zegt Adhikari.
De veranderende noordpool heeft gelukkig geen effect op ons dagelijks leven. Wel moeten wetenschappers rekening houden met de verplaatsing van de noordpool. Deze verplaatsing heeft namelijk effect op de nauwkeurigheid van GPS, aard-observerende satellieten en observatieposten op aarde.
RUIMTEVAARTNASA's ruimtetelescoop Kepler, die al jaren succesvol de ruimte afspeurt naar planeten die veel op de aarde lijken, is in nood. Daardoor dreigt de ruimtemissie gevaar te lopen.
Tijdens een routinecontrole werd donderdag duidelijk dat de ruimtetelescoop in de noodmodus is gegaan. Dat is de laagste 'stand' waarin het apparaat functioneert. De modus wordt pas ingeschakeld als het ruimtevaartuig in serieuze problemen zit. De noodmodus is bedoeld om meer schade te voorkomen, maar is ook het meest brandstofverbruikend.
Volgens NASA was Kepler enkele dagen eerder nog volledig operationeel. Het is onduidelijk waardoor de problemen worden veroorzaakt en of NASA erin zal slagen de satelliet weer tot leven te wekken. Het opsporen en oplossen van het probleem kan veel tijd kosten, omdat de planeet 121 miljoen kilometer is verwijderd van het missiecontrolecentrum. Het kost ieder signaal dertien minuten om die afstand te overbruggen.
Kepler werd in 2009 op een missie gestuurd om planeten te ontdekken die rondom andere sterren dan de zon draaien. In de jaren die volgden ontdekte de ruimtetelescoop meer dan duizend van deze zogenoemde exoplaneten, waaronder twaalf leefbare aardse planeten die erg op de aarde lijken. Dankzij Kepler heeft de studie naar exoplaneten een enorme stap gemaakt.
Kepler kwam in 2013 ook al in de problemen, waardoor de eerste missie moest worden afgebroken. Het team slaagde er toen in het ruimtevaartuig op een tweede missie te sturen. Kepler zat middenin de tweede missie toen hij in de noodmodus belandde.
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NIET ALLEEN BUITENAARDSEN KUNNEN OBJECTEN ONZICHTBAAR MAKEN ( VIDEO )
NIET ALLEEN BUITENAARDSEN KUNNEN OBJECTEN ONZICHTBAAR MAKEN ( VIDEO )
Bekend is dat buitenaardsen verschillende technieken gebruiken om hun ruimteschepen door middel van het zogenaamde cloaking onzichtbaar te maken.
Uit onlangs gemaakte opnames van een raket die werd gelanceerd richting Mars blijkt dat ook wij mensen over deze technieken beschikken.
Enkele weken geleden is er door het European Space Agency (ESA) een onbemande probe de ruimte in gestuurd om een aantal verkenningsmissies op Mars uit te voeren.
Het geheel bestaat uit een soort satelliet die in een baan om Mars gebracht zal worden en een landingsvoertuig dat in 2018 op de bodem van Mars moet staan.
Dit geheel is de ruimte ingeschoten met een raket die op 14 maart 2016 werd gelanceerd in Kazachstan.
Naar aanleiding van die lancering ontvingen wij een email van een lezer (dank!):
Paar dingen die zijn opgevallen tijdens raket launch van 14 maart.
Net na het stijgen vliegt er iets heel snel door het beeld heen , ook zie je duidelijk dat de punt van de raket cloaking technologie bevat.
De lezer refereert dan aan de volgende video opname zoals bij de Engelse Guardian is geplaatst.
Dat dit niet zomaar een niet goed werkende camera is, wordt ondersteund door het feit dat er meerdere opnames zijn gemaakt van dit fenomeen met verschillende camera’s.
Wat je dan ziet, is dat het gedeelte van de raket waar de gevoelige elementen van deze missie zich bevinden, het satellietgedeelte, onzichtbaar is gemaakt.
Het onzichtbaarheidsmoment is kort en lijkt daardoor een soort test om te kijken of het bijvoorbeeld wel goed werkte.
Dit betekent dan weer dat ESA niet wil dat deze satelliet straks in een baan om Mars zichtbaar is. De daaruit voortvloeiende vraag is dan weer: waarom niet?
Heeft de mensheid misschien vijanden in die contreien die mogelijkerwijs deze satelliet uit de lucht zouden kunnen schieten?
Wat dit alles in ieder geval aantoont, is dat de mensheid al veel verder is met haar ruimtetechnologie en dat ook de mens in staat is om objecten onzichtbaar te maken.
De twee volgende foto’s maken dat nogmaals duidelijk. De tweede foto is een negatief van de eerste.
Just after midnight on January 14, 2016, an airline pilot’s UFO encounter was overheard by a ham radio operator.
According to UFOS Northwest, Utah MUFON Director Erica Lukes knew the ham radio operator who is also a radio show host. In her report to UFOS Northwest, Lukes stated that the ham radio operator was scanning the air waves for communications “between aircraft and the FAA…”
What the ham radio operator picked up was in fact the airline pilot asking the traffic controller if he’d picked up anything on his radar.
The pilot went on to tell the air traffic controller that he and his crew had been observing a perfectly square bright orange light approximately a mile wide keeping pace with the plane. The object had been there for quite a while and was located to the right of the plane. The pilot asked what township was to his right and the controller replied that it was Nephi, Utah.
UFOS Northwest Filed FOIA with FAA
Six weeks after UFOS Northwest filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), they received the “radar returns, voice tapes and tower logs”.
UFOS Northwest reported that the data revealed the pilot’s sighting was somewhere between 12:12 am and 12:13 am. The pilot was flying “American Airlines Flight Number 434 which was en route from San Francisco, CA to Philadelphia, PA.”
Unfortunately, the ham radio operator failed to record the conversation, but during their investigation, UFOS Northwest discovered “segments of the conversation on the Air Traffic Control archives website, but much of conversation was deleted.” The broken segment was only of the controller advising the pilot that Nephi, Utah was to his right.
When UFOS Northwest received the audio from the FAA, they were able to piece together the rest of the conversation between the pilot and the controller. The tape doesn’t give any information on the size of the object.
In graphic figures on UFOS Northwest website, the radar shots reveal “dense area of returns at approximately the 2 o’clock position. These returns are quite isolated and very numerous.” UFOS Northwest rules out possible returns, such as “birds, angels, ground targets or anomalous propagation.”
The UFOS Northwest administrator examined all of the radar returns provided from 12:00 am to 12:30 am and writes, “In all, 106 radar returns were detected. This means that the object(s) were there before and after the sighting.”
The administrator gives a detailed analysis of the radar and Doppler and explains the various differences, ruling out military operations, drones and other possible causes. Birds and weather targets were also ruled out since they couldn’t be detected so far away from the two radars, one 90 miles away and the other 150 miles from the plane.
Sighting Still Under Investigation
The final conclusion is that the dense area of returns were in the same position during the time the pilot reported the bright orange square object. Also, it’s concluded that the object(s) “were likely at the sighting location before and after the time that the crew sighted” them.
UFOS Northwest reports that Utah MUFON is still investigating the sighting and through an ad in the local newspaper encouraged anyone who witnessed the UFO(s) to contact the organization.
According to the website report, Erica Lukes interviewed a managers from a truck stop located near the sighting. The manager told her that “UFOs are frequently sighted in the area.”
There have been various theories and speculations about what the lights could have been, including lights from “a local power point (Currant Creek Plant – Mona, UT).”’
However, UFOS Northwest points out that a flight crew that routinely flies the same route would be able to recognize and distinguish the difference between the two. They certainly wouldn’t mistake lights they were familiar with seeing along their route.
This certainly isn’t the first time that an airline pilot has seen something unexplainable in the sky. What makes this case so intriguing is that a ham radio operator overheard the conversation between the pilot and air traffic control while it was happening.
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CONFIRMED! NASA Did Drop The Nuke In Oct 2009 On An Alien Base. April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
CONFIRMED! NASA Did Drop The Nuke In Oct 2009 On An Alien Base. April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Up till now, NASA dropping the nuke on a moon base to destroy the alien base found was always theory. Today I have proved that its 100% fact. I'm not sure why I didn't see it before. I mean, I watched the moon bombing on live Internet NASA cam with my junior high students live about 7-9pm Taiwan time...that would be about 3-5am in California time, but at the time I missed it. I matched the two faces from the live video footage at AMES with those of the two AMES employees in the moon base photo. Anthony Colaprete (Click for his bio)and Karen Gundy-Burlet are the ones in the HD photo with the moon base and in the live nuking of the moon video. At 3:59 until 4:04 into the video we see the two of them rubbing their heads, as if wondering WTF just happened, since the explosion didn't destroy the building at all nor did it create a upraised cloud of dust. As if the base had a shield around it stoping the blast from harming it. The base...and I'm saying this for every country in the world to know that they may be able to claim it...is in the crater Cabius. America gave the order to destroy it because it was seen by Chinese and Russian satellites. Apparently its still there and DGAF what nukes America throws at it. Thats...what alien technology can do. I'm going to tweet this to @SecGen of the UN a dozen times...even if he doesn't see it, one of the generals of the UN does follow me and has tweeted to me once, so he will at least see it. This base is occupied...not abandoned. It protected itself from the nuke and the world needs to know that America would rather destroy it, than let it fall into the hands of Russia or China. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
This is a great example of a cigar UFO. The Rocky Mountains are home to a few underground bases in Colorado, and its been reported that police there have recorded glowing orbs moving over the mountains. Makes me wonder...who was here first, us or them? And if they were born on...or in our planet, then what should we call them? Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Eyewitness states: Left my home travelling north and got stopped at a traffic light. Then I saw this object through my windshield. I live halfway between the Denver airport and the downtown area, and regularly see planes at lower elevations as they get near/leave the airport. I saw the object, which was flying at a standard height for a plane leaving the airport. I was close enough to make out the detail of it. It looked like a large white cargo plane, but with no wings, tail, and had a round front. By the time I grabbed my phone to take a photo the view of object was now out the drivers side window to the south west. I was able to get one photo then the light turned green and I had to drive on. The object was closer when I first saw it, but flow off pretty fast in a straight line to the south west.
This day in UFO history: The Uncovered Mystery of a Man Shoots A UFO
This day in UFO history: The Uncovered Mystery of a Man Shoots A UFO
While some people acknowledge the presence of extraterrestrial beings, they are at a complete loss to explain as to why they are visiting the earth. As with important things in life, explanations should be relatively straightforward and not difficult to comprehend. Understanding the primary motive and intent for extraterrestrial visits will explain the UFO Phenomena.
Oscar Santa Maria Huerta, a fighter pilot, had a strange experience when he tried to shoot down an odd light-bulb vessel. Up to date, the encounter is the sole documented case among the military plane shooting an unidentified flying object. On April 11, 1980, the 23-year-old Lieutenant of the Peruvian Air Force joined the 1,800 military and civilian personnel for daily exercises. LT Huerta received an order to intercept the unknown silver-colored object that had been hovering near the runway. The alleged object was 5 km away, soaring around 600 meters, and was not responsive to communications. The authorities are authorized because hovering inside might be a threat to national sovereignty. Colonel Huerta flew and shot 64 30mm shells when upon reaching the right distance. When one of the shells wiped out a car, all had no effect on the object. Afterward, it shot rapidly away from the base; then Colonel Huerta activated the afterburner of the aircraft to chase it. When they reached 84 km from the base, the object suddenly stops. Huerta position himself for another shot after turning up and to the right, but the object shoot upwards seconds before he could shoot.
He realized that he was running low, losing his capacity to attack. In this way, he decided to fly near the object to achieve a better look. Upon reaching 100 meters away, he started to see an object measuring around 10 meters in diameter with a cream-colored dome beneath. Underneath was a wide circular silver base that bears a resemblance to metal. It had no windows, antennae, exhausts, wings, propulsion jets, and other parts of a typical aircraft. Since he had no fuel, he could not attack.
This day in UFO history: Alvin, Texas UFO Incident
This day in UFO history: Alvin, Texas UFO Incident
This special documentary relates to the UFO incident back in April 11, 2008, exactly 8 years ago. It was well documented and it gives a major credibility to UFO investigations.
Alien bodies from Roswell UFO as no one has ever seen
Alien bodies from Roswell UFO as no one has ever seen
Death-Bed Confessions What was Found at ROSWELL UFO Crash in 1947. Bodies of the Roswell Aliens found in the UFO Crash in New Mexico in 1947. The Dead Alien Bodies as noone has ever seen.
After publishing and article in Fate Magazine and a LIVE appearance on a History Channel Special, both with a focus on Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs), Author and UFO Researcher Preston Dennett received a flood of emails and letters from new witnesses detailing many dramatic USO cases that had never been revealed before. Along the way, he discovered that the Southern California Coast is one of the worlds most active areas for Undersea USO reports. Reports that date back to the late 1940s, and continue to this day. After years of research, Preston Dennett has come to the startling conclusion that there is an Undersea UFO Base in the Santa Catalina Channel, located along the U.S. Pacific Coast. In this presentation he will present the results of his investigations into the USO situation around the world. Includes evidence of Government surveillance of USOs and ensuing coverup, photographs of UFOs and USOs, and a visual presentation of eyewitness accounts. Preston Dennett is a MUFON Certified UFO Field Investigator and the Author of over 16 books and 100 published essays on UFOs, USOs, and Alien Encounters.
UFO crash Night Fright Show: Children Of Roswell with Thomas Carey and Don Schmitt
Tonight authors and researchers Tom Carey and Don Schmitt have continued with this legacy and done us all a great service with their new book “Children Of Roswell: A Seven Decade Legacy Of Fear and Intimidation” Tonight we look at exactly what the witnesses saw at the famous Roswell UFO crash site at the beginning of July 1947 in the middle of the New Mexico desert. The debris… the bodies… well let me quote witness “Mack” Brazel who said: “They weren’t Human”. We will also look at the evidence taken from the crash site: who transported it and where. The legendary “memory”metal that was impenetrable, fire proof and when scrunched up in to a ball would unfold itself back into perfect shape.
On the 30th anniversary of ET, Stylist looks for answers to the question - is there anybody out there? From alien abductions to lights in the sky and mysterious flying objects, here are 20 of the world's most talked-about UFO sightings...
Roswell, 1947
Ranking as one of the most famous UFO incidents in history - and now a pop culture phenomenon - the Roswell incident saw UFO hunters claim that the US military had captured an alien aircraft. While the military maintain that the 'flying saucer' was actually a surveillance device from a classified operation, non-believers still cite extra-terrestrial activity to this day.
Kenneth Arnold case, 1947
Newspapers had a field day with Kenneth Arnold's story, even coining the term 'flying saucer', after the American businessman and pilot claimed he'd seen nine saucer-like objects flying in a chain near Mount Rainier in Washington.
Washington, D.C. sighting, 1952
The CIA Robertson Panel was formed after reports of UFOs appearing in the skies above Washington were convincingly backed up by mysterious radar contacts at three separate airports. However, the US Air Force allayed fears of an alien invasion, suggesting that changes in the temperature had caused radar signals to bend and give false returns.
The Hill Abduction, 1961
In 1961, Barney and Betty Hill from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, reported that they had been kidnapped by aliens. According to the couple, they had been followed by a flying saucer while driving in their car, abducted and then subjected to an intimate physical examination. They also recall observing a 3D 'star map' inside the ship. Even under hypnosis, the Hill's maintained their story and aroused massive interest and publicity.
Rendlesham Forest Lights, 1980
One of the UK's most famous UFO events involved the sighting of several unexplained lights near RAF bases at Rendlesham Forest, inland of the Suffolk coast. The authorities insist there was nothing mysterious going on and no risk to national security, however, as the witnesses were on-duty servicemen, the reports were given a measure of credibility, and a belief persists that the lights were from an alien spacecraft. Even now, requests for more details are still being made under the Freedom of Information Act.
Clyde W Tombaugh sighting, 1949
Respected American astronomer Clyde W Tombaugh poured cold water on the consensus that most UFO sightings were recorded by publicity-seekers, when, two years after Roswell, Tombaugh recorded seeing up to eight rectangular lights in the sky above Las Cruces in New Mexico, and on another occasion several green fireballs. As a serious-minded astronomer used to studying the skies (one of his greatest achievements was the discovery of the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930), his inability to explain the lights made his claims particularly hard to dismiss.
Levelland case, 1957
Drivers in Levelland, Texas reported that their car engines stalled when encountering a glowing, egg-shaped object, and then mysteriously restarted again after the object had left. A police investigation followed and it was concluded that an electrical storm had caused the sightings and vehicle failures.
Shag Harbour, 1967
The navy was drafted in after a large, unidentified object crashed into Shag Harbour in Nova Scotia. A search and investigation was conducted, but later classified as unsolved by the Canadian Department of National Defence when a clear conclusion could not be reached.
Maury Island incident, 1947
Sailor Harold Dahl experienced a run-in with the real 'men in black', after claiming to have seen six UFOs while scavenging for driftwood in Washington's Puget Sound. The next day he was approached by an unknown, black-suited individual who warned him off repeating his story with threats against his family. However, it's unclear whether the UFO incident was actually real or a secret military exercise which had gone wrong.
Westall encounter, 1966
A UFO was allegedly witnessed by more than 200 students and teachers at two schools in Westall, Melbourne. The object was spotted first descending into a grassy field before taking off over houses in a local suburb. While Australian Skeptics, a non-profit organisation which investigates paranormal and pseudo-scientific claims by using scientific methodologies, put the UFO down to being an experimental military aircraft, witnesses contunue to gather to relive the extraordinary event.
Lonnie Zamora UFO sighting, 1964
When New Mexico traffic policeman Lonnie Zamora saw a huge, bluish-orange flame in the sky south of Socorro, he went to investigate. The flame was accompanied by a deafening roaring sound, and as Zamora drew nearer he saw a weird, doughnut-shaped silver machine and two white-clad individuals. Although the pair quickly flew off, Zamora's detailed testimony has provided one of the most comprehensive accounts of an alien encounter, and is often cited as a significant spur in persuading the US Air Force to take the growing numbers of UFO sightings more seriously.
Carson Sink incident, 1952
Two senior military pilots claimed to have spotted three aircraft of a type unknown to them while flying in a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber over the Carson Desert. They said the three unidentified objects were moving about three times faster than their B-25. While the B-25 wasn't known to be a particularly fast machine, both men insisted that the three crafts were not a new type of super-fast jet. 60 years later the sighting is still officially classified as unexplained.
São Paulo sighting, 1986
Military aircraft were sent to intercept around 20 UFOs detected by radar in various parts of São Paulo, Brazil. However, once the military began to give chase, the mysterious objects reportedly disappeared. Providing one solution to the incident is Geoffrey Perry, a British space researcher. He put the sighting down to debris that were ejected by Soviet space station Salyut-7 re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere around central-western Brazil.
Jimmy Carter sighting, 1969
Before becoming president of the USA, Jimmy Carter filed an official report in 1973 to say that four years earlier he had seen a strange white light in the evening sky. He claimed he watched it change from white to blue, and then to red, before changing back to white and appearing to gradually fade off into the distance. Although he believed it was a UFO he saw in 1969, by the time he became president he put the incident down to military, rather than extra-terrestrial, activity.
Tehran UFO incident, 1976
A UFO was believed to have disabled the electronic equipment of two F-4 interceptor jets as well as ground control equipment in Tehran. Public records state that the Iranian generals involved said that they had thought the object was an extra-terrestrial, although sceptics have put the encounter down to equipment malfunction.
Lubbock Lights, 1951
Three professors from Texas Technical College spotted an unusual light formation flying over Lubbock, Texas in 1951. The 20 to 30 lights flew in a 'V' shape over the town, and the occurance was eventually photographed by a student from the college with the photographs later appearing in Life Magazine, although an explanation of the sightings is yet to be found.
Belguim Wave, 1989 - 1990
Between 1989 and 1990, around 13,500 people claim to have observed large, silent, low-flying black triangles in the skies above Belgium, with 2,600 written statements on file about what they had seen. The frequently-photographed wave was also tracked by NATO radar and jet interceptors and investigated by Belgium’s military, although some put the sightings down to ordinary helicopters.
Yeni Kent Compound, 2008
One plucky night guard at the Yeni Kent Compound in Turkey claimed to have videotaped a number of UFO sightings witnessed over a period of four months. His allegations were also backed up by other witnesses, spurring the Sirius UFO Space Science Research Center to say that the videos were the “most important images of a UFO ever filmed”.
Berwyn Mountains, 1974
Like the Roswell incident 27 years earlier, rumours of a UFO crash in the Berwyn mountains followed after reports of shaking ground and strange lights in the sky. Investigations began and Gwynedd police recorded a statement from a witness who claimed to have seen a "bright red light, like coal fire red. Large perfect circle. Like a big bonfire. Could see lights above and to the right and white lights moving to bottom. Light changed colour to yellowish white and back again." No remains were found and the unsteady ground was likely to have been caused by the Bala Earthquake which hit the area that night, but several locals still insist they saw a glowing, egg-shaped craft.
Captain William Schaffner incident, 1970
When radar picked up an unidentified flying object over the North Sea, pilots quickly attempted to make contact. Captain William Schaffner intercepted a 'conical object' then all contact with him was lost. Three months later his plane was discovered undamaged on the seabed, but his body was never recovered. However, official reports eschewed the idea of an extra-terrestrial mystery, deeming the pilot's likely death being caused by flying too low over the sea.
What do you think? Do you believe in UFOs, or have you even seen one yourself? Tell us your thoughts on Twitter or in the comments section below.
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Idaho witness sketches details from low hovering UFO
Idaho witness sketches details from low hovering UFO
An Idaho witness at Meridian recalled a UFO event from 1977 when a disc-shaped craft hovered over a nearby home and moved towards him, according to testimony in Case 75381 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness was driving home in his truck late at night on May 5, 1977, and noticed the UFO hovering just above a neighbor’s roof as he pulled into his driveway. The case was reported to MUFON on March 23, 2016, and is under investigation by Idaho STAR Team Investigator Charles Stansburge who provides the account details.
“As he looked up from the road ahead to view it he seemed to ‘hear in his mind’ an authoritative male voice saying, ‘This is not of this world,’” Stansburge reported.“He stopped the truck, got out and watched for 20 to 30 minutes. His passenger did not stay outside with him. She went immediately into their home, as she was concerned for the safety of the children there.”
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness continued to watch the craft as it noiselessly and slowly approached where he was standing.
“Drawings are attached showing the shape of the craft from the side. It had a ‘nipple’-shaped dome on top which was shrouded in a swirling vaporous cloud which changed colors. A sparkly zone shown ‘like diamonds’ around the perimeter of the disc.”
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
At first the witness did not see any detail under the craft, but when it passed nearer to him he saw pulsating, colored lights in rectangular panels on the underside of the craft.
“There was no noise, emission of any kind from the craft and the lights from it were very bright, but did not seem to illuminate the ground or adjacent buildings. The disc was still in the sky over the homes when the witness eventually tired and went inside.”
The witness provided three illustrations with the report.
The witness was able to watch the object for nearly 30 minutes. Pictured: Meridian, ID. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Meridian is a city located in Ada County, Idaho, population 75,092. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Cleveland witness reports close encounter with triangle UFO
Cleveland witness reports close encounter with triangle UFO
An Ohio witness at Cleveland reported a close encounter with a triangle-shaped UFO, according to testimony in Case 75119 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The event occurred beginning about 10:21 p.m. on March 8, 2016, with the object heading south, and the witness soon dictated details into a telephone as he is a lifelong visual artist.
“At first I saw it coming,” the witness stated.“It was traveling slowly. It was not that high up in the air and it was an unusual constellation of lights so a grab my iPhone and I thought I should take a picture of whatever it is. And then it got closer and I got closer. We were converging right over Interstate 90.”
Witness illustration of the object. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness first thought the object was something that could be identified.
“As it got closer and closer I thought it might be a group of helicopters. But they were in too tight of a cluster. I saw a constellation of lights that were in an abstract sort of triangular form. As the craft got closer, I kept looking up and I saw that there was a slightly lighter color to the body than the dark sky.”
The witness described the lighting on the objects.
“There were lights on all three corners and in between the corners with a dazzling white very, very white, bright, bright light. On the bottom there was a flashing red light. At least one. Maybe they were alternating from different positions on the bottom.”
Cropped and enlarged version of the witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
The craft was traveling very slow and low to the ground.
“The craft was traveling very slowly. It was probably four to six telephone poles off of the ground. Not regular telephone poles, but the kind of tall ones that are along the interstate. If this craft was indeed triangular, it appeared to be traveling backwards away from the point.”
There was an aspect of this triangular pattern that was hard for the witness to comprehend.
“The lights seemed to be pointing toward me, not so much at me, but so bright that it looked like they were pointed at me, although it was not pointed at me at all. That’s how dazzling the lights were.”
As the object moved overhead, the witness thought there was structure to the object.
“As the craft approached the highway before it crossed over me, I thought it could be a structure, a linear structure like I-beams or something that have lights along it and it was not a flat triangle. It appeared to have a flat aspect, but the front seemed to be folded a little making it like two long, skinny triangles, but only in the front.”
Cropped and enlarged version of the witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness was not afraid.
“I did not feel any unusual feelings outside of disbelief. I racked my mind trying to figure out what it could be other than a craft. It was not that high off the ground. As an artist my life profession is about looking and seeing. I’m very articulate and I’m able to describe things well. I worked as a carpenter for 30 years and I have a pretty good sense of dimension. I would guess this craft was between 40 and 60 feet long. Of course perspective could have thrown all of this off. Of course everything about this could be incorrect. But if it was what it appeared to be, I saw something quite remarkable and would like to know if anybody else sa w the same damn thing.”
The witness provided an exact location for the sighting.
“It was west of exit 169 on Interstate 90 – that was what I dictated (with only punctuation changes). I am most curious if there were other reports of this thing. It had to have been seen by many others because it was so low and moved so slowly and was over a very, very populated area – along the edge of Cleveland. And lastly, and strangely enough, I have been struggling to photograph my drawings and for some reason they will not photograph. I have never had a problem with taking photos on my phone. Very strange. And I am not even suggesting that they are related at all.
Ohio MUFON Field Investigator Joseph Pavlansky closed this case as an Unknown. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
UFO PENDELDIENST TUSSEN POPOCATEKPETL VULKAAN EN ISS - RUIMTESTATION ( VIDEO )
UFO PENDELDIENST TUSSEN POPOCATEKPETL VULKAAN EN ISS - RUIMTESTATION ( VIDEO )
Het ISS ruimtestation dat boven onze hoofden rondjes draait rond de aarde speelt een hele andere rol dan het grote publiek denkt.
Met steeds meer mensen die van alles volgen via webcams en andere camera’s wordt het steeds moeilijker om UFO’s verborgen te houden.
Er moet toch een keer een moment komen dat ook de gevestigde mainstream niet meer om een aantal simpele feiten heen kan.
Die zijn onder andere dat er op talloze foto’s en video’s intussen is vastgelegd dat er zich zo langzamerhand ontelbare UFO’s bevinden bij de Mexicaanse vulkaan Popocatépetl en het ISS ruimtestation.
Naast die feiten begint het ook steeds duidelijker te worden dat het in een aantal gevallen waarschijnlijk dezelfde ruimteschepen gaat.
Zowel over de UFO’s bij het ISS en die bij de Popocatépetl is op deze website uitgebreide documentatie vinden.
Enkele weken geleden, op 25 maart 2016, werd boven de Popocatépetl vulkaan de volgende prachtige UFO vastgelegd.
Enige tijd later op 5 april 2016 wordt bij het ISS voor de zoveelste keer een ruimteschip waargenomen.
Dit object lijkt verdacht veel op die die kort daarvoor boven de Popocatépetl was vastgelegd.
Dat er een verband bestaat tussen de basis van Popocatépetl en ISS, is overduidelijk. Dat er diverse soorten ruimteschepen op een neer pendelen tussen de twee, ook.
De achtergronden ervan zijn echter nog steeds een stuk onduidelijker.
Kepler's New Mission: To Hunt Strange Orphan Worlds
Kepler's New Mission: To Hunt Strange Orphan Worlds
By Irene Klotz, Discovery News
This is an artist's impression of an orphaned or "rogue" planet — a world that has become excited from its parent star and is drifting through interstellar space.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
After an unprecedented survey to look for Earth-like planets beyond the solar system, NASA's Kepler space telescope this week begins a search for free-flying planets to learn just how common orphan worlds may be.
Planets without host stars are difficult to find, but they do exist. Scientists believe these bodies were ejected from their solar system families due to gravitational dynamics, lured away by tidal forces from interloping passersby, or perhaps even formed without the benefit of a parent star. What they don't know is if orphan planets are common or not.
To find the free-flying worlds, astronomers are turning to a technique known as microlensing, which occurs when the background light of a star is distorted due to the gravitational effects of another, unseen body located between the star and the observing telescope.
"For a lensing event that's due to a just a single object, the most salient feature of the light curve is the time scale. In general, a shorter time scale is potentially indicative of a lower-mass lensing object," said astronomer Calen Henderson, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
The Transit
As an exoplanet passes in front of its star as viewed from Earth, a very slight dip in starlight brightness is detected. Observatories such as NASA's Kepler space telescope use this "transit method" to great effect, constantly detecting new worlds.
IMAGE: AN EXOPLANET PASSES IN FRONT OF (OR "T
Hot Jupiters
Some exoplanets orbit close to their parent stars. Due to their close proximity and generally large size, worlds known as "hot Jupiters" are easier to spot than their smaller, more distant-orbiting cousins.
CREDIT: ESO
Habitable Worlds
The primary thrust of exoplanet hunting is to find small, rocky worlds that orbit within their stars' "habitable zones." The habitable zone, also known as the "Goldilocks zone," is the region surrounding a star that is neither too hot nor too cold. At this sweet spot, liquid water may exist on the exoplanet's surface. Where there's water, there's the potential for life.
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A Phantom
Usually, exoplanet hunters look for the slight dimming of a star or a star's "wobble" to detect the presence of an exoplanet. However, in the case of Kepler-19c, its presence has been detected by analyzing its gravitational pull on another exoplanet, Kepler-19b.
Kepler-19c is therefore the Phantom Menace of the exoplanet world.
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Crazy Aurorae
Planets with a global magnetic field, like Earth, have some dazzling interactions with the winds emanating from their stars. The high-energy particles bombard the planet's atmosphere after being channeled by the magnetism. A wonderful auroral lightshow ensues.
But say if there's an exoplanet, with a magnetosphere, orbiting really close to its star? Well, stand back! The entire world would become engulfed in a dancing show, 100-1000 times brighter than anything we see on Earth.
IMAGE: A "HOT JUPITER" AND ITS TWO HYPOTHETIC
The "Candidates"
"Candidate" exoplanets are often mentioned, especially when talking about detections by the Kepler space telescope. But what does this mean?
As a world passes in front of its star, slightly dimming the starlight, this isn't considered a "confirmed" exoplanet detection. To make sure that signal is real, more orbital passes of the exoplanet need to be logged before a bona fide discovery can be announced. Until then, these preliminary detections are called exoplanet candidates.
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Angry Suns, Naked Planets
Exoplanets come in all sizes and all states of chaos. Some might have wonky orbits, others might be getting naked. Other times, they're simply being ripped apart by X-rays blasted from their parent star. Bummer.
IMAGE: AN EXOPLANET BEING DESTROYED BY X-RAYS
Super-Earths
Super-Earths get a lot of press. Mainly because "Earth" is mentioned. Sadly, most of these worlds are likely completely different to anything we'd call "Earth." And you can forget calling the vast majority of them "Earth-like." It's simply a size thing -- they're bigger than Earth, yet a lot smaller than Jupiter, hence their name, "super-Earth." Easy.
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The time scale for a lensing event caused by a free-floating planet may last just days or even hours, he added.
"If you're just monitoring one star, it's very, very rare to capture a microlensing event. That would only happen once per individual star every maybe 300,000 years," Henderson told Discovery News.
"It's a fishing expedition. Microlensing events are rare. They're unpredictable and so what microlensing surveys have done for decades is just try to play the numbers game," he said.
Ongoing ground-based surveys boost the odds of capturing a microlensing event by focusing on tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of stars, looking for targets that brighten within short time periods.
While some variations in a star's brightness are due to stellar flares or because the star is what is known as a cataclysmic variable and periodically erupts, other changes are caused by unseen bodies in the foreground warping the light of the background star.
"What we're going to try to do with K2 is look for those events that are due to a lensing system that is just a free-floating planet," Henderson said.
To accomplish that, the K2 team will work in conjunction with ground-based surveys to try to get two perspectives of a lensing event, which will allow astronomers to calculate the mass what is causing the lensing.
"It's the first chance that we will have to actually measure the masses of these objects and the first chance to find out if the ones we find that are low-mass are (gravitationally) bound to a host star or not," Henderson said.
Scientists believe that they will be able to detect free-floating planets about the size of Saturn or larger with the technique.
K2's hunt for orphan worlds began on Thursday and is scheduled to last until July 1.
A white paper on the project was released at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Orlando in January.
The possible internal structure of Planet Nine, a large world hypothesized to exist far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Credit: Esther Linder, Christoph Mordasini, University of Bern
Astronomers are trying to take the measure of Planet Nine before the hypothesized world has even been discovered.
Earlier this year, astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, both of whom are based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, proposed that a large planet lurks undetected in the outer solar system, far beyond Pluto's orbit.
Batygin and Brown didn't spot this prospective Planet Nine; rather, they inferred its existence based on the orbits of a half-dozen objects in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune. [Planet Nine: The Evidence for a New Giant Planet in Pictures]
These objects' orbits suggest that Planet Nine may be about 10 times more massive than Earth, and may circle the sun at an average distance of 600 astronomical units (AU) or so, Batygin and Brown said. (One AU is the average distance from Earth to the sun — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
Now, a new study models what Planet Nine — which, contrary to the claims of a recent New York Post video, will not destroy the Earth — might look like if those parameters are on the money.
Astrophysics professor Christoph Mordasini and his Ph.D. student Esther Linder, both of the University of Bern in Switzerland, assumed that Planet Nine — if it exists — is basically a smaller version of the "ice giants" Uranus and Neptune, with an atmosphere dominated by hydrogen and helium.
NASA Officially Cautious About 'Planet Nine' | Video
The duo then calculated that such a 10-Earth-mass Planet Nine would be about 3.7 times wider than our planet, with a temperature of minus 375 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 226 degrees Celsius; 47 degrees Kelvin).
"This means that the planet’s emission is dominated by the cooling of its core; otherwise, the temperature would only be 10 Kelvin," Linder said in a statement.
Since reflected sunlight would contribute very little to the total radiation emitted by Planet Nine, it would be much brighter in infrared light than in visual wavelengths, Mordasini and Linder said.
"With our study, candidate Planet Nine is now more than a simple point mass; it takes shape, having physical properties," Mordasini said in the same statement.
Mini-Neptunes like "Planet Nine" outnumber other types of planets found by astronomers. See our full infographic here.
Credit: by Karl Tate, Infographics artist
The researchers also used the results of their modeling work to investigate just how detectable Planet Nine might be. They determined that the various sky surveys that astronomers have already performed were likely incapable of spotting a Planet Nine that's less than 20 Earth masses, especially if the mysterious world were close to aphelion (the planet's farthest point from the sun during its highly elliptical orbit). But NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite likely would have spotted a Planet Nine harboring more than 50 Earth masses.
"This puts an interesting upper mass limit for the planet," Linder said.
Further surveys and future instruments — such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which is currently being built in Chile — should be able to confirm or rule out the existence of Planet Nine, the researchers said.
The new study has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
This award-winning film supports the theory that some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin.
Unexplained cases from around the world; the team investigates 50 years of official contradictions and denials, and puts forth possible reasons for secrecy.
The film also examines scientific theories regarding interstellar travel and discusses the current movement for official disclosure on the subject of UFOs - a subject that has been considered by most government officials to be unworthy of serious investigation.
The team travels the globe, interviewing eyewitnesses and high-ranking military & government personnel about their UFO knowledge and experiences.
The ‘Drip-feeding’ of Disclosure appears to continue in numerous different ways, what with NASA recently presenting to the world photos taken from space of a series of huge, mysterious geoglyphs were discovered in the grasslands, or steppes, of Kazakhstan, first discovered back in 2007.
Please see below one of the 260 sites discovered in Kazakhstan:
As you can see from the above NASA image these structures are huge in size. They were thought to have been formedby human-made mounds, divots, and trenches, the structures create giant images that can be seen from the sky, including shapes that look like crop circles, squares, and swastikas. Archaeologists estimate they were created around 8,000 years ago, but have no idea who built them, or why – It has even been suggested by some leading researchers that perhaps an Advanced Alien species used these as some kind of Galactic ‘markers’ or used to transmit energy in some way.
Since NASA has released these photos they have even admitted that they are completely clueless as to what or WHO created these incredible structures. These structures could very well change our perspective on early humanity.
Yet another image taken from NASA – You can see by the scale how huge these structures really are.
These incredible glyphs were first discovered by an amateur Archaeologist called Dmitriy Dey way back in 2007, whilst using Google Earth – over 260 of them have been discovered since. I guess what makes them intriguing enough for the guys at NASA to get involved is probably due to the fact that they were created a VERY long time ago! To put things into perspective the Nazca Lines in Peru, were only built around 1,500 years ago.
One of the most interesting things about this apart from the fantastic structures themselves, is that the only humans thought to be living in this region of Kazakhstan back then were nomadic Stone Age tribes – Leading researchers don’t believe that they were sophisticated enough to build anything like this, in fact it would have been impossible.
Could Ancient ‘Advanced’ Alien Beings be responsible for some of these age old structures? Art by Raphael Terra@http://ufoartist.blogspot.co.uk/
“The idea that foragers could amass the numbers of people necessary to undertake large-scale projects – like creating the Kazakhstan geoglyphs – has caused archaeologists to deeply rethink the nature and timing of sophisticated large-scale human organisation as one that predates settled and civilised societies,” Persis B. Clarkson, an archaeologist at the University of Winnipeg, told Ralph Blumenthal from The New York Times.
It has only been very recently that serious investigation into the shapes had only really just begun, with the glyphs formally being described at an archaeology conference last year for the first time – before that there were some concerns the whole thing was a hoax due to how remarkable the structures are. And it’s only the last two weeks that NASA has gotten involved.
NASA are now using satellites from one of their main contractors, DigitalGlobe, to take images of some of the most amazing structures from space, and they’ve also instructed that the astronauts on board the International Space Station to immediately start taking photos of the region – clearly things are being taken very seriously about these structures, although NASA will underplay that.
“I’ve never seen anything like this; I found it remarkable,” said Compton J. Tucker, a NASA scientist who provided the images. He added that NASA was “proceeding to map the entire region”.
Notice the Nazi looking sign to the left.
U.I.P SUMMARY –
When I FIRST read about this, straight away I thought to myself “there could be FAR much more to this story than meets the eye!” especially with NASA getting heavily involved and spending millions of dollars in research!
What makes these glyphs so fascinating is their sheer size, they are that large that they’re unable to be seen from the ground. It is impossible to imagine a civilisation over 8,000 years ago contemplating the surface of the Earth from the air, for a start HOW WOULD THEY GET UP INTO THE AIR? Consider this, one of the largest structures is the Ushtogay Square, which is about 250,000 metres in area,with its sides as long as a huge US aircraft carrier.
Another structure, which is called the Bestamskoe Ring, is basically a circle which has been made up of dozens of other smaller circles. There’s also the Turgai Swastika, which looks kind of like a three-armed swastika and as many of us will know the Swastika was used way before the Nazi’s started using it to inflict fear into the planet.
There is no way at this moment in time anybody can confirm who created these structures and WHY they are there, but what we can say is that we all need to take a large pinch of salt with whatever NASA throws back our way about these amazing structures. The evidence is building that we have NOT been alone for a very long time, from looking at our own DNA, to unusual structures and markings around the world – It has even been suggested that these strange structures may be landing markers for Alien Beings, or some kind of coded message for Beings from a far!
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Humans Should Edit Genes to Survive In Space, Scientist Says (Video)
Humans Should Edit Genes to Survive In Space, Scientist Says (Video)
by Tia Ghose, Senior Writer
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Using the tools of synthetic biology, scientists could genetically engineer humans, and the plants and bacteria they bring with them, to create Earth-like conditions on another planet — known as terraforming, Nip said. This would be much more efficient than other proposed terraforming methods, such as hauling all of the tools to create a hermetically sealed environment, she added. [7 Most Mars-Like Places on Earth]To brave the conditions of microgravity, thin air and harsh ionizing radiation for any length of time, humans may need to borrow genes from some of the hardiest organisms on the planet, Lisa Nip, a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in a recent TED Talk.
Humans are the ultimate homebodies. Having evolved for hundreds of thousands of years on our verdant, oxygen-rich, temperate planet, humans are uniquely well adapted to Earth's gentle conditions.
But space explorers will face much harsher conditions. In outer space, microgravity can weaken bones and damage the heart, and ionizing radiation can wreck DNA, she said.
Even on Mars — by far the most "hospitable" of the seven other planets in our solar system — the average temperature is about minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 65 degrees Celsius), yearly rainfall is zero, the miniscule atmosphere offers no shield against solar radiation and the soil is similar to the volcanic ash in Hawaii, Nip said.
"If we were to dump any of us on Mars right this minute — even given ample food, air and water and a suit — we are likely to experience very unpleasant health problems from the ionizing radiation," she said.
Superspeed evolution
Instead of hiding humans behind a wall of lead or a suit of armor that weighs as much as the body itself, people should take a page fromextremophile bacteria already living on Earth, she said. For instance, the world's toughest bacterium, Deinococcus radiodurans, can withstand 100 times the ionizing radiation that would kill a human, with no apparent adverse effects. Scientists already understand some of the pathways that give D. radioduransits incredibly hardy nature, so harnessing just a handful of these could help humans become more resilient in the harsh environments lurking in the cosmos, Nip said.
But synthetic biology also could be used to alter the creatures and flora that humans bring along for space colonization. For instance, growing food on Mars with traditional crops means "engineering endless acres of land on an entirely new planet and releasing trillions of gallons of atmospheric gases, and then enclosing it all in a glass dome," Nip said.
Instead, plants could be engineered to be both more drought-resistant more cold-resistant. For instance, genes for antifreeze found in fish could be transplanted into these crops to allow them to resist the endless winter on the Red Planet, Nip said.
Of course, genetic engineering has its risks and ethical challenges. And humans, and all other organisms for that matter, already have a time-tested way to adjust to their environment: evolution that proceeds via natural selection. But typically, that requires many small changes adding up over a relatively long period of time, in many, many organisms.
"Evolution requires two things that we may not always have or be able to afford: They are death and time," Nip said. "In our species' struggle to find our place in the universe, we may not have the time necessary for the natural evolution of extra functions on new planets."
Instead, humans may need to engage in targeted evolution at hyperspeed to survive the vagaries of the cosmos, she said.
The Milky Way's youngest supernova remnant, called G1.9+0.3, was likely caused by the merging of two dense cores left over from dying stars. Credit: NASA/CXC/CfA/S. Chakraborti et al.
The Milky Way's youngest supernova — an explosion of a star that renders it extremely bright — was probably caused by the collision of two ultradense remnants of stars, new research suggests. The epic blast, shrouded in dust, also likely happened even more recently than scientists thought.
The supernova remnant was identified by radio telescope in 1984, and astronomers set out to fit X-ray and radio data to a model that could help reveal what instigated the explosion.
Researchers tracked down the explosion's cause by measuring how the supernova remnant brightened over time, and their technique could be used to better understand the type of supernova in general, called Type Ia — a cosmic blast essential to measuring the universe's expansion. Such supernovas can briefly shine brighter than the galaxies in which they reside. [Supernovas: Amazing Star Explosion Images]
"Astronomers use Type Ia supernovas as distance markers across the universe, which helped us discover that its expansion was accelerating," Sayan Chakraborti, an astrophysicist at Harvard University and lead author of the new study, said in a statement. "If there are any differences in how these supernovas explode and the amount of light they produce, that could have an impact on our understanding of this expansion."
The supernova remnant in question, called G1.9+0.3, is the echo of a cosmic explosion whose light would have hit Earth about 110 years ago, the new research suggests, but its dusty home in the constellation Sagittarius blocked its light from 19th century astronomers.
The new research incorporated data from the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Jansky Very Large Array, a radio telescope in New Mexico. Both observatories focus on wavelengths of light that can pierce the dense cloud of dust around the supernova remnant. The researchers examined how the supernova remnant was interacting with the gas and dust around it, and noticed an increase in radiation over time.
Researchers classify Type Ia supernovas as explosions caused by white dwarfs, the superdense cores left behindwhen stars run out of fuel. But they aren't sure exactly why the white dwarfs explode. Potentially, the white dwarf could have either sucked in too much material from a companion star in its orbit, or two white dwarfs could have slammed together and merged, NASA officials said in a statement.
According to the Harvard team's new model, a supernova remnant's brightening over time suggests that it was formed the second way, through a white dwarf merger. They also concluded that scientists were seeing the blast 110 years after it happened, rather than 150.
"We observed that the X-ray and radio brightness increased with time, so the data point strongly to a collision between two white dwarfs as being the trigger for the supernova explosion in G1.9+0.3," study co-author Francesca Childs, also at Harvard, said in the statement.
The researchers can use their model to figure out the triggers of other Type Ia supernovas, which are thought to let out a consistent amount of light at their peaks. That consistency lets researchers calculate the distance to the galaxies they reside in, based on their brightness. Therefore, more information about how they form, which could affect the amount of light they put out, means researchers may need to recalculate some of the distances found based on the explosions.
"It is important to identify the trigger mechanism for Type Ia supernovas, because if there is more than one cause, then the contribution from each may change over time," Alicia Soderberg, an astronomer at Harvard and a study co-author, said in the statement. "This means astronomers might have to recalibrate some of the ways we use them as 'standard candles' in cosmology."
NASA HACKER FOUND EVIDENCE AMERICA HAS DEEP SPACE WARSHIPS
NASA HACKER FOUND EVIDENCE AMERICA HAS DEEP SPACE WARSHIPS
According to a hacker who is facing a ten-year legal battle after breaking into NASA computers, the United States has a fully operational fleet of Space Warships. Gary McKinnon, firmly believes that he came across the ultimate information that proves the US have a secret space program operated by the navy with fully operational warships that operate in Space.
In a new interview on UFO channel Richplanet TV, McKinnon finally reveals the entire truth about his findings saying: ‘I kept going for months and months. I kept thinking, ‘They’re going to close this door’.
McKinnon said that he used a software called Landsearch which allowed him to search all files and folders of interest to him.
‘I scanned and looked for documents, I found an Excel spreadsheet which said, ‘Non-terrestrial officers’, states McKinnon.
‘It had ranks and names. It had tabs for ‘material transfer’ between ships.
‘I took that to be, they must have a ships based in space – the names started with U.S.S.’
Gary McKinnon is accused of mounting the biggest ever hack in the history of the Unite3d States by breaking into the computers of the Army, Air force, Navy and NASA.
During his latest interview, McKinnon describes a conversation from a former NASA whistleblower Donna Hare, who had been told by a colleague that NASA was trying to hide delicate information by “airbrushing” UFOs from their photos.
“There was a colleague, who was in another room — they all had secret clearance but they were on different projects — and she (Hare) was in this chap’s lab or room or whatever it is and he said come and take a look at this,” said McKinnon.
While there are many people who firmly believe this is yet another elaborate hoax, there have been a series of former NASA and government employees who back up the claims made by McKinnon.
Parts of the testimony from Captain Kaye are consistent with that of Michael Relfe, another whistleblower who claims to have served 20 years tour on the red planet. Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, great-granddaughter of former President Eisenhower claims that efforts were made to recruit here onto a human colony on Mars, led by researcher Dr. Hal Puthoff.
According to “Jackie”, there are humans on Mars, and we have been on the red planet for over 20 years. ‘Jackie’, she and six other employees saw the exact same thing, suggesting this might be the evidence that proves that a secret space program did exist (or might even still).
According to ‘Jackie’ while working as part of the team downloading telemetry from the Viking Lander, she saw human setting foot on the surface of the red planet via a live feed from Mars.
In an interview with Coast-to-Coast AM, Jackie talked about humans on Mars, something that has been discussed among other alleged NASA employees for years.
Many Ufologists firmly believe that the statements made by the above individuals is accurate and that this information is being withheld from the general public.
No doubt you have in your possession irrefutable evidence with which to qualify your comment. Considering the absence of checks, balances or oversight not to mention maintaining what could only be imagined as being an incredibly sophisticated and advanced security apparatus required for this epic type of clandestine enterprise we are indeed very fortunate to have someone with direct access to their secret doings such as yourself along here on Disqus to furnish us with the undeniable proof and facts of the matter
Thanks to modern science and technology, scientists have been able to account for many of the creatures that exist on the planet.
In some cases though, these creatures cannot be properly examined in order to determine their origin or to create any scientifically recognized data.
That doesn’t stop people from recording imagery or videos of the bizarre things they encounter – even if only for a brief moment.
5 Strange Creatures
Hook Island Monster
It was a seemingly innocent family vacation in 1965 at the Great Barrier Reef when Robert Le Serrec and his wife spotted an unusual sight.
The creature looked like a tadpole in the water but was perceived to be a massive 80 feet long. The creature was not moving and was considered dead so Le Serrec jumped in the water for a closer look. When the Australian monster swam towards him with mouth open wide, the man promptly reentered his boat.
Many consider the image to be a manipulated hoax, but photo manipulation software wasn’t invented for another 25 years. Individuals attempting to make sense of the image have postulated it was simply a school of fish or potentially a piece of plastic in the sand. Others consider the mammoth cryptid to be Bernard Heuvelmans’ Yellow Belly (1).
Similar creatures have been spotted since the 1800s but Heuvelmans believes it’s just a variation of a shark.
Rods or Skyfish
For a century these unidentified creatures have been filmed in still shots and video capture of the skies. No one knows for sure what they are or where they’re from but their visual presence is undeniable.
Referred to as rods or skyfish, these entities in the skies are perceived to be cylindrical in shape and up to six feet long with the possibility of multiple wings the length of the shape (2).
The entity has been filmed on multiple occasions but moves at speeds perceived up to 200mph, making clear imagery unavailable. Some believe the creature to be an unidentified species while others consider the possibility of an extraterrestrial life force or possibly its vehicle.
Some of those who have sighted the rods also consider the option of an object from a fourth dimension. Others weigh the option of a mechanical creation or simply a bird. Whatever it is, solid physical evidence has yet to be captured.
100-Arm Sea Creature
In September 2014, Ong Han Boon was fishing off the island of Sentosa in Singapore when he pulled an unusual creature from the water. He had captured what he believed to be an alien creature with 100 arms.
The bizarre find appeared to be a cross between an octopus and a starfish with numerous winding arms. The 65-year-old man grabbed his camera phone to share his discovery on Facebook. No one he knew nor any of his research could point him in the right direction so he considered it to be a mutation caused by pollutants in the water.
The odd creature was later discovered to be a basket star, a creature in the same family as sea stars and sand dollars (3). The basket star features long, slender appendages with hooks to attach to prey. The brittle creature is known to live at depths of 6,000 feet and typically feeds on zooplankton.
Monkey Pig
This bizarre creature looks like it could be a strange science experiment. Between the cloven feet, hairy body, and bulging odd facial appearance this creature has some believing it came to be after a cross-species tryst between a monkey and a pig.
However, this creature born in a remote Chinese village is nothing more than a deformed pig (4). The unfortunate appearance is believed to be a rare brain development condition called holoprosencephaly (5). The condition causes the eyes to fail to separate during the development stages like the mythical cyclops.
Neon Blue Sea Dragon
It’s no surprise that the bulk of unidentified creatures come from the sea. Scientists believe many of the creatures living in the depths of the sea have yet to be discovered due to the constraints of the pressure so deep below sea level.
A tiny creature that looks more like a creation from the anime series Pokemon, was spotted on the shores of Queensland, Australia.
Commonly known as the Blue Dragon, the creature looks similar to an Axolotl but with bold blue coloring (6). This sweet looking inch-long creature is actually quite deadly. The sea slug floats at the surface of the water and targets blue bottle jellyfish, ingesting their poison to use against their own predators.
While some creatures can be easily explained, others remain a mystery. Regional folklore and unexplained phenomenon continue to intrigue people to find solid evidence of well-known cryptids.
PETER2011:Persoonlijk denk ik dat dit een goede trucage of hoax is, maar mooi gemaakt... Het is moeilijk te geloven, dat zo iets kan bestaan, niet? Maar ik wil jullie deze beelden toch tonen, zodat je ze zelf kritisch kan bekijken. OORDEEL ZELF MAAR OVER DE AARD VAN DEZE BEELDEN!!!
We worden tegenwoordig overspoeld met allerlei video-opnames, waarvan helaas een groot aantal iedere keer weer nep blijkt te zijn.
Wanneer een bepaalde opname al een tijdje bestaat en niemand heeft kunnen aantonen dat deze niet echt zou zijn, wordt het mogelijk echt interessant.
De video hieronder verscheen voor het eerst in 2008 op een aantal Chinese video websites en is sindsdien op diverse andere plekken online verschenen.
Het laat een beeld zien van een wezen wat er duidelijk uitziet als de bekende Gray alien in een kamer met een beveiligingscamera.
Duidelijk blijkt uit de beelden dat de alien gevangen wordt gehouden en dat hij op een zeker moment probeert een raam te openen, maar daarbij wordt gestoord wanneer plotseling de deur opengaat en er iemand binnenkomt.
Deze zet een bord voedsel neer en vertrekt weer. Vervolgens pakt de alien het voedsel en gaat op de vloer zitten.
Het schijnt dat er origineel meer delen van deze video zijn geweest, maar volgens Scott Waring zijn die allemaal verdwenen.
Volgens hem heeft niemand ooit kunnen bewijzen dat de beelden hieronder niet echt zijn en dus gaan we er maar vanuit dat het hier inderdaad een gevangen alien betreft.
Onduidelijk is wat er verder met dit arme wezen is gebeurd. Onze wetenschappers kennende, weten die meestal wel raad met dit soort buitenkansjes.
Als de beelden echt zijn, is hier uiteraard sprake van een bijzonder opname.
Yes, a new website has appeared on the internet called Space Speak, and it instantly transmits your messages into radio waves. This message will travel at the speed of light across the universe, virtually forever. You can send anything, messages to those lost, those loved or to aliens themselves. Me...I always start off with a joke about an alien who went into a bar...its a way to break the ice and to make aliens laugh.
These sites never stay up for long so take advantage of it while you can for free. I have sent about 500 messages into space about 3 years ago. I used several giant radio telescope around the globe, but all of which are now shut off from public use. I used them to shoot off my books I wrote, my thoughts, my messages to aliens...its no wonder they ignore me, but lucky they haven't destroyed the planet, LOL. At the site, I'm YodaTW...I will be sending more messages, but the coolest thing is it tells you how far our message has traveled. So far, my alien joke has traveled 7,184,904,463 miles from Earth. Its free...let your hearts fly with this one. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
These UFO photos were taken over the Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, and ancient volcano that was named by the Aztecs, and worshiped as a god. I have been watching the live cam off and on over the years. In the beginning about 6 years ago, seeing a UFO on it was almost a daily event, and the UFOs stayed there for hours. Things changed after we started reporting them. The time they hovered around the volcano dropped from hours to seconds. I believe its due to all the UFO videos we placed on Youtube years back about it. Something that also started a few years after reporting these UFOs...the live cam would suddenly go out for a few minutes. I believe its because aliens leaned of the live cams and are using tech to shut the down as they come out of the volcano so we cannot see them as easily. See...aliens do play dirty. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
It may look like the boulder that chased Indiana Jones out of a lost temple, but an archaeologist claims a bizarre natural sphere found in Bosnia is far from a film prop.
In fact, he believes it is the world's oldest man-made sphere and claims it proves Europe has an advanced lost civilisation that used impressive technology more than 1,500 years ago.
But there seems to be no proof that the 'sphere' is anything more than an unusual product of nature at the moment.
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Archaeologist Semir Osmanagic claims this round rock is the world's oldest man-made stone sphere. He believes it proves Europe has an advanced lost civilisation that used impressive technology more than 1,500 years ago. But there seems to be no proof that the 'sphere' is anything more than an unusual product of nature
Controversial archaeologist Semir Osmanagic made the sensational claims in a forest at Podubravlje.
He has previously hit the headlines for his work on the supposed existence of ancient pyramids in the Visoko Valley, which he believes are hidden in plain sight as a cluster of hills.
He believes once his research is complete, one of the pyramids will be shown to be taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt and the discovery will be the greatest find since Tutankhamen.
Dr Osmanagic, known as 'Bosnian Indiana Jones' who now lives in Austin in Texas, travels the world to investigate ancient sites.
He discovered the 'stone ball' near the town Zavidovici in central Bosnia and Herzegovina and said it is the heaviest man-made ball in the world.
It has a radius of between four and five feet (1.2 to 1.5 metres).
The archaeologist (pictured centre) believes its discovery in Bosnia proves Europe has an advanced lost civilisation using impressive technology more than 1,500 years ago
He discovered the 'stone ball' in a forest at Podubravlje (marked on the map) near the town Zavidovici in central Bosnia and Herzegovina and said it is the heaviest man-made ball in the world
The mysterious Bosnian boulder bears some resemblance to the spherical 'stone' that almost crushed Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford (pictured) when recovering a gold idol from a temple
THE BOSNIAN 'PYRAMIDS'
Semir Osmanagić has proposed a cluster of hills near the town of Visoko in central Bosnia and Herzegovina are actually the largest human-made ancient pyramids on Earth.
This claim in 2005 has provoked mixed reactions, with some experts rubbishing the idea, saying the pyramid shape of the hills is die to natural formations known as flatirons.
Dr Osmanagić said he has found tunnels, stone blocks and ancient mortar, suggesting the 'pyramid' was made by humans.
He has dubbed Visočica hill the 'Pyramid of the Sun' and has previously said they may have been made as early as 12,000 BC.
The phenomenon of stone balls has been linked with ancient civilisations around the world with the most famous being the stone spheres of Costa Rica.
In total there are around 300, weighing up to 15 tonnes, which are believed to have been created by the now extinct Diquis culture, potentially making them up to 1,500 years old.
It is unclear how they were created but it is believed they were first sculpted from a local stone before being hammered and polished with sand.
If the huge stone in Bosnia is found to be hewn by human hands, it would be the largest man-made stone ball ever found - twice as heavy as the Costa Rican ones.
It's claimed that Bosnia used to have hundreds of spherical stones, but they were destroyed by people looking for gold inside them, as mentioned in a local myth.
Only eight are known to still be in their natural environment, including the one now been uncovered in the forest at Podubravlje.
Dr Osmanagic said the sphere has an extremely high iron content, and believes it may be older than those in Costa Rica, as well as larger.
Archaeologist explains his 'stone ball' discovery in Podubravlje
The 'stone ball' (pictured) has a radius of between four and five feet (1.2 to 1.5 metres). If the huge stone in Bosnia is found to be hewn by human hands, it would be the largest man-made stone ball ever found
It is claimed that Bosnia used to have hundreds of spherical stones, but they were destroyed by people looking for gold inside them, as mentioned in a local myth. Here, Dr Osmanagic is pictured with his poodle
'It is once again further proof that there was an advanced civilisation here with a high level of technology about which we know very little,' he said.
DOUBTS CAST ABOUT THE SPHERE
Lecturer Mandy Edwards from the university's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences believes the spherical stone may be an example of concretion.
This is when a compact mass of rock is formed by the precipitation of natural mineral cement within the spaces between sediment grains.
The result is often spherical in shape, with the process forming the famed Koutu boulders in New Zealand.
The controversial archaeologist has been researching stone balls for 15 years and based on visiting sites around the world believes that the ancient civilisation used the stone ball in the belief that it attracted positive energy and was able to offer healing benefits.
However, a number of experts from the University of Manchester disagree and believe the boulder is not man-made.
Lecturer Mandy Edwards from the university's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences told MailOnline the spherical stone may be an example of concretion.
This is when a compact mass of rock is formed by the precipitation of natural mineral cement within the spaces between sediment grains.
The result is often spherical in shape, with the process forming the famed Koutu boulders in New Zealand.
Experts at the Geological Society said the round shape of the rock could be the result of like spheroidal weathering - a form of chemical weathering that affects jointed bedrock and results in the formation of concentric or spherical layers of highly decayed rock - and that there may be similar rocks in the area too.
Dr Osmanagic was treated as a crank when he first made claims about the pyramids, but he was given backing by the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina to fund his research into the subject.
The Bosnian Prime Minister at the time, Nedzad Brankovic, said: 'We were told the world was laughing at us when we decided to back this excavation, but there is no government in the world that should stay quiet on things which are positive.
Dr Osmanagic said the sphere has an extremely high iron content, and believes it may be older than those in Costa Rica, as well as larger. Here, researchers are shown touching the mysterious rock
Dr Osmanagic has been researching stone balls for 15 years and believes an ancient civilisation used the stone ball in the belief that it attracted positive energy and was able to offer healing benefits
'Why should we deny something that has attracted the attention of the whole world? We want to have official institutions involved in research in Visoko.'
American author Paul Von Ward said the Bosnian Valley of Pyramids was the 'most exciting and most important archaeological place in the world' and added: 'They are a stunning blow to conventional history - these mammoth structures were built bigger and better and even earlier - thousands of miles away in Europe - than the pyramids in Egypt.
'The Bosnian pyramids don't have pharaohs in them, but were instead built as tributes to ancient gods by thousands of slave workers.'
Egyptian archaeologist Dr Nabil Swelim said: 'It is a building achievement of genius and great importance for the entire world.
'This is an unbelievable discovery. It will take a lot of time to understand how these great structures were built.'
However, some professional geologists, archaeologists, and scientists have said the 'pyramids' show no signs of human construction.
THE INCREDIBLE STONE SPHERES OF COSTA RICA
The phenomenon of stone balls has been linked with ancient civilisations around the world with the most famous being the stone spheres of Costa Rica, or 'Las Bolas'.
In total there are around 300 petrospheres, weighing up to 15 tonnes, which are believed to have been created by the now extinct Diquis culture, making them up to 1,500 years old.
In total there are around 300 petrospheres, weighing up to 15 tonnes. A selection of the ancient rock spheres (pictured) are shown in the country's National Museum in San José
The spheres range in size from a few centimetres to over 6.6ft (two metres) in diameter.
Most are sculpted from gabbro - the coarse-grained equivalent of basalt- and there are a dozen or so made from shell-rich limestone, and another dozen made from a sandstone.
It is unclear how they were created but it is believed that they were first sculpted from a local stone before being hammered and then polished with sand.
The degree of finishing and precision of working varies considerably.
A bizarre structure in the Egyptian desert and visible on Google Earth has sparked a wave of speculation among UFO hunters.
The strange complex, in barren landscape to the east of the capital Cairo, features two long pointed buildings surrounded by mysterious circles.
Its futuristic design has prompted a range of suggestions over what it is used for - with some even believing it has links to UFO research.
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A bizarre structure in the Egyptian desert and visible on Google Earth has sparked a wave of speculation among UFO hunters
The futuristic design has prompted a range of suggestions over what it is used for - with some even believing it has links to UFO research
The existence of the building was highlighted by Secureteam10 which describes itself as a source for 'UFO sighting videos' as well as 'government cover-up and the alien activity happening on and off our planet'.
The Red Planet's tiny, misshapen moons Phobos and Deimos are widely believed to be captured asteroid - but a new theory claims they may once been part of the red planet.
Researchers modelled the effect of a giant impact on the red planet - and now believe it may have formed the moons.
The simulations showed an object with roughly the mass of Pluto would throw around a thousandth of Mars's mass into orbit.
Deimos, the outer moon, has a smooth surface due to a blanket of fragmental rock or regolith, except for the most recent impact craters. It is a dark, reddish object, very similar to Mars' other moon, Phobos.
THE GIANT IMPACT HYPOTHESIS
One theory is that Phobos' was formed in a similar way to our own moon, in something known as the 'Giant Impact Hypothesis.'
This states the moon formed shortly after Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago when a large object, around the size of Mars, collided with our planet.
The material that was thrown out form this collision rapidly combined quickly after the impact to form the moon.
Some researchers, however, argue that Phobos was once an asteroid that got drawn in by Mars' gravitational pull.
Julien Salmon of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado revealed his theory at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, last month, according to New Scientist.
If the moons were asteroids, they would have less regular orbits, the researchers say.
Now Salmon and his colleague Robin Canup adapted models used to study the formation of Earth's moon, which is also thought to be the result of a large collision.
On Mars, the collision would throw around a thousandth of Mars's mass into orbit, and the edge of the disc would reach beyond the 24,000-kilometre orbit of Deimos, the outer moon.
Although nearby material would be dragged back to the Martian surface, the team fund the outer part of the disk would spin fast enough to keep it out of gravity's clutches - meaning the material could have formed into the Phobos and Deimos we see today.
'The idea is that Phobos and Deimos are the only two survivors of a once much larger population of satellites,' said Salmon.
'Such a large object hitting Mars in its past could also explain some other features we see today, like the planet's relatively fast rotation and the large differences in average surface height between its northern and southern hemisphere, says Salmon.
'It makes sense to think about a big impact for Mars.'
In late November and early December, the space agency's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) mission made a series of close approaches to the Martian moon.
This allowed it to collect data from within 300 miles (500km) of the lunar surface, as well as produce spectral images of Phobos in the ultraviolet.
Unlike our moon, Mars's main satellite Phobos (pictured is an artist's impression) is moving closer and closer to its parent planet, which is pulling it down. This gravitational tide is opening grooves on Phobos's surface which can measure 328 to 656 feet (100 to 200 metres) wide and 33 to 98 feet (10 to 30 metres) tall
The images will allow Maven scientists to better assess the composition of this enigmatic object, whose origin is unknown.
Comparing Maven's images and spectra of the surface of Phobos to similar data from asteroids and meteorites will help planetary scientists understand the moon's origin – whether it is a captured asteroid or was formed in orbit around Mars.
The latest theor is theory is that Phobos' was formed in a similar way to our own moon, in something known as the 'Giant Impact Hypothesis.'
In this image, orange shows mid-ultraviolet (MUV) sunlight reflected from the surface of Phobos, exposing the moon's irregular shape and many craters. Blue shows far ultraviolet light, which is scattered off of hydrogen gas in the upper atmosphere of Mars. Phobos blocks this light, eclipsing the ultraviolet sky
This states the moon formed shortly after Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago when a large object, around the size of Mars, collided with our planet.
The material that was thrown out form this collision rapidly combined quickly after the impact to form the moon.
Some researchers, however, argue that Phobos was once an asteroid that got drawn in by Mars' gravitational pull.
The orbit of the Maven probe sometimes crosses the orbit of Phobos. This image shows the configuration of the two orbits in early December 2015, when Maven's Phobos observations were made
Astronomers predict that Mars's larger moon, Phobos, will eventually be destroyed by its parent planet's gravitational force. This graphic shows how the satellite's remains are expected to encircle the red planet, causing it to become 'a smaller version of Saturn' and the first non-gaseous planet in our system to sport rings
The Maven data, when fully studied, will also help scientists look for organic molecules on the surface.
Evidence for such molecules has been reported by previous measurements from the ultraviolet spectrograph on the Mars Express spacecraft.
THE MARKINGS OF PHOBOS
Phobos is the larger and closer of Mars' two moons, the other being Deimos.
They were both discovered in 1877.
Irregularly-shaped Phobos has an average radius of seven miles (11km) and is seven times larger than Deimos.
Phobos is 3,700 miles (6,000km) from Mars and has the closest orbit of any known planetary moon.
It is so close that it orbits Mars faster than Mars rotates, and completes an orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes.
Due to tidal interactions, Phobos is drawing closer to Mars by one metre every century, and it is predicted that in 50 million years it will collide with the planet or break up into a planetary ring.
It was thought that mysterious grooves on the moon were markings as the result of an impact, but nor scientists say they are the first sign the rocky body is under stress.
Last year, astronomers from California predicted that Phobos will eventually be destroyed by its parent planet's gravitational force.
Once destroyed, the satellite's remains will encircle Mars, causing it to become 'a smaller version of Saturn' and the first non-gaseous planet in our solar system to sport rings.
In a paper published on Nature Geoscience, the researchers from the University of California, Berkeley explained how Phobos and the red planet are on a collision course.
Unlike our moon, Mars' main satellite is moving closer and closer to its parent planet, which is inexorably pulling it down.
This gravitational tide is opening grooves on Phobos' surface which can measure 328 to 656 feet (100 to 200 metres) wide and 33 to 98 feet (10 to 30 metres) tall .
The scientists attempted to calculate whether the moon would eventually just crash on the red planet, or rather break into pieces.
Combining observational data with a computer model to calculate the internal strength of Phobos, they found that much of the satellite is composed of weak materials, which makes its disintegration almost inevitable.
Phobos might not be the only doomed moon in our solar system either.
'We speculate that diminutive Phobos may be the last of many inwardly migrating prograde satellites in our solar system,' the researchers wrote in the study
Something similar could be happening, for instance, to Neptune's moon Triton - which is also slowly losing orbit and has comparable fissures on its surface.
Mars moons 'Phobos' passing in front of smaller moon Deimos | Curiosity Rover | Planet Mars
Eindelijk! SpaceX landt raket voor het eerst op zeeplatform
Eindelijk! SpaceX landt raket voor het eerst op zeeplatform
Tim Kraaijvanger
Na veel mislukte pogingen is het SpaceX gelukt om een raket op een zeeplatform te laten landen. De Falcon 9-raket wordt over enkele maanden opnieuw gelanceerd.
In december 2015 lukte het SpaceX om de Falcon 9-raket op het vaste land neer te zetten. Een zeelanding is veel lastiger. Niet alleen is het drijvend platform erg klein – 90 bij 30 meter groot – ook is water altijd in beweging. Daarnaast is er geen beschutting, waardoor het doorgaans harder waait op zee.
Toch is het gisteravond gelukt! Om 22:55 uur Nederlandse tijd meldde het private ruimevaartbedrijf dat de eerste trap van de raket op het ‘Of Course I Still Love you’-droneschip is geland. “De Dragon-capsule is in de juiste baan om de aarde”, aldus SpaceX.
On April 8th, 2016, Space landed its Falcon 9 first stage on an ocean barge for the first time. A camera mounted to the rocket captured the landing along with a chase plane. The same hardware launched the Dragon spacecraft on the CRS-8 Space Station re-supply mission minutes earlier. -- SpaceX Mission Control Erupts in Applause: http://goo.gl/Akgaew
Enkele uren later feliciteerde president Obama Elon Musk en zijn collega’s: “Gefeliciteerd SpaceX met deze zeelanding. Dankzij innovators als jullie en NASA blijft de Verenigde Staten voorop lopen in de ruimtevaart.”
Groene ruimtevaartindustrie De landing op zee is een grote stap naar een duurzame ruimtevaartindustrie. Vaak worden raketten slechts eenmaal gebruikt. De eerste trap van de Falcon 9-raket kan tien tot twintig keer opnieuw gebruik worden. Sommige onderdelen kan SpaceX zelfs duizenden malen recyclen.
Maar eerst is het belangrijk dat zeelandingen routinematig slagen. “We zijn pas succesvol wanneer een zeelanding saai is”, zegt Musk.
Blue Origin Het bedrijf van Elon Musk is overigens niet het enige bedrijf dat raketten hergebruikt door ze te laten landen op aarde. Ook Blue Origin heeft al drie geslaagde raketlandingen uitgevoerd. Dit is wel appels vergelijken met peren, aangezien de raketten van SpaceX hoger gaan om satellieten in de juiste baan om de aarde te krijgen, terwijl de raketten van Blue Origine ‘slechts’ de ruimte aantikken.
UFO at one million miles away. What is it? (Linked)
UFO at one million miles away. What is it? (Linked)
Published on Apr 8, 2016
This was filmed by the furthest satellite we have at point L1. The SOHO satellite that monitors our Sun. Could this be an Alien Satellite or Ship passing by monitoring our Planet?
Julie Shepard maintains the ETMENA blog, which focuses on abduction accounts in the Middle East and North Africa. (http://etmena.blogspot.com).
As we start this interview, can you first tell us bit about yourself?
I am Dutch and Native American. I follow Native traditions, including work with Spirit Guides (do not use the word "belief" here as they are very matter-of-fact for Native people). Natives such as the Navajo believe they once lived underground with the "ant people," who had large heads and eyes not unlike the Zetas. My tradition is Haudenosaunee, which is Seneca, Iroquois. My mother was a holocaust survivor and so was my father; so there was trauma on both sides of my family. Because of that I grew up very early feeling like an outsider and also, it made me multicultural and interested in cultures from a very early age. I saw little green aliens on my roof when I was about five, and since then I have seen craft mostly far away, but also less than 500 feet above me at one time.
I began early on working with the Berkeley Psychic Institute, and I was a medium and healer at the Spiritualist Church. I am empathic, I can read energy, and I have used these skills to help immigrants and refugees with job training, cultural bridging, and empowerment, and ascension training. I have worked with foreign cultures my whole life and presently live in Agadir, Morocco.
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What is your background and how did you get into this field?
One day I was meeting with a man to discuss spirit guides and he said he could see them. When I got to our meeting point I had asked my guides to come with me to see if the man was "safe." I was not aware of how literal the guides are when I ask for protection, but I really used to ask them to stay with me far more than I do now. I just didn't realize they really were following along until I parked at his house. He asked, "Did you ask ALL your guides to come?" Then he started to name all of the twelve I normally used at the time. That is, up until the time he described that I "also" had a "Grey alien" who had overlaid upon my hand to reach out and shake hands with him.
I was appalled. How dare an ALIEN be there without my knowledge, and especially one rumored to be as dangerous as a Grey? I went home to meditate and speak to this hijacking Grey taking advantage of me and to know about his intentions. There I learned that not all factions of Greys are dangerous or manipulative, that he was a healer who had always been assisting me with my work, and that his name was Bashar, which others of his species may also call themselves (Daryl Anka's Bashar is not the same as mine nor my friend's, who also had her own Bashar at the time).
At that point I wanted to know which other species of aliens were out here and I wanted to know about their cultures, since I am a cultural bridging and linguistics expert. I slowly, over a decade, began meeting, astrally and telepathically, a Reptilian, a Pleaidian, an Orion human, a Martian human, and others who also became my guides. I can call on them at will, they assist me in answering questions, and they all help me to understand that I am a First Contact, and that my job has been far more than just healing and bridging, because I also help humans to understand these living DNA donors.
How long have you been active in this field?
I would say that at five years old I began to ask why they come. They only give you a glimpse of who they are, but it is enough to open that door, and you can't un-ring a bell. So I began to realize after so much time had passed, that I was a Starseed and that my abilities are not common in the general population, but they are very common among other Starseeds, and also, that I could help others to realize their gifts and use them to help themselves and others to realize their potential and find their Highest Excitement. Because I began to work with guides and then alien guides over a decade ago, I won’t even go into my Earth age, because I don’t age at the rate of other people and I find "how long" questions less than relevant. But I can tell you it has been most of my life now that I have had this passion, and others would call me obsessed by my alien and holistic medicine studies, as well as my love of cultures both terran and non-terran.
How would describe yourself: researcher, therapist?
Oh, I wear so many hats. I have several websites that range from International English teacher to cultural bridging teacher, to holistic practitioner and Reiki Master healer, to alchemy student, and also, I do alien abduction research. So much of this is all interconnected that, for me, I can't really break them apart. Pleiadians work with energy transmission and healing arts, and my Lemurian relatives, whom I feel a connection to, brought early gifts to me and gave me some very rich DNA. I have tried to grow my gifts and practice them as often as I can, and to help others do this we well. So that makes me part teacher, healer, shaman, and of course, my doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice plays a role here. Social Justice means leveling the playing field and disclosure to me. Humans have been lied to for way too long. We deserved far more at this point in our development.
What methodology do you use: conscious recall, hypnosis or other altered states work, ...)
You know, I use it all. I can switch methods depending upon who needs what. I don't do hypnotherapy in a traditional sense, but I can do past life regression, create a trance state, and help the person to meet their guides. I can't take them back to abduction scenes, but I do ask them to tell me when and if they recall more information. And I keep in mind that meeting your alien "relatives" does not count as an abduction. I can tell you that MUFON wanted to start me off by taking soil samples and staring at craft, but I have never believed that what they drive makes them a better alien. So I leave the machines to mechanics and I focus on the beings and their cultures. I help people as much as I collect data, so I don't ask cold questions to put people on the spot without telling them why I want that information, and I tell them that there are others like them, or how many times I have heard a particular abduction scenario. It is just good etiquette and ethics to me to be upfront. I don't need the protocols that people use when they say I would "influence" an abductee. They have already BEEN influenced, so what. They need to understand what will happen next, or to see the pattern of what has happened, and to find support with others who understand them. They are not flies under a microscope.
How did you end up doing this in Morocco?
When I was still in California and only talking about going to Morocco, and I was talking to Moroccans and befriending them, I would tell them what I do research on. Those who did not gasp or change the subject would usually pause and then say "You know, there was a time when..." and I knew immediately I had an abduction case on my hands. I was already on the team with Extraterrestrial Cultural Center, so I began contacting Ed Komarek over there to tell him about these cases I was collecting and he asked, "Are you documenting these reports?" And that lead to my making a format for recording the accounts more formally, and then after that, they became websites, blogs, and Facebook pages.
I also found that the resources to help and train people could be uploaded and organized. So in all my spare time I began to organize my materials and workshop training courses. One format was for Starseeds, another for Moroccan populations, especially when my African friend told me no reports were documented in Morocco and they never had anybody to turn to who cared about Moroccan accounts. Since my passion is for Tuareg and nomad culture, I was especially curious if the nomads were having encounters with beings, and to my amazement, they began to tell me their stories, when I had the guts to ask.
Asking these questions can be tricky, since Muslims only know about djinn, not spirit guides. But they do know about angels, so I use them as my reference point when I have to bridge cultures. There is a passage in the Holy Quran which states, "All the beings on Earth and in the heavens worship Allah." I ask them, what do they mean by ALL the beings? If there are beings not On Earth, then do they interact with us, and who are they to us? In fact, they are our cousins, and some even feel they are our parents and kin because their cultures are older than ours.
I feel great affiliation with the people here in Morocco. What I do is a work of love and I am so well received. I get great feedback and so many people tell me I make a difference. There are many Starseeds here, and in the ages of 20-30 many people here speak English and take in foreign cultures and ideas willingly. They have a huge thirst for knowledge and they are more open-minded than even I expected. So while some outsiders have Islam-o-phobia, I do not. I do focus on these younger ones who speak English, and I do have key questions I use to target and refine my search now. Usually if I can see somebody is a Starseed, I want to know about their DNA. As soon as I ask these questions, I can pretty much tell if they have had encounters, or perhaps their parents were already genetically altered. My research has now branched off into blood type studies as well, and I am tracking the various Berber dialects and the genetic looks of these people who make up the Sahara regions. I do chase my highest excitement every day. It is definitely my passion.
How many cases have you investigated?
Since my original work was in past life regression, I believe I had people make references to aliens and I brushed them off. Those are lost. However, from the point that I began to record cases, my web site now has cases not just from Morocco, but also from Algeria, Bosnia, and Jordan. My website is called ETMENA, which means Extra Terrestrials of Middle East North Africa. However, I also have cases involving interdimensional aliens who are not exactly off world, and there are also beings who live inside our Earth, such as my reptilian guide. There are 20 cases posted here:
How do the encounters you've investigated compare to the ones, e.g., in Europe and the States?
That is a great question. The cases are all unique and each encounter is atypical. However, there are patterns, such as seeing a blue traction beam coming down from a ship, or feeling your skin become electric when they are nearby. I also look for nose bleeds caused by implants, missing time, or nausea caused by radiation exposure. Daryl Anka's Bashar says the aliens are territorial, that they have divided the Earth into areas that they oversee. Even then, most people seem to see reptilians or Zetas (Greys) more than anything.
Which aliens do people encounter?
Here in Morocco, and also in Algeria, it is almost gone to folklore level that a female reptilian puts young males in a trance state and seduces them and has her way with them; then sits outside their tent or hangs around. If they awaken to see her, she is reported to only show them her back and her long dark hair. They seem to always report a problem with her lower body or legs seeming to be "not quite right," and they can feel instinctively that she is "not human." They feel creeped out, in great fear, and some run away and feel that she pursues them and laughs, making a game of their fear.
What experiences do they have?
They have been on ships, some have been in training and exposed to classroom materials. Others find they have had surgery, and others have had sexual encounters. Some feel their presence, others just see them briefly, such as when they are put back in bed and taken out of trance, and all they remember is the orange light the being is holding before he walks through the wall.
What stands out for you thus far?
I think I am appalled by the reptilians' justification that it OK to use these beautiful men as they do. They have no ethics, and they have no problem imaging that if you can block a human's memory, then go ahead and have your way with them. I can't rationalize this for them, nor give good news that the visits will ever stop. But I do try to focus on the upgrades of the human race, and the idea that some of the aliens, and some humans, do benefit from good things that aliens do, and that not all are here for bad purposes.
Do you have any favorite case you'd like to tell us something about?
You know, all the cases are amazing. However, the saddest case for me was my ex-boss’ wife who has missing pregnancies and severe abdominal pain. When she met the criteria of an abductee, I was so sad for her. Because some of these women never conceive and she was hoping for her own child. I really wondered if they would ever let her keep any of the ones they were probably taking from her every three months. I don't even know if I documented that case. Some slip through, others back up. I have some cases in progress, and others who are ready to talk but did not begin yet. Still others are dragged over to me by contactees who say "Here is another one for you." And my favorite is the guy who contacted me to say. "This nut job won't shut up about seeing little aliens in the palmary so I knew I have to give him to you because you talk just like this guy."
If people want to contact you, how can they do that?
and send me a message. I screen people, but cases that I feel are authentic, I will take. I focus on their culture and techniques, not their craft. I want to know more about their beliefs and I do respect diversity, even in its non-terran forms. I try to keep an open mind.
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We Have Done Something Evil And Unexplainable: Confirms CERN PHYSICIST?
We Have Done Something Evil And Unexplainable: Confirms CERN PHYSICIST?
We can clearly NOT confirm whether this is a true event that happened at CERN regarding a creepy incident with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but the following report is to be believed, a physicist from CERN named Dr. Edward Mantill, who is a leading specialist in particle and subatomic research who studies “very very small” particle interaction, was involved in an incident at CERN on January 15, 2014 that may have secretly changed reality as we know it.
Us guys at U.I.P have been closely monitoring the LHC at CERN for a while now and covered many unusual stories about this intriguing machine, including strange objects appearing in the machine during tests, the machine being used as some kind of portal to other Dimensions and even a story about the Illuminati using the machine as a devastating weapon of war (please see all links below).
This eerie report has not yet been confirmed or debunked, many people are divided on the authenticity of this account as its origins are in dispute ~ Regardless, we are presenting this strange report here for you to form your own opinion?
Dr. Mantill’s report states:
Most of you who have heard of CERN will have heard of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) the largest scientific instrument which exceeds 20 miles in diameter and travels under the sovereign territory of two countries (Switzerland, France). The public has been told that it was constructed at a cost of tens of billions of Euros for the purpose of studying the birth of the universe and the collisions that take place within the collider allow us a quick glimpse at certain phenomenon that can only be witnessed when particles hit one another at incredibly high rates. This is NOT what the machine was designed for, nor is it what the machine has been used for since it’s inception. CERN’s main purpose for building the Collider was too, well it was to open a door way. Allow me to explain: the doorway idea came into fruition in the 1960s.
After years and years of attempting to hide UFO phenomenon, including large scale and very public interactions such as the Roswell incident, and the Battle for Los Angeles incident well before that, the governments of the United States, Great Britain, and France decided to throw their weight behind the understanding of what precisely these objects were. The ideas flew far and wide. Were UFOs from another planet? Were they from another time? Or where they simply mass hysteria and mass delusion fueled by the overactive imagination of a public who were shit scared of communists and their technology? No, they were none of those. Our universe is but one page in a large book. Think of a closed book sitting on a table: you see each page stacked on top of one another, bound by the spine and sandwiched between the two covers. Our universe is but one page in a vast and all-encompassing book. And our page is certainly not the only one with rich, in depth thought and writing committed to it. Every page in the book represents a different dimension each with it’s own unique writing, own unique story, own unique way of isolating itself from the other pages. No page was to interact with the other, just as no ink bleeds from one page to another in a standard book. Each page, a universe unto itself.
Within a few short years of mathematical research and fleets of scientists working under threat of extermination should they share their research, the book idea was finally cemented. Though many disagreed, the mathematics were there to support the book idea, and the mathematics also showed us that it was impossible for one page to interact with another. That was, until the 1980s. During the 1980s billions of dollars of research was funnelled into the idea that if we used enough energy, if we used enough force, concentrated into a small area (the size of a pin prick) we could theoretically tare our page and get a glimpse of the page next to ours. We could open a door from their universe to ours. When the Family (the code name for the group of scientists that functioned as the head of each of their departments at CERN) were shown the initial presentation in March of 1981, many of them expressed grave concern about the ramifications of opening such a doorway. But in the beautiful name of science, the Family decided to share these ideas with the governments who constantly funded their research. At a meeting held in Luxembourg, the heads of state of the newly forming European Union, along with the United States and China were shown plans for the construction of a colossal machine that would enable the opening of a doorway that could be closed at our discretion. The door would be opened, and the energy levels would be measure to prove that CERN had accomplished its task, and the door would be closed. Open. Shut. Simple as that.
The government leaders threw endless funding at the Family and the rest of CERN in the hopes of understanding what kind of power lay in another universe. Think of the possible endless source of Energy, faster than light travel, weaponry that could obliterate enemies using laser. The possibilities for power were truly staggering. So, the public was fed one narrative (“understanding the universe”) and the Family and governments knew the truth. Most of the scientists at CERN were kept completely in the dark, after all the collider would perform it’s function as normal and collide particles for eager funding hunters to capitalize on. But the far more nefarious purpose would only be tested in the presence of the Family and a few select scientists. I am the member of the Family for my division. Obviously the original Family have all retired or died out, but there is a new, younger, more eager to prove themselves group now at the helm, and the consequences of this were and are dire. So, with that established, allow me to explain what happened last Thursday. It was an ordinary day with the LHC scheduled to commit two collisions, one at 9am and the other at 630PM. Both went off magnificently and the experiments were deemed a success. We witnessed two full collisions and the general group of researchers were very happy with their work.
Around 7 pm, most of the team had filtered out of the observation room, and the machine had been put into it’s usual stand-by mode. As the room emptied, the ID clip that I had on my waist, which had a built in display and vibrator, started to go off. I looked down at the display and it said in very faint green writing “Living room,” I knew right away what they were going to attempt. I looked up from the badge and caught the eye of Dr. Celine D’Accord, another member of the Family and the head of plasma physics. She too had just looked up from her ID badge. We both understood and left. “Living room,” was a large room under the main facility located in A-section. The room wasn’t special in any way and appeared completely normal. This was key to hiding our true intentions. If we met in a secret underground bunker instead of the regular basement, we’d arouse suspicion every time we were going to run an experiment. As Celine and I made our way from the collider to section A, the cold Swiss air hit my face and burned as we booked it across the campus. The night was exceptionally clear, and this factor further bolstered my suspicion. They always liked doing these experiments on clear nights. We entered Section A and made our way to the main building. The doors opened up as we approached and we made our way to the elevators across the wide expanse of a lobby with the vaulted ceilings.
The RFID signal given off by our name badges caused the elevator doors to open before we had even pressed the button. As we stepped in, the doors shut and the elevator began to move. “I’ll never get used to that,” Celine said, referring to the degree of automation that the buildings displayed. We had been scheduled for a meeting in the Living Room, and the building knew, so all strategic lights were on, and elevators were reading where we needed to go. The miracle of networking. We exited the lift and made our way to the regular board room, the door was shut and assembled inside was the Family. At the head of the table was Father, a young, rather ambitious physicist named Sandra O’Reilly, designated, “Father,” since she was in charge of giving orders to the Family with respect to our clandestine experiments. The mood in the living Room was never tense, but rather one of controlled excitement. The Family had been attempting these tests once every 6 months for the past 10 years without much success. We had gone through several, “Fathers,” from the great Dr. Bertramberg to the lesser known and constantly drunk Dr. Yao, Each had failed to achieve what the original Family had planned. Billions were spent, but no door had yet been opened. “Tonight, we try 40 Tera Electron Volts,” Father announced.
Her announcement brought an immediate and total silence to the room. Family members looked from one to the other, some with feigned excitement, others with revered concerned, all with a general sense of disbelief. “The last four trials were between 10-20TeV, we’ve never tried anything that high! We don’t know if the machine can handle a test of that magnitude,” protested Dr. Akava, head of mathematical physics and chief of the department that should be certifying whether or not 40 TeV was even a healthy thing to do. “We have reviewed the possible outcomes, and even though we will have to pull twice the amount of energy out of the grid, the Swiss government have been advised and are cooperating,” Father quickly retorted. Her sweet, controlled tone actually did help the situation. I looked over and Celine had been frantically writing down some calculations on a piece of paper, after a few seconds she shot up from her seat “Father, even if we try to reach 40 TeV, the math doesn’t support that this is possible! We can’t just throw the collider to the highest setting and hope for the best!” “Are there any other objections that you would like noted before we begin the experiment?” Father asked, completely ignoring Celine’s desperate pleas. Father surveyed the room and could see that she wasn’t going to be met with other objections, after all what was the point, they were going to go unheeded. “Excellent, then we shall proceed, meet in the control room at 22:00 hours,” Father announced as the Family got up from the table and left the Living Room.
No one said a word, we left in complete silence, made our way into the lift, and exited the building into the cold Swiss night. If the machine couldn’t handle the electron voltage, it could become structurally unstable and break apart, but being buried underground prevented this from being a catastrophe. There wouldn’t be loss of life, but the LHC would be rendered useless and billions of dollars worth of funding would be destroyed. On the other hand, if the experiment was successful and the door opened, could we close something functioning on 40 TeV? Our math had supported 10 TeV, 20Tev, Fuck even 30 TeV, but no one had dared go above that. However this is where our role as scientist ended and our regrettable role of secret experimenter began. All we could do was say yes. At 22:00 hours, with the Family assembled in the control room, and the handful of select CERN employees who understood the true nature of the experiment milling around, we commenced our grand try. “Begin,” was the only order that Father issued. The Family members at the control entered the required programming to begin the collider, and so our fateful experiment began.
“Release the First particle sample,” came the command. A few seconds later the sound of gas entering the collider could be heard. The gas started it’s 20+ mile journey around the collider gaining more and more speed. “Release the second particle sample,” another sound of whooshing gas entering the tube and travelling into the opposite direction as the first. Both gaining speed, travelling faster and faster, approaching the speed of light. Like two runners, running around a circular track in opposite directions, not touching one another. “Father, we are approaching 30 TeV” one of the commanders warned. “Excellent, increase the energy to 35 TeV within the next 3 Minutes,” Father’s commands once again brought grave concern. If anything was going to happen it was going to happen now. “Increasing to 35 Tev” came the announcement over the intercom system.
We all continued to look at one another, the concern growing graver and graver.” “Achieving 38 TeV” another announcement. But nothing, no explosion, no catastrophic failure, nothing. In theory 40 was possible, but never advisable, however at 38, no specific structural damage signs were noted, nothing. “40 TeV achieved.” We looked at one another in astonishment. We had achieved what we thought was impossible: 40 TeV of energy was pushing the particles through the collider and we were sustaining it.” As the two particle clouds whizzed past each other, our first indication that something different was going to happen started to occur. There was a sudden spike in the temperature of the room. we could feel that it had gotten warmer, and the first reaction was one of panic. “SHUT THE MACHINE DOWN!” Came the first exclamation from a Family member. “The Machine is heating up, explosion could be imminent!” She continued. “WAIT!” Exclaimed father, her eyes glowing with the reflection of the computer screen in front of her, “Look at the core temperature read out, they haven’t changed, they’re perfectly normal!”
We each looked at the closest computer screen we could find, all of them showing that everything was going well, except for the fact that the thermostat in the room now read 35 degrees Celsius, when we started out at a pleasant 20. Could this be it? “COMMENCE THE COLLISION SEQUENCE.” Father barked the order into the microphone near her control console. “Collision in 4…3…2…” The methodical voice announced over the intercom. “1″ – An ethereal blinding light consumed the room, I had never experienced anything like this before. The temperature dropped back down to 20 degrees, and the light was overpowering us. We couldn’t see our own hands in front of our faces. Suddenly there was a blood curdling scream, like someone being horribly beaten, followed by complete and total silence and then darkness. “Is everyone ok!” Celine was shouting from her side of the room. “I’m fine!” I called back, “Sound off!” “Mantill, code: Fam-0113″ “D’Accord, Code: Fam-0115″ “Chung, Code: Fam – 0114″ The Family members present started to scream out their names and code designation as our eyes adjusted to the total darkness that had encompassed the room.
With the sound of a bang the emergency red lighting bathed the room in a lambent glow. We could make out shadows, but no distinguishing features. By this time, approximately 2 minutes after our encounter with the white light, we still had not heard Father sound off.” “Where is Father!” Dr. Chung called out. We all turned to the seat that Father sat in, and could see a lump on the chair, but no sign of her. I entered the panel code to open the emergency exit and made my way through the escape corridor to the lighting box at the end of the hall. I turned the breaker and the normal lighting filled the control room again. Panic struck for Father’s well being I turned and ran back into the control room. All of my fellow scientists were in complete and total awe. Nothing in the room was out of place, and the temperature had returned to normal, however sitting in Father’s chair was a pile of her effects. Celine ran up to the chair Father once filled and looked down with a gasp. “She’s gone! All of her things are here, her jewellery, her clothes, her tamp…, everything!” Where Father sat now rested her physical possessions. She had vanished into thin air.
End of report.
Just what was opened/released at CERN?
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As we have stated above we can obviously not confirm that this report is true, however what we can confirm is that this has not yet been debunked either!
The Scientists at CERN have already stated that they “do not know what they are messing with” so perhaps this report is true and somebody is trying to let the world know how dangerous this powerful machine is.
Could be that something beyond our understanding happened on that day at CERN, perhaps some kind of other reality/parallel world was opened up and something had ‘claimed’ this individual that went missing and they are now still in that part of the world but in another dimension!? It is an incredibly creepy story and we are doing all that we can to find out if there is any truth to this story!
It is interesting that on the 26th Feb 2015 CERN reported that the LHC had been previously turned t0 “First LHC sector up to full energy ” – a month after this supposed event – http://timeline.web.cern.ch/events
It is believed by leading Scientists from The University of New South Wales (Australia) and the US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that advanced Alien life may live in the centre of the Milky Way – They have published a joint report where they reveal the best places where alien life might have developed – it appears that we are being ‘drip-fed’ the truth again!?
Australian Ian Morrison who works for the University of New South Wales and Michael Gowanlock from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have both published a joint report in the journal Astrobiology, revealing where in space it is more likely to encounter Alien life – and possibly WHERE our Alien visitors are coming from.
The TRUTH is about to be revealed?
It appears that we are being drip fed information about life beyond planet earth from many different leading Astronomers and Scientists and people of importance in the public eye, from Stephen Hawkings ‘Alien Hunting’ project, to the Popes admission about Alien life forms existing beyond earth, and now numerous amounts of Scientists are publically stating ‘where’ they believe the ET’s come from.
This important study claims that intelligent Alien life could be found in the centre of the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies, as they offer better conditions to develop technologically advanced civilizations. This hypothesis contradicts the common point of view of the scientific world about alien life, which yet again appears to be another step forward to disclosure and wakening the masses!
SETI are pointing their telescopes in a different direction.
Leading ET hunters at SETI have now got to change their area of search according to Ian Morrison and Michael Gowanlock.
Experts believed that the periphery of galaxies was more suitable for life, because in those places supernovae explode less frequently and, therefore, are less likely to destroy any alien civilizations. Morrison and Gowanlock have based their thesis on a computer model that virtually shows the evolution of life in the galaxy. According to experts, intelligent life in the centers of galaxies arises more frequently and noticeably faster, about 2,000 million years earlier than it would in the surrounding areas near by. Just imagine the technology available to beings that have over 2 millions years on us Human Beings!? ET Beings could very well of discovered how to travel the depths of space!
The TRUTH is coming! Advanced Alien Beings visiting us?
The leading experts now believe that supernova explosions occur near the potentially “inhabited” planets every 1.500 – 2.000 million years.
The Scientists believe that any potential planets hosting ET life would possibly be located in the central area, and what with far better conditions, any advanced civilizations inhabiting the planets would have more than enough time to develop the kind of technology to be able to protect themselves from the supernova radiation – and possibly even have the technology to leave their planet for another SAFER one.
It has now been confirmed that the Scientists believe that their experiments show that organizations like the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have to move the search for signs of Extra-terrestrial life in the Universe to the centre of galaxies including over very own Milky Way, as this is the most likely place to find alien life, Alien life which is quite possibly far superior than the Human race.
The two leading scientists involved with this project, Ian S Morrison and Michael G Gowanlock state the following in their study:
“Previous studies of the galactic habitable zone have been concerned with identifying those regions of the Galaxy that may favor the emergence of complex life. A planet is deemed habitable if it meets a set of assumed criteria for supporting the emergence of such complex life. In this work, we extend the assessment of habitability to consider the potential for life to further evolve to the point of intelligence-termed the propensity for the emergence of intelligent life, φI. We assume φI is strongly influenced by the time durations available for evolutionary processes to proceed undisturbed by the sterilizing effects of nearby supernovae. The times between supernova events provide windows of opportunity for the evolution of intelligence.”
They added: “We developed a model that allows us to analyze these window times to generate a metric for φI, and we examine here the spatial and temporal variation of this metric. Even under the assumption that long time durations are required between sterilizations to allow for the emergence of intelligence, our model suggests that the inner Galaxy provides the greatest number of opportunities for intelligence to arise. This is due to the substantially higher number density of habitable planets in this region, which outweighs the effects of a higher supernova rate in the region. Our model also shows that φI is increasing with time. Intelligent life emerged at approximately the present time at Earth’s galactocentric radius, but a similar level of evolutionary opportunity was available in the inner Galaxy more than 2 Gyr ago. Our findings suggest that the inner Galaxy should logically be a prime target region for searches for extraterrestrial intelligence and that any civilizations that may have emerged there are potentially much older than our own.”
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It appears that the topic of ‘Extra-terrestrial life’ is high on the agenda of leading scientists and Astronomers. Nearly every week we are being told about the potential findings of life beyond planet earth with the media now jumping on the bandwagon and publishing stories about these investigations (a topic which used to be mocked by the media!).
Leading NASA scientists and highly ranked officials believe we will meet our cosmic neighbors in the next 25 to 30 years, and many people believe that is just to prime us all and prepare us for what’s to come! Us guys at U.I.P 99.9% KNOW that we are being lied to, hence the sheer amount of ‘drip-feeding’ we are being fed nowadays – perhaps the governments of this world don’t know WHERE some of our ET visitors are coming from, but one thing for sure the hunt is on….it could be that they want to know WHERE our ET visitors are coming from!
These are interesting times people, watch this ‘space’
Extraterrestrials-terrestrials are living in huge clusters of stars and scientists will be able to find them on the edge of our Milky Way, a leading astronomer has recently publicly announced – More drip feeding of disclosure perhaps?
The vast majority of us know that we are far from alone in the Universe, if anything it is more than likely infested with life out there, but it is always interesting to hear from leading Scientists publicly discussing about ‘Alien life’.
It was only recently that Dr Rosanne Di Stefano from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in the United States, made a very bold PUBLIC claim, saying that Groups of stars called globular clusters, have been around more than twice as long as the sun and Earth, meaning any potential alien life could have evolved to be more advanced than humans.
When you look at images such as this it is impossible to think that we are alone in the UNIVERSE!
It is the ‘Globular clusters’ areas in the universe which are densely packed with many ancient stars, of which the vast majority of are older than our local star that shines over planet Earth.
It is around the outer edges of the Milky Way Galaxy (also known as the ‘Halo’ region – the part beyond the Catherine wheel arms of our galaxy) that you have large amounts of globular clusters which have stars which are as old as up 10 billion years old, which is a vast difference over our local Star which is ‘only’ about 4.5 billion years.
And the obvious common sense way of looking at this particular scenario, is that considering the sun is about 4.5 billion years old and has allowed us humans to evolve into ‘apparently’ intelligent beings, Dr Di Stefano and many other Scientists from around the world firmly believe that 10 billion years worth of evolution could very well mean that the potential aliens out there in the Galaxy are FAR more advanced than what we are.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 6388, a dynamically middle-aged globular cluster in the Milky Way.
It is also worth pointing out that the stars in this region are pretty close together, which basically means that it takes light as little as one month to travel from one star to another, whereas the closest star to Earth, aside from the sun, is 4.2 light years away, a bit of a difference hey!!
Dr Di Stefano went on to say that due to the close proximity of the stars:
“it would also be easier for a civilisation to explore and even set up outposts on other worlds”. She said.
One planet has already been discovered found in a globular cluster, the 12.4 billion-year-old Methuselah, which is named as an exoplanet due to the fact that it isn’t in the Earths solar system.
Could Ancient Aliens Live on Methuselah Planets?
But Dr Di Stefano wrote in the Sky at Night magazine: “It would be strange if there were not many others.
“Of course, this is all conjecture. We don’t know whether there is alien life in such clusters.
“But globular clusters would be a good place to look and might be the first place where intelligent life is identified in our galaxy.”
The wonders out there in the Universe.
Many other leading Scientists and researchers also believe that we need to be searching for Aliens in Earths Transit Zones, which is basically areas of space that we can see – perhaps the Extra-terrestrials can see us too!
A thought-provoking thought was recently raised by Astrophysicists René Heller and Ralph Pudritz, whose study states that advanced alien civilisations may be looking for extra-terrestrials themselves in exactly the same way that we are tracking exoplanets in space, by monitoring the shadows as they pass in front of their host star – whilst we are looking out to see where they are, the chance are they have already found where we are and perhaps visited us already!?
They said:
“Our planet may be seen by distant observers against our Sun’s light, allowing them to detect us.
“As an ultimate consequence, even if our species chose to remain radio-quiet to eschew interstellar contact, we cannot hide from observers located in Earth’s solar transit zone, if they exist.”
They could be looking for us out there, whilst we are looking for them – chances are they have already found us.
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The drip feeding of Disclosure is definitely intensifying, what with so many government-funded Scientists raising the subject matter of life beyond Planet Earth.
There are Beings out there in the Galaxy/Universe that have millions, if not BILLIONS of years in advancement of technology and knowledge over us, so like we mentioned before in this article, it is DEFINITELY not impossible for ‘something’ out there to know about our existence here on Planet Earth – perhaps they have known about us for a very long time.
When I was a child (not too long ago ha!) the subject of ‘Aliens’ was always laughed at or mocked about, but NOW this is THE biggest story going around the planet! It is very clear that we are being braced for the TRUTH about life beyond planet earth, but who is heading up this potential ‘slow’ disclosure, the Elite of this world or the Aliens?
It was only recently that leading Physicists announced that Beings may be visiting us from other Dimensions. So it is not only Extraterrestrials-terrestrials from Space that could be visiting us with their far superior technology and Science, it could also be Beings from other Dimensions – The possibilities of life in the Universe (or Universes!) are endless.
These are interesting times and ALIENS are now deemed as a highly significant area of investigation for the Top Scientists and Astronomers around the world.
More ancient viruses lurk in our DNA than we thought
More ancient viruses lurk in our DNA than we thought
Date:
March 22, 2016
Source:
University of Michigan Health System
Summary:
Think your DNA is all human? Think again. And a new discovery suggests it's even less human than scientists previously thought. Nineteen new pieces of non-human DNA -- left by viruses that first infected our ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago -- have just been found, lurking between our own gene.
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Exploring human DNA reveals genetic material from ancient viruses. (stock image -- rendering of DNA).
Think your DNA is all human? Think again. And a new discovery suggests it's even less human than scientists previously thought.
Nineteen new pieces of non-human DNA -- left by viruses that first infected our ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago -- have just been found, lurking between our own genes.
And one stretch of newfound DNA, found in about 50 of the 2,500 people studied, contains an intact, full genetic recipe for an entire virus, say the scientists who published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Whether or not it can replicate, or reproduce, it isn't yet known. But other studies of ancient virus DNA have shown it can affect the humans who carry it.
In addition to finding these new stretches, the scientists also confirmed 17 other pieces of virus DNA found in human genomes by other scientists in recent years.
The study looked at the entire span of DNA, or genome, from people from around the world, including a large number from Africa -- where the ancestors of modern humans originated before migrating around the world. The team used sophisticated techniques to compare key areas of each person's genome to the "reference" human genome.
Working at Tufts University and the University of Michigan Medical School, the researchers made the findings with funding from the National Institutes of Health.
HERV-enly find
The findings add to what science already knows about human endogenous retroviruses, or HERVs. That's the name for the ancient infectious viruses that inserted a DNA-based copy of their own RNA genetic material into our ancestors' genomes. They're part of the same type of virus that includes the modern human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS.
Over generations, the virus-generated DNA kept getting copied and handed down when humans reproduced. That's how it ended up in our DNA today. In fact, about 8 percent of what we think of as our "human" DNA actually came from viruses. In some cases, HERV sequences have been adopted by the human body to serve a useful purpose, such as one that helps pregnant women's bodies build a cell layer around a developing fetus to protect it from toxins in the mother's blood.
The new HERVs are part of the family called HERV-K. The intact whole viral genome, or provirus, just found was on the X chromosome; it's been dubbed Xq21. It's only the second intact provirus found to be hiding in human DNA.
In the researchers' own words: "This one looks like it is capable of making infectious virus, which would be very exciting if true, as it would allow us to study a viral epidemic that took place long ago," says senior author and virologist John Coffin, Ph.D. of the Tufts University School of Medicine. "This research provides important information necessary for understanding how retroviruses and humans have evolved together in relatively recent times."
"Many studies have tried to link these endogenous viral elements to cancer and other diseases, but a major difficulty has been that we haven't actually found all of them yet," says co-first author Zachary H. Williams, a Ph.D. student at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University in Boston. "A lot of the most interesting elements are only found in a small percentage of people, which means you have to screen a large number of people to find them."
"This is a thrilling discovery," says co-first author Julia Wildschutte, Ph.D., who began the work as a Ph.D. student in Coffin's lab at Tufts. "It will open up many doors to research. What's more, we have confirmed in this paper that we can use genomic data from multiple individuals compared to the reference human genome to detect new HERVs. But this has also shown us that some people carry insertions that we can't map back to the reference."
U-M genetics researcher Jeffrey Kidd, Ph.D., worked with Wildschutte when she was a member of his laboratory team. "These are remnants of ancient events that have not been fixed in the population as a whole, but rather happened in the ancestors of some people alive today," Kidd says. "There have been a number of examples of other HERVs that insert themselves next to human genes or near them, and have impact on their expression. We're interested in applying these methods to find other types of viral or mobile element insertions."
Genetic teamwork
The Michigan team used methods for characterizing repetitive DNA sequences that Kidd and his team had developed, while Coffin and Williams used complementary techniques. Wildschutte is now at Bowling Green State University.
Many of the genomes they examined were from the 1000 Genomes Project, an international collaboration. Another set of genomes came from work Kidd and colleagues at Stanford University had done as part of the Human Genome Diversity Project, with a focus on DNA samples from African volunteers.
These latter samples showed more signs of HERVs, in line with the high level of genetic diversity in African populations. That diversity stems from the longtime stability and intermixing of the continent's population -- as opposed to other populations in Europe, Asia and the Americas that stem from specific out-migrations in ancient times.
Cataloging all the HERV insertions in humans will require even more scanning of whole human genomes, which are becoming easier to come by as technology improves and becomes less expensive. And although intact proviruses lurking in our DNA may be rare, the impact of other HERV sequences on our health or disease is probably not.
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health (OD009154, CA089441, GM112339) as well as the American Cancer Society and the F.M. Kirby Foundation.
Julia Halo Wildschutte, Zachary H. Williams, Meagan Montesion, Ravi P. Subramanian, Jeffrey M. Kidd, John M. Coffin. Discovery of unfixed endogenous retrovirus insertions in diverse human populations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016; 201602336 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1602336113
From March 24 to March 26, 2016 Tercermilenio.tv captured images of many strange UFOs flying near or above the volcano Popocatepetl.
On March 25, when the camera was looking towards the volcano, Juan Flores captured a colorful UFO which resembles the colorful UFO recorded from the NASA “live feed” of the International Space Station on April 6, 2016.
Here is an overview of the several UFOs including the colorful UFO spotted near the volcano.
Join Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt and Linda Moulton Howe for an explosive and exclusive Special Report on the shocking mysteries of ET Self Activating Technology and the Alien Connection to the Ancient Stone Circle Site Gobekli Tepe!
Gobekli Tepe
The mysterious Ancient Archaeological site called Gobekli Tepe, in Turkey has been dated to 10,000 B.C. which throws a wildly different light on human history and reveals signs of ET Interference on Earth.
Are we Starseeds that advanced extraterrestrial beings placed here to evolve a higher spiritual vision of the universe?
Ancient Alien Technology
Daniel Liszt and Linda Moulton Howe explore her deep investigation and research visits to Gobekli Tepe to discover the strange ANCIENT ALIEN TECHNOLOGY it may represent and her shocking realizations that the patterns in Sacred Architecture, Crop Circles and Gobekli Tepe are all a part of ET Self Activating Software to raise the global consciousness of humanity.
The Message
Since the powerful ancient site of Gobekli Tepe was buried 12,000 years ago by a race forgotten to history, does the discovery of this ancient marvel in the 21st century signal that a massive paradigm shift is underway? Is humanity being activated to see a higher and deeper vision of reality that includes contact with star civilizations?
Is the cataclysm that destroyed this ancient civilization happening again and is the message of Gobekli Tepe a warning of survival to humanity that planet Earth is on the precipice of massive upheaval and destruction?
GLOWING BALL CLOSE ENCOUNTER BY FRIENDS IN MISSOURI
December 10, 2015 …………. ST CHARLES MISSOURI
Me, my girlfriend and two of my friends went down to the Flatlands in our town. On the way to the spot we hang out at the driver my friend noticed a bright orb on the left hand side of his car far above a few. It disappeared very quickly and he didn’t say anything about it until later.
We arrived at the spot my other friend jumped out of the car screaming, what is that, what is that. He began chasing whatever he saw and later described it as a fireball that just came out Overhill directly next to us. He described it as a big red flaming ball as close as a hundred feet from us that took off at a very high speed. With the rest of us not believe in him, we continue to hang out on this road in the middle of the flats, late at night.
As my friends and my girlfriend sat by the car talking, I was in the middle of the street facing down the opposite direction of the street, when in the blink of an eye, a giant white glowing ball appeared right before me directly above the street approximately 50 feet ahead of me and a hundred feet in the air.
The ball appear to be growing in the purely bright white light and just hovered there staring at me. I still have no clue whether to where it was a solid craft or just pure light but as quick as it came, it shot off to my left hand direction leaving a light trail behind it. This object was too close to be mistaken for any helicopter or crop duster let alone a weather balloon. The way it moved and disappeared was as if was magic with its unreal speed and not to mention that it made absolutely no sound what so ever. My friends and I continue to bring up that odd night we experienced together .
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This Ancient Babylonian Star Map Of Jupiter Just Changed History
This Ancient Babylonian Star Map Of Jupiter Just Changed History
A researcher has just deciphered a mysterious clay tablet from ancient Babylon and it has changed history forever.
After close study, researchers concluded that ancient Babylonian Astronomers were able to calculate the precise celestial movements of Jupiter with the help of an ancient form of geometric calculus, which, according to mainstream scholars, wasn’t invented over millennia after.
Mainstream scholars had maintained for quite some time now that this type of math was by the Europeans over 1500 years later.
The ancient Babylonian tablet was translated by Astro archaeologist Matthieu Ossendrijver of Humbolt University in Berlin.
As Science Alert reports:
“This means that these ancient Mesopotamian astronomers had not only figured out how to predict Jupiter’s paths more than 1,000 years before the first telescopes existed, but they were using mathematical techniques that would form the foundations of modern calculus as we now know it.”
The discovery is a groundbreaking one, since the tablet belongs to a group of hundreds of other tablets that were excavated during the 19th century, and researchers all around the globe have been working for over one hundred ears, trying to decode them all. Researchers believe that the clay tablets date back to around 100 or 200 BC.
The tablets are the ultimate piece of evidence which suggests that ancient astronomers had the knowledge and ability to calculate both speed and distance of celestial objects. The tablet proves that ancient Babylonian astronomers were tracing Jupiter in the sky in a specific amount of time. They achieved this by measuring the speed of the planet every single day and used advanced formes of geometric calculus that allowed them to accurately measure the planets speed on the first and sixteenth day of their measurements, something that allowed them to obtain the distance it travelled.
“This would open up new ways of computing motion they could have applied to other planets, other parts of Jupiter’s motion.We don’t have examples of that…We only have these four tablets and they all deal with Jupiter – and they all deal with the same segment of 60 days. That’s quite strange.” (source)
What ancient Babylonian astronomers did was calculate the area inside of a trapezoid, which allowed them to find out where the planet would be located in the sky. This according to researchers, is the same link between velocity and displacement which is being taught today in introductory calculus classes in schools.
Interestingly, New Scientist points out that Scholars at Oxford’s Merton College and in Paris during the 14th century are “typically credited with the same insight about velocity and displacement. They even connected it to the trapezoid shape. These ideas were the antecedents of the calculus developed by Newton and Leibniz – but the Babylonians had them far earlier.”
While this discovery is unique and groundbreaking, it also shows just how little we know about ancient civilisations like the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Aztecs and Maya who were all incredibly skilled astronomers, researchers and builders who achieved incredible feats thousands of years ago.
VIDEOHet Amerikaanse bedrijf SpaceX is er gisteren voor de eerste keer in geslaagd om een deel van de raket Falcon 9 zacht te laten landen op een schip in de Atlantische Oceaan. Dat is te zien op beelden die ruimtevaartagentschap Nasa en SpaceX hebben verspreid.
Het onderdeel van 70 meter landde op een onbemande boot tien minuten na de lancering van de Dragoncapsule naar het internationaal ruimtestation ISS vanop Cap Canaveral. De vorige vijf pogingen mislukten. In december slaagde SpaceX er al in om een deel van van de raketlanceerder te laten landen op de grond.
Als SpaceX erin slaagt om regelmatig onderdelen van een raket te recupereren bij de lancering, zal het bedrijf in de toekomst veel geld kunnen besparen. Bovendien kan het dubbele succes van SpaceX de markt van de lancering van satellieten, die momenteel wordt gedomineerd door Ariane Espace, totaal omgooien.
De Dragon heeft 3,1 ton vracht aan boord, waaronder voeding, meer dan 250 wetenschappelijke en onderzoeksprojecten die de komende maanden zullen worden uitgevoerd door astronauten in het ISS en een opblaasbare woonmodule, die zal worden vastgehecht aan het ISS. De capsule zal zondag aankomen bij het ruimtestation.
In juni vorig jaar ontplofte nog een Dragoncapsule nadat die gelanceerd werd naar het ISS.
RIBOSEHoe is leven op aarde ontstaan? In taal van chemici: welke ingrediënten moet je samenvoegen om leven op te wekken? In een ophefmakende Science-publicatie hebben Franse onderzoekers aangetoond dat ribose, een suikerbouwsteen van genetisch materiaal in levende organismen, zich misschien in kometenijs gevormd heeft.
'Dit overtreft onze stoutste verwachtingen'
Uwe Meierhenrich, chemicus aan de Universiteit van Nice
Het genetische materiaal van alle levende organismen op aarde, zelfs van virussen, is opgebouwd uit DNA en het meer primitieve RNA. Dat laatste wordt verondersteld één van de eerste moleculen te zijn die leven op aarde kenmerkt. Wetenschappers hebben zich altijd verwonderd over de oorsprong van deze biologische verbinding.
De these van sommige onderzoekers is dat de aarde 'in den beginne' bezaaid geweest is met asteroïden en kometen die de basis van zulke RNA-moleculen bevatten. En inderdaad, aminozuren - de bouwstenen van proteïnen - en nitrogene basen zijn al in meteorieten gevonden, en in artificiële kometen die een lab geproduceerd zijn. Ribose, de andere sleutelcomponent van RNA, was echter nog nooit in buitenaards materiaal gedetecteerd, noch in een laboratorium onder 'astrofysische condities' gereproduceerd. Tot nu. Door het simuleren van kometenijs heeft een Frans onderzoeksteam van de Universiteit van Nice aangetoond dat ribose succesvol kan verkregen worden. Een gigantische stap voorwaarts in het begrijpen van RNA - en bijgevolg het leven.
"Dit overtreft onze stoutste verwachtingen", zegt Uwe Meierhenrich, chemicus aan de Universiteit van Nice, in een reactie aan Le Monde.
'De onderzoeksresultaten volstaan niet om het vraagstuk van leven op aarde te beantwoorden'
Grégoire Danger, onderzoeker aan de Franse universiteit Aix-Marseille
Toch moeten enkele belangrijke kanttekeningen bij het onderzoek geplaatst worden. Ten eerste is tot op vandaag geen enkele complexe suiker op een meteoriet of op een komeet gevonden.
Daarnaast is ook niet duidelijk of de verkregen ribose dezelfde is als degene die van RNA deel uitmaakt. Bovendien bevat het resultaat van de onderzoekers van Nice een extreem grote hoeveelheid - wat verdacht is.
"De chemische rijkdom van dit onderzoek is indrukwekkend, maar het volstaat niet om het vraagstuk van leven op aarde te beantwoorden", zo verklaart Grégoire Danger, onderzoeker aan de Franse universiteit Aix-Marseille, aan Le Monde.
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Campagnemanager Clinton: “Maak einde aan geheimzinnigheid rond UFO’s”
Campagnemanager Clinton: “Maak einde aan geheimzinnigheid rond UFO’s”
John Podesta, de campagnemanager van Hillary Clinton, heeft op CNN gezegd dat de Amerikaanse overheid ernstig tekort schiet in het beantwoorden van vragen over ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten. Hij wil dat er een einde komt aan alle geheimzinnigheid.
Podesta heeft zijn interesse voor Area 51 en buitenaards leven nooit onder stoelen of banken gestoken. In februari, toen hij nog adviseur van president Obama was, twitterde hij: “Tot slot, mijn grootste mislukking van 2014: wederom er niet in geslaagd om de UFO-documenten openbaar te maken.”
Belofte
Hillary Clinton zei in januari zelf ook al dat ze geruchten over contact tussen de Verenigde Staten en buitenaards leven ‘tot op de bodem wil uitzoeken’.
Podesta zei verder dat Clinton zoveel mogelijk stukken over Area 51 openbaar zal laten maken als ze in november wordt verkozen tot president. “Ik denk dat dat een belofte is die ze zal houden,” aldus de oud-stafchef van president Bill Clinton.
‘Het volk kan de waarheid aan’
Op de vraag of er bewijs is voor buitenaards leven antwoordde Podesta: “Daarover moet het volk oordelen zodra het al het bewijs heeft gezien dat de Amerikaanse overheid heeft.”
Over zijn eigen overtuigingen over wezens uit de ruimte zei Podesta: “Er zijn heel wat planeten daar buiten.” Hij maakte duidelijk: “Het volk kan de waarheid aan.”
VIDEO: Wat is dit? Bizar bouwwerk ontdekt in Egyptische woestijn
VIDEO: Wat is dit? Bizar bouwwerk ontdekt in Egyptische woestijn
Op Google Earth is een bizarre structuur gevonden in de Egyptische woestijn. De vondst houdt de gemoederen flink bezig, meldt de Britse Daily Mail.
Het vreemde complex, dat ten oosten van hoofdstad Caïro is gevonden, bestaat uit twee langwerpige gebouwen die worden omgeven door mysterieuze cirkels.
Het futuristische ontwerp zorgt ervoor dat er druk over wordt gespeculeerd. Volgens sommigen kan het zelfs worden gelinkt aan onderzoek naar UFO’s. YouTube-kanaal Secureteam10 heeft het bouwwerk ontdekt.
Onder de video schrijft George Gerbanas: “Dit doet me denken aan Star Wars.” Dennis Huffman vraagt zich af of het een ‘geheime UFO-basis van de Egyptische overheid is’.
Adam Looze reageerde: “Het bevindt zich vlak naast de snelweg. Zo geheim kan het toch niet zijn?” Andere YouTube-gebruikers denken dat het een ‘nucleaire bunker’ is, een ‘ondergrondse basis’ of een ‘raketinstallatie’.
ESA Rocket Tip Disappears In Two HD Photos, Revealing Cloaking Technology! March 2016, UFO Sighting News.
ESA Rocket Tip Disappears In Two HD Photos, Revealing Cloaking Technology! March 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of rocket launch: March 14, 2016 Location of rocket launch:Kazakhstan Source of rocket photo:
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/03/ExoMars_2016_liftoff45 http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/03/ExoMars_2016_liftoff46 Payload or rocket: Exomars project, satellite, to analyse Mars atmospheric gasses for biological processes. Check out this photo I found of the recent launch of a ESA rocket to Mars from Kazakhstan. The top section that carries the satellite itself is cloaked for a moment, as if it self activated an alien cloaking device. The evidence that this is real and not a glitch is that there is more than one photo that documented it. This is evidence that the ESA is using cloaking technology in their satellites it defend them as they go or get to Mars orbit. Now the big question, why does a satellite need cloaking to protect it in Mars orbit? Who or what would try to destroy it? Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
De 20-jarige Jadon Beeson uit Engeland keek op zijn telefoon naar de livestream van het internationale ruimtestation ISS toen hij plotseling een UFO naast het ruimtestation zag vliegen. Hij maakte een paar screenshots en stuurde de beelden gelijk door naar de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
“Het leek een beetje op de Millennium Falcon uit Star Wars,” zei Beeson. “Ik zag dat er een metalen object boven de aarde zweefde. Het had een blauwe gloed en het bleef daar ongeveer twee minuten hangen. Het zag er allemaal heel vreemd uit.”
Geen antwoord
De jongeman uit Worcestershire heeft nog geen antwoord gekregen van de NASA. Uit de beelden is niet op te maken om welk soort ruimtevaartuig het zou kunnen gaan. Ook de grootte van het object is moeilijk in te schatten.
De NASA zei in een reactie dat er geen ongeïdentificeerde objecten bij het ISS zijn gezien. “Reflecties van ramen, het ruimteschip zelf of lichten van de aarde verschijnen vaak als artefacten op foto’s en in video’s van het station,” zei een woordvoerder tegenover de Britse Daily Mail.
Beter bewijsmateriaal
Nigel Watson, schrijver van de UFO Investigations Manual, zei: “De laatste jaren zijn er verschillende UFO’s bij het ISS gezien. In één van de gevallen werd de livestream gelijk stopgezet. Voor complottheoretici is dit bewijs dat de NASA iets te verbergen heeft.”
“In dit geval is het moeilijk te zeggen wat het is,” ging hij verder. “Het kan ruimtepuin zijn, een satelliet, of zelfs een lensflare of reflectie. We hebben beter bewijsmateriaal nodig om te kunnen vaststellen of het een buitenaards ruimteschip is geweest.”
Is deze 1500 jaar oude bol achtergelaten door een verloren beschaving?
Is deze 1500 jaar oude bol achtergelaten door een verloren beschaving?
Archeoloog Semir Osmanagic zegt in Bosnië en Herzegovina een bol te hebben gevonden die volgens hem is achtergelaten door een verloren beschaving.
Osmanagic haalde eerder het nieuws vanwege zijn onderzoek naar vermeende piramides in Visoko. Hij denkt te kunnen aantonen dat één van de piramides groter is dan de Grote Piramide van Gizeh in Egypte.
Dr. Osmanagic, ook wel de Bosnische Indiana Jones genoemd, woont in Austin in de Amerikaanse staat Texas en trekt de wereld rond op zoek naar oude vindplaatsen.
Goud
Hij ontdekte de ‘stenen bal’ in een bos bij de plaats Zavidovici en zei dat het de zwaarste door mensen gemaakte bal ter wereld is. Het voorwerp heeft een doorsnee van 1,2 tot 1,5 meter.
Over de hele wereld zijn inmiddels zo’n 300 stenen bollen gevonden die ongeveer 15 ton per stuk wegen. De beroemdste liggen in Costa Rica. Die zouden zijn gemaakt door de Diquis, een cultuur die circa 1500 jaar geleden in het gebied leefde.
De enorme steen in Bosnië en Herzegovina is twee keer zo zwaar als de bolvormige stenen die in Costa Rica zijn gevonden. Volgens een lokale legende lagen er ooit honderden bolvormige stenen in Bosnië, maar zijn ze vernietigd door mensen die dachten dat er goud in zat.
Positieve energie
Dr. Osmanagic zei dat de bol extreem veel ijzer bevat en mogelijk ouder is de stenen in Costa Rica. “De vondst bewijst eens te meer dat er een hoogontwikkelde beschaving in het gebied leefde waar we maar heel weinig over weten,” zei hij.
Hij gelooft dat de oude beschaving de stenen ballen gebruikte om positieve energie aan te trekken en mensen te genezen.
Een aantal experts van de Universiteit van Manchester is echter van mening dat het een concretie is, een bolvormige of ovale geïsoleerde vorm uit formaties van afzettingsgesteenten.
CNN News: John Podesta Talks To CNN Host Jake Tapper About Secret Ufo Files And Opening Up Area-51, Video, UFO Sighting News.
CNN News: John Podesta Talks To CNN Host Jake Tapper About Secret Ufo Files And Opening Up Area-51, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of interview: April 2016 Person interviewed: John Podesta, News source:
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/07/politics/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-ufo Its cool that John wants to reveal the truth...he has drive to get to what he thinks the public is ready for and wants to hear. I just don't know if he has the pull to push Hillary hard enough to do it. If its true, and Hillary really realizes all and I mean all files, then it would be a game changer. I guess time will tell. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: There has long been an air of conspiracy surrounding theories of alien life, and the head of Hillary Clinton's campaign said Thursday it's time to do away with the secrecy. CNN's Jake Tapper pulled aside Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who was a guest on "The Lead," to talk aliens. "The U.S. government could do a much better job in answering the quite legitimate questions that people have about what's going on with unidentified aerial phenomena," Podesta said. Podesta has made his interest in the possibility of alien life and conspiratorial leanings toward Area 51 well known. During his time serving in the Obama administration, Podesta tweeted, "Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere cc: @NYTimesDowd." Clinton herself pledged in January to "get to the bottom" of whether rumors of U.S. contact with extraterrestrial life were true. In regard to Area 51, Podesta echoed Clinton's call, saying, "What I've talked to the secretary about, and what she's said now in public, is that if she's elected president, when she gets into office, she'll ask for as many records as the United States federal government has to be declassified, and I think that's a commitment that she intends to keep and that I intend to hold her to." How Nevada's UFO hunters view the 2016 race How Nevada's UFO hunters view the 2016 race 03:18 Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, said the 42nd president once "asked for some information about some of these things, and in particular, some information about what was going on at Area 51." Asked if there is evidence of alien life, Podesta said, "That's for the public to judge once they've seen all the evidence that the U.S. government has." When it came to his own beliefs about beings from outer space, Podesta said, "There are a lot of planets out there." And he made clear: "The American people can handle the truth."
Location:Baga Creek, Calangute, India Date: 22nd March 2016 Submitted by Mandar
Witness report: Me and my Best Friend Akshay Kauthankar aka “Hunter” were just relaxing on the Baga Creek Beach Area at around 8.30 p.m all off a sudden ‘Hunter” spotted 3 Red Lights in the Sky that were stationary not moving at all and it made no sound at all we could not explain what the hell it was and by the way “SORRY THE VIDEO IS IN HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL POSITION “but it was CoOL UFO Sighting…………………..
Location:Devon, UK Date:April 1, 2016 Submitted by John
Witness report:I now see and photograph multiple unidentified flying objects on a daily basis. These unidentified objects are always around when I go out side to photograph them. They morph into different kinds of shapes and sizes. It’s like these objects are putting on a show for me. I believe that these objects definitely want to be photographed. I see these strange unidentified objects all the time around here I wonder why? Newton Abbot is a ufologist’s dream I have seen and photographed thousands of these objects at this point in time. These objects display so many strange characteristics it blows my mind. What the hell am I photographing over Newton Abbot Devon UK. The three photographs were taken Friday 1st of April 2016 at Newton Abbot Devon UK.
Fast UFOs over West Chester, Pennsylvania 30-Mar-2016
Fast UFOs over West Chester, Pennsylvania 30-Mar-2016
Here’s the compilation of three videos of a very fast objects, that are flying across the sky above West Chester, Pennsylvania. This happened on 30th March 2016. What do you think these crafts are?
The Great Pyramid of Giza… A Tesla-like powerplant created thousands of years ago
The Great Pyramid of Giza… A Tesla-like powerplant created thousands of years ago
The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the best examples of ancient energy machines. It was a Tesla-like power plant created thousands of years ago. It was a huge ancient structure that was capable of using the Earth’s natural properties in order to create or produce a great amount of energy. This energy is believed to have been used by the ancient Egyptians and other cultures such as the ancient Maya and other cultures around the globe for millennia. This theory, however, has been firmly rejected by mainstream researchers.
If we approach the history of ancient civilizations from another perspective, we will encounter that ancient civilizations around the globe were, in fact, extremely sophisticated and used advanced technologies thousands of years before mainstream science ‘reinvented them’.
The idea that civilizations around the world have evolved from a primitive state, towards a more advanced one is something that mainstream scholars have tried to implement and place as the ultimate truth inside our society, schools and history books. However, this is not the case as numerous researchers around the globe suggest. In fact, ancient civilizations were far more advanced than we believe.
Looking at the historical references that can be found in numerous ancient civilizations around the globe, we will find numerous patterns and details that tell a different story than the one being imposed by mainstream scholars.
These advanced technologies were present in ancient Egypt, Ancient Sumer, and in North, Central and South America. Electricity, electrochemistry, electromagnetictechnology,metallurgy,advanced engineering, including hydrogeology, chemistry, physics and advanced forms ofmathematics and astronomy were all used thousands of years ago to great extents.
Many researchers agree that in the distant past, electricity was widely utilized in the land of the Pharaohs, with the Baghdad battery being one of the best examples of such advanced technology. Mainstream schools, however, do not agree. But by examining the careful history and details left behind by the ancient Egyptians, a different truth is immediately revealed where we can see that sophisticated illumination techniques were used during the construction of Pyramids and other buildings in ancient Egypt.
While mainstream scholars firmly disagree with the notion that ancient Egyptians used electricity to light up ancient buildings, many believe that there is enough evidence to support this notion. Intricate carvings demonstrate that the ancient Egyptians utilized what appear to be handheld torches that were not lit up by fire, and were as many believe, powered by means of wireless electricity, thousands of years ago.
But these mysterious torches were not the only example in ancient Egypt. It is believed that the ancient lighthouse in Alexandria was powered by an ‘Arc lamp’, and is another crucial piece of evidence suggesting that electricity was used in Ancient Egypt thousands of years ago. But, the electricity required to power such incredible structures on a daily basis could only have been provided by a regular ‘huge’ electrical source.
This is why, many people believe that the Great Pyramid of Giza, whose purpose remains a mystery, is believed to have been used in the distant past, as some sort of giant energy machine, used to power numerous devices across Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza is considered an ancient masterpiece of engineering and architecture and one of the best –if not best– examples of ancient construction.
While the idea that the Great Pyramid of Egypt were used as giant power plant generating free, wireless energy, is firmly rejected by mainstream scholars, this theory could explain numerous enigmas about the Pyramid itself and the sophisticated society that settled at the Nile River thousands of years ago.
Interestingly, the outer casing of the Great Pyramid of Giza was covered by ‘white tufa limestone’, put together in such a way that nothing could fit in between the stones. It is noteworthy to mention that the ‘white tufa limestone’ used in the outer casing of the Great Pyramid of Giza does not contain magnesium and has very high insulating properties. It is believed that this sophisticated insulation property allowed the ancient Egyptians to fully control the release of energy from within the Pyramid.
InN addition, to the outer casing, the stone blocks used in the inner parts of the Great Pyramid were made from another form of limestone, which contains small amounts of crystals and metals which are believed to be two important properties that allowed maximum power transmission. Even more interestingly is the fact that the shafts built inside the Great pyramid were made of granite, and is a slightly radioactive substance permitting the ionization of the air inside the air shafts of the Great Pyramid, similar characteristics can be found in a conductive insulating cable.
Render of thermal imaging’s use to detect different temperatures inside the pyramid.
Image: HIP Institute
The only thing missing for the Great Pyramid of Giza to function as a great giant power wireless plant was a source of energy which is why the ancient builders of the Great Pyramid took advantage of the water at the Giza plateau. Interestingly the Giza plateau where the pyramids are located is full of underground water channels. The Pyramids at the Giza plateau rise above the limestone layers located underneath (Aquifers), and the spaces in between them are filled with great amounts of water, and these layers of rock are capable of transmitting energy upwards as they carry the underground water to the surface. This means that the high volume flow of water that passes through these underground cavities is capable of producing an electrical current; known as physio-electricity. Physio-electricity can be defined as ‘Electricity obtained from the natural physical movements with the help of certain harnessing devices can be termed as physio-electricity. For example, energy from walking, energy from flowing stream of a river (Nile river flowing through aquifers.’ (Source)
The chambers built within the Great Pyramid of Giza are considered as granite conductors implemented in the design, charged with ‘physio-electricity’. This means that given the material and specific construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the electromagnetic field that forms at the very bottom of the Pyramid is transmitted towards the upper layers of the pyramid. It is believed that in the distant past, a device of excellent electric conductivity was located on the top of the pyramid, where today an empty space remains the only evidence of a pyramid that in the past, looked very different.
Interestingly, traces of this long-lost ancient technology were rediscovered in the 1900’s by the great Nikola Tesla. Located at the Wardenclyffe tower he built between 1901 and 1917, Tesla applied a nearly identical form of this ancient technology, used in Egypt over 4000 years ago. Tesla’s tower was also believed to have been built upon aquifers, which means that the electric technology used by Tesla is nearly identical to that applied in the construction of the Great Pyramid. Both the Great Pyramid of Giza and Tesla’s magnificent Wardenclyffe tower were systems that generated negative ions and were capable of transmitting them without the need for electric cables, a completely free and wireless energy that powered other electrical components through vast distances.
But it appears that the Ancient Egyptians were not the only ones to have understood the benefits of this ancient technology.
A recent study has shown that a natural sinkhole, also known as ‘cenote’ is located underneath the Pyramid of Chichen Itza. Experts have found it is connected to other caverns and lakes in the area. The water filling the cavern is thought to run from north to south. This means that the Pyramid of Chichen Itza sits upon a subterranean water source just as Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower, and the Great Pyramid of Giza
Filer’s Files 15 -2016 Europe’s UFO Crashes - PART I
Disc over Moab, Utah Jeep rally on March 16, 2016
Filer’s Files 15 -2016 Europe’s UFO Crashes - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Europe’s UFO Crash, German Discs, Hillary and UFOs, Weather Control, North Korea Subs, and Mars Triangle.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana,, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands,and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Europe’s UFO Crash
William Brophy writes, “I was invited by Dr. Roberto Pinotti to the San Marino Republic UFO Symposium as a speaker to talk about the 1933 UFO crash near Milano, Italy and the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles which involve the tall blond Nordics who meet with President Eisenhower at Edwards Afb in 1954 and at Holloman AFB in 1955.”
On June 13, 1933, a bell shaped UFO crashed near Magenta, Italy just west of Milano.
The occupants were tall blond Nordics with oriental like features on their light blue eyes. The Italians called the UFO la Campania; the Germans called it Die Locked. Benito Mussolini the Prime Minister of Italy informed Pope Pius 11 of the crash and placed G. Marconi in charge of the special rs-33 Study Group, which later served as a model for our Mj-12 group. The Japanese told the Italians and Germans that those tall blonde-haired people were in their legends; this led to the Axis Alliance.
New Documents “Will Revolutionize UFOlogy”!
The discovery of some documents from the fascist era of Italy opens up new horizons for research on UFOs, and compels students of this subject to amend the official history of the flying saucers. Under “Il Duce”, Mussolini, there was a secret government commission of enquiry, known as the RS/33 cabinet, which studied the UFOs. Then a second series of documents, in three different packages, posted in March-April 1996, were sent by “MR. X” to the top Italian ufologist Dr. Roberto Pinotti, Director of the Italian UFO research journal NOTIZIARIO UFO. The sighting of a flying cigar over the Venice and Mestre on the morning of August 17, 1936, was reported showing a “cigar” – described as “torpedo-shaped” – along with two spheres beside it, one of which resembled the planet Saturn, being pursued by a fighter aircraft. It was an *original document* – not a copy – about a UFO sighting LONG BEFORE THE SUBJECT OF UFOS EXISTED! (More than ten years before Kenneth Arnold. G.C.)
Three telegrams from the Milan office of the Stefani Agency (the Fascist A.N.S.A.), which gave instructions, *on the order of Dictator Duce Mussolini, to recuperate a flying saucer which had landed on June 13, 1933. There was also a Senatorial letter describing in detail the strategy to be followed after the craft had been recovered; i.e., censorship of the newspapers; arrest of the eyewitnesses; elaboration of a series of conventional explanations for the UFO (i.e. *sonde* balloons, meteors, perihelia) to be fed to the public via the Brera Astronomical Observatory at Milan.
It was discovered that the RS/33 CABINET had been a top-secret study commission, created in the bosom of La Sapienza University in Rome following upon the recuperation [sic] of the UFO. Headed by the physicist Guglielmo Marconi (known for his belief in Martians, After Italy’s accession to the Berlin-Rome Axis, by arrangement with Hitler this material was all subsequently to be passed to the Nazis (*who did, in actual fact, as a result, attempt a few years later to construct revolutionary discoidal aircraft called the V-7*.
In the first place, it has come to light that ever since the end of the Thirties a German aircraft designer named NORDUNG had been attempting to build a “solar” flying disc to be sent out into Space – subsequently re-baptized as the “flying wheel”, and so it is no wonder if the Italian Fascists, finding themselves confronted with a UFO, should have opted for the explanation that it was a secret weapon! The “Moretti” trail led me to the Varese region. My hypothesis is in fact that the saucer recovered in 1933 had been hidden in one of the nearest and most discrete hangars in that region – namely the hangars of the aeronautical establishments of the Siai Marchetti at Vergiate in the Varese region of Ticino which at that date were under the control of General Italo Balbo who became a member of the RS/33 CABINET). The “Varese trail” had been suggested to me through several clues: namely that the messages about recovery of the UFO came from the nearby Telegraphic Office of Milan: that in those very days Blackshirts were suddenly dispatched to that region, The Varese newspaper, the *Cronaca Prealpina*, of June 20, 1933, gave the first report, emphasizing that forms of life on Mars were in contact with men of
Mussolini and Hitler
Earth – the existence of agreements between Mussolini and Hitler for the study of alien technology, agreements that had been made in 1938; these documents were: an Agency Stefani message from Florence containing an interview with the Fuhrer Hitler when he was visiting Italy. Marconi claimed he could develop a *death ray*, which, so Mussolini said, had for one day, by remote control, halted all automobile and aircraft engines as far away as Ostia – a weapon which, by virtue of 1938 agreements between Mussolini and Hitler, would evidently reappear in the following year at Essen, Germany, causing a *total blackout* of the city according to the account given by the American ufologist Leonard Stringfield in his book UFO SIEGE (1977. It is likely the Fascists and the Nazis managed to achieve “back- engineering” from the UFO of 1933? The Fascist UFO Files nevertheless has a very special importance. For it demonstrates the existence of a governmentalcommission on UFOs *before* the official birth of UFOlogy itself ” If, at the end of the 1930s, the Italians were beginning to hear of German experiments with disc-shaped aircraft (which we do know existed and which certainly *were* test-flown), then is it surprising that many Italian scientists may well have suspected that any weird craft seen flying over Italy in the years from 1933 to 1936 might well also have been *German*? And then later, during WWII, they might logically have suspected that they were seeing “secret weapons of the enemy Allies”?
“Mussolini” himself was a keen flier, and held a pilot’s license. Who else among the leaders in WWII did that? Well, it seems that as Germany tightened her grip on Italy, the Germans were able to *command* the Italians to hand all the alien craft’s evidence over to them! Remember the remarkable German success in building at least two types of “saucer-shaped” multi-jet aircraft Roberto Pinotti, probably the best Italy’s UFO researcher confirms that it is 100% certain that the “Fascist UFO Files” are completely genuine. Thanks to the Flying Saucer Review, Volume 46/3, autumn 2001, pp. 13 – 17 and http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1885.htm
It is believed the Italians gave the Germans access to the alien craft and they were able to back engineer the craft to develop the so called Foo fighters often reported by allied bombing aircrews. The key was the advanced propulsion system.
Hitler and A UFO is observing this historical event.
MUFON reports that apparently four years after the crash a UFO was filmed over Czechoslovakia. I’m an ardent history buff. I was watching WWII in Color tonight and noticed something strange. Hitler is entering Czechoslovakia in May 1, 1937 and is being filmed. In the archival footage I noticed something strange. I rewind several times and can’t believe no one has noticed this before. Throughout is leadership Hitler often warned of greatly advanced weapons that would bring victory to the Nazi’s? Thanks to MUFON CMS
The Vril Society members were supposedly the first group to attempt the back engineering of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. A German writer, John Von Helsing, describes the discovery of a crashed saucer in the Black Forest, near Freiburg, in 1936 and says that this technology was taken and combined with the information the Vril Society had received through channeling and was made into a further project called theHaunebu. There are various stories of crashed saucers in Europe that are difficult to prove or deny.
The Japanese carried out a symbolic attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, in 1941, the city holiday of Milano, Italy. The tall blonde-haired people’s craft were the UFO’s over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942, and a large disk with a row of windows was shot down in the Santa Catalina Island and San Clement Island area recovered by the ars-1 Viking ship and taken to Moffat Field Navy Base. The Manhattan project at Berkeley next door studied the disk. The Trinity Bomb was named after Pope Pius 11 and the three-inch anti-aircraft guns used in Los Angeles. When the War was over, the U.S. Air Force members were infiltrated precisely into Sesto regarding the presence of terrestrial flying saucers kept at Vergiate, and that the entire region, from time immemorial, was at the centre of a most intense ufological activity – to such a degree that it gained the sobriquet of being “The Ticino Triangle”.
In April of 1945, the 1st Armored Division captured the Machete Aviation Facility where the 1933 Magenta UFO was kept and it was brought to the United States. My father Lt. Col. William J. Brophy was a B-29 bomber pilot with the 231 Air Base Group at Alamogordo, Nm and witnessed the Trinity Bomb. He told me the silver-plate B-29 bomber was named after the Los Angeles 1942 disks.
One month later on August 16, 1945, my father helped his commanding officer Col. Maurice A. Preston recover an oval shaped UFO with three very strange small light grey aliens with praying mantis features on their eyes and face. The UFO had destroyed a communications tower belonging to Stallion Site in the crash near Walnut Creek in San Antonio, Nm. My father told me President Eisenhower met with the tall blonde-haired people involved with the 1933 Italy crash at Edwards AFB on February 20, 1954. Eisenhower invited Cardinal John McIntyre to the meeting since Pope Pius 11 had told Roosevelt about the Nordic 1933 Magenta, Italy crash. Thanks to William Brophy.
German Discs
There are piles of reports of British and US pilots being tracked by fireballs which danced around their aircraft while driving their electronics systems crazy. At the end of WWII, three weeks before the U.S. went to Peenemünde to nab the V-2s and the scientists, including Wernher von Braun, the Brits went into the underground redoubts of the Nazis in Austria, the Black Forest and Thuringia. The results were three top secret trains, one of them 8 miles long (that one train alone was 655 box cars and flat cars). The trains took the stuff, some of which was too large to fit in box cars and had to be covered by tarpaulins on its way to the coast of Brittany (France), there to be loaded on board ships, taken through the Panama Canal up the coast to Vancouver, B.C., and from there by train 100 miles inland to the newly constructed surface facility of the A. V. Roe Company, which took over the research and development of the wingless jet powered saucer craft.
150 pre-fab factory buildings were sent from England to the same site. By 1947 it was dug completely underground for security reasons to protect from prying Russian over flights An underground facility with vertical shaft, still exists cobwebbed and silent about 150 miles East of Vancouver, British Columbia.
When the war ended, many German scientists were engaged by the USA to head their space program. But what of the German discs? Many such as William Tomkins believe that massive German U-boats transported many of them to a secret base in the Antarctic. That is when the US military kicked into action sending Admiral Byrd in his men to the frozen north. The battle that ensued saw heavy losses by the American’s but there are very few reports as to what actually happened there.
Operation Highjump, an operation to locate the Nazi base in the Antarctic was organized by Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd Jr., USN (Ret), Officer in Charge of Task Force 68 that commenced on 26 August 1946 and ended in late February 1947. Task Force 68 included 4,700 men, 13 ships, and 33 aircraft. According to Tomkins several ships were sunk and most of the aircraft destroyed by attacking UFOs from the Antarctic base. Later, Admiral Richard E. Byrd warned that the United States should adopt measures of protection against the possibility of an invasion of the country by high speed hostile planes coming from the Polar Regions.
Byrd also found plenty of magnetic anomalies, all of which were classified top secret when he got back. The interesting thing is this “magnetic anomaly”, it may be an entrance to a large “hollow place” That’s what “magnetic anomaly” means……
The Allies all grabbed the disc engineers; some went to Russia, Canada, Britain and others to the United States. Wernher von Braun and his Nazi cohort scientists were excused for their mistreatment of assembly line slaves and invited to partake in America’s rocket program, saucer scientists like Herr Miethe and his Nazi cohort scientists were invited and taken to work for A.V. Roe in the compound outside Vancouver.Background on Nazi craft and scientists imported to Canada: The addenda in the books by Harbinson, Genesis, Revelation, and Projekt Saucer. The suppressed and out of print book by Renato Vesco “Intercept But Don’t Shoot”, republished as Flying Saucers: From 1944-1994 by Renato Vesco and David Childress.]
The British Space Program was well underway during World War 11 with men such as Arthur C Clarke and H.E Ross launching an in-depth study of the possibility of moon landings. The British undertook intensive rocket testing at a huge range in South Australia, beginning in about 1946. The range was named Woomera and it is possible that the studies launched there led to manned space travel in years much earlier than we have been led to believe.’
Dr Carol Rosin was the first female corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and was spokesperson for Wernher von Braun in his later years. She founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in Washington, DC, and has testified before Congress on many occasions about space-based weapons.
Von Braun revealed to Dr Rosin a plan to justify weapons in space, based on hoaxing first, a Russian threat, then a terrorist threat, an asteroid threat, then finally an extraterrestrial threat. (Rosin was also present at meetings in the 1970’s when the scenario for the Gulf War of the 1990’s was planned.) Undoubtedly some kind of deal was struck between the British secret service and the O.S.S. They brought down a couple of the jet powered saucers from British Columbia, and got to watch us sending V-2 firecrackers into the sky at White Sands.
Was the technology recovered used to develop some of the amazing advances in technology seen at the time? 1947 saw the sound barrier broken for the first time, the jet plane was tested successfully and the transistor invented? Many of the German team that had been responsible for the design of the V2 continued working on the American space program right through to the 1969 landing of men on the Moon. Thanks to Frank Chili.
Weather Control
Dozens of records of freezing temperatures are being broken by an April cold wave. I suggest enemies using weather modification, disease; financial disruption, natural disasters, and terrorism are attacking US and its allies. These attacks are hard to prove and but very effective. For example what is causing the severe drought in California? Russian equipment is diverting the rain clouds to Mexican crop growing operations. This winter devastating snow and cold weather hit much of the Midwest and Northeast with cold coming from Siberia. The weather control also brings larger and more devastating tornadoes and floods to the US and other allied countries.
Several countries such as China, Russia have large scientific teams studying weather alteration and the ability to make catastrophic modifications. The Beijing Weather Modification Office is part of China’s nationwide weather control effort, believed to be the world’s largest; it employs 37,000 people nationwide putting silver iodide or dry ice into clouds. We seem to falling behind in the weather control race, aircraft modern such as the C-17s and C-5s could drop chemicals into Tornado forming clouds and greatly weaken their potential destruction. Dr. James E. Mc Donald’s a famous ufologist’s weather studies showed how weather modification could occur with devices like HAARP.
Russian HAARP
He wrote that the government in the USA has failed to properly support basic scientific research since in weather modification in the mid-1970s. He wrote essays:
On the Electrical Conductivity of the Lower Stratosphere, Trans. Am. Geophys. Un. 34, 529 (1953), PDF File
Hillary Pledges to Dig into UFO Files
Hillary Clinton and Laurence Rockefeller
Last week these files discussed the Hillary Clinton’s interest in UFOs.
Here is what transpired on Jimmy Kimmel Live on March 24, 2016 as over 2 million viewers looked on. Kimmel said: “When we had your husband, President Clinton, on this show [in 2014], I asked him about UFOs and Area 51,” Kimmel reminded Clinton. “If I was president, that’s the first thing I’d do. I’d go right into those files and see what was going on. And he said that he did do that, and that he didn’t find anything.” Clinton offered this provocative response: “Yes…well, I’m going to do it, again. And you know, there’s a new name,” Clinton added. “It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon — UAP — that’s the latest nomenclature.” (The Weekly Standard)
Correction I erred in stating the statements came from The Weekly Standard’s article about Kimmel’s show rather than from Lee Speigel.
Lee Speigel wrote, “As soon as I read that, I knew it sounded very familiar — and not just because I saw the same TV segment. You link your readers to The Weekly Standard as the source for those quotes in the paragraph above. Here’s the problem — the BIG problem. When I clicked on the link, I could see right away that the Weekly Standard didn’t have any of that stuff that your link took your readers to. In fact, all of that entire section above (beginning with Kimmel saying: “When we had your husband, President Clinton, on this show…” and ending with “…that’s the latest nomenclature.” ALL of that was lifted from MY Huffington Post story — I mean every part of it, including the non-quoted parts, where I wroteKimmel reminded Clinton…and Clinton offered this provocative response…and Clinton added… ALL of that is mine, from ME, MY story. Here is MY article, where you can see what I’m talking about: WebsiteThanks to Lee Speigel
North Korea Launches Ballistic Missiles from Submarine
North Korea is developing missile carrying submarines that would be able to launch nuclear weapons into the US West Coast. Kim Jong Un, oversaw the test-launch from an offshore location as the submarine dived and “a ballistic missile surfaced from the sea and soared into the air, leaving a fiery trail of blaze,” the official KCNA news agency said.
“Through the test, it was confirmed that the underwater ballistic missile launch from a strategic submarine fully achieved the latest military and technical requirements.” North Korea imported and made improvements on the Soviet Union’s R-27 missile (SS-N-6 named by NATO). North Korea had enhanced the missile so it could be used on a submarine and North Korean submarines have been spotted off the coast of the US.
I discovered this craft 2-18-16…looks like a triangle shaped craft to me……because of the surrounding topography, there could be no other explanation……. Ken Pfeifer
Lacy’s book is full of recollections not only of his abductions by various aliens, but also of how those abductions have affected his life.
He tells them in such a straightforward, ordinary way, and with so many details, that it’s hard to be skeptical about his story. The details, too, are convincing enough to make anyone at least consider the possibility. After all, what other explanation could there be for a small child being healed of sarcoma after a doctor told his parents that they might as well have another child already as a replacement? What other explanation could there be for Byron’s numerous accounts of having “lost time,” or of his finding scratches and puncture wounds on his body, or of the memories that suddenly resurface about having been brought aboard an alien ship? These questions kept returning to my mind as I read, and I could think of no other answer except to believe that Lacy was telling the truth.
The one complaint I had about the book is the way Lacy presents his story. It does not go in chronological order, which can make it rather hard to follow, and I sometimes had trouble telling when a particular chapter took place. If you stick with it, though, you will find a compelling story that I would recommend to anyone who has had even the slightest question about whether we really are alone in the universe. SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW.
Scoop marks on Byron’s right leg
Byron W. Lacy has written an excellent book that should be read by everyone, because if you suspect you are an abductee this is the book you should read. Lacy, a civil servant, musician, artist, and poet was born in Texas. The young Byron was not expected to survive a childhood case of sarcoma cancer. Yet he did, miraculously. In 1961, he witnessed a flying submarine like thing at close range over his entire elementary school class as they exercised in the yard. Other uncanny events include repeated narrow escapes from deadly car accidents. Only in 2009, after seeing a couple of “stargates” materialize in the sky was Lacy convinced he had been alien plagued and abducted for a generation. His imaginary playmate “pirates” Byron saw, as a little boy were the enigmatic intruders. Byron believes he and fellow “abductees” endured many strange experiences: missing time, bodily implants and mysterious scarring, and “little gray” humanoids. For Byron, it is obvious; skeptics be damned, and countless folks are being abducted. A far-out, disconcertingly readable memoir that flatly declares everything about aliens you read online or see dramatized on TV is true. _Kirkus Reviews, ORDER HERE
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Filer’s Files 15 -2016 Europe’s UFO Crashes - PART II
Filer’s Files 15 -2016 Europe’s UFO Crashes - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Arizona Cylinder
Cottonwood — I was out by the swimming pool and took a picture of the moon on July 7, 2015.
I captured something unusual that I did not see with my own eyes.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Light
Ventura— I was walking to my car this morning on April 3, 2016, and noticed a cool pattern of jet trails in the sky. I snapped two photos but didn’t pay attention to the phone screen.
I returned home a few hours later and posted one of the photos on Instagram and titled it “X Marks The Spot”.
Weird..because I noticed a white circle on the right side of the photo. It was in that photo as well.
I zoomed in and it looks very odd! I asked a photographer friend of mine if it could possibly be a reflection from the camera lens but she doesn’t think so.
My daughter and ultiple people around Taft witnessed similar lights a while ago. The dark object is likely a bird.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado CAMPERS Terrified
GRANT — My two best friends and I went winter camping on April 3, 2016, in our usual spot at Handcart Campground in Pike National Forest two nights ago. I will call my friends and I stayed up until about ten p.m. watching the campfire while B’s six year old son had gone to bed in the giant tent we were all sharing. The sky was absolutely clear as we got in the tent, and went to bed. My phone said it was 11:30 p.m. I was not at ease. And that was when I witnessed what appeared to be camera flashes going off just above our tent. Just as the wind hit its peak velocity, those lights went off. For the next ten minutes I was terrified. Another giant blast of wind caught the tent, the worst of the whole night, and I opened my eyes again to see another round of lights, this time green and situated at the opposite side of the tent’s top, flashing like paparazzi cameras for about five seconds. It was absolutely terrifying and I gripped my pistol inside my sleeping bag and felt my shotgun resting right beside the bag. The next thing I knew I was waking up to early morning light.
.My friends all woke up relatively soon after that and I asked them were if they’d seen the lights. My friend B’s face said everything. And the first thing he said was he thought he was going to have a heart attack. He repeated an experience that was identical to mine above, including the inability to slow his heart and having pain in his left shoulder associated with it until he finally passed out. The exception to his story being he also heard a series of shrill mechanical beeps just before the second round of lights (something I decided I must have missed due to the earplugs). He also said he heard me ask about lightning. We broke camp, packed up, and got the hell out of there.
NOTE: The above image is CGI.
Indiana Light
Trafalgar — First noticed a much brighter object than the eight airplanes that could be seen in the southwestern sky at sunset on April 3, 2016, while heading west on SR 252. The object appeared to be as the size and brightness of Venus, and it appeared to get brighter. As we drove two miles further west to the Dairy Queen the noticed the object had developed two tails coming off of what we could now identify as the source of light/reflection. The object was oval shaped like a football traveling sideways. It was now not as bright as before, but the two (2) tails were growing in length and diameter. The tails/trails came off the pointed ends and the body of the object would flicker with a silver light. The object was much higher, slower, brighter, and had two very pronounced tails that looked thicker and were not being quickly dispersed by the wind. It disappeared in the southwestern sky 25 minutes after first being seen. There were four witnesses. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Light
New Llano — Came home from work exited car on March 28, 2016 and the flashing light caught my attention.
I ran in house got my camera shot images and video.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Light
Faribault — On February7, 2016. beginning from 9:15 P.M. to midnight I witnessed 12+ UFO’s from a range of 200 – 3000 feet from my position. I was able to observe the underside of a 8 foot thick at the center boomerang shaped craft 200 to 300 feet from my position, with a wingspan of 50 to 80 feet. It’s underside was comprised of many intricate plates with deep black borders, and smooth corners. This craft had 7 small, rectangular white lights aligned close to the anterior. It moved silently at about 10 mph in a straight path, before taking a sharp right turn. Five minutes later I saw another UFO: 600 to 800 feet was a bright yellow mist in the shape of an arrowhead moving silently at 30 mph. It’s wingspan was 100 to 150 feet across. The corners instantly merged into the center of the craft as if they were non-solid, it then flew into the distance at 200 +mph.
I was shocked. Looking upwards down the street, I see a “Letter T” light formation descending to 400 feet high when it moved just above me down the street at 40 to 60 mph. As it descended I saw four white ovals of 2 distinct sizes: Both on each end were around 80 feet long while the two middle ovals were around 50 feet long.
A yellow arrowhead of mist passed under the “Letter T” formation at 40 to 60 mph. Only this time its corners were not separated, and again: this craft did not seem to be solid as it looked like a triangular yellow cloud of dust moving into the distance above the rest of the neighborhood. I attempted to record the UFO’s with my cellphone, but was unable to capture the lights.
All UFO’s observed were under 800 feet in altitude ith some as low as 100 – 200 feet.
All Were Silent 3. Cloaking Technology Was Observed. 4. No Solid Structures Were Observed Other Than The First UFO Sighting. . 5. Some of these objects were clearly unresponsive to light signals from the ground. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexico Disc
Santa Fe — I was taking photos of a double rainbow, just after a thunderstorm on August 15, 1985. I took several photos, across the street from the national cometary. I did not notice the object when photographed. I took the film to be developed at the fox one hour kiosk in Albuquerque new Mexico and saw this object in just one photograph.
I was about 500 feet from the object flying at least 500 mph. The shadows were consistent with all other objects in the photograph. I was using, a Kodak instamaticthat could not have been faked. I went to Kirtland Air Force Base, where a friend of mine was a helicopter mechanic, and I showed the picture to some pilots. They became very angry with me, and told me to get off the base. One pilot told me that he was going to inform base security of my address and have me put in jail. I did not go to jail, and no one ever contacted me about the photograph. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Orb
Fairport — Went out for a smoke and looked up because it is a crystal clear night on March 30, 2016. I saw a wide bright red light, flashing intermittently, tkat I thought was a plane. It had no sound whatsoever and was flying very smooth and low.
Planes pass by apartment complex everyday and I can tell this was no ordinary aircraft. This object hovered at a steady speed in the most smooth way, without the light it must be totally stealth and impossible to see.
I took several pictures with my iphone and upon zooming in, an disc shape with an upper center deck can be seen. It was so silent and smooth it literately freaked me out.
This object’s red light is more like a beam far bigger and wider than any commercial airliner. I lost sight of the object when it went over my roof. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brooklyn— I noticed a bright star-like object in the sky in daylight that gave off a flashing / pulsating phenomena of bright colors on August 28, 2015.
I was only able to see the object for about 7-10 seconds until it disappeared. For reference, the object was about 30,000-40,000 feet in the air. I tried to take a 3rd picture, but it vanished. I took these photos on a Samsung Galaxy 21x zoom. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Orb
Mount Perry — I was outside looking at the stars a little after 9:00 pm, on March 29, 2016. I noticed a white light with a flashing red light to the east.
I thought it was too far up to be from a tower. I noticed a large diamond shaped object going overhead. It had a white light on each point and a flashing red light.
I snapped a bunch of pictures while it passed over me heading west.I noticed a pinprick of white on one image and zoomed in.
I had to do this to all of the pictures to see the object. The whole time the object appeared to me as a diamond shape.
Three times I’ve seen what at first looked like a star in the east that then began moving south and then made a sharp right turn moving west. The object was large and quite low. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Disc
Jim Thorpe—I had taken pictures of the surroundings while on a train ride. I hadn’t noticed the object until just recently while going through the pictures to put on my Facebook page. It was a nice day, back on September 5, 2010, when I took the picture.
I was on vacation with family at the time and was shocked to see the object. Others who saw the photo thought it was a leaf. I was awestruck that I actually caught a UFO in a photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Lights
Marvel — On April 1, 2016, I pulled into my driveway at 11:20 PM and immediately spotted the vertical orange light. I raced inside to get my 16-year-old son to come out and see it, too. As we watched the light, my son called two friends who live about 10 miles south of us. They went outside and saw the light as well. I called my other son, who lives in Galveston was unable to see the light from his location. My neighbor came out and watched it with us.
After searching further for an explanation, I think it may have been a light pillar, but it was interesting how it tapered at both ends. The bright orange slice in the sky dimmed and brightened, back and forth for 20 or more minutes.
Moab — I took a series of photos, while attending Easter Jeep Safari, on the Fins and Things trail on March 16, 2016.
I was taking pictures of jeeps coming down this rock trail and an image appeared on one of my photos.
These photos were taken at 12:41 PM (time stamped) on my I phone. I took 4 photos during this time period. While looking at these pictures a few minutes after taken, to check the quality of them, this image was on the last photo in the sky. No one heard or saw anything other than this image in the photo.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Object
Faber — All of my pictures are taken with a simple digital camera that is zoomed to the max.
I don’t know what it is that I am taking a picture of. I just point at the sky, shoot and then put the pics on my computer where I enlarge the photos.
It’s like something is guiding where and when I should aim my camera. Thanks to Dan Johnson
Washington Dark Objects
Victoria— I had just closed up my family business at 7 pm, on March 4th, 2016.
When I noticed a jet flying high up, and thought I should test my new Galaxy S7 Edge phone’s camera.
In the second shot, it looked like I could see the shape of the jet, so I zoomed in to see how crisp it actually gets, and almost didn’t notice the black shape/s underneath.
I believe it to be one object moving very fast, out of the bottom right cloud, and leveling off just underneath the jet. It’s just unidentified!? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia ISS Oblong
Watching the ISS camera ISSonlive.com feed on April 5, 2016, as the sky started to lighten in Australia I saw an streak of light. I love the pictures from space.
An oblong shape that seems very large comes on the screen at 1109 GMT.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Orb
Ontario — On March 2016 this has been a record month for me with 8 sightings with 2 at night and-6 day timers. Here is one of those sightings on Tuesday, March 29, 2016, I went outside our workplace on afternoon break I could even feel I was going see a UFO. Near the end of my work break I was shocked to once again see another different one. I blocked the sun with our building facing west. The sky was quite clear to view Up quite high I could see a black diamond shape object flashing a white light every few seconds. It was moving very slowly high above near our building’s roof.
Instantly I grabbed my camera from my pocket and took five pictures on a slight zoom. Then took a quick ten second video clip
Looked back up to see it – now it’s gone! This sighting lasted under one minute at 3:18 pm. Thanks To Paul Shishis]
Czech Republic Cylinders
Havlíčkův Brod— We went on a trip but we saw these objects. I thought it was helicopters.
It was moving like a helicopter but I didn’t have any propeller or tail. I was fascinated. But one week after this observation someone was watching me.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Disc
Paris— We are in a small apartment in the middle of Paris (3rd district). It was June 25th, 2013 at 10:00pm. There was a lot of sunshine out since our summer sun lives well into late 11:00’ish. My state of mind is clear and focused. Our studio is extremely small. She lazily looks up and asks what is that? I take a minute to look out. So I perch my chin on my hands on the sill. I see something far off. A pin point..grey…no shadow…no black..round… My brain does not pin it to just a round object yet, and my first thought is: ”
Ah, the nose of an airplane headed right this way” I keep an eye on it as it gets larger…then a second object catches my eye. What is this? A yellow/reddish light..no..lights don’t fly…Flag?? Perhaps..but a flag of what? Oh I know! The colorful object is sort of plane shaped, that is, like a fish? I can sort of make out a triangular tail end, but the direction it’s nose would be pointing is not the direction it is moving, it is moving at me, so that would be like a plane/fish floating sideways at me…and that is illogical. I pick my head up and realize these are not objects I have ever seen before.
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Netherlands Triangle
Wamel — First the sky flashed then this starlike figure appeared on April 1, 2016.
We where not afraid because we see them a lot of UFOs in our region. It was bright orange color and it just hoovered. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/Wales England Border Light
Hergest Ridge — I sent you some pictures I had grabbed off my videos of a night UFO some while back, on February 18, 2016. This frequent flyer came back to the location and with a new Canon Legria camcorder The location as before was over Hergest Ridge which is on the England/Wales border. As you will note this object changes color in the Diamond shape and then shifts shape to an extreme flat disc in range. The pictures are taken from two films. The location is a frequent flyer location for these object both day and night.
Second Report From Witness: The object was sighted at 6.39 PM GMT. It has been frequently observed but only small, this time to the eye it looked larger. The new camera has more zoom and through the screen I could see a diamond shaped lighted object in the sky. It looked a pulsating solid diamond shape object which was lit and changed color throughout the video. The object was moved in a low almost static orbit, moving slowly and seemingly under intelligent control. I was trained with the Police and Air Force reserve experience we get frequent sightings of objects in this area.
This is also the area that had the legend of Black Vaughn, the beast that gave the idea to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the idea for his book The Hound of the Baskervilles. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
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Hitler and the ufo: the Gotha 229
Hitler and the ufo: the Gotha 229
That Adolf Hitler and other maximum Nazi exponents confided in esoteric practices is known, that they have adopted symbols and rituality is also known, less clear it is what relationship could exist between Nazi Germany and alien technologies which according to some would have been at the base of the technological acceleration happened,especially in aeronautical and missile field, in the last months of the Second World war.
ALL BEGAN IN SHAMBHALA
Even before the slope to the power of Adolf Hitler the followers of the Nazism tried to find Shambhala, an hidden land to whose center would be found the capital Kalepa, where would reside perfect men and women and the same “king of the world”. A place that according to some ufologis could be the legendary transfiguration of an alien base. The Nazis officially didn’t find ever Shambhalas, but for some they would have found during their expeditions finds of alien technologies.
THE TESTIMONIES OF THE ALLIES PILOTS
A series of testimonies it made from the Allies pilots during the conflict contributed in the following years to the conclusion of the Second World war to strengthen the hypothesis that the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler would have indeed reconstructed some ufos, or at least realized projects of experimental planes that exploited some technologies of it. American pilot Kenneth Arnold, for instance, reported for first of “supersonic flying saucers” and specified that “to shoot to these things doesn’t damage them at all”. Also other American and British pilots reported to have seen “great bright disks” or “strange spheres never sights before”. Were them the ufos of Hitler?
THE HORTEN BROTHERS
Even admitting that there were just errors of identification, the fact that Nazis had developed a series of unusual airplanes for the epoch to say few it is undeniable. One particularly, has always aroused a lot of curiosity,the flying wing Gotha 229, originally known as Horten IX. Initially developed by brothers Walter and Reimar Horten, this airplane, a model of which, the prototype V3, is still exposed at the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, would have had to answer to the Luftwaffe’s specification “1,000x1,000x1,000”, i.e. to be an airplane able to transport 1.000 Kg of bombs to 1.000 Km/h to a distance of 1.000 Km from its base.
HITLER AND THE UFO: THE FIRST STEALTH OF HISTORY
The airplane was realized joining to a loom of steel pipes settled to wood surfaces, worked in a way that the most external layer absorbed the radar waves and spread them in different directions from those of origin, succeeding in this way to elude the more possible the hostile radars. If not an ufo, the Gotha 229 would certainly have been the first aerial stealth of the history. Unfortunately for brothers Horten the things didn’t go to the correct verse both for the difficulties of project and for the little time available. The second prototype (the V2) crashed December 18th 1944 (other sources speak of February 26th 1945), pilot died, the production stopped by the Horten to the Gothaero Waggonfabrik never overcame the phase of the prototypes. After some decades, nevertheless, some of the solutions of the Gotha 229 were used for developing the stealth fighter Lockheed F-117A NightHawk.
Planet 9 May Be Causing Periodic Extinction and is Once Again Coming Our Way
Planet 9 May Be Causing Periodic Extinction and is Once Again Coming Our Way
You’ve probably heard of the notorious “Planet 9” by now, also known as Nibiru or Planet X by the UFO community. This celestial body is hiding at the edges of our solar system and is too far out for our telescopes to see. However, every 10 or 15 thousand years it is said that Planet 9 enters our field of view as it’s elliptical orbit will reach its closest point to the Sun.
The rogue planet is expected to come with massive comet showers that would ultimately lead to a mass extinction here on Earth. In a paper by Daniel Whitmire, a retired astrophysicist professor, the possibility of Planet 9 causing periodic extinctions on earth is being discussed. The study is based on analysis performed on fossil remains of extinct species.
Some scientists have claimed for years that Planet 9 could be a reality, but the most significant progress towards identifying it has been made a couple of months back when two scientists claimed to have discovered imposing evidence of its existence, and only a few days ago one of the scientists brought further proof of the rogue planet.
According to the researchers, the fugitive celestial body should be 10 times the mass of Earth and 1,000 times further from the Sun than we are. They now interpret the bizarre extinction events partaking every 27 million years as being linked to Planet 9. They say the possibility of comet showers arriving on a constant and at the same time regular schedule could be more than just a coincidence. However, they do not exclude the idea of a Sun’s companion known as Nemsis, or the Sun’s evil twin.
Focusing on this new hypothesis, scientists suggest that all the periodic extinctions that had happened on Earth lead towards a common cause that’s kicking them off. They now blame the mysterious Planet 9, which from their perspective is passing through the Kuiper Belt – an area of the outer solar system shrouded in icy objects – every 27 million years or so, sending comets towards the Earth and inside the solar system as a result of the impact.
Dr. Michael Brown, the astronomer who proposed the existence of Planet 9, recently announced at a SETI colloquium that a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO), which is something orbiting between 30 and 50 AUs (astronomical units), one AU being Earth’s distance from the Sun, “is exactly where Planet Nine says it should be.”
In other words, Planet 9 might make its presence noticed sooner than some would have expected, and the signs will apparently take the form of disturbed comets entering our solar system. As the Hopi Indians already predicted, the Red Kachina is on its way back, and the events to come are only the beginning of the massive shift the Earth will go through.
According to the Hopi prophecy, “The Blue Kachina would start to be seen at the dances, and would make his appearance known to the children of the plaza during the night dance. This event would tell us that the end times are very near. Then the Blue Star Kachina would physically appear in our heavens which would mean that we were in the end times.”
Could their prophecy be related to the recent comets seen wandering through our solar system? Are we going to witness the arrival of the notorious Planet 9, or will there be some rational scientific explanation for all the havoc that’s apparently slowly taking shape? (source) (source)
We Need Three Planets for the Human Race to Survive, NASA Scientist Determines
We Need Three Planets for the Human Race to Survive, NASA Scientist Determines
Hasty climate change, ever-growing pollution level and overpopulation are some of the main reasons why scientists believe that our planet’s limits will be exceeded within a short span of time, making it a challenge for the human race to benefit from only one planet while moving at the current pace.
The life on our planet is quickly downgrading because of human activities, that’s why a conspicuous NASA scientist believes we may need to terraform more than one planet in order to preserve our species.
“The entire ecosystem is crashing,” said Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist of NASA’s Langley Research Center. “Essentially, there’s too many of us. We’ve been far too successful as the human animal. People allege we’re short 40-50 percent of a planet now. As the Asians and their billions come up to our living systems, we’re going to need three more planets.”
You’ve heard it well – we may need two other Earth-like planets to overcome the crisis we find ourselves into at the moment, and although Mars seems like the winning project, we may need to put more work into finding yet another celestial body to grow life on. More information on global challenges and how to overcome them have been put forward by Bushnell in The Millennium Project’s ‘State of the Future,” an annual report that’s comprising the ideas of more than 5,000 participants around the world.
“If NASA terraforms Mars, that’ll take about 120 years, and that’s only one planet,” he said. “We’d need more shortly.”
According to a 2012 study underwent by World Wildlife Fund, humans are using approximately 50 percent more resources than the Earth can bear, meaning that by 2050 we’ll be in need of other planets to harvest and exploit if we want to survive and maintain the current lifestyle. The study also referred to the need of colonizing two planets other than Earth, with the main threats this time being a cataclysmic event caused by an asteroid or the well-known nuclear war scenario.
Although scientists failed to identify the third planet to move to, since the Solar System looks pretty desolate when it comes to lifeforms and conditions to support them, they consider the initiative of terraforming Mars to be a good start. However, with the current shift in technology, we’ll be able to extract essential resources from celestial bodies such as comets and asteroids which seem to be found in abundance between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. So, is a permanent Martian base going to solve this deep crisis we find ourselves into, or should we look elsewhere if we are to overcome this challenge?
According to Jerome Glenn, CEO of the Millennium Project, we should identify Earth’s issues by looking (obviously) at the Earth itself, meaning that whatever challenges lie ahead of us we should be able to overcome them by transforming the planet we currently live on so that it suits the collective needs of our species.
“The point isn’t to be alarmist or cynical,” said Glenn. “We have to find out what’s intelligent to do to make this species survive. If you think the problems aren’t going to get better, then why try. And if you think there aren’t problems, then why change anything?”
An example of how to use our planet’s resources more efficiently comes from Bushnell who suggests that leaving the planet shouldn’t be the first priority, but instead become better resource managers and find other usages for the resources we have in abundance. His solution is based on salt water farming that would allow for Halophytes, a class of plant that does remarkably well in salty environments, to be ultimately transformed into biofuel. This system would allow for massive crops to be grown in the middle of the oceans. The irrigation will be based exclusively on saltwater and the finite product will be used as a bio-fuel for our many usages. Just picture a lot of underdeveloped countries producing cheap bio-fuel inevitably leading to a better economy and a radical increase in day-to-day living.
“With that, you could solve land, food, water, energy, and climate. All of that comes together,” he said.
If the ruling elite class will allow for a planetary state of well-being we are yet to find out, but if you don’t believe in miracles, maybe it’s time to pack your bags and move to Mars. After all, you’ll never know what the future holds. (source)
Elon Musk Intends to Send 1 Million Earthlings to Mars for $500,000 Each
Elon Musk Intends to Send 1 Million Earthlings to Mars for $500,000 Each
Now that we have the potential and technological means to travel into outer space, more and more organizations are paving the way for interplanetary travel, and I’m not talking about the usual discovery approach, but an entirely new perspective of commercial journeys that would take humans throughout the universe.
Although we still have many tests to surpass before venturing into such an adventurous journey, there are people already predicting that in due course, commercial voyages to Mars will become a reality. Among these figures is the revolutionary Elon Musk, the business magnate, engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur of several innovative businesses such as PayPal, SolarCity, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX.
This visionary man has claimed for many years that humanity’s only chance to survive is by developing interplanetary travel before it is too late, and he doesn’t limit to just one planet, but the entire galaxy if not the universe. He also believes that the human race has the ability to evolve to an almost god-like level, and we’ll have to credit him for the tremendous involvement in trying to achieve that goal.
At our current rate of technological growth, humanity is on a path to be godlike in its capabilities, Musk told Aeon.co. You could bicycle to Alpha Centauri in a few hundred thousand years, and that’s nothing on an evolutionary scale. If an advanced civilization existed at any place in this galaxy, at any point in the past 13.8 billion years, why isn’t it everywhere? Even if it moved slowly, it would only need something like .01 per cent of the Universe’s lifespan to be everywhere. SO why isn’t it?
To answer these uncertainties, Musk went on to expose his point of view about why humanity hasn’t managed to come in contact with alien beings by now. His first hypothesis suggests that our universal loneliness might be due to us living in some sort of simulation. If this however, sounds too insane for you, his other perspective reveals a more plausible approach, suggesting that we could be in fact an experimental race surveilled by a highly advanced alien race interested in the evolutionary process and behavior of our species, similar to the way researchers study the behavior of animals in a safari, where the wrong idea of wilderness is spread among the unaware subjects.
The absence of any noticeable life may be an argument in favor of us being in a simulation. Like when you’re playing an adventure game, and you can see the stars in the background, but you can’t ever get there. If it’s not a simulation, then maybe we’re in a lab and there’s some advanced alien civilization that’s just watching how we develop, out of curiosity, like mold in a petri dish.
Musk considers to establish a Mars colony in the near future, achievement which he believes, will prolong the existence of the human species. However, for such a daring plan to take shape, around 1 million people need to be sent on the voyage to guarantee the mission’s success, and since the aspirational billionaire is not focusing on building a mothership for the moment, his plan will need another way around.
FUTURE MARS COLONISTS PLAYING WITH CHILDREN ON MARS, A PLACE THEY CALL HOME.
As a matter of fact, he intends to send several ships to Mars at once, but for the moment, the costs for such a fleet seem unaffordable, since “rockets are the only form of transportation on Earth where the vehicle is built anew for each journey.” As a problem fixer, Musk is now relying on the development of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, a prototype intended to return to Earth after carrying humans and cargo into space. Achieving this will mean a drastic decrease in expenses, thus making a journey to Mars affordable even for the masses.
According to recent studies, there is an increasing desire among earthlings when it comes to a one-way trip to the Red Planet. Over 200,000 people applied for this breakthrough initiative, all of them willing to leave their lives on Earth behind for the chance to colonize another planet. Although Musk plans to charge as much as $500,000 for each individual, it doesn’t seem so much if you think that none of your earthly assets are needed when you are out there. So if you are willing to leave this life behind, selling everything that you own might buy you a one-way ticket to Mars in the future.
There needs to be an intersection of the set of people who wish to go, and the set of people who can afford to go, Musk said. And that intersection of sets has to be enough to establish a self-sustaining civilization. My rough guess is that for a half-million dollars, there are enough people that could afford to go and would want to go. But it’s not going to be a vacation jaunt. It’s going to be saving up all your money and selling all your stuff, like when people moved to the early American colonies.
If life on Mars is your thing, hurry up and raise the money, because as Elon Musk predicts, this is going to happen in the next eleven or twelve years. And don’t worry about the time spent on the way there, because according to NASA, “it takes nine months to get to Mars. It is possible to get to Mars in less time, but this would require you to burn your rocket engines longer, using more fuel. With current rocket technology, this isn’t really feasible, but some high-speed transfer orbits could make the trip in as little as 130 days.”
Now that you know how easy it’s going to be to reach the Red Planet, let’s enjoy life on our own while we still can. After all, Earth might become as desolate and inhospitable as its neighbor one day, or at least that’s what the most intelligent and resourceful people have predicted. So how is that for a free warning?
OFF THE RECORD Geneticist David Suzuki Stands Against The GMO Industry: “Humans Are Part Of A Massive Experiment!”
Geneticist David Suzuki Stands Against The GMO Industry: “Humans Are Part Of A Massive Experiment!”
We are doing our part to try and spread the word about GMOs, (genetically modified organisms) but we’re not the only ones.
Multiple public figures, scientists and researchers have been speaking out about GMOs for a number of years. For example, not long ago a former Canadian Government Scientist at Agriculture Canada, Dr. Thierry Vrain(one of many) spoke out against GMOs.
Another prominent public figure, Geneticist David Suzuki has been a long time advocate against GMOs, and has been speaking out about how they can be hazardous to human health as well as the environment.
Public figures with a wide audience can have a great impact on the consciousness of the masses, they are great ‘tools’ for waking more people up to the reality that GMOs can be harmful to human health as well as the environment.
It’s time to pay attention, do your own research and to question what you’ve been told. We can no longer trust branches of the government that deal with food and health, we must not take their word for it, it’s better if you actually look into it yourself rather than blindly believing what your are told.
In gearing up for the 2010 release of its super-genetically modified corn called ‘SmartStax’, agricultural-biotechnology giant Monsanto is using an advertising slogan that asks, ‘Wouldn’t it be better?’ But can we do better than nature, which has taken millennia to develop the plants we use for food?
We don’t really know. And that in itself is a problem. The corn, developed by Monsanto with Dow AgroSciences, “stacks” eight genetically engineered traits, six that allow it to ward off insects and two to make it resistant to weed-killing chemicals, many of which are also trademarked by Monsanto. It’s the first time a genetically engineered (GE) product has been marketed with more than three traits.
Canada approved the corn without assessing it for human health or environmental risk, claiming that the eight traits have already been cleared in other crop seeds — even though international food-safety guidelines that Canada helped develop state that stacked traits should be subject to a full safety assessment as they can lead to unintended consequences.
One problem is that we don’t know the unintended consequences of genetically engineered or genetically modified (GM) foods. Scientists may share consensus about issues like human-caused global warming, but they don’t have the same level of certainty about the effects of genetically modified organisms on environmental and human health!
A review of the science conducted under the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development in 2008 concluded that “there are a limited number of properly designed and independently peer-reviewed studies on human health” and that this and other observations “create concern about the adequacy of testing methodologies for commercial GM plants.”
Some have argued that we’ve been eating GM foods for years with few observable negative consequences, but as we’ve seen with things like trans fats, if often takes a while for us to recognize the health impacts. With GM foods, concerns have been raised about possible effects on stomach bacteria and resistance to antibiotics, as well as their role in allergic reactions. We also need to understand more about their impact on other plants and animals.
Of course, these aren’t the only issues with GM crops. Allowing agro-chemical companies to create GM seeds with few restrictions means these companies could soon have a monopoly over agricultural production. And by introducing SmartStax, we are giving agro-chemical companies the green light not just to sell and expand the use of their “super crops” but also to sell and expand the use of the pesticides these crops are designed to resist.
A continued reliance on these crops could also reduce the variety of foods available, as well as the nutritive value of the foods themselves.
There’s also a reason nature produces a variety of any kind of plant species. It ensures that if disease or insects attack a plant, other plant varieties will survive and evolve in its place. This is called biodiversity.
Because we aren’t certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle, if a policy or action could harm human health or the environment, we must not proceed until we know for sure what the impact will be. And it is up to those proposing the action or policy to prove that it is not harmful.
That’s not to say that research into altering the genes in plants that we use for food should be banned or that GM foods might not someday be part of the solution to our food needs. We live in an age when our technologies allow us to “bypass” the many steps taken by nature over millennia to create food crops to now produce “super crops” that are meant to keep up with an ever-changing human-centred environment.
A rapidly growing human population and deteriorating health of our planet because of climate change and a rising number of natural catastrophes, among other threats, are driving the way we target our efforts and funding in plant, agricultural, and food sciences, often resulting in new GM foods.
But we need more thorough scientific study on the impacts of such crops on our environment and our health, through proper peer-reviewing and unbiased processes. We must also demand that our governments become more transparent when it comes to monitoring new GM crops that will eventually find their ways in our bellies through the food chain.
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Strange UFO filmed by Norwegian expedition in Antarctica - January 2016 !!!
Strange UFO filmed by Norwegian expedition in Antarctica - January 2016 !!!
Strange UFO filmed by Norwegian expedition in Antarctica - January 2016 !!!
At the beginning of January 2016, a team of Norwegian scientists had the surprise to film a very special UFO sighting right in the Neumayer Area.
In 2013, proofs of alien base were found in Antarctica thanks to Google Earth. On these famous pictures, we could see two possible entrances to an alien base or at least an entrance to something, with a huge saucer shaped object buried in the ice... Few days later Google Earth mysteriously censored the location. Why ?
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Deze rondvliegende bol zuigt objecten op en bezorgt ze elders
Deze rondvliegende bol zuigt objecten op en bezorgt ze elders
Vivian Lammerse
De toekomstige assistent is geen mens, maar een drone! Wetenschappers ontwikkelden een rondvliegende bol die voorwerpen ophaalt en wegbrengt.
Maak kennis met een nieuw soort drone: een grote, rondvliegende bol die zich autonoom in elke richting kan verplaatsen. Vervolgens kan de drone geheel zelfstandig een flesje water, appel, of ander voorwerp oppakken en verplaatsen naar de plek die jij wilt.
Vliegende assistent De drone bestaat uit een lichte ring waar acht propellers aan hangen. In het midden van de ring zit een roteerbare, helium bol met een geïntegreerd grijpelement. Hierdoor kan het systeem voorwerpen opzuigen en verplaatsen. Dit nieuwe staaltje technologie kan hele nieuwe mogelijkheden bieden voor toekomstige werkplekken. Zo zou de drone dienst kunnen gaan doen als rondvliegende assistent in bijvoorbeeld hele hoge gebouwen of in moeilijk toegankelijke ruimtes.
Zonder piloot Er is geen piloot of controleur nodig die het vliegende object bestuurt. De bol is voorzien van een GPS-systeem. Bovendien heeft de drone twee camera’s aan boord die de omgeving scherp in de smiezen houdt. Bij het opzuigen van objecten worden de twee camera’s ook gebruikt voor coördinatie.
CONTACT MET DE BOL IS NIET GEVAARLIJK, ZELFS NIET ALS JE ER PER ONGELUK EEN KEER TEGENAAN BOTST
De drone kan allerlei voorwerpen met verschillende vormen meenemen. Hij is zelfs in staat om meerdere objecten tegelijkertijd mee te nemen. Daarnaast is – in tegenstelling tot andere drones – contact met de bol niet gevaarlijk. Ook niet als je er per ongeluk een keer tegenaan botst.
De drone zou in hoge gebouwen goed dienst kunnen doen als assistent. Credits: Festo
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Kijk! Een gigantische spin op Pluto!
Kijk! Een gigantische spin op Pluto!
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De dwergplaneet blijft ons verrassen. Nu hebben onderzoekers weer een breukensysteem ontdekt dat lijkt op een gigantische spin.
“Het patroon dat deze breuken vormen hebben we nog nooit in de buitenste regionen van het zonnestelsel gezien en laat maar weer eens zien: waar we ook op Pluto kijken, elke keer zien we wat anders,” stelt Oliver White, lid van het onderzoeksteam dat zich op de observaties van ruimtesonde New Horizons stort.
Rood We zien zeker zes flinke breuken (op de foto hieronder worden ze met witte pijlen aangewezen) die op een centraal punt samenkomen. De langste breuk is meer dan 580 kilometer lang. Wat verder opvalt, is dat de breuken die van noord naar zuid lopen het langst zijn en de breuken van oost naar west aanzienlijk korter. Als je goed kijkt, zie je bovendien dat de breuken rode afzettingen onder het oppervlak van Pluto blootleggen.
De ‘spin’ op Pluto. Afbeelding: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI.
Druk Er zijn al meer breuken op het oppervlak van Pluto gespot. De meeste lopen parallel aan elkaar en ontstaan waarschijnlijk door het uitzetten van Pluto’s waterijskorst. De ‘spin’ die nu op beelden van New Horizons is aangetroffen, is mogelijk ontstaan doordat er op een specifieke plek onder het oppervlak – de plek waar de breuken samenkomen – druk is uitgeoefend.
De spin doet een heel klein beetje denken aan novae op Venus (zie de afbeelding hieronder). En een beetje aan de troggen die op Mercurius die vanaf een centraal punt (de krater Apollodorus) naar alle kanten uitwaaieren.
Links zie je de nova op Venus en rechts zie je iets soortgelijks op Mercurius. Afbeeldingen: NASA / JPL / USGS (Venus) en NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Carnegie Institution of Washington (Mercurius).
Wetenschap onthult hoe planeet X er mogelijk uitziet
Wetenschap onthult hoe planeet X er mogelijk uitziet
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De planeet zou een straal hebben die ongeveer 3,7 keer groter is dan de straal van de aarde. Ook is het er koud: -226 graden Celsius.
Wetenschappers van de universiteit van Bern trekken die conclusie nadat ze hun modellen die ze normaal gebruiken om de evolutie van jonge exoplaneten in kaart te brengen, op planeet X loslieten. De onderzoekers gaan ervan uit dat planeet X een kleinere versie van Uranus of Neptunus is. Dat betekent dat we met een kleine ijsreus te maken hebben die omringd wordt door waterstof en helium. Met behulp van hun modellen gingen de onderzoekers na hoe onder meer de straal en helderheid van de planeet door de tijd heen geëvolueerd is.
Straal en temperatuur Volgens de onderzoekers die in januari het bestaan van planeet X suggereerden, heeft de planeet een massa die tien keer groter is dan de massa van de aarde. Een planeet met zo’n massa zou volgens de Zwitserse onderzoekers vandaag de dag een straal moeten hebben die 3,7 keer groter is dan de straal van de aarde. De temperatuur van de planeet is ongeveer -226 graden Celsius.
Infrarood De lage temperatuur is niet heel verrassend; de planeet bevindt zich op grote afstand van de zon. De onderzoekers merken echter op dat de planeet – als we puur kijken naar de hoeveelheid zonlicht en -warmte die deze ontvangt – nog warmer is dan ze hadden verwacht. Het suggereert dat de planeet niet alleen wordt opgewarmd door de zon. Waar komt de overige warmte dan vandaan? Uit de kern van de planeet, zo vermoeden de onderzoekers. Deze kan nog jaren na het ontstaan van een planeet warmte afgeven. En die warmte kunnen we met infrarode telescopen wellicht spotten.
“Door ons onderzoek is kandidaat-planeet 9 nu meer dan een simpele massa, de planeet krijgt vorm nu we er fysieke eigenschappen aan toeschrijven,” stelt onderzoeker Christoph Mordasini. Maar ook na dit onderzoek geldt: het bestaan van planeet X blijft onbewezen. Toch kan dit onderzoek helpen om daar verandering in te brengen. Als we een beeld hebben van hoe de planeet eruitziet, wordt het wellicht gemakkelijker om een telescoop te kiezen die de planeet kan spotten. Zo wijst het onderzoek erop dat toekomstige telescopen zoals de Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (die momenteel in Chili wordt gebouwd) in staat moet zijn om de negende planeet waar te nemen. “Dat is een opwindend perspectief,” vindt Mordasini. Onderzoeker Mike Brown stelde eerder te verwachten dat planeet X – als deze bestaat –binnen vijf jaar wordt gespot.
Luke Skywalker eat your heart out! Wetenschappers hebben een planeet – een hete Jupiter – ontdekt die maar liefst drie zonnen heeft.
Wereldnieuws was het in 2011: astronomen hadden voor het eerst een planeet met twee zonnen ontdekt. Star Wars-fans wisten: science-fiction werd werkelijkheid! Want in Star Wars wordt het bestaan van dergelijke planeten al jarenlang voorspeld: Luke Skywalker himself woont immers op een planeet – Tatooine – met twee sterren. En nu bleken die planeten ook echt te bestaan.
Drie zonnen Inmiddels is het 2016 en weten we dat er ook planeten met drie zonnen bestaan. Tot voor kort waren ons slechts enkele van zulke systemen bekend. Maar nu hebben onderzoekers er weer eentje ontdekt, zo meldt het blad The Astronomical Journal.
Nog eentje! In het blad kondigen astronomen de ontdekking van KELT-4Ab aan: een planeet die deel uitmaakt van een systeem met daarin een dubbelster en een ‘enkele’ ster. De planeet draait om KELT-A en heeft ongeveer drie dagen nodig om een rondje rond die ster te voltooien. Op flinke afstand van KELT A en KELT 4Ab bevindt zich de dubbelster: deze twee sterren hebben 30 jaar nodig om een rondje rond elkaar te voltooien.
Hoe ziet dat eruit? Eerder kwamen wetenschappers al met mooie artistieke impressies op de proppen die lieten zien hoe het leven op een planeet met twee zonnen er ongeveer uit moest zien. Maar stel dat je op KELT 4Ab zou kunnen staan – wat heel lastig wordt, omdat het een gasplaneet is – hoe zou de hemel er dan uit zien? Ook vrij spectaculair. KELT A staat vrij dichtbij en zie je vanaf het oppervlak dus als een enorme ster aan de hemel staan. De andere twee sterren zijn ver weg, maar hebben vanaf het oppervlak van KELT-4Ab toch een helderheid die vergelijkbaar is met die van de maan.
Het is om meerdere redenen een bijzondere ontdekking. Ten eerste natuurlijk, omdat ons nog maar weinig planeten met drie zonnen bekend zijn. Ten tweede omdat de ster waar de planeet omheen cirkelt in vergelijking met de andere twee sterren heel helder is en het geheel vrij dicht bij de aarde staat (en dus ook heel geschikt is voor vervolgonderzoek).
Carbon Nanotube optical rectenna converts green laser light to electricity (Image Courtesy www.phys.org)
When you listen to a radio, sometimes you have to adjust your antenna to improve the signal. An “Optical Rectenna” is an antenna that processes light energy from the sun, converting it to DC current. In a recent article in PHYS.ORG, “Rectenna Converts Light to DC Current,” researchers at Georgia Tech, studying for the past six years, have created nanoscale components that convert light to DC current.
Following is a video from Georgia Tech explaining and illustrating the “Optical Rectenna.”
Other Carbon Nanotube Applications
In a recent article published by MIT News, “Dispersion of carbon nanotubes in aluminum improves radiation resistance,” aluminum used in nuclear reactors and similarly harsh industrial environments, when infused uniformly throughout with carbon nanotubes, are stronger and more durable. Could carbon nanotubes make the nuclear energy industry safer?
Graphene, Fullerenes, nanodiamonds, and carbon nanotubes (CNT) are also being considered to modify certain materials and enhance their conductivity. According to the Materials Research Society (MRS), enhancing the capacity of charge storage devices can be carried out by the use of 2-D graphene or 1-D carbon nanotubes which increase the surface area exposed to electrolytes in these devices. According to researchers at MRS, just 1% graphene or CNTs is enough to significantly improve conductivity.
MIT-Durable-Steel (Image Courtesy www.mit.edu)
In the field of biotechnology, carbon nanotubes have been wrapped in more than 20 different polymers such as DNA, RNA, and polyethylene glycol (PEG) to increase the longevity of drugs introduced into the bloodstream. These new nanotube biosensors will be used for such things as gas sensing. In a recent pre-clinical study of mice, carbon nanotubes had a positive effect on behavioral and neurochemical addiction, decreasing cravings and relapses.
In another development, integrated circuit designers are now taking advantage of the exceptional electrical properties, thermal conductivity, high mechanical integrity, and large surface area of graphite and carbon nanotubes to create materials needed to make electromechanical and electrochemical sensors that respond faster, as well as tiny transistors for processors.
In the following video, Michio Kaku discusses “The Strongest Material Known to Man.”
David Russell Schilling
David enjoys research and writing about cutting edge technologies that hold the promise of improving conditions for all life on planet earth.
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The “Gremlins” Are Coming!—Meet DARPA’s New Air-Launched Drones
The “Gremlins” Are Coming!—Meet DARPA’s New Air-Launched Drones
Several companies will attempt to make the "Gremlins" program a reality. They now have the challenge of creating a system of reusable unmanned vehicles that can launch from bigger aircraft such as bombers or jets.
PHASE 1 IS A GO
While drone technology has crept up to the civilian market, with multiple modifications made for the tech-savvy consumer, large scale drone research is still firmly in the hands of the military. DARPA is at the forefront of this, with multiple research programs into the military use of drones.
Now it’s at it again, developing another milestone for the boys in green.
DARPA has awarded Phase 1 contracts to several companies who will attempt to make the “Gremlins” program a reality. They now have the challenge of creating a system of reusable unmanned vehicles that can launch from bigger aircraft like bombers or jets.
In particular, four companies have been selected: Lockheed Martin, Dynetics of Alabama, Composite Engineering, and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems of California. The companies are tasked with using their technical genius to conjure up launch and retrieval techniques, low-cost airframe designs and develop the drones’ navigation system and digital flight controls.
Learn more about DARPA in the video below:
PACKING HEAT
The Gremlins program, revealed last year, seeks to show the feasibility of conducting safe, reliable operations involving multiple air-launched, air-recoverable unmanned systems.
The goal of the program is to have bombers or transport aircraft launch groups or swarms of reusable unmanned vehicles called gremlins for intelligence and reconnaissance purposes. When the gremlins complete their mission, a C-130 transport aircraft would retrieve them in the air, and then return to base where ground crews would prepare them for their next use within 24 hours.
Gremlins are expected to last 20 uses, and may also launch from fighters and other small, fixed-wing platforms when bombers are out of range.
Such air-launched drones are primarily a cost-reducing program, bridging the gap between missiles that are one-use only, and reusable systems that are costly to maintain. The program aims to prove that such systems could provide significant cost advantages over expendable systems, spreading out payload and airframe costs over multiple uses instead of just one.
The Gremlins program is named for the imaginary, mischievous imps whom World War II airmen blamed for the frequent mechanical woes that beset their planes.
No word yet as to what happens if you feed them after midnight.
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‘Revolutie aanstaande': Hoogleraar gaat kosmologie overhoop gooien met alternatieve zwaartekrachttheorie
‘Revolutie aanstaande': Hoogleraar gaat kosmologie overhoop gooien met alternatieve zwaartekrachttheorie
In tegenstelling tot de overige fundamentele natuurkrachten, is de zwaartekracht nooit echt verklaard. Er zijn geen elementaire deeltjes gevonden die drager kunnen zijn van deze kracht. Hoogleraar Erik Verlinde van de Universiteit van Amsterdam zorgde enkele jaren geleden voor een doorbraak in het denken over de zwaartekracht.
Verlinde gaat één dezer dagen een alternatieve zwaartekrachttheorie publiceren. Hij werkt al jaren aan een echte verklaring voor zwaartekracht, die volgens hem geen fundamentele kracht is, maar samengesteld uit andere krachten. Astronomen en fysici volgen zijn werk met argusogen.
Zijn theorie beschrijft het heelal als een soort hologram, waarbij alle informatie over massa’s op de denkbeeldige rand van het universum is geschreven. Het veranderen van die informatie geeft een weerstand als twee massa’s uit elkaar worden gehaald.
Mogelijkheden
Volgens Verlinde is de speurtocht naar donkere materie kansloos, omdat donkere materie, die geen licht maar wel zwaartekracht geeft, niet zou bestaan. Donkere materie is geen deeltje, maar extra energie die tevoorschijn komt bij het ontstaan van materie, aldus de fysicus.
Erik Verlinde (Commons)
De algemene relativiteitstheorie van Einstein, de theorie die kosmologen nog altijd gebruiken om het heelal op grote schaal te beschrijven, is volgens hem achterhaald. “De vergelijkingen van Einstein houden niet goed bij hoeveel informatie waar aanwezig is,” zegt hij.
Hij kijkt op een andere manier naar het universum en legt daarbij de nadruk op ‘mogelijkheden’. Elke mogelijkheid is een bepaalde manier om de hoeveelheid informatie in het universum te verdelen. “Al die mogelijkheden moeten in het universum behouden blijven,” zegt hij.
Aanstaande revolutie
“Ruimtetijd bestaat uit kwantummechanische mogelijkheden, uit kwantuminformatie,” stelt Verlinde. En die kwantuminformatie heeft van nature de neiging te verstrengelen, waarna het onmogelijk is om stukjes informatie nog los van elkaar te zien.
De Zuid-Afrikaanse natuurkundige Neil Turok ziet in het idee van Verlinde een voorloper van een aanstaande revolutie in de natuurkunde. Hij meent dat de deeltjesfysica inmiddels zo complex is geworden dat die op het punt staat onder haar eigen gewicht in te storten.
“Ik gooi een hoop dingen omver, dus ik wil dit goed kunnen onderbouwen,” zegt Verlinde, die in 2011 de Spinazopremie, de meest prestigieuze wetenschapsprijs van Nederland, won.
Oerknal verwerpen
Eerder trok hij de oerknaltheorie al in twijfel. “Als mijn theorie klopt, moeten we op een hele andere manier gaan kijken naar het ontstaan van het heelal,” zei Verlinde. “Misschien kunnen we dan wel zo ver gaan dat we de oerknal verwerpen.”
“Er zitten nog veel onzekere elementen in de wetten waarmee wij verklaren hoe sterren en sterrenstelsels bewegen,” ging hij verder. “We gebruiken mysterieuze termen als donkere materie en donkere energie. Dat is eigenlijk een manier om te zeggen dat we het allemaal nog niet zo goed begrijpen.”
Volgens Verlinde begrijpen we nog maar 4 procent van de energie in het heelal. Met zijn theorie hoopt hij meer duidelijkheid te scheppen over die nog onbegrepen energie en zo ook over het ontstaan van het heelal.
Multiple unidentified flying objects over Mesa, Arizona 6-Apr-2016
Multiple unidentified flying objects over Mesa, Arizona 6-Apr-2016
Check out this amazing video of a multiple UFOs hovering in the night sky above Mesa in Arizona. This happened on 6th April 2016.
Witness report:I walked into my bedroom to open my windows and saw a strange group of lights hovering low in the western sky. I’ve never seen anything like it before. I went into the kitchen and got my cellphone and went outside to try and film the event. I could see the lights out in the distance, but I have a block wall and the lights were low and close to the horizon. I climbed onto a chair to get a better view. My security lights were on and disturbed the darkness, but the lights were still clearly visible. I tried to hold my phone over my head to record the event. I watched the lights in a formation of sorts, but not really a rigid formation, there was some drifting. The lights seemed to be slowly headed away from me, towards the west. I observed an object cross the path of the lights and can’t tell if it was one of the lights or an airplane or helicopter. One light seemed to fade then came back to original brightness. I heard no sound, probably because of distance from me and I cannot estimate how far away they were. I called my daughter because the lights seemed to be in the direction of her house. She was driving at the time and did not see anything. The lights slowly faded in the distance and then were gone. I called the local FOX news station and asked if anyone else reported lights and was told no.
Ancient Advanced Technology, Self Activating Machines, Planetary Terraforming, and Anonymously Leaked Top Secret Documents, all this and more set the stage for a UFO mystery that began over 12,000 thousand years ago. Linda Moulton Howe traveled to Turkey to see first hand, dozens of 19 foot tall elegantly carved limestone pillars, erected in a series of circles, covering 30 acres, in a place called “Gobekli Tepe,” a few miles from the northern Syrian border. Carbon dating places the age of these finally crafted pillars at 12,000 years. Beginning in 1994, German Archaeologist Dr. Klaus Schmidt from the University of Heidelberg and the German Archaeological Institute, began slowly and carefully excavating the site which is dated at more than twice the age of Egypt, Sumeria and Stonehenge. Researchers are now speculating that “Gobekli Tepe,” Stonehenge and other erected stone circles, and pyramids, located around the world, could be self-activating machines left behind by non-human intelligence that have terraformed Earth for a millennia. In this program, Emmy Award-winning TV Producer, Investigative Journalist, and Author, Linda Moulton Howe, presents the latest research on “Gabekli Tepe” along with anonymously leaked document from an unknown American Scientist about commercial applications of research from extraterrestrial technology. This is one presentation you don’t want to miss.
This Friday (April 8), SpaceX is scheduled to launch a Dragon cargo spacecraft toward the International Space Station, carrying the first expandable habitat that will be occupied by humans in orbit.
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will be folded up into the trunk of the Dragon spacecraft like a parachute that is ready to be unfurled. The station's robotic arm will remove BEAM from the trunk, attach it to the Tranquility Node, and it will expand to more than five times its total compressed size in about 45 minutes.
It doesn't take a spaceflight industry expert to start dreaming about what expandable habitats could mean for future space exploration. Why not put up a dozen space stations orbiting the Earth? Humans could use them to set up colonies on the moon or Mars. What's to stop an eccentric billionaire from starting a space hotel? Robert Bigelow, founder and head of the company that made BEAM, talked to Space.com about the company's goals for the next 20 years, and the issues that stand in the way of the company's efforts to achieve them. [Bigelow's Inflatable Space Station Idea in Photos]
William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for human exploration and operations, and Jason Crusan, director of the agency's advanced exploration systems division, view the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) in its compressed form at Bigelow’s facility in Las Vegas on March 12, 2015. BEAM will expand to just over 13 feet (4.01 meters) long and 10.5 feet (3.23 m) wide once it is attached to the International Space Station.
A central limiting factor to the possible size of space-based habitats or structures is the size of the payload bay on the spacecraft that carries it up to space. Many of the American pieces of the space station were sent up in the space shuttle's bay, which was roughly large enough to fit a school bus. (Russia also took the approach of building a new spacecraft that could withstand the trip to space, and then used the spacecraft itself as a module for the station).
"Bigelow habitats are lighter and take up substantially less rocket fairing space, and are far more affordable than traditional, rigid modules," according to Bigelow press release. And for anyone worried about the safety of something that expands like a balloon in an environment that is fairly hostile to life, the company says its habitats provide "enhanced protection against radiation and physical debris" compared to metallic structures.
BEAM is built out of a proprietary "soft-goods, expandable material." The load-bearing structure is made from something similar to Vectran, a manufactured fiber made from a liquid-crystal polymer that is used in some space suits, company representatives said in last week's telecom. BEAM is covered by a Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris protection layer, which is also proprietary to Bigelow Aerospace. Company representatives speaking during a NASA teleconference in April said their structures are up to the standards set for all ISS structures.
BEAM will only have one-fifth the livable space of the station's Harmony Module — but it also only has one-tenth of Harmony's mass. When packed, BEAM can be reduced to about half of its normal width and about three-quarters of its normal length. Thus, an expandable habitat that, when compressed, was the size of the Harmony module, could expand to be even larger, thus making it possible to get bigger space habitats into orbit without having to build bigger cargo carriers.
That's what Bigelow Aerospace is currently driving at. In March 2015, NASA announced that as part of its Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) project, the agency has a contract with Bigelow to develop "ambitious human spaceflight missions that leverage its innovative B330 space habitat." The B330 is an expandable habitat with 330 cubic meters of livable space — 20 times more than BEAM and 4.5 times more than Harmony. Bigelow said that by 2021, the company will be prepared to launch up to two of the B330s. Whether or not they launch will depend on whether or not the company has a customer who wants to use the habitat, and whether or not there is an affordable way to send people there. [Inflatable Space Station by Bigelow Aerospace (Infographic)]
This early concept art shows a lunar base as envisioned by Bigelow Aerospace, which builds expandable space habitats.
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
A ticket to space
If inflatable space habitats are such a good idea, then why is Bigelow Aerospace the only company or agency that has made any significant progress toward making them?
"[Why is Bigelow the only company] that's foolish enough to do it?" Bigelow asked, finishing my question for me. He laughed, but then said, "In all seriousness, it is a leap of faith in a sense, because we have been so far out in front of everything."
Bigelow owns the hotel chain Budget Suites of America, and it was from that enterprise that he made enough money to start a company that would build expandable habitats. It was an idea that NASA had started investigating in the 1950s, according to Bigelow Aerospace's website, and it was work on expandables that led to the invention of Mylar. Ultimately, a lack of sufficiently strong, yet flexible materials stopped that line of research within the agency. Work on expandable habitats was briefly revived in the 1980s and again in the 1990s, but NASA wasn't able to keep the project alive.
Expandable space habitats are being discussed by people in both the public and the private spaceflight industry sectors — animations and artists' renditions like this one show expandable habitats playing a role in future space exploration endeavors. But, perhaps the reason no one has invested as heavily in actually building them is because a space destination is no good without a way to get there.
"Transportation has been our Achilles' heel in terms of getting into a business mode, ever since we started the company," Bigelow said.
The company struggled for years without success to get its first two in-space test habitats, Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, into orbit using U.S.-based launch options, and then spent years working to get past regulations that made it difficult to launch them via a Russian-based space travel provider. There are an increasing number of U.S.-based companies that will fly cargo into space, but Bigelow said his major concern is how humans will reach these space habitats.
Right now, the only way for humans to get to orbital space is on a Russian Soyuz capsule. NASA currently pays nearly $82 million per astronaut for space on the Soyuz.
"We would never attempt a business case based on the kind of pricing per seat that NASA is willing to pay," Bigelow said. "It wouldn't work."
"At this juncture, we are assuming that SpaceX is going to perfect its ability first, before other companies, to affordably move people to and from low-Earth orbit," Bigelow said. Affordability is "a key word," he said.
The commercial spaceflight industry is still at a tentative stage, said Jeff Greason, a co-founder of the spaceflight company XCOR, who spoke with Space.com at the SpaceCom Expo in Houston, in November 2015. He said the success and progress of transportation providers is moving forward, but "we have not yet reached the point where I think it's irreversible."
"The enterprise is much bigger than just the transportation segment. But it's all enabled by the transportation segment," Greason told Space.com. "So, if the transportation's not there, then all of the other great things we can do, which make up much more of the business, can't happen. So transportation is key."
For its habitats to succeed, Bigelow's company needs transportation, but that need is a two-way street: Transportation providers need a place to take people and cargo. The topic of space destinations was also a discussion point among experts at the 2015 SpaceCom Expo. The spaceflight community is understandably concerned about NASA's plans for supporting the International Space Station after 2024, when the agency's current commitment to maintain its side of the station ends. Having an operating laboratory in low Earth orbit provides commercial space companies with a regular customer for sending cargo and (soon) humans. It also provides a platform for space-based science, and will provide a place where explorers can prepare for more trips to other space destinations.
If Bigelow's plans stay on track, and it attracts the right customers, his company could relieve that threat by providing new laboratories in low Earth orbit. Countries without space programs or without a stake in the ISS could send astronauts to space without having to build the infrastructure that NASA and other space agencies currently have.
Bigelow said the company has "had discussions with foreign countries who have their own space agencies … for a number of years," as well as with countries who do not have their own space agencies. Already, he said, there are countries interested in using BEAM to pursue commercial activities.
Bigelow said he envisions that between 2021 and 2031, the Bigelow B330s would be added on and expanded, creating "a large conglomerate of habitats" that could be owned by different customers, or jointly owned by multiple partners. If money can be generated from those LEO destinations, Bigelow said he'd like to see that put toward lunar settlements.
"We would transition some of the client menu that we would have in LEO to folks who would want to be involved in some kind of business activity on the moon. And I think that by 2031, that's practical," Bigelow said. "We would also like to be part of a conglomerate of folks. … I see our role as perfecting our art and being able to provide habitats for deployment in different environments in conjunction with other space or nonspace folks putting companies together to promote these kinds of activities. So I don't look at it as [if] we intend to do this alone." [Inflatable Habitats: From the Space Station to the Moon and Mars?]
An artist's illustration of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), built by Bigelow aerospace, attached to the International Space Station. BEAM is scheduled to launch toward the station aboard a Dragon cargo spacecraft on April 8.
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Working with NASA
Eric Stallmer is president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF), the "industry association of leading businesses and organizations working to make commercial human spaceflight a reality," according to the CSF website. Stallmer said he's an optimist about BEAM and Bigelow Aerospace's future plans for its expandable habitats. He's also a realist, and recognizes that there are still significant challenges facing the company.
"There's a lot of elements to this, and just because the BEAM is going up, doesn't mean, you know, we're going to have a lunar base next week," Stallmer said. "I think [Bigelow is] paving the way, I think they're pioneers. … They did something that traditionally only a government could do or only a sovereign nation could do. And they did it at a fraction of the cost. And if it succeeds, it will once again prove that space doesn't have to be prohibitively expensive."
BEAM will be on the space station for a minimum of two years, where Bigelow will monitor it in order to earn NASA's approval for further human use.
"NASA is essentially the Good Housekeeping seal of approval for habitats, at this point in time," Bigelow said. "It is the prime customer that you want to satisfy. … It has a very high standard."
Stallmer said that it may also look, from the outside, as if what Bigelow Aerospace has already accomplished were simple, or that creating the habitat technology was the company's greatest challenge. But Bigelow said the number one challenge facing the company is politics.
"You have to have political permission first. You have to have the money second. If you have those two, you can create whatever technology you need," Bigelow said, perhaps referencing the company's struggles to get its Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 habitats launched.
He said that refers to politics within NASA as well as the U.S. government, and "whether or not NASA is going to be an agent for this kind of change. Or is it going to be managed by an administration whose philosophy is to thwart commercialization?
"If NASA resists, and the philosophy of our politics, of our administration, is to continue to pursue NASA as an owner instead of a consumer, instead of a tenant, if you will, then a lot of delay will occur and it won't proceed like it could have," he said. "But if NASA's philosophy is to expand commercialization, to promote it and really facilitate it — then, oh my gosh, it'll be night and day."
Editor's Note: BEAM is flying to the space station on a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, not a Cygnus spacecraft as this article previously stated.
Is Mysterious 'Planet Nine' Tugging on NASA Saturn Probe?
Is Mysterious 'Planet Nine' Tugging on NASA Saturn Probe?
by Shannon Hall, ScientificAmerican
Artist's illustration of "Planet Nine," a hypothesized world about 10 times more massive than Earth that may orbit far beyond Pluto. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
The hunt is on to find "Planet Nine" — a large undiscovered world, perhaps 10 times as massive as Earth and four times its size — that scientists think could be lurking in the outer solar system. After Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two planetary scientists from the California Institute of Technology, presented evidence for its existence this January, other teams have searched for further proof by analyzing archived images and proposing new observations to find it with the world's largest telescopes.
Just this month, evidence from the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn helped close in on the missing planet. Many experts suspect that within as little as a year someone will spot the unseen world, which would be a monumental discovery that changes the way we view our solar system and our place in the cosmos. "Evidence is mounting that something unusual is out there — there's a story that's hard to explain with just the standard picture," says David Gerdes, a cosmologist at the University of Michigan who never expected to find himself working on Planet Nine. He is just one of many scientists who leapt at the chance to prove — or disprove — the team's careful calculations.
Batygin and Brown made the case for Planet Nine's existence based on its gravitational effect on several Kuiper Belt objects — icy bodies that circle the sun beyond Neptune's orbit. Theoretically, though, its gravity should also tug slightly on the planets, moons and even any orbiting spacecraft. With this in mind, Agnès Fienga at the Côte d'Azur Observatory in France and her colleagues checked whether a theoretical model (one that they have been perfecting for over a decade) with the new addition of Planet Nine could better explain slight perturbations seen in Cassini's orbit. Without it, the eight planets in the solar system, 200 asteroids and five of the most massive Kuiper Belt objects cannot perfectly account for it. The missing puzzle piece might just be a ninth planet.
So Fienga and her colleagues compared the updated model, which placed Planet Nine at various points in its hypothetical orbit, with the data. They found a sweet spot—with Planet Nine 600 astronomical units (about 90 billion kilometers) away toward the constellation Cetus — that can explain Cassini's orbit quite well. Although Fienga is not yet convinced that she has found the culprit for the probe's odd movements, most outside experts are blown away. "It's a brilliant analysis," says Greg Laughlin, an astronomer at Lick Observatory, who was not involved in the study. "It's completely amazing that they were able to do that so quickly." Gerdes agrees: "That's a beautiful paper."
The good news does not end there. If Planet Nine is located toward the constellation Cetus, then it could be picked up by the Dark Energy Survey, a Southern Hemisphere observation project designed to probe the acceleration of the universe. "It turns out fortuitously that the favored region from Cassini is smack dab in the middle of our survey footprint," says Gerdes, who is working on the cosmology survey. "We could not have designed our survey any better." Although the survey was not planned to search for solar system objects, Gerdes has discovered some (including one of the icy objects that led Batygin and Brown to conclude Planet Nine exists in the first place).
Laughlin thinks this survey has the best immediate chance of success. He is also excited by the fact that Planet Nine could be so close. Although 600 AUs—roughly 15 times the average distance to Pluto—does sound far, Planet Nine could theoretically hide as far away as 1,200 AUs. "That makes it twice as easy to get to, twice as soon," Laughlin says. "And not just twice as bright but 16 times as bright."
And the Dark Energy Survey is not the only chance to catch the faint world. It should be possible to look for the millimeter-wavelength light the planet radiates from its own internal heat. Such a search wasproposed by Nicolas Cowan, an exoplanet astronomer at McGill University in Montreal, who thinks that Planet Nine might show up in surveys of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the pervasive afterglow of the big bang. "CMB experiments have historically used solar system giant planets to calibrate their instruments, so we know that current and planned CMB experiments are sensitive enough to measure the flux from Planet Nine if it is as bright as we think it is," Cowan says.
Already, cosmologists have started to comb through data from existing experiments, and astronomers with many different specialties have also joined in on the search. "I love that we can take this four-meter telescope and find a rock 100 kilometers in diameter that is a billion kilometers past Neptune with the same instrument that we are using to do extragalactic stuff and understand the acceleration of the universe," Gerdes says.
In the meantime Batygin and Brown are proposing a dedicated survey of their own. In a recent study they searched through various sky maps to determine where Planet Nine cannot be. "We dumpster-dived into the existing observational data to search for Planet Nine, and because we didn't find it we were able to rule out parts of the orbit," Batygin says. The zone where the planet makes its farthest swing from the sun as well as the small slice of sky where Fienga thinks the planet could be now, for example, have not been canvassed by previous observations. To search the unmapped zones, Batygin and Brown have asked for roughly 20 observing nights on the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. "It's a pretty big request compared to what other people generally get on the telescope," Brown says. "We'll see if they bite." If they do, Brown is convinced he will have his planet within a year.
"I really want to see what it looks like," says Batygin, who adds that his aspiration drives him to search for the unseen world. But Laughlin takes it a step further: "I think [the discovery] would provide amazing inspiration for the next stage of planetary exploration," he says. We now have another opportunity to see one of the worlds of our own solar system for the first time. "If Planet Nine isn't out there, we won't have that experience again."
The option to see and study the patient’s skull through 3D printing before risky surgeries allows the team to properly prepare for complicated and delicate procedures.
PARKER’S SKULL
Sometimes, a stuffy nose and a cold can’t be cured by taking your usual decongestant. In the case of Parker Turchan, these typical symptoms were the precursor to a more serious diagnosis—a rare tumor in his nose and sinuses that went through his skull and near his brain.
This type of tumor is uncommon—and in its late stage, combined with its location and size, physicians were challenged with the feasibility of removing the tumor using a minimally invasive approach. The procedure was risky and could lead to complications such as massive blood loss or damaged facial nerves.
In an attempt to find combat these challenges, the team decided to create a 3D replica of Parker’s skull made of polylactic acid. This would essentially allow the option to see and study the patient’s skull before such a risky surgery.
A POWERFUL TOOL
Dr. David Zopf. Credit: University of Michigan Health System
The model allowed the surgical team to properly prepare for the delicate procedure. It became a way for surgeons to touch the tumor with their hands, allowing them to learn the best approach to achieve their goal.
This method also allowed doctors to take the patient and family members through the procedure in detail, giving them a more in-depth look at what was going to happen during the surgery.
Now, according to his mother, 15-year-old Parker is “back to his old self again.”
This isn’t the first time the physicians at Mott have saved lives with the help of 3D printing. Groundbreaking 3-D printed splints made at U-M have helped save the lives of babies with severe tracheobronchomalacia, which causes the windpipe to periodically collapse and prevents normal breathing. Mott has also used 3-D printing on a fetus to plan for a potentially complicated birth.
“We are finding more and more uses for 3-D printing in medicine. It is proving to be a powerful tool that will allow for enhanced patient care,” says Mott pediatric head and neck surgeonDavid Zopf, M.D.
Doctors may soon be able to create a custom-made skin from your own stem cells. This could help tremendously with recuperating from injuries.
CUSTOM-MADE JOINTS
3D printing stem cells isn’t necessarily new—but being able to use the technology to custom-create cartilage in real time is particularly impressive.
The exact shape of a patient’s cartilage is unknown up until the moment that they are on the operating table and are cut open. Which means being able to print cartilage right then and there would be essential to creating custom-made joints using your own stem cells—which is exactly what the biopen can do.
BIOPEN
It functions as a 3D printer that can create surgical scaffolds, which can then be permanently hardened using ultraviolet light. You can check out the process in this video below of the biopen’s early prototype—but note that the current version has been significantly improved, as discussed in the paper published in Biofabrication.
The device (made of medical grade plastic and titanium) was the result of a collaborative effort between scientists and clinicians—the latter to identify the problem and the former addressing it by proposing a solution.
There is no word yet on when the technology will be made available for consumer use, but once it does, it also has the potential to be used in other surgeries that require custom tissue regeneration.
On the scale of the "uncanny valley," the humanoid robot registers a positive response with humans just before the dip into repulsion. Its resemblance hovers between C-3PO and Wall-E, a familiar but distinctly non-human robot.
ROBOTS GETTING FRIENDLY
There’s a point on the Uncanny Valley when a humanoid robot turns from something “friendly” into something terrifying. An example of a robot that would naturally register as non-threatening would be Star Wars‘ C-3PO. We can still differentiate between computer and human at that level. It’s familiar to us, but we know for a fact that it’s non-human.
Even though we see these robots in such a way, is it possible that we could associate them with a deeper emotional response?
Jamy Li, Wendy Ju, and Byron Reeves from Stanford University took that to the test. They took an NAO robot and programmed it for their specific experiment. What they found was that touching a robot intimately created physiological arousal in participants.
All in all, the experiment consisted of instructions that were spoken by the robot to participants. This was followed by 26 trials. There were three steps that made up each trial. First, the robot asks the participant to touch it in a certain area of its body. Next, the participant touches that body part. Lastly, the robot teaches the participant about that particular body part in medical terms.
During the trials, participants were monitored via sensors for skin conductance, levels of physiological arousal, and reaction time between command and touch.
They were able to come to this conclusion due to the participants’ hesitance in touching certain body parts. When informed to touch a common part such as the hand or neck, there was little refrain. But when told to touch a part that’s not commonly touched, such as the eyes or buttocks, their response times were greater.
PRIMITIVE BEHAVIOR
The field of communication shows that touch is a primitive behavior. It’s used as a “social glue” that binds people and communities together by building and influencing trust. “Our work shows that robots are a new form of media that is particularly powerful. It shows that people respond to robots in a primitive and social way,” stated Jamy Li.
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Physicist Discusses UFO Propulsion System and Bending of Space and Time
Physicist Discusses UFO Propulsion System and Bending of Space and Time
Have you ever wondered how aliens travel through space or how they power their crafts? If so, there’s a detailed description of this otherworldly system that has been made public by the man who presumably worked for a secret government facility dealing with replicating alien tech.
You probably remember Bob Lazar, the man who claimed to had been employed as a physicist on project Galileo – a classified program ran by the government who dealt with mirroring alien technology to their own advantage. Lazar carried out his assignment in an out-of-reach base known as area S4 that was 10 miles south of Area 51.
After lazar decided to go public, he discussed in detail about the technology the aliens were using on their otherworldly crafts. In the following lines I’ll highlight the explanation given by Bob Lazar for the space-time manipulation used by ETs to travel across the universe:
“Assuming they’re in space, they will focus the three gravity generators on the point they want to go to.
Now, to give an analogy: If you take a thin rubber sheet, say, lay it on a table and put thumbtacks in each corner, then take a big stone and set it on one end of the rubber sheet and say that’s your spacecraft, you pick out a point that you want to go to – which could be anywhere on the rubber sheet – pinch that point with your fingers and pull it all the way up to the craft.
That’s how it focuses and pulls that point to it. When you then shut off the gravity generator[s], the stone (or spacecraft) follows that stretched rubber back to its point. There’s no linear travel through space; it actually bends space and time and follows space as it retracts.
In the first mode of travel – around the surface of a planet – they essentially balance on the gravitational field that the gravity generators put out, and they can ride a “wave”, like a cork does in the ocean. In that mode they’re very unstable and are affected by the weather.
In the other mode of travel – where they can travel vast distances – they can’t really do that in a strong gravitational field like Earth, because to do that, first of all, they need to tilt on their side, usually out in space, then they can focus on the point they need to with the gravity generators and move on.
If you can picture space as a fabric, and the speed of light is your limit, it’ll take you so long, even at the speed of light, to get from point A to point B. You can’t exceed it – not in this universe anyway. Should there be other parallel universes, maybe the laws are different, but anyone that’s here has to abide by those rules. “
The graphic below presents a part of the propulsion system. According to Lazar, the three divisions below the hull have a particular characteristic – they are curved. Other than this, each of these three sections have different spacing from the wave generators, meaning that the focal lengths are different, thus the shape of the generated wave will also be different after passing through the lenses.
For every different angle the waves pass through the hull, a distinctive effect of refraction will occur to the wave. If the craft then uses the two outer generators to combine their microwave-beams at a defined point in the distance, it would lock-in to that point and get carried out by the gravitational pull.
So, you may be wondering how this complex mechanism is powered, and here is the answer – Element 115, a super heavy element presumably found on other planets from binary star systems. According to Lazar, the alien craft uses 223 grams, cut to a triangular shape, within the reactor structure. He furtherly explains the powering process:
“Inside the reactor, Element 115 is bombarded with a proton which plugs into the nucleus of the 115 atom and becomes Element 116, which immediately decays and releases, or radiates, small amounts of antimatter.
The antimatter is released into a turned tube which keeps it from reacting with the matter that surrounds it. It is then directed towards a gaseous matter target at the end of the tube. The matter and antimatter collide and annihilate, totally converting to energy. The heat from this reaction is converted into electrical energy in a near 100% efficient thermoelectric generator…”
If Bob lazar is correct, the US government could already possess a replicated alien system that could bend time and allow for interstellar travel. However, the “alien element” needed to power the system is missing and can only be found in other parts of the universe. It’s speculated that continuous attempts to imitate element 115 are being made by the government, and the numerous space probes sent into space also have a secret mission to discover alien compounds that would ultimately lead to an era of “space conquering” by the human race.
If this plan will go in our favor we are yet to find out, but due to the recent gravitational wave discovery and other significant progress in science it’s likely that the hour of disclosure will come sooner rather than later. (source)
Phobos: The Ultimate Ancient Alien Outpost Beyond Earth
Phobos: The Ultimate Ancient Alien Outpost Beyond Earth
In 1960, Dr. S. Fred Singer, special advisor to President Eisenhower on space developments said: Phobos, generally accepted as a celestial body, actually may be an artificial satellite launched long ago by an advanced Martian race.
In our solar system, there are three moons that have caused quite a debate among researchers in the last couple of decades: Earth’s Moon, Mars’ moon Phobos and Jupiter’s Europa.
Earth’s moon has been heavily questioned in the last fifty years because of the numerous mysteries behind it. Dr. Robert Jastrow, the first president of NASA’s Commission of Lunar Exploration called the moon “the Rosetta Stone of the planets.” many people who firmly believe that Earth’s moon is actually a terraformed and engineer piece of hardware that has a 3-mile thick outer layer of dust and rocks. Beneath this layer, it is believed that the moon has a solid shell of around 20 miles made of highly resistant materials such as titanium, uranium 236, mica, neptunium 237. Definitely, elements that you would not expect to find “inside” the moon. Robin Brett, a scientist from NASA perhaps described the moon in the most accurate way possible when he said that: “It seems easier to explain the non-existence of the Moon than its existence.”
Jupiter’s moon Europa is another mysterious one. According to researchers, the best place to look for extraterrestrial life is there. According to statements from Dr. Kevin Hand, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the search for alien life could prove to be fruitful in the next planned mission to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moon which could hold the ultimate evidence proving we are not alone in the universe.
During an event at the Royal Institution, Dr. Hand outlines that our understanding of Earth’s oceans has taken us a long way, teaching us how alien oceans on other planets or moon, could prove to be potentially habitable environments, and within our solar system, the best shot would be Jupiter’s moon Europa.
And while the previous two moons are really interesting, the most mysterious moon in our solar system is without a doubt Phobos, Mars’ anomalous companion. In fact, many scientists consider Phobos as an artificial satellite which simply put, should not be orbiting mars at all.
There are numerous things which are totally odd when we look at Phobos. First of all, the moon is hollow, it isn’t a solid celestial object like many scientists believed in the past. In fact, according to research performed by the European Space Agency, Phobos’ interior is filled with ‘cavernous, geometric rooms … right-angle walls … and floors — detectable via the semi-regular ‘structure of the returning, interior radar echoes …’ as they were impressed upon the reflected MARSIS signals …’” In other words, that isn’t the typical structure you would find in a moon. As a matter of a fact, the origin of Phobos still remains a mystery and many believe that this small Martian satellite was in fact placed into orbit by ‘someone’ in the distant past.
Phobos has remained a mystery ever since its discovery in 1877, and even today, we are still unsure what the moon is made of. Phobos is the closest moon to its planet in the entire solar system, orbiting Mars at a distance of just 6,000 kilometers above its surface, a fact that has caused numerous scientists to question its origin and purpose.
Last year, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission made numerous close approaches to Phobos:
“Among the data returned were spectral images of Phobos in the ultraviolet,” NASA explained. “The images will allow MAVEN scientists to better assess the composition of this enigmatic object, whose origin is unknown.”
According to NASA, „Comparing MAVEN’s images and spectra of the surface of Phobos to data from asteroids and meteorites will help scientists understand whether the moon is “a captured asteroid” or was formed in orbit around Mars.“
Interestingly, previous studies found that there is evidence of organic molecules on the surface of Phobos, adding to the mystery of this mysterious Martian satellite.
Without adding anything else we have two very interesting details about Phobos: First of all, no other moon in the solar system is known to have a similar interior filled with ‘cavernous, geometric rooms … right-angle walls … and floors, and it is one of the first moons to show evidence of organic molecules on its surface.
But the mystery behind Phobos is far more enigmatic than anyone imagined. In fact, when the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft was mapping the small moon of Mars, Phobos, and sent its incredible images from the small, potato-shaped moon back to Earth satellite ufologists had a field day speaking about the mysterious structure that was clearly visible on the surface of Phobos. There in plain view, a large rectangular object undoubtedly resembling an artificial monolith stands alone. Nothing in the vicinity has a similar shape or size, so the question is, what is it? What is its purpose? And who placed it there?
Rumors about the object became so intense that famous “Buzz” entered into the debate. Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the surface of the moon, surprised many by saying, “We should visit the moon of Mars, there’s a monolith there, a very unusual structure on this little potato shaped object that revolves around Mars once every seven hours. When people find out about that they are going to say, “Who put that there? Who put that there?” Well, the universe put it there, or if you choose God put it there.’
Interestingly, the theory that Mars’ moon Phobos could, in fact, be an Ancient Alien Satellite was proposed over 50 years ago. In 1960, Dr. S. Fred Singer, special advisor to President Eisenhower on space developments made headlines when he commented Phobos saying: The Martian moon Phobos, generally accepted as a celestial body, actually may be an artificial satellite launched long ago by an advanced Martian race.
According to rense.com, Dr. Singer backed a claim first made by the Soviet astrophysicist Shklovsky. The Russian scientist’s announcement that Phobos was a hollow, artificial satellite, proving the existence of a Martian civilization, set off heated arguments among astronomers. Shklovsky based his decision on a long study of Phobos’ peculiar orbit, which other astronomers have noted. The Russian claim has calculations and those of earlier astronomers prove Phobos cannot possibly be an ordinary moon.
Three years after the incredible statement by Dr. Singer, Raymond H. Wilson Jr., Chief of Applied Mathematics at NASA stated that “Phobos might be a colossal base orbiting Mars.
NASA states we will discover Alien Lifeforms in the next 20 years
NASA states we will discover Alien Lifeforms in the next 20 years
According to statements from NASA, it’s very likely that we will discover Alien Lifeforms in the next 20 years. NASA firmly believes that there are literally 100 MILLION planets within our galaxy that could host life as we know it.
A team of American scientists from NASA has stated that its ‘increasingly likely that Alien life will be found in the next 20 years’. According to an article posted on NASA’s website, new research tools will show that ‘discovering Alien life is within reach’.
“I think in the next 20 years we will find out we are not alone in the universe,” NASA astronomer Kevin Hand said during a panel discussion at NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.
But.. do researchers know something we don’t know? According to Hand, there is ‘growing evidence’ that indicates that at least some sort of Alien lifeforms may be found in our solar system with Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, being one of the most likely places due to its massive amounts of water, which could prove to be an ideal pool for life.
NASA is definitely stepping up it’s Alien search as they have announced plans to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite and James Webb Space Telescope in 2017, new technologies that will work together with existing technology in the search for habitable, Earth-like planets located in our cosmic neighborhood, the Milky Way.
“Just imagine the moment, when we find potential signatures of life. Imagine the moment when the world wakes up and the human race realizes that its long loneliness in time and space may be over,” added Matt Mountain, director and Webb telescope scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
But NASA.. do you know something we don’t?
Why is NASA so confident we will find Alien life in our own Galaxy?
“Sometime in the near future, people will be able to point to a star and say, ‘That star has a planet like Earth’,” said Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Astronomers think it is very likely that every single star in our Milky Way galaxy has, at least, one planet.”
Looking at these predictions, we see that NASA firmly believes that there are literally 100 MILLION planets within our galaxy that could host life, having the necessary conditions for life as we understand it. This, however, doesn’t take in count all other worlds which have completely different characteristics, and maybe in one of those countless worlds, life could develop opposite to what we think it needs to exist.
“What we didn’t know five years ago is that perhaps 10 to 20 percent of stars around us have Earth-size planets in the habitable zone,” Mountain said during the panel discussion. “It’s within our grasp to pull off a discovery that will change the world forever.”
In an interview to the Express, Dr. Hand said: “We may be able to discover if there are signs of organic or possible life on Europa.”
“Images show there could be possible life on Europa.”
Location:between Poreč and Novigrad, Croatia Date:end of july (not sure about the concrete day, maybe between 18th and 29th) 2011, between 9 and 11 p. m. Submitted by Mirka
Witness report: between Poreč and Novigrad – end of july (not sure about the concrete day, maybe between 18th and 29th) 2011, between 9 and 11 p. m.
Triangular shape, 3 ligthening points (yellow), weird moves. 9 – 11 p. m. I sat on the beach and for 15 or 20 minutes stared at that “thing” over the sea. Few minutes it was just “hangin” on one place, than it started to move really weird way, but still was the triangular shape. I don´t remember how it disappeared, I was like hypnotized… There were many people on the beach, I´m sure, someone saw the same…
I´m sorry I have no photos – like I said, I was like hypnotized and wasn´t thinkin´ about taking photos (and if I would, I´m sure it wouldn´t work – my cell phone in that time had very bad camera).
A witness at Pell City in Alabama reported observing a large, black, cylinder-shaped UFO and videotaping it as it hovered over a highway.
According to the witness, he was driving eastbound on I-20, just west of Pell City at two minutes past twelve noon on October 21, 2015, when the UFO was observed over the interstate.
The witness then pointed his camera to the strange aerial object and tried to record the sighting. In his estimation, the object is around 80 feet long and about 300 feet off of the deck. The witness observed it approximately from two miles of the interstate before passing underneath it.
The witness could not see any windows of the object, which appeared to be stationary.
The wife of the witness was travelling less than 10 minutes behind him but wasn’t able to identify the object as it had moved away by that time.
The witness reported his sighting to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and included a video that shows the UFO briefly near the end of it. He also submitted a still image from the video that clearly shows the bizarre thing. MUFON field investigator Michael Haynes close the case as unknown after an investigation.
Here’s one new interesting video of a huge unidentified flying object that was hovering near International Space Station on 5th April 2016.
Witness report:After switching to the NASA ISS live stream channel a clearly defined UFO appeared in the upper left hand corner, above the horizon. I was able to take a total of 4 screenshots before the UFO disappeared completely from sight. Gauging that it accelerated away in the same direction the ISS was travelling in, the speed had to be in the tens of thousands of miles per hour. Each screenshot shows the NASA meter on the bottom which exemplifies the speed from a standstill of the UFO to when it is just a bluish dot in the distance. Unfortunately, the screenshots, while clearly showing a UFO in two of the frames, does not compare to what I saw on the 480p resolution (highest resolution offered on the live stream) 42″ screen I was watching it live on. It was so unquestionably real and present. NASA cut the live feed after my last screenshot (the 4th frame in which the UFO had completely disappeared) and the live feed was left down for nearly an hour. The UFO appeared near the ISS at 1:21 p.m. central European time, 5 April 2016.
Here’s a new daytime footage of an unidentified flying object that was seen and filmed over a ranch in Puebla, Mexico. This happened on 3rd April 2016.
This day in UFO History: 1966 Westall Incident: The Unresolved Mystery
This day in UFO History: 1966 Westall Incident: The Unresolved Mystery
Whether UFOs have been around longer or no existence at all, the truth is always out there. Most people do not consider the facts right in front of their recorded history. When Roswell came out in 1947, the perception of people towards the mysterious object is alien visitation. In fact, they consider it as one of the most significant stories. However, when the Westall incident occurred, it immediately gained attention, making it as one of the most witnessed and greatest sightings ever recorded in the history.
The 20-minute Westall encounter took place in April 6, 1966, exactly 50 years ago, in Australia. Around 11.00 am, they were completing a sports activity when a grey saucer-shaped spacecraft object with a slight purple color was spotted. More than 200 students and teachers allegedly witnessed the mysterious flying object, about twice the size of a family car, descending in an open grass field. The paddock was adjacent to pine trees are known as the nature reserve today (The Grange back then). According to the reports, the object ascended in a northwestern direction over the suburbs of Clayton South, Australia. Where the saucer shaped craft had landed in a circle, no one knows if it completely landed. What is certain is it disappeared 20 minutes after.
The police have spoken to some adult witnesses, and an unscheduled assembly by the headmaster of the school was declared to that effect. The school reminds the students that the alleged object was not an extraterrestrial vessel, but a man-made weather balloon. They also told the students not to share the story with anyone. A science teacher Andrew Greenwood was visited by the officers who threatened him not to say anything. Otherwise, he is discredited. Despite popularity, the press was minimal, but since The Dandenong Journal interviewed many people, it ended up as a front page story.
Although witnesses reported the mysterious aircraft, investigators were unable to find any record. As for the Moorabbin Airport, no aircraft entered the airspace during that time.
International Space Station: Facts, History & Tracking
International Space Station: Facts, History & Tracking
By Tim Sharp, Reference Editor
The International Space Station, as photographed by crewmembers aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2010.
Credit: NASA
The International Space Station (ISS) is the most complex international scientific and engineering project in history and the largest structure humans have ever put into space. This high-flying satellite is a laboratory for new technologies and an observation platform for astronomical, environmental and geological research. As a permanently occupied outpost in outer space, it serves as a stepping-stone for further space exploration. This includes Mars, which NASA is now stating is its goal for human space exploration.
The space station flies at an average altitude of 248 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. It circles the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17,500 mph (28,000 kph). In one day, the station travels about the distance it would take to go from Earth to the moon and back. The space station can rival the brilliant planet Venus in brightness and appears as a bright moving light across the night sky. It can be seen from Earth without the use of a telescope by night sky observers who know when and where to look. You can use our Satellite Tracker page powered by N2YO.com to find out when to see the space station.
Five different space agencies representing 15 countries built the $100-billion International Space Station and continue to operate it today. NASA, Russia's Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities (Roscosmos), the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are the primary space agency partners on the project.
Structure
The International Space Station was taken into space piece-by-piece and gradually built in orbit. It consists of modules and connecting nodes that contain living quarters and laboratories, as well as exterior trusses that provide structural support, and solar panels that provide power. The first module, Russia's Zarya module, launched in 1998. The station has been continuously occupied since Nov. 2, 2000.
Starting in 2015, changes to the ISS were performed to prepare the complex for crewed commercial spacecraft, which will begin arriving as early as 2017. Two international docking adapters will be added to the station. Additionally, an inflatable module from Bigelow Aerospace is scheduled to arrive in 2016.
Current plans call for the space station to be operated through at least 2020. NASA has requested an extension until 2024. Discussions to extend the space station's lifetime are ongoing among all international partners; several countries, such as Canada, Russia and Japan, have expressed their support for extending the station's operations.
During the space station's major construction phase, some Russian modules and docking ports were launched directly to the orbiting lab, while other NASA and international components (including Russian hardware) were delivered on U.S. space shuttles. [Rare Photos: Space Shuttle at Space Station]
How big is the International Space Station?
The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 861,804 lbs. (391,000 kilograms), not including visiting vehicles. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional five-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, gym facilities and a 360-degree bay window. Astronauts have also compared the space station's living space to the cabin of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
The BEST TOUR of the International Space Station (1080p, 60fps)
A six-person expedition crew typically stays four to six months aboard the ISS. The first space station crews were three-person teams, though after the tragic Columbia shuttle disaster the crew size temporarily dropped to two-person teams. The space station reached its full six-person crew size in 2009 as new modules, laboratories and facilities were brought online.
Also in 2009, the record for the largest gathering in space was set during NASA's STS-127 shuttle mission aboard Endeavour. When Endeavour docked with the International Space Station, the shuttle's seven-person crew went aboard the orbiting lab, joining the six spaceflyers already there. The 13-person party was the largest-ever gathering of people in space at the same time. While subsequent NASA shuttle and station crews matched the 13-person record, it has never been topped. [Related: The Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records]
With a full complement of six crewmembers, the station operates as a full research facility. In recent years, technology such as 3-D printing, autonomous Earth imaging, laser communications and mini-satellite launchers have been added to the station; some are controlled by crewmembers, and some controlled by the ground. Additionally, there are dozens of ongoing investigations looking at the health of astronauts staying on the station for several months. [Related: Weightlessness and Its Effect on Astronauts]
Crews are not only responsible for science, but also for maintaining the station. Sometimes, this requires that they venture on spacewalks to perform repairs. From time to time, these repairs can be urgent — such as when a part of the ammonia system fails, which has happened a couple of times.
Spacewalk safety procedures were changed after a potentially deadly 2013 incident when astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet filled with water while he was working outside the station. NASA now responds quickly to “water incursion” incidents. It also has added pads to the spacesuits to soak up the liquid, and a tube to provide an alternate breathing location should the helmet fill with water. NASA is also testing technology that could supplement or replace astronaut spacewalks. One example is Robonaut. A prototype currently on board the station is able to flip switches and do other routine tasks under supervision, and may be modified at some point to work “outside” as well. [Infographic: Meet Robonaut 2, NASA's Space Droid]
If the crew needs to evacuate the station, they can return to Earth aboard two Russian Soyuz vehicles docked to the ISS. Additional crewmembers are transported to the ISS by Soyuz. Prior to the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet in 2011, new space station crewmembers were also ferried to and from the station during shuttle missions. In 2017 or so, NASA expects to replace most Soyuz flights with SpaceX's crewed Dragon spacecraft and Boeing's CST-100.
Crews aboard the ISS are assisted by mission control centers in Houston and Moscow and a payload control center in Huntsville, Ala. Other international mission control centers support the space station from Japan, Canada and Europe. The ISS can also be controlled from mission control centers in Houston or Moscow. [Photos: Space Station's Expedition 32 Mission]
The ISS hosted its first one-year crew in 2015-16, with NASA's Scott Kelly and Roscosmos' Mikhail Kornienko, which drew international attention and acclaim. The agencies have expressed interest in running more one-year missions in the future, but have not made a commitment to date.
Surprise! Gigantic Black Hole Found in Cosmic Backwater
Surprise! Gigantic Black Hole Found in Cosmic Backwater
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
The immense black hole at the center of the galaxy NGC 1600 appears to be 17 billion times the mass of the sun. This computer-simulated view shows a supermassive black hole at a galaxy's core.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (Space Telescope Science Institute)
One of the biggest black holes ever found sits in a cosmic backwater, like a towering skyscraper in a small town.
Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole containing 17 billion times the mass of the sun — only slightly smaller than the heftiest known black hole, which weighs in at a maximum of 21 billion solar masses — at the center of the galaxy NGC 1600.
That's a surprise, because NGC 1600, which lies 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, belongs to an average-size galaxy group, and the monster black holes discovered to date tend to be found in dense clusters of galaxies. So researchers may have to rethink their ideas about where gigantic black holes reside, and how many of them might populate the universe, study team members said. [The Strangest Black Holes in Space]
"The black hole is much bigger than we expected for the size of the galaxy or where this galaxy lives, the environment," said study co-author Chung-Pei Ma, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley.
"That's the puzzling part — or the intriguing part — of the result," she told Space.com. "There may be more NGC 1600s out there lurking at more ordinary sites, like small towns in the U.S. rather than Manhattan."Ma is head of the MASSIVE Survey, a multitelescope effort that began in 2014 to identify and catalogue the most massive nearby galaxies and black holes. NGC 1600 first showed up in the survey with data from the McDonald Observatory in Texas.
The galaxy NGC 1600 is much larger and brighter than its peers, and harbors a black hole with a mass 17 billion times that of the sun, a new study suggests. NGC 1600 is the large elliptical galaxy at this image's center, also shown in the inset.
Credit: NASA, ESA, Digital Sky Survey 2
Although the initial observations weren't detailed enough to see the spectrum of light from the galaxy's center clearly, Ma and her colleagues could already tell that they were looking at something extraordinary: "It was a little bit like looking at a hurricane from very far away," she said. "We couldn't quite tell how big this hurricane was, this black hole was, but the hurricane was so big that we already started to feel the wind using this coarser data."
Suspecting they had spotted a very large black hole, study team members next investigated the elliptical galaxy using the northern half of the Gemini Observatory, twin telescopes situated in Hawaii and Chile. Gemini allowed them to probe the black hole's "sphere of influence," Ma said — the region where the black hole's mass held more sway than the overall galaxy's, where it was whipping the stars into action. They also scoped out the site with data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
The stars "were going so fast that the only way they could be travelling at this speed is if you had a 17-billion-solar-mass black hole at the center," she said.
The largest supermassive black hole ever found contains up to 21 billion times the mass of the sun, and resides in a more expected location: the incredibly dense Coma Cluster, which includes more than 1,000 identified galaxies. (For comparison, the black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way totals around 4 million solar masses.)
The black hole in the Coma Cluster resides in a galaxy surrounded by bright peers, but NGC 1600 outshines its neighboring galaxies by at least a factor of three. NGC 1600's black hole takes up about 2 percent of its galaxy's mass — which is about 10 times larger than black holes at the center of their galaxies are expected to be.
Small black holes can form when massive stars collapse. The enormous ones at the centers of galaxies likely grow so large by taking in a lot of dust and debris early on in their lives and by colliding and merging with other black holes, which occurs when two galaxies combine.
"The way we understand how galaxies and black holes grow to such high masses is from how galaxies form," Ma said. "Typically, we believe they form by emerging galaxy collisions, or cannibalism — they collide together, like the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy: we are approaching each other, and we're going to collide one day. So we are going to form a bigger galaxy, and the two individual black holes of the progenitor galaxies would come together to form a bigger black hole." [Watch: Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collision Simulated]
So the biggest galaxies are often formed from several smaller galaxies that merged, whose corresponding black holes have merged as well. A more crowded cluster of galaxies creates favorable conditions for extremely large black holes to form, it seems — but NGC 1600 is in a much sparser area.
"One possibility for how to get a big mass is maybe NGC 1600 had eaten up its friends," Ma said. "It gobbled up its friends, and during the process it acquired their black holes — maybe it got to be so big at the expense of its friends."
That could explain the unusually empty neighborhood around NGC 1600.
Alternatively, the black hole could have been in a region of the universe that had a lot of gas early in its life, Ma said.
"The universe contained a lot of gas when it was younger," she said. "Maybe it got really, really big when the galaxy was very young."
If that were the case, Ma added, the black hole could have grown to its current size without ever residing in a more densely populated area.
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Black holes are so bizarre, they sound unreal. Yet astronomers have found good evidence they exist.
Possibly twins
Besides probing the mysteries of its location, the researchers are zeroing in on the condition of the black hole itself — or, potentially, the black holes themselves.
When two galaxies merge, their central black holes circle each other, getting closer and closer until they combine into one. The researchers' observations suggest that the black hole at NGC 1600's center might actually be two in the process of merging, or one that very recently merged.
The key insight there is that, while the galaxy shone brightly with starlight, the center seemed unusually empty. Such large galaxies usually have cores that are correspondingly bright, Ma said.
"The way I like to say it is, for some reason, the stars seem to be scared of the very center; they somehow don't want to get very close," she said. "Right now, the most elegant way to explain the existence of this scoured-out region is by binary black holes."
Stars that are too distant to be directly pulled into such a system can still be heavily influenced by it. The dynamics of a system with two supermassive black holes at its center are such that approaching stars whip around and are accelerated outward, fleeing the system and forcing the black holes to move a tiny bit closer to one another, Ma said. Each star has little effect, but over time, the black holes are drawn closer and closer together — and eventually coexist in a ring where most nearby stars have been flung away.
Researchers can't currently tell if the system is still two black holes or has already merged into one. But NGC 1600 could be a prime candidate for scientists who study gravitational waves to scrutinize, Ma said: Gravitational waves would be generated by black holes that are still circling and colliding, but not by ones that have already combined.
Everywhere?
Avi Loeb, chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University, called the new work an exciting discovery.
"It would be interesting to find more black holes of this mass range and check whether this is an outlier or typical case," Loeb, who was not involved in the study, told Space.com in an email.
"The fundamental question is, which environmental conditions nurture the growth of the most massive black holes?" he said. "We would love to know the answer to that question through future studies like this one."
Loeb added that the NGC 1600 black hole's size makes it a good target for the Event Horizon Telescope, a coalition of nine telescopes around the world that will work together to image black holes.
Study team members hope to further investigate NGC 1600 with the Hubble telescope to get a better look at its core and pin down the black hole's mass more precisely, and they will continue to learn about the distribution of large black holes via the MASSIVE study.
Sparsely populated parts of the galaxy are much more common than the superdense areas where the largest black holes have been found so far. So, if black holes this large are common in such areas, too, NGC 1600 might just be "the tip of the iceberg," Ma said. MASSIVE should reveal just how common the huge bodies are, and expand researchers' understanding of the beasts, she added.
"I'm confident we're going to find black holes — if we don't, that would be really, really strange — but the question is going to be … how massive can these black holes be? Is 17 billion, 20 billion [solar masses] where they stop growing? Or could there be even bigger monsters out there we haven't found?"
De Brit Jadon Beeson (20) was op zijn smartphone livebeelden van het ISS aan het bekijken, toen hij plots een vreemde ontdekking deed: er leek een UFO naast het ruimtestation te vliegen. De jongeman stuurde de beelden meteen door naar NASA. "Het leek een beetje op de Millennium Falcon uit Star Wars", getuigt Beeson.
"Ik zag dat er een metalen object boven de aarde zweefde. Het had een blauwe gloed en het bleef daar ongeveer twee minuten hangen", zegt Jodan Beeson, die toevallig naar livestream van het ISS aan het kijken was. "Het lijkt een beetje op de Millennium Falcon uit Star Wars of iets uit 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind", aldus Jodan.
De man uit het Britse Worcestershire stuurde de beelden onmiddellijk door naar NASA, maar voorlopig heeft hij nog geen antwoord ontvangen. Uit de beelden valt voorlopig niet op te maken om welk ruimtetuig het zou kunnen gaan. Ook de grootte van het tuig valt moeilijk in te schatten.
Nu er alsmaar meer satellieten en sondes de ruimte worden in gestuurd, krijgt NASA steeds vaker UFO-meldingen binnen.
Something strange has been spotted hovering close to the International Space Station and it's raising a few eyebrows.
Whispers of 'UFO' have begun to circulate after images appeared of the unidentified object on the horizon of the space station.
The images were captured by Jadon Beeson, 20, as he watched the live stream from the ISS on his phone.
Images have emerged of an unidentified object spotted close to the International Space Station (pictured top left above the horizon). The images were captured by a member of the public from a live stream from the ISS
'I looked and realised there was a metal object above the earth. It had a blue glow to it and it stayed there for about two minutes,' he explained.
'It was a metallic object, it looks like a Millennium Falcon from Star Wars or something from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'
'I thought it was all very strange,' he added.
Beeson, from Stourport-on-Severn in Worcestershire, sent the images to the agency for its take.
The object (pictured on the horizon in the upper left part of the image) looks to be cigar-shaped, with a blueish hue on one end that matches the upper atmosphere, and looks to have a band in the middle of the object
It has been described as resembling something from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (still pictured), the Stephen Spielberg Hollywood sci-fi hit from the 1970s
THE UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Images have appeared of an unidentified object close to the International Space Station.
It looks to be cigar-shaped, with a blueish hue that matches the upper atmosphere, and appears to have a band in the middle.
It resembles similar objects spotted previously which were also captured on video.
The images were captured by Jadon Beeson, as he watched the live stream from the ISS.
'I took a picture of it and have contacted Nasa, but I've heard nothing back yet,' he explained.
From the images, the object looks to be cigar-shaped, with a blueish hue on one end.
This hue matches the upper atmosphere, and the craft appears to have a band in the middle of the object.
It resembles similar objects that have been spotted previously, and which have also been previously captured on video.
MailOnline contacted Nasa for comment on the images but is yet to hear back from the space agency.
The skies above are becoming increasingly busy, with communications and research satellites collecting and relaying data for modern life.
Jadon Beeson, who captured the images, described the unidentified object as resembling the Millennium Falcon, the infamous smuggler's star ship from Star Wars (pictured)
The object reportedly appeared out of nowhere and disappeared (still pictured), but there is no accompanying footage from the live stream for context, its identity and its origin remain a mystery. However, it resembles similar objects which have been spotted previously, and which has been previously captured on video
CYNIC'S CORNER: IS IT A UFO?
In the true sense of the word, this is an unidentified flying object.
The images were captured by a member of the public during a live stream from the ISS, but there is no sequence for the images, and no accompanying video for context.
It could perhaps be a satellite, the Chinese space station, orbiting debris or even light refracting in the upper atmosphere.
Of all of these, the most worrying would be space debris, which poses a very real threat for astronauts working in space.
And finally, there's the possibility the images have been edited.
All of which remain unconfirmed.
This fact, added with the high-quality streaming footage from the space station means such sightings of unidentified objects are becoming increasingly common.
In addition to the ISS and fleet of satellites, one of the larger objects in permanent orbit is the Chinese Tiangong space station, which is cigar-shaped with solar panels.
There is no indication yet what the object is, it's composition or how far away it is from the space station, making it difficult to gauge it's size.
It is also not possible to tell whether the images have been edited in any way.
One possibility is that it could be space debris, a growing problem in the Earth's uppermost atmosphere.
There are estimated to be more than 20,000 items of space junk currently trapped in Earth's orbit, including old engine parts, dead satellites and other floating junk generated by space missions or from collisions in space.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'The ISS seems to be a magnet for UFO activity. In the past couple of years alone, several UFOs have been seen during the broadcast of live feeds by Nasa from the ISS, and in at least one other instance the feed was quickly switched off. This fuels the belief of conspiracy theorists that Nasa is covering up these visitations.
'In this case it is difficult to know what this, it could be anything from space junk, a satellite or even a lens flare or reflection. We would need far better evidence to determine if it was an alien spacecraft.
'That's the problem, any object or flick of light out there is given as proof that extraterrestrial craft are monitoring our planet, and are keeping an eye on the ISS at a distance.
'One other thing to bear in mind is this, if aliens are interested in the ISS why do they appear on Nasa's live TV feeds? Surely by now they would have developed efficient cloaking devices to make themselves invisible to human eyes and technology. But, that would take all the fun out of UFO spotting.'
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Des officiers de police examinent une zone de brûlure sur une route après le décollage d'un ovni observé par des témoins, à South Hill (Virginie), le 21 avril 1967.Photo Agence Martienne
Depuis les années 70, le Centre national d’études spatiales recueille les récits d’ovnis. En décortiquant leur structure, le sociologue interroge : ces histoires fantastiques sont-elles la dernière incertitude que nos sociétés rationnelles se permettent encore ?
Arnaud Esquerre : «Les récits extraterrestres seraient une variation moderne des histoires de fantômes»
Arnaud Esquerre nous a habitués à s’intéresser aux sujets les plus étranges. Il a consacré sa thèse aux sectes, étudié les prédictions de fin du monde, l’astrologie ou l’incinération. Parce qu’il y a «une excitation à aller là où personne ou presque ne vous a précédé», explique-t-il. Mais aussi parce qu’il aime réfléchir aux enjeux théoriques et généraux à partir d’objets «méprisés». Avec son nouveau livre, déroutant, Théorie des événements extraterrestres (Fayard), le sociologue spécialiste du langage ne déroge pas à sa règle. La réalité de l’existence des petits hommes verts n’est pas son sujet. Ni même de savoir si les témoins qui assurent avoir vu des lumières clignotantes dans le ciel affabulent. Si Arnaud Esquerre étudie les récits extraterrestres, c’est pour mieux comprendre comment on raconte des histoires.
Pourquoi donc vous intéresser aux récits de ceux qui disent avoir vu des événements extraterrestres ?
Depuis les années 70, un petit département du Centre national d’études spatiales (Cnes) collecte les récits de ceux qui disent avoir vu des choses inexplicables dans le ciel. Une vingtaine d’enquêteurs sur tout le territoire sont chargés d’élucider ces phénomènes mystérieux, qui peuvent faire aussi l’objet d’une enquête de gendarmerie. Ces récits d’événements extraterrestres n’avaient pas été étudiés en sociologie et en anthropologie, parce qu’ils sont rendus anonymes. J’ai analysé la structure commune d’environ 1 500 témoignages [recueillis] entre 1952 et 2012 et tenté de dégager ce qui caractérisait le «genre» de ces récits extraterrestres - littéralement ce qui est extérieur au domaine terrestre. En travaillant sur ces énigmes et ces enquêtes, je me suis inspiré de ce qu’avait fait Luc Boltanski pour les romans policiers et les romans d’espionnage (1).
Première découverte : les récits d’événements extraterrestres obéissent eux aussi à la même structure narrative…
Comment, depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, des gens qui ne se connaissent pas, ne vivent pas au même endroit et parlent parfois à plusieurs décennies de distance en arrivent-ils à raconter un récit construit de la même manière ? Il n’existe pourtant pas de version originale du récit extraterrestre, une matrice qui aurait été copiée par ses versions successives et expliquerait que leur forme soit si stable.
On pourrait penser que si les témoignages se répètent, c’est que la chose vue est la même : la soucoupe volante. Or les descriptions du phénomène observé sont extrêmement variées : une forme, une lumière ou les deux à la fois ; du rouge, du blanc ou du vert ; des formes triangulaires, des cigares, des disques ou des carrés.
Ce qui est commun à la grande majorité de ces récits, c’est leur structure : ils sont brefs et chronologiques, décrivent d’abord une situation routinière. Les témoins regardent le ciel et voient quelque chose qui, en général, ne fait pas de bruit. Soudain, la chose se soustrait à leur vision. A la fin de leur récit, ils cherchent à donner des gages de sérieux : «Je tiens à dire que je suis sain d’esprit», «je ne bois pas», «je ne crois pas aux extraterrestres». Les témoins demandent aux gendarmes et aux enquêteurs du Cnes d’apporter une explication à ce qu’ils ont vu. Alors que l’anthropologie a toujours mis l’accent sur l’apparition, comme celle de la Vierge ou des fantômes, la particularité des récits d’événements extraterrestres est que leur point culminant se trouve justement dans la disparition de l’objet. S’il restait visible, on comprendrait ce qu’il est.
Selon vous, c’est donc la forme du récit plus que la chose vue qui explique que soient regroupés dans la même catégorie «extraterrestre» des événements qui n’auraient sinon rien à voir entre eux ?
Exactement. Le terme d’ovni est «culturellement disponible» et permet de donner une appellation à une chose mystérieuse. On peut ainsi se demander pourquoi l’agence spatiale a longtemps collecté les récits d’agriculteurs rapportant la présence de traces au sol - souvent des cercles ou des disques dans un champ - qui n’ont a priori aucun lien avec le ciel.
Parmi tous les témoignages que vous avez étudiés, certains, plus rares, ne respectent pas la même trame…
L’un d’entre eux est assez connu. Il y est question de l’enlèvement d’un homme par un ovni, dans les environs de Cergy-Pontoise, en 1979.
Mais c’était un canular…
Contrairement à ceux qui ont vraiment fait l’expérience de l’événement extraterrestre, les auteurs de ces récits non vécus utilisent des procédés littéraires : des flash-back ou des effets d’anticipation. Ils contiennent des détails qui n’ont rien à voir avec l’énigme, supposés rendre le récit plus crédible, comme lorsque les romanciers usent de «l’effet de réel» et ajoutent des détails pour faire plus «vrai».
Justement, de quel genre littéraire se rapprocheraient les récits extraterrestres ?
On les associe généralement aux récits de science-fiction où apparaît un engin volant, comme ceux de Jules Verne par exemple. J’ai relu ces récits et ça ne collait pas. Je n’y retrouvais jamais l’énigme qui était au cœur des témoignages que j’étudiais. Dans la science-fiction, il y a du suspense - que veulent les extraterrestres ? - ou des enjeux de pouvoir. Mais il n’y a pas de doute sur ce qu’on a devant les yeux une fois les extraterrestres identifiés.
Les récits vécus se caractérisent au contraire par une incertitude sur la chose même qui est perçue. Cette hésitation est une caractéristique du genre fantastique, c’est même la définition qu’en fait l’historien Tzvetan Todorov : le récit fantastique ouvre sur une incertitude qu’on n’arrive pas à lever. On peut alors rapprocher les récits extraterrestres des histoires de fantômes et d’esprits, où l’on aperçoit quelque chose, sans trop savoir quoi.
Je fais une hypothèse : les récits d’événements extraterrestres seraient une variation structurelle des histoires de fantômes plus anciennes. Or celles-ci ne sont jamais étudiées, aujourd’hui, en France. Ce n’est pas un sujet pris au sérieux, il est donc renvoyé à d’autres systèmes de pensée. Les fantômes auraient bien leur place chez les animistes, pas dans notre société entrée dans l’époque des Lumières.
Notre société «rationnelle» s’autoriserait-elle davantage à croire aux ovnis, des apparitions plus technologiques et «scientifiques», qu’aux fantômes ? Cela expliquerait pourquoi des gendarmes et une agence spatiale enquêtent sur des phénomènes extraterrestres…
On peut en effet se demander pourquoi des enquêtes sont ouvertes sur ces récits étranges. Il n’y a pas de crime ni d’affaire d’argent ou de sexe. A l’origine, les investigations s’intégraient dans le contexte de la guerre froide, mais la guerre froide est terminée et les enquêtes continuent. En réalité, elles sont toujours liées à la sécurité et à la surveillance du territoire. L’agence spatiale classe les témoignages en fonction de leur étrangeté. Un point lumineux fixe est un cas de faible étrangeté. Les points lumineux qui se déplacent de manière non linéaire sont classés dans le niveau d’étrangeté le plus élevé. Un grand nombre d’affaires sont résolues : l’objet non identifié se révèle être une lanterne thaïlandaise ou un météore. Dans les années 90, les rayons lasers des discothèques ont suscité beaucoup de témoignages.
Reste de l’inexpliqué…
Ce qui ne veut pas forcément dire que le phénomène est inexplicable en soi. Mais l’incertitude est consubstantielle au récit même : il faut envisager qu’il est des expériences vécues qui ne peuvent être rapportées que de manière fantastique. Pourquoi ne pas accepter de vivre dans un monde où l’on pourrait raconter des histoires dans lesquelles on ne sait pas ce qui s’est passé ? «Certaines choses dans le voir nous paraissent énigmatiques parce que le voir dans son ensemble ne nous paraît pas assez énigmatique», écrit Wittgenstein. Nous sommes habitués à une sorte de routine visuelle, et dès que quelque chose s’en détache, cela nous trouble. L’énigme, dans nos sociétés européennes, est renvoyée à la littérature, au cinéma… à l’œuvre. Pas au récit de choses vécues. Le fantastique redonnerait pourtant de la poésie au monde.
Date of sighting: March 26, 2016 Location of sighting: Alexandria, Virginia, USA Source: MUFON #75524
This UFO was reported today on MUFON and the eyewitness states they spotted the object while on the train. Excellent capture, even though he only had a few seconds to get the photos. If you live in Alexandria and have seen this UFO, please let us know in comments below. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Eyewitness states: On Saturday March 26, 2016- I was exiting the Huntington Metro garage on the Huntington Ave side (lower Huntington Metro) when coming down the ramp across from Fenwick Dr. when I glanced up and saw a strange silver/grey object hovering off in the distance seemingly over the area of the highway/Eisenhower ave/ Duke st. I could not tell its exact size but it was large and stationary ( it did not lower or raised as I watched it). I noticed that the sky was partly cloudy but the top of the object was reflecting sunlight or radiated its own light. As I was watching the item, a couple came up to me and said that they had first spotted the object form the metro train as they came into Eisenhower station. The wife stated that her husband did not see any type of tether and ask me did I see one. I said I did not as we watched it hover, then spin on its axis and I saw the attachment just under its “nose”. It was slightly curve and reddish in color. I took out my cell phone and snap off a couple of pictures. I then quickly cross Huntington ave and made my way towards Huntington Park, which took me know more than 5 minutes. I lost sight of the object so I crossed the length of the park still not spotting it. I made my way to the banks of Camron Run/ Huntington Creek, looked and saw nothing. I stood there for about 10 minutes before I left and went on my way. The pictures are nice and clear but the object to far away for the phone to get a better picture. Blow-up you can see the attachment better.
Fifty years ago, soon-to-be president and then-representative Gerald R. Ford changed the conversation about UFOs in a very permanent way. In 1966, a growing number of reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects were coming out of Michigan. Naturally, people were concerned. Being the representative of the state’s 5th District, Ford shared their concern and called upon congress to conduct a “congressional inquiry” into the matter.
And he wasn’t shy about taking on the problem. UFOs were getting a lot of media attention and Ford didn’t shy away from a spotlight. He issued a pre-hearingpress release making the case for government transparency and calling out a prominent astronomer.
Ford is not satisfied with the Air Force explanation of the recent sightings in Michigan and describes the “swamp gas” version given by astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek as “flippant”
Ford proposed that either the Science and Astronautics Committee or the Armed Services Committee of the House schedule UFO hearings and “invite testimony from both the executive branch of the government and some of the persons who claim to have seen UFO’s.” Politically speaking, he was all in.
Now, it’s important to remember that this is 1966. We’re talking Cold War, post-Cuban Missile Crisis, hide-under-your-desks-in-the-event-of-a-nuclear-attack America. This stuff wasn’t funny. It was weird and frightening. When Ford called for a formal congressional inquiry, he lent a degree of credibility to loose rumors, but he also calmed public panic. His commitment to transparency on the parts of the Air Force and the government sent a clear message: The government won’t hide hard truths.
Amateur photo of "purported UFO" by George Stock in Passaic, New Jersey, 1952
Ford didn’t get his congressional inquiry, but he did get a major report from the University of Colorado Boulder and the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, which was responsible for investigating UFO sightings.
This Project Blue Book investigation lasted a little over three years before it was terminated in 1969. According to a fact sheet distributed by the US Air Force to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, “The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;” a review of the University of Colorado’s report by the National Academy of Sciences; past UFO studies and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during the 40s, ‘50s, and ‘60s.”
So what did the report find?
Between 1947 and 1969, Project Blue Book had 12,618 reports of UFOs, 701 of which were deemed “unidentified.” Many were explained away as meteorological events, classified test flights, weather balloons and things of that nature. Those that remained unidentified apparently lacked sufficiently compelling evidence to keep Project Blue Book afloat.
The distributed US Air Force document goes on to state:
“As a result of these investigations and studies and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project BLUE BOOK are:(1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as “unidentified” represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as “unidentified” are extraterrestrial vehicles.”
Even after the Air Force hung up its tin hat, though, civilians continued investigations into UFOs. Today, organizations like MUFON exist to catalog and track UFO sightings.
As we become increasingly convinced of the probability that we’re not alone in this universe, the investigation of unexplained events and UFO sightings seems more urgent and more credible than ever before.
There’s reason to think that without Ford’s willingness to risk his reputation on an insistence that UFO sightings be investigated, there may not have been an investigation or a report at all. Ford gave the witnesses behind these sightings credibility and drew attention to need for an explanation, no matter how vague.
Though there was never a formal congressional hearing, Ford’s push for transparency from the government and the military was an important move, and had everyone from politicians to mailmen thinking about UFOs seriously.
Whether or not we have the “whole truth” is still a matter that conspiracy theorists and those who want to believe are ready and willing to debate. Any way you spin the flying disc, though, the original man who wanted to believe just might’ve been Gerald R. Ford.
Photos via George Stock and Swedish Military and George Stock, Passaic, New Jersey, 1952
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Fighters of the U S air force was shot down UFO 2016 ! Two Unidentified Aerial Pheno
Fighters of the U S air force was shot down UFO 2016 ! Two Unidentified Aerial Pheno
Fighters of the U S air force was shot down UFO 2016 !!! | Night Vision – Two Unidentified Aerial Pheno A Sphere flies by like a roller coaster, then a Sphere flashes a bright light! My night vision footage wouldn’t upload to YouTube, it did not recognize the format. To upload, I record my footage off my computer. I hope this problem is resolved soon.
Otherworldly UFOS Rain Down On Indiana USA!!? WATCH THIS ASAP!! 2016
Otherworldly UFOS Rain Down On Indiana USA!!? WATCH THIS ASAP!! 2016
Otherworldly UFOS Rain Down On Indiana USA!!? WATCH THIS ASAP!! 2016 Becky Lewis Caught 3-28-16 just after sunset in the western sky, I caught these objects. The first clip shows two objects, second clip, searching for the objects (which I may not see and you do), Third clip, ANOTHER separate object which COULD BE a plane but behaves very strangely. YOU DECIDE.
Alabama cylinder UFO caught briefly on witness video
Alabama cylinder UFO caught briefly on witness video
An Alabama witness at Pell City reported watching and videotaping a large, black, cylinder-shaped UFO hovering over a highway, according to testimony in Case 71724 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness pulled this still image from the video. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness was driving eastbound along I-20 just west of Pell City at 12:02 p.m. on October 21, 2015, when a large, black, hovering object was noticed over the interstate.
“I whipped out my camera and tried to record it,” the witness stated.“I estimate the object to be around 80 feet long and approximately 300 feet off of the deck. I observed it for about two miles of interstate before passing underneath it.”
The witness described the object.
“I could not see any windows or features to the object, and it appeared stationary.”
The witness asked his wife if she saw the object as she was traveling behind him.
“My wife was traveling less than 10 minutes behind me and was not able to positively ID the object as it had moved away by then.”
The witness included a short video of the object and a still image taken from the video.
Cropped and enlarged version of the still frame taken from the witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
“I looked at what I had recorded and did a screen grab of the object zoomed in. I will attach both files. Unfortunately, the video makes it appear much smaller than what I was observing. Anyways, I don’t know what it was, thought maybe you would be interested.”
The object is hard to see in the video and is only briefly captured near the end. The still frame taken from the video shows the object very well.
Alabama MUFON Field Investigator Michael Haynes investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
Pell City is a city in St. Clair County, Alabama, population 9,565. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
TOP 5 Mysterious UFOs WORLD WIDE!!! DID YOU SEE THIS? NEW UFO NEWS 2016
TOP 5 Mysterious UFOs WORLD WIDE!!! DID YOU SEE THIS? NEW UFO NEWS 2016
TOP 5 Mysterious UFOs WORLD WIDE!!! JUST IN~SHOCKING TRUTH 2016 Blake and Brent Cousins Go Over UFO Evidence Including Weather Phenomenon HARRP, CERN Experiments, Just INTO Thirdphaseofmoon It’s A Wild RIDE!
The fact that Hitler had assistance from an alien species is something thats been on all our minds. Obviously some of that assistance was military strategy. The worst thing about this is if Hitler was working with aliens, then he is still alive and will never die due to their technology. If he is still alive, then he can still be hunted down on this planet or another. This reminds me of a Star Trek episode...Storm Front, where the reptilians are helping the Nazis, I'll put a video at the bottom for you to compare it. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: In today’s episode of Exonews TV, William Tompkins reveals an astonishing secret acquired by U.S. Navy spies embedded within Nazi Germany’s advanced technology projects during the World War II – the Nazi war effort was being assisted by extraterrestrial visitors. The spies had reported to a covert Naval Intelligence operation, located at Naval Air Station San Diego, that Adolf Hitler had signed a secret agreement with representatives of a Reptilian extraterrestrial race. In today’s newly released ExoNews TV interview, Tompkins reveals how “Reptilian consultants” were helping the Nazi SS develop advanced weapons technologies In the interview, Tompkins discusses the Reptilian consultants helping the Nazis: They had, if you want to call them, “consultants”, who are Reptilian consultants assisting on all of these different things that it takes to design and build these spacecraft carriers, and propulsion systems. So this is an extremely well developed program and documented like crazy. Getting copies of the documents was hard for them, hard for our spies. This was an open program in the upper level of the SS.
PC Alan Godfrey UFO Witness on BBC Breakfast Time TV Show - Nov 1980, Interview, UFO Sighting News.
PC Alan Godfrey UFO Witness on BBC Breakfast Time TV Show - Nov 1980, Interview, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 1980 Location of sighting: West Yorkshire, England This police officer was abducted by aliens back in the 1980s and was hypnotised to help him remember the event. Its a historical case and we can learn a lot about it. Many people, some of which are readers here, have had interactions with aliens, and either don't know it, or recall it too well. These individuals need to come forward, and make a video about what happened to them. Telling their story is part of the healing process. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: The 1980 Alan Godfrey case is the main abduction case that Gary has researched in depth. He thinks this case is important because as well as Godfrey’s testimony, there are several independent witnesses that saw something strange in the sky at the same time in the local area. Timeline of Alan Godfrey’s experience. On November 28th, 1980, Alan was in his patrol car in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. He was sent to check out reports of cattle wandering around a local council estate. He saw a bright light in the road ahead and thought it was a bus. As he got closer, though, it became clear that this was not the case. He found himself looking at a rotating object, hovering over the road. He sketched the craft in his notebook. There was a burst of light and he found himself driving further along the road with no sign of the UFO. He returned to the police station and later found that he was missing about twenty-five minutes of time. The sole of one of his boots was split and he had an itchy, red mark on his foot. Later, he would undergo hypnotic regression, where it emerged that he was taken from the car and led onto the craft. Here, he saw robot-like creatures and a humanoid wearing a black skull cap. Gary has studied the video tapes of Alan’s hypnosis session and has concluded that they were well conducted. Alan was not lying. He had nothing to gain from making up his story and, indeed, his experience has had a negative effect on his life. Gary would also point to one pioneer of abduction research, the late Dr John Mack. Mack had concluded that many abductions go back to 'the victims’ childhood. Alan Godfrey had spoken of seeing a blue ‘tennis ball’ in his room as a child. Others have reported these blue orbs both in their bedrooms and other places, such as while driving. As a police officer, Gary was interested in evidence, and this case has so much of it!
A low-flying aircraft, described by witnesses as similar to a "cargo plane", was spotted over Whitleigh while a second UFO was sighted flying over Stoke
SEPARATE sightings of an unidentified flying object shooting across the Plymouth skyline have left two residents speechless - and air traffic controllers baffled.
A low-flying aircraft, described as a "cargo plane" by witnesses, was first spotted shortly after 7pm on Monday night hovering above a row of houses in Whitleigh.
Less than three hours later and locals in Stoke reported seeing an "out-of-this-world" spaceship with "bright, white lights" shifting from left to right at high speed.
Air traffic controllers, meanwhile, say there were no known planes flying over the city at the specified times.
Vicky Liu
Two UFOs were spotted by Herald reader Vicky Liu earlier this week flying over Morrisons
Ian Shepherd, who reported the Stoke sighting, said: "I thought it was a plane at first, but it was moving way too fast to be something from this world.
"It was travelling from left to right, left to right. It was so quick, it was like it was teleporting across the sky.
"It was so far away, it was hard to say what it was exactly, but it was football-shaped and had this light that changed from being constant and white to blinking and rusty-like. It was copper-coloured.
"It was such a clear sky that there was no way anyone could miss it. It was definitely not a drone, it was too quick and bright for that and it definitely wasn't a plane.
"I don't care what people might say, that was a UFO."
Earlier in the evening, witnesses described a "silent" aircraft flying just inches above a house on Taunton Avenue in Whitleigh.
A local resident, who has asked not to be named, said he was with his cousin and a friend when the 'plane' flew overhead.
"I thought it was going to hit a chimney," he said.
"It turned on its side and it was literally inches away from hitting these houses. The strange thing was, I couldn't hear any engines or jets.
"It was silent. It passed over us so quickly that I didn't manage to get a picture, but all three of us saw it.
"I was shocked. I even reported it to the police using their non-emergency number, but they didn't know what it was."
A Ministry of Defence spokesman confirmed there were no military flights scheduled in Plymouth on Monday night, though a Cornish man photographed what he claims was a NATO spy plane circling over St Austell on Tuesday morning.
Paul Beauchamp, of the National Air Traffic Services, gave some hope to conspiracy theorists, however, after failing to rule out the two sightings.
"We have had a look at our logs for Monday night and there are no reports which match this type of activity," he explained.
"However, we handle traffic in a controlled air space and, for Plymouth, that starts at around 14,000ft. Any reports of aircraft flying near housing is too low for us to monitor.
"We cannot categorically say what it was these two people saw."
Masses of people have taken to social media to find out answers, and there have been an assortment of sugegstions as to what the strange sight might have been.
From cargo planes to drones with LED lights attached, no conclusion has yet been reached.
Tish Curran said on Facebook: "It flew past my house in Wotter, was quite low as could see it out the window."
And Nina Carter commented: "I saw the low flying plane last night when I was working in Ernesettle at about 7, it flew over Tamerton creek heading towards the Tamar Bridge, I thought it was a military aircraft too."
However Aaron Barrett offered an alternative. He said: "Sorry to disappoint but it was my drone I had some new LED lights attached."
Did you see either 'UFO'? Contact The Herald newsroom on 01752 293100 or email news@plymouthherald.co.uk
UFOs seem to blip out or instantly vanish over Ontario, Canada.
UFOs are reported across the globe on a daily basis, and it’s often the same thing — a circular object shines brilliantly in the sky, and then, instantly, it disappears.
Of course, if an advanced civilization in a far off galaxy had the technology to cross the far reaches of space, we might assume the pilots of those spacecraft could also have a cloaking device or hyperspace afterburners, like you might see in your favorite science fiction movie.
A sighting last month in Ontario, Canada, posted to YouTube, delights viewers’ eyes and lives up to every expectation of a close encounter, except in one respect: It probably isn’t real.
We generally don’t comment on anonymous UFO reports posted on social media. However, this one seems to illustrate an important point, and you might keep this in mind the next time you think you see an ET’s spacecraft.
The eyewitness, known only from his V-For-Victor (V4V) YouTube channel, claims that he saw through his bedroom window, “three bright objects in the sky hovering beside each other in a strange formation.”
V4V decided to videotape the objects after they began to blink randomly, disappear and reappear in the same spot. The following 13-second video shows some of this activity.
The incident is under investigation by MUFON, an international UFO research organization that collects UFO reports and attempts to come up with credible explanations for those sightings.
MUFON is not related to any academic organization, nor are their internally trained investigators required to have advanced degrees in science.
The first problem with this submission, of course, is that we don’t know the identity of the eyewitness.
MUFON claims it withholds a submitter’s personal information to save that person the negative attention that might come from claiming to see a UFO.
That’s understandable. Nobody wants to be dismissed as a kook. Still, that means we know nothing about this person’s credibility, mental health or sobriety at the time of the incident. He or she might simply be a prankster.
In this particular case, HuffPost reached out for more information to V4V, who didn’t respond to our request.
The YouTube posting does provide some background, at least.
“I have no idea how high and how far away the UFOs were,” V4V says. “[They] looked very large. I did not hear strange noises or any aircraft engines ... The color of the UFOs was a yellow/orange, almost like car lights.”
But we don’t know exactly when the incident took place because the witness’ post contains conflicting information, and there are no corroborating witnesses.
His written report begins with: “Filmed with a iPad Air 2, on Feb. 19, 2016.”
Yet, just below that, where the incident description actually unfolds, it says: “OnFeb. 21, 2016, at around 5:50 PM, I witnessed 3 UFOs hovering outside.”
So, did this take place on Feb. 19 or Feb. 21?
A Holland-based YouTube channel, FindingUFO, presents information, news and videos about dubious UFOs, submitted by people from around the world. The channel added some visual enhancements to the Canada video, in the following attempt to better clarify the UFOs in this story:
Some of the comments on the YouTube page of the original report support the eyewitness’ testimony of capturing something very unusual in the sky.
Others weren’t so kind, suggesting the UFOs were simply window-reflected lights.
HuffPost showed the video and written report to Marc Dantonio, a video and image specialist of FX Models, who uses advanced software tools in his photo analysis work.
“Interesting video,” Dantonio emailed HuffPost. “However, I noticed something peculiar when the objects vanish in the ‘sky.’ I say ‘sky’ that way because, in my opinion, they were very likely not in the sky at all. I could see, at one point in the video, the edge of a window. I believe we are seeing lights reflected in a window, and the ‘winking out’ is just the light becoming blocked in the room, and thus, no longer reflecting in the window.
“The right-hand light goes out top to bottom. It’s like someone slid a piece of paper or cardboard down in front of the lights one by one. In my opinion, we are looking through a window and viewing light reflections that were extinguished manually, one by one.”
We’re not saying this is what V4V did. We’re just keeping the dialogue open.
UFOs? Maybe They’re Just...
Sky Lanterns Mistaken For UFOs
Chinese or sky lanterns are often misidentified as UFOs. These three were part of a large group of lanterns that was the main event of the 2013 Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in Taiwan on Feb. 24, 2013.
Kentucky UFO -- Oct. 16, 2012
Amateur astronomer Allen Epling captured video and images of a cylindrical object in the sky above his Virgie, Ky., home on Oct. 16, 2012. This is one of the images he took, which led many to believe the object was a high-flying solar balloon.
Manufactured UFO -- 2011
Pictured is a quad copter -- a deliberately manufactured UFO created by special effects wizard Marc Dantonio for a National Geographic special, "The Truth Behind: UFOs," which aired in December 2011. On the left is what the small device looks like resting on the ground, measuring 4 feet in circumference. At right, is how it appeared behind a tree in the night sky.
Boomerang UFO composite images -- 10-5-12
This is a composite of images shot by two eyewitnesses of a boomerang-shaped UFO they reported seeing over their Burbank, Calif., home on Oct. 5, 2012. Mutual UFO Network photo/video analyst Marc Dantonio concluded the object was likely "a balloon, floating on the wind that has collapsed in half."
Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2013
This is a composite image of how three alleged UFOs maneuvered about in the sky over Melbourne, Australia, in early February, 2013. The final verdict isn't in yet on whether they're birds, aircraft, balloons, bugs or something truly unidentified.
Exploding Weather Balloons, Not UFOs
On Dec. 20, 2012, a bright, circular object (pictured at the top of this composite image) was videotaped exploding in the skies above Sacramento, Calif. It wasn't immediately identified, resulting in speculation that it was either an alien spacecraft, military top secret weapon, runaway planet, North Korean satellite, among others. Within a short period of time, it became apparent that this was a weather balloon. The bottom part of this image shows such a balloon as it ascended over Tampa Bay, Fla., on July 2, 2012, and exploded in an identical manner as the Sacramento object, probably much to the dismay of all true ET believers out there.
Weather Phenomenon
Some UFO sightings may be due to a natural phenomenon known as sprites, like this one shown from 2006. "Lightning from [a] thunderstorm excites the electric field above, producing a flash of light called a sprite," said geophysicist Colin Price.
Clouds
Clouds: Saucer-shaped or "lenticular" clouds that form at high altitudes have been confused with UFOs.
Meteors
Meteors: Space debris can create a spectacular light show when it burns through the Earth's atmosphere, and sometimes reported as UFOs.
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NASA Scientist speaks out: There’s someone else on the moon
NASA Scientist speaks out: There’s someone else on the moon
It seems that it isn’t a question anymore whether or not there are mysterious ‘Alien’ structures on the moon. In the last couple of years, numerous scientists with verifiable background have come forward speaking about a sinister truth behind Earth’s moon.
Ever since the Freedom of Information Act was created, people have become aware that not all what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ is made public. We are talking about the numerous discoveries that have been made throughout the years and have been kept safely away from society.
One of the best comments about this secrecy was made by Neil Armstrong when he said that there are: “great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of the truth’s protective layers.” (source) (source)
The Freedom of Information Act allows full or partial disclosure of highly classified –previously unreleased—information and archives controlled by the Government of the United States of America.
In the last couple of years, a number of scientists working for NASA have come forward speaking about Earth’s moon and the mysteries associated with it. For example, George Leonard, A NASA scientists in charge of photo analysis obtained several extremely ‘controversial’ images from the moon, published in his book called Somebody Else Is On The Moon.
Even though the images featured in the book are of a relatively poor quality and small size, they display some incredible features of original massive prints belonging to NASA.
To back his claims up, Leonard even published the identifying code numbers belonging to the original images in his work, however, this was still not enough to say for certain whether or not the images are real, and the poor quality of the images makes it even harder to believe.
However, what is perhaps even more interesting than the images and their respective identification codes are the statements made by Leonard and his verified NASA credentials.
Leonard was yet another NASA employee who had spoken out about what was found on the moon, which is seen in some of the images taken during the Apollo missions. In his book, Leonard argues that NASA has known about extraterrestrial activity on the moon and have ever since, attempted to hide the information from the general public. Leonard wasnt the only one to make such claims.
“Read the books, read the lore, start to understand what has really been going on, because there is no doubt that we are being visited. . . . The universe that we live in is much more wondrous, exciting, complex and far-reaching than we were ever able to know up to this point in time. . . . [Mankind has long wondered if we’re] alone in the universe. [But] only in our period do we really have evidence. No, we’re not alone.” – Dr. Edgar Mitchell, ScD., former NASA astronaut and the 6th man to walk on the moon.
In 1979 Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA Communications Systems confirmed that Armstrong had indeed reported seeing two UFOs on the rim of a crater. “The encounter was common knowledge in NASA,” he revealed, “but nobody has talked about until now.”
According to Armstrong, unofficially, “We were warned away.” “I cannot go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology. They were great … and threatening “.
Many people firmly believe that not all of the images released by NASA are the actual originals taken on the moon, and many believe this is because the original images of the moon reveal structures and artifacts that would cause pandemic among the general public. Many believe that there are hundreds of images from NASA that have been altered in order to hide structures, moon bases, and artifact that prove there is an Alien presence on the Moon. NASA scientists Dr. Farouk El-Baz described this the best way possible when he stated that “not every discovery has been announced to the public”.
In addition to Leonard and several former astronauts who have spoken out about Alien life, another interestingl claim comes from Dr. John Brandenburg who was the Deputy Manager of the Clementine Mission to the Moon The mission discovered water at the Moon’s poles in 1994. (source)
In an interview, Dr. Brandenburg —who spoke out about the fact that Life on Mars existed in the distant past— said the following:
“It was (the Clementine Mission) a photo reconnaissance mission basically to check out if someone was building bases on the moon that we didn’t know about. Were they expanding them?”
“Of all the pictures I’ve seen from the moon that show possible structures, the most impressive is a picture of miles wide recto-linear structure. This looked unmistakably artificial, and it shouldn’t be there. As somebody in the space defense community, I look on any such structure on the moon with great concern because it isn’t ours, there’s no way we could have built such a thing. It means someone else is up there.” (source)
Dr. Brandenburg made extremely interesting statements about Mars when he said that “there is enough evidence to prove that at least two major nuclear blasts went off on the surface of the red planet in the distant past.”
The theory proposed by Dr. Brandenburg is based on the traces of uranium and thorium that have been registered on the surface of Mars. This Martian civilization was wiped out by another hostile alien race from elsewhere in the universe. Dr Brandenburg warns that our civilization could face the same faith.
All of the above statements are clear indications of one thing: Extraterrestrial contact, on a global scale, is inevitable.
Officially, NASA and scientists around the globe have spoken out about aliens, and how they expect we will discover signs of extraterrestrial life in the next 20 years or so. However, many people believe these statements are a mere preparation for a disclosure movement that is going to change everything we beleived about mankind, our origin, and life in the universe.
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12 Of The World’s Most Mysterious Photos That Cannot Be Explained… Or Can They?
12 Of The World’s Most Mysterious Photos That Cannot Be Explained… Or Can They?
Pretty much anything can be faked now days… I mean anyone with good photography skills, or a copy of Adobe Photoshop can do it. Anyways, these photos and occurrences are some of the most famous unexplained photos on the internet.
I can probably bet that you’ve come across some of these at one time or another. While some of these unexplained photos have still yet to be concluded 100% as fake, some have been completely debunked… Check them out below.
1. BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE MYSTERY
The story:
“Legend has it that in orbit around the Earth is a mysterious, dark object which dates back perhaps 13 000 years. Its origin and purpose are inscrutable, dubbed the “Black Knight” this elusive satellite has allegedly been beaming signals towards the Earth and inspected by NASA astronauts yet only a few on Earth officially know of its existence.
“The origin of the ominous name is part of the enigma; it is impossible to discover who first called it this or indeed why. Humans have only in the last 60 years had the technology to launch a man-made object into space so what is the logical explanation of tales of an alien intruder on our doorstep?
Possible explanation: some people think it’s a thermal blanket that had been lost during an EVA….. or just some space debris.
2. THE MYSTERIOUS HINTERKAIFECK MURDERS
The story:
“In Germany, 1922, the murders of six people at the Hinterkaifeck farmstead shocked the nation. This wasn’t just because of the gruesome nature of the case, but also because the case was so incredibly weird, and it remains unsolved to this day. Over 100 people were interviewed in the murder, but no one was ever arrested. No motive was ever established as to explain the murders.
“The previous maid had left 6 months earlier, saying the home was haunted. The new maid arrived only hours before the murders. It is believed that the perpetrator(s) remained at the farm for several days – someone had fed the cattle, and eaten food in the kitchen: the neighbours had also seen smoke from the chimney during the weekend. This photo depicts one of the victims as he lay in the house barn.
Possible explanation: The photo really isn’t unexplained, the events did happen and the photo taken you see above is authentic…. What’s unexplained is the events that led up to it, and how it all went down. You can read more about it here.
3. THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
The story:
“The Phoenix Lights were a series of widely sighted unidentified flying objects, seen by 1000s of people, observed in the skies over Arizona, Nevada in the United States, and Sonora, Mexico on Thursday, March 13, 1997.There were allegedly two distinct events involved in the incident: a triangular formation of lights seen to pass over the state, and a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area.
“The lights were reported to have reappeared in 2007 and 2008, but these events were quickly attributed to (respectively) military flares dropped by fighter aircraft at Luke Air Force Base and flares attached to helium balloons released by a civilian.
Possible explanation:a squad of A-10 fighters that dropped flares, and was confirmed by the Phoenix News Times back in 1998…. However, many people still believe it’s UFO’s
4. SOLWAY FIRTH ASTRONAUT
The story:
“Jim Templeton was in a marsh taking photos of his young daughter and after getting them developed there appeared to have been a Spaceman in full astronaut gear standing behind her. Except there wasn’t anyone else around while they were there. Even Kodak verified that it was not tampered with.
Possible explanation: Check out the photo below
5. THE FALLING BODY
The story:
“As the Cooper’s move into their new home in Texas, they take a photograph of the family sitting together, but as the photo is taken, a body falls from the ceiling.
Possible explanation:Photos like these were common in the 1950’s since people re-used film quite a bit back then due to it being so expensive. It’s most likely a photo overlay.
6. PHANTOM THUMB
The story:
“A group of four kids posing for a picture, however, there appears to be a mysterious thumb next to the kid in black on the right, that does not seem to align with anyone’s body.
Plausible explanation: a 5th boy ducking under everyone not in sight of the picture…. or some trick photography and Photoshop.
7. BATTLE OF LA
The story:
“A photo published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942 has been cited by modern day conspiracy theorists and Ufologists as evidence of an extra-terrestrial visitation. They assert that the photo clearly shows searchlights focused on an alien spaceship; however, the photo was heavily modified by photo retouching prior to publication, a routine practice in graphic arts of the time intended to improve contrast in black and white photos.
“Los Angeles Times writer Larry Harnish noted that the retouched photo along with faked newspaper headlines were presented as true historical material in trailers for the film Battle: Los Angeles. Harnish commented, “if the publicity campaign wanted to establish UFO research as nothing but lies and fakery, it couldn’t have done a better job.”
Possible explanation: you pretty much just read it… the photo was heavily retouched and it was actually a weather balloon.
8. HESSDALEN LIGHT
The story:
“Unusual lights have been reported here since 1940s or earlier. Especially high activity of Hessdalen lights took place from December 1981 until the summer of 1984 when lights were observed 15–20 times per week. The frequency of the lights caused a gathering of numerous tourists staying there overnight to see the phenomenon.
“Since then, the activity has decreased and now the lights are observed some 10–20 times per year. The Hessdalen light most often is a bright, white or yellow light of unknown origin standing or floating above the ground level. Sometimes the light can be seen for more than one hour. There are several other types of unexplained lights observed in the Hessdalen valley.
Possible explanation: scientists have had many theories on this, but the lights still remained unexplained to this day. Some experts think some sort of plasma causes the light when a gas ionises to form a cloud of ions and electrons. You can read the entire thing here.
9. THE TIME TRAVELER
The story:
“People believe that this photograph, taken in 1941 at the re-opening of the South Forks Bridge in Gold Bridge, Canada, is depicting a man in seemingly modern dress and style, with a camera that is advanced well beyond its time. The circle on the left illustrates a man with a camera typical to the time-period.
Possible explanation: while he does look out of place, everything he was wearing during that time period is correct… even the camera. Take a look at these three examples:
GLASSES WITH PROTECTIVE SIDE SHIELDS
KODAK DID HAVE PORTABLE CAMERAS IN THE 1940’S
HE’S WEARING A MONTREAL MAROONS T-SHIRT… A HOCKEY TEAM THAT PLAYED IN THE NHL FROM 1924-1938
“In 2000, two photographs said to be of the Skunk Ape were taken by an anonymous woman and mailed to the Sarasota County, Florida, Sheriff’s Department. The photographs were accompanied by a letter from the woman in which she claims to have photographed an ape in her backyard.
Possible explanation: Most skeptics believe it’s nothing other than a black bear.
11. THE MADONNA WITH SAINT GIOVANNINO AND A UFO
The story:
“This painting is called “The Madonna with Saint Giovannino”. It was painted in the 15th century by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) and hangs as part of the Loeser collection in the Palazzo Vecchio. Above Mary’s right shoulder is a disk shaped object. Below is a blow up of this section and a man and his dog can clearly be seen looking up at the object.
Possible explanation: More than likely it’s just symbols added by the painters…. However, some skeptics believe it’s a cloud with sun rays beaming behind it. You can read more into it here.
12. THE FALCON LAKE INCIDENT
The story:
“The Falcon Lake Incident is a reported unidentified flying object (UFO) encounter near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada claimed to have occurred on May 20, 1967 by Stefan Michalak. He had had taken a short vacation in Whiteshell Provincial Park to prospect veins of quartz near Falcon Lake when he spotted two cigar-shaped objects descending, one of which landed near him.
“Michelak says he saw a door open and heard voices from inside the object, after which he tried to make contact in English and other languages but got no response. He claims to have burned his hand while attempting to examine “colorful glass” found around the object and seen a grid-like exhaust vent that expelled gas that burned his clothing.
Possible explanation: Other than a waffle iron… this one is still up in the air unfortunately.
What do you think…. still believe in some of these?? If you have something to add to these explanations let us know below. Also, if you liked these, make sure to check out these scary pictures with horrifying backstories (Here). (h/t imgur) (Photo credits: unknown)
This Glass Sphere Might Revolutionize Solar Power On Earth
This Glass Sphere Might Revolutionize Solar Power On Earth
It may look like something out of a futuristic novel, but its the newest solar energy generator that can fuel clean energy to thousands of homes much better than solar panels.
It’s a completely round sun tracking globe – essentially a giant glass marble nuzzled into a computerized metal frame.
But this lovely clear marble captures the light of both the moon and the sun – and does it better than solar panels,… 10,000 times better; making the solar harvesting capabilities of this device 35 percent more efficient than conventional solar panel designs.
The Science
“For the last 40 years we have tried to capture this energy with PV panels, but the earth is moving around the sun, and the fixed panel is losing its efficiency.”
Andre Broessel’s invention may be more than just a giant marble, the German architect increased his orb-like system by combining it with a computer program which tracks the sun.
credit – Rawlemon
How It Works
The rotating glass orb brings in energy from the sun and concentrates it onto a small surface of tiny solar panels.
The ball lens concentrates and diffuses the light into one small focal point.
Stanford University’s associate director on energy and sustainable development Mark Thurber told the Wall Street Journal back in April, “the most intriguing renewable energy technologies are those that have the most room to improve.” In terms of solar, he said at the time, “perhaps concentrating solar power can make significant strides as we learn from the first large installations.”
The Future Of This Technology
André Broessel was a finalist in the World Technology Network Award 2013 with the globe’s design and afterward produced this latest version, called Betaray, which can concentrate diffuse light such as that from a cloudy day.
Broessel’s device is not yet available in the market. Overshooting the initial Rawlemon Solar Devices indigogo campaign of $120,000, the campaign has now exceeded $231,000. The money is earmarked for further testing and for patent applications he’s filed in five jurisdictions.
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Une civilisation extraterrestre découverte par le télescope spatial Kepler?
Une civilisation extraterrestre découverte par le télescope spatial Kepler?
Une portion de la nébuleuse Tarantule, dans le Grand Nuage de Magellan. Photo d'illustration.
Reuters/Nasa
Des astronomes ont découvert une superstructure non-identifiée gravitant autour d'une étoile lointaine. Gigantesque amas de poussière, nuée de comètes ou superstructure extraterrestre? Les scientifiques mènent l'enquête.
Perdue entre les constellations du Cygne et de la Lyre, une mystérieuse étoile intrigue la communauté scientifique. KIC 8462852, de son petit nom, est devenue ces dernières années -et surtout ces derniers mois- le centre d'une attention toute particulière, rapporte, mardi, The Atlantic. Et pour cause, la variation de sa luminosité est aussi étrange que rare. Les scientifiques hésitent entre l'explication naturelle et... extraterrestre.
Invisible à l'oeil nu, KIC 8462852 -située à 1480 années-lumière de la Terre- a été observée par le télescope spatial Kepler, entre 2009 à 2013. Pour être exact, le télescope de la Nasa a regardé une partie de l'espace comprenant plus de 150 000 étoiles, à la recherche de toute variation de luminosité pouvant signaler le passage d'exoplanètespassant devant un astre.
Une énorme masse de matières orbitant autour de la planète
Les données issues de KIC 8462852 ont tapé dans l'oeil d'un groupe de "citoyens astronomes" de Planet Hunter [chasseur de planète, NDLR], un programme créé par l'université de Yale invitant tous les "citoyens scientifiques" à traquer les exoplanètes et à aider la Nasadans cette quête.
Vue d'artiste illustrant Kepler-186f, la première exoplanète de la taille de la Terre trouvée dans la zone habitable d'une autre étoile.
NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech
Car si les exoplanètes obstruent partiellement la lumière d'une étoile à des intervalles réguliers -correspondant à leur orbite- ce n'est pas le cas des variations de lumière de KIC 8462852: deux faibles baisses de luminosité en 2009, une autre en 2011 et une série d'autres variations en 2013. Un schéma qui suggère qu'une mégastructureorbite autour de la planète.
Collision d'astéroïdes, nuée de comètes...
"Nous n'avions jamais vu une étoile comme ça", s'enthousiasmeTabetha Boyajian, une astronome de l'université de Yale. "C'était vraiment étrange. Au début, on a pensé que nos données étaient fausses, ou dues un mauvais mouvement de Kepler, mais nous avons tout vérifié".
Tabetha Boyajian a donc publié un article qui expose toutes les pistes qui pourraient expliquer ce phénomène. Ces variations brutales et irrégulières de luminosité serraient-elles causées par des éclats dus à la collision de nombreux astéroïdes, voire d'un impact comparable à celui qui a créé notre Lune? Insuffisant pour créer de telles variations, estime-t-elle. Autre hypothèse: le passage d'une autre étoile à proximité -ce qui est effectivement le cas, rappelle Ciel et Espace- qui aurait pu traîner à sa suite une nuée de comètes, alors attirées par KIC 8462852. Mais ce serait une coïncidence extraordinaire (en terme de timing d'observation).
... Ou mégastructure extraterrestre?
Tabetha Boyajian, contactée par The Atlantic, reconnaît que son article n'explore que les causes "naturelles". Mais "d'autres scénarios sont possibles", glisse-t-elle. Jason Wright, un astronome de l'université de Penn également contacté par The Atlantic, doit publier son propre article, qui se basera sur la théorie des chercheurs du programme SETI -dont le but est de détecter les signaux d'une vie extraterrestre- selon laquelle nous pourrions détecter une civilisation "alien" grâce à de superstructures orbitant autour des planètes. Selon lui, le schéma des variations de lumière pourrait correspondre à "une nuée de mégastructures", peut être des "collecteurs de lumières" chargés de capter l'énergie de l'étoile, les fameuses hypothétiquessphère de Dyson?
"Quand Boyajian m'a montré les données, j'ai été fasciné. Les extraterrestres devraient toujours être la dernière hypothèse à envisager, mais ça, ça ressemble à ce qu'une civilisation pourrait construire", explique-t-il au journal américain. Tabetha Boyajian et Jason Wright travaillent maintenant avec Andrew Siemion le directeur du programme SETI à l'université de Berkeley. Ils aimeraient pointer un radiotélescope sur l'étoile, pour voir si des ondes radios sont émises depuis ce système sur des fréquences associées à l'activité technologique.
En attendant, les spéculations vont bon train sur les forums de passionnés et les réseaux sociaux. Les scientifiques auraient-il découvert une sphère de Dyson, ou, soyons fous, l'étoile noire de Star Wars? Il faudra attendre au moins janvier prochain -date où de nouvelles données seront peut-être disponibles- pour avoir, espérons le, une réponse.
Secrets which every Vimana pilot must learn, explained by ancient texts
Secrets which every Vimana pilot must learn, explained by ancient texts
Aachaarya Naaraayana says, "That which can speed on earth, on water, through air, by its own power, like a bird, is a "Vimana."
Shankha says, "Experts in the science of aeronautics say, "That which can fly through air from one place to another is a Vimana"
And Vishwambhara says, "Experts say that which can fly through air from one country to another country, from one island to another island, and from one world to another world, is a "Vimana"."
Those are the definitions of the mysterious aircraft called the "Vimana," ancient flying devices that were known to humans around 6000 years ago.
Bodhaananda: Scientists say that there are 32 secrets of the working of the Vimana. A pilot should acquaint himself thoroughly with them before he can be deemed competent to handle the aeroplane.
Those secrets are given in "Rahasya-Lahari" and other works, by Lalla and other masters, and are described thus:
"The pilot should have had training in maantrica and taantrica, kritaka and antaraalaka, goodha or hidden, drishya and adrishya or seen and unseen, paroksha and aparoksha, contraction and expansion, changing shape, look frightening, look pleasing, become luminous or enveloped in darkness, deluge or pralaya, vimukha, taara, stun by thunderous din, jump, move zig-zag like serpent, chaapala, face all sides, hear distant sounds, take pictures, know enemy manoeuvres, know direction of enemy approach, stabdhaka or paralyse, and karshana or exercise magnetic pull."
The secrets which every Vimana pilot must learn are explained by Siddhanaatha:
1.Maantrika; As prescribed in "Mantraadhikaara," by invoking the mantras of Chhinnamasta, Bhairavee, Veginee, Siddhaamba, acquire the powers of ghutikaa, paadukaa, visible and invisible and other mantraas with potent herbs and efficacious oils, and Bhuvaneswaree Mantra which confers spiritual and mesmeric powers, to construct aeroplanes, which don't break cannot be cut, cannot be burnt, and cannot be destroyed.
2.Taantrika: By acquiring Mahaamaaya, Shambara, and other taantric powers, to endow the plane with those powers.
3.Kritaka: By study of architects like Vishwakarma, Chhaayaaparusha, Mann, Maya and others, to construct aeroplanes of various patterns.
4.Antaraala: In the wind-swept atmospheric region of the sky, in the clash at the borders of mighty currents, an inadvertent plane is likely to be smashed to pieces. But by getting warned of the approach of such danger spots, the plane could be halted and steered with care.
5.Goodha: As explained in 'Vaayutatva-Prakarana', by harnessing the powers, Yaasaa, Viyaasaa, Prayaasaa in the 8th atmospheric layer covering the earth, to attract the dark content of the solar ray, and use it to hide the Vimana from the enemy.
6.Drishya: By collision of the electric power and wind power in the atmosphere, a glow is created, whose reflection is to be caught in the Vishwa-Kriyaa-darapana or mirror at the front of the Vimana, and by its manipulation produce a Maaya-Vimana or camouflaged Vimana.
7.Adrishya: According to "Shaktitantra", by means of the Vynarathya Vikarana and other powers in the heart centre of the solar mass, attract the force of the ethereal flow in the sky, and mingle it with the balaahaavikarana shakti in the aerial globe, producing thereby a white cover, which will make the Vimana invisible.
8.Paroksha: According to "Meghotpatthi-prakarana," or the science of the birth of clouds, by entering the second of the summer cloud layers, and attracting the power therein with the shaktyaakarshana darpana or force-attraction mirror in the Vimana, and applying it to the parivesha or halo of the Vimana, a paralysing force is generated, and opposing Vimanas are paralysed and put out of action.
9.Aparoksha: According to 'Shakti-tantra,' by projection of the Rohinee beam of light, things in front of the Vimana are made visible.
10.Sankocha, or Contraction: As prescribed in the Yantraangopasamhaara section, when the Vimana is flying at speed with fully extended wings, and there is danger ahead, turning the 7th switch in the Vimana, its parts can be made to contract.
11.Vistrita: According to 'Akaashatantra', when the Vim ana is in the central air flood in the third and first regions of the sky, by turning the switch in the 11th section of plane, it becomes expanded suitably according to "Vaalmeeki Ganita."
12.Viroopa Karana: As stated in "Dhooma Prakarana", by producing the 32nd kind of smoke through the mechanism, and charging it with the light of the heat waves in the sky, and projecting it through the padmaka chakra tube to the bhyravee oil-smeared Vyroopya-darpana at the top of the Vimana, and whirling with 132nd type of speed, a very fierce and terrifying shape of the Vimana will emerge, causing utter fright to onlookers.
13.Roopaantara: As stated in "Tylaprakarana," by preparing griddhrajihwaa, kumbhinee, and kaakajangha oils and anointing the distorting mirror in the Vimana with them, applying to it the 19th kind of smoker and charging with the kuntinee shakti in the Vimana, shapes like lion, tiger, rhinoceros, serpent, mountain, river will appear and amaze observers and confuse them.
14.Suroopa: By attracting the 13 kinds of Karaka force mentioned in "Karaka prakarana" applying snow-surcharged air and projecting it through the air conveying tube to the pushpinee-pinjula mirrors in the front right side of the Vimana, and focusing on it the suragha beam, a heavenly damsel bedecked with flowers and jewels will appear to onlookers of the Vimana.
15.Jyotirbhaava: As stated in "Amshubodhinee," out of Samgnaana and other 16 digits of the solar glow, by attracting the 12th to the 16th digits and focusing them on the air force in the Mayookha section in the fourth pathway in the sky, and similarly by attracting the force of the etherial glow and mingling it with the glow in the 7th layer of air mass, and then by projecting both these forces through the 5 tubes in the Vimana on to the section of the guhaa-garbha mirror, a rich glow like the morning glow of the sun will be produced.
16.Tamomaya: As described in "Darpana Prakarana," by means of the dark force mirror, capture the force of darkness, pass it through the Thamo-Yantra in the north-west side of the Vimana, and by turning a switch produce at noon-day the utter darkness of the night of the new-moon.
17.Pralaya: As described in the magic book of destruction, attract the 5 kinds of smoke through the tube of the contracting machine in the front part of the Vimana, and merge it in the cloud-smoke mentioned in "Shadgarbha Viveka", and pushing it by electric force through the five-limbed aerial tube, destroy everything as in a cataclysm.
18.Vimukha: As mentioned in "Rig-hridaya", by projecting the force of Kubera, Vimukha and Vyshawaanara poison powder through the third tube of the roudree mirror and turning the switch of the air mechanism, produce insensibility and coma.
19.Taara: By mixing with etherial force 10 parts of air forte, 7 parts of water force, and 16 parts of solar glow, and projecting it by means of the star-faced mirror through the frontal tube of the Vimana; the appearance of a star-spangled sky is created.
20.Mahaashabda Vimohana: By concentrating the air force in the seven tubes of the Vimana, and turning the switch, produce, as stated in "Shabda prakaash ikaa" a crescendo of thunderous din, which stuns people, and makes them quake with fear and become insensible.
21.Langhana: As stated in "Vaayu tattva prakarana" When crossing from one air stream into another, the Vimana faces the baadaba glow of the sun and catches fire. In order to prevent that, the electric force and air force in the Vimana should be conjoined and centred in the life-centre of the Vimana, and by turning the switch, the Vimana will leap into safety.
22.Saarpa-Gamana: By attracting the dandavaktra and other seven forces of air, and joining with solar rays, passing it through the zig-zagging centre of the Vimana, and turning the switch, the Vimana will have a zigzagging motion like a serpent.
23.Chaapala: On sighting an enemy plane, by turning the switch in the force centre in the middle section of the Vimana, a 4087 revolutions an hour atmospheric wave speed will be generated, and shake up the enemy plane.
24.Sarvatomukha: When a formation of enemy planes comes to attack one's Vimana, by turning the switch at the crown of the Vimana, make it revolve with agility and face all sides.
25.Parashabda Graahaka: As explained in "Sowdaaminee kalaa" or science of electronics, by means of the sound capturing yantra in the Vimana, to hear the talks and sounds in enemy planes flying in the sky.
26.Roopaakarshana: By means of the photographic yantra in the Vimana to obtain a television view of things inside an enemy plane.
27.Kriyaagrahana: By turning the key at the bottom of the Vimana, a white cloth is made to appear. By electrifying the three acids in the north-east part of the Vimana, and subjecting them to the 7 kinds of solar rays, and passing the resultant force into the tube of the Thrisheersha mirror and making the cloth screen face the mirror, and switching on the upper key, all the activities going on down below on the ground, will be projected on the screen.
28.Dikpradarshana: Turning the key at the front of the Vimana the dishaampati yantra will show the direction from which the enemy plane is approaching.
29.Aakaashaakaara: According to "Aakaasha-tantra", by mixing black mica solution with neem and bhoonaaga decoctions and smearing the solution on the outer body of the Vimana made of mica plates, and exposing to solar rays, the plane will look like the sky and become indistinguishable.
30.Jalada roopa: Mixing pomegranate juice, bilva or bael oil, copper-salt, kitchen smoke, granthika or gugul liquid, mustard powder , and fish scale decoctions, and adding sea-shell and rock-salt powder, and collecting smoke of the same solution and spreading it with solar heat enveloping the cover, the Vimana will have the appearance of a cloud.
31.Stabdhaka: By projecting apasmaara poison-fume smoke through the tube on the north side on the Vimana, and discharging it with stambhana-yantra, people in enemy planes will be made unconscious.
32.Karshana: When enemy planes come in strength to destroy one's Vimana, by setting aflame the Jwaalinee shakit in the Vyshwaanara-naala or pipe located at the navel of the plane, and switching the keys of the two wheels to 87 degrees of heat, the burning shakti will envelope the enemy plane and destroy it.
These are the 32 rahasyaas or secrets which should be known by pilots according to Siddhanaatha.
Nazi Base in Antarctica Might Still Be Operational.
Nazi Base in Antarctica Might Still Be Operational.
ANCIENT ANTARCTICA WAS AS WARM AS TODAY’S CALIFORNIA
According to scientists using a new way to measure past temperatures, parts of the ancient continent were as warm as California’s coast today. The new measurements could help to improve climate models used for predicting future climate, as well as help scientists to better understand Antarctica’s past. The findings were published the week of April 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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By measuring concentrations of rare isotopes in ancient fossil shells, the scientists found that temperatures in parts of Antarctica reached as high as 63 degrees Fahrenheit (17 degrees Celsius) during the Eocene, with parts of the southern Pacific Ocean reaching 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius), – similar to the average annual temperature off the coast of California today.
Today Antarctica is consistently one of the coldest places on Earth, but it wasn’t always that way.
The average annual South Pacific sea temperature near Antarctica is about 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), a far cry from the milder climate of ancient times.
“By measuring past temperatures in different parts of Antarctica, this study gives us a clearer perspective of just how warm Antarctica was when the Earth’s atmosphere contained much more CO2 than it does today,” researchers told Science Daily.The continent remained warm even after the extinction of the dinosaurs, an era known as the Eocene (40-50 million years ago).
And remarkably, forests were still there as early as 12 million years ago. It’s hard to imagine, but Antarctica was ice-free and full of lush forests.
In 1938, the Third Reich claimed New Swabia in Antarctica. The vessel called “Schwabenland” just before the outbreak of WWII, headed into western Antarctica.
This was done under the auspices of “securing Germany’s whaling industry.”
This seemed feasible, given the fact that much could be manufactured from whales including nitroglycerin, margarine, and mechanical lubricants.
It was, however, their goal to build a massive subterranean base there for operations named “base 211″, but the war broke out and not much else information has been released on the subject.
Although there is a known record of Nazi activity around Antarctica before May 1945 when Germany surrendered to the Allies, events after that date suggested something was happening that did not form a part of recognized world history.
Karl Donitz (1891–1980) had led the German U-Boat fleet from the 31st January 1943 until the end of World War II. He also has the distinction of briefly becoming head of the German state for 20 days after Hitler’s supposed death until his own capture by the Allies on 23rd May 1945.
His contribution to the mystery of post-war Antarctic activity came in a statement he made in 1943 when he declared that the German submarine fleet had rebuilt “in another part of the world a Shangri-La land – an impregnable fortress.”
Could he have been referring to the alleged base in Antarctica? Certainly there are records of continued German naval activity in the area after the war had apparently ended.
A book published in 1978, called Secret Nazi Polar Expeditions, relates how the Germans had taken a ship with a small airplane on it that they launched from their ship after reaching the ice near Antarctica.
It flew over the ice to Antarctica, presumably on a scouting flight, and then back to the ship.
But the book didn’t say anything about what it supposedly found or what the Nazi party elite believed was an entrance to the inner (hollow) earth.
An interesting document has recently surfaced obtained by a Joe Watson of Talkeetna, Alaska.
Mr. Watson claims it is a copy of a letter written on 2 March 1985 in the German language from a German submarine crewman who was on board. In it is given certain coordinates for their mission, which apparently was to travel to the center of the earth.
Their submarine was called U-209 under Captain Heinrich Brodda. The image below is a copy of the original hand-written letter from Karl Unger, crew member of the German U-209, as well as an English translation (click to enlarge).
In it Karl confirmed that the earth was indeed hollow and that they had successfully reached the inner inhabited earth in the German U-209 submarine after World War II had destroyed Germany.
The letter was sent to his friend here on the surface world who gave a copy of it to a Mr. Woodard, who gave a copy to Joe Watson. Karl had sent the letter from the hollow earth through a German colony in Brazil that had found a cavern that reaches to the hollow earth many years previous. This German colony in Brazil is documented in Genesis For a New Age, having supposedly discovered the cavern entrance back in the 1500’s.
When one does a search at the German archive website looking for information on the missing U-209 German submarine, it shows that the submarine was indeed reported missing. On July 5, 1943 was it’s last reported position between Greenland and Iceland at coordinates 52°00’N-38°00’W. The report said the Commander of the submarine was Heinrich Brodda.
In addition, documents obtained by the soviets at the close of WW2 recently surfaced which shows a 1944 map from the Third Reich detailing not only the direct passageway used by German U-boats to access this subterranean domain, but also a complete map of both hemispheres of the inner realm of Agharta, the mythical name of the inhabited subterranean world (click image to enlarge).
If that seems too unbelievable, compare with those maps, this map done by the famed Tyrolean cartographer and artist Heinrich C. Berann for the National Geographic Society beginning in 1966.
The map to the left clearly shows the continent of Antarctica without its cover of ice.
The intriguing detail here is that there are underwater passageways that run nearly the entire length of the continent and seem to converge at the exact location identified as the opening into the deep inner or subterranean earth.
Below is a translation of the Top Secret instructions and specific detailed directions left for the Nazi U-boat Captains to follow in order to reach the inner-world kingdom of Agartha (click to enlarge).
Right after World War II, Admiral Byrd, the famous American Arctic Explorer, was ordered to Antarctica by President Truman in 1946 with a military task force of 4,700 men, equipped with the latest military hardware including air craft carriers, submarines, helicopters, even tanks.
What was he looking for with such a substantial military force – in, of all places, Antarctica? There are all kinds of strong indications now suggesting that he was sent to smoke out Hitler’s last stronghold there.
The United States mission “Operation Highjump” ended in failure and defeat in under 8 weeks, far short of the 8 months that was intended, as Admiral Byrd headed back having suffered heavy casualties. In his unofficial comments to the South American press, Byrd stated that he was attacked by “enemy aircraft” that“could fly from pole to pole at incredible speed”.
ubsequently, the modern UFO phenomenon sprang up in 1947 and US disc development programs were initiated that have continued on to present-day“black project” aircraft operated by the CIA, NSA, and NRO.
So the story of the Third Reich’s advanced technology programs does not end with the collapse of the Third Reich itself.
Would it not have been painfully embarrassing to admit to the American/world public that…”… here we were, having clubbed the Germans to a pulp in massive bombing raids, monkeying around with that outdated, old-fashioned, glorified fire cracker rocketry the departing Hitler regime left behind, along with Wernher von Braun – while a still-undefeated bunch of high-tech Nazis are hot-rodding it around the globe and maybe even through the universe, snugly ensconced in their never-captured, Antarctic based UFOs?” Source: Atlantean Gardens
Please take a look at this amazing work of Author and researcher Steve Quayle.
'Empire Beneath The Ice: How The Nazis Won World War II'
Described in the video details as "Between secret bases in the Antarctic, advanced UFO technology, and the establishment of an underground cabal, ruling the world from the shadows, everything the World thought we knew about the demise of Adolf Hitler & The Third Reich could be shaken to its core."
As multiple new headlines emerge, such as German teachers now wanting an edited verision of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to be added back into school curriculum, medical records on Hitler being showcased , how an arms cache along with Nazi flags has been discovered ia Cape Town home, and how the FBI has declassified secret files attesting Hitler fled to Argentina in 1945, Quayle once again manages to be ahead of the curve on a topic that has captured the attention of millions for decades, offering a new look into the mysteries that surround the "official" narrative by offering not only a different perspective, but by laying out the case that nothing in that narrative is as it seems and there are darker forces at play than what we have been told. Click photo to buy is book:
Video below: Complex city with a pyramid and a giant megalithic structure in the shape of a swastika
Deze 360° video brengt je een stap dichter bij het International Space Station - HLN.be
Deze 360° video brengt je een stap dichter bij het International Space Station - HLN.be
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VIDEODe kans is klein dat je ooit het International Space Station zal bezoeken, maar een nieuwe 360-graden video brengt ons toch al een stapje dichter.
Afgelopen weekend werd de video op de Facebookpagina van het ISSgeplaatst. In het filmpje worden de eerste (Zarya) en tweede (Unity) van Amerikaanse modules in beeld gebracht.
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The UFO Bestiary
The UFO Bestiary
1990 - Wallonia, Belgium - This photograph was part of the Belgian Wave of 1989-1990. Taken by J.S. Henrardi on June 15, 1990. Mr. Henrardi released all copyright ownership to the photograph in 2003, making it available for public use.
The object very closely resembles the Petit Rechain triangle (further down page), also part of the Belgium wave. The triangles were reported by hundreds of witnesses during the wave over Belgium
1990 - Petit Rechain, Belgium. One of the most famous UFO pictures ever taken. The photographer, to my knowledge, still remains unnamed.
Taken on an April night during a well known "wave," the photo very clearly shows a triangle-shaped object with lights. One of the best proofs of UFOs we have. Original photo was too dark to show object outline, and had to be lightened.
1997 - Phoenix, Arizona. One of the most publicized UFO events in history.
First observed in a hexagram pattern at about 7:30 PM over the Superstition Mountains area east of Phoenix, the characteristic 8+1 formation of amber orbs was next seen in two separate arc patterns with "trailing lights" over the Gila River.
They were spotted about 9:50 and again at 10:00 at the southern edge of Phoenix, were they were seen by thousands and videotaped by a handful who had camcorders close enough at hand to catch the fleeting minutes of their displays.
2002 - Glasgow, Scotland. The photographer or hoaxer said he took the picture at about 10:00 P.M. in Glasgow, Ayrshire, Scotland.
He said: "At around 10 PM, 2 months ago, I was looking out my window (I was actually looking for my cat that had ran out the door) when I saw this strange thing in the sky. As soon as I saw it I just grabbed my digital camera and took a picture.
"After I took the picture I turned round to give the camera to my girlfriend, looked back and it was gone.There was no noise just total silence.
P.S. The pic isn't great, my hands were a bit shaky."
2004 - Long Island New York - April, 23 - This very impressive image of lights was taken by a lady who is identified only as Marjorie. Early morning, she took her camera and captured some 25 photos of the sky that day, using a welder's glass to keep her eyes from the sun's harm.
They were taken with a JVC digital camera. The avid photographer was shocked to see the object in the sky.
Unknown, Bell-shaped Object Photographed in Idaho - 05-01-14
Witness/Photographer Statement: I was driving westward on Chinden Blvd. It was around 8:15 AM. To my north-west was this MASSIVE bell-shaped object hovering in the sky.
It just stayed there. In scale, it appeared to be larger than a hot air balloon.
I tried asking others about the sighting; they just guessed it may have been a hot air balloon. I did not have my pro-camera so I used my phone to click a few pictures.
You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there’s no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day I receive several reports of alien sightings, extraterrestrial plans for Earth, and agitated screeds about the reluctance of scientists to take the whole subject seriously. Plenty of people think they have convincing evidence for other-worldly visitors, and they want me to know.
Allow me to first note that this is a phenomenon worthy of attention. If aliens are really hanging out in our ‘hood, it’s hard to imagine any other fact more worthy of study. If not, then why does such a large fraction of the populace insist on believing they’re here?
Note that few, if any, of these emails are penned by hoaxers. The correspondents are sincere, and many simply wish to help us in our search for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Others are ticked off, usually at me.
It’s a fire hose of correspondence, but stepping back a bit from the massive electronic corpus, it strikes me that virtually all of it falls into one of four categories. For the curious and interested, I list these subject areas below, together with a modestly elaborated description of each.
Sightings.
c. 1985 - Nuzidath, Israel. This picture was taken in the village of Nuzidath and published by Gil Bar aided by Adrian Dvir's technical equipment.
This picture is a difficult one to draw any type of conclusion from. Are we looking at a bright light of a domed top with windows below, or is it something else?
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence. Unfortunately, it’s hard to say much about these stories. After all, I wasn’t there.
I much prefer the photos and videos that are sometimes offered. The UFOs generally appear small, but contrary to frequent assumption, this doesn’t prove that they’re at high altitude moving at high speed (consider bugs and birds).
Many of the images are artifacts of photography. One gentleman sent me dozens of nighttime photos of city streets, featuring big, blobby and bright UFOs. But these luminous aliens only showed themselves when there was a street lamp in the shot. I suggested that they were internal reflections in the camera lens, and not alien ships behaving like moths. He disagreed...
Suggestions.
1975 - Saas-Fe, Switzerland. July 26. Members of a hunting party spotted this craft hovering low near the ground. It moved almost silently through the surrounding trees.
Fortunately, one member was able to snap this photograph of the object. I wish we had a better photograph of this one, it is a traditional disc shape with a top. Still, for 1975 this is an excellent piece of history.
Some people just want to feed the suggestion box. They’ve got information on how we can do our job better, such as telling us to swing our antennas in the direction of a particular star system where they’re sure aliens are awaiting discovery. A favorite suggested target is the star system Zeta Reticuli, a locale made popular by the famous UFO case of Betty and Barney Hill. As it happens, we have examined Zeta Reticuli with our antennas — not because of Betty and Barney, but because it’s close (39 light-years). We didn’t hear any Reticulans.
Other mails ask why we still look for radio signals when advanced aliens would surely communicate via hyperdimensional physics. Whatever that is. Others urge us to tune our receivers to the “frequency of DNA.” Whatever that is.
Strange stuff.
1957 - Edwards Air Force Base, California. Taken by a test pilot in September of 1957.
The UFO is following a B-57 twin jet. The UFO was not discovered until the photograph was developed. An excellent photo for that time period.
Why are we wasting time hunting for signals, say some correspondents, when extraterrestrials have left calling cards all over the planet? Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids? The Washington Monument — also pointy — is not considered an alien artifact as it was built by Americans who, of course, can manage this sort of project without extraterrestrial contractors.
Another story I get several times a month is that Homo sapiens is a deliberate creation of other-worldly beings. We’re E.T.’s science fair project. The fact that our DNA is 98 percent the same as that of chimps implies that either the aliens must have also created our simian pals, or they were content to make us only very slightly better than what Nature had already served up.
A final category of strange stuff includes the correspondents who repeatedly claim that they are aliens. I wonder if they enjoy equal protection under the law.
Slams.
1951 - Lubbock, Texas - The famous photographs from the "Lubbock lights" in Texas, 31 August 1951. Years later, ignoring all testimonies and evidences, skeptics stated that these objects were... birds.
This most ridiculous explanation was typical of how early UFO photos were often explained away. Carl Hart Jr. an 18-year-old student took this famous picture with his Kodak camera.
There were at least 100 witnesses who saw the objects. This is one of the classics of Ufology.
While the above correspondence is interesting, it’s not particularly unnerving. That cannot be said for those folks who like to excoriate me for being skeptical about alien visitation. They generally argue that the only reasons that few scientists give much credence to the visitation idea are these: (1) The government is keeping all the good evidence under wraps, and (2) Scientists are knee-jerk debunkers, unwilling to take any of this stuff seriously.
It’s hard to believe that the aliens have cleverly arranged things so that only governments can find convincing evidence of their presence. And, of course, if you accept that premise, it follows that all the UFO reports by ordinary citizens are inadequate to establish the truth of aliens-on-Earth (a bummer of a message for organizations like MUFON).
As for the idea that scientists are either dumb or deliberately mum — well hey, that’s a slur both silly and personally wounding.
Imagine if Bigfoot enthusiasts blamed their failure to convince zoologists of the existence of these elusive beasts on (1) the state of Washington, which was deliberately covering up the really good evidence, and (2) forest rangers, who were derelict in their duty because they don’t relentlessly investigate these hirsute hominids. Would such arguments convince you that Bigfoot was afoot?
The fact is, if you’re certain that our planet is hosting alien visitors, the way to gain acceptance for your point of view is to prove it, not insist that the problem lies with third parties. The blame game is a cop-out.
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Steile helling blijkt brug te ver voor Marsrover Opportunity
Steile helling blijkt brug te ver voor Marsrover Opportunity
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Opportunity kreeg opdracht een zeer steile helling te beklimmen, maar na drie pogingen bleek dat echt te veel gevraagd.
Het leek NASA wel een goed idee: Opportunity opdracht geven om de steilste helling die ooit door een Marsrover is bedwongen, te beklimmen. Dat het niet gemakkelijk zou worden, wist de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie ook wel. Het gevaar bestond dat de oude Marsrover weg zou slippen. Om dat te voorkomen, kreeg de rover opdracht om zijn zes wielen veel vaker te laten roteren dan normaliter voor het afleggen van een dergelijke afstand nodig is.
De rover ondernam twee pogingen, maar zonder resultaat. NASA besloot het nog één keer te proberen. Maar hoewel de wielen vaak genoeg draaiden om de rover twintig meter verder te helpen, bleek deze – door het slippen – niet veel verder te komen dan 9 centimeter. En daarmee kwam de rover net iets te kort. Na deze drie pogingen besloot NASA om het idee uit het hoofd te zetten en de rover toch maar een andere opdracht te geven.
Hoewel Opportunity er niet in geslaagd is om zijn doel te bereiken, is alle moeite niet helemaal voor niets geweest. Doordat de rover tijdens zijn poging om de helling te bedwingen vrij schuin stond, is wat stof en zand van zijn zonnepanelen gegleden (zie afbeelding hieronder).
'Onze zon heeft planeet X mogelijk gestolen van een andere ster'
'Onze zon heeft planeet X mogelijk gestolen van een andere ster'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Dat stellen onderzoekers in een nieuw paper. Het scenario zou de baan van deze planeet – waarvan het bestaan nog onbewezen is – kunnen verklaren.
Begin dit jaar stelden onderzoekers overtuigend bewijs te hebben gevonden dat ons zonnestelsel niet acht, maar negen planeten telt. De negende planeet zou zo’n tien keer groter zijn dan de aarde en op grote afstand rond onze zon cirkelen.
Oorsprong Het bestaan van de planeet is nog niet bewezen: de onderzoekers leiden het bestaan van de planeet af uit de baan van enkele Kuipergordelobjecten en hebben de planeet nog niet direct waargenomen. Toch houdt de planeet de gemoederen flink bezig. Zo wordt er al gespeculeerd dat deze in het verleden verantwoordelijk is geweest voor massa-extincties op aarde. En in een nieuw paper buigen onderzoekers zich nu over de oorsprong van deze planeet en dan met name over de vraag of het wellicht mogelijk is dat onze zon deze ‘gestolen’ heeft van een andere ster.
Ontmoeting met een andere ster Er zijn aanwijzingen dat onze zon ontstaan is in een groot cluster bestaande uit enkele duizenden sterren. En het is niet ondenkbaar dat sterren in dat cluster soms vrij dicht bij elkaar kwamen en planeten die rond die sterren cirkelden als het ware ‘overstapten’ van het ene op het andere systeem. Kan de zon zo aan planeet X zijn gekomen? De onderzoekers zochten het met behulp van simulaties uit.
Twee procent “We tonen aan dat het inderdaad mogelijk is dat de zon zo’n planeet van een andere ster heeft gevangen,” zo schrijven de onderzoekers in hun paper. Of dat ook daadwerkelijk gebeurd is, kunnen de onderzoekers in dit stadium niet bewijzen. Daarvoor zullen we de planeet eerst moeten spotten. De kans dat planeet X daadwerkelijk een exoplaneet is, is naar schatting 0,01 tot 2 procent.
Tot op heden zijn er naast het planeet X-is-stiekem-een-exoplaneet-scenario nog een aantal scenario’s die wellicht kunnen verklaren hoe planeet X in zijn vermoedelijke baan is beland. Zo kan het zomaar zijn dat de planeet simpelweg in deze baan geboren is. Of dat deze oorspronkelijk veel dichter bij de zon stond, maar door andere planeten is weggeschopt.
Milky Way Mystery: Here's What Caused the Galaxy's Youngest Supernova
Milky Way Mystery: Here's What Caused the Galaxy's Youngest Supernova
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
The Milky Way's youngest supernova remnant, called G1.9+0.3, was likely caused by the merging of two dense cores left over from dying stars.
Credit: NASA/CXC/CfA/S. Chakraborti et al.
The Milky Way's youngest supernova — an explosion of a star that renders it extremely bright — was probably caused by the collision of two ultradense remnants of stars, new research suggests. The epic blast, shrouded in dust, also likely happened even more recently than scientists thought.
The supernova remnant was identified by radio telescope in 1984, and astronomers set out to fit X-ray and radio data to a model that could help reveal what instigated the explosion.
Researchers tracked down the explosion's cause by measuring how the supernova remnant brightened over time, and their technique could be used to better understand the type of supernova in general, called Type Ia — a cosmic blast essential to measuring the universe's expansion. Such supernovas can briefly shine brighter than the galaxies in which they reside. [Supernovas: Amazing Star Explosion Images]
"Astronomers use Type Ia supernovas as distance markers across the universe, which helped us discover that its expansion was accelerating," Sayan Chakraborti, an astrophysicist at Harvard University and lead author of the new study, said in a statement. "If there are any differences in how these supernovas explode and the amount of light they produce, that could have an impact on our understanding of this expansion."
"Astronomers use Type Ia supernovas as distance markers across the universe, which helped us discover that its expansion was accelerating," Sayan Chakraborti, an astrophysicist at Harvard University and lead author of the new study, said in a statement. "If there are any differences in how these supernovas explode and the amount of light they produce, that could have an impact on our understanding of this expansion."
The supernova remnant in question, called G1.9+0.3, is the echo of a cosmic explosion whose light would have hit Earth about 110 years ago, the new research suggests, but its dusty home in the constellation Sagittarius blocked its light from 19th century astronomers.
The new research incorporated data from the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Jansky Very Large Array, a radio telescope in New Mexico. Both observatories focus on wavelengths of light that can pierce the dense cloud of dust around the supernova remnant. The researchers examined how the supernova remnant was interacting with the gas and dust around it, and noticed an increase in radiation over time.
Researchers classify Type Ia supernovas as explosions caused by white dwarfs, the superdense cores left behind when stars run out of fuel. But they aren't sure exactly why the white dwarfs explode. Potentially, the white dwarf could have either sucked in too much material from a companion star in its orbit, or two white dwarfs could have slammed together and merged, NASA officials said in a statement.
According to the Harvard team's new model, a supernova remnant's brightening over time suggests that it was formed the second way, through a white dwarf merger. They also concluded that scientists were seeing the blast 110 years after it happened, rather than 150.
"We observed that the X-ray and radio brightness increased with time, so the data point strongly to a collision between two white dwarfs as being the trigger for the supernova explosion in G1.9+0.3," study co-author Francesca Childs, also at Harvard, said in the statement.
The researchers can use their model to figure out the triggers of other Type Ia supernovas, which are thought to let out a consistent amount of light at their peaks. That consistency lets researchers calculate the distance to the galaxies they reside in, based on their brightness. Therefore, more information about how they form, which could affect the amount of light they put out, means researchers may need to recalculate some of the distances found based on the explosions.
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"It is important to identify the trigger mechanism for Type Ia supernovas, because if there is more than one cause, then the contribution from each may change over time," Alicia Soderberg, an astronomer at Harvard and a study co-author, said in the statement. "This means astronomers might have to recalibrate some of the ways we use them as 'standard candles' in cosmology."
Why life is constrained to be about the sizes we see on Earth.
BY GREGORY LAUGHLIN
The size of things in our universe runs all the way from the tiny 10-19 meter scale that characterizes quark interactions, to the cosmic horizon 1026 meters away. In these 45 possible orders of magnitude, life, as far as we know it, is confined to a relatively tiny bracket of just over nine orders of magnitude, roughly in the middle of the universal range: Bacteria and viruses can measure less than a micron, or 10-6 meters, and the height of the largest trees reaches roughly 100 meters. The honey fungus that lives under the Blue Mountains in Oregon, and is arguably a single living organism, is about 4 kilometers across. When it comes to known sentient life, the range in scale is even smaller, at about three orders of magnitude.
Could things be any different?
Progress in the theory of computation suggests that sentience and intelligence likely require quadrillions of primitive “circuit” elements. Given that our brains are composed of neurons, which are themselves, in essence, specialized cooperative single-cell organisms, we can conclude that biological computers need to be about the physical size of our own brains in order to exhibit the capabilities that we have.
CONSTRAINED: The height of redwood trees, like these Giant sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park, California, is set by the balance between gravity on the one hand, and transpiration, water adhesion, and surface tension in the planet xylem on the other.lucky-photographer/iStock
We can imagine building neurons that are smaller than our own, in artificially intelligent systems. Electronic circuit elements, for example, are now substantially smaller than neurons. But they are also simpler in their behavior, and require a superstructure of support (energy, cooling, intercommunication) that takes up a substantial volume. It’s likely that the first true artificial intelligences will occupy volumes that are not so different from the size of our own bodies, despite being based on fundamentally different materials and architectures, again suggesting that there is something special about the meter scale.
If both our brains and our neurons were 10 times bigger, we’d have 10 times fewer thoughts during our lifetimes.
What about on the supersize end of the spectrum? William S. Burroughs, in his novel The Ticket That Exploded, imagined that beneath a planetary surface, lies “a vast mineral consciousness near absolute zero thinking in slow formations of crystal.” The astronomer Fred Hoyle wrote dramatically and convincingly of a sentient hyper-intelligent “Black Cloud,” comparable to Earth-sun distance. His idea presaged the concept of Dyson spheres, massive structures that completely surround a star and capture most of its energy. It is also supported by calculations that my colleague Fred Adams and I are performing, that indicate that the most effective information-processing structures in the current-day galaxy might be catalyzed within the sooty winds ejected by dying red giant stars. For a few tens of thousands of years, dust-shrouded red giants provide enough energy, a large enough entropy gradient, and enough raw material to potentially out-compute the biospheres of a billion Earth-like planets.
How big could life forms like these become? Interesting thoughts require not only a complex brain, but also sufficient time for formulation. The speed of neural transmissions is about 300 kilometers per hour, implying that the signal crossing time in a human brain is about 1 millisecond. A human lifetime, then, comprises 2 trillion message-crossing times (and each crossing time is effectively amplified by rich, massively parallelized computational structuring). If both our brains and our neurons were 10 times bigger, and our lifespans and neural signaling speeds were unchanged, we’d have 10 times fewer thoughts during our lifetimes.
If our brains grew enormously to say, the size of our solar system, and featured speed-of-light signaling, the same number of message crossings would require more than the entire current age of the universe, leaving no time for evolution to work its course. If a brain were as big as our galaxy, the problem would become even more severe. From the moment of its formation, there has been time for only 10,000 or so messages to travel from one side of our galaxy to the other. We can argue, then, that, it is difficult to imagine any life-like entities with complexity rivaling the human brain that occupy scales larger than the stellar size scale. Were they to exist, they wouldn’t yet have had sufficient time to actually do anything.
Remarkably, the constraints of environment on physical bodies also constrain life to be roughly the same size that intelligence requires. The height of the tallest redwoods is limited by their inability to pump water more than 100 meters into the sky, a limit set by a combination of the force of gravity on the Earth (which pulls the water down) and transpiration, water adhesion, and surface tension in the plant xylem (which pushes it up).1 If we suppose that the force of gravity and atmospheric pressures of most habitable planets will be within a factor of 10 of Earth’s, we will be left within a couple orders of magnitude of the same maximum limit.
If we also assume that most life will be bound to a planet, moon, or asteroid, then gravity also sets a natural scale. As the planet gets bigger, and its gravity gets stronger, the force on the bones (or whatever the equivalent might be) of some hypothetical animal increases—something argued as far back as the late 1600s, by Christiaan Huygens. That animal would therefore need to increase the cross section of its bones to handle the greater force, which increases as the square of the animal size. These bodybuilding efforts however, would ultimately be self-defeating because mass rises as body size cubed. In general, the maximum mass of mobile terrestrial organisms decreases roughly linearly with the increasing strength of gravity. Conversely, a planet with 10 times lower gravity than Earth’s could potentially have animals that are 10 times bigger.
CONJECTURES: The Dutch Scientist Christiaan Huygens speculated on how the size of a planet might affect the size of life on its surface in this publication from 1722.Google Books
But there’s a limit to how small a planet can get—if it’s too small (smaller than about one-tenth of Earth’s mass), it won’t be able to gravitationally attract and keep its atmosphere. We’re again limited to within a factor of 10 or so of the sizes we see on Earth.
Life also needs to be cooled. Computer chip designers continually face the challenges inherent to removing the heat generated by computation. Living things have the same problem: Large animals have a high ratio of volume to surface area, or “skin.” Since the skin is what’s responsible for cooling the animal, and the volumes are where all the heat is produced, big animals are less efficient at cooling themselves off. As was first pointed out in the 1930s by Max Kleiber, the metabolic rate per kilogram of Earth’s animals decreases in proportion to the mass of the animal raised to the power of 0.25.2 Indeed, if this heating rate didn’t decrease, large animals would literally cook themselves (as recently and vividly illustrated by Aatish Batia and Robert Krulwich). Assuming that the minimum observed whole-body metabolic rate of one-trillionth of a watt per nanogram is necessary for a mammal to function,3 we arrive a maximum thermally limited organism size of just over 1 million kilograms, or somewhat larger than a blue whale, Earth’s all-time record-setting animal in terms of size.
One could, in principle, imagine “creatures” that are far larger. If we draw on Landauer’s principle describing the minimum energy for computation, and if we assume that the energy resources of an ultra-massive, ultra-slothful, multi-cellular organism are devoted only to slowly reproducing its cells, we find that problems of mechanical support outstrip heat transport as the ultimate limiting factor to growth. At these scales, though, it becomes unclear what such a creature would do, or how it might have evolved.
The classic Charles and Ray Eames short film Powers of Ten was made nearly four decades ago, but its influence has been profound. It can be connected, for example, to the rise to order-of-magnitude estimation as a standard aspect of the scientific curriculum, and it is the direct inspiration for the design of software mapping applications such as Google Earth.
The impact of Powers of Ten is heightened by the startling symmetry between the narrative of the inward sweep (in which the viewer descends inward in scale from a picnic on the Chicago lakefront to the sub-nuclear scale) and the arc of the outward sweep (in which the view pulls increasingly rapidly away to set the Earth and its contents into the grand scale of the Cosmos).
Were we just lucky, as sentient beings, to be able to sweep out in both directions, and examine the scales of the universe both large and small? Probably not.
Gregory Laughlin is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is co-author of The Five Ages of the Universe—Inside the Physics of Eternity, and he blogs at oklo.org.
References
1. Koch, G.W., Sillett, S.C., Jennings, G.M., & Davis, S.D. The limits to tree height. Nature428, 851-854 (2004).
2. Kleiber, M. Body size and metabolism. Hilgardia: A Journal of Agricultural Science6, 315-353 (1932).
3. West, G.B., Woodruff, W.H., & Brown, J.H. Allometric scaling of metabolic rate from molecules and mitochondria to cells and mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences99, 2473-2478 (2002).
I live in New Mexico, a state famous for its landscapes, national laboratories exploring state-of-the-art technology and UFOs. That’s right, unidentified flying objects, little green space aliens and flying saucers — the whole enchilada, as we say in the land of enchantment. This affinity for extraterrestrials dates back to the late 1940s when the Roswell incident — a flying saucer crash, dead aliens, a government cover-up and more — thrust New Mexico into the national limelight. Roswell still celebrates the event with an annual UFO festival, which attracts people from around the globe.
My UFO awareness stems from my engineering consulting work. I have a couple of static VAR compensator projects under construction in southeastern New Mexico, so I travel through Roswell every couple of months on my way to check on their progress. It was natural for me to think of flying saucers when an old utility friend told me UFO history had been made in New Mexico. My imagination again jumped to flying saucers while he was talking about the commercialized unmanned flying object.
If only we had the equivalent of CliffsNotes for all the acronyms we use, life would be simpler. We would know a UFO is not a flying saucer and terms like UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), UAS (unmanned aircraft system), sUAS (small unmanned aircraft system), RPA (remotely piloted aircraft) and DRTD (drones and robotics for transmission and distribution) would be less confusing. The term “drone” covers all of them, but there is a lot of pushback from the UAS suppliers. One friend told me his company preferred UAV; after all, drone is what a politician does when talking. Good point.
Getting back to my friend’s story, he was excited about the latest developments in drone usage. Several years ago, his utility looked into the use of drones on transmission lines. However, like so many other potential users, it decided to wait until regulators, government agencies and the marketplace all got on the same page — especially when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) decreed the United States was a nationwide no-fly zone for commercial drones in 2007.
Fortunately, proponents of drone technology took the FAA to court, and it was ruled the FAA did not have the authority to make that decree. Now the FAA has to reconsider its no-fly edict and, as a result, has started issuing exceptions permitting specific commercial drone activities, but it is a slow process.
BVLOS Takes Flight
Industrywise, we have many proponents out there who saw the real advantages UAVs offered utilities. These folks kept kicking at that cactus (that is, regulatory) and the bureaucracy’s flexibility is increasing. This brings us back to the UFO story. The FAA issues special drone permits, but they only allow for line-of-sight flights. To be useful for tasks like transmission line surveying or maintenance inspections, drones must be allowed to fly beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS). There is no way an operator can walk or drive a right-of-way (ROW) and keep within visual range of a drone.
That is why the Oct. 25, 2015, New Mexico drone flight became such a historical event and excited my utility friend. It was the first FAA-sanctioned commercial UAV flight using BVLOS technology to take place inside the 48 contiguous states. Previously, the only FAA-sanctioned BVLOS UAV flight testing took place in remote Arctic regions off the coast of Alaska. The New Mexico BVLOS flight brought UAV technology a step closer to applications needed by the power industry.
The flight was part of the FAA’s Pathfinder program. BNSF Railway provided the infrastructure to inspect, while Insitu, a subsidiary of the Boeing Co., provided the drone and the FAA certification to fly it. Insitu used a small ScanEagle surveillance UAV to provide real-time video of a 64-mile survey of a 132-mile section of BNSF railroad track near Vaughn, New Mexico. The 35-pound aircraft flew about 1,000 feet above the railroad track at speeds of approximately 90 mph. It was equipped with a transponder to transmit its location to local air traffic control and a video camera streaming data back to the ground station.
A Win-Win
My friend was excited because BVLOS drone flights are exactly what electric utilities need to fly UAV flights over transmission line ROW. Drones are capable of high-resolution videos and 3-D renderings, but they need the freedom of BVLOS flight. Today’s special FAA permits for commercial drone flights require the pilot to be in visual contact with the drone, which is not easily done over remote and rugged terrain.
This test flight suggests new regulations for BVLOS commercial drone applications ultimately will be approved, which will set off a tsunami of utility UAV applications when it happens. I have rented helicopters to inspect ROW, and it is expensive. Drones will reduce those costs substantially, and they are a lot safer for the utility personnel doing the fly-over.
Let’s begin pushing harder for more flexibility. We need BVLOS-capable UAVs. It would be a win-win for regulators and utilities alike. After all, everyone’s goal is securing a more reliable power grid while improving safety and reducing costs. Flying robots offer the opportunity for that type of technology to take off.
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UFO Over Phoenix, Arizona Resembles Walking Figure April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Phoenix, Arizona Resembles Walking Figure April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 2, 2016 Location of sighting: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Source: MUFON #75606 The odd thing about this is that the UFO appears to be a standing figure. Flying aliens have been seen in past documents, but this is one of the first I've seen recorded. I really wish he had filmed a few minutes longer before shutting off his video so we could see how it moves. Its moment would be key to identify it as an entity. Also the distance is harsh on the focus, but this doesn't appear to be a deflated weather balloon. If you live in Phoenix and have seen this, please tell us what you saw. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I was riding my mountain bike on Javelina Trail on South Mountain in Phoenix, AZ, on April 2, 2016. At approximately 7pm, I noticed an object in the sky that was unusual enough to stop and take a picture and video. The object's size caught my attention first. It appeared to be a solid, vertical cylinder, with an angled, extended tube or pipe attached to the cylinder's bottom. It was drifting east and descending slowly towards the ground. I observed the object for 1 minute and then I continued down the trail for approximately 1 minute to find a better view. I observed the object for another minute before losing sight of it below the horizon. It was twilight and visibility was too low to observe a landing site. At the approximate distance of 2 miles, I estimated its height to be between 30-50 feet. This flight path looked to be within 2 miles of Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix and I thought it was unusual for any hot-air balloon or leisure craft to be so close to a major airport. I can't think of an explanation for this object. It looked like a deflated hot-air balloon, but it was moving too slow to be a crash-landing balloon. There was no movement from the upper portion, like a deflated balloon might have. The body of the object looked solid and well formed with definite edges. And the angled appendage from the bottom was very unusual. I took a 15 second video during the first minute observation and a single picture. No media from the 2nd viewing location. I had no emotional response to the event, but wanted to capture some evidence to show others.
77 Year Old Man Builds Giant Face In Yard To Signal Aliens In California, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
77 Year Old Man Builds Giant Face In Yard To Signal Aliens In California, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 2016 Location of sighting: Romoland, California, USA News source:
http://abc7.com/society/romoland-man-creates-out-of-this-world-rock-art-in-backyard/1271308/ This is the coolest old guy in California, ever since I had moved out of that area. Yeah, I was born in California. Signaling aliens by building a giant face in his yard is very integrating into the alien culture...since aliens love faces so much. This will get their attention. I guarantee that a lot of aliens working among us already heard news about it. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: ROMOLAND, Calif. (KABC) -- A large alien face made an appearance in a Romoland backyard. Larry Decker, 77, created the massive rock formation with the help of his grandson Josh and his daughter Deb. The family began working on the rock landscaping on Monday, he said, and they completed it Thursday afternoon. Decker said when he lived on a farm in southern Ohio, he was walking to a neighbor's house to get milk when he somehow wandered off the path and eventually discovered a crop circle on a wheat field. He was 10 years old at the time, and since then Decker has been fascinated by aliens, which is one of the reasons he created the otherworldly piece.
Hillary Clinton Says She Will Take A Closer Look At UFO Documents, Jimmy Kimmel Show, March 25, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Hillary Clinton Says She Will Take A Closer Look At UFO Documents, Jimmy Kimmel Show, March 25, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of interview: March 25, 2016 Location of interview: Hollywood, CA, USA
Jimmy Kim Kimmel told Hillary that he spoke to Bill Clinton and Bill told him that he went and checked out those UFO files and didn't find anything. Hillary says that she will take a longer look at the area, which she called Unexplained Ariel Phenomenon, which actually is an older name and 5 years ago a lot of people tried to lecture me about it. Anyways, she says she will release all documents to the public if...and here is the @#$$er you thought would come...if it didn't threaten national security. After that pizza earlier, even my ass would be labeled a threat to national security! WTH??? Everything in existence could possible be a threat to national security! Anything...literally! Anything that reveals alien tech, or the existence of a living intelligent species...how @#$%ing low security is that? So...we are screwed guys, but we all knew that already. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
A brilliant column of fire, blasting out the back of a rocket ship, lit up the cool blue sky above the west Texas desert on Saturday (April 2), when the private spaceflight company Blue Origin successfully launched and landed its New Shepard vehicle for the third time.
Blue Origin's photos and amazing video of the New Shepard launch show the rocket heading skyward, where it eventually separated from the crew capsule (although no one was inside). The crew capsule parachuted back to Earth, but the rocket booster used its thrusters to make a graceful vertical landing.
This is the third time Blue Origin has flown this particular New Shepard vehicle, which makes the test flight somewhat historic. The company (which has been using the motto of "Launch. Land. Repeat." for the flights) is aiming to dramatically lower the cost of suborbital spaceflights by reusing its boosters, rather than discarding them, which is what engineers have had to do with nearly every other rocket in history. Check out more photos from New Shepard's third launch and landing here..
Blue Origin's BE-3 engine restarted at 3,635 feet (1.1 km) above ground level and landed successfully at its West Texas launch site on April 2, 2016.
Credit: Blue Origin
For this flight, Blue Origin also had drones following the rocket as it headed skyward, giving some absolutely breathtaking images of the craft racing through the wide open sky, the capsule parachuting back to Earth, and the booster making its incredible landing.
The crew capsule reached an apogee of 339,178 feet (103,381 meters). That's 64.2 miles (103.4 kilometers), just above the 62-mile (100 km) altitude regarded as the boundary of space.
Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle ascends from its West Texas test site to reach an apogee of 339,138 feet (103 km) on April 2, 2016.
Credit: Blue Origin
"We pushed the envelope on this flight, restarting the engine for the propulsive landing only 3,600 feet [1097 meters] above the ground, requiring the BE-3 engine to start fast and ramp to high thrust fast," the company said in a blog post yesterday (April 3).
Blue Origin team members recover the crew capsule after its fifth successful flight and soft landing at its West Texas launch site on April 2, 2016.
Credit: Blue Origin
The private spaceflight company SpaceX is hot on Blue Origin's heels with its reusable rocket booster, which has also made successful vertical landings. SpaceX's rocket can send spacecraft to orbital altitudes above the Earth.
Horizontal Gantry from Base,Gemini Titan Complex 19,C
In a new book, “Abandoned in Place” by Roland Miller, now defunct US aerospace facilities are described as “lonely launchpads” and “rusted rockets” leftover from the heyday of US space exploration and competition with the former Soviet Union.
Although many of these facilities contain environmentally hazardous pollution including toxic rocket fuel components and tainted soil and groundwater, they are a testament to an earlier age of great innovation and advancement.
According to Miller:
Abandoned In Place is a photographic exploration of the American space-launch and research facilities that played a crucial role in the early period of space exploration. The project serves not only as a documentary body of work, but also as an artistic interpretation of these historic sites. A unique combination of documentary, abstract, and hybrid images allows Abandoned In Place to be viewed from many perspectives. The exhibition records a vanishing era in both the space race and the cold war. The temporal nature of life is evident in views of decaying sites which once captured the attention of the entire world.
The facilities photographed in Abandoned In Place portray one of the most historic and technical adventures of the last century–from our first unmanned flights beyond the atmosphere to landing men on the moon. A sense of the urgency of the space race is evident in many of the images. Signs and labels in the images reflect the technology of the era. The structures depicted also recall the darker threat of nuclear war. Some of the images describe a future that could have been if the cold war had heated up. These launch complexes, engine test stands, and wind tunnels are the Bunker Hill and Gettysburg of the cold war. References to the Great Pyramids, Chichen Itza, Stonehenge, and other major archeological sites foreshadow the future of these modern ruins.
The goals of this project are to preserve and portray these abandoned sites through photography that surpasses the official government approach to documentation, and to lend some social, historic, and artistic insight to the subject.
One of the unique aspects of Abandoned In Place is the combined utilization of documentary and abstract approaches to the subject. This blended approach helps tell a more complete story of the effort to begin exploring space. The serendipity of juxtaposed objects and text on signs conveys a subtext beyond the documentary objectives of the work.”
The following images by Roland Miller are part of his new book “Abandoned in Place.”
Launch Site with Hermes A-1 Rocket,Launch Complex 3
Launch Ring, Apollo Saturn Complex 34, Cape Canaveral
Apollo Saturn F1 Engine Cluster Diptych,NASA Johnson S
Saturn V Rocket moving to the Saturn V Center with Vehi
Control Panels/Computers, Blockhouse,Redstone Complex
Horizontal Gantry from Base,Gemini Titan Complex 19,C
Fan Motor Housing,7 X 10 Foot Wind Tunnel,NASA Langl
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Alien spacecraft are strange. If decades of popular culture, eye-witness reports, and conspiracies are to be believed, most extraterrestrial whips are flying saucers. There is a dome on top and some landing gear below. There are pictures. The most famous may be the one above the words “I Want To Believe.”
These traditional UFOs clearly work in different ways than human aircraft. Though mankind has fiddled with saucer-shaped planes and rockets in the past, we’ve never succeeded at making them work. We don’t know how to do that within the bounds of physics. No, this doesn’t mean that flying saucers aren’t real. It simply means that they don’t make sense within a model of physics we’ve created. That said, neither does interstellar travel. So consistency, at least, is not a problem.
A lot of genuine scientific inquiry has gone into explaining the physics of flying saucers and other unidentified flying objects. Famously, William Markowitz made the case that UFO reports must be wrong in a 1967 article in Science. “Some people claim that nothing is impossible,” he wrote. “This is not so. The laws of mathematics and physics, if accepted, do provide limitations on what can be done.”
Markowitz detailed not only the difficulties of propelling a spacecraft through interstellar space, but also of gently landing and taking off again on the Earth’s surface, as UFOs are reported to do.
If an extraterrestrial spacecraft is to land nondestructively and then lift off it must be able to develop a thrust slightly less than its weight on landing, and twice its weight for an acceleration of 1g of lift-off. This requirement forms a critical test for comparing UFO reports with physical theory. The published reports generally describe objects about 5 to 100 meters in diameter, which land and lift off without the use of launching pads and gantries. No similarity to the giant undertaking of a launching from Cape Kennedy has ever been reported. If nuclear energy is used to generate thrust, then searing of the ground from temperatures of 85,000 degrees C should result, and nuclear decay products equivalent in quantity to those produced by the detonation of an atomic bomb should be detected. This has not happened.
The flying saucer is the UFO that rules our imaginations.
If you want to deny physics, fine, he concludes, just don’t pretend that’s not what you’re doing.
We can reconcile UFO reports with extraterrestrial control by assigning various magic properties to extraterrestrial beings. These include “teleportation” (the instantaneous movement of material bodies between planets and stars), the creation of “force-fields” to drive space ships, and propulsion without reaction. The last of these would permit a man to lift himself by his bootstraps. Anyone who wishes is free to accept such magic properties, but I cannot.
Despite this and many other scientific denouncements of the UFO, efforts to recreate its properties have been numerous. For decades, great scientific minds and research organizations have funnelled money and time into the holy grail of UFO technology — a round, hovering aircraft without moving parts or fuel. No major discoveries have, so far, resulted.
A little bit of research might have saved the effort. The whole concept of the flying saucer, as it turns out, was an accident — a clerical error. The flying saucer entered the public imagination thanks to a 1947 Chicago Sun article with the headline, “Supersonic Flying Saucers Sighted By Idaho Pilot.” The pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reported seeing nine shiny UFOs from his plane, traveling an estimated 1,200 miles per hour.
Kenneth Arnold points to a drawing of the UFO he saw.
Here’s the thing, though. Arnold never described them as saucer-shaped. He said they flew erratically, ”like a saucer if you skip it across the water.” Their shape was more like a boomerang or crescent. The headline-writer got it wrong, but it was too late to take it back. The news was all over the country, and all of a sudden people were spotting flying saucers all over the place.
Today most experts suspect Arnold had seen a flock of birds, and a trick of the eye made him overestimate their distance from him, and therefore their size and speed. But the idea of the flying saucer has stuck. Humankind will not rest until it builds the UFO of our fantasies.
Photos via The Glumpers / YouTube and Public Domain / LiveScience and DammitKarissa / Flickr
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Mysterious Object That Came Out of a Black Hole Has Just Been Measured
Mysterious Object That Came Out of a Black Hole Has Just Been Measured
Recently a mysterious object redefined everything we thought we knew about black holes. First of all black holes are supposed to suck everything into them, even light. Secondly, the gravity is so strong that it was believed that nothing in the known universe could come out of a black hole.
That all changed when NASA announced that something very large exited a black hole.
So what exactly happened? Well as two of NASA’s space telescopes, which included the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or (NuSTAR) for short, were observing this particular black hole, a large object very suddenly “launched” itself away from the middle or “corona” of the black hole. Right after this remarkable event a massive pulse of X-ray energy spewed forth from the corona. This event seems to have the scientists of earth completely baffled.
To Fiona Harrison, who is the principal investigator for NuSTAR, made a strong note saying that this type of phenomenon is unheard of and completely changes what we originally thought about how black holes function. Luckily with the level of technology that we as a race have been able to achieve, we were able to record this event. The data from this should provide now, some much-needed clues to just how black holes function and how they are structured.
Saint Mary’s universities, Dan Wilkins says that,
“This is the first time we have been able to link the launching of the corona to a flare. “This will help us understand how supermassive black holes power some of the brightest objects in the universe.”
The Milky way is immense, and in a region of our galaxy that is simply called Sagittarius A* has been generating arange of flares just about every 10 days or so. Since the passing of this past year, the activity of these flares has drastically increased, to the point of nearly every day. You may be wondering just what that means. Well, let’s look into the research from the astronomers to see just what they have been able to put together.
Utilizing the resources that the astronomers currently have at their disposal, which is 3 huge space telescopes, they have been able to piece together an extremely fascinating cosmic connection to these flares.
Via jpl.nasa.gov
Gabriele Ponti, who is from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics located in Germany, made thisinteresting comment pertaining to the flares,
“For several years, we’ve been tracking the X-ray emission from Sgr A*. This includes also the close passage of this dusty object. A year or so ago, we thought it had absolutely no effect on Sgr A*, but our new data raise the possibility that that might not be the case.”
So in short, it seems that we have been able to observe a phenomenon that has completely changed how we thought black holes functioned. An object actually exited the corona of the black hole and afterwards a flare of x-ray energy followed suit, leaving us completely baffled.
Just recently a team of researchers were able to measure the mysterious object
With the participation of the University of Granada, a team of researchers have been able to type of structure in the vastness of our solar system, despite it being more than five billion light-years away from the little blue planet we call home.
Just to put this achievement into a different perspective, our galaxy is huge and we have been able to find an object that emits an enormous amount of energy, so much so its energy can be compared to the total energy that is emitted by the entire galaxy.
The researchers were able to achieve this feat, by using the so-called gravitational microlensing effect, which is an incident that is caused by the stars that belong to our galaxy can be utilized to magnify other tiny regions in the quasar that contains this object.
Also, through this process the researchers have been able to measure the innermost edge of the disk of matter or what they call the (accretion disk) that is orbiting around this particular quasar that is called Q2237+0305, which doesn’t necessarily roll off the tongue very well, so another name it goes by is called “Einstein Cross”. Throughout the study of the changes in the type of brightness of the four images of the said quasar.
Researcher from the UGR department of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Jorge Jiménez Vicente, explains that,
“the breakthrough of this work has been that we’ve been able to detect a structure in the inner edge of such a small disk at such a great distance, thanks to the gravitational microlensing effect. It would be the equivalent to detecting an Euro coin at a distance of more than 100000 kilometers.”
In our galaxy, only 1 in every 500 quasars is generally affected at all by the gravitational microlensing effect. The information that astronomers have gained from this incident will be quite useful in helping us to understand the quasars, which may be essential to helping us understand just how our galaxy was born and even evolved.
“the possibility of detecting high magnification events caused by the gravitational microlensing effect could be applied to thousands of quasars.” -Vicente
When you think about how huge this object is it really makes us wonder what it could possibly be. Let us know in the comment below what theories you have about the object.
Eén van de steden in Peru die nooit is verwoest door de Spanjaarden is de moeilijk toegankelijke Inca-stad Machu Picchu.
Naast oude Inca-overblijfselen kom je daar soms ook UFO’s en/of buitenaardse wezens tegen.
Een bekende stad in het Zuid Amerikaanse Peru is de Inca-stad Machu Picchu.
Machu Picchu is een stad van de Inca's in Peru die door de Spanjaarden nooit is ontdekt en daardoor ook niet vernietigd werd. Er is in deze stad nog veel van de Inca-beschaving terug te vinden.
Doordat de stad zo ontoegankelijk is, wordt aangenomen dat de stad geen doorsneefunctie had. Vaak wordt aangenomen dat Machu Picchu een buitenverblijf was voor koningen en andere hooggeplaatsten. De stad heeft veel verblijven voor edelen, en een paar woningen voor hun dienaren. Er konden rond de 750 personen in de stad verblijven.
Zuid Amerika, Peru en ook de omgeving van Machu Picchu zijn plaatsen waar je heel regelmatig UFO’s kunt waarnemen.
Ook gaan er natuurlijk talloze verhalen over buitenaardse basis in het onherbergzame Andesgebergte.
Onlangs was er een vrouw die een bezoek bracht aan Machu Picchu en daar een bijzonder video-opname maakte waarop duidelijk een soort alien zichtbaar is van het type Gray.
Ze was aan het wandelen met een aantal vrienden in Machu Picchu toen ze iets vreemds ontdekte achter een rots.
Klaarblijkelijk heeft de vrouw de opname opgestuurd naar de eigenaar van een website die veel over UFO’s en dergelijke publiceert.
Uiteraard ontstaan er dan altijd weer discussies over of de opname echt is of nep. Beiden zijn mogelijk.
Volgens degene die de video heeft gepubliceerd, durft de vrouw niet de hele opname op te sturen omdat ze bang zou zijn voor de FBI en dat die haar telefoon zouden afpakken. Dat is de verklaring waarom de opname vrij kort is.
Of de opname echt is of niet, weten we niet. Wel dat er eerder bijzondere opnames zijn gemaakt in de buurt van Machu Picchu.
De volgende video is van enkele jaren geleden en is genomen vanuit een vliegtuig ter hoogte van Machu Picchu.
In de video zie je een prachtig voorbeeld van hoe UFO’s zich verbergen in wolken, wat nog maar eens de theorie ondersteunt dat dit soort wolken een soort dimensieportalen zijn.
Hoe dan ook, Peru is een fascinerend land, waar op buitenaards gebied interessante dingen gebeuren.
Location: Bandon, Oregon Date:Sept 1999 Submitted by Kim
Witness report: I thought I would share my story, I don’t have any photos or video. What I saw was actually inside my house. .. I was sound asleep and I was woken up very suddenly, I looked over and it was exactly 2 am on my clock, I was not sure what had woken me up but it was very quiet and dark in my room then I noticed a bluish light shining from the direction of the living room I was thinking that’s odd and started to reach for my gun in my nightstand, I was thinking there was an intruder in my house with a flashlight, my children’s bedrooms were on the opposite side of the hall and my younger sons room was closest to the living room. I started to lean up with my gun in hand and was preparing it get out of bed as the light got brighter like it was coming down the hallway then it went dim like it went into my son’s room. .so I’m thinking oh S*#t I’m going to have to shoot someone! I was getting really scared at that point, my husband was sound asleep next me but I didn’t have time to wake him as it got brighter again like it was coming towards my room… I thought thats odd because I could not hear any footsteps?? As sitting on my bed with one foot on the floor and gun pointed at the door that was when I saw it… wow.. My brain didn’t know how to process what I was looking at, I sat there frozen with my gun pointed at it.. It was a Ball of pure energy pulsing floating up by the ceiling. It was as wide as my hallway roughly and kind of pancaked I watched as it moved into my other sons room just inside his doorway across the hall from my room …it probably was only in his room less than a min. Then it came across into my room and I sat frozen just staring at it ..it Was beautiful, alive pulsing It reminded me of one of those glass lightning balls but with no glass around in ..it was multicolored towards the center reds, oranges, greens with pulsing energy fingers radiating out to a brilliant blue . It mostly blue light that it radiated. I’m not sure how long it was actually in my house..it seemed curious and oddly enough I was not scared of it… It was like it realized I was looking at it pulsed really bright all of a sudden left my room back into the hallway the took off like a bolt of lighting back down the hall and was gone. So here I am sitting in the dark stunned, I got up turned on the lights checked my children who were still sound asleep. .I woke my husband and ran around like a mad woman checking all doors and windows. Everything was locked up tight..whatever it was was able to go right thru my living room wall..the wall in direction it went had two big windows.
I have spent years searching the Internet to see if anyone else had seen one up close but so far I have not heard of anyone else. The closest discription I could find was the blue lights that guided ships into port during Stormy seas.. it was probably one of the most Beautiful things I have ever seen in my life. Whatever it was was able to navigate the halls in my house and appeared to concious of its surroundings.
Location:Leesville,La in front yard Date:3/28/16 and 4/4/16 Submitted by Roland
Witness report:The first time I was exiting car after work and saw flashing colorful lights in sky went inside grabbed camera and took photos and video on the second time I wait until dark and there it was again
Area 51 Files Will Be Disclosed After Presidential Election
Area 51 Files Will Be Disclosed After Presidential Election
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has been expressing her commitment to open up the files on the secretive Area 51 as much as possible.
Appearing on a talk show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the Democrat presidential candidate said anew about her dedication to go through the hidden files and expose anything that would not pose a national security risk. If there’s nothing there, Hillary will also let the people know that there’s nothing there.
According to Mr Kimmel, he had spoken to Bill Clinton about looking through the Area 51 files, but the former president said that he did not find anything in the secret facility that was interesting.
Hillary responded to Mr Kimmel and promised to do it again. She stated that she would work to disclose anything interesting be it alien or otherwise. She told Mr Kimmel that they should share anything there with the public unless it’s a threat to national security.
Hillary Clinton’s platform has targeted young American voters, and she already made the promise about making Area 51 files to become publicly available in January should she be elected.
Bill Clinton confirmed that a lot of American stealth technology is made in Area 51, but there were no aliens when he checked as president.
BREAKING: Army scientists successfully ' teleport ' Soldiers
BREAKING: Army scientists successfully ' teleport ' Soldiers
NATICK, Mass. (April 1, 2016)-- Army scientists have successfully "teleported" a fully equipped squad from a Massachusetts research and development facility to a training area in Germany, the Natick Soldier Systems Center (NSSC) announced today.
The nine human research volunteers, fresh out of Advanced Individual Training, were participating in experiments in the Doriot Climatic Chambers at NSSC when they disappeared and moments later materialized at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, completely unharmed. The chambers are capable of replicating any climate or weather in the world but have never before been used in this manner.
Teleportation, made famous in the "Star Trek" television series and movies, had been -- until what the Army is calling the "Natick incident" -- a hypothetical way of moving objects from place to place. American writer Charles Fort is reported to have coined the word in 1931.
Officials at Natick were elated by the event, which promises to one day revolutionize the way that American troops and equipment are transported around the globe. It also could ultimately make overseas bases obsolete as forces are instead moved from U.S. soil to remote trouble spots in the blink of an eye.
"No one is more impressed by this than I am," said Benjamin Storm, who manages the 61-year-old climatic chambers at Natick. "One moment, I was chatting with the young Soldiers, and the next, they all vanished into thin air."
The Soldiers were dressed in combat gear for the revolutionary experiment and being monitored by Storm and his colleagues when they were sent from one continent to the other. Still photographs of the event were captured in the chambers and have been released by the Army.
After thorough medical examinations at an Army hospital, they were flown back to the U.S. and returned to duty at Natick.
"It's one thing to see Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock do it at the movies, but it's another to have it happen to you in real life," said Pvt. Kelley McCoy, one of the teleported Soldiers. "I felt a little tingling and the next thing you know, I'm in Bavaria. I always wanted to visit Europe, but I figured that I'd go by plane."
Storm and other Natick researchers are now poring over mountains of data from the development in hopes of replicating it. Meanwhile, the Army quickly established a Teleportation Study Task Force, which will be based at Natick. Leading scientists from private industry and academia worldwide are converging on the chambers to lend whatever assistance they can.
According to Storm, a device not unlike the "flux capacitor" seen in the "Back to the Future" movie series was employed during the experiment. This led to immediate speculation that the Army was also working on time travel, but time travel requirements of generating 1.21 gigawatts is no trivial feat.
"We're only concerned with place, not time," said Storm, a twinkle in his eye. "This development could change the entire course of human history."
The Task Force expects to report its initial findings by April 1, 2017.
/// Peter2011 : Ik hoop dat dit geen aprilgrap is en dat het echt zo gebeurd is! Het klinkt wel ongeloofwaardig en scienfictionachtig ... ///
05-04-2016 om 13:57
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Tourist Accidentally Captures UFO Near Empire State Building, New York, April 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Tourist Accidentally Captures UFO Near Empire State Building, New York, April 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 2, 2016 Location of sighting: New York, New York, USA Source: MUFON #75586 This UFO was captured in NYC this week, and for this UFO to have been so close to the Empire State Building it had to have been cloaked. Aliens have a high interest in how we try to persevere our old culture, and this building is a prime example of what they would like to see. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Hi my names "D" from the UK im visiting NYC with my girlfriend and have just been looking back through my previous days photos and seen this. Don't know what it is, but looks freaky! Hopefully you guys can sharpen the pic up and tell me what it is. In one of the pics ive tryed to zoom in and put some filters on it to see if it shows anything different... but ive sent the original also.
Spinning UFO Caught With Infrared Camera Over Australia On April 4, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Spinning UFO Caught With Infrared Camera Over Australia On April 4, 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: April 4, 2016 Location of sighting: Mudgee, Australia This is ColourUFO of Youtube. He works daily on catching UFOs flying over Australia and has been on Australian News with his extraordinary catches. I want one of these cameras so bad. His Canon HD converted IR camera is amazing! Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: This spinning Object shape was Triangle shape.I am was very lucky. The time was 4./34. Pm.Never saw the UFO this clearly and this large through the camera.How this object spinning Tumbling.The camera was used: CANON.X.A.2. Full H D camera with I R. 850. infra red optical filter fitted.
Iranian Air Force apparently tried to shoot down aerial objects that have unique features, not normally found in any known aircraft. The news was featured not in a conspiracy website but in a Combat Aircraft Monthly article published in October 2013. Combat Aircraft Monthly is a magazine of military aviation that has some well-respected writers.
The news also came out in an article on Iranian F-14 Tomcat fighters. It was written by Babak Taghvaee, who is a respected writer on the Iranian Air force. In the article, Taghvaee narrates how Iran tried to intercept UFOs overflying its nuclear facilities.
According to Taghvaee’s write up, Iran describes the UFOs as luminous objects and Iranians believe that the mysterious objects were emitting light to enable photography even at night. Iranians recount that the UFOs have astonishing flight characteristics such as the ability to fly beyond the atmosphere with maximum speed of Mach 10 and minimum of zero. They can hover above the target and use advanced ECM to jam enemy’s radars and eventually disrupt navigation systems.
In November 2004, it was reported that Iranian F-14 Tomcat attempted to lock its radar on to a luminous object over the Arak nuclear facility but the radar beam was disrupted. According to the pilot’s description, the object was spherical with green afterburner that created a considerable amount of turbulence behind it. The UFO flew at tremendous speed and disappeared like a meteor, according to the article.
In January 2012, an F-14 tried again to intercept an intruder moving above the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The tale took a deadly turn as seconds after take-off, the F-14 exploded and killed both crewmen. The tragedy’s cause is still unknown.
How fast is Mach 10? It is ten times the speed of sound or 7,612 miles per hour. So, what known aircraft can fly such tremendous speed? The closest known aircraft that can fly close to that speed was the NASA’s experimental hypersonic aircraft called as X-43, which flew at Mach 9.68 in 2004 but the project was terminated. The program was resurrected as the Air Force X-51 but the aircraft only flew at Mach 5 in less than four minutes before it plunged into the Pacific last May.
This UFO incident gathers civilians, pilots, generals and the Air Force radar itself who witnessed an unidentified flying object in the skies of Tehran (capital of Iran) on the night of September 19, 1976.
This 3D Printing Pen Can “Draw” Human Cartilage Directly Into Patients
This 3D Printing Pen Can “Draw” Human Cartilage Directly Into Patients
MedTribune
IN BRIEF
A team of Australian surgeons and researchers have developed a 3D printing pen that allows surgeons to draw and sculpt customized cartilage implants made from actual human stem cells during live surgery.
THE WAR AGAINST ARTHRITIS
Arthritis is an extremely common condition that affects over 350 million people worldwide. It causes joint cartilage to break down, which can produce an unbearable amount of pain. Because cartilage has no blood supply or nerves, it can’t regrow on its own. Sometimes, the only curable option for someone to take is invasive surgery that involves bone drilling or implanting pre-made implants into the affected area.
Their findings were published in the journal Biofabrication.
3D PRINTING WITH STEM CELL ‘INK’
The team created a mobile 3D printing pen, dubbed the ‘BioPen,’ which is a revolutionary device that allows users to 3D print cartilage directly into the patient’s body. The BioPen works similarly to a 3Doodler, instead using a mixture of the patient’s own stem cells and a protective hydrogel bioink.
When the stem cells are ‘printed’ into the affected area, the hydrogel bioink acts to protect them while they regrow. It hardens into a 3D scaffold, later dissolving back into the body after time. Lab tests conducted revealed that more than 97% of stem cells were still alive and thriving after just one week.
MEDICINAL BREAKTHROUGH
With the BioPen, we would be able to print on-the-spot rather than estimate the dimensions of the pre-made implant. We would also see a decrease in the hundreds of thousands of arthritis-induced knee and hip replacement surgeries every year.
This example, of scientists and clinicians working together, demonstrates an extremely innovative outcome. “The BioPen project highlight both the challenges and exciting opportunities in multidisciplinary research. When we get it right, we can make extraordinary progress at a rapid rate,” noted Professor Gordon Wallace, ACES Director.
Since the BioPen encourages the body to mend itself, we could see some advancements in various 3D Bioprinting procedures in the near future. It could even be modified to print a range of substances such as tissue, including skin and muscle tissue.
With the ability to 3D Bioprint this extensively, how far can we go with medicine?
Emitting a continuous 30 MW laser for about 10 hours, once a year, would be enough to hide us from aliens, at least in visible light.
OFFERING A CHOICE
Stephen Hawking has often cautioned humanity against broadcasting our presence to alien life. He noted that any civilization with which humanity could communicate is likely to be much older and much more technologically advanced than ours.
In short, they could easily kill us and strip-mine our planet for parts, if they chose to do so.
Photo Credit: ESO / G. Hüdepohl
Hawking isn’t the only scientist to share this concern. However, now, astronomers at Columbia University in New York could have the answer to staying hidden from potential other-worldly threats. Professor David Kipping and graduate student Alex Teachey suggest humanity could use lasers to conceal the Earth from the searches of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations.
To help clarify, astronomers try to find other Earth-like planets by looking for the dip in light when a planet moves directly in front of the star it orbits. If a far-off extraterrestrial is using the same method, our visibility could be masked by controlled laser emission, with the beam directed at the star where the aliens might live. When the Earth moves in front of the Sun, the laser would be switched on to compensate for the dip in light.
“There is an ongoing debate as to whether we should advertise ourselves or hide from advanced civilizations. Our work offers humanity a choice,” says Kipping.
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES
According to the authors, in order to mask our presence, emitting a continuous 30 MW laser for about 10 hours, once a year, would be enough to eliminate the dip, at least in visible light. A chromatic cloak, effective at all wavelengths, is more challenging.
“Alternatively, we could cloak only the atmospheric signatures associated with biological activity. This should make the Earth appear as if life never took hold on our world,” said Teachey.
But what if aliens already know about laser cloaking and are doing it themselves? That might sound a little bit conspiracy-theory heavy, but the scientists have considered this possibility. They propose that the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence could be broadened to search for artificial transits in order to help us find alien life.
Which leaves us asking: Would we really want to seek out a civilization that doesn’t want visitors?
Astronomers Find the Purest Oxygen Atmosphere Ever Discovered—On a White Dwarf
Astronomers Find the Purest Oxygen Atmosphere Ever Discovered—On a White Dwarf
Image of Sirius A and Sirius B taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Sirius B, which is a white dwarf, can be seen as a faint pinprick of light to the lower left of the much brighter Sirius A.
Image: NASA, ESA
IN BRIEF
Astronomers have discovered a never-before-seen type of white dwarf star, one that has a pure oxygen atmosphere. In a paper published in Science, the researchers detail the discovery of what is the only star of its kind known.
A PECULIAR WHITE DWARF
White dwarfs are like the doddering seniors of the stellar world: They’re in the last stage of their development, they come just after the most active and expansive phase of a star’s life, and they’re white with age.
These curious objects are the leftovers of a star after it has exhausted its nuclear fuel. Super-dense and super-hot, these white dwarfs have only the lightest elements on their surface, typically hydrogen and helium.
But then again, not all of them.
Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf that has a pure oxygen atmosphere. In a paperpublished in Science, the researchers detail the discovery of what is the only star of its kind ever to be found.
The team of Brazilian astronomers were combing the data of the Apache Point Observatory for a project called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey when they found the star, over 1200 light years distant, which seemingly had an atmosphere of 99.9 % oxygen.
They nicknamed the star “Dox” (Dee-Awks).
STRIPPING A STAR
The question on everybody’s mind is: what happened to it? White dwarfs typically have hydrogen and helium in their atmospheres, and heavier elements like oxygen, neon, and magnesium are found in a pool of these light elements.
Also, stars that have these heavy elements are typically large. For a white dwarf to have any oxygen, it must have been at least twice as big as Dox.
Quite simply, Dox defies most of our knowledge in stellar evolution and white dwarf formation. But this is not to say that there are no theories.
The most popular theory is that the star is a product of a binary evolution; there was another star in the same system, somewhat like the setups in the nearby Sirius and Procyon systems. The other star stripped Dox of its surface, exposing the heavy materials underneath. This explains why such a seemingly small white dwarf harbors such heavy elements: it used to be bigger.
“This star, a possible oxygen-neon white dwarf, will provide a rare observational test of the evolutionary paths toward white dwarfs,” says Dr. Kepler de Souza Oliveira, team leader of the astronomers.
With such a pure oxygen atmosphere, we could probably breath it—while simultaneously being fried by the white dwarf’s intense radiation and crushed to single-atom thickness by its colossal gravity.
For an embarrassingly inept (but informative) discussion of the new discovery, please see the video below.
Live 2016 UFO Congress, Round Robin, Friedman, Hansen, Speigel and more! VIDEO
Live 2016 UFO Congress, Round Robin, Friedman, Hansen, Speigel and more! VIDEO
Published on Feb 17, 2016
Live recorded round-robin at the 2016 International UFO Congress in Phoenix, Arizona February 17th with Stanton Friedman, Kathleen Marden, Chase Kloetzke, Julie & Sam Maranto, Ben Hansen, Keith Arem, Lee Speigel and Travis Walton.
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UFOTV Presents - UNDERWATER UFOs AND UNDERSEA USO BASES – MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM – Preston Dennett
UFOTV Presents - UNDERWATER UFOs AND UNDERSEA USO BASES – MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM – Preston Dennett
Published on Apr 3, 2016
UFOTV® Accept no Imitations! (Please vote thumbs-up for UFOTV®!). After publishing and article in Fate Magazine and a LIVE appearance on a History Channel Special, both with a focus on Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs), Author and UFO Researcher Preston Dennett received a flood of emails and letters from new witnesses detailing many dramatic USO cases that had never been revealed before. Along the way, he discovered that the Southern California Coast is one of the worlds most active areas for Undersea USO reports. Reports that date back to the late 1940s, and continue to this day. After years of research, Preston Dennett has come to the startling conclusion that there is an Undersea UFO Base in the Santa Catalina Channel, located along the U.S. Pacific Coast. In this presentation he will present the results of his investigations into the USO situation around the world. Includes evidence of Government surveillance of USOs and ensuing coverup, photographs of UFOs and USOs, and a visual presentation of eyewitness accounts. Preston Dennett is a MUFON Certified UFO Field Investigator and the Author of over 16 books and 100 published essays on UFOs, USOs, and Alien Encounters.
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Climate change and strong winds caused mile-high mounds on the surface of Mars, a new study says. Pictured here are craters on Mars (top row) in various phases of erosion and the results of an experiment using a miniature crater and a wind tunnel (bottom row).
( photo : Mackenzie Day /University of Texas )
Researchers have found that mile-high mounds in Mars were created by strong winds and climate change.
Because of climate change, water on Mars dried up and allowed massive winds to carve out large mounds over a billion years, according to University of Texas researchers. The process highlighted the role of wind in creating the landscape of the red planet.
"On Mars there are no plate-tectonics, and there's no liquid water, so you don't have anything to overprint that signature and over billions of years you get these mounds, which speaks to how much geomorphic change you can really instigate with just wind,"said graduate student Mackenzie Day of the University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences.
She said that the process is something that cannot occur on Earth because of other processes that overpower wind.
"Wind could never do this on Earth because water acts so much faster, and tectonics act so much faster," Day explained.
The research was conducted in association with researchers David Mohrig and Gary Kocurek, also of the Jackson School of Geosciences, and William Anderson of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas. The study was published in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters on March 31.
The mounds, first observed in the 1970s during NASA's Viking program, were found to be at the bottom of Mars' craters. An additional investigation by the Curiosity rover of Mount Sharp inside the Gale Crater showed the mounds were more than 3 miles high.
Layered sedimentary rocks make up the thickest part of the mounds, with the bottom parts showing sediments brought by water that was previously present in the crater. The top part is made up of sediments carried by wind.
The researchers are clueless about the how the mile-high mounds were able to form inside the craters considering that these were once filled with sediments. However, they are positive that they will be able to figure out the wind dynamics that made it possible.
To find out if wind could indeed form a mound, the research team created a model crater that measured 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) in width and 4 centimeters (1.5 inches) high and filled it with damp sand. They then placed the miniature crater in a wind tunnel and observed the movement of the sand.
The elevation and distribution of the sand were carefully monitored until all of it was blown away. The erosion present in the miniature crater's sediment was found to be similar with those seen in the Martian craters. The erosion also created a moat shaped like a crescent that widened and deepened around the crater's edge.
To get a better understanding of the wind dynamics, the study authors built a computer model that replicated the flow of wind at different phases of erosion.
The mound's composition - bottom created during a wet period, and top created and mound shaped during a dry period - significantly helps in establishing the effects of climate change on Mars, Kocurek said.
"Overall, we are seeing the complete remaking of the sedimentary cycle on Mars to the one that characterizes the planet today," Kocurek said.
By studying the location of more than 30 mounds and identifying them to be only present on terrain during the Noachian period, a geological era about 3.7 billion years ago, the researchers concluded that it was during this period that Mars shifted from a wet planet to a dry one.
To compare, they examined five examples of mounds in craters formed during Mars' Amazonian period. The deposits were not similar with the sedimentary deposits, which means the erosion came from a recent activity.
The study showed that global climate change and strong winds, not some alien like the alleged giant mouse, caused the mounds on the Martian surface.
'The aliens are coming...and they'll take the FAT ones first!' Gym is accused of being offensive for advert claiming an ET invasion is the best reason for getting in shape
'The aliens are coming...and they'll take the FAT ones first!' Gym is accused of being offensive for advert claiming an ET invasion is the best reason for getting in shape
The 20-foot high advert in Sawley, Derbyshire, promotes the Fit4Less gym
It shows aliens beaming up a person into their spaceship if they are obese
Leisure bosses said billboard was meant to be 'light-hearted' and 'funny'
A gym billboard poster warning fat people that aliens will 'take them first' is 'offensive', according to an anti-bullying charity.
The 20-foot high advert in Sawley, Derbyshire, promotes the Fit4Less gym along Tamworth Road and shows aliens beaming up a person into their spaceship alongside the words 'they'll take the fat ones first'.
Leisure bosses said the billboard was intended to be 'light-hearted and humorous', but it has caused outrage with a local charity.
The offending alien poster which is next to a Co-op store in Tamworth Road, Sawley, in Derbyshire
Natalie Harvey, founder of an anti-bullying charity, vents her anger at the billboard advert she came across
Mike Kingscott and Mrs Harvey got into a furious row on Twitter about the billboard which he supports
Natalie Harvey, founder of Combat Bullying, based in Nottinghamshire, took to Twitter to vent her anger when she saw the advert for the first time.
The charity was set up in 2012 after Mrs Harvey, who is a parliamentary adviser on bullying, had enough of internet trolls on social media. Her cause helps dozens of children affected by bullying in supportive sessions.
She told Fit4Less, the Co-operative and Erewash Borough Council, the advert was 'beyond tasteful advertising'.
The poster is plastered on the side of a Co-op store. The firm reacted to Mrs Harvey, 39, on Twitter admitting it was a 'sensitive topic' and would ask for it to be swiftly removed.
Mrs Harvey has tweeted Prison Break star Wentworth Miller about the poster, who has talked about how he turned to food when depressed following an internet meme which made fun of his weight gain.
Mrs Harvey, a mother of two, said: 'Just this week alone I've had three cases of bullying due to weight issues and I feel campaigns like this aid bullying.
'I couldn't believe it when I saw it. It's 2016, this sort of fat-shaming humour is offensive.
'I first spotted it on Tuesday and I thought 'I can't just keep driving past', we have a responsibility to say something.
'Children are so fragile, it just doesn't sit well with me.
'If those children or the perpetrators saw this poster it would cause further harm for the children who are being bullied.
'The poster should be removed and replaced with something more tasteful to attract the gym goers.'
Critics of the billboard have called it in 'poor taste' and 'offensive'.
Lorry driver Gary Turner, 44, who lives in Sawley, added: 'I've always been a big chap and I am quite comfortable with my size.
'But when I saw that giant poster it did make me feel a bit self-conscious.
Natalie Harvey, who works as a parliamentary adviser on bullying, in front of the billboard which states the aliens are coming and they will take the fat ones first
Mrs Harvey in conversation with The Co-operative about the offending billboard poster
Mr Kingscott, who backs the advert, claimed Mrs Havery was 'bullying' the gym into removing the billboard
The Fit4Less gym based in Long Eaton, Nottingham, which is behind the alien billboard poster
'It is just embarrassing that a big company like that has to resort to the kind of childish bullying humour you would get in a playground.'
But Fit4Less has defended the billboard. Jan Spaticchia, the chief executive of the gym's parent company Energie Group, said: 'The aliens campaign is actually very successful.
'We aim to get people talking and promote the notion of a healthy lifestyle.
'We don't take ourselves too seriously. I'm a 45-year-old man who is 17.5 stone and proud of it but I'm healthy with it.
'There is such a thing as being overweight and healthy, not everyone has to be skinny.
'We certainly didn't mean to cause offence and we care about the relationships that we build with the communities that we serve.
'We also believe however that if we are going to reach more people as a sector then we need to stop taking ourselves so seriously and realise that if we want to attract normal people, then we need to be willing to poke fun at ourselves and our messaging is designed to do exactly that.'
Mr Spaticchia also refused to take the poster down but the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said anyone with any concerns should complain to them
An ASA spokesman said: 'Without launching an investigation and going through our processes, the ASA can't comment on whether this ad is ethical or breaks the rules.
'The ASA isn't a censor, so it's not for us to ban ads on the grounds of offence if we haven't received any complaints.'
The UK Advertising Codes state that no ad should contain anything which is likely to cause serious or widespread offence.
UFO Seen On Live Cam At The NASA Space Station, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen On Live Cam At The NASA Space Station, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 1, 2016 Location of sighting:Earths orbit at ISS This UFO was caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube and I have to say this UFO is more classic than most seen at the station. This one seems to have a humped lower and upper section. This UFO did appear on April 1, 2016, So is NASA playing a joke on the nation? I don't think they have that in them. That's the last thing they even want to suggest...that they are faking anything...at least, I hope they are thinking that. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
A man in West Carrollton, Ohio reported witnessing two spinning gem-shaped UFOs and recording them on video moving in formation. The witness was outdoor smoking when he saw the two lights above the tree line around 6:30 p.m. on the 7th of November 2015.
The witness stated that the two unknown aircraft travelled a straight and level flight path from northwest to southeast. The two spinning gems flew without a sound and the witness who claimed to have a military background could not identify the objects.
Though the UFOs were not travelling at an unusual speed and not making abnormal maneuvers, they suspiciously vanishing so quickly after passing the witness’ position as he faced south. The witness claimed that he had been an aircraft mechanic for more than three decades, including nearly five years in the USAF at Edwards AFB. He was confident that the UFOs were not the same to any other usual things he had seen before around Edwards. The witness lives around a 15-minute drive from Wright Patterson AFB.
The witness used his mobile phone video to record his UFO sighting. He zoomed in and out a little to maintain focus, the witness said. Towards the end of the video, tree branches become visible, and the lead craft disappears while the second one travels a little further before it also disappears. One thing that the witness noticed was the spinning in unison. The witness said that he did not have the means to enhance the video and would love to see if anybody could do it.
is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, with a special interest in the phenomenology of quantum gravity. Her freelance work has been published in Forbes, Scientific American, and New Scientist, among others.
After you die, your body’s atoms will disperse and find new venues, making their way into oceans, trees and other bodies. But according to the laws of quantum mechanics, all of the information about your body’s build and function will prevail. The relations between the atoms, the uncountable particulars that made you you, will remain forever preserved, albeit in unrecognisably scrambled form – lost in practice, but immortal in principle.
There is only one apparent exception to this reassuring concept: according to our current physical understanding, information cannot survive an encounter with a black hole. Forty years ago, Stephen Hawking demonstrated that black holes destroy information for good. Whatever falls into a black hole disappears from the rest of the Universe. It eventually reemerges in a wind of particles – ‘Hawking radiation’ – that leaks away from the event horizon, the black hole’s outer physical boundary. In this way, black holes slowly evaporate, but the process erases all knowledge about the black hole’s formation. The radiation merely carries data for the total mass, charge and angular momentum of the matter that collapsed; every other detail about anything that fell into the black hole is irretrievably lost.
Hawking’s discovery of black-hole evaporation has presented theoretical physicists with a huge conundrum: general relativity says that black holes must destroy information; quantum mechanics says it cannot happen because information must live on eternally. Both general relativity and quantum mechanics are extremely well-tested theories, and yet they refuse to combine. The clash reveals something much more fundamental than a seemingly exotic quirk about black holes: the information paradox makes it aptly clear that physicists still do not understand the fundamental laws of nature.
But Gia Dvali, professor of physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, believes he’s found the solution. ‘Black holes are quantum computers,’ he says. ‘We have an explicit information-processing sequence.’ If he is correct, the paradox is no more, and information truly is immortal. Even more startling, perhaps, is that his concept has practical implications. In the future, we might be able to tap black-hole physics to construct quantum computers of our own.
The main reason why recovering information from black holes seems impossible is that they are almost featureless spheroids with essentially no physical attributes on their horizons; they have ‘no hair’, as the late US physicist John Wheeler put it. You cannot store information in something that has no features that could be used to encode it, the standard argument goes. And therein lies the error, Dvali says: ‘All these no-hair theorems are wrong.’ He and his collaborators argue that gravitons – the so-far undiscovered quanta that carry gravity and make up space-time – stretch throughout the black hole and give rise to ‘quantum hair’ which allows storing as well as releasing information.
The new research builds on a counter-intuitive feature of quantum theory: quantum effects are not necessarily microscopically small. True, those effects are fragile, and are destroyed quickly in warm and busy environments, such as those typically found on Earth. This is why we don’t normally witness them. This is also the main challenge in building quantum computers, which process information using the quantum states of particles instead of the on-off logic of traditional transistors. But in a cold and isolated place, quantum behaviour can persist over large distances – large enough to span the tens to billions of kilometres of a black-hole horizon.
You don’t even need to go to outer space to witness long-range quantum effects. The enormous distances and masses necessary to create black-hole quantum hair might be far beyond our experimental capabilities, but by cooling atoms down to less than one ten-thousandth of a Kelvin (that is, one ten-thousandth of a degree above absolute zero), researchers have condensed up to a billion atoms, spread out over several millimetres, into a single quantum state. That’s huge for collective quantum behaviour.
Hawking’s information puzzle would find a natural solution if black holes are, in essence, puddles of condensed gravity
Such an atomic collective – known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, named after the Indian physicist Satyendra Bose and Albert Einstein – is currently one of the most promising tools for creating a workable quantum computer. Quantum effects within a Bose-Einstein condensate, like the ability to be in two places at the same time, can stretch through the whole condensate, giving rise to many interlocked states. Enormous information-processing power could become available if researchers succeed in stabilising the condensate and controlling these states. And, not coincidentally, Bose-Einstein condensates might also solve the decades-old puzzle of black-hole information loss.
Hawking’s information puzzle would find a natural solution, Dvali notes, if black holes consist of gravitons that have undergone Bose-Einstein condensation – puddles of condensed gravity, in essence. The idea might sound crazy, but for Dvali it’s a perfectly reasonable conclusion, drawn from what physicists have learned about black-hole information in the years since Hawking first posed his riddle. Theorists know how to calculate how much information the black hole must be able to store: the amount is quantified in the black hole’s entropy and proportional to the horizon surface area. They have also found that black holes can redistribute or ‘scramble’ information very quickly. And finally, they know the pace at which information must escape from the black hole in order to avoid conflicts with quantum mechanics.
Starting in 2012, Dvali explored these various attributes and discovered, to his surprise, that certain types of Bose-Einstein condensates share their essential properties with black holes. To act like a black hole, the condensate must linger at a transition point – its so-called quantum critical point – where extended fluctuations span through the fluid just before the quantum behaviour collapses. Such a quantum-critical condensate, Dvali calculated, has the same entropy, scrambling capacity and release time as a black hole: it has just the right quantum hair. ‘Somebody can say this is a coincidence, but I consider it extremely strong evidence – mathematical evidence that is – that black holes genuinely are Bose-Einstein condensates,’ he says.
Linking black holes with a form of matter that can be created in the lab means that some aspects of Dvali’s idea can be explored experimentally. Immanuel Bloch, professor of physics at the Max-Planck-Institute in Munich, has first-hand experience with Bose-Einstein condensates. He condenses atoms in ‘crystals of light’ – optical lattices created by intersecting multiple laser beams – and then takes snapshots of the condensate using a technique called fluorescence imaging. The resulting pictures beautifully reveal the atoms’ correlated quantum behaviour.
Bloch finds Dvali’s idea, which originated in a field entirely different from his, intriguing. ‘I am pretty excited about Gia’s proposal. I think that’s something really new,’ Bloch says. ‘People have seen collapse dynamics with interacting condensates, but nobody has so far investigated the quantum critical point and what happens there.
‘In the BEC [Bose-Einstein condensate] you have macroscopic quantum waves, and this means in the quantum numbers you have a lot of fluctuations. This is why the BEC normally looks like a Swiss cheese,’ he continues. But by applying a magnetic field, Bloch can change the strength by which the atoms interact, thereby coaxing them into an orderly lattice. ‘Now you make the atoms strongly interacting, then you go to the [very orderly] “Mott state”. This is a great state for quantum computing because you have this regular array. And you can address the atoms with lasers and rotate them around and change the spin [to encode and process information].’
‘Dvali’s idea is competing with a lot of other stuff out on the market. I have more skepticism than faith’
According to Dvali, black-hole physics reveals a better way to store information in a Bose-Einstein condensate by using different quantum states. Black holes are the simplest, most compact, most efficient information storage devices that physicists know of. Using the black holes’ coding protocol therefore should be the best possible method to store information in condensate-based quantum computers.
Creating a black-hole-mimic condensate in the lab seems doable to Bloch: ‘[In a black hole,] the interaction strength adjusts itself. We can simulate something like that by tuning the interaction strength to where the condensate is just about to collapse. The fluctuations become bigger and bigger and bigger as you get closer to the quantum critical point. And that could simulate such a system. One could study all the quantum fluctuations and non-equilibrium situations – all that is now possible by observing these condensates in situ, with high spatial resolution.’
Just because realising Dvali’s idea is possible does not necessarily mean it is practical, however. ‘It’s competing with a lot of other stuff out on the market. Right now, I have more skepticism than faith,’ Bloch says. He also points out that efficient information storage is nice, but for quantum computers ‘information capacity is presently not the problem’. The biggest challenge he sees is finding a way to individually manipulate the quantum states that Dvali has identified – data processing, rather than data storage. There are other practical hurdles as well. ‘There are so many things we don’t know, like noise, is it resistant to noise? We don’t know,’ Bloch notes. ‘For me, the much more interesting aspect is the connection to gravitational physics.’ And here the implications go well beyond information storage.
Dvali’s is not the only recent research suggesting a connection between gravity and condensed-matter physics, a trend that has opened whole new realms to experimental investigation. In the tradition of Einstein, physicists generally think of curved space-time as the arena for matter and its interactions. But now several independent lines of research suggest that space-time might not be as insubstantial as we thought. Gravity, it seems, can emerge from non-gravitational physics.
In the past decades, numerous links between gravity and certain types of fluids have demonstrated that systems with collective quantum behaviour can mimic curved space-time, giving rise to much the same equations as one obtains in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. There is not yet any approach from which general relativity can be derived in full generality by positing that space-time is a condensate. For now, nobody knows whether it is possible at all. Still, the newfound relations allow physicists to study those gravitational systems that can be mimicked with atomic condensates.
Simulating gravity with condensates allows physicists to explore regions – such as black-hole horizons – that are not otherwise accessible to experiment. And so, although Hawking radiation has never been observed in real black holes, its analogue has beenmeasured for black holes simulated through Bose-Einstein condensates. Of course, these condensates are not really black holes – they trap sound waves, not light – but they obey some of the same mathematical laws. The condensates do thus, in a sense, perform otherwise complicated, even intractable, physics calculations.
‘We like to speak of “quantum simulations” and try to use these systems to look for interesting phenomena that are hard to calculate on classical computers,’ says Bloch. ‘We are also trying to use this kind of system to test other systems like the black holes, or we looked at the [analogue of the] Higgs particle in two dimensions.’ In a 2012 Naturepaper, Bloch and his collaborators reported that their quantum simulation revealed that Higgs-like particles can also exist in two dimensions. The same technique could in principle be used to study Bose-Einstein condensates behaving like black holes.
‘The black hole [no hair] theorems are, sorry, crap’
But using black-hole physics to develop new protocols for quantum computers is one thing. Finding out whether astrophysical black holes really are condensates of gravitons is another thing entirely. ‘I am not interested in the idea if one can’t test it,’ says Stefan Hofmann, a theoretical cosmologist and colleague of Dvali’s in Munich.
Hofmann therefore has dedicated significant time to exploring the observational consequences of the idea that black holes are graviton condensates. ‘The black hole [no hair] theorems are, sorry, crap,’ he agrees with Dvali. Hofmann thinks that the quantum hair nearby the black-hole horizon would subtly alter the predictions of general relativity (especially the emission of gravitational waves during formation or collision of black holes), in ways that should be detectable. ‘The dream would be a binary [black hole] merger,’ Hofmann said in a 2015 seminar. His dream has just become true: theLIGO collaboration recently announced the first measurement of gravitational waves emitted from a merging pair of black holes.
Hofmann and his collaborators have yet to make quantitative predictions, but due to the macroscopic quantum effects, Dvali’s proposed solution to the information-loss problem might soon become experimentally testable. However, the idea that black holes are quantum-critical condensates of gravitons, truly equivalent to a Bose-Einstein condensate, leaves many questions open. To begin with, Dvali’s calculations cannot explain what actually happens to matter falling into a black hole. And Hofmann admits that it isn’t clear how the object is a ‘black hole’ in the conventional sense, since it can no longer be described within the familiar framework of general relativity.
Carlo Rovelli from the University of Marseille thinks that, even in incomplete form, Davli’s idea of black holes as condensates might be scientifically useful. ‘They are using a brutal approximation which might fail to capture aspects, but it might work to some extent, especially in the long wavelength regime. For the low-frequency quantum fluctuations of [space-time] it may not be absurd,’ Rovelli says. He cautions, however, that the condensate model ‘cannot be a complete description of what happens in the black hole’.
What is clear, though, is that this research has revealed a previously unrecognised, and quite fruitful, relation. ‘We have a very interesting bridge between quantum information and black-hole physics that was not discussed before,’ Dvali says. If he is right, the implications are conceptually staggering. Information really does live on eternally. In that sense, we are all immortal. And the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy? It’s actually a cosmic quantum computer.
Snowden Reveals Documents: 'More Intelligent Homo Sapiens Exist Underground'
Snowden Reveals Documents: 'More Intelligent Homo Sapiens Exist Underground'
Edward Snowden, the leaker of NSA surveillance documents, was granted asylum in Venezuela on Friday. With safe harbors in sight, Snowden was willing to share shocking and world-shattering exclusive secret government documents with The Internet Chronicle.
Snowden’s testimony was as follows:
“The highest levels of government don’t know what to do about UFOs, and the official story that they are all merely weather balloons or natural phenomena has been clearly dismissed. If anything, these documents speak about UFOs as if they are surely guided by an intelligence beyond our own. As it turns out, the most credible and inexplicable sightings are of vehicles that have been spotted leaving the sea floor at hydrothermal vents and directly entering solar orbit.
“Because ballistic missile tracking systems and deep-sea sonar are kept as state secrets, scientists don’t have access to data about these objects. However, most of the contractors at DARPA are sure that there is a species more intelligent than homo sapiens living in the mantle of the Earth. It makes sense, if you think about it, because that is the only place where conditions have been more or less stable for billions of years. Extremophiles may live at different temperatures than us, but they have been able to thrive and develop intelligence at a seemingly accelerated rate. That’s not true, because they’ve simply evolved at the same rate, but without many of the vicissitudes which set back surface life . . .
“The president receives daily briefings about their activities. Analysts believe their technology to be so far advanced that we stand little chance of survival in any potential war. The general sentiment is that we are but ants from their perspective, so there is little chance they would empathize or attempt to communicate with us, and the current contingency plan is to detonate nuclear weapons in deep caverns to ‘sting’ the foe we have no hope of destroying in hopes it would discourage further attacks.”
Critics may allege that what the 30-year-old former NSA and CIA contractor can state with authority about our ultraterrestrial neighbors is already well-known. But the Ground-Penetrating Radar, or GPR, scans, which The Internet Chronicle has shared and confirmed with sources within intelligence community, will only serve to underscore popular bitterness over strategically timed earthquakes and tsunamis.
Just as PRISM shined a new light on goings-on in NSA’s ECHELON computer systems, revealed in the 1990s, the vast complexes of underground cities – laser-etched from pure diamond – apparent in the GPR scans will transform public debate about the balance between liberty and security. - Chronicle
Les OSNIS et la base secrète AUTEC : Une zone 51 en eaux profondes ?
Les OSNIS et la base secrète AUTEC : Une zone 51 en eaux profondes ?
Published on Apr 2, 2016
La vérité est ailleurs
AUTEC : Les activités mystérieuses de cette base sous-marine secrète ont soulevé beaucoup de questions dans le clan des chercheurs enquêtant sur les disparitions du triangle des Bermudes.
Cette installation serait l’équivalent sous-marin de la base 51 de l’armée américaine (une base secrète où le gouvernement aurait fait des études sur les extra-terrestres, et où certains témoins affirment avoir vu des OVNI). Au sein même de l’AUTEC, des anomalies électromagnétiques auraient pu être reproduites, ce qui n’est pas sans danger pour les navires et aéronefs environnants.
Plus troublant encore : de mystérieux engins ont été aperçus à plusieurs reprises dans les environs de l’AUTEC. Les témoins décrivent des engins effectuant des mouvements inhabituels : virages très serrés, accélérations incroyablement rapides, … Un témoin raconte avoir été à 3 km d’un objet inanimé qui flottait sur l’eau. Il croyait voire une baleine. Il s’est ensuite approché à 800 mètres. L’objet brillait étrangement, et ressemblait plutôt à engin futuriste. Soudain, l’engin décolla et s’éloigna au dessus de l’eau à une vitesse incroyablement élevée, puis disparut sous l’eau...
A large interstellar cloud may have caused the extinction of dinosaursClaudioVentrella/iStock
A thick interstellar cloud may have caused the dinosaurs to become extinct. Researchers say the Earth could have crossed paths with an interstellar cloud – a large clump of cosmic dust and gas – 66 million years ago, starving the planet of light and making it very cold. They theorise that this ultimately led the dinosaurs to extinction.
A study, due to be published in Gondwana Research, identified thick deposits of iridium in the Pacific Ocean; a hard silvery-metal which the scientists believe may have been deposited from an interstellar cloud. They say this cloud would have caused a 'Nebula Winter', as the cloud would have blocked out a majority of the sunlight, which may have cooled the planet enough to kill most life.
The Earth is known to be covered in a blanket of iridium, roughly 30cm thick. This is believed to be caused by asteroid impacts. However, a team of scientists from the Japan Spaceguard Association found a section of the Earth's surface with a 5-metre thick layer of iridium. They say a layer this thick cannot be explained by an asteroid.
Where did the iridium come from?
The researchers suggest an alternative theory. They say this large abundance of iridium must have come from a specialised extra-terrestrial source, possibly an interstellar cloud.
Dinosaurs may have become extinct from a giant interstellar cloudReuters
They suggest the interstellar cloud was more than 330 light-years across, and a thousand times more dense than space itself. It may have taken up to one million years for Earth to pass through the cloud, collecting a large amount of iridium from it at the same time.
The cloud would have blocked out sunlight, and caused the Earth to become very dark, reducing the amount of plant life. The planet would also become very cold from the icy cosmic dust. This may have been cold enough to wipe out the dinosaurs.
The scientists do not dispute the theory that a large asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago;which is the more common understanding for the extinction of dinosaurs. They suggest it happened as well as the Earth passing through the molecular cloud. However, it was the cloud that was the primary factor in the dinosaurs extinction, they say.
The scientists say finding more space-originating radioactive elements will further strengthen their theory. In large amounts, these elements must have been left by a similar extra-terrestrial source. That could well be from the same interstellar cloud.
Scientists have discovered that temporarily turning off a part of the brain can reduce prejudice and the fervour of religious beliefs in peopleiStock
For the first time, scientists have discovered that they can change the way people think about religion and politics by directing magnetic energy to their brains to temporarily shut off specific regions of the brain.
Scientists from the University of York and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) conducted an experiment using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a non-invasive, safe method of stimulating small areas of the brain that is used by doctors to treat severe depression, as well as to evaluate damage caused by injuries, strokes, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, movement disorders and motor neuron disease.
The study analysed the brains of 38 UCLA undergraduates from a multitude of races who were divided into two groups. One group had enough magnetic energy directed at their brains to temporarily shut down the posterior medial frontal cortex, a part of the brain located near the surface and roughly a few inches up from the forehead that is associated with detecting problems and triggering responses that address them.
The other group, meanwhile, received a much lower dose of magnetic energy that did not affect their brains in any way. After experiencing the magnetic energy, all the participants were asked to think about the concept of death, and then answer questions about their religious beliefs and feelings about immigrants.
The researchers discovered that the group which had the targeted brain region shut down reported 32.8% less belief in God, angels, or heaven, and were 28.5% more positive in their feelings toward an immigrant who criticised their country.
Using magnetics to decrease prejudice and religious fervour
The researchers decided to focus on the posterior medial frontal cortex because it plays a key role in cognitive dissonance, where an individual holds two or more contradictory beliefs or ideals at the same time and becomes psychologically uncomfortable, thus seeking to reduce this feeling and avoid situations that increase it.
"People often turn to ideology when they are confronted by problems. We wanted to find out whether a brain region that is linked with solving concrete problems, like deciding how to move one's body to overcome an obstacle, is also involved in solving abstract problems addressed by ideology," said Dr Keise Izuma, a lecturer at the University of York's Department of Psychology.
"We decided to remind people of death because previous research has shown that people turn to religion for comfort in the face of death. As expected, we found that when we experimentally turned down the posterior medial frontal cortex, people were less inclined to reach for comforting religious ideas despite having been reminded of death."
The participants had been prescreened to make sure that they had strong convictions about religion, and to ensure that the participants would respond adversely to a Latino immigrant's criticisms of the US, participants who were "extremely liberal" or "Hispanic/Latino" were not chosen to take part. The resulting group was considered to be "politically moderate", so that the scientists could see if their minds could be changed.
The mind processes criticisms as ideological threats
To judge the participants' feelings about nationalism, the researchers gave them two essays to read that had been written by recent immigrants to the US. One of the essays was extremely positive about the US, while the other essay was extremely negative. Interestingly, the participants with a brain region temporarily turned off were more positive towards the immigrant that criticised their country, than the participants whose brains were unaffected.
"We think that hearing criticisms of your group's values, perhaps especially from a person you perceive as an outsider, is processed as an ideological sort of threat," said Dr Izuma.
"One way to respond to such threats is to 'double down' on your group values, increasing your investment in them, and reacting more negatively to the critic. When we disrupted the brain region that usually helps detect and respond to threats, we saw a less negative, less ideologically motivated reaction to the critical author and his opinions."
The researchers says that their findings are consistent with the idea that brain mechanisms, which evolved for relatively basic threat-response functions, are also used to produce ideological reactions. However, more research is needed to establish exactly why religious beliefs and ethnocentric attitudes were reduced.
Stanton argues that although many high profile scientist have a lot to say about UFOs and ETs, they have not looked and the evidence, and their statements are often not scientific.
Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness Moves To Another Universe At Death.
Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness Moves To Another Universe At Death
A book titled “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe“ contains a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever.
The author of this publication, scientist Dr. Robert Lanza who was voted the 3rd most important scientist alive by the NY Times, has no doubts that this is possible.
Lanza is an expert in regenerative medicine and scientific director of Advanced Cell Technology Company.
Before he has been known for his extensive research which dealt with stem cells, he was also famous for several successful experiments on cloning endangered animal species.
But not so long ago, the scientist became involved with physics, quantum mechanics and astrophysics. This explosive mixture has given birth to the new theory of biocentrism, which the professor has been preaching ever since.
Biocentrism teaches that life and consciousness are fundamental to the universe. It is consciousness that creates the material universe, not the other way around.
Lanza points to the structure of the universe itself, and that the laws, forces, and constants of the universe appear to be fine-tuned for life, implying intelligence existed prior to matter.
He also claims that space and time are not objects or things, but rather tools of our animal understanding.
Lanza says that we carry space and time around with us “like turtles with shells.” meaning that when the shell comes off (space and time), we still exist.
The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does not exist. It only exists as a thought because people identify themselves with their body.
They believe that the body is going to perish, sooner or later, thinking their consciousness will disappear too.
If the body generates consciousness, then consciousness dies when the body dies. But if the body receives consciousness in the same way that a cable box receives satellite signals, then of course consciousness does not end at the death of the physical vehicle.
In fact, consciousness exists outside of constraints of time and space. It is able to be anywhere: in the human body and outside of it.
In other words, it is non-local in the same sense that quantum objects are non-local. Lanza also believes that multiple universes can exist simultaneously. In one universe, the body can be dead.
And in another it continues to exist, absorbing consciousness which migrated into this universe.
This means that a dead person while traveling through the same tunnel ends up not in hell or in heaven, but in a similar world he or she once inhabited, but this time alive. And so on, infinitely. It’s almost like a cosmic Russian doll afterlife effect.
This hope-instilling, but extremely controversial theory by Lanza has many unwitting supporters, not just mere mortals who want to live forever, but also some well-known scientists.
These are the physicists and astrophysicists who tend to agree with existence of parallel worlds and who suggest the possibility of multiple universes.
Multiverse (multi-universe) is a so-called scientific concept, which they defend. They believe that no physical laws exist which would prohibit the existence of parallel worlds.
The first one was a science fiction writer H.G. Wells who proclaimed in 1895 in his story “The Door in the Wall”.
And after 62 years, this idea was developed by Dr. Hugh Everett in his graduate thesis at the Princeton University. It basically posits that at any given moment the universe divides into countless similar instances.
And the next moment, these “newborn” universes split in a similar fashion. In some of these worlds you may be present: reading this article in one universe, or watching TV in another.
The triggering factor for these multiplyingworlds is our actions, explained Everett. If we make some choices, instantly one universe splits into two with different versions of outcomes.
In the 1980s, Andrei Linde, scientist from the Lebedev’s Institute of physics, developed the theory of multiple universes. He is now a professor at Stanford University.
Linde explained: Space consists of many inflating spheres, which give rise to similar spheres, and those, in turn, produce spheres in even greater numbers, and so on to infinity. In the universe, they are spaced apart. They are not aware of each other’s existence. But they represent parts of the same physical universe.
The fact that our universe is not alone is supported by data received from the Planck space telescope. Using the data, scientists have created the most accurate map of the microwave background, the so-called cosmic relic background radiation, which has remained since the inception of our universe.
They also found that the universe has a lot of dark recesses represented by some holes and extensive gaps.
Theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton from the North Carolina University with her colleagues argue: the anomalies of the microwave background exist due to the fact that our universe is influenced by other universes existing nearby. And holes and gaps are a direct result of attacks on us by neighboring universes.
So, there is abundance of places or other universes where our soul could migrate after death, according to the theory of neo-biocentrism. But does the soul exist?
Is there any scientific theory of consciousness that could accommodate such a claim? According to Dr. Stuart Hameroff, a near-death experience happens when the quantum information that inhabits the nervous system leaves the body and dissipates into the universe.
Contrary to materialistic accounts of consciousness, Dr. Hameroff offers an alternative explanation of consciousness that can perhaps appeal to both the rational scientific mind and personal intuitions. Consciousness resides, according to Stuart and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose, in the microtubules of the brain cells, which are the primary sites of quantum processing.
Upon death, this information is released from your body, meaning that your consciousness goes with it.
They have argued that our experience of consciousness is the result of quantum gravity effects in these microtubules, a theory which they dubbed orchestrated objective reduction (Orch-OR).
Consciousness, or at least proto-consciousness is theorized by them to be a fundamental property of the universe, present even at the first moment of the universe during the Big Bang.
“In one such scheme proto-conscious experience is a basic property of physical reality accessible to a quantum process associated with brain activity.”
Our souls are in fact constructed from the very fabric of the universe – and may have existed since the beginning of time. Our brains are just receivers and amplifiers for the proto-consciousness that is intrinsic to the fabric of space-time.
So is there really a part of your consciousness that is non-material and will live on after the death of your physical body?
Dr Hameroff told the Science Channel’s Through the Wormhole documentary: “Let’s say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, the microtubules lose their quantum state. The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can’t be destroyed, it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large”.
Robert Lanza would add here that not only does it exist in the universe, it exists perhaps in another universe. If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can go back into the microtubules and the patient says “I had a near death experience”‘
He adds: “If they’re not revived, and the patient dies, it’s possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul.”
This account of quantum consciousness explains things like near-death experiences, astral projection, out of body experiences, and even reincarnation without needing to appeal to religious ideology.
The energy of your consciousness potentially gets recycled back into a different body at some point, and in the mean time it exists outside of the physical body on some other level of reality, and possibly in another universe.
The Mystery deepens: Scientist believes Planet X caused massive extinction on Earth
The Mystery deepens: Scientist believes Planet X caused massive extinction on Earth
According to an astrophysicist, not only does Planet X, aka the Ninth Planet exists lurking in the outer edges of our solar system, the elusive planet is, in fact, responsible for several mass extinctions on Earth.
Like never before, evidence is being revealed supporting the idea that Planet X, the Ninth Planet, or commonly referred by some as mythical planet ‘Nibiru’, does in fact exist, and lurks the outer edges of our solar system.
Now, an astrophysicist suggests that this ‘elusive’ planet does not only exist but is responsible for causing MASS EXTINCTIONS on our planet.
According to researchers, as Planet X orbits our sun, its titled orbit slowly changes, passing through the Kuiper Belt ever 27 million years, causing numerous comets to be knocked into the inner solar system.
Earlier this year, researchers discovered evidence supporting the existence of a mysterious, giant planet lurking the outer edges of our solar system, and ever since, scientists are desperately looking for signs that could help them confirm its existence.
However, the mystery around this elusive planet has just deepened after a US astrophysicist said that the enigmatic planet could, in fact, be responsible for numerous mass extinction on planet Earth.
This week, astronomer Mike Brown of Caltech revealed he had found more evidence supporting the existence of the mysterious planet. Brown believes that the unusual and weird movement of objects in the outer parts of the solar system is best explained by the anomalous orbit of a huge planet researchers ar referring to as planet Nine or Planet X. In the past couple of months, strong arguments have been made by researchers around the globe which believe a huge planet, unlike anything we have seen in our solar system is somewhere out there.
The giant ‘elusive’ planet is believed to sit on the edge of our solar system and is ten times more massive compared to Earth. Its exact composition remains a mystery, but scientists expect it to be similar to Neptune or Jupiter.
Now, in addition to comments from Brown, the researcher behind the initial announcement of the so-called ninth planet, Dr. Daniel Whitmire, a retired professor of astrophysics working at the University of Arkansas Department of Mathematical Sciences has concluded that this giant planet could have caused several mass extinctions on Earth.
According to Dr. Whitmire, the giant planet located on the outer edge of our solar system triggers comet showers that bombard the planets of the inner solar system. However, the theory proposed by Dr. Whitmire isn’t new, as a matter of a fact, the theory was initially proposed by Dr. Whitmire and his college John Matese in 1985 while working at the University of Louisiana.
In the research published in the journal Nature, Dr. Whitmire and colleague John Matese suggested the presence of a mysterious planet in the outskirts of our solar system, dubbed planet X.
According to the theory proposed by Dr. Whitmire, as Planet X orbits the sun, its tilted orbit slowly rotates and as the elusive planet makes its way through the Kuiper belt of comets every 27 million years, its enigmatic orbit causes comets to be knocked into the inner solar system triggering possible mass extinctions on Earth.
Dr. Whitmire firmly believes that its very likely that in the distant past, Planet X could have significantly influenced the evolution of life on our planet.
The hidden origins on mankind: Giant Skeletons that will change History
The hidden origins on mankind: Giant Skeletons that will change History
“The eyes of that species of extinct Giant, whose bones fill the Mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as ours do now.” –Former President Abraham Lincoln, Niagara Falls, 1848.
In the last couple of decades, much of the population on Earth has firmly come to believe that history has been told only partially. We have come to realize that there are numerous pieces missing from the puzzle and that mankind’s origin and the past are far more enigmatic than many scholars are willing to accept.
Throughout the decades, countless findings have been made, pointing towards a much different history than we are being told by mainstream scholars.
Religion, ancient texts, and monuments are only partially understood by scholars, who are ever-more selective when sharing their knowledge.
One of the most interesting researchers who has come to challenge mainstream scholars and their extremely linear views on history and our origins is without a doubt Michael Tellinger.
Tellinger is an author, scientist, and explorer, who has made a number of groundbreaking discoveries regarding ancient civilizations that mysteriously vanished under doubtful circumstances. Most of his research has been focused on the African continent where he has come across intriguing pieces of evidence which directly contradict mainstream history.
“One of the most popular books in the world, the Bible, tells us that when the Gods were on Earth, they were giants. . . . This, when you bring up in conversation, normally brings up, you know, laughter and people giggling and thinking you’re joking, and yet, the Bible is full of references to giants in our history.” –Michael Tellinger (source)
While many believe that stories found in the bible cannot be considered as firm evidence supporting the idea that giants existed on earth in the distant past, it is interesting to note that there are other sources which point towards the existence of giants. In nearly all ancient cultures, there is evidence suggesting beings of humongous size, existed on our planet in the distant past.
Physical evidence supporting such theories can also be found around the globe. One of such examples is a part of an upper leg bone of a being that is believed to have been at least 3.5 meters in height. The bone is located at the medical school at WITS University in Johannesburg since the 1960’s. The bone was discovered in northern Namibia by miners and is considered as one of the most important and rare specimens of giant beings existing on our planet in the distant past.
However, more similar discoveries were made around the globe. A 38-centimiter-long figure found in Egypt is another impressive discovery that contradicts conventional historical views. The images displayed were taken in 1988 and were published by one of Europe’s leading newspaper, BILD.de.
Researchers from Egypt believe it had to belong to a creäture that was over 5 meters height. Only a few people got to take images of this incredible artifact in 1988.
In an interview with BILD.de, Spörri stated: “It was an oblong package, smelled musty,” Spörri said when he told his story to the public in 2012. “I was totally flabbergasted when I saw the dark brown giant finger. I was allowed to take it in hand and also to take pictures. A bill was put next to it to get a size comparison. The bent finger was split open and covered with dried mold.”
According to Gregor Spörri, the grave robber who found the finger also had a certificate of Authenticity and an X-ray image, both of which are from the 1960’s.
Interestingly, in 1883, the Smithsonian Institute dispatched a team of researchers to the South Charleston Mount. There, according to reports, they discovered numerous giant skeletons ranging from 7 to 9 feet tall. The giants were said to have been buried with heavy copper bracelets and other items which appeared to have a religious and/or cultural meaning.
Apparently the report also mentioned that some of the giants had skulls which looked ‘compressed or flat-head type’, resembling similar skeletal remains discovered in south America and Egypt. (source)
Interestingly, another crucial piece of evidence was a discovery made in Wisconsin. The finding was omitted by researchers who remained silent and decided not to speak about the lost race of giants found in burial mounds near Lake Delavan in Wisconsin. The mysterious discovery, which was first reported in the 4 May 1912 issue of the New York Times states that at least 18 anomalous skeletons had been found in Wisconsin exhibiting extremely weird features unlike any known species to date. The excavation side was overseen by the Beloit College and included over 200 mounds. (source)
These anomalous skeletons were unlike anything is seen before, totally differing from any known human species with alleged heights that ranged from 8 to 10 feet.
“…presumably those of men, are much larger than the heads of any race which inhabit America to-day.”
Vine Deloria, a Native American author, and professor of law said:
“Modern day archeology and anthropology have nearly sealed the door on our imaginations, broadly interpreting the North American past as devoid of anything unusual in the way of great cultures characterized by a people of unusual demeanor.
“The great interloper of ancient burial grounds, the nineteenth century Smithsonian Institution, created a one-way portal, through which uncounted bones have been spirited.”
“This door and the contents of its vault are virtually sealed off to anyone, but government officials. Among these bones may lay answers not even sought by these officials concerning the deep past.”
“In addition to the human skeletons found in NY State, there is also the famous case of ‘The Cardiff Giant,’ a white alabaster-like statue of an 11-foot man which showed an exposed penis and hieroglyphic inscriptions. This statue caused a worldwide sensation and was exhibited in New York City to thousands of paying customers before it was declared a fake by the NY newspapers, despite the fact that scholars from Harvard and elsewhere insisted that the statue was genuine.” – Richard Dewhurst
The fact that huge megalithic structures have been discovered around the globe could prove to be another indication that giants inhabited Earth in the past. In ancient Egypt for example, we have numerous hieroglyphs which depict beings that are up to five times larger than ordinary humans.
In the valley of Khafre in Egypt, we find one of the most incredible ancient temples built using humongous limestone blocks, some as large as 30 feet long, while weighing over 200 tons.
This fact makes you wonder just how was it possible, for ancient mankind to erect such monuments, with the accuracy and precision they did, thousands of years ago.
Graham Hancock explains it pretty well in his book Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization:“ At present there are only two land-based cranes in the world that could lift weights of this magnitude. At the very frontiers of construction technology, these are both vast, industrialized machines, with booms reaching more than 220 feet into the air, which require on-board counterweights of 160 tons to prevent them from tipping over. The preparation-time for a single lift is around six weeks and calls for the skills of specialized teams of up to 20 men.13 In other words, modern builders with all the advantages of high-tech engineering at their disposal can barely hoist weights of 200 tons. „
All of the above discoveries and facts are proof that history, as we have been told, is completely wrong, misinterpreted and incomplete, a fact that mainstream scholars around the world have ignored in an attempt to promote a specific ideology in today’s society.
Wat als aliens ons vinden en géén goede bedoelingen blijken te hebben? De Amerikaanse astronomen David Kipping en Alex Teachy stellen dat dit risico niet genomen moet worden en we onze planeet gewoon moeten 'verstoppen' voor potentieel gevaarlijke buitenaardse wezens. Dat kan volgens professor Kipping van de Columbia University in New York en zijn assistent redelijk eenvoudig met laserstralen, schrijft BBC.
Telkens de aarde voor de zon schuift, wordt het licht gedimd en zo kan dus de aanwezigheid van onze planeet worden verraden. Om dat fenomeen te verbergen, zouden we laserstralen kunnen uitzenden in de ruimte. Volgens Kipping zou dat onze aarde compleet onzichtbaar maken voor potentiële geavanceerde astronomen van andere planeten.
De NASA-ruimtetelescoop Kepler heeft al zo'n duizend nieuwe planeten ontdekt door te speuren naar kleine dipjes in lichtsterkte die zich voordoen als een planeet voor haar dichtstbijzijnde ster passeert. Buitenaardse astronomen zouden natuurlijk dezelfde techniek kunnen toepassen om onze planeet te ontdekken.
Een laserstraal van 30 megawatt één keer per jaar gedurende tien uur is voldoende om de terugval in lichtintensiteit veroorzaakt door de doortocht van de Aarde te maskeren, berekende Kipping. "Er is een debat aan de gang of we ons nu moeten proberen kenbaar maken voor aliens of ons net moeten verstoppen", zegt de professor. "Ons werk biedt de mensheid de keuze, tenminste wat die doortocht betreft. We moeten daarover nadenken."
Teachey voegt eraan toe: "We kunnen ook enkel de atmosferische tekenen van biologische activiteit, zoals zuurstof, verhullen. Dat kan met een laserpiek van maar 160 kilowatt per doortocht. Voor mogelijk andere beschavingen zou het dan lijken alsof er op de aarde nooit leven mogelijk was."
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British Astronaut Announces From The ISS About The Discovery Of A UFO
British Astronaut Announces From The ISS About The Discovery Of A UFO
British man in space could be the first astronaut from his country to have encountered one of the major findings in the history of humanity. Major Tim Peake announced from the International Space Station (ISS) that he had a glimpse of what seemed to be an extraterrestrial craft while recording a time-lapse video of the Earth – a regular activity made famous by NASA astronaut, Scott Kelly.
The video is grainy and appeared to show a UFO flying randomly across the screen near the ISSS. Peake also posted similar footage in February on Twitter to demonstrate how lightning can strike Earth.
In the press conference from the ISS, Peake said that it was far better than he had imagined as it was difficult to describe what he called a phenomenal machine.
Peake fans have been reacting on Twitter using the hashtag #PeakeUFO. The great apparent discovery followed the first broadcast of Peake when he revealed how he missed the green colour in space.
Humanity will now wait and see if the footage could help the effort of taking a big leap towards aliens and their potential leaders.
Another press briefing is scheduled in midday GMT, which will reveal more details on the possibility of extraterrestrial life aboard the UFO.
Many people still doubt the existence of a flying saucers, but I tell you, just wait until they appear in large quantity. Around the entire planet will demonstrate their ability to fly, their appearance and disappearance. In a way that confuses people into the large extent, that no one really understand what is happening. It has been written that the sky will “sign”. This “sign” already seen a lot of people, but by the end of this age will see it every man of the earth and will be surprised”
Traveling west out of Asheville, North Carolina and crossing the border into Jackson County, one can trace the Caney Fork River along toward the little Tuckasegee community, following NC Highway 107 heading out of the nearby campus town of Cullowhee.
There, off a gravel road running between two pastures, is one of the most underrated–and often overlooked–wonders anywhere in the Eastern United States.
Known today as “Judaculla Rock”, the strange stone mound protrudes from the earth just as it did centuries ago, much earlier even than the Cherokee Indians had begun to inhabit the region. According to most estimates by geologists, the stone’s markings date back as much as 3000 years, though on Raliegh-based group a number of years ago supposed that some of the petroglyphs covering the boulder could be twice as old as previous estimates, if not more.
Of all the curious symbols that appear along the stone’s surface, one particular image stands out among the rest, resembling vaguely a hand-like imprint. According to legend, this portion of the stone marks the place where an ancient Cherokee god of the hunt, known as “Tsul’Kalu’,” had leaped from a nearby mountain, and landing within the valley below, had steadied himself against what is now Judaculla Rock. This is, in fact, merely one of several legends regarding Tsul’Kalu’ that still exist, many of which have some fairly remarkable tie-ins with mysterious discoveries of “giants” alleged to have existed in the ancient Americas.
Researchers Might Have Found the Sunken City of Atlantis, But Nobody is Talking About It Anymore
Researchers Might Have Found the Sunken City of Atlantis, But Nobody is Talking About It Anymore
In 2001, a team of explorers who were participating in a survey mission off the western coast of Cuba detected a curious set of stones on their sonar equipment. The bizarre structures were covered under 650 meters of water and they strongly resembled an ancient metropolis. The media soon take over, announcing a possible discovery of the lost city of the Caribbean or even Atlantis.
The government, national museum and national geographic were immediately drawn into picture by this big announcement and they promised to fully investigate the intriguing site revealed by the sonar images. However, this never happened (officially) and after 15 more years the story remains silent. Why the media remained silent about this unusual sunken discovery we can only guess, but the possibility of the officials discovering something that would challenge the foundation of our written history is likely to have happened.
When marine engineer Pauline Zalitzki and her husband Paul Weinzweig first captured the anomaly on their sonar equipment, the first though crossing their minds was of a HUGE discovery. The couple was working on a survey mission together with the Cuban government. They were initially scanning a 2 square kilometers area on the bottom of the sea in order to find wrecks from the Spanish colonial era that could hold treasure, but luck had it that they came across a series of symmetrical stone structures resembling a sunken city.
After investigating the sonar images, Zalitzki noticed that some of the stone blocks possessed a pyramidal shape, while others had a circular design. Intrigued by the discovery, the two returned to the site with Manuel Iturralde, senior researcher of Cuba’s Natural History Museum and furtherly sent a Remotely Operated Vehicle to scan the depths of the sea in detail. Their assumptions of a sunken city were not in vein, as the new images revealed what appeared to be the ruins of sunken city.
“These are extremely peculiar structures, and they have captured our imagination,” said Iturraide, who inspected numerous underwater formations. “But if I had to explain this geologically, I would have a hard time.”
Experts estimated that it would take around 50,000 years for such structures to submerge to the depth at which they were found. “50,000 years ago there wasn’t the architectural capacity in any of the cultures we know of to build complex buildings,” Iturralde said. Another specialist in underwater archaeology from the University of Florida added the following: “It would be cool if they were right, but it would be real advanced for anything we would see in the New World for that time frame. The structures are out of time and out of place.”
Could they have discovered the sunken city of Atlantis, a timeworn metropolis of some unknown civilization, or was this only a natural phenomenon as some archaeologists seemed to believe?
According to the original discoverers, the sunken formation could be “the remnants of a local culture,” once situated on a 100-mile “land bridge” that connected Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula with Cuba. Those claims were supported by the Mayan and native Yucatecos beliefs that speak of an isle of their ancestors that was taken by the sea. However, because the supposed metropolis was located at a considerable depth under the water, researchers who followed the Pleistocene timeline noticed that sea levels dropped by a maximum of 100 meters, making it hard to believe that such a discovery had artificial origins.
“At no point during the Ice Age would it have been above sea level unless, of course, the land on which they stand has sunk. This is the claim for Atlantis – according to Plato’s account, it was destroyed ‘by violent earthquakes and floods.’ However, if we take Plato at his word – as we must if we assume Atlantis to have been a historical place – the violence of its sinking makes it improbable that an entire city could have survived plunging more than 600 m into an abyss,” Fitzpatrick-Matthews wrote.
If these assumptions were correct, and the sunken formation was indeed the result of a natural phenomenon, scientists would still venture from across the world to investigate and document the bizarre site. Suspicious enough, there has been no progress being done towards revealing to the general public what lies beneath the Caribbean Sea. All the promises from the government, national museums, National Geographic, and other parties who offered to investigate came to a dead end.
Could this prove (once again) that suppression of information is real, and that whenever there’s a massive discovery involved the scientific world tends to cover it up for some unknown reason? Is it possible that the ruins of Atlantis or other unknown and advanced civilization had been uncovered but the elites refuse to make this public? Whatever the case, it’s likely that we are being lied to, and there could be numerous finds that challenge the foundation of history itself – all of them suppressed.
A Costa Rican witness at Cartago claimed to have seen and photographed a saucer-shaped UFO near the Irazú Volcano National Park. He submitted a report of his experience to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). It is filed under Case 74756 of the network’s witness reporting database.
According to the report, the witness was with his girlfriend outside in the park area under good weather condition with sunlight and no clouds when the encounter happened at 11:06 in the morning of February 24, 2016.
The reporting witness notes that the volcano is about 3,400 meters (11,260 feet) above sea level. Their location was close to the biosphere, and so they were above the clouds. The witness points out that they are like on an airplane, watching the sky so clear at 11 in the morning. He adds that part of the sky is light black.
The witness snapped some photos of the landscape and the volcano itself. He saw the clouds like a white sea, but there were some clouds close to the mountains in different forms, so he began to snap photos in that area.
While he was checking the pictures after going home, he noticed a black circle over the mountains. It appears to be a circular saucer with two little antennas – one on the top and another on its tail. He says that the object isn’t in the other pictures, which he took in a burst and only seconds apart of the picture that captured the UFO.
Robert Schroeder believes that we may be on the threshold of understanding the technology of UFOs. While it was once thought that the idea of extra dimensions was strictly the domain of science fiction, that has all changed in the last several years. Physicists now appear to be closing in on a final “THEORY OF EVERYTHING” which suggests that we may live is a Universe comprised of eleven dimensions. These cutting edge theories are now being tested at the large “Hadron Collider Particle Accelerator” in Geneva, Switzerland. One theory being tested by Harvard Scientists is “WARPED GEOMETRY” that Scientists believe may hold the key to “FAST INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL THROUGH OTHER DIMENSIONS.” SPECTROGRAPHIC DATA from actual UFO sightings can confirm whether these craft are using technology that we are now on the precipice of unraveling ourselves. Get the facts about these amazing observations and discoveries that will have a dramatic affect our future in this fascinating LIVE presentation.
Testing the Multiverse: Beyond the Limits of Science? (Op-Ed)
Testing the Multiverse: Beyond the Limits of Science? (Op-Ed)
By Robert Lawrence Kuhn
If there’s a multiverse out there can we see it?
Credit: Flickr/Maciek Bielec, CC BY-NC-SA
Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, writer and host of "Closer to Truth," a public television series and online resource that features the world's leading thinkers exploring humanity's deepest questions (produced and directed by Peter Getzels). This essay is the second in a series of three on the multiverse. The first is available at: "Confronting the Multiverse: What 'Infinite Universes' Would Mean." Kuhn contributed this essay to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed.
My night musings often drift to deep truths of existence: thoughts on cosmos, consciousness, meaning (if any). I can't help it. That's why I'm entranced by the idea of a multiverse, the theory that there are many universes, multiple universes, innumerable universes, perhaps an infinite number of universes. But the same set of facts, theories and inferences that imply a multiverse also severely limit, and perhaps proscribe completely, humans' capacity to conduct high-grade scientific studies, experimental or observational, to detect a possible multiverse.
So is the search for a multiverse "science?"
It depends on what the word "science" means
I studied science (my doctorate is in brain research) because science discerns how the world works. If there is any way to find agreement among disparate cultures and creeds, there's no way better way than through science.
Some scientists say that the scientific method is the only way of knowing. If science cannot know something, these scientists say, then that something is either not knowable or not worth knowing.
But are there truths, real truths, beyond science? What are the limits of science? How far can it go? Are there philosophical boundaries beyond which science cannot travel?
"I don't see them," said Frank Wilczek, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for deciphering the inner structure of protons and neutrons (they're almost all empty space). "The application of science can give insight into any question that makes sense. It may not give an answer. It may advise that the question is ill-posed, or it may provide only partial insight — but I don't think anything should be ruled out as inaccessible to science."
A multiverse, as we shall see, is a test case.
The essence of science — what science is actually doing — may seem obvious to scientists, but not to philosophers of science.
Bas van Fraassen is just such a philosopher of science, at San Francisco State University, and a professor of philosophy emeritus at Princeton University in New Jersey, and he is a strict empiricist, meaning that he believes knowledge qua knowledge must come directly from observation and data. "When I think about science," he told me, "I think of it as a large human enterprise that has certain criteria of success, and, as an empiricist, I say that all such success relates to what's observable. When science is successful, it gives the best possible descriptions and explanations of what we find in the observable realm." (All quotes are from "Closer to Truth.") [5 Reasons We May Live in a Multiverse ]
Van Fraassen said he is not a "scientific realist," meaning that he does not accept that the scientific criterion of success is "truth in every respect" or "truth, period." He said he rejects the prevailing notion that science can penetrate deeper than "just what's observable" and "postulate all things needed in order to explain observable things."
He has argued that we must decouple what we observe from whatever underlying reality may be generating those observations. In other words, there are (at least) two levels of reality: One consists of the rules and regularities of the physical world, which science can access and measure. But the other level, the ultimate source of those rules and regulations, science can never even access, much less come to know.
"To say you accept a scientific theory," van Fraassen said, "[only] means that you believe that it is empirically adequate with respect to the observable phenomena, what we find via inspection and measurement. I do not see the scientist as Columbus discovering America, but rather as constructing models and theories in order to represent observable phenomena."
Strict empiricism offers a more modest mission for science. So does its philosophical cousin, anti-scientific realism, which rejects, for various reasons, the common-sense idea that what we perceive is what really exists (for example, doubting that reality is mind-independent). Both strict empiricism and anti-scientific realism see an unbridgeable gap between deep reality and human cognition, because, like in a relay race, the "baton of information" is passed from one medium to another: from the actual source in deep reality, to electromagnetic radiation, to man-made instruments of observation, to biological sense organs, to neural processing in brains.
At each stage of that "information relay," argues the strict empiricist (and the anti-scientific realist), information is lost. There are several gaps, which combine to constitute an overall, unbridgeable gap.
As a strict empiricist, van Fraassen affirms only that which human beings can know for sure. He allows only observations and models into his realm of certitude, but not the underlying realities that generate them. "The scientific realist must have theories referring to real things," he stressed, "but to an empiricist, that is not a scientific explanation — it's a metaphysical explanation — and not the thing to do."
Princeton physics professor J. Richard Gott described the boundaries of science in terms of what science can and cannot know. "We've learned a great deal about the universe — age, structure, initial conditions, how it started, how it's developing. But a theologian might say, 'Well, have you really answered the question of why is there a universe, as opposed to no universe at all?' It's easy to imagine no universe at all. Science is not prepared to answer this question, at least not at the present time," he said.
Is there anything in the middle, so to speak, between what science can and cannot know?
The multiverse, stretching the limits of understanding
In answering that question, Gott pointed to a multiverse. "Scientists now speak of a multiverse ," he said, "many different universes beyond our observational capability. But we talk seriously about them."
A multiverse, awesome if real, is indeed a test case for exploring the limits and boundaries of science.
South African cosmologist George Ellis sharply asserted that view in the journal Nature. Ellis, who is well known for challenging the multiverse, argued that "attempts to exempt speculative theories of the universe from experimental verification undermine science.
"Because we cannot see them," Ellis told me, "we can't prove anything about them," emphasizing skeptical commentary similar to what he shared in my essay on the multiverse.
"This is a very powerful argument," Linde noted in response. "You cannot prove anything about things that you cannot see. Fortunately, this argument is wrong. Here's what's often missed in the discussion of the multiverse: If we have many experimental or observational facts that can be explained only in the context of one particular theory (e.g., multiverse), these facts constitute experimental or observational evidence in favor of this theory." [Note: "…in favor of this theory" is precise language; it does not mean "…evidence that proves this theory."]
"Thus, anybody disliking the theory of the multiverse," Linde continued, "should be asked to present an explanation of these observational or experimental facts in any other context, not involving a multiverse. Many people tried. Nobody succeeded. That's why we take it so seriously."
To make sure I understood what he meant by "experimental or observational facts that can be explained only in the context of one particular theory," or in other words, "that which cannot be explained otherwise," Linde invoked the anthropic principle. This oddly profound principle constrains theories of physics and cosmology by human existence, because humans must obviously exist if they are to observe the facts that they try to explain. This seemingly trivial, tautological or even nonsensical claim is, depending on one's views, either a surprisingly powerful predictive and explanatory tool or an embarrassing abandonment of the scientific method and an excuse for failure.
Two Nobel Laureates in physics have offered me their diametrically opposing views on the anthropic principle.
Steven Weinberg at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the pioneers of this new way of thinking about science, said that assuming "different versions of the multiverse idea, the anthropic principle is just common sense." The reason, he said, was that "if there is a vast number of universes — in which the various constants [of physics], including the energy in empty space [known as the cosmological constant], vary from universe to universe — it is natural that we will be only in the kind of universe that could support life." In other words, if the cosmological constant, which is a kind of repulsive gravity, would be greater than a certain maximum amount, then its anti-gravity force would resist and overpower gravity, preventing gravity from forming agglomerated bodies (galaxies, stars, planets).
On the other hand, when asked his view of the anthropic principle, physicist David Gross at the University of California at Santa Barbara said, "I hate it."
"Anthropic considerations acquire real physical meaning only if one has many potential options," Linde explained to me, "but only if some of them are compatible with the existence of observers.
"The multiverse provides these options", he asserted. "The most famous problem addressed by anthropic considerations is the size of the cosmological constant." In other words, in studying the energy density of empty space, the vacuum, why is the cosmological constant so astonishingly small but still not zero?
Linde said there are multiple problems in physics and cosmology, and only a multiverse can solve them, thus validating the multiverse as "science," even if justified in this new kind of way.
"I couldn't make any sense of this 'anthropic principle'," Linde explained, "until I proposed a model of an inflationary universe consisting of many different parts with different properties [different laws of physics]. The same picture appears in a much more convincing way in [cosmic] eternal chaotic inflation and finally became even more convincing after the discovery of 10^500 vacua in string theory." (See Linde’s "A brief history of the multiverse.")
This theoretical finding was that there are (very roughly) 10^500 different, theoretically feasible configurations or ways that string theory can generate different, theoretically feasible laws of physics (based on all the possible stable, geometrical or topological configurations of an infinitesimally small, higher-dimensional "manifold" that string theory proposes as the foundation of space and time and particles and forces). Each one of this vast number of specific configurations or ways characterizes its own kind of universe — and perhaps doing so in reality innumerable times to define innumerable universes — all of which taken together compose the multiverse.
Moreover, Linde claimed, this also means that the same facts that can serve as experimental evidence in favor of a multiverse can simultaneously serve as experimental evidence in favor of string theory. Thus, he concluded, both string theory and the multiverse become properly classifiable as "science."
Linde admitted that this is an unusual way to think about science, and he cited Weinberg: "Now we may be at a new turning point," Weinberg said famously, "a radical change in what we accept as a legitimate foundation for a physical theory."
"New theory is born in pain," Linde reflected, "but so far, the parents are quite happy, or at least cautiously optimistic," and he again quoted Weinberg.
"I found a report of a discussion at a conference at Stanford," Weinberg said, "at which [U.K. Astronomer Royal] Martin Rees said that he was sufficiently confident about the multiverse to bet his dog's life on it, while Linde said he would bet his own life. As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Linde and Rees' dog."
The failures of multiverse theory
With Linde's permission, I circulated his remarks to others quoted in my "Confronting the Multiverse" essay, and I received everyone's permission to post the remarks that follow.
In response, Ellis stated that Linde's argument requires three parts: experimental or observational facts to be explained, a viable theory that can explain these facts and no other theory that can work as well. And Ellis claimed that for the multiverse, "there are problems with each part."
"First, the anthropic puzzle" — i.e., how human observation seems to select or "determine" those laws of physics that are consistent with human existence — "is not a problem in physics," Ellis said. "It's a philosophical issue. By that I mean that there is no requirement of a new theory because of some experiment that contradicts the standard model of particle physics plus the standard model of cosmology. Rather, the aim is to explain values of fundamental constants involved in those theories. But that is always in terms of new theories involving other constants, which then in turn need to be explained in terms of further theories with further constants, and so on. It is quite unclear how many constants there are to be explained, when to stop the chain of explanation, or indeed what constitutes a valid 'explanation' — for this is a philosophical (or perhaps psychological?) aim."
Second, Ellis challenged each of what he labeled "the three pillars" of Linde's argument for multiple universes: (a) cosmic eternal chaotic inflation plus (b) the string-theory mechanism that generates vast numbers of different kinds of universes to give (c) an anthropic explanation of the value of the cosmological constant. Ellis claimed that competing theories and observational evidence disfavor Linde's theory. In any case, Ellis said, "using the multiverse to anthropically explain all the constants of physics does not work, because so many constants will have wrong values." In other words, according to Ellis, anthropic reasoning (i.e., where human existence must constrain physical conditions) in the context of a putative multiverse cannot predict the actual values of physical constants.
In summary, Ellis said arguments for the multiverse fail "because their requirements are not fulfilled." Pointedly, Ellis asserted that Linde’s multiverse-generating theories of cosmic inflation are ruled out or disfavored by recent observational data.
In response, Linde denied that “eternal chaotic inflation” is ruled out or disfavored by recent observational data, stressing differences among eternal chaotic inflation, chaotic inflation in general and its simplest version (all of which Linde discovered, or invented, depending on one's views). Only inflation's simplest version, he said, is ruled out by recent observations.
"The main idea is that in a broad class of theories, inflation can start even if initial conditions in the universe were chaotic, which explains the name 'chaotic inflation,'" he said. "High-temperature phase transitions, which were the basis of the first versions of inflationary theory, are no longer required. Almost all inflationary models studied now belong to this general class."
Linde stressed that just because he rejects Ellis' arguments against the multiverse does not mean that he thinks the theory of the multiverse is complete.
After reviewing the contrasting positions, Rees wondered whether it is "inconsistent" that Ellis gave "'scientific' arguments against Linde's specific model (which indeed are proper topics for debate) while asserting that none of this is real science."
Personally, in my epistemology of a multiverse, as it were, I am influenced by Weinberg's simple statement: "I quite agree with Linde" — which is consistent with Weinberg's own position permitting anthropic arguments to address scientific problems.
Challenging current belief
Although in questioning the multiverse, Ellis is in the minority — certainly among contemporary cosmologists — I admire his challenge to current belief. After all, that is what MIT physicist Alan Guth (the originator of cosmic inflation theory), Linde and others did in postulating cosmic inflation theory and multiple universes in the first place. Ellis has made people think hard about the assumptions underlying the purported reality of multiple universes, which, if real, would radically expand the scope of existence.
"First, if a multiverse is one of many predictions of a theory, and if its other predictions can be directly tested," he said, "then (assuming it survives those tests) we increase our confidence that there is a multiverse. Secondly, we can use statistical analysis related to anthropic selection, as Linde points out, to make testable predictions. So, for example, the multiverse explanation of the weakness of [repulsive] dark energy predicts that as we learn more about the formation of galaxies, the measured value of dark energy should come closer and closer to the maximum permitted that is consistent with galaxy formation. If some other explanation is correct, then there is no such constraint."
In other words, Davies made a provocative point about the fit between the actual, measured value of (repulsive) dark energy and the theoretical maximum value that such (repulsive) dark energy could take, but still allow for human existence by not overpowering, and thus not nullifying, the gravitational attraction needed to form galaxies, stars and planets. The tighter this fit, Davies said, the greater the consistency with a multiverse.
But, dare I say it, the same would also be true for consistency with a Design/Designer, would it not? ("The Multiverse and God" will be the topic of my third and final essay on the multiverse.)
Yet Davies challenged the multiverse by combining the implications of a multiverse with the so-called "Simulation Argument." This draws on two premises or assumptions, that (i) alien civilizations exist throughout the universe and (ii) continue to increase their computational capabilities. Given those two premises, then randomly chosen observers, like human beings, would most likely find themselves living in a simulated or "fake" universe (unless there are cosmic or technological "showstoppers" preventing whole-world simulations).
Davies argued that in a multiverse, "'fake universes' would be even more likely to vastly outnumber real universes [than in our one universe without a multiverse], so that if we live in multiverse, we would be overwhelmingly more likely to be living in a simulated reality. But that would imply that the laws of physics in our universe are also overwhelmingly more likely to be simulations and therefore cannot be used to conclude that there is a multiverse! So there is an inconsistency at the heart of the multiverse concept."
Let's unpack the argument and lay it out. To Davies, "If you take seriously the possibility of a multiverse of all possible universes, including all possible variations, then there would have to be at least some of those universes where sentient civilizations would advance to the point where they would have sufficient computing power to simulate entire fake worlds (like in the 'Matrix' movies). Simulated universes are much cheaper to make than the real thing. So once you've got civilizations throughout the multiverse that can simulate universes," Davies stressed, then this is what they will do, and do increasingly.
As a result, "the number of fake universes in a multiverse will proliferate greatly and very soon outnumber real ones." [Is Our Universe a Fake?]
Fake universes, Davies said, "undermine all the arguments for a multiverse," because arguments for a multiverse are based on the physics of this universe. "But if ours is a simulated universe, then our laws are simulated, too, which means that the whole of physics is a fake." And if the whole of physics is a fake, Davies said, then the whole argument for a multiverse collapses. The reason is that while the multiverse argument proceeds from the physics humans have discovered in this universe, people cannot use this argument because it then leads, surprisingly, to the conclusion that this is a fake universe, with fake physics.
That, Davies claimed, is an internal contradiction of the multiverse theory. "You're hoist by your own petard if you want to claim that there is a true multiverse with all possibilities, because it leads you to accept the fact that it's just full of fakes," he stressed, which then undermines the reality of physics, which in turn undermines standard arguments for the multiverse.
The best way to avoid this circular contradiction, in my opinion, is by asserting that simulating whole worlds, especially the simulation of consciousness, is impossible — even impossible in principle, even with an infinite number of universes, a claim that causes its own set of problems. [The Singularity, Virtual Immortality and the Trouble with Consciousness]
Another way might be to suppose that any simulated laws of physics in simulated universes would likely be based on "real" laws of physics in the simulators' "real" universe. (But for this counterargument to work, there would need be no exceptions, none whatsoever — which in such a vast universe, I think, is a bar too high.)
At first, the Simulation Argument (the possibility that this universe is a fake) seems to have nothing to do with arguments for the multiverse, yet each, curiously, threatens the other. Just as Davies showed how simulations would undermine the multiverse, a multiverse of infinite numbers of universes would play havoc with the Simulation Argument of this universe. (The reason is that infinities mess up measurements and statistics, because when all things occur an infinite number of times, the relative occurrences of all things acquire a kind of strange equality.)
In support of a multiverse, philosopher John Leslie posed a novel argument. "If there is any 'Creative Factor' responsible for there being a universe at all, something rather than nothing, anything not a blank," he argued, "then one could well expect that this cosmos-creating Creative Factor would operate more than once." That Creative Factor would be a principle, force, God — it doesn't matter what, he said. "Why on Earth would it have operated once only? Wouldn't it make more sense to suppose that it had operated countless times? If so, then there would be grounds for believing in a multiverse that didn't depend on accepting that the laws of physics we observe are genuine instead of 'fakes.'"
Human beings seem hardwired to want to know things, all things; people want to push knowledge to its ultimate limits, plumb the depths of ultimate reality. Science or metaphysics? Science and metaphysics? Which is the multiverse?
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Cataclysm Hunters: The Search for Monster Black-Hole Collisions
Cataclysm Hunters: The Search for Monster Black-Hole Collisions
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
Supermassive black holes at the heart of merging galaxies will circle closer and closer until they come together, releasing a titanic wave of energy. The process may help explain how black holes get so huge to begin with.
Credit: NASA
Julie Comerford has built a career searching for galaxies that contain not one, but two supermassive black holes — light-devouring monsters that have masses millions or billions of times that of the sun. So far, the count is up to 12.
"The mergers of two supermassive black holes is second only to the Big Bang as the most energetic phenomena in the universe," Comerford, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, told Space.com. Yet that titanic, violent dance — essential to galaxy growth and evolution — has not been spotted very often.
Each galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its core. When two galaxies merge, the two central black holes circle faster and faster, coming closer and closer until they merge into one as well. Once light crosses the threshold of a black hole, it can never escape, but galactic sleuths like Comerford have spent years looking for other kinds of evidence revealing those monster black holes headed for a cataclysmic collision. [The Strangest Black Holes in the Universe]
Relatively small "stellar mass" black holes form when a huge star dies in a supernova explosion and its core collapses. A black hole can grow as more mass falls into it, but nobody can fully explain how the supermassive ones lurking at the cores of galaxies are able to get so enormous — the one at the center of the Milky Way has a mass 4 million times that of the sun, and it's comparatively small. The process of two galaxies merging could explain this extraordinary growth.
"One theory is that maybe a lot of the black hole mass growth actually occurs during galaxy mergers, because that's when all this gas is being slammed together and funneled towards a black hole — so there's a lot of fuel available for the black hole to eat and build up its mass," Comerford said.
Solving the growth mystery promises to reveal insight into how galaxies, and the black holes at their hearts, grow and change over time. Plus, it should help hone scientists' newly proven powers of detecting gravitational waves.
Searching for light
The ultralarge black holes at the centers of galaxies don't let any light slip out, but pairs of structures so massive leave their mark on the environment around them in other ways. For one thing, they're always at the hearts of merging galaxies.
"The Milky Way just has one central big sphere of stars, so it would not be a good candidate for one of these potential double black holes," Comerford said. "We're looking for things that look different from the usual galaxies that you see images of, like a normal spiral galaxy or elliptical galaxy — that's not what we want. [We want] the ones that look like they're two merging spheres of stars."
That merging process also puts a lot of extra material in the path of each of the black holes, which can gain whirling "accretion disks" of dust around them that glow brightly andemit jets of energy. Supermassive black holes with that kind of ultrabright beacon are called quasars, and they're far from invisible — in fact, they often outshine the galaxies that surround them.
This artist's concept illustrates a quasar, or feeding black hole, similar to APM 08279+5255, where astronomers discovered huge amounts of water vapor. Gas and dust likely form a torus around the central black hole, with clouds of charged gas above and below.
Credit: NASA/ESA
Comerford first started searching for these double-black-hole galaxies when she was in graduate school. Her group first recognized the black holes by the unusual spectrum of light their host galaxies emit, as measured in big survey studies like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Galaxies with a quasar at their center — a supermassive black hole taking in large quantities of material — emit a narrow band of radiation that's very bright. But the galaxies Comerford was looking for were more complex: Instead of a nice, tall peak indicating the intense glow emitted by the quasar, she saw two peaks — one slightly redder and one slightly bluer.
The two peaks showed that there were two significant light sources in the system: one moving toward Earth and one moving away. By following up with an X-ray or radio telescope, or with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope looking in visible light, she could verify that those two light sources were embedded in a merging set of galaxies. [Black Holes' Jets Herald Galaxies' Mergers (Video)]
Comerford's systematic search could find supermassive black holes that are around 3,000 light-years away from each other — that's about 1/8 the distance from Earth's solar system to the center of the galaxy — and that are orbiting one another at about 500,000 mph (800,000 kph). Looking straight at such systems, it might be impossible to distinguish the two quasars from each other because they'd be too close together, so the wavelengths of light emitted provided a crucial first clue.
More recently, because of the increasing amount of Hubble galaxy imagery available, Comerford has started relying on visual images to pinpoint the supermassive black hole pairs. First, she finds quasar activity in telescope data, and then she checks with a Hubble image of the galaxy to see if it looks like it might be two merging galaxies, with two tight cores of stars that might each surround a supermassive black hole. Finally, she follows up with higher-resolution infrared or radio telescopes to try and distinguish whether there are two separate quasars there.
Diagrams of 30 merging galaxies. The edges show signal strength from carbon monoxide, while colors show where the gas is moving. Red represents gas moving away from Earth, and blue moving towards.
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/SMA/CARMA/IRAM/J. Ueda et al.
"There may be one [supermassive black hole pair] in every something like a thousand to a million galaxies," Sarah Spolaor, a researcher at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico, told Space.com. "The chance of just finding one by chance is pretty low, but if you have a sky catalog of thousands upon thousands of galaxies, then you're much more likely to see that kind of weird-looking one that you think, 'What is that?' — and it's maybe a binary black hole."
The growing mystery
Researchers know that supermassive black holes are intimately tied to the galaxies surrounding them. There's one at every galaxy's heart, and the galaxy's size is reflected in the size of the black hole. Even early galaxies, born close to the beginning of the universe, show that correlation. Finding black hole mergers can help solve the mystery of how those black holes got so big, so early in the universe's history. Plus, even the existence of quasars at all, which can only form once black holes get massive enough, raises questions.
"Why are we doing this stamp collecting?" Comerford said. "There's scientific questions that we want to answer, and that is one of the big ones: how do black holes get enough gas in the first place to become a quasar?"
Researchers know that black holes at the center of merging galaxies ultimately form into one larger supermassive black hole, but it's unclear whether that's the whole picture.
"Galaxy mergers are definitely an effective way to get supermassive black holes to grow," said Scott Barrows, an astronomer also at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "But how important is this process relative to other processes that could just be happening in a galaxy that's not interacting?" Barrows said. "There's not a good consensus on how this works as of yet," he told Space.com.
Barrows' own research searches for supermassive black hole systems where only one black hole has bloomed into a quasar — an indicator, he said, that the black holes are uneven; one is growing faster than the other and taking in more material kicked up in the merger. That uneven matchup could help scientists understand exactly what role the events play in growing black holes and the galaxies surrounding them. [Gallery: 65 All-Time Great Galaxy Hits]
Besides solving that mystery, a better understanding of the epic systems should reveal more about the overall universe's evolution, researchers say.
"Supermassive black holes are thought to play a huge role in how the universe evolves," Spolaor said. "They are the most massive compact single objects in the universe."
Black holes are so bizarre, they sound unreal. Yet astronomers havefound good evidence they exist. Test your knowledge of these wacky wonders.
When two black holes finally merge, they set off an intense clap of energy that should be released as gravitational waves — ripples in space-time that are caused by superenergetic events.
Gravitational waves were measured for the first time in February, and were traced back to the merging of two small black holes, each of which contained about 30 times the mass of the sun. Supermassive black hole mergers should give off a much more powerful signal.
"Once you have a population of these close double black holes, you can make predictions about how long they'll take to merge, or what the gravitational wave signatures they produce will be like," Comerford said. "That's the other angle. [On] the one side, we're learning about how black holes grow and build up their mass, and then the other angle is these are the black hole pairs that we know of that are the closest to merging and creating gravitational waves." [Stirred, Not Shaken - How Colliding Black Holes Make Waves (Video)]
This artist’s illustration shows gravitational waves created by two merging black holes.
Credit: Swinburne Astronomy Productions
Spolaor uses supersensitive radio telescopes to hunt for double black hole systems as part of her research into pulsar timing, a process that measures tiny changes to certain celestial bodies to detect gravitational waves moving through space. Knowing where double black hole systems are, and physical properties about the circling giants, can help her narrow down what types of gravitational wave signals to search for from the systems.
Scientists have already found one invisible interaction with gravitational waves, and one day, gravitational wave measurements will point out many of the universe's wildest interactions. But for now, it's up to researchers to interpret what light makes it over from those powerful, chaotic systems.
"When something like Hubble is observing one of my galaxies, I like to look up where the orbit of Hubble is," Comerford said. "I like to find out when it's passing overhead, where I am. So I go outside, and I look at Hubble while it's looking at one of my galaxies — that's how I commune with it. But then, I have to be patient and wait until at least the next day to see what the data actually looks like."
UFOs and Nukes Film to be Released: Robert Hastings’ Documentary Available at Vimeo On Demand
UFOs and Nukes Film to be Released: Robert Hastings’ Documentary Available at Vimeo On Demand
The reality of UFO incursions at American nuclear weapons facilities has been convincingly established. Hundreds of U.S. military veterans now openly discuss these ominous incidents and thousands of declassified government documents affirm their assertions.
Over the past four decades, I have interviewed more than 150 of those veterans regarding their involvement in one case or another. On September 27, 2010, CNN live-streamed my UFOs and Nukes press conference in Washington D.C. during which former U.S. Air Force missileers described occasions when several ICBMs mysteriously malfunctioned moments after a disc-shaped craft was observed hovering near their underground launch silos.
Robert Hastings The UFO Chronicles 4-2-16
My documentary film, UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed, will be available at Vimeo On Demand beginning on April 10, 2016. Unlike many of the UFO “documentaries” found on network television nowadays, which contain far more speculation than fact, this film rigorously examines the officially-still-hidden history of UFO activity at nuclear weapons laboratories, test areas, storage depots and missile sites—using authenticated files and the testimony of vetted military eyewitnesses.
The evidence presented makes clear that humans’ deadliest weapons have been—ever since their development and use during World War II—under intense scrutiny by still-unidentified observers. Significantly, documents smuggled out of Russia in the 1990s confirm that Soviet nukes were also the focus of UFO interest during the Cold War era. More recently, U.S. Air Force personnel have alleged a UFO involvement in one large-scale missile-disruption incident in October 2010. In short, the situation is still unfolding.
The purpose of this film is public education. Someone possessing tremendously advanced technology has monitored and even tampered with American and Russian nuclear weapons for decades. My view is that UFOs are piloted by beings from another world. Regardless, these stunning, nearly unbelievable developments must not be kept secret by a handful of government and military officials. We all have a right to know the facts.
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TRIANGULAR UFO spotted over Myanmar temples ! March 2016
TRIANGULAR UFO spotted over Myanmar temples ! March 2016
March 2016 - Myanmar, Burma. People filmed mysterious triangular UFO with glowing lights hovering over temple during several minutes.
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Black triangles are a class of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, with certain common features which have reportedly been observed during the 20th and 21st centuries. Media reports of black triangles originally came from the United States and United Kingdom.
Reports generally describe this class of UFOs as large, silent, black triangular objects hovering or slowly cruising at low altitudes over cities and highways. Sightings usually take place at night. These objects are often described as having pulsing colored lights that appear at each corner of the triangle.
Black triangle UFOs have been reported to be visible to radar, as was the case with the famous Belgian UFO wave. During these incidents, two Belgian F-16s attempted to intercept the objects (getting a successful missile lock at two occasions) only to be outmaneuvered; a key conclusion of the Project Condign report was that no attempt should be made on the part of civilian or RAF Air Defence aircraft to outmaneuver these objects except to place them astern to mitigate the risk of collision.
The reports state : "Occasionally and perhaps exceptionally, it seems that a field with, as yet, undetermined characteristics, can exist between certain charged buoyant objects in loose formation, such that, depending on the viewing aspect, the intervening space between them forms an area (viewed as a shape, often triangular) from which the reflection of light does not occur. This is a key finding in the attribution of what have frequently been reported as black 'craft,' often triangular and even up to hundreds of feet in length." These plasma formations also have the effect through "magnetic, electric or electromagnetic (or even unknown field), appears to emanate from some of the buoyant charged masses. Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain.
Recently un-redacted sections of the report state that Russian, Former Soviet Republics, and Chinese authorities have made a co-ordinated effort to understand the UAP topic and that Russian investigators have measured (or at least detected) 'fields' which are reported to have caused human effects when they are located close to the phenomena. According to the Ministry of Defence researchers, Russian scientists have connected their UAP work with plasmas and the wider potential use of plasmas and may have done "considerably more work (than is evident from open sources)" on military applications, for example using UAP-type radiated fields to affect humans, and the possibility of producing and launching plasmas as decoys.
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Disc-shaped UFO over Romsdalen Valley - NORWAY ! March 2016
Disc-shaped UFO over Romsdalen Valley - NORWAY ! March 2016
March 2016 - Norway, Romsdalen Valley. Hiker filmed mysterious disc-shaped UFO with glowing lights hovering over mountain in Romsdalen Valley.
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The Hessdalen Mystery :
The Hessdalen lights are unexplained nocturnal lights observed in a 7.5-mile-long (12 km) Hessdalen valley in rural central Norway. The Hessdalen lights are of unknown origin. They appear at night, and seem to float through and above the valley. They are usually bright white, yellow, or red and can appear above and below the horizon. The duration of the phenomenon may be from a few seconds to longer than an hour. Sometimes the lights move with enormous speed, and at other times, seem to slowly sway back and forth. On yet other occasions, they hover mid‑air. Some hypothesise that the light is ionised iron dust.
Unusual lights have been reported in the region since at least the 1930s. Especially high activity occurred between December 1981 and mid-1984, at which point the lights were being observed 15–20 times per week, which attracted many overnight tourists. As of 2010, the lights were observed 10–20 times per year.
Since 1983, there has been ongoing scientific research often nicknamed "Project Hessdalen", initiated by UFO-Norge and UFO-Sweden. The project was active as field investigations during 1983–1985. A group of students, engineers, and journalists collaborated as "The Triangle Project" in 1997–1998 and recorded the lights in a pyramid shape that bounced up and down. In 1998, the Hessdalen Automatic Measurement Station (Hessdalen AMS) was built in the valley and registers and records the appearance of lights.
Later, the EMBLA programme was initiated. It brings together established scientists and students into researching these lights. Leading research institutions are Østfold University College (Norway) and the Italian National Research Council.
Despite the ongoing research, there is no convincing explanation for the phenomenon. However, there are numerous working hypotheses.
1) One possible explanation attributes the phenomenon to an incompletely understood combustion involving hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium, and occurs in Hessdalen because of the large deposits of scandium there.
2) One recent hypothesis suggests that the lights are formed by a cluster of macroscopic Coulomb crystals in a plasma produced by the ionization of air and dust by alpha particles during radon decay in the dusty atmosphere. Several physical properties including oscillation, geometric structure, and light spectrum, observed in the Hessdalen lights (HL) can be explained through a dust plasma model. Radon decay produces alpha particles (responsible by helium emissions in HL spectrum) and radioactive elements such as polonium. In 2004, Teodorani showed an occurrence where a higher level of radioactivity on rocks was detected near the area where a large light ball was reported. Computer simulations show that dust immersed in ionized gas can organize itself into double helixes like some of occurrences of the Hessdalen lights; dusty plasmas may also form in this structure.
3) Another hypothesis explains HL as a product of piezoelectricity generated under specific rock strains (Takaki and Ikeya, 1998) because many crystal rocks include quartz grains which produce an intense charge density. In a 2011 paper, based on the dusty plasma theory of HL, it is suggested that piezoelectricity of quartz cannot explain a peculiar property assumed by the HL phenomenon – the presence of geometrical structures in its center. Paiva and Taft have shown a mechanism of light ball cluster formation in Hessdalen lights by the nonlinear interaction of ion-acoustic and dusty-acoustic waves with low frequency geoelectromagnetic waves in dusty plasmas. The theoretical model shows that the velocity of ejected light balls by HL cluster is about 10,000 m s−1 in a good agreement with the observed velocity of some ejected light balls, which is estimated as 20,000 m s−1. Why is the ejected ball always green-colored? Ejection of small green light ball from HL is due to radiation pressure produced by the interaction between very low frequency electromagnetic waves (VLF) and atmospheric ions (present in the central white-colored ball) through ion-acoustic waves (IAW). Paiva and Taft presented a model for resolving the apparently contradictory spectrum observed in HL phenomenon. Thus, its nearly flat spectrum on the top with steep sides is due to the effect of optical thickness on the bremsstrahlung spectrum. At low frequencies self-absorption modifies the spectrum to follow the Rayleigh–Jeans part of the blackbody curve. This spectrum is typical of dense ionized gas. Additionally, the spectrum produced in the thermal bremsstrahlung process is flat up to a cutoff frequency, ν, and falls off exponentially at higher frequencies. This sequence of events forms the typical spectrum of HL phenomenon when the atmosphere is clear, with no fog. According to the model, spatial color distribution of luminous balls commonly observed in HL phenomenon are produced by electrons accelerated by electric fields during rapid fracture of piezoelectric rocks under the ground.
There have been some sightings positively identified as misperceptions of astronomical bodies, aircraft, car headlights, and mirages.
Two researchers have proposed beaming controlled laser emissions in order to create an invisibility cloak around Earth, in order to help disguise the faint dimming of light produced by our planet every time it passes in front of the sun, hiding from prying ‘Alien’ eyes.
Is it possible that an ‘invisibility cloak of lasers’ could hide Earth, preventing an Alien invasion? According to experts, a new system could help protect our planet from hostile Aliens that might try and destroy it.
Two astronomers have proposed that beaming controlled laser emissions could literally create an invisibility cloak around Earth, in order to help disguise the faint dimming of light produced by our planet every time it passes in front of the sun.
According to experts, Intelligent Alien civilizations might be looking for Earth the same way we search for Alien Worlds: by looking for dips in our Suns light. This is why, they propose beaming a laser into the sky, in order to cloak this change in light. This ‘new’ system could effectively hide our planet from extraterrestrial telescopes, pointed at our planet. The method used in order to search for Alien worlds is based on light anomalies created by planets as they pass in front of their host star. Using this technique, NASA Kepler space telescope has discovered over 1000 new planets among them several which are believed to be extremely similar to Earth, located in the so-called habitable zone of their host star where temperatures are ideal for liquid water to exist.
However, it’s very likely that advanced alien civilizations m inhabiting other parts of the cosmos might have adopted similar techniques in order to hide their worlds from possible predators.
Professor David Kipping and his student Alex Teachey from Columbia University in New York believe that ‘alien astronomers’ might be using similar techniques as we do, in order to spot habitable zones around distant stars. Some of these aliens might not be as benevolent as we would want them to be, this is why it would be a great idea to hide our planet from prying ‘alien’ eyes.
The two researchers believe we can effectively hide our planet by masking the dip it creates while passing in front of our star. This can be achieved by sending a continuous 30MW laser blast for 10 hours each year.
‘There is an ongoing debate as to whether we should advertise ourselves or hide from advanced civilizations potentially living on planets elsewhere in the galaxy.
‘Our work offers humanity a choice, at least for transit events, and we should think about what we want to do,’ explained Professor Kipping.
In the past, numerous scientists have warned about sending radio signals into outer space since it could attract hostile aliens that would be technologically superior than we are. Professor Stephen Hawking warned about Aliens last year in an interview with El Pais: “ If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach. To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.” Hawking speculated.
But Hawking wasn’t the only one to suggest looking for aliens might not be such a great idea.
According to a statement from Dr. Kaku, who is an advisor on the Discovery channel’s Curiosity series, the human race wouldn’t stand a chance if Aliens came to Earth and attacked us. Aliens which could be over a million years ahead of our technology could wipe out mankind in seconds if they were to invade our tiny little planet.
“Hollywood assumes the aliens are maybe 100 years advanced than us and only if we had a secret weapon would defeat the aliens.
“Wrong.
“They could be a thousand, a million years more advanced than us. Realize the universe is 13.7 billion years old – they could have weapons we couldn’t even conceive of,” said Dr. Kaku.
This is why Professor David Kipping and Alex Teachey have proposed sending a continuous 30MW laser blast for 10 hours each year in order to hide our planet.
In their study, the duo wrote: „We suggest that advanced civilizations could cloak their presence, or deliberately broadcast it, through controlled laser emission. Such emission could distort the apparent shape of their transit light curves with relatively little energy, due to the collimated beam and relatively infrequent nature of transits. We estimate that humanity could cloak the Earth from Kepler-like broadband surveys using an optical monochromatic laser array emitting a peak power of about 30 MW for roughly 10 hours per year.
A chromatic cloak, effective at all wavelengths, is more challenging requiring a large array of tunable lasers with a total power of approximately 250 MW. Alternatively, a civilization could cloak only the atmospheric signatures associated with biological activity on their world, such as oxygen, which is achievable with a peak laser power of just around 160 kW per transit. Finally, we suggest that the time of transit for optical SETI is analogous to the water-hole in radio SETI, providing a clear window in which observers may expect to communicate. Accordingly, we propose that a civilization may deliberately broadcast their technological capabilities by distorting their transit to an artificial shape, which serves as both a SETI beacon and a medium for data transmission. Such signatures could be readily searched in the archival data of transit surveys.“
‘To another civilization, this should make the Earth appear as if life never took hold on our world,’ said Mr. Teachey.
The proposal created by Professor David Kipping and Alex Teachey are published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Japan's space agency says that has received signals from the Hitomi satellite, which might have separated into multiple pieces due to being hit by space debrisJAXA
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says it is still receiving signals from the its black hole-hunting satellite Hitomi, even though it is likely that the $273m (£191m) observatory has broken into multiple pieces.
Hitomi, which is a state-of-the-art x-ray observatory, was developed in conjunction with Nasa, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), with the intention of having it observe and analyse some of the greats secrets of the universe, such as black holes and exploding stars.
Hitomi, also known as ASTRO-H, was launched into space on 17 February, but JAXA lost contact with the satellite 4.40pm GMT (00.40am JST, 09.40am CST) on 26 March. Then on 27 March, the US Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC), which tracks and monitors all space debris near Earth tweeted that five pieces of debris were seen floating in the vicinity of Hitomi around the same time that it lost communication with Earth.
Then on 28 March, JSpOC confirmed that its analysis of the incident showed that the Hitomi satellite definitely did break into multiple pieces, which means that the satellite was possibly hit by some sort of space debris that caused it break into pieces.
Now that's pretty bad news, and JAXA has since confirmed JSpOC's report, but the Japanese space agency hasn't given up on finding Hitomi, and in fact posted an update on 29 March at 2pm GMT (10pm JST, 7am CST), stating that it received signals from the satellite on two separate occasions.
"The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been trying to communicate with the X-ray Astronomy Satellite "Hitomi" (ASTRO-H), using ground stations both in Japan and overseas. By utilising two opportunities of communicating with Hitomi, JAXA received signals from the satellite: the first time was at about 10pm on 28 (March) at the Uchinoura Ground Station, and the second one was at around 0.30am on 29 (March) at the Santiago Tracking Station in Chile," JASA wrote in its update.
"JAXA has not been able to figure out the state of its health, as the time frames for receiving the signals were very short."
So in fact, Hitomi might not have suffered extensive damage after all, a belief echoed by Dr Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who is also the author of Jonathan's Space Report, a bi-monthly newsletter that documents satellite launches.
"'Debris' doesn't mean Hitomi's in little pieces. It means little pieces have come off it. Satellite might be basically intact, we don't know," McDowell wrote in a post that was retweeted by JSpOC.
"Debris" doesn't mean Hitomi's in little pieces. It means little pieces have come off it. Satellite might be basically intact,we don't know
JAXA also confirmed that telescopes at the Bisei Space Guard Center (BSGC) owned by the Japan Space Forum detected two objects around the satellite's original orbit, and that a radar located at the Kamisaibara Space Guard Center (KSGC) identified one of the objects. The space agency says it is continuing to investigate the connection between JSpOC's information and the communication anomaly.
For now, we still very little about what's happened to the Hitomi satellite, but it would be great if $273m hadn't gone completely down the drain.
…ou illusion d'optique comme sur cette photo mettant volontairement en situation étonnante l'œuvre d'un architecte ?
Phénomènes d'optique comme sur ce document amateur… - (Photos archives NR)
Lumières étranges, objets brillants se déplaçant à des vitesses inhabituelles, triangles lumineux… l’Indre-et-Loire n’échappe pas aux apparitions parfois étonnantes. Ovnis or not ovnis ?
Loches, le 19 juin 1980, il est 23 h 45. « Un enfant voit sa chambre s'éclairer et aperçoit par la fenêtre un engin de forme triangulaire. Des lumières fixes ou clignotantes éclairent l'objet qui se déplace sans bruit. La base de l'engin est éclairée de jaune et sur les côtés des lumières jaunes et rouges disposées alternativement clignotent. Un gyrophare rouge s'éclaire fortement lorsque les lumières des côtés arrivent au sommet. Effrayé l'enfant appelle sa mère et ils verront ensemble l'engin disparaître dans le paysage. Lors de l'observation le ciel était nuageux. Aucune autre information n'a été recueillie sur ce phénomène pour lequel nous manquons d'informations. »
En juillet de cette même année, la mère de cet enfant se rend à la brigade de gendarmerie de Loches et y fait une déposition. Souhaitant rester discrète sur ce phénomène des plus étranges, elle demande au brigadier qui la reçoit de ne pas ébruiter l'affaire. Le procès-verbal suivra pourtant alors le chemin des procédures habituelles : ministère de la Défense, commandement des bases aériennes, services de renseignements… Pour se retrouver aujourd'hui dans les archives du Geipan, le très sérieux Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés. Une structure scientifique rattachée au Centre national d'études spatiales (Cnes) sur lequel l'État français porte une attention toute particulière.
Ou quand l'étoile Capella joue aux ovnis
Sur le site du Geipan il est ainsi possible d'accéder à toutes les archives mentionnant des apparitions étranges survenues dans le ciel de Touraine. A la plupart d'entre elles, les scientifiques du Geipan apportent une explication qui décevra les adeptes d'ovnis.
Comme en ce mois de mars 2015 où plusieurs témoins, dans le secteur de Joué-lès-Tours, observent un objet lumineux se déplaçant dans le ciel. A cela, les scientifiques concluront « que le cas concerne l'observation certaine de l'étoile Capella doublée d'une illusion de déplacement et d'un effet physiologique de micro-nystagmus. L'étoile disparaît probablement masquée par un banc de nuages ».
Il existe ainsi plusieurs cas tourangeaux recensés ces dernières décennies par le Geipan. Entre phénomènes étranges et sans réponses - comme celui de Loches - et apparitions « normales » (satellites, étoiles, illusion d'optique, ballon-sonde…), le ciel de Touraine livre ainsi (presque) tous ses mystères. Pour faire référence à la célèbre série X-Files, la vérité n'est donc pas forcément ailleurs…
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En France, 16 % des phénomènes analysés par le Geipan sont parfaitement identifiés. Et 34 % sont probablement identifiés.
En fait, sur la totalité des phénomènes observés sur le territoire national « seuls » 280 d'entre eux sont non-identifiés.
Pyramids in China Hidden by the Chinese Government We have all heard about the great Pyramid, the one in Giza, that is the tallest Pyramid on Earth, Right? You may be surprised to discover that the great Pyramid found in Giza is NOT the tallest one on Earth, in fact it is not even close. Wait till you hear this!
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https://www.youtube.com/user/TheKeplertelescope In China, there are large Pyramids that are not only lined with the stars and showing advanced Mathematics in lay-out, design and construction, they are also among the largest in the World, in fact the true great Pyramid, the largest that we know of, is twice the size of the Great Pyramid at Giza and it is hidden in plain, but why are the Chinese trying to hide the biggest and most significant archaeological find of the Ancient World? Despite speculation about the existence of the great pyramids in China, archaeologists have refused to consider even the rumours about such structures. But recent aerial pictures proves that China’s pyramids are indeed real, rivalling those of Egypt and Central America for their age, size and significance. The Chinese pyramids drew popular attention just after World War II. Many early stories were focused on the existence of the Great White Pyramid. This is the tomb of Emperor Wu of Han located in Shaanxi Province.** shang-k-sii, (I think)** U.S. Army Air Corps pilot James Gaussman is said to have seen a white jewel-topped pyramid during a flight between India and China during World War II. James Gaussman told of his eyewitness encounter with a Chinese pyramid in the March 28, 1947 edition of The New York Times. A photo of a pyramid in China appeared in The New York Sunday News on March 30, 1947, raising a few eye brows across the globe. Pseudo-historians have increased western awareness of these pyramids. Hartwig Hausdorf speculated it was built by aliens, and Philip Coppens repeated this theory The existence of these pyramids in China remained completely unknown in the Western world until the 1910s. They were documented in large numbers around Xian, first in 1912 by the Western traders Fred Meyer Schroder and Oscar Maman, and also in 1913 by the expedition of Victor Segalen. It is located about 40 miles southwest of Xian **Zyan**, the largest of sixteen pyramids located in the area designated as a no-go area, a forbidden zone by Communist authorities. These restrictions make it extremely difficult and dangerous for Westerners to visit the pyramid and take photographs of it. Despite the restrictions and with the help of the people of China, photos are emerging. It is unknown when exactly the Great Pyramid of China was built. According to some Chinese archaeologists the pyramid was built around 3000 years before the birth of Christ. Ancient records preserved in an old monastery near the Mongolian border describe the Xian pyramid. The structure was said to measure 1,000 feet in height which made it the highest pyramid in the world, the Great Pyramid of Egypt is 450 feet in height, so the Great China pyramid is more than double the height. Imagine that for a second, 2 Giza pyramids on top of each other and then some, does that not blow your mind? According to the monastic documents the pyramid was already extremely old when the records were made so we are talking about some of the oldest structures on Earth here. In the valleys surrounding the Xian pyramid there are dozens of other pyramids, some almost as tall as the Great Xian Pyramid, these smaller ones are also larger than any of the other Pyramids found scattered across the globe. When Hartwig Hausdorf and his friend Peter Krassa reached the township of Xianyang, about 40 miles west of Xian they saw at least 15 pyramids in the area. The two researchers were surprised to see small trees planted on the sides of these pyramids. “I had been told that, over the past four or five years, the Chinese had been planting fast growing conifers, a kind of Cypress tree on the slopes of these pyramids. I wondered briefly what they were trying to hide by making these Ancient Wonders blend so completely into their surroundings. The construction of these smaller Chinese pyramids is similar to that of the pyramids of Teo-tiahu-can**teo-tia-hu-can_, near Mexico City, the tops of most of these Chinese structures are flattened off, similar to the rectangular structures of the Mayans,” Hausdorf said. The estimated age of these pyramids is 6000 years and it is believed they have been arranged to align with certain constellations in the night sky, just as certain key pyramids in Egypt were constructed in imitation of the constellation Orion. The Chinese pyramids near Xian are proof of the immense knowledge of geometry and mathematics by these builders five millennia ago, who were they? And where did they go? In 1994, archaeologists discovered several pyramids near the Wei River, north of Xian. It is thought that there may be as many 100 pyramids in China, including the Great White Pyramid which is the highest of them all. All of them are unheard of in the Western world so spread the word guys. Who were the mysterious Chinese pyramid builders? Were they members of an ancient Atlantean civilization, or were they perhaps giants of the past, or maybe even Alien visitors or inhabitants from the stars? Maybe they positioned the pyramids under their home stars. Local villagers claim their distant ancestors spoke of sky ships that navigated the heavens and used the pyramids. Whatever the purpose was for these Pyramids, they were built with such precision that our current technology cannot replicate it. Pretty amazing right. What do you guys think of the Giant Pyramids in China? Why are the Chinese trying to keep them secret? Comments below.
Ook het leven van de zon duurt niet eeuwig en als de zon sterft ziet het er slecht uit voor onze planeet. Maar misschien…kunnen we de aarde met haar hele hebben en houwen wel verhuizen naar een veiliger plekje!
Een hele tijd geleden kon je op Scientias.nl lezen wat er gebeuren zou als onze zon sterft. Erg rooskleurig zag het er niet uit. Kort samengevat: de zon wordt groter en helderder (een rode reus) en slokt Mercurius en Venus op. En ook voor de aarde ziet het er niet goed uit: de kans is aanwezig dat onze planeet ook door de uitdijende zon wordt verorberd. Of de aarde wordt – in het gunstigste geval – enkel geroosterd en van zijn water ontdaan. Beide scenario’s resulteren in hetzelfde: de aarde raakt zijn leven kwijt.
Redding Het is nog niet direct iets om vannacht over wakker te liggen. De zon heeft naar schatting nog meer dan zes miljard levensjaren te gaan en zal pas over zo’n 3,5 miljard jaar een bedreiging voor het leven op aarde gaan vormen. Desalniettemin houdt deze naderende ellende wetenschappers in haar greep. Want hoe kunnen we het leven op aarde – ervan uitgaande dat dat er tegen die tijd überhaupt nog is – redden?
De zon laat haar stralen over de aarde glijden. Afbeelding: NASA.
Huis en haard verlaten Er is een vrij simpele oplossing: maken dat we wegkomen. We zouden in een ruimteschip kunnen stappen en naar een exoplaneet (een planeet buiten ons zonnestelsel) kunnen vliegen die in veel opzichten op onze aarde lijkt. Voorwaarde is wel dat zo’n exoplaneet bestaat (tot op heden hebben we het tweelingzusje van de aarde nog niet kunnen vinden) en we deze bereiken kunnen (de dichtstbijzijnde exoplaneet is zo’n 40 biljoen kilometer van ons verwijderd).
Huis en haard meenemen Het zal even slikken zijn: onze planeet – of wat er tegen die tijd dan nog van over is – achterlaten. Gelukkig is er nog een andere manier om het vege lijf te redden. En het grote voordeel van deze methode is dat we niet alleen ons eigen vege lijf, maar ook dat van de aarde veilig kunnen stellen. Wetenschappers kwamen enkele jaren geleden met het idee om de gehele aarde te verhuizen. Het is een interessant voorstel dat in theorie zou kunnen werken. De zon wordt groter en helderder en vroeg of laat komt deze te dicht bij onze planeet in de buurt. Tenzij we de afstand tussen de zon en de aarde voorafgaand aan dat moment geleidelijk aan vergroten. Klinkt eenvoudig, maar dat is het niet. Want hoe gaan we de aarde in beweging krijgen?
Een artistieke impressie van een Kuipergordelobject. Afbeelding: NASA.
Kuipergordelobject In 2008 deden drie wetenschappers dat in hun paper ‘Astronomical engineering: a strategy for modifying planetary orbits‘ uit de doeken. Ze stelden voor om gebruik te maken van een Kuipergordelobject. Dit zijn objecten die zich voorbij de baan van Neptunus bevinden en – net als de planeten – om de zon cirkelen. Om zo’n Kuipergordelobject te kunnen gebruiken, moeten we het eerst dichterbij halen. Dat kan door het object – dat een omvang van zo’n 100 kilometer moet hebben – af te remmen (bijvoorbeeld door met behulp van een raket tegengas te geven). Het Kuipergordelobject zal dan richting het hart van het zonnestelsel beginnen te vallen. Het is de bedoeling dat het object daarbij op zo’n 16.000 kilometer afstand langs onze planeet scheert. Tijdens die scheervlucht moet het object de aarde een zwiepje geven, waardoor onze planeet zich van de zon verwijdert.
MAG DE MAAN MEE?
Ze zijn al heel lang samen: de aarde en de maan. Wat gebeurt er met onze natuurlijke satelliet wanneer we de aarde gaan verhuizen? Mag de maan mee? Uit de berekeningen van de onderzoekers blijkt dat de aarde de maan tijdens dit hele proces kwijt zou raken. Nu is het verlies van de maan mogelijk niet wenselijk en zullen er dus wellicht maatregelen moeten worden getroffen om onze natuurlijke satelliet toch mee te laten verhuizen.
Geduld! Eén scheervlucht van een Kuipergordelobject zal ons niet van de ondergang kunnen redden. Daarvoor zijn meerdere scheervluchten (bij voorkeur van hetzelfde Kuipergordelobject) nodig. Met elke scheervlucht schuift de aarde namelijk ongeveer 48 kilometer op. Om de aarde ver genoeg van de zon vandaan te krijgen, moet er voor de rest van het leven van de zon elke 6000 jaar zo’n scheervlucht plaatsvinden. In dat scenario zou de aarde over 6,3 miljard jaar – wanneer de zon 2,2 keer helderder is dan nu het geval is – anderhalf keer verder van de zon verwijderd zijn dan nu het geval is en ongeveer evenveel zonlicht ontvangen als deze nu doet. Het zou betekenen dat de oceanen niet gaan koken, de planeet niet geroosterd wordt en het leven op aarde blijft bestaan.
De risico’s Het klinkt als een prachtig plan. Maar er zijn wel risico’s aan verbonden. Het komt namelijk allemaal heel erg nauw. Om zoveel mogelijk energie op de aarde af te geven, moet het Kuipergordelobject heel dicht bij de aarde in de buurt komen. Een kleine fout in de calculaties kan zomaar resulteren in een inslag. Wanneer een object met een omvang van zo’n 100 kilometer op aarde inslaat, zou al het leven op aarde (met uitzondering van de bacteriën) verdwijnen. Ook het effect dat het Kuipergordelobject op de aarde heeft, moet goed berekend worden: we willen natuurlijk niet dichter naar de zon toe bewegen. En welke gevolgen heeft het verhuizen van de aarde voor de andere planeten in ons zonnestelsel? “De gevolgen van het opnieuw inrichten van het zonnestelsel moeten geëvalueerd worden,” zo schrijven de onderzoekers. Ze verwijzen daarbij naar een studie uit het eind van de twintigste eeuw die aantoont dat het verwijderen van de aarde uit ons zonnestelsel ervoor zou zorgen dat Venus en Mercurius uit balans raken. Hoewel de onderzoekers niet voornemens zijn de aarde te verwijderen, zou het verhuizen ervan ook gevolgen kunnen hebben voor de stabiliteit van andere planeten.
Zo zijn de planeten nu geordend. Maar wat gebeurt er als we met één van die planeten gaan rommelen? Afbeelding: WP (via Wikimedia Commons).
Er zijn dus zeker risico’s aan verbonden. En dat brengt ons bij de vraag: wegen die risico’s op tegen het redden van onze planeet? Voor je daar een antwoord op kan geven, is het goed om te weten dat ook het verhuizen van de aarde in feite niets meer is dan uitstel van executie. Want de zon blijft niet voor eeuwig een rode dwerg. Uiteindelijk zal alleen de kern van de zon overblijven. We noemen dat een witte dwerg. Die kern – waarin geen fusie meer plaatsvindt – koelt steeds verder af. En zo komen we voor een nieuw probleem te staan: dit keer geen hitte, maar kou. En dan zal er dus opnieuw een oplossing gezocht moeten worden om ons vege lijf te redden.
Gelanceerd met een H-IIA draagraket in februari, zijn er zware problemen met een Japanse satelliet voor ambitieus astronomisch onderzoek, zo heeft het Japanse ruimtevaartbureau Jaxa bekendgemaakt.
Vorige week verloor de röntgensatelliet Hitomi (de nieuwe naam voor de Astro-H) de communicatielink met de grond.
De kunstmaan was er niet in geslaagd zichzelf te stabiliseren, raakte op 26 maart in een rolbeweging en liep daarna "enige schade" op, aldus een functionaris van het Jaxa. Het denkt niet dat de satelliet met ruimteschroot is gebotst. Meerdere objecten, tot een meter groot, in de buurt van het tuig zouden afgebroken delen van de kunstmaan zijn.
Wel heeft de satelliet nog vier onvolledige pakketten data doorgestuurd wat erop wijst dat sommige systemen nog steeds functioneren.
Mogelijk zal het Jaxa maanden nodig hebben om te weten hoe het precies zit en om eventueel wegen te vinden om de Hitomi weer aan de praat te krijgen.
Als mogelijke oorzaak denkt het Jaxa aan een breuk in de heliumtank, een brandstoflek in de stabilisatiemotor of een batterijpanne.
Medeontwikkeld door de Amerikaanse NASA beschikt de Hitomi over vier röntgentelescopen en twee detectoren van gammmastraling.
Wetenschappers hoopten bijvoorbeeld meer te weten te komen over zwarte gaten.
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VREEMD WEZEN ONTDEKT IN THAMES BIJ LONDEN, GB ( VIDEO )
VREEMD WEZEN ONTDEKT IN THAMES BIJ LONDEN, GB ( VIDEO )
Iedere dag maken toeristen gebruik van een mooie kabelbaan die bij Greenwich in Londen de ene oever met de andere verbindt.
Je hebt van daaruit een prachtig uitzicht over de rivier en soms zie je ook dingen die er eigenlijk niet thuis horen.
In Londen heb je tegenwoordig een kabelbaan die de ene oever van de Theems met de andere verbindt.
Wanneer je echt van het uitzicht wilt genieten, is het natuurlijk een mooie manier om van de ene kant naar de andere van de stad te reizen.
Nu zijn er enkele mensen geweest die tijdens die overtocht over de rivier iets vreemds onder en half boven water hebben gezien.
Het zag eruit zoals op de volgende foto’s:
Er zijn door een aantal mensen ook video-opnames gemaakt zoals hieronder te zien.
Wat het ook is, het is maar heel kort zichtbaar.
Afgezien van een vreemd wezen zou het natuurlijk ook een soort onderzeeër of iets dergelijks kunnen zijn. Als dat het geval is dan zal ongetwijfeld Vladimir Poetin weer worden aangewezen als schuldige (grapje).
Natuurlijk bestaat ook de mogelijkheid dat het monster van Loch Ness besloten heeft om een lang weekend in Londen door te brengen.
Fleet Of UFOs Lift Off Out Of Ocean Near Island Off Of Spain, March 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Fleet Of UFOs Lift Off Out Of Ocean Near Island Off Of Spain, March 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: March 27, 2016 18:42:28 Location of sighting: Callao Salvaje Island, Spain Source: MUFON #75515 Look closely and not only do you see a long UFO over the water at Callao island, but you also see five round UFOs behind it. There is also something very big and cloaked on the left side of the screen. It looks like buildings, but is probably a cloaked vessel. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: One mothership with cigar apareance plus 5 objects near mothership, faraway up to skyline caught from our security camera with movement detector. You can see clearin the photo, but in video only appear as a flash during one second in the second number two of the film.
Silver UFO Over Neighborhood In Virginia On March 26, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Silver UFO Over Neighborhood In Virginia On March 26, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: March 26, 2016 Location of sighting: Alexandria, Virginia, USA Source: MUFON #75524 This UFO was reported today on MUFON and the eyewitness states they spotted the object while on the train. Excellent capture, even though he only had a few seconds to get the photos. If you live in Alexandria and have seen this UFO, please let us know in comments below. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: On Saturday March 26, 2016- I was exiting the Huntington Metro garage on the Huntington Ave side (lower Huntington Metro) when coming down the ramp across from Fenwick Dr. when I glanced up and saw a strange silver/grey object hovering off in the distance seemingly over the area of the highway/Eisenhower ave/ Duke st. I could not tell its exact size but it was large and stationary ( it did not lower or raised as I watched it). I noticed that the sky was partly cloudy but the top of the object was reflecting sunlight or radiated its own light. As I was watching the item, a couple came up to me and said that they had first spotted the object form the metro train as they came into Eisenhower station. The wife stated that her husband did not see any type of tether and ask me did I see one. I said I did not as we watched it hover, then spin on its axis and I saw the attachment just under its "nose". It was slightly curve and reddish in color. I took out my cell phone and snap off a couple of pictures. I then quickly cross Huntington ave and made my way towards Huntington Park, which took me know more than 5 minutes. I lost sight of the object so I crossed the length of the park still not spotting it. I made my way to the banks of Camron Run/ Huntington Creek, looked and saw nothing. I stood there for about 10 minutes before I left and went on my way. The pictures are nice and clear but the object to far away for the phone to get a better picture. Blow-up you can see the attachment better.
UFO-and-alien-themed movies have been making sizable dents at the worldwide box-office for decades. As I define it, the UFO subgenre boasts some of the most successful movies of all time. But for every Independence Day, there are dozens of lesser-known UFO movies. Some have slipped under our radar for being, shall we say, less ‘polished’ than the typical Hollywood fare; some have been simply too ‘weird’ and failed to connect with audiences of their time; while others have escaped our attention for being produced outside of the Hollywood system altogether.
Here, then, are five UFO movies you’ve (probably) never seen…
The Flying Saucer (1950)
The Flying Saucer was the world’s very first UFO movie, and its director, Mikel Conrad, had claimed publicly while in production that he had managed to secure footage of a real flying saucer that would wow audiences the world over. In September 1949, Conrad told the Ohio Journal Herald, “I have scenes of the saucer landing, taking off, flying and doing tricks.” Shortly thereafter the director became the subject of a two-month Air Force investigation.
As documented by Nick Redfern, files released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that an agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations was dispatched not only to interrogate Conrad about his claims, but also to attend the first private screening of his completed film. Unsurprisingly, Conrad’s story was soon revealed as an elaborate marketing scam designed to promote what was, in reality, a tedious and uneventful movie. The Conrad case is significant for its demonstration of the high degree of seriousness with which the USAF regarded the issue of media depictions of the burgeoning UFO phenomenon.
Disappointingly, the eponymous flying saucer eventually proves to be a soviet secret weapon. Aliens don’t even get a mention. At the time of the movie’s release in 1950, the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) was already firmly in favor among UFO believers, and Conrad’s unimaginative story failed to connect with audiences. Its shoddy production values and dreadful performances didn’t help. Like many a real flying saucer, Conrad’s movie was seen by only a few people, and for a short time.
The Body Stealers (1969)
When a unit of British military paratroopers vanishes inexplicably during a jump from an army plane, two investigators, Patrick Allen (Bob Megan) and Neil Connery (Jim Radford), are tasked with solving the mystery and soon uncover a dastardly alien plot to steal human bodies by snatching them out of the air.
Released in 1969, this James-Bond-inspired, low budget Brit flick was arguably the first motion picture ever to focus directly on the idea of alien abduction. This was a time when abduction lore was still embryonic, with only a small handful of accounts having surfaced in UFO literature, most notably the Hill abduction case of 1961 (not widely publicised until 1966), and the Herbert Schirmer case of 1967. While earlier movies, such as Invaders from Mars (1953) and This Island Earth (1955), had contained plot details closely paralleling those of modern UFO abduction accounts, The Body Stealerswas the first to devote its entire narrative to the mystery of alien-human kidnappings. Sadly, it’s incredibly dull, dramatically and UFOlogically, although it still entertains today in an Austin Powers sort ofway.
The Stranger Within (1974)
This peculiar production was broadcast in 1974 as an ABC Movie of the Week. The Stranger Within starred Barbra Eden as a suburban housewife with a vasectomized husband who finds herself inexplicably pregnant. As the narrative unfolds the wife’s behavior grows increasingly bizarre. Her husband and her doctor eventually reach the radical conclusion that she has been abducted and impregnated by aliens, and that her memory of these events has been erased. The film plays out as a serious psychological drama, free of the cheap sensationalism it could so easily have embraced.
The author Mike Clelland has provideed insightful analysis of the movie, noting: “What is terribly bizarre is that this movie seems to have predicted so much of what has now become well documented within the UFO abduction research field – accounts of women who are mysteriously pregnant, seemingly after an abduction by aliens.”
Clelland further observes a list of plot points in this obscure little movie which anticipate with eerie precision what are now considered to be key characteristics of the abduction phenomenon:
~ A pregnancy without any sexual source.
~ A female abductee with gynecological problems
~ The urge to research and study scientific topics.
~ Hypnosis as a tool for recovering memories of the abduction experience.
~ An abductee channeling an alien being.
~ Telepathic communication.
~ A sense of longing for an alien world.
~ Experiencing a dramatic healing.
~ Marks on the body that can’t be explained, only to heal rapidly without scarring.
~ Lower than normal body temperature.
~ An abductee with Rh blood factor.
~ Sensitivity to sound.
~ Craving salt.
The Stranger Within was scripted by famed writer Richard Matheson, based closely on his own 1953 short story, Trespass. “How did Matheson write something that so closely predicted what would unfold decades later?” Clelland asks. “One thought is that he might have been an abductee, and he was simply using his own experiences, either remembered or buried, when he wrote the story.” Clelland dismisses this idea, though, “because he [Matheson] had a massive output of work, and little else [of his] seems to match these ideas.”
Clelland instead suggests that a far stranger force could be at work in this case. He writes:
I am convinced that there is a very real power in the creative process, and when abandoning (or disciplining) oneself to this kind of artistic inspiration, something mysterious can unfold. The artist can somehow tap into deeper truths. The work-a-day routine of sitting in front of a typewriter (or canvas, or drawing board) can be seen as a ritual act, very much like the forgotten alchemist who sits before his candle. Matheson must have been on fire during those early years writing for pulp magazines, and something weirdly predictive seems to have been manifested in his tight little story.
The power of the creative process to anticipate and manifest realities has been explored extensively by Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Texas. In his book, Mutants and Mystics, Kripal asserts that “There is something fundamentally mystical about writing… words, stories, and symbols can become real.” Kripal means this literally, not figuratively. It is through the creative process, he says, that “The imagination can become empowered to make contact with what appears to be a real spiritual world or, at the very least, an entirely different order of mind.”
The Arrival of Wang (2011)
Gaia (Francesca Cuttica), a Chinese-to-Italian interpreter in Rome is summoned for an urgent and highly sensitive assignment. So sensitive that she’s kept in the dark, both figuratively and literally, by her government employer, represented by belligerent Secret Service agent, Inspector Curti (Ennio Fantastichini).
Unable to resist a substantial cash offer for her services, Gaia reluctantly accepts her clandestine assignment, which requires that she be blindfolded for her own security. Ushered into a darkened room in an underground government bunker, Gaia is asked to sit (still blindfolded) at a table opposite the subject of her translation – a mysterious “Mr. Wang.”
Inspector Curti then prompts Gaia to elicit from Mr. Wang the reason for his unexpected arrival in Rome. As Curti’s interrogation methods become increasingly hostile, Gaia demands that her blindfold be removed and the lights turned up, only to find that the quietly-spoken ‘Chinese man’ in front of her is, in fact, an alien. And a slimly, tentacled one at that. He’s shackled to a cold metal seat in a stark room under the watchful eye of an armed guard.
Gaia is horrified – first by Mr. Wang’s distinctly alien visage, then, more so, at the shameful manner in which this unique and timid visitor is being treated by her government. Mr. Wang is adamant that he comes in peace on a mission of “cultural exchange,” and it’s not long before the liberal Gaia begins admonishing Curti for his total disregard for human rights, pleading for the parched captive to have a sip of water and to be freed from his shackles. But Curti won’t budge, insisting that Mr. Wang, despite his gentle and courteous manner, is a grave threat to national security.
Things go from bad to worse for the poor Mr. Wang as he endures not only psychological but also physical torture in a prolonged effort to divulge his true agenda on Earth. At one point, Gaia even sneaks off to phone Amnesty International to inform them of the crimes unfolding beneath the Roman streets, and we want desperately for her call to be answered.
It may have been written as an allegory of Earthly foreign politics, but The Arrival of Wang raises interesting UFOlogical questions: Would aliens have human rights? Should they? What would it take for non-human extraterrestrials (or any extraterrestrials, for that matter) to gain our trust? Are all potential alien races deceptive and invasive, as Hollywood so often assumes?
Intelligently scripted and powerfully acted, The Arrival of Wang has a brilliant premise, and one that directors the Manetti brothers (Antonio and Marco) deliver on until a most unwelcome last-minute twist, which, rather than daring to subvert our inherent fear of ‘the Other’, cynically plays to it, imparting to the viewer a message that’s just plain abhorrent. Shame. A Hollywood remake is rumored to be in the works.
Crawlspace (2013)
“In 1966, the Australian and US Governments established Pine Gap, a top secret research facility in the remote Australian outback. 15 hours ago all contact with the facility was lost.” Thus reads the opening blurb for Crawlspace, a low-budget Australian sci-fi horror set at the infamous Pine Gap base, which, in real-life, is a joint US-Australian defence space research installation operated by the US National Security Agency in conjunction with the CIA. It is, by all accounts, one of the most secretive government facilities on Earth. It is also alleged by some to be a testing ground for captured alien technologies.
Crawlspace fully embraces the Pine Gap folklore, pitting an elite black-ops assassination unit against the terrors that lurk 200 feet beneath the surface of what is referred to in the movie as “Australia’s own Area 51.” The black-ops unit has been sent in to kill a number of highly psychic and extremely dangerous human “test subjects” who have escaped from their cells and wrought havoc on the facility.
That’s right, Pine Gap in this movie is concerned less with satellite tracking and communications-monitoring than it is with horrific biomechanical research involving inter-species grafting procedures that stitch-together human and alien brains to create the ultimate psychic warrior in a decades-long East-vs.-West remote viewing war. “What we do here isn’t exactly sanctioned by the government,” says a Doctor Mengele-like scientist. No kidding.
Crawlspace begins with bags of potential, but, within minutes, dumps these bags in one of its many cramped ventilation shafts, where they remain just beyond the reach of all involved in this clumsy and clichéd production.
With its wise-cracking, heavy-heat-packing elite military unit, and its extensive use of night-vision POV shots, Crawlspace wants desperately to be James Cameron’s Aliens. But while Cameron’s movie is an adrenalin shot to the heart, Crawlspace is more like a dose of Valium. Still, for the committed UFO buff, there’s much here to wrap your brain around. It’s worth a watch.
There’s an ever-growing chance of an actual alien invasion taking place in the near future, that’s why scientists are now working on a defense mechanism based on lasers that would cloak our planet’s activity from any unwanted visitors.
A considerable portion of energy emanating from the human race is directed towards the discovery of alien life. Past the enthusiasm of such an accomplishment, there is always the possibility of these intelligent aliens not being so peaceful. Even more, in the case of an alien contact, they could see planet Earth as an extremely valuable place from where to harness resources. After all, we humans are exploiting it, so why shouldn’t they want to do the same?
Fortunately for us, a destructive alien scenario has been pictured by astronomers who also found a solution – cloaking our planet using lasers in case things go the other way around. So how will they do that you might ask? While on the lookout for planets outside of our solar system, astronomers are mainly tracking stars which dim periodically. That perturbation in light indicates that a celestial body is passing in front of it, thus revealing relevant traits about it such as the orbiting time, size, and even how close the planet is to the star.
Although this survey allows only for a few planets to be studied at a given time, it’s an effective way to determine where else could life reside in the universe. Now, if intelligent aliens would use a similar technique when scouting for hospitable planets, they’ll be in for a treat since humans have already developed a way to block all signals.
A project initiated by a team from Columbia University aims at blasting a laser whenever the Earth passes in front of the Sun, thus covering the dip in brightness receive by the Sun and ultimately cloaking us from a hostile alien species. At first, astronomers believed that altering the signal broadcasted by our planet would solve the issue, but they’ve soon reconsidered and found this cloaking scenario more viable. After all, it would only take a 30 megawatts laser blasting into space for 10 hours each year to completely block our planet’s signal whenever it passes in front of the sun. That’s almost the same energy amount collected by the International Space Station’s solar panels in a year, and it is well worth it considering that it could prevent Earth’s total annihilation.
Another possibility would be to use a system of turning lasers that would make us “invisible” on all wavelengths, but that would require approximately 250 megawatts of power. This system may seem like the best choice, but according to scientists, it could also make us more vulnerable to ETs scouting for signs of life because a total cloaking device would only offer limited protection, meaning that indirect signs of our planet can still be intercepted. In theory, this would rise suspicions since our planet will be perceived as a space anomaly.
Another safer way proposed by researchers is the cloaking of atmospheric signals associated with biological activity, such as oxygen and water vapors. This process would only take up to 160 kilowatts of energy and would make Earth look like a dead rock in space, a thing seemingly unwanted by the alien scouts.
“The atmospheric cloaking produces totally self-consistent observations,” said co-author of the study Alex Teachey.“They see a planet, but they think it’s just another dead world floating out in space.”
Whichever system they’ll choose to put in place, it won’t change the fact that ETs may be using technology that exceeds our imagination, thus penetrating through any defense system we build. However, aliens aren’t necessarily bad, and they are not necessarily looking for us, but why not give it a try and cloak the planet since we already have all the necessary means.
“We could build this next week if we really wanted to. It’s totally feasible with current technology,” added Alex Teachey.
There’s another thing though; if we’re trying to hide our planet from hostile alien species, why not assume they’re doing the same? If so, it’s likely they already have a system in place, unlike us who only aspire at one.
The aim of science, as is generally accepted today, is to organize knowledge gleaned from what we observe in nature. We take what we observe, and we structure it by using testable explanations, which thereby help us make future predictions about new things we may eventually learn about our universe. Hence, with regard to our study of nature and the cosmos, a good question that comes to mind from time to time is this one: What criteria would define a subject that science does not seek to address?
When we ask what things science doesn’taim to study in our broader quest for knowledge, should that necessarily mean that these kinds of things, esoteric though they may seem, cannot be “known” or studied at all? This has long been among the questions that philosophers have asked; after all, in the modern sense of the study of things around us, such issues surrounding concepts that fall “beyond” the scope of the physical sciences generally are left out altogether, if not left to the philosophers among us.
One might argue that, when it comes to the study of the unexplained, one way of seeking to understand certain “paranormal” subjects would be to subject them to some degree of logical philosophical thought, particularly in areas where science has either dismissed them (i.e. these aforementioned subjects that science does not address), or where there is not enough physical data that a proper scientific assessment can be rendered.
This brings us to epistemology, which, defined roughly, involves the “theory of knowledge”, or study of how we know what we know (more broadly, it is an assessment of what knowledge is, how it is acquired, and the study of limitations on how knowledge pertinent to a particular subject can be acquired). Recently, Michael, a reader and listener of my weekly podcast, wrote to me with a question about epistemology, and how our philosophical theories of knowledge might relate to the study of the unexplained.
Michael writes, and takes us “down the rabbit hole”, thusly:
What I would like to get your opinion on is a matter of epistemology, and how one who is exposed to such a myriad of ideas and thoughts, often times conflicting ones, can come to know the truth. I reject rigid relativism and subjectivism in favor that there is objective truth. It’s quite possible for there to be objective truth and due to our human limitations we simply cannot know or ever be certain (the skeptics position), but one cannot assume that because something is yet to be verified or unverifiable empirically it is untrue. I find the latter to be an irrational position, but therein lies the problem. What method or means can we rely on outside of sensory experience to give us truth?
Without the dogmatism that science holds today, the ancients may have trusted some other means of truth finding that we have either dismissed or lost. You might think this other method would need some verification process like science has with experimentation, but isn’t that just a scientific bias creeping through? True things, especially events, can certainly be unique instances and unrepeatable. What then is to be said of truth dependent on verification and verified by what means? Divorcing empiricism and verification from truth can obviously lead to a number of errors, so it’s unwise to dismiss these methods entirely and in all cases.
What I am proposing is that outside the realm of things which lend themselves to be subject to science, there is truth to be realized and possibly a way to arrive at it. I know you’ve addressed this kind of issue a number of times, but I think it is worth reiterating and revisiting from time to time because it really underpins nearly all conspiracy and paranormal related topics.
Michael’s discussion of epistemology here is esoteric indeed by today’s standards (and especially as it relates to the “popular” study of the unexplained). Deep though it is, his observations, I feel, may bear fruit for those patients enough to pose similar contemplation; they also mirror, in many ways, my own notions and perceptions about certain alleged “paranormal” phenomenon.
This is particularly the case with UFOs, and I feel that this subject, while representative of something that is also a very tangible mystery, has similarly been deemed “outside the area of questions that science seeks to answer”, as physicists like Stephen Hawking might phrase it.
For me, such matters that science will not (or cannot, at present) address likely should enter the realm of philosophy. The problem, however, is that in many cases, the modern scientist views philosophy as being “dead”, and having not kept up with the progress of science, especially since the time Einstein arrived on the scene with his revolutionary theory of general relativity. Therefore, if philosophy is dead in the minds of some scientists, then those things relegated to philosophy are thus unimportant (or “dead”, as it were) as well.
Hey, even Einstein enjoyed reading the philosophy of Kant.
This ongoing debate over which things are “dead” or otherwise unimportant in relation to the schism between science and philosophy is an interesting logical conundrum unto itself, in my view. However, as far as Michael’s line of thought expressed in his question above, in which things resting “outside of science” may still be knowable in some manner, I do believe that part of understanding this problem involves understanding the nature of individual specialization.
To return to Hawking again, the great physicist has often said that serious advances in the sciences are now relegated to specialists in the field, unlike the old days when many “untrained” individuals who proceeded logically could render new discoveries. Here, I would argue instead that the latter is actually still the case as well, although the specialization Hawking refers to allows new kinds of discoveries, as a result of the deep thought, scientific training, and complex systems that are employed. Such things might have been “knowable” much earlier, had the tools and practices that allow for their study today already been in place at an earlier time. This does not mean, however, that all things are “unknowable” without the use of such tools, training, and practice that the modern specialist employs. Indeed, I think the right non-specialist, looking at the right subject, may indeed stumble onto discoveries in the everyday that are scientifically meaningful.
As an interesting parallel, Hawking’s own specialization illustrates, at times, some of his own logical shortcomings, such as in cases where he begins to apply his thoughts and perspectives to other fields of interest beyond his “specialty” in the area of physics. Hawking, for instance, while not an A.I. researcher himself, seems pretty convinced that the creation of artificial intelligence would be a bad thing for humanity.
Elsewhere, his remarks about philosophy itself have generally been quite dismissive (as have his statements pertaining to UFOs, which we’ll return to in a moment). One could argue that Hawking does not possess the required “specialization” to be able to recognize the shortcomings of his own thought processes, as evidenced not only by his “philosophy is dead” remarks, but also by his observations about philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s assessment of language being “the only subject left for philosophy”, as related by Hawking in the final pages of A Brief History of Time. (Personally, I am amazed that there aren’t far more philosophers who have come along and challenged Hawking’s views on Wittgenstein, or A.I., or UFOs, or philosophy in general… but I digress).
I feel that discerning those things which science deems “unknowable” must require a bit more than specialization, and in fact, at times may also require multi-disciplinary efforts. For example, putting on our physicist or astronomy cap, we may look out into space for answers about things like UFOs, but would doing so really help us find any more answers than we have already managed to glean thus far? Furthermore, are there other areas of study that might help us solve the problem too, from “the ground up”, so to speak?
An interesting observation to be made has to do with the attitudes among those studying UFOs — the scientists, and believers alike — which will typically reveal one simple reality: that both “approaches” to study are actually quite dogmatic, and representative of belief-based biases that are built around, or perhaps grow from within, what are obviously social movements.
To put it another way, belief in an “alien” reality underlying UFOs is as much a social movement as modern skepticism and its “I think, therefore it is not!” approach. This is because those of similar mind on a subject will likely gather together, and when allowed to run to their illogical extremes, run the unfortunate risk of producing a very dogmatic, faith-based approach to the study of a given subject. At its worst, this bears promise for a lack of objectivity, and an approach that is generally unscientific, despite any attempts to the contrary.
Philip Klass, widely considered an “arch debunker” of UFOs, and at times even unscientifically so
Thus, a range of new phenomena begin to emerge. Within the skeptic camp, the result has often been a move toward more “debunking” by individuals whose minds are already made up about the subjects they study at the outset of their “investigations”. This, rather famously, led sociologist and skeptic Marcello Truzzi to leave the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP, now known as CSI) shortly after it was formed in 1976, due to the uncompromising stances of his fellow members. On the other side of the fence, from within the ranks of the “believer” camp, we find more and more reformed UFO advocates and “born again skeptics”, as I like to call them, who (like myself) have had to accept a vast change in our attitudes and perception about so-called UFO research, after spending many years of (frustrating) examination of data that, often times, is spurious at best.
That’s not to say that either side — belief (or advocacy, as some may prefer), or skepticism — is the way to absolute truth. I actually prefer a more agnostic, middle-of-the-road stance, in an effort not to be dismissive of good evidence that may be put forth by either position. However, straying too far in one direction or the other often leads to bias, just as well.
Thus, while making a good case for what a UFO is (or is not) remains difficult, we could certainly employ science of sociology to make a strong case that belief systems can, and have influenced (perhaps negatively) the serious attempts at applying science to certain subjects. In this case, the subject would be UFOs, and although this observation is fundamental, it is my belief that it is important, on a much broader scale, and not just in terms of sociological studies, but in applying a bit of philosophical logic to the breakdown between people’s thoughts and attitudes. In other words, in the epistemological sense that Michael had suggested earlier, we’re asking “how we know what we think we know.”
This is the great role of philosophy: while some will continue to proclaim that it is a “dead” practice, its proponents and practitioners view it as an important system of “checks and balances”, that if not providing new discoveries itself, might at least help guide future scientific inquiry in positive ways.
Indeed, perhaps our predicament with things “outside” science has more to do with understanding why those things are deemed unknowable through science; and asking “why” is the fundamental job of the philosopher.
Admitting you’re active in the field of UFO research, in all likelihood, will not serve you well as a pickup line when visiting a bar. After all, anytime a subject like alien abduction lands on the table during a conversation with someone you’re just getting to know, you’re bound to get a few strange looks… and if you’re lucky, you might even get a few strange stories, also.
To put it simply, I got lucky last night. But before I have to drag your mind back out of the gutter, I should make it clear what I mean: I was lucky enough to be able to share a conversation with someone who, rather than getting squeamish when the conversation drifted to the subject of alien abduction, responded by calmly saying that, “oh yeah, well that happened to a family member of mine.” The details that followed were incredibly interesting… and perhaps even a bit unsettling.
The conversation took place during a break between sets at a pub I visit once a week near the North Carolina/Georgia border, where my acoustic group is the house band on Wednesday evenings. My friend Amy had stopped in to watch us play, and since she was waiting for a few of her friends to arrive, I started chatting with her at the bar after she came over and told me “she had seen a wolf” on her way into town earlier that evening.
“A wolf,” I said, admitting a bit of skepticism. “Are you sure that wasn’t a coyote?”
She argued that coyotes she had seen were always more scrawny and physically smaller, and soon, a couple of the locals had chimed in with information about wildlife programs where Timber Wolves had been reintroduced in certain areas throughout the region. From this point, the conversation went on to sightings of weird or unusual animals, and before long, a full-on discussion of the unexplained had been initiated. When I admitted my primary area of interest dealt with UFOs, Amy told me something I had hardly expected.
“Well, I believe there’s evidence for that sort of thing. My dad’s mother actually said she was abducted by a UFO back in the 1970s.”
“Oh really?” I replied with genuine interest, though I’ve grown accustomed to people telling these kinds of stories by now.
“Yeah, but they say she’s a little crazy. And the weird thing about it was that she said that when they took her on board, they did all these tests on her… but they weren’t aliens or anything,” Amy told me, grasping for words a bit. “She said they were people on board that thing.”
“Wait, you said people? You meanhumans?”
“That’s right,” Amy said. “She lives in Florida now, but if she’s ever in town, I’ll try and bring her by to speak to you.”
“I may just want to speak to her before then, if it could be arranged!” I told her. While there are a plethora of interesting reports of alleged alien abduction, the more seldom reports where people have claimed that there is a human connection to the entire UFO mystery have always intrigued me. Such reports are often connected with stories of underground bases, secret military projects, and a number of other conspiracy theories; but also of interest are studies that have emerged over the years which seem to suggest altered states of consciousness might be capable of inducing strong hallucinatory experiences where an individual might misinterpret things about their environment (such as with the research of Dr. Rick Strassman, outlined in his bookDMT: The Spirit Molecule). Could it be even a remote possibility that some accounts of “alien abduction” involve something far more terrestrial going on, as perceived by abductees who filter their experience through the distortions some kind of altered state might present? Furthermore, what could be the reason for such an altered state (which could lend itself to the reasons for “dreamlike” experiences reported by many abductees)? Is there a chance they could be the result of some variety of hallucinagens that victims of abduction scenarios might be introduced to in some way?
While this is all mere speculation (and stemming from a conversation this author had with a friend at the pub), it does remind me of the countless other experiences reported by abductees that seem to bear these sorts of characteristics. What could be the real story behind the abduction phenomenon, and might certain aspects of the mystery remain far closer to home than most of us are willing to accept or realize otherwise?
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New Mysteries Emerge from Undeneath Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Surface
New Mysteries Emerge from Undeneath Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Surface
New images sent back from dwarf planet Ceres reveal a detailed perspective of the bright white spots considered by many to be an extraterrestrial city.
To recap on this topic, Ceres is a dwarf planet located between Mars and Jupiter that was subject to heated debate last year, when scientists around the world tried to determine what formed the mysterious white dots seen on the planetary surface. With the recent photos beamed back by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, researchers are closer than ever to solving this puzzle.
The pictures revealed only recently at the 47th annual Lunar Planetary Science Conference in Texas, were captured from a distance of 385 kilometers (240 miles) above the Occator Crater, a 4 kilometers-deep hole on the planet’s surface stretching across 92 kilometers of rocky terrain.
The novelty of those pictures is given by the relatively low altitude from where the probe is hovering above the dwarf planet. Planetary scientist Ralf Jaumann explained the following:
“Before Dawn began its intensive observations of Ceres last year, Occator Crater looked to be one large bright spot. Now, with the latest close views, we can see complex features that provide new mysteries to investigate. The intricate geometry of the crater interior suggests geologic activity in the recent past, but we will need to complete detailed geologic mapping of the crater in order to test hypotheses for its formation.”
The team of researchers has also made public a colour map of Ceres’ surface which contains the various materials from which the dwarf planet is made of and a close analysis of craters around it. This data is vital for determining what lies below the Ceres’ crust.
Another surprise from Ceres comes from the Oxo Crater where traces of water were spotted through the infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR). It appears that the bright spots are not the only controversial subject, as numerous mysteries are still being found by the orbiting probe.
A new research paper will soon be released with some of the mysterious discoveries on the dwarf planet. The new data will encompass further details into the mystery regions of the planet such as the Occator Crater, but will also focus on new discoveries such as the liquid water recently observed.
Although astronomers debunked the white bright dots as being salt deposits, it has been highlighted that they constantly change in shape and size, and no one seems to know the reason for the moment.
“We’re excited to unveil these beautiful new images, especially Occator, which illustrates the complexity of the processes shaping Ceres’ surface,” said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator for the mission. “Now that we can see Ceres’ enigmatic bright spots, surface minerals, and morphology in high resolution, we’re busy working to figure out what processes shaped this unique dwarf planet.”
The latest high-resolution map of Occator Crater clearly indicates there’s no alien city found on the surface of the planet, but since there’s a clear indicator of geologic activity underneath the dwarf planet, along with liquid water and other anomalies, the possibility of an underground ecosystem arises.
Furthermore, there are some sky watchers and UFO analysts who firmly believe there are signs of intelligent life on Ceres. Although NASA has unveiled a close-up of the bright spots from Occator Crater, the bizarre mountain “Ahuna Mons” hasn’t been brought into discussion yet. Could this prove that the renowned space agency has found something suspicious there and refuses to reveal it to the public until a proper investigation (or alteration) has been done?
Whatever the case, dwarf planet Ceres will remain as enigmatic as last year and will provide debatable content for both the scientific community and UFO enthusiasts. Until NASA reveals more pictures, we can only speculate on what could reside underneath Ceres’ crust, but I have a feeling that we’re not being told everything.
An Ancient Egyptian necklace of Extraterrestrial origin
An Ancient Egyptian necklace of Extraterrestrial origin
The study obtained incredible results not only because of the origin of the mysterious minerals but because the ancient necklace was manufactured in 3200 B.C.
In 1911, during the excavation of the graves of Naqada, north of Egypt, archaeologists came across what appeared to be a necklace made of iron inlaid with gold and precious stones, but they couldn’t be more wrong.
More than a century later, a study conducted by Egyptologist Thilo Rehren of the University of Hamad bin Khalifa showed that the precious ancient treasure, currently in possession of the Petrie Museum in London, is actually made of meteoric iron. X-ray analysis determined that the necklace was made from thin sheets of iron from a meteorite, molded with a hammer and rolled in the form of beads.
Researchers discovered that the nickel content of this original metal was extremely high, indicating that it originated from a meteorite, and not from Earth minerals as first believed. During the study, scientists identified a distinctive crystalline structure called a Widmanstätten pattern. Scientists say that this structure can only be found in iron meteorites that cooled extremely slow inside their asteroids during the formation of our solar system.
Professor Thilo Rehren, lead author of the Journal of Archaeological Science study said: „The beads were created by ‘multiple cycles of hammering’ and not by the traditional carving or drilling stone techniques that were used on other beads found in the same tomb.“
The study obtained incredible results not only because of the origin of the mysterious minerals but because the ancient necklace was manufactured in 3200 B.C., almost two thousand years before the iron casting technique was developed, proving one more time that the Ancient Egyptian civilization was extremely advanced having developed techniques that were reinvented by ‘modern’ society thousands of years later.
Scientists from the University College London’s Petrie Museum conducted several tests of beads and necklaces, pictured in the image. They used gamma ray scans to demonstrate that the beads, which were originally believed to be made from simple iron, were in fact created using fragments of meteorites thousands of years ago
In an interview with Culture24, Professor Rehren said: ‘The really exciting outcome of this research is that we were for the first time able to demonstrate conclusively that there are typical trace elements such as cobalt and germanium present in these beads, at levels that only occur in meteoritic iron.’
The study allowed researchers to understand for the first time ever, the internal structure of the beads revealing how they were created, showing an extremely advanced knowledge and skill of metal work.
A gift from the ‘Gods’
‘The sky was very important to the ancient Egyptians,’ said Joyce Tyldesley, an Egyptologist at the University of Manchester, UK, and a co-author of the paper on the discovery.
‘Something that falls from the sky is going to be considered as a gift from the gods.’
Dr. Tyldesley added: ‘Today, we see iron first and foremost as a practical, rather dull metal. To the ancient Egyptians, however, it was a rare and beautiful material which, as it fell from the sky, surely had some magical/religious properties.
Alien Hunters Want NASA To Explain This ‘Formation Of UFOs’ The picture was captured during a mission to the International Space Station.
Alien Hunters Want NASA To Explain This ‘Formation Of UFOs’
The picture was captured during a mission to the International Space Station.
Alien hunters are demanding an explanation from NASA over the “formation of UFOs” seen in an image posted by the space agency.
The photograph has sparked fresh debate despited being published in 2001.
Conspiracy theorists believe this picture, captured during the STS 100 Space Shuttle Endeavor Mission to the International Space Station, shows a “formation of UFOs.”
NASACaptured by STS-100 Space Shuttle Endeavor Mission
In 2013, alien enthusiasts including YouTuber, UFOvni2012, posted videos highlighting aspects of the photograph they wanted NASA to explain.
At the heart of their request are small silver-like dots seen in the following picture.
UFOVNI2012/YOUTUBE
Now UFO forums including The Black Vault, have reignited a conversation about the so-called “sighting,” speculating on what that objects might be.
They also draw attention to other “anomalies” in the picture that could be satellites or space debris, latest-ufo-sightings reports.
Sceptics have suggested that the “unidentified objects” could be the result of multiple photos being placed on top of each other.
However, The Black Vault group believe that this technique would make “additional anomalies appear as several objects and not several single objects,” UFO sightings reports.
The world of dreams is a mystery to all. We dream every night when we go to sleep, though sometimes we remember our dreams and sometimes we do not. It can be a lot of fun to relay your dreams to friends and coworkers the next day, but often their significance is only perceptible to yourself and you end up boring your audience with a long, drawn-out recall of the previous night’s adventures.
Have you ever woken up from a dream so real that you were overcome with whatever emotion had been triggered in the dream, such as sadness, anger, bliss, or excitement? How about waking up with a huge sigh of relief that it was only a dream? Dreams can seem so real to our minds that our bodies actually respond as if they were.
Despite all our years of studying and trying to interpret dreams, the age-old question remains, what is the significance of dreams and do they actually mean anything in relation to waking life? Many people dismiss dreams as random thoughts formulated from the subconscious mind, but what about the concept of precognitive dreams — dreams about events or experiences that haven’t yet occurred, but end up taking place at a later point in reality? The very notion goes against what we know to be true of time and relativity; if time is linear, then precognitive dreams simply cannot be possible.
Is It Possible To Accurately Dream About The Future?
Dr. Stanley Krippner, Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University, has devoted his life to the research and experimentation of parapsychology, precognitive dreaming, and shamanism for the past forty years. He claims that this phenomenon of precognitive dreaming is not only possible, but his research can back it up. In an interview with Geraldine Cremine of Vice Motherboard, Krippner explained one of his most significant laboratory studies on precognitive dreaming:
Each night, the subject dreamer would go through an ordinary night of dreaming, with an intent to dream about an experience he would have the following morning. The dreamer was woken 4-5 times throughout the night to relay his dreams to an experimenter. The following mornings, experimenters randomly selected an experience from a number of prearranged options, and the dreamer was subjected to that experience. Dr. Krippner said there was no way for the participants to know what experience they would encounter before it was selected and administered.
The following is a specific example of a dreamer who, one night, had several dreams about birds in various different settings and circumstances. The following morning, the dreamer was exposed to one of the experiences selected at random. “The experience was to have him sit with earphones on,” Dr. Krippner said. “And what was played? Bird calls. He was also played a video. And what was played? Pictures of birds.” After the experiment, which lasted 8 days, was over, outside judges who were not a part of the original experiment were called in to determine the dreams of the dreamers versus the experiences they were subjected to upon waking. For each participant, the judges were able to find at least one match between a dream and the random experience on most nights of the experiment.
Even if we were to accept — at least for argument’s sake — that this phenomenon of precognitive dreaming is possible, we are still left wanting an explanation. And unfortunately, we simply don’t have one yet.
What we do know is that the unconscious mind is capable of having deep revelations during the rapid eve movement (REM) state of sleep, aka: the dream state. One example of such a revelation occurred in 1865, when chemist Frederich August Kekulé was struggling to understand how atoms in the benzene molecule were arranged. After wrestling with the problem for some time, he fell asleep and dreamt about a snake biting its own tail. Through this image, he conceived the benzene ring, revolutionizing organic chemistry in the process. But people come to much more mundane understandings during sleep all the time, as I’m sure you yourself have on one or more occasions, perhaps explaining where the phrase, I’ll sleep on it comes from.
Could Quantum Physics Be The Answer?
Quantum physics offers one theory for precognitive dreams, suggesting that during the uninhibited state of REM, the brain may be capable of identifying some kind of a signal that we aren’t aware of in our conscious state. These signals could assist with awareness of the future. This idea links to theories of quantum entanglement and the idea that two separate particles or points in time can interact as if connected to one another despite being spatially separated.
Dr. Krippner himself elaborated on how quantum physics could potentially explain precognitive dreaming. “Quantum events happen on a different time scale to what most people live and experience in the West,” he explained. “We have this understanding of time that is: ‘past, present, future.’ But quantum physics gives you a different concept of time.” He says that these same concepts are found throughout the many indigenous cultures he studied during his research into precognitive dreaming and shamanism:
Many indigenous people see time going in a circle; it goes around and around and it’s a spiral. “Then you also have the indigenous North American point of view that people lived in a ‘long body’; they do not end where their skin ends. A person’s long body projects and involves other people and other parts of nature, so everything is happening all at once. For them it’s no surprise that you can dream about the future.
Precognitive & Lucid Dreams
Precognitive dreams are fairly common phenomena and many people have reported experiencing them, including some famous people throughout history, like Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain. While researching this topic I also came across some interesting information on lucid precognitive dreams – the notion that you could actually intend to see into the future by being conscious in your dream and asking questions such as: What are Saturday’s winning lottery numbers?; What will be the best performing stock tomorrow? and so on… Trying this out for yourself could help prove that it works, and would be a fun experiment at the very least.
Dreams are a mystical experience to all who have them, and I think it’s safe to say that few people aren’t at least curious about their nightly adventures. Have you had any dreams you would consider precognitive? Please share with us in the comments below!
What’s happening at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi? Specifically, why are so many UFOs being reported there? This week, reports of a fish-shaped UFO over the airport prompted calls to the government security force responsible for the facility to deal with it. What was it and why is this airport attracting so many UFOs?
According to Indian media, a member of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) working in an airport watchtower issued an alarm on March 30th after seeing an unidentified flying object over the apron area where airplanes are parked for boarding and unloading.
It looked like a dark-colored balloon floating above the apron area.
Specifically, a fish-shaped object. CISF is required to notify both the Indian Air Force and National Security Guards before taking action against UFOs. A so-called “quick-response” team was dispatched to “shoot down” the fish-shaped UFO, but it was gone by the time they arrived and nothing more appeared on air traffic control radar over that area or adjoining aprons.
Shoot it down? Is security at the Indira Gandhi International Airport a little jumpy? Well, CIFS Director General Surender Singh announced at the organization’s last big meeting that 62 UFO sightings were reported at the airport in a four month period. Most airports are still on alert because of the Brussels bombings and the Indian media said that there were a number of recent hoax reports at the airport. However, Indian media also points out that Delhi police have been authorized since January to …
… shoot down any unacknowledged flying device in the capital’s sky, especially in and around the airport, be they paragliders, drones, hot air balloons or other machines.
Not the “fish-shaped” UFO seen over the New Delhi airport
Yes, it was a “fish-shaped” floating object. That sounds like it might be a balloon, except a balloon would show up on radar, wouldn’t it? Why does this particular airport have so many unresolved UFO reports? Does New Delhi really lead the world in paragliders, drones, hot air balloons or other hard-but-not-impossible-to-identify flying objects? Why is it so difficult for this particular airport to patrol its perimeter when so many other busy airports in heavily populated metropolitan areas seem to be able to do it effectively and without shooting down UFOs?
Or is something else happening at the Indira Gandhi International Airport? Keep watching.
In a December 2013 article here at Mysterious Universe titled “Arnold’s Flying Saucers: Were They Saucers at All? Micah Hanks wrote: “Despite the popularity this subject would garner in those golden years after the War, perhaps there is no early UFO incident that has proven to be quite as influential as that of Kenneth Arnold, a civilian pilot who spotted an entire fleet of strange aircraft while flying over Washington state in June of 1947. The strange craft that Arnold observed would spark a flame that grew like wildfire, eventually forming the modern UFO phenomenon, and at the center of it all was the curious staple that became known as the flying saucer.”
Arnold’s encounter occurred on June 24, 1947, around twenty to twenty-five miles from Mt. Rainier, in the Cascade Mountains. Precisely what Arnold saw is something that Ufologists have pondered on for decades. They will likely continue to do so for decades, too. The Arnold affair has become such a staple part of the UFO controversy that, for many, it’s right up there with the Roswell case. However, I’m not here, today, to discuss the merits of the case. Rather, I’m going to share with you a bit of notable data that might provide corroboration for Arnold and his experience.
The story revolves around the testimony of a man named Fred Johnson. He was a prospector who may have seen the very same objects encountered by Arnold. Both military intelligence and the FBI took an interest in what Johnson had to say. It should be noted that the FBI has chosen to black-out Johnson’s name on its paperwork; however, that the military has not means we know who the man was.
“Fred Johnson reported without consulting any records that on June 24, 1947, while prospecting at a point in the Cascade Mountains approximately five thousand feet from sea level, during the afternoon he noticed a reflection, looked up, and saw a disc proceeding in a southeasterly direction. Immediately upon sighting this object he placed his telescope to his eye and observed the disc for approximately forty-five to sixty seconds.”
We’re then told that Johnson “…remarked that it is possible for him to pick up an object at a distance of ten miles with his telescope. At the time the disc was sighted by Mr. Johnson it was banking in the sun, and he observed five or six similar objects but only concentrated on one. He related that they did not fly in any particular formation and that he would estimate their height to be about one thousand feet from where he was standing. He said the object was about thirty feet in diameter and appeared to have a tail. It made no noise.
“According to Johnson he remained in the vicinity of the Cascades for several days and then returned to Portland and noted an article in the local paper which stated in effect that a man in Boise, Idaho, had sighted a similar object but that authorities had disclaimed any knowledge of such an object. He said he communicated with the Army for the sole purpose of attempting to add credence to the story furnished by the man in Boise.”
And, finally, we have this: “Johnson also related that on the occasion of his sighting the objects on June 24, 1947 he had in his possession a combination compass and watch. He noted particularly that immediately before he sighted the disc the compass acted very peculiar, the hand waving from one side to the other, but that this condition corrected itself immediately after the discs had passed out of sight. Informant appeared to be a very reliable individual who advised that he had been a prospector in the states of Montana, Washington and Oregon for the past forty years.”
Scientists have devised a method to “cloak,” or hide, the Earth from potentially hostile advanced alien civilizations. According to scientists, we could cloak or hide the Earth from hostile alien planet hunters seeking potentially habitable planets by firing laser beams into outer space to disrupt efforts by extraterrestrial astronomers to detect signals that betray our planet’s presence as it orbits the Sun in the habitable zone.
The proposal by Professor David Kipping and and his graduate student Alex Teachey, two astronomers at Columbia University in New York, comes in response to fears that just as astronomers on Earth are scanning the skies in search of potentially habitable exoplanets, technologically advanced alien civilizations located near distant stars may also be searching our solar system for potentially habitable planets.
Prominent scientists, such as the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, have voiced concern about the potential dangers of our world being discovered by more advanced alien civilizations. A hostile, advanced extraterrestrial civilization that discovers us could decide to invade and take over our world. Even if an alien civilization that discovers our world “comes in peace,” first contact could be very risky because they could introduce deadly diseases that humans on Earth have no defenses against and thus expose humanity to the risk of extinction.
According to Kipping and Teachey, we could make our world invisible and effectively prevent it from being detected by advanced and possibly hostile alien races searching for potentially habitable planets by beaming a laser into space during the periods that Earth is transiting or passing in front of the Sun.
The laser would hide our planet from alien astronomers by disguising the dimming of the Sun’s light — as seen from the perspective of the observing civilization — each time Earth passes in front of the Sun. Beaming a laser with a sufficient amount of power into space could thus render Earth invisible to potential alien invaders.
The “cloaking” concept being proposed by scientists is based on the principle underlying the transit method that human astronomers have used successfully to detect exoplanets orbiting distant stars. The method involves detecting dips in the brightness of the parent star as the orbiting planet passes in front of it.
Analysis of the patterns of dips or dimming of a distant star could give astronomers information about characteristics, such as size and density, of the celestial body passing in front of the star.
Aliens from distant civilizations could be searching our solar system for signs of life [Image via Shutterstock]
“To make it look like the planet is not there at all, you’ve got to get rid of that dip. You’ve got to fill in the missing starlight.”
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has used the transit method to detect hundreds of planets orbiting other distant stars in our galaxy. The scientists reasoned that alien astronomers observing our solar system from a distant star in our galaxy would likely use the same method to search for potentially habitable exoplanets.
According to Kipping and Teachey, blasting laser beams into space at the time Earth is passing in front of the Sun compensates for dips in the brightness of the Sun when the Earth passes in front of it. Thus, an alien planet hunter measuring changes in solar brightness would not notice any dips.
The researchers also noted that the concept is implementable because not much energy is needed to “cloak” our planet. Dips or dimming of the Sun’s light could be masked by emitting 30 MW laser continuously for 10 hours once a year at the time the Earth is passing in front of the Sun.
Alien invasion fleet hovers over Earth city. [Image via Shutterstock]Kipping explained that he thought of the idea after reports about the star KIC 8462852 that was found in 2015 to exhibit an anomalous dimming pattern which some speculated could be due to an “alien megastructure” orbiting the star.
The reports inspired Kipping to consider how an advanced civilization could deliberately alter transit signals it sends out to space to deceive alien astronomers attempting to observe the planet from a distant star.
“There is an ongoing debate as to whether we should advertise ourselves or hide from advanced civilizations potentially living on planets elsewhere in the Galaxy,” Kipping said. “Our work offers humanity a choice, at least for transit events, and we should think about what we want to do.”
The researchers noted there are other ways that an intelligent civilization could hide its world from alien observers. Instead of wiping out the transit signals of its planet entirely, a civilization could distort it. The options include deliberately erasing the signals of life that the planet sends out to space.
For instance, we could emit a laser with a power of only 160 KW into space to cloak atmospheric signatures — such as oxygen — that alien astrobiologists could interpret as signalling presence of biological life on Earth.
Kipping and Teachey emphasized that their proposed “cloaking” technique is so simple that “we could build it this next week if we wanted to.”
President Dwight Eisenhower held a secret meeting with extraterrestrial visitors during the early hours of February 21, 1954, while on a “vacation” to Palm Springs in California, according to UFO and alien conspiracy theorists.
He went “missing” after he was whisked away secretly to Edwards Air Force Base and was not seen until he appeared at a church service in Los Angeles the next Sunday morning.
The official explanation of his mysterious “disappearance” was that he had to undergo an emergency dental surgery.
The abrupt disappearance of the president was so unusual that it fueled speculation about an illness or death in the media. The speculation became so intense that the rumors had to be dispelled by the president’s press secretary, James Haggerty, who told incredulous reporters at a press conference that Eisenhower had damaged a tooth cap while eating fried chicken and had to undergo emergency surgery.
An artist’s representation of Grey aliens who allegedly signed a treaty with the Eisenhower administration [Image via Shutterstock]A local dentist was later presented to reporters who claimed he had treated Eisenhower.
But strange rumors began spreading following information leaked by well-placed sources. The rumors alleged that the local dentist was used to provide Eisenhower with a cover story while he rendezvoused secretly with the extraterrestrial visitors at the Edwards Air Force Base.
Significantly, there are no records at the Eisenhower Library — which reportedly has extensive records related to Eisenhower’s health — that he ever underwent dental surgery in February 1954, according to UFO researcher William Moore.
Eisenhower thus became the first American president to have direct contact with extraterrestrials, according to conspiracy theorists. The meeting took place at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California during the early hours of February 21 in 1954. It was the first in a series of meetings that culminated in the signing of a treaty between the U.S. government and an extraterrestrial race called the Greys.
The First Contact meeting, as it is termed in UFO conspiracy theory circles, involved some intrigue. Eisenhower’s secret First Contact meeting on February 21, 1954, is believed to have been with the Nordic aliens, also known as Pleiadian aliens, an advanced extraterrestrial race from the Pleiades star cluster with distinctive Nordic appearance, such as fair hair, blue eyes, and white skin.
The two sides were unable to reach an agreement on the night of the First Contact, and the Greys took advantage of the failure by offering more favorable terms. The offer by the Greys allegedly led to the first treaty between humans and an extraterrestrial race.
According to UFO conspiracy theorists, several pieces of circumstantial evidence add up to support claims that the Eisenhower administration held “First Contact” meetings with extraterrestrial beings. The first circumstantial evidence was the awkward manner in which Eisenhower “disappeared” during the night of February 20-21 in the midst of an unscheduled winter vacation in Palm Springs, California, and the clumsy efforts by officials to explain his disappearance.
One of the first eyewitness testimonies came from Gerald Light, a writer and leading member of the community dedicated to metaphysical research. A letter circulated widely in the UFO and alien conspiracy community, dated April 16, 1954, is alleged to have been written by Gerald Light to Meade Layne, Director of Borderland Sciences Research Foundation. In the letter (see copy here), Light allegedly claimed to have been one of a group of community leaders who was present at the First Contact meeting with extraterrestrials at Edwards Air Force Base.
The group of “community leaders” included Edwin Nourse, President’s Truman’s chief economic adviser, Cardinal James Francis MacIntyre, head of the Catholic Church in Los Angeles at the time, and 80-year-old Franklin Winthrop Allen, a former reporter with Hearst Newspaper Group.
Light claimed in the letter he allegedly wrote to Layne that he recently returned from Muroc Airfield (now Edward Air Force Base). The letter contains a single reference to “Etherians” (presumed to be the aliens), and it includes a comment about “five separate and distinct types of aircraft being studied and handled by our Air Force officials — with the assistance and permission of the Etherians!
The aircraft are believed to be alien UFOs stored at the facility for reverse-engineering studies.
The letter gives a vivid description of the bewilderment, confusion, and panic among the officials present at the meeting. UFO conspiracy theorists claim that Light’s account reveals uncertainty about how to respond to the aliens and fears due to the Cold War that the aliens could turn to the Soviets if the Americans spurned them.
But it is claimed that Eisenhower finally decided to reject the proposals of the Nordic aliens he met at the First Contact meeting at the Edwards Air Force Base in February 1954, and his administration eventually signed a treaty with the Greys, who offered to transfer their technology exclusively to the United States.
Several whistle-blowers claimed to have seen documents signed at the meetings while others claimed they obtained information from inside sources. The different versions of what allegedly transpired at the First Contact meetings leaked by the whistle-blowers agree on certain major points but differ in specific details.
Grey aliens land in a flying saucer [Image via Shutterstock]One of the best-known whistle-blowers, William Cooper, a former Naval intelligence officer who allegedly had access to classified documents, claimed that the First Contact meeting at the Edward Air Force Base in February 1954 was the culmination of a series of events after astronomers discovered a fleet of huge UFOs approaching Earth in 1953. First mistaken for asteroids, they were later determined to be spaceships.
Alien radio signals were allegedly intercepted under Project Sigma just before the UFOs went into high orbit. Project Plato was launched to receive the aliens and hold talks.
But before the aliens approaching in a huge UFO fleet landed, a different alien race contacted the U.S government and warned against the first group of aliens. But talks with the first group failed after they demanded nuclear disarmament and warned that humanity was on a path to self-destruction. They proposed instead to help humans to develop along a peaceful path to spiritual fulfillment.
Because the primary interest of the U.S. government at the time was signing a treaty that gives access to advanced alien technology, the Eisenhower administration rejected the overtures from the first alien group — the Nordic aliens — during the First Contact meeting at the Edwards Air Base and agreed to sign a treaty with the second group — the Greys — during a subsequent meeting at the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico in 1954.
Elements of the sketchy account given by Cooper were allegedly confirmed independently by other whistle-blowers, including Charles Suggs, a former retired U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant, who claimed that his father, a senior naval officer, had attended the First Contact meeting with the Nordic aliens in February 1954.
John Lear, another independent whistle-blower, was a former air force pilot and the son of William Lear, who built the Lear Jet. Lear also confirmed that two alien races had been involved in the First Contact meetings.
Grey aliens conduct medical research experiments on human abductees (Image via Shutterstock]
Robert Dean, a former intelligence officer, described Nordic aliens as humanoids with Nordic features, and the Greys as tall humanoids up to 9 feet tall with pale white skin, large eyes, large head, and spindly limbs.
Greys allegedly originated from a star in the constellation of Orion. Other reports claimed they came from a planet in the star system Zeta Reticuli.
Details of the agreement with the Greys leaked by whistle-blowers include non-interference in human affairs in exchange for accommodation on Earth under conditions of secrecy. In return, they would furnish the U.S. government with advanced technology to help the country to stay ahead of enemy nations. The Greys also agreed they would not approach any other nation to make a treaty.
The Greys were housed in an underground facility in Dulce where Phil Schneider claimed he encountered them while working as a geological engineer employed by a private company contracted to build underground bases for the Greys.
Schneider revealed that part of the treaty agreement allowed the Greys to abduct a very limited number of humans for medical research and experiments. But the Greys proved untrustworthy and violated the agreement on abductions.
Most reports of UFO sightings and stories of abductions involved Greys freely violating the treaty with the government, according to UFO conspiracy theorists.
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Little Green Men: A Look at the Official Soviet X-Files Investigation
Little Green Men: A Look at the Official Soviet X-Files Investigation
It was 4:05 a.m. on Sept. 20, 1977. Something serious was happening over the skies of Petrozavodsk .
A group of dockworkers on the early shift that morning say they saw a blinding light emerge from the direction of Lake Onega in northwest Russia. As it approached Petrozavodsk, the light took on the appearance of a glimmering jellyfish, before slowing to a hover and unleashing a salvo of ultra-thin beams of light.
The dockworkers were left wondering what they had seen. Some were concerned they were witnessing a nuclear attack: This was, after all, the height of the Cold War.
But that did not explain what came next. After 12 puzzling minutes, the shining object transformed into a bright semicircle and jetted off back toward Lake Onega. Rather than disappearing over the horizon, it appeared to veer upward, before punching a burning red hole in the clouds, and disappearing into the abyss.
No one died, and the United States, it seemed, was not involved.
The Petrozavodsk jellyfish was not the first time a UFO had been spotted over the territory of the Soviet Union, but few sightings had ever been corroborated by so many people. Policemen, sailors, an ambulance crew and even a reporter for the TASS news agency all claimed to have seen the object. The TASS reporter filed his story three days later under the headline: "A strange natural phenomena over Karelia."
Neighboring governments became alarmed, suspecting the Soviets had tested a new type of weapon. They demanded an explanation from Moscow, but Soviet leaders were apparently just as baffled. Officials even turned to the Academy of Sciences — the highest collection of scientific minds in the communist bloc — for an explanation. The Academy had no satisfactory answer, concluding that the UFO was a real physical phenomenon that required further study.
As Soviet UFO enthusiasts began promoting their own interpretations, the Kremlin convened an unprecedented meeting of military and scientific experts. They all agreed the UFO issue was too big to ignore, and resolved to launch a state investigation into the phenomenon.
Managed by the Defense Ministry and Academy of Sciences, the secret investigation began in 1978 and would run to the end of the Soviet era.
Michael Heseman
A photograph supposedly depicting the Petrozavodsk jellyfish.
The Network
The secret Soviet X-files investigation came to be known in government circles as The Network, and was the largest official investigation into the UFO phenomenon ever conducted. For 13 years, The Network was tasked not with the simple collection of UFO reports — this was left to amateurs — but with understanding them scientifically.
The man tapped to lead the project was a young astrophysicist named Yuly Platov. Now in his 80s, Platov told The Moscow Times that he found out about the project in conversation with the head of his institute. He realized it would be an opportunity to flex his scientific muscles, and so pressed his boss to be given the chance to take part. A few days later he was contacted, quite unexpectedly, and put in charge of the entire project.
Initially the work was top secret. "Maybe we would really find aliens or maybe our findings would have military applications," Platov says. "It wasn't clear at the start what we might find."
The Network was made up of 20 organizations staffed by specialists in physics, chemistry, optics and spectroscopy. "So many people from different professions had to be united," Platov says. "I was the one who had to unite them, and that was difficult, especially for someone like me."
The astrophysicist also had to coordinate his efforts with a parallel structure in the Defense Ministry, which was not without cultural difficulties. "If a scientist is faced with something he doesn't understand, he tries to explore and study the phenomenon," Platov said. "But if something isn't clear for the military, then it is a possible target, or a potential enemy."
The Network gathered data from two main sources. The Academy of Sciences provided reports submitted by Soviet citizens or scientific institutes. The Defense Ministry collected data from soldiers serving in the Soviet military, who were required to report any strange phenomena, especially if it interfered with hardware.
Over the course of its existence, The Network would receive some 3,000 reports of UFO sightings. In the beginning, things were more difficult, and Platov's team instead relied on the research of independent UFO enthusiasts. King among such enthusiasts was an astronomer by the name of Felix Zigel, considered by many followers to be the founding father of Russian UFO studies.
Zigel was obsessive in collecting witness reports over the years, but all of it was unverified. Platov's organization got to work checking the data. Occasionally, a fresh report would prove intriguing enough to persuade Platov and his team to go into the field to investigate.
Platov recalls several fruitless trips to verify Zigel's UFO sightings. The first report came from a 10-year-old boy named Nikita, who claimed to have witnessed a UFO taking off from a field in suburban Moscow. However, when Platov arrived at the Nikita's apartment to ask questions, the boy began to sob uncontrollably. "He looked at his uncle, all doe-eyed, and admitted making it all up," says Platov.
On another outing, Platov's research ream joined Zigel's amateur investigators on a field trip. "Zigel was the chief, the big boss for these guys," Platov says. "Pity he wasn't much of a scientist."
Zigel's research methods were certainly unorthodox. According to Platov, the UFO researcher asked a female colleague to walk around the scene of a reported UFO landing, telling her to stand in various locations and say if she felt strange energy. "Wherever he put her, she'd say 'no,' but he wouldn't give up," says Platov. "Finally, she said she felt something, and he was satisfied."
The team from the academy watched the experiment with detached amusement. After a while, one of them called out to Zigel and joked that he should blindfold her to improve accuracy. The enthusiast was not amused. It was the last time Zigel's organization cooperated with The Network. "When he realized that we weren't obsessed by looking for little green men, he drifted away," says Platov.
Vladimir Zadumin
The launch of a Russian rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, as seen from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.
Zigel's Disciples
While Platov and his team plugged away at their investigation, Zigel continued his own search for the truth until his death in 1988. He built his own parallel team of scientists and amateurs to investigate what he believed to be a genuine paranormal or alien phenomenon. He also cultivated close ties with Western ufologists, who began publishing his case books.
After his death, Zigel's legacy was continued by several disciples from the original research group. They continue working to this day, and chief among them is Alexander Semyonov, who leads a group called Ecology of the Unknown.
Like his mentor, Semyonov is a true believer. Like other Russian UFO enthusiasts, he believes UFOs explain much of the technological superiority of the United States over Russia. B-2 stealth bombers and iPhones are the direct result of the Pentagon being more in tune with UFOs than the Russian Defense Ministry, they say.
Joseph Kellner, an academic specializing in the Russian UFO movement, describes the efforts of these amateur investigators as "romantic," and borne out of a "suspicion of the academic mainstream."
Much of what they base their understanding of UFOs on was imported from Western UFO mythology, says Daniel Galaydow, the official UFO correspondent for the Vechernyaya Moskva newspaper. He is skeptical of many reports from the 1990s, suspicious that jobless military and intelligence officers were creating stories to conform to Western UFO traditions, and then selling them to foreign UFO researchers.
Yet Galaydow remains insistent that UFOs are a reality, and says the best evidence of this comes from the late Soviet period. He speaks of sources in the military-industrial community showing him evidence of a flying saucer crash in Vladivostok in 1986, with the remains supposedly recovered by the Soviet military.
"I don't know whether or not Russian science has research centers that can reverse engineer captured UFOs and interrogate their alien crews to understand their technology," Galaydow says. "Though, I suppose, if we had alien technology, our government would have already used it in this new standoff with the United States."
One Last Puzzle
When it made its conclusions in 1990, the official results of The Network's 13-year inquiry into UFOs concluded that there was no substantive evidence of alien visitation. Just 300 of the 3,000 or so cases they investigated from 1978 to 1990 were considered legitimately anomalous. The other 90 percent were easily explained by man-made activity: usually involving aerospace technology, such as rocket launches and light reflecting off the cylindrical and triangle shaped weather balloons used by research institutes around the world.
While true believers hang on to those 300 reports, they now generally accept that rocket launches were often misreported as alien activity. The Petrozavodsk jellyfish was no exception.
As soon as the Western press began reporting the Petrozavodsk event, it caught the attention of a young engineer half a world away. Dr. James Oberg was a mission controller at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. As a keen observer of Russian spaceflight, he thought he knew what was going on over Petrozavodsk.
Oberg telephoned NASA's satellite tracking center to check whether the Soviets launched something from the top-secret cosmodrome in nearby Plesetsk. The response he received was interesting. There had been a launch at 3:58 a.m. on Sept. 20, he was told, just minutes before the Petrozavodsk UFO was sighted. It appears that the rigid compartmentalization of information in the Soviet Union prevented anyone in Russia from connecting the dots sooner.
Over the years, Oberg made a name for himself as a debunker of Soviet UFO reports, showing time and time again how UFO sightings corresponded with recorded launches of secret space hardware.
SpaceX
The re-entry of a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster in 2015. The rocket is firing its engine, creating an unusual visual pattern comparable to the one described by Soviet citizens in 1967.
One famous incident from nearly 50 years ago, however, remained stubbornly unexplainable.
On the evening of July 17, 1967, Soviet citizens from Ukraine to the Caucasus reported seeing a crescent-shaped object, accompanied by a dot of light, streaking across the night sky. Similar reports over the same regions surfaced on Sept. 19 and Oct. 18, and continued through the spring of 1968.
This incident was Zigel's big break, with his reports shooting him to prominence. On prime time television, he urged Soviet citizens to report sightings of strange phenomenon. His reports were translated for NASA and drew considerable attention from engineers and Western spy agencies.
But Oberg believes people were seeing something different that day. Something perhaps no less terrifying.
It was "the greatest UFO cover-up in history." Rather than alien landings, Oberg says, Soviet citizens had witnessed a test of a top-secret space weapon known as the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS). Able to orbit the earth until Moscow told it which city to target, FOBS could then re-enter the atmosphere and maneuver to its target.
Oberg says this would have looked like an orange crescent — flames from the engine forming a bow-like wake as FOBS slid backwards into the atmosphere — accompanied by a bright dot representing the spacecraft itself.
Soviet authorities later acknowledged that a weapon matching the description of the FOBS existed, but there was no visual reference with which to compare it. This re-entry maneuver was unique in the history of space travel.
Until last year, that is.
Oberg was watching a livestream of the re-entry and landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster when something clicked. The Falcon 9 was conducting that same unusual maneuver that Soviet FOBS weapons were understood to have made in 1967. And photos of the re-entry clearly showed an orange crescent accompanied by a bright dot.
And with that, Oberg says, the Soviet X-Files can finally be considered closed.
"The most amusing thing is that then I finally understood why the American spy agencies wanted to study UFO reports," he says. "It wasn't, as Western UFO enthusiasts thought, because the UFOs were from another planet, but just the opposite."
Every now and then, I am called on to answer some questions about UFO and aliens for radio shows, magazines, newspapers, and educational facilities. Here is one of my latest sessions.
1. Where are UFOs most sighted?
Although there are reports of UFOs worldwide, there are a few hotspots that seem to have more than their share. This varies from time to time, but the United States and Great Britain are the two countries that report more often, with Texas, California, Florida, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and New York being some of the American hotspots.
2. How often do people see UFOs?
Not a day goes by that there are not reports of UFOs, although most of these could be explained as conventional craft if all the details were known. Of all UFO reports, approximately 5% remain unexplained. On an average, there is a "major" UFO sighting monthly.
3. How fast can UFOs fly?
Although there is no known recording of the speed of a UFO, reports from pilots, policemen, etc., claim that they can go as fast as MACH 3.
Our planes flying at full speed are often reported being left behind by the speed of the UFOs.
4. Is it true that UFOs are crashing into earth?
There are many reports that claim UFOs have crashed, but because all of them are handled by governments of the world, actual proof is difficult to obtain. There are about five or so crashes that have documented eyewitness statements verifying the recovery of crashed UFO.
5. Where do UFOs come from?
No one can say for sure, but there are a couple of theories about their home bases. Some researchers believe that the UFOs travel from distant planets. Some believe that they are from another dimension, and others believe they have bases on Earth, in underground facilities or under the ocean.
6. Have you seen a real UFO with your own eyes? if yes, did you feel any unusual sensations?
I have never seen a UFO myself, but I have friends who have seen and photographed unknown flying objects. I have had several reports of eyewitnesses to UFOs that have felt the urge to go outside and look up into the sky, and then witnessed a UFO. Other witnesses have claimed to have physical ailments after a UFO encounter.
7. Can you tell me their size, shapes, rotation, and colors?
Almost anything you can imagine. Most of the reports are of a saucer or disc-shaped objects, normally of a shiny, metallic surface, and various colors of lights. In recent years, there are more reports of the triangular shaped UFOs, which are normally reported as black in color. These objects are reported to move in many, varied ways.
8. How long have you been working with UFOs?
I have been interested in UFOs for at least 4 decades, but have in the last ten years had the time and resources to study UFOs full time.
9. What sparked your interest in UFOs?
I was a young man in the 1950s, and I was exposed to many of the best Sci-Fi movies of that era - "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers," and also television programs such as the "Twilight Zone," the "Outer Limits," "One Step Beyond," etc. This brought many possibilities to my mind that there may be something to the UFO mystery.
10. How would you characterize your previous interest or attitude toward UFOs?
When I was young, I felt that the possibility that Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Universe was not accurate. As I grew older, I was exposed to more and more evidence from eyewitnesses of UFOs, along with photographic and video proof. This overwhelming evidence only validated what I thought when I was younger. I believe that we are getting closer to our government releasing information of UFOs, following recent disclosure by such countries as Great Britain and France.
11. Why have you concluded that the evidence is overwhelming that Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft?
There is just too much evidence - eyewitness accounts by sane, responsible individuals, pilots, policemen, and even scientists to deny the existence of UFOs. There is photographic and video evidence of unknown flying objects that has been verified by photographic experts.
12. Why don’t the aliens, if they are real, just land on earth and invade humans?
This is a question that is often asked, and there is no clear-cut answer. There are a number of theories, however. Some believe that the aliens don't want to interact with humans because they are far advanced intellectually. Some believe that on a small scale, aliens are already conversing with governments of the world, sharing their technology.
13. Why would saucers crash? (if they do)
Some have surmised that various electromagnetic effects can bring a UFO down. This could be from a lightning strike, which is one of the theories for the Roswell crash. Other malfunctions on the ship itself, just like a plane, can occur at any time. Nothing is perfect all the time.
14. Why is the government not telling what they know about UFOs?
There are certainly a number of reasons. One is that when a government controls information, they control the populace. There are also social, technological, religious, and commercial reasons. If the peoples of the world were told that our governments have been contacted by alien beings, there could be widespread social unrest and even panic.
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Information on Area 51 and Roswell crash
Information on Area 51 and Roswell crash
Questions and Answers on Area 51, Roswell
U.S. Houses UFOs. B J Booth
Questions and Answers on Area 51, Roswell
The following interview is part of a project being conducted in Phoenix, Arizona, on Area 51 and the Roswell crash.
Question: What do you think about the possibility of theArea 51 conspiracy existing for the government's benefit? Our assertion is that UFOs or alien ships were the perfect smokescreen for the experimental military aircrafts that the government has disclosed were tested there.
I believe that our government uses the facility and others similar to it for several purposes, some of them top-secret or above. It is very obvious to me that with so much attention given to Area 51, many other bases operate freely with their projects. I am sure not all of these are top-secret, but at least some of them are.
We have little knowledge of what the government does. I am one of those who believe that there are some things that should be kept from the general public, but our curiosity is never ending on what is going on behind the scenes.
Many new technologies are being developed at government facilities. It probably true that most of these deal with military applications, but you better believe that there are things being dealt with that are beyond our imagination, like life forms from other worlds, and a possible future invasion.
Question: What exactly was found at Roswell and where was it sent? We believe it was a Soviet spy craft that crashed.
I have studied the Roswell case for some thirty years, and read most of what has been written about it, including a number of different theories; a government apparatus for monitoring Soviet radiation emissions, and the alleged Russian spy craft.
There is no doubt in my mind from the preponderance of eyewitness statements, and even government documents later released, that something not of this world crashed there. Are all of the eyewitness accounts accurate? No, but there are too many eyewitness reports that agree so closely, they all cannot simply be lies.
Many of the alleged UFO 'crashes' can be debunked, simply from the lack of evidence, and conflicting reports, but this is not true for the Roswell event. What do we do with over 500 witnesses, some claiming to have seen the alien bodies and the actual crashed vehicle?
Although occurring during a time when Americans were very frightened by the idea of a Soviet invasion, or an invasion from outer space, there would be little reason for the American government to go to such great lengths to cover-up the existence of a Russian spy craft.
Our country being monitored by the Russians at this time is something that many believed to be true to start with, but our airspace being invaded by an alien race; that's a totally different subject, and one that the US government would have covered up at any and all costs.
Question: What has been studied at Area 51 and why has it been kept so secret? We have no idea.
Well, we know for sure that Stealth technology has been studied there for decades. That became apparent during the Gulf wars. This is also a perfect example of how well a project can be kept secret. Remember 'Fat Man' and 'Little Boy?'
There can be little doubt from statements of retired workers that unusual things are being dealt with at Area 51. Why would a base of such size exist in such an isolated, well protected area?
Could all of this be to cover-up the study and experimentation on military projects, something that everyone already knows about to begin with? I think not. This type of work is being done at a number of military bases already.
Somewhere studies and experiments are being done on alien vehicles; their technology, propulsion systems, structural materials, and possibly cloaking devices. What better place than Area 51.
What is discovered in this area involves a great stretch in our own technological advancement. This experimentation leads to discoveries of here-to-fore unknown processes, which may be for our own planet's defense, and intellectual advancement of mankind.
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Russian UFO Crash, 1989
Russian UFO Crash, 1989
Russian UFO Crash 1969. TNT.com
Unknown Object Appears Over Russia:
An unsubstantiated UFO case comes to us from Russia. According to the reports, not far from the city of Prohlandnyi at 1:00 AM, on August 10, 1989, Soviet military radar units picked up an unidentified flying object. An attempt was made to contact the craft, without success. The UFO was classified as "hostile." Russian defenses were put on alert, and Mig-25s were put in the air to find and identify the UFO.
A Russian Roswell?:
The Migs were given the authority to use weapons if necessary. When the UFO refused to answer hails, the Migs fired, hitting the UFO. It soon ditched over the Caucasian Mountains, and a search and retrieval team was dispatched. A crew aboard an M1-8 located the disc-shaped UFO outside of Nizhnizy Chegem. The area was completely cordoned off to everyone except military personnel. The case has a similar ring to America's Roswell crash of 1947.
The Object is Examined:
According to reports, the object was about 20 feet long and 10 feet tall, shaped like a long cigar.
There was a long rutted out place in the ground where the object had obviously skidded as it plowed to a stop. There was obvious damage to the exterior of the craft. The retrieval team, wearing protective outer wear, moved to the site. There was a small amount of radiation, and some members of the team were effected.
Object Moved by Helicopter:
A helicopter on the scene was hooked up to the craft, and the UFO was transported to Mozdok Air Base. The base was rumored to store nuclear weapons, and long range bombers. Another investigative team was sent to Mozdok to begin a scientific analysis of the UFO. A KGB cover-up was in full operation by this time. How information was leaked about the case has not been discovered.
Entering the UFO:
Allegedly, there was already an open door in the UFO, caused by its crash. Team members entered the craft, and began their investigation. There were many items found that one would expect-instrument panels, electronic switches and monitors. Also found were three alien bodies-two dead, one barely alive. It appeared that the two aliens were killed by equipment falling on them from above.
Description of the Aliens:
A team of doctors and other medical personnel made every effort to keep the alien alive, but failed. All three of the beings were about 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall, with gray outer wear. Underneath, their skin was a blue-green color with a reptilian texture. They had no hair, large black eyes covered with a protective lid, and web fingers ended their long, slender arms.
Top-Secret Facility:
According to reports, the alien bodies were being kept in glass containers in a top-secret facility. The crashed UFO was taken to the Kapustin Yar range. The information contained in this report originated from three Russian investigators-Anton Anfalov, Lenura Azizova and Alexander Mosolov.
More Information Needed:
The problem with this case is that there has been no information supplied on who the three men represent, and nothing about their character or background, and their source for the information. With only the small group of three men supplying all of the information, and no documentation or other evidence to support their claims, the case of the Russian crash and retrieval of 1989 must remain in the area of folklore.
Marine Corps Lance Corporal John Weygandt, who was part of the Disclosure Project, was sent to Peru in March 1997, to provide perimeter security for a radar installation that he was told tracked drug traffic aircraft. He states, “About midnight, while I was on guard duty, Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson told me, an aircraft crashed and they need us to go and secure the crash site.”
Early that morning we drove six Hummers close to the crash site just when it started to get light. We found the area real easy because there was a huge gash in the land where something had crashed. Everything was burned and it was like something had almost cut warm butter with a knife.
It was like something on fire or had some kind of energy like a laser had cut it. It was really strange.
Investigation Begins
I was in the front with my sergeants ten meters ahead of everyone else. We were the first ones to see this thing. It had gone up the hill and then off in the side of the ravine and ridge. This was a 200-foot ridge, of solid rock. A huge craft was buried at a 45 degree angle in the side of the cliff there at the ridge. It was straight up and down. The craft was dripping a greenish-purple syrup-like liquid everywhere that fluctuated like it was alive and changing to a different shade of greenish purple.
The craft was humming like a bass guitar and had a slowly turning light. Most of the craft seemed buried into the cliff but vents, like a fish gill were on the back. The liquid got on my clothes and ate holes in them and burned off some the hair on my arms. There were three holes in the ship that may have been hatches that were not flush with the main body of the craft.
Bizarre Description
There was another hatch that was kind of crooked to the side and half open. I felt this strange presence and I think the creatures calmed me and were trying to communicate with me telepathically. The Corporal estimated the craft was about 20 meters in length (66 feet) and ten meters (33 feet) in width and shaped like an egg or teardrop.
The skin of the craft had bumps and notches and appendages on it. It was really organic and almost like art. It looked like something that could be made in a shop with handmade materials. It looked like metal but there was no reflection and was nothing like titanium. The sun was shining on it and I could see the different shades of the craft. Suddenly the Sergeants were yelling at me to get the hell out of there. After we climbed back up, the Department of Energy people were there.
Department of Energy Takes Over
They knew about it so I don’t know why we went there. I was arrested and cuffed with both hands down and all my gear was taken from me by men in black camouflage uniforms who threatened me and subdued me. At the crash site there were thirty guys wearing hazard suits. I had been told aircraft were flying in and out of the atmosphere at mach ten plus. When you have objects that reenter the atmosphere and then stop on a dime and turn around it is obvious this craft are not from Earth. I knew that when I looked at it.
I wondered if those facilities were built to track UFOs with radar and their cover was to track drug aircraft. They had laser range finders and all kinds of high tech stuff that I have never seen before and can’t explain. The laser range finders looked like big telescopes. There was a Command Center manned by a multi-national force including Chinese and I think Germans.
Lethal Force Against Aliens
So these craft were tracked from this particular radar and had been hit by some weapons and had been taken out. Editor’s Note: I spoke with Corporal Weygandt who described a craft damaged by enemy action, either ours or an opposing alien force. He thought there may be a missile site that was set up in Peru. His testimony on Page 274 of “Disclosure: Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets” by Steven Greer M.D. indicates lethal deadly force was being used against alien intruders during the Clinton Administration. We can assume this war continues.
But an atypical year is coming very soon if Calvin astronomy professor Larry Molnar’s calculations are correct. Molnar is predicting that a star he is monitoring will explode between 2018 and 2020; a comparable prediction has never been made.
Larry Molnar, professor of astronomy at Calvin College Noah PreFountaine
“It’s a one-in-a-million chance that you can predict an explosion,” Molnar said of his bold prognostication. “It’s never been done before.”
The star known as KIC 9832227 came to Molnar’s attention in 2013. He was attending an astronomy conference when astronomer Karen Kinemuchi presented her study of the brightness changes of the star, which concluded with a question: Is it pulsing or is it a binary (two stars orbiting each other)?
Also present at the conference was then-student Daniel Van Noord ’14, Molnar’s research assistant. He took the question as a personal challenge and made some observations of the star with the Calvin observatory.
“He looked at how the color of the star correlated with brightness and determined it was definitely binary,” said Molnar. “In fact, he discovered it was actually a contact binary, in which the two stars share a common atmosphere, like two peanuts sharing a single shell.
“From there Dan figured out the orbital period from Kinemuchi’s data and was surprised to discover that the period was not the same as earlier data showed; it was getting shorter,” Molnar continued.
FURTHER EXPLORATION
Based on that discovery, Molnar and Van Noord wanted to explore further, so they continued to monitor the orbital period using the Calvin observatory. “We found the period getting even shorter at a faster rate,” said Molnar. They surmised that they might be seeing the merger of two stars, a process that can culminate in a kind of stellar explosion known as a Red Nova.
Nobody has ever predicted a nova explosion before. It’s been done at Calvin with a small telescope, one professor and a few students looking for something that is not likely.
LARRY MOLNAR, PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY
“It was really exciting to find something like this,” said Van Noord, who came to Calvin because of his interest in studying variable stars. While here he developed a now-internationally used computer program that discovers binary stars in archived data. “It’s proof that the method of research we use at Calvin works.”
The team also took cues from an article by astronomer Romuald Tylenda, who had studied the observational archives to see how another star (V1309 Scorpii) had behaved before it exploded unexpectedly and produced a red nova in 2008. The pre-explosion record of that star is the “Rosetta stone” that Molnar is using to interpret the new data.
“I remember thinking that if I ever see one [a trajectory] that looks like that, I better pay close attention,” said Molnar.
A red nova explosion Space Telescope Science Institute
THE NEXT STEP
While the new star seemed to be following Tylenda’s model, other models and explanations had to be eliminated. This next step of research was taken by Calvin student Cara Alexander.
“We had to rule out the possibility of a third star,” said Alexander. “That would have been a pedestrian, boring explanation. I was processing data from two telescopes and obtained images that showed a signature of our star and no sign of a third star. Then we knew we were looking at the right thing.
“It took most of the summer to analyze the data, but it was so exciting. To be a part of this research, I don’t know any other place where I would get an opportunity like that; Calvin is an amazing place.”
Jason Smolinski, a Calvin professor collaborating on the project, said the research will produce results such that astronomers have never had before. “Any time stellar explosions are seen, it’s always after the fact,” he said. “That’s interesting, but you always wonder what was there beforehand? For us to be able to study this type of merger in great detail across the entire spectrum is remarkable,” he said.
Being a Christian astronomer gives you so much more wonder, it gives you so much more appreciation knowing that it was handcrafted–it was made by the hand of God.
CARA ALEXANDER, '16
And Molnar is convinced Calvin is exactly the right place for a discovery of this magnitude.
“Most big scientific projects are done in enormous groups with thousands of people and billions of dollars,” he said. “This project is just the opposite. It’s been done using a small telescope, with one professor and a few students looking for something that is not likely.
“Nobody has ever predicted a nova explosion before. Why pay someone to do something that almost certainly won’t succeed? It’s a high-risk proposal. But at Calvin it’s only my risk, and I can use my work on interesting, open-ended questions to bring extra excitement into my classroom. Some projects still have an advantage when you don’t have as much time or money.”
“Being at Calvin gives you the freedom to explore,” added Alexander. “At large institutions you often study what you can get grants for instead of what needs to be studied.”
And it makes you more awestruck.
LUMINOUS SHEDS LIGHT ON RED NOVA RESEARCH
While Larry Molnar’s discovery is rare and atypical, the opportunity to document the finding along the way is an exceptional opportunity in its own right.
That’s why Sam Smartt, Calvin professor of communication arts and sciences, agreed to partner with Molnar to chronicle the process.
“I felt like it was a little gem of story here in our backyard,” said Smartt, who is a documentary film producer.
Smartt and others in his film production crew, including Kemp Lyons, Calvin’s video producer, and student Daniel Baas, have logged about 60 hours of filming. Smartt’s Intermediate Filmmaking class helped in the production of a trailer and a few short films this fall.
“I felt like we had to jump on it right away during the period of uncertainty—will it or won’t it explode?” said Smartt. “That’s what makes it interesting.”
The full documentary, which will continue to chronicle the research, will likely be finished a few years after the predicted explosion.
Luminous will focus on the nature of scientific discovery, the development of undergraduate researchers and the power of “small science.”
“Big science is multimillion dollar funding with a lot of people working on big projects,” said Smartt. “Small science is a small telescope with just a few people looking at one thing for a very long time. You wouldn’t think that a small liberal arts college with no graduate students and only an astronomy minor would have a story like this. It’s kind of an underdog story.”
SO MUCH WONDER
“Being a Christian astronomer gives you so much more wonder,” she said. “It gives you so much more appreciation knowing that it was handcrafted—it was made by the hand of God. Secular institutions take the appreciation of the glory out of it. From the huge vastness to the tiniest of details, Calvin professors help you see it. They help you see God through it.”
With the star still following the model, Molnar is predicting the explosion will occur in about three to five years, at which time the star will increase its brightness ten thousand fold.
“If Larry’s prediction is correct, his project will demonstrate for the first time that astronomers can catch certain binary stars in the act of dying, and that they can track the last few years of a stellar death spiral up to the point of final, dramatic explosion,” said Matt Walhout, chair of Calvin’s physics and astronomy department.
Knowing God better is one of the things we seek to do.
LARRY MOLNAR
“The project is significant not only because of the scientific results, but also because it is likely to capture the imagination of people on the street,” he added. “If the prediction is correct, then for the first time in history, parents will be able to point to a dark spot in the sky and say, ‘Watch, kids, there’s a star hiding in there, but soon it’s going to light up.’”
Indeed, the explosion will catch the attention of scientists, media and ordinary people across the globe.
The outcome, one of the brighter stars in the heavens for a time, will be visible as part of the constellation Cygnus, and will add a star to the recognizable Northern Cross star pattern.
Molnar, who is now as certain of his prediction as science allows, believes whatever happens, “the answer will be interesting.”
“Knowing God better is one of the things we seek to do,” he said. “One of the ways to do that is to explore this amazing universe. The Psalmist says, ‘the heavens declare the glory of God,’” said Molnar. “If you’re not listening you’re missing that message.”
ET hunters expand search for life to include 20,000 star systems thought to contain two-sided worlds split between constant darkness and permanent sunshine
Light and dark: Could aliens lurk in the Goldilocks Zone of weird planets orbiting a red dwarf?
The SETI Institute has claimed intelligent alien civilisations could survive on strange "heaven and hell" planets once thought to be totally uninhabitable.
Extraterrestrial hunters have expanded their search for life to include 20,000 red dwarf stars - the dim suns which are thought to create these weird worlds.
Red dwarfs have a much smaller "habitable zone" than our own sun, which means any planet capable of supporting life would have to orbit it at very close proximity.
These planets quickly become "tidally locked" so that one hemisphere constantly faces the star, leaving one side of the world to shiver in constant, freezing darkness whilst the other is scorched by permanent sunlight.
It was thought both sides of these grim planets would be too hostile for life to survive.
But recent research has indicated that a temperate area known as a Goldilocks zone could form between the two faces, allowing intelligent organisms to thrive.
Heaven and hell: An artist's impression of the planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581
"If these worlds have oceans and atmospheres, heat would be transported from the lit side to the dark, and a significant fraction of the planet would be habitable," the SETI Institute wrote .
Due to the strange properties of these planets, ET detectives have tended to ignore red dwarves.
Yet they have several key properties which make them very exciting to alien hunters.
Up to half of all red dwarf stars are thought to host an planet in the "habitable zone" in which life could thrive.
It is also believed that every single red dwarf which has ever been born is still shining, because their lifespan is longer than the entire universe has been in existence.
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The Allen Telescope Array, a radio interferometer that is dedicated to astronomical observations and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Red dwarfs burn for much longer than stars like our own sun, giving intelligent life more time to evolve.
“This may be one instance in which older is better,” said SETI Institute astronomerSeth Shostak .
The SETI Institute will now use the Allen Telescope Array to look at 20,000 red dwarf stars over the next two years and search for "magic frequencies", which are the radio transmissions likely to be sent out by aliens.
“Red dwarfs – the dim bulbs of the cosmos – have received scant attention by SETI scientists in the past,” added SETI engineer Jon Richards .
"That’s because researchers made the seemingly reasonable assumption that other intelligent species would be on planets orbiting stars similar to the Sun."
Filer’s Files # 14 2016 – Hillary Clinton and UFOs - PART I
Alexandria, Virginia Triangle photographed on March 26, 2016
Filer’s Files # 14 2016 – Hillary Clinton and UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Hillary Clinton and UFOs, Super Bowl Champions Close Encounter in New Jersey, The Abductee Who Fought Back, Selected by Exterrestrials, John s Letter Says We Have Been Duped, Ruins of a City Found in Antarctica? And Jupiter Hit by Meteorites.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Columbia,, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.
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Hillary Clinton and UFOs
HillaryClinton with Laurance Rockefeller at the JY Ranch, Jackson, Wyoming, She is carrying an interesting book. Laurance allegedly briefed the President and his wife about UFOs.During the August 1995 ranch visit, Mrs. Clinton was photographed alone and deep in conversation with the philanthropist, then 85, and clutching a copy of a book by Paul Davies called Are We Alone: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extra-terrestrial Life.
It took some time but researcher Tonio Cousyn was able to determine the book Hillary is carrying is “Are We Alone?” by Paul Davies that speculates the possible existence of extraterrestrial life. Is that walking behind them a gray?
A woman who claimed to be Hillary Clinton’s secretary called and told me Hillary is very interested in UFOs and enjoys reading Filer’s Files. I did send the files to the White House and Senators but do not know if they were read. During a recent interview Hillary claims she would release government information on UFOs and get to the bottom of the phenomena.
Hillary Clinton stated in Council Bluffs Iowa, December 17, 2007, “Remember that movie “Independence Day,” where invaders were coming from outer space and the whole world was united against the invasion? Why can’t we be united on behalf of our planet? And that’s what I want to do.”
Toronto [ZNN] In another bold move adding to her latest series of commentaries on the UFO issue, Hillary Clinton appeared on ABC’s acclaimed Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday. Clinton made this revelation in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel that is watched by an average of 2.43 million people – the top Democratic candidate for the US Presidency talk about UFOs – is indeed non-trivial.
Here is what transpired on Jimmy Kimmel Live on March 24, 2016 as over 2 million viewers looked on. Kimmel said: “When we had your husband, President Clinton, on this show [in 2014], I asked him about UFOs and Area 51,” Kimmel reminded Clinton. “If I was president, that’s the first thing I’d do. I’d go right into those files and see what was going on. And he said that he did do that, and that he didn’t find anything.” Clinton offered this provocative response: “Yes…well, I’m going to do it, again. And you know, there’s a new name,” Clinton added. “It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon — UAP — that’s the latest nomenclature.” (The Weekly Standard)
Watch the HRClinton interview at: Jimmy Kimmel Live, Review more on the Clintons’ UFO exposure: PRG, ZlandCommunications NewsNetwork
Super Bowl Champions Close Encounter in New Jersey 2005
NFL star Aaron Rodgers has detailed his close encounter of the third kind. The Green Bay Packers quarterback revealed on Pete Holmes’ You Made It Weird podcast that he and former University of California teammate Steve Levy spotted a flying saucer while in New Jersey back in 2005. “It was a large orange, left-to-right-moving object,” Rodgers said.
“Because of the overcast nature of the night and the snow, you couldn’t make out — it was kind of behind the clouds we were seeing, but it was definitively large, moving from left to right. “It was me, Steve [Levy] and his brother that saw it. And it goes out of sight and welook at each other and go: ‘What in the world was that?’” If Rodgers had left it there, that would be fine. He’d join a long list of celebrities who’ve purportedly had their own UFO sightings. But, Rodgers went full conspiracy theorist on us, breaking down the circumstantial evidence that proves this was a paranormal event. According to Rodgers, he then heard fighter jets along with the alarm. “Now, if you know anything about UFO sightings or you’ve done research, you know that a lot of times two things are connected to UFO sightings,” said the two-time MVP and Super Bowl champion. “One is the presence of fighter jets. And two, there is a lot of sightings around nuclear power plants. So to tie it all together, the alarm we heard from 30 miles out was a nuclear power plant that had an alarm that went off.” To Rodgers’ credit, a Google search for “UFOs nuclear power plants” returns about half-a-million results. Back in January of 2015, the director of a French nuclear power plant reportedly said that a UFO had visited the facility. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldUFOphotos.org
Selected by Extraterrestrials
Bill Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy as a teenager, when the Navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of the radars and gun emplacements. He was personally present at the “Battle of L.A.” when a thousand rounds of ammo were fired at UFOs, and one of the Nordic craft may have selected him to be their rep in the evolving aerospace race. This book is a partial autobiography about his life to the beginning of the 1970s including some of his early work for TRW. Selected by the Navy prior to completing high school to be authorized for research work, he regularly visited classified Naval facilities during WWII until he was discharged in 1946.
After working at North American Aviation and Northrop, he was hired by Douglas Aircraft Company in 1950, and when they found out about his involvement in classified work, was given a job as a to create design solutions as a draftsman with a peripheral assignment to work in a “think tank”. This work was partly controlled by the Navy personnel who used to work for James Forrestal, who was allegedly assassinated because he was going to publicly reveal what he knew about UFOs. Bill Tompkins was asked to conceive sketches of mile-long Naval interplanetary craft designs.
Later, as he became involved in the conventional aspects of the Saturn Program that later became the Apollo launch vehicle, his insight to system engineering resulted in his offering some critical suggestions personally to Dr. Wernher von Braun about ensuring more reliable checkout using the missiles in their vertical position and also some very efficient launch control concepts adopted by both NASA and the Air Force. This story is peppered with very personal interactions with his co-workers and secretaries, some of whom the author believes to be Nordic aliens helping the “good guys” here on Earth.
Towards the end of this volume of his autobiography, he sketches what he personally saw on TV when Armstrong was landing on the moon. Born in May 1923, Bill Tompkins is one of the few survivors of the “big war” who is still healthy, married to the same girl Mary, and is willing to tell his story about what he really did during his aerospace life in the 40s, 50s and 60s that relate to aliens, NASA and secrets that now can be told.
Technological programs and covert space travel think tank participation detailed in the Tompkins book have been validated by Dr. Bob Wood utilizing some (40) key documents provided by Tompkins to Wood, in addition to his hi tech knowledge Wood had directed access to while at McDonnell Douglas during his (43) year career. Also, know that the documentation held by Tompkins hasn’t yet been exhausted as both Dr. Wood and Tompkins have explained to me – there are many, many more documents yet to become public. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldUFOphotos.org
Journey Around the Milky Way
Astronomers focusing on a star at the center of the Milky Way say they have measured precisely for the first time how long it takes the sun to circle its home galaxy: 226 million years. The last time the sun was at this exact spot of its galactic orbit, dinosaurs ruled the world.
Using a radio telescope system that measures celestial distances 500 times more accurately than the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers plotted the motion of the Milky Way and found that the sun and its family of planets were orbiting the galaxy at about 135 miles per second. That means it takes the solar system about 226 million years to orbit the Milky Way and puts the most precise value ever determined on one of the fundamental motions of the Earth and its sun, said James Moran of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
A report on the finding was presented Tuesday at a national meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
“Our new figure of 226 million miles is accurate to within 6 percent,” Mark Reid, a Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer and leader of the team that made the measurements, said in a statement. The sun is one of about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, one of billions of ordinary galaxies in the universe. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, with curving arms of stars pin wheeling out from a center. The solar system is about halfway out on one of these arms and is about 26,000 light years from the center. A light year is about 6 trillion miles.
Reid and his team made the measurement using the Very Long Baseline Array, a system of 10 large radio-telescope antennae placed 5,000 miles across the United States, from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Hawaii. Working together as a single unit, the antennae can measure motions in the distant universe with unprecedented accuracy. The accuracy is such that the VLBA can look at a bit of sky that has an apparent size one ten- thousandth the diameter of a human hair held at arm’s length. For their solar system measurement, the astronomers focused on Sagittarius A, a star discovered two decades ago to mark the Milky Way’s center. Over a 10-day period, they measured the apparent shift in position of the star against the background of stars far beyond.
The apparent motion of Sagittarius A is very, very small, just one-600,000th of what could be detected with the human eye, the astronomers said. Reid said the measurement adds supports to the idea that the Milky Way’s center contains a supermassive black hole. “This … strengthens the idea that this object, much smaller than our own solar system, contains a black hole about 2.6 million times more massive than the sun,” Reid said in a statement. Moran said the new measurement of the solar system orbit adds new accuracy to a fundamental fact of the universe: Everything is moving constantly. The Earth rotates on its axis at about 1,100 miles an hour, a motion that creates day and night. The Earth orbits the sun at about 67,000 miles an hour, a motion that takes one year. The sun circles the Milky Way at a speed of about 486,000 miles per hour. In addition, every object in the universe is moving apart from the other objects as the universe expands at a constantly accelerating rate. Thanks to Paul Recer Thanks to MUFON CMS
Jupiter Hit by Meteorites
Several large meteorites struck Jupiter on March 17, 2016, and an amateur astronomer captured the videos. In the negative photos below, you can make out the shape of the object, which is not what you would expect. The meteorites are albeit the size of our moon and would be considered an ELE, extinction level event if it had hit earth. It could happen this afternoon, tomorrow or on your birthday and NASA would unlikely been able to stop them. That is how helpless earth is in this solar system. Scott C. Waring Website
Cyber Attacks and North Korea
Regarding the recent North Korean rocket launch, it demonstrated that they could get a good-sized nuclear payload into orbit– around 400 to 500 pounds, which is equivalent to one of their smaller nuclear weapons. This is worrying, as it shows they could potentially deliver a nuclear weapon anywhere on the globe, he noted. At this point, North Korean nuclear weapons are less adept at producing EMP pulses, and designed more for a classic blast effect and radiation, he pointed out. “North Korea kind of reminds of that song Still Crazy After All These Years,” with Kim Jong Un even more of a loose cannon than his father, Smith remarked. Read the full recap here.
The Abductee Who Fought Back
My name is Jacob Andrew Turner. I have been holding in this information for some time now I have just been too paralyzed with fear to say something. Due to recent changes in my life, I’ve decided to disclose this information. My abduction stories begin around the age of eight. It all started when I was sitting outside my relative’s house on the porch when I saw a very distant light glaring just beyond a hill. As the night went on, I noticed it was getting brighter and before I knew, it was extremely close to me. So like any other curious child of my age I began to move myself towards it. The closer I got to the stand still glaring light illuminating over the trees the more I felt pulled in like as if it had its own gravitational pull. Once I came within sight of the light I realized it wasn’t just a light but a ship like figure hovering above the ground.
Fearful I didn’t know whether to turn back or approach closer to what it was. Before being able, to make a decision it seems to pull me closer against my will as if my body was temporarily paralyzed. Then I remembered coming in and out of scenes where I was laying across some type of table or thin like bed incompatible of moving myself. Some of these memories included seeing tall like figures with dark suits they’re skin was slight lighter than what they’re attire. They look to have hair but I was unsure. It seems like moments later I woke up exactly where I had first recognized the craft. Feeling weird from all of it, I decided to keep it to myself under the thought no one believe me. At 8 years of age, I felt people would say I wanted attention. I feel at the age I am now (20) I feel like it would be more creditable because I’m not a child. I have held this information to myself for quite some time and I’m ready to let others know what I saw. Thanks to UFOINFO
John’s Letter Says We Have Been Duped
John writes, “For 20 years I believed in alien life on other planets, I witnessed a UFO myself hovering over a chemical plant in 1999 and went to a talk by Colonel Holt about his UFO experience in Suffolk.” I am also a Christian believer for the same period and have had plenty experience of the Holy Spirit in my life.
I believe in the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Medjugorje (shown) etc. “The Father has placed me on this mission of being a Messenger between God and man”.
Mary appeared to the visionary Veronica at Bayside USA between 1970-1994 and among subjects covered were UFO’s. A couple of quotes “UFO’s as you call them are used by SATAN and other demons from hell as transports to confuse and confound mankind into thinking there is alien life in the universe the only creation of the Father has been given in the book of love and life” (bible).
We are now living through the Book of Revelations, these are the end times, “in this final battle because of the sins of mankind there are many agents of hell now loose on the earth”. There is our natural world and the supernatural Heaven, Hell and Purgatory.
The Devil knows his time is now short and so when the Christian church is RUPTURED, news media’s will report to those left behind that a mass UFO abduction has occurred to explain the disappearance of these people, covering up the Divine Act from you. In addition, as in surveys at least half those surveyed believe in alien life, abductions etc thanks to the UFO phenomenon most will probably accept this explanation.
This and other subjects covering the end times can be found under directives on the shrine websiteWebsite the Warning, Great Miracle and Chastisements to come. As ever in this spiritual battle prayer is key, please do not let the evil one fool humankind. Regards John johndeegan60@yahoo.co.uk
Note: J Allen Hynek, John Keel and others have suggested the alien called Satan described in the Bible is responsible for the UFO phenomena.
Ruins of a City Found in Antarctica?
A California TV crew missing since November 2002, a video they left behind and a mission by U.S. Navy SEALs are the key elements in a story that claims extensive ancient ruins have been found under the ice of Antarctica. A spokesman for the company is reported to have said at the time that “The U.S. government said it will seek to block the airing of a video found by Navy rescuers in Antarctica that purportedly reveals that a massive archaeological dig is underway two miles (3,200 meters) beneath the ice.” “The AtlantisTV production crew that shot the video is still missing.” Attorneys for the Beverly Hills-based AtlantisTV stressed at the time that the company’s primary concern was for the safety and welfare of the crew. But they stated they would vigorously oppose any attempts to censor material that is clearly in the public interest and public domain. The icy continent of Antarctica, they pointed out, belongs to no nation. The U.S. has no jurisdiction there.”
“That video is the property of AtlantisTV, said a company spokesman, We shot it. It’s ours. And as soon as it is rightfully restored to us, were going to air it. End of story.”
WATCHED BY NAVY OFFICERS
“Two Navy officers who saw the tape described its contents to National Science Foundation (NSF) researchers upon their return to the Amundsen-Scott Station at the South Pole. So reported sources at McMurdo Station, the main American base in Antarctica.” They said it showed spectacular ruins and other things they couldn’t go into, an NSF scientist reported. “We chalked it up to some kind of subzero-induced delusion,” he said, “until a helicopter full of Navy SEALs landed and picked them up and took off. Now, were scratching our heads.” Officials of the U.S. Naval Support Task Force in Antarctica predictably denied the story or the possession of any video shot by the missing AtlantisTV crew.
Navy sources said they found the video in an abandoned supply dump 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Vokstok Station. Thanks to Archaeology News Flash. Note: Researchers have claimed the German military built a base in Anartica at the end of World War II that included UFOs.
Spring 2016 Conferences
Fringe New Jersey
Five Fascinating Speakers Saturday, April 9, 2016, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Hilton Garden Inn, 800 Route 130, Hamilton NJ 08690–
Larry E. Arnold, Joanna Ebenstein, William V. Rauscher, Peter Robbins, and Linda Zimmermann.
ADMISSION: $45, full day. Advance order for prime seating and to reserve dinner buffet:
Lacy’s book is full of recollections not only of his abductions by various aliens, but also of how those abductions have affected his life.
He tells them in such a straightforward, ordinary way, and with so many details, that it’s hard to be skeptical about his story. The details, too, are convincing enough to make anyone at least consider the possibility. After all, what other explanation could there be for a small child being healed of sarcoma after a doctor told his parents that they might as well have another child already as a replacement? What other explanation could there be for Byron’s numerous accounts of having “lost time,” or of his finding scratches and puncture wounds on his body, or of the memories that suddenly resurface about having been brought aboard an alien ship? These questions kept returning to my mind as I read, and I could think of no other answer except to believe that Lacy was telling the truth.
The one complaint I had about the book is the way Lacy presents his story. It does not go in chronological order, which can make it rather hard to follow, and I sometimes had trouble telling when a particular chapter took place. If you stick with it, though, you will find a compelling story that I would recommend to anyone who has had even the slightest question about whether we really are alone in the universe. SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW.
Scoop marks on Byron’s right leg
Byron W. Lacy has written an excellent book that should be read by everyone, because if you suspect you are an abductee this is the book you should read. Lacy, a civil servant, musician, artist, and poet was born in Texas. The young Byron was not expected to survive a childhood case of sarcoma cancer. Yet he did, miraculously. In 1961, he witnessed a flying submarine like thing at close range over his entire elementary school class as they exercised in the yard. Other uncanny events include repeated narrow escapes from deadly car accidents. Only in 2009, after seeing a couple of “stargates” materialize in the sky was Lacy convinced he had been alien plagued and abducted for a generation. His imaginary playmate “pirates” Byron saw, as a little boy were the enigmatic intruders. Byron believes he and fellow “abductees” endured many strange experiences: missing time, bodily implants and mysterious scarring, and “little gray” humanoids. For Byron, it is obvious; skeptics be damned, and countless folks are being abducted. A far-out, disconcertingly readable memoir that flatly declares everything about aliens you read online or see dramatized on TV is true. _Kirkus Reviews, ORDER HERE
611 UFO Sightings in February
February 2016 saw a total of 611 UFO sightings reported to MUFON from around the world. United States 443, United Kingdom 51, Canada 42, Australia 8, Mexico 6 and India
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Filer’s Files # 14 2016 – Hillary Clinton and UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files # 14 2016 – Hillary Clinton and UFOs - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Arizona Lights
Phoenix — I have attached photos that I took last April. I don’t know if the lights are individual beings, ships or whatever. It could be the lights of a very large mother ship.
First there were three lights and then there were four. It was as if they knew that I would point at them and they were posing for me. I took a hundred photos, but only one had this phenomenon. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Lights
Costa Mesa — Sitting in my hot tub at 9:45 pm, on March 26, 2016, I saw the glow of a V shaped object. One light was at the tip with the other two close to each other in rear of the V. It was odd and dim with no flashing lights or front directional lights for traffic. As it past, I lost sight of it. I was blown away as it was like the Phoenix LIGHTS AGAIN in California. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Disc
Parker — My teenage son took this photo on his way home last year on April 19, 2016. We live on a dirt road away from city lights. I am not sure of the exact date, but he ran in the house and showed me the photo. At first, I told him it was a plane. Then I thought drone, but I have looked at photos of drones and cannot find one to match.
I enlarged the photo as best I could to see any details. It looks like there are large light panels on it and it was too low to be a satellite? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
Port Saint Lucien – On March 5, 2016, I was walking my dogs in the parks of Tradition Square on a beautiful sunny afternoon. I noticed a big black cloud near the sun that was a very interesting site. I stopped to take a picture with my phone, and noticed what appeared to be a glowing sphere with some type of triangle shape inside the glowing sphere. Some spotlights were attached to the corners of the geometric object. This unidentified object was not moving at all and while positioning my phone to take another picture this object was gone!
I feel like during and after this experience, I had lost track of time. Maybe as if, I am in a different time zone, or living a “timeless” life. I feel that it was not a coincidence; I feel this object was of a higher intelligent order and it wanted to be seen. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Cylinder
Greenwood – I was in the back seat of a car on our way home on March 29, 2016. I was just looking out the window and saw what at first I thought it was an airplane. When the car came to a stop and noticed it wasn’t moving and had no wings.
It was cigar shaped and was white and stood still. At first I wasn’t worried but then I was very interested when I saw what it really was. I stopped watching it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kansas Disc
Canton — My friend and I had gone to the Maxwell Wildlife Preserve to see their Buffalo herd on March 19, 2016. As we rode around the site in an open trailer observing buffalo, I took a number of pictures with my Nikon D40 digital camera (ISO 200). In the center of the sky picture is an opaque object that appears to be partially shaded from the sun. The object was NOT visible to the naked eye. I’m a MUFON Field Investigator (#19371) so I submitted it to Dr. Bruce Maccabee, photo analyst for MUFON, and requested his analysis. In response, he wrote, “Looks as if it might be an opaque object with a glint (reflection) from the right side. Difference in brightness of the glint as compared to the dark (not illuminated by the sun) left side seems too great to be a reflection from a bird. Unfortunately, the image is too “diffuse” to get an idea of the exact shape. Can’t do much with “surprise” image reports such as this because no info on flight dynamics. May be worth a report anyway on the off chance that someone else might have seen it and filed a report.” Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Triangles
South Hadley — Driving towards the Village Commons in on March 29, 2016, my friend and I could see two bright lights in the sky. They were just sitting in the same spot for a very long time. We could see them about a half a mile away. It looked as though the UFO was now over us and the two lights turned into three very bright lights. I could see the three very bright lights in a triangle shape. It looked very low and gigantic. It started to move very fast and get far away. My friend found it again on 202 in South Hadley and followed it to Chicopee. NOTE: The above image is CGI. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
New Jersey Craft
Little Egg Harbor — My husband and myself were sleeping in our bedroom. I woke up and saw this creature standing next to my husband. it was dark with just enough light coming in so i could see it. I immediately knew it was not something human. The first thing that came to my mind was it was an alien. The creature was about 4 foot tall and I could only see it’s head because it was standing on the other side of the bed next to my husband’s head. It had a large head, large eyes and i believe it was grey in color. It did not move at all just stood there. I sat up and tried to warn my husband to get away from it. I tried to shake him and tried to yell. I couldn’t move, couldn’t speak. Then there was a bright light outside, the whole area was lit up like daylight, and my husband was outside, floating limply, up into the sky. He looked like he was still sleeping. I really don’t know how long he was gone. I’m assuming it put me back to sleep because i have no memory of what happened next until I woke u p later in the night and my husband was there sleeping again. I was really scared and crying. I woke him up and he had no memory of this.
A couple of weeks later, he woke up with this wound on his arm in the morning. He saw it on his arm when he looked in the bathroom mirror when he first got up and he showed it to me. He said there was no pain. It was not there when he went to sleep the night before. I took a picture of it right away. As you can see it’s a row of puncture wounds. He does not have any memory of this happening to him either. I was telling this to a friend of ours and he suggested I tell you. So here I am. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Disc
New York — It slowly hummed over head going into a shadow of darkness on August 26, 2016. It was definitely not ours and we have never been alone. Lets not rise to the debunkers they are not worth the effort as aliens are real.
We need to give no credence to recognize debunkers. We have all the evidence.
We also need to professionally certificate sincere claims. The truth is everywhere. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Rhode Island Orb
Portsmouth— I borrowed my friend’s Cannon DLSR to take pictures of the dark clouds moving in shortly after alerts of a violent storm approaching on March 17, 2016. I took a picture of the shoreline, clearly showing a brick building. I looked away from the camera and noticed a hovering dot at about 60 degrees off the horizon, northwest of the previous picture. I aimed the camera at the object using a 70-300mm lens. I zoomed in and still could only see a dot, so I snapped the picture. All a sudden before I could take another, it flew at a high rate of speed in a southwest direction. I used the camera to zoom in on the dot of light that looked like a boat in the sky with dots of light around it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Cylinder
El Paso— Myself and some friends were four wheeling in the Oro Grande Mountains near the military site on March 1, 2016. Once we reached the top of the mountain I took several pictures and didn’t realize I had captured this UFO until later on at night.
We did not see anything in the sky or hear anything.
It was dead silent when I took the pictures. I just happen to take this one pic at just the right time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Triangle
Alexandria— On March 26, 2016- I was exiting the Huntington Metro Garage when I glanced up and saw a strange silver/grey object hovering off in the distance. I could not tell its exact size but it was large and stationary. The top of the object was reflecting sunlight or radiated its own light. As I was watching the item, a couple came up to me and said, “They had first spotted the object form the metro train as they came into Eisenhower station. The wife stated that her husband did not see any type of tether and ask me did I see one. I saw the attachment just under its “nose”. It was slightly curve and reddish in color. I took out my cell phone and took a couple of pictures. I then drove five minutes towards Huntington Park, but lost sight of the object. The pictures are nice and clear but the object too far away for the phone to get a better picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Wisconsin Light
Dresser — I was heading northeast on County Road F towards three miles from Trollhaugen Ski Resort. I stopped to take pictures in the past of the landscape and in the photos; you can see white balls of light. I am drawn to these places and very nervous about them. It was around 9 pm, towards the end of summer.
I had just gotten off from work and was heading out to pick up my children from my parent’s home. I had never before seen lights, crafts, or anything strange before this. But, I have always dedicated enormous amounts of time into learning about strange phenomena.
I live right next to a small local airport so I see and hear all sorts of aircraft all day. The sighting was about 10 miles away from my home and the airport.
As I was coming up a small hill on County Road F, and I noticed a big orange ball shape about 300 feet above the tree line. I was instantly scared and started to shake. I tried so hard not to look. As I drove closer to where it was and saw an orange ball of light split, and now there were three of the same size glowing orange lights. I watched in my review mirror as I drove past the lights still scared. I stopped the car, rolled down my window and tried to take a picture of the red light but it was not showing up. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia
Mudgee — He is using an infrared converted cam to see these UFOs on March 27, 2016. A normal camera cannot see most of these. Colourufo of Youtube is an expert at it and hunts on almost a daily basis. Scott C. Waring Website
Brazil Light
Braganca Paulista –It was a Tuesday, the end of Carnival, around 23 pm, on February 9, 2016. I was resting in the hotel room balcony (Hotel Villa St. Augustine – in Braganca Paulista) when I noticed a very bright object, which initially I thought was a plane that it was more than 1 hour in the same region of the sky. I took pictures and recorded video, which was what I could do, but to this day I do not know what I saw.
A glowing disk with a raised upper and lower center (dome). The object is balanced like a wheel UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Orb
Belwood Ontario — My daughters were at a sleepover on March 16, 2016, break at my parents house. I had the flu so I decided to sleep in my eldest daughters bed so as not to get my partner sick. I had the blinds open to let the moonlight in and had noticed at about 11:15pm what I thought was an airplane flashing through the sky through the branches of a tree in our yard. It was a very clear night so I watched it for about a minute and thought it was flashing strangely but that I was probably just seeing it weirdly through the branches. I rolled over to go to sleep but after about 30 minutes l didn’t sleep, rolled back over. The bright flashing light was still there and I knew that if it was an airplane or a satellite it would have moved to another position in the sky or passed out of view by now. I got out of bed and grabbed my phone which was charging. I started to film. You can see the street light in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, then I zoom in on the light. I steadied the phone on the window sill and once I zoomed in on the light it began to move around until my phone suddenly died. I bent down to plug my phone in to continue charging but when I looked back up the light was gone. I have seen this exact light once before in my life when I was a girl, back in the late 90’s my mum, dad, sister & I were watching a huge meteor shower in our backyard in St. George and when the meteor shower drew to a close, a light exactly like this hovered high above our house did the exact same movements.
The night I filmed these lights my eldest daughter and her best friend saw several bright balls of light in their bedroom at my mother’s house. None of us felt scared or reacted in any way other than wonder. We aren’t into paranormal stuff and don’t know a ton of stuff about UFO’s. We just know that we see weird lights and weird stuff happens around us sometimes. We haven’t felt well lately. Both my daughters are on wait lists for ENT’s (ear nose & throat specialists) at McMaster Hospital. I am on a wait list for an allergist. We all have upper respiratory infections and chronic sinusitis, my eldest daughter has nosebleeds and has woken up with bruising and blood on the palate of her mouth. My youngest daughter has a weird triangular mark on her shoulder and I have a weird scar on my right calf. There are other odd health things too but that’s probably enough for now. I can provide medical documentation and photos of everything. I would just like to know if there’s something going on here?
La Vega – This is a picture I’ve seen since childhood in many places in my city, is an old photograph as 1940, something like that, there an odd shaped object.
I find it curious, it can be anything, but at that time, people did not think of spaceships and stuff like that, I do not think it is a montage; people see that picture and do not notice that there is something there that who knows what it will be.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Light
Cajarc — I was taking pictures of French mountains with a friend, using long exposure time, when I saw a strange light among the clouds. I first thought it was the moon, but then I remembered it was a day of the new moon. Besides, it was moving slowly, back and forth laterally. I was fascinated, so I took a picture. It is a 10 seconds exposure so the object is blurry because of its motion. The light around it looked unreal, as if it was a very powerful. That is why I thought it was an UFO. My friend was amazed too. Gradually, the light became dimmer, and the object vanished in the dark in a few seconds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
German Light
Cologne– UFO seen over the ciy and this photo taken.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Lights
MI’KI— I noticed object after looking at photos i’ve taken on August 20. 2008/
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Mothership
Tenerife – Callao Salvaje — One mothership with cigar appearance plus 5 other objects near the mothership on March 27, 2016. The skyline was caught from our security camera with a movement detector. It was caught from our “Revelacion Ovni” Security camera. You can see clearly in the photo, but in the video it only appear as a flash.Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Light
It slowly hummed over head going into a shadow of darkness. Definitely not ours and we have never been alone. Lets not rise to the debunkers they are not worth the effort as aliens are real, friendly and ancient. We need to give no credence to recognize debunkers.
We need to stop trying to prove. We have all the evidence. We also need to professionally certificate sincere claims.
THE TRUTH IS EVERYWHERE. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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'Laser Cloak' Could Hide Earth from Evil Aliens
'Laser Cloak' Could Hide Earth from Evil Aliens
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
A new paper describes how laser beams could disrupt measurements of Earth's orbit around the sun, potentially deceiving inquisitive aliens. Here, a 22W laser used for adaptive optics shines from the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
Credit: ESO/G. Hüdepohl
A simple laser beam could disrupt aliens' observations of Earth, making it look like there's nobody home on the third rock from the sun, a new study suggests.
David Kipping, an astronomer at Columbia University in New York, said he first considered this idea when he heard about the strangely dimming star that was detected recently by NASA's Kepler space telescope. Researchers speculated the signal could have come from an "alien megastructure" orbiting the star.
That's a remote possibility, many scientists stressed; the star's strange signal likely has a natural cause. But the Kepler observations got Kipping thinking about ways humanity could alter the signals it sends into space — or hide them altogether from life-hunting aliens, who may have malicious intentions. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens]
He and Columbia graduate student Alex Teachey concluded that it would be surprisingly easy to wipe out Earth's signal, distort it to look strange or even edit out the fingerprint of life — provided researchers knew the location of the snooping aliens.
"We essentially played the thought experiment that if we really had xenophobic tendencies and wanted to avoid the Earth being discovered (as Stephen Hawking and others have been warning about), could we hide the Earth from alien planet-hunters?" Kipping said in an email.
How to build a cloaking device
The key to Kipping and Teachey's thinking lies in the way humans have identified most planets around other stars, a process called the transit method. This strategy, which has most famously been employed by the Kepler spacecraft, detects tiny dips in the brightness of stars, which can indicate an orbiting planet.
The transit method could theoretically be used by alien civilizations to detect Earth, too. But there's a way to trip up such extraterrestrial searches, Kipping and Teachey said.
"To make it look like the planet is not there at all, you've got to get rid of that dip. You've got to fill in the missing starlight," Teachey said in an explanatory video.
NASA's Kepler space telescope uses small dips in a star's brightness to detect planets passing in front of the star. Each planet will leave a distinctive light signature.
Credit: Alex Teachey/Columbia University via YouTube
Engineers could shine a very bright laser or collection of lasers toward a star suspected of hosting intelligent aliens during the time Earth was passing in front of the sun from the other planet's perspective. Then, aliens making measurements wouldn't see any change in solar brightness.
"I started to think about lasers," Kipping told Space.com. "Most people might have stopped there, because the sun emits so much light — how could you possibly produce a laser beam which could ever compete with the sun? But it turns out, when you actually run through the equations, it's really not that bad." [How to Discover an Alien Planet (Video)]
"We could build this next week if we wanted to," Teachey added.
To alter Earth's signature as seen by an alien version of Kepler, a laser system would have to emit 30 megawatts of power for about 10 hours per year, coinciding with Earth's passing in front of the sun, the duo calculated.
That equates to significantly less than the energy the International Space Station gathers in a year with its solar panels, Kipping said, or the energy used by about 70 homes over the course of a year. Such a laser system, either on Earth or in orbit, could charge its solar-powered batteries for most of the year and then release the high-powered blasts at just the right time, brightening when the sun's light would normally dim.
While a laser of that intensity hasn't been built before, the researchers said, such a cloaking system could also use multiple smaller lasers, all shining in the same direction. The alien star would be so distant that such a difference would be indistinguishable. Laser beams are tightly focused, but at greater distances, the beams will have grown large enough to require less precise aim.
Shining a laser beam toward a planet whose inhabitants might see the Earth pass in front of the sun could replace the light the Earth blocks out. This would conceivably hide the planet. Using different laser wavelengths can create other illusions with the Earth's transit.
Credit: Alex Teachey/Columbia University via YouTube
By varying the wavelength and strength of the beams, humans could conceal Earth from more complicated detectors. Such a "cloak" that concealed all wavelengths would take about 250 megawatts of power, with lasers blasting at different wavelengths, the researchers said. The laser strategy could also alter Earth's signature to look like almost anything, even something that appears distinctive and artificial, the scientists said, like the New York skyline or a featureless box.
But perhaps the most interesting use, the researchers said, would be as a "bio-cloak," which would actually use less power than would be required to totally conceal the planet. When a planet crosses its star's face, a little bit of light passes through the planet's atmosphere, and researchers can determine the atmosphere's makeup based on the wavelengths of that light. By sending laser beams that are the inverse of certain wavelengths, humanity could conceivably edit out the life-generated "biosignatures" in Earth's atmosphere, Kipping said.
"We can actually cancel those features out, such as oxygen," he said. "The alien civilization is going to detect your planetary transit. They're going to detect your planetary radial velocity, but then when they 'smell' the atmosphere, it would not look like a tasty planet. It would just look like a dead world."
While a planet that was fully cloaked could still be detected by other means, such as by the gravitational pull it exerts on its star, this kind of cloak would arouse less suspicion, because the planet would be there as expected, just without signs of life.
"We feel like this is the most deceptive cybercloaking you could possibly do, because then everything adds up — there's no missing piece to the puzzle," Kipping said. "And that would be a very difficult cloak to see." [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
Kipping and Teachey laid out their thinking in a study published Thursday (March 31) in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Concealing Earth's existence from extraterrestrials, or announcing its presence with an artificial light curve, would work only if humanity knew or suspected where those aliens were living. But the concept is still intriguing as scientists look out to read other stars' light signatures and speculate about alien astronomers reading signals from Earth.
Kipping and Teachey suggested that alien civilizations could communicate with each other during transits by varying their light signatures, because individuals investigating a planet are likely to watch it as it passes in front of its star. Alien lasers could even encode information to transmit, the researchers said.
One possible next step, they added, would be to look more carefully through archival Kepler data to search for artificial signatures.
Jason Wright, an astronomer from Pennsylvania State University, recently published a paper about how scientists could identify advanced civilizations around other stars. "Alien megastructures" would dim stars more than expected, whereas lasers would tend to brighten them, but "we should look for both," Wright told Space.com.
"The fact that Kepler looked at 100,000 stars and didn't see much of anything along those lines suggests that that is pretty rare in the galaxy," Wright added. "And we should look more closely to see if there are things that aren't totally obvious."
In terms of this particular technology on Earth, "The only time it'd be useful for us is if we had some knowledge of alien civilizations along the thin strip of the sky that would see Earth transit the sun," he said.
Avi Loeb, who chairs the astronomy department at Harvard University in Massachusetts, told Space.com that the laser-cloaking method assumes researchers know where to look, that aliens aren't observing from moving spaceships and that putative extraterrestrial observers are mainly investigating planets by looking for transits across stars.
Energy demands would quickly grow as a civilization tried to hide from, or signal to, an increasing number of star systems, Loeb added. But the laser cloak is still an interesting new idea to add to the arsenal in the search for extraterrestrial life, he said.
"If there is a literature of ideas like this one, ideas that people proposed for potential signals that are artificial — the richer the literature is, the better it is," Loeb said. "The moment we find something artificial, it will change everything. It's good to have the imagination at work prior to seeing something unusual, so we are aware that there are possibilities beyond what we expect."
"I don't think anyone's thought of this particular application before," Wright said. "I think it just emphasizes how little energy is actually required to get someone's attention across the galaxy."
Weird, Oozing Super-Earth Planet Has Hot Nights, Even Hotter Days
Weird, Oozing Super-Earth Planet Has Hot Nights, Even Hotter Days
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
A still from an animated video shows exoplanet 55 Cancri e. Image released March 30, 2016.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The first super-Earth planet to get its photo taken may be superweird and superhot, and perhaps have super-runny lava in spots on its surface, researchers said.
Astronomers investigated the alien planet 55 Cancri e, the innermost of five known planets orbiting the star 55 Cancri, located about 41 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet is a super-Earth, a rocky world nearly twice Earth's width and eight times its mass. It's the first super-Earth from which astronomers have detected light.
55 Cancri e circles its star about 25 times closer than Mercury does the sun. As a result, the planet whips fully around its star about every 18 hours, while Earth takes a year to complete an orbit. [Oozing Super-Earth: Images of Alien Planet 55 Cancri e]
This animated video shows a possible scenario for the hot, rocky exoplanet called 55 Cancri e,
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
To help solve the mysteries of 55 Cancri e, astronomers used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to monitor infrared emissions from the exoplanet for 75 hours total during the summer of 2013. The resulting thermal map revealed a strong difference in temperature between the planet's dayside and nightside.
55 Cancri e is tidally locked, meaning it always keeps the same face pointed at its star. On the dayside, temperatures on 55 Cancri e can reach about 4,400 degrees Fahrenheit (2,427 degrees Celsius). On the nightside, temperatures can dip to about 2,025 degrees F (1,107 degrees C). The nightside may be kept warm by heat conducting through the rock from the dayside, said study lead author Brice-Olivier Demory, an astrophysicist at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England.
The varying brightness of exoplanet 55 Cancri e plotted. Image released March 30, 2016.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Cambridge
The nightside's relatively cooler temperatures suggest that 55 Cancri e does not possess a thick atmosphere that could carry heat from the dayside to the night side, Demory said. It also suggests this planet is not covered with a large envelope of water, ruling out the possibility that supercritical fluids envelop 55 Cancri e, Demory added.
About halfway between the dayside and the nightside, the researchers discovered that 55 Cancri e possesses a hotspot. They suggest this hotspot might be due to lava flows, and because the planet is hot, this lava may flow better than it does on Earth, behaving more like water does at room temperature and less like solid rock.
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A potential alternative explanation for this hotspot is that 55 Cancri e may possess an atmosphere only on the dayside of the planet; on the night side, the atmosphere would freeze out, Demory said. It remains uncertain whether such an atmosphere, if it exists, would convey enough heat to explain this hotspot, he said.
"We are far from having a comprehensive picture of this exoplanet," Demory told Space.com. "It is likely that Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, will help in our understanding of this surprising world." The scientists detailed their findings online March 30 in the journal Nature.
Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have put together a temperature map of an extrasolar “super Earth.” Its nightside is over 1,000 degrees cooler than its (totally molten) dayside.
THE FORBIDDEN PLANET
If there’s a short list for extrasolar planets to visit, 55 Cancri e is definitely not going to be on it. It’s hot, hellish, and weird…really weird.
As our instruments become more sophisticated, we’re beginning to learn much more about distant alien planets than merely their size and mass. And the exoplanet catalogue is turning out to be an aquarium full of oddballs, indeed.
The most recent discovery involves 55 Cancri e, a “super Earth” in a system located some 40 light years away. The planet, also known as “Janssen,” is about twice the size of the Earth and eight times its mass; it completes an orbit every 18 hours, and—like the Moon—is tidally locked, always presenting the same face to its parent star (just as the Moon always presents the same side to Earth).
Now, using NASA’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have managed to cobble together a thermal “map” of surface conditions on the planet. It’s a milestone achievement, because now we can put together a detailed census of what’s really out there.
Graphic of 55 Cancri e’s light curve as detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/B. Demory (Cavendish Laboratory)
THE TWO FACES OF JANSSEN
The planet turns out to have two faces—one “hot” and one “cold.” But these are relative terms, you understand. Because the nightside is 1100° C (2012° F), hotter than the melting point of many familiar metals; and the dayside is a whopping 2500° C (4532° F), which is…well, it’s just really hot.
Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system, and with a surface temperature of just 462° C (864° F), it seems positively arctic in comparison.
Astronomers think the dayside is an immense, molten ocean of magma; the nightside, in contrast, seems to be composed of cooled, solid lava. It’s a strange dichotomy, and even stranger because the dayside heat is not communicated to the nightside. The atmosphere, it seems, is being boiled off on the sunward hemisphere, but some remnant of it must cling to the nightside.
The bottom line is—55 Cancri e is one hell of a place, and it’s showing us just how bizarre these “super Earths” (which seem to be quite common) really are. Which makes you appreciate our plain, homely old “regular Earth” that much more.
The elaborate stories behind a UFO, suspended gravity, and the end of the world.
ENLARGE
Buzz Aldrin’s 1969 moon walk was real deal (and if you tell him it was a hoax, he might punch you in the face.) But two years before Aldrin made it to the moon, Swiss radio announcers tricked listeners into thinking it’d already happened.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NEIL ARMSTRONG, NASA
By Becky Little
In 1989, British police received frightened calls from people who said they’d seen a UFO flying through the sky. Officers were dispatched to a field outside London, where the craft had supposedly landed. When they arrived, the officers must have been shocked to find what looked like a flying saucer. As they approached it, a door opened, and a silver-clad figure emerged.
The police immediately fled (well, what would you do?) But, as you can probably guess based on the title of this article, the UFO wasn’t really from space.
The flying saucer was an almost unbelievably elaborate April Fools’ Day prank by Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, whose love of April 1 iswell-documented. (In 2011, he claimed that he bought Pluto to reinstate its status as a planet.)
The flying saucer was actually a hot air balloon shaped like a UFO that was supposed to land in London’s Hyde Park on April 1, but because of wind changes, had stopped in a field in Surrey the day before. Branson was on board, along with the silver-clad person who had startled the bobbies.
Here are more far-out April Fools’ Day pranks.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
“Your worst fears that the world will end are confirmed by astronomers of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia,” announced radio station KYW the day before April 1, 1940. “Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time tomorrow.”
Obviously, this wasn’t true. The announcement was a publicity stunt thought up by William Castellini, a PR agent for the Franklin Institute, who wanted to publicize an April 1 lecture titled “How Will the World End?” (Hence, the specificity of 3 p.m.)
The end-of-the-world broadcast “was relatively soon after the War of the Worlds panic,” says Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes. Although it’s clear that this broadcast upset many listeners—some of whom called newspapers or the police—Boese says it’s hard to know how many people believed that the world was really going to end.
“It might have maybe disturbed people, but how many people actually, really believed it is hard to know,” he says. There’s “always the temptation for the media to play it up as if thousands of people were terrified out of their minds, because that’d make a better story.”
Whether or not the prank fooled many people, Boese says Castellini “did definitely get fired.”
The Real Moon Landing Hoax
People have been saying that the moon landing was a hoax ever sinceApollo 11 made it there in 1969. To be clear, the 1969 moon landing was real—but the 1967 moon landing announced by a Swiss radio station was fake.
That year, on April Fools’ Day, all German-language Swiss radio stations were interrupted with an hour-long, breaking news story saying that U.S. astronauts had just landed on the moon. The announcement was met with excitement by Swiss residents and vacationing Americans.
“It was two years before they really did have a moon landing, so there was an element of credibility, believability to it,” Boese says. “The part about it that should have told people something was wrong was when they said that the moon capsule was going to take off and then be visible reentering the Earth’s atmosphere” that night.
“People who knew anything about traveling to the moon should know it takes longer than that to get back,” he says. But those who didn’t looked to the sky that night to try to spot the capsule flying back to Earth.
Where’d the Gravity Go?
This last hoax wasn’t just meant to fool people—it was intended to spoof a popular pseudo-scientific theory of the ‘70s.
In their best-selling book The Jupiter Effect, authors John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann claimed that a 1982 planetary alignment wouldtrigger massive, cataclysmic earthquakes. This ludicrous theory upset many scientists—including astronomer Patrick Moore, who decided he’d make fun of Gribbin and Plagemann with an April Fools’ Day joke.
The morning of April 1, 1976, Moore announced on a BBC radio stationthat at 9:47 am, Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, creating the Jovian-Plutonian Gravitational Effect. These planets would pull at the Earth, temporarily decreasing its gravity. Moore instructed his audience that if they jumped into the air at exactly 9:47, they’d be able to feel it.
When the time came, Moore instructed his listeners to “Jump, now!” Afterwards, many listeners called in to report that they’d floated.
That’s one small step for parody, one giant leap for gullibility.
Rectangle UFO noticed over Georgia as it blocked the stars
Rectangle UFO noticed over Georgia as it blocked the stars
A Georgia witness at Cumming recalled a UFO event from 2013 where a black, rectangular-shaped object was seen flying low and blocking out the stars, according to testimony in Case 75213 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first noticed that a piece of the dark sky was blocked from seeing stars. Pictured: The Cumming, GA, region.
(Credit: Google)
The witness was outside talking on a cell phone about 2:15 a.m. on November 4, 2013, on a clear night with good weather when something unusual was noticed in the night sky.
“I noticed first off – the fact I could not see any stars in an area,” the witness stated.“The fact I could see some stars, but in an area I could not see any – it did not seem right at all.”
The witness was puzzled as to why some of the sky was blocked from seeing the stars.
“I did not think at that moment I was looking at anything. I kept looking and then realized when the end of this ‘area’ was, then allowing me to see the stars. At that moment I realized something was in front of me and it was large. I could then see the size due to the area I could not see.”
At this point, the witness was very close to the object.
“It was black but not shiny, but not a dull surface. It was approximately three stories tall, approximately 300 feet long, and approximately 75 feet wide. It traveled from north to south. I saw the entire west side of the craft. I did not see the front at all. I could see part of the back end, but limited due to the dark color craft at night time.”
As the object moved closer to the witness, a detailed observation of the UFO was able to be made. Pictured: Cumming, GA.
(Credit: Google)
The witness was able to see lights on the bottom of the craft.
“I did not notice the bottom of the craft until it was a light blue/white or white/light blue light. It was a softer than normal LED light. This light appeared to run the width of the craft. The height of the bottom of the craft to the ground was approximately 15 feet above the trees. I did notice that the trees did not move. When I realized there was a large craft not very far from me, I did not move. I knew that this was not anything I had seen, heard of or thought should be flying!”
The witness did not understand what was being seen.
“It did not make any sense that it could be moving. It looked heavy and not a way to stay in the air, no wings, etc. With no sound at all, it did bother me that I was in possible danger when I saw the light. It was only traveling approximately 2 mph and continued south until I could not see it any longer. I did not want to follow the craft down the road. I didn’t want the craft to notice me and I figured it could leave fast if need be. I can show you the exact spot I was sitting, where the craft was – I will never forget that.”
The object was slow moving at about 2 mph and was rather large. Pictured: Cumming, GA.
(Credit: Google)
Cumming is a city in Forsyth County, Georgia, population 5,430. The report was filed with MUFON on March 15, 2016. Georgia MUFON Chief Investigator Mark C. Ausmus is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Could 'Planet X' Cause Comet Catastrophes on Earth?
Could 'Planet X' Cause Comet Catastrophes on Earth?
By Ian O'Neill, Discovery News
This is an artist's impression of a Kuiper belt object in orbit around the sun — could a massive planet also be out there?
Credit: NASA
As astronomers track down more clues as to the existence of a large world orbiting the sun in the outer fringes of the solar system, a classic planetary purveyor of doom has been resurrected as a possible trigger behind mass extinctions on Earth.
Yes, I'm talking about "Planet X." And yes, there's going to be hype.
Before we dive into comet impacts, extinctions and possible exciting planet discoveries, let's look at the dramatic history of Planet X.
At the turn of the 20th Century, astronomers were trying to track down massive planets in the outer solar system using a neat trick of planetary discovery that had already been developed by studying the orbits of known planets to see if they display any strange anomalies.
In 1846, Neptune was discovered in this way after French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier and British mathematician and astronomer John Couch Adams independently calculated the precise location of the planet by looking at orbital perturbations in Uranus' orbit. The gravitational bulk of Neptune was intermittently tugging on Uranus, producing anomalies in its motion. Naturally, when Neptune was known, astronomers tried that trick again by precisely following Neptune's orbit. Anomalies were found and the hunt for yet another as-yet-to-be-seen massive planet was on. This was the original hunt for Planet X.
When Pluto was discovered in 1930 by US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, it was thought the distant world was another massive planet. However, over the years, it became clear that Neptune's orbital perturbations were down to observational error and Pluto was actually a planetary lightweight and could have no gravitational influence over Neptune's orbit — a factor that contributed to its re-classification as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Although many more small objects have been discovered in the solar system’s hinterland (a region known as the Kuiper belt), evidence for a massive world has been wanting. The hunt for a massive Planet X pretty much ended with the discovery of Pluto.
But the mysteries of the outer solar system kept beckoning scientists and conspiracy theorists alike. Some oddities in the distribution of Kuiper belt objects, for example, appeared to hint at a massive object slowly plodding in an orbit beyond Pluto. Also, by studying the paleontological record of Earth, our planet appears to have been impacted by quasi-periodic mass extinction events. Could an undiscovered planetary body be rampaging through the Kuiper belt (or even the more distant Oort cloud), destabilizing the orbits of comets, which are then sent hurtling into the inner solar system causing all kinds of havoc to life on our planet every few million years?
Needless to say, 2012 came and went and we're still here. But this year, the Planet X hypothesis has made another comeback. This time, it's not the punchline of a bad doomsday joke, it's based on observations of the strange motion of objects in the outer solar system.
In January, Caltech astronomer and prolific Kuiper belt object discoverer Mike Brown and colleague Konstantin Batygin announced the discovery of a group of small icy objects beyond the orbit of Pluto that appear to be traveling in the same direction and at the same orbital inclination. The likelihood of this happening by chance is slim, so Brown and Batygin believe that their motion is caused by the presence of another — currently unseen — planet in the outer solar system perhaps 10 times the mass of Earth, orbiting up to 1,000 times the sun-Earth distance.
"When we found that, my jaw sort of hit the floor," Brown said at the time.
So there's indirect evidence of the existence of a massive planet that may be big enough to perturb the orbits of a group of small objects in the Kuiper belt, but small and dim enough to evade detection by infrared and visible light surveys. Like the discovery of Neptune, perhaps Brown and Batygin's calculations will guide astronomers to the precise location of the world — nicknamed "Planet Nine." This is most certainly an exciting time for planetary discovery within our own solar system.
According to Daniel Whitmire and John Matese, who, in 1985, co-wrote a featured article for Time magazine titled "Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs? A Bold New Theory About Mass Extinctions," have revisited their mass extinction theories and formed a link with the search for Planet Nine.
By their reckoning, Earth is subject to major extinction events every 27 million years caused by a barrage of comets flung at Earth by the gravitational instabilities triggered by the eccentric orbit of a major planetary body like Planet Nine. As if a planetary bombardment wasn't enough, more dislodged comets would disintegrate close to the sun in the inner solar system, creating clouds of debris that dim the sunlight, causing a global cooling event that speeds up the demise of life on Earth.
Though an interesting idea, more work is needed, even if the hypothetical Planet Nine is discovered to be real. Although there is evidence of mass extinctions on Earth being linked with periods of comet/asteroid bombardments, the trigger isn't necessarily the existence of a massive planet in the outer solar system. Previous studies have hinted that comet bombardment events coincide with the passage of the solar system through our galactic plane; it's actually a dense band of dark matter that causes the cometary drama on cycles of around 26 million years or so. There's also the nagging possibility that the apparent periodicity of extinction events and comet impacts may not be real.
This research assumes that Planet Nine has a huge orbital period — it would need to pass through the Kuiper belt every 26 million years for this theory to hold water. In an interview with the MailOnline, Brown pointed out that the Planet Nine he is looking for most likely isn't the Planet X Whitmire and Matese hopes it is.
"Whitmire has been speculating for decades about a very distant very massive planet pushing comets around. It has to have an orbital period of something like 27 million years," said Brown. "While that idea may or may not make sense, it definitely has nothing to do with Planet Nine, which is much closer to the sun and thus 'only' takes 15,000 years to go around."
"The evidence for Planet Nine says nothing about whether or not there is a more distant Planet X."
SpaceX Mars Rocket Engine (Image Courtesy www.gputechconf.com)
SpaceX was founded in 2012 with the express purpose of developing the technology needed for a Mars mission. SpaceX’s work to date for NASA and private companies has simply been the initial steps to gearing up for the Mars mission.
The point of the Mars mission is to make the human species interplanetary to increase its likelihood of surviving indefinitely.
Transporting & Sustaining a Human Colony on Mars
The SpaceX simulation and analytics group has been working on large-scale simulations of rocket processes in rocket engines. Relevant fields of engineering include computational fluid mechanics and plasma physics. SpaceX is in the process of identifying and developing technologies to transport and sustain a human colony on Mars.
Some of the rocket engines under development are based on particle accelerated design, simulation of combustion devices for chemical rocket propulsion, and high-density power generation systems.
“SpaceX is designing a new, methane-fueled engine powerful enough to lift the equipment and personnel needed to colonize Mars. A vital aspect of this effort involves the creation of a multi-physics code to accurately model a running rocket engine. The scale and complexity of turbulent non-premixed combustion has so far made it impractical to simulate, even on today’s largest supercomputers. We present a novel approach using wavelets on GPUs, capable of capturing physics down to the finest turbulent scales.”
Following is a discussion of the full-scale simulation of the SpaceX Mars Rocket Engine by Chris Burns:
The next video is a full presentation on the SpaceX Mars Rocket Engine lasting 46 minutes but is chock full of high-tech, cutting-edge information.
David Russell Schilling
David enjoys research and writing about cutting edge technologies that hold the promise of improving conditions for all life on planet earth.
Image courtesy Screenshot from Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds video
Three-dimensional holograms have long been a favorite of science fiction movies. But because of the use of high-powered lasers to project the hologram, contact with the images was not possible.
Thanks to a major breakthrough by researchers in Japan, three-dimensional interactive holograms are now a reality. Researchers from the University of Tokyo have created 3D interactive holograms using powerful lasers that fire at a quadrillionth a second and are safe to touch and respond to human touch without burning skin.
Image courtesy youtube
The key to making these holograms safe is the ultra-short duration of the laser’s bursts that last between 30 and 270 femtoseconds (a femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second) at a time.
Demonstrating the technology, researchers showed off holograms of a heart, a star, and a small fairy. They also demonstrated a checkbox that can be ticked by tapping it. The team will present its invention at theSiggraph 2015 conference in Los Angeles in August of this year.
Interactive Live Holography - From Science Fiction to Science Fact
With currently available technology, a spacecraft would need as long as 18 months to fly to Mars. Even if a traveler makes it there surviving boredom and radiation poisoning, it would still be a one-way trip. The traveler will not be able to return because there won’t be any fuel left to make a return journey.
But Russian scientists are planning to use nuclear power to reach Mars in record time: only 45 days.
Russia’s national nuclear corporation, Rosatom, has announced its plan to build a nuclear engine prototype by 2025. This nuclear engine will be capable of producing enough energy to reach Mars in 45 days with enough fuel left for the return trip.
The development of a nuclear-powered spaceship will be expensive, but its deployment will be very cost effective.
Rosatom has not divulged any details regarding how its engine would work, but it is most likely to use principles of thermal fission. This means the engine will generate heat by splitting atoms and use that heat in burning hydrogen and other chemicals to power the flight.
But Russia seems to be on a tight budget. Rosatom has budgeted just 15 billion rubles…that’s around $700 million only for a 15-year long space project that began in 2010. The budget is less than one-tenth of NASA’s Space Launch System, which will cost nearly $10 billion to develop.
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for March 2016:
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for March 2016:
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In March 2016 there were 628 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
Country
Number of Reports
UNITED STATES
428
CANADA
69
UNITED KINGDOM
37
AUSTRALIA
11
INDIA
7
MEXICO
6
ARGENTINA
6
SOUTH AFRICA
5
SPAIN
5
THAILAND
3
FRANCE
3
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF
3
GERMANY
3
COLOMBIA
2
SWEDEN
2
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
2
NEW ZEALAND
2
IRELAND
2
BRAZIL
2
PORTUGAL
2
CAMBODIA
1
EGYPT
1
MOROCCO
1
CROATIA
1
VIET NAM
1
GUATEMALA
1
NORWAY
1
PHILIPPINES
1
BAHAMAS
1
HONDURAS
1
MALAYSIA
1
SAUDI ARABIA
1
NETHERLANDS
1
INDONESIA
1
NIGER
1
MYANMAR
1
POLAND
1
AUSTRIA
1
CUBA
1
PERU
1
ROMANIA
1
SWITZERLAND
1
SLOVENIA
1
VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S.
1
URUGUAY
1
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
1
DENMARK
1
CHILE
1
TOTAL:
628
Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;
State
Number of Reports
California
62
Florida
30
Texas
27
New York
20
Pennsylvania
18
Washington
18
Ohio
17
Arizona
16
Michigan
16
Oregon
13
Georgia
12
Nevada
12
Missouri
11
North Carolina
11
Illinois
10
Colorado
10
Maryland
9
Massachusetts
8
Indiana
8
Wisconsin
8
Tennessee
8
Virginia
7
New Mexico
6
Kansas
6
South Carolina
5
Minnesota
5
Louisiana
4
Vermont
4
Alaska
4
New Jersey
4
Iowa
4
Alabama
3
Oklahoma
3
Hawaii
3
Idaho
3
New Hampshire
3
Connecticut
3
Kentucky
3
Nebraska
2
Maine
2
Arkansas
2
West Virginia
2
Montana
2
Utah
2
Rhode Island
1
Wyoming
1
If you are getting more sighting reports than listed here, please be sure to enter them manually into CMS. To make this happen automatically, make sure your local MUFON Website is pointing to the CMS Reporting form on www.mufon.com and direct all calls you get to the MUFON website so that witnesses can enter their own report directly into CMS.
ALL sighting reports received by CMS are already filled in by the witness, saving you and your investigators time. Each report is automatically sent to YOU, the State Director and Assistant State Director, for you to assign someone to follow-up and complete the report.
If a UFO sighting comes in over the phone, or by e-mail, and you want to enter it yourself, simply go to CMS at http://mufoncms.com (once logged in) and click on "ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone. Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily added your NEW report to CMS.
Other interesting data points in CMS during March 2016 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;
Shape of Object
Number of Reports
Sphere
97
Triangle
66
Other
66
Disc
54
Star-like
51
Unknown
49
Circle
39
Square/Rectangular
27
Cylinder
27
N/A
22
Oval
22
Fireball
20
Cigar
18
Flash
12
Boomerang
11
Saturn-like
8
Diamond
8
Bullet/Missile
7
Chevron
6
Blimp
5
Cone
5
Egg
5
Cross
2
Teardrop
1
as well as the distance from the observer;
Distance from Witness
Number of Reports
< 100 ft
106
101-500 ft
97
501 ft - 1 Mile
124
Over 1 Mile
155
Unknown
194
NO VALUE
32
Most impressively there were 25 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 0 Entities observed.
To review the CMS data yourself go to www.mufon.com and click on "UFO Case Files" to 1.) Easily look at the Last 20 Sightings, or 2.) Do a customized search of the CMS database by date and/or location, or 3.) Logon to CMS for even more detailed UFO sighting information about your State and the World.
I hope you are enjoying our new internet based Sighting and Reporting System. For questions regarding its use please refer to the User Guide available on your CMS main menu screen. Please send your questions and/or suggestions to Jan Harzan at janharzan@hotmail.com.
Astronomers have detected yet another extraterrestrial signal coming from outer Space
Astronomers have detected yet another extraterrestrial signal coming from outer Space
The nature of the radio bursts is still unclear, but there are two hypotheses.
Australian Astronomers have managed to pick up yet another set of fast radio bursts thanks to the Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars telescope, better known simply as MOST. Deputy director of the Center for Astrophysics and Supercomputing of Swinburne University of Technology, Matthew Bailes wrote on Facebook about the new fast radio burst which remains a mystery. From 2007 until today, 17 of these anomalous radio signals have been discovered by astronomers who remain perplexed by the origin of the signals. Each one of the FRBs (Fast radio bursts) comes from space lasting a few milliseconds at most, but emitting as much energy as our sun does in 10,000 years.
While ‘Alien civilizations’ are among the favorite explications of the mysterious radio signals among many, scientists have no idea what causes these mysterious bursts. In order to establish their exact origin, scientists had to estimate the distance to the ‘object’ where the FRBs originated from, which was achieved not long ago. While researchers still have no idea what causes the mysterious phenomenon, they hope that future studies will allow them to understand the nature behind the FRBs.
At the moment, there are two theories. According to the first, the radio burst has an extragalactic source and comes from a blitzar, a massive neutron star whose rotation speed prevents it from becoming a black hole. The second hypothesis states that the radio burst have a galactic origin. In particular, among the possible sources are magnetars, which are neutron stars with a strong magnetic field.
However, these radio signals have become more frequent throughout the years. Not long ago, the Parkes radio Telescope in Australia detected five radio bursts that could potentially indicate intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos. According to reports from arXiv.org, an unprecedented double burst has recently shown up together with four more of the anomalous flashes. According to statements from the team of scientists, the double burst FRB (called 121002) discovered last year, had a “clear two-component profile”. Interestingly, the five signals detected follow the same pattern as its predecessors with one SMALL exception: one of them flashed twice, this little fact is extremely important since there has never, until now, been a double blast.
The twin-blast signal was separated by 2.4 milliseconds coming out of some sort of ‘eruption’ that happened, according to studies, 9 BILLION years ago in the Constellation Octans.
Last year, Michael Hippke of Germany’s Institute for Data Analysis set out to measure 11 radio bursts finding something extremely odd: The dispersion measures seem to follow a mathematical pattern. Hippke found that he dispersion measures are integer multiples of the same number, 187.5. The team calculated a 5 in 10,000 chance of the pattern being pure coincidence.
What is even more odd is the fact that NO ASTROPHYSICAL SYSTEMS that we know of can produce a similar stepwise distribution of dispersion measures.
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Humans Come From Another Place in the Universe, Expert Determines
Humans Come From Another Place in the Universe, Expert Determines
The idea of humanity evolving elsewhere in the universe and migrating to Earth and different corners of the galaxy in spaceships may be a reality after all. Are we the aliens on this planet? If so, where do we really come from?
Dr. Ellis Silver, a leading ecologist and environmentalist has gathered certain evidence pointing towards the hypothesis of humans originating from another place in the universe. In his book “Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence,” he describes 17 ideas why humans are not from earth and also reveals information about the place of origin and an alternative human timeline.
An interesting aspect highlighted by Dr. Ellis Silver is the unique psychology of human beings which suggests that we were designed elsewhere in the cosmos, most likely on a planet with low gravity.
“Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more, “Dr. Silver told Yahoo news.
“The Earth approximately meets our needs as a species, but perhaps not as strongly as whoever brought us here initially thought. Lizards can sunbathe for as long as they like – and many of them do.”
Do we really come from another star system or planet?
”We are dazzled by the sun, which is also odd, most animals are not.”
Other facts from the book speak about how chronic illnesses that trouble the human race, such as bad backs, may prove we developed on a world with low gravity. The doctor also considers the fact that humans have an extra 223 genes, according to a study published by Dr. Francis Crick.
According to a paper from bibliotecapleyades, “Collaborative research from a gathering of exo-scientists postulate that there are genes from over 20 extraterrestrial civilizations in human DNA. These exo-scientists have continued the work of Nobel Prize winner Dr. Frances Crick, and other scholars in this area. Current findings are consistent with reports of Professor Sam Chang, who discreetly released information on his own apparent findings, in association with the Human Genome Project.”
Dr. Silver considers the human race has some odd traits which are clearly out of this world. According to him, the human body can’t find the perfect conditions to function flawless.
“We are all chronically ill,” says Dr. Silver. “Indeed, if you can find a single person who is 100% fit and healthy and not suffering from some (perhaps hidden or unstated) condition or disorder (there’s an extensive list in the book) I would be extremely surprised – I have not been able to find anyone.”
Other interesting ideas from the book
“I believe that many of our problems stem from the simple fact that our internal body clocks have evolved to expect a 25 hour day (this has been proven by sleep researchers), but the Earth’s day is only 24 hours. This is not a modern condition – the same factors can be traced all the way back through mankind’s history on Earth.”
At the opposite pole lies another theory of Doctor Silva, suggesting that if we didn’t reach the Earth in spaceships, then early humans could have been crossbred with another species creating modern humans. The most probable star system from where humans could have arrived is Alpha Centaury, the closest system to our own.
“Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring (raw) foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more. Plus there’s a prevailing feeling among many people that they don’t belong here or that something “just isn’t right.”
“This suggests (to me at least) that mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species.”
Another interesting idea from the book sees the Earth as a prison planet, where a naturally violent species such as ours is condemned to live until it learns to behave. However, Dr. Silver advices his readers to treat the topics discussed in the book lightly since he embraces various possibilities in life, and there are countless possibilities.
“Humans are not from Earth” was published mainly to gauge reaction from readers and to provoke thought, particularly among those who might not have considered such a possibility before.”
The book is sure to rise some question marks. It offers an interesting perspective over things and encourages everybody to research on their own until eventually finding the truth. He also encourages readers to send all relevant opinions to further analyze them.
EGYPTEHet zou wel eens de grootste archeologische vondst van onze tijd kunnen worden. En vandaag komen we er meer over te weten: twee verborgen kamers in het graf van Toetanchamon. Een feest voor egyptologen, een zegen voor het geplaagde Egypte. Hoewel: "Misschien vinden we alleen een vleermuis."
Miljoenen toeristen hebben er gestaan. Duizenden wetenschappers deden er onderzoek. Elk detail in de grafkamer van Toetanchamon, de grootste archeologische vondst uit de geschiedenis, onderzochten ze minutieus. Maar een meter verderop, aan de andere kant van een beschilderde muur, lag al die jaren een misschien nog wel grotere schat: twee verborgen kamers met nog onbekende inhoud. 3300 jaar lang bleef hun bestaan een geheim. Tot nu.
"Het is buitengewoon, een geweldige vondst,'' zegt archeoloog Jorrit Kelder, verbonden aan de Universiteit Leiden. "Een ruimte waar 3 millennia lang geen mens is geweest, terwijl de hele wereld er langsliep. Een tijdcapsule, misschien wel vol schatten en geheimen. Wetenschappers blijven meestal rustig, maar dit is bijzonder opwindend.''
Scepsis Zo groot als de opwinding nu is, zo groot was de scepsis een halfjaar geleden, toen de Britse onderzoeker Nicholas Reeves zijn ontdekking bekendmaakte. Reeves, een freelance onderzoeker, roept wel vaker iets. De vondst werd nog eens opgepompt door de Egyptische overheid, die het toerisme ziet instorten en op zoek is naar verhalen om weer wat buitenlanders naar het Dal der Koningen te lokken.
"Eerlijk is eerlijk: Reeves heeft ons allemaal verrast,'' zegt Olaf Kaper, hoogleraar egyptologie aan de Universiteit Leiden. Want uitvoerige scans van de ruimte toonden aan dat achter de beschilderde muren van de grafkamer wel degelijk twee verborgen ruimtes bestaan. Die ons misschien wel veel meer gaan vertellen over Toetanchamon, de legendarische kindfarao die al op zijn 19de overleed. Kaper: "Zijn koningskronen zijn nooit gevonden, over zijn familie is weinig bekend. We weten niet eens wie zijn moeder was. Wie weet wat we nu meer over hem gaan leren.''
Ontdekker Reeves gaat inmiddels nog verder: hij is ervan overtuigd dat de verborgen ruimtes het graf zijn van koningin Nefertiti, de beroemde stiefmoeder van Toetanchamon, wier grafkamer nooit is gevonden. Wishful thinking, zegt Kaper. "Reeves is geobsedeerd door Nefertiti, hij schiet door. Maar goed: zonder hem waren deze kamers misschien wel nooit gevonden.''
Wat we dan wél gaan vinden? De eerste scans van de ruimte duidden op metaal en organisch materiaal. Dat kunnen gouden maskers zijn, maar ook een beitel en een dode vleermuis. Kelder: "De ruimte is 3300 jaar geleden verzegeld, en dat was vast niet voor niets. We mogen er echt op hopen dat we hele bijzondere dingen gaan vinden.''
Behoedzaam Daar zullen we in elk geval nog even geduld voor moeten hebben. Want het openen van de kamers zal met de grootste voorzichtigheid moeten worden uitgevoerd. Al is er angst dat Egypte, wanhopig op zoek naar goed nieuws, te snel gaat: dat Egyptische onderzoekers binnenkort al de ruimtes binnenvallen, zonder goede voorbereiding.
"Ik ben er niet bang voor,'' zegt Kaper. "De huidige minister van Cultuur gaat behoedzaam te werk. Ik denk eerlijk gezegd dat ze het ook wel mooi vinden, die kleine stapjes: het levert elke keer weer nieuws op. Vandaag zal de hele wereld horen wat voor ruimtes er precies zijn. Dat wordt een persconferentie die elke tv-zender in de wereld gaat halen. En over een tijdje horen we dan weer de eerste feiten over wat er ligt. Een betere pr-campagne voor Egypte kan ik niet bedenken.''
A Virginia witness at Norfolk reports a possible alien abduction after experiencing lost time and personal items that were moved, according to testimony in Case 75365 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was in her bedroom at 1:47 a.m. on March 3, 2016, preparing to go to sleep, when the incident began.
“I know the exact time because I told myself that I was still going to be able to get up early despite the time,” the witness stated.“I was sitting on my bed, then the next thing I know I am walking from my kitchen to the bathroom. I remember thinking to myself, ‘Why was I in the kitchen?’ I didn’t have food or anything in my hands.”
Events continued to be out of the ordinary.
“On the way down the hall to the bathroom I passed my bedroom door. And as I walked past I looked in the room as I always do passing doors,took two more steps, then stepped backward and looked in the room again.”
The witness may have seen an alien being.
Witness sketch of the alien.
(Credit: MUFON)
“There it was standing in front of my patio door almost as tall as the door. I froze and my jaw dropped. It turned its head, looked at me, and vanished through the door. I shook my head and went to the bathroom.”
The witness then realized there was a loss of time.
“When I walked back into the bedroom I looked at the clock and it was after 3a.m. I sat on the bed and tried to recall walking to my kitchen or what I had been doing this whole time, but couldn’t remember anything except a strange bracelet.”
The witness then felt compelled to draw the creature and the bracelet in hopes of clearing her mind and getting back to sleep.
Witness sketch of the bracelet.
(Credit: MUFON)
“I told my husband about this in the morning. That’s when we noticed the furniture. I have my heavy jewelry box and it had been pushed away from the wall right where the creature had been standing. My husband and I felt that the stand having been moved was extremely odd. There would be no reason for us to have done it nor would either of us do it at random.”
The witnesses husband felt somewhat unusual too.
“My husband also recalled having slept heavier than normal that night. Though many things of this nature have occurred throughout my life I have never spoken out about them for fear of ridicule. I have many experiences, but only recently began to document what I remember as it happens currently. I hope by sharing this I can inspire others to come forward, or spark a memory of a similar event in someone else.”
Witness photo that shows the heavy jewelry box that was moved during the incident.
(Credit: MUFON)
The case was reported to MUFON on March 23, 2016. MUFON Virginia Field Investigator Robin Hills is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
An Ohio witness at West Carrollton reported watching and videotaping two spinning UFOs with a gem shape that appeared to move in formation, according to testimony in Case 72295 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first noticed two objects rising above the tree line on November 7, 2015. Pictured: Aerial view of West Carrollton, Ohio. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness was outside smoking when two lights were noticed rising above the tree line about 6:30 p.m. on November 7, 2015.
“The two craft traveled a straight and level flight path from northwest to southeast,” the witness stated.“They appeared to be a spinning gem shape, with no sound. Both were spinning in unison, and appeared to be flying in formation. Recon definitely came to mind.”
The witness with a military background could not identify the objects.
“They were not traveling at an unusual speed, or did not make any abnormal maneuvers. They did, however, disappear shortly after passing my position as I faced south. I have been an aircraft mechanic for over 30 years, including four years in the USAF at Edwards AFB. These were absolutely not aircraft that I know of, and unlike any of the unusual things I saw at Edwards. I live about a 15-minute drive from Wright Patterson AFB.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness used the only video resource on hand at the time.
“In the short video I managed to get on my phone, I tried zooming in and out a little to maintain focus. I didn’t have my reading glasses on. You will note towards the end, as tree branches become visible, the lead craft disappears, the second one travels a little further, and then disappears as well. One thing I noted, was the spinning in unison. I do not have the means to enhance video, and would love to see what you can bring out in the video.”
The case was reported to MUFON on November 8, 2015. Ohio MUFON Field Investigator Tom Smith investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
West Carrollton is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, population 13,143. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Er verschijnen meer en meer berichten in de mainstream media over onbekende planeten in ons zonnestelsel.
Dat gebeurt dan net op een moment dat er een aantal grote meteorieten inslaan op de planeet Jupiter.
Het zal menigeen zijn opgevallen dat er vooral het laatste jaar steeds meer wordt gesproken over onbekende planeten in ons zonnestelsel.
Zo verschijnt er nu weer een stuk in de Engelse krant The Independent waarin een onderzoeker stelt dat de grote rampen die de aarde in het verleden hebben getroffen en waardoor grote delen van de bevolking werden weggevaagd, zijn veroorzaakt door een onbekende planeet in ons zonnestelsel.
Het gaat in dit geval om Daniël Whitmire, een astrofysicus die na uitgebreid onderzoek ervan overtuigd is dat toen grote rampen de aarde in het verleden troffen dit werd veroorzaakt door een onbekende planeet.
Een planeet die door zijn omloopbaan door de zogenaamde Kuiper Gordel reist en daar verantwoordelijk is voor het ontstaan van kometen en dergelijke die dan uiteindelijk de aarde raken en zorgen voor dood en verderf.
Bovenstaand artikel lijkt wederom op een stukje conditionering van de mensheid voor de komst van de planeet Nibiru, die allang niet meer onbekend is en steeds vaker wordt waargenomen.
Eerder deze maand deed zich bij de planeet een situatie voor dat als dat op aarde was geweest, we hier met recht hadden kunnen spreken van een zogenaamde ELE. Extinction Level Event, een gebeurtenis waarbij er nog maar heel weinig kans is dat de mensheid dit zou overleven.
Grote meteorieten raakten de planeet en hiervan werden bij toeval opnames gemaakt door een amateurastronoom.
Het zal op Jupiter ook niet dagelijks voorkomen dat er dergelijke objecten op het oppervlak botsen en wie weet zijn deze brokstukken ruimtepuin ook wel richting Jupiter geslingerd door de aanwezigheid van Nibiru.
Creature or Submarine In Thames River, March 26, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Creature or Submarine In Thames River, March 26, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: March 26, 2016 Location of sighting: Thames, London, England This mysterious creature was recorded for only a few seconds, but if gives the impression that its much larger than we see. The objects shadow below the water is very long and gives me the impression of being much longer than we see on the surface. The Thames is connected to the ocean, so this could be some lost whales, or even a Russia submarine. The Russians are known for sneaking their subs into tight places in other countries. Sure it can be a alien creature, but I feel its probably a Russian sub. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Glowing UFO Comes Out Of Mountain In Las Vegas, Nevada On Feb 27, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Comes Out Of Mountain In Las Vegas, Nevada On Feb 27, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 27, 2016 Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA This is an excellent capture by Steven Barone as he uses his night vision to capture a UFO coming out of the top of the mountain. I hope to see more night vision from Steven. This is great evidence. I have a similar night vision scope I hope to use this weekend, but mine is 2nd gen green. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: This video was captured in the foothills and cliffs of the Pine Mountains near Red Rock Canyon and Blue Diamond which is very close to Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of February 27, 2016. This location is turning out to be pretty prolific when it comes to sightings of UFOs. I could never see what was going on in detail here until I got the night vision camera. It exposes much more and in this video, there are three strange objects including the bright light that always shows up in this particular spot. Using Google Earth I can tell this spot is very close to Blue Diamond which is alleged to be an underground saucer base. The second and third objects to appear came from the same location which should be the Blue Diamond area.
MUFON UFO Symposium with Greg Meholic: Advanced Propulsion For Interstellar Travel
MUFON UFO Symposium with Greg Meholic: Advanced Propulsion For Interstellar Travel
There are compelling reasons why humans should explore the heavens beyond the boundaries of our solar system. Greg Meholic will discuss the key technologies required to make such missions possible. Beginning with todays state of of the art chemical propulsion systems for space flight, we will explore some of the more advanced engine systems intended for long-range solar system exploration, such as nuclear engines, antimatter engines, and interstellar ramjets, which define the capability limits of chemical propulsion. These limitations may be overcome by embracing a new paradigm of “propellant-less” propulsion schemes that have their bases in modern theoretical physics and cosmology. Space-time manipulation, “faster than light” travel, wormholes, quantum drives, and others, may provide the only viable propulsion options to enable reasonable trip times to distant stars. These ideas are not merely the dreams of Science Fiction. The latest global, experimental efforts to explore the fundamentals behind some of these intriguing concepts support the idea that mankind will someday move beyond the bounds of our solar neighborhood.
Het jaar 2015 is bijna voorbij. Traditiegetrouw blikken we op Scientias.nl terug en zetten we de tien mooiste ruimtefoto’s van het jaar op een rij. Dit jaar kozen niet de redactieleden, maar de bezoekers van Scientias.nl de tien mooiste foto’s. Duizenden mensen brachten hun stem uit.
We tellen in dit artikel terug van de nummer 10 naar de nummer 1. De foto bovenaan dit artikel is – helaas – net buiten de top 10 gevallen en toont het oppervlak van de dwergplaneet Pluto, waar de New Horizons-ruimtesonde in juli langs vloog.
Wil je één van de tien foto’s instellen als achtergrondafbeelding op je computer, tablet of telefoon? Bij ieder nummer vind je een link naar een versie in hoge resolutie.
10. Buitenaards landschap op komeet 67P
Ooit gedacht dat een komeet er van dichtbij zo uitziet? Wij in ieder geval niet! Op deze foto is het buitenaardse landschap van komeet 67P/C-G zichtbaar. De foto is gemaakt door de Rosetta-ruimtesonde, toen het ruimtevaartuig acht kilometer van het oppervlak van de komeet verwijderd was. Hierdoor zijn kleine rotsblokken duidelijk zichtbaar. Download de foto hier op hoge resolutie.
9. Stellair vuurwerk bij Westerlund 2
De Hubble-telescoop vierde zijn 25ste jaar in de ruimte met deze schitterende foto van Westerlund 2. Dit is een groep met 3.000 jonge sterren. Met het blote oog zouden wij niet kunnen zien wat er zich in deze nevel afspeelt, maar Hubble kan door het donkere stof kijken. De pilaren in de nevel zijn stofzuilen, waarin sterren worden geboren. Iedere pilaar is enkele lichtjaren hoog. Krijg je geen genoeg van deze foto? Hier vind je de hoge resolutie-versie (let op: 7 MB).
8. Duinen op Mars
Voor het eerst worden buitenaardse duinen verkend door een robotwagentje. Curiosity arriveerde eerder deze maand bij de Bagnold-duinen op de noordwestelijke helling van Mount Sharp. De duinen verplaatsen een meter per aards jaar. Het marswagentje gaat de duinen nu nader bestuderen en zal daarna zijn beklimming van Mount Sharp vervolgen. De foto hierboven is een uitsnede van deze foto.
7. Uitbarsting op komeet 67P
Ruim 300 mensen vonden deze foto van een uitbarsting op komeet 67P dé astrofoto van 2015. Helaas voor hen geen eerste plek voor dit kiekje, al is deze foto wel de mooiste Rosetta-foto van 2015. De foto is gemaakt op 29 juli, toen de afstand tussen de komeet en de zon bijna het kleinst was. Hierdoor nam de activiteit flink toe. Hoe het precies werkt staat omschreven in dit artikel. En hier zie je precies hoe de uitbarsting is verlopen (hoge resolutie). Dat is toch mooier dan vuurwerk op aarde?
6. Bergen op Pluto
Eindelijk weten we hoe Pluto eruitziet. Dit jaar scheerde de New Horizons-ruimtesonde langs de dwergplaneet op vele miljarden kilometers van de aarde. Het oppervlak van Pluto is verrassend dynamisch. Op deze foto zien we een fascinerend landschap van bevroren bergen, ijzige vlakten en wolken. De bergen op deze foto hebben een hoogte tot 3.500 meter. Dit uitzicht is vastgelegd op een afstand van 18.000 kilometer van Pluto. Bekijk deze foto ook op hoge resolutie. Is de zesde plek terecht? Misschien niet, want deze foto verdient minstens een podiumplek, maar er zijn nóg mooiere ruimtefoto’s gemaakt dit jaar.
5. Tethys speelt verstoppertje
De maan Tethys speelt verstoppertje en schuilt achter de maan Enceladus. Deze maan is echter veel kleiner, waardoor Tethys makkelijk te spotten is. De twee manen zijn te zien boven de beroemde ringen van de planeet Saturnus. Dit portret is ‘geschilderd’ door de Cassini-ruimtesonde die al ruim tien jaar in een baan om Saturnus draait. In iedere editie van deze jaarlijks terugkerende rubriek is minstens één Cassini-foto te vinden, dus dit jaar weer! De foto staat net in het linkerrijtje en is hier te downloaden.
4. Sluiernevel
Ongeveer 8.000 jaar geleden explodeerde er een ster op een afstand van zo’n 2.100 lichtjaar van de aarde. Sindsdien reist er een schokgolf door het interstellaire gas, waardoor er een flinke nevel is ontstaan: de Sluiernevel. Deze nevel is 110 lichtjaar groot en gefotografeerd door de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop. Hubble kiekte de nevel al eens eerder in 1997. In twintig jaar tijd is de nevel zichtbaar groter geworden, zoals in deze video wordt getoond. Bijzonder dat we de groei van een nevel zo duidelijk op aarde kunnen volgen. We moeten dan direct denken aan het bijzondere object V838 Monocerotis in het sterrenbeeld Eenhoorn. Deze rode veranderlijke hyperreus verloor in 2002 de buitenste gaslagen, die sindsdien uitdijen. De foto van de Sluiernevel opslaan op je computer? Klik hier!
3. De aarde achter de maan
Het brons gaat dit jaar naar deze foto van de aarde achter de maan. Hier kon je niet op stemmen, omdat de foto na de start van de stemronde is verschenen. Omdat we veel mails kregen van bezoekers die graag deze foto kozen als astrofoto van het jaar, hebben we besloten om de foto op de derde plek in de top tien te zetten. Overigens kregen we ook verschillende mails over deze foto – van een ‘dubbel lichtzwaard’ in de ruimte – maar die geven we bij deze een eervolle vermelding. De foto van de aarde achter de maan is gemaakt door de Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter, terwijl het ruimtevaartuig 134 kilometer boven de krater Compton vloog. Als je heel goed kijkt, zie je een deel van Nederland, waaronder de Zeeuwse en Zuid-Hollandse eilanden. Op de website van NASA tref je de grote versie van deze foto aan.
2. De Arendnevel
Eén van de mooiste astrofoto’s van het jaar is in de eerste week van januari al verschenen. Het gaat om de beroemde Arendnevel. De stofpilaren zijn vereeuwigd door de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop. Hoewel de zuilen al in 1995 door deze telescoop zijn gefotografeerd, is de nieuwste foto veel scherper. De telescoop gebruikte namelijk zijn high-end Wide Field Camera 3, die in 2009 op de telescoop is geïnstalleerd. In de pilaren van de Arendnevel worden nieuwe sterren geboren. Deze sterren produceren warmte, waardoor de pilaren in de toekomst langzaam van binnen uit worden vernietigd. Dit zullen wij overigens nooit meemaken, omdat het hele proces tienduizenden jaren duurt. Instellen als achtergrondafbeelding? Even klikken!
1. Pluto in volle glorie
Er kan maar één foto dé astrofoto van 2015 zijn en dat is dit jaar dit prachtige exemplaar. We zien hier de planeet Pluto in volle glorie. De foto is gemaakt door de New Horizons-ruimtesonde. Op de foto is het witte hart van Pluto duidelijk zichtbaar. Dit hart is 1.600 kilometer breed, oftewel even ver als de afstand van Amsterdam naar Barcelona. Het hart wordt Sputnik Planum genoemd: een relatief gladde, bevroren vlakte met een oppervlak dat niet ouder is dan honderd miljoen jaar. Het is een schitterende foto en het benadrukt de grootsheid van de New Horizons-missie. De New Horizons-ruimtesonde stuurt ook in 2016 nog foto’s van Pluto en zijn manen naar de aarde, dus de kans is groot dat we volgend jaar opnieuw foto’s van Pluto tegenkomen in de astrofoto top 10 van 2016. Daarna blijft het even stil totdat New Horizons in 2019 aankomt bij het Kuipergordelobject 2014 MU69.
En Ceres dan? Vorig jaar voorspelden we dat een foto van Ceres in de top 10 van 2016 zou eindigen. Helaas kreeg Ceres niet genoeg stemmen voor een top 10-positie. Misschien komt dit omdat Ceres – qua oppervlak – niet zo interessant is als Pluto. Toch is Ceres geen open boek, want er zijn mysterieuze witte vlekken op het oppervlak van Ceres gespot. Bij deze willen we als redactie Ceres nog wel even noemen, omdat ook de Dawn-ruimtesonde zeer succesvol is geweest in 2015.
Meer mooie ruimtefoto’s zien? Bekijk ook de eerdere editie van de mooiste ruimtefoto’s van het jaar! – Editie 2012 – Editie 2013 – Editie 2014
Jacht naar leven breidt zich uit naar 20.000 rode dwergen
Jacht naar leven breidt zich uit naar 20.000 rode dwergen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het SETI-instituut dat op zoek is naar buitenaards leven heeft haar jachtgebied uitgebreid en wel met 20.000 rode dwergen!
Het SETI-instituut is al jaren op zoek naar radiosignalen afkomstig van buitenaardse wezens. Maar die zoektocht – die tot op heden vruchteloos is – was eigenlijk altijd gericht op zonachtige sterren en hun omgeving. Maar nu gaat het instituut het over een andere boeg gooien: SETI richt de pijlen op 20.000 rode dwergen en hun omgeving.
Zonachtige sterren “Rode dwergen hebben in het verleden weinig aandacht gekregen van SETI-wetenschappers,” erkent onderzoeker Jon Richards. “Dat komt doordat wetenschappers aannamen dat andere intelligente soorten zich zouden bevinden op planeten die draaien rond sterren die vergelijkbaar zijn met onze zon.”
Een artistieke impressie van een planeet die cirkelt rond een rode dwerg. Afbeelding: NASA / ESA / G. Bacon (STScI).
Twee redenen Er zijn twee redenen waarom onderzoekers lang dachten dat de omgeving van rode dwergen niet geschikt is voor het ontstaan en in standhouden van (intelligent) buitenaards leven. Beide redenen hebben alles te maken met de leefbare zone rond een rode dwerg. De leefbare zone is een denkbeeldige zone rond een ster. Eventuele planeten in deze zone ontvangen precies genoeg licht en dus warmte van hun ster om ‘leefbaar’ te zijn, dat wil zeggen: vloeibaar water te bevatten. Omdat rode dwergen veel kleiner zijn en minder licht en warmte afgeven dan bijvoorbeeld onze zon, zou je denken dat de leefbare zone rond een rode dwerg smaller is en de kans dat er een leefbare planeet rond zo’n ster draait ook kleiner is. En dan de tweede reden: zelfs als er in die smalle leefbare zone een planeet te vinden is, dan is deze waarschijnlijk toch niet leefbaar, zo stelden onderzoekers. Omdat een rode dwerg weinig warmte afgeeft, bevindt de leefbare zone zich dicht bij de ster. Dat betekent dat ook de afstand tussen een planeet in die leefbare zone en de ster vrij klein is. Zo klein dat de planeet waarschijnlijk een synchrone rotatie kent. Dat wil zeggen dat altijd dezelfde zijde van die planeet op de ster gericht is. Het resultaat: de ene kant van de planeet is gloeiend heet en de ander zijde is veel kouder. Niet direct de beste plek voor het ontstaan en in standhouden van leven.
Oceanen en atmosferen Maar toch gaat SETI nu dus op jacht naar leven nabij rode dwergen. Waarom? Recent onderzoek toont aan dat er op planeten rond rode dwergen leven mogelijk is, zelfs wanneer ze continu dezelfde zijde op die rode dwerg gericht hebben. Zolang die planeten maar oceanen en atmosferen hebben. Die atmosfeer of oceanen kunnen namelijk hitte van de dagzijde (de zijde die continu op de ster gericht is) naar de nachtzijde verplaatsen, waardoor toch een groot deel van de planeet leefbaar is.
Drie planeten rond een rode dwerg. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
Ouder Nu recent onderzoek aantoont dat leven rond rode dwergen helemaal niet uitgesloten is, is dit eigenlijk de beste plek om op zoek te gaan naar intelligent leven. Rode dwergen zijn gemiddeld miljarden jaren ouder dan zonachtige sterren. “Oudere zonnestelsels hebben veel meer tijd gehad om intelligente soorten voort te brengen,” benadrukt onderzoeker Seth Shostak. Bovendien heeft recent onderzoek aangetoond dat ongeveer een zesde tot de helft van alle rode dwergen een planeet bezitten die zich in de leefbare zone bevindt. “Ongeveer driekwart van alle sterren zijn rode dwergen,” legt Shostak uit. “Dat betekent dat wanneer je een groot aantal van deze sterren bestudeert – laten we zeggen de dichtstbijzijnde 20.000 – deze gemiddeld de helft dichterbij staan dan de dichtstbijzijnde 20.000 zonachtige sterren.” En dichterbij betekent dat een eventueel signaal van die sterren en hun omgeving sterker is.
Naar verwachting gaat het onderzoek naar de 20.000 rode dwergen zo’n twee jaar in beslag nemen.
The flyby of asteroid 2013 TX68 is the closest ever predicted Earth approach for an object this large. The 150 feet (45 meters) rock could pass 11,000 miles (17,000km) from Earth on March 5th which is 21 times closer to our planet than the moon, although NASA admits it might also pass nine million miles away as the asteroid’s orbit is highly uncertain (condition code 7) and the distance of its pass is not precisely known at this time experts say.
However, if the asteroid passes at its closest possible distance of just 11,000 miles (17,000 km), the flyby will be an exceedingly close one and If that were the case, the asteroid would come even closer than orbiting communications satellites.
Asteroid 2013 TX68 has an estimated mass of about 130,000 metric tons. The space rock is traveling at about 32,211 miles per hour (51,839 kilometers per hour), relative to Earth.
According to NASA, if an asteroid of a size similar to that of 2013 TX68 were to impact Earth, it would release approximately 2.5 megatons of energy in the atmosphere and would be expected to cause regional devastation.
A comparison to the impact potential of an asteroid the size of 2013 TX68 could be made to the impact of a near-Earth object that occurred in 1908 in Tuguska, Siberia.
Known in the asteroid community as the “Tunguska Event,” this impact of an asteroid just slightly smaller than 2013 TX68 (approximately 100 – 130 feet/30-40 meters across) is believed to have flattened about 825 square miles (2200 square kilometers) of forest in and around the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
The asteroid was discovered by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey on Oct. 6, 2013, as it approached Earth on the nighttime side. After three days of tracking, the asteroid passed into the daytime sky and could no longer be observed. Because it was not tracked for very long,
Although scientists cannot predict its precise orbit around the sun, they say that it cannot impact Earth during its flyby next month.
Furthermore, it seems cosmic rays are rising rapidly and the Earth is tilting North, which is a physical Pole Shift combined with a magnetic polar shift. In the second video BPEarthWatch explains these developments as well as an analysis of Asteroid 2013 TX68 based on the information given by ESA instead of NASA.
NASA’s Latest Mars Drone is Helping Save Lives on Earth
NASA’s Latest Mars Drone is Helping Save Lives on Earth
A JPL mini methane gas sensor is flight tested on a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) under a project to improve energy pipeline industry safety (Credit: University of California, Merced).
University of California, Merced
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A drone, originally designed for testing the atmosphere on Mars, is being used by NASA to inspect natural gas pipelines. Test flights will show whether the tech can be used for large-scale monitoring that will contribute to climate change studies.
Inspecting natural gas lines for leaks is a never-ending (and potentially dangerous) job—not for a drone though. To that end, a drone that was originally designed for testing the atmosphere on Mars is being used by NASA to inspect natural gas pipelines.
Methane is not easy to detect. And that’s putting it mildly. It’s a colorless, toxic, and by the time you can detect it (usually by smell), it’s often too late. It’s also devastating to the environment.
Developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, the Open Path Laser Spectrometer (OPLS) is able to detect methane in parts per billion by volume, and it is small enough to be installed in a quadcopter.
University of California, Merced
Currently, the OPLS-equipped drone is undergoing flight tests. The project will also carry out flight tests of fixed-wing drones, which can fly faster and farther than the copter and may be more practical in remote settings.
“These tests mark the latest chapter in the development of what we believe will eventually be a universal methane monitoring system for detecting fugitive natural-gas emissions and contributing to studies of climate change,” says Lance Christensen, OPLS principal investigator at JP
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