Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
30-11-2016
UFO filmed over Torquay harbour during worldwide spate of sightings
UFO filmed over Torquay harbour during worldwide spate of sightings
FILM of a bright, mystery object over Torquay harbourside on Tuesday night was recorded as the internet across the world went into panic mode about UFOs.
Herald Express reader Mike Collins and his wife Erich were walking around the harbour towards the Pavilion Marina car park at just after 5pm when they spotted the strange, eliptical shape hovering.
They watched the light for about 10 minutes before Mike realised he should film it.
Later Mike discovered from his daughter that his film was one of thousands across the world being shared on social media, starting on Sunday night with the Twitter hashtag #ufoattacktoturkey which became the number one trending subject.
"I went to bed really spooked," Mike said. "People may laugh but I know what I saw.
Although he says the zoomed-in video is shaky, he is clear that it was not a helicopter, Chinese lantern or light aircraft.
"My only regret is that I didn't film it sooner. It was much brighter to start with and we kept walking towards it but it didn't move. I saw a light aircraft with red lights fly under and that was much, much smaller. By the time I got to the Marina car park and decided to film it the lights were much much dimmer."
Mike said: "We had been Christmas shopping and were walking from Debenhams to Marine Car Park.
"We were just coming up to The Offshore Pub at around 5.10 to 5.15pm.
"My wife and I spotted this very, very bright light that just stayed stationary - although my video is a little shaky where I zoomed in -but I know what I saw wasn't an helicopter (totally no noise) and certainly not a Chinese Lantern (was stationary).
"It seemed brighter to start with and seemed elliptical shape!
"One of my Daughters then sent me a link on Facebook about multiple UFO sightings in Turkey on 28 November which I found a little worrying!.
"I wonder how many other people saw it. One of my friends on Facebook said he saw something but thought it must have been a helicopter."
It happened the day after social media all over the world went into panic mode with similar videos of lights being spotted over Turkey on November 27. The sightings were feared to be either an invasionary force or a fleet of UFOs.
Hundreds of people shared pictures and videos and soon the news was followed by similar sightings in Denver and Texas, and then in Canada and Mexico and the Twitter hashtag "#ufoattacktoturkey" quickly became the number one global trending topic.
A video posted by UFO hunters secureteam10 was seen hundreds of thousands of times.
One user, Eren Dogan uploaded a video of the UFO sighting that was followed by a loud bang.
Another YouTube user, 1 Mn görüntülenme, uploaded a video and wrote: "Alright, I'm trying to zoom in to show you now. It is November 28, 2016, Sunday night. It's around 2:20 a.m. right now. The object you're seeing is in the skies of Esenler (Istanbul). I'm recording it right now. Many people like me have crowded here. We've informed the authorities and they've told us they're dealing with the situation. It is a yellow object. We suspect it's a UFO. It gives off a light and is in motion. Right now it's stationary actually but it moves position every few minutes. Very interesting."
One Tweeter commented: "So many photos being posted! Very compelling stuff!"
A second wrote: "Objects are seen in all cities of Turkey, UFO invasion in Turkey!"
Another added: "What is this? Is it really UFO? I am so afraid. I hope this is a joke."
While the strange lights were not given any official confirmation, many people suggested that the lights might be drones.
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FOI request for reports of pilot UFO sightings over Runcorn and Widnes turned down
FOI request for reports of pilot UFO sightings over Runcorn and Widnes turned down
CAA 'neither confirms nor denies' existence of unidentified aerial phenomena reports but hints that requests on safety grounds may be considered
BY OLIVER CLAY
The CAA will neither confirm nor deny whether it has reports on UAP sightings in airspace above Halton and surrounding areas filed under the Mandatory Occurrence Reporting Scheme.
(Photo: Getty)
Air regulator the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has remained tight-lipped over whether it has any reports of pilot sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFO) and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) over Runcorn and Widnes and surrounding areas.
The CAA said it could ‘neither confirm nor deny’ whether it held such data in reply to a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request.
In its response, the authority said any reports of that type would be filed under the Mandatory Occurrence Reporting Scheme (MORS), which requires aviators to provide details of any safety-related event which, if not corrected or addressed, could endanger an aircraft, its occupants or anyone else.
Rihanne Stephen, CAA information rights officer, said it was possible for requests for information on safety grounds to be made.
The MORS scheme is covered by European Union regulation 376/2014 and the CAA said confidentiality was the main factor for exemption from FOI.
Mrs Stephen said: “The civil aviation safety system is established on the basis of feedback and lessons learned from accidents and incidents.
“Occurrence reporting and the use of occurrence information for the improvement of safety depend on a relationship of trust between the reporter and the entity in charge of the collection and assessment of the information.
“This requires strict application of rules on confidentiality.
“The purpose of protecting safety information from inappropriate use, and of limiting access to occurrence information solely to interested parties participating in the improvement of civil aviation safety, is to ensure the continuing availability of safety information so that appropriate and timely preventive action can be taken and aviation safety improved.
“The regulation requires that appropriate measures are put in place to ensure that information collected through occurrence reporting schemes is kept confidential, and that the information should be used strictly for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety and should not be used to attribute blame or liability.”
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Is there an ancient civilisation on Mars? UFO hunters claim to have found 'walled cities' in Nasa images
Is there an ancient civilisation on Mars? UFO hunters claim to have found 'walled cities' in Nasa images
Video shows series of aerial images of Elysium Planitia near Mars' equator
The video title is 'Nasa Spots Walled Cities on Mars from MRO Satellite'
Other Nasa images also show the plain was once a highly volcanic region
This means there was lots of opportunity for the surface to be remoulded and reshaped, suggesting the 'walled cities' are natural formations on Mars
Conspiracy theorists claim to have found evidence of 'ancient walled cities' on Mars in their latest bizarre theory.
The United Family of Anomaly Hunters, a group of UFO hunters, presented the evidence in a YouTube video.
The video shows a series of aerial Nasa pictures of Elysium Planitia is a plain near the Martian equator.
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The video shows a series of aerial Nasa pictures of Elysium Planitia - a plain near the Martian equator. MRO image of Elysium Planitia, pictured, with the strangely shaped structures in view
ELYSIUM PLANITIA
Elysium Planitia is a plain near the Martian equator.
Previously, ESA has released an image of the plain, showing what looks like a dust-covered frozen sea.
Nasa images also show the plain was once a highly volcanic region, meaning there was lots of opportunity for the surface to be remoulded and reshaped
The images show a number of aerial views, some of which look like eroded domes that could be surrounded by virtually circular rings.
The ring and cone structures were spotted on Elysium Planitia, a plain near the Martian equator.
The title of the video, 'Nasa Spots Walled Cities on Mars from MRO Satellite', implies Nasa has claimed these structures are walled cities.
The video has been met with mixed reaction - some firmly believed the structures show signs of life.
'There are structures similar to these all over certain areas in South Africa,' one user said.
'I firmly believe Mars still has some remnants of it's civilisation living underground,' said another.
While others put it down to natural geological processes.
The images show a number of aerial views, some of which look like eroded domes that could be surrounded by virtually circular rings
The title of the video, 'NASA Spots Walled Cities on Mars from MRO Satellite', implies Nasa has claimed these structures are walled cities, but Nasa has not claimed this
Mars is now a frozen desert, but geological studies of rocks by previous missions to the surface have suggested the planet used to be warmer and wetter. Elysium Planitia is a plain near the Martian equator
'You should change your channel's name to "Martian Geology," because that's what were actually looking at,' one commenter said.
The images were taken by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the red planet, capturing pictures using its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, since 2006.
NASA satellite images show incredible walled cities on Mars
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the red planet, capturing pictures using its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, since 2006. Artist's impression pictured
Mars is now a frozen desert, but geological studies of rocks by previous missions to the surface have suggested the planet used to be warmer and wetter.
Elysium Planitia is a plain near the Martian equator.
Previously, ESA has released an image of the plain, showing what looks like a dust-covered frozen sea.
Nasa images also show the plain was once a highly volcanic region, meaning there was lots of opportunity for the surface to be remoulded and reshaped.
BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES? YOU'RE PROBABLY A NARCISSIST
People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking, according to a study earlier this year.
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and negative psychological traits.
In the first study, a total of 202 participants completed questionnaires on conspiracy beliefs, asking how strongly they agreed with specific statements, such as whether governments carried out acts of terrorism on their own soil.
Alongside this, they were asked to complete a narcissist scale and a self-esteem assessment.
The results showed that those people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
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VIDEO: UFO-jagers claimen ‘ommuurde steden’ te hebben gevonden op Mars
VIDEO: UFO-jagers claimen ‘ommuurde steden’ te hebben gevonden op Mars
Complottheoretici claimen bewijs te hebben gevonden voor ‘oude ommuurde steden’ op Mars, schrijft de Daily Mail.
De United Family of Anomaly Hunters, een groep UFO-jagers, heeft het ‘bewijs’ gepresenteerd in een YouTube-video.
In het filmpje is een aantal luchtfoto’s te zien die van Elysium Planitia, een vlakte bij de evenaar van de planeet, zijn gemaakt.
Gemengde reacties
De foto’s tonen een aantal geërodeerde koepels en cirkels. De titel van de video suggereert dat NASA heeft geclaimd dat deze structuren ommuurde steden zijn.
De video heeft gemengde reacties opgeleverd. Sommigen zijn ervan overtuigd dat de structuren bewijs zijn voor leven op de rode planeet.
“In delen van Zuid-Afrika worden soortgelijke structuren gevonden,” merkte iemand op.
Ondergrondse beschaving
“Ik ben er heilig van overtuigd dat Mars een ondergrondse beschaving herbergt,” zei een ander.
Anderen zijn van mening dat de structuren zijn ontstaan door geologische processen.
“Je moet de naam van je kanaal veranderen in ‘Martiaanse Geologie’, want dat is wat je hier ziet,” zei iemand.
Stromend water
De foto’s zijn gemaakt door de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter van de NASA, die sinds 2006 rond de planeet draait.
Afgelopen jaar vonden wetenschappers bewijs voor stromend water op Mars. Uit nieuwe observaties bleek dat er stromend zout water voorkomt op de rode planeet.
NASA heeft ontdekt dat Mars vroeger sterk op de aarde leek. Er was een grote oceaan, zout water en vermoedelijk ook sneeuw.
Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei said that he had heard a mysterious knock during his flight in space, China Central Television reported.
Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei sits in the module of Shenzhen 5 spaceship.
[Photo/China.org.cn]
Yang, born in June 1965 in northeastern Liaoning Province, is China's first astronaut and now a major general. On Oct. 16, 2003, he stepped out of his re-entry module after a 21-hour flying in space, making him the 241st human being worldwide to visit outer space.
When he recalled his experience in space during a recent interview, he said, "A non-causal situation I have met in space is a knock that appeared from time to time."
He explained that the sound suddenly appeared without any rhyme or reason. "It neither came from outside nor inside the spaceship, but sounded like someone is knocking the body of the spaceship just as knocking an iron bucket with a wooden hammer," Yang said.
Yang said he was very nervous when he heard the sound, and moved close to the porthole to try to find out the cause. However, nothing out of the ordinary appeared both inside and outside.
After returning to earth, he told technicians about the mysterious sound, and tried to imitate it with some instruments, so as to solve the mystery. But Yang said he had never heard the exact sound again.
The sound has also been heard by Shenzhou 6 and Shenzhou 7 astronauts. Yang said, "Before entering space, I have told them that the sound is a normal phenomenon, so there is no need to worry."
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Chinese astronaut hoort mysterieus kloppend geluid op ruimteschip
Chinese astronaut hoort mysterieus kloppend geluid op ruimteschip
De Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei zei dat hij tijdens zijn ruimtereis een mysterieus kloppend geluid heeft gehoord. Dat meldt China Central Television (CCTV).
Yang, die in juni 1965 werd geboren in de noordoostelijke Chinese provincie Liaoning, was de eerste Chinees in de ruimte.
Op 16 oktober 2003 verbleef hij 21 uur in de ruimte. Tijdens een recent interview zei hij dat hij tijdens zijn reis van tijd tot tijd een vreemd kloppend geluid hoorde.
Tevergeefs
Het geluid kwam uit het niets. “Het klonk alsof iemand op de romp van het ruimteschip klopte,” zei Yang. “Net of er met een houten hamer op een ijzeren emmer werd geslagen.”
Hij zei dat hij erg nerveus werd toen hij het geluid hoorde en probeerde te achterhalen waar het vandaan kwam.
Eenmaal terug op aarde vertelde hij technici over het mysterieuze geluid. Hij probeerde het tevergeefs na te bootsen met instrumenten.
Rare muziek
Het geluid is ook gehoord door astronauten die aan boord waren van Shenzhou 6 en Shenzhou 7.
“Voordat ze de ruimte in gingen, zei ik tegen ze dat ze zich geen zorgen hoefden te maken over het geluid,” aldus Yang.
Astronauten van Apollo 10 hoorden tijdens een reis rond de maan in 1969 naar eigen zeggen vreemde geluiden die ze in hun onderlinge gesprekken omschreven als ‘rare muziek’.
Speculeren
Een andere astronaut beschreef het als een fluitend geluid en verbond daar de conclusie aan dat het door iets buitenaards gemaakt werd.
Normaal gesproken is het zo goed als stil in de ruimte, omdat geluid zich niet kan voortplanten in een vacuüm.
Experts zeggen tegen de BBC niets anders te kunnen doen dan speculeren.
Een aantal Russische wetenschappers verklaarde jaren geleden al dat er veel meer UFO activiteit rondom onze zon plaatsvindt dan wij voor mogelijk houden.
Die UFO’s zijn voor ons uiteraard met het blote oog niet te zien, maar ze vertonen zich wel degelijk op de SOHO telescoopbeelden van NASA.
Ongeveer tien jaar geleden verklaarden twee Russische wetenschappers dat ze hadden ontdekt dat er op ieder gegeven moment zich honderden UFO’s ophouden in de buurt van onze zon.
Dat niet alleen, maar ook dat ze hun snelheid kunnen verhogen of verlagen zonder aanwijsbare reden en dat ze een rechthoekige draai kunnen maken met onvoorstelbare snelheden, iets dat voor een normaal ruimteschip onmogelijk zou zijn. Zeker voor de waargenomen ruimteschepen die minstens zo groot zijn als onze maan.
Door de jaren heen zijn er telkens nieuwe waarnemingen geweest, waarbij het lijkt alsof deze enorme UFO’s energie uit de zon tanken.
Nu duikt er weer een opname op van een UFO die als het ware lijkt weg te schieten van de zon.
De bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1 zegt dat hij eigenlijk niet gelooft in de UFO/zon plasma/energie theorie, maar dat deze beelden hem toch aan het denken hebben gezet.
Op ieder gewenst moment van de dag is er eigenlijk wel wat te zien rondom de zon op de SOHO beelden van NASA.
Het volgende voorbeeld is gemaakt door Scott Waring van Ufo Sightings Daily voor wie iedere pixelafwijking in het beeld een UFO is, maar waar ook inderdaad recht boven de zon en rechtsonder vreemde objecten zijn te zien.
Er wordt op dit moment veel gesproken over een mogelijke nep buitenaardse invasie op aarde. Een soort holografisch spel door de elite, waarbij het lijkt alsof er een buitenaardse invasiemacht naar de aarde is gekomen om ons te koloniseren. Het idee erachter is dan om de al zo lang gewenste wereldregering te activeren, waarbij de mensheid als één geheel weerstand zal bieden tegen de indringers.
Echter, de activiteiten van vreemde objecten in de buurt van de zon heeft naar alle waarschijnlijkheid niets te maken met iets dat door mensenhanden is gemaakt, maar alles met buitenaardse beschavingen.
En omdat toeval niet bestaat, hebben we ook deze week weer een voorval van een grote UFO bij de zon die net als die in 2012 energie schijnt te tanken.
De opname lijkt in eerste instantie op een soort donkere planeet, gedeeltelijk verborgen achter de zon. Maar, even later is net zoals bij de vreemde grote UFO uit 2012 een soort slang te zien.
Iets dat lijkt op de verbinding tussen de UFO en de zon waarmee het mogelijk de nodige energie tankt.
Maar, NASA is ook dat soort opnames zat en dus gebeurt het volgende: De afbeelding hierna is vorig jaar genomen en afkomstig van één van de ruimtetelescopen van NASA en daarop zie je rechtsboven bij de zon een enorme driehoekige UFO.
Een dag later ziet hetzelfde beeld er als volgt uit. Er is door NASA een keurig plakkertje over de UFO geplaatst en niemand die nog wat ziet.
En dan gebeurt er nog iets enkele dagen geleden. Wederom is er op een foto van de NASA ruimtetelescopen iets opmerkelijks te zien, vlakbij de zon.
De beelden zien er als volgt uit:
Deze ontdekking is gedaan door Scott Waring, die zegt dat hij vaker dit soort grote vierkante ufo’s heeft ontdekt vlakbij de zon.
Waar het echter veel meer op lijkt, is dat we hier weer te maken hebben met één van de vele NASA plakkers en dat de echte UFO ergens daaronder zit verborgen.
Ook hier zie je weer zoals op eerdere afbeeldingen dat ook deze UFO als het ware energie opzuigt uit de zon.
Het bovenstaande wordt uitgebreid behandeld in onderstaande video van Secure Team, met daarnaast nog een aantal andere zeer interessante en mysterieuze zaken.
Ultra-diffuse galaxies are as faint as dwarf galaxies, but spread over an area the size of the Milky Way — with about 1/1000th the number of stars. A new simulation suggests many supernovas at the beginning of a galaxy's life can push the stars and dark matter outward to a great size. Two simulated ultra-diffuse galaxies are pictured here on top of a Hubble Space Telescope image of background galaxies.
Credit: Arianna Di Cintio, Chris Brook, NIHAO simulations and Hubble Space Telescope
Like ghosts, ultra-diffuse galaxies often float undetected in the night sky — stretching the size of the Milky Way, but containing only a dwarf galaxy's worth of stars. Now, a new simulation suggests their explosive origins, and hints that there may be many more than seen so far.
Researchers uncovered the first ultra-diffuse galaxy in 2015, and were puzzled by how the faint galaxy came to have such a large size with so few stars. Since then, they've spotted many more with the most sensitive telescopes, mostly in large clusters of many galaxies. But this new research suggests that internal dynamics in a forming galaxy, rather than processes happening within clusters, can blow a dwarf up to enormous, spread-out size — and thus they may pepper the universe even far from large clusters, hiding in plain sight because of their faintness.
The ultra-diffuse galaxy Dragonfly 17, shown in comparison to the large Andromeda galaxy and the elliptical dwarf galaxy NGC 205.
Credit: Schoening/Harvey/vanDokkum/Hubble Space Telescope
An international collaboration called NIHAO — the Numerical Investigation of a Hundred Astronomical Objects — simulated the formation of 100 galaxies in extreme detail, tracking the way gases, forming stars and dark matterinteracted within the systems. Within that 100, they found some that matched the profile of the newly discovered ultra-diffuse galaxies. So they worked backward to discern what had caused them — not big galaxies failing and growing faint, but dwarf galaxies stretched to an extraordinary size. [Galactic Evolution: How Galaxies are Classified by Type (Infographic)]
"Once stars explode supernovae, they release a lot of energy into the surrounding gas, and this gas can be expelled really, really fast," Arianna di Cintio, a researcher at University of Copenhagen's DARK Cosmology Center and lead author on the new work, told Space.com. If dwarf galaxies experience enough of these supernovas early on in their lives, she said, the galaxy can balloon outwards, borne on the outflows of gas.
"Basically, the dark-matter particles start flying outwards from the center of the galaxy, and this process happens for the stars as well," di Cintio said. "At the end of the day, you form a galaxy which has few stars, so it's a dwarf galaxy, but the stars have spread over a large, large surface — something similar to the Milky Way."
Thus, the galaxies' few million stars puff up to fill a space that could ordinarily host about 1,000 times that number.
This video from NIHAO (PI A.V. Macciò, NYUAD) shows a simulation of an ultra-diffuse galaxy's formation, depicting the fountains of gas launching out of the galaxy.
It's easier to find ultra-diffuse galaxies in big galaxy clusters because that's where the most powerful telescopes set their sights — for instance, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Subaru telescope found 854 of them in the Coma Cluster, according to a statement by the university's Niels Bohr Institute. Just a few have been found so far floating on their own, di Cintio said.
The fact that the simulation created these familiar — albeit mysterious — structures is "a very, very nice confirmation of what we think is there — the current cosmological model," di Cintio said. "This effect of expansion of dark matter and stars, we knew that it existed for a few years, [but] no one connected it yet to ultra-diffuse galaxies because they weren't observed yet."
Some of the 854 ultra-diffuse galaxies found by the Subaru Telescope in the Coma galaxy cluster, about 300 million light-years away. Three hundred and thirty-two of them are Milky Way-size.
Credit: NAOJ
Di Cintio said the next steps are to try and verify more ultra-diffuse galaxies living on their own, outside of big clusters, and to measure their mass — potentially through gravitational lensing — to help verify that they're really dwarf-galaxy-mass. In general, further research will help researchers discover extremely faint, low-surface-brightness galaxies that may lurk in our telescopes' fields of view.
"So far, we were blind, in a certain sense, to these low-surface-brightness and ultra-diffuse galaxies," di Cintio said. "We may be looking around and finding thousands of galaxies that we didn't even think about yet."
The new work was detailed Nov. 29 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Massive 'Baby' Stars Are Born with Cosmic Fireworks
Massive 'Baby' Stars Are Born with Cosmic Fireworks
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
An artist's impression of an accretion burst around one of the universe's most massive stars. The bursts suggest that the large stars form along the same lines as their smaller siblings.
Credit: Deutsches SOFIA Institut (DSI)
The universe celebrates the birth of massive stars with cosmic fireworks, just as it does with its smaller siblings, a new study shows.
Stars the size of the sun produce outbursts as they interact with the disk of material around them, but larger stars shine so brightly that scientists thought their disks would burn away quickly. For the first time, astronomers have spotted periodic explosions in the material surrounding a massive star as it swallows a planet-size clump of gas from its disk, suggesting that these giant stars form the same way as their smaller counterparts.
"These outbursts, which are several orders of magnitude larger than their lower-mass siblings, can release about as much energy as our sun delivers in over 100,000 years," Alessio Caratti o Garatti, an astronomer at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in Ireland, said in a statement. Caratti o Garatti led a team that made observations from multiple instruments to study a massive young star. [The Biggest Star Mysteries Ever]
"Surprisingly, the fireworks are observed not just at the end of the lives of massive stars, as supernovae, but also at their birth!" he said.
A time-lapse movie
Stars form as gravity draws gas and dust together in space. For stars like the sun, the material flattens into an accretion disk, falling into the center, where the star is born. But the higher radiation produced by the largest stars, which can weigh more than 100 times the mass of the sun, was thought to burn away the disk around it, keeping material from falling inward and requiring another path to their birth.
Using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain and the California-based SOFIA Observatory, which is mounted on an airplane, the astronomers spotted explosive outbursts in the disk surrounding a massive star about 6,000 light-years from the sun. As the star swallowed an enormous gob of gas about twice as massive as Jupiter, it released bursts of energy revealed as a bright flare-up around the star. According to the researchers, the fireworks suggest that the material survived the destructive radiation previously thought to obliterate it to fall onto the large stars, echoing the process followed by smaller stellar objects.
"How accretion disks can survive around these massive stars is still a mystery," Caratti o Garatti said in the statement.
The disk that produces the fireworks makes star birth challenging to spot because the dense material lies between Earth and the star. Infrared telescopes such as Gemini can pierce through the cloud to spot what's happening at the center. Unlike their smaller siblings, the largest stars lie farther away from the sun, adding to the difficulty. And, compared to stars like the sun, the birth of massive stars is brief, lasting only about 100,000 years, according to Caratti o Garatti. In contrast, smaller stars like the sun can take hundreds of times longer to form.
"When we study the formation of higher-mass stars, it's like watching a time-lapse movie when compared to less-massive stars," Caratti o Garatti said. "Although the process for massive stars is fast and furious, it still takes tens of thousands of years."
Previous studies suggested that outbursts around other stars last only a few years. The team estimated that the burst they studied started about 16 months ago, and it is continuing to release energy weakly today, they said.
"While this research presents the strongest case yet for similar formation processes for low- and high-mass stars, there is still a lot to understand — especially whether planets can form in the same way around stars at both ends of the mass spectrum," team member Bringfried Stecklum, an astronomer at the Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg in Germany, said in the statement.
The suncould be the star of some interstellar Clearasil commercial right now, because there’s barely a spot on it. According to NASA, our nearest star is looking so fresh and clean because it hit its lowest level of solar activity since 2011 — almost exactly five years ago.
On Monday, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory posted a video of our squeaky-clean sun, and explained that it was on its way to solar minimum, a time in the sun’s roughly 11-year solar cycle when there are almost no sunspots. NASA describes it as a “pendulum-like pattern,” and notes that there have been very, very few sunspots over the past “several days.”
The last time the sun was this spotless was in 2011 in mid-November, during a stretch that lasted from the 14th to the 18th. A few years after that, the sun reached its most-recent peak of solar activity in early 2014.
NASA says the number of sunspots — normal, temporary blemishes on the star’s surface as a result of reduced surface temperature in that area — has been declining faster than they expected, though it doesn’t appear that the quicker rate will move up the solar cycle timeline. The sun is still expected to hit its true solar minimum in 2021.
The Sun is lookin' good.
Just because the sun is spot-free now, and headed towards an even cleaner future, doesn’t mean there won’t be some sunspot breakouts before then. In fact, they might be sprouting up with a vengeance. “No doubt more and larger sunspots will inevitably appear, but we’ll just have to wait and see,” NASA wrote in its blog post.
When T.S. Eliot wrote that, he was considering the end of WWI and the dissolution of his marriage and the Treaty of Versailles, he was not (consciously at least) contemplating physics-based simulator. But he almost certainly would have been enamored of the visual poetry that Universe Sandbox2puts on offer. It’s a worlds-building game, an attempt to take the Sim genre to its logical conclusion, but it’s also a way to craft a personal vision for theend of Earth. And it is a profound reminder that we exist at the mercy of larger forces.
“This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.”
The lifelike simulator allows users to inject carbon dioxide into Mars’ atmosphere to try to make life or reenact the Big Bang, or, and this feels so inevitable, crash shit into Earth to see what happens.
To describe the simulated destruction of Earth as satisfying is to undersell the delight of a child with a magnifying glass and some plastic soldiers. Or a skilled Mortal Kombatant given the go ahead to “Finish Him.” Here’s how it might go down if it was me, not God (or whatever), in charge….
Despite being extremely unlikely, the scenario that immediately springs to mindis the collision of Earth and the Moon. It’s a visit that would not end well for humanity.
Beyond being immediately catastrophic, the collision would fundamentally alter the earth’s rotation, as this GIF demonstrates. Consequently, every extant ecosystem would have its weather changed. Time, indeed, might run backwards. (Sure, but would broken coffee cups come back together?)
Roughly 17 hours from impact, the release of energy from impact has increased Earth’s surface temperature to 1657 degrees Celsius, according to the physics simulator (which allows you to track surface conditions of your experiments, including atmospheric measurements).
Earth’s a goner….
A similar possibility: Mars gets hit and pieces from that detonation rocket into Earth’s atmosphere….
Predictably, this is no better a scenario for Earth’s chances than contact by the Moon. Surface temperature of the Earth about 12 hours after impact is actually hotter, 2205 degrees Fahrenheit, and the result doesn’t look much more liveable than the post-Moon impact world.
Fortunately, that’s still pretty unlikely.
The luminosity of the Sun is a function of both its size (measured by radius) and the surface temperature. Astronomers suppose the Sun’s luminosity will increase by 1% every 100 million years.
A projection of the Earth after 1.5 billion years have passed and the Sun’s luminosity has increased by 15% shows things already getting hot:
The most widely-agreed-upon endpoint for Earth as a life-sustaining force (all other disaster scenarios notwithstanding) is the increasing luminosity of the Sun, which is expected to make Earth so hot as to be entirely unlivable in three billion years.
An analysis of the Earth at this point reveals a surface temperature of 101.9 degrees celsius, or just past the boiling point of water — consistent with projections that one of the first things to disappear from late-stage Earth will be the oceans.
The surface temperature of the earth has more than tripled, to 376 degrees Celsius—according to the simulation—while the Sun’s radius has expanded from the current 696,300 km to 702,020 km. This is consistent with predictions that at the three billion year point, Earth’s temperature will resemble Venus’s (with a present temperature of 462 degrees celsius)….
Another well-known end times prediction from scientists states that our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the nearest galaxy, Andromeda, will collide in about 4 billion years.
Supposing that we’ve already found a way to get off the burning rock Earth will have become and colonize Mars or a planet further on, scientists speculate that the merging galaxies will make life difficult by ejecting our Solar System into outer space or, at minimum, moving us further from the galactic core.
The goods news is that we probably won’t hit anything. Scientists actually expect this interaction to feature few real collisions because the amount of space between celestial bodies is vast. Still, things get iffy when supermassive black holes are in play.
Universe Sandbox2 is like a physics lesson on the ultimate meaninglessness of life. Perhaps the most nihilistic game on the market, it serves as a stark reminder that the Trump presidency will be nothing more than a galactic hiccup — barely worth worrying about at all.
Every high school physics student can ramble this off by memory: According to Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, the speed of light is always the same; therefore the laws of physics exist and behave the same everywhere in the universe.
For a pair of physicists, that century-old notion simply reads: Challenge Accepted. João Magueijo from Imperial College London and Niayesh Afshordi of the Perimeter Institute in Canada proposed a new experiment proving Einstein wrong and demonstrating that the speed of light actually isn’t a constant. The pair thinks light may have moved faster in the past, around the time of Big Bang, and that it’s actually slowed down since.
The speed of light is an idea that scientists have pondered since the time of Aristotle, but it was Einstein who really gave this concept context for the modern era of physics with his infamous Theory of General Relativity. The assumption that the speed of light is a constant has been a proximal way to also assume the universe operates uniformly.
If the speed of light isn’t constant, however, it throws even the most basic laws of physics into question.
Magueijo and Afshordi think the speed of light might have been different in an infant universe that exhibited a more lumpy density. Historically, this was explained by inflation theory the universe rapidly expanded before slowing down and normalizing out to its current rate of growth. But if the speed of light was affected by this lumpiness, then perhaps it hasn’t been able to reach the edges of the ever-expanding universe and smooth things over yet.
The pair think the speed of light used to be faster than it is today and helped bridge the fringes of the universe with the insides. As the universe evened out and became more homogenous, the speed of light dropped. But if the edges of the universe are still composed of clumped up densities, they could facilitate a faster-than-expected speed of light.
This is all pretty fascinating, but it raises the more critical question: Should we even care? If Einstein is wrong, and the speed of light isn’t a constant, what exactly would that have to do with what we know about the universe?
In practical terms, obviously, this means nothing. The speed of light, where we are in the universe, will be basically the same for as long as the human species exists. We are nowhere near the point where we can develop modes of travel that rival the speed of light (although we are trying).
If that ever happens, then we might have reason to better understand the speed of light. If we master interstellar travel, that would give humans the operate to travel out to regions of the universe that possess lumpy densities. If we have spaceships that can move at the speed of light or even faster, then we’ll need to know what might happen to them should we venture out to those places where the laws of physics as we know them no longer function as we know them.
And that raises perhaps the most important ramification behind a variable speed of light. It throws everything we know about the physical world into disarray. If our most basic natural laws suddenly have exceptions, then everything has an exception, doesn’t it? Scientific research may feel like it has amounted to very little.
But a complete upheaval of our knowledge of physics would be equal parts fascinating and discouraging. Yes, we should care if Einstein was wrong about the speed of light, because the effects on how we investigate physics might not even be comprehensible to us at this point in time. And all this speculation is moot if Magueijo’s and Afshordi’s experiment can’t support their hypothesis. We’ll have to wait impatiently to see exactly what the pair find. They might be totally wrong. But if they’re not, the scientific community will have to come to grips with a world they actually know nothing about.
Massive Ice Reservoir on Mars Could Keep Settlers Alive
Massive Ice Reservoir on Mars Could Keep Settlers Alive
By Ian O'Neill, Seeker
Credit: ESA
Beyond Earth, Mars is the most habitable planet in the solar system — but that doesn't mean we can simply move there and expect to live off the land.
Though the surface of Mars is more barren (and a lot more toxic) than the most arid desert on Earth, NASA has uncovered a vast underground supply of water ice that may, someday, be an oasis for future Mars explorers.
Key to our future Mars settlers' survival will be the utilization of resources already on the Red Planet, so the necessity of landing future Mars explorers near a known water resource is a no-brainer. Water isn't only a requirement for keeping astronauts alive, it's needed for fuel production and would sustain any burgeoning Martian agriculture. Put simply, unless we find Mars water and understand how to access it, our Mars colonization dreams are over. But the discovery of a vast reservoir of subsurface water ice by an orbiting NASA Mars satellite could represent a game-changer for the future of Mars colonization.
"This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice," said Jack Holt, of the University of Texas, in a statement.
The deposit was found beneath the famous Utopia Planitia, the Martian plain where NASA's Viking 2 robotic lander set down in 1976. Using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's ground-penetrating Shallow Radar (SHARAD), researchers discovered the huge slab of ice, ranging from 260 feet (80 meters) to 560 feet (170 meters) thick covering an area larger than the state of New Mexico. The deposit is 50-85 percent water ice mixed with dust and rocks.
Utopia is located halfway between Mars' north pole and equator, a region where water ice cannot currently persist on the surface. It is thought that the ice accumulated in the location when the planet was a lot more tilted than it is now. The Red Planet's tilt varies wildly over the course of its approximate 120,000 year cycles; its current axial tilt is around 25 degrees, but it can tilt as much as 60 degrees. This wild range causes significant climatic changes that forced the formation of ice from the poles to lower latitudes in the past.
"This deposit probably formed as snowfall accumulating into an ice sheet mixed with dust during a period in Mars history when the planet's axis was more tilted than it is today," said Cassie Stuurman, of the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas, Austin, and lead author of a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The subsurface reservoir at Utopia represents a climatic record of these climatic shifts, protected by a 1-10-meter-thick layer of Mars rock and regolith — Martian "soil" which is composed of the ground-up dusty remains of eons of meteorite impacts. This thin surface layer means the first human Mars explorers could relatively easily drill into the water ice deposit, either mining chunks of water ice for processing, or directly heating the layer and pumping out liquid water.
Of course, the presence of water ice will lead to the speculation of the possibility of Mars life. Could there have been pockets of slushy liquid water underground that allowed microbial life gain a foothold?
"Where water ice has been around for a long time, we just don't know whether there could have been enough liquid water at some point for supporting microbial life," Holt added.
Utopia has long been suspected as a location where water ice is hiding. Polygonal surface features that are commonly seen in the Canadian Arctic are an indicator of subsurface ice are also present in Utopia. However, this is the first time that the presence of subsurface ice has been confirmed in the region. There is also evidence of ancient river channels in the region (pictured top) where it is thought that subsurface ice melted and flowed.
"The ice deposits in Utopia Planitia aren't just an exploration resource, they're also one of the most accessible climate change records on Mars," said co-author Joe Levy of the University of Texas. "We don't understand fully why ice has built up in some areas of the Martian surface and not in others. Sampling and using this ice with a future mission could help keep astronauts alive, while also helping them unlock the secrets of Martian ice ages."
Massive Ice Reservoir on Mars Could Keep Settlers Alive
Massive Ice Reservoir on Mars Could Keep Settlers Alive
By Ian O'Neill, Seeker
Credit: ESA
Beyond Earth, Mars is the most habitable planet in the solar system — but that doesn't mean we can simply move there and expect to live off the land.
Though the surface of Mars is more barren (and a lot more toxic) than the most arid desert on Earth, NASA has uncovered a vast underground supply of water ice that may, someday, be an oasis for future Mars explorers.
Key to our future Mars settlers' survival will be the utilization of resources already on the Red Planet, so the necessity of landing future Mars explorers near a known water resource is a no-brainer. Water isn't only a requirement for keeping astronauts alive, it's needed for fuel production and would sustain any burgeoning Martian agriculture. Put simply, unless we find Mars water and understand how to access it, our Mars colonization dreams are over. But the discovery of a vast reservoir of subsurface water ice by an orbiting NASA Mars satellite could represent a game-changer for the future of Mars colonization.
The European Southern Observatory’sVery Large Telescopemight have discovered the first evidence of something called “vacuum birefringence,” a mysterious quantum property scientists have been struggling to observe since it was first predicted more than 80 years ago. The findings, reported Wednesday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, illustrate an intense polarization of light around a dense, strongly magnetized neutron star — which researchers say is convincing evidence of the elusive, bizarre quantum effect.
Vacuum birefringence is a tricky thing to observe. Basically, astronomers think that a region of space with really, really ridiculously strong magnetic fields could actually alter the light that passes through it, like a prism — which usually means that a neutron star is involved.
Neutron stars are formidable things — they’re whats left from the core of an enormous star, exponentially bigger than our own, after it’s gone supernova and exploded. According to ESO, this means the stars’ magnetic fields are literally billions of times stronger than that of our own sun, which in turn transforms the nature of the empty space around them, making it no longer a true vacuum, and into a kind of prism.
Light polarisation around a neutron star.
Vacuum birefringence was first predicted in the 1930s by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg and his colleague Hans Heinrich Euler. While we’ve known that neutron stars are among the best places to look for the it, efforts to detect it never turned up anything of consequence until the team led by Italian physicist Roberto Mignani used the VLT to study RX J1856.5-3754, one of the neutron stars in a group called the Magnificent Seven. It’s the faintest celestial object ever measured in this way, and the researchers say the degree of linear polarization they observed makes vacuum birefringence the likely explanation.
“The high linear polarisation that we measured with the VLT cant be easily explained by our models unless the vacuum birefringence effects predicted by QED are included,” Mignani said in a news release.
QED is quantum electrodynamics, the quantum theory that photons and charged particles jump around and vanish, rather than remaining constant. In these spaces, extremely strong magnetic fields — like what’s being generated by RX J1856.5-3754 — can affect light polarization. The researchers believe findings like this open the door for not just future discoveries of vacuum birefringence, but also underscore the power of the VLT to potentially measure X-ray wavelengths.
The VLT is one of the most powerful telescopes in the world, but for future neutron star exploration the researchers already have their eye on the next generation of telescopes - namely, the ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope. Which, given the name, does seem like the logical choice.
Today we take a look at the top 5 mysterious alien and UFO sightings that have been caught on tape. This video was made in collaboration with FindingUFO and all 5 of these mysterious UFO sightings were from their channel. From a UFO caught on tape in front of a super moon to a UFO caught on camera flying under a drone, there have been some incredible instances in which UFOs and presumably aliens have been caught on tape.
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Our universe is a mysterious one. It is not currently accepted by general science that aliens have been visited Earth, however these top 5 videos of UFOs claim to show real life alien ships and they present evidence of the visitation of extraterrestrials. What do you think? Have aliens visited Earth? Has the alien invasion already begun?
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Over the last two and a half months, I have experienced two sightings on the gold coast and would like to communicate with others either here or elsewhere who may have seen the same thing.
The first sighting occured about two and a half months at about 10.15pm on a sunday night. I was on my front patio grabbing some fresh air, which faces an easterley direction, when a bright orange light caught my attention, coming out of the south. It appeared to be travelling at about 200-250 km’s an hr., at an elevation of approx 3000-4000 ft.
At first I thought it was an aircraft on fire, but as it got closer it appeared to be a round shape, with no discernible fueslage, no cabin lights, no nav lights, no rotors of any kind, and the colour was an incredibly bright orange, so bright in fact, that it reflected off the cloud bank directly behind it. Also I must stress that there was no sound whatsover from the ‘craft’ and also that it was a very quiet night with no wind. The area I live in is a very quiet residential suburb. It continued in a northerly direction until it became obvious that it was slowing down and in fact, it came to a complete stop. There was no hovering or sideways motion at this point as a helicopter might do, it stopped at a precise point and stayed there for about four or five minutes before it slowly took off again in a northerly direction and eventually disappeared.
The second sighting occurred about three weeks ago. I was sitting in my lounge room watching t.v. when I happened to look out my window, which faces a northerley direction, and coming out of the northern sky was an incredibly bright light, travellin at a speed a lot faster than the original object and a lot brighter. I called out to my wife, ‘it’s back again’, and we both ran out onto the front porch as the object came closer. as we both watched, the object slowed down and came to a complete stop in the sky, at a point very close to where the first object had stopped. the object seemed to be a lot closer than the first sighting, and again , the light was incredibly bright, this time however, it actually appeared to be a type of flame and actually appeared to be moving around the craft as a flame might move around in a light wind.
Unfortunately it came to a stop in such a position that a tree in my front yard stopped me getting a photograph of it. Again, it stopped for about four minutes, and waiting for it to move again, camera at the ready, we both observed it start to move very slowly, but unfortunately in a northerly direction. by the time I ran downstairs and out into the street, the object had dimmed greatly and even though I took a photo I doubt it would reveal anything.
As we both watched it move off into the northern sky, we were both amazed to see something fall off the craft, or possibly thrown out, which fell to earth at terminal speed and definitely appeared to be on fire. There were definitely flames and apparent burning debris coming from the falling object, and kept burning until it got closer to the surface, when it appeared to be extinguished. It definitely would have been over open ocean by this stage, somewhere north of Surfer’s and possibly near North Stradbroke or Moreton island.
MYSTERIOUS BOX CONTAINS DETAILED DRAWINGS OF WINGED ALIENS
A box has been found containing detailed drawings of alien beings, an unidentified flying object, and transcripts exploring the link between alien encounters and ancient religions. A user on Imgur posted a series of photos showing the contents of an old wooden box.
It appears to have belonged to a man named Daniel J. Christainsen who lived in Florida but was a native of the Netherlands. He may have been a WWII veteran—the box contained a blank paper with the Veterans Administration Medical Center header. He draws alien beings and describes them: “Every one had four faces and every one had four wings.” It is unclear whether his drawings relate to his own experiences or whether they are depictions of historical accounts
The musty box contains clues, but also raises many questions—it’s a mystery.
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Incredible UFO Sighting in St. Martin (With Real UFO Footage), Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Incredible UFO Sighting in St. Martin (With Real UFO Footage), Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 29, 2016 Location of sighting: St. Martin island Here is a rare island sighing by a surfer at St. Martin island. Its a UFO in the shape of a thick half disk. The wind sound very powerful, and yet this UFO is just hovering above him with pulsating lights. I just wish he had more footage of it. Only the last minute of the video has the sighting. Just goes to show, that UFOs come out in all kinds of weather. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
As a surfer, Jason had been living on the island of St. Martin in the caribbean in search of warm water waves. Over several days, he had a stretch of incredible UFO sightings. On one occasion, he took his iPad to the beach and did his best on getting actual evidence. The real authentic UFO footage is a bright light, hovering over the ocean pulsating. Clearly, it's not a plane (you'll see it zoomed in) and yet, it doesn't resemble a star. In this video, we show actual proof - video evidence of the UFO captured by Jason, along with him detailing the footage. Also, he discusses another incredible sighting he had just days after capturing this footage. You won't believe Jason's unreal UFO encounter!
How To Find An Alien Space Station On Google Sky Map. Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
How To Find An Alien Space Station On Google Sky Map. Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Nov 30, 2016 Location of discovery: Between IC 2031 and NGC 1475 1st method used: Google Sky map 2nd method used:Sky-Map.org Coordinates: 03 57 08.63,-07 11 26.2 While checking out Google sky I noticed something interesting. That every once in a while there was an unusual structure in space. These structures are usually balance and geometrical in shape, but sometimes rounded, with metallic tint to them. This particular one is cube, made up of smaller areas that are also cubes. Google Sky map was not as clear as I wanted, so I went to Sky-Map.org and found a similar sky map, but the quality of the detail is more focused. These are the photos above. Below are the photos from Google sky. The size of this space station is unknown since Google ruler is inaccurate in the sky version. However it looks Earth size or bigger in my opinion. Scott C. Waring Below are Google sky photos. Below the blue Base is another metallic gold base.
Watch Large Group Of UFOs Leaving From The Surface Of The Moon
Watch Large Group Of UFOs Leaving From The Surface Of The Moon
A video showing multiple tiny bead-like structures leaving the Moon’s bottom surface has received thousands of views and mixed reactions. The so-called large group of UFOs leaving the Moon looks very luminous.
Despite being considered as deceptive, many viewers still believe the video shows aliens departing from the surface of the Moon.
One viewer posted that those were extraterrestrial beings wanting to establish New World Order, but they lost hope and decided to go home because Donald Trump won the election.
Talia Adagio1 added that they looked like they were landing instead of leaving as there was the same effect in reverse on the right side.
Even former hacker Gary McKinnon has joined the debate saying that the video doesn’t show alien activity, but just an optical illusion.
He said that as more people get better telescopes more footage of objects leaving the moon being observed. However, this particular video looked like far too many, Gary explained. He concluded that it must be visual artifacting.
Photographer John Biondo agreed to Gary saying that the video does not show UFOs, but a phenomenon often seen at the Moon’s edge. John explained that the event is called Chromatic Aberration, which can also be seen more if the lens is out of focus, such as the video in question.
Another viewer said that it was just an optical illusion as a result of the high air humidity and distorted light from the moon or reflected bright objects in the distance on the earth.
Others are convinced the video shows alien UFOs. They explained that seeing fleets of UFOs in orbit or move around the moon horizon can happen more often if the edge of the moon is observed well enough.
Some UFO hunters noted that many Apollo astronauts have claimed they saw UFOs on and near the moon. They suggested that these space objects are a form of protection from future moon landing missions. They explained that the Earth’s natural satellite might be owned by an alien species that’s not keen on sharing.
Hundreds of People See Fleet Of UFOs In Multiple Cities Across Turkey
Hundreds of People See Fleet Of UFOs In Multiple Cities Across Turkey
A group of UFOs observed in the sky above Turkey and “#ufoattacktoturkey” trended on Twitter as sky watchers posted strange videos on the social media platform.
The fleet of UFOs composed of four to five lights was seen over households across the country.
A video of the event also posted to YouTube channel SecureTeam10. It has been viewed thousands of times in less than 24 hours.
The video channel said that the fleet of unidentified lights was spotted in several cities all over the country of Turkey, causing many people to panic.
At one point on November 27, the channel claimed the hashtag became the number one trending topic in the world.
Twitter users have left equally baffled by the images.
One user commented that it is a very compelling stuff as many photos were being posted.
Another one wrote UFO invasion happening in Turkey as unidentified flying objects were witnessed in many cities of the country.
Other users expressed fear and hoped that the entire thing was a joke.
No official confirmation yet on the strange lights, but there were suggestions that they could be drones.
UFO Researchers Spot Mysterious Object On A Comet’s Surface
UFO Researchers Spot Mysterious Object On A Comet’s Surface
An object that resembles a stealth fighter jet has been noticed on a comet in images snapped by a spaceship.
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Rosetta space probe to investigate Comet P67. It announced they had ended the mission of the lander in September.
Now, alien hunters claim the space probe came across alien technology on the ball of rock before the mission ended.
The discovery was made public by prolific UFO hunters who posted pictures from the Rosetta. They said that craft has a tail fin like a plane and sides similar to a stealth fighter jet.
The alien researchers believe that the so-called UFO on the rock is not part of the comet’s surface because of the object’s white color.
They speculated that the ESA used their Rosetta lander to take closer photos of the mysterious object. They think the ESA announcement of ending their mission because the lander no longer responds is a ruse to make the public believe.
They explained that ESA continues their mission but this time for extraterrestrial technology that can be retrieved and used, like the one in the photo.
Hundreds Of People Spot A UFO Across Florida Skies
Hundreds Of People Spot A UFO Across Florida Skies
More than a hundred people witnessed a massive, mysterious object flying across the sky from West to Florida Panhandle at around 11 pm on November 23. The unidentified flying object (UFO), according to the witnesses on Florida’s western coast, looked like a fireball. People living in the area thought aliens invaded them after seeing the strange bright light in the night sky.
Many people from Key West to the Florida Panhandle, who observed the UFO, reported the strange sighting to the local authorities as alien invasion speculation unfolded.
Meteorologist Josh Stone, who works in ABC7, described the light as bright as the sun with a little rumbling after it disappeared. Josh claimed that the North Point Police Department even caught the unusual event on their dashboard cameras.
Some residents have concluded that the rare fireball was a UFO controlled by space aliens. It seemed like a lot of paranoia in social media as some were declaring it was indeed an alien invasion.
Unidentified flying object (UFO) is generally defined as any apparent anomaly or event in the sky that can’t be identified as known phenomenon or object. However, sometimes a UFO becomes identifiable because of the low quality of evidence.
Lookin' Good, Mars! ExoMars' First High-Res Photos Are Incredible
Lookin' Good, Mars! ExoMars' First High-Res Photos Are Incredible
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
Behold! The European Space Agency's new Mars orbiter just sent back its first high-resolution images of the Red Planet, and the view is amazing.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) arrived at Mars on Oct. 19, when its companion spacecraft Schiaparelli crash-landed on the planet's surface. Since then, TGO has been circling Mars, testing out its machinery, and taking spectacularly sharp pictures of the landscape using its Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS). ESA stitched together the best of these photos in a cool new flyover video.
"The first images we received are absolutely spectacular ― and it was only meant to be a test," Nicolas Thomas, CaSSIS team leader at the University of Bern's Center of Space and Habitability, said in a statement. [Photos: Europe's ExoMars Missions to Mars in Pictures]
Image of a 0.9 mile-size (1.4 kilometers) crater (left-center) on the rim of a larger crater near the Mars equator. It was acquired at 7.2 meters/pixel by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) aboard the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/ExoMars/CaSSIS/UniBE
These first images allowed ESA to test the camera's color- and stereo-imaging capabilities, which would allow CaSSIS to build 3D maps of the Martian surface using measurements with sound waves.
Though the color-imaging equipment was functioning as planned, the first photos appear black and white. That's because the areas photographed are dusty ― volcanic without much color to be seen. "We will have to wait a little until something colorful passes under the spacecraft," Thomas said.
The first stereo reconstruction of a small area in Noctis Labyrinthus on Mars, created by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) aboard the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. The image gives an altitude map of the region with a resolution of less than 65 feet (20 meters).
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/ExoMars/CaSSIS/UniBE
TGO is currently orbiting Mars once every four days in a highly elliptical path. At its closest, the spacecraft flies within 155 miles (250 kilometers) of the ground. These close approaches are happening quickly before the orbiter raises its altitude to about 62,000 miles (100,000 km).
CaSSIS was up and running for two of these approaches during its testing phase and returned a total of 11 images. ESA then combined some of the new photos in the video above to simulate a flyover of Hebes Chasma, a 190-mile-long (310 km) canyon in the Martian surface.
"We saw Hebes Chasma at 2.8 meters per pixel," said Thomas. "That’s a bit like flying over Bern at 15,000 kilometers [9,300 miles] per hour and simultaneously getting sharp pictures of cars in Zürich."
A structure called Arsia Chasmata on the flanks of one of the large Martian volcanoes, Arsia Mons. This view was created by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) aboard the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. The width of the image is around 16 miles (25 kilometers). The formation is volcanic in origin, and pit craters are visible.
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/ExoMars/CaSSIS/UniBE
After the botched landing of the Schiaparelli spacecraft in October, pressures have been high for the ExoMars team. "A lot of public attention has been on the failed landing of Schiaparelli, but TGO has been working really well, so we have been extremely busy in the past month," Thomas said.
"We were quite nervous but it looks as though almost everything functioned as we planned it. The resulting images are really sharp," Antoine Pommerol, a CaSSIS co-investigator at the Center of Space and Habitability in Bern, said in the same statement.
For the next few months, the team will continue to prepare CaSSIS for its prime mission. "The test was very successful but we have identified a couple of things that need to be improved in the onboard software and in the ground post-processing," Thomas said.
TGO will spend nine to 12 months "aerobraking," or slowing down to round out its elliptical orbit. Eventually, the orbiter will circle the planet at a constant altitude of about 250 miles (400 km). Its primary science mission is scheduled to begin by the end of 2017. Then TGO will begin studying gases in the Martian atmosphere.
For a generation, the Hubble Space Telescope has been exposing the universe's deepest, darkest secrets. From imaging the volcanoes of Jupiter's moon Io, to watching the dramatic breakup of comets, imaging baby galaxies, and helping to nail down the universe's age, its data has been instrumental in today's understanding of the cosmos near and far.
But it's an old telescope, unmaintained since the last space shuttle mission visited in 2009. While the observatory is in excellent health today, it's expected to stop collecting data sometime in the 2020s. What will we lose when the telescope finally dies?
NASA is quick to point out that the James Webb Space Telescope, expected to launch in 2018, will enhance Hubble's capabilities in many ways. But for the telescope's higher resolution and ability to peer back to the very early days of the universe, there is one key thing it doesn't have: ultraviolet capabilities. (It also will lack some of Hubble's fine spectral resolution, and ability to observe a special spectral line called H-alpha that is useful for nebulae and stars.)
Astronomers are being urged to submit as many UV proposals to Hubble as possible because once it dies, there are no immediate plans to launch a successor. (Astronomers could then pull from the archive as needed in future decades.) Earth's atmosphere filters out UV, which is great for protecting life, but bad for UV astronomy, so it needs to be done from space. Astronomers say they don't think another UV telescope will fly until the 2030s, at the earliest.
"For example, one of the big topics that we're going to look at in star and planet formation is the accretion of gas on to young, newly forming stars or planets," said Adam Kraus, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin. He explained that as gas falls on to budding stars and planets, they radiate most of their energy in the blue and ultraviolet wavelengths. Webb won't be able to see this as Hubble does, he told Seeker.
The James Webb Space Telescope (pictured here during a mirror inspection) will enhance Hubble's observations in many areas, but it lacks in ultraviolet capabilities.
Credit: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham
NASA's Jane Rigby, the deputy project scientist for Webb's operations, points out that the new telescope is designed to do science that Hubble can't. Webb has seven times more collecting area and also works at near absolute zero (the coldest temperature possible). Hubble works at room temperature, so it can't see as well in the infrared. Webb will see into dusty places where stars are forming, or galaxies that have been deeply "redshifted" (with spectral lines moving towards the red end of the spectrum) due to cosmic expansion.
Luckily for astronomers, it's expected that Hubble's and Webb's time in space will overlap. Hubble has a rich archive of observations that Webb could spend time looking at, including the famous "deep fields" of young galaxies. This type of work will be Webb's "bread and butter", Rigby said.
There's also the potential to make stereoscopic or "3D" images of several objects, since Hubble (in low Earth orbit) will be a million miles away from Webb, further out in space. At the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which manages Hubble observations, some astronomers suggest images could be taken of nearby objects.
"You could see Saturn's rings sticking out of the page, Mars looking like a globe, or Jupiter and its moons moving," Joel Green, a project scientist at STScI, told Seeker. "There's a few scientific reasons, too. You might want to look at how cloud structures change in 3D, or how an impact happens in 3D."
Another possibility, he added, would be looking at a star explosion (or supernova) and from the distance between the telescopes, finding out where the explosion is coming from and examining certain features of the explosion.
Hubble's ultraviolet capabilities are not replicated in any telescope now, or in the near future. Here, possible water plumes on Europa (disclosed earlier this year) are imaged using Hubble's ultraviolet filters.
Credit: NASA/ESA/W. Sparks (STScI)/USGS Astrogeology Science Center
Other observatories are planned after Webb. One is the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), which would use Hubble-class hardware that has a wider field of view. Its specialty would be dark energy and exoplanets. Another is the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which would look at planets passing in front of the brightest stars in our sky. These likely would get going in the 2020s, if funding for the missions is fully approved.
But the next generation is still being worked out. NASA draws heavily from the National Science Foundation's Decadal Survey when planning its missions. Right now, proposals are being formulated to present to members of the next decadal survey, which will be released in 2020.
This will be the battleground for where UV astronomy is determined for the near future. NASA is planning to do up to four mission concept studies to present for the 2020 Decadal Survey, including a mission called the Large Ultraviolet/Optical/Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR). As the name implies, it's supposed to be capable of observing in several wavelengths.
If it flies, it would examine protoplanetary disks, look for and image black holes, map the Milky Way and even look at nearby exoplanet atmospheres for signs of habitability. But it is competing against several other mission concepts, including one focused on infrared (Far-IR Surveyor), one for X-rays (X-ray surveyor) and a more modest UV and optical observer called HabEx. HabEx may use a special, separate shield to filter out a star's light for direct planet observations, which would be a first in astronomy.
An artist's concept of the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission, which is still on the drawing board and not approved for funding. This is a possible successor to some of Hubble's capabilities, on top of the current James Webb Space Telescope.
Credit: JPL/NASA
"We're very hopeful that the national community in 2020 will fund one of these things and go forward," said Karl Stapelfeldt, the chief scientist of NASA's exoplanet science program. The aim is not only to be able to look at Earth-like planets around nearby stars, he said, but to study the rest of the universe as well.
There are other UV telescopes being proposed, such as Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope or ATLAST (which was considered in the last decadal survey) and the High Definition Space Telescope (HDST). This makes for a dizzying array of options and ideas for anybody trying to think ahead for the next generation of space telescopes.
While this is all being discussed, however, Webb is getting ready for launch. NASA's Rigby said she is greatly looking forward to the science that the telescope will provide.
"When you look the way Webb is designed, it is building on the legacy of Hubble," she said. "It's very much being built to do the things Hubble can't, because the things Hubble can do it's done so exquisitely... it's optimized in a totally different direction from Hubble, because Hubble has given us a legacy over 25 years within the range of its capabilities."
Video – Native American Prophecies, UFO’s And The Coming Of A Messiah - PART I
Video – Native American Prophecies, UFO’s And The Coming Of A Messiah - PART I
The following article was inspired by a dialogue between three groups of people:
1) researchers into the UFO and crop circle activity, which has drawn increasing attention in recent years,
2) Native Americans, whose prophecies point to the current times as being a critical turning point for humanity, and
3) A growing body of people whose spiritual teachings predict the return of a Great Teacher/Messiah/Buddha/Elder Brother at this time.
Here we attempt to correlate their ideas, postulating that there may be a unifying theme between them, and that many of the ‘unexplainable’ phenomena that are now happening daily in our world — spontaneous healings, weeping and bleeding statues, miracle waters, milk drinking statues, visionary experiences, and extraterrestrial activity — are signs that humankind is on the verge of a tremendous evolutionary advance — one that will be aided by the ‘angels’ and ‘guardians’ who some claim are always with us, protecting our earth and guiding our every step.
Native Prophets of the Americas
Until recent years it has been a controversial step for native leaders to publish their prophecies, but many are now coming forward because the prophecies themselves contain a directive to go out and warn the world when certain signs appear. Signs such as the ‘rain of fire’ and ‘gourd of ashes’ (atomic warfare) and the ‘shaking of the earth’ (earthquakes) are seen as indications that it is time.
There are parallel themes in many of the prophecies:
1) We are entering a time of purification and can expect to witness chaos and destruction in all the kingdoms of nature.
2) It is a time for the reuniting of the races. Barriers of religion and nationality will begin to fall as all people realize their essential unity.
3) We must heal the damage done to Mother Earth, the source of life, and recognize that all living things are endowed with spirit.
4) In the coming times we will see the return of one or more Great Teachers who will guide us into the future.
Quetzalcoatl’s Promise
Through the legends of the native peoples of North and South America, there runs a recurring thread — the tale of a Great White Teacher who came in ancient times to free the people from slavery, war, and human sacrifice. He showed them instead, a way of peace, dignity and brotherhood. He brought prosperity to the poor tribes by introducing agricultural methods and ways of self sufficiency. He renovated their patterns of worship, and taught them a special reverence for Venus, the Morning Star, the object of His daily meditations.
From Alaska to the tip of South America His story can be found. His names were many: Tah-co-pah, the Healer; Ee-me-shee, the Wind God; Chee-zoos, God of the dawn light. Today He is best remembered as Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, or Kukulcan. His image graces the resurrected pyramids and temples throughout these lands. The Prophet was bearded, with long hair, and wore white flowing robes. Wherever He went, He trained 12 disciples to carry on His work after His departure.
Before He departed He gave a prophecy — that the cultures He had inspired would eventually fall to the tragedy of greed and war. The temples would be burned, the populations decimated. He warned His people to protect their sacred writings, and promised that He would Himself return to restore order and balance and to open again the pages of the ancient wisdom books. When He left, He traveled East, and it is from the East He promised to return.
Black Elk and Crazy Horse
Black Elk and Crazy Horse were leaders of the Lakota Sioux in the late 1800s when the US was decimating its native populations. Each had a vision of the future.
Black Elk saw that his people, after long years of destitution and death, would loose heart and the sacred hoop of his nation would be broken. But after seven generations he saw a vision of the nation being reunited and becoming part of the greater hoop of all the nations of the earth. At that time a great Prophet from the east would bring a message of hope to all people.
Crazy Horse’s vision also foretold the darkness that would descend on his people. He saw the coming of automobiles and airplanes and the tragic world wars of the modern era. But after the last war, he saw his people gradually awaken and begin to dance again, this time along with people of all colors, under the Sacred Tree of Life.
The Hopi’s — Waiting for Pahana
In 1948, Thomas Banyacya accepted the task of warning the world of the events foretold in the Hopi prophecies. The Hopi’s, he says, had been instructed to seek a “house of mica” (glass) that would stand on the eastern shore of Turtle Island (the US). The Hopi’s saw the UN building in New York as the house of mica. Beginning in 1949, they sought entry to its assembly to: 1) look for their True White Brother, 2) seek justice for Indian brothers and sisters and good people everywhere, and 3) warn leaders of the coming purification. In 1992 and again in 1993 they were able to deliver their prophecies.
Hopi legend speaks of the Pahana, or the True White Brother, who once lived with the people and would return in the time of Koyaanisquatsi, when the world was beset by fearful troubles and chaos. Then He would unite the broken tribes and reestablish balance and harmony.
Mayan Prophecy
Don Alejandro Oxlaj, a priest and seventh generation medicine man from Guatemala, calls the times we live in as “crucial for our future survival,” and hopes to alert the world to the momentous changes that he says are now occurring. As head of the Quiche Maya Elder Council, representing 21 Mayan regions, he is a wisdom keeper of the Mayan calendar and prophecies. He has received permission from the Council to publish, for the first time in 500 years, the Mayan prophecies.
Hunbatz Men is a Mayan daykeeper, an expert on theological and calendrical systems of the ancient Mayan civilization. He has published sacred teachings that were hidden at the time of the Spanish conquest. He speaks of Kukulcan and Quetzacoatl, not so much in light of an expected return, but rather in terms of the possibility in the coming times for each of us to attain His same exalted stage by treading the path of attaining knowledge.
White Buffalo Calf Woman of the Lakota
The Lakota Sioux tell of their Messiah, the White Buffalo Calf Woman, who came to the people in a time of great need. She brought the Sacred Pipe and established the foundation of their ritual and social life. When she left, she turned into a white buffalo, and promised to someday return. In 1992 a white buffalo calf, named Miracle, was born in Janestown, Wisconsin. This was considered a sign that the promise was fulfilled.
David Gehue, Canadian Mi’kmaq, says we are in the final stages of transition when “The Great Spirit takes the earth in both hands and shakes it violently.” He speaks of a mysterious person in olden times who “came from the rising sun and went to the setting sun.” He warned them of the coming of seven evil cycles when the great white monster “would disperse the people to lives of misery and destitution.” The mysterious brother said he would come back from the rising sun with a new spirit and power that would destroy the white monster. At that time the wisdom of the Elders would again be heeded and life restored to balance.
Jake Swamp of the Mohawk nation tells of the Peacemaker, Deganawida, who unified the tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy (an eastern group whose system of laws inspired the Constitution of the US.) The Peacemaker foresaw the events that would destroy the lives and culture of the Confederacy tribes, but predicted that in time there would be born many children who would heal the ancient wounds, and also a great Prophet, a World Uniter, who would renew the spirit of man in a way more worldwide and all-embracing than ever before in history.
Peruvian Prophecy High in the Peruvian Andes, at 17,000 feet, live a people known as the Q’ero, who fled to higher ground 500 years ago, at the coming of the conquest. Their prophecies have predicted that it is now time for the great mastay, the gathering of the peoples, and for the return of Pachacuti, the builder of Machu Picchu and the founder of the Inca Confederacy, whom they regard as their Messiah. His return to the world in the present era will be on a collective level.
UFOs
The following is a statement by Willaru Huayta, Peruvian Incan spiritual teacher, describing his thoughts about UFOs:
“The extraterrestrials are of the White Brotherhood from other planets….In South America there are still physical traces that give testimony to a time when we worked closely with our older brothers from other planets. In antiquity our ancestors — the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas — received visits from other worlds.
“The return of these ships at this time needs to be understood. We are on the eve of a great cosmic transition. They are here to assist us through this transition period. As the pace quickens during the next few years they will be making themselves known more and more through direct contact with individuals, both physically and non-physically. It is their mission to guide us safely through this transition by awakening our consciousness.”
The Hopi also claim a long standing relationship with the UFO extraterrestrials. Chief Dan Katchongva (now deceased) said of the UFOs: “We believe other planets are inhabited and that our prayers are heard there.” He connects their presence with the present purification their prophecies have described and with the return of the True White Brother.
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Video – Native American Prophecies, UFO’s And The Coming Of A Messiah - PART II
Video – Native American Prophecies, UFO’s And The Coming Of A Messiah - PART II
UFO researcher Paul Solem, who worked with Katchongva, describes their occupants in this way:
“There is no reason to fear these people. They are like the angels. They come from the planet Venus and they are here only to lend credence to prophecy, not to harm anyone.”
He says the saucer people look just like humans, but seem to be of an almost divine quality. They keep their hair cut neatly to the shoulders. Because of their fine qualities and the almost musical tone of their voices, it is difficult to tell male from female.
THE COMING OF MAITREYA
Since 1975 Benjamin Creme has traveled the world with a unique and singular message — that we are living in an era which will see the return to our everyday lives of highly evolved spiritual teachers. For the next 2,000 years, during the whole age of Aquarius, they will work and live among us, helping us find solutions to our world problems.
He claims this information came to him when he was approached, in 1959, by a spiritual personage whom he calls a Master of Wisdom, one of a group of over 60 Masters who oversee the evolution of our earth. The Master told him that the leader and teacher of this group, whose name is Maitreya, will, in the coming years, begin His mission as World Teacher for the Aquarian Age. He said that Maitreya is the fulfillment of the prophecies of all religions that predict the return of a Teacher in our day, and that not only Maitreya, but about 40 members of His hierarchical group will return along with Him in physical incarnation.
Maitreya’s concern in our modern world is that humanity learn the art of sharing. The present economic disparities that exist between the nations contain, He says, the seeds of a third World War. We must take the steps towards ensuring an adequate livestyle for all of earth’s inhabitants or face the awesome possibility of complete annihilation. If we do successfully make these changes (and He believes that we will), He promises that awaiting us in the future times is an age in which we will begin to express more fully the aspects of Love, Brotherhood, and world unity.
Creme claims that Maitreya has been living in the immigrant section of London since l977, and is quietly spreading His energies into the world until the time when He begins His public mission.
The following ideas are Creme’s commentary on some of the little understood occurrences in our world. Because he is in constant contact with a Master his comments may give us a view of these events from a spiritual perspective.They are offered, not in a dogmatic sense, but simply as possibilities, suggestions for thought, and left to the discrimination of the reader as to their merit and rationality.
The Christ of the Americas
Concerning the White God who worked among the cultural groups of the Western Hemisphere, Creme suggests that He was an incarnation of the Master Jesus, in a mission which took place in the 7th and 8th centuries AD. Maitreya’s connection with Jesus is that He is the entity who overshadowed the disciple Jesus from the baptism to the crucifixion. After His death in Palestine, Jesus was reincarnated as Apollonius of Tyana and, in His next incarnation, as the ‘Christ of the Americas’. He profoundly influenced the cultures of two continents.
UFOs — From Where Do They Come?
Creme says that all the UFO’s are from our own solar system, mainly from Venus and Mars, and “number in the thousands and even millions.” Every planet in our system is inhabited and each has a Spiritual Hierarchy, but because the inhabitants exist in etheric matter, they are invisible to human eyes. We have a very close affiliation with Venus because in our early evolution it was responsible for the implanting of the quality of mind or manas in humanity.
The spacecrafts also exist in etheric matter, and are normally invisible. We are able to see them because the pilots can lower the vibrational level of the ship. Creme calls them Space Brothers and claims they look similar to us because they belong to the human branch of evolution, which exists on all of the planets.
One beneficent service they perform is to counteract the effects of radiation released by our testing, chemical spills, and careless use of radioactive substances. They have ‘implosion’ devices which neutralize the effects, and without their help we would be in a very sad state.
Their activities in relation to earth are part of a preparation for the coming age, which is crucial for our evolution. What happens here affects not only our own planetary existence but that of the other planetary bodies in our system as well.
The physical manufacturing of the ships is a combined effort of the inhabitants of Venus and Mars, who, “have visited this planet for countless millennia and are very closely concerned with the externalization of our Spiritual Hierarchy into the world.” As Venus is the more highly advanced of the two, it offers the design. Mars, as the great ‘factory’ planet, actually manufactures them. They are made by a combination of thought and very high technology, far beyond anything we know about today.
Crop Circles
Creme says the crop circles are all created by UFOs and are closely connected with the work of the Hierarchy. The specific purpose of the circles is to recreate the ‘grid’ of the earth’s magnetic field on the physical plane. Each circle is a chakra, or vortex of magnetic energy. They are all ideograms and echo symbology used in the time of Atlantis. They “will become ‘batteries of energy’ for humanity in connection with a new energy source, part of the science of light which lies just ahead for humanity.” Most of them have been created in England to call attention of the world to the country where Maitreya has begun His mission, but they can be found all over the world. Miracles and Wonders
Mr. Creme says that allied to the crop circle activity are the various miraculous and visionary phenomena which are occurring worldwide. He claims that all are produced by the Masters, that “they are signs that we have come to the end of one era and the beginning of a new one, and that the Christ has returned to the world to inaugurate this new cycle. These signs are given to uphold people’s faith and hope in the future and in a spiritual basis to life, to keep them aware that we are in a world which is constantly changing, and that the days of miracles are not over. The miracles of the Bible, for example, and also of earlier times, are being repeated now daily, almost hourly, across the world. These events add up to very definite evidence to humanity that the time is nigh for the appearance of Maitreya, the Christ, openly in the world.”
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29-11-2016
UFO convention lands in Florida
UFO convention lands in Florida
Channel 4's Scott Johnson learns about close encounters, local sightings
By Jodi Mohrmann - Managing Editor of special projects
ORLANDO, Fla. - Experts on unidentified flying objects from all over the world picked Orlando recently, to come together and discuss the things we see in the sky and where they may come from. So Channel 4's Scott Johnson took the trek into the unknown, to hear stories and find out more about everything from close encounters to UFO sightings in our area.
The annual event is with the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON for short. Morgan Beall, state director of Florida for MUFON, describes the network as the world's oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body -- bringing in people and speakers from around the globe.
"We're still learning the physicality of the phenomenon, you know. What it is, what it does, its characteristics. The witnesses actually have, you know, very extraordinary claims," Beall told Scott.
A few hundred show up to the Hilton just outside of Walt Disney World for something the group doesn't feel belongs in Fantasyland.
"We try and stick to serious researchers, scientists," said Beall. "People with heavy backgrounds. People who have really taken this phenomenon serious."
Scott doesn't know what to expect when he gets there, and at the beginning of the event, he tries to relate as best he can.
"Nanu, Nanu," said Scott to the crowd.
Well, he tries.
"Have you ever been to a 'Star Trek' convention?" Scott asked Robert Powell, MUFON's director of research.
"No, but I am a 'Star Trek' fan," he answered with a smile.
"So, do you like the new 'Star Wars'?" Scott asked Cheryl Costa, a writer from New York who tracks UFOs.
"I loved the new 'Star Wars'! I saw it last night at Disney Springs," she told Scott.
"So, could ET feasibly have phoned home?" Scott asked Morgan Beall.
"What? No," he responded.
'So, you a Kirk man or a Picard man?" Scott asked Rich Hoffman, who describes himself as an IT strategic planner for the Army.
"Oh, I like Kirk. I go back quite a ways," Hoffman answered.
"Area 51, what is it?" Scott asked.
"I've always felt Area 51 was nothing more than an Air Force ground. Has nothing to do with aliens," Hoffman told Scott.
It takes a little bit, but Scott moves beyond the sci-fi chats into what MUFON studies -- things like tracking the number of UFO sightings globally.
While Cheryl Costa is a writer and UFO tracker now, she says she spent 32 years in the aerospace field.
"(In) 2012, someone published an article that said that UFOs have been on the decline since the 80s, and maybe they were all an urban legend. And that didn't sound right," said Costa. There's a standard formula for breaking these things down, maybe only about 20 percent are what they call the exotic stuff."
'That would be something from other worlds?" Scott asked.
"Perhaps, other worlds or other dimensions," Costa answered. "We're not sure where they come from."
Since Costa tracks UFO sightings, Scott asked her for sightings in our area. According to Costa's research, in the past 15 years in Florida, there have been 7,787 UFO sightings across the state. Locally, Duval County had 258, St. Johns County had 111 and Clay County had 48.
Scott said one of the things that lamented at the conference was the difficulty in getting the news media to cover it. MUFON said it has had some success with local media in the past, but with the national media, it can't get coverage.
From what Scott can tell, he and his photographer, Travis Anthony, are the only media at this Orlando event. So, at a briefing for the news media -- with a dozen or so experts gathered for a panel -- Scott is the only one there to really ask questions.
He speaks with many of them, including Rich Hoffman. He told Scott there are a lot of unexplained UFO sightings that he's personally investigated for almost half a century, but add most are explainable.
"You'll get reports from planets, Jupiter. Depending on time of evening, you get satellites. Not as much now. The International Space Station when it goes across, is a very fast moving satellite," explained Hoffman.
But Hoffman told Scott something others at the conference also said to Scott: They struggle to get the scientific community to take them seriously. In fact, they often hear from UFO believers, but in hushed tones or in hallways after meetings, when no one is around to listen.
"No one wants to go on the record," said Hoffman. "There's a lot of social pressure. I just got a case today from an individual who said, 'Look, I saw something. I'm 78 years old, I told my wife, they think I'm a nut.'"
Kathleen Marden is also at the MUFON convention. She wrote the book "Captured." She told Scott it's the story of her aunt and uncle's close encounter, when a UFO hovered above their car.
"Betty and Barney had gone on brief vacation to Niagara Falls in Montreal, Canada, in 1961," she explained. "He and Betty heard a series of buzzing sounds that seemed to be striking the trunk of the vehicle, caused the vehicle to vibrate and a tingling through their bodies. The next thing they knew, they were 35 miles south of previous location and had very little memory of what happened in the interim."
These are the kinds of tales that make skeptic scoff.
"Rarely is it taken serious," Beall said.
But they said we need to keep an eye on what's going on in the sky.
"Whether the government keeps an eye on UFOs, I think they have to by definition. Any object that shows up on radar is unidentified, so they have to," said Powell.
While Scott leaves the convention wondering what's really out there, he gets one final laugh and smile.
"Well, thank you, Rich. I hope you live long and prosper," said Scott.
It's been years since MUFON has met in Florida, and they likely won't be back for a while. Organizers move this event to different locations every year.
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Word of photographer's image of suspected UFO reaches president's desk
Word of photographer's image of suspected UFO reaches president's desk
Joseph Perry is shown in this Flint Journal file photo with his telescope that he claimed captured photos of a UFO. Perry is featured in the "The Vault," which is the FBI's library of documents that have been released under Freedom of
This story is part of an occasional series looking at the Flint-area's involvement in prominent federal investigations, which are highlighted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's online "Vault."
GRAND BLANC, MI- Something possibly in the Flint-area's nighttime skies caught the interest of federal authorities in 1960.
A Grand Blanc pizzeria owner claimed to photograph a flying saucer in 1960, and shared his discovery with federal officials.
The incident was documented in a trove of information made public in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's online "Vault." The Vault is the FBI's library of documents that have been released through Freedom of Information Act requests and detail some of the most-prominent figures and controversial investigations in the bureau's history.
Documents included in the release identified Joseph Perry as the owner Perry's Pizza Grill in Grand Blanc. Perry, then 44, was an amateur photographer who liked to take pictures of the moon through his big homemade telescope, according to the documents.
About 1 a.m. early one February day, Perry said he made a color photo where an unidentified flying object can be seen against the moon, according to a story in The Flint Journal that was published March 27, 1960.
Perry contacted the Detroit office of the FBI about the suspected UFO captured in the photograph, according to a letter from then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to the Office of Special Investigations with the Air Force.
"He said that when blown up, this object is flat on the bottom, is oval shaped, and appears to have a fluorescent glow around the entire object, and that it is apparently moving as it has a vapor trail running behind it," the internal FBI memo said.
Perry said he took the photo using a 35 mm Retna German camera with Super Ansco Color film and took the pictures through his homemade telescope that was set at between 350-400 power, the FBI memo said.
After a story about Perry's UFO photograph was published by the Detroit Times, the Grand Blanc pizza-maker wrote President Dwight Eisenhower.
"Quoting from a letter of March 14 from Major Donald E. Kehoe, 'From past experience with photographic evidence, we consider it unlikely that you will ever see your picture again,'" Perry wrote to the president on March 21, 1960. "I would like the assurance that this colored transparency will be returned to me within a short time, as it would be financially profitable in the pursuit of my hobby, (cameras and equipment)."
Perry told the FBI he received more than 50 letters and phone calls asking to see the photo.
Ultimately, federal authorities returned the picture.
The Air Force gave Perry a letter when it returned the photo "explaining that what appears to be a flying object in this slide is actually a part of the negative which was not properly developed," according to an FBI memo.
The cache of information included letters and documents from to people from Seattle, Wash., to New Iberia, Louisiana.
There are hundreds of pages detailing alleged UFO sightings throughout the country, asking about the existence of and other info about flying saucers included in the FBI documents.
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Florida fireball sparked fears and misleading claims about alien invasion
Florida fireball sparked fears and misleading claims about alien invasion
The Florida fireball is not an exploding alien spacecraft. It is a rock from somewhere in the Universe.
As internet giants Facebook and Google begin their repression of fake news, the search giant’s news section itself has been showing false articles, or reports with misleading titles, about the fireball that flared up in the air above the state of Florida, United States.
A couple or more websites are reporting that the meteor that exploded above the Southeast United States is a sign of an alien invasion, citing earlier reports of seen UFOs around the world. Some even added that the rock has shown unusual movements, thus confirming their theory that “the government is hiding the truth about aliens.”
No. the Florida fireball is not an alien spacecraft, nor a visiting UFO from an advanced alien civilization somewhere.
A fireball is a large bright meteor, and it lit up as it entered the Earth, a planet which has a thick atmosphere.
In case you missed some of your Elementary science classes, here’s a concise explanation from the Astronomical League: rocks from space glow or light up when hitting the Earth because of tremendous friction that causes the rock or rocks to produce light and to ultimately disintegrate before reaching the Earth’s ground.
Apparently, some rocks are large enough to survive the friction with the atmosphere, and these bodies could be destructive. Some smaller bodies are also dangerous even after melting in the air because they can create a sonic boom, or a shock wave. For instance, the Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Southwest Russia.
According to the American Meteor Society, or AMS, a group which monitors such events, the Florida fireball event on November 21st, 2016 around 11:15pm, generated over 150 calls with concentration of reports from Tampa. Its initial finding suggests that the meteor travelled from Southeast to the Northwest before disintegrating on the sea East of Anna Maria Island.
The fireball was so bright that people in Northern Florida, even as far as Georgia and Alabama, also reported the event.
Videos showing the Florida fireball also surfaced online and was compiled by the AMS. See it below this article. The video montage as of this writing attracted over sixteen thousand views.
Some witnesses also shared their stories on the AMS website.
A commenter named Anne said:
“We were driving south on 75 at that time, between Sumterville & Wildwood on the way to Tampa. All of a sudden not more than 20 feet in front of me, I saw a bright light. (At first) I thought of fireworks, then saw the center which was as large as a watermelon & the glowing gas around it. I came to a dead halt, thought it was going to hit us. It landed on the side of the road near a light pole. (Have) no time to get the phone camera on. It was the most spectacular thing I have everseen.”
Another witness, she said her name is Deborah, added that the fireball was “unbelievably beautiful.”
“Driving on Interstate 75 headed south it was five miles before the Sun City Ruskin exit sign. Both myself and brother saw it. This was just awesome looked like you could just reach out and catch it. It was that close,” she said.
Featured image is a screen-grab of the video showing the fireball in Florida on November 21st.
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UFO or real aliens? Chinese astronaut says he heard mysterious knocks in space
UFO or real aliens? Chinese astronaut says he heard mysterious knocks in space
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Strange sounds during space flight experienced by Chinese astronauts have come up as interesting sidebars to mushrooming rumours about alien life and UFOs. Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, revealed in a recent interview that he heard a mysterious knock - like a wooden hammer hitting an iron bucket, during his flight in space in 2003.
The Astronaut said he was baffled by the sound which appeared suddenly without any reason, reported Xinhua news agency, citing China Central Television. "A non-causal situation I have met in space is a knock that appeared from time to time," said Yang.
He further said that "It neither came from outside nor inside the spaceship, but sounded like someone is knocking the body of the spaceship just as knocking an iron bucket with a wooden hammer."
It was also reported that the astronaut, who is a major general now, mustered the courage and went to inspect the porthole. However, he did not find anything that could have possibly made the sound.
What is more shocking is that it is not only Yang who heard the sound. Spaceflight mission Shenzhou 6 and Shenzhou 7 astronauts have also heard the sound but even they failed to come up with any possible explanation.
"Before entering space, I have told them that the sound is a normal phenomenon, so there is no need to worry," said the astronaut.
Yang did not give up hope of finding the source of the noise and asked around technicians about the mysterious sound once he returned to earth. He even tried to explain the sound with instruments, however, he said that he neither could recreate the sound nor heard the exact sound again.
Yang Liwe,i who was born in Liaoning province's Suizhong County in 1965, became the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program in 2003.
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‘Zoete aroma’s’ en ‘uitvallende apparaten’: Mysteries rond opening graftombe Jezus
‘Zoete aroma’s’ en ‘uitvallende apparaten’: Mysteries rond opening graftombe Jezus
Voor het eerst in eeuwen wordt de mysterieuze graftombe blootgelegd waar volgens de overlevering Jezus Christus begraven werd.
Lang werd gedacht dat er niets meer van over was, maar bij de restauratie van de kerk die er bovenop is gebouwd in het oude, ommuurde deel van Jeruzalem, is het tegendeel ontdekt.
Het Heilige Graf, zoals de tombe wordt genoemd, is al sinds 1555 niet meer geopend. Archeologen zeiden dat het een lange wetenschappelijke analyse zal worden.
‘Zoete aroma’
Werklieden die betrokken zijn bij het restaureren van de kerk, hebben melding gemaakt van buitengewone fenomenen rond de tombe waarin Jezus gelegen zou hebben.
Toen ze de tombe naderden roken ze naar eigen zeggen een ‘zoete aroma’ – een soorten bloemengeur die vaker wordt gemeld bij vermeende verschijningen van heiligen of Maria, meldt Catholic Culture.
Elektrische apparaten
De werklieden zeiden ook dat sommige elektrische apparaten, waaronder meetinstrumenten, in de buurt van de tombe uitvielen of zelfs de geest gaven, wat erop wijst dat ze werden beïnvloed door elektromagnetisme.
Dit fenomeen werd bevestigd door één van de wetenschappers die toegang heeft gekregen tot de tombe, schrijft nieuwssite Aleteia.
De tombe wordt door Griekse specialisten van de technische universiteit in Athene opgeknapt. De operatie gaat zo’n 4 miljoen euro kosten.
Geen archeologisch bewijs
In totaal buigen 50 experts zich over de graftombe. Ze werken voornamelijk ’s nachts om pelgrims overdag gelegenheid te geven het Heilige Graf te bezoeken.
Archeoloog Robert Cargill merkte op dat er nog steeds geen archeologisch bewijs is dat Jezus werd gekruisigd of dat hij onder de Heilige Grafkerk werd gelegd.
Toch is de plek al 1600 jaar lang de meest heilige plaats in het christendom, zei hij.
Potentially Habitable Planet's Shadow Spotted from Earth
Potentially Habitable Planet's Shadow Spotted from Earth
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the University of Tokyo and Japan's AstroBiology Center used the Okayama 188-cm telescope in Japan to observe the planet K2-3d, located 150 light-years away, as it passed in front of its star. The measurement marks the first time the potentially habitable planet was measured from Earth.
Credit: NAOJ
A potentially Earth-like planet circles a bright star 150 light-years away, casting a shadow tracked from space — and now from Earth, too.
The planet, called K2-3d, was originally seen crossing in front of its star by NASA's Kepler space telescope during that instrument's ongoing K2 mission. Researchers brought the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory's 188-centimeter (6 feet) telescope to bear on the speck to fine-tune their understanding of the exoplanet's orbit down to a precision of 18 seconds, according to new research.
Using this first-ever Earth-based measurement of the planet, the researchers predicted when the planet will cross its star in 2018, when the newly complete James Webb Space Telescope should be able to watch carefully and analyze the planet's atmosphere for potential signs of life or habitability. [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
K2-3d is about 1.5 times the size of Earth and orbits a star half the size of the sun every 45 days. The exoplanet circles closer to its star than Earth does around the sun — one-fifth the Earth-sun distance — but because this is a cooler star, the planet should rest at an Earth-like temperature that could host liquid water, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan researchers said in a statement. That space around a given star is known as the habitable zonebecause it has the potential to support life similar to that found on Earth.
Kepler discovered the planet based on the star's slight dimming as the planet passed in front, from the telescope's perspective — a process of discovery called the transit method. Because Kepler's K2 mission examines patches of the sky for only around 80 days each, researchers could observe K2-3d crossing the star just twice. But the planet is closer to Earth and has a brighter host star than most of the other potentially habitable planets discovered by Kepler, researchers said in the statement, so K2-3d was worth a second glance. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed two more transits, further increasing what researchers knew about the planet's orbit.
K2-3d's star is much brighter than those of other transiting planets in the habitable zone spotted by Kepler, making this planet a good candidate for further examination. Along with Kepler planets and planet candidates, represented by the black and white circles, the chart shows two Earth-size planets located 40 light-years away and observed by a ground-based telescope.
Credit: NAOJ
Despite its closeness to Earth, K2-3d is small enough that the dip in brightness of its star is still extremely faint, only a 0.07 percent change. That's near the limit of what ground-based telescopes can detect, the researchers said, but Okayama's MuSCAT instrument could collect light from three different wavelengths and so could detect that flicker, thus clarifying the orbit to within just 18 seconds.
Each transit presents a chance to learn more about K2-3d, and this new work allows researchers to forecast when those transits will occur. Upcoming large-scale telescopes like the James Webb Telescope will be able to analyze the starlight shining through the planet's atmosphere during a transit. They will thus be able to detect molecules like oxygen that can indicate the potential existence of life.
Potentially Habitable Planet's Shadow Spotted from Earth
Potentially Habitable Planet's Shadow Spotted from Earth
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the University of Tokyo and Japan's AstroBiology Center used the Okayama 188-cm telescope in Japan to observe the planet K2-3d, located 150 light-years away, as it passed in front of its star. The measurement marks the first time the potentially habitable planet was measured from Earth.
Credit: NAOJ
A potentially Earth-like planet circles a bright star 150 light-years away, casting a shadow tracked from space — and now from Earth, too.
The planet, called K2-3d, was originally seen crossing in front of its star by NASA's Kepler space telescope during that instrument's ongoing K2 mission. Researchers brought the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory's 188-centimeter (6 feet) telescope to bear on the speck to fine-tune their understanding of the exoplanet's orbit down to a precision of 18 seconds, according to new research.
Using this first-ever Earth-based measurement of the planet, the researchers predicted when the planet will cross its star in 2018, when the newly complete James Webb Space Telescope should be able to watch carefully and analyze the planet's atmosphere for potential signs of life or habitability. [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
K2-3d is about 1.5 times the size of Earth and orbits a star half the size of the sun every 45 days. The exoplanet circles closer to its star than Earth does around the sun — one-fifth the Earth-sun distance — but because this is a cooler star, the planet should rest at an Earth-like temperature that could host liquid water, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan researchers said in a statement. That space around a given star is known as the habitable zonebecause it has the potential to support life similar to that found on Earth.
Kepler discovered the planet based on the star's slight dimming as the planet passed in front, from the telescope's perspective — a process of discovery called the transit method. Because Kepler's K2 mission examines patches of the sky for only around 80 days each, researchers could observe K2-3d crossing the star just twice. But the planet is closer to Earth and has a brighter host star than most of the other potentially habitable planets discovered by Kepler, researchers said in the statement, so K2-3d was worth a second glance. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed two more transits, further increasing what researchers knew about the planet's orbit.
K2-3d's star is much brighter than those of other transiting planets in the habitable zone spotted by Kepler, making this planet a good candidate for further examination. Along with Kepler planets and planet candidates, represented by the black and white circles, the chart shows two Earth-size planets located 40 light-years away and observed by a ground-based telescope.
Credit: NAOJ
Despite its closeness to Earth, K2-3d is small enough that the dip in brightness of its star is still extremely faint, only a 0.07 percent change. That's near the limit of what ground-based telescopes can detect, the researchers said, but Okayama's MuSCAT instrument could collect light from three different wavelengths and so could detect that flicker, thus clarifying the orbit to within just 18 seconds.
Each transit presents a chance to learn more about K2-3d, and this new work allows researchers to forecast when those transits will occur. Upcoming large-scale telescopes like the James Webb Telescope will be able to analyze the starlight shining through the planet's atmosphere during a transit. They will thus be able to detect molecules like oxygen that can indicate the potential existence of life.
Is There a UFO Cover-up? A Government Insider Speaks Out
Is There a UFO Cover-up? A Government Insider Speaks Out
About six months ago, ourboard at UFODATAwas privileged to welcomeChristopher Mellon as the newest member of our team. Chris spent nearly 20 years in the federal government serving in various national security positions. For the first time, he has agreed to speak publicly about his experiences within government as they relate to UFOs.
Photo courtesy Chris Mellon
It is unusual for a man of Chris’s stature to speak openly about UFOs, which gives his statements great weight. His positions during the Clinton and Bush administrations involved high clearances; in fact, there are few people who have enjoyed such deep and wide-ranging access to compartmented programs in both the Defense Department (DoD) and the intelligence community. Chris is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Reconnaissance Office Gold Medal and the Defense Intelligence Agency Director’s Medal.
At DoD, Chris served on a small committee that provided oversight of all DoD special access programs, in order to eliminate potential waste and duplication. The oversight included visits to Area 51 and other sensitive facilities. He also spent over a decade on the Senate Intelligence Committee, involved in oversight of NRO, CIA, NSA and other intelligence organizations. He became the first Congressional official to review all of the NSA’s compartmented programs.
I wanted to know what Chris had to say about Hillary Clinton’s implications that the government may be withholding classified UFO documents. Backed by John Podesta, chairman of her campaign, Clinton has been speaking about the need to “get to the bottom of the UFO mystery.” Her comments are unprecedented within a presidential campaign.
Here is my recent conversation with Chris Mellon, mainly conducted via email, edited only for clarity.
Q: When did you first become interested in UFOs?
A: I was about seven years old when I saw an old-fashioned amateur movie taken by a friend of our school principal. It showed a huge, golden disc-shaped object serenely moving through sunny, blue skies, passing through cumulous clouds in a manner that would be very hard to fake. I have no idea what became of the movie, but it filled me with wonder and awe. I read everything I could get my hands on afterwards and eventually did a research project on UFOs in college for a physics professor. I remain deeply intrigued.
Q: Did your colleagues in government know you were interested in UFOs? Were you afraid of being ridiculed?
A: It was something I didn’t reveal to colleagues unless I got to know them well and we became personal friends. Even then of course I wasn’t a nut about it and I certainly was not obsessed; it was simply a subject of great curiosity. It did not come up often. I was focused like a laser on my duties 99.9 percent of the time.
Q: Hillary Clinton has been asked about UFOs during her campaign. As the former Secretary of State, would she be likely to know if there were any classified government programs involving UFOs?
A: No, I don’t think so. I recall instances when White House officials sought briefings on highly compartmented DoD programs and were flatly refused. Access to such programs is on a need to know basis. In general, nobody outside DoD, including the Secretary of State, is deemed to have a need to know. Officials like John Podesta and Secretary Clinton can easily serve for years in senior positions and be avid consumers of classified intelligence analysis but never obtain access to DoD’s compartmented programs, which mostly relate to new weapons systems. Information about such programs rarely leaks because it doesn’t circulate, unlike the constant stream of leaked information regarding classified intelligence activities.
Chris (right) with former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen in 1995. Note the inscription: “The Other Man who kept all the secrets.” Chris drafted the bill for Cohen that established the US Special Operations Command.
Q: Do you think that if Clinton is elected we can expect to learn new information about UFOs?
A: I highly doubt DoD or any other government agency is concealing UFO information. I participated in a comprehensive review of DoD’s black programs and spent over a decade conducting oversight of the national foreign intelligence program, an almost totally separate world of secrets. I visited Area 51 and other military, intelligence and research facilities. During all those years, I never detected the faintest hint of government interest or involvement in UFOs.
Q: Clinton and John Podesta have been focusing on the need for de-classifying government documents. What do you think about that?
A: While a few new, previously overlooked documents might turn up (the bureaucracy is never perfect), I do not believe they would resolve the UFO issue or provide significant new insights. I can think of one lengthy UFO report that is classified only due to concerns over sources and methods. In fact, it identified a convincing conventional explanation for the pilot sightings in this particular case. There are lots of classified documents related to activities at Area 51, where high security is needed. But this is all legitimate stuff the American people would support. They have nothing to do with UFOs, to the best of my knowledge.
Q: Do you recall any incidents involving UFOs while you were in government?
A: Yes, there were a handful of incidents. Knowing of my interest in UFOs, a breathless naval aviator called me one day to report that he was present minutes earlier when a Navy jet landed after being circled by a UFO in broad daylight. The Navy did not pursue the issue as far as I could tell. I also recall the Maui Optical Tracking Facility, which tracks satellites, recording a flight of four or five fiery UFOs traversing the night sky. Nobody knew what to make of it. But no government official expressed the slightest interest even after the tape was featured on ABC’s Nightline. I found the utter lack of scientific curiosity due to political correctness highly frustrating.
Q: How do you think the press and public will react if Clinton is elected, makes the inquiries she promised, but comes up empty-handed?
A: I think the conspiracy theorists will be angry and unconvinced, while the general public may conclude UFOs are not a worthwhile topic. If Clinton really wants to get to the bottom of the UFO issue, I think she should officially task NORAD with collection and analysis responsibility. Simultaneously, she should assign the Office of Science and Technology Policy the job of reviewing available evidence, coordinating with other countries and providing scientific assessments and recommendations.
Q: The taboo against taking UFOs seriously is a huge problem. How can we get more government officials to change this ingrained attitude?
A: I think we have to ask ourselves a key question, and then bring it forward. “Are there UFO cases that are sufficiently well-documented to warrant a scientific investigation of the phenomenon?” In my view, the answer is yes.
The patterns in the data are too strong; the reports from credible witnesses separated widely by time and place too similar; the evidence from videos and trained military and law enforcement observers too extensive; and the independent radar data in select cases correlates too highly with visual observations to safely ignore. Finally, when someone you trust and respect, like a naval aviator, looks you in the eye and tells you he saw something truly extraordinary at close range, it’s hard not to take his testimony seriously. It is arrogant, unreasonable and unwise to dismiss such reports. We should simply and impartially follow the trail wherever it leads.
Q: Which credible UFO incidents have you found particularly impressive and convincing?
A: A few stand out in my mind. In November 1989, 13 police officers and hundreds of other witnesses saw two silent triangular craft gliding over Belgium. This was the beginning of a wave of sightings there lasting well over a year. Ground and air radar data were acquired as well. The Belgian Air Force investigated the events in cooperation with a team of scientists and consulted with the U.S. and NATO countries, but could not find a conventional explanation.
An artist’s rendition of the Belgium UFO that made repeated visits in 1989-90
Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer, who later became a general, presents anomalous radar readings at a 1990 press conference during the Belgian wave
On the night of March 30, 1993, over a hundred witnesses in England, including police officers and military personnel, saw a triangular-shaped craft able to rapidly accelerate in seconds from a hovering position. The British Ministry of Defense stated that “none of the usual explanations put forward to explain UFO sightings seem applicable” and concluded that the evidence showed that “an unidentified object (or objects) of unknown origin was operating over the UK.”
Similarly, multiple police officers in Southern Illinois saw an object in January 2000 that looked and behaved very similarly to the Belgian and British UFOs. In fact, the Illinois police officers’ drawings of the craft are uncannily similar to the depictions of triangular craft produced by Belgian law enforcement officers a decade earlier, as well as many others since.
A Belgian Air Force weather forecaster drew his sighting in 1990
In 2006, pilots and airport personnel witnessed a disc-shaped object hovering over O’Hare airport for over five minutes, yet no government investigation was undertaken.
And, while most sightings have conventional explanations, I think it is stunning how many reports come in regularly to groups like MUFON, with impressive detail, including photos or videos. I often hear from skeptics, “If UFOs are out there how come nobody ever gets a video with all the smartphones around?” That is ignorant, it happens all the time!
Q: Some people believe the more recent sightings in cases such as those you mentioned may simply be US government tests of experimental aircraft. Is that possible?
A: I can understand why this may seem the most plausible explanation. But I can assure you, those objects did not belong to US Department of Defense. Just before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I was contacted by the DoD Office of Congressional Affairs. They were in a tizzy because Robert Byrd, the powerful Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, was challenging them over reports appearing in magazines such as Aviation Week and Space Technology describing an alleged super-secret US aircraft program dubbed “Aurora.”
Senator Byrd would use his budget power to punish the department severely if we lied to him or withheld information. We pursued all possible options, double-checking with the appropriate officials while reminding them of the imperative of providing an accurate response. We quickly confirmed what we already knew - that while there are always things on the drawing board, there was nothing remotely resembling such aircraft being operated by the department. We had nothing with the capacity to hover and then silently accelerate at massive speeds.
Also, it is totally uncharacteristic of the US military to conduct experimental tests of new vehicles over populated areas where security would be compromised and innocent civilians placed in harms way. That’s completely contrary to military DNA. Alien visitation is actually easier to believe than that level of stupidity being exhibited by the brilliant people developing new aircraft technologies for DoD.
Q: Are you certain there is no government cover-up?
A: It’s impossible to prove the negative, so all I can say is that I never saw any evidence of official interest in UFOs. I’d love to believe we have a crashed saucer somewhere, but I’ve never seen anything remotely supportive of such incredible claims. In my experience, on those rare occasions when UFO incidents involving the government occur, they are highly inconvenient, awkward and embarrassing for the afflicted government officials who want nothing more than to put the issue behind them as quickly as possible! The military seems generally unwilling to investigate even when UFO reports come from our own military pilots or officials in high office such as Fife Symington, the former governor of Arizona. Senior officials are so fearful of being ridiculed that they conceal any expression of interest or curiosity.
Q: Some inside sources have proposed that retrieved hardware from a UFO may exist within a private aerospace company which has become independent from the DoD. In this way, it would be exempt from government oversight and known only to a few people. Do you think this is possible?
A: I find it hard to imagine something as explosive as recovered alien technology remaining under wraps for decades. So while I have no reason to believe there is any recovered alien technology, I will say this: If it were me, and I were trying to bury it deep, I’d take it outside government oversight entirely and place it in a compartment as a new entity within an existing defense company and manage it as what we call an “IRAD” or “Independent Research and Development Activity.”
Q: So where does this all leave us, and what is to be done?
A: In my view, calling for the end to an alleged government UFO cover-up is almost certainly a dead end, and does not help inspire anyone in government to become more open to the topic. The UFO mystery is a scientific problem. A true scientist seeks and follows the data no matter how politically incorrect the facts may be. The greatest scientific breakthroughs occur when we verify information that challenges conventional wisdom. That’s why I joined the board of UFODATA.
Q: I’m so glad you did. What kinds of new data are you hoping we will collect?
A: Our team of scientists and engineers are designing and will build a large network of automated surveillance stations with sophisticated sensors to capture a wide range of data. The stations will house cameras to record both an image and spectra, a magnetometer, instrumentation to detect radiation, a gravimeter, and more. They will be mobile so that we can readily deploy them to areas that become hotspots of UFO activity. We can then make the data available to the scientific community for analysis.
Q: Do you think UFOs could be visitors from civilizations elsewhere?
A: I’m certainly intrigued by the possibility. But I don’t think we will find out without a deeper scientific inquiry. I would like to invite the public to participate and support this lean but potentially groundbreaking effort, staffed by volunteers. UFODATA’s findings, one way or another, can help us to resolve this perennial mystery and perhaps even help us to better understand the universe and mankind’s place within it.
Pope Francishas said that he would be willing to baptize aliens if they came to the Vatican, asking “who are we to close doors to anyone, even Martians”. Well, according to present and past experts on the ET issue, they may be appearing to us sooner than we anticipated.
According to multiple sources within the Vatican, Pope Francis wants to avoid the long-term embarrassment that the church experienced during the time of Galileo when it was clearly revealed that the Earth was not the center of the Universe. Reportedly the Pope wants to position the Jesuit Order to incorporate a new reality which consists of the acceptance of accepting a new reality of alien existence which are telepathic and this will form the basis between humans and advanced aliens. I believe that this is what the Bible refers to as the Great Deception.
The United Nations is announcing that Pope Francis will address the annual U.N. General Assembly of world leaders on Sept. 25 during his first papal visit to the United States.The pope earlier agreed to address a joint meeting of Congress on his visit. The upcoming September 24 speech will mark the first time that a Pope will address the United States Congress.
Many speculate that this is where the Pope will make his move to announce his “one religion initiative” and further elaborate on his belief that mankind is about to be contacted by telepathic aliens (his words, not mine). In an interview with Famiglia Cristiana, the Pope stated that he wanted to found an international body of religions under one central authority, “An United Nations of religion“.
Operation Blue Beam
For decades, NASA has developed space based weapons systems designed to penetrate every aspect of our lives and this plan is labeled as Operation Blue Beam.
The Blue Beam Project has four different steps in order to implement a new age religion, along with the roll out of a fake Antichrist at its head. Oh, I believe that we will see an Anti-Christ, but this will not be it. We must remember that the new age religion is the very foundation for the new world government, without which religion the dictatorship of the New World Order is completely impossible.
Phase 1 The first step in the NASA Blue Beam Project concerns the breakdown of all archaeological knowledge. We will see more and more fake discoveries of previous alien contact, where these new discoveries will finally explain to all people the error of all fundamental religious doctrines.
This new false doctrine will be used to make all nations believe that their religious doctrines have been misguided for centuries. Psychological preparations for that first step have already been implemented with such things as the Star Trek TV series, the 2001 A Space Odyssey film , X Files, Falling Skies, the TV series V, and movies such as Independence Day, and District 9. All of this constitutes the psychological conditioning designed to promote a paradigm shift designed to get the public to accept an “alien” existence.
Phase 2 The second part of this deception is creating 3D holograms, sound and laser projections which will give way to several holographic images. As Steve Quayle and I discussed in our most recent interview, the HAARP type of technology now exists where entire battlefields can be projected and nobody would be the widers because, under these circumstances, nobody could distinguish fact from fiction.
Phase 3
Nearly a generation ago, Nick Begich demonstrated to the European Parliament how Project HAARP could produce fake voices inside the heads of the members of Parliament in what is known as Voice to Skull technology.
Using ELF waves, HAARP can be directly projected into the brain, causing the brain to receive messages, words, and instructions HAARP can provide a way to wipe out communications over a large area, while keeping the military’s own communications systems working. HAARP can also be used for mind control.
Phase 4
Phase 4 culminates with mankind’s shared belief from the Great Deception, than an alien invasion is either under way, or is imminent and the only means of salvation is for a God-like figure, a holographic (i.e. a one-world religion God) will step in and “save” humanity. This will mark the beginning of a one-world government and a single Pagan religion like the one being called for the present Pope.
In this final phase of the plan, it will be made clear to the people that an alien invasion is imminent and the consolidation of government, religion, military and economic institutions will be “needed” for mankindto survive
Operation Blue Beam has some basis of support from prominent elites.
Dr. Carol Rosin and Wernher Von Braun
Dr. Rosin recounts her four year association with Von Braun, and is she is quick to point out that he predicted that mankind would have a series of “boogey men” designed to manipulate mankind on the way to a New World Order.
First, Von Braun said we would fear the Russians followed by terrorists and then we would fear asteroids and then, finally, mankind would be manipulated into believing that the earth was going to be attacked by aliens. The end game from this reign of terror would be planetary unification.
Hillary Clinton and the UFO Question
Hillary Clinton was viewed at the Rockefeller Ranch holding a book by Paul Davies regarding the implications of extraterrestrial life.
Interestingly, Vince Foster, friend and advisor to President Clinton, was tasked with two missions upon Bill Clinton’s election. First, find out who killed JFK. Secondly, find out the truth behind the alien question. Foster, as all will recall, committed “suicide” under some very mysterious circumstances.
Reagan’s Alien Speech to the United Nations
In 1987, Ronald Reagan addressed the United Nations and asked what would happen to the differences in and among the nations of the earth if we were attacked by a hostile alien force. This is that speech.
Conclusion
There is enough evidence here to make most reasonable people sit up and take notice. Blue Beam is a fall back doomsday plan which will be implemented when all else fails. Is the NWO desperate enough to engage in such a plot? I think it is likely that this plan will be implemented so long as other plans of unification (i.e. World War III) fail to materialize. And when and if this plan materializes, don’t believe a single word of it, no matter how real ET seems to be. Why not? Because this event fits under the Biblical category of “Rumors of War”. And when we are faced with this Great Deception, fall to your knees and collectively pray for God’s intervention and direction in your lives.
Most people who use social media have figured out that Facebook and Google are in cahoots with the government, for those who are well aware of the issues it’s high time you switched over toSeen.life. It is a website that is similar to Facebook but without all the censorship.
While looking over some SOHO images I decided to enlarge some of the UFOs in the photo. Now please know, the UFOs in each photo are different because the sun is rotating, and there are a lot of moon size and earth size UFOs around our sun. Back about 10 years ago, two Russian scientists announced that they have found hundreds of UFOs orbiting Earths sun at any given moment in time. That these UFOs can increase and decrease speeds for no reason, and that they can make sudden right turns at speeds that should be impossible, especially for a moon size UFO. Now, are these unmanned giant drones sent to get energy for planets far away? I would say yes, but they don't have to be unmanned if their technology can protect them from the incredible heat. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Citizens in Turkey Sunday night were shaken awake and frightened by blasts that went off, and UFOs in the sky. Denver and Texas had reports of similar lights, as well.
Hashtag #ufoattacktoturkey began on Twitter and spread rapidly. Some say that the tweets were being blocked on Twitter from public view. The hashtag was hard to find and photos posted were missing. Some think it’s a government coverup. Some call it government projects or misinterpreted lights or hoax.
This is the kind of event that will take time to sort through as more and more people share photos and videos.
I will continue to follow this unusual event on here, should new information be released.
Most people who use social media have figured out that Facebook and Google are in cahoots with the government, for those who are well aware of the issues it’s high time you switched over to Seen.life. It is a website that is similar to Facebook but without all the censorship.
Cases of mind influencing matter have been reported throughout history and across many cultures, more specifically in regard to ‘supernormal’ abilities which include telepathy, psychokinesis, and other phenomena that lie within the realms of parapsychology. This is evident in ancient literature, from the Vedic texts and the yoga sutras, to Jesus, Moses, Milarepa, Mohammed and more.
Modern day evidence is suggesting that these abilities are much more than folklore.
Fast forward to today and scientists have been exploring the mind/matter relationship for more than a century. We have established that consciousness, or factors associated with consciousness, do in fact have observable effects on what we call the physical, material world, albeit very small effects.
It’s important to note that these effects aren’t always seen by the observable eye, but they are known at the quantum level.
The most commonly used experiment to illustrate the connection between consciousness and our physical reality is the quantum double slit experiment, which shows that observation “not only disturbs what has to be measured, they produce it.” (source)
At the end of the day, our pioneering physicists, as Max Planck (he originated quantum theory) said, regard consciousness as “fundamental” and matter as “derivative from consciousness.”
Eugene Wigner, a physicist and mathematician sat that “it was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.” (source)
You can read more about that topic in a little more detail here.
The CIA Document
The document is titled “Chronology of Recent Interest in Exceptional Functions of The Human Body in the People’s Republic of China.” In the document, it outlines the Chinese governments’ interest in parapsychology (remote viewing, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc). The US government also openly had, and probably still does, an interest in parapsychology which is most evident within their Stargateprogram.
That program lasted more than two decades before the public became aware of it.
This particular document, which was declassified through a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA), outlines specific people with very special abilities and how they’ve been studied by thousands of scientists and governments around the world for a very long time.
The document is on the CIA website, but only seems to be accessible from the Internet Archives, a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of “universal access to all knowledge.”
In 1979, a major Chinese science journal, Ziran Zachi (Nature Journal), carried a report on “non-visual pattern recognition” in which numerous accounts of exceptional human body function were confirmed. As a result, an unofficial preliminary organization to study this type of thing under the watch of Nature Journal
In 1980, the Journal and the Chinese Human Body Science Association held a parapsychology (remote viewing, telepathy, psychokinesis, clairvoyance and more) conference in Shanghai with participants from over 20 research institutes and universities
In 1981, over 100 centres to study children with purported exceptional abilities and mental capabilities were formed with the cooperation of more than 100 formally trained scholars
In 1982, the Chinese Academy of Sciences sponsored a public hearing in Beijing that more than 4000 scholars attended regarding cases of parapsychological abilities within humans. They called for “fair but strictly controlled” tests to lead to a final judgement
The document outlines how many of these scholars agreed that the scientific evidence for the ‘paranormal’ was not sufficient enough to make any conclusions. The next point is arguably the most important one disclosed in the document.
In April of 1982, a joint trial was arranged by the Party’s National Committee of Science at Beijing Teacher’s College. Proponents of both sides attended. The results were mostly negative, with the exception of a few, one of them being Zhang Baosheng
After this happened, two Chinese scientists, Chen Hsin and Mei Lei, gave a speech on it at the joint convention of the Parapsychological Association and the Society for Psychical Research held at Cambridge University.
Shortly after that in 1983, “a series of PK experiments with the subject Zhang Baosheng were conducted by 19 researchers led by Prof. Lin Shuhang of the physics department of Beijing Teachers college.”
He was able to do some special things, which is elaborated on later in the the article.
After this become known, as written in the document, “in 1984, Zhang Baosheng became a full-time subject of the military-run psi research team.”
What Was Zhang Baosheng Able To Do?
One of Zhang’s accomplishments involved moving sealed objects in and out of sealed containers.
Lin Shuhuang, as mentioned above who is from the physics department of Beijing Teacher’s College, studied this man for six months and described experiments where small pieces of paper were placed in a sealed test tube.
After five minutes, with scientists observing and video taping from various angles, the pieces of paper somehow appeared outside the tube despite the fact that the test tube was still sealed and undamaged.
He went on to do the same thing with other small objects like paper clips and even live insects.
In 1987, the researchers at the Institute of Space-Medico Engineering, also mentioned in the CIA document earlier in the article, made public a fraction of their work in the form of a film showcasing their work and what they had accomplished.
The film showed a medicine pill moving through an irreversibly sealed glass vial, which occurred in three frames of a 400 frame per second film. (source)
A wooden cabinet 120 by 180 by 60 centimeters was used as a sealed container. Sheets of papers and boards with one of a kind markings were used as the target objects and placed inside the cabinet on the upper shelf. Without damaging the cabinet or opening the door, the person with ESP was able to remove the target objets and also was able to put them back inside. This demonstrates that even when using especially large container it is possible to completely break through spacial barriers, however, the success rate was much lower and was exceptionally difficult.(Source)(source)
Apparently, Zhang Wasn’t the Only One
According to Eric Davis, Ph.D, FBIS, from a declassified US Air Force document obtained via the Federation of American Scientists, Shuhuang reported that ‘gifted children’ were responsible for the teleportation of small, physical objects from one place to another. Some of these objects included watches, horseflies, other insects, radio micro-transmitters, photosensitive paper and more. The participants never touched the objects beforehand. The experiments were done under both blind and double-blind conditions and the researches involved came from various colleges and sectors of the Department of Defense. This is an exceptional case because it was deemed necessary that an unclassified Intelligence Information Report be prepared for public viewing. (source)
According to Dr. Dean Radin, Chief Scientists at the Institute of Noetic Sciences conducted an experiment involving mental teleportation of bits of paper out of a sealed plastic film container. This was documented in a report published in 2010 by retired research chemist Dong Shen. What’s even more fascinating is that these methods were taught to others and the success rate was 40 percent.
This information comes via one of his books, Supernormal.
Dean Radin, the Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, states:
“Evaluating the details and credibility of these studies have been difficult because many of the papers appear only in Chinese. The techniques have not yet been reported outside of China, and the experimental methods employed in conducting such tests do not appear to be as rigorously controlled as compared to typical Western methods…”
According to Eric Davis, however,
“The results of the Chinese Teleportation experiments can simply be explained as a human consciousness phenomenon that somehow acts to move or rotate test specimens through a 4th spacial dimension, so that specimens are able to penetrate the solid walls/barriers of their containers without physically breaching them.”
Another great example comes from a study published in the American Journal of Chinese Medicine, as seen in the the US National Library of Medicine. The stuy demonstrated that a woman with special abilities was and is still able to accelerate the germination of specific seeds for the purposes of developing a more robust seed stock. As the study states:
Chulin Sun is a woman with exceptional powers (Shen and Sun, 1996, 1998; Sun, 1998). A member of the Chinese Somatic Science Research Institute, she is a practitioner of Waiqi. Waiqi is a type of qigong that teaches the practitioner to bring the qi energy of traditional Chinese medicine under the control of the mind. Chulin Sun can induce plant seeds to grow shoots and roots several cm long within 20 min using mentally projected qi energy (Fig. 1). This has been demonstrated on more than 180 different occasions at universities as well as science and research institutions in China (including Taiwan and Hong Kong) as well as other countries (e.g., Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, etc.) (Ge et al., 1998; Qin et al., 1998; Lee et al., 1999). We took part in and repeated the qi germination experiments seven times, and five of them succeeded (Ge et al., 1998). This remarkable effect on seed development has drawn widespread attention (Tompkins and Bird, 1973; Lee, 1998), but the biological mechanisms that underlie this phenomenon are unknown.(source)
Pretty remarkable isn’t it? How does Sun do it? Apparently, she enters into a deep, trance-like state and from this place, she is able to advance the time required for sprouting dry seeds from their usual 3 to 4 days to 20 minutes, generating a sprout growth of 3-4 inches. After a genetic analysis, scientists confirmed this to be the case, hence, the using of the word “rapid” in the title.
It was thought preliminarily that qi energy changed the structure of a germination-correlated gene site speeding up expression and advancing it in time.
Qi is believed to be everywhere on Earth; when you’re healthy, Qi is flowing freely through you, whereas when you’re unhealthy, you either have a blockage from Qi or your “Qi tank” is low. Perhaps Sun has learned how to harness universal energy, allow her to essentially speed up the growth process of the plants. This would make sense if you believe in the concept of oneness, that we are all fundamentally connected to one another including the plant life around us.
Among the most marvelous, most frightening and certainly most unbelievable possibilities suggested by psychic folklore is that human beings may be able to exert an observable influence upon the physical world — simply through the power of conscious intention; or unconscious intention, or; by some accounts, through the assistance of spiritual intelligences; 0r as a result of a mysterious principle known as synchronicity. Some scholars – such as Stephen Braude, professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland — take such reports very seriously, claiming that no honest person can examine the case study reports and easily dismiss them.
Nina Kulagina is another example. Many have examined Kulagina, and for the last 20 years of her life she was subjected to academic research by the USSR. There are multiple videos of her on YouTube.
You can read an article we published on her earlier in the year here.
Regardless of whether or not you believe any of these people possess the aforementioned ‘superhuman’ capabilities, this subject is clearly worth studying. If this didn’t merit further research, do you really think government organizations would be studying these people and trying to hide these programs from you?
Which brings me to my next point.
What Does This Tell Us?
These report, among many others, clearly proves that there are cases of individuals with ‘supernormal’ abilities and that the CIA is well aware of them and has further researched this subject.
These revelations prove that not only do these ‘super-humans’ exist, but mainstream science cannot further investigate parapsychology and refuses to fund the research and even shuns it. However, this subject is still heavily studied by the secretive military industrial complex.
Think about that for a second.
For example, the report states that:
“The decision was announced by Hu Yaobang, the Party’s General Secretary. Exceptional functions of the human body was rejected as an approved subject of scientific research, but a minority group of scientists was to be allowed to continue their research and report it in an internally circulated publication for the consideration of interested scientists. The media were requested not to publish on the topic. Formal university research and government funding was halted.”
After you read the above quote, then ask yourself, why did Zhang Baoshengbecome “a full-time subject of the military-run psi research team”? Why do they get to do all of the research and receive all of the funding?
Clearly this topic is taken very seriously within these programs, but why the ridicule within mainstream science then?
The cutting of these programs is not because there is no interest, but because that interest lies in the world of secrecy, otherwise known as the Black Budget.
World of Secrecy
In the United States, the Stargate Program was a great example of a Special Access Black Budget Program (SAPs). This means that all of the information and findings within these programs remains secret and unknown to the mainstream world.
From these (SAPS) we have unacknowledged and waived SAPs. These programs do not exist publicly, but they do indeed exist. They are commonly referred to as ‘deep black programs.’ A 1997 US Senate report described them as “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.” (source)
There is a lot of evidence to suggest that these programs are not using billions of dollars, but trillions of dollars that are completely unaccounted for in the books. Here is a statement given by Canada’s former Minister of National Defence, Paul Hellyer, in 2008:
It is ironic that the U.S. would begin a devastating war, allegedly in search of weapons of mass destruction when the most worrisome developments in this field are occurring in your own backyard. It is ironic that the U.S. should be fighting monstrously expensive wars allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects which both congress and the commander in chief no nothing about. (source)
We are talking about large amounts of unaccounted-for money going into programs we know nothing about. There have been several congressional inquiries that have noted billions, and even trillions of dollars that have gone missing from the federal reserve system.
You can read about the black budget in more detail with more sources and information from a previous article we published HERE.
CIA-document opgedoken over mensen met ‘speciale vermogens’ die in staat zijn tot ‘onmogelijke dingen’
CIA-document opgedoken over mensen met ‘speciale vermogens’ die in staat zijn tot ‘onmogelijke dingen’
Op de website van de CIA iseen documentte vinden dat gaat over de interesse die de Chinese overheid had in buitengewone functies van het menselijk lichaam.
Het gaat daarbij om parapsychologie (verzien, telepathie, telekinese, enzovoorts).
De Amerikaanse overheid was ook geïnteresseerd in dit fenomeen, aangezien zij in 1978 het Stargate Project startte.
Dit is overigens niet het enige document in het archief van de CIA over buitengewone vermogens. Een ander document betreft het onderzoek naar het paranormale vermogen om door ruimtelijke barrières te breken.
Teleportatie
Het stuk gaat over bepaalde mensen die beschikken over speciale vermogens en die al lange tijd worden bestudeerd door wetenschappers en overheden.
Hoewel het document op de website van de CIA staat, is het alleen toegankelijk via het Internet Archive, een website met als doel ‘universele toegang te bieden tot alle menselijke kennis’.
Eén en ander is ook te lezen in een vrijgegeven rapport van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht over teleportatie.
Het rapport werd naar buiten gebracht door de Federatie van Amerikaanse Wetenschappers.
Centra
Uit de CIA-documenten blijkt onder meer:
Een gerenommeerd wetenschappelijk tijdschrift in China publiceerde in 1979 over ‘non-visuele patroonherkenning’, waarbij de buitengewone functies in een aantal gevallen werden bevestigd.
In 1980 werden 100 centra opgericht om kinderen te bestuderen die zouden beschikken over uitzonderlijke (mentale) vermogens.
In 1982 financierde de Chinese Academie van Wetenschappen een hoorzitting in Peking over parapsychische vermogens waar meer dan 4000 onderzoekers bij aanwezig waren.
Lopen door muren
Ook is er aandacht voor het onderzoek in de jaren tachtig rond Zhang Baosheng, een man die volgens een onderzoeker van de Heilongjiang University eens een zak van 50 kilo suiker door de muur van een loods had verplaatst.
Baosheng zou nog meer wonderen op zijn naam hebben staan, zoals lopen door muren. Zijn verklaring hiervoor in 1982: “Jullie waren niet in staat om mij tegen te houden.”
Hij beoefende het toen in China erg populaire chi gong, net als Yan Xin, die tijdens veelvuldig herhaalde wetenschappelijke testen steeds weer in staat bleek tot bijzondere handelingen.
Demonstratie
Hij verhoogde tijdens een demonstratie op een Amerikaanse universiteit, voor het oog van vele toeschouwers, de weerstand van zijn lichaam zodat hij een hoge elektrische spanning kon weerstaan.
Ook wist hij door het sturen van energie op afstand, onder door Chinese wetenschappers vastgestelde omstandigheden, de moleculaire structuur van een kunstmatig kristal te veranderen.
Daarnaast kon hij door het sturen van energie de radioactieve stof Americium-241 beïnvloeden.
Volgens verhalen heeft Yan Xin ‘duizenden’ mensen genezen van kanker, breuken, reuma, traumatische verlamming, hartklachten en diabetes.
Verdwijnen
Dit soort psychische vermogens werd tussen 1979 en 1981 ook vastgesteld bij een groepje kinderen. Bij 13 jongens en 26 meisjes werden speciale krachten vastgesteld.
Het gaat dan om door objecten, muren en mensen heen kijken, takken breken op afstand, lezen via oren en vingertoppen, telescopisch zicht en het vermogen om bloemen uit de tuin in een vaas te plaatsen.
Eén van de meisjes, Sun Liping, had schijnbaar het vermogen om een knop door aanraking van de steel in een minuut te laten uitgroeien tot een bloem.
Dit soort bijzondere psychische gaven zouden meestal bij het bereiken van de volwassenheid weer verdwijnen. En bij meisjes al snel als ze gaan menstrueren.
Een kleine groep mensen zou de chi-gerelateerde vermogens behouden.
What Just Crashed In Russia? Something Weird Fell Out Of The SKY! Turkey UFO Alien Attack 11/28/2016
What Just Crashed In Russia? Something Weird Fell Out Of The SKY! Turkey UFO Alien Attack 11/28/2016
What Just Crashed In Russia? Something Weird Fell Out Of The SKY! Turkey Under Attack! 11/28/2016 Original Link From Andrew Texas UFOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjNqPK2KWxA #1 Most Viewed UFO Youtube Channel Thirdphaseofmoon Shares Your Incredible UFO Videos To the World! Upload your UFO Video To Youtube, Then Copy Paste The Link To My Email! cousinsbrothersproductions@gmail.com Keep Your Eyes on the Skies! We are not Alone!
MASSALE UFO WAARNEMINGEN TURKIJE ONDERDRUKT ( VIDEO )
MASSALE UFO WAARNEMINGEN TURKIJE ONDERDRUKT ( VIDEO )
Het leek afgelopen zondag alsof Independence Day was aangebroken voor Turkije.
Op talloze plaatsen in het land werden vreemde lichten waargenomen in de lucht en was #ufoattacktoturkye de meest trending hashtag op Twitter.
Afgelopen zondagavond/-nacht explodeerde Twitter met meldingen uit Turkije over vreemde lichten die in de lucht werden waargenomen.
Omdat het zoveel meldingen betrof vanuit zoveel verschillende plaatsen in het land konden al snel dingen zoals ballonnen en dergelijke worden uitgesloten.
Hierna volgen enkele voorbeelden van foto’s zoals die door inwoners van Turkije zijn gemaakt.
Nu was de naam voor de hashtag nogal ongelukkig gekozen, want er geen sprake van een aanval op Turkije, maar wel van iets vreemds in de lucht dat op diverse plaatsen werd waargenomen.
Iemand die vanaf het begin talloze meldingen uit Turkije binnenkreeg, was een Youtube videomaker met de naam Tyler van Secureteam. In de volgende video hoor je hem vertellen hoe snel het ging met de meldingen die bij hem vanuit Turkije binnenkwamen.
Een aantal uren later maakte hij de volgende video met een update van de situatie en daaruit blijkt vooral hoe snel de censuur bovenop dit verhaal is gedoken.
De video hierboven behaalde in recordtempo bijvoorbeeld meer dan 300.000 views, terwijl de teller bleef steken ergens tussen 25 en 50.000. Waar dit onderwerp een tijdlang het nummer één onderwerp op Twitter was, zo werden plotsklaps berichten verwijderd en verdween de hashtag naar de achtergrond.
Zoals je in bovenstaande video kunt horen, refereert Tyler aan een eerdere waarneming enkele dagen geleden in het Canadese Winnipeg.
De beelden die daar werden uitgezonden door het lokale televisiestation lijken als twee druppels water op de beelden zoals die boven Turkije zijn vastgelegd.
Op 25 november 2016 laat een boer in het Englese Yorkshire ’s avonds laat zijn hond uit op een stille weg waar nooit iets te zien is, tot die avond.....
Hij ziet plots een serie vreemde felle lichten, probeert foto’s te maken met zijn mobiel. Het lukt met één foto en daarna is zijn telefoon plotseling volkomen “dood”.
Pal daarop verdwenen de lichten ook weer zo plots als dat ze waren verschenen.
Is hier sprake van de lang verwachte fake alien invasie, project bluebeam, om hiermee alsnog bijvoorbeeld martial law te kunnen uitroepen in Amerika/de wereld en Obama aan te houden als president of Hillary alsnog op het schild te hijsen? Of zijn dit werkelijk buitenaardse schepen. Een lezer schreef het volgende over een nep invasie (dank!):
Daar zijn die mafkezen te laat mee, Proberen kunnen zij het altijd, maar met een armada van zo'n 3 tot 4 miljoen schepen van de galactiche federatie die al in onze luchten klaar liggen is dat feest snel over. Dan alleen al het energie verschil de aardse tech is koud en voelt vies aan. Schepen van de andere kant voelen warm en vertrouwd. probeer maar eens uit bij mensen, sta je naast een liefdevol persoon is de energie hoog en warm. iemand die negatief geladen is voelt koud aan. En een kloon of hybride geeft dan ook totaal geen energie af. En dat weet Steven Greer ook wel, hoef je hem echt niet te vertellen, Alleen waarom komt hij hier zo laat mee?
Op galactic channelings.com / blossom goodchild staat een link naar de brief van dr steven greer,aan blossom. zeer de moeite waard. Gewoon zo als het is, en als je nu de luchten ziet zijn zij aardig aan het oefenen om de laatste troefkaart uit te spelen. mijn eigen gevoel zegt mij vlak voor of met kerst. groetjes H.
Er lijkt zich op dit moment een toename voor te doen van waarnemingen van vreemde lichten in de lucht. Het beperkt zich ook niet tot één land en ook in Nederland werden afgelopen vrijdagavond in de buurt van Den Haag vreemde lichten in de lucht waargenomen.
European Mars Lander Crash Caused by 1-Second Glitch: ESA
European Mars Lander Crash Caused by 1-Second Glitch: ESA
By Peter B. de Selding, Space News
Here's how ESA's Schiaparelli Mars entry, descent and landing experiment should have worked. Instead, an error in its inertial measurement unit infected its navigation system and caused the onboard computer to act as though it had already landed. In fact it was still 3.7 kilometers above the Mars surface.
Credit: ESA
PARIS — The European Space Agency (ESA) on Nov. 23 said itsSchiaparelli lander’s crash landing on Marson Oct. 19 followed an unexplained saturation of its inertial measurement unit (IMU), which delivered bad data to the lander’s computer and forced a premature release of its parachute.
Polluted by the IMU data, the lander’s computer apparently thought it had either already landed or was just about to land. The parachute system was released, the braking thrusters were fired only briefly and the on-ground systems were activated.
Instead of being on the ground, Schiaparelli was still 2.3 miles (3.7 kilometers) above the Mars surface. It crashed, but not before delivering what ESA officials say is a wealth of data on entry into the Mars atmosphere, the functioning and release of the heat shield and the deployment of the parachute — all of which went according to plan. [In Photos: Europe's Schiaparelli Mars Landing Day]
Awaiting a December go-ahead for ExoMars 2020
Schiaparelli was never intended to survive more than a few days on the Mars surface, but the crash-and-die scenario has nonetheless made for bad press in Europe, raising concern that ESA governments might struggle to find the 300 million euros ($330 million) needed to finish funding a 2020 mission with Russia.
That mission is the second half of the ExoMars program. The first half’s main component is the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which was successfully placed into Mars orbit and is functioning well. It will begin a series of maneuvers to reach is operational orbit at the end of 2017.
In addition to taking readings from the Mars atmosphere, the orbiter will be used to relay data from the European-built rover vehicle that is the showcase payload for the 2020 mission, to be launched by Russia. Russia is providing a landing package for that mission.
ESA governments are scheduled to meet Dec. 1-2 in Lucerne, Switzerland, to decide on a three- to five-year spending package covering most of the agency’s programs. But ExoMars will be one of the hot topics, as not all member states are eager to invest more in it.
Government officials said ESA is in fact missing about 400 million euros but would ask its member states for 300 million and find the remaining funds from within ESA's existing budget. It was not clear where those funds would be found.
The Italian Space Agency (ASI), which is ExoMars’ lead sponsor at ESA, has said the fate of the Schiaparelli lander has not dimmed its enthusiasm for ExoMars and that it would finance its expected 40 percent of the ExoMars package.
"ExoMars is extremely important for European science and exploration," ASI President Roberto Battiston said in a Nov. 23 statement. "Together with all the participating states in the program, we will work towards the successful completion of the second ExoMars mission."
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has also said it sees no reason to scrap the 2020 mission just because of a computer error that tarnished the lander mission’s last moments.
A one-second glitch and a 3,700-meter freefall
In its Nov. 23 statement, ESA said the saturation reading from Schiaparelli’s inertial measurement unit lasted only a second but was enough to play havoc with the navigation system.
"[T]he erroneous information generated an estimated altitude that was negative," ESA said. "That is, below ground level. This in turn successively triggered a premature release of the parachute and the back shell, a brief firing of the braking thrusters and finally activation of the on-ground systems as if Schiaparelli had already landed.
"In reality, the vehicle was still at an altitude of around 3.7 kilometers."
ESA said the sequence of events "has been clearly reproduced in computer simulations of the control system’s response to the erroneous information."
ESA’s director of human spaceflight and robotic exploration, David Parker, said in a statement that ExoMars teams are still sifting through the voluminous data harvest from the Schiaparelli mission, and that an external, independent board of inquiry, now being created, would release a final report in early 2017.
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.
Alpha Centauri Gets a New Moniker as 227 Star Names Are Clarified
Alpha Centauri Gets a New Moniker as 227 Star Names Are Clarified
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
According to a new official designation by the International Astronomical Union, the neighboring star system Alpha Centauri will be known as "Rigil Kentaurus." This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star system was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Image released Oct. 17, 2012.
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
"Alpha Centauri" is getting the boot. The longstanding star name has been displaced by its ancient counterpart in a new International Astronomical Union (IAU) catalog that designates 227 official names for different stars in the sky.
The move was intended to reduce confusion, according to the IAU. For instance, a star like Fomalhaut has at least 30 different names, so it's difficult to figure out what to call it — or even how to spell it. Variations over the years have included Fumalhaut, Fomalhut and even the unusual Fomal'gaut.
The IAU, which is the official arbiter of astronomical names, chose single names to refer to those stars that have historically had many. Some of the decisions may rattle longtime observers, however. For example, the binary star Alpha Centauri, which lies 4.35 light-years from the sun, is now known officially as "Rigil Kentaurus," the ancient name for the system. [What Do We Know About Alpha Centauri?]
Neighboring Proxima Centauri — the closest star to the sun, at just 4.22 light-years away — will keep its name, which will make it easier to keep track of the nearest exoplanet to Earth (which is currently known by the name Proxima b.)
In many cases, the names are the same as before; for instance, while Vega is reported to have dozens of different names, "Vega" will stand as the official name, echoing the decisions of star catalogs in the Western Hemisphere for centuries. Official alphanumeric designations for stars, which are used by professional astronomers, will remain the same.
"Since the IAU is already adopting names for exoplanets and their host stars, it has been seen as necessary to catalogue the names for stars in common use from the past, and to clarify which ones will be official from now on," Eric Mamajek, chair and organizer of the working group, said in a statement.
The decision comes after the IAU's working group on star names began combing the literature in May 2016 to determine which star names would be officially approved. The group favored one-word names as well as those names that had histories in astronomy, culture or the natural world. (Many star names, the IAU noted, have not changed much since the Renaissance and come from Greek, Latin and Arabic roots.)
"The group aims to decide which traditional star names from cultures around the world are the official ones, in order to avoid confusion," the IAU said in the statement. "Some of the most common names for the brightest and most famous stars in the sky had no official spelling, some stars had several names, and identical names were sometimes used for completely different stars altogether."
The full list of the 227 stars is available on the IAU's website. This catalog includes 18 star names that were approved in December 2015, 14 of them proposed and voted on by the public for the NameExoWorlds contest. The approved stellar names will not be available for asteroids, planetary satellites or exoplanets "so as to further reduce confusion," the IAU said of the listing.
Over the years, many explanations have been put forward to try to ‘solve’ the UFO enigma. Some sound very convincing, and others sound like a science fiction novel gone wrong. Not surprisingly, there never seems to be an answer that satisfies everyone.
At the dawn of ufology the USAF used experts to consider all manner of natural and man-made phenomena that might cause witnesses to think they had seen a UFO. The cases that remained unexplained were (a) regarded as the result of insufficient information being available for an adequate explanation, (b) ignored as implausible, or (c) were the work of hoaxers. The motives for hoaxers can be fame and fortune, social experimentation or simply the enjoyment of baffling people.
Another theory, which conditioned much of the thinking surrounding the US airship wave of 1896–97 and the early years of ufology, was that the UFOs were the product of human inventors working and experimenting in secret. Variations of this idea are that human inventors have been inspired by alien contacts and communications to build UFOs and develop related technology. In recent years ufology has embraced the concept that UFOs allegedly retrieved by the US government have been back-engineered and tested at Area 51.
Sceptics like Tim Printy, the editor of the US online SUNlite UFO newsletter, think that ‘the majority of UFO sightings are misperceptions of man-made and natural events. The remainder that cannot be readily explained are possibly hoaxes, hallucinations, observations of rare natural phenomena, or misperceptions that have been so distorted in the reporting that identification is extremely difficult.’
Nevertheless, most ufologists believe that there remains a kernel of ‘true’ UFOs, and therefore turn to more exotic or complex concepts to explain them. The default and most dominant idea – especially in the USA – is that UFOs come from outer space. The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) is far from being a new idea. The idea that life exists beyond our home planet has entertained and intrigued our minds for a long time.
The planet Mars has long been seriously considered as the most likely home of intelligent beings. This idea was given scientific credibility by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who intensively studied the planet in 1877, 1879 and 1881, and produced detailed charts that revealed networks of lines and ‘seas’ across its surface. He termed the long dark lines canali, meaning channels, but when translated into English they were erroneously called ‘canals’. He abandoned his observations in 1890 due to failing eyesight, but other astronomers confirmed the existence of Mars’ distinctive surface features.
In 1893, after studying occult phenomena in Japan, Percival Lowell returned to the USA to set up an observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona. In his book Mars, published two years later, he claimed that the planet is inhabited by intelligent beings, three times larger than we are. Considering that Mars is older than Earth, he postulated that Martian life was superior to our own, and that the canals were evidence that they were still in existence.
Today, of course, we know that his ideas are wrong. Psychoanalyst Charles Hofling asserted that Lowell’s observations were illusory; however, his rigorous use of logic to interpret his data was due to an idée fixe rather than delusions. When determining which came first, the idée fixe or the illusory observations, Hofling favoured the former, as he thinks Lowell already knew what he would see. Significantly, when Lowell used more powerful telescopes the canals were less visible.
Nonetheless, Mars was regarded as a viable habitat for alien life forms until, in the 1960s, these hopes were dashed when NASA’s Mariner space probes detected high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in its atmosphere. There is evidence that there was free-flowing water on Mars millions of years ago, which may well have supported living organisms at some point, but so far we have yet to find even the slightest hint of life on Mars, past or present.
In contrast to Mars, and the rest of the universe, Earth is teeming with life. Given that there are about 400 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy alone, it would be incredible if we were the only pocket of life in this infinitely small sector of the Universe.
Scientists have used radio telescopes to try to detect any signals that might reveal the existence of alien civilisations lurking within our part of the galaxy, but so far there has been a big fat silence. Despite this, SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) research has had a big boost from the discovery in October 1995 of a Hot Jupiter extrasolar planet in the Pegasus constellation, 50 light years away. Since then about 1,000 more extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) have been found, of which a quarter are in the habitable zone of their parent sun. Signs of any chemical signatures or the existence of oxygen in the atmosphere of these planets is currently being investigated to see if they might support any type of life, as we know it. This is a far cry from the aliens and visitors reported by UFO contactees and abductees, but at least it does show that the ETH is a scientifically valid concept.
Ancient Astronaut theories are a logical extension of the ETH. The stories of miraculous events and visions in the Christian Bible and other religious books have been eagerly reinterpreted as being accounts of alien visitations. Ancient structures like the Pyramids and Stonehenge are regarded as being inspired or even created by these Ancient Astronauts, and, as in Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, it is thought that they might have boosted our evolution, or even brought us to Earth in the first place. The evidence for this is patchy, and has been plundered from many different historical eras. As Roger Sandell wrote way back in 1973, when the books of Erich von Däniken were extremely popular (especially his Chariots of the Gods?), none of these theories ‘seems capable of producing evidence that at one particular time and place a unique interference with human history took place. Instead we are merely given a jumble of mysteries.’
The PSH
All in the mind? These are just some of the psychological processes that can produce or encourage the sighting of UFOs: • Sleep paralysis • Fantasy proneness • Hallucination • Hypnotic regression • Auto hypnosis • False memory syndrome • Subliminal peripheral vision psychosis • Fabrication and exaggeration • Temporal lobe epilepsy • Psychoanalytical factors • Mental illness • Psychological trauma • Boundary theory • Dissociative tendencies • Abuse • Masochism • Fantasy proneness • Birth trauma • Misperception and misinterpretation • Sensory deprivation • Mass hysteria
The psycho-sociological hypothesis (PSH) doesn’t have such a ring of authority to it as the ETH, and it is far more complex. It is more highly regarded by European ufologists, and considers UFOs to be created by a combination of psychological and sociological factors.
Psychoanalyst Carl Jung was the first to seriously consider UFO experiences as something more than sightings of spaceships or weather balloons. He regarded them as having a spiritual character that fulfilled the needs of the individual. Yet he also thought they could be solid, material craft from other planets. He hinted that our collective desire for salvation from the skies could bring about the physical manifestation of UFOs and aliens.
Ironically, it was US writer and UFO researcher John Keel who, through his influential book UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse and his many articles in Flying Saucer Review, helped wean a generation of British ufologists away from the ETH. He argued that UFO sightings are shaped and manipulated by the intelligences that control the phenomena. He called these entities ultraterrestrials, who are believed to be able to move up and down the electromagnetic spectrum. By these means they can appear and disappear from our limited human perception of the world.
Jacques Vallée and even J. Allen Hynek came to think that there was more to the subject than solid, physical spacecraft visiting us. In Passport to Magonia, Vallée agreed with Keel that the aliens have been visiting us for thousands of years in different forms, according to our beliefs and expectations. The ‘aliens’ have appeared as demons, fairies, goblins and dragons, as recorded in folklore, and they have travelled in phantom airships (as seen in the 1890s to 1920s), foo fighters (World War Two period) and ghost rockets (post-WW2), before they finally showed off their flying saucers. They seem to anticipate our own technological developments and challenge our notions of reality. According to this concept of ‘cultural tracking’ they seem to have been controlling and goading us throughout history.
In his excellent article Jules Verne and the Great Airship Scare, Ron Miller notes that the descriptions of phantom airships are very similar to the real and fictional aerial inventions of the period. He sums up the situation by stating that all the phantom airship sightings in the USA during 1896 to 1897 ‘could be either anomalous and amorphous phenomena, simple “bandwaggoning”, or even outright hoaxes. In other words, nothing that we haven’t seen taking place in so many modern UFO reports. Those of a century ago are different only in using 19th century visual references.’
From a sociological perspective, UFOs can highlight and represent wider social concerns. In the Cold War period, for example, they represented the fear of invasion by (literally) an alien army. Abductions in recent years represent our fears of being taken over by cold, anonymous forces that can control every element of our lives.
On a personal, psychological level UFO experiences can help people to articulate deeper subconscious fears or desires.
According to this hypothesis, Hollywood films, TV series, websites, books, magazines and other mass media have a big impact on our perception of UFOs. Peter Rogerson, Britain’s leading thinker on this subject, noted that the UFO mythology was ‘nurtured, not primarily by the absurd UFO cults, but by the professional myth-makers, the comics, films, science fiction writers, even advertisers. The first great contactee came … from Hollywood; in the form of the allegorical science-fiction drama The Day the Earth Stood Still.’
Birth trauma theory In the late 1970s, when claims of alien abduction were becoming more common, Dr Alvin Lawson and William McCall put forward the theory that such abductions are caused by birth trauma. To prove this, they hypnotically regressed a group of people who had no intimate knowledge of UFO phenomena and found that their accounts matched those of ‘real’ abductees.
To explain these similarities they argued that we all share the common experience of birth. As a validation of this view, they found that people who had normal births recalled UFO encounters that involved tubes and tunnels, which are symbolic of, or memories of, the birth canal.
Those who were born by Caesarean section do not seem to report UFO encounters with these elements.
UFO research and investigation itself goes through a number of filters, conditioned by ‘authorised myths’. British researcher Hilary Evans notes that these are ‘a belief or set of beliefs which, despite inadequate scientific evidence for its existence, obtains the sanction of widespread acceptance within the prevailing culture.’ For example, in the case of UFOs the authorised myth is that they are of extraterrestrial origin. This causes UFO witnesses to shape their sightings and experiences in terms of this myth. In turn, ufologists come along and add more evidence to support such claims, by correlating them with similar sightings and by ‘finding’ all types of supporting evidence to back them up.
In this way what starts off as a report of a simple CEI light in the sky can escalate into a full-blown CEIII or CEIV abduction report because the authorized myth triggers unconscious dreams and fantasies related to the expectations of the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH).
The main problem with these types of explanation for UFO experiences is that we have to consider a complex interaction between our mental processes – which are subject to illness, misperception, genetic predisposition, intoxication and trauma – and our culture, society, myths, beliefs, peer pressures and preconceptions.
Even the methods by which we use psychology to examine these processes in the pursuit of UFO investigations are conditioned by our culture. In the US there has been far more recourse to using polygraph tests, hypnotic regression and psychiatric or therapeutic counselling than in other countries.
In the British Magonia magazine, which has promoted the PSH since the early 1970s, Anthony Brown lambasted this type of approach to the subject. He claims: ‘The attitude of some sceptics in degrading and impugning the character of the average witness in ufology is a disgrace to the subject and of civilised behaviour to one’s fellow man. The essence of the Psychosocial Hypothesis is of cheapening the witness’s puzzling experience, and questioning their basic honesty as a human being.’
Sleep paralysis The work of Dr Jorge Conesa Sevilla, a neurocognitive and biosemiotic researcher, confirms that sleep paralysis (SP) can involve vividly experiencing floating, going through tunnels, seeing lights and hearing noises. Furthermore, these types of experience can be triggered by anxiety, tiredness and sleep deprivation, making them common in shift workers, truck drivers, hospital workers and other people who work long and odd hours.
Conesa also suggests that geomagnetic activity might trigger SP experiences, and that birth trauma memories might shape the imagery of those who interpret their SP experience in terms of an alien abduction. He also indicates that these experiences run through families, and that people can learn to use SP to have out of the body experiences, lucid dreams and shamanic journeys.Professor Christopher French, head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London, is a bit more circumspect about applying such all-embracing theories.
In his considered opinion: ‘I think that most claims of alien abduction involve an initial bizarre experience, such as an episode of sleep paralysis or highway hypnosis, that leads the individual concerned to postulate that perhaps they have experienced alien contact. That expectation may subsequently lead to the formation of a false memory for such an alien encounter.
However, we should be wary of proposing ‘one-size-fits-all’ explanations for this complex and fascinating phenomenon. It is undoubtedly true that some cases will require different explanations – including occasional deliberate hoaxes.
Exotic explanations
No single explanation has satisfied everyone, so perhaps a combination of explanations needs to be considered. You can take your pick’n’mix from this selection:
Living UFOs
Ufologist Trevor Constable pioneered the photography of UFOs using infrared film during the 1960s. He considered UFOs to be biological beings, which live in the sky. As they come closer to Earth they become more visible, and they can fire bolts of lightning to defend themselves. They are invisible to our eyes, but infrared film can capture images of them as they fly above us. Today some ufologists have adapted video cameras to capture infrared images of UFOs.
Virtual reality
UFOs could be holographic or quasi-solid projections from extraterrestrial or extradimensional aliens. Alternatively, our universe is a virtual reality created by aliens. UFOs come from beyond our simulated reality and indicate the falseness of our existence.
Time travelers
UFOs might be visiting us from our future, when time travel has become possible. Alternatively they are time machines created by aliens from other planets or dimensions who are coming from the future or even the past.
Paranormal and occult
Psychic phenomena, ghosts, invisible entities and poltergeists have all been associated with UFO and alien activity. Aliens have been contacted through Ouija boards, séances, mental telepathy and automatic writing. This suggests that the aliens live on the same astral planes as ghosts and other entities, or that they are created by similar psychological factors. Using meditation or even magic, some have tried to bring such mental projections into the real world.
The third realm
Rather than conjuring up UFOs, the third realm hypothesis suggests that they exist independently in a realm that has only been accessible to shamans through mystical means. Harvard professor John Mack claimed that modern science blinkers us from the third realm because it only accepts the reality of the first realm (the mind) and the second realm (the material world). People who experience UFO events glimpse the third realm.
Electronic pollution
Albert Budden put forward the theory that electronic and electrical pollution could affect 20% of the population. This pollution upsets our biochemistry and causes UFO and abduction hallucinations that warn us that our bodies are in danger.
Earth lights
Lights in the sky are caused by strains in the earth’s crust, according to this theory. These lights and related electromagnetic activity have an influence on the temporal lobes of our brains. People sensitive to these influences can experience mood changes, memory loss, rich fantasies and abduction-like experiences.
Plasma balls
The British Ministry of Defence’s Project Condign claimed that rare, short-lived plasma balls in the upper atmosphere could cause pilots to see ‘classic’ flying saucers. They could also create electromagnetic disruption to vehicles and elude radar detection. The report suggested that meteors are involved in their creation by an as yet unknown process.
Conspiracy
It is claimed that the US and other governments know all about the real origin of the aliens, and are in league with them to keep humanity in ignorance of the real situation. This information is suppressed because it could cause mass panics and completely disrupt our existence on this planet. Certainly government agencies have used the UFO mythology to spread disinformation and to hide the testing of aircraft and other highly secret activities. On a similarly sinister note, in the 1950s agencies like the FBI were worried that Communist supporters were using UFO and alien contact stories to undermine democratic values. For this reason they monitored the activities of ufologists and contactees who appeared to be spreading subversive ideas.
Summary
The psycho-sociological hypothesis covers a broad range of phenomena that governs our perceptions. At one end of the scale it can be used to speculate that our own minds can create or perceive ‘real’ aliens and their spacecraft; at the other end the PSH has inclined some ufologists to consider the subject as modern-day folklore. In the light of this, UFOs and the theories surrounding them constitute a UFO mythology, and it is in the realms of psychology and sociology that we should therefore concentrate our research.
Such research is important, because, as John Spencer notes in his book Perspectives: ‘The phenomenon has affected much of our modern society, our culture, our fiction, areas of our religion and much more. It has done this without proof of reality, people’s perception of the world has changed because of the existence of the literature, whether or not there is a basis in reality. This will continue into the future whether there is a foundation in reality or not, so long as people believe something.’
The extraterrestrial hypothesis is more clear-cut and simple. The problem for ETH proponents is finding scientifically valid evidence to back up their claims. The exopolitics movement that has arisen since 2000 assumes the fact that aliens from outer space are visiting us and are in regular contact with our governments. Their evidence relies heavily on rumours and stories from whistleblowers.
As ‘The Pelican’ perceptively notes in Magonia magazine: ‘The notion that the true explanations for sightings that remain unidentified after being investigated by Serious Ufologists is that they are alien craft, [and] is what makes ufology a pseudoscience. It is not just the nuts-and-bolts ETH Serious Ufologists who are rather flaky, but also those who seek more subtle explanations … all but a very few ufologists do not have a purely objective approach to the subject. And, of course, they usually get away with their dodgy hypotheses and tall stories.’
Certainly, ufologists, whether at the skeptical or believer ends of the spectrum, can easily have a tendency to have ‘dodgy hypotheses’. What is paramount is to look at the evidence itself and to consider the pros and cons of its validity. Unfortunately, many cases are invested with a power that transcends any rational arguments or logical explanations, and they become an established part of the UFO mythology.
What is really needed to confirm the ETH is incontrovertible proof, like an actual flying saucer parked on the White House lawn.
References
Brown, Anthony R. ‘The Decline and Fall of the Psychosocial Empire’ Magoniano 72, October 2000.
Evans, Hilary. ‘The Myth of the Authorised Myth’ Magonia no 16, July 1984, at: magonia.haaan.com/2009/myth/.
Haines, Richard (ed). UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist (Scarecrow, USA, 1979).
Hendry, Allan. The UFO Handbook (Doubleday, New York, 1979).
Hofling, Charles K. ‘Percival Lowell and the Canals of Mars’ British Journal of Medical Psychology vol 37, part 1, 1964.
Hufford, David J. The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1982).
Jung, Carl. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies(Routledge and Kegan Paul, ondon, 1959).
Keel, John. UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (Abacus, London, 1973).
Klass, Philip J. UFOs Explained (Random House, New York, 1974).
Miller, Ron. ‘Jules Verne and the Great Airship Scare’ International UFO Reporter vol 12, no 3, May–June 1987.
Moravec, Mark. ‘UFOs as Psychological and Parapsychological Phenomena’ in UFOs 1947–1987, compiled and edited by Hilary Evans and John Spencer (Fortean Tomes, London, 1987).
Pelican, The. ‘Declassing the Classics Magonia No 98, September 2008’, at: magonia.haaan.com/2011/declassing-the-classics-the-pelican/.
NIGEL WATSON has written for numerous magazines on paranormal subjects, such as Wired, History Today, Flying Saucer Review and UFO magazine. He also runs the website Talking Pictures and is the author of four books: The Alien Deception (2009), The Scareship Mystery (2000), Supernatural Spielberg (1992) and Portraits of Alien Encounters (1990).
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'UFOs: The Secret Evidence'
'UFOs: The Secret Evidence'
This 2 hour television programme set out to solve some of the great UFO mysteries, perhaps even provide a catch-all explanation for the whole field of Ufology. 'UFOs: The Secret Evidence' was written and presented by journalist Nick Cook, who has been an aviation editor and aerospace consultant for the world-renowned trade publication "Jane's Defence Weekly". His impeccable credentials might suggest a rather stuffy approach to the subject, but Nick Cook actually brings with him a down-to-earth, common sense approach which is refreshing. His stance on UFOs seems open-minded and objective. He also manages to gain interviews with some very intriguing individuals from the aerospace and intelligence fields.
The programme started by asserting that UFO reports began during the Second World War. This is an incorrect assertion, unfortunately, ignoring a wealth of historical evidence dating back centuries. Still, it's probably fair to say that the first official military reports on the subject were generated in the 1940s, and that is the focus of Nick's investigation. He tackled the phenomenon of the 'Foo Fighters' reported by airmen during WWII and, with John Dering (a senior scientist at SARA), considered the possibility that the Nazis were sending up prototype Unmanned Aerial Vehicles which were "reusable"!
A bizarre technological artefact known as 'the Fly Trap' was visited, and the theory that it was a test-rig for Nazi flying saucers was discussed. This was in the context of a secret Nazi underground base where derro-like scientists played with glowing bell-shaped devices which seemed to defy gravity. This was research which led to the death of several scientists, allegedly.
Then we moved onto the Roswell incident, via the infamous U.S. defence programme to incorporate Nazi scientists into sensitive research areas (like White Sands Missile Range), known as Operation Paperclip. The Roswell incident resulted, it was alleged, from a top secret defence programme known as 'Sky Hook', which sent up advanced surveillance balloons. Its flight path took it over Roswell, and when one crashed the UFO story was sprung to hide the truth about 'Sky Hook' from the Soviets.
This is a running theme throughout Nick Cook's thesis. Whatever the truth behind the wider phenomenon, the subject was used mercilessly by intelligence agencies in the psychological war with the Soviet Union. This occurred to such an extent that UFOs became part of American culture for a long while; as a propaganda instrument UFOs were unrivalled in their success, it was claimed. Not only that, but the U.S. then used UFO flaps as a means to track the progress of their experimental craft.
It all sounds like those clever military intelligence people had their finger on the pulse all along! This rose-tinted view of UFO history, US of A-style, was backed up by various characters from the Intelligence field interviewed by Nick Cook, who all smiled knowingly as they openly revealed the deepest secrets of military intelligence to the public. "We suckered you all, you fools!" they arrogantly insinuated. But this version of history runs against the grain of the U.S. Government's public panic over the subject at the time, as revealed in various memos that have come to light.
After the death of the brutal Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, the CIA upped the ante, using UFOs as a propaganda tool to cover up the top secret flights of the U2 spy-plane over the Soviet Union. It didn't work, of course, because the Soviets shot one down. One would have expected the UFO phenomenon to stop dead in its tracks at that point. But, no, on it went, cruelly ignoring the whole CIA/Propaganda theory.
So various other aerospace oddities are wheeled out of their hangers to shock and amaze us. Like the 'Avro Car', and the 'Silver Bug'. There is something to be said for the idea that sightings of UFOs at or near sensitive aerospace research establishments might just have something to do with what's going on there. Policeman Lonnie Zamora might have seen a 'Silver Bug', or a downed prototype Sampler destined for the Moon, next to White Sands, for instance.
The Russians certainly seemed to be well and truly hooked on UFOs, with Andropov ordering the Red Army to watch the skies, which they did dutifully for 13 years. But the canny Russians would have known that the Americans liked to regularly risk their young pilots on surveillance missions across Soviet territory, despite already having spy satellite technology quite sufficient for the task. There's more to all this than meets the eye. Yes, Stealth aircraft undoubtedly contributed to UFO sightings. But that's not the whole story.
And Nick Cook seems to realise that too. The first hint of that came when watching the uncomfortable reaction of British sceptics Andy Roberts and Dave Clarke to his gentle questioning. They were not amongst friends, one could judge. Then his appraisal of the eye-witness account of pilot Tom Hanley, who described the incredible manoeuvring capability of an unidentified flying object darting around his reconnaissance aircraft, seemed to open up greater potentials than the US military dangerously interfering with its own advanced aircraft.
The 1952 flap over Washington D.C. also brought about a pause for thought. Nick Cook is not a dyed-in-the-wool sceptic by any means.
He then tackled subsidiary subjects, like cattle mutilations across stretches of the continental USA. He concluded that these were covert missions carried out by military agents using helicopters and field-based surgical equipment, to monitor contamination levels of some kind. It would have been easier to just buy some cattle and then take body parts to the lab for analysis, I'd have thought. But ten out of ten for style, that's for sure.
Then there was the alien abduction phenomenon, which is a massive subject in its own right. Nick Cook looked at the Travis Walton case, including an excellent interview with the man himself. No explanation was forthcoming, except for a generalised gloss over the experiences of the Contactees some years before. Perhaps to try to indict the U.S. Government in human experiments against the will, or knowledge, of the victims involved, was a step too far for Cook. The U.S. Government's dismissive contempt for the great, impoverished mass of its own people has been clear to see for many years, most recently noted during the Hurricane Katrina debacle. So it's possible, surely?
'UFOs: The Secret Evidence" wound up with a look at satellite photographs showing contrails from an unidentified craft which flew halfway across the globe at 8000mph. 'Aurora' was the modern UFO par excellence, it seems. But however fast these things get, the fact remains that the difficulty with identifying many UFOs lies in their bizarre patterns of manoeuvrability. If the Nazis created the Foo Fighters back in the 1940s, then why the heck are we still flying around in fixed wing aircraft 60 years later? It all seems so unlikely. Yes, UFOs were a wonderful cover story to hide black projects behind, but the black projects in themselves do not completely solve the UFO problem. Not by a long chalk. In the end, Nick Cook seemed to agree.
UFO Hunters Discover “Alien Structures” on Mercury
UFO Hunters Discover “Alien Structures” on Mercury
Truth researchers found what they call alien buildings after looking through NASA photos from Jet Propulsion Laboratory team, who send robotic probes for the Solar System exploration.
Experts claim that the discovery of alien buildings on the first rock from the Sun isn’t the first time.
Pictures seem to show 17 structures in dome shape around the craters’ edges on Mercury.
Bumps across the surface of the planet are found in photos taken from one of NASA’s orbiters.
However, instead of considering them as natural formations, some UFO hunters believe these dome-shaped structures are of alien origin.
Just last week, some extraterrestrial enthusiasts identified an alien moon base in pictures taken from lunar orbiter of NASA.
Referring to the dome-shaped formations, truth seekers suggest these structures show something other than what scientists think.
Mercury has temperature highs of about 900C and lows of -173C. Life, as we know it, would be almost impossible to exist in the smallest planet of the Solar System. Furthermore, liquid water cannot exist on its surface.
The planet also experiences frequent solar storms and asteroid impacts.
Last month, the European/Russian-built Schiaparelli lander crashed headlong into Mars after suffering a software glitch mere minutes before its planned touchdown in the Meridiani Planum region of the planet. The 49-by-131 foot blackened crater it left on the Martian surface is a reminder that landing robots on alien worlds is no easy feat.
Schiaparelli, rest in pieces.
Image: NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter/ESA
Indeed, the tradition of crashing robots on Mars dates back to the Soviet probe Mars 2, which became the first human-made object to reach the Red Planet’s surface on November 27, 1971 (45 years ago this Sunday). Much like its descendent Schiaparelli, Mars 2 did not stick its landing.
Though it had sailed safely across the interplanetary expanse for six months and successfully separated from the orbital module, the lander encountered a stroke of bad luck during its descent phase, which happened to coincide with one of the strongest and longest dust storms on record at that time.
Hurtling through the tumultuous skies at a much steeper angle than expected, Mars 2 failed to deploy its parachutes and fatally smashed into the surface somewhere around 45 degrees south and 313 degrees west. The lander’s remains have never been found, and were possibly buried by the prolonged gusts of dusty weather (which lasted well into January 1972).
Its identical sister ship, Mars 3, fared somewhat better when it touched down five days later on December 2, and radioed back to Earth that it was safely on the Martian surface. It even sent back a grainy photograph and some environmental readings.
Image of Martian surface, captured by Mars 3 lander on December 3, 1971.
Image: Soviet Academy of Sciences
But within 20 seconds, the probe’s transmissions stopped, possibly because the lander may have blown over by the same severe winds that had doomed its sibling spacecraft. It is unclear whether Mars 3 had time to unleash the delightfully weird Prop-M mobile robot, which had hitched a ride on both landers, before contact was lost. If so, it would have been the first time a rover concept had been tried out on the planet (check out minute 8:40 of the below video to watch a simulation of its deployment; it’s worth your time).
Within a week, the Soviet space program had attained two back-to-back Mars milestones—the first crash-landing, followed by the first soft-landing—but those successes were overshadowed by the fact that neither lander survived long enough to record comprehensive data about its otherworldly surroundings.
Renewed Russian attempts to land another pair of robots, Mars 6 and 7, on the planet in 1974 also ended in disappointment. Mars 6 suffered a communications failure mere seconds before its touchdown, while Mars 7 missed the planet entirely. In the end, NASA snagged the honor of establishing the first long-term surface operations on Mars in 1976, when the American Viking 1 and 2 probes soft-landed in the Chryse Planitia and Utopia Planitia regions respectively.
First clear picture from the Martian surface, taken by Viking 1. Image: NASA
Four decades later, and NASA remains the only organization to have successfully landed operational vehicles on Mars (though the US has experienced some painful failures there too).
But just because Mars 2 blasted itself into oblivion 45 years ago hardly means it is unworthy of celebration. Reaching the Martian surface so early in the space age is a feat unto itself, especially given the extenuating circumstances of epic dust storms.
Ex-Chinese Government Official Confirms Aliens and UFOs Are Real
Ex-Chinese Government Official Confirms Aliens and UFOs Are Real
UFOs and aliens have been discussed in all walks of life for many decades. This year alone, there are hundreds of UFO sightings reported from different parts of the world, and some of them were from former government officials.
Now, a new claim has surfaced, this time from a former Chinese official who said some of UFO sightings could be real.
Shi-Li Sun, an ex-government diplomat in China, has created exciting news among alien UFO enthusiasts and researchers. The official shared some information during a disclosure hearing. He said that ET life and intelligent aliens are true.
He went on to say that government has substantial proof or evidence that aliens and UFOs have been here on Earth for many years. Shi-Li Sun’s disclosure took place at a recent Paradigm Research Group (PRG)’s UFO disclosure summit organized by Stephen Bassett.
The head of the World Chinese UFO Federation, Shi-Li Sun, claimed he, along with Chinese UFO scholars and researchers, has been studying all pieces of evidence for years. They concluded that UFOs and aliens are authentic.
According to reports, Shi-Li Sun has written various articles on the subject of UFOs and aliens, which have appeared in China’s Encyclopedia, edited by Shen Shituan, a prestigious Chinese scientist.
Shi-Li Sun once claimed that aliens have been here on Earth since many years ago and they are now living among humans. These aliens are difficult to recognize because they are disguised as humans, added Shi-Li.
Verbijsterende documentaire toont connectie tussen oude bouwwerken en de sterren
Verbijsterende documentaire toont connectie tussen oude bouwwerken en de sterren
Al eeuwenlang spreken de zeven wereldwonderen tot de verbeelding en één in het bijzonder: de Grote Piramide in Egypte.
Men veronderstelt dat de piramide diende als grafmonument voor farao Cheops. Was dat ook echt zo?
Er is immers nooit een sarcofaag, een mummie of een spoor van grafschatten gevonden.
Twijfelen
Regisseur Patrice Pooyard raakte ook gefascineerd door dit monumentale bouwsel, dat al zo lang onze aarde siert.
Hij was onder de indruk van het feit dat de Egyptenaren dit enorme aardbevingbestendige bouwwerk in slechts 20 jaar gemaakt zouden hebben met als enige gereedschap een hamer en een stenen beitel.
Toch begon Pooyard te twijfelen aan deze aannames, die al jaren vanzelfsprekend zijn. Ook trok hij in twijfel dat de piramide van Gizeh een grafmonument was.
Hele wereld
Door een ingewijde werd hij aangespoord om op onderzoek uit te gaan, niet alleen in Egypte.
De ingewijde raadde hem aan om ook andere archeologische plaatsen van betekenis verspreid over de hele wereld te bezoeken.
Het werd een reis van Paaseiland naar Peru, van China naar Mexico en uiteindelijk bracht het onderzoek hem opnieuw naar Egypte.
Sterren
Het blijkt dat de locatie van veel oude bouwwerken overeenkomt met de positie van bepaalde sterren.
Pooyard legde zijn bevindingen vast in een fascinerende documentaire, die sinds kort op YouTube is te zien.
Scifi-schrijvers weten het wel: het zijn groene mannetjes met grote ogen. Maar hoe denken wetenschappers daar nu over?
Aliens. Al decennialang wordt er gespeculeerd over hoe ze eruit zullen zien. Tijdens de opkomst van de science-fiction werden ze afgebeeld als de typische groene mannetjes met grote ogen, maar nu de ontdekking van buitenaards leven steeds dichterbij komt, krijgen wetenschappers een beter beeld van onze ‘first encounter‘. En nee, het lijkt er niet op dat ze aan de verwachtingen van de scifi-schrijvers voldoen.
Ooit was Mars warm en vochtig en wellicht zelfs leefbaar. Vandaag de dag is de rode planeet koud en droog. Grote vraag is of eventueel buitenaards leven zich op zo’n koude en droge planeet weet te redden.
Afbeelding: NASA / The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA).
In ons zonnestelsel Onze eigen planeet heeft ideale omstandigheden voor leven. Veel water en andere belangrijke grondstoffen, een vrij constante comfortabele temperatuur en Jupiter beschermt ons tegen veel meteorietinslagen. Deze omstandigheden zijn uniek in ons zonnestelsel en om de equivalent van de groene mannetjes te vinden, zullen we dus ver van huis moeten zoeken. Als we hopen buitenaards leven te vinden in ons eigen zonnestelsel zullen we moeten zoeken in de extreme omstandigheden die planeten en manen in de buurt te bieden hebben. Leven op een met metersdikke laag ijs bedekte maan of een kurkdroge rode planeet lijkt onmogelijk, maar als we kijken in wat voor extreme omstandigheden sommige aardbewoners leven dan wordt buitenaards leven binnen ons zonnestelsel ineens plausibel.
In de kou Neem Psychromonas. Dit is een bacterie die in arctische gebieden op ijsschotten leeft. Groei van deze bacterie is geobserveerd bij maar liefst -12ºC. Mensen moeten hun lichaamstemperatuur op 37ºC houden, omdat anders hun enzymen te langzaam gaan werken en de stofwisseling tot stilstand komt. Deze bacterie onderhoudt echter een actieve stofwisseling en weet zelfs te groeien in de vrieskou. Hiervoor zijn grote aanpassingen in de moleculaire machinerie van de cel – de eiwitten – nodig. De eiwitten van deze bacteriën bestaan uit flexibele onderdelen, zodat deze op lage temperaturen en dus met weinig energie hun taak nog kunnen uitvoeren. Deze eiwitten zitten zo los in elkaar dat ze op gematigde temperaturen van 20ºC al denatureren (hun ruimtelijke structuur verliezen). -12ºC is de laagste temperatuur waarop nog groei geobserveerd is, maar dit betekent niet dat op nog lagere temperaturen geen leven kan bestaan. Een actieve stofwisseling is gemeten bij temperaturen tot wel -39ºC.
In de hitte Aan de andere kant van het spectrum staan de thermofielen. Dit zijn organismen die gedijen bij extreem hoge temperaturen. De onderzoeksgroep van persoonlijk hoogleraar dr. Huub op den Camp heeft zo’n thermofiel geïsoleerd uit een modderpoel in een vulkanisch gebied. De modderpoel had niet alleen een hoge temperatuur (55-60ºC), maar was ook nog eens enorm zuur met een pH-waarde van 1! Om in deze omstandigheden te overleven, zijn grote aanpassingen nodig. De mechanistische aanpassingen die nodig zijn om bij die pH te kunnen overleven zijn nog niet helemaal bekend en dit onderzoeken Op den Camp en collega’s dan ook nog. Een lage pH wordt veroorzaakt door een hoge concentratie protonen, ook wel H+. “Normaal wordt een concentratieverschil in protonen gebruikt om ATP (de brandstof van de cel, red.) te genereren, maar in deze bacterie kan dit niet,” aldus professor Op den Camp. Hoe deze bacteriën dan wel ATP genereren is nog niet bekend, maar professor Op en Camp heeft zijn vermoedens. “Waarschijnlijk gebruikt deze bacterie andere ionen, zoals natrium of kalium, om ATP te generen.” Over de aanpassingen aan de hoge temperaturen is meer bekend. Normaal denatureren eiwitten bij deze temperaturen, maar thermofielen maken hun eiwitten extra rigide met behulp van bijvoorbeeld zwavelbruggen. Door deze extra verbindingen is er meer energie en dus een hogere temperatuur nodig om deze eiwitten te ontvouwen.
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Wetenschappers vinden micro-organismen in de meest extreme omstandigheden, maar soms is hun ontdekking toch minder extreem dan geclaimd. Zo vond NASA in 2010 in een giftig meer de bacterie Halomonadaceae. Dit meer bevatte een hoge concentratie arsenicum en juist een lage concentratie fosfor. Fosfor is een essentieel onderdeel van DNA en NASA claimde dat deze bacterie zijn DNA niet met fosfor, maar met het arsenicum maakte. Deze ontdekking zou een enorme stap zijn geweest in de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven. Helaas bleek de ‘ontdekking’ uiteindelijk veel minder spannend dan gedacht. De bacterie was arsenicum-tolerant, maar gebruikte het zeker niet voor zijn DNA.
Radioactieve straling als energiebron De temperaturen waarbij leven kan bestaan, varieert dus van arctische vrieskou tot vulkanische modder. Dit is een best breed scala aan temperaturen die op veel hemellichamen in het zonnestelsel gevonden kunnen worden. Er zijn echter nog meer vereisten dan een goede temperatuur. Voor leven zijn ook de juiste grondstoffen en energie nodig. Voor de meeste aardbewoners is zonlicht de primaire energiebron. Deze energie wordt vastgelegd met behulp van fotosynthese. Ook zijn er micro-organismen die anorganische stoffen als primaire energiebron gebruiken. Desulforudis audaxviator bewijst dat het nog extremer kan. Deze bacterie is gevonden op 3 kilometer diepte in een mijn in Zuid-Afrika. Op deze diepte vind je geen zonlicht om als energiebron te dienen, maar wat je er wel vindt, is uranium en andere radioactieve stoffen. Voor D. audaxviator is de energie die vrijkomt bij het radioactief verval van uranium de primaire energiebron. De radioactieve straling zorgt ervoor dat er moleculaire waterstof en ander biologisch relevante stoffen gevormd worden die D. audaxviator kan gebruiken.
Interessante theorie De vondst van deze bacterie leidde tot een interessante theorie. Het heelal kent kosmische straling. Deze straling is overal aanwezig en bestaat vooral uit protonen van buiten ons zonnestelsel. Wanneer deze straling in aanraking komt met een atmosfeer ontstaan er meerdere subatomaire deeltjes. Deze deeltjes kunnen, mits ze genoeg energie bevatten, tot diep in de bodem penetreren en dezelfde reacties veroorzaken als de straling van uranium. In theorie zou kosmische straling dus de primaire energiebron voor bepaalde levensvormen kunnen zijn.
“WATER IS EEN ABSOLUTE VEREISTE VOOR LEVEN ZOALS WIJ DAT KENNEN”
Vloeibaar water De temperatuur en de energiebron waarop leven kan bestaan, kunnen dus extreme vormen aannemen, maar zoals gezegd zijn er ook nog de juiste grondstoffen nodig. De belangrijkste grondstof voor leven op aarde is water. Bijna alle belangrijke metabolische omzettingen vereisen water. De reacties voor het maken van eiwitten en suikerketens, fotosynthese en veel andere processen; allemaal vereisen ze water. Daarom wordt er ook zo veel moeite gestoken in de zoektocht naar water op Mars. Hard bewijs dat er vroeger of misschien heden ten dage vloeibaar water op Mars stroomt, is een belangrijke aanwijzing voor de mogelijkheid van buitenaards leven op Mars. In de afgelopen jaren zijn er veel missies naar Mars geweest en dat in het verleden vloeibaar water op Mars heeft bestaan achten de betrokken wetenschappers vrijwel zeker. Meer recent bewijs van onder andere de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) ondersteunt de hypothese dat er vandaag de dag vloeibaar water op Mars aanwezig is. Met behulp van simulaties hebben onderzoekers van het Planetary Science Institute ook aangetoond dat een waterlichaam van 3 meter diep gedurende een heel Marsjaar gedeeltelijk vloeibaar kan blijven.
Saturnus’ maan Titan.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
Methaan? Dat water essentieel is voor leven leidden we af uit de organismen die we kennen. Deze aardbewoners gebruiken allemaal water. Dat is eigenlijk ook niet vreemd voor een planeet waar ongeveer 75% van het oppervlak uit water bestaat. Maar wat als er nou leven kan bestaan dat niet gebaseerd is op water, maar een andere vloeistof? Waar de aarde water heeft, heeft Titan methaan. Titan is een maan van Saturnus en kent meren, zeeën en regen. Alleen bestaan deze uit vloeibaar methaan. Het kookpunt van methaan is -164ºC, dus op Titan is het aardig koud. Wetenschappers aan de Cornell University hebben een heel nieuw theoretisch metabolisme bedacht dat kan plaatsvinden op de koude en methaanrijke planeet. Dit metabolisme is gebaseerd op stikstof in plaats van koolstof. Waar celmembranen bij aardbewoners bestaan uit fosfolipiden bestaan membranen bij deze hypothetische aliens uit organische stikstofverbindingen die kunnen functioneren bij -164ºC. Een groot probleem bij deze lage temperaturen is dat chemische reacties enorm vertragen. “Bij zo’n lage temperaturen (op Titan) vertragen chemische omzettingen enorm en zullen organismen zich dus veel langzamer vermenigvuldigen,” aldus Op den Camp. Dit maakt het bestaan van deze hypothetische organismen echter niet onmogelijk.
Een hydrothermale bron in de Atlantische Oceaan.
Afbeelding: P. Rona / NOAA (via Wikimedia Commons).
Leven op de oceaanbodem Europa, een maan van Jupiter, is een andere interessante kandidaat voor buitenaards leven. In eerste instantie lijkt dit vreemd, want het gehele oppervlak van deze maan is bedekt met metersdik ijs. Wat deze maan interessant maakt, is dat deze maan geologisch actief is. Dit betekent dat onder al dat ijs veel energie vrijkomt. Ook wordt er vermoed dat zich onder de ijslaag een oceaan van vloeibaar water bevindt. We weten dat er op de bodem van de aardse oceanen leven is. Dit leven is zeer anders dan aan het oppervlak. Op deze grote diepte dringt geen licht door en dus vindt er ook geen fotosynthese plaats. Er is dus een andere energiebron nodig. Deze energie komt van hydrothermale bronnen. Bij deze bronnen ontsnapt er een heet mengsel van energierijke inorganische stoffen vanuit de aardkern de oceaan in. Rond deze hydrothermale bronnen ontstaan hele ecosystemen. Er bevinden zich garnalen, kokerwormen, krabben en schelpdieren. Deze kunnen de energie van de hydrothermale bron echter niet zelf gebruiken. Waar bij ons planten de energie vastleggen, doen bij de hydrothermale bronnen micro-organismen dit met behulp van chemosynthese. Deze organismen kunnen energierijke zwavelverbindingen gebruiken voor groei. Deze zwavelverbinding kennen wij beter als het stofje dat de geur van rotte eieren veroorzaakt. Die hydrothermale bronnen op de bodem van de aardse oceanen heeft onderzoekers aan het denken gezet en doen concluderen dat de hierboven genoemde maan Europa dus een interessante kandidaat voor buitenaards leven is. En wel omdat de maan – dankzij zijn geologische activiteit – waarschijnlijk een equivalent van hydrothermale bronnen kent. En de hydrothermale bronnen op de aarde hebben bewezen dat de energie die uit de bronnen komt, leven kan ondersteunen.
Europa, een maan van Jupiter.
Afbeelding: NASA.
De extreme levensvormen op aarde laten wel zien dat leven mogelijk is onder zeer onherbergzame omstandigheden. Vergelijkbare omstandigheden zijn te vinden op meerdere andere locaties in ons zonnestelsel. Het vele onderzoek op Mars laat ook zien dat leven op deze rode planeet in het verleden en misschien zelfs in het heden tot de mogelijkheden behoort door de aanwezigheid van water. Onze first encounter is dan ook waarschijnlijk niet met groene mannetjes, maar met een micro-organisme dat ergens op een onherbergzame planeet wordt opgeschept door een robot. Ziet deze alien er aards uit? Of toch wereldvreemd? Dat laten we voor nu nog in het midden. Misschien gebruikt het water en fosfolipiden net als wij, maar wellicht lijkt het meer op dat theoretische organisme op de bodem van een vloeibaar methaanmeer.
Bas Cartigny (1993) heeft recentelijk zijn studie biotechnologie afgerond aan de Wageningen Universiteit. Gedurende zijn studie heeft hij zich gespecialiseerd in de microbiologie en de moleculaire biologie. Hij heeft dan ook onderzoek gedaan aan de universiteit in deze richting. Zijn onderzoek richtte zich met name op de het bacteriële immuunsysteem CRISPR-Cas, dat ook gebruikt wordt als tool voor genoommodificatie. Ook heeft hij onderzoek verricht naar schimmels en de implementatie van fotosynthese in E. coli.
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The United States needs to find a way to play nice with China and Russia in space even in times when Earthly relations are strained, American military officials urge. The space junk problem — half a million small pieces of debris orbiting the planet at speeds up to 17,500 miles per hour — threatens all space-faring nations and demands a concerted effort.
“We need to be able to operate in space both to advance our state of technology and eventually get the human race off this planet onto another planet,” saidWinston Beauchamp, the deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for space, at a defense summit last week. “We can’t do that if we have to try to fly through a shell of debris.”
Space debris suffers from a classic tragedy of the commons. All countries with satellites or space labs would benefit from cleaning up the mess, but everyone would prefer that someone else do the dirty work.
The space junk is mostly small, but even something the size of a paint chip could threaten a satellite if it hit the wrong spot. Some of it is remnants of defunct satellites, but there’s plenty of natural debris out there as well. It’s difficult to keep track of, and harder to get rid of. Various organizations have suggested blasting it away with laser beams, capturing it with an orbiting waste bin, or pulling it towards Earth so it burns up in the atmosphere.
The Air Force only recently took over operational control of the Space Surveillance Telescope, which tracks orbiting debris, from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It’s clear the military wants to nip any potential diplomatic issues in the bud.
“There is an erosion of some of the commonly accepted standards and norms, and there’s concern about that as folks around the world have tried to find advantage, find seams,” said Beauchamp. “That’s part of the reason why we want to codify our norms and behavior in space because it is such an important domain, not just for us but for humanity.”
“Everything is about not having a war extend to space,” said Rear Adm. Brian Brown, head of the Navy Space Cadre, at the summit.
Five years ago, the Curiosity rover embarked on a journey to explore one of our closest planetary neighbors, Mars. The intrepid explorer blasted off into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on November 26, 2011. After surviving a 253-day journey, and a harrowing seven minutes of terror, the car-sized rover touched down on the red planet’s surface to help scientists uncover clues about the planet’s history. Here’s a look at some of its top discoveries.
1. Meteorites on Mars
Earlier this month, Curiosity surprised scientists when it stumbled upon on interesting find: a small metallic meteorite subsequently dubbed “Egg Rock”. While meteorites on Mars are common, this one’s smooth surface is not. The data collected will provide details about how meteorites are affected when exposed to the Martian environment for long periods of time, which fits with Curiosity’s newest science goal: to investigate how ancient environmental conditions changed over time.
2. Volcanoes Shaped the Landscape
Curiosity data shows that Mars wasn’t always a barren wasteland. In the past, the red planet was geologically active, featuring a host of volcanoes, which gave Mars a major facelift forever changing the surface of the planet.
3. Ancient Lakes on Mars
Curiosity discovered mudstone in Gale Crater which indicates that at some point in its history, a large standing lake existed. This evidence supported an earlier hypothesis that the base of Mars’s Mount Sharp was formed by layers of sediment deposited in a lake. This discovery bolsters the chance that scientists may one day find evidence of life.
Murray Buttes resembles the Grand Canyon here on Earth.
4. Martian Views
Over the years, Curiosity has provided us with a rover-eye-view of the red planet, and as the robotic explorer traversed the Martian surface, we were treated to spectacular views that rivaled what we would find here on Earth — namely the Murray Buttes. These eroded sandstone formation provide intriguing insight into Martian geology, telling a story of how the landscape evolved over time.
5. Mars Once Had an Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere
Mars used to have a lot more oxygen than scientists thought. Curiosity’s ChemCam instrument detected high levels of manganese oxide in rocks that lined the Kimberly region of Gale Crater. This evidence supports the idea that free oxygen once flowed across the Martian surface, during a period when the planet was warmer and its surface was teeming with vast lakes and oceans.
THE OTHERS: NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE KNOWN TYPES OF ALIENS RACES
THE OTHERS: NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE KNOWN TYPES OF ALIENS RACES
There is a list of alleged alien races that have been reported during the meetings of the 3rd grade and 4th grade, speculated to be associated with UFOs or imagined possible.
UFOs are evident flying objects believed to have remained unidentified popular in terms of existing technology and provenance even after rigorous testing of identification. More observations and studies, testimonies of people who were abducted by aliens, and reports that representatives of the US armed forces have drafted as a result of events related to aliens, have led some experts to carry a list of species of aliens trying to control our planet.
Syrians come from Sirius B Galaxy and are one of the oldest extraterrestrial civilizations. They gave medical information and astronomice. The great ancient Egyptians pyramids were built with their help. Syrians had links with the Mayan people, contributing to his disappearance, but not before allowing them famous crystal skulls. The civilization of Atlantis benefited from the Syrians, until a time when aliens caused the disappearance of Atlantis. In many military reports, they are mentioned projects that unfolds over a technology that Syrians have offered to americans.
Little Grey is known as Zeta Reticulieni. They are the most famous and according to statistics, they made the most kidnappings people. Alpha Draconienii - they are a species of reptilian very dangerous to humans. They are the first intelligent species in the Milky Way. They are considered legitimate conductors of races less evolved.
Reptilians interacted with people for a long time. In some cases it helped mankind, but most often they destroyed everything mankind had built thousands of years. They infiltrated the highest positions so that they lead and decide the destiny of our planet.
Annunakis elitist creatures who came from the planet Rizq. When their planet was destroyed they created an intergalactic ship called Nibiru. They came to Earth a million years ago in search of gold. Because they needed labor, they created mankind. I inherited them from violence, rancor, all of which are contained in our DNA altered.
To see more known types of aliens you can watch this documentary:
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THE GENES OF THIS TRIBE CARRY A DNA OF A THIRD UNKNOWN HUMAN SPECIES
THE GENES OF THIS TRIBE CARRY A DNA OF A THIRD UNKNOWN HUMAN SPECIES
New evidence found by scientists has started to suggest that the people living on the islands of Melanesia could have human DNA the world has never seen.
The theory is that the DNA does not come from a Neanderthal or Denisovan (which are the two ancient species we most closely relate humans with). Scientists believe that they come from a new undiscovered species that derived from the South Pacific, northeast of Austrailia.
IS THERE A NEW "HUMAN" SPECIES WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED?
Bohlender a scientist who studies DNA and its historical significance conducted a study looking at humans and how they are linked to Neanderthals and Denisovans. He concluded that at this current point we are not looking at humans ancient history fully.
Bohlender is not saying we are not closely connected to Neanderthals and Denisovans but that we have a connection with another species that is unidentified. It is common knowledge that 100,000+ years ago our ancestors migrated out of Africa and were introduced to other hominid species living in Europe and similar areas.
We see this through various studies that state we have anywhere between 1.5 to 5 percent of out DNA. As well a study done this year linked DNA from Neanderthals to diseases (i.e. Depression, heart attacks, etc.) and that HPV was transmitted between Neanderthals and Denisovans.
Through these highly credible sources, Bohlender estimates that what we know about the history of Neanderthals could be quite different. He states that because of these various things that happened to the Neanderthals and their significant species timeline there must have been more connections we do not know about.
This is where Bohlender introduces his third species that had a critical role is there period and can help explain why we have unknown DNA in humans. Although all of these may be true we do not have that much are evidence that this third species even existed.
Only a few teeth, bones and missing links have been found. This does not mean that there are a whole different species waiting to be discovered because we do not have enough proof or peer review to stamp this information factual.
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Duiker Sean Smyrichinsky trof vorige maand een vreemd voorwerp aan op de zeebodem in de buurt van Haida Gwaii, een eilandengroep voor de Canadese westkust. De man bracht de Canadese marine op de hoogte en experts vermoedden dat het wel eens om een verloren gewaande kernbom uit 1950 zou kunnen zijn. Dat blijkt na verder onderzoek toch niet het geval te zijn.
"Ik heb iets heel raars gevonden, ik denk dat het een ufo is," grapte Smyrichinsky vorige maand over zijn bizarre vondst, die hij omschreef als een groot metalen voorwerp in de vorm van een bagel.
Een collega-duiker suggereerde dat het om een kernbom kon gaan die vermist is sinds een Amerikaanse bommenwerper in 1950 crashte. Experts bij de marine hechtten geloof aan die hypothese.
Op 22 november ging de HCMS Yellowknife, een Canadees marineschip ter plaatse, in het gezelschap van de duiker. Na nader onderzoek van het wrak bleek het niet om een bom te gaan, maar om een stalen machineonderdeel.
"We zijn verheugd mee te delen dat HMCS Yellowknife in staat was om het voorwerp te lokaliseren en vast te stellen dat het voorwerp geen niet-ontplofte militaire munitie was," aldus commandant Michele Tessier in een verklaring.
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“Ze weten niet wat het is”: Mysterieus object op de zeebodem blijkt geen vermiste kernbom
“Ze weten niet wat het is”: Mysterieus object op de zeebodem blijkt geen vermiste kernbom
Duiker Sean Smyrichinsky stuitte afgelopen maand op een vreemd object op de zeebodem in de buurt van een eilandengroep voor de kust van Canada.
Hij lichtte de Canadese marine in, waarna experts zeiden dat het zou kunnen gaan om een verloren gewaande kernbom uit 1950.
Na verder onderzoek blijkt dat toch niet het geval te zijn, meldt de BBC.
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Sean Smyrichinsky (Facebook)
“Ik heb iets heel raars gevonden. Ik denk dat het een UFO is,” zei Smyrichinsky vorige maand over zijn vreemde vondst.
Hij liet weten een groot metalen voorwerp in de vorm van een bagel te hebben gevonden.
Andere duikers en experts bij de marine dachten dat het ging om een kernbom die zich aan boord bevond van een gecrashte Amerikaanse bommenwerper.
Raadsel
De B-36 crashte in 1950 tijdens een trainingsmissie voor de kust van Brits-Columbia. De kernbom aan boord van het toestel is nooit teruggevonden.
Het mysterie van de vermiste kernbom in Canada stelt historici al meer dan een halve eeuw voor een raadsel.
Machineonderdeel
Afgelopen week heeft een Canadees marineschip het object nader onderzocht. Het bleek niet om een bom te gaan, maar om een machineonderdeel.
Smyrichinsky schreef op Facebook: “Uit metingen blijkt dat het een doorsnee heeft van 4,5 meter en de enige bommen van zulke omvang zijn in dit deel van de wereld nooit gebruikt. Maar ze weten niet wat het is…”
This Day In UFO History: Police Officer Alan Godfrey's abduction in West Yorkshire, England Dec 1980, Video, UFO Sighting News.
This Day In UFO History: Police Officer Alan Godfrey's abduction in West Yorkshire, England Dec 1980, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 1980 Location of sighting: West Yorkshire, England If you have ever wondered if you were abducted, this video can help you. He describes the events that took place and the amazing things that he witnessed. This is an alien abduction that most people are not aware of. This is a great first hand account of what he went through and what you could expect if you were abducted. Scott C. Waring Report states:
In November and December 1980, the eastern side of Britain was experiencing a major UFO sighting wave. There were chases of UFOs by police cars near the coast, a UFO that overflew an oil rig in the North Sea, and the wave culminated in the famous events on the East Anglian coast at Rendlesham Forest. Just a month before these landings beside those NATO air bases, one of the most impressive alien abduction cases took place in the small Penninemill town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, right in the centre of Britain's most active window area known locally as "UFO Alley". Police Constable Alan Godfrey was on patrol on the night of 28 November 1980. Just before dawn he drove along Burnley Road on the edge of Todmorden looking for some cows that had been reported missing. They were only found after sun-up, mysteriously relocated in a rain-soaked field without hoofmarks to indicate their passage. Giving up his nocturnal hunt, Godfrey was about to go back to base to sign off duty when he saw a large mass a few hundred yards ahead. At first, he thought it was a bus coming towards him that took workers to their jobs in town and that he knew passed about 5:00 a.m. But as he approached, he realized that it was something very strange. It was a fuzzy oval that rotated at such speed and hovered so low over the otherwise deserted highway that it was causing the bushes by the side to shake. The police officer stopped, propped onto his windscreen a pad that was in the patrol car to make sketches of any road accidents, and drew the UFO. Then there was a burst of light, and the next thing he knew he was driving his car again, further along Burnley Road, with no sign of the UFO.
Godfrey turned around and examined the spot where the UFO had hovered. The road was very wet as it had rained heavily earlier in the night. But just at this one location was a circular patch where the roadway had been dried in a swirled pattern. Only when back at the police station did he realise that it was a little later than he had expected - although any missing time was probably no greater than 15 minutes from estimates later taken on site. Concerned as to possible ridicule, Godfrey at first chose not to make an official report, but changed his mind later that day when he discovered he was not alone. After breakfast that morning, a driver who had been on Burnley Road three miles further out at Cliviger reported seeing a brilliant white object and contacted Todmorden police. The time matched that of Alan Godfrey's. Furthermore, a police patrol from an adjacent force (Halifax) had been engaged in a stakeout for stolen motorcycles on the moors of the Calder Valley and had witnessed a brilliant blue-white glow descending into the valley towards Todmorden shortly before Godfrey experienced his close encounter. Their story, when it reached Todmorden police station, formed a second match.
Encouraged by this news Godfrey filed an official report, but was surprised when police chose to release the story to the local newspaper the following week. From here, UFOlogists discovered the case and a lengthy investigation was mounted by a Manchester-based UFO group. Although Alan Godfrey had no further conscious recall of the missing time, he did have increasingly confused memory of the sequence of events surrounding the sighting (with an unexplained image of seeing himself outside the car during the sighting). There was also puzzling physical evidence. His police-issue boots were split on the sole, as if he had been dragged along the floor and they had caught on something. He also reported a previous history of seeing other strange things and having experienced at least one earlier time lapse as a youth—factors that UFOlogists have come to recognise as common with abduction cases. When sure that all conscious testimony had been recorded, Godfrey agreed to be hypnotically regressed by a Manchester psychiatrist eight months after the incident. He eventually had several other sessions with different therapists, and his recall in later sessions was video-taped. The doctor refused permission to the UFO group for the first session to be recorded. The hypnotic testimony is very odd, and Godfrey was never to be sure what really happened. Under regression he told of the bright light stopping the car engine, causing his radio and police handset both to be filled with static and then to be swamped by blinding light as he lost consciousness. His next recall was of being inside a strange room, more like a house than a spaceship, complete with a most unexpected large black dog. He was studied by a heavily bearded man who telepathically conveyed that his name was "Yosef" and whose clothing was very Biblical in nature. Assisting Yosef were several small robot-like creatures "the size of a five-year-old lad" and with "a head shaped like a lamp". They are reminiscent of the "Grays" of UFO lore; although with major differences. Godfrey was supposedly asked questions, told that he "knew" Josef, and was promised a later encounter. But apparently he was not subjected to the more familiar indignities of abduction stories (especially from the US), such as bodily fluid samples and rectal probes. Although there were periods of missing memory, the hypnotic recall that did emerge was a curious hybrid of mythic images, UFO case elements and dream like sequences. When asked his opinion as to the reality status of this hypnotic testimony, Alan Godfrey was refreshingly honest. He told me he was certain that the UFO encounter was real, but he could not determine whether the story offered by hypnosis was a dream, a fantasy, reality, or a mixture of all three. Unhappily, Alan Godfrey suffered terribly after this encounter. When I first wrote up the investigation (just before the regression hypnosis began) for Flying Saucer Review magazine in 1981, I deliberately changed his identity to help protect him; although this was probably futile because the story had already been featured in the local press under Godfrey's real name. However, despite my refusal to assist them, a tabloid reporter traced the witness and devoted a front-page banner headline article to the story — read by millions over the Sunday lunch—which led to the officer being called to explain himself before his superiors. He was forced to undergo medical investigation to determine his "status", but was pronounced psychologically fit and healthy. Yet after some years feeling that he would never be allowed to forget his sighting, he took advice to honorably resign over an unrelated physical injury incurred during an incident in which he bravely intervened to avert a crime. Todmorden, both before 1980 and in the years since, has been a hotbed of alien contact activity with several other major encounters having been investigated, including another abduction of a truck driver from Burnley Road only a little further out of Todmorden and on the same highway.
This is a jellyfish UFO. They are less common than the flying disks that are often seen, but still many have argued that they are not ships, but living, intelligent beings. If thats true, then they probably can travel though space without the need of a spacecraft. Similar Jellyfish UFOs have been seen during spacewalks on the space station live cam.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I walked with my girlfriend and I saw this silver orb and took a photo. I didn't know what it was at the time. Object hovered in the sky. I went home again the next day and didn't see it again.
No More Dark Matter? A New Theory of Gravity Could Explain Away Dark Matter and Energy
No More Dark Matter? A New Theory of Gravity Could Explain Away Dark Matter and Energy
Tim De Chant/NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
IN BRIEF
By treating gravity as an emergent phenomenon instead of a fundamental force, emergent gravity theory negates the need for dark matter and dark energy to explain the universe.
Any theories that could help us reconcile the conflicts between the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics will bring us a huge step closer to understanding our physical universe.
Modern physicists haven’t been able to explain why outer regions of galaxies rotate much faster than they should based on the mass and energy of the stars, planets, interstellar gasses, and other matter within them. The best explanation thus far for this strange gravitational behavior has been dark matter, a type of matter that we can’t see and that we haven’t really discovered yet.
Verlinde has a different explanation for these deviations in motion, and he calls his new theory emergent gravity. In his theory, gravity is an emergent phenomenon and not a fundamental force. As such, it’s a product of fundamental bits of information that are stored with the structure of spacetime itself. When those fundamental bits change, gravity emerges.
“We have evidence that this new view of gravity actually agrees with the observations,”says Verlinde in a Delta ITP press release. Indeed, using his theory, he has produced accurate predictions of the velocities of stars rotating around the core of the Milky Way and stars in other galaxies without any need for dark matter. By including an adaptation of the holographic principle within his theory, Verlinde is also able to account for dark energy, the unseen force causing the universe to expand.
Credits: E. Verlinden
A NEW PARADIGM
Our current understanding of gravity is largely based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity. While that theory can explain a lot of the behavior of our universe, it doesn’t hold up when applied to quantum physics, which becomes evident in extreme situations like near a black hole or during the Big Bang. Therefore, Verlinde and many other physicists think that our theory of gravity needs to be updated.
“Many theoretical physicists like me are working on a revision of the theory, and some major advancements have been made,” says Verlinde. “We might be standing on the brink of a new scientific revolution that will radically change our views on the very nature of space, time and gravity.”
Of course, Verlinde’s theory is still just that — theoretical — and it does have its limitations, including an inability to explain large-scale effects like galaxies clustering together. However, it is a plausible path toward reconciling the two pillars of modern physics, Einstein’s theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics, and therefore worth thinking about…even if it might make your brain hurt.
Plan to Colonize Mars? A One-Second Sensor Failure Doomed The ESA’s Mars Lander
Plan to Colonize Mars? A One-Second Sensor Failure Doomed The ESA’s Mars Lander
ESA/ATG medialab
IN BRIEF
The ESA states that the IMU sensor ran one second longer than expected, which caused the lander to break too early and crash into Mars.
This event underscores the dangers of space travel and the remarkable level of precision that is needed in order for humans to successfully colonize Mars
MEASUREMENT ERROR
It was NASA’s MRO images that broke the news just a few short weeks back: the Schiaparelli lander was dead.
NASA gave the first evidence that the ESA’s Schiaparelli lander seemed to have crashed on its descent to the Red Planet, which occurred on October 19, 2016. The ESA later released a statement saying that contact was lost with the lander and that the photos reveal a new feature in the Martian surface consistent with a crash…a crater from the impact site.
MRO
Now, new findings from the investigation reveal what may be the real cause of the crash. The ESA believes that a one-second failure in one of its sensors caused its systems to deploy prematurely.
Yes, just a one-second failure doomed the entire mission.
An ESA statement said that much of the mission went along smoothly. The lander was actually able to deploy a parachute 12 km off the Martian ground and release its heat shield 7.8km off the ground, just as planned.
As the lander was falling under the parachute, the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), which measures the rotation of the lander, ran one-second longer than expected. When its erroneous measurement combined with the navigation data, the lander started thinking that it was below ground.
An artist's impression of Beagle 2 on the surface of Mars. ESA/Denman productions
That made it release the parachute, remove its backshell, fire its braking thrusters, and deploy its sensors. All from an altitude of 3.7 km—and if you are breaking 3.7 km before you land, then you aren’t breaking when you are actually landing.
The final report of the findings is expected by early 2017.
EVERYTHING PERFECT
This is not the ESA’s first stroke of disaster when it comes to Mars. Back in 2003, Britain piggybacked its Beagle-2 Mars probe on the ESA’s Mars Express Orbiter. But after parting with the orbiter to get to the Martian surface, it was never heard from again.
These events show just how much preparation we still need to do to get humanity to Mars. Even just tiny, one-second events can send manned space crews hurtling towards their deaths in the barren wastelands of Mars.
Schiaparelli, Beagle-2, and even the Challenger disaster show how amazingly difficult space travel and rocket science can be. With aggressive launch windows and timetables being publicized by NASA, SpaceX, the ESA, and other space agencies, one must wonder if slow and steady wouldn’t lead to a better race (and finish line).
Synthetic Future: Revolutionary Center Will 3D-Print Human Tissues and Organs
Synthetic Future: Revolutionary Center Will 3D-Print Human Tissues and Organs
Stevens Health Institute
IN BRIEF
A new 'biofabrication institute' is being made that will scan, model, and 3d-print patient-specific tissues in one building.
The ultimate goal is to 3D-print entire organs, which could save the lives of thousands of people on organ transplant lists.
A PLACE OF COLLABORATION
Most developments happening right now in the field of bioprinting come from individual laboratories that publish results that come from a controlled lab setting. At the present moment, rarely do the research institutes themselves specialize in 3D bioprinting. Instead, there is a separation between those doing the work and those using the fruits of this labor.
Driven by this emerging technology, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), in partnership with the Metro North Hospital and Health Service, has announced that they will establish a ‘biofabrication institute’ that will scan, model, and 3d-print patient-specific tissues in one building.
Credit: QUT
The institute will occupy two floors at the Herston Health Precinct and will be capable of performing the major processes in the bioprinting process, namely: clinical scanning, 3d modeling, and tissue engineering. It will also contain learning spaces and an innovation hub.
The Minister for Health, Cameron Dick, has expressed optimism on the endeavor, saying in the Brisbane Times that it will bring together various experts in the field of medicine, science, and engineering to “deliver the best outcome for patients.”
He adds, “This institute, opening in 2017, will catapult Queensland onto the global stage as a leader in medical innovation and technology that will change the face of healthcare.”
THE ULTIMATE GOAL
The ‘end goal’ for this institute, according to QUT Biofabrication and Tissue Morphology Group Associate Professor Mia Woodruff, is the 3D-printing of an organ. The institute could speed up developments in bioprinting, which may ultimately mean the difference between life and death for people waiting for an organ donor.
Woodruff says that the 3D-printed organs are taken from a patient’s tissue and, to that end, are not rejected by the body, eliminating the need for metallic implants or extensive antibiotics.
She concludes, “Organ transplant lists are endless at the moment and we want to be able to help these people.” Other advantages that 3d-printed organs have are much more customized prosthetics, drugs tailored to a patient, and 3D-printed bones.
In 1954, the race of aliens, known as the Tall Greys, who had been orbiting the equator, landed at Holloman Air Force Base. They stated that their DNA is unraveling at an accelerated rate to which they will meet their ultimate demise very soon if they don’t find a solution.
The Tall Greys wanted access to the human genome for genetic research and planned to create a new organism that was both human and Grey, which is now referred to as “hybrid”. These organisms would be vessels used as genetic templates for the continuance of their race. The Tall Greys stated that for purposes of genetic research, they wanted authorization to abduct humans. They promised that the humans would be returned to their place of abduction unharmed and with no memory of what occurred.
The Tall Greys stated that they wanted their presence on Earth to remain a secret and that needed the government to stay out of their affairs. In order to keep their presence a secret, underground bases would built. One underground base would be a joint government/military and ET base. This base is referred to as Dulce Base. In exchange for assisting the Tall Greys, the US government would receive their technology as well as further assistance with technological advancement. The Tall Grey’s would also stay out of human affairs. To make the deal official, a treaty was signed by President Dwight Eisenhower. The Greada Treaty was signed by then President Elect Dwight Eisenhower .
According to the testimonies examined so far, the February 20-21, 1954 meeting was not successful, and the extraterrestrials were spurned due to their refusal to enter into technology exchanges and insistence on nuclear disarmament by the US and presumably other major world powers.
Cooper describes the circumstances of a subsequent agreement that was reached after the failure of the first meeting. While Cooper has a different version of dates and times for the 1954 meetings, he agrees that there were two sets of meetings involving different extraterrestrials meeting with President Eisenhower and/or Eisenhower administration officials back in 1954, under the Eisenhower administration, the federal government decided to circumvent the Constitution of the United States and form a treaty with alien entities.
MARSDe Marslander Spirit heeft mogelijk al jaren geleden het bewijs gevonden dat er ooit leven was op Mars. Wetenschappers keken daar toen echter over, suggereert een nieuw onderzoek.
De kwestie draait rond foto's uit 2007 van een vingerachtige rotsformatie op Mars, op het Home Plate-plateau in de Gusevkrater. Wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Arizona hebben die structuur nu bekeken en vergeleken met gelijkaardige formaties op Aarde. Ze vonden bijna identieke structuren in het Chileense El Tatio die ontstonden door een combinatie van warmwaterbronnen en... micro-organismen.
Het team koos El Tatio omdat de omstandigheden daar erg lijken op die op Mars. Het geiserveld ligt meer dan 4.300 meter boven zeeniveau en zelfs in de zomer zakt het kwik 's nachts vaak onder het vriespunt, terwijl overdag veel ultraviolet licht door de dunne, droge lucht priemt.
De formaties op Mars lijken op stromatolieten die we kennen op Aarde. Dat zijn structuren die worden gevormd wanneer microben kolonies vormen in vochtige omgevingen en sediment vasthouden op hun kleverige deklagen. Die afzettingen reageren uiteindelijk op het calciumcarbonaat in het water en vormt zo hobbelige lagen kalksteen.
Het onderzoek wees uit dat de omstandigheden in El Tatio afzettingen van silica(siliciumdioxide) produceren met kenmerken die van alle silica-afzettingen op Aarde het meeste op die van Mars lijken. Het feit dat microben een rol spelen bij de productie van de uitgesproken silicastructuren in El Tatio doet de mogelijkheid rijzen dat de silicastructuren op Mars werden gevormd op een vergelijkbare manier - met andere woorden, met de hulp van organismen die destijds leefden.
Echte zekerheid daarover is echter pas mogelijk wanneer stenen van Mars naar labo's op Aarde worden gebracht, schrijven de onderzoekers in Nature Communications. Astrofysicus Dan Brown van de Nottingham Trent University vraagt zich verder af of we niet botsen op de limieten van de Marslanders en -rovers, en of het niet nodig is om mensen naar Mars te sturen. "Aan de andere kant toont dit aan dat gegevens die werden verzameld tijdens missies 9 jaar geleden, nog altijd waardevolle resultaten kunnen opleveren."
Methaan
Onderzoekers hopen op Mars bewijzen voor buitenaards leven te vinden omdat de rode planeet ooit stromend water en een atmosfeer had. In december 2014 nam de Marslander Curiosity ook methaan waar, een gas dat op Aarde voor 90 procent wordt geproduceerd door levende organismen.
Vergelijking: links zie je de bodem van Mars, rechts die van Chili
Een wiskundige van de universiteit van Barcelona heeft berekend dat het wel eens vroeger met de mensheid gedaan zou kunnen zijn dan gehoopt. Volgens dokter Fergus Simpson van het Institute of Cosmos Sciences is er een kans van 1 op 500 dat de mens het komende jaar uitsterft en een kans van 13 procent dat dit voor het einde van de eeuw gebeurt.
De berekening is gebaseerd op het zogenaamde Doomsday Argument, dat het toekomstige aantal mensen kan voorspellen op basis van het aantal dat tot nu toe werd geboren. Volgens Simpson is er elk jaar van de 21ste eeuw een kans van ruim 0,2 procent dat er een wereldwijde catastrofe gebeurt. Hij schreef zijn bevindingen in een paper 'Apocalypse Now? Reviving the Doomsday Argument'.
"In een tijd dat op zijn minst acht soevereine staten nucleaire wapens ter beschikking hebben, mogen we onze kop niet in het zand steken", aldus Simpson. "Misschien zullen we het onvermijdelijke niet kunnen afwenden, maar misschien kunnen we het wel uitstellen."
Klimaatopwarming Ook de klimaatopwarming kan een rol spelen. Nieuw onderzoek in het tijdschrift Science Advances waarschuwde er al voor dat als de mens fossiele brandstoffen blijft gebruiken, de temperatuur op aarde in één levensspanne tot zeven graden kan stijgen, met rampzalige gevolgen voor de mensheid.
Volgens een rapport van Living Planet zou tussen 1970 en 2020 de populatie aan gewervelde dieren overigens al ingekrompen zijn tot een derde van de soorten. Dat zou gelijk staan aan een graad van uitsterven die honderd keer sneller gaat dan normaal.
Positief En dat zijn nog positieve inschattingen. Volgens een boek dat de Britse astronoom Sir Martin Rees schreef in 2003 is er een kans van 50 procent dat de mensheid 2100 niet haalt.
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Medellín the new Roswell? Colombian city becomes new UFO hotspot of sorts
Medellín the new Roswell? Colombian city becomes new UFO hotspot of sorts
Some residents of the Colombian city of Medellín are reporting a close encounter with the third kind after video footage emerged online of unidentified flying objects – aka UFOs – hovering around the city and surrounding area.
While Medellín is unlikely to become the next Roswell, a recent string of spacey sightings have given credence to the “UFO hotspot” tag.
On video – shot on Nov. 16 and posted on YouTube on Dec. 5 – shows an almond-shaped object hovering over a forested area near Medellín. The silvery saucer looks very familiar to one spotted in South Wales in the United Kingdom on November 30, 2014.
Skeptics, however, don’t believe that the object filmed in Colombian – or South Wales for that matter – is an actual alien spacecraft but instead something with a much more commercial purpose.
"I think I know immediately what we are looking at," said Marc Dantonio of remote-control model company FX Models. "In my opinion, this is a public relations unmanned helium balloon that is tethered and is 18 feet in diameter. I know the dimensions because I know the balloon itself."
"Various companies sell and rent them for publicity. In one video, you are told it is flying near Atanasio Girardot Stadium right before a big final matchup soccer game. It stands to reason that flying it for a publicity stunt before a major match makes sense. It is a UFO shape and these have been sold and rented for several years now."
Both Dantonio and Ben Hansen, lead investigator on the Syfy Channel's former "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files" series, say that all of Medellín’s paranormal sighting can be explained pretty easily – and don’t entail aliens checking out the up-and-coming Colombian city.
"It is Colombia and everyone probably lives near a soccer stadium, but if a match was going on, it might further support the idea that a balloon or blimp of some sort was involved in filming aerial shots or taking part in a promotion," Hansen said.
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Medellin, Colombia UFO Sighting
Medellin, Colombia UFO Sighting
Location:over Envigado near Medellin,Colombia Date:November 6-2016 at 7:45 pm Submitted by
Witness report:
8 pulsing yelow V lights with a red at the center, no sound, moving very slow to the north. Two green lights at the end only detected in the PC after the sigtsing.
NASA Cut Off Video Again To Hide The Truth on UFOs, Conspiracy Theorists Claim
NASA Cut Off Video Again To Hide The Truth on UFOs, Conspiracy Theorists Claim
A UFO was observed hurtling across the International Space Station before the live feed was cut off. The video was captured by the High Definition Earth Viewing Experiment (HDEV) from the ISS. It shows an amazing shot of the earth from space.
It wasn’t the first time NASA cut off a live feed after an appearance of a mystery UFO as similar action was done multiple times.
The video, which was uploaded online by ColdPyro, shows an apparent faint, silver object flying across the screen. On an initial look, the UFO was an interesting dot that looked like it was accelerating. When the UFO moved out of the frame, the live feed went off suddenly that followed by the familiar message “Please stand by.” The message also informed the HDEV is either switching cameras, or a temporary loss of signal is being experienced with the International Space Station.
Conspiracy theorists say that it is NASA’s common practice every time a UFO appears on the screen. Because of the space agency’s repetitive action, speculations of a cover-up are on the rise against ISS and NASA.
The video was taken from the official ISS channel, according to ColdPyro, who posted it online.
The UFO can be seen for about 5 seconds to the left of center in the frame. Then the video suddenly went into a blank blue screen.
Ex-Chinese Government Official Confirms Aliens and UFOs Are Real
Ex-Chinese Government Official Confirms Aliens and UFOs Are Real
UFOs and aliens have been discussed in all walks of life for many decades. This year alone, there are hundreds of UFO sightings reported from different parts of the world, and some of them were from former government officials.
Now, a new claim has surfaced, this time from a former Chinese official who said some of UFO sightings could be real.
Shi-Li Sun, an ex-government diplomat in China, has created exciting news among alien UFO enthusiasts and researchers. The official shared some information during a disclosure hearing. He said that ET life and intelligent aliens are true.
He went on to say that government has substantial proof or evidence that aliens and UFOs have been here on Earth for many years. Shi-Li Sun’s disclosure took place at a recent Paradigm Research Group (PRG)’s UFO disclosure summit organized by Stephen Bassett.
The head of the World Chinese UFO Federation, Shi-Li Sun, claimed he, along with Chinese UFO scholars and researchers, has been studying all pieces of evidence for years. They concluded that UFOs and aliens are authentic.
According to reports, Shi-Li Sun has written various articles on the subject of UFOs and aliens, which have appeared in China’s Encyclopedia, edited by Shen Shituan, a prestigious Chinese scientist.
Shi-Li Sun once claimed that aliens have been here on Earth since many years ago and they are now living among humans. These aliens are difficult to recognize because they are disguised as humans, added Shi-Li.
The fireball rapidly lost height as it 'fell' to earth(Photo: Caters)
Residents were baffled by the huge fireball(Photo: Caters)
According to an expert in the field, the two dark-coloured ships are shown in stark contrast against a bright white moon, seemingly flying side by side.
He wrote on his UFO Sightings Daily blog : “His editing software allows us to see its actual shape…a perfect saucer…two of them.
“There is no way these disks are satellites,” he adds, claiming that such manmade technology would not fly so close.
He added: “These are actual UFOs, flying in military style, because they are flying with a wingman to keep each other out of possible trouble."
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Life began on Earth when it 'collided with a planet similar to Mercury and ABSORBED it'
Life began on Earth when it 'collided with a planet similar to Mercury and ABSORBED it'
Scientists believe the core of that planet may have gone directly to the core of our planet, and the carbon-rich mantle mixed with Earth's mantle, providing the key to life
BY SAM BLEWETT
A huge collision 4.4billion years ago could be the key to life
(Photo: Getty)
A massive collision between Earth and a planet similar to Mercury 4.4 billion years ago may have provided the key to life, researchers believe.
Scientists have long been stumped about how carbon-based life developed on Earth when much of the element should have either boiled away or become stored in its core.
But researchers at Rice University, in Texas, USA, found the element's presence outside of Earth's core may have been influenced by an interplanetary collision.
Dr Yuan Li, the study's lead author, said: "One popular idea has been that volatile elements like carbon, sulphur, nitrogen and hydrogen were added after Earth's core finished forming.
Earth is the only planet in the solar system that we know can sustain life(Photo: Getty)
"Any of those elements that fell to Earth in meteorites and comets more than about 100 million years after the solar system formed could have avoided the intense heat of the magma ocean that covered Earth up to that point.
"The problem with that idea is that while it can account for the abundance of many of these elements, there are no known meteorites that would produce the ratio of volatile elements in the silicate portion of our planet."
View of Earth from Apollo 10 orbiting the Moon, 1969(Photo: Getty)
The study - published in Nature Geoscience - began in late 2013 when Dr Rajdeep Dasgupta and his team asked whether carbon, the basis of all life on earth, came from a neighbouring planet.
They mapped out relative concentrations of carbon that would arise under various levels of sulphur and silicon enrichment.
The experiments revealed carbon could be excluded from the planet's core, and relegated to a layer closer to the surface, if the iron alloys in the core were rich in either silicon or sulphur.
Dr Dasgupta said: "One scenario that explains the carbon-to-sulphur ratio and carbon abundance is that an embryonic planet like Mercury, which had already formed a silicon-rich core, collided with and was absorbed by Earth.
This colour image of Mercury was one of the first sent back by Messenger as it approached the planet in 2008(Photo: NASA)
"Because it's a massive body, the dynamics could work in a way that the core of that planet would go directly to the core of our planet, and the carbon-rich mantle would mix with Earth's mantle.
"In this paper, we focused on carbon and sulphur.
"Much more work will need to be done to reconcile all of the volatile elements, but at least in terms of the carbon-sulphur abundances and the carbon-sulphur ratio, we find this scenario could explain Earth's present carbon and sulphur budgets."
This is the startling moment ahuge fireballripped across the sky in Florida.
Stunned residents caught the giant bright light on camera as it streaked through the night sky across the US state on Monday night.
The footage shows the moment the unidentified fireball approaches Earth and finally explodes in a flash.
The celestial spectacle spooked some local residents into calling the police amid fears ALIENS were invading.
The meteor hurtled towards Earth(Photo: North Port Police)
The light the exploded in a flash(Photo: North Port Police)
Dashcam footage from Venice police officer Seth Kenny caught the first video of the meteor at 11.17pm.
The second video was recorded on the security camera of Largo residents Christopher and Laura Scruby.
Police cruisers in North Port, on the southwestern coast of Florida, also caught the fireball on video.
The flash was so bright the evening sky lit up as though it was daylight.
Dashcam footage from the patrol cars in North Port(Photo: North Port Police)
The flash was so bright it lit up the sky like daylight(Photo: North Port Police)
Poking fun at theories of alien invasion, the police department posted the clip with the closing caption: "At least we know that we come in peace."
The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received over 150 reports about the fireball that was mainly seen from Florida, but was also witnessed in Georgia and Alabama.
According to AMS, a fireball is an extremely bright meteor.
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STRANGE APOCALYPTIC SOUNDS IN THE SKIES ARE BACK!
STRANGE APOCALYPTIC SOUNDS IN THE SKIES ARE BACK!
Many people around the world call it ‘The Hum,’ a phrase coined by the geoscientist David Deming of the University of Oklahoma to describe the ‘mysterious and untraceable sound that is heard in certain locations around the world by two to ten percent of the population.’ The noises might vary from roaring sounds in the middle of the night, to prolonged periods of noise which sound like intense industrial activity taking place in the sky (something which I have personally heard myself back in 2012 – MWV). Most unusually of all, ordinary people in cities such as York in England have claimed to hear trumpet horns coming from the sky playing chilling bars of ‘music’.
STRANGE NOISES HEARD OVER THE SKY IN SLOVAKIA!?
Now Slovakia has become the very latest location to hear these incredibly bizarre and completely inexplicable noises, which have been recorded on video.
Please check out the video below:
Check out the video below of the strange industrial type metallic which I witnessed myself back in 2012 – over a period of a month and over a distance of up to a 100 miles:
As of yet, not one person has been able to offer a completely coherent explanation for these mysterious sounds. Some have suggested that the chilling noises might be caused by changes in the Earth’s core which could eventually lead to a complete polar shift. However, aside from speculation, there is little evidence to suggest that this particular theory is true. According to Deming, they may well be caused by enormous amounts of collated feedback from telephone transmissions and aircraft which are operated by the United States Navy to communicate with submarines. However, this explanation is deemed to fall short as these noises became particularly apparent in 2011 and 2012 and if Deming is correct, there should have been previous indications of this feedback reaction before this period. It has also been suggested that these sounds are caused by solar flares hitting the earths atmosphere, also known as ‘sky quakes’?!
MANY people from around the world have even suggested that the noise could be being caused by projects such as the HAARP weapons program, which is believed to be dedicated to working on high-tech weather modification technology. If this particular explanation is correct, it could not explain not only the unusual noises but also why they are so often accompanied by a bizarre phenomenon in the sky, such as those which have been detected in Slovakia in recent months.
Please check out below some of the strange sights being witnessed in the sky around the world:
Please check out some more startlingly videos recorded from Slovakia of these yet UNKNOWN strange sounds in the sky!
U.I.P SUMMARY
The strange sounds in the sky, no matter what, are a VERY real/true story and something that I have witnessed myself back in 2012 (apparently when the world was supposed to end!?). There has NEVER been a straight answer to what is causing these unknown creepy sounds and it was causing that much tension throughout the planet that people were beginning to demand answers from their governments – who probably know the TRUTH but are not permitted or want to confirm exactly what they are!
It has even been suggested that these strange sounds in the sky are caused by Aliens and possibly cloaked crafts travelling above earth! No matter what these strange sounds are, they are very real and very much BACK!
Have you ever heard these strange sounds in the sky before?
“On the 10th of August of 1631 at the San Ignacio de Ipané reduction, something strange and luminous was seen to fly in the heavens. Between six and seven in the evening, a luminous globe of strange grandeur was seen to rise, flying unhurriedly and rather slowly, over the town, like a full moon. It gave off a large number of sparks toward the east, and upon reaching the western horizon, blazed with greater light, which was then diminished. In the time it takes to recite the Apostle’s Creed, it issued a tremendous report like thunder.”
A few kilometers away from this reduction there is a region belonging to the Chaco Province known as Campo del Cielo (due to the large number of meteorites that once fell in the area), making it possible to think that another meteor was involved, but when the document is analyzed word by word, as researcher Antonio Las Heras did in one of his excellent works on the subject, we have no choice but to allow some room for doubt, and the possibility that the object reported was not a meteorite.
The object traveled slowly. The words “it was seen to rise in the east” give the impression that it immediately “gained altitude”, thus making it one of the first eyewitness reports of a UFO takeoff in this region, which covers the province of Misiones, near the Brazil-Paraguay border. Without going into detail like this excellent Argentinean researcher has done, we believe that the document in question is a valuable one, providing evidence that we have been visited by the these flying objects over the ages, objects whose point of origin we are hesitant to define.
A Louisiana witness near Bossier City reported watching an “unknown, cylinder-shaped object” that appeared to be followed by a jet near Barksdale Air Force base, according to testimony in Case 66602 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was outside at a local Air Force base working as a civilian housekeeper and happened to look up at 7:53 p.m. on June 3, 2015. “I watched this cylinder-shaped object slowly cruise across the sky as if it was just gliding slowly,” the witness stated. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
But there was another object in the sky. “Right behind it was clearly a jet or an airplane I don’t know which but it had a con trail behind it. It was following the object at a steady pace, never getting too close. I put my phone away because we’re not supposed to have them.”
The witness watched as the object moved away. “As I watched for the next few minutes, the further the object got, it got smaller until it looked like a bright star and then it just vanished, leaving nothing there but the jet.” Later that evening, the witness said that there was heavy military traffic in the air. “Moments later as I stood there looking in amazement, a military patrol car passed by, so I went on with my work. I had been working there since April of this year but that evening there was heavy air traffic after the event. I couldn’t help but wonder if the two have something to do with each other because I had never seen that much air traffic over the base since I worked there.
Shortly after I was fired and told they didn’t have to give me a reason why they were letting me go.”
Veel meldingen van driehoekige UFO boven Nederland
Veel meldingen van driehoekige UFO boven Nederland
Bij het UFO Meldpunt Nederlandzijn de laatste dagen meerdere meldingen binnengekomen van driehoekige UFO’s boven ons land.
Op 18 november zijn driehoeken gezien boven Gilze. Enkele dagen later, op 24 november, werd een driehoekig object waargenomen boven Aarle-Rixtel.
Dit weekend werd een driehoekig object gespot boven Utrecht en Almelo. Ook boven Pijnacker-Nootdorp zijn deze objecten gesignaleerd, schrijft Telstar Online.
Veel mensen
Verslaggever Martijn Mastenbroek, die een radioprogramma presenteert over mysterieuze zaken, zag vrijdagavond rond kwart voor acht naar eigen zeggen een driehoekig object boven Nootdorp.
Veel mensen uit de regio hebben de UFO gezien, aldus de krant.
UFO-golf
Dit doet enigszins denken aan de Belgische UFO-golf, een reeks van waarnemingen van driehoekige UFO’s in België van 1989 tot 1991.
In maart 1990 werden de onbekende voorwerpen gevolgd op de radar, gefotografeerd en waargenomen door bijna 14.000 mensen.
Na het incident bracht de Belgische luchtmacht een rapport uit over de gebeurtenissen.
Een lichtbol, in het Engels een light orb, is een optisch verschijnsel dat zich voordoet bij het maken van foto's, bestaande uit typische cirkelvormige witte, of doorzichtige vlekjes.
Meestal betreft het kleine stof-, water- of sneeuwdeeltjes die vrij door de lucht rondzweven en waarop het licht van de flitser weerkaatst. De kans is groot dat zij zich op een gegeven moment op een afstand van de lens bevinden die tot een vage afbeelding leidt. Die afbeelding wordt bolvorming doordat het deeltje dicht bij de lens is.
Omdat velen deze verklaring niet kennen, denken zij dat er een bovennatuurlijke reden voor het verschijnsel moet zijn. Er zijn mensen die menen een geest te hebben gefotografeerd. De neiging het paranormale erbij te halen, wordt versterkt door de verklaringen van sommige mediums rondom het optische verschijnsel.
Orbs zijn witte energiebollen, ook wel een geestbal genoemd. Entiteiten (geesten) kunnen zich in deze vorm laten zien, in de vorm van een witte energiebol. Deze bollen kunnen ook gefotografeerd worden.
Meestal zijn dit soort bollen zichtbaar op plekken waar veel energieën zitten. Op begraafplaatsen, kerken, in huizen en op plekken waar bijvoorbeeld veel is gebeurd. Iedereen kan zo'n orb op de foto krijgen, het liefste met flits.
Orbs kunnen ook gefilmd worden. Meestal gebeurd dit onverwachts, maar er zijn ook echter mensen die een camera neerzetten en orb op de film kunnen zien. Dit is heel mooi! Zelf heb ik ook een orb op de film, die behoorlijk snel door het beeld vliegt. Als je inzoomt op en orb kan het zijn dat je er diverse gezichten in kunt zien. Dit zijn de gezichten van de overleden persoo(ne)n. Er kunnen meerdere gezichten waargenomen worden in de energiebol.
Een lezer heeft een ervaring met deze orbs en stuurt ons het volgende (dank!):
Ik ben sinds kort verhuisd en op één of andere manier voel ik aanwezigheid in huis.
Omdat er al vele dierbaren van mij niet meer in aardse bestaan zijn, dacht ik laat mij eens kijken of ik de entiteiten (orbs) kan vastleggen op foto.
Ik stuur jullie twee filmpjes, ik dacht dat deze bijlage van de plant is, hierop zie je op de hoogte van de witte bloempot vanuit het groene gordijn ook nog iets meer aparts tevoorschijn komen dan alleen orbs, wat richting de dekenkist gaat maar ook daar verdwijnt.
Op het tweede filmpje wat ik met een andere email verstuur, zie je werkelijk een invasie aan orbs, niet meer te tellen. Deze zie ik niet met het blote oog.
Ook ik ben paranormaal met de gaves; Heldervoelend,-wetend,-horend,-ruikend maar ook maak ik astrale reizen mee zoals Nostradamus ze had.
Wanneer dit gebeurd, weet ik voortaan dat het kort daarop het wereld nieuws is en dat zijn niet de mooiste nieuwsberichten.
Ik krijg er helaas geen tijdstip en of werelddeel bij waar het gaat gebeuren maar mocht ik dat wel erbij krijgen,
Wie zou mij dan geloven...
Soms weet ik al iets van tevoren waar ik zelf nog niet eens weet van heb of kan hebben.
Ik heb jullie ook ooit aaangeschreven dat ik 21 oranjebollen tegenover mijn oude woning over de daken zag glijden met een gelijkwaardige snelheid.
Helaas heb ik daar geen filmpje van omdat ik toen nog niet in bezit was van een smartphone, een ouwe muts of laatbloeier daarin ;)
Dit was in Eindhoven, er waren wel twee getuigen. Eén bij in de woning aanwezig die ik lijkbleek zag wegtrekken maar ook een onbekende man voor mij die tegenover een winkel had die hij om 18.00 uur ging sluiten.
Ik heb deze man nog gesproken en die is zelfs nog naar het vliegveld gereden omdat hij dacht dat er vliegtuigen niet mochten landen, Zijn verhaal horende, was het voor hem of hij van onder af in iets heel groots ronds keek met allemaal lichten.
Ik had jullie eerder deze maand foto's gestuurd met het verhaal dat ik entiteiten wilde vastleggen maar iets anders tegen kwam, daar was iets uitvergroots(een soort ET) op te zien wat niet met het blote oog in huis te zien was.
Helaas namen jullie mij denk ik niet serieus maar ik was het wel.
Kijk maar of jullie de twee filmpjes willen delen met Niburu lezers, ik vond het interessant genoeg om ze naar jullie op te sturen.
Dit soort orbs kunnen zowel binnen als buiten worden waargenomen en misschien valt de volgende video wel in de categorie: orbs in de buitenlucht.
De opname is gemaakt in de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag rond vier uur in de ochtend in het Noord Hollandse Heemskerk.
Alhoewel ereen helikopter te horen is in de achtergrond is het duidelijk dat dat in het beeld geen helikopter is. Formeel is het een UFO (unidentified flying object), maar zo te zien lijkt het op de orbs zoals we die ook in bovengenoemde opnames zien.
Rond 4.00 uur werd ik wakker door een rondcirkelende helikopter Toen ik ging kijken in de tuin zag ik iets stil hangen in de lucht De camera is slecht en het was koud dit zijn de beste beelden die ik heb gemaakt.
UFOs Hiding In Farmers Field Shut Down Recording Phone In England, Nov 25, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Hiding In Farmers Field Shut Down Recording Phone In England, Nov 25, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 25, 2016 Location of sighting: Leiteim, England Source: MUFON #80631 Here is an interesting sighting where a person was near a farmers field and witnessed UFO lights. UFOs often land in farmers fields because they can test the food we eat, and how its been genetically changed by humans. This genetic change can determine statistically how many more or less people on this planet will eat in the future.
Also the fact his phone died, drained of energy from the UFO is a typical phenomenon caused by actual alien craft. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
Walking my dogs up a county road and suddenly witnessed bright lights in a local farmers field.. it seemed odd as I've walked that path many times and never seen anything like this! I took a picture and as i captured it the lights disappeared and my phone crashed.
A person recorded some glowing UFOs over Winnipeg yesterday and it scared the daylights out of the guy. The UFOs are real. I can confirm from this short news video. When I compare to photos and video from an old reports back in 1997 called the Phoenix Lights in Arizona, I see that the similarities are much more...its the same giant UFO. These lights are on one single giant dark UFO in the sky. It must have been very late at night if so few people witnessed it, but the footage...is just amazing.
For decades we’ve been listening out for a message from space. Organisations like Seti analyse unusual radio signals to catch potential transmissions from an intelligent alien civilisation. But what would happen if they really heard one?
Nearly 40 years ago, radio astronomer Jerry Ehman was scanning a part of the sky hoping to detect a signal from an alien civilisation. All of a sudden, he picked something up. The signal was incredibly short, just a burst, but it registered as a distinct spike – a sort of momentary broadcast. On a print-out, he circled the blip in red pen and wrote one word: “Wow!”.
The “Wow! signal”, as it became known, has never been explained, and nothing quite like it has ever been heard again. But an organisation called the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) Institute has continued listening for signals that might be created by intelligent life forms out there in the galaxy and beyond.
What would happen if Seti heard such a signal? How would it confirm the broadcast really was sent to us by aliens? A new Science Channel documentary has explained how astronauts on the Apollo 10 mission heard strange “space music” in their earphones when orbiting the far side of the moon. Many scientists believe the cause to simply be radio interference. However, the episode has raised the question of how we are able to distinguish one space sound from another in our search for a sign of life.
It's possible to triangulate a radio signal from space by using two separate telescopes to analyse it
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“Hearing something and discounting it is highly regular,” says Dr John Elliott at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. “Stuff that gets to the Post-detection Task Group is rare.”
Seti’s Post-detection Task Group is a small council of scientists primed to analyse interesting radio signals detected by radio telescopes around the world. Dr Elliott is a member – and he has spent a lot of time thinking about what would happen if we ever did hear an alien broadcast.
He’s been involved with the organisation since 1999, he says, and in that time the task group has only had to evaluate one signal every couple of years or so. There are many other detections daily, but they are quickly discounted as interference or man-made signals. Reports could come from anywhere. There is even a network of volunteers with their own receivers, called the Seti League, keeping an ear out for evidence.
It’s unlikely we’d know what aliens were actually saying to us immediately
“If there’s a repeating pattern in there, that would be of high interest,” explains Elliott. “We would ask, does that repeating pattern demonstrate a complexity that would be akin to someone sending me a language, or mathematics, or something with information in it.”
It’s unlikely we’d know what aliens were actually saying to us immediately – but we might be able to work out that they were saying something.
Seti keeps a list of “candidate signals” and there is even a system known as the Rio Scale for classifying the significance of any signal. The ranking is based on a signal’s characteristics, how it was detected and from where it originated.
The Apollo 10 astronauts kept the “space music” that they heard to themselves for many years. In fact, their experience was only made public very recently, in 2008, when recordings of the incident were released by Nasa.
The Wow! signal was highly unusual, and it has never yet been explained nor has a similar signal ever been detected
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Any really interesting signals picked up by Seti would be made widely public – but not before a strict procedure of verification had been carried out. In fact, Seti has a special list of detection protocols for such an event. These involve disseminating data so that it can be analysed by third-parties. Dan Werthimer at the University of California, Berkeley – who is also a member of the Post-detection Task Group – points out that the team has to be wary of potential hoaxes.
“It might be a bug in our software or a grad student playing a prank on us so the goal is to get independent confirmation,” he says.
Interest in any potential alien signals would certainly be huge. In 2004, astronomers had to cool the hype over erroneous online reports that an “ET signal” had been discovered. And last year, Seti picked up more in a series of “fast radio burst” signals that have puzzled scientists for some time. There’s no known explanation, which has led many to wonder if the signals come from an alien civilisation.
There’s still divided opinion on what to do
– Dr John Elliott
How, then, could we ever be sure? One important thing to establish would be the distance the signal has travelled. Obviously, if it’s just bounced off a satellite or space debris orbiting Earth, then it won’t be an indicator of alien communications. To do the analysis, Seti would enlist a second telescope to take its own reading.
“When you have two telescopes looking at a signal you can triangulate on it and measure its distance to figure out if it’s something nearby,” says Werthimer.
Still, there’s never yet been an urgent case.
“We’ve never had anything that we’re so excited about that we call up the director of an observatory and say, ‘We’ve got to get on the telescope now’.”
Another lingering question that Elliott and many others have considered is what would we do in terms of responding to a signal that we really did think had been created by an alien civilisation. Would we want to respond at all?
Jodrell Bank is a famous radio telescope in Britain which, among other things, has studied pulsars - rotating stars which emit a radio signal
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The Seti protocols state, “No response to a signal or other evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence should be sent until appropriate international consultations have taken place.”
“There’s still divided opinion on what to do – the two main camps being yes, you do respond and the other being no you don’t,” says Elliott, adding he believes that it would be a missed opportunity if we didn’t try to reply.
That, though, leaves yet another problem – how to communicate with no shared language? Elliott points out that we would have to try and establish signals for things in the universe common to both civilisations.
I think it’s going to be a while before we learn whether we’re alone or not
– Dan Werthimer
“We can point to phenomena that we would know they would be witness to and use that as a key to start our dialogue,” he says.
That could mean establishing a common signal that represents “star” or “galaxy” or counting astronomical bodies, for instance. But we’d have to take into account the delay in transmissions – the nearest star system with a planet is 10.5 light years away. That’s 21 Earth years to send a message and get a reply.
Dan Werthimer says that all “interesting” signals have so far turned out to either be inexplicable, like fast-radio bursts and the Wow! signal, or simply caused by natural phenomena like supernovae.
“I’m optimistic. I think the universe is probably teeming with life, but Earthlings are just getting in the game, we’re learning how to do this,” he says.
“I think it’s going to be a while before we learn whether we’re alone or not.”
Still, there are more than enough radio signals bouncing through space to keep a check on. Someone may be out there, trying to get in touch.
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WHAT IF THE ALIENS WE ARE LOOKING FOR ARE AI?
WHAT IF THE ALIENS WE ARE LOOKING FOR ARE AI?
The search for extraterrestrial life has so far assumed our cosmic neighbours are organic. What if we’re dealing with artificial intelligence?
For more than a century we have been broadcasting our presence to the cosmos. This year, the faintest signals from the world’s first major televised event – the Nazi-hosted 1936 Olympics – will have passed several potentially habitable planets. The first season of Game of Thrones has already reached the nearest star beyond our Solar System.
So why hasn’t ET called us back?
There are plenty of obvious answers. Maybe there are no intelligent space aliens in our immediate cosmic vicinity. Perhaps they have never evolved beyond unthinking microbial slime or – based on our transmissions – aliens have concluded it is safer to stay away. There is, however, another explanation: ET is nothing like us.4
One theory is that the aliens that may have created intelligent algorithms are no longer with us
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“If we do find a signal, we shouldn’t expect it’s going to be some sort of soft squishy protoplasmic alien behind the microphone at the other end,” says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer for alien-hunting organisation Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti).
Seti has been actively searching for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life for more than half a century. Despite tantalising signals (such as this recent one), it has so far drawn a blank. But Shostak believes we should consider looking to our own future to imagine what aliens will be like.
“Perhaps the most significant thing we’re doing is to develop our own successors,” says Shostak. “If we can develop artificial intelligence within a couple of hundred years of inventing radio, any aliens we are likely to hear from have very likely gone past that point.”
The big question is whether the AI goes on to become conscious and define its own goals and decide it doesn’t need the biological creatures that developed it
– Stuart Clark
“In other words,” he says, “most of the intelligence in the cosmos, I would venture, is synthetic intelligence and that may disappoint movie goers who expect little grey guys with big eyeballs, no clothes, no hair or sense of humour.”
The argument assumes that the creatures who built the first AIs – grey guys, hyper- intelligent pan-dimensional beings, sentient trees or whatever – are no longer around.
“Well they might be,” Shostak concedes, “but once you develop artificial intelligence you can use that to develop the next generation of thinking thing and so on – within 50 years you not only have a machine that’s far smarter than all the previous machines but certainly smarter than all humans put together.”
Anyone expecting the grey-skinned aliens from sci-fi films may be disappointed
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“The big question,” says astronomer and author of the Search for Earth’s Twin, Stuart Clark, “is whether the AI goes on to become conscious and define its own goals and decide it doesn’t need the biological creatures that developed it.”
From the self-aware death machines of the Berserker booksto the cyborgs of Battlestar Galactica or The Terminator, science fiction certainly has a rich seam of AIs taking over and wiping out their inferior biological creators. It is not, however, necessarily the inevitable path of any technological civilisation. Artificial Intelligence – truly thinking machines with synthetic super-brains – may not even be possible.
“It’s very unclear to me that this is inevitably going to happen,” says Clark. “But the key point is we are looking for something we imagine to be a bit like us and we’re limiting the search as a result.”
Seti could be looking for ET in the wrong place
Seti uses an array of radio telescope dishes in California to search for signals. The receivers are aimed at star systems where planets have been discovered by Earth or space telescopes such as Nasa’s Kepler observatory. These are planets which might have liquid oceans and life-supporting atmospheres – habitats that have made human evolution possible. But machine intelligences could live anywhere.
“That’s the whole problem,” says Shostak. “Not only could they be anywhere, it would make sense for them to go to places in the Universe where there were big sources of energy – if you’re going to do a lot of thinking, a lot of energy helps so maybe that’s the place to look.”
If this is the case, then Seti could be looking for ET in the wrong place. “Instead of having their own fields of radio telescopes,” says Clark, “maybe that money would be better spent equipping every observatory with piggyback equipment that looks at every signal that’s been received and look for repeating patterns.”
Should we be sending signals as well as listening for them?
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Whether every observatory would agree to host a Seti sensor is a matter for debate. The technology might, however, reveal some other surprising astronomical discovery. We now know that pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars. When Jocelyn Bell discovered the first of these oscillating signals in 1967, only half-jokingly did the University of Cambridge team label it LGM1 for Little Green Men.
In the short term, Seti is likely to continue its search for life on Earth-like planets. “But,” says Shostak, “over the course of time if we can come up with some ideas of where you might find synthetic intelligence, I think they’ll be more and more experiments aimed at doing that.”
Another approach would be to broadcast messages from Earth to target regions of the cosmos. It is a controversial strategy that Stephen Hawking has warned could leave the Earth vulnerable to attack and exploitation. "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,” he warned in 2010.
So are we any closer to discovering whether we are the lone intelligence – AI or not – in the Universe?
“I don’t agree,” Shostak says. “But Seti has no broadcasting capability and the other thing about broadcasting is that even if you do it, it might be a very long time before you get a response – depending how close the aliens are.”
So are we any closer to discovering whether we are the lone intelligence – AI or not – in the Universe? “I don’t think you can ever say there’s nothing there, you can’t prove that negative,” Shostak says. “What you can say is that there’s something wrong with our approach so, for me, it’s very, very early days to think about giving up.”
Clark agrees. “I think Seti should generalise its search as much as possible,” he says. “An answer to ‘yes there’s intelligent life in the Universe’ has profound implications for us and that alone qualifies Seti to carry on.”
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HET GECRASHTE NAZISCHIP OP MARS GAAT VIRAAL
HET GECRASHTE NAZISCHIP OP MARS GAAT VIRAAL
Precies een week geleden schreven wij een artikel over de Nazi’s, hun vergevorderde techniek en hoe misschien toch één van hun schepen op Mars is terechtgekomen.
Dat verhaal heeft zich ondertussen uitgebreid als een olievlek en misschien komt NASA nu eindelijk eens met wat zinnige antwoorden.
Misschien voor de verandering wel eens leuk om te laten zien waar verhalen werkelijk beginnen en wat er vervolgens gebeurt.
Bij toeval ontdekken wij op het forum Mysterieplanet een bijdrage van een gebruiker (Haunebu) die zich heeft gespecialiseerd in Duitse technologie en dan met name op het gebied van wat wij noemen vliegende schotels.
Hij plaatst daarbij een bijzondere door NASA genomen foto die wij vervolgens als volgt gebruiken in een artikel:
Misschien zou het ook wel een vaag verhaal gebleven zijn als niet iemand met een heel bijzonder opname naar voren zou zijn gekomen.
Hebben we hier te maken met het prototype van de Haunebu III die naar Mars vloog in de wetenschap dat ze nimmer met dit schip terug konden keren naar de aarde?
Twee dagen nadat wij dit artikel publiceren verschijnt de foto op een Belgische franstalige website met daarbij een video, waarin verder wordt geborduurd op de mogelijkheid dat hier sprake is van een gecrasht ruimtevaartuig.
De Belgische site vindt het niet de moeite waard om te vermelden hoe ze aan hun informatie komen en dan gaat het verhaal verder.
Een dag later ziet de Engelse krant Metro de video en pakt groots uit met dit verhaal:
Weldra wordt dit gevolgd door andere Engelse media, waaronder de Daily Mail en The Sun.
Wanneer de grote Engelse kranten eenmaal een verhaal oppikken, zal het honderden zo niet duizenden keren worden gekopieerd door andere websites.
De moraal van het verhaal is dat, ook al denk je dat je geen enkele bijdrage kunt leveren aan het wakker maken van de mensen, het soms voldoende is om je vondst of gedachten op een forum te plaatsen om het wereldwijd te laten rond te laten gaan.
En laten we hopen dat door dit alles NASA zodanig in een hoek wordt gemanoeuvreerd dat ze eindelijk eens hun mond opendoen.
Interview with Stanton Friedman, New CIA & MJ-12 Copies, 04-27-2016
Interview with Stanton Friedman, New CIA & MJ-12 Copies, 04-27-2016
Published on Apr 28, 2016
Randall Nickerson talks about Ariel Phenomenon, and Martin discusses his recent MJ-12 document find in an ex-CIA’s estate papers with guest Stan Friedman. Stan talks about his intense MJ-12 research starting in 1984, mysteries and coincidences or not revealed and a lot more. Stan’s website:stantonfriedman.com.
Filer’s Files #48 – 2016 Earth must be Warned - PART I
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Filer’s Files #48 – 2016 Earth must be Warned - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: “Earth Must Be Warned!”Nike and UFO events from 1958 through 1970, Witnesses Watch UFO Make Crop Circle
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Bosnia, Canada, Cuba, France, Iraq, Israel, New Zealand, Portugal, 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 US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly 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.
These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over one hundred UFOs reported each week represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over one hundred UFOs reported each week represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when I chased one over England while flying for the US Air Force. I’ve been investigating them ever since. The US Air Force under Project Blue Book investigated UFOs for more than twenty years, we continue this research. It is my belief that God has spread his kingdom of intelligent civilizations throughout the universe. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Happy Thanksgiving
The first Thanksgiving was held in the autumn of 1621 and included 50 Pilgrims and 90 Wampanoag Indians and lasted three days. …
Thanksgiving didn’t become a national holiday until over 200 years later. Historians say that no turkey was served at the first Thanksgiving! Deer or venison, ducks, geese, oysters, lobster, eel and fish were on the menu. They probably ate pumpkins, but no pumpkin pies. They also probably ate cranberries. The pilgrims wished to thank God and the Indians for their help to survive in a new settlement.
Special Projects
“Earth Must Be Warned!” Screams French Astronaut before Suicide Attempt
Astronaut Claudie Haignere
I heard today on the radio that a French Astronaut committed suicide and as she was dying she was heard to say “The world must be warned“. She then went into a coma. She was also married to another Astronaut. Claudie Haignere was the first French female to visit space.
A six minute YouTube conspiracy film by UFOmania has resurfaced this week examining her story. It has been viewed nearly a million times. In 1993 esteemed scientist Claudie was a back-up crew member for the 1993 Mir Altaïr mission, which included her future husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré.
She made it to the Mir space station in 1996 as part of the Russian-French Cassiopée mission and in 2001 became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station.
ISS spots UFO
Most peculiar report stating that the renowned scientist and France’s first female astronaut Claudie Haigneré had to be ‘forcefully restrained’after screaming “Earth Must Be Warned!” prior to her falling into a coma from a reported overdose of sleeping pills in an apparent attempt at suicide. After recovering Claudie entered French politics and worked as minister delegate for Research and New Technologies from 2002 to 2004 and minister delegate for European Affairs from 2004 to 2005. The asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named after Claudie and her husband.
Claudia blamed the incident on “burnout syndrome” and is now the director of the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie – the largest science museum in Europe. This could be very significant especially with the item that came out a couple of weeks ago about the UFO investigator who died mysteriously in Poland
Alien enthusiasts believe she was trying to warn the Earth about dangerous life in outer space. We can speculate she saw UFOs in space and has inside knowledge concerning the aliens. France is believed to have an alien body within one of its Labs. I had two military friends who were assigned to UFO related jobs in the Air Force with promising careers. After one year in the job both resigned their officer commissions, one became an alcoholic and the other an Episcopal Priest. I asked what they knew, they said,”You don’t want to know.”
The YouTube video, which is narrated by a robot voice, is a conspiracy that blends fact and fiction.
Both US Astronauts and Soviet Cosmonauts have reported seeing UFOs in space. Reptilians are alleged to be taking over large parts of the universe and will eventually attack Earth.
Old Timer astronauts have mentioned aliens living on and around our planet with a laissez faire attitude. They’ve seen so much of it; it’s no big deal to them. During the Eisenhower era, the Greada Treaty set the groundwork for the compliant and secret existence for friendly aliens to work with us.
I have talked to a movie producers who claimed the government encouraged them to make alien movies to make the public aware of the potential problem. They even helped with UFO footage and military hardware to be used in the movies. They wished to inform the public but to have denial ability to prevent panic.
While in my Air Force uniform I sat next to Michael Rennie on a flight from LA to Chicago. He told me had spent much of his career doing movies for the Air Force. He was trained as a pilot in the West during the war. He played Klaatu in the movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” He implied the military helped produce the film. The government felt they needed to educate the public in case they were unable to keep the UFOs secret.
Gort was a robot and Michael Rennie played Klaatu the extraterrestrial.
In the movie Klaatu corrects the work of Professor Barnhardt showing his other-worldly brilliance and association with destructive power that could threaten the existence of the world. The movie was ranked #5 on the American Film Institute’s list of the 10 greatest “Sci-Fi” films in 2008. This was the first big budget science fiction feature film to be released by a major American studio after the war.
20th Century-Fox studio chief was Darryl F. Zanuck and Robert Wise was the movie’s director. The movie was first post-war, large-budget, science-fiction film. It was a serious, high-minded exploration of mid-20th century suspicion and paranoia, combined with a philosophical overview of humanity’s coming place in the larger universe.
In the film Klaatu states, “I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. We, of the other planets, have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war.”
The humanoid alien protagonist of the film, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), instructs Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) that if any harm befalls him, she must speak to the robot to save the Earth.:
Klaatu: I’m worried about Gort. I’m afraid of what he might do if anything should happen to me.
Helen: Gort? But he’s a robot. Without you, what could he do?
Klaatu: There’s no limit to what he could do. He could destroy the Earth. You must tell Gort, “Klaatu barada nikto.”
There are parallels between Klaatu and Jesus Christ. Klaatu comes from another world and chooses the name of Mr. Carpenter (the occupation of Jesus Christ). He came to warn about the destruction Earth is going to face if they don’t believe him and his words. Jesus Christ said to the people that they will face destruction if they don’t believe in him and in his words. Like Jesus prophesying about the destruction of Jerusalem, Klaatu prophesies that Earth may have to face destruction like leveling New York City or sinking the Rock of Gibraltar. Both Jesus Christ and Klaatu die and later come back to life. Like Klaatu’s flying saucer seen by people in the film,
People in Jerusalem and in Judea saw flying chariots and soldiers in the sky right before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. This was recorded by Hebrew Historian Josephus, Roman Historian Tacitus, Eusebius, Document “Pseudo Hegesippus”, and Jewish History Document “Sepher Yosippon”. It‘s known that many aircraft have not returned after chasing or firing on UFOs. Thanks to www.google.com/
Canadian Injured by UFO
Stephen Michalak of Winnipeg, was prospecting near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, when he encountered two UFOs, one of which landed on a large, flat rock about 160 feet away from him. After having approached the object and looked inside, the object moved, and something like an exhaust vent was now in front of him. A blast of hot gas shot from these holes onto his chest, setting his shirt and undershirt on fire and causing him severe pain, and leaving burn marks in the shape of a grid. There are many abductees who claim they have been kidnapped against their will.
Nike and UFO events from 1958 through 1970 – Monmouth County, NJ
Earle Navy Base Pier
Joe Foster writes, Events take place on a daily basis that for the most part are not readily associated with other events having taken place over the span of years. It may take many years for the events to eventually make their way to a point whereas linkages are more easily defined. This report highlights how this can evolve.
It was the summer of 1958 and I was a child ready to enter the sixth grade. My family and I lived on an idyllic farm known as Dorbrook Farm (now Dorbrook Park). In 1958, this was a working dairy farm owned by a “gentleman” farmer who owned a string of successful shoe stores. The cows that he acquired for his farm were all of champion stock and very expensive. The farm itself was located in Colts Neck, New Jersey and was adjacent to what is known as the “Navy” road also known as Normandy road. This road linked NAD Earle (Naval Ammunition Depot) storage facilities located in Colts Neck to its pier facilities 13.2 miles away in the Leonardo section of Middletown Township, NJ. The pier is located on Raritan Bay and is the largest finger pier in the world.
The Navy road was used to ship munitions from the storage to the ships and vice versa. It has long been rumored (never acknowledged by the Navy) that there were also nuclear munitions stored and shipped as well. This I believe is where the linkages for events spanning 12 years involving the Navy, the adjacent Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules sites and my August of 1958 daylight sphere sighting, also on the Navy road.
1958, unbeknownst to me was really a watershed year for Nike Ajax, UFO’s and the most deadly of Nike Ajax accident ever to take place. Most of these events were also co-located with the Normandy (Navy) road with the exception of what was known as the Olney/Derwood event.
In May of 1958 there were reported UFO sightings near a Nike Ajax site located in Olney/Derwood Maryland. These occurrences included visual as well as radar thus creating a very compelling story going forward. However, it gets stranger yet, one of these unidentified craft was seen to crashed in a field, lose some debris (later reported to be radioactive) and take off again. The site was then covered by Air Force personnel in hazmat suits. The report of this event I came across only several months ago. Harlan Bentley was videotaped for the Disclosure Project and a report was also filed with MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network). Harlan was in the Army and a reported Nike radar operator who witnessed this crash himself.
Coincidentally, this same month (and 3 months before my Navy road sighting) the worst accident in the history of Nike Ajax took place at the Nike site known as NY-53. This site is also adjacent to the same Navy road I had my sighting on. A workman was reported to have been working on the missiles (all armed with conventional warheads and fully fueled, above ground on their launchers) doing some type of safety retrofit. One of these missiles reportedly accidentally fired its liquid fueled sustainer motor thus causing a chain of events setting off the other missiles and either exploding the fuel, warheads and/or launching these missiles in a chain reaction type of event. Ten men (6 military and 4 civilian) were all killed. The site itself was demolished.
A couple of months later, I and my family witnessed the daylight, silvery sphere displaying randomly blinking red and white that were displayed all around the object. This craft was also flying from the direction of the pier facilities on Raritan bay towards the ammunition storage facilities located in Colts Neck. Here is the second seemingly unconnected Nike Ajax event that coincided with the Olney/Derwood reported crash. Could there have been a tie-in? Nike was always a classified system, but even more so when they upgraded to the nuclear capable, Nike Hercules which were deployed at NY-56 in 1960.
This brings us to the events of July 1970 that included; several reported landings in the Port Monmouth section of Middletown Township (also about a mile and a half from the Navy pier). Several of these landings were investigated at the time by the Middletown Township Police Department. There were also a number of scientists and other investigators that participated as well. Again, synchronicity rears its head because that summer of 1970 also included the nuclear armed, Nike Hercules missiles located at Fort Hancock NJ at the NY-56 site. It should be noted that this site is now one of the two remaining intact facilities that are being restored for the NPS to be used as a Cold War museum. I am also part of the volunteer group providing tours between April and November every year. The site is now part of the Gateway National Park (Sandy Hook, NJ). The NY-56 site is also just 7 driving miles from the NY-53 Nike Ajax site that blew up and, about 2 miles as the crow flies from the Navy pier.
The summer of 1970, an event took place that caused the arming of 16 Nike nuclear missiles that we were actually prepared to launch in anger. This was also the only time in the 16 years (1960 – 1974) that any of NY-56 nuclear missiles were ever armed for an intercept. Again, was there some synchronicity related to the events in Port Monmouth and this amazing (and scary) nuclear event? Because of the nature of the nuclear Nike system, there was the expected compartmentalization and the strict adherence to following the “Need to know” edict. The crew in the Launcher area had no need to know anything about what went on in the IFC (Integrated Fire Control) and the site only reacted to commands from a higher authority located at its ADDCP (Army Air Defense Command Post). How much information that was provided was dictated only by what the crew needed to know in order to accomplish the mission?
So! I leave it to readers to draw their own conclusions about the inter-relatedness of these events. There is ample circumstantial evidence to lend credence to the synchronicity aspect involved in these events. Thanks to Joe Foster
Witnesses Watch UFO Make Crop Circle
Nancy Talbott BLT reports, “.Last month Robbert v/d Broeke and an unknown “farmer” watched a UFO hover low over a Dutch field for several minutes, then discharge a “visible energy” down to the grass, creating a new crop formation. Robbert tried to touch the UFO, but was unable to, due to a “magnetic-field-like” force which repelled his hand
Geshe-la
Back at his apartment a few hours later he felt a “holy” energy present and took multiple highly anomalous photos, one of a “woman” (whom Robbert thought might be one of the UFO’s occupants), then a Buddhist monk named Geshe-la (whom Robbert had never heard of, but who is the spiritual founder & leader of many Buddhist organizations)–one of which BLT fieldworker Laurel Konrad, visiting me on this weekend, belongs to….during which visit Robbert took these photos. This is the first time that the face of a human KNOWN TO BE LIVING has appeared when Robbert feels “energies” present & then takes photos. {Photo above}
What may be a “Seeing Eye” dog also appeared, as did a “Crown of Thorns” image Robbert had taken on Good Friday, 2014 (posted in a previous BLT report, “Spiritual Icons”
The most peculiar thing about this “Crown of Thorns” image is that Robbert has both a new computer & new phone—and THIS IMAGE DOES NOT EXIST ON EITHER OF THEM. How it “manifested” as Robbert was sending me the new images via FB is a mystery. Also of note is the fact that 2 of the Geshe-la images are dated in the FUTURE—1 day after Robbert took them (Oct. 14th, Dutch time) and 2 days after both Laurel and I had seen them here in the States (evening of Oct. 13th).Link to new report:http://www.bltresearch.com/robbert/2016UFOcc&Geshe-la.pdf
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Filer’s Files #48 – 2016 Earth must be Warned - PART II
Filer’s Files #48 – 2016 Earth must be Warned - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Arizona Disc
Sedona — My guardian angel told me to take pictures of this one area. He told me to take three pictures on November 21, 2016.
I looked at the object and it looked like a small perfect cloud. I took three pictures but the disc only came out in one picture the one I’m going to send you.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Brentwood— At 11:20 pm on November 19, 2016, I saw a bright orange light in the distance from my upstairs bedroom window traveling north east. The light was larger than an airplane headlight, and was orange. I went outside to get a better look as it flew over my neighbor’s house. It was very close and about 2000 feet in the air traveling slowly. I called for my daughter to come and look and she saw the orange light continue on a steady path toward the north east. The light was clearly under intelligent control as it moved east, slowed down and hovered. We then noticed a small orange orb shooting out of the right side of the object going toward the ground. Next, it emitted another larger orange orb downward in a straight path and disappeared. We watched as this happen three times and both the falling orb and the object itself just disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Fillmore— My son and I went for a drive on a rough, little-traveled mountain road into the condor sanctuary on October 18, 2016. We stopped to take some photos of the sunset. Neither of us is sure whether we noticed the glowing object at the time. I recall that on our way home, he mentioned that he had seen a light in the distance, which he assumed to be a parked car. His photo does include some car lights on a distant highway, but it’s unlikely they would have appeared stationary or that he would have remarked on them.
When I noticed the object in my photos, I found it curious and joked that I had photographed a UFO, but I assumed it had a mundane explanation. Several days later, my son showed me his own photo of the object that appeared to be distinct lights on its surface. My son and I took our photos with identical Samsung S6 Galaxy models. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Marianna – I never actually saw the objects. I took a picture and noticed the objects hours later. My father and I were looking for arrowheads in a cotton field a few miles south of Marianna.
If the picture is zoomed, one object is visible just above my father. Three other objects, in a triangle formation can also be seen off in the distance to the right of the closest one about the middle of the picture. Thanks to MUFON
Georgia Light
Acworth — On November 17, 2016, I took pictures but, I am not sure what this is. It was stationary and there were no other lights around it. My sighting was on Glade Road. My photos look like ones sent on November 14.
Louisville— I was on my way home from the grocery with my husband and kids on November 18, 2016. I was taking pictures when my son pointed at a cloud that was the color of a rainbow.
I didn’t notice the object until I got home and zoomed in to one of my pictures. The sun was on the left, the rainbow cloud was in the middle of my picture and the object was on the left. When I zoomed in it looked like two rows of lights. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Light
Laughlin — Following the Star Works UFO conference, Witness #2 (or W2) and I walked along the Colorado River front from the Aquarius Resort upriver to the Highway 163 bridge along the river walk in front of the Laughlin casinos. We walked across the bridge and noticed the beautifully lit Riverfront casino. We were taking pictures of the scenery from the Arizona side of the river when we first noticed the object.
She asked, “What’s that?” and pointed toward the casino. I looked up and saw a fleeting glimpse of the first object as it moved out of light beam. We watched for a few moments more when she said, “There’s another one“. Both objects were shadowy and indistinct, roughly crescent, boomerang or chevron shaped. I could only see the leading edge clearly. They traveled smoothly from N to S, over the Riverfront casinos. Second one moved same way as first, illuminated by hotel lights moving at trotting speed. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Flying Football
Harlem– On November 8, 2016, at 2 PM, I saw a UFO, just sitting there. I saw it for 4 to 5 seconds and zip it went away. I got a picture this time of a flying football. Well I am traumatized with this very painful experience.
Note: The witness sent other photos for different dates and times. It is not clear if the motion that he is describing was for the above football shaped object or if it describes objects in other pictures. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
North Carolina Orb
Ayden — On October 26, 2016 at about 14:12 in the small town of Pitt County while flying my DJI Phantom 3 Professional aerial camera drone, I captured an object flying from SE to NW. This object traveled a distance of about 1.2 miles in a 1/3rd of a second. My position was at the Ayden District Park and my drone was headed back to my position. At the time my drone captured this object on video, it was about 1/2 mile from me. The air speed of my drone was 26 MPH at 187 feet high. My drone was recording video in 4K resolution at 30 Frames/Second. Upon video review I noticed this object on video on my UHD TV. I then ran the video through my editing software. I received a call from Sandy Davis, an investigator with MUFON within 30 minutes. He was totally amazed by what my drone’s camera caught but was unable to determine what I caught on video. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Texas Light
Lake Jackson — I was at my kids swim lessons at an outdoor pool at 7 pm, on August 4, 2016. My son was in the water and my daughter was sitting with me. I noticed a yellow helicopter circling the area a few times. After it flew off sw, I looked up and saw what I thought was Venus. I went back to watching my son and noticed the object had moved. There were several other faint spheres slowly descending in perfect formation going in west. I pulled out my phone and snapped a few shots. lt took place between 7 to 7:30 pm. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Utah Light
Taylorsville - On November 14, 2016, a man viewed a bright object in the northeastern sky for about one hour when he reported his sighting. He took photos with a cell phone camera attached to his telescope. The object was much brighter than surrounding stars. The object was stationary and the witness said that at times multiple red lights would be around object
Response of Witness to Questions: Yes, all photos were taken with a cell phone and an 8″ mirror telescope except for the one in 2013. I would like to contact some local investigator when I see things if possible.
Note:No stars or planets of the brightness seen in the witness photos were present in the northeastern sky. A local investigator was immediately contacted in the Salt Lake City area to view the sky. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Virginia Object
Hampton — I was watching TV then my TV kept buffering. So I went outside with my phone when I seen the UFO. I quickly went to the app camera and started recording. It was triangle shaped UFO with a red light in the center. I thought it was landing at Langley Air Force Base. Unfortunately I couldn’t drive to the base because deadly force is authorized. And after I finished recording I quickly went to the internet and looked up what I saw.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
West Virginia
Weirton — on September 21, 2016, a week or 2 after coming back from Las Vegas Nevada my fiancé and I experienced allot of bizarre events. During our trip to Las Vegas, being interested in the truth in EBE’s we drove out to Rachel Nevada, visiting the “black mailbox” I left behind an old student id card (with an old address) in black mailbox. We continued on our way to the back entrance of Area 51 and got as close to the gate as lawfully possible. As we walked to the gate jokingly I said to my fiancé, little do they know that we know the truth. When we came back to West Virginia my fiancé was on the back porch at night and saw a very low triangular orb set glide across the sky. She called me and I saw silent objects too low to be an airplane. The object was just 3, 4 or 5 solid white lights slowly disappeared behind a wooded area.
After we got done recording it I decided to upload it to Facebook and Facebook added this most bizarre sound. Facebook can’t integrate sound into videos you upload. I still cannot figure out how the audio got added, I’m a Systems Engineer and know technology and a MUFON member. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Fast Object
On November 14, 2016, I was watching and filming the super moon when I observed a fast moving UFO.
It is located at about 29 seconds into the video. The object flew across above the moon. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Bosnia Light
Banja Luka — I was picturing a flag on a building on November 19, 2016, so I took around 20 photos.
I noticed it a minute later because it seemed strange. Now when I move pictures frame by frame the “object” is moving, and is scary.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Orb
Oshawa, Ontario — On Sunday November 6, 2016, I took notice of the ‘X ‘pattern trails in the sky created by jets southwest over the lake Ontario.
Funny how the ‘X’ pattern disintegrated in the center so quickly. I then thought to take a few pictures in capturing the moment. In one of the four pictures I caught an unknown long white anomaly at 4:41 pm near the trail,
. Enjoy Paul Shishis
Cuban Soldier Fired On Alien Craft
Cabanas Bay — Objects of unknown origin buzzed a military facility on Cabañas Bay in 1967. The troops quartered at this installation were jolted out of bed shortly after midnight by a blast of machine gun fire from the sentry box manned by Isidro Puentes. A squad was rushed to the area, but the sentinel was not at his post. Dozens of spent rounds were later found in the area, completely crushed as if they had impacted a very solid object upon impact. Even more ominous was the discovery of burn marks that suggested the landing of a large object with an estimated weight of ten tons.
The missing guard was found later in the morning, completely unconscious. He was taken to a military hospital, where he remained in shock and unable to speak for nearly seven days. The hapless soldier was then transported to a neurology unit, where scans showed that he had no brain damage, but still remained unresponsive. When he finally emerged from his trance-like state, the soldier told the medical staff and investigating officers that he had seen “strange lights” behind the trees, and upon investigation, was faced with a large object shaped like a “luminous sphere.” Believing that the object could be the spearhead of a U.S. invasion force, the soldier fired at it, and could remember little else. NOTE: The above image is CGI. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
France Cigars
Sarralbe — On a very dark cloudy day, I happen to look up in the clouded sky on September 2015. If I hadn’t good eyes (12/10 after laser operation) I might have overlooked it. For a split 20 to 30 seconds I saw three cigar shaped objects with polished metallic appearance going straight. They flew silently. It flew much faster than a jet plane. The poor meteorological conditions forbid me to see them again, and I have never seen them again in a year. The path the ufos took was the same as those I always see in the night sky, but those have blinking eyes and may be normal planes going way slower. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Iraq Light
At an unspecified location in Northern Iraq I noticed a light that at a glance you would think is a flare. It was bright enough and close enough to keep my attention. It was slightly brighter than a flare and didn’t have the orange light associated with a flare. What also made me notice was it was above a populated area where no known activities were happening that would need a flare due to light the city. The object stayed stationary for maybe ten seconds, emitting a white light. Almost like if you put a standard household light bulb in the air. The light went out for 5-8 seconds then came back on. Another 5-8 seconds later it dimmed to the brightness of what I can best describe as the smallest star you could see in the sky. When it did that it began to move horizontally almost in an “s” pattern to the south varying in speed throughout its movement. I lost sight of it due to how fair it was and haven’t seen it since. I’m not sure what it was, I have a background in military and unmanned aviation. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Israel Object
Ra’ananav — I was invited on the eve of the Super Moon on November 14, 2016 to a gathering of five people on the top roof of my friend’s flat for a spiritual process. At the beginning of the process, she asked us to “take pictures”. For the first time ever, I took my cell phone camera and decided to film a suddenly a green rectangle appeared on the video. My whole focus was on the green rectangle, I did not notice at all what really happened during the shooting. I filmed for 2.36 minutes and turned the camera off. We went home around 11:10 PM. I excitedly showed the video to my son, age 27. He noted that the green rectangle related to the fluorescent light at top right, and immediately recognized the crazy flight that took place in the video and said: “Mom, leave the green rectangle, what is that?” and pointed to a bright spot that flew at top speed across the sky.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Disc
Mexico City — My wife and I were on vacation and since I’m an avid photographer, I took a lot of images with my Nikon professional camera of the city and its cathedrals. As I always do, once I returned home, I cleaned up some of my images using Photoshop. On November -18, 2016, I noticed a foggy section on one of my untouched images and a disc-shaped objet in the upper left corner of one of those images. It was clear that I had captured something unusual. I then jumped to the next image, and sure enough, there it was on the next image. On this next image it had now moved towards the center of the image. It seems the object was coming in at an angle and then straightened out as it flew over the city. This is the first time I have been compelled to report a possible sighting. The original is untouched. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Light
On November 19, 2016, around 7:10 PM I saw a fireball looking south just above the tree line. Moving left to right it looked like it had a tail.
It was rather bright and after maybe 4-5 seconds, it fragmented. I have seen 3 other fireballs in my life, but this one was different.
It moved slower and I was able to keep up with it across the horizon. I would love to know if anyone else saw what I did. www.weatherwatch.co.nz
Portugal
Ponta Delgada Azores — I was photographing a couple for tourism promotion on the island of São Miguel, Azores on the lake of the village of Sete Cidades on August 13, 2013. I made 2 identical photos and in the second picture the object appears and immediately disappears. I only saw the object later on the computer because I was aware of the subject. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Lights
Piddlehitton — I was coming back from school on November 18, 2016, I first noticed the object was moving in close. The object was moving in a straight line, when I saw it. I didn’t worry me as I believe in aliens and don’t believe they cause harm and I lost sight of it when trees were covering it up.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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MYSTERIOUS GEOGLYPHS FOUND ON THE MOON (video)
MYSTERIOUS GEOGLYPHS FOUND ON THE MOON (video)
Seeing a line is typically one of the most entertaining sightings when it comes to things throughout the world that are appealing. However, these lines are vastly difficult from typical ones. These lines are known as the Nazca Lines. These lines are suspiciously weird geoglyphs that stretch around a large amount of the Peruvian Desert. These lines, however, remain an absolute mystery. No one has yet been able to explain why these lines exist around the area that it does.
These lines are oddly able to be seen from space. These lines are over 50KM long, and many of these lines are pointing to the positions of the sun, moon and certain other stars from approximately 2,000 years ago. From space, the lines appear to be red. They almost resemble infrared lines used to stop thieves from stealing highly desired property. In looking at these lines, there may be a unique connection between two unique places. These places are the moon and Peru. Extremely weird combo, however, new facts have revealed that there is some correlation between the two.
A video shown below displays the moon and the many unique features that it contains. These lines are superficial and are extremely unique in their look. This has created skepticism whether Peru and the Moon have something to do with the existence of aliens or UFOs. The weather conditions are extremely unique, and only exist in this specific area where the lines exist. This has created conspiracies of whether these conditions are perfectly suitable for alien life.
The connection to the stars also hints at a possibility that a higher and intelligence life form existed or currently exists and is involved in this specific area. There should be more research on this area, especially due to the many conspiracies and beliefs that aliens do in fact exist. NASA themselves have indicated that something does, in fact, exist out there, which is a strong statement for an entity that focuses primarily on space.
Travis Walton, UFO Abductee Q&A with Richard Dolan, Victor Viggiani, Chris Russak (Modern Knowledge)
Travis Walton, UFO Abductee Q&A with Richard Dolan, Victor Viggiani, Chris Russak (Modern Knowledge)
Published on Jul 2, 2016
Travis Walton live in Toronto. MANY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE STORY OF TRAVIS WALTON AS PORTRAYED IN THE HIT 1993 MOVIE 'FIRE IN THE SKY' THAT WAS HOLLYWOOD, BUT ABDUCTIONS ARE DEFINITELY NOT SCIENCE FICTION.
HEAR THE TRUTH OF THIS AMAZING STORY FROM TRAVIS WALTON HIMSELF, IN A RARE PUBLIC SCREENING AND QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION WITH THE WORLD'S MOST DOCUMENTED ALIEN ABDUCTEE.
TRAVIS, Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton, recounts the experiences of the work crew that day in the forest and the weeks that followed this incident. They and Travis struggled to make sense of the event enduring humiliation, and job losses. Travis has encountered lifelong ridicule regarding his experiences.Driving home after a day of clearing underbrush in the Sitgreaves National Forest, seven loggers come upon a 40 foot shiny disc hovering on the crest of a ridge. As if spellbound, Travis jumps from the passenger side of their work truck and runs toward the craft for a closer look. That decision November 5, 1975 would change him and these loggers forever. Travis’s story became a book called “Fire in the Sky” and a movie (1993). The Paramount Picture feature film enhanced his “close encounter of the third kind,” (a term coined by ufologist J. Allen Hynek denoting human observations of actual aliens or “animate beings”). The Travis Walton UFO story remains one of the most well documented stories of all time that will soon commemorate the 40th anniversary of this incident.
Travis Walton's First Interview Ever - After His Abduction
FREIGHTENING ALIEN CRAFT CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN RUSSIA
AUGUST 15, 1663 ………… ROBOZERO LAKE RUSSIA
On August 15, 1663, between 10 a.m. and noon, local time, a “great noise” resounded over Robozero Lake, located in the Vologda Region; about 50 kilometers southwest of Belozersk.
From the north, out of the clear sky appeared a huge flaming sphere no less than 40 meters in diameter. From its fore part emitted two “flame” beams, about “20 sazhens ahead of it” (i.e. around 40 meters; asazhen is 2.13 meters). From its sides poured blue smoke. This huge ball of fire, its height like that of a modern 15-story building, hovered over the lake.
The phenomenon was observed by a multitude of people. It was the day of the Assumption, and villagers from all of nearby villages gathered for Mass at the parish church, situated on the lake shore. The “great noise” occurred just as the prayer singing had begun. Terrified by this noise, the people emerged from the church to the vestibule, but upon seeing the “frightful sight” they went back into the church and “prayed to the Lord and the Virgin Mary with tears and weeping,” whereupon “the great flame and the two smaller ones vanished.” However, soon after “the fiery flame” again appeared over the lake, somewhat to the west, “about half a versta (approximately 1750 feet) from the spot where it had vanished.” Its appearance was just as unexpected as the first time and it had “dimmed.”
A little later the same body, seemingly becoming even brighter and more terrifying, reappeared another half kilometer to the west, and then, moving westward, it dimmed and disappeared from view. The “flame” hovered over Robozero for about an hour and a half. The lake is quite small, its size “two versts long and about one wide.”
Peasants were sailing in a boat in the lake at the time, but the scorching heat did not let them come closer. They saw that light from the unknown object penetrated the water, and reached the bottom of the lake that was “about four sazhens down.” They observed “fish fleeing from the flame towards the shore.” And where the flame touched the water, appeared a brown film of oxide on the surface, resembling rust (“just like rust”); it was later dispersed by wind.
Ivan Rzhevsky was an educated and intelligent man, as his observations reveal quite clearly. He went as far as to check out the testimony of an eyewitness, a peasant by the name of Levko Fedorov. He also received written confirmation from the local priests that “such a sign was observed on that date;” only then did Rzhevsky report the occurrence to his superiors.
The Russian author provides a detailed description of the phenomenon, but does not offer any subjective interpretation of it. Others tried to interpret the Robozero Phenomenon. Russian astronomer D. Svyatski, in his book “Astronomical phenomena in Russian chronicles (Petrograd, 1915),” claims that the eyewitnesses saw pieces of a meteorite that flew apart after an explosion.
How could the people in the boat approach a hovering body? Some have tried to explain it as a ball lightning. But there was no storm and no rain that day. A lightning’s life span is short. Its diameter is not larger than a meter, certainly never 40 meters. Then, there were two rays that emitted from the body. Ball lightning does not emit rays. Yuri Roszius analyzed Rzhevsky’s report. His detailed analysis included the study of one interesting episode related by eyewitnesses. The document notes a change in the outer appearance of the object: an increase in its brightness when it came into view for the third time.
For some reason this change preceded the start of the object’s progressive movement westward. In modern times, such increase in brightness could be attributed to the firing a cruise engines (increase in its trust). Is it by chance that the object’s brightness increased before its departure?
New York City is a unique and lively area of the United States. Many of the most common methods of traveling involve using buses and subways as New York City is often referred as the city that does not sleep. This is mostly the case, because of the endless action that takes place. The subway is a unique form of transportation that thousands of New Yorkers take daily. There is a unique atmosphere in the subway, due to the random personalities that are spotted one the train. Some attempt to perform a criminal activity, while some live in the subway, although illegal. One specific individual, however, looked vaguely different from the rest.
When a common user of the subway in a 25-year old man saw a child on the subway, he quickly noticed something was much different about him. He was no ordinary child, and it was because of his unusual look in his eyes. His eyes were black. Such eyes are typically indicative of someone who is not of this world. Particularly demonic or someone who is probably human for sure.
When the older gentleman became curious about the child, he began to monitor him endlessly. He would track the child to see what he is doing and why he constantly just sits on a train and stares blankly. The child would never give any response as if he was in a trance. One day he did finally respond to the man and asked the older man for help. The man was clearly in fear. However the kid said he was scared and needed help. When the man was reluctant, he began to get much more aggressive.
The man became extremely scared and began to pray that the kid would disappear, however, his prayers became a reality. The kid disappeared out of thin air. However the man still had no clue who it was. He thought he was free of this situation. However he later saw an area full of black-eyed children and could not move around if he wanted it. Was it an alien or was it a demon. Whoever it was it was not a person who is acting solely on the power of humans. The man never traveled by train again. The interesting question is why did he suddenly see a multitude of the same child. Was it a cult of some sort or was the man simply seeing things and he had his issues? Only time may tell whether this issue ever arises again.
ASTRONOMERS HAVE RECEIVED A SHOCKING SIGNAL FROM A MISSING US SATELLITE
ASTRONOMERS HAVE RECEIVED A SHOCKING SIGNAL FROM A MISSING US SATELLITE
It's amazing how many spacecrafts, rockets and satellites we have sent to space and the number of launches keeps increasing with the ever growing technological development.
Satellites are a crucial tool for transmitting important signals throughout Earth. Branching into several areas such as: Television, communication, navigation, weather, business, etc.
But one of the most interesting functions of certain satellites is space science, which has helped scientists understand more about universe over the years, with the study of blackholes and all the mysterious cosmic phenomena.
But some satellites can go rogue and disappear for a long time.
Recently, the LES1 which has been missing for around 50 years, has mysteriously began to transmit strange signals. Some people think the satellite was hijacked by an alien civilization that went on to transmit signals in order to establish contact with humanity.
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
Disturbing news has been leaking out from the giant continent at the bottom of the world. During April 2016 an ancient structure or apparatus that lay encased miles under the hard Antarctic ice was detected by a roving spy satellite. The US military immediately moved to quash the reports and the mainstream news media dutifully complied.
There appears to be many secrets hidden in the Antarctica and we are pretty much hearing different stories every month about military personnel disclosing information about Aliens in that part of the world! But what a great secluded part of the world for the Aliens to keep out of sight from prying eyes….or so they thought!
While the mainstream news recently reported on further explorations in the Antarctica which they claim "holds the key" to mankind's future", what they do not do is connect the many dots which build a picture that appears to blur the lines between conspiracy and reality.
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
Disturbing news has been leaking out from the giant continent at the bottom of the world. During April 2016 an ancient structure or apparatus that lay encased miles under the hard Antarctic ice was detected by a roving spy satellite. The US military immediately moved to quash the reports and the mainstream news media dutifully complied.
There appears to be many secrets hidden in the Antarctica and we are pretty much hearing different stories every month about military personnel disclosing information about Aliens in that part of the world! But what a great secluded part of the world for the Aliens to keep out of sight from prying eyes….or so they thought!
While the mainstream news recently reported on further explorations in the Antarctica which they claim "holds the key" to mankind's future", what they do not do is connect the many dots which build a picture that appears to blur the lines between conspiracy and reality.
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
Disturbing news has been leaking out from the giant continent at the bottom of the world. During April 2016 an ancient structure or apparatus that lay encased miles under the hard Antarctic ice was detected by a roving spy satellite. The US military immediately moved to quash the reports and the mainstream news media dutifully complied.
There appears to be many secrets hidden in the Antarctica and we are pretty much hearing different stories every month about military personnel disclosing information about Aliens in that part of the world! But what a great secluded part of the world for the Aliens to keep out of sight from prying eyes….or so they thought!
While the mainstream news recently reported on further explorations in the Antarctica which they claim "holds the key" to mankind's future", what they do not do is connect the many dots which build a picture that appears to blur the lines between conspiracy and reality.
BIZARRE! MASSIVE ALASKAN SEA DRAGON CAUGHT ON CAMERA!
BIZARRE! MASSIVE ALASKAN SEA DRAGON CAUGHT ON CAMERA!
One of the most fascinating creatures that has been a prevalent topic for cryptid enthusiasts for years is the famous sea beast "The Lochness Monster".
The earliest account of a Lochness monster sighting was back in 1933, when a London couple were driving around Loch, they witnessed a gigantic creature akin to a dragon or a pre-historic animal with another smaller animal on his mouth and quickly moving from the road to the lake. This report was then published on the Courier.
The first photograph of the alleged beast was taken on the same year and was published in the Daily Express.
Through the following years, people have been reporting new "Nessie" sightings with some photographic proof to back their claims.
But these sea dragons aren't exclusive to the Scottish Highlands. There have been recent clips and photos of a supposed sea creature swimming along the icy cold Alaskan waters.
The footage taken had gone viral and it remains a mystery to what that creature is.
Even more recently new footage emerged showing another dragon creature submerging on Alaskan waters with spikes sticking out to the surface.
Deepest water found 1000km down, a third of way to Earth’s core
Deepest water found 1000km down, a third of way to Earth’s core
Priceless imperfection
Mederic Palot
By Andy Coghlan
JULES VERNE’s idea of an ocean deep below the surface in Journey to the Centre of the Earth may not have been too far off. Earth’s mantle may contain many oceans’ worth of water – with the deepest 1000 kilometres down.
“If it wasn’t down there, we would all be submerged,” says Steve Jacobsen at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, whose team made the discovery. “This implies a bigger reservoir of water on the planet than previously thought.”
This water is much deeper than any seen before, at a third of the way to the edge of Earth’s core. Its presence was indicated by a diamond spat out 90 million years ago by a volcano near the São Luíz river in Juina, Brazil.
The diamond has an imperfection – a sealed-off inclusion – that contains minerals that became trapped during the diamond’s formation. When the researchers took a closer look at it with infrared microscopy, they saw unmistakable evidence of the presence of hydroxyl ions, which normally come from water. They were everywhere, says Jacobsen.
To work out the depth the diamond formed at – and hence the origins of this water – the team again turned to the inclusion. It is made of a ferropericlase mineral, which is composed of iron and magnesium oxide, and can also absorb other metals such as chromium, aluminium and titanium at ultra-high temperatures and pressures typical of the lower mantle.
“This water is much deeper than ever found before, at a third of the way to the edge of Earth’s core”
Jacobsen found that these additional metals had separated from the ferropericlase – something that happens in the milder conditions a diamond experiences as it edges up through shallower depths. But for the metals to be present at all, the diamond must have originated in the intense conditions of the lower mantle (Lithos, doi.org/btcn). “Based on the composition of the trapped mineral, we speculate that the depth was around 1000 kilometres,” says Jacobsen.
The clincher is that as the inclusion was trapped in the diamond the whole time, the water signature can only have come from the diamond’s place of formation in the lower mantle. “This is the deepest evidence for water recycling on the planet,” he says. “The big take-home message is that the water cycle on Earth is bigger than we ever thought, extending into the deep mantle.”
His team has previously found evidence of massive amounts of water some 600 kilometres down, mixed in with rock.
“Water clearly has a role in plate tectonics, and we didn’t know before how deep these effects could reach,” he says. “It has implications for the origin of water on the planet.” For example, it is possible that Earth had water from day one in the very dust and rocks that first formed it.
But it’s still not clear exactly how water got so far down. It may have arrived in the mantle even earlier than 90 million years ago, through sedimentary oceanic crust burrowing downwards as primitive tectonic plates thrust against and past each other.
The new study suggests cycling of subducted material, even at these depths, says Lydia Hallis at the University of Glasgow, UK. “Ultimately, this research will help us better understand the way our planet recycles itself.”
Jacobsen thinks that this water may help explain why Earth is the only planet we know to have plate tectonics. “Water mixes with ocean crust and gets subducted at convergent plate boundaries,” he says. “Introducing water into the mantle promotes melting and weakens rock, likely helping out the motions of plates like grease.”
The hope is that such research will yield insights into how our oceans and atmosphere formed in the first place.
This article appeared in print under the headline “Oceans of water in deep Earth go 1000 km down”
Oceanen aan water in de aarde bereiken diepte van 1000 (!) kilometer
Oceanen aan water in de aarde bereiken diepte van 1000 (!) kilometer
Jules Verne schreef in zijn boek ‘Reis naar het middelpunt van de aarde’ over een oceaan diep onder het aardoppervlak. Waarschijnlijk zat hij er niet ver naast, schrijft New Scientist.
De aardmantel bevat namelijk vele oceanen aan water, waarvan de diepste zich op zo’n 1000 kilometer onder de grond bevindt.
“Als die er niet zat, zouden we allemaal onder water leven,” zei Steve Jacobsen van de Northwestern University in Illinois, die de ontdekking heeft gedaan.
Diamant
“Dit wijst erop dat onze planeet over een grotere voorraad water beschikt dan voorheen werd gedacht.”
Het water zit veel dieper dan ooit eerder is waargenomen, op een derde van de afstand tot de aardkern.
Een diamant die 90 miljoen jaar geleden werd uitgespuwd door een vulkaan in het Braziliaanse Juína, bracht de wetenschappers op het spoor van het water.
De diamant bevat mineralen die bestaan uit hydroxyl-ionen, die normaal gesproken afkomstig zijn uit water. “Ze waren overal,” zei Jacobsen.
Onduidelijk
Zijn team stelde vast dat de diamant in de lagere mantel gevormd moet zijn, op een diepte van circa 1000 kilometer.
Nooit eerder werd op zo’n grote diepte water gevonden. “De watercyclus op aarde is groter dan we dachten en strekt zich uit tot diep in de mantel,” lichtte Jacobsen toe.
Zijn team ontdekte eerder al bewijs voor gigantische hoeveelheden water op een diepte van 600 kilometer, gemixt met gesteente.
Hij zei dat de aarde mogelijk al sinds haar ontstaan over water beschikt. Het is alleen nog onduidelijk hoe het water zo ontzettend diep kan reiken.
Check out the speed on this UFO. The white reflective surface of it prevents us from getting a clear view of it, and allows it to blend into the clouds easily to hide.
This UFO is over Australia, yet its the same type of ship that is seen by thousands over Denver, Colorado in the US. The alien species that uses this type of UFO probably have several bases located in the Australian outback.
Alien influence in historic works of art of the Bible, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Alien influence in historic works of art of the Bible, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of painting: 1600s
Artist who made painting: Ventura Salimbeni
Aliens have influence our lives it more ways that most are aware. Here an artist painted the Sputnik satellite 450 years before it was created. It also closely resembles a lot of the UFOs seen around the world...especially the ones we call cloud orbs. The artists must have hand some mental visions given to him from an alien...much like the famous french warrior Joan of Arc had in the 1400s. Aliens can, do and have mentally manipulated humans since the beginning of our existence.
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
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Alien influence in historic works of art of the Bible? Why are there UFO like objects in the Glorification of the Eucharist?
What is a machine resembling the Sputnik satellite doing in a painting from the year 1600?
Ventura Salimbeni of the 16th and 17th century was assigned to do three painting for a church in Tuscany, Italy. Out of the three, he did one very odd looking one.
The painting, which is quite large and still stands today. The top of the painting is said to be symbolic of God the Father and God the Son with scepters touching what was known as the universe.
The thing is...this just looks a little bit too uncanny for symbolic reference.
If the sphere is said to represent the universe, why did the painter not include any stars or other celestial objects?...and why does the sphere seem to reflect light much like an actual shiny ball would?
The ball even appears to have seams that hold it together.
The strangest and most outlandish part of it all are the two quote "scepters" that stick out from the top of the object.
These scepters bear absolutely no resemblance what one would have looked like at the time.
In fact...they even look engineered to be antennaes. Look at the base of each of them and how they are slightly wider as they connect with the object. They even get thinner as they reach their end...perfectly resembling an antennae.
They even look as if they have a "telescoping" like design...such as if they could shorten away when not needed and expand when needed.
Plus, there are two of them...two of them positioned in a way to maximize radio wave transmission.
What exactly was the vision the artist saw when he painted this work of art? What inspired him?This is truly odd.
Did NASA Mars Rover Find a Signature of Past Life?
Did NASA Mars Rover Find a Signature of Past Life?
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Home Plate opaline silica (left) occurs in nodular masses with digitate structures that resemble those at El Tatio (right).
Credit: ASU/Ruff & Farmer
During its wheeled treks on the Red Planet, NASA's Spirit rover may have encountered a potential signature of past life on Mars, report scientists at Arizona State University (ASU).
To help make their case, the researchers have contrasted Spirit's study of "Home Plate" — a plateau of layered rocks that the robot explored during the early part of its third year on Mars — with features found within active hot spring/geyser discharge channels at a site in northern Chile called El Tatio.
The work has resulted in a provocative paper: "Silica deposits on Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures at El Tatio in Chile." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Field work
As reported online last week in the journal Nature Communications, field work in Chile by the ASU team — Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer of the university's School of Earth and Space Exploration — shows that the nodular and digitate silica structures at El Tatio that most closely resemble those on Mars include complex sedimentary structures produced by a combination of biotic and abiotic processes.
"Although fully abiotic processes are not ruled out for the Martian silica structures, they satisfy an a priori definition of potential biosignatures," the researchers wrote in the study.
Ancient setting
Spiritlanded on Mars in January 2004, a few weeks before its twin, Opportunity, touched down in a different part of the Red Planet. Both golf-cart-size rovers were tasked with looking for signs of past water activity during their missions, which were originally planned to last three months.
Spirit encountered outcrops and regolith composed of opaline silica (amorphous SiO2nH2O) in an ancient volcanic hydrothermal setting in Gusev crater.
An origin via either fumarole-related acid-sulfate leaching or precipitation from hot spring fluids was considered possible. "However, the potential significance of the characteristic nodular and [millimeter]-scale digitate opaline silica structures was not recognized," Ruff and Farmer noted in the new study.
Spirit imagery shows opaline silica nodular outcrops adjacent to Home Plate showing typical stratiform expression. White outline highlights nodular silica outcrop. Rover wheel tracks are roughly 1 meter apart. Rolling wheels did not deform the roughly 6-inch-high high outcrop (lighter tracks) compared with the inoperative dragging wheel in a later traverse (darker track).
Credit: ASU/Ruff & Farmer
El Tatio: Mars-like conditions
The physical environment of El Tatio offers a rare combination of high elevation, low precipitation rate, high mean annual evaporation rate, common diurnal freeze-thaw and extremely high ultraviolet irradiance.
"Such conditions provide a better environmental analog for Mars than those of Yellowstone National Park (USA) and other well-known geothermal sites on Earth," suggested Ruff and Farmer. "Our results demonstrate that the more Mars-like conditions of El Tatio produce unique deposits, including biomediated silica structures, with characteristics that compare favorably with the Home Plate silica outcrops. The similarities raise the possibility that the Martian silica structures formed in a comparable manner."
Biosignature definition
Previously, a NASA science team defined a potential biosignature as "an object, substance and/or pattern that might have a biological origin and thus compels investigators to gather more data before reaching a conclusion as to the presence or absence of life."
"Because we can neither prove nor disprove a biological origin for the microstromatolite-like digitate silica structures at Home Plate, they constitute a potential biosignature according to this definition," Ruff and Farmer wrote.
Spirit of future exploration
Spirit bogged down on Mars in May 2009, becoming stuck in soft soil.
In late January 2010, after months of attempts to free the rover, NASA dubbed the wheeled robot a stationary research platform. The lack of mobility and the harsh climes of Mars conspired to seal Spirit's fate, with attempts to regain contact with the robot ending in May 2011. Subsequently, NASA announced the end of contact efforts and the completion of Spirit’s mission. (Opportunity is still going strong today.)
The ASU researchers suggested that a future and specially instrumented rover mission could perhaps provide a more definitive assessment of possible biogenicity of Home Plate silica structures.
"However, because of the challenges in obtaining unambiguous evidence in situ, coordinated microscopic and compositional analyses of samples returned to laboratories on Earth may be required to reach a robust conclusion as to the presence or absence of past Martian life in these rocks," Ruff and Farmer stated.
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet." The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel six-part series airing in November. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebookor Google+. Story published on Space.com.
Scientists Uncover New Evidence for Life on Ancient Mars
Scientists Uncover New Evidence for Life on Ancient Mars
NASA
IN BRIEF
Pictures from NASA's Spirit Rover suggest that ancient life on Mars may have been involved in the building of silica deposits.
NASA will be launching another mission in 2020, which can interrogate the evidence and determine if microbial life exists (or existed before) on the Red Planet.
MICROBIAL LIFE
In 2007, NASA’s unmanned Spirit Rover wheeled across Mars, taking photographs and data, until it eventually got stuck in soft red soil two years later. Photographs of hot spring silica deposits were seen, but was thought to be just another geological structure. That is until quite recently when two geologists discovered similar deposits here on Earth, and found that these structures are made by tiny organisms—now suggesting existence of the organisms on the Red Planet.
Arizona State University geologists Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer’s research is detailed in Nature Communications. They contrasted the Spirit’s study on the Mars Home Plate with their findings in the El Tatio Chilean hot springs, a place known to be the best“Mars analog” because of its high elevation, extreme freeze-thaw temperatures, and high exposure ultraviolet rays. Ruff described the mineral outcrops found in El Tatio to be “the most Mars-like of any silica deposits on Earth.”
Left: Silica deposits on Mars; Right: Silica deposits from El Tatio. Credit: ASU
The finger-like silica deposits found in Home Plate were poorly misunderstood. Now, the geologists have determined that microbes play a major role in forming the silica deposits, suggesting that the same has been occurring on Mars.
FUTURE EXPLORATION
The ASU researchers’ discovery prompts future explorations to search specifically for the possible biosignatures in the silica structures. NASA has announced plans to send a new rover to Mars in 2020, and this new mission, which is yet unnamed, could be specifically instrumented and prepared for the search for microbial life.
NASA's Spirit rover imaged this cluster of fingerlike silica nodules near Home Plate in the Columbia Hills in April 2007. The nodules appear to have the same size and shape as silica nodules at the El Tatio hot springs on Earth, where biological activity contributed to their formation.
Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech
ASU astrobiologist Jack Farmer studies an outflow colored by microorganisms that flows from the hot springs at El Tatio in Chile. Farmer and ASU planetary scientist Steve Ruff have identified silica structures at El Tatio that formed with the help of microorganisms and which appear nearly identical to silica structures found by the Spirit rover at a site on Mars.
Photo by Steve Ruff
Today, continued study about Mars’ dynamic system is ever-imperative as plans to send humansthere loom closer to materialization. These discoveries could greatly alter preparations from SpaceX and NASA before we can finally set up camp on the Red Planet.
Test of 'Impossible' EmDrive Space Engine Passes Peer Review
Test of 'Impossible' EmDrive Space Engine Passes Peer Review
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The EmDrive engine, which is designed to generate thrust by bouncing microwaves around inside a cone-shaped chamber.
Credit: SPR Ltd./www.emdrive.com
Good news for all you EmDrive enthusiasts: A new study suggesting that the seemingly impossible space engine may actually work has passed the peer-review process.
The study — which was led by physicist Harold "Sonny" White, of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston — found that an EmDrive design generated small amounts of thrust in the lab. These results were leaked online recently, and now the paper has been published, in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Journal of Propulsion and Power.
Development of the EmDrive was begun by British scientist Roger Shawyer about 15 years ago. The engine works by bouncing microwaves around inside a chamber; it requires no propellant and could therefore usher in a new era of superfast and efficient spaceflight, advocates say.
There's just one little issue: The EmDrive shouldn't work, if you put any stock in Newton's Third Law of Motion ("for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"). The EmDrive doesn't blast anything out the back, so just how it produces thrust (the equal and opposite reaction) is a mystery.
The new study is just a lab test, and it doesn't prove that the EmDrive definitely works — White and his team couldn't rule out all sources of experimental error, for example — so don't let visions of EmDrive-powered spaceships fill your head. However, its publication is the latest in a series of recent steps suggesting that the technology may be more than a sci-fi dream.
Is there life on Mars? Evidence of aliens may have been found on the Red Planet – in 2007
Is there life on Mars? Evidence of aliens may have been found on the Red Planet – in 2007
Nasa's Spirit rover may have photographed evidence for life on Mars in 2007, but nobody noticed until now CREDIT: NASA
Evidence ofalien life on Marsmay have already been found by Nasa’s rover but scientists failed to notice, a new study suggests
In 2007, the Spirit rover photographed intriguing finger-like rock formations at the Home Plate plateau, a 300 square foot area in the Gusev crater near the Martian equator.
Scientists from the University of Arizona decided to look for similar features on Earth to determine how they were formed, and found nearly identical structures at El Tatio, Chile, which were created by a combination of hot springs and crucially, micro-organisms.
The Spirit rover which is currently stuck in soil on Mars
The team chose to study El Tatio because it has conditions which are very like Mars. Situated at 14,000 feet above sea level even in summer temperatures often drop below freezing at night, and by day huge amounts of ultraviolet light from the Sun comes through the thin, dry air.
The formations on Mars appear to be similar to structures on Earth known as stromatolites, which are formed when microbes form colonies in wet environments and trap sediment on their sticky surface coatings.
That sediment eventually reacts to calcium carbonate in the water and forms a build up of nobbly limestone layers.
El Tatio in Chile which is thought to resemble ancient Mars
“We went to El Tatio looking for comparisons with the feature found by Spirit at Home Plate,” said Dr Steve Ruff, of the school of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona.
“Our results show the conditions at El Tatio produce silica deposits with characteristics that are most Mars-like of any silica deposits on Earth.
"The fact that microbes play a role in producing the distinctive silica structures at El Tatio raises the possibility that the Martian silica structures formed in a comparable manner – in other words with the help of organisms that were alive at the time."
Mars on the left and Chile on the right
Mars is thought to be the best chance of finding evidence of extra-terrestrial life because it once had running water and an atmosphere. The hope of discovering life was also raised in December 2014 whenintriguing burps of methane were recorded by Nasa’s curiosity rover.
On Earth, around 90 per cent of methane is produced by organisms, so the expectation is that some kind of life is also emitting the gas on Mars.
However the Spirit rover mission has since been decommissioned after the robot became stuck in soft soil in 2011 so it cannot go back to check for signs of life or take new pictures.
Watch | Will humans ever travel to Mars?
The current active rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity, are also too far away to take a detour, and Nasa’s next rover is not due to launch until 2020, so it could be a while before the suspicions are confirmed.
Fortunately, the Home Plate is one of eight suggested sites for the next rover mission, and the new findings could help persuade controllers to land near to where the original images were taken.
But Dr Ruff added: "We know exactly where to land and where to go collect samples.”
The Gusev crater on Mars
Writing in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers say that no firm conclusion will be reached until Martian rocks are brought back to labs on Earth.
Astrophysicist Dr Dan Brown of Nottingham Trent University said: “Finding live on Mars or even the past presence of live has been a driving goal and infamous challenge for missions to Mars.
“The current findings presented in Nature seem to add to this chapter of Martian exploration. But as always carrying out Martian geology in search for life is never straightforward.
“I find myself wondering what we actually can achieve using rover, landers and orbiters alone to find clear evidence of past Martian bacterial life. Does this not require human researchers to be on Mars that could then investigate and interrogate the evidence far more comprehensively and creatively than we could ever anticipate a rover to do?
“However it shows how data gathered by missions now nine years ago, still brings forth valuable results."
Bewijs voor aliens mogelijk in 2007 al gevonden op Mars
Bewijs voor aliens mogelijk in 2007 al gevonden op Mars
Marslander Spirit heeft in 2007 mogelijk sporen van leven gevonden op de rode planeet. Dat schrijven Amerikaanse wetenschappers inNature Communications.
Ze hebben silica-afzettingen op foto’s van het wagentje vergeleken met afzettingen in Chili. Die blijken verdacht veel op elkaar te lijken.
De silica-afzettingen in El Tatio in Chili zijn gevormd door een combinatie van chemische processen en microben die rond geisers leven.
Identieke structuur
De afzettingen die Spirit vond op Mars hebben een vrijwel identieke structuur en zijn dus mogelijk op dezelfde manier gevormd.
De structuren staan bekend als stromatolieten en ontstaan als microben kolonies vormen in een vochtige omgeving en sediment vasthouden.
Dat sediment reageert met calciumkarbonaat in het water en vormt kalksteen.
In leven
“Omdat microben een rol spelen bij de vorming van silica-afzettingen in El Tatio, is het mogelijk dat de afzettingen op Mars op een soortgelijke manier zijn ontstaan,” lichtte dr. Steve Ruff van de Universiteit van Arizona toe.
“Met andere woorden: met de hulp van organismen die op dat moment in leven waren,” voegde hij toe.
In december 2014 trof Marsrover Curiosity methaan aan op de rode planeet. Op aarde wordt 90 procent van alle methaan geproduceerd door organismen.
Marsgesteente
In 2011 kwam Spirit vast te zitten in de bodem. De robot kan dus niet teruggaan om te speuren naar tekenen van leven of om nieuwe foto’s te maken.
Rovers Curiosity en Opportunity zijn te ver weg om naar de plek te rijden waar de afzettingen zijn gevonden. De eerstvolgende rover wordt pas in 2020 gelanceerd.
Dr. Ruff zei: “We weten precies waar we moeten landen en waar we monsters moeten verzamelen.”
De onderzoekers zeggen dat ze pas definitieve conclusies kunnen trekken als Marsgesteente mee terug wordt genomen naar de aarde.
An unnamed witness reportedly spotted a black UFO in a ski resort live cam. A still picture has been sent to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for further analysis. It is a screen grab from the camera monitoring the Winter Park ski resort in Colorado on Tuesday, November 22, 2016.
The witness was apparently watching the web camera covering the Winter Park ski resort. His primary work instruction is to perform operational cloud seeding for the resort. He noted that it is important to increase snowpack and use the cameras to keep track of the weather conditions.
To his knowledge, the frames update around every three minutes.
He said that there was nothing but the typical view in one frame, but in the next frame, a black disk-like object can be seen over the mountaintop. Nothing was found in the next frame.
He thought it was very close to the mountain for it to be a drone or plane. He further claimed to have confirmed with the resort that there were no helicopters in the area at that time.
He also ruled out a bug or bird because of the distance and the size of the object.
The witness added that they have been using the webcam for many years, but it was the first time he noticed a UFO on the live cam.
UFO Photographs Taken In The Sky Over Himeji City Japan
UFO Photographs Taken In The Sky Over Himeji City Japan
A dark object was spotted and photographed in Himeji City, Japan in late August of 1976. The 11-year-old Hiroshi Tsutsui was with his two friends playing near his home when they saw the dark UFO heading towards them in the sky.
As it silently flew overhead, Hiroshi managed to get four color pictures of the object.
It wasn’t the first time the children saw such strange thing in the sky. They reportedly saw the object a month before, and they attempted to get pictures of it, but failed to get the correct exposure.
A photo shop employee shed light to the photos when he made a note to call the photographer after noticing the strange pictures while going through processing.
The employee also contacted a UFO research organization and told them the information of the photos and the photographer.
Photo experts who examined the pictures did not find any evidence of fraud. They found logical object progression in the series of images. The UFO grows as it approaches the photographer until a definite structured form becomes visible.
UFO Over Zapopan Jalisco Mexico Glows Like Holy Cross, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Zapopan Jalisco Mexico Glows Like Holy Cross, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: November 2016 Location of sighting: Zapopan Jalisco, Mexico Here is a sighting fresh in from Mexico. A UFO that resembles a glowing holy cross was seen and could be a sign of good things to come on this planet. A sign of hope. This UFO is remarkably beautiful and is like nothing I have ever seen in reports before. Scott C. Waring
Video states: A UFO captured in Zapopan Jalisco Mexico in November of this year, which remained static for a long time.
The SETI Institute used its Alien Telescope Array in California to confirm an intriguing radio signal coming from the star HD 164595, located about 94 light-years from Earth.
You may have heard in the news recently about weird or mysterious radio signals coming from outer space. It doesn't matter when you're reading this article — mysterious radio signals from outer space are almost always in the news. About every six months or so, a flash of excitement and discussion ripples around the world as reports come in from some telescope or probe and the unexplained nature of its observations.
An unusually strong signal from a sun-like star. A repeated pattern that seems too precise to be natural. Bleeps and bloops from unknown sources with head-scratching signatures. Sure, there's a ton of stuff in space that could potentially maybe kind-of-sort-of create those signals, but could this … be it? Could this be the key piece of evidence that answers one of the ultimate existential questions? Are we alone?
No serious astronomer ever wants to rush out and blurt, "Hey, everyone! I've found aliens!" But at the same time, there's a strong desire to get your name in the history books. So when these signals pop up, you get lots of shrugging and hemming and hawing and "Look, we're pretty sure it's natural, but we can't rule out aliens," kind of talk. [Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us]
Let me tell you a couple of stories.
Pulsars
In the late 1960s, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was working with her adviser, Antony Hewish, with his fancy new radio telescope near Cambridge, England. After scanning a particular spot in the sky, they recorded an unusual signal: A source in the sky was sending frequent, repeated bursts, separated by an eerily precise 1.33 seconds.
The signal was so regular, so exact. Not knowing what to think of it, they cheekily named their source "LGM" — for "little green men." They didn't think they had found an advanced E.T. civilization, but … well, you never know. Better safe than sorry. Just in case.
The LGM hypothesis started to weaken when they found another source, and another, and another. And many others. Finally, the theorists woke up, started paying attention and figured it out: The signals were not caused by little green men, but rather little white neutron stars, wrapped in incredibly strong magnetic fields, beaming jets of radiation into space like a lighthouse. Today, we call them pulsars.
Wow!
A scan of a color copy of the original computer printout bearing the Wow! signal, taken several years after the signal's 1977 arrival.
Credit: The Ohio State University Radio Observatory and the North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO)
In 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman was listening with his "Big Ear," a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University. Finished with its scientific mission, the telescope was dedicated to SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) observations. And one night, a huge, bright, continuous signal fell into the telescope's narrow field of view. For 72 seconds, the source shouted into the Big Ear at a peculiar frequency: 1,420 megaherz, the frequency that neutral hydrogen naturally emits via a spin-flip transition of its electron. It was a very unmistakable frequency, a cosmological calling card.
In 1998, the Parkes radio telescope in Australia started picking up an odd signal: Little "chirps" would occasionally hop from one frequency to another, lasting just a few milliseconds and coming from seemingly nowhere. Chirp, chirp, chirp; the little signals — called "perytons" — befuddled the telescope operators and astronomers across the world for decades.
That is, until 2015, when graduate student Emily Petroff and collaborators nailed the culprit: the microwave in the visitor center. You ever get impatient and open the microwave door before it's done? Yeah, their particular model didn't shut down very quickly and would leak a little bit of microwave radiation that the telescope picked up.
Aliens are never the answer
In all of these cases, and many more, speculation can overrun evidence — not necessarily by the astronomers involved, but almost always in the discussions surrounding the detections. The public is primed for alien transmissions: We talk to each other with radio, and if the SETI Institute or other groups pick up a weird radio signal, maybe it's aliens talking to us, we surmise.
Here's the thing: The hypothesis that aliens are causing a mysterious radio signal is almost always useless, because intelligent creatures can create almost any signal they want. Hear a bleep-bleep-bloop? Maybe aliens did it. Whoops! I meant bloop-bloop-bleep. Well, aliens could have done that, too. There's no predictive power in the "aliens did it" hypothesis. We can't ever disprove it. [Watch: Paul Sutter discusses the alien hypothesis]
When a natural astrophysical explanation is weak or not very convincing, there's often a temptation to wonder if aliens are behind it. After all, we can't rule out aliens! Exactly. We can't ever rule out aliens, because intelligent actors are capable of pretty much anything. We can't rule them out, so it's a scientifically useless position.
It's a very, very, very big leap to go from "We don't know what's causing this signal," to "Maybe aliens are causing this signal."
Astronomers love their radio telescopes because they get useful science done, but there are always all sorts of unexplained phenomena in the universe. That's kind of the reason astronomers remain employed — there's lots of stuff we simply don't understand. Signals, features, observations, the works. It's a big universe out there.
Alien Plan Is Like 'Neanderthals Being Prepared for US Air Force'
Alien Plan Is Like 'Neanderthals Being Prepared for US Air Force'
(AP Photo)
By Cathy Burke
Earth is not even close to ready for a close encounter with extraterrestrials.
Seth Shostak, who works on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrials at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, told Live Science that "protocols" were drawn up in the 1990s to deal with possible alien transmissions.
"They say, 'If you pick up a signal, check it out . . . tell everybody . . . and don't broadcast any replies without international consultation,' whatever that means," he said in an interview also posted on NBC News.
"But that's all that the protocols say, and they have no force of law. The United Nations took a copy of the early protocols and put them in a file drawer somewhere, and that's as official as they ever got."
Shostak said he is not aware of any government-level plans or established procedures in case of an alien contact, nor are there "'Men in Black' government investigators of UFO lore" like those depicted in the comedy sci-fi movie.
"In 1997, we got a signal that looked pretty promising for most of the day," Shostak said. "We thought it was possibly the real deal. I kept waiting for the 'Men in Black' to show up — they didn't. I kept waiting for the Pentagon to call. I kept waiting for the White House to call. They didn't call. But The New York Times called."
Shostak argues even though there is no action plan for government agencies or the military in case of an encounter, it might not make much sense to devise one.
"It would be like the Neanderthals having a plan in case the U.S. Air Force showed up," he said.
At any rate, he said, ET knows where we live.
Television and radio signals "have been going out into space since the Second World War, so we've already told them we're here," Shostak said.
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Science of 'Arrival': If Aliens Call, Does Humanity Have a Plan?
Science of 'Arrival': If Aliens Call, Does Humanity Have a Plan?
byTOM METCALFE, LIVE SCIENCE
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" movie from 1977 Colombia Pictures
The science fiction movie "Arrival," which opened in theaters this month, poses tantalizing questions about how humans might make contact — and eventually communicate — with intelligent aliens. The much-hyped film has renewed people's interest in the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. But what would happen if humans really did make contact with an intelligent alien civilization? If E.T. calls, is there a plan?
The answer is yes, and no, said astronomer Seth Shostak, who leads efforts to detect radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
"There are some protocols, but I think that's an unfortunate name, and it makes them sound more important than they are," Shostak told Live Science.
In the 1990s, Shostak chaired a committee of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) that prepared a revised version of the "post-detection protocols" for researchers who watch for possible alien transmissions using radio telescopes, a field known as SETI (short for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
The protocols were first drawn up in the 1980s to help scientists in the United States and the Soviet Union share information about any potential SETI signals. But, Shostak explained, the SETI post-detection protocols are guidelines for governments and scientists, rather than a global action plan for dealing with alien contact.
A still from the movie "Arrival" Paramount
"They say, 'If you pick up a signal, check it out ... tell everybody ... and don't broadcast any replies without international consultation,' whatever that means," he said. "But that's all that the protocols say, and they have no force of law. The United Nations took a copy of the early protocols and put them in a file drawer somewhere, and that's as official as they ever got.""
Men in Black
"In the movie "Arrival," spaceships land in several cities around the world, and a linguist (portrayed by actress Amy Adams) and a physicist (played by actor Jeremy Renner) are recruited as part of an international effort to try to communicate with the aliens and find out why they are here.
In real life, apart from the protocol dictating that researchers should share news about SETI signals with other astronomers around the world, Shostak said he is not aware of any government-level plans or established procedures in case of an alien contact, whatever form it might take.
And it seems there really are no "Men in Black," shadowy government investigators of UFO-lore, depicted in the comedy sci-fi movie series starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
"If [the government] could afford the 'Men in Black,' then they could afford to support SETI," Shostak joked.
But the U.S. government has shown no interest in SETI research so far, he said. "It's not a government program, so they have nothing to do with it. I would love to see some interest from them, but I never have,"he added.
Worlds largest single-dish radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. UniversalImagesGroup / UIG via Getty Images
After one early SETI "false alarm,"which eventually turned out to be a signal from a European research satellite, the only response was from journalists.
"In 1997, we got a signal that looked pretty promising for most of the day. We thought it was possibly the real deal," Shostak said. "I kept waiting for the 'Men in Black' to show up — they didn't. I kept waiting for the Pentagon to call. I kept waiting for the White House to call. They didn't call. But The New York Times called."
The supposed military plan, which became known as "Seven Phases to Contact," was first reported in a 1967 book on UFOs by the American broadcaster and UFOresearcher Frank Edwards.
But Shostak said he has seen no sign of any extraterrestrial action plan for U.S. government agencies or the military. "As far as I know, there's nothing, and I think I would have heard something because of the [SETI] false alarms," he said.
While detecting an alien radio signal would be different from encountering spaceships that landed on Earth, Shostak doesn't think protocols will play a big part in how we respond.
"Some people asked me at a conference last week, 'What plan does the military have to deal with aliens should they land?' And I said, 'I don't know … but to the best of my knowledge, they don't have a plan.
'"Shostak noted that any aliens who could travel here in a spacecraft would need to be centuries or thousands of years more technologically advanced than humans are now, so it's almost impossible to imagine the consequences of contact between the species, let alone the thought of developing a plan to deal with them.
"It would be like the Neanderthals having a plan in case the U.S. Air Force showed up," he said.
Calling planet Earth
Although the aliens in "Arrival"helpfully travel to Earth in faster-than-light spaceships, willing and ready to talk, Shostak said a more likely "first contact" scenario would be the detection of a SETI radio signal, perhaps from a source hundreds or thousands of light-years away.
That means it could take centuries for the aliens to receive any reply transmitted from Earth in an effort to communicate with them, he said. As such, there might not be any real hurry to decide what to say.
File - A car moves along the Extraterrestrial Highway near Rachel, Nevada, in this Wednesday, April 10, 2002 file photo. The ET highway was established by the Nevada Legislature in 1996 and runs along the eastern border of Area 51, a military base on the Nevada Test Site. George Washington University's National Security Archive obtained a CIA history of the U-2 spy plane program through a public records request and released it Thursday Aug. 15, 2013. LAURA RAUCH / ASSOCIATED PRESS
And if E.T. does call, what should humans say in response? Some scientists, including British physicist Stephen Hawking, have expressed concern about "Active SETI" programs designed to transmit messages from Earth to any aliens that might be listening. Hawking warned of the potential threat posed by unknown extraterrestrials and their alien motivations.
There's also the difficult matter of making the right first impression in any extraterrestrial chat, Shostak said.
"I've been to several conferences where people discuss whether we should tell [aliens] all the bad things about humanity, or just the good things, and that sort of thing," he said. "But I think that is terribly overdrawn. To me, that would be like the indigenous people of Australia seeing Capt. Cook coming over the horizon in his ship, then saying, 'We're going to have a couple of conferences to discuss what we're going to talk to these guys about, and what language we'll use' — [but] it doesn't matter."
Shostak pointed out that humans have already been broadcasting newsinto space for decades, in the form of television and radio signals, and so it's probably too late to keep quiet.
"Those signals have been going out into space since the Second World War, so we've already told them we're here," he said.
In 1980 I had bought a house in Colchester Vermont, on camp Kinya road, near from route 2. My house was a couple of houses down from the corner of Clay Point and Camp Kinya road. In 1980 my wife and I were putting on a birthday party for my brother-in-law.
Everyone started showing up after supper time. After a while I needed a break from the party noise, so went out to smoke a cigarette. I was thinking to myself what a great night it was. It was warm, bright sky, lots of stars, and a very quiet country night. I was looking at the stars when I saw something moving up by the stars, I was looking east. I thought maybe it was just my eyes playing tricks on me so I looked down to clear my vision. When I looked up again I noticed this light that looked like a star but it had no star like rays to it. It was in a different place than I had seen it before. It was getting closer to me from the stars. It was moving very slow. It was round, very bright but it was not a blinding light. I watched it for about 30 minutes moving towards me. By looking at it it seemed to be the size of a star. It still had a ways to go before it reached earth. It was moving erratically, it had no sense of direction where it wanted to go.
After another 15 minutes of watching it was still coming toward me. It still had no direction falling out of the sky. Finally the light ball passed over me headed west. It looked like it was moving just above the trees. After it passed me it headed away from the ground.
When it did I said to myself “what the hell is that”. I was trembling inside. It made no sounds. It seemed to be just floating. Then it started moving towards me again, it stopped behind the trees. It still seemed to be floating. It looked to be between 100 and 1000 feet of the ground at this time. It scared me because it had stopped. I wasn’t sure what would happen next. It felt like I couldn’t move. I was screaming at it your not going to take me. Screaming at seemed to break the trance like state I was in. I ran inside and said there was a ufo outside, they all laughed. I said come out and look for yourselves. My sister and her friend came back outside with me. We all looked up and it was still there in the same spot. I pointed at it and said there it is.
After saying this the object took off at the speed of light. It looked to change in to a tear drop type shape as it took off. It headed north for about 3 seconds then veered to the east at a low altitude. I then lost sight of it. I got in my car to follow in the direction it went. I pulled onto route 2 and headed east coming to chimney corners store. I saw a pay phone with two old lady’s at it. One was on the phone. As I walked up to them they were saying they saw something crash on Cobble Hill mountain in Milton Vermont as they were driving.
While they were on the phone I was looking in the direction they said it had crashed when I saw the light, still in a teardrop form, head south into space.
NOTE:The above image is CGI.
KENS NOTE:I spoke to the witness today and he told me about this encounter. I though I would share this important event. I am in the process of investigating another case by this witness and he has seen some strange things over the years. Many people have more than one encounter and these craft seem to follow certain people around for them to see. The is definitely seems to be some kind of connection.
Een rekenfout is de Europese Marslander Schiaparelli vorige maand fataal geworden. De computer aan boord kreeg foute metingen door. Het systeem kwam daardoor tot de conclusie dat de lander onder het oppervlak van de planeet zat. In werkelijkheid zat hij in volle vlucht op 3,7 kilometer hoogte.
Dat blijkt uit onderzoek dat de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA vandaag naar buiten heeft gebracht. De organisatie spreekt van een ,,negatieve hoogteschatting''.
Parachute Door die foute meting gooide de lander zijn parachute weg en gingen de remmotoren even aan. Dat had pas moeten gebeuren in de laatste seconden voor de landing. Zonder de remming sloeg hij van kilometers hoogte te pletter en ontplofte hij.
De landing van het Schiaparelli-laboratorium was een experiment, bedoeld om de technologie voor een landing op Mars te testen. Europa wil rond 2020 namelijk een onbemande rijdende verkenner naar de rode planeet sturen.
EGYPTE-Archeologen hebben in Egypte een stad en een begraafplaats uit 5.300 voor Christus ontdekt, zo kondigde het ministerie van de Oudheid aan.
De stad en de necropolis werden in Hoog-Egypte ontdekt, op zo'n 400 meter van de Séti I-tempel in Abydos, zo bevestigde minister Mahmoud Afifi. Ze dateren van 5.316 voor Christus.
De archeologen troffen volgens Afifi hutten, aardewerk en stenen werktuigen aan. Daarnaast werden er ook 15 grote graftombes ontdekt, die suggereren dat er belangrijke mensen in begraven werden. "Deze ontdekking kan ons veel informatie opleveren over de geschiedenis van Abydos", aldus Afifi in een verklaring verspreid door zijn ministerie.
Egypte heeft tal van archeologische sites die veel toeristen aantrekken, maar de laatste jaren zijn dat er fors minder door de politieke instabiliteit en de aanslagen in het land.
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Enorm, mysterieus complex gevonden bij Stonehenge
Enorm, mysterieus complex gevonden bij Stonehenge
Op slechts een paar kilometer van Stonehenge is een enorm, mysterieus complex ontdekt dat meer dan 5600 jaar oud is. Dat hebben Britse archeologen bekendgemaakt.
De vondst in Wiltshire versterkt het idee dat Stonehenge een heilig monument was en suggereert dat in de hele regio al honderden jaren voordat de raadselachtige stenen werden neergezet, rituelen werden uitgevoerd.
Het complex heeft een doorsnee van z’n 200 meter en bestaat uit twee concentrische cirkels. Volgens archeologen van Wessex Archaeology dateren de resten van 3650 voor Christus.
Veranderen
“Deze ontdekkingen veranderen de manier waarop we kijken naar prehistorisch Wiltshire en met name het landschap rond Stonehenge,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Martin Brown in een verklaring.
Het gaat om een zogeheten ‘causewayed enclosure’, waarvan er ongeveer 70 zijn gevonden in Engeland. Het pas ontdekte complex is het tweede dat in het gebied rond Stonehenge is blootgelegd.
Gedacht wordt dat deze ‘causewayed enclosures’ werden gebruikt als tijdelijke nederzettingen, ceremoniële centra of voor rituele activiteiten of het begraven van de doden.
Eerste mensen
In het complex zijn stukken aardewerk, schedelfragmenten, vuurstenen en een grote handmolen van steen gevonden waarmee graan werd gemalen.
“De neolithische volkeren wiens monumenten we onderzoeken, vormden de wereld die wij nu bewonen,” zei Brown.
“Zij waren de eerste boeren en de eerste mensen die zich vestigden in dit landschap,” voegde hij toe.
Tot dusver hebben de archeologen bijna de helft van het complex blootgelegd. Het is niet duidelijk of het nog helemaal intact is.
UFO Photographs From Himeji City Japan - Aug 1976, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Photographs From Himeji City Japan - Aug 1976, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 1976 Location of sighting: Himeji, Japan
Here is a very interesting report from back in 1976 in Japan. This UFO is 100% identical to the one seen here in Taiwan about 10 years ago. Slow speed, dark, small. Click here to see that old 2010 sighting. Its the same UFO but more light so you can see its metallic surface. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Report states:
In late August of 1976, 11-year-old Hiroshi Tsutsui of Himeji City, Japan, and two of his friends were playing near his home when they spotted a dark object moving towards them in the sky. Hiroshi captured four color photos of the object as it silently flew overhead. This was the not the first time they witnessed this object. A month prior it was seen and photos were attempted, but they were unable to get the exposure correct. The photos came to light when an employee in a photo shop noticed the strange pictures while going through processing and made a note to call the photographer. He also contacted a UFO research organization and advised them of the photos and the photographer. An examination of the photographs by photo experts failed to show any evidence of fraud. The object progression in the series of images is consistent and it grows in size as it approaches until a definite structured form is visible.
UFO Moves Over Village In Peru On Nov 22, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Moves Over Village In Peru On Nov 22, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 22, 2016 Location of sighting: Alonso de Alvarado-Roque District, Peru News source:http://inexplicata.blogspot.tw
This is a great sighting in an area with very few people and yet this was recorded in the lower level of the clouds. A UFO that is trying to match the color of the clouds so that it blends it. Scott C. Waring News states:
A UFO sighting was a cause for commotion among residents of the Alonso de Alvarado-Roque district, Provicne of Lamas. The object remained visible in the skies over this locality for several minutes, visible to a considerable number of townsfolk who had no idea what they were looking at. The event took place around 5:30 in the afternoon. At times the object resembled a satellite; at others, it resembled a triangular object that generated a radiant light from within. The UFO's manifestation became a source of diverse opinions in the community, even causing some citizens to say that the coming of Christ was at hand, while others stated that the object was part of the modern technology used by developed countries to monitor Peruvians.
Did NASA Mars Rover Find a Signature of Past Life?
Did NASA Mars Rover Find a Signature of Past Life?
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Home Plate opaline silica (left) occurs in nodular masses with digitate structures that resemble those at El Tatio (right).
Credit: ASU/Ruff & Farmer
During its wheeled treks on the Red Planet, NASA's Spirit rover may have encountered a potential signature of past life on Mars, report scientists at Arizona State University (ASU).
To help make their case, the researchers have contrasted Spirit's study of "Home Plate" — a plateau of layered rocks that the robot explored during the early part of its third year on Mars — with features found within active hot spring/geyser discharge channels at a site in northern Chile called El Tatio.
The work has resulted in a provocative paper: "Silica deposits on Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures at El Tatio in Chile." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Field work
As reported online last week in the journal Nature Communications, field work in Chile by the ASU team — Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer of the university's School of Earth and Space Exploration — shows that the nodular and digitate silica structures at El Tatio that most closely resemble those on Mars include complex sedimentary structures produced by a combination of biotic and abiotic processes.
"Although fully abiotic processes are not ruled out for the Martian silica structures, they satisfy an a priori definition of potential biosignatures," the researchers wrote in the study.
Ancient setting
Spiritlanded on Mars in January 2004, a few weeks before its twin, Opportunity, touched down in a different part of the Red Planet. Both golf-cart-size rovers were tasked with looking for signs of past water activity during their missions, which were originally planned to last three months.
Spirit encountered outcrops and regolith composed of opaline silica (amorphous SiO2nH2O) in an ancient volcanic hydrothermal setting in Gusev crater.
An origin via either fumarole-related acid-sulfate leaching or precipitation from hot spring fluids was considered possible. "However, the potential significance of the characteristic nodular and [millimeter]-scale digitate opaline silica structures was not recognized," Ruff and Farmer noted in the new study.
Spirit imagery shows opaline silica nodular outcrops adjacent to Home Plate showing typical stratiform expression. White outline highlights nodular silica outcrop. Rover wheel tracks are roughly 1 meter apart. Rolling wheels did not deform the roughly 6-inch-high high outcrop (lighter tracks) compared with the inoperative dragging wheel in a later traverse (darker track).
Credit: ASU/Ruff & Farmer
El Tatio: Mars-like conditions
The physical environment of El Tatio offers a rare combination of high elevation, low precipitation rate, high mean annual evaporation rate, common diurnal freeze-thaw and extremely high ultraviolet irradiance.
"Such conditions provide a better environmental analog for Mars than those of Yellowstone National Park (USA) and other well-known geothermal sites on Earth," suggested Ruff and Farmer. "Our results demonstrate that the more Mars-like conditions of El Tatio produce unique deposits, including biomediated silica structures, with characteristics that compare favorably with the Home Plate silica outcrops. The similarities raise the possibility that the Martian silica structures formed in a comparable manner."
Biosignature definition
Previously, a NASA science team defined a potential biosignature as "an object, substance and/or pattern that might have a biological origin and thus compels investigators to gather more data before reaching a conclusion as to the presence or absence of life."
"Because we can neither prove nor disprove a biological origin for the microstromatolite-like digitate silica structures at Home Plate, they constitute a potential biosignature according to this definition," Ruff and Farmer wrote.
Spirit of future exploration
Spirit bogged down on Mars in May 2009, becoming stuck in soft soil.
In late January 2010, after months of attempts to free the rover, NASA dubbed the wheeled robot a stationary research platform. The lack of mobility and the harsh climes of Mars conspired to seal Spirit's fate, with attempts to regain contact with the robot ending in May 2011. Subsequently, NASA announced the end of contact efforts and the completion of Spirit’s mission. (Opportunity is still going strong today.)
The ASU researchers suggested that a future and specially instrumented rover mission could perhaps provide a more definitive assessment of possible biogenicity of Home Plate silica structures.
"However, because of the challenges in obtaining unambiguous evidence in situ, coordinated microscopic and compositional analyses of samples returned to laboratories on Earth may be required to reach a robust conclusion as to the presence or absence of past Martian life in these rocks," Ruff and Farmer stated.
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet." The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel six-part series airing in November. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebookor Google+. Story published on Space.com.
Not Super, But Still Brilliant: What Causes Regular Novas?
Not Super, But Still Brilliant: What Causes Regular Novas?
By Paul Sutter, Astrophysicist
The first lithium ever found in a star explosion was pinpointed in this bright nova (center). Nova Centauri 2013, the exploding star, was captured in July 2015 by the New Technology Telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory.
Imagine how surprised Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe would have been when he examined a "new star" that appeared in the sky in November 1572. Actually, you don't have to imagine it, because I'm about to describe it.
Of course, "new stars" had appeared and been noticed all throughout history, and their origins were always a source of wonder, confusion and argument. Comets were generally thought to be some sort of atmospheric phenomenon (perhaps the premodern equivalent of UFOs explained by "swamp gas and weather balloons"). And an occasional new star? Uh, how about a comet … without a tail? Sure, that works.
Either way, it was important to early European thinkers that messy stuff in the sky stayed in the sky, and not in the stars. In their worldview, the imperfect, dirty, messy, sloppy, Earthly realm stood in stark contrast to the mechanical clockwork perfection of the heavens. If something weird happened in the sky, they thought, it should be a part of Earth and not the celestial. [Know Your Novas: Star Explosions Explained (Infographic)]
So now we get to Brahe's surprise. Just before the dawn of the telescope age, his observatories provided the most precise measurements of the heavens possible with the unaided eye. One technique available to him for measuring heavenly distances was parallax — when nearby objects appear to move back and forth as a watcher switches viewpoints, while more distant objects hardly seem to move at all. Measure the back-and-forth, do a little trigonometry and voilà — you have a distance.
If the "new star" of 1572 was truly an atmospheric object, Brahe's observatory should have been able to measure its parallax. But it couldn't — the object was too distant — and Brahe was surprised. The new star was seated firmly in the heavens, embedded in the supposedly perfect and unchanging celestial realm.
A star is born
Brahe described his observations in a manuscript with a sufficiently braggadocio title: "Concerning the star, new and never before seen in the life or memory of anyone." This work set off a revolution as astronomers grew to realize that stuff in space is not at all perfect and is actually kind of messy.
We now know that Brahe's "stella nova" ("new star") was actually a supernova, but for centuries, the Latin word "nova" was attached to anything new in the sky. It wasn't until the 1930s that stricter definitions were sorted out: If a star completely blew up, it was a supernova; if it didn't, it was a regular nova.
But even that wasn't enough, as modern observers discovered different classes of objects, mechanisms and processes that led to outbursts in the sky. "Supernova" got to stay "supernova," with newly labeled subtypes to indicate the specific astrophysical process, but "nova" was switched to "cataclysmic variable star," because… well, I don’t really know, but that's the world we live in.
When stars get fat
That longer name does serve at least one useful purpose, though: It indicates that something violent is happening to some stars to make them dramatically change their brightness. There are a few mechanisms that can cause the change, including the always-popular stars ramming into each other. But the most common scenario — and the situation that astronomers typically depict when the old term "nova" gets casually tossed around in hallway conversations — happens when two stars live together.
When stars are born together, one is more massive than the other. It could be by a little; it could be by a lot. But either way, the more massive of the duo will churn through its supply of hydrogen faster, as its increased gravitational pressure drives the fusion rate in its core to a frenetic pace. Meanwhile, the lower-mass sibling carefully sips at its fuel reserves, burning slowly and steadily.
With enough time, the larger star will run out of hydrogen, evolve into a red giant and briefly ignite helium. After violently spewing its layers of atmosphere into the surrounding system, it will finally settle down into a comfortable white-dwarf retirement.
The white dwarf — an unassuming ball of unfused and inert carbon and oxygen — can remain stable for trillions of years. That is, until its companion begins to undergo its own violent paroxysms.
Eventually, the smaller companion will run out of fusible hydrogen and enter its own end-of-life red-giant stage. If it were all alone in space, it would simply get larger. (Our own sun will likely engulf the Earth at this stage, but that's a different article.) But tied to its white-dwarf sibling in the binary system, the loosely connected outermost layers of the red giant's atmosphere can work their way onto the surface of the companion.
At first, this process is rather benign: The red giant's atmosphere of hydrogen simply accumulates on the white dwarf. Because the dwarf itself is made of heavy carbon and oxygen, the new supply of hydrogen doesn't really go anywhere, instead building up a thick blanket of material.
If the process stopped there, nothing interesting would really happen. But the process doesn't stop there.
At some point, the pressures on the bottom layer of hydrogen reach a critical point, and boom — the whole thing goes up in a single nuclear flash. If the detonation is sufficiently powerful to ignite carbon fusion, the whole white dwarf is consumed in a supernova, but if only the hydrogen layer goes off, it's a good old-fashioned regular nova.
Most of the time, such an explosion just happens once, with the white dwarf temporarily increasing in brightness by 50,000 to 100,000 times. But there are a few known cases of repeated events that we don't fully understand.
Astronomers have discovered one of the most massive objects in the universe
It was hiding behind the Milky Way.
DAVE MOSHER, BUSINESS INSIDER
Through the thick fog of our own galaxy, astronomers have spotted an ultimate prize: one of the largest-known structures in the Universe.
Called the Vela supercluster, the newly discovered object is a massive group of several galaxy clusters, each one containing hundreds or thousands of galaxies.
"I could not believe such a major structure would pop up so prominently" after an observation of that region of space, said Renée Kraan-Korteweg, an astrophysicist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, in a press release.
Kraan-Korteweg and her team published their discovery of the supercluster, named after the constellation Vela where it was found, in the Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society.
But if you’re an astronomer trying to peer beyond the Milky Way and into the deeper Universe, all of this stuff is in your way:
You are here.
Image: NASA; Business Insider
This is especially true of objects behind the galactic plane, which is us looking through the 100,000-light-year-wide disk of the Milky Way from the inside-out.
That cross-section of the Milky Way’s disk of stars, gas, and dust is actually what we see when we look up in the sky in a very dark place:
Flickr/Abdul Rahman
To peer through it, Kraan-Korteweg and her colleagues combined the observations of several telescopes: the newly refurbished South African Large Telescope (SALT) near Cape Town, the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) near Sydney, and X-ray surveys of the galactic plane.
Using that data, they calculated how fast each galaxy they saw above and below the galactic plane was moving away from Earth. Their number-crunching soon revealed that they all seemed to be moving together - indicating a lot of galaxies couldn’t be seen.
"[I]t became obvious we were uncovering a massive network of galaxies, extending much further than we had ever expected," Michelle Cluver, an astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, said in the release.
The researchers estimate that the Vela supercluster is about the same mass of the Shapley Supercluster of roughly 8,600 galaxies, which is located about 650 million light-years away. Given that the typical galaxy has about 100 billion stars, researchers estimate that Vela could contain somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 trillion stars.
Their calculations also show Vela is about 800 million light-years distant and zooming farther and farther away from us at a speed of about 40 million mph (18,000 kilometers per second).
Despite that extra and rapidly increasing distance, however, Vela’s influence can’t be denied. The researchers estimate that Vela’s gravitational tug on the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, has sped them up by about 110,000 mph (50 kilometers per second).
That’s quite a pull, and could help tell the incredible story of how our Milky Way galaxy - and we - got here.
Astronomers have discovered one of the most massive objects in the universe
It was hiding behind the Milky Way.
DAVE MOSHER, BUSINESS INSIDER
Through the thick fog of our own galaxy, astronomers have spotted an ultimate prize: one of the largest-known structures in the Universe.
Called the Vela supercluster, the newly discovered object is a massive group of several galaxy clusters, each one containing hundreds or thousands of galaxies.
"I could not believe such a major structure would pop up so prominently" after an observation of that region of space, said Renée Kraan-Korteweg, an astrophysicist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, in a press release.
Kraan-Korteweg and her team published their discovery of the supercluster, named after the constellation Vela where it was found, in the Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society.
But if you’re an astronomer trying to peer beyond the Milky Way and into the deeper Universe, all of this stuff is in your way:
You are here.
Image: NASA; Business Insider
This is especially true of objects behind the galactic plane, which is us looking through the 100,000-light-year-wide disk of the Milky Way from the inside-out.
That cross-section of the Milky Way’s disk of stars, gas, and dust is actually what we see when we look up in the sky in a very dark place:
Flickr/Abdul Rahman
To peer through it, Kraan-Korteweg and her colleagues combined the observations of several telescopes: the newly refurbished South African Large Telescope (SALT) near Cape Town, the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) near Sydney, and X-ray surveys of the galactic plane.
Using that data, they calculated how fast each galaxy they saw above and below the galactic plane was moving away from Earth. Their number-crunching soon revealed that they all seemed to be moving together - indicating a lot of galaxies couldn’t be seen.
"[I]t became obvious we were uncovering a massive network of galaxies, extending much further than we had ever expected," Michelle Cluver, an astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, said in the release.
The researchers estimate that the Vela supercluster is about the same mass of the Shapley Supercluster of roughly 8,600 galaxies, which is located about 650 million light-years away. Given that the typical galaxy has about 100 billion stars, researchers estimate that Vela could contain somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 trillion stars.
Their calculations also show Vela is about 800 million light-years distant and zooming farther and farther away from us at a speed of about 40 million mph (18,000 kilometers per second).
Despite that extra and rapidly increasing distance, however, Vela’s influence can’t be denied. The researchers estimate that Vela’s gravitational tug on the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, has sped them up by about 110,000 mph (50 kilometers per second).
That’s quite a pull, and could help tell the incredible story of how our Milky Way galaxy - and we - got here.
Meet Vela, the Huge Supercluster Just Detected by Astronomers
Meet Vela, the Huge Supercluster Just Detected by Astronomers
European Southern Obesrvatory
IN BRIEF
Scientists have stumbled upon a surprise supercluster 800 million lightyears from us, which may contain up to 10,000 trillion stars.
The world of astronomy is abuzz with anticipation of what the James Webb telescope will allow us to see in the very near future.
A MASSIVE STELLAR GROUP
The vast universe hides many mysterious secrets, and researchers have just uncovered another huge one. Hiding beyond the Milky Way is the Vela supercluster, a newly discovered group containing several galaxy clusters, each containing hundreds or thousands of galaxies. The study is detailed in Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Astronomers from the University of Cape Town in South Africa made the discovery. The supercluster was named Vela, after the constellation where it was found. It’s one of the most massive objects in the known universe, containing an estimated 1,000 to 10,000 trillion stars.
The discovery was somewhat of a surprise. “I could not believe such a major structure would pop up so prominently.” said Renée Kraan-Korteweg, astrophysicist and proponent of the study.
Researchers’ calculations show that the supercluster is 800 million lightyears away, and is zooming farther away from us with a speed of about 18,000 kilometers per second (40 million mph).
What is Vela’s influence on our home galaxy? The giant stellar groups give us clues on how our own galaxy got to this location in the universe. Kraan-Korteweg and her team estimate that the supercluster’s gravitational tug has caused the Local Group of galaxies, where our own Milky Way is located, to speed up by about 50 kilometers per second (110,000 mph).
SEEING BEYOND
The astronomers’ observation and analyses of Vela was made possible using the South African Large Telescope (SALT) near Cape Town, the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) near Sydney, and X-ray surveys of the galactic plane.
South African Large Telescope. WikiMedia Commons.
Several developments in technology are enabling us to see further and clearer into outer space. The recent completion of the James Webb Space Telescope, which has a view 100 times larger than Hubble’s, is revolutionizing how we gather data about the mysteries of the final frontier.
Telescopes and lensing technology are giving us a deeper understanding of the celestial entities beyond our world, and effectively, of who we are in this vast universe.
Meet Vela, the Huge Supercluster Just Detected by Astronomers
Meet Vela, the Huge Supercluster Just Detected by Astronomers
European Southern Obesrvatory
IN BRIEF
Scientists have stumbled upon a surprise supercluster 800 million lightyears from us, which may contain up to 10,000 trillion stars.
The world of astronomy is abuzz with anticipation of what the James Webb telescope will allow us to see in the very near future.
A MASSIVE STELLAR GROUP
The vast universe hides many mysterious secrets, and researchers have just uncovered another huge one. Hiding beyond the Milky Way is the Vela supercluster, a newly discovered group containing several galaxy clusters, each containing hundreds or thousands of galaxies. The study is detailed in Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Astronomers from the University of Cape Town in South Africa made the discovery. The supercluster was named Vela, after the constellation where it was found. It’s one of the most massive objects in the known universe, containing an estimated 1,000 to 10,000 trillion stars.
The discovery was somewhat of a surprise. “I could not believe such a major structure would pop up so prominently.” said Renée Kraan-Korteweg, astrophysicist and proponent of the study.
Researchers’ calculations show that the supercluster is 800 million lightyears away, and is zooming farther away from us with a speed of about 18,000 kilometers per second (40 million mph).
What is Vela’s influence on our home galaxy? The giant stellar groups give us clues on how our own galaxy got to this location in the universe. Kraan-Korteweg and her team estimate that the supercluster’s gravitational tug has caused the Local Group of galaxies, where our own Milky Way is located, to speed up by about 50 kilometers per second (110,000 mph).
SEEING BEYOND
The astronomers’ observation and analyses of Vela was made possible using the South African Large Telescope (SALT) near Cape Town, the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) near Sydney, and X-ray surveys of the galactic plane.
South African Large Telescope. WikiMedia Commons.
Several developments in technology are enabling us to see further and clearer into outer space. The recent completion of the James Webb Space Telescope, which has a view 100 times larger than Hubble’s, is revolutionizing how we gather data about the mysteries of the final frontier.
Telescopes and lensing technology are giving us a deeper understanding of the celestial entities beyond our world, and effectively, of who we are in this vast universe.
10 fascinating accounts of ancient gods and their FLYING Machines
10 fascinating accounts of ancient gods and their FLYING Machines
“…there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” Is it possible that thousands of years ago, ancient cultures around the globe misinterpreted beings with advanced technology as Gods? Looking at the countless descriptions of ‘Gods’ flying in what seem to be modern descriptions of aircraft and spacecraft we have singled out 10 fascinating accounts of possible misinterpretations.
If we look back in history, we will find that no matter where we look, what culture we analyze, gods worshiped thousands of years ago had the ability to fly. Whether ancient cultures referred to these gods as flying in Chariots of Fire, in clouds or as flying feathered serpents, it seems that all ancien cultures had a common attribute when describing their gods.
In this article, we bring you 10 fascinating examples of what some believe is evidence of technologically advanced beings which were misinterpreted by our ancestors as Gods, simply because they did not understand the technology present before them.
We start off with one of our favorite ancient texts, the Mahabharata:
“The gods, in cloud-borne chariots…bright celestial cars in concourse sailed upon the cloudless sky.” (Sitchin, 1985).
“…there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” (2 Kings 2:11).
“And Jehovah was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give light to them, to go by day and by night…” (Exo 13:21).
Yahweh lands on Mt Sinai. “…And on the third day, it being morning, it happened. There were thunders and lightnings, and a heavy cloud upon the mountain, and the sound of a ram’s horn, very strong! And all the people of the camp trembled…And mountain of Sinai was smoking, all of it because Jehovah came down on it in fire. And it’s smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace; and the mountain quaked exceedingly…” (Exodus 19:16-18).
“…And the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great tumult, saying, Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place; and the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching each other to the other; and the sound of the wheels along with them; and the sound of a great tumult…” (Ezekiel 3:12).
Jehovah comes down on the high places with a great heat: “For behold, Jehovah is coming out of his place, and will come down and walk on the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall melt under him, and the valleys shall cleave themselves as wax before the fire, as waters poured out on a steep place…” (Micah 1:3-4).
Furthermore, looking into ancient Egypt we find a description of King Pepi as he ‘ascends’:
“As an imperishable star; Flies who flies! He flies away from you, O men! He is no longer upon earth; he is in the sky! He rushes at the sky like a heron. He has kissed the sky like a falcon. He has leapt skyward like a grasshopper.” (Frankfort, 1948).
Another fascinating example which most likely is describing misinterpreted technology can be found when an ‘angel’ announces to Manoah about the birth of Samson to his wife, and who, after telling Manoah that his name is secret:
“…ascends in a flame of fire from the altar.” (Judges 13:2-15).
“And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the earthquake; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.”
“…a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, came. And they separated between them both (Elijah and Elisha), and Elijah went up in a tempest to Heaven. And Elisha was watching, and he was crying ‘My father, my father! The chariot of Israel and its Horsemen!’ And he did not see him again…” (2 Kings 2:11)
Sinds de landingen in 1969 heeft iedere astronaut vreemde, ‘knipperende lichten’ bij de maan gezien
Sinds de landingen in 1969 heeft iedere astronaut vreemde, ‘knipperende lichten’ bij de maan gezien
Hoeveel weet jij over de maanlandingen? De meeste mensen weten wat Neil Armstrong zei toen hij op 21 juli 1969 als eerste mens voet op de maan zette, maar over andere aspecten van de Apollomissies van de NASA is weinig bekend.
Het vreemde is dat iedere astronaut sinds de eerste maanlanding in 1969 mysterieuze flitsen heeft gezien op de maan.
In het programma NASA’s Unexplained Files van Science Channel werd gezegd: “Diverse Apollo-astronauten zagen iets vreemds op het moment dat ze de maan naderden.”
Eén van de astronauten, Alan Bean, zei: “Ik zag een flits en dacht: zag ik echt een flits?”
Een andere astronaut, Charles, Duke, voegde toe: “Ik zie lichtflitsen. Ik zie een soort licht in mijn ogen schijnen.”
“Het was als vuurwerk in je ogen. Het was spectaculair.”
Nog vreemder was dat de mannen de flitsen zagen ongeacht of ze hun ogen open of dicht hadden.
Tijdens maanmissies zagen de astronauten witte lichten, maar tijdens andere missies werden andere kleuren – zoals blauw en geel – waargenomen.
De astronauten bleven de lichten zelfs na thuiskomt onder verschillende omstandigheden zien.
Wat hebben ze gezien?
Wetenschappers dachten dat de vreemde flitsen werden veroorzaakt door kosmische straling die in contact kwam met de astronauten.
Kosmische straling is een verzamelnaam voor deeltjes en fotonen met een hoge energie die ons vanuit de kosmos bereiken.
Wetenschappers voerden een experiment uit om te testen of kosmische straling verantwoordelijk kon zijn geweest voor de knipperende lichten.
Ze gaven astronaut Charles Duke een helm mee die kosmische straling kon detecteren. Duke zag ‘witte strepen’ op het moment dat de helm kosmische straling oppikte.
Er worden vaker vreemde dingen in de ruimte gezien. Eerder deze week werd een UFO waargenomen bij het ISS, waarna het beeld plotseling op zwart ging.
VIDEO: "Franse astronaute waarschuwde vlak na zelfmoordpoging voor aliens"
VIDEO: “Franse astronaute waarschuwde vlak na zelfmoordpoging voor aliens”
Er is plotseling hernieuwde aandacht voor een merkwaardig verhaal over de Franse politica en oud-astronaute Claudie Haigneré.
Haigneré bracht in 2001 als eerste Europese vrouw een bezoek aan het internationale ruimtestation ISS. Van 2002 tot 2005 was ze minister in de regering van Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
In december 2008 werd Haigneré bijna bewusteloos in haar woning gevonden. Het bleek dat ze een overdosis slaappillen had genomen, schrijft Het Nieuwsblad.
Iets ontdekt
Over wat er daarna gebeurde, hangt een grote waas van mysterie. Ze zou onder meer geschreeuwd hebben ‘dat de aarde gewaarschuwd moet worden’. Ook zou ze zijn vastgebonden.
Volgens complottheoretici had de voormalige astronaute tijdens haar onderzoek mogelijk ‘iets ontdekt over buitenaards leven dat verborgen moest blijven’.
Ze wijzen er verder op dat er een paar uur na de zelfmoordpoging brand uitbrak in het instituut waar Haigneré onderzoek deed naar menselijk DNA.
Waarschuwen
Zelf zei ze naderhand dat ze een burn-out had en dat het geen zelfmoordpoging was. Veel mensen denken echter dat ze de wereld wilde waarschuwen voor aliens.
YouTube-kanaal UFOmania maakte er onlangs een video over. Hoewel de beweringen in de video niet kunnen worden nagetrokken, is het filmpje al ruim 1,3 miljoen keer bekeken.
Het is niet bekend waarom de complottheorie nu plotseling weer opduikt.
A strange theory claiming that there is a mysterious pyramid in the Antarctic has emerged.
Conspiracy theorists have posted a video on YouTube, in which they claim that US Secretary of State, John Kerry, visited Antarctica last week to visit an 'alien base' within the pyramid.
The video suggests that the images have been taken from Google Earth, but it is unclear whether they have been edited.
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A strange theory claiming that there is a mysterious pyramid in the Antarctic has emerged. Conspiracy theorists have posted a video on YouTube, in which they claim that US Secretary of State, John Kerry, visited Antarctica last week to visit an 'alien base' within the pyramid
LINKS BETWEEN CONSPIRACY, NARCISSISM AND SELF-ESTEEM
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and these psychological traits.
The results showed that those people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
However, while low self-esteem, narcissism and belief in conspiracies are strongly linked, it is not clear that one - or a combination - causes the other.
But it hints at an interesting new angle to the world of conspiracy and those who reinforce belief.
The video was posted by Third Phase of the Moon, a YouTube channel that regularly posts conspiracy theories on aliens.
It shows a pyramid-like structure in the snow, with a Google Earth-type label and pin.
The label reads 'Antartica Pyramid' – a misspelling of Antarctica, which suggests that image might have been doctored.
Responses to the video have varied, with some users backing-up the claims, such as James Jason, who commented: 'Excellent report Third Phase, I also believe things are about to get very dramatic, and that is for everyone on our planet.'
But others have dismissed it, such as Gordon Anderson, who said: 'I have spent a LOT of time on snow covered mountains- skiing down, and this looks natural to me - not man made anyway!'
Others have joked that John Kerry was there for other reasons, such as Daniel Schultz, who commented: '#27 on his bucket list, fly to Antarctica and make "snow angels" where no man has gone before.'
It is unclear what the structure could be, but it looks similar to a nunatak – a natural mountain peak that juts up above glaciers.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'Pictures of the pyramid structures are either photoshopped, cropped pictures to make the mountains look more like pyramids or simply pictures of natural formations called nunataks.
'They are mountainous formations created by shifting glaciers and erosion, not by laser zapping aliens.'
Pyramids are often an area of interest for conspiracy theorists.
It is unclear what the structure could be, but it looks similar to a nunatak – a natural mountain peak that juts up above glaciers
In October, a video posted on YouTube claimed that there was a crystal pyramid beneath the Bermuda Triangle, which was to blame for the disappearance of several planes and ships in the area.
Mr Watson added: 'There is always a mystique about pyramid structures.
'Back in the 1970s there were many claims that such objects could preserve food, generate health benefits and even keep razors sharp.'
It shows a pyramid-like structure in the snow, with a Google Maps-type label and pin. The label reads 'Antartica Pyramid' – a misspelling of Antarctica, which suggests that image might have been doctored
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‘Buitenaardse basis in piramide op Antarctica’ maakt tongen los
‘Buitenaardse basis in piramide op Antarctica’ maakt tongen los
In de Britse pers is momenteel aandacht voor de vondst van een ‘mysterieuze piramide op Antarctica’.
Complottheoretici hebben een filmpje op YouTube gezet, waarin wordt geclaimd dat de Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken John Kerry vorig week een bezoek heeft gebracht aan een ‘buitenaardse basis’ in de piramide.
Er wordt gesuggereerd dat de beelden afkomstig zijn van Google Earth, maar het is onduidelijk of ze al dan niet bewerkt zijn.
Spelfout
In het filmpje is een piramideachtige structuur te zien in de sneeuw. ‘Antartica Pyramid’ staat erbij, een spelfout die erop wijst dat de afbeelding mogelijk bewerkt is.
De reacties op de video lopen uiteen. James Jason sprak van een ‘zeer goed verslag’ en denkt dat we voor grote veranderingen staan.
Nunatak
Gordon Anderson zei: “Ik heb veel tijd doorgebracht op besneeuwde bergen en dit ziet er natuurlijk uit, niet door mensen gemaakt!”
Anderen maakten grappen over John Kerry.
Het is nog onduidelijk wat de structuur precies is, maar gedacht wordt dat het een Nunatak is, een blootgestelde top van een berg die zelf niet met sneeuw of ijs is bedekt, maar die uitsteekt boven een gletsjer of ijsveld.
‘Buitenaardse basis in piramide op Antarctica’ maakt tongen los
‘Buitenaardse basis in piramide op Antarctica’ maakt tongen los
In de Britse pers is momenteel aandacht voor de vondst van een ‘mysterieuze piramide op Antarctica’.
Complottheoretici hebben een filmpje op YouTube gezet, waarin wordt geclaimd dat de Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken John Kerry vorig week een bezoek heeft gebracht aan een ‘buitenaardse basis’ in de piramide.
Er wordt gesuggereerd dat de beelden afkomstig zijn van Google Earth, maar het is onduidelijk of ze al dan niet bewerkt zijn.
Spelfout
In het filmpje is een piramideachtige structuur te zien in de sneeuw. ‘Antartica Pyramid’ staat erbij, een spelfout die erop wijst dat de afbeelding mogelijk bewerkt is.
De reacties op de video lopen uiteen. James Jason sprak van een ‘zeer goed verslag’ en denkt dat we voor grote veranderingen staan.
Nunatak
Gordon Anderson zei: “Ik heb veel tijd doorgebracht op besneeuwde bergen en dit ziet er natuurlijk uit, niet door mensen gemaakt!”
Anderen maakten grappen over John Kerry.
Het is nog onduidelijk wat de structuur precies is, maar gedacht wordt dat het een Nunatak is, een blootgestelde top van een berg die zelf niet met sneeuw of ijs is bedekt, maar die uitsteekt boven een gletsjer of ijsveld.
Giant UFO Passes Venus And Sun, Caught On SOHO Images, Nov 18, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Giant UFO Passes Venus And Sun, Caught On SOHO Images, Nov 18, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 18, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths Sun A very long UFO passed by the SOHO/NASA satellite on the 18th of Nov. It was caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube and is clearly long rectangular shape. Certainly a ship like this looks boring, but anti gravity tech could make an elephant fly, so some alien species will focus on efficiency over aesthetic beauty. You could understand how one would be more useful than the other. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Wheel UFO Over India Lights Up Neighborhood, Nov 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Wheel UFO Over India Lights Up Neighborhood, Nov 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 4, 2016 Location of sighting: India
This UFO is unique in that its a disk that moves upright like a wheel. This glowing wheel has opening in its center, which looks like it could be the pilots viewing area.
I wonder if this is the legendary Biblical Ezekiels Wheel from 593BC? One of the Ezekiel passages reads: "This was the appearance and structure of the wheels (UFO): They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel." (Ezekiel 1:16) Tell me your thoughts in the comments below. Scott C. Waring
Did the Smithsonian cover up an Ancient Egyptian Colony in the Grand Canyon?
Did the Smithsonian cover up an Ancient Egyptian Colony in the Grand Canyon?
Did the Smithsonian Institute cover up the mind-boggling discovery of an ancient Egyptian Colony in the Grand Canyon? According to a news article from 1909, the answer is YES.
Is it possible that the ancient Egyptian civilization developed technology to travel across the planet? I’m not talking spaceships, but transoceanic voyages made possible with their grandiose vessels?
In recent years, more evidence has emerged which supports the idea that ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, the Chinese and even possibly the Olmec achieved trans-oceanic voyages before written history suggests.
While scientific responses to pre-Colombian trans-oceanic contact vary over time, most ideas which support this possibility have been treated with skepticism since such an idea radically opposes what we are told about history.
The idea that there is, or was an ancient colony in North America belonging to the ancient Egyptian civilization is something that according to many only occurs in Hollywood movies.
However, according to the front page of the April 5, 1909, edition of the Arizona Gazette, a bizarre discovery was made in the Marble region of the Grand Canyon that points towards an ancient Egyptian presence in North America thousands of years ago.
According to the newspaper, two alleged Smithsonian-funded archaeologists Prof. S. A. Jordan and G.E. Kinkaid made the fascinating discovery that according to many proves history is inaccurate.
The report -shrouded in mystery reads:
(D)iscoveries which almost conclusively prove that the race which inhabited this mysterious cavern, hewn in solid rock by human hands, was of oriental origin, possibly from Egypt, tracing back to Ramses. If their theories are borne out by the translation of the tablets engraved with hieroglyphics, the mystery of the prehistoric peoples of North America, their ancient arts, who they were and whence they came, will be solved. Egypt and the Nile, and Arizona and the Colorado will be linked by a historical chain running back to ages which staggers the wildest fancy of the fictionist.
The article notes that the mysterious set of caverns was located in an extremely remote part of the Grand Canyon, dangerous and nearly inaccessible. The alleged site is reportedly located 2 miles away from El Tovar Crystal Canyon.
According to the Arizona Gazette, the entrance to the main cavern was located some 1500 feet below an abrupt cliff.
However, people believe all of this is part of an elaborate hoax and that the discovery was never made.
Furthermore, the Smithsonian Institutedeniedallclaims indicating that no record of a so-called Kincaid or Professor Jordan exists in the Smithsonian’s Department of Anthropology.
Moreover, the Smithsonian denies there is any evidence of artifacts gathered.
In the book, Suppressed Inventions by Jonathan Eisen, a spokesperson from the Smithsonian Institute denies any ancient Egyptian artifacts were found in the Grand Canyon.
Well, the first thing I can tell you, before we go any further, is that no Egyptian artifacts of any kind have ever been found in North or South America. Therefore, I can tell you that the Smithsonian Institute has never been involved in any such excavations.
Was this just another hoax? Can we conclude that the entire story is just an elaborate newspaper hoax as many indicate? Or is it possible that the Smithsonian Institute -which has been called out in the past for covering up history changing discoveries- covered up the mind-boggling discovery?
Reading through the book Suppressed Inventions, we have found out fascinating details that give the story of an ancient Egyptian colony in North America an entirely new level.
“…Historian and linguist Carl Hart, editor of World Explorer, obtained a hiker’s map of the Grand Canyon from a bookstore in Chicago. Poring over the map, we were amazed to see that much of the area of the north side of the canyon had Egyptian names. For example, the area around Ninety-Four Mile Creek and Trinity Creek had areas with names like Tower of Set, Tower of Ra, Horus Temple, Osiris Temple and Isis Temple. In the Haunted Canyon area are such names as the Cheops Pyramid, the Buddha Cloister, Buddha Temple, Manu Temple and Shiva Temple…”
Is this just a small worthless coincidence? Or is there more to the story than meets the eye?
Interestingly, the area of the canyon where the Egyptian names are located is an area off limits. It’s a forbidden zone. No one is allowed to enter it and explore it. The great question is why? Why is it off limits? Is it because the mysterious vaults and ancient Egyptian artifacts are real? And they are located there? Even today, the mysterious area of the canyon is a restricted zone, off limits for hikers, explorers and even park personnel.
The story of the mysterious ‘lost ancient Egyptian colony‘ in the Grand Canyon is filled with mystery.
What if professor Kincaid and his colleague professor Jordan did exist and worked for the Smithsonian Institute but under another name?
Or is it possible that the story printed by the Arizona Gazette is an elaborate hoax, an attempt to increase sales for an ‘unknown’ local newspaper? after all, only the Arizona Gazette wrote about the alleged discovery.
If something of this magnitude was real, wouldn’t other newspapers have rushed and printed the magnificent story?
While it is impossible to say for certain whether or not the caves exist, and ‘someone’ actually recovered ancient Egyptian artifacts fro the caves, we know that the Ancient Egyptians were capable of alot of things, and they could have had the ability to travel to the Americas.
Evidence of that an intriguing set of glyphs located in Australia (another finding highly debated).
While the mysterious glyphs, known as the Gosford Glyphs, are considered as a hoax by mainstream scholars, many people believe that the Gosford Glyphs are just one of the many pieces which point towards Ancient Egyptian large-scale oceanic voyages.
But in addition to the above, there are quite a few indicators which suggest the ancient Egyptians sailed around the planet and had the ability to perform large-scale oceanic voyages thousands of years ago.
Another intriguing fact that points towards ancient Egyptians traveling to the Americas or vice-versa are the mummified remains of Lady Henut Taui. The mummy, analyzed by German scientists Svetla Balabanova, contained traces of cocaine and nicotine, something that had never before been found.
But why was the discovery a groundbreaking one? Well, cocaine and tobacco were only found in the Americas in the distant past. These plants were not exported until the 19th century, a fact that suggests that somehow, ancient Egyptians could have traveled in the Americas 3,000 years ago.
There was excitement in the city of Geneva in Switzerland last Wednesday after hundreds of people took to social media to report sighting a mysterious UFO that hovered in the dark skies over the La Praille area of the city near the stadium.
Scores of excited witnesses took to Facebook moments after the sighting to upload photographs and videos of the mysterious object.
The UFO hovered over the Geneva stadium area for about 20 seconds at about 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 12, before speeding away. Witnesses said they saw the shape and form of a solid object hovering in the sky very clearly. It was a dark-colored circular object that glowed brightly in the night sky as it took off and sped away after hovering for several seconds.
Others described it as oval-shaped and flat-topped.
Matías Vitkieviez, a Servette FC footballer, took to Facebook to report his experience, according to RT.
“Everyone sees the same thing as me? It’s completely crazy! UFO above the industrial area behind the stage of la praille #ufogva.”
A witness told Tribune de Genève that he saw the circular shape of an enormous UFO in the sky and that it was “as big as a plane.”
As it hovered over the stadium area it emitted a strange shrill noise, the witness added.
“It was about 8:30 p.m.,” he continued. “The phenomenon lasted about 20 seconds and the object departed at once, as if it was burning.”
“We can hardly see anything on the photo, but we clearly distinguished an oval and flatted-shaped object with three lights; then it quickly disappeared,” another witness, identified as Sacha, reported on Facebook.
The website 20 Minutes reports that Sacha said he had always been skeptical about UFOs but the sighting on Wednesday evening over the stadium changed his attitude.
“It changed my way of thinking. Let’s say that before I believed 30 percent in UFOs, now I believe 70 percent.”
The mystery of the strange craft over the Geneva stadium was compounded when the control tower at the Geneva International Airport responded to inquiries, saying that surveillance radar did not detect any unusual activity over the La Praille area between 8 p.m. and midnight.
The response by the control tower sparked a furious debate on social media, with hundreds of people confirming to skeptics that they saw a massive saucer-shaped UFO hovering over the Geneva stadium for several seconds before it sped away.
But some skeptics suggested that witnesses may have seen a drone equipped with LED lights.
However, an expert who analyzed images taken by witnesses concluded that the object was unlike any drone he had ever seen. According to Fabio Chironi, an aerial photography expert, the craft was simply too big to be explained away as a drone. He also argued that analysis of the footage did not reveal an aerial object resembling any known model of a drone
“Usually [drone] lights are arranged under the arms and not the ends,” Chironi told Tribune de Genève. “Moreover, they are of different colors to distinguish the front from the back. Finally, the object appears to be too big to be a drone.”
And although Chironi had no idea what the flying object might have been, popular UFO blogger Scott C. Waring was convinced, as usual, that he knew exactly what it was.
Waring claimed that the UFO was almost certainly a TR3B UFO.
“In the two videos posted to Facebook, I notice that there are three lights in the sky which make it look like a TR3B (alien tech in USAF hands), which could be USAF or it could be actual aliens,” he argued in an October 15 post to his UFO Sightings Daily blog.
According conspiracy theorists, TR3B crafts, also known as “black triangle UFOs,” are a new generation of advanced stealth reconnaissance aircraft developed by the USAF under decades-long Pentagon black projects.
The technology on which the alleged crafts are based was inspired by decades of reverse-engineering research conducted by teams of U.S. government scientists working in secret with alien UFOs recovered from several UFO crash sites, including Roswell in New Mexico.
The USAF TR-3 series includes prototypes, such as the TR-3A Black Manta, and the more advanced TR-3B prototypes that allegedly include the Aurora and the Astra.
UFO flying saucer hovers over a city [Image by Andrea Crisante/Shutterstock]
Although the U.S. government has never acknowledged the existence of the alleged TR-3 crafts, alien hunters claim there have been hundreds of authenticated sightings following the first reported sightings in the 1980s over the Antelope Valley in southern California.
However, Waring argued that the craft that appeared over Geneva was possibly not a reverse-engineered USAF TR3B craft, but one of the original alien crafts that inspired the design of the USAF TR3Bs. And one reason why he thinks it may have been an alien craft was the observation that it released a “dozen tiny glowing white drones” while hovering overhead (see video above).
“I think it is a real alien craft because I see there are a dozen tiny glowing white drones that leave the UFO and fly about just over the houses,” Waring commented.
Another reason why he thinks it may have been an alien craft was that it appeared the UFO “cloaked” itself while hovering but began glowing brightly after it powered up and sped away
“Although an alien ship can cloak itself, when it powers up its propulsion to shoot away, it will glow and be visible at night,” he wrote.
UFO hunters believe that after many decades the U.S. government is still keeping the original alien crafts recovered from the UFO crash sites, including one recovered from a site near Roswell in 1947, and another recovered from a sight near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania in the 1960s.
Thus, the UFO that appeared over the Geneva stadium may have been an alien craft manned by a human pilot or a UFO manned by ETs visiting Earth from space.
It is believed that government scientists and engineers were able to repair the crashed UFO crafts and human pilots learned through trial and error, during decades of reverse engineering efforts, to fly them.
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ET Beings Plan To Remove All Governments And The Elite By 2029?
ET Beings Plan To Remove All Governments And The Elite By 2029?
The word on the street is that by 2029 the world could possibly be invaded by Extraterrestrial Beings and all Governments and the Elite are to be removed – something which has been confirmed by certain government ex-employees who worked in secret bases.
This intriguing announcement has been confirmed by Phil Schneider, who claimed to be an ex-government structural engineer who was involved in building underground military bases around America, and to be one of only three people to survive the 1979 incident between the alien Grays and U.S. military forces at the Dulce underground base.
Strangely Schneider was found dead in his apartment, apparently his death was caused by a stroke, but MANY have suggested that he was murdered – possibly by the US Government. (please click HERE to learn more about Schneider).
Phil Schneider – A man in the know who paid the ULTIMATE price?
Phil Schneider was very loud and clear about what he says that he learned about the extraterrestrials whilst working under a top-secret ‘high security’ clearance for the American Government.
Phil was mocked heavily by the media when he came out with such controversial statement. Although many people around the world, including Veterans Today senior editor Gordon Duff, had a lot of faith and belief in Schneider and even declared him in public as a “UFO whistleblower.”
Please see below a video of Phil’s controversial statements caught on camera:
When Phil was found dead in his apartment it was first indicated that he could have committed suicide, however many truth seekers around the world now believe that he was actually murdered, possibly for the things that he knew about. Schneider was found dead in his apartment in 1996.
Schneider strongly reinforced the case that back in 1954, then-President Dwight Eisenhower supposedly made a pact with three different species of aliens! This is something that Phil confirmed to a rather intrigued group of students at a lecture at the 1995 Preparedness Expo.
Phil also confirmed at the lecture that the then President did this for an exchange for ‘alien technology’
Was greed for Alien Technology, the downfall of the Human Race!?
Phil Schneider and many other UFO researches strongly (and MANY still do) believed that President Dwight Eisenhower gave the ET’s his very own permission to abduct some cattle and a very limited number of human beings.
Cattle were found in their tens of thousands across the US, inexplicably mutilated! It has been recorded that many of these brutal killings of cattle had their organs had carefully been removed, as if done by some kind of surgeon. Some said at the time that these cattle killings were done by predatory animals – but have any of you EVER seen a wolf etc with a surgeon’s knife chasing after cattle!??
Did President Eisenhower have a dark secret pact with Alien Beings!?
Phil Schneider then went on to state that the Human Abductees, which could have been in the “thousands” could very well of been ‘eaten’ by the Alien Beings – Phil confirmed that at least nine races of aliens see us human beings as merely as a “a bag of food” and nothing else! Would a President of allowed his people to end up like this? Did he have a choice, if he was that desperate to get hold of ‘their’ technology.
“Humans are seen as a BAG OF FOOD to some Alien species” – Paul Schneider
Later at the same event ( the lecture at the 1995 Preparedness Expo) Phil presented to the audience a very unusual piece of Metal. He explained that this piece of metal was in fact part of the technology that the Alien Beings were offering to the human beings as an exchange…with the key benefit of being completely INDESTRUCTIBLE!
Apparently this very special type of metal is made of niobium, an element we have on the periodic table, and marinate, which is in fact an alien element you won’t find mentioned ANYWHERE in Earth’s textbooks or science books!
Another piece of Alien technology the Human race gained off certain Extraterrestrial Beings was a spy satellite that could spot a coin on your kitchen floor. This technology apparently infrared technology and had a resolution factor of 99.99961. Paul confirmed that it was only the military that had ideas for this level of technology and it is all something that is now put into use in todays modern military equipment.
BUT according to Schneider the Aliens “violated the pact” and took more humans than what they should have done. This is when an undercover war with the Aliens was declared. Phil confirmed that the Aliens plan to rid the world of the worlds governments and the Elite, and that they plan to take over in 2029.
Phil gave a stark warning before his death – “We don’t have a whole heap of time left.” and urged the Governments to tell the people of this planet what they have done and what is coming in 2029!
Sadly Phil Schneider died not long after making these brave statements to the world. He never did quite fully explain whether it was just the world leaders that the Aliens want to rid this planet of in 2029, or was it the Human Race as a whole?!
The Extra-terrestrials ‘removal of the Elite’ coming in 2029?
U.I.P SUMMARY – much as this story may appear a little ‘over the top’, it is important to remember that there are a lot of odd goings on around the world at the moment, that could be possibly deemed as a build up to ‘something’, but a war?? Could you actually declare war on a species that has the technology to travel between the stars!
Dr. Ellen Stofan of NASA recently announced that NASA will discover ‘Alien civilizations’ by 2025.
What with NASA confirming that they have discovered potential ‘habitable planets’ with similar living conditions to planet earth, Kepler 452b being one of their more recent finds, which is about 60% larger than planet earth and up to 1.5 Billion years older (just imagine the potential advancement of any beings on that planet!?). We also have leading professors such as Stephen Hawking helping to fund Alien hunting projects, something he has usually dismissed as too dangerous!?
And on top of all this ‘apparent’ influx of drip-feeding, we now even have the Catholic church ADMITTING to the world that Extra-terrestrials exist! Something which has caused a few raised eyebrows around the world – something that most religions has DISMISSED until recently.
The Vatican’s acceptance of Alien Beings has raised quite a few eyebrows around the world.
The Facts….
We ARE being drip fed disclosure from every corner of the world, and on top of this UFO sightings have recently DOUBLED (please click HERE to read more on this) and more and more people are witnessing the Extra-terrestrials in their masses in the skies above us – even the International Space Station cannot look ANYWHERE with their HD cameras without capturing a UFO near them – Even TV shows and adverts are focusing in on ‘Aliens’ more and more nowadays….all designed to waken up the masses of this world!?
This is NO coincidence as I’m sure the majority of you will all agree, BUT the question is, is this a build up to war being stirred by the world leaders and the Elite, against a potential ET race that has an ongoing dispute with specific governments around the world? It’s a good question and our personal thoughts on this is that IF we are heading towards an Alien conflict, then surely we could not compete against a far more technologically advanced race (or race’s) UNLESS as Phil Schneider has stated before, perhaps we are already using their own weapons against them!? (please see video below which opens up on this intriguing subject!).
Who knows, perhaps there are ET Beings out there who have OUR ‘best interests at heart’ and are willing to defend us against TWO possible fronts – The ‘Disgruntled ET Beings AND our very own world leaders and the Elite on Planet earth’.
Like many have stated before, there is good and bad in every walks of life and perhaps the GOOD out there is willing to fight for us against the ‘evil within’ and those that wish to remove us from the very planet that we call home. Don’t forget there have been reports of Alien Wars in the sky before (please click HERE)….perhaps leaders of the past (and present) have meddled into something which needs ‘outside support’
Nobody knows the TRUTH apart from those that are ‘lying to us all’ but TWO things are very much for sure, we are NOT alone, and they are VERY MUCH HERE!
MWV – U.I.P
‘Battle’ Over Nuremberg, Germany. ‘The Great 1561 UFO Battle In The Sky’
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‘Aliens Are All Around Us’ – Confirms The Elites Puppet Professor!
‘Aliens Are All Around Us’ – Confirms The Elites Puppet Professor!
Alien life is behind the mysteries of the universe, according to a radical new theory, which many believe is part of the ‘drip-feeding’ of Disclosure!!
Ancient non-human life forms morphed into the physical world and are the driving force behind mind-boggling quantum physics and phenomena like dark matter, according to a senior Columbia University Astrophysicist!
The expert says our universe is the remains of intelligent alien life that controls all aspects of the physical world — from gravity to the speed of light and possibly beyond!
Its infested with LIFE out there! – Art by Raphael Terra
This intriguing yet very obvious theory helps to explain the great mysteries of the cosmos and also answers why we have yet to find intelligent life beyond our planet, Professor Caleb Scharf says.
In a recent article for Science Journal Nautilus, the radical thinker wrote that alien life could exist in the behavior of subatomic particles and the expansion of the universe.
“Perhaps hyper-advanced life isn’t just external. Perhaps it’s already all around,” he said.
“It is embedded in what we perceive to be physics itself.
“In other words, life might not just be in the equations. It might be the equations.”
He points to a theory that suggests alien life forms intelligent enough to reach us will have already turned themselves into living machines.
Humanity too faces this prospect when our creations overtake our own intelligence — a point dubbed “singularity.”
Taking this a step further, Scharf says hyper-advanced aliens may have gone beyond turning themselves into machine creatures and gone as far as becoming a complex physical system.
“If you’re a civilization that has learned how to encode living systems into different [materials], all you need to do is build a normal-matter-to-dark-matter data-transfer system: a dark matter 3D printer,” Scharf explained.
His theory centers around the idea that we have not seen complex life apart from our own because it already exists around us.
“We don’t recognize advanced life because it forms an integral and unsuspicious part of what we’ve considered to be the natural world,” he wrote.
Caleb Scharf – The Elites front man for Disclosure??
U.I.P SUMMARY
One thing is for sure U.I.P followers, we are in for a pretty important 2017 it seems!
The elite appear to be getting incredibly ‘twitchy’ hence more and more ‘ET/UFO’ stories hitting the media and news, and now major professors like Caleb Scharf announcing to the world that we are all ‘surrounded by Aliens’ – Obvious YES, but a build up to something so much bigger? Most definitely YES!
We are being drip fed disclosure on a weekly basis, because the Elite can NO longer contain the TRUTH and the truth is coming no matter what! But, they don’t want hitting us all too soon, because those who want to control us and divide us know that their power will be nothing but a distant grey memory! Remember what is happening to those who are already in the know – please check our article out on those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice –
Paying the ultimate sacrifice to the Elite – NASA engineer and expert pilot Alberto Behar crashed his small plane in the streets of L.A. on a clear day, the plane just lost altitude.
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UFO Tails A Helicopter With Top Turkish General On Board
UFO Tails A Helicopter With Top Turkish General On Board
News crews covering a rescue operation of a general after a failed military coup in Turkey has videotaped a strange UFO. The July 16 news footage shows an unknown object in the sky in the background of the rescue operation from the pro-coup military of the Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar. It was recorded a day after the failed takeover.
He was flown to Cankaya Lodge in a helicopter when the unidentified flying object registered in the distance for approximately three seconds.
A conspiracy theory has emerged claiming that aliens monitor major activities in the world and watch the failed coup attempt closely.
UFO bloggers said a UFO was filmed following a military helicopter carrying the four-star Turkish General Hulusi Akar, the highest ranking military officer in the country’s military.
News agencies noticed the UFO and got into the discussion about the UFO’s identity. Some were wondering if the thing was an alien UFO, the reasons why they followed the most powerful military official in Turkey.
NASA Cameras Capture Massive Blue Sphere Near The Sun
NASA Cameras Capture Massive Blue Sphere Near The Sun
A blue sphere, believed to be massive, was noticed in front of the Sun through NASA cameras. The find captivated the imagination of UFO enthusiasts.
The mysterious images from the website of the space agency made the rounds on Facebook after Pamela Johnson uploaded it on November 15. Pamela claimed that the Sun reacted to the giant UFO.
NASA’s STEREO H1 satellites, which orbit the Sun, reportedly captured the picture. Pamela noticed several missing frames from the feed in the days after the unusual sight had surfaced.
She said the sun is casting the light from the left side of the frame. He added that the satellite’s archives showed the sun started reacting to the mystery object on November 15 and several frames are missing on the 15th and 16th.
The YouTube video that features the images has garnered nearly a hundred thousand views as of this writing. It has been met with enthusiasm and skepticism.
Mike Sovereign said that NASA would not be careless to allow something similar to it to reach the public. He speculated that something might be projecting the image in space, a project blue beam or holographic.
Youtube user mrfaithandphysics said the surface patterns are not the same to any spectrum or details of the Sun, suggesting it isn’t the sun. He added that it appears and disappears out of nowhere and doesn’t move through the frames.
OTTAWA—A drone? A weather balloon? A piece of garbage swept up by the wind?
The pilots of a Porter Airlines flight inbound to Toronto on Monday morning were forced to put their plane into a sudden dive to avoid a mid-air collision with an unidentified object high over Lake Ontario, causing minor injuries to two flight attendants.
Now investigators with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada admit they have a puzzle on their hands to determine exactly what the pilots had to avoid.
“Nobody knows at this point. It happened so quick,” said Peter Rowntree, senior regional investigator with the safety board.
“We’ve got our work cut out trying to figure out what this unidentified flying object was. What did they encounter?” Rowntree said in an interview.
“It definitely wasn’t a bird. It was a fairly large object,” he said, describing it as up to three metres wide.
There were initial concerns that the object was an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, highlighting once again worries about their growing prevalence and the risks they pose to aviation.
Rowntree said it was too soon to say for sure. But he said the location of the incident — at 2,743 metres (9,000 feet) over the lake near the U.S. border, far from shore — is reason for concern if it was a drone.
The Porter Dash 8-400 turboprop was on its initial approach to Toronto’s Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport from Ottawa when the two pilots saw they were on a collision course. They had mere seconds to spot the object and react to avoid the danger.
“They essentially just pushed the nose down to get underneath it,” Rowntree said.
“It’s a big sky out there, so the fact they even saw it is something,” he said, noting that the aircraft was travelling at almost 450 kilometres per hour.
Two flight attendants suffered minor injuries in the evasive manoeuvre. They were taken to hospital and released. None of the 54 passengers on board the flight were injured, airline spokesperson Brad Cicero said.
At first the pilots believed the object was a balloon, but later thought it could have been a drone, Cicero said.
The proliferation and capability of unmanned aerial vehicles has been a growing worry for pilots who fear a catastrophic mid-air collision. By Sept. 1, there had been 82 reports of potential UAV infractions in Canada this year, compared to 97 in all of 2015 and 61 in 2014, according to Transport Canada.
Transport Minister Marc Garneau’s office said Monday that “new, clearer regulations” for drone use would be released in the coming months.
Existing rules already restrict the use of drones around airports and at higher altitudes to minimize the risk of a potential collision. But there are calls for Transport Canada to do more to raise public awareness.
“I don’t believe the word is getting out,” said Dan Adamus, Canada board president of the Air Line Pilots Association, International.
“That’s the problem. People just look up in the sky and they don’t understand it’s airspace that aircraft use,” he said in an interview.
He said a mid-air collision with a drone would likely be worse than hitting a bird and could easily disable a control surface, cause an engine failure or shatter the windscreen.
And he said the pilots association wants Canada to follow the lead of the United States and require owners to register their UAVs with the federal authorities, a formality that may encourage some to be more responsible in how they fly the vehicles.
“We certainly recognize the potential of remotely piloted aircraft for a whole variety of reasons, but they can’t compromise aviation safety,” he said.
Rowntree echoed that concern.
“It’s only a matter of time before — and you hate to say it — an airplane is going to hit a drone,” he said.
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Porter plane nearly collided with ‘unidentified airborne object’: TSB
Porter plane nearly collided with ‘unidentified airborne object’: TSB
A Porter Airlines plane flies over Toronto in this file photo. (The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld)
Chris Herhalt, CP24.com
The Transportation Safety Board says it closed the investigation into a near miss between a Porter Airlines plane and a still unknown airborne object that occurred high over Lake Ontario last week.
On Nov. 14, a Porter Airlines Bombardier Q400 turboprop plane was flying at an altitude of more than 2,700 metres over Lake Ontario, 55 kilometres east of Toronto near the marine border between Canada and the United States, when pilots noticed an unknown object barreling towards them.
TSB investigators said the pilots had only a few seconds to avoid the object, which they described as being as much as three metres wide.
The Porter pilots put the plane in a steep dive in order to dodge the object. Two flight attendants onboard the flight suffered minor injuries as a result.
None of the 54 passengers aboard were hurt.
TSB officials told CTV News Toronto that the description of the object did not match any known commercial or consumer drones currently on the market.
The investigation can be reopened if more information comes to light, officials said.
Commercially available drones are typically not designed to reach an altitude of 2,700 metres without some form of modification.
In Canada, drones are prohibited from flying higher than 90 metres above the ground, without first obtaining a special permit from Transport Canada.
A Porter airlines flight nearly collided with a flying object as it descended into Toronto on Nov. 14. The Transportation Safety Board says it can't figure out what that object was. (Bruce /CBC)
Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) said Tuesday that it can't identify the mysterious flying object that nearly collided with a Porter flight descending into Bill Bishop Toronto City Airport last week.
A TSB spokesperson said investigators, who initially believed the flying object may have been a drone, have done as much as they can to figure out what it was. It's unlikely the object was an unmanned aerial vehicle, the TSB said, as it was flying higher and farther out from shore than most drones can go.
Pilots thought the object flying at around 9,000 feet may have been a balloon, but didn't take any chances and took evasive action to dodge it. Two flight attendants suffered minor injuries as the Ottawa-Toronto flight zig-zagged over Lake Ontario near Pickering.
None of the passengers on board were injured.
The TSB spokesperson said the incident will be added to a database, but no formal report will be filed about the incident.
A Porter airlines flight nearly collided with a flying object as it descended into Toronto on Nov. 14. The Transportation Safety Board says it can't figure out what that object was. (Bruce /CBC)
Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) said Tuesday that it can't identify the mysterious flying object that nearly collided with a Porter flight descending into Bill Bishop Toronto City Airport last week.
A TSB spokesperson said investigators, who initially believed the flying object may have been a drone, have done as much as they can to figure out what it was. It's unlikely the object was an unmanned aerial vehicle, the TSB said, as it was flying higher and farther out from shore than most drones can go.
Pilots thought the object flying at around 9,000 feet may have been a balloon, but didn't take any chances and took evasive action to dodge it. Two flight attendants suffered minor injuries as the Ottawa-Toronto flight zig-zagged over Lake Ontario near Pickering.
None of the passengers on board were injured.
The TSB spokesperson said the incident will be added to a database, but no formal report will be filed about the incident.
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Martian Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as The Largest Great Lake
Martian Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as The Largest Great Lake
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Researchers have found a large amount of frozen ice beneath a cracked and pitted plain in the Martian surface that is about 79-171 meters (260-560 ft) thick.
Any Martian water can be used to search for signs of life, and to learn more about the climate of Mars thousands of years ago.
BENEATH THE SURFACE
If we want a successful manned mission to Mars, and an eventual human colony, we have to start looking for all the possible resources on the Red Planet – especially a water source.
Researchers have found a large amount of frozen ice beneath a cracked and pitted plain in the Martian surface. The frozen mass is likely carrying as much water as Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes in the US.
The ice was found on Mars’ Utopia Planitia region by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Shallow Radar (SHARAD). Analyzing data from more than 600 overhead passes, the research team estimates a thickness from about 79-171 meters (260-560 ft). The ice is made up of about 50 to 85 percent water, mixed with dust and other solids. It is buried underneath 1-10 meters (3-33 ft) of Martian soil.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Rome/ASI/PSI
“This deposit probably formed as snowfall accumulating into an ice sheet mixed with dust during a period in Mars history when the planet’s axis was more tilted than it is today,” said lead author Cassie Stuurman in a statement.
CLIMATE RECORD
The deposit accounts for around one percent of all water found on the planet. This might not sound like much, but it does double the frozen ice beneath Mars’ northern plains. And, the ice can easily be tapped by astronauts or any mission that wants to do so.
“This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice,” said Jack Holt, co-author of the paper.
Any Martian water found, even in ice form, can be a candidate for searching for signs of life on the Red Planet. Ice can contain evidence of any life form that may have resided there. Also, like what we do with Earth’s own polar ice, scientists can use the deposit to learn more about the climate of Mars thousands of years ago.
“Sampling and using this ice with a future mission could help keep astronauts alive, while also helping them unlock the secrets of Martian ice ages,” says co-author Joe Levy.
Nazis believed that the Earth is hollow and that entries inside it are located at the poles. Various researchers claim that they have created an underground base in Antarctica, to the end of the war, which continues to operate today.
Given the evidence that I have seen, I have no doubt that the Earth is hollow inside, or at least that there are large spaces inside our planet who live in highly advanced civilizations. In a way, we can say that our planet live in three categories of people. The writer Jules Verne was a initiated by senior network of secret societies, having connections with the Teozofica Society, the order of the Golden Dawn and the order of Oriental Templars.
He knew a lot more things than the general public. Many of his novels of science fiction based on real events. For example, he described two months of Mars since 1877, before they are identified by astronomers (officially). Any famous or novel, a journey into the center of the Earth, is not entirely a fiction.
He knew that, in essence, the story is true. Proponents of the idea that the Earth is hollow on the inside say that the waters of the oceans drain inside the Earth's poles, forming in its center an immense sea, above the enlightens the Sun inside a whose central, which provides the necessary light and heat.
There are speculations (supported by a lot of evidence) that dinosaurs survived the cataclysm now 65 million years taking refuge inside the Earth, particularly in regard to the right of the South Pole. One of those who suggested this possibility is paleontologist Tom Rich, who works at the Museum of Victoria and Australia which has uncovered in 1987 of a polar dinosaur fossils in a tunnel dug in the southern state of Victoria, in a place known as the Bay of dinosaurs.
There are countless evidence that the Earth is hollow and that his living inside advanced civilizations. These themes can be found throughout the history of humanity, particularly in the traditions and cultures of antiquity.
Currently, people have become to such an extent puppets of those who govern them that they are willing to ridicule anyone who would try to convince them that the Earth is hollow inside. After all, why not say this contradicts those scientists so smart? Yes, just as he contradicted the assertion that time the Earth is round and not flat.
Who analyzes this topic seems to realize how thin are the scientists who try to establish the "reality" of their mistress.
BUITENAARDSE NEPINVASIE KOMT SNEL DICHTERBIJ ( VIDEO )
BUITENAARDSE NEPINVASIE KOMT SNEL DICHTERBIJ ( VIDEO )
Al jarenlang wordt er geschreven over een mogelijk gefingeerde buitenaardse invasie om zo de mensheid enorme schrik aan te jagen.
Daarna zal de bevolking rijp zijn om alles te doen wat een nieuwe wereldregering opdraagt omdat ze zo graag veilig willen zijn.
Iemand die veel kennis heeft van UFO’s en buitenaardse zaken, maar ook uitstekende contacten heeft binnen het Amerikaanse overheidsapparaat, is Dr. Steven Greer over wie wij eerder het volgende schreven.
Steven M. Greer, MD is de oprichter en directeur van het Disclosure Project. Daarnaast leidt hij een wereldwijde zoektocht naar alternatieve vormen van energie, met name nulpunt- of overunity-apparaten.
Dr. Greer is auteur van verschillende boeken waaronder Hidden Truth - Forbidden Knowledge, waarin hij vertelt over zijn eigen ervaringen met buitenaardse beschavingen en de ontwikkeling van zijn kosmische bewustzijn. Als kind zag hij al een UFO en op 17-jarige leeftijd had hij een bijna-doodervaring. In het boek onthult hij ook de geheime kabal waarna we uitkomen bij illegale projecten en ontmoetingen met CIA-directeurs, Amerikaanse senatoren en leden van koningshuizen.
Iets dat al jaren speelt en waarvoor verschillende mensen hebben gewaarschuwd, is een nep buitenaardse invasie.
Voor velen is de situatie met betrekking tot buitenaardsen uitermate verwarrend. Het is sowieso al moeilijk voor te stellen dat er naast deze aarde nog talloze andere planeten zijn waar ook leven op voorkomt. Daarnaast bovenop dan ook nog de door mensen gemaakte UFO’s en zaken zoals de geheime ruimtevloot.
Wanneer je dan ook een UFO waarneemt, is de grote vraag of je hier te maken hebt met een door mensen gemaakt object of met een door buitenaardsen bestuurd voertuig.
Dan kom je weer snel uit bij de waarschuwing zoals die door Wernher von Braun, vlak voor zijn dood werd afgegeven.
Die luidde dat de door mensen gecreëerde ultieme dreiging voor de mensheid uit de ruimte zou komen en dat dit uiteindelijk de wereld zal verenigen in de New World Order.
Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) was de wellicht meest controversiële raketbouwer ooit. Hij maakte de dodelijke V2-raketten voor Hitler en nadien de ruimtevaartraketten voor de NASA, waarmee onder andere de eerste landing van een mens op de maan werd uitgevoerd.
Ongeveer drie jaar voor zijn dood kwam hij in aanraking met Dr. Carol Rosin. Misschien kreeg hij aan het eind van zijn leven iets van wroeging, want haar vertelde hij een groot aantal geheimen. Om de gigantische kosten en de mega verdiensten voor de ruimtewapensystemen enigszins te rechtvaardigen en de agenda voor de New World Order te promoten, zouden er kunstmatige vijanden worden gecreëerd.
Eerst zou dat Rusland zijn. Daarna de terroristen. Vervolgens de landen in het Midden-Oosten. Dan de laatste troefkaart: Een bedreiging uit de ruimte.
Carol Rosin is nu weer in het nieuws met een nogal alarmerend bericht. In haar radioprogramma laat ze een uitgebreide presentatie horen die enkele dagen geleden is gegeven door Dr. Greer voor een select publiek.
Daarin komt Greer met een waarschuwing voor de mensheid dat er nu haast gemaakt gaat worden met die nep buitenaardse invasie waar al zolang over wordt gesproken.
Een invasie die vergelijkbaar is met de effecten van een 9/11, maar dan honderd maal erger. Een gefingeerde invasie die de wereld zodanig zal veranderen dat mensen met weemoed terug zullen denken aan tijden die geweest zijn. Dr. Greer noemt die gebeurtenis dusdanig heftig dat hij 9/11 vergelijkt met een picknick.
Hij is op dit moment druk met het waarschuwen van al zijn goede contacten binnen overheidskringen om zo te proberen te voorkomen dat dit zal plaatsvinden. In zijn presentatie komt Greer met een interessant gegeven en dat is dat de mensen aan de top vaak geen flauw idee hebben van wat er zich werkelijk afspeelt.
Dat de echte strategie wordt uitgevoerd door de laag die zich net onder de machthebbers bevindt, wat je bij ons de topambtenaren noemt.
Ambtelijke macht is een afgeleide van de macht van de regering. In een strikte scheiding tussen politiek en ambtenarij nemen politieke besluitvormers beslissingen die door ambtenaren loyaal worden uitgevoerd. Toch wordt ambtenarij of bureaucratie als zelfstandige macht onderkend omdat ze in de praktijk de beslissingen van de uitvoerende macht uitvoeren en interpreteren. In plaats van de strikte scheiding tussen uitvoerende bevoegdheden en verantwoordelijkheden bij de bestuurders ligt de feitelijke macht deels bij ambtenaren die veel uitvoerende bevoegdheden zelfstandig uitvoeren. De ambtenaren zijn ook van groot belang bij het opstellen van nieuwe regels en beleid. Soms wordt gesteld dat de macht van de ambtenaren, met name de topambtenaren groter is dan die van de minister.
Volgens Greer zal de enorme False Flag operatie plaatsvinden met door mensen gemaakte UFO’s, antizwaartekracht objecten zoals hij ze noemt, in samenspel met wat men noemt “psychotronic, brainwave entrainment weapons”. Vrij vertaald betekent dit wapens die via bepaalde frequenties de menselijke geest beïnvloeden. Dit soort wapens wordt al sinds de jaren vijftig ontwikkeld net zoals de door mensen gemaakte UFO’s.
De gecombineerde effecten van dit alles zou een angstaanjagende Independence Day buitenaardse invasie voor de mensheid creëren, waar iedereen in zal trappen.
In zijn presentatie vertelt Greer ook over een klokkenluider binnen de luchtmacht waar hij uitgebreid contact mee heeft gehad vanwege een nieuwe film die hij gaat maken. Deze klokkenluider vertelde hem dat de nep buitenaardse invasie nu heel dichtbij is.
Voor mensen die niet op de hoogte zijn van het soort technieken die ze gebruiken zal het een volkomen levensecht fenomeen zijn dat zich afspeelt. Daarom is het van het allergrootste belang dat zoveel mogelijk mensen op de hoogte zijn van dit plan en wat het inhoudt, zodat ze straks in staat zijn het onderscheid te maken tussen echte UFO’s en buitenaardsen en de geplande nep-invasie.
Een gebeurtenis die een fascistische schokgolf door de wereld zal veroorzaken door de leden van het zogenaamde militair-industrieel complex. Een tijdperk waarbij de periode na 9/11 zal lijken op de zorgeloze dagen van de jaren twintig.
UFO Over Winter Park, Colorado Caught On Live Cam, Nov 22, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Winter Park, Colorado Caught On Live Cam, Nov 22, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 22, 2016 Location of sighting: Winter Park, Colorado, USA Source: MUFON #80568 A UFO was spotted over a hill in Colorado yesterday. The web camera caught a black UFO moving over or from the mountain top. The UFO is low to keep out of sight, but was it coming from a base below this area is the real question. The UFO is in this are for a reason, and Colorado is a hotbed for alien activity along its mountains. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was monitoring the Winter Park, CO, ski resort town web camera (for my job -- we do operational cloud seeding for the resort to increase snow pack and use the cameras to monitor weather conditions). The frames update about every 3 mins, to my knowledge. In one frame, there was nothing but the normal view. Next frame, black disk-like object appears just over mountain top. Next frame, nothing. Too close to the mountain to be a drone or plane. Confirmed with the resort that there were no helicopters present this morning. Given the distance/size of object, it is unlikely that it was a bird, bug, etc. My colleagues and I have been using this webcam for years and this has never occurred before.
Teenager records UFO moving across sky following Japanese earthquake, Nov 22, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Teenager records UFO moving across sky following Japanese earthquake, Nov 22, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 22, 2016 Location of sighting: Fukushima, Japan This UFO was a definite sign that aliens are involved with the catastrophes around the world. There are three main hypothesis about what they are doing:
1. Monitoring and watching human reactions to problems. 2. Causing the problems to gather energy, opening deep caverns the size of cities underground... 3. Trying to contain as much of the damage as they can, for instance a meteor over Russia suddenly exploded before hitting a big city back in 2013...it seems to have been destroyed midair to prevent a explosive on the ground that scientists say would have been equal to 500 kilotons of TNT or 29 atomic bombs.
Scott C. Waring News states:
Teenager films 'meteorite' UFO burning across sky following Japanese earthquake The teenager, 16, from Japan, filmed the extraordinary sight trailing across the evening sky this evening The video emerged as the country absorbed the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that has shaken Tokyo after striking off the coast of Japan. Early reports said a tsunami warning had been issued after the incident off the coast of Fukushima, the site of the recent nuclear catastrophe. United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the quake hit Namie,Futaba District, Fukushima.
Australia Joins The Hunt For Aliens With A Huge Dish Telescope
Australia Joins The Hunt For Aliens With A Huge Dish Telescope
Scientists in Australia are aiming a huge dish telescope at Proxima Centauri, one of our close solar neighbors, joining the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star a mere 4.25 light years from us, where an Earth-like planet ― dubbed Proxima b ― is believed in orbit. Proxima b may have temperatures that could allow liquid water to exist there, scientists speculate.
The next logical jump is speculation that Proxima b may be habitable.
The Parkes Radio Telescope (pictured below) in New South Wales will lend a hand, er, dish to the mix, scanning for radio frequencies that might originate from unknown civilizations in space, reports the Aussie Network News.
This photo, taken in 1969, shows the telescope as it was around the time of the first manned Moon landing. CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope was officially opened on the 31 October 1961 by the Governor-General, Viscount De L'Isle forty years on, it is still one of the most advanced telescopes of its kind. A gigantic structure of steel and concrete, the telescope soars nearly 55 metres into the sky near Parkes NSW. It played a crucial role in receiving signals during the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969, relaying them for broadcast to an audience of 600 million around the world.
This is Australia’s first collaboration with Breakthrough Listen, a 10-year, $100 million global effort to actively search for intelligent alien life, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization confirmed.
As reported by The New York Times, Breakthrough Listen was launched in 2015 by billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner. The project’s international supporters include renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, astronomer Frank Drake, who founded California’s SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Cambridge University’s Lord Martin Rees, and Ann Druyan, co-author of the “Cosmos” television programs and widow of astronomer Carl Sagan.
The Parkes 64m Radio Telescope "The Dish" at full extension to the ground.
“The addition of Parkes is an important milestone,” Milner told Australian media. “These major instruments are the ears of planet Earth, and now they are listening for signs of other civilizations.”
Locating a verifiable intelligent alien radio signal is basically like looking for a cosmic needle in a haystack. But scientists believe Earth’s most powerful telescopes are the best chance of helping to answer the question of whether earthlings are alone in the universe.
John Reynolds, program director for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, said he’s not convinced the Breakthrough Listen project will make history, according to Australian Network News. But no matter what, he added, the search effort isn’t pointless.
The Parkes radio telescope can tilt 60° from vertical and would take 15 minutes to perform a 360° rotation.
“I’m a bit of a skeptic, but I like the idea,” Reynolds said. “I think it is actually real science, even though the chance of success is small. It’s definitely a question that has to be answered, and you won’t find out unless you actually look.”
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Video – The Spanish Ministry of Defense declassifies 1,900 pages of top-secret UFO files
Video – The Spanish Ministry of Defense declassifies 1,900 pages of top-secret UFO files
Another step towards global UFO disclosure. The Spanish Ministry of Defense has declassified 80 reports of alleged UFO sightings that took place between 1962 and 1995.
The Spanish Ministry of Defense has declassified 80 confidential reports containing around 1,900 pages of alleged UFO sightings that were recorded above Spanish airspace between 1962 and 1995.
The material is available to the public in the online library of the Spanish Ministry of Defense. The reports include the location of the sighting, the date, the summary of facts, considerations, conclusions and the proposed classification or declassification of each document.
The declassification process of the documents began in 1991 when the Ministry of Defense decided to analyze the reports and reduce their classification level in order to make them available to the general public which demanded access to these documents.
Fascinating accounts – inexplicable phenomena
One of the most interesting UFO sightings was reported by pilots and crew when President Adolfo Suarez was traveling from Germany to SPAIN.
The strange UFO was spotted at an undisclosed location. The encounter occurred when former President Adolfo Suarez, was on board an aircraft of the Spanish Air Force. The pilots and passengers onboard witnessed strange lights that could be explained. It remains unclear as to where the sighting took place. The report reads: “During night hours on February 25, 1980, onboard the 401st Squadron aircraft on a flight from Germany to Spain, Madrid with President Suarez, strange lights were observed by the pilots and passengers“.
Furthermore, the declassified documents reveal a number of different sightings that occurred over SPAIN when UFO’s were detected by radar but were invisible for pilots who were sent out to intercept them.
A document which dates to the 28th of November 1979 indicates that numerous individuals observed two UFOs in Madrid. A military plane was sent out to search for the UFOs. The pilot of the intercepting aircraft didn’t see anything, even though “the weather conditions were excellent” and “radar contact had been established four times” the report reads.
That same report details other sightings, one of them occurred on November 27, 1979, when “lights in the sky, were observed by many people” and “unknown echoes” were recorded.
Furthermore, the report details how in 1971, a “luminous object was spotted following a T-33 in Talavera-Getafe route”; and in 1977, mystery lights were seen above Madrid.”
The first UFO sighting over Madrid was recorded on December 11 of 1968. Two witnesses reported at 20.05 hours and 20.30 hours the presence “of a very bright object with changes in brightness,“ in the southwestern parts of the capital.
About 65 million years ago, a space rock six miles wide came hurtling towards Earth. When it hit, it bore a hole 18 miles deep, potentially smashing right through the crust and into the mantle, and leaving scars on this planet that remain to this day.
That’s the conclusion of a new study published inScience, part of an international research project that drilled cores of rock off the Mexican coast this year in an effort to uncover clues to the evolution of planets, and the extinction of all non-bird dinosaurs.
The study, led by Joanna Morgan of Imperial College London and Sean Gulick of the University of Texas at Austin, used rock samples from the Chicxulub crater to unlock the secrets of how asteroid and comet shape the planets they collide with.
The Chicxulub crater is the only one on Earth with a known peak ring, which is a circular formation of elevated material within the larger crater but offset from the center. These peak rings are familiar sights on rocky planetary bodies, including the moon, although on Earth they disappear relatively quickly through erosion and geological forces.
Core samples from Chicxulub’s peak ring, drilled from shallow ocean waters in the Gulf of Mexico, offer Earth-bound scientists a close look at where the material that formed these peaks came from.
There are differing theories about how peak rings form. In one model, the impactor drives deep into the planet, causing an upwelling of molten and solid rock, like the backsplash of a raindrop falling on water. This rises miles up overhead before collapsing and ultimately settling into an elevated ring of material that encircles the impact site. A less dramatic model shows the peak ring rising up like a splash around the center of the crater.
The researchers’ results show that the former is more likely, based on the composition of rocks sampled from the Chicxulub peak ring. This means that dinosaurs nearby would have been in for one hell of a volcanic show, at least until the blast of heat from the explosion got them.
If the Chicxulub asteroid carved a hole 18 miles deep, it could have seen a column of molten rock rise nine miles above Earth’s surface before collapsing under its weight. The air would have filled with fireballs, starting forest fires for thousands of miles around. Earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis would have ensued, and when the planet fell quiet, the air would have been thick with enough ash and soot to blot out the sun.
It was, by any standard, a dark day for the planet, and up to 90 percent of all Earth’s species would ultimately go extinct in the aftermath. But, if you take the long view, it was also a moment of rebirth, when the stage was set for new species, and ultimately humans, to inherit the Earth.
The researchers plan to continue studying Chicxulub’s rocks, and answer how catastrophic impact events can open new spaces for the emergence of life, despite their enormous destructive power.
Rocks uplifted in the event ended up less dense and more porous, Gulick tells LiveScience. “When you get rocks with 10 percent more pore space, microbial life living below the surface may find new habitats on the surface. Our next area of research involves looking at whether ecosystems can get started by craters.”
Mysterious Radio Signals May Be 1 Billion Times More Energetic Than We Thought
Mysterious Radio Signals May Be 1 Billion Times More Energetic Than We Thought
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Gamma rays might have accompanied an FRB eruption, marking the first time high-energy photons have been associated with these blasts of radio energy.
If the gamma rays did come from the same place as the radio waves, then the underlying source could be roughly 1 billion times as energetic as originally thought.
CURIOUS SPACE ODDITIES
Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) are astrophysical phenomena that manifest through millisecond-fast radio chirps that occur randomly. As of now, only 18 have been picked up, and scientists aren’t sure what causes them. Some theorists claim they are caused by collisions between two aging stars, while others assert they come from younger, fast-spinning neutron stars called pulsars.
A new discovery published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters might narrow down these causes even further. The paper reports on the discovery of gamma waves that accompanied FRB 131104, named after the date of its discovery — November 4, 2013. The waves were found using data gathered by NASA’s Swift, a satellite designed to detect gamma ray bursts. This is the first time high energy photons were observed in the same location as the FRBs. If both the gamma ray and the radio waves did come from the same place, this could mean that the source is 1 billion times as energetic as previously thought.
NASA’s Swift satellite. Credit: NASA
CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS
This discovery could help pinpoint the origins of FRBs. If the gamma rays and the radio waves did come from the same location, the pulsar explanation can be ruled out since they are not known to produce gamma waves. Instead, collisions between two neutron stars, or between a neutron star and a black hole, look promising, says Derek Fox, an astrophysicist at Penn State and a coauthor of the study
However, this discovery is just one of many FRBs. Scientists speculate there are more FRBs happening now that are not detected by our instruments. However, it is possible that some FRBs are accompanied by gamma rays, while others could be produced alone. Jason Hessels, an astrophysicist at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy in Dwingeloo shares the sentiment about that theory: “It’s tantalizing, but a lot more would need to be found to be convincing.”
Still, thanks to new detection instruments like the Swift satellite, we are inching closer to fully understanding the universe. It is in these new tools that we are challenging established assumptions and gaining new insights, in this world and beyond.
By Edwina HagonAustralian-bred, New York-based freelance writer, editor, and producer with an unshakeable love of travel, flea markets, and Bryan Ferry
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You don't have to believe in UFOs or time travel to appreciate the Integratron. But when visiting the one-of-a-kind, three-story high, white-domed structure that's been a permanent fixture of California's Mojave Desert since the late 1950s, keeping an open mind is a must, not a maybe.
To visit the Integratron is to pay homage to the life's work of a man named George Van Tassel – an aviator and UFOlogist with an extraordinary mission: to construct "a time machine for basic research on rejuvenation, anti-gravity, and time travel". It's the brainchild of a benevolent bunch of extraterrestrials from Venus who arrived on Earth on a star-soaked night in 1953 and – according to Van Tassel – telepathically divulged to him the schematics for what would become the Integratron.
And, judging by the structure's meticulous configuration – requiring no screws or nails of any kind, right down to the perfect acoustics for which the space is perhaps best known – it's safe to say those extraterrestrials knew a thing or two about midcentury modernist design.
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Located amid the dusty desertscape of Landers, California, about an hour north of Palm Springs and just moments from the unique spike-leafed evergreens inhabiting the Joshua Tree National Park, the precise coordinates of the Integratron are as much a part of the way it functions as the structure itself. It's said that if you stand directly in the centre, you'll channel a significant spike in the earth's magnetic field which, when combined with the geometry of the building, generates a powerful connection between electrical energy and spirituality.
And while you may no longer have the opportunity to hitch a ride back in time, the good news is that the Integratron is open to the public thanks to the Karl sisters who have devoted more than 30 years to preserving the site in all its otherworldly magnificence.
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And magnificent it is. Inside the airy main chamber, 16 rectangular windows boast panoramic views of the desert as linear wood detailing spirals out from the dome's highest point. Like some kind of esoteric house of worship, the space feels undeniably sacred, the interior's wooden ribs reaching skyward in adulation.
But it's not only the look and feel of the space that has thousands of visitors making the pilgrimage each year. It's the Integratron's unusual acoustic properties that attract everyone from musicians and yogis to astronomers and scientists, and which makes the structure a sublime archetype for sound baths.
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For those unfamiliar with the relatively new modality of healing, a sound bath is an immersive experience that engages a series of quartz-crystal singing bowls to lull participants into a meditative state of stillness as the transcendental tones wash over them.
If it sounds like your kind of jam, it's recommended that you book your session at least a couple of weeks in advance as spots fill up fast. Arrive early for a stroll around the grounds, and settle into one of the many hammocks to absorb the view of the white dome as it rises out of the Mojave like a repurposed UFO.
The Integratron is located at 2477 Belfield Boulevard in Landers, and offers sound bath sessions for $34 per person on weekdays and $47 per person on weekends and holidays. Bookings can be made via the website.
An astrophysicist from the Columbia University claims that aliens are everywhere but we just could not see them. The scientist, Caleb Scharf, explains that the ancient alien life forms transformed themselves into the physical world and are causing mysterious forces like dark matter and dark energy.
“Perhaps hyper-advanced life isn’t just external. Perhaps it’s already all around,” astrophysicist Cale Scharf explained “In other words, life might not just be in the equations. It might be the equations.”
The scientist asserts that this is just a theory his work has been published in an article on Nautilus.
Scharf adds that the aliens are so advanced that we cannot explain what they are using the laws of physics. He says that the theory is similar to how some people view some objects as magical because they are not familiar with it.
“What if life has moved so far on that it doesn’t just appear magical, but appears like physics?” the astrophysicist added. “After all, if the cosmos holds other life, and if some of that life has evolved beyond our own waypoints of complexity and technology, we should be considering some very extreme possibilities.”
Recently, a video was uploaded on YouTube showing a fleet of unidentified flying objects taking off from the lunar surface. Alien believers claim that these UFOs, most likely of alien origin, are actually guarding the moon and trying to protect it from humans.
Meanwhile, the video has been questioned by others. A photographer explains that the objects are not aliens but are simply a product of optical illusion.
“UFO’s are NOT what you’re seeing. It is a phenomenon seen any time you look at the moon’s edge. I have lots of telescope time. You see this all the time. It’s called Chromatic Aberration. (Google it) You see it more when the lens is out of focus as well, such as in this video,” explains photographer John Biondo.
One of those asking these questions is Stephen Hawking, the British cosmologist with many deep thoughts and a good sense of humor.
Unlike many celebrity scientists, Hawking’s provocative, news-grabbing statements almost always have some content worth pondering.
Looking for ET
Hawking is part of a Breakthrough Listen project to develop more sensitive radio receivers and listen in on the alien civilizations of the cosmos.
There is another project called Breakthrough Message to design a digital message that could be transmitted from Earth to an extraterrestrial civilization. The message should be “representative of humanity and planet Earth.”
The program pledges:
[…] not to transmit any message until there has been a global debate at high levels of science and politics on the risks and rewards of contacting advanced civilizations.
But Hawking wants us to listen, and not to talk—use our ears, not our mouth. He wants us to eavesdrop but not join the conversation. He wants us to keep our head low.
That sounds like a reasonable idea. Better safe than sorry. But in the spectrum between, paranoia and unjustifiable fear on one side, and reasonable caution on the other, where does keeping your head low fit in?
What kind of ET could we find?
Hawking’s comments are motivated by a fear of what the aliens would do to us if they find us. In his mind, the aliens are the Spanish Conquistador Cortez and we are the Aztecs he made contact with in central America.
Tribal warfare, genocide and ethnic cleansing have been part of our history for thousands of years. Hawking’s fear is a fear of what we have done to ourselves.
Would advanced alien civilizations be as barbaric as we are? Are our genocidal tendencies at all representative of advanced alien civilizations? Maybe.
Hawking says he worries that any aliens “will be vastly more powerful and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria.”
But Stephen, bacteria ARE valuable. Our bacterial biomes keep us alive and healthy. They have been here for about 4 billion years. They invented the ability to harvest sunlight for energy. They produced the oxygen we breathe, and as mitochondria, they do our breathing.
Life on Earth would do fine without people, but without bacteria no other life forms would exist. So Hawking is over-estimating our importance and under-estimating our insignificance to aliens. We will be much less valuable to aliens, than bacteria are to us.
Advanced civilization
The age distribution of Earth-like planets in the universe tells us that the average Earth-like planet is about 2 billion years older than our Earth.
If life has formed on these other Earths, it has had, on average, 2 billion years longer to evolve than we have had. This is the fact that has Hawking worried.
If you imagine that the pace of biological and technological evolution on these other Earths is about the same as it has been on our Earth, then alien civilizations are on average 2 billion years more advanced than we are.
To put that time frame into perspective, two billion years ago, our ancestors on Earth were amoebas or parameciums—single-celled eukaryotes of some kind.
I agree with Hawking that we should keep our heads low. But we have already opened our mouths and started coughing—betraying our existence to any big-eared aliens.
Via television broadcasts we have already sent the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the I Love Lucy show to the stars.
Discovering one of the earliest television broadcasts from 1936.
Currently our strongest emissions into the cosmos – emissions that are making our presence known to the aliens – are the emissions that we think are protecting us from terrestrial aliens.
Those emissions are military radar. The unintended consequence of this protective radar is that it is simultaneously shouting out to the aliens “here we are”.
So the biggest threat to humanity is humanity—our nuclear weapons, our guns, our big brains and our powerful radar systems.
Contact or not?
While discussing the value of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence SETI, a colleague told me that it was dangerous to even listen to aliens. He thought the message would be like a Trojan horse. If we let the message into our minds, it would kill us.
It would be like sticking a virus-contaminated USB stick into your computer. The militaristic generals in the movie Contact should come to mind here: “Ellie Arroway! Don’t build that machine!”
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarkeonce saidthat any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic. But futurist Karl Schroeder thinks that any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from nature.
I don’t know. Maybe Schroeder’s right and advanced aliens have made their peace with the universe. But even if there aren’t any advanced alien civilizations elsewhere in the universe, keeping your head down is probably a good exercise in humility.
On October 25, 2006—ten years ago—NASA strapped two satellites onto a Delta II rocket and sent them skyward with an important mission—to figure out what our Sun is all about.
Given that it's the brightest object in our solar system and the big ball of fire that keeps us alive, you'd think humans would know all kinds of stuff about or friend, Sol. But, of course, for most of human history we've been staring at the Sun from one vantage point, and that's the soil beneath our feet. For the past decade, though, two satellites named STEREO-A and STEREO-B, part of the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory mission, have been traveling ahead and behind Earth's orbit to get a more complete picture of our sun than ever before.
The results have been stunning. Here's a brief history of STEREO and its many, many accomplishments.
STEREO B, In The Beginning
Although other missions, like ESA and NASA's SOHO satellite, have traversed space in search of answers to our Sun-related questions, the primary goal of STEREO was to capture the first fully 3D image of our Sun, a simultaneous rendering of our life-giving star, as well mapping coronal mass ejections (CMEs) more accurately. To achieve that feat, NASA needed to coordinate the orbits of two separate satellites, one just inside and one just outside of Earth's own orbit, to get data from three distinct areas in our solar system.
In this image, we see nearly completed Stereo B, the satellite destined to travel behind Earth's orbit, at NASA's Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland in 2005. These satellites come with an extreme ultraviolet imager, two white-light coronagraphs, and a heliospheric imager—all for studying the evolution of CMEs as they travel from the Sun through its atmosphere (the corona).
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STEREO Is Ready For Launch
This one-minute clip shows the Delta II launch from Cape Canaveral on October 25, 2006.
After the launch, scientists hailed the satellites as ushering "a new dawn for solar observation," with plans to also accurately measure and predict solar storms. The correct prediction of these storms could help protect future astronauts from radiation when humans finally make that long, perilous trek to Mars.
Getting Into Orbit
This is an extended animation of what STEREO's completed and planned orbit is until late 2019. By now, STEREO-A and -B have flown by each other on the other side of the Sun and are now on their return journey to Earth. You can see the satellite's current positions right here.
The Sun Gets Stereoscopic
This stereoscopic image of the sun, captured in April 2007, recreates what it would be like for two human eyes to stare at the Sun (albeit on a galactic scale). This data was captured during the early portion of STEREO's mission as its twin satellites were still near Earth.
The Sun Now Comes in 3D
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This "Eye of Sauron"-like image is the exact moment when in 2011 STEREO-A and B were in the exact position to completely capture the Sun in nearly real-time. This is the first time scientists had ever seen the Sun all at once.
Strangely, it was the first time we could say without a doubt that the Sun was indeed a sphere (though we had a good idea that was the case already.)
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Watch Out For Space Weather
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On July 23, 2012, the Sun unleashed a huge coronal mass ejection. Because NASA's "Heliophysics fleet" (which also includes the old SOHO satellite and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory) comes with these twin STEREO satellites, NASA was able to capture the CME from a couple vantage points and with images from coronagraphs, which blocks the solar disk so the Sun's atmosphere is more visible. Because of this technique and all these different points of data, NASA was able to model this particular coronal ejection and learn more about what makes the Sun tick. Here's a good explainer on how to read STEREO's chronograph images.4
A 2014 Crisis
After eight years of successful operation, STEREO hit a snag. On October 1, 2014, NASA lost contact with STEREO-B after a hard reset. For 22 months, crews worked to re-establish connection with the wayward craft and were finally successful on August 21, 2016. As of today, both STEREO-A and B are operating normally as they slowly inch their way back toward Earth.
If you were on Facebook this weekend, you may have seen an image showing a mysterious blue sphere in space and a whole bunch of conspiracy theories about it. Aliens? NASA cover-up? As usual, the truth is much more mundane.
One of the cameras on NASA's Sun-observing STEREO spacecraft, which normally just shows an empty field of stars, captured a giant blue sphere for a few frames before it vanished. Many people on the internet got very excited about this after UFO hunter Pamela Johnson shared the pics on Facebook. Some tabloids like the Daily Mailwrote entire articles speculating about what this giant blue sphere could mean. Theories ranged from rogue planets to holographic images to all kinds of conspiracy theories.
It's not. Alex Young, the associate director for science at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, tells PopMech that what you're seeing is the Sun, thanks to a data processing error in which two sets of data were superimposed into a single image. "The data comes down in a big stream, and we process that data, we pluck the images out as they're coming down in that stream, he says. "Sometimes the stream [can] get corrupted. That causes the computer program that processes those images to get them wrong."
On the left is a normal image of the Sun taken by the EUVA camera. On the right is that same image, flipped, rotated, and layered on top of an image taken by the HI1 camera.
NASA/STEREO
Onboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft is an instrument called SECCHI. Basically, it's a big box with five different cameras in it. Three of those cameras point directly at the Sun, while the other two are pointed at the space between the Sun and the Earth. They all observe different things, but when the data from those cameras are sent back to Earth, the images from all the cameras get bundled together in one package to save space.
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Normally, the computers that receive those images are able to separate them just fine. But sometimes that data can get scrambled and the images get messed up. This means that sometimes the images show up flipped, or rotated, or jumbled in other ways. "That's exactly what's happening here," Young says.
In this particular case, the images from two different cameras were layered on top of each other. An image from the EUVI camera, which looks at the Sun, got flipped, rotated, and superimposed on an image from the HI1 camera, which looks at the stars. And so, for a few frames, it looked like a giant blue sphere appeared in the middle of our solar system.
As is the case with most NASA telescopes, raw images automatically become publicly available once they're sent back to Earth (because NASA is taxpayer-funded). The agency would remove a goofed, glitchy image like this, but it didn't get around to it before the picture started making the rounds on the internet.
'ALIENS ARE REAL', SAYS THE FOUNDING FATHER OF THE INTERNET DR. JACQUES VALLEE
'ALIENS ARE REAL', SAYS THE FOUNDING FATHER OF THE INTERNET DR. JACQUES VALLEE
Despite the fact that mainstream media accounts like to portray those who believe in extra-terrestrial life and UFOs as oddballs and fringe figures, many distinguished and highly accomplished individuals have come forward to discuss their belief in these otherworldly activities here on Earth. Of these thousands of credible witnesses, coming from the fields of politics, academia and the military, perhaps the most distinguished of all is Dr. Jacques Vallee.
FORMER NASA SCIENTIST SPEAKS OUT ABOUT THE HISTORY OF UFOS
Dr. Valle has had a storied and extensive career in the fields of science and engineering. His many achievements include the first computerized mapping of the surface of Mars for NASA and his work at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) where he was part of a team that developed the technology that would become the foundation for the modern day internet.
Dr. Valle has also examined unidentified flying objects and claims of extra-terrestrial activity in more depth than almost any other individual on the planet. His first work on the subject was a Journal piece entitled, “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Aeriel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics, ” which was published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. This essay examined the interception of UFOs by six different pilots.
His curiosity piqued, Dr. Valle then embarked on a stunningly ambitious quest to examine no less than five hundred different accounts of UFO sightings from the age of Biblical antiquity until 1879, which marked the period of development of modern industry. His findings and commentary can be found in his book ‘Wonders of the Sky’.
Dr. Valle found after examining hundreds of different case accounts that UFO sightings and encounters share definite physical features. For instance, the heat felt and described by witnesses seems constant over different cultures and across the centuries. In fact, Dr. Valle said that similarities between ancient sightings of UFOs and modern day encounters tend to be more similar than many would presume.
De Valle has subjected each of his cases to the full investigatory vigor that one would expect from such an accomplished scientific man and comes to some incredibly interesting conclusions, particularly regarding the way that alien encounters have shaped human history and religion.
Everything from the release of government documents, to high level testimonies from high ranking military and political figures has ignited a massive surge of interest in the UFO phenomenon from people all over the world. Unidentified Flying Objects (performing maneuvers that defy our understanding of physics) are now a confirmed reality. Official government documents prove that defence and government agencies have been examining this topic for a while.
For example, you can view the UK’s latest release of files from June 2013 here. To find out what happens when the military tracks a UFO on radar, you can click here. You can find out more information about that from CE by clicking here. Ask yourself, why is there such a high level of interest from government and military agencies?
The question people are asking has changed from “do UFOs exist?” to “are UFOs extraterrestrial spacecraft?” Attributing today’s unknown aerial phenomenon to extraterrestrial craft might be a big mental leap to some, but the size of that mental leap continues to decrease. There are a lot of factors that are attributing to that decrease, and one of them comes in the form of body marks and extracted implants from people who’ve claimed to have extraterrestrial contact. I’m not saying all UFOs are extraterrestrial craft, I believe many of them are also made by humans from classified projects that come from the black budget world. I also believe that many of these implants could have been done by military agencies; but again, I’d like to reiterate that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is not one to take likely, you can read more about the extraterrestrial hypothesis HERE, or later on in this article.
“There are a great many photographs of such body marks, many of which are in an equilateral triangle pattern of red dots on the wrist or near the ankle. Also common are scoop marks,” in which it appears as if a small amount of tissue was removed from beneath the skin, leaving an indentation.” -Richard Dolan (UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2)
The case of extracted implants is very fascinating, they are largely reported by abductees, and those who have had experience with UFOs.
Below is a clip of Dr. Roger Leir. a Doctor of Podiatric medicine, and arguably the best known individual with regards to extracting alleged alien implants. He has performed more than fifteen surgeries that removed sixteen separate distinct objects. These objects have been investigated by several prestigious laboratories, including Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico Tech, and many others. Unfortunately, he passed away in March 2014, but his legacy lives on. The clip was taken from the citizens hearing on disclosure, just like the one below, where you can find out more information about that.
He also spoke at the National Press Club in 2009, you can view that video here.
Throughout the years he described what he found in his work. Perhaps one of the most fascinating facts was that these objects were magnetic in nature, some gave off a radio frequencies of 14.7 MHz. According to doctor Leir, they were “fixed, or mobile deep space frequencies.” This is a very large amount for a very small object only millimetres in length, roughly the size of a pencil lead.
Lear also worked with Dr. Alex Mosier, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Some of the objects they examined had commonalities with meteorite fragments, metals such as Gallium, Germanium, Platinum, Ruthenium, Rhodium, and Iridium. They also noted a “deviation of nickel from terrestrial ratios that the analysis lab couldn’t explain.” Some of these implants contained nickel with an isotopic ratio not found on planet Earth.
They also found nano fibres very similar to carbon nano-tubes, which suggest that the fragments were engineered or manufactured. According to Dr Mosier, “you don’t find these things in nature. they have to be processed, engineered, and they’re not easy to make.”
All the individuals he studied had “no noted portal of entry” for any of the objects he removed. There was also no notable visible scar formation, and no disruption in the integrity of the skin. All the individuals tested positive to X-rays and CT scans showing metallic or lesser dense foreign objects, and there were no signs of inflammation at all which, according to Dr. Lier, would be impossible.
All of these surgeries and tests were done with an extremely limited budget, and to understand it further, more money would had to have been allocated to these findings.
One thing remains clear, there are many that believe the UFO topic to be directly correlates with the extraterrestrial phenomenon. There are reports all over the world from a large amount of people whose stories all seem to correlate. Whether it be through friendly contact or forced abduction, something is definitely going on, and there appears to possibly be multiple races of extraterrestrials interacting with humanity, and a very high level of interest from military agencies all over the world.
More On The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
Just to clarify, ‘contactees’ are usually those who have reported ‘friendly’ contact experiences with extraterrestrials, ‘abductees’ are those who have had what they perceive to be fearful experiences, and experiencers are those who neither view the experience as ‘good’ or ‘bad,” but simply just an experience. It’s important to note this, because various people have reported different types of experiences with different types of beings.
“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.” – Dr. Edgar Mitchell, ScD, 6th man to walk on the Moon (source) (source)
The reality is that some people who claim to have had contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings actually have.
John Mack, A Harvard professor, psychiatrist and Pulitzer Price recipient stresses that:
“Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.” (source)
We published an article earlier this year regarding John Mack, and more than 60 school children witnessing non-human beings and a large craft landing. The children were interviewed by him, and it was quite a remarkable story with all of the children providing very similiar stories. Until this day these children have been speaking of it, an event occurred more than 20 years ago….
“They describe these events like a person talks about something that has happened to them. I can tell that these are people of sound mind telling me something…” (quote continued and taken from the video linked below) -Dr. John Mack, professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
You can watch THIS video of Mack Interview the children, and you can read THIS article that goes more into detail on that case.
According to retired McGill University professor in the Department of Psychology (research areas beings cognition and cognitive Neuroscience), Dr. Don Donderi:
“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.” (source)
Academicians like these, and others like Richard Dolan, David M. Jacobs and more have been studying this phenomena for decades, and the reports of beings and examining why they are here, what they are doing, what they look like and more has been documented by their (and others) research.
What I find most fascinating about these stories is how many of them seem to compliment each other instead of contradicting each other, which just adds to the mystery.
Other Examples Of Physical Evidence Associated With This Topic (UFO & Extraterrestrial – Despite That In Some Cases Both Are Not Related To Each Other)
“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.” (source)
The quote above comes from Peter Andrew Sturrock, a British Scientist, and an Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Sturrock and a number of other notable scientists around the world came together during the 1990’s in order to examine the physical evidence that is commonly associated with the UFO phenomenon. One example used by Sturrock in his analysis, was a photo taken by two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots on August 27th, 1956, in McCleod, Alberta, Canada. (“Physical Evidence Related To UFO Reports” – The Sturrock Panel Report – Electromagnetic Effects) (source) (source)
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,” that looked like “a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” Another pilot managed to photograph the object, as you can see above.
The sighting lasted for a couple of minutes, and this specific case was analyzed by Dr. Bruce Maccabee, who estimated (from available data) that the luminosity of the object (the power output within the spectral range of the film) to be many megawatts. The Sturrock Panel also found it to be the case that a strong magnetic field surrounding the phenomenon or object was a common occurrence.
Maccabee published his analysis in the Journal of Scientific Exploration (“Optical Power Output of an Unidentified High Altitude Light Source,” published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 13, #2, 1999). He also published one in 1994 titled “Strong Magnetic Field Detected Following a Sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object,” in the same journal (8, #3, 347)
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 Explorationtitled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Ariel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” (source)(source)
This particular case is also referenced in this paper.
One thing is for certain, it’s one of multiple strange phenomena that has and continues to interest a large portion of the scientific community.
Here is a video of former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer speaking about the fields around these objects, and what some of them were doing to military planes.
Let’s just be clear, these objects are commonly seen, tracked on air radar, and tracked on ground radar simultaneously. This is something that has happened hundreds, if not thousands of times. This is information that’s been made public over the past few years.
For example, a declassified Defence Intelligence Agency document shows one (out of thousands) great example. It details how two F-4 interceptor pilots reported seeing an 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)
The report also described how a smaller object detached from the bigger object, turned inside the arc of the F-4 itself, and then rejoined the original object. This incident lasted for several hours. I decided to use this example because it has a number of declassified supporting national security documents, which goes to show how seriously this event was taken.
“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former head of the CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960 (source, NY Times)
It’s only now that more people are starting to become aware of this information. Here is a quote from Senator Barry Goldwater before the de-classification of all of these files:
“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)
Interesting Quotes About The UFO Phenomenon (A Few Out Of Many)
***Please keep in mind, the documentation regarding this phenomenon can be found from links that were mentioned in the very first paragraph of this article
” 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). From “UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2,″ written by Richard Dolan.
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
“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.” (source) – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of physics, University of Nebraska.
“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)
“Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.” – John Mack,Dr. John E. Mack, a Harvard University psychologist and Pulitzer prize winner” (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)
“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)
“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth now; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking. – Theodor C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)
“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)
My people tell of Star People who came to us many generations ago. The Star people brought spiritual teachings and stories and maps of the cosmos and they offered these freely. They were kind, loving, and set a great example. When they left us, my people say there was a loneliness like no other.” – Richard Wagamese, Ojibway Author (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, for example — former White House Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, Barack Obama’s right hand man (councillor), and the current head of Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign,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
“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)
Every single year the topic of UFOs continues to gain traction with regards to credibility and evidence. A lot of information has emerged over the past few years that has taken these subjects out of the ‘conspiracy theory’ realm and into ones of serious inquiry.
This particular story originates from the US governments Stargate Program, which lasted more than two decades. The program studied various topics within the dimensions of parapsychology, such at telepathy, psychokensis, remote viewing and more.
It’s an excellent example of unacknowledged and waived Secret Access Programs. These programs do not exist publicly, but they do indeed exist. They are commonly referred to as ‘deep black programs.’ A 1997 US Senate report described them as “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.” (source)
A gentlemen by the name if Ingo Swann (seen in the picture above) was one of multiple main participants within the program within ‘special abilities.’ (source)
Before we go any further, it’s important to note that US intelligence agencies have had a heavy interest in this type of thing for a long time. Here and here are a few more examples that illustrate this point further. You can learn more about how they link to the CIA here.
Ingo Swann
Swann was able to successfully describe and view a ring around Jupiter before scientists had no idea it existed.
This took place precisely before the first ever flyby of Jupiter by NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft, which confirmed that the ring did actually exist. These results were published in advance of the rings’ discovery. (source)
This was one of many successful ‘hits’ that came out of the Remote Viewing program. It was quite a successful program, which is why it ran for 25 years. A lot of controversy surrounded its termination, and who knows how much of what these findings uncovered remain classified. United States Major General, Albert Stubblebine, was a major proponent of these programs, and one of America’s most distinguished soldiers with more than than 16,000 soldiers under his command. He said that they uncovered structures on the surface of Mars, as well as on the interior that were not built by humans.
What was not published in the literature, after it was declassified, were Swann’s experiences in the world of intelligence. He did, however, write a book called Penetrationwhere he detailed some of his experiences, and many of them dealt with UFOs as well as extraterrestrials.
Much of Swann’s time during this period was spent at the Stanford Research Institute where the remote viewing program was headquartered under the watch of scientists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, the authors of some of the studies cited above.
In his book, he describes a gentlemen who he calls Mr. Axelrod, a secretive government agent obviously belonging to some intelligence agency.
The Story
One day, this man entered into the secured facility at Stanford, which was not an easy thing to do. He found Swann and persuaded him to leave with him.
Axelrod was accompanied by two twins, who were very tall and mysterious. They dressed in the typical ‘cloak and dagger’ intelligence agency outfit.
Swann described them as “two blond haired, blue eyed, military looking assistants.”
The four of them flew to the west coast where Swann believed it to be the Alaskan wilderness, although he wasn’t certain and was told that it’s best he did not know.
They were flying in a learjet and found an area deep in the forest which seemed to be for their own use. They trekked a very long time.
“They came to a small lake, and Axelrod said that as dawn approached, Swann would be able to see “it” through the pines. ‘We now wait and hope we are lucky. Say nothing, do not make any noise…they detect heat, noise, motion like mad.”
“Dawn arrived, and Swann saw a fog developing over the lake. This went on for five minutes, until the fog developed a luminous neon-blue color. Then, according to Swann, the color changed to an “angry purple” Axelrod and one of the twins each placed a hand firmly on Swann’s shoulders while “a network of purple, red, and yellow lightning bolts shot in all crazy directions through the ‘cloud.’ Swann said he would have jumped if the two had not held him down. He saw an object, almost transparent at first, but then “solidly visible over the lake.” It was triangular or diamond-shaped, growing in size.”
“Swann, in terror and amazement, heard a strong wind moving past, rustling the pine trees so much that some cones and branches fell on them. The object then began to shoot out ‘ruby red laster-like beams’ as it continued to grow even more in size while maintaining its position on the lake. Very quietly, one of the twins said, ‘Shit! They’re enveloping the area. They’re going to spot us.”
“As Swann later recalled the event, some of the red laser beams from the object were ‘blasting’ pine trees, and he could hear low frequency pulsations. Axelrod whispered to Swann that the beams were probably honing in on deer or other forest creatures, as they sense biological body heat. ‘They’re sure to hone in on us,’ he told Swann. Just then, one of the twins literally lifted and dragged Swann away, but not before Swann noticed the water of the lake surging upward, ‘like a waterfall going upward, as if being sucked into the ‘machine.'”
“The four ran quickly and at great length, sustaining minor cuts and bruises. Eventually they stopped, breathing hard, and waited for more than thirty minutes, until one of the twins said all was clear.”
“Axelrod then asked Swann whether he could ‘sense’ anything form the craft.”
At this point it’s quite obvious why Swann was taken from his position and role at Stanford Research Institute and into this situation. It seemed that these ‘government’ agents believed Swann could provide some detail about what was happening here and help the government with their research and interest in UFOs.
“Swann burst out laughing. ‘You’re completely nuts, Axel! I have to be calm, cool, collected and in good shape to sense anything.’ But Swann offered the insight that the craft was ‘a drone of some kind, unmanned, controlled from somewhere else.” Axelrod asked him what it was doing there, to which Swann replied ‘Well, for chrissakes! It was thirsty! Taking on water, obviously. Someone, somewhere needs water…so I suppose they just come and get it. You don’t need to be a psychic to see that.’ Essentially, said Swann, ‘they’ treated Earth as the neighbourhood supermarket.’
“Before taking Swann back, Axelrod said, ‘I shouldn’t tell you, but our mission will be disbanded shortly and the work picked up by others, because of strategic security reasons involved…’ ‘Others,’ said Swann, ‘who will not mix in with psychics, I take it.’ ‘You got it,’ Axelrod replied. Swann last saw Axelrod at the San Jose Airport, and never heard from him again.”
Below is a video of Ingo Speaking about a few of his experiences within the program, and what it was like. He was a very bright man with tremendous amounts of insight.
It’s not the easiest thing to understand, but I thought it was important to share a video of him with you after writing this article, it’s full of a number of interesting revelations.
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CIA-contractant: Aliens ‘gebruiken de aarde als supermarkt’
CIA-contractant: Aliens ‘gebruiken de aarde als supermarkt’
Een voormalig CIA-contractant heeft gezegd dat aliens de aarde gebruiken ‘als een supermarkt’, schrijftThe Sun.
Ingo Swann (1933-2013), een onderzoeker die meewerkte aan een topgeheim programma van de overheid, moest naar eigen zeggen proberen de gedachten te lezen van aliens die UFO’s bestuurden.
Hij was betrokken bij het Stargate Project, een geheime legereenheid die in 1978 door de Amerikaanse militaire inlichtingendienst DIA werd opgericht in Fort Meade in Maryland.
Remote viewing
Stargate Project was gericht op remote viewing (verzien), het vermogen om gebeurtenissen, plaatsen en informatie vanaf een afstand te ‘zien’.
Het project werd geleid door luitenant Frederick Holmes Atwater en generaal-majoor Albert Stubblebine. De eenheid bestond uit ongeveer 15 tot 20 personen.
In 1995 gaf de CIA geheime rapporten over het Stargate Project vrij.
Blauwe mist
UFO-onderzoeker Richard Dolan claimde dat Swann een buitenaards ruimteschip had gezien boven een meer in de wildernis van Alaska.
Swann zei dat hij samen met een collega toekeek hoe zich een soort blauwe mist vormde boven het meer waarna een aantal paarse, rode en gele bliksemschichten alle kanten op schoten.
Vervolgens verscheen het object boven het meer. Het had de vorm van een driehoek of ruit en werd steeds groter.
Water
Dolan schreef: “Volgens Swann was het vaartuig een soort onbemande drone die vanaf een andere plek werd bestuurd.”
Hij moest vervolgens zien te achterhalen wat het vaartuig kwam doen en kwam er naar eigen zeggen achter dat het water nodig had.
‘Ze’ zien de aarde als een soort buurtsuper, aldus Swann.
De allereerste wetenschappelijke studie over de EmDrive is verschenen. “Een mijlpaal om dit werk serieus te nemen,” schrijftForbes.
De brandstofloze motor, die de wetten van de fysica lijkt te tarten, zou astronauten in minder dan 70 dagen kunnen afzetten op Mars.
Toen de Britse uitvinder Roger Shawyer eind jaren negentig met de EmDrive kwam, werd hij geconfronteerd met zeer veel wetenschappelijke scepsis.
Vacuüm
Het leek sciencefiction, een ruimteschip met een motor die geen brandstof verbruikt, maar die stuwkracht opwekt in een vacuüm.
Het Eagleworks Laboratory van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft de EmDrive uitgebreid getest en is tot de conclusie gekomen dat het apparaat een voortstuwing van 1,2 millinewton per kilowatt opwekt.
De motor stelt wetenschappers al geruime tijd voor een raadsel en zij keken dan ook reikhalzend uit naar de publicatie.
Volgende experiment
Zonder brandstof kunnen ruimtevaartuigen een stuk lichter worden, kunnen ze gewoon blijven vliegen en kunnen ze extreem hoge snelheden bereiken.
Een ruimteschip kan met een EmDrive in enkele maanden tijd de rand van ons zonnestelsel bereiken.
De onderzoekers zijn van plan het volgende experiment in de ruimte te doen om te kijken hoe de EmDrive daar presteert.
NASA ontdekt mysterieuze supersnelweg van elektronen boven de aarde
NASA ontdekt mysterieuze supersnelweg van elektronen boven de aarde
Sommige elektronen worden boven het aardoppervlak tot bijna de lichtsnelheid versneld en NASA weet niet waarom dat gebeurt.
Uit een nieuwe studie blijkt dat de piepkleine elektrisch geladen deeltjes worden versneld in delen van de ruimte waar ze niet werden verwacht.
Het gebied waarin deze snelle elektronen werden gevonden, de zogeheten voorschok, is het deel van het zonnestelsel waar geladen deeltjes van de zon worden gereflecteerd door het aardmagnetisch veld.
Tot nu toe dachten wetenschappers niet dat deeltjes in dat gebied konden worden versneld tot bijna de lichtsnelheid.
Raadselachtig
“Dit is raadselachtig omdat we energetische elektronen zien op plekken waar we ze helemaal niet verwachten. Er is geen model dat hierbij past,” zei David Sibeck, coauteur van de studie die is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Physical Review Letters.
“Er zit een gat in onze kennis, er mist iets,” zei hij.
Tijdens de studie zijn gegevens geanalyseerd van de THEMIS-missie. Die bestaat uit vijf identieke satellieten die het poollicht en de stralingsomgeving rond de aarde bestuderen.
Geladen deeltjes van de zon kunnen schadelijk zijn voor satellieten en zelfs mensen die in de ruimte leven.
Supersnelweg
Deze deeltjes komen na de voorschok terecht in de ‘boegschok’, een zone die onze planeet beschermt tegen de zonnewind.
De boegschok heeft een magnetisch veld dat hoog-energetische deeltje afremt, aldus de NASA.
Sommige deeltjes worden teruggekaatst richting de zon en vormen de voorschok, waar de supersnelweg van elektronen is ontdekt.
Onverwacht
Het lijkt erop dat er een bepaalde elektromagnetische activiteit plaatsvindt in de voorschok die de deeltjes versnelt tot onverwacht hoge snelheden.
“Dit beïnvloedt vrijwel ieder onderzoeksgebied dat betrekking heeft op hoog-energetische deeltjes,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Lynn Wilson over de studie.
“Van kosmische straling tot zonnevlammen en coronale massa-ejecties, die satellieten kunnen beschadigen en expedities naar Mars kunnen beïnvloeden.”
LIGT ER EEN CONTINENT VOORBIJ ANTARCTICA ( VIDEO )
LIGT ER EEN CONTINENT VOORBIJ ANTARCTICA ( VIDEO )
Meer dan 100 jaar geleden verscheen er op 11 januari 1907 een artikel in de Hawaiian Gazette over een vreemde mysterieuze kaart die uit Japan afkomstig zou zijn.
Daarop zijn de bestaande continenten te zien, omringd door Antarctica met daarbuiten nog veel meer land.
Onze wereld zit vol met mysterieuze zaken en het volgende verhaal hoort thuis in die categorie. Het gaat om een artikel dat meer dan 100 jaar geleden verscheen in een krant.
Het artikel verscheen in de Hawaiian Gazette naar aanleiding van een verhaal van een arts op Hawaii, genaamd Dr. Kobayashi. De kaart die verscheen in de krant zou minstens 1.000 jaar oud zijn en afkomstig van de broer van Dr. Kobayashi.
De broer van Dr. Kobayashi leed aan tuberculose en dacht dat hij beter zou genezen in een omgeving met veel frisse lucht en bergen en vertrok daarom naar Japan waar hij tien jaar verbleef en volledig genas.
Maar, tijdens zijn verblijf daar vond hij daar in een tempel de vreemde landkaart. Deze zou gemaakt zijn in China en door een Boeddhistische monnik het land zijn uit gesmokkeld naar Japan, waar men de kaart vervolgens verborgen heeft gehouden voor de autoriteiten.
Een kaart waarop je in het midden de Noordpool ziet, de ons bekende continenten en waarbij Antarctica wordt uitgebeeld als een ons omringende cirkel, met daarbuiten nog talrijke landmassa’s. Gebieden die voor ons "gewone" mensen volkomen onbekend terrein zijn.
Dr. Kobayashi vertelde in 1907 dat na zijn reis naar en de informatie uit Japan gecombineerd met de ontdekking van de kaart, zijn broer aanhanger was geworden van de platte aarde theorie.
Niet duidelijk is welke andere informatie die broer heeft opgedaan, maar klaarblijkelijk wel zoveel dat hij er vanaf dat moment van overtuigd was dat de aarde plat was.
Hier zie je het artikel in de Hawaiian Gazette van 11 januari 1907. Voor een leesbare versie van het verhaal klik op de afbeelding.
Bijzonder is natuurlijk dat in die tijd de later beroemd geworden Admiraal Byrd een jongeman was van 19 en nog aan al zijn expedities naar de poolgebieden moest beginnen.
Vooral zijn tochten naar Antarctica zijn later legendarisch geworden en dat heeft alles te maken met interviews die hij na afloop gaf. In de onderstaande video spreekt Byrd over een geheime landmassa voorbij de Zuidpool dat deze net zo groot zou zijn als Amerika.
Daarnaast blijft het een vreemd en opmerkelijk feit dat het gebied op Antarctica verboden gebied blijft.
Dit alles wil natuurlijk niet zeggen dat dan ook automatisch de aarde plat moet zijn, maar het stemt wel tot nadenken. Waarom maakte men 1.000 jaar geleden die kaart en hield die geheim en waarom spreekt Admiraal Byrd van een land zo groot als Amerika voorbij de Zuidpool?
Here is a crashed UFO in the shape of heart, and its got a control bridge on its top center domed area. You can see a long black window going across it, which is proof its the bridge of the ship. The long and turned landing tracks left behind from the craft show that the ship crash landed as gently as it could. This means the ship still flies, but would need a lot of repair to make it safe, something the US, Russia and China would all love to get their hands on. The craft is about 190 meters across since the photo does have a size chart on it. This was brought to my attention by UFOvni2012 of Youtube. Awesome channel with all real discoveries. Scott C. Waring
Glowing Alien Orb Appears And Disappears In Just 3 Seconds On NASA Space Cam, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News
Glowing Alien Orb Appears And Disappears In Just 3 Seconds On NASA Space Cam, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Nov 16, 2016
Location of sighting: Near Sun
This is just crazy. This this planet is gigantic like our sun, but if you watch it carefully, its rotation is incredibly fast, unlike our sun. Which means this is not our sun or a reflection of it. This is another object.
Brought to my attention by Streetcap1 of Youtube, this is crazy cool, and yet bewildering at the same time.
There is no doubt in my mind that this is very close to the satellite taking the videos, so this is probably just 100 meters across about. It is either a energy ship...not solid at all, or an alien entity orb. Remember the alien entity over Dome of Rock? It was about 15-20 meters across and pure white light. Thats what we see here, but ITS LOOKING RIGHT AT THE SATELLITE!!! Notice the giant face yet? Two eyes, a nose, mouth, chin? Yeah...its a live and its eternal because its in energy form. I call this an alien...others might call it an angel, demon or god. It doesn't matter. Its alive! In the video, the face slowly rotates as if its turning to look at the NASA satellite.
Scott C. Waring
Streetcap1 states:
I have never seen a Planet appear and disappear before. For NASA to pretend it's the Sun is just nuts. The Sun's CME's are still visible at the left of the picture even when this object appears. Also the ufo fleet is on one frame just prior to all this happening. Streetcap1.
UFO Over Liverpool, UK Causes Excitement That Aliens Are Visiting The Area, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Liverpool, UK Causes Excitement That Aliens Are Visiting The Area, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 2016 Location of sighting: Liverpool, UK News source: goo.gl/AaeWrN
These two dark UFOs are moving back and forth from each other and as they do, a jet is seen in the sky above them, possible investigating the UFOs if they were seen on radar. These look more like alien drones that explore, record and take samples. Scott C. Waring Daily Mail UK News states: A pair of UFOs were spotted in UK skies over the weekend with no explanation as to what they were. The two blue shapes were seen flying ‘in tandem’ on Saturday afternoon in Halewood, near Liverpool. After hovering in the air for around 30 seconds, the objects suddenly blur and vanish from the screen, with the camera moving around to try to spot them, only to focus on a plane. (More at source)
Location:over Envigado near Medellin,Colombia Date:November 6-2016 at 7:45 pm Submitted by
Witness report:
8 pulsing yelow V lights with a red at the center, no sound, moving very slow to the north. Two green lights at the end only detected in the PC after the sigtsing.
Watch Mysterious Aerial Things Caught On Camera Above Halewood
Watch Mysterious Aerial Things Caught On Camera Above Halewood
Mysterious objects flew parallel to one another before disappearing without apparent reason. They were observed hovering in the sky above Halewood on Saturday afternoon. The witness used a digital camera to record his UFO sighting on video.
The footage shows apparent UFOs moving parallel to one another before racing off and gone.
Witnesses of the strange phenomena were left baffled as no official explanation yet to it.
The unusual aerial objects were observed over Halewood at around 4 pm on Saturday afternoon.
Enchanted LifePath Tv Alternative News & Media staff, Carl Nichols, 33, was looking out of the window when he saw an object. At first, he believed it was just a balloon, but he saw another one next to it. It appeared to him that the two flew in tandem.
M. Nichols, a student journalist, needed to jump out of the window to get the video of the UFO sighting.
Investigators who analyzed the footage could not determine both objects’ identity. They were certain, however, that the pair were not drones, which raised speculation online that they might be alien UFOs.
Some YouTube viewers agreed that they were not drones but two UFOs. Others said that it was a nice catch whatever they were in the videos.
UFOs seen and filmed over British Columbia, Canada 19-Nov-2016
UFOs seen and filmed over British Columbia, Canada 19-Nov-2016
Here’s one new interesting video of a bright unidentified flying objects hovering in the sky above Fort St John, BC, Canada. This was filmed on 19th November 2016.
Witness report:
Was putting to dig out back when I seen a guy in his truck stopped on the street and had his phone out videoing towards the sky, I looked up and there were 2 bright lights moving slowly in the sky. I quickly went in the house and grabbed my phone and started videoing these lights moving in the sky. At first there were just 2 and then another appeared and about a min later another appeared. They were very bright orange and red lights almost seemed to shimmer, I videoed them for 3 min then my phone wouldn’t focus anymore, on anything I tried to get it to focus on the house across the street and it wouldn’t even do that . Not sure what happened there. Then watched these objects move until they eventually went above the clouds
Two triangular UFOs over Levittown, Pennsylvania 4-Nov-2016
Two triangular UFOs over Levittown, Pennsylvania 4-Nov-2016
Here’s one interesting footage of a two triangular-shaped crafts hovering in the sky above Levittown in Pennsylvania. This happened on 4th November 2016.
Witness report:
I was walking down the road with a couple of my friends in thornridge. I happened to look just over the trees to see two objects sitting in the air. At first i was unsure of what i was looking at and then it hit me this object may be a ufo. As soon as i grabbed my phone to take a video i got chills and the object started to move as if it knew i was looking at it. I took a 50 second long video of the craft before it disappeared behind the trees. A few minutes later i saw two more of the objects but did not get another video.
UFO Launches Two Triangles In The Sky Over Wisconsin
UFO Launches Two Triangles In The Sky Over Wisconsin
Two triangular-shaped craft was spotted in Hudson, Wisconsin hovering with lights on each corner and exhibiting rapid movement. The witness filed a report to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which filed it as case 80030 in the witness reporting database.
The witness first saw a UFO from a distance while outside smoking a cigarette. He saw the craft in the southern sky near Houston launching two small, triangular objects.
The witness noticed a light on each corner of the two UFOs. He saw the two moved very rapidly from south to east, hovered and moved back and forth rapidly in the eastern and southern sky. The strange aerial activity reportedly lasted more than one-and-a-half hour to two hours.
According to the witness’ estimate, both of the craft were over 2,000 feet up and looked to be around 50-100 feet across.
The witness claimed to have made an attempt to get a closer look with binoculars, but they just moved too fast. According to his report, he is a trained Navy look-out but could not just track the UFOs because of their speed. The witness noted that cloud cover limited constant observation, but he clearly saw the unusual objects went in and out of clouds, hovered, and glided rapidly back and forth.
The witness only saw one light as they moved, but observed a light on each corner when they hovered. He is hesitant to share what he just saw because of fear of being ridiculed. However, he was very confident that he knew what he had seen and felt excitement about it. The witness heard no emission or sound during the entire sighting.
Several UFOs Flying Through The Sky Above Barcelona
Several UFOs Flying Through The Sky Above Barcelona
A man claimed to have seen hundreds of UFOs and caught some of them on video moving in a blue sky. Celebrating his 40th birthday, British holidaymaker Paul Zinger said he managed to get a video of the UFOs over Barcelona.
He reportedly saw the white orbs flying above the BBVA building nearby.
Originally from Clitheroe, Lancashire, the painter and decorator estimated he saw at least 100 objects moving in different directions.
While the footage he recorded doesn’t reveal the numbers of the orbs, he said that there were at least 100 of them if not more in the sky.
He was amazed to see those flying things in a holiday that was a surprise from his girlfriend for his 40th birthday.
According to the boyfriend, they both experienced food poisoning and the only time they spent outside was a few of hours on La Rambla.
Paul said that the experience of seeing UFOs changed the way he viewed the world.
UFO expert Gary Heseltine, who was also a detective, described the objects as anomalous, which means no concrete conclusion was reached.
The editor of UFO Truth Magazine ruled out lanterns as a possible explanation of the orbs in the video as he saw no orange glow. He also did not think they were balloons.
Heseltine saw 7 to 8 white objects in the clip. In another aspect of the footage, he noticed a very fast flashing to the left edge of the building at 38-39 seconds. When he went frame by frame, he observed a brilliant white object moving through the shot. He further speculated that this bright white object might be rotating as the sequence went black, white, black, white.
Een wiskundige van de universiteit van Barcelona heeft berekend dat het wel eens vroeger met de mensheid gedaan zou kunnen zijn dan gehoopt. Volgens dokter Fergus Simpson van het Institute of Cosmos Sciences is er een kans van 1 op 500 dat de mens het komende jaar uitsterft en een kans van 13 procent dat dit voor het einde van de eeuw gebeurt.
De berekening is gebaseerd op het zogenaamde Doomsday Argument, dat het toekomstige aantal mensen kan voorspellen op basis van het aantal dat tot nu toe werd geboren. Volgens Simpson is er elk jaar van de 21ste eeuw een kans van ruim 0,2 procent dat er een wereldwijde catastrofe gebeurt. Hij schreef zijn bevindingen in een paper 'Apocalypse Now? Reviving the Doomsday Argument'.
"In een tijd dat op zijn minst acht soevereine staten nucleaire wapens ter beschikking hebben, mogen we onze kop niet in het zand steken", aldus Simpson. "Misschien zullen we het onvermijdelijke niet kunnen afwenden, maar misschien kunnen we het wel uitstellen."
Klimaatopwarming Ook de klimaatopwarming kan een rol spelen. Nieuw onderzoek in het tijdschrift Science Advances waarschuwde er al voor dat als de mens fossiele brandstoffen blijft gebruiken, de temperatuur op aarde in één levensspanne tot zeven graden kan stijgen, met rampzalige gevolgen voor de mensheid.
Volgens een rapport van Living Planet zou tussen 1970 en 2020 de populatie aan gewervelde dieren overigens al ingekrompen zijn tot een derde van de soorten. Dat zou gelijk staan aan een graad van uitsterven die honderd keer sneller gaat dan normaal.
Positief En dat zijn nog positieve inschattingen. Volgens een boek dat de Britse astronoom Sir Martin Rees schreef in 2003 is er een kans van 50 procent dat de mensheid 2100 niet haalt.
Wat als wetenschappers ontdekten dat een gigantische asteroïde in 2020 met onze aarde zou botsen? Wat zouden wij kunnen doen? Niet al te veel, zo bleek uit een test van NASA en FEMA vorige maand. Zij gingen uit van een hypothetisch rampscenario waarbij een meteoriet zou inslaan op Los Angeles en zochten uit hoe snel we een uitgestrekt gebied als Californië kunnen evacueren. De belangrijkste conclusie die de wetenschappers trokken: we moeten écht uitzoeken hoe we een inslag kunnen vermijden.
In het hypothetische scenario die wetenschappers van NASA en FEMA voor ogen hielden, zou een reusachtige meteoriet op ramkoers liggen met de aarde. De ongeveer 100 meter brede rotsblok zou te snel op de aarde afstevenen, zodat we hem onmogelijk nog kunnen doen afwijken. In dat scenario zit er niets anders op dan miljoenen Californiërs te evacueren. Een humanitaire ramp zou zich voltrekken.
Gelukkig ging om een hypothese die de wetenschappers gebruikten om te testen hoe een dergelijke evacuatie zou moeten verlopen. Hopelijk een volledig nutteloze test, maar je weet nooit. NASA heeft namelijk 15.000 gevaarlijke objecten nabij de aarde gevonden die de mensheid mogelijk zouden kunnen bedreigen. Het is dus geen slecht idee om na te gaan hoe we een dergelijk gevaar zouden kunnen afwenden, mocht die op de aarde afsteven.
"In tegenstelling tot andere natuurrampen, kunnen we een meteorietinslag vroeg voorspellen en dus mogelijk vermijden."
Van koers doen afwijken
Geen reden tot paniek Het ziet er niet naar uit dat ook maar één van de 15.000 mogelijke gevaren de volgende 100 jaar met onze planeet zal botsen. Daarnaast is nog niemand ooit gestorven door een meteorietinslag. De kans dat iemand er door sterft, is dus miniem. De kans dat een meteoor de aarde vernietigt, is nog kleiner.
De aarde kreeg in zijn 4,6 miljard jarige geschiedenis slechts één keer te maken met een grote inslag en zelfs die betekende niet het einde van onze planeet. De aarde kan dus wel tegen een stootje.
De onderzoekers van NASA wachten niet tot een meteoriet tóch op de aarde inslaat. In samenwerking met ESA zochten meer dan 100 wetenschappers naar manieren om een asteroïde die onderweg is naar de aarde van zijn koers te doen afwijken.
"In tegenstelling tot andere natuurrampen, kunnen we een meteorietinslag vroeg voorspellen en dus mogelijk vermijden." Dat staat te lezen in het verslag van het onderzoek. Met AIDA (Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment) kunnen wetenschappers nagaan hoe groot het gevaar voor onze aarde is en welke maatregelen nodig zijn.
Samen met ESA zal NASA in 2020 een ruimtetuig lanceren om het vervolgens van koers te doen afwijken. Op die manier kunnen we nagaan of een dergelijke techniek succesvol zou zijn mocht er ooit een asteroïde naar de aarde onderweg zijn. Het project zal zo'n 250 miljoen dollar (236 miljoen euro) kosten, dat is erg weinig naar NASA-normen.
Of we het onderzoek ooit zullen nodig hebben, valt nog af te wachten. Maar NASA neemt alvast het zekere voor het onzekere.
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Video – 1,500 light years away from Earth, there could be an Extraterrestrials Megastructure
Video – 1,500 light years away from Earth, there could be an Extraterrestrials Megastructure
Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of Earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is.
As astronomer Tabetha Boyajian investigated this perplexing celestial object, a colleague suggested something unusual: Could it be an alien-built megastructure? Such an extraordinary idea would require extraordinary evidence. In this talk, Boyajian gives us a look at how scientists search for and test hypotheses when faced with the unknown.
Voor het eerst is er een peer-reviewed wetenschappelijk artikel over een prototype van de zogenaamde EmDrive gepubliceerd. "Een mijlpaal om dit werk serieus te nemen", beweert Forbes. Als die fysisch onmogelijk geachte motor toch écht zou kunnen bestaan, dan zouden astronauten na een reis van amper 70 dagen op Mars kunnen staan, in anderhalf jaar op Pluto en in amper vier uur op de maan.
Sinds de Britse uitvinder Roger Shawyer eind vorige eeuw voor het eerst met de Electromagnetic Propulsion Drive - kortweg EmDrive - afkwam, botste hij op enorme wetenschappelijke scepsis. De controversiële voortstuwingsmotor druist dan ook in tegen de derde wet van Newton, die zegt dat actie gelijk is aan reactie. Met andere woorden: om vooruit te komen moet een voorwerp een tegenkracht kennen. Voor een motor komt die kracht van buitenaf uit de energie opgewekt door brandstof. Welnu, de EmDrive doet het helemaal zonder en dat kan dus volgens de fysica niet.
Sciencefiction
Het leek van in den beginne dan ook sciencefiction: een ruimtevaartuig met een motor die geen mee te voeren brandstof gebruikt maar die gewoon haalt uit het vacuüm van de ruimte zelf. Maar het Eagleworks Laboratory - een experimenteel labo van de NASA - heeft de EmDrive getest en die blijkt een voortstuwing van 1,2 millinewton per kilowatt te kunnen opwekken in een vacuüm. Dat is ongeveer evenveel als de gemeten stuwkracht in een niet-luchtledige ruimte.
De voortstuwing wordt veroorzaakt door microgolven die, opgesloten in een kegelvormige kamer, tegen de reflecterende wanden in het rond botsen. Aan het bredere uiteinde van de kegel bereiken de microgolven hun topsnelheid, waardoor er een enorme druk ontstaat die voor voortstuwing zorgt.
Het fenomeen plaatst wetenschappers al jaren voor een raadsel en het was lang wachten op het peer-reviewed artikel dat nu pas gepubliceerd werd in het Journal of Propulsion and Power van het Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Peer-review betekent dat 'gelijken' - peers, in het Engels, of onafhankelijke collega's met een degelijke wetenschappelijke kennis over de specialisatie - de gebruike testmethodes en -metingen met een erg kritische blik bekeken hebben en dat ze daarin geen fouten hebben aangetroffen en ze dus aanvaardbaar vonden. Dat wil niet noodzakelijk zeggen dat ook de conclusie van de auteurs klopt, en dat een voortstuwingsmotor zonder tegenreactie echt bestaat. Ook de peers kunnen immers iets over het hoofd gezien hebben. Het betekent wél dat wetenschappers op iets gebotst zijn dat ze voorlopig nog niet kunnen verklaren. De externe kracht is er bijvoorbeeld misschien wel, ook al kan ze (nog) niet benoemd worden.
Ultieme test: de ruimte in
Een van de belangrijkste kritieken was dat de motor opwarmt als hij in werking wordt gesteld, dat zo ook de lucht rondom warm wordt en dat de bewuste kleine voortstuwing daardoor zou ontstaan. De test die het artikel bespreekt, maakt daar nu komaf mee omdat die werd gehouden in een bijna-vacuüm.
Maar stel nu even dat het zomaar kán, voortstuwing zónder brandstof. Dan zouden niet alleen het klimaat maar ook de ruimtevaart daar wel bij kunnen varen. Ruimtevaartuigen zouden geen liters en liters brandstof meer moeten meezeulen, wat ze een essentieel pak lichter zou maken. Ze zouden gewoon kunnen blíjven vliegen, bovendien ook nog eens aan extreem hoge snelheden. Op enkele maanden tijd zouden ruimteschepen zo de uitersten van ons zonnestelsel kunnen bereiken. De elektriciteit, die ook de EmDrive nodig heeft voor zijn werking, kan gegenereerd worden door zonnepanelen.
Het gepubliceerde artikel - na intussen alweer maanden van verhitte debatten door het vroegtijdig uitlekken van de mogelijke peer-review - maakt het voor alle experten ter zake nu alvast mogelijk om de studie minutieus onder de figuurlijke microscoop te leggen. Feit is dat experimenten die fundamentele fysische wetten lijken te schenden in het verleden op het einde bijna altijd fout bleken te zijn.
Zoals wel vaker ligt 'the proof of the pudding in the eating'. Of, zoals de Australische deskundige, dr. Patrick Neumann, het zegt: "Uiteindelijk zal de grote test erin bestaan om de motor de ruimte in te sturen". De onderzoekers zouden inderdaad van plan zijn hun volgende experiment in de ruimte te doen. Spannend afwachten wat dat wordt.
In the new film "Arrival," based on Ted Chiang's novella "Story of Your Life," alien visitors appear all around Earth and humankind scrambles to understand their purpose in visiting.
The movie's creators initially approached the computation company Wolfram Research — creator of the math programming language Mathematica, the online problem-solver Wolfram Alpha and more — to produce some charts for use in the movie. Instead, they wound up with a consultant: company founder and CEO Stephen Wolfram, whose ideas about interstellar travel, alien communication and the progress of science informed the entire movie (even if not much made it onscreen). His son, Christopher, generated visualizations for them to use.
Wolfram explained many of the ideas he came up with, and his experience creating "scientific set dressing," on his blog. As he told Space.com, "Who's to know? Maybe something that I invented for science fiction will turn into some real physics." [8 Modern Astronomy Mysteries Scientists Still Can't Explain]
Space.com talked with Wolfram about the way science fits into movies, how aliens are like artificial intelligences and whether math is invented or discovered — and what that would mean for alien mathematics and alien thought.
Space.com: How were you approached to work on the project?
Stephen Wolfram: Because a lot of scientists use our software systems and we produce a lot of interesting graphics, we have a pretty regular stream of requests from moviemakers of various kinds saying, "Can we show this graphic in our movie." This one was kind of amusing, because it was like — we're about to start shooting this fairly big-budget movie, and we need these screens that should look realistic and can you help us do this? We're starting to shoot in two weeks.
The only way one can do that is to say "show us the script," because otherwise you don't know what on Earth you're trying to dress [the set] for. I don't think the people who approached us for the movie were particularly expecting that I was going to look at them. It's just that in a company like ours, if the request is sufficiently bizarre it eventually winds up at me.
Space.com: What parts of the science were already there before you joined on?
Wolfram: There are three levels that one could take the science at. One is the "what the aliens are really doing" type thing, which is future science we don't know yet, at the other end there's the high-school level physics, and in the middle is the leading edge of what physics might have to say about it if a great big black spaceship showed up in your backyard today. I was trying to channel the last of those things, what the high end of physics today would say about these, and they had ended up quite a lot with what the high school physics version would be, which didn't seem like such a good fit.
They hadn't really thought about it. Movies are made or broken by the personal stories, and the science is mostly just dressing. It's fun for science-types to see the science as right or wrong. There's some movies where the science is close enough to what we have that what you can do in the movie really makes a statement about where science can go today. This movie, the science is far enough away from what we have today that it doesn't point us in any particular direction. I had fun figuring out a few things I hadn't figured out about interstellar space travel, and so on, but this movie is much more about alien communication, which happens to be a topic that I've thought a lot about, than it is about some space travel.
Space.com: What are your thoughts on the challenge of communication?
Wolfram: I think that the basic notion of "what do we mean by intelligence" is — it's very hard to have an abstract definition of intelligence that goes beyond just saying it does sophisticated computation. There's an awful lot of stuff that does sophisticated computation, my favorite example being the weather — which many people would say has a mind of its own, so to speak.
In modern times, there's a lovely parallel between extraterrestrial communication and AI [Artificial Intelligence] communication. They're both cases where we're dealing with an intelligence that doesn't have the same historical lineage that ours does.
You've got a neural net and it's learned to recognize 10,000 kinds of things in the world. Cats and dogs and telephones and chairs and who knows what else. And you look inside the neural nets and it's made all kinds of distinctions about how to describe the world [which] we can think of like descriptive words for aspects of those objects. But they're not words that exist in our historically derived language.
In the "Arrival" movie, the fact that the question of greatest interest is "what is your purpose here" — that has a fascinating resonance with probably what is in many ways what is one of the most important questions for AI, which is, you built an AI, what is it supposed to do, what is its purpose supposed to be. … Among the purposes we don't want is "take over the world and get rid of the humans" type thing. But there's a question of how do you get to the point where you can represent purpose in this kind of way that we humans think about purpose. [SETI: All About the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Infographic)]
An image analysis of the aliens' writing in "Arrival," as generated by Wolfram Research
Space.com: Did you come to any conclusion about the best way to do that?
Wolfram: One thing I thought about for the "Arrival" movie was what do you use to communicate? Do you use math-like stuff or do you use more computation/programming language type stuff? I think the computation/programming language type stuff is actually better than the math-type stuff, but people don't know the words for that so it's not very useful for dialogue in the movie.
[An interesting question] about math and aliens is how much of math is invented by humans as a specific historical accident and how much of it is really just out there and merely discovered by humans. And that's an important question if you're thinking about "Did the aliens make the same math we made?" I think that an awful lot of math is very much in the invented by humans [category].
Space.com: What makes you think that?
Wolfram: The first fact familiar to all kids is that math is kind of hard. It could be the case that once you set up the axioms of math, every question that could be asked would then be easy to answer. That is true for certain kinds of axiomatic systems; it doesn't happen to be true for mathematics. In other words, the fact that there are hard questions in mathematics is the first interesting metafact about mathematics. And as we know from Gödel's [Incompleteness] Theorem, there are in a sense infinitely hard questions in mathematics.
So one of the questions is, how come math is doable but hard, as opposed to being essentially infinitely hard and just full of undecidable questions. I think the answer to that is because human mathematicians have carefully walked along those little pieces of land in this ocean of undecidable, infinitely hard math. Did they walk along the unique such paths? Or did they walk along paths that were just the ones that happened to be historically explored? You could ask the same thing about biological evolution. Are the organisms that exist today the inexorable organisms that have to exist after 2.5 billion years on a planet with this chemistry? Or are they the organisms that are simply the result of a series of historical accidents. The question in both cases of how much historical accident, how much inexorable consequences of the situation.
My guess, for math — I've gradually changed my views, a little bit, about this. I'm softening a little bit in my point of view. I had believed that it was really, deeply historical accident, but I think some aspects, I'm becoming a little bit convinced might be slightly more inexorable than I had imagined.
A still from the 2016 sci-fi film "Arrival.” In the movie, 12 alien spaceships land on Earth in different locations around the globe.
Credit: Paramount Pictures
Space.com: So some aspects of mathematics might be common for aliens and humans, but a lot wouldn't overlap?
Wolfram: [Take] binary, base 2 numbers. The I Ching, from ancient China, kind of uses those — and there are places where they'd been kind of invented a long time ago, but really nobody cared until modern times, as computers and the whole wave of technology that makes good use of binary numbers. Would the aliens care about binary numbers? Well, if you'd gone back 500 years in human mathematical history and you'd been talking with [François] Vieta, the inventor of algebra, about binary numbers, he wouldn't have had a clue, probably. And yet, today, binary numbers look to be fundamental, simple, it's-obvious type aspects of mathematics. That's an example of a historical accident. … I think that the challenge in all these cases with alien intelligence of any kind is there's a big computational universe of possible things you can compute about out there, and the particular ones that one has sampled are very dependent on the detailed history of a civilization.
Space.com: Is there any concept you invented for this movie that you're thinking about exploring more?
Wolfram: [One] thing that I did think about for this movie is the following question: Is there an infinite frontier of technology? If we know the fundamental theory of physics, are we done, or is there always more to discover? What you realize is it's very similar to the problem of axioms in mathematics and how math is hard, and ideas like Gödel's Theorem — it's an almost theoretically necessary fact that there is an infinite frontier of technologies to discover. You can always build a more complicated program.
Another question is, is there more interesting stuff to discover? We can write down an infinite number of theorems in some area of mathematics, but we might say we've gotten all the interesting ones. All the other ones are ornate, uninteresting things. That's a really interesting question I don't really know the answer to.
The question of interestingness is very closely related to these questions about purpose and cultural context, because what counts as interesting [depends on] what are you trying to do. A good example of this, coming from the Pythagoreans: They were really into the fact that 1+2+3+4=10, something that we consider now to be just, who cares. But for them, that was a profound fact. And I think that's an example of, is it interesting, or is it just some trivial arithmetical fact? It depends a lot on context.
It's far from obvious that as an alien you are going to be at all into trying to find out as much as possible. That might not be the point.
Here's How Extraterrestrial Farming Will Work on Mars
Here's How Extraterrestrial Farming Will Work on Mars
By Ian O'Neill, Discovery News
Credit: FIT/20th Century Fox
Landing humans on Mars would be a momentous event in human history. To live beyond Earth's biosphere is a dream to many, but establishing a sustainable presence on the Red Planet will require mastering its environment. We would need to devise ways of producing food where none exists, because depending on supplies from Earth would neither be sustainable or practical.
In the 2015 blockbuster movie "The Martian," Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is famously depicted planting potatoes in a makeshift greenhouse after getting stranded on Mars during an epic storm that forced the rest of his crew to abandon their mission. Using vacuum-packed potatoes from the mission's base, Watney planted them using the planet's "soil," produced water from chemical reactions and fertilized his burgeoning potato crop with the crew's freeze-dried poop.
It seems like a pretty straightforward method of cultivating plants on Mars — but deceptively so.
"It's nowhere near that easy," Ralph Fritsche, senior project manager for food production at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, told Seeker.
NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s, and Elon Musk's SpaceX has proposed an aggressive Mars colonization effort based on the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS). But while SpaceX may have the expertise to transport people to Mars, there is no consideration as to how they might stay there and "live off the land" to produce food.
Considering that it would cost an estimated $1 billion per person per year just to send food from Earth to Mars, it quickly becomes clear that we need another plan for feeding future Mars explorers.
"Elon Musk has presented the world with a challenge," said Daniel Batcheldor, professor of physics and space sciences at the Florida Institute of Technologyand project lead for the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute. "Right now, we know that we cannot deliver the mass needed to the surface of Mars purely from stuff sent from Earth. We have to create a sustainable colony on Mars that is not dependent on resupplies from Earth."
Whether we're thinking about setting up our first Mars colony or supporting a small team of NASA astronauts, researchers are currently developing novel strategies for growing plants beyond Earth.
Fritsche and his NASA colleague Trent Smith have teamed up with scientists at the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute to investigate how we might really grow food on Mars. Though using astronauts' physical waste for fertilizer might play a role, everything from toxin removal to "designer bacteria" will be needed to create a Martian version of the soil that we take for granted here on Earth.
"There shouldn't be any organic matter in Mars regolith" — powdered rock on the planet's surface from eons of meteorite impacts — "and, in order to recycle the nutrients, you need to have decomposers to break down what's there to make it available, in the right form, for plants to use," said assistant professor Brooke Wheeler, of Florida Tech's College of Aeronautics. "That would be one potential strategy of making a colony more sustainable to recycle waste, whether that's human waste or leftover food for composting, or any other [organic] waste products to help build that into the design of the habitat."
Wheeler and her colleague Drew Palmer, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Florida Tech, are using a Mars regolith simulant in hopes of investigating how we might use native resources when we eventually land a human mission on Mars. The simulant, which is essentially powdered volcanic rock from Hawaii, contains none of the nutrients necessary for plants to grow, but it's the closest thing we have to approximating Martian regolith.
The lettuce that was only grown in Mars only simulant (without added nutrients) produced only small leaves in the lab.
Credit: FIT/Buzz Aldrin Space Institute
Though the regolith simulant is a good start, Wheeler and Palmer are realistic about its limitations. One of the biggest challenges is how future Mars astronauts will "remediate" the regolith of toxic chemicals that are known to be present on the planet. As confirmed by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, Martian regolith is packed with salts called perchlorates, which are used in industrial processes on Earth and are known to trigger serious thyroid problems. The removal of perchlorates from Mars regolith is essential to making the plentiful resource appropriate for agriculture on Mars.
"One of the things we're keenly interested in is when we start to introduce microbes, we'd like to use engineered microbes that could eliminate things like the toxic perchlorates that will be in a lot of the soil," said Palmer. "You can engineer bacteria now, already on Earth, to do that."
But it doesn't stop there. As Mars doesn't have the soil microbes that form the backbone of the vital cycles that drive Earth's biosphere, we will need to introduce the bacteria and strategic plant life to the Martian regolith to ensure the plants receive the necessary nutrients.
"We believe that, in the long term, by reincorporating the microbes and organisms that co-exist with plants [on Earth] will be able to create sustainable nitrogen and phosphorus cycles [on Mars]," said Palmer.
The raw material behind these cycles is fertilizer, so when planning Mars agriculture, we need to consider how that will be sourced. Will it be shipped from Earth? Or will it be produced on site to reduce cost and the dependence on Earth?
"That's just more structures you have to build to supplement this [system]," Palmer added.
The researchers suggest that before a human even sets foot on Mars, a robotic mission could land months in advance with the sole purpose of preparing the Martian regolith for agriculture. Farm bots could extract the regolith and perform perchlorate remediation tasks while introducing the necessary biology to set up the cycles necessary for plant life to thrive. The idea is to establish a viable Mars farm ahead of a human mission that's ready for the astronauts to take over as soon as they land. Not only will there be fresh food waiting for them in their habs, but such a farm could also be supplementing life support systems with oxygen while regulating toxins in the air.
Lettuce grown in Mars simulant with added nutrients produced healthy leaves.
Credit: FIT/Buzz Aldrin Space Institute
The challenges of producing food on Mars are rich and varied, but one of the biggest benefits of physically growing plants on Mars would be a psychological one. As the project lead for the International Space Station's "Veggie" experiment — which uses hydroponics to supply plants with the necessary water and nutrients in a microgravity environment Trent Smith realized that the astronauts on the orbiting outpost took great joy in growing plants on an otherwise sterile environment away from home.
"Because they're on the space station, in a really hostile environment, with all these wires and cables and metal and plastic... when they have these little growing plants that they care for, it's their little piece of home, their little piece of nature," Smith remarked. "When we go to Mars, this is going to become really important."
The Veggie demonstration system famously produced lettuce that was consumed by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly during his year-long mission aboard the space station with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, but it cannot sustain astronauts in orbit alone — they remain wholly dependent on Earth for food. Though hydroponics will likely have a role to play in supplementing the diets of Mars explorers, we will ultimately need to depend on the resources the Red Planet has on offer to create and maintain a sustainable presence.
"Initially, as we go for months at a time, we might just do hydroponic farming… hydroponics are incredibly efficient," Smith noted. "But if you're going for an extended amount of time, then it makes sense to switch over to a regolith-farming system. You'll have these two different ways to grow plants for food."
Whichever way you look at it, we will need to use our technological prowess to re-learn how to farm in an inhospitable environment.
"It will basically be like going back to an early agrarian society, when we were learning how to farm the earth," said Batcheldor. "But instead of using fertile soil, we've basically got to make the soil on Mars."
"Establishing a permanent colony on Mars is going to be the ultimate act of sustainability for humanity," he added.
Holes in the Sun! One's Real, the Other Not So Much (Video)
Holes in the Sun! One's Real, the Other Not So Much (Video)
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
There's a huge hole in the sun, but it has nothing to do with alien spaceships or any other conspiracy theory.
Last week, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft captured an image showing a white sphere covering a small part of the sun. The photo went viral over the weekend, with some media outlets breathlessly describing the feature as a UFO or a "mystery sphere."
But there's no mystery, scientists explained.
"Just combination of 2 @NASA STEREO images (1 of sun, 1 of space) caused by computer error. Happens sometimes," C. Alex Young, a heliophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said today (Nov. 21) via Twitter, where he posts information about the sun and space weather using the handle @TheSunToday.
There is an actual hole in the sun at the moment, but it doesn't look anything like the white dot in the image taken by STEREO-A (whose name is short for Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory). Rather, it's a gigantic, dark feature called a "coronal hole" — a relatively cool region where the sun's magnetic field lies open to interplanetary space, allowing the flow of charged particles known as the solar wind to stream forth.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured this image of the sun's huge, dark coronal hole on Nov. 21, 2016.
Credit: NASA/SDO
Solar wind particles that hit Earth can spark geomagnetic storms on this planet, which can temporarily disrupt power grids and satellite operations. These storms also sometimes supercharge the gorgeous auroral displays known as the northern and southern lights.
Indeed, dramatic Arctic auroras occurred late last month when this same coronal hole — which scientists have been tracking with NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft — was facing Earth. And a similar display could begin tomorrow night (Nov. 22), because the hole has rotated around toward this planet again.
"Since our last encounter with this hole, in late October, it has been transiting the far side of the sun, carried around by the sun's 27-day rotation," Spaceweather.com reported today. "Now that it is back, we can see that the hole is not quite as large as it was a month ago — but it is still impressive, covering more than one-fourth of the visible solar disk."
It would hard for the conspiracy theorists to argue that this hole is an alien spaceship — the sun is more than 860,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) wide, after all…
While working on his Ph.D., Alejandro Suárez Mascareño of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) discovered a planet that is believed to be 5.4 times more massive than the Earth. The planet — dubbed GJ 536-b — orbits a very bright, red dwarf star, much like our closest neighborProxima Centauri.
Located approximately 32.7 light-years from Earth, the planet unfortunately orbits outside of its host star’s habitable zone. So, while the planet is not a potentially habitable world, it could allow for some interesting research opportunities. For instance, it has a short orbital period — completing one rotation every 8.7 days — and is very close (astronomically speaking) to Earth, which means scientists may be able to get a glimpse at its atmosphere.
Using the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Seeker) spectrograph on the 3.6M Telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, and HARPS North, on the Telescopio Nacional Galileo (TNG) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, Garafia (La Palma), Mascareño discovered the exoplanet under the supervision of his thesis directors Rafael Rebolo and Jonay Isaí González Hernández (also of the IAC). Their findings have been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, with a pre-print available now.
The team used radial velocity measurements from the star combined with spectroscopic observations collected over an eight-year period, to detect the planet’s presence. Not only did they discover a new exoplanet, but they also learned a great deal about its host star, which has a 44-day rotational period, and a magnetic cycle similar to our Sun’s, but much shorter (just under three years).
“So far the only planet we have found is GJ 536-b, but we are continuing to monitor the star to see if we can find other companions,” Mascareño explained in a news release. “Rocky planets are usually found in groups, especially around red dwarf stars. We are pretty sure that we can find other low-mass planets (including other “Super Earths”, which range from 1-15 times the mass of the Earth) orbiting further from the star, with periods ranging from 100 days up to a few years.”
Mascareño says the team’s next steps will be to observe the star, looking for transits as potential planets pass in front of the star. Data collected from these events will help narrow down the newly found planet’s density and radius.
It’s important to note that while scientists can predict which planets might be habitable, it doesn’t mean that we are guaranteed to find actual life. Until more advanced telescopes — like the James Webb Space Telescope or WFIRST — we may never know which worlds feature the proper conditions to support life.
ESA-wetenschappers willen erg graag een satelliet laten botsen met een asteroïde
ESA-wetenschappers willen erg graag een satelliet laten botsen met een asteroïde
Op 1 en 2 december komen ministers van de 22 lidstaten van de European Space Agency samen om te praten over toekomstige ESA-missies en hoe die gefinancierd gaan worden. De bijeenkomst zal het Europese ruimtebeleid van de komende jaren gaan bepalen, maar gezien de huidige politieke en economische problemen in een groot deel van de lidstaten, zal deze waarschijnlijk"uitdagend"zijn.
Een van de belangrijkste onderwerpen bij de conferentie is de rol van ESA in de Asteroid Impact and Deflection-missie (AIDA).AIDA is een samenwerking tussen NASA en ESA waarvoor er twee ruimteschepen in 2020 gelanceerd moeten worden. De deelname van ESA is afhankelijk van het ophalen van pakweg €250 miljoen van de lidstaten – wat gezien de economische situatie verre van zeker is.
"Niets is zeker tot het akkoord is getekend," vertelt Patrick Michel, onderzoeker aan het Franse Nationale Instituut voor Wetenschappelijk onderzoeker. "Zelfs als ik optimistisch ben en de grote potentie van deze missie bekijk, weet ik dat sommige landen de missie graag zouden willen aannemen, maar deze niet kunnen betalen. Hun budgetten zijn zeer, zeer krap, dus we moeten de hele tijd druk blijven uitoefenen."
De onzekerheid rond de deelname van ESA was aanleiding genoeg voor Michel om een open brief te laten tekenen door 100 vooraanstaande wetenschappers. In de brief wordt uiteen gezet waarom het zo belangrijk is dat ESA de missie goedkeurt. De wetenschappers stellen dat AIDA ons niet alleen veel leert over het begin van ons zonnestelsel en hoe asteroïden gevormd worden, maar ook helpt om erachter te komen wat er nodig is om de Aarde te redden van een inkomende ruimterots.
In oktober 2022 passeert 65803 Didymos, een binaire asteroïde (een grote asteroïde met een kleine maan), de Aarde op pakweg 10 miljoen kilometer afstand – op kosmische schaal een haartje. De AIDA-missie bestaat uit twee ruimteschepen, waarvan er een door NASA en een door ESA wordt geproduceerd.
NASA stuurt een sonde die de Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) heet, die in 2022 bij de asteroïde aankomt en er meteen met een snelheid van 6 km/s (21000 km/u) tegenaan knalt. De botsing wordt geobserveerd door de Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM), de satelliet van ESA die in een baan rond de asteroïde draait.
De missie is ontworpen zodat NASA hoe dan ook het DART-gedeelte van de missie kan uitvoeren – ongeacht of ESA hun deel rond krijgen. Maar voor wetenschappers over de hele wereld is het niet lanceren van AIM een enorme gemiste kans voor planetaire wetenschap.
"Als ESA AIM niet kan doen, kan DART nog wel gaan," zei Michel. "Maar dat is de helft van de missie. Je mist de beginconditie en de uitkomsten in detail, maar je zou nog wel DART kunnen volbrengen om te testen hoe goed een projectiel op een heel klein doelwit gericht kan worden."
Laat Brian May, de gitarist van Queen, je uitleggen waarom AIM belangrijk is.
AIM zou de inslag van DART zeer goed monitoren om te onderzoeken hoe de botsing de structurele integriteit van de asteroïde aantast. Volgens ESA zou het de eerste keer zijn dat mensen "de dynamiek van een object in het zonnestelsel hebben beïnvloed." Dat is natuurlijk cool, maar het staat wetenschappers op Aarde ook toe om betere modellen te maken van hoe asteroïden reageren op een hoog-energetisch inslag – de enige realistische optie die we hebben om een inkomende asteroïde te keren.
Daarnaast draagt AIM ook drie kleinere ruimtesondes mee – een lander en twee cubesats– die de asteroïde in kaart brengen en geofysische data verzamelen voordat DART inslaat. AIM test ook optische communicatie in de ruimte, waaronder de mogelijkheid van inter-satellitaire communicatie die nodig is voor interplanetair internet.
ADIA geeft ook de mogelijkheid om de technologie van de onlangs afgelopen Rosetta-missie – waarbij een lander op een grote komeet werd gezet – verder te ontwikkelen. De AIDA-missie is nog uitdagender dan Rosetta, aangezien Didymos maar 800m in doorsnee is, ten opzicht van de 4 kilometer waar de Rosetta-lander Philae het mee moest doen.
"Naar de asteroïde gaan is een soort Indiana Jones-avontuur," zei Michel. "Je hebt namelijk ook het hele aspect van het redden van de Aarde. Maar ik denk ook dat het belangrijk is voor de nieuwe generaties in Europa om deze missie als inspiratie te hebben."
Objects of unknown origin buzzed a military facility on Cabañas Bay in 1967. The troops quartered at this installation were jolted out of bed shortly after midnight by a blast of machine gun fire from the sentry box manned by Isidro Puentes.
A squad was rushed to the area, but the sentinel was not at his post. Dozens of spent rounds were later found in the area, completely crushed as if they had impacted a very solid object upon impact. Even more ominous was the discovery of burn marks that suggested the landing of a large object with an estimated weight of ten tons. The missing guard was found later in the morning, completely unconscious. He was taken to a military hospital, where he remained in shock and unable to speak for nearly seven days. The hapless soldier was then transported to a neurology unit, where scans showed that he had no brain damage, but still remained unresponsive.
When he finally emerged from his trance-like state, the soldier told the medical staff and investigating officers that he had seen “strange lights” behind the trees, and upon investigation, was faced with a large object shaped like a “luminous sphere.” Believing that the object could be the spearhead of a U.S. invasion force, the soldier fired at it, and could remember little else.
One such initiative is Project Blue, which looks to directly image planets around the double suns of Alpha Centauri.
The project team hopes to raise at least $1 million through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter by December 21, 2016, to lay the technical groundwork for the project, representatives said in a statement.
According to Space.com, the initiative would launch a small space telescope designed specifically to look at Alpha Centauri, which, along with Proxima Centauri, is the nearest stellar neighbour to Earth's solar system.
Because of the star system's closeness, that small telescope would be able to take a "pale blue dot" image of any potentially Earthlike planets orbiting there — a photo of a small blue speck like the one the Voyager spacecraft 1 took of Earth from afar. A blue hue would indicate potential oceans or atmosphere surrounding the planet.
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The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute and the University of Massachusetts Lowell have already signed on to collaborate on the project.
The entire mission would cost between $10 million and $50 million, Jon Morse, mission executive for Project Blue told Space.com when the project was announced in October.
The project's first $1 million raised will go to "crucial analysis, design and simulations that form the foundation of the mission," the Kickstarter page reads.
If more money is raised, the researchers also have stretch goals: $2 million will allow them to test the coronagraph that lets the telescope spot planets around the bright glare of Alpha Centauri's stars, and $4 million will let them finish the telescope's design, start building components and incorporate interested students and universities into the building process.
The US Air Force veteran based in Ayden, North Carolina, filmed the fast UFO using a camera mounted on a drone.
The 59-year-old sent the footage to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for investigation.
In a report to MUFON, the world's biggest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research, he said the object sped around 1.2 miles just in one-third of a second, meaning, if correct, it travelled at around 13,000 mph per hour or 17 times the speed of sound.
Open Minds TV, which reports on interesting MUFON cases, said the mysterious object was filmed flying at just about 50 feet off the ground at an estimated speed of 10,000-13,000 mph.
MUFON said the witness had 20 years of USAF service and filmed the UFO at 2.12 pm on October 26.
The man said: "This UFO video was captured with my DJI Phantom 3 Professional 4K aerial camera.
He added: “I shoot in 4K/30fps and you can view this object in 10 frames as it flies towards and passes under my drone.
“During these 10 frames of viewing, this object travels three-quarter to one mile in one-third of a second – about 10,000 mph.”
He also thought it appeared to be a solid metallic object, which reflected or emitted its own light.
MUFON’s North Carolina investigator Sanford Davis wrote in a report: “It was observed as the witness was reviewing aerial drone footage.
“The whole sighting occurs within a third of a second – a streak arising in the background, streaking across the screen before disappearing in the foreground.
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1946 - ‘Ghost rockets’ over Scandinavia
1946 - ‘Ghost rockets’ over Scandinavia
During the Second World War, UFOs were seen all over the world, especially over the European .
In 1946 just one year after the Second World War ended another wave of UFO sightings was witnessed, this time in Europe over the Scandinavian countries where they were called Ghost Rockets.
The UFO sightings did not start in America with the 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold. A year earlier, waves and wave of UFOs were seen in the Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. But they were not referred to as Flying Saucers or UFOs because the terms came into existence only in 1947 and the latter in 1952 respectively, courtesy, the American Air Force.
During the Second World War, UFOs were seen all over the world, especially over the European and Far East theatre, where they were referred to by the allied pilots as Foo Fighters.
In 1946 just one year after the Second World War ended another wave of UFO sightings was witnessed, this time in Europe over the Scandinavian countries where they were called Ghost Rockets.
The Swedish government covered up the entire incident and started releasing information only 40 years later. One interesting incident happened on the night of June 9, 1946. A brilliant light streaked over Helsinki, Finland, with a smoke trail and the sound of thunder; its luminous trail persisted for ten minutes and the same incident repeated the next night, except in this case the Ghost Rocket turned and went back in the direction from which it had come which certainly ruled out the possibility of it being a natural phenomenon like meteor or asteroid.
The "classic" 1946 photo of a "ghost rocket" in Sweden
A ghost rocket or a meteor. Photographer Erik Reuterswärd suspected a meteor was depicted in his widely circulated photo. The Swedish Army, who released the picture, was less certain.
On June 12, the Swedish Defense Staff asked military personnel to report their sightings through official channels, admitting that they had been aware of the phenomenon since May. On July 9 alone, more than 200 Ghost Rocket sightings were reported, many of them being described as tubular or spindle shaped objects flying low and slowly, with little or no sound. Soon the Swedish government established a special "ghost rocket" committee to look into the matter. A week later American Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, travelled to Stockholm to meet with the Swedish Secretary of War.
On August 11, 1946 more than 300 reports of strange sightings were observed in just the Stockholm area alone. Soon the Swedish newspapers started censoring most reports of ghost rockets. However, reports continued to come in from other Scandinavian countries like Norway which provided some of the best reports.
In 1984, when the Swedish Government finally opened its "ghost rocket" files, UFO researchers found more than 1,500 reports had been secretly collected during this period.
Common characteristics of these Ghost Rockets as described by both military and civilian eye witnesses were great speed, intense light frequently associated with missile, lack of sound, and approximate horizontal flight and none of these fit with any flying objects of natural origin like meteors, asteroids or comets. The interesting part was the Swedish government tried to blame the UFO sightings on Soviet Union accusing the Soviets of testing the captured German V 2 rockets. A good diversionary tactic that many people believed, but years later it came out that the Soviets had immediately moved the captured German V2 rockets to Poland.
Forty years later Swedish Air Engineer Eric Malmberg who was the secretary of Sweden's Defense Staff committee that dealt with this matter during 1946 stated that everyone on the committee including the chairman knew that these Ghost Rockets did not originate from the Soviet Union. No evidence pointed towards that. On the other hand, based on the reports acquired it appeared that some kind of a cruise missile was fired on Sweden. But the problem was no nation had sophisticated cruise missile technology in 1946. By the end of 1946 as reports of Ghost Rockets from Scandinavia began to diminish but reports of similar sightings from Hungary, Greece, Morocco and Portugal started coming in, making this a truly global phenomenon.
Summary:In-depth interview with leading UFO researcher, Jacques Vallee.
PART 1
Jacques Vallee hesitated before agreeing to be interviewed about the subject for which he's most famous: UFOs. It's not that he's reluctant to discuss the topic, or tussle with the skeptics. After all, he's written close to a dozen books on UFOs, several of them best-sellers, analyzing a notoriously ethereal subject as a hard-headed physical scientist, folklorist, and sociologist. He believes there is more than enough solid evidence to make a compelling case for the existence of UFOs, and he doesn't shy away from an honest debate.
It's the hard-core believers who give Vallee pause. Anyone who has observed the semi-academic cockpit known as "UFOlogy" knows that close encounters of the UFO expert kind shed little light and much heat, dogma and territorial sniping. Vallee's views about UFOs are far more exotic and far stranger than what he calls the reigning "nuts and bolts" approach to the subject. Consequently, he's been attacked by believers so often that he jokingly refers to himself a "heretic among heretics." As Vallee puts it, "I will be disappointed if UFOs turn out to be nothing more than spaceships."
In his recent autobiographical book, Forbidden Science, Vallee summed up his views about the provenance of UFOs, a viewpoint that he's developed through decades of research: "The UFO Phenomenon exists. It has been with us throughout history. It is physical in nature and it remains unexplained in terms of contemporary science. It represents a level of consciousness that we have not yet recognized, and which is able to manipulate dimensions beyond time and space as we understand them." So much for anti-gravity-powered starships ferrying Big Brothers from outer space. Vallee thinks UFOs are likely "windows" to other dimensions manipulated by intelligent, often mischievous, always enigmatic beings we have yet to understand. (60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time covers Vallee's theories in detail.)
No other UFO researcher has contributed more to an admittedly controversial field. But Vallee commands a measure of respect that must leave his colleagues feeling a bit envious. Even Philip Klass, the avionics expert and the media's favorite UFO-debunker, calls Vallee "one of the more distinguished members of the pro-UFO community." Vallee, he adds, "is one of the brighter physical scientists who believes in UFOs."
Vallee moved to America from his native France in the early 1960s, as young astronomer-turned-computer scientist. Vallee pioneered the use of computers to analyze and categorize the UFO phenomenon, and his 1965 book, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, is still considered one of the most scholarly books on UFOs ever written. At Northwestern University, Vallee assisted Prof. J. Allen Hynek, the academic consultant on the Air Force's infamous Project Bluebook, now seen by most saucer students as either a half-hearted government effort to address the UFO craze of the 1950s and 1960s or a full-blown coverup. While working with Hynek, Vallee and his wife, Janine, compiled the first-ever computer database of UFO sightings.
In 1969, Vallee published another groundbreaking book, Passport to Magonia, in which he collected a body of folkloric "myths" that read remarkably like modern UFO encounters, from Celtic tales of fairyland abductions to Biblical passages and medieval chronicles of "visitors" from beyond. Building on Carl Jung's thesis that UFOs are a sociological phenomenon, a product of the collective unconscious, Vallee forever left behind the space-bound E.T. theorists. But his folklorist's approach to the problem would influence a number of later researchers and writers who continue to echo his ideas about other-dimensional forms of consciousness. Best-selling author Whitley Strieber, Harvard "abductee psychologist" John Mack, and journalist Keith Thompson (author of Angels and Aliens all owe a debt to Vallee. Stephen Spielberg paid homage to Vallee in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, basing his French scientist character (played by Francois Truffaut) on the real French UFO theorist.
We recently had lunch with Vallee in San Francisco at restaurant around the corner from the offices of his high-technology venture capital firm. Part 1 of that interview covers Vallee's theories about UFOs and his belief that science can penetrate mystery of flying disks and alien beings. In Part 2, which we'll publish later this month, Vallee discusses the second sphere of his researches: The connection between the UFO phenomenon and the religious impulse. Vallee believes that the intelligence guiding UFOs is a kind of control mechanism, an invisible hand shaping the development of human consciousness over a period of eons. In the second installment he also talks about the theory that from time to time governments have manipulated public opinion through UFO mythology--in some instances constructing elaborate hoaxes for propagandistic purposes.
60GCAT: Why are Americans obsessed with the idea that outer space aliens are the pilots of UFOs?
Vallee: I think Americans, if they are interested in the subject, are very literal. They want to kick the tires, which is a good American thing to do. They want to do reverse engineering on the propulsion system. And when I tell them, "Look, maybe those things don't have a propulsion system," you get a strange reaction. Just like, if you remember, in Close Encounters, the Truffaut character keeps going around saying this is a sociological phenomenon, not just physical. And he has a lot of trouble getting that idea across.
60GCAT: At one point you subscribed to the theory that UFOs might be extraterrestrial in origin. . . .
Vallee: When I met Stephen Spielberg, I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, "You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting--this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that's close to what they expect." Which is fair.
60GCAT: So what do we know for sure about the nature of UFOs?
Vallee: There is a phenomenon. We don't know where it comes from. It's characterized by its physical [traces]. Eighty percent of all the cases have trivial explanations. But I'm talking about the core phenomena. It seems to involve a lot of energy in a small space; it seems to involve pulsed microwaves, among other things. There isn't much that is known about the effect of pulsed microwaves on the brain, so it's quite possible that some of the stories that you get from people are essentially induced hallucinations in sincere witnesses--the witnesses are not lying. They really have been exposed to something genuine but there is no way to go back to what that thing was, based on their description, because their brain has been affected by proximity to that energy.
Having said that, I have plenty of colleagues in science and technology I respect who tell me this could be a natural phenomenon--this could be an undiscovered form of energy in the atmosphere. We don't know much about the effect of electromagnetic fields on the nervous system. We're going to be discovering that as we go. So, it's quite possible that there could be a phenomenon like that, a very spontaneous thing. Or it could be artificial. If it's artificial it could come from another form of consciousness, which may or may not be extraterrestrial. It's a big universe out there. Who are we to say where it comes from? We can only speculate on that point.
60GCAT: How can we use our own comparatively backward technology to investigate this mystery?
Vallee: Where I think that technology can be of help is in looking for patterns. And I did as much of that as anybody else. I built, with my wife, the first computer database of UFO sightings. But where I think computers could be used much better is in applying artificial intelligence, reason, and inference to eliminating the reports that have natural causes. I developed a software prototype of that, which was called OVNIBASE, which I turned over to the French CNES; presumably they are developing a next version of it, and running it on their database.
60GCAT: What about other technologies that can help us analyze evidence better than we could, say, 10 years ago?
Vallee: Digital enhancement of photographs is very useful. In my book, Confrontations, I mention the photograph that I brought back from Costa Rica, which was unusual because the object was over a lake [Lago de Cote], so there was a uniform black background. Everything is known about the aircraft that took the photo. At the time the picture was taken [in 1971], nobody on the plane had seen the object. It was only after the film was developed that the object was discovered. The camera used was exceptional: It produced a very large negative--ten inches, very detailed. You can see cows in the field. The time is known; the latitude, longitude and attitude of the aircraft is known. So we spent a lot of time analyzing that photograph, without being able to find any obvious natural answer to the object. It seems to be a very large, solid thing.
I obtained the negative from the government of Costa Rica--if you don't have the negative, analysis is a waste of time. I also obtained the negative of the picture taken before and the picture after, all uncut. I took negatives to a friend of mine in France who works for a firm that digitally analyzes satellite photographs. They digitized the entire thing, and then analyzed it to the extent that they could, and could not find an explanation for the object.
60GCAT: It's hard for Americans to grasp the idea that UFOs might be a manifestation the other-dimensional. . . .
Vallee: You have to keep an open mind. What I try to do is what any cop would do: I try to listen to the witnesses instead of printing my own theories. Theories are a dime a dozen. They don't do any good. It's much more useful, I think, just to listen to what people are telling you, and I've been trying to do that not just in the U.S., but also in Europe and other places I've visited, like Brazil and Argentina, and try to look for patterns.
60GCAT: You're a bit of a controversial figure among UFO researchers, mainly because you entertain theories more exotic than the UFOs-are-from-outer-space paradigm.
Vallee: I've antagonized a number of the believers in UFOs. Number one, because I'm not ready to jump to any conclusion that it's necessarily extraterrestrial--we're not smart enough to know what they are at this point. And the research has not been done. I certainly remember enough of my training in astronomy to tell you that the universe is big enough to have other forms of life than us; at least we hope that it does. But so far we cannot prove it. So we cannot see how they would come here--they probably would be much advanced with respect to our physics, and they would have found a way to do it. But that does not explain UFOs.
I've also antagonized a lot of people because I think that the way abductions are being handled is wrong. It's not only wrong scientifically, it's wrong morally and ethically. I've been telling people, don't let anyone hypnotize you if you've seen a strange light in the sky. I think a lot of those people prominent in the press and in the National Enquirer and in the talk shows and so on are creating abductees under hypnosis. They are hypnotizing everybody who's ever had a strange experience and telling them they are abductees by suggestion. And they are doing that in good faith. They don't realize what they are doing. But to my way of thinking, that's unethical.
60GCAT: What do you think of John Mack, the Harvard psychologist who believes that alien abductions are a real phenomenon? Of course, he uses hypnosis on his patients to liberate "repressed memories" of those abductions.
Vallee: I respect him for his courage in addressing the issue, but I don't agree with his methods.
I've taken some witnesses who wanted to be hypnotized, taken them to specialists in two cases out of maybe 70 cases of abductions that I've studied. And usually the specialists tell me that hypnosis is not necessarily the best way of helping these people. Nor is it the best way to recover memories. It may help in very specific cases. But I've never hypnotized anybody--I'm not qualified to do it.
60GCAT: How did you first become interested in UFOs and paranormal phenomena?
Vallee: I started out wanting to do astronomy and I ruined essentially a perfectly good career in science by becoming interested in computers. This was in France in the early days of computing and the earliest days of satellites and space exploration. So I took some of the earliest computer courses at French universities.
My first job was at Paris observatory, tracking satellites. And we started tracking objects that were not satellites, were fairly elusive, and so we decided that we would pay attention to those objects even though they were not on the schedule of normal satellites. And one night we got eleven data points on one of these objects--it was very bright. It was also retrograde. This was at a time when there was no rocket powerful enough to launch a retrograde satellite, a satellite that goes around opposite to the rotation of the earth, where you obviously need to overcome the earth's gravity going the other direction. You have to reach escape velocity in the direction opposite the rotation of the earth, which takes a lot more energy than the direct direction. And the man in charge of the project confiscated the tape and erased it the next morning.
So that's really what got me interested. Because up to then I thought, Scientists don't seem to be interested in UFOs, astronomers don't report anything unusual in the sky, so there probably isn't anything to it. Effectively, I was in the same position that most scientists are in today--you trust your colleagues, and because you don't see any reports from credible, technical witnesses, you assume that there is nothing. And there I was with a technical report--I don't know what it was. It wasn't a flying saucer--it didn't land close to the observatory. But still, it was a mystery. And instead of looking at the data and preserving the data, we were destroying it.
60GCAT: Why did he destroy it?
Vallee: Just fear of ridicule. He thought that the Americans would laugh at us, if we sent it--all of the data on satellites was being concentrated in the U.S. And we were exchanging our data with international bodies. And he just didn't want Paris observatory to look silly by reporting some thing that he could not identify in the sky. [This was in] 1961. Later I found out that other observatories had made exactly the same observation, and that in fact American tracking stations had photographed the same thing and could not identify it either. It was a first magnitude object: it was as bright as [the star] Sirius. You couldn't miss it. It didn't reappear in successive weeks. It's just a little anecdote, but to me that fact that we destroyed it was more important than what we saw. And that reopened the whole question for me: Are there things that scientists are observing and not talking about? And then I started extending a small network of scientists, which is still active, and found that there was a lot of data that was never published. In fact, the best data has never been published. I think a great deal of the misunderstanding about UFOs among scientists is that the scientists have never had access to the best data.
60GCAT: Why has the best data never been published?
Vallee: I talk to a lot of technical companies where the executives are aware of my interests, and I've had a lot of reports under seal of confidentiality from people in science and in business who had seen things. About a year ago, a vice president at IBM took me aside after a conference and said, "Are you the same Jacques Vallee who is interested in UFOs?" And he described a perfectly classic UFO close encounter story that he and his family had in upstate New York. This is not something that is going to be in the National Enquirer.
I met a man who is president of a technical company in Silicon Valley; he wanted to tell me about his experiences. He had been a very-high ranking naval officer in command of a large ship, and he had three experiences with UFOs, two of them in the service in very sensitive positions--and at one time when he was a test pilot. He has never reported any of the encounters, even when he was a pilot. I said, "Weren't you under obligation to report it?" And he said, "Maybe I was, but if they have the slightest doubt about what you are seeing up there, you are [considered to be] crazy--they won't let you near the cockpit of an experimental plane." And he said, "If you're a pilot, you want to fly. You don't want to spend the next month filling out forms for a bunch of psychiatrics." Which is what will happen. I think any pilot will tell you the same thing, you know, over a beer. So those are the cases that I'm interested in. The cases that have not been reported in the press, haven't been distorted in the retelling. When I have time, I follow up on those cases with my own resources basically out of curiosity, with no preconceived idea.
60GCAT: But skeptics always argue that even though there may be anecdotal evidence, there's no hard scientific data. . . .
Vallee: There is plenty of data--and it should be analyzed further. But I do not think it's going to be a propeller from a flying saucer. I think it is going to be things that would be interesting if you could find a pattern to the material. I'm skeptical about stories of crashed saucers; I have an open mind about it, but I've heard those stories for so many years and they never really amount to anything tangible. Also, I am skeptical for another reason: We build technologies now that are extremely reliable where there is the need. How often does your hard disk crash? I mean, if you keep your computer for 15 years, eventually the hard disk is going to crash. But you don't expect that to happen. If you were going to build a technology that takes you across interstellar space, it would have to be extremely reliable.
60GCAT: In your books, you detail the hard data turned up in European investigations.
Vallee: There is a small unit of the CNES, which is the French equivalent of NASA, that has permission to investigate any cases of UFOs. They were set up in the mid-'70s and they've been going ever since. They found a number of cases that couldn't be explained, and some cases were never published with all the data. Cases where there were traces on the ground, where there was evidence of heat, evidence of radiation, including pulsed microwave radiation, and evidence of plants being affected. Again, that doesn't prove anything. It just proves that there was something there. It doesn't tell you what it was. But it certainly is a valid technical issue.
This data doesn't tell you if the phenomenon is natural or not, because it doesn't tell you enough about the conditions where that happened. And that's where I think a lot more research should be done. People have come to me saying, "Look, I was a pilot or in a radar station in Alaska, and we were tracking UFOs--we recorded the data, and I was a pilot and followed one of those things and got gun camera footage of it. When I landed there was a guy waiting for me, in blue jeans and a sweater, who said, 'You didn't see anything up there.'" Meanwhile, a guy with a screwdriver is unhooking the camera from the fuselage. Usually witnesses have no idea where those guys come from. But somebody has a lot of data; and I think that this hard data should be turned over to science, certainly the stuff from 20 years ago--I mean, how classified can it be? By now, we should have known if it was an enemy, so we should turn over the data to the scientific community. Let the skeptics analyze it from their point of view and let anyone else analyze it from their point of view. That's the way science should be done.
EDITOR'S REVELATION: In Part 1 of our interview with UFO sleuth/computer conferencing pioneer Jacques Vallee, we looked at some of the scientific evidence bolstering the contention that UFOs are a real, measurable phenomenon. In Part 2, below, Vallee continues this theme as he talks about his samples of "liquid sky"--the metallic debris occasionally seen ejected from flying disks. Then hold on to your propeller beanie as we depart four-dimensional time space and look at some of Vallee's more exotic theories about the origin of UFOs. As Vallee puts it, "The UFO phenomenon exists. It has been with us throughout history. It is physical in nature and it remains unexplained in terms of contemporary science. It represents a level of consciousness that we have not yet recognized, and which is able to manipulate dimensions beyond time and space as we understand them. It affects our own consciousness in ways that we do not grasp fully, and it generally behaves as a control system."
Vallee refers to this complex system of control--which is shaping human society over the course of thousands of years--as an "interface of reality with consciousness." It sounds a lot like Arthur C. Clarke's science fictional theme in 2001: A Space Odyssey--an alien intelligence subtly directing the course of human development, toward mysterious ends. Talk about your cosmic conspiracies!
But Vallee also has controversial ideas about human-made UFO conspiracies. "I was investigating some cases that were physically real," he says, "but they were hoaxes--yet not hoaxes on the part of the witnesses."
The two most stunning cases of faked UFO events that Vallee has uncovered occurred rather recently in the history of saucer sightings. In 1980, a strange object purportedly "crashed" in England's Rendlesham Forest, a few miles away from an American Air Force Base. Dozens of military personnel were dispatched into the forest, without weapons, before the supposed crash of a luminous object. After the incident conflicting stories leaked to the press and to civilian investigators, some of the leaks apparently originating from the front office of the military base. Vallee's conclusion--controversial among UFO believers who insist that aliens touched down in Rendlesham Forest--is that "the event had all the earmarks of being staged for the benefit of the witnesses, perhaps so that their psychological reactions could be studied."
Even more bizarre is the information turned up by French investigators in the wake of a bizarre 1979 abduction case. An unemployed young man named Franck Fontaine disappeared outside of his apartment one morning, reportedly after his friends saw him enveloped in a luminous fog. After a week of frenzied press coverage and a fruitless search by the authorities, Fontaine turned up in a field outside the apartment--with no memory of his unusual experience. His friends insisted he had been abducted by a UFO, and police investigators, though they doubted that claim, found no other satisfactory explanation.
But as Vallee reports, investigators from GEPAN, the French government's aerial phenomena study group, were led to an official in the French Ministry of Defense who willingly described the so-called UFO abduction as an "Exercise of General Synthesis." What happened to Fontaine? "We put him to sleep and he was put under an altered state of high suggestibility," replied the official. When asked if the "exercise" was intended to test the investigative abilities of local law enforcement agencies, the official said, "That would be a fair way to describe it." Then he added, ominously, "If this operation had been completed, the next phase would have been far worse." As Vallee notes in his best-selling book, Revelations, "It would be fair to assume that the [Fontaine] operation could have been a test, perhaps a prelude to an experiment of wider scope."
Vallee says he knows the name of the French official, an Air Force officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
So what on earth--to pick an appropriate planet--is going on? Vallee has several theories that might explain such UFO flimflam. The military may be experimenting with psychological warfare techniques, as the Germans did in World War I, when they projected images of the Virgin Mary on banks of smoke in an effort to spook the French into saying their Rosaries instead of killing Germans. Vallee also thinks that sham UFO reports might be used as cover for tests of new military stealth technology.
But the most troubling "deception theory" Vallee poses is that from time to time, the target of UFO hoaxes might be the general public, or a segment thereof.
"In some cases," he says, "the community of ufologists may simply be used in a sociological experiment because they are a convenient group of people to test, to see how they react to different rumors."
Sounds a bit improbable, but Vallee's research into the growth of UFO "contactee" cults is suggests that such manipulation occurs. In his book, Messengers of Deception, Vallee explored the rise of a new kind of religious movement throughout the world: the UFO Messiah cults, in which believers await the coming of bubble-headed saviors in saucers. You can find these groups in Europe and the Americas, in increasing numbers. Want a glimpse of this otherworldly subculture? Just buzz into any of the alt.alien Usenet groups or enter the magic word "UFO" into any World Wide Web search engine and see how fast you're channeled into one of the most heavily trodden alternate dimensions of online obsession since Big Brother went digital.
Listen to "Seth," the channeled alien being from beyond; hear the Venusian commander known as Val Thor, who parks his spaceship on Lake Mead near Las Vegas as if it were an extraterrestrial houseboat (when he's not advising the Pentagon); heed the warnings of the well-heeled "Rael," who speaks through a French contactee and runs a worldwide organization.
According to Vallee, the French press has recently reported that the notorious Order of the Solar Temple--in the news last year after 53 members committed suicide in Switzerland and Canada--told its followers that the highest levels of initiation involved meetings with extraterrestrial beings. The cult used holographic projectors purchased in the United States to fool its members. "As you may recall," says Vallee, "members of the cult were educated people and professionals--not crazy kids on drugs."
So without further ado, we present Part 2 of the Jacques Vallee interview:
Liquid Sky
60GCAT: Let's talk about some of the other forms of hard evidence that scientists can look at when studying the UFO problem. For instance, chunks of molten metal, the so-called "liquid sky" samples.
Vallee: On their own, these metal samples are not compelling evidence. But the existence of this material does show that there is data that scientists can look at. When we received the Bogota, Columbia, sample [supposedly the remnants of a plume of liquid slag ejected from a flying disk over the University of Bogota in the mid-1970s] we sawed off one little corner for analysis. It turned out to be mostly aluminum. Again, this doesn't prove anything: you could make a hunk of this stuff in your backyard by pouring molten metal into a pool of water. Metallurgically, the Bogota sample is not that unusual--except that it has gone through a violent heating, not just up to a boiling point, but beyond. My point has always been that it is interesting to see what patterns emerge from analysis of enough of these samples. If you kept picking up specimens like that, it might move your research into a particular direction.
60GCAT: One theory is that this liquid metal is part of the UFOs' propulsion system.
Vallee: There are [man-made] motors that use liquid metal--usually mercury--for liquid contact. But the temperatures necessary for molten aluminum and other metals would have to be quite extreme.
60GCAT: What about liquid sky samples that are of a slightly more exotic makeup than the aluminum slag?
Vallee: The only one that's unusual is the one that Prof. Peter Sturrock (a plasma physicist at Stanford University) has. It comes from Ubatuba, Brazil. In the early 1930s, an object exploded over a beach in Ubatuba. [In 1957, an alleged fragment from the explosion turned up; its precise origin is uncertain.] Subsequent analysis at the University and Colorado and Stanford confirmed that the material was magnesium and magnesium oxide, with a very minute amount of impurities. If the metal really did originate in the 1930s, it would be very unusual because given the technology of the day, someone would have had to go to a lot of trouble to get it that pure.
The Cosmic Database
60GCAT: Let's talk about some of the implications of your research. If the UFO phenomenon is real, but is not aliens from outer space, we're talking about new ways of thinking about reality and cosmology, aren't we?
Vallee: Yes. In that sense, phenomenon is much more important than visitors from another planet would be. Because it fundamentally challenges the nature of reality. If UFOs are a physical reality, they certainly violate everything we think we know about reality. There are reliable reports of material UFOs that become immaterial and disappear on the spot.
60GCAT: Your theories about UFOs and other "paranormal" phenomena involve your metaphor of the "informational universe," where time and space and whatever other dimensions there might be act as a kind of cosmic computer database. What do you mean by that?
Vallee: You can get a consistent representation of reality if you look at the world as a collection of events, or 'instances' (as the philosophy of Occasionalism did in the eleventh century), rather than as a collection of material objects moving in 3-dimensional space as time flows. In virtual reality, of course, you can't tell the difference. In the real world information and energy are actually the same physical quantity. In a universe viewed as 'informational events' you should expect coincidences, telepathy, time travel, multiple realities--all those things that seem impossible in the 4-D energy universe. To me that's why puzzles like UFOs are interesting. I don't have a personal theory to "explain" them, but I see them as an opportunity to pose new questions. If it's true that information resides in the questions we ask, coming up with novel problems may be more important than having answers, at this stage of our very limited understanding of the universe.
60GCAT: So reality is like a computer database in that the right search word or "incantation" might cause a piece of information--a UFO or ghost or other anomaly--to materialize.
Vallee: If you think of [reality] as the software for the universe, all it would take is for someone to change a comma in the program and the chair you are sitting in wouldn't be a chair at all. The major benefit from this model is that it handles anomalies very well. Coincidences would be a normal expectation. If you address a database with a request for anything with the word "pool" you will get ads for sunscreen, lotions, billiard balls and an investment prospectus or two. In parapsychology gifted subjects may be forcing similar coincidences between separate locations or separate minds. One way of testing the theory, by the way, is to create massive informational anomalies and see what happens when they collapse. You could enhance remote viewing experiments, for instance, by loading the site with large quantities of data about highly unlikely events or situations, then quickly erase that data to collapse the singularity.
60GCAT: Of course, now we're talking about the intersection of science and mysticism. Do you consider yourself a mystical person?
Vallee: I have never been comfortable with an arbitrary separation of the world into the physical universe (which is presumably what science studies) and the psychological, social and psychic side of life. To me that arbitrary separation is the major weakness of our intellectual system.
Most scientists who decide to study astronomy at an early age, as I did, are probably motivated by something akin to a mystical desire to understand the night sky and to embrace the larger issues. As time goes on, of course, that desire gets eroded and trivialized. In my case I managed to keep that curiosity fresh because although I haven't had a "mystical" experience in a religious sense, I have always suspected that there was another level of consciousness and that it was accessible to the human mind. I have found similar feelings among many Net programmers, who were drawn to networking by the impression of operating outside the normal constraints of time and space, something akin to what mystics describe, although of course much more mundane.
The Controllers
60GCAT: You've said that UFOs represent a form of alien intelligence that is actively manipulating human society. How and toward what end?
Vallee: A new computer analysis of historical trends, compiled in the 1970s, led me to plot a striking graph of "waves" of UFO activity that was anything but periodic. Fred Beckman and Dr. Price Williams of UCLA pointed out that it resembled a schedule of reinforcement typical of a learning or training process: the phenomenon was more akin to a control system than to an exploratory task force of alien travelers. There are many control systems around us, and some are a part of nature: ecology, climate, etc. Some are man-made: the process of education, the thermostat in your home. If the UFO phenomenon represents a control system, can we test it to determine if it is natural or artificial, open or closed? This is one of the interesting questions about the phenomenon that has never been answered.
Chariots of the Frauds
60GCAT: Speaking of control systems, some of your other avenues of UFO research have led you to suggest that from time to time human agencies--governments, cults, and other groups interested in manipulating people's beliefs--have engineered UFO deceptions and hoaxes. Now we're really getting conspiratorial. . . .
Vallee: I think the place where ufology--the way it has developed today--meets with my interest in communications, and my interest in networks is in deception and manipulation. I think that is an area of which people should be aware. Because I think a lot of the things that are being discussed today, among people who believe in UFOs, are either mythical or a part of manipulation of some sort, which could include the stories of little aliens and the hybrids and abductions and so forth. A lot of that may be either material that cults have injected into the culture because it suits their own fantasy about the end of the world or the millennium and all that.
Or, in a more sinister sense, in some of the cases I've investigated, the deception hides a mind-control experiment. Anybody who is aware of technology today should know that we have much more than a stealth fighter flying around. We have capabilities, theoretical or practical, to make all types of things. There is a massive development of nonlethal platforms going on that those platforms have to be tested somewhere, they have to be disguised as something else from time to time. There has been massive development of RPVs--remotely piloted vehicles--some of which are disk-shaped. There is massive development of low observable technologies that are used for reconnaissance and can be used for all sorts of other things. And in many cases, the UFO stories are not simply fantasies in the minds of a few witnesses, but may have been planted as part of a cover for some very terrestrial technologies that we are developing.
'Messengers of Deception?'
60GCAT: The UMMO cult, which you discuss at length in your books, Revelations and Messengers of Deception, has an impressive history of elaborate deception. Tell us about it.
Vallee: I think that the UMMO myth was started by a small group of people, essentially cultists. What was intriguing about UMMO was all its pseudo-scientific revelations [supposedly handed down to earthling scientists like Vallee from UMMO-ites, beings who hail from a planet 14.6 light years away from our sun]. But these supposed revelations were not within the state of the art. They didn't come up with proof of Fermat's theorem or something like that, it was just perfectly good science fiction.
60GCAT: What about the French theory that UMMO was a psychological experiment?
Vallee: Yeah, they thought that the cult had been used or was manipulated by the KGB. Because for one thing, some of their ideas--some of the data that was supposedly channeled from the UMMO organization in the sky was very advanced cosmology. Very advanced cosmology about twin universes involving some data that was not stupid--it came straight out of the notes of Andre Sakarav, including some of the unpublished notes of Sakarav, some things that Sakarav was known to have worked on, but had not published. And so some people--and I don't know who's right--felt that somebody had to have access to those notes, to inspire those messages, perhaps the KGB. It wasn't just ordinary science fiction; it was somebody who knew what some of the more advanced cosmologists were thinking.
60GCAT: Why would the KGB or any intelligence agency perpetrate such an arcane hoax?
Vallee: Well, let me tell you a little story. About fifteen years ago there was a group that suddenly appeared in San Francisco. They had a big party downtown. And they invited everybody who was anybody in parapsychology. And they made a little speech saying, "We have all this money from somebody who wants to do good and help research, we know that there isn't much money in parapsychology; we will entertain proposals for research, give us your best ideas; we will send it to a panel who will review it and we will fund the best research." After the party, a lot of people rushed home to their computers and typed in all their best ideas, sent it on--but the organization never existed, was never heard from again. Somebody was fishing.
So having a cover as a group sometimes, a completely weird group, can be a convenient way of getting technical intelligence. It's a good way of doing technological assessment. So some of those weird groups could be used for that. Now, that doesn't explain why they would do it for ten years. In the case of UMMO, why would you go on? I think that UMMO became sort of a goal in itself. It became self-propagating. because so many people got drawn to it, psychologically. They started writing things about each other and it became a self-sustaining myth. They're still sending me stuff. There is an index, catalogs; for some people it's become their entire life. Increasingly, we're seeing those kinds of cults appearing in net space, cyberspace.
60GCAT: Is there something about online communications that helps foster myths and deceptions?
Vallee: Because we live in a world where with communications media based on digital networks, a small group of people can have a tremendous impact on the belief of the masses. And we also live in a world where the belief of the masses is a strategic weapon. We have H-bombs but we can't use them. We have neutron bombs, but we can't use them. But if we found a way of influencing the beliefs of masses of people, that would have great strategic impact. The big problems in the world are the problems of fundamentalism and religion--whether it's Islamic or in other forms of religion. Those are the great destabilizing forces in the world today. Well, belief in Extraterrestrials coming here to save us can be induced in large masses of people with the technical means that exist today.
The potential for contagion of absurd beliefs is a real one. In the hands of people who might deliberately use the Internet to create an epidemic of irrationalism we might see the emergence of a whole new class of very dangerous, powerful cults with all the trappings of high technology.
And I think somebody has to pay attention to that angle. So I was led to that by finding-- I was investigating some cases that were physically real, but were hoaxes--but not hoaxes on the part of the witnesses. And the story about the object had in fact been planted.
The Bentwaters case [in which American servicemen at an Air Force base in England observed a disk-shaped craft land in the forest] is a classic. At the landing site, they had a mix of ordinary guards, officers, sentries and so on--they all had orders to go to the site under a scenario. And that's not what would of happened if the encounter were real--if a strange object landed on the base you wouldn't be sending out a hundred people without weapons. The thing has all the earmarks of being staged for the benefit of the witnesses, so that they could be studied and the reactions of the different psychological types and of different ranks could be studied. And when you think about it, it's not that weird. If you were in charge of a project like that, you'd have to test it in conditions where nobody is danger and you can get the data you need. In cases like this one--not many but a few of them--that I investigated, I had to conclude that these were tests of virtual reality projectors.
Psy-Ops from 'Beyond'
60GCAT: So there might be military applications for this technology of deception?
Vallee: Our gods have always come from the sky. And how would a god come from the sky today? He would come down in some kind of space ship. He couldn't just appear out of the clouds, I mean, that won't work. Although in World War I the Germans were using psychological warfare by projecting photographs, slides, along French lines. And I'm sure the French were doing the same thing to the Germans. And there are very sophisticated devices now being used in psychological warfare to create holograms, to create visions to influence people. It might not work with you and me today if we go out today and see something in the skies, it might not destabilize us. But if we were under a lot of stress--if you've been fighting for a month on some little island, and all of the sudden something like that happens--
I remember seeing a letter to the U.S. Air Force from a man who was finally reporting something he had seen during World War II in the Pacific. He said he was on top of a little island lookout point. They were expecting a Japanese attack. They had been fighting intensely on and off for several weeks. They were fairly isolated. They saw an object in the sky that was absolutely physical, that circled the island, was a disk, no means of propulsion, no noise. It circled the island and went off. And he said he had never reported it, not even to his wife. The reason he didn't report it at the time was that his men were under such stress that he wouldn't want them to think that their commander might be flipping. So the same kind of psychological means that won't work with ordinary people and ordinary things might work in exceptional cases.
60GCAT: And therefore cultists and UFO true believers--who are under a kind of ideological stress--might be seen as ideal targets for such manipulation.
Vallee: In some cases the UFO community may be simply used in a sociological experiment because they are a convenient group of people to see how they would react to different rumors. [Suppose the government loses a nuclear weapon over a foreign country.] You still have to go and recover that thing. And you can't tell people what you're doing, so you have to be able to very quickly plant a story. You might plant a story that this was a flying saucer from Venus. That would be so ridiculous that scientists wouldn't go check. You might have a few journalists there, but you can tell them whatever you want, and you can give them photographs of whatever. And so all you need is to distract everybody for two or three days, time to bring the equipment, get everything out, recover whatever was scattered and go away. I think there are cases where exactly that has happened. And those are sort of the great UFO stories that people still tell around campfire.
But I think there was no UFO there. I think the UFO story was invented-- I was saying earlier it's healthy to be skeptical. I respect people who have a skeptical argument there. Jim Oberg, who is a specialist in the Russian space program, pointed out to me that some of the sightings that I published from the Soviet Union--a strange yellowish crescent seen going through the sky by many people in the Soviet Union--that those were rocket tests that were illegal under the Salt agreement; and obviously, they couldn't hide it in the sky. . . so the government planted the story that there was a flying saucer, and that got into the newspapers.
Again, the UFO research community is a useful laboratory in which to observe the effects of propaganda and disinformation, since it is driven in large part by an intent to expose "the coverup." This creates an opportunity for people to masquerade as good guys and "reveal" all sorts of unverifiable rumors. They meet with a receptive audience because the context is one of "independent inquiry of original, bold, nonconformist ideas. Does that mean we should necessarily believe the man who claims he was in NATO intelligence and saw a classified document about the four humanoid races that live on the moon? I don't think so.
Unidentified aerial phenomena, commonly referred to as UFOs, has been the focus of research by sociologists, scholars of religion, anthropologists, philosophers, and astronomers. The information age now offers new and innovative ways to study the phenomena, and author Diana Walsh Pasulka sat down with astronomer and computer scientist Jacques Vallee to discuss how “big data” and information processing will influence the field of study.
Diana:
In a recent presentation you delivered in California in 2016, you described methods that you used to identify historical cases of sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena. Your methods were similar to those used by scholars of religion in that you locate primary sources and elaborate their historical contexts. You also utilized new research methods involving technology. You have been at the forefront of computer innovation since the 1960s, so I am intrigued on how you integrate historical research with digital technology. Can you discuss your methods and how they obtained the results that were eventually included in your book?
Dr. J. Allen Hynek (left) and Dr. Jacques Vallée (right).
Jacques:
The study we just concluded is the product of a group of specialists (scholars, historians, researchers of ufology, archivists) linked through the Internet in an exchange managed by my colleague Chris Aubeck. The work builds on the intersection of classical scholarship and modern computer media to assess historical cases of extraordinary phenomena. In that sense the process is very similar to research in the history of religions, with the added benefit that the emerging patterns of ancient UFO sightings can be compared to modern reports.
This is very much a work in progress: future versions may focus on a nucleus of only 100 cases rather than 400 or 500; or they may expand to over 1,000 if we can get better access to data from Middle-eastern or Asian records.
Diana:
You issued a warning to new researchers in the field, particularly those who believe that “big data” and data mining techniques will shed light on the field and offer new insights? Can you elaborate?
Jacques:
For those who have just discovered the world of “big data” because of the exploits of super-computers winning at chess or GO against the best human champions, the technology seems almost magical: dump unstructured threads of information into a large binary warehouse and let “deep thinking” extract the salient patterns. This technology actually works when the data itself is well-behaved, in particular for consumer trends, industrial maintenance or medical research. When the subject area lacks an ontology, as in the case of unexplained aerial phenomena, the same techniques are problematic because the software is most likely to extract spurious or misleading patterns. Much of my career has been spent developing metadata software and (more recently) investing in Big Data companies, so I am a believer in the relevant techniques but one cannot skip the arduous work of preliminary data “scrubbing.” In particular, we have to keep in mind that the observed data may be the result of multiple phenomena rather than a single source. The problem is one of discernment and intelligence rather than brute-force statistics.
Diana:
Do you have advice for researchers today? How can we use new digital strategies to streamline our research?
Jacques:
The rapid expansion of computer records, as more and more old newspapers and books are digitized, has greatly facilitated access to original records. At the same time researchers are developing ingenious techniques for extracting information across long periods when the meaning of many terms has changed (think of the word “meteor,” which refers to the sighting of a falling aerolithe today but used to mean any luminous phenomenon in the sky). It has become feasible to conduct large-scale research on thousands of records at very minimum cost, without travel or administrative burden.
The problem remains of abstracting the data and making it available to others for critique, review and further research. A meeting was organized in 2015 at the Paris headquarters of the French Space Agency, gathering researchers from six nations in an effort to further collaboration in the exchange of data on unexplained aerial phenomena, but that work is just beginning. The phenomenon is global and very complex. Only 5-10% of the observations have actual research value. As a result, individual (occasionally heroic) attempts to hoard large quantities of information in hopes of “solving” the problem have proved naive, overly costly, and short-lived. It seems to me an open-source strategy will be the best way to motivate the research community and harness its resources.
Diana:
This seems like a crucial moment in the study of this phenomena in that we have access to digital technologies that help us identify patterns, but we cannot ignore the actual field research and historical methods that help us, first, identify something truly unexplainable, and second, draw correlations to other phenomena, or mostly importantly, rule these correlations out. This is arduous work but it results in knowledge.
Headline image credit: UFO by Vladimir Pustovit. CC-BY-2.0 via Flickr.
The Medusae Fossae Formation is a large geological unit of uncertain origin on the planet Mars. It is named for the Medusa of Greek mythology. “Fossae” is Latin for “trenches”. Like many others throughout the Medusae Fossae Formation, the surface has been eroded by the wind.
In 2000 the Mars Global Surveyor captured many images of the Medusae Fossae formation and it was Steve Wingate, a NASA image specialist who discovered a very unusual object half buried in the martian soil what appears to be a crashed alien craft.
Despite frantic efforts to make his amazing finding public the image mysteriously disappeared several times from his site, but surprisingly the image (MOC narrow-angle image M11-01534) released on October 16, 2000 remained on the NASA servers till now.
If we take a look at the crash site we see that the UFO, which is approximately 190 meters wide, impacted the surface at a low angle ending up half buried in the Martian soil.
It seems the Medusae Fossae formation is a danger area for spacecraft as an image taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft on 2005 shows another possible crashed UFO.
The UFO which looks like a Stealth craft is located on another part of the Medusae Fossae formation.
An interesting detail is the fact that this mysterious area gives almost no radar return, for this reason it has been called a “stealth” region.
If by now you haven’t figured out that Facebook and Google are in cahoots with the corrupt government, then I feel for you, but for those who are well aware of the issues it’s high time you switched over to Seen.life. It is a website that is similar to Facebook but without all the censorship crap.
Former Apollo Astronaut claims: ‘Their Ships Were Far Superior To Ours – Boy, Were They Big! [Video]
Former Apollo Astronaut claims: ‘Their Ships Were Far Superior To Ours – Boy, Were They Big! [Video]
Armstrong: I can’t go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology – Boy, were they big! … And menacing … No, there is no question of a space station.
Is there an occult reason why NASA hasn’t returned to the moon in decades? There are so many mysteries connected with the Apollo missions and the programs’ abrupt end. Many Ufologists have claimed throughout the years that the real reason why NASA decided to end the Apollo program are the numerous structures and alien objects the astronauts found while touching down on the lunar surface.
According to reports, Armstrong stated in an interview with an unnamed professor at a symposium that the Astronauts presence on the moon during the Apollo missions was immediately noticed by advanced alien civilizations who addressed mankind’s visitation to the moon during the Apollo 11 mission upon touchdown. These alleged ‘beings’ immediately revealed themselves occupying lunar space making it very clear mankind was not welcome on the surface of the moon.
Armstrong: It was incredible … of course, we had always known there was a possibility … the fact is, we were warned off. There was never any questions then of a space station or a moon city.
Professor: How do you mean “warned off”?
Armstrong: I can’t go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology – Boy, were they big! … and menacing … No, there is no question of a space station.
Armstrong: Naturally – NASA was committed at that time, and couldn’t risk a panic on earth…. But it really was a quick scoop and back again. (Above Top Secret, p. 186)
Interestingly a video posted on YouTube allegedly recorded in 1969 by Neil Armstrong backs up the story about mankind and their ‘alien’ encounters on the surface of the moon. According to the video posted online, the alleged footage was filmed in 1969 by Neil Armstrong and shows ancient ‘alien’ structures on the surface of the moon. Many people around the globe argue that it isn’t a question anymore whether or not there are mysterious ‘Alien’ structures on the moon. This video, according to many is the ultimate proof.
Armstrong wasn’t the only astronaut to come forward claiming mankind was ‘intercepted’ on the moon.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, ScD., former NASA astronaut and the 6th man to walk on the moon said: “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.”
NAZI VLIEGENDE SCHOTEL GECRASHT OP MARS? ( VIDEO )
NAZI VLIEGENDE SCHOTEL GECRASHT OP MARS? ( VIDEO )
Dat de Duitsers heel ver gevorderd waren met hun techniek om daadwerkelijk “vliegende schotels” de lucht in te krijgen, is een bekend feit.
Er zijn nu aanwijzingen dat ze zelfs zover gevorderd waren dat ze naar Mars konden reizen, alleen beperkte zich het tot een enkele reis.
Het probleem met verhalen over wat de Duitsers nu wel of niet daadwerkelijk hebben weten te bereiken tijdens of vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog is gebrek aan bewijsmateriaal.
Verhalen zijn er genoeg, maar bewijs is een andere zaak. Het beste waar we dan ook vaak op kunnen hopen, is wat men in Amerika “circumstantial evidence” noemt. Indirect bewijs zoals een vingerafdruk op de plaats van een misdrijf.
Het verhaal gaat dat de Duitsers aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog zóver waren met het ontwikkelen van hun “vliegende schotels” dat ze daarmee zelfs een reis naar Mars zouden kunnen maken.
Er waren verschillende types vliegende schotels ontwikkeld die bekendstaan onder de naam Haunebu en worden aangeduid met een Romeins cijfer. Zo was er als eerste prototype de Haunebu I, gevolgd door de Haunebu II wat een productiemodel zou worden, maar die vanwege het naderende einde van de oorlog nooit is gebouwd en je had aan het einde van die oorlog de Haunebu III, waarvan er ooit maar één prototype is gebouwd.
Het was een indrukwekkend schip met een diameter van 71 meter en het had een 32-koppige bemanning, kon snelheden bereiken van tussen de 7.000 en 40.000 kilometer per uur en wekenlang in de lucht blijven.
Nu zijn er onbevestigde verhalen dat er aan het einde van de oorlog, toen de vooruitzichten hopeloos was, een vlucht is gemaakt met dit schip naar Mars. Technisch gezien was dit haalbaar, maar dan alleen voor een enkele reis met de hoop dat er leven op Mars zou zijn, zodat de inzittenden daar een nieuw bestaan konden opbouwen.
De volgende video start op het punt (01:04:20) vanaf waar je het verhaal kunt horen over hoe misschien toch die Haunebu III de planeet Mars heeft weten te bereiken.
Misschien zou het ook wel een vaag verhaal gebleven zijn als niet iemand met een heel bijzonder opname naar voren zou zijn gekomen.
Hebben we hier te maken met het prototype van de Haunebu III die naar Mars vloog in de wetenschap dat ze nimmer met dit schip terug konden keren naar de aarde?
Zijn ze daar omgekomen of hebben ze contact weten te maken met een aldaar wonende beschaving en is er misschien zo een link ontstaan met de maan en Antarctica?
Fascinerende vragen waar deze afbeelding ook geen antwoord op kan geven, maar duidelijk is wel dat dit nooit of te nimmer natuurlijk gevormd kan zijn.
This is the dwarf planet Ceres and this photo was released by NASA just this week, so its as fresh as it gets. I noticed they had a great shot of the white spots on Ceres, so I decided to have a go at it.
I only added shadow to the photo to bring it into focus. The white ceramic-like surface of the building is difficult to see unless its darker...so I made it darker.
As you can see, the largest of the white spots came into focus and is really a massive building complex. There is a tall main part of the building that is like a mountain at its center. Around that building, there are a lot of small vining out buildings surrounding it.
This is what NASA didn't want you to see.
As I have said before, there are three main types of buildings on planets, moons and asteroids. The black non-reflective chaotic structures...appear to be grown instead of made. The smaller white ceramic bright white structures, clearly not grown, but made. And then the smallest of all the buildings, the grey metal structures which are often seen surrounding the edges of the tall black buildings.
Ceres is controlled by a species that only uses the white ceramic structures...which means one main species is in control of it. Its my guess that the Tall White alien species who were given a small part of Nellis AFB to live, also are the inventors of this white ceramic material used for many structures. It just makes sense.
UFO Fleet Easily Seen On Moons Horizon With Camera, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
UFO Fleet Easily Seen On Moons Horizon With Camera, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 13, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths moon Its been known by a lot of astronomers that if the edge of the moon is observers well enough, you will see fleets of UFOs in orbit move around the moons horizon. These objects are clearly in orbit around the moon and may be there to protect the moon from humanity. We haven't been back to the moon since the Apollo missions, and there is no intention of going back. Many Apollo astronauts have stated that they saw UFOs near on and near the moon, so maybe these objects are a form of protection from future Apollo missions landing on the moon. It may be owned by a species thats not so friendly about sharing. The video was recorded by Geril Vigil of Youtube, but brought to my attention by Mister Enigma of Youtube. Scott C. Waring
In all due respect, what is looking at video wave form's telling us about the case. I was hoping to see the Barbell UFO's ?!!
Case 74282 - Witness full video - Ontario, Canada
Published on Apr 4, 2016
We previously uploaded a video overview of this Case 74282 that showed interview highlights and an introduction by MUFON Director of Research Robert Powell. This is the full interview from this case where three men on a hunting trip in Ontario, Canada, have a close encounter with a barbell-shaped UFO. Witness interviews and CGI of the object created by Witness #1. Case investigated by Indiana MUFON State Section Director Philip Leech. Listen to MUFON UFO Traffic Report radio show with Host Race Hobbs for the case overview with Guests Philip Leech and Robert Powell that ran on March 1, 2016; KGRAradio.com - 7-9 p.m. ET - which is in podcast download form now.
Case 74282 - Witness summary video - Ontario, Canada
Published on Mar 1, 2016
Join MUFON Director of Research Robert Powell as he offers an overview on Case 74282 where three men on a hunting trip in Ontario, Canada, have a close encounter with a barbell-shaped UFO. Witness interviews and CGI of the object created by Witness #1. Case investigated by Indiana MUFON State Section Director Philip Leech. Listen to MUFON UFO Traffic Report radio show with Host Race Hobbs for the case overview with Guests Philip Leech and Robert Powell on March 1, 2016; KGRAradio.com - 7-9 p.m. ET, or listen in from the podcast at a later date.
Permissions to show this video are on file with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Een enorm cluster met meer dan duizenden sterrenstelsels die elk weer miljarden sterren bevatten. Je zou zeggen dat je zoiets niet zomaar over het hoofd ziet. Toch is dit supercluster pas net ontdekt door een internationale onderzoeksgroep van astronomen.
Het nieuw ontdekte Vela Supercluster (VSC) is een enorme verzameling van duizenden sterrenstelsels met op hun beurt weer miljarden sterren. Ook op de afbeelding staat de Shapley Supercluster (SC), de Grote Magelhaense Wolk (LMC), de Kleine Magelhaense Wolk (SMC) en de Grote Aantrekker (GA). Onze Melkweg is dwars over de foto heen geprojecteerd. Beeld: Thomas Jarrett (University of Cape Town)
De wetenschappers uit Zuid-Afrika, Polen, Australië, Duitsland en Nederland ontdekten in eerste instantie acht kleine clusters in het sterrenbeeld Vela met de Southern African Large Telescope. Toen ze deze beter wilden bekijken met de Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australië, vonden ze duizenden andere sterrenstelsels die samen een gigantische structuur vormen. Dit is het nieuw ontdekte Vela Supercluster.
Verborgen structuur
Ons zonnestelsel behoort tot de Melkweg, die zelf deel uitmaakt van de Lokale groep. Die bestaat uit tientallen sterrenstelsels. Deze groep behoort weer tot Canes Venaticiwolk die een tiental van die groepen bevat. Tenslotte vormt de Canes Venatici wolk samen met het nog veel grotere Virgocluster de Lokale Supercluster. Die bevat meer dan tienduizend sterrenstelsels. Superclusters behoren tot de grootste en zwaarste bekende structuren van het heelal.
‘Toen ik de metingen zag binnenkomen, kon ik eerst niet geloven dat zo’n grote structuur tot nu toe verborgen kon blijven’, zegt onderzoeksleider Renée Kraan-Korteweg van de universiteit van Kaapstad in een persbericht. Het Vela Supercluster bleef zo lang verborgen doordat het schuil ging achter stofwolken en wolken van sterren uit de Melkweg.
Supercluster en de Melkweg
Het Vela Supercluster staat op 800 miljoen lichtjaar afstand. Dat is zelfs voor sterrenkundige begrippen behoorlijke ver weg. Toch kan het invloed hebben op de beweging van de Melkweg waar ons zonnestelsel zich in bevindt. Dat komt doordat het zo enorm groot en zwaar is.
De bevindingen van de onderzoeksgroep verschijnen binnenkort in het wetenschappelijke blad Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.
Mitchell has gone on record about his controversial belief in extraterrestrial UFOs, and of a possible government cover-up. Dr. Herman Oberth, the father of astronautics and rocketry stated, “The Earth is being visited by aliens.” Edgar stated, “Recently, I appeared on television in New York with the Astronaut Dr. Brian O’Leary who feels as I do that we must research the subject of UFOs with greater emphasis.” Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and Buzz Aldrin have talked privately to friends, but all agree there is somebody out there. Gordon Cooper’s article entitled “Aliens Are Here” tells about his letter to the United Nations that stated in part, “I do believe UFOs exist and that the truly unexplained ones are from some other technically advanced civilization.” .
Edgar told me, “He signed a contract with NASA not to reveal anything he saw regarding aliens and UFOs. However, all of his friends had seen them.” Edgar stated, “After my space flight, I was contacted by descendants of the original Roswell observers where he grew up, including the person who delivered the child-sized coffins to the Air Force to contain alien bodies. Another was one of the children of the deputy sheriff who was patrolling traffic around the site. They all seemed credible with their stories that the bodies found were alien.”
. Edgar felt, “White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons – and that’s what the extraterrestrials were interested in. “They wanted to know about our military capabilities of the nuclear bomb wing at Roswell. My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to nuclear war and help create peace on Earth.” He said, “I have spoken to many Air Force officers who worked at these silos during the Cold War,” he continued. “They told me UFOs were frequently seen overhead and often disabled their missiles. ”Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft. “There was a lot of activity in those days.” . Ben Rich, Former CEO of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works stated, “Everything you can imagine we already know how to do, but these technologies are so locked up in black projects it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. We can even take ET home.”
It is conceivable that humans could someday discover aliens. We scour the cosmos looking for their radio signals, and though we’re not capable of interstellar space travel, it is remotely possible that we could find what we’re looking for at any moment.
Hey guys, what exactly would we do if Aliens arrived either on Earth or parked in our Orbit.
You may be aware that many people believe that we have actually had these sort of visitations in the distant past and those type of encounters sparked religion and the idea to worship gods who descend from the Heavens.
Most of you think it is a wild idea but the evidence for this theory is absolutely everywhere around the Earth, in fact, it appears this was on an epic scale thousands of years ago.
Anyway guys, with the release of the new film ‘arrival’, this is sure to spark the imagination of many, are we in fact being slowly prepped for disclosure? We wonder if Mr Trump would answer that question if asked, he tells it like it is after all, RIGHT?
These are our 6 Scenarios of how Humanity would react if Aliens made contact or landed on Earth. Just wait until you hear this.
At 6) – Panic! Retaliate first.
How exactly would we strike at an Alien race that has spanned the cosmos to get to Earth?
Maybe this would be our undoing, if China or Russia or worst still, North Korea, decided to fire a Nuclear weapon at the interstellar travellers mothership, would the Aliens already be prepared for that scenario?
Of course they would, but the question is, Would they then show us how powerful they are in turn? How would they interpret our actions? Would they be understanding or feel in danger? Do they even have emotions the same as we do?
Panic-ing is just about the worst thing we could do in this scenario.
There would surely be anarchy in most countries anyway and it would possibly be our own people who would need to be brought under control before we could establish anything else.
In at 5) – Communication
Attempting to communicate with the ETs is of course the natural thing to do, but would there be a global effort to do this? Would each region try to set up their own methods of communication? How confusing could that get?
Just think of how many languages there are on this Planet, How exactly would we do it? You would think that the Aliens would have a universal way of communicating with each other, so we earthlings would have to establish if we use imagery, sign, speech and what one of our languages to use the communication in.
It could get very confusing very quickly.
And at 4 on our list) – Alien Invasion
OK so they arrive and it is the War of the Worlds scenario. Are we ready?
Do we use biological weapons on the aliens, do we release a Plague on Earth to kill an Alien invasion force that is far superior than all the Army’s combined and risk killing ourselves anyway?
Surely Guerrilla tactics would not work? Would they? What other option would we have?
We would have to let most humans on Earth die in order for the Human race to survive as a whole. The Human race would have to go underground and pick of an invading force one by one.
Only the strongest would survive.
Number 3) – Technological advancement of the Human race in exchange for Earths resources
We often wonder how ancient Humans on Earth managed to transport and build megastructures on Earth thousands of years ago? Could it be that the Aliens are actually regular visitors to our World at 10 thousand year intervals?
They could be stopping of to stock up on valuable resources in exchange for technology, but just like in the distant past, the technology gets broken and we eventually lose the knowledge or abandon it.
And who gets the trading agreement? All Human kind? How would that work?
So in short, we would need to establish long term goals for technological advancement with the visiting beings.
At 2) – We are the Aliens
Imagine that for a second, What if Noah’s ark was in fact some sort of massive Space ship to cradle all life in, until the Earth was safe enough to inhabit again after the great Cataclysm of 12 thousand years ago, we all know there was a great flood that spanned the Earth, surely a huge Ocean going vessel could not have withstood such an event.
If the Ark was indeed a Space Ship with life from our Planet locked in hibernation in Space for thousands of years, what would we make of that when it arrived home? Imagine what we could learn?
What great secrets we could uncover about all the massive Ancient Structures still here on Earth from a forgotten Civilization that apparently abandoned their dwellings thousands of years ago.
We have got you thinking now, Right.
We know that is a crazy theory guys but it just might be crazy enough to be true.
And number 1 our list) – We do nothing because we don’t recognize Alien Life
In a 1967 episode of Star Trek, Captain Kirk and crew investigated the mysterious murders of miners on the planet Janus VI. The killer, it turned out, was a rock monster called the Horta. But the Enterprise’s sensors hadn’t registered any signs of life in the creature. The Horta was a silicon-based life-form, rather than carbon-based like living things on Earth.
Recognizing life from different worlds isn’t likely to be simple, especially if the recipe for life elsewhere doesn’t use familiar ingredients. There may even be things alive on Earth that have been overlooked because they don’t fit standard definitions of life.
Does that not blow your mind or what,
And of course we already may have already had Alien contact, Remember the WOW signal?
What do you guys think would happen in the event of Alien life forms making their presence known publicly on Earth?
Will they Protect us or Destroy us? Would they want to collaborate or just trade briefly for our resources? Would we even recognize them?
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MILITARY FIGHTER FIRES ON AN ALIEN CRAFT
APRIL 11- 1980 ………… LA JOYA AIRFORCE BASE PERU
New information has been released by Oscar Santa Maria Huertas, a commander of the Peruvian Air Force, regarding the incident that took place at 07:15 hours on 11 April, 1980, when he was orderd to fly his aircraft – a Sukhoi SU-22, the most technologically advanced fighter at the time – to knock a UFO out of the sky.
It was “a completely spherical object, it’s upper section resembled a cream-colored porcelain, with a round, broad, metallic-grey base, like that of an ashtray.” The anomalous flying object flew at “great speed and was 10 meters in diameter, making it a very easy target to bring down.” This was recorded due to the fact that the flying object was passing over the La Joya military base in Arequipa, in the southern reaches of the Andean country, and the shooting it down was essential to keep it from gathering intelligence.
Within the geopolitical context, Peru had acquired the most advanced military technology from the Soviet Union, and keeping secret the nature of what they had acquired, and where it was kept, was essential. It is important to remember that the military governments of the time armed themselves to such a degree that it was said they were about to go to war against Chile at any moment to recover lost territory.
That morning, Santa María boarded a Sukhoi SU-22 loaded with 140 rounds to fire against the strange flying object. He pursued it and only fired 64 rounds, creating a huge wall of fire. He was startled to see that the object had not suffered any damage whatsoever. . Oscar Santa María said that the effect produced by this weaponry was devastating, and there was no chance of the object emerging unscathed, but the situation was completely different. Not only he had not damaged the intruder, but the object appeared to have acquired an intelligence that allowed it to move freely and escape.
At some point during the pursuit, which lasted around 25 minutes, he felt the UFO somehow “knew” the maneuvers the warplane would engage in. “It was an odd sensation. When I reached a certain altitude to get it in my sights and fire, the object disrupted the operation and settled at the same altitude and right beside my pane.” Upon being asked why he had been chosen, he said “he was the best among the combat pilots” and his superior, of course, wanted the object blown out of the sky as soon as possible and efficiently.
Oscar says he came within 100 meters of the object. “I didn’t notice that it was spinning. It didn’t have windows or rivets, either. What startled me most is that it had no means of propulsion like any other aircraft.” While this went on, Santa María says the military radar units could pick up his jet, but not the UFO. However, ground personnel could see it from the ground, looking like a large luminous object in the sky.
Nearly 460 crewmen were ordered to their stations to repel the mysterious object. Nearly thirteen hundred people were on hand, all of them watching the maneuvers between the interceptor and the UFO. In other words, a total of 1800 people at the base witnessed the incident. At the end of the incident, and lacking fuel to continue pursuit, Oscar returned to base. To date, it is known that the department in charge of investigating the subject of UFOs in Peru, a division of the Aerospace Interest Office, classified it as case 0007 in its new stage of investigation.
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
Kaikaifilu hervei was as long as a five-story building is tall. See the human for scale.
Credit: Otero, R.A. et al, Cretaceous Research. 2016.
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles around, here are 10 of the coolest stories in Science this week.
Mysterious Unidentified Object Crashes in Myanmar: A strange metal object that looks like it may have come from an aircraft or rocket launcher has landed in Myanmar. [Full Story]
It's Just a Phase: The Supermoon Won't Drive You Mad: The moon holds a mystical place in the history of human culture, so it's no wonder that many myths exist. [Full Story]
New Record! Robot Solves Rubik's Cube in Less Than a Second: It achieved the best time in the approximately 30 years that have passed since the cube was invented. [Full Story]
What Will a Trump Presidency Mean for Science? President-elect Donald Trump is likely to affect science when he comes into office next year, with the potential to change everything from climate change action and the Keystone pipeline to sex education and fetal tissue research. [Full Story]
Diver Finds Long-Lost Nuke While Hunting Sea Cucumbers:A diver hunting for sea cucumbers in British Columbia, Canada, came across what may be the United States' first lost nuclear weapon, or 'broken arrow.' [Full Story]
Oldest Beer Brewed from Shipwreck's 220-Year-Old Yeast Microbes: Yeast microbes from the world's oldest bottle of beer — a 220-year-old bottle found in one of Australia's earliest shipwrecks — are being used to create a new, modern beer with the characteristic taste of the 18th-century brew. [Full Story]
3 More States Legalize Recreational Use of Marijuana: How the Map Looks Now: Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada decided yesterday (Nov. 8) to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in their states. [Full Report]
Newfound Ancient 'Sea Monster' Is Largest Yet from Antarctica:About 66 million years ago, an ancient sea monster the height of a five-story office building once gnashed its sharp teeth as it swam around the dark waters of Antarctica, a new study finds. [Full Story]
Breast Cancer: The First Sign Isn't Always a Lump: Women with breast cancer that shows up with symptoms other than a breast lump delay seeing a doctor. [Full Story]
Stranger Pings: Weird Noise Coming from Arctic Seafloor: The Canadian Department of National Defence was informed of the strange noises and investigated the ping's origin, to no avail. [Full Story]
NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Pics of Dwarf Planet Ceres
NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Pics of Dwarf Planet Ceres
By Jesse Emspak, Space.com Contributor
The strange bright spots of Occator Crater on the dwarf planet Ceres are unmistakable in this spectacular photo by NASA's Dawn spacecraft taken on Oct. 17, 2016 and released on Nov. 18 as Dawn moves into a higher orbit.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
NASA's Dawn probe is snapping stunning new views of the dwarf planet Ceres as the spacecraft pushes ever higher above the small world.
In one image, Ceres' huge Occator Crater shows its central bright region, the brightest on Ceres. The crater itself is 57 miles wide (92 kilometers), and 2.5 miles deep (4 km). That makes it 77 times larger than the Barringer Crater in Arizona. Dawn took the picture when it was about 920 miles (1,480 km) above the surface, in early October. [Check out more amazing Ceres photos by Dawn]
Planetary scientists think the bright spots might be from briny material bubbling up during geologic activity; the liquid would sublimate away leaving the salts behind. Another asteroid slamming into Ceres could also cause upwelling, which is what some think happened at Occator Crater.
Scientists also released an image that gives an idea of what Ceres would look like if humans could see it with their own eyes, close up.
This image of Ceres as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows how the dwarf planet would appear to human eyes. This image, released Nov. 18, 2016, was created using images from Dawn captured in 2015 that were then color adjusted by scientists at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Dawn's new orbit will be 4,500 miles (7,242 km) from Ceres. NASA is sending the probe to higher altitudes where it can make additional measurements. For example, the spacecraft will use its gamma ray and neutron spectrometer to look at the cosmic rays that suffuse the space around the asteroid, to compare them with readings closer in. The background "noise" can then be separated from the signal, allowing more scrutiny of Ceres' composition.
Ceres started working its way to the new orbit on Nov. 4. While the primary mission was completed in July, NASA extended the mission as the probe was still functioning.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft launched in 2007 and first journeyed to Vesta, entering orbit in July 2011. In September 2012 it left orbit to go to Ceres, where it arrived in March 2015.
Supermoon and Pluto's Secretive Heart: Week's Top Space Stories
Supermoon and Pluto's Secretive Heart: Week's Top Space Stories
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
Saturn's strange hexagon-shaped vortex and bands of swirling clouds are captured in this stunning new photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Skywatchers captured stunning images of the supermoon, Pluto may have a hidden ocean, and crowdfunding aids the search for life in Earth's stellar neighborhood. Here are our favorite space stories of the week.
Spectacular supermoon photos
Skywatchers around the world snapped amazing photographs of Monday's supermoon (a full moon that takes place at the natural satellite's closest point to Earth in the lunar orbit). This is the closest full moon until 2034. [Full Story: 'Supermoon' Photos: The Closest Full Moon Until 2034 in Pictures]
In the new movie "Arrival," an alien species makes first contact with humans, and like many science fiction stories, the movie features aliens that are biological creatures. But experts we talked to said it's more likely that aliens advanced enough to accomplish interstellar travel will have shed their biological bodies in favor of robotic ones. (We also asked some scientists whether humans are ready for contact with an intelligent alien civilization.) [Full Story: Electronic E.T.: Intelligent Aliens Are Likely Machines]
Rocket engine burns blue
The RL10 rocket engine that will power NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is undergoing testing, and a photo released by NASA captures the brilliant blue flame erupting out of the engine during a test. [Full Story: Awesome NASA Megarocket Engine Test Burns Blue (Photo)]
Avoiding asteroid Armageddon
A group of planetary scientists and space experts is pushing for the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to pursue a program that could save Earth from a major asteroid impact. ESA is set to decide in the near future whether to invest in a program to build a spacecraft that could nudge a threatening asteroid off course. [Full Story: Space Scientists Rally Support for 2020 Asteroid-Deflection Mission]
Looking for life nearby
Project Blue is an initiative that aims to look for habitable planets around the star system nearest to Earth's sun. Leaders of the initiative launched a crowdfunding campaign this week to lay the groundwork for the space-based telescope they hope to launch in 2019. [Full Story: 'Project Blue' Space Telescope Launches Crowdfunding Campaign]
Pluto's underground ocean
Pluto's "heart" — a large, smooth section of the dwarf planet's surface — may have moved relative to Pluto's axis. That shift indicates there may be an ocean sloshing around beneath the dwarf planet's icy surface. [Full Story: Pluto's Wandering Heart Hints at Subsurface Ocean]
A space-waste challenge
NASA has put out a call for innovators to submit designs for a spacesuit with built-in waste-disposal systems that would allow astronauts to remain in their suits for hours at a time. Right now, astronauts wear diapers during spacewalks or while traveling to and from space. [Full Story: Space Poop Challenge: NASA Calls for Better Spacesuit Potty Systems]
Chinese astronauts back on Earth
Two Chinese astronauts returned safety to Earth on Friday (Nov. 18) after spending a month in space. Their trip into orbit set a new record for the Chinese human spaceflight program, and set the stage for the country's plans to build its own large space station. [Full Story: China's Shenzhou 11 Crew Lands on Earth After Month-Long Space Lab Mission]
New map of the Milky Way
The European Gaia space observatory released a brand-new virtual map of the Milky Way galaxy. The spacecraft was launched in 2010 to map the location of the stars in the Milky Way at unprecedented precision. [Full Story: See a Virtual Milky Way Map from Europe's Gaia Spacecraft]
Documenting a death-defying dive
A new documentary "14 Minutes from Earth" tells the story of Alan Eustace's record-breaking, death-defying sky dive from an altitude of more than 25 miles (40 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth. [Full Story: '14 Minutes from Earth' Highlights Perils of Death-Defying Skydive]
NASA brings Mars to the Super Bowl
Houston will host the 2017 Super Bowl, and NASA is getting in on the action. The space agency, along with various spaceflight companies, will host a Mars-themed exhibit in Houston leading up to the game. The attraction will feature, among other things, a drop tower that takes riders on a virtual trip to Mars. [Full Story: NASA-Inspired 'Future Flight' Ride to 'Drop' Super Bowl Fans on Trip to Mars]
The controversial NASA study of the EmDrive (which was previously leaked) has finally been released, and it shows that EmDrive may work.
There are various ways that the study could prove to be erroneous, but the peer-review process will allow other scientists to seek to confirm or debunk the findings.
A CONTENTIOUS TECHNOLOGY
Documents were leaked earlier this month about NASA’s study of a proposed EmDrive. It generated the usual host of reactions, ranging from “it totally works” hype to outright dismissal. It’s rare for a piece of technology to inspire such polarizing reactions; however, these reactions are rather understandable.
The EmDrive, otherwise known as a radio frequency resonant cavity thruster, makes use of microwaves that are bounced around inside an asymmetrical-shaped cavity. To break this down a bit more, 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.
In short, it provides thrust without the need for a propellant, which at face value, violates Newton’s Third Law of Motion. This means that, based on the current laws of physics, it’s not supposed to work. Yet, that leaked paper from NASA was just peer-reviewed and published; its results suggest that it does work, barring other possible explanations.
The relation of thrust to power for the EM Drive.
Credit: Smith, et al.
Commenting on the work, astrophysicist Brian Koberlein states, “I’ve been pretty critical of this experiment from the get go, and I remain highly skeptical. However, even as a skeptic I have to admit the work is valid research. This is how science is done if you want to get it right. Do experiments, submit them to peer review, get feedback, and reevaluate.”
In a paper published in the Journal of Propulsion and Power, Scientists from NASA Johnson Space Center constructed their own EmDrive and tested it in near-vacuum. Their results show that the system was able to produce a thrust-to-power ratio of 1.2 ± 0.1 millinewtons per kilowatt (mN/kW).
Experimental setup of the EmDrive. Credit: White, et al.
A CHANCE TO EXPLORE THE TECH FURTHER
It should be noted, though, that a peer-reviewed paper means that the methodology is sound, but the results (the conclusions) could still be invalid. Indeed, the authors of the paper do list some error sources for their results, error sources which could potentially invalidate their findings—like a thermal expansion of the device that could lead to a false positive.
Still, having a peer-reviewed paper on EmDrives is a significant development, as it is now open for more scientists to test the device and explain how it can (or could) produce thrust. As Koberlein states, “It doesn’t guarantee that the results are valid, as we’ve seen with other peer-reviewed research such as BICEP2. But this milestone shouldn’t be downplayed either. With this new paper we now have a clear overview of the experimental setup and its results. This is a big step toward determining whether the effect is real or an odd set of secondary effects.”
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.”
Will the EmDrive be just a glorified microwave oven or the next step in interstellar travel? For now, we just have to wait and see. But, we should take the next few developments on this technology with both an open mind and a healthy bit of skepticism.
Divergent 3D has shown off the Blade Supercar, the first-ever 3D-printed sports car capable of reaching 97 km (60 mph) in 2.2 seconds.
The car is made from a more sustainable approach to materials that, if widely adopted, could help alleviate the carbon footprint of automakers.
LEGO BLOCK “SUPERCAR”
At the Los Angeles Auto Show, automaker Divergent 3D showed off their 3D-printed Blade Supercar. The 635 kilogram (1,400 pound) car is made of a combination of aluminum and carbon fiber; accelerates to 97 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour) in 2.2 seconds with its 700 hp engine; and can use either gasoline or compressed natural gas asfuel.
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The Blade Supercar debuted last year in June, heralding the company’s radical, environmentally-sustainable approach to manufacturing. Divergent calls the manufacturing approach NODE, where they 3D print aluminum nodes joined together by carbon fiber tubing.
The process, which is similar to using Lego blocks, requires less capital and uses up fewer materials. The ease of assembly means that even semi-skilled workers can run the process.
As an added bonus, Divergent 3D’s cars are 90 percent lighter and more durable than cars built with traditional techniques.
Divergent 3D's printed supercar greets visitors in the atrium of the LA Convention Center at the LA Auto Show.
The rear of the Blade 3D printed supercar Wednesday Nov. 16, 2016 at the LA Auto Show.
MANUFACTURING THE FUTURE CAR
Divergent 3D aims to manufacture competitive automobiles while radicalizing the usual car manufacturing process that can be taxing on the environment.
Making a car can be just as polluting as driving one. Metals, rubbers, plastics, paints, and more are extracted from nature and synthesized through a long process where resources are shipped from all across the world. As The Guardian reported in 2010, producing a medium-sized car like a Ford Mondeo could generate more than 17,000 kilograms (17 tonnes) of carbon dioxide equivalent.
But more industries today are taking a global shift into sustainability. Divergent, together with its partner companies, are helping take the lead in changing auto manufacturing for the better.
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A Self-Piloting Human Transport Drone Flew Untethered for the First Time
A Self-Piloting Human Transport Drone Flew Untethered for the First Time
Urban Aeronautics
Urban Aeronautics Cormorant
Formerly known as the "Air Mule," this is a flying taxi, or maybe a future unmanned ambulance.
Tactical Robotics
IN BRIEF
The autonomous aerial vehicle (UAV) prototype AirMule has completed its first completely untethered flight, but its control system made a handful of incorrect decisions.
Tactical Robotics, the makers of the AirMule, envisions UAVs landing and taking off from rugged terrain that human pilots can't handle.
Below is some additional technical information related to the recent flight and also in general--the challenge of NOE (Nap of the Earth) flight:
As tech companies, car manufacturers, and governments like France usher in a self-driving transit ecosystem, handing the keys over to computers seems to make more sense.
Israeli firm Tactical Robotics wants to take self-piloting tech to the air. AirMule, an autonomous vertical take off and landing (VTOL) prototype capable of carrying people and supplies, has just demonstrated its first fully untethered autonomous flight along a preplanned route.
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) — now known as Comorant — uses internal rotor blades and rear horizontal thrust ducted fans to take off. It also has two laser altimeters, a radar altimeter, inertial sensors, and an electro-optic payload camera as sensors to guide its flight decisions.
That doesn’t mean the whole flight was smooth sailing. On three occasions, the robot’s flight management system (FMS) had to take over the autonomous flight control system (FCS) because the tech made incorrect decisions. And two times the FCS misjudged altitude due to inaccurate laser altimeter readings, causing the transport to land early.
“While the FCS was ‘learning’ to fly the aircraft through the various pattern maneuvers, the FMS was continuously monitoring the level of safety, and making judgements regarding if and when to intervene,” Tactical Robotics said in a press release.
More R&D is clearly in order. But the manufacturers say the UAV will one day be able to land and take off vertically from rough terrain human pilots can’t handle. They envision the drones carrying supplies and soldiers to battlefields and war zones.
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The psychic powers of Nina Kulagina are just too crazy (video)
The psychic powers of Nina Kulagina are just too crazy (video)
Born Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina on July 30, 1926 in Leningrad, Nina was very much an average, tough Russian woman. She was loyal to her country, joining the tank regiment of the Red Army during World War II when she was only 14. After the war, she married and became a housewife, living what anyone would describe as an average life until she began to test if the psychic abilities of her mother might have rubbed off on her.
It was during Nina’s private attempts at developing these psychic abilities that she seemingly unlocked something within her. The most well-known of these alleged abilities was psychokinesis (PK), or the moving of objects with the mind. Nina could move a wide variety of items including clock pendulums, crystal bowls, matches, cigarettes, compass needles, bread loaves, salt shakers, and many other small objects (often placed in Plexiglass boxes to show there were no strings attached). She first became aware of this ability when things would move whenever she would get angry. And aside from her famous stopping of a frog’s heart, Nina performed another fascinating feat: she separated an egg. That might not sound so amazing until you know that the egg was floating in a salt water tank two meters away from her. And she brought the yolk and white back together again when instructed to do so.
At the First Moscow International Conference of Parapsychology in 1968, footage of Nina seemingly moving objects with her mind was finally shown to the public. But with the scientific community catching wind of Nina’s astounding feats came the heavy hand of scrutiny. Skeptics including James Randi have long maintained that none of Nina’s apparent psychic abilities were anything more than common trickery and sleight of hand illusions. Just like Uri Gellar, Nina’s publicized experiments were never under ideal laboratory conditions. She was seen at home or in hotel rooms, without experts in trickery on hand. It’s been claimed that Nina had magnets implanted into her body to manipulate objects; other telekinetic claims could have employed the use of thin wires or mirrors. Yet in the USSR, laboratory experiments were performed on Nina (under the pseudonym Nelya Mikhailova) by several researchers, including Czech psychical researcher Dr. Zdenek Rejdak, psychologist B. Blazek, physicist V. F. Shvetz, Dr. J.S. Zvierev, physiologist L.L. Vasiliev, and the aforementioned Dr. Sergeyev. Dr. Rejdak published a report of his experiments (titled ‘Nina Kulagina’s Mind over Matter’) in the June 1971 issue of Psychic Magazine.
It has been argued that Nina was shown off by the USSR in an effort to make it seem like they were making huge leaps in telekinesis when in fact it was all fakery. But even though the Cold War has long since ended, Russia has continued to keep many of its secrets under lock and key. If Nina was such a glowing success, where are the scientific reports? Might they still be housed somewhere in a storage room never to see the light of day? As is the case with so many things, just because we haven’t seen something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Near the end of her life, Nina seems to have lost the abilities she became so famous for. Her exertion in manifesting these powers was blamed for a near-fatal heart attack in the late 1970s. Sharp pain in her spine, dizziness, blood sugar irregularities, failing eyesight, and many other health concerns plagued her. With deteriorating health, Nina stepped away from the endless scientific testing, conducting very limited experiments in labs up until her death in 1990. And so, the full truth died with her. Whether or not she ever possessed remarkable abilities, perhaps faking it when her powers disappeared later in life, is a matter of speculation.
What do you think? Was Nina Kulagina a deliberate fraud, a Cold War pawn, or genuine enigma?
RIGHT NOW YOU ARE BEING PREPARED FOR WORLD WIDE UFO DISCLOSURE 2016
RIGHT NOW YOU ARE BEING PREPARED FOR WORLD WIDE UFO DISCLOSURE 2016
Everyone knows something about aliens, some believe in their existence, others do not. It seems, however, that their existence is confirmed, and the more they communicate and have contracts with different organizations and countries.
Pope or Vladimir Putin confirmed the existence of these unearthly beings, but have not even told all about it.
"There's still time to provide widespread public is not an information consumer. That information is like a supermarket somewhere in a shop window and someone comes and organizes. For the general public that's just drops. Says Pope something, then someone else says. slowly desesensibilizează man and prepares to receive the higher dose of information. the Americans already have desecritizat documents relating to aliens, contracts with them.
Russian special services presented overwhelming evidence not only of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, but also about the fact that America is ruled by a race of aliens since the middle of last century.
UK MAKES SHOCKING DISCLOSURE ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF UFOS
"The aliens really exist," said Alan Turner, aged 64, retired service commander RAF (Royal Air Force) in the UK. The Englishman says that in 1971 witnessed the emergence of a whole fleet UFO but that, so far, the British Ministry of Defense forbade them to talk about this, announcing several British publications.
Former commander led radar system of the RAF for 29 years and decided to break the silence after several years in which I was forbidden to talk about "so-called" state secrets.
"Aliens exist. All radars military vessels have been observed since more than three decades ago. Time since 1971, though, the most terrible of all. 35 unidentified flying objects appeared on radar army, objects of identical size flying at altitudes between 1,000 meters and 12,000 meters. We did not have explained what they were, nor why disappeared from the screen for a few seconds to appear in the same place. All present knew that it's not a convoy of military aircraft and there are more than 30 witnesses who could support my statements, "mentions Alan Turner.
The phenomenon recorded in 1971 that mysterious evening has not been made public so far and is part of the UK UFO files to be declassified. Alan Turner was awarded several times, the last time in 1984, and was retired from the army in 1995. His statements were deemed "outstanding" by most British journalists.
"It would be the greatest proof of arrogance to imagine that we are the only intelligent beings in the universe", he wanted to conclude the same Alan Turner.
CIA DISCLOSED THE TRUTH ABOUT UFOs that flew over the sky in the 50s and 60s US US
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) announced on Twitter that is responsible for at least half of the appearances of "UFOs" in the 50s and 60s."Reports of unusual activity in the sky '50s? We were "the company said. The document is attached to a message CIA declassified a report about testing a U-2 spy plane at altitudes of 18,000 meters.
Half of the cases of UFO apparitions were actually times when the aircraft was tested at high altitude. Specifically, people at that time would have thought that such an experiment is possible, and put everything on account of unidentified flying objects.
FBI remaining unnamed sources had stated recently, according to US media, that since the '40s, thousands of UFO had landed on American soil, and there are documents to that effect. Because the American public does not find out by visiting extraterrestrials after reporting, the President acquainted, and then immediately paperwork and evidence were burned.
Soviet Ministry of Defense has been working on a secret project to create a being with superhuman powers, paranormal, with the help of aliens.
Alexei Savin, a lieutenant general in the reserves, was the "chosen" to bring this history to light. Savin worked in the Soviet Ministry of Defense, is a graduate of the Academy of Natural Sciences. He said some journalists from Pravda that paranormal activities had entered straight in the Soviet army and KGB in 1983, when Secretary of Defense then allowed the training of soldiers for missions paranormal, such as identifying military targets by means extrasensory prediction accidents, rapid healing of wounded soldiers etc. In December 1989 (exactly when Gorbachev bothered to replace communist regimes totalitarian some with a human face), was founded Special Unit 10003, by order of the Chief of Staff, General Mikhail Moiseev, having only ten officers paranormal, the best of those trained . They managed to contact an extraterrestrial civilization after there were several UFO sightings in the area of training of Vladimirovka.
Vasili Ieremenko Major General and Professor Emeritus of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement, was the first who addressed the press on the subject. In Soviet times, it was a KGB officer and oversee aerospace technology. "I learned how to call these UFOs in Vladimirovka. It was enough to make massive movements of troops and transport equipment. In such cases, appeared 100%. After six months of testing were drawn three conclusions: that modern science can not identify this phenomenon, as might have been sophisticated equipment reconnaissance belonging to the US or Japan and, three, that could be an impact of a civilization alien, "said Ieremenko. General Alexei Savin comes Ieremenko completes his testimony. Namely that "encouraging" UFO experiment was part of the special unit 10003. The first experiments were aimed at finding ways to improve brain activity in certain circumstances. The Scientific Council concerning this program was headed by academician Natalia Bektereva who, until her death, was the scientific director of the Research Institute of the human brain. "In the research we concluded that the man is an energy-information system that captures information from outside cognoscibility" says General Savin. To identify these "external sources", were created three groups, one of the researchers, soldiers second and third ... women! This third group made the most discoveries in the field, developing special psychics. Bosses urged to contact extraterrestrial civilizations. "And I did it. We have developed a method based on brain activity. Rather, we managed to bring the brain to a certain frequency, which allowed him to be on the same wavelength with an extraterrestrial civilization, "said Savin.
You can watch the video to see more discoveries and statements about the fact that we are not alone in the universe.
GOVERNMENTS ANNOUNCE: WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE. GET READY!
GOVERNMENTS ANNOUNCE: WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE. GET READY!
We are not alone in the universe, there are others than us!
Many questions are rising after a shock statements of what the Apollo 14 astronaut claims that aliens have contacted humankind several times, but Governments have to hide this for over 60 years.
A few US Presidents have made statements about the subject of UFO's and aliens, most notably the comments by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. During its electoral campaign in 1976, Carter admitted that he had seen a UFO in 1969 when he was Governor of the weather in Georgia.
"If I am President, I will end up doing so every information, relating to the UFO phenomenon, to become accessible to the public and scientists."
Carter, a Bachelor's degree in nuclear physics, has encountered opposition in his attempts to reopen investigations and it is likely that he may have changed his mind after reading the informative report on the subject. If aliens visit Earth, many are asking, why not landing on the lawn in front of the White House and not get in touch directly with the President? Of course, not have landed on the lawn of the White House, but there are signs that some Presidents have done this contact.
Famous people from all over the world believe that we are not alone in the universe. They believe in the existence of aliens and UFOs. Among them stood Stephen Hawking, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev or Richard Nixon even Bill Clinton or Obama, Dmitry Mendevev made certain statements.
Those who believe in the phenomenon UFOs come from diverse backgrounds, from former Presidents of the United States up to scientists, singers or actors, according to the International Business Times.
You can watch the video to see more discoveries and statements about the fact that we are not alone in the universe.
VIDEO: NASA-sondes leggen mysterieuze bol vast bij de zon
VIDEO: NASA-sondes leggen mysterieuze bol vast bij de zon
Zonnesondes van de NASA lijken een gigantisch ongeïdentificeerd object te hebben vastgelegd dat langs onze ster scheert. Dat schrijft onder meer de Daily Mirror.
YouTube-kanaal UFOMania plaatste beelden die zijn gemaakt door de STEREO-sondes op internet. De beelden tonen een grote bol die de zon lijkt te passeren.
UFOMania bekeek ook andere beelden die in oktober en november zijn gemaakt door de ruimtesondes, maar daarop is de vreemde bol niet te zien.
Groot succes
De STEREO-toestellen werden in 2006 gelanceerd en begonnen rond de zon te cirkelen. Op die manier konden wetenschappen onze zon en de zonneuitbarstingen vanuit alle hoeken bestuderen.
Dankzij STEREO-A en STEREO-B kreeg de NASA indrukwekkende 3D-beelden binnen van de zon en alle zonneactiviteit.
De missie ter waarde van 550 miljoen dollar moest in 2008 worden afgerond, maar werd verlengd wegens groot succes.
Niets te vrezen
UFO-jager Pamela Johnson uit Mexico deelde de beelden op Facebook en claimde dat de zon op het object reageerde.
Ze zei verder dat het gaat om een ruimtetuig dat deel uitmaakt van de ‘Blue Spheres’ (blauwe bollen) en dat er ‘niets te vrezen is’.
This huge object is captured on NASA'S SECCHI STEREO HI1 satellite today. Our Sun is casting the Light that is coming in from the left side of the frame. This satellite's archives showed the Sun began reacting to this object on November 15th and there are several frames missing on the 15th and 16th. Wow! Front and Center. I have added an image from November 11th showing only solar wind and passing planets so you can see what a normal view looks like. One of the lastest GaiaPortal posts comes to mind, "Astro-glances compel the masses to action". I have just consulted my Divining Rods and they indicate this is one of the Blue Spheres and not to fear. <3 https://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images
Wetenschappelijke experts hebben nog niet op de beelden gereageerd.
UFO Escorts General Akar Of Turkey And Turkish News Records It! Nov 19, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Escorts General Akar Of Turkey And Turkish News Records It! Nov 19, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting
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Date of sighting: Nov 19, 2016 Location of sighting: Turkey This week a UFO was recorded following a military helicopter carrying a four star Turkish general named Hulusi Akar. Akar is the highest rinking military officer in the Turkish military. The UFO was noticed by the news agencies and they got into a discussion about what the UFO could be and why aliens would want to follow the most powerful military officer in the country. If aliens are following Akars helicopter transport, then it stands to reason that general Akar is about to make a monumental decision in Turkish history. A decision that will impact all of history, and alien wanted to see his behavior and thoughts (yes they record your thoughts) for the days before he makes this massive decision, good or bad. This way, aliens can mathematically determine the odds of us being able to change our own fate, or be forced down a path that fate has set out for us. Scott C. Waring
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Swarm Of Orbs In Canadian Home Caught On Security Cam, Oct 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Swarm Of Orbs In Canadian Home Caught On Security Cam, Oct 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 28, 2016 Location of sighting: Canada I watched this in full screen and slowed down the motion to 25% and wow, it just blew my mind. I really didn't think I was going to see real orb entities, but these are real. There is no mistaking them. There is an entire swarm of these beings moving about the house and in orb form. Extraordinary catch. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Please watch in 720p More orb activity, it never stops . Thanks for watching! The time & date stamp is wrong, this was filmed October 28th, 2016.
Swarm Of Orbs In Canadian Home Caught On Security Cam, Oct 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Swarm Of Orbs In Canadian Home Caught On Security Cam, Oct 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 28, 2016 Location of sighting: Canada I watched this in full screen and slowed down the motion to 25% and wow, it just blew my mind. I really didn't think I was going to see real orb entities, but these are real. There is no mistaking them. There is an entire swarm of these beings moving about the house and in orb form. Extraordinary catch. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Please watch in 720p More orb activity, it never stops . Thanks for watching! The time & date stamp is wrong, this was filmed October 28th, 2016.
Green Orb Caught While Recording the Moon, Nov 19, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Green Orb Caught While Recording the Moon, Nov 19, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 19, 2016 Location of sighting: unknown observing moon This orb is an interesting color, but oddly is the equal size of the moon, so no wonder the woman was surprised. As you see here looking at the moon and then moving downward, the size is the same. This is proof this is not a star, because there is no star as big as the Super moon right now. This object is obviously a UFO observing her, and possibly has woken her telepathically to come out side. This has happened to many UFO eyewitnesses. One such similar experience was the famous actor Dan Aykroyd. It was in the late 80s when Aykroyd woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly telling his wife, “they’re calling me, I want to go outside”. Of course, his wife asked who’s calling him but Aykroyd’s only response was to insist on going outside. He was told to go back to sleep and he did. The next day, the media was swamped with reports of people all over upstate new York, Quebec and Vermont, of people having the intense urge to go outside at three in the morning. When they did go outside, a massive pink spiral was seen above the great lakes. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
At 1am I went outside to have a smoke and while recording the moon. When i tilted the camera down in front of me this Green glowing Ghost orb was in front of me. Freaked the heck out of me.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16733.jpg Many readers have suggested that the Mars Curiosity rover is not on Mars, but actually on Devon Island in Southern Canada. I have to admit that we have seen a lot of evidence that intelligent life was in those Mars photos, but in truth, I see that there is so much in most of those photos that it couldn't possibly be a place on Earth. How could such unusual artefacts exist on Earth and were never discovered by anyone? It seems that the evidence that the Mars rover is not on Mars at all is growing. Here is some of the reasons it may not be on Mars.
1. In the color photos, 90% of time NASA puts it into FALSE COLOR, a red filter to make the photo look like a red planet. This may be a psychological trick to convince the public it really is Mars. 2. Every time other countries send a rover or satellite to Mars, it is either destroyed in Earths orbit, on landing, and a few minutes after landing. Did America sabotage those Russian missions to keep a secret?
3. We found animals, a hairy monkey, squirrel, lizard, rat, rabbit, bison and two gorillas. Its a freaking zoo on Mars if its really there. 4. The real color of the sky is blue in original color NASA photos and there were white clouds! That should not be possible on Mars...and yet, its in NASA photos. 5. If you look at Devon Island on Google Earth, you see two HD photos of NASA scientists in suits and driving the Mars rover. Evidence that they are using Devon to record Mars raw footage. 75°26'0.98"N 89°51'14.99"W
So, tell me your thoughts about the NASA rover in the comments below. Where is it and why would or would not NASA fake such a mission? Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
News from Mars continues to amaze a lot of people. There have been many findings on Mars that bring interest to humanity. The latest discovery is no different as NASA Curiosity Rover image seems to show a brick wall on the Martian surface.
One part of the picture shows the remains of a wall or building. When zooms in, it appears to look a strange structure with some precision.
UFOlogists show excitement with the find. Many are convinced it is a brick wall on Mars with perfect details, which is too perfect for it to be considered a natural object. They are especially amazed at its simplicity, yet perfect as if designed like the wall around someone’s backyard.
The image has received mix reactions.
One observer said that it is stupid and no way it’s legit as it looks so fake.
One believer, meanwhile, stated that he is very impressed, but worried of the kind of devastation that resulted to just a few artifacts or few bricks left.
The comments are interesting, but no one provides explanations why they come up with the conclusion. The alleged brick wall is just one of many things discovered on Mars that appear to indicate something beyond human understanding.
There have been so many hints of life on the Red Planet but remained just hints until today, such as a crab, a skull, and a ruined fort found on the Martian surface.
UFOs During Volcanic Eruptions and Before Earthquakes
UFOs During Volcanic Eruptions and Before Earthquakes
There is a rise in sightings of UFOs during volcanic eruptions and approaching earthquakes. Online conspiracy forums are filled with claims of UFO bases inside volcanoes and UFO sightings before an earthquake.
Photos and videos of UFOs emerged showing UFOs all over exploding volcanoes and around the area that would experience tremor.
Wild claims related to this subject include UFOs monitoring seismic activity or triggering volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
Just last month, an alleged UFO sighting video surfaced online showing a UFO over an erupting Colima volcano in Mexico. Most viewers described the strange object as a cigar-shaped UFO, much like the same to the ones seen around Mexican volcanoes on live cams.
Nigel Watson, UFO Investigations Manual author, offers a more scientific explanation. UFO expert Watson noted the linking of Earth energies with UFO activity in the 1960s. In the late 1970s, scrutiny of more rigorous investigation took place, explained Watson.
Watson referred the book “Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events,” by Michael Persinger and Gyslaine Lafreniere. He said that it puts forward the evidence suggesting that tectonic strains in the crust of the Earth give sufficient energy to create columns of electrical energy and bright balls of light in the atmosphere.
The Tectonic Strain Theory (TST) offers an explanation of UFOs appearing at window areas or particular hot spots, according to Watson.
Watson added that Michael Persinger suggested the EM fields of these UFOs could trigger trance states or hallucinations in people who are close to them. Watson further explained that this might be the reason for many stories on strange encounters, such as alien abductions, that are experienced after a witness has seen the light in the sky.
UFOs filmed with Night Vision over Las Vegas, Nevada
UFOs filmed with Night Vision over Las Vegas, Nevada
Here’s a new video of an unknown object filmed with night vision camera in the sky above Las Vegas, Nevada. This happened on 15th November 2016.
Witness report:
I wanted to get the video I shot last night out the same night. To do that I had to increase the speed up on the night vision portion by five times because it takes so long to render, upload and process the video. Jaime Maussan told me they are always best at actual speed so I am remaking that portion of last nights video. I am not enhancing it in any way so this is exactly as it was as it came from the night vision camera.
De bekende astronoom Vincent Icke heeft de publicatie van Erik Verlinde inmiddels driemaal gelezen. Wij vroegen hem naar zijn reactie op het werk van de theoretisch fysicus.
Vincent Icke heeft de publicatie van Verlinde inmiddels driemaal gelezen. Foto: Astrid Koppers
U heeft de publicatie inmiddels driemaal gelezen. Is het zo leuk? ‘Nou, het is vooral heel pittige kost. Dat moet je echt even tot je nemen. Gelukkig liggen zijn ideeën wel in het verlengde van dingen waar natuur- en sterrenkundigen al sinds de jaren zeventig aan werken. En de aankondiging van dit idee deed Verlinde al jaren geleden. Dat zorgt ervoor dat je het wat gemakkelijker kunt doorgronden.’
Zijn publicatie telt zo’n 50 pagina’s. Hoe beoordeel je zoveel complexe natuurkunde? ‘Als iemand in de theoretische natuurkunde met een nieuwe theorie komt, moet je naar drie dingen kijken. Allereerst: zitten voorgaande theorieën in de nieuwe theorie besloten? Dan: kan deze theorie bestaande feiten, en waarnemingen die al gedaan zijn, verklaren? En tot slot: doet deze theorie ook een voorspelling die je kunt toetsen?’
Wat kunt u op basis van die principes concluderen? ‘Het opmerkelijke verhaal van Verlinde doet het tweede, waarnemingen verklaren, heel aardig. Het eerste – het bevatten van de oude theorieën – doet het maar ten dele. En de voorspellingen heb ik nog niet gevonden, maar het kan zijn dat ik nog wat over het hoofd zie. Het is een moeilijk artikel.’
LEESTIP Naar aanleiding van de publicatie van Verlinde schreef New Scientist-redacteur George van Hal het boek Elastisch Universum, waarin de baanbrekende ideeën van Erik Verlinde toegankelijk worden uitgelicht.Bestel nu in onze webshop (€ 7,95).
De publicatie bevat de oude theorieën dus maar ten dele. Wat bedoelt u daarmee? ‘Toen Einstein zijn relativiteitstheorie publiceerde, kwam je in de limiet van lage snelheden en massa’s vanzelf weer uit bij de wetten van Newton en Leibniz. Maar in Verlindes publicatie is het niet zo dat wanneer je de limiet neemt voor lage massa-dichtheid of snelheden, je vervolgens de formules van de algemene relativiteitstheorie terugkrijgt. ‘Toch is het wel aannemelijk dat het allemaal klopt. De uitkomst die Verlinde krijgt, is dat hij de Newtonse zwaartekracht terugvindt met iets extra’s erbij. Dat ‘iets extra’s’ moet het donkere spul in de kosmos verklaren. ‘Dat idee an sich is niet nieuw. Modified Newtonian Dynamics – MOND – deed dat al langer. Alleen was MOND heel ad hoc. Daarin verklaarden aanhangers het donkere spul met een nieuwe formule, net als Verlinde nu. Alleen werd die formule min of meer uit de duim gezogen. Daar is niets mis mee, dat mag, maar het berustte niet op onderliggende natuurkundige argumenten. ‘Bij Verlinde is dat wel het geval. Hij baseert zich heel duidelijk op de inzichten van Jacob Bekenstein, die de entropie van zwarte gaten beschreef. Die formules past Verlinde nu toe op het hele heelal.’
Maar daar volgen dus geen echte voorspellingen uit? ‘Niet echt. Het middenstuk van het artikel is in dat opzicht wel heel aardig. Daar komt Verlinde echt met een schatting van de hoeveelheid donker spul in het heelal en dat ziet er getalsmatig goed uit. Onze sterrenkundige collega’s moeten dat nog wel controleren. Daar wordt aan gewerkt, maar hun artikelen zijn nog niet beschikbaar.’
Wat is uw oordeel over de publicatie zoals deze er nu ligt? ‘Ik vind het heel loffelijk dat Verlinde hier nu al mee gekomen is. Hij heeft zijn ideeën heel helder onder woorden gebracht. In de geschiedenis van de natuurkunde is het ook geen uitzondering dat je een hypothese publiceert zonder dat je de onderliggende dynamica al kent. ‘Zo publiceerden Planck en De Broglie bijvoorbeeld al over het idee dat straling en materie gekwantiseerd zijn, en pakte Niels Bohr dat op om de quantumtoestanden van het waterstofatoom te beschrijven. Maar pas 26 jaar later publiceerde Schrödinger zijn vergelijking en volgde de achterliggende dynamica en bewegingsvergelijkingen. ‘Verlinde staat net als Planck aan het begin. Er is nog geen dynamica, nog geen bewegingsvergelijking. Maar dit is te mooi om toevallig te zijn.’
Als Verlinde gelijk heeft, hoe groot is dit dan? ‘Als hij gelijk heeft, dan is dit zeer groot. Als onze sterrenkundige collega’s bewijzen dat zijn getallen kloppen met onze waarnemingen, dan weten we dat hij in de juiste richting zit. Dan is dit een heel belangrijke publicatie. ‘Toch lost Verlinde niet letterlijk elk openstaand probleem op. Er zijn nog wel wat dingen over waar ik me zorgen over maak.’
Waar maakt u zich dan nog zorgen over? ‘Afgelopen april publiceerde ik in Nature over de kosmologische constante. Die is ongeveer 10118-maal groter dan de sterrenkunde toelaat, een nare joker in ons kosmische kaartspel. Dat probleem lost Verlinde nog niet op.’
Is dat erg? ‘Misschien. Kijk, we weten dat het heelal niet in een flits opblaast. Blijkbaar is er dus een manier waarop het heelal dit heeft opgelost, alleen kennen we die manier nog niet. Verlinde impliceert dat hij het vertrouwen heeft dat zijn theorie dit punt uiteindelijk ook oplost, dat het wel goed komt.’
Verlinde lost volgens hem het probleem van donkere materie op. Werkt zijn verklaring voor elk verschijnsel waarbij astronomen nu donkere materie nodig menen te hebben? ‘Nee, niet allemaal. Zwaartekrachtslenzen en het ‘Bullet Cluster’ van sterrenstelsels, zijn bijvoorbeeld nog niet door astronomen gecontroleerd. Maar ik heb het vermoeden dat dat getalsmatig wel zal blijken te kloppen. ‘Dat komt hierdoor. In de beschrijving die Verlinde kiest, kun je slechts 1 parameter helemaal vrij kiezen en dat is de tijdschaal. Voor die tijd kiest hij een uitdrukking die grofweg overeenkomt met de leeftijd van het heelal. Dat betekent dat alle getallen in die theorie van kosmologische grootte zullen zijn. Daarom vermoed ik dat niet alleen het gedrag van losse sterrenstelsels, maar ook van clusters van sterrenstelsels samen goed door zijn theorie zullen worden beschreven.’
French Astronaut Cried ‘Earth Must Be Warned!’ Before Attempting Suicide
French Astronaut Cried ‘Earth Must Be Warned!’ Before Attempting Suicide
Astronauts went out there and saw strange things that took a toll on their lives. Claudie Haigneré is one of them.
The incident took place in 2008 but was once again brought into attention by the controversial death of Max Spiers. Spiers was a British UFO investigator who was found dead on a friend’s couch after texting his mother that she should start an investigation if anything happened to him. It seems that those who encounter or pursue extraterrestrials are destined to get in trouble.
Claudie Haigneré is a French doctor and politician but prior to that, she was an astronaut. In 1996, Claudie and her husband, Jean-Pierre Haigneré spent more than two weeks aboard the Russian MIR space station.
Having studied rheumatology and neuroscience, Claudie’s outer space research aimed to provide insights about how astronauts adapted their motor and cognitive skills in zero gravity.
In 2001, she became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station. She saw things that regular Joes never get to see. And it probably left a mark on her.
Claudie retired from space work and between 2002 and 2005 she became involved with politics, acting as a minister delegate for research and new technologies. Following budget cuts, she started working in a biology lab at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Obscure media reports claim that while there, Claudie was at the forefront of human/alien DNA research. And then things started going south for her.
In 2008, a fire ravaged the laboratory she worked in:
Fire broke out Wednesday in a biology laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, famed for research on fighting infectious diseases, officials said.
No victims were reported, and no sensitive materials or viruses were affected by the fire, which was extinguished by firefighters, an official at the institute said. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to company policy.
The cause of the blaze was unclear.
In December of 2008, news outlets reported that Claudie Haigneré had to be rushed to a local hospital after an attempted suicide. She had taken a fistful of sleeping pills and was screaming “Earth must be warned!”
Before falling in a coma, Claudie had to be restrained. Such a strong reaction from a renowned and respected astronaut scientist could not have come without a cause. While Claudie herself blamed the whole incident on burnout syndrome, conspiracy theorists are convinced there was something darker that determined her to try and take her own life.
Sources claim that the former astronaut’s stay in Earth’s orbit opened her eyes regarding our planet’s hidden history:
FSB internal reports on Dr. Haigneré state that since her return from space she had become convinced that our Earth had been visited in our historical past by ‘ancient astronauts’ who had not only had colonized our Planet but had genetically engineered the then existing semi-human life forms into our present day human race.
Claudie is alive and well today but she chooses not to speak publicly about her ordeal. We can only speculate about her reasons to remain silent, but sometimes, actions speak for themselves.
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Did This Astronaut Warn Of Aliens Before Attempting Suicide? (Video)
Did This Astronaut Warn Of Aliens Before Attempting Suicide? (Video)
France's first female astronaut Claudie Haigneré screamed "Earth must be warned!" before she attempted suicide. (Photo : WISE Channel/YouTube)
A 6-minute YouTube conspiracy film by UFOmania has resurfaced this week that claims France's first female astronaut screamed "Earth must be warned!" before she attempted suicide. According to the video's content, Claudie Haigneré, who is now 59, had to be restrained after shouting the shocking warning -- before becoming comatose from a sleeping pill overdose.
An esteemed scientist, Haigneré was a backup crew member for the Mir Altaïr mission in 1993, and later in 1996 she made it to the Mir space station. The French astronaut also went on to become the first European woman to reach the International Space Station (ISS). In fact, the asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named after Claudie and her husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré.
The acclaimed astronaut entered French politics after retiring from her space career and became the minister delegate for research and new technologies from 2002 to 2004, and subsequently the European affairs minister delegate from 2004 to 2005. After her stint in politics, Haigneré started to work in a biology lab at France's Pasteur Institute.
At this point in Haigneré's life, things reportedly started to get a bit strange. In December 2008, claims surfaced that the former French astronaut had to be hospitalized after overdosing on sleeping pills. Furthermore, before lapsing into coma, the ex-politician was found allegedly screaming "Earth must be warned!" Later on, Haigneré, who is now the director of Europe's largest science museum -- Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie -- blamed the bizarre episode on burnout syndrome.
However, conspiracy theorists and alien enthusiasts did not reportedly buy the explanation and believe that Haigneré was trying to warn humans about extraterrestrial life and aliens. Subsequently a video was released, which has resurfaced on YouTube channel UFOmania, and reportedly seems to be a blend of fact and fiction.
According to a report in the New York Post, the video has used quotes from real reports by news agency AFP; however, they have been taken way out of context. Additionally, "human/alien DNA research" does not exist because there have never been any alien encounters, as per the report. At most, Haigneré's story resurfaces whenever credence is needed for associated conspiracy theory stories by self-proclaimed ufologists and alien experts.
Furthermore, this time the video resurface can be pointed to the mysterious death of conspiracy theorists Max Spiers last month, who was found dead after warning his mother to investigate if anything happened to him. It was also claimed that Spiers vomited black liquid before his death, fueling speculations further.
So, what is fact and what is fiction? For now, it seems the truth is out there. Meanwhile you can watch the video!
A YouTube channel recently uploaded a footage of what seems to be a UFO flying across the supermoon. The small dot seen on the picture was the alleged alien seemingly mesmerized by the moon as well.
A former member of the Chinese government confirmed the existence of aliens and extraterrestrial beings during a recent UFO disclosure community meeting.
The quest for hunting extra-terrestrial beings continue to baffle space enthusiasts. Despite that, there is an obvious question mark on the particular topic.
The former Chinese diplomat left his colleagues in utter shock as he disclosed a jaw-dropping fact. He maintained that otherworldly life and intelligence very much exists and the Chinese government even has evidence that proves alien visiting Earth in the form of UFOs.
Shi-Li Sun pulled off a shock when the topic of discussion at the recent UFO disclosure summit was the existence of alien life.
The well-known former senior Chinese diplomat and now the president of the World Chinese UFO Federation established that years of research have allowed them to gather creditable indication that proves that alien life is surrounding us and that they have been visiting Earth.
"After years of research, a large number of Chinese UFO scholars, including myself, are convinced of the authenticity of UFOs and the existence of UFOs and aliens," he announced before a panel consisting of six former members of the U.S. Congress at a recent Citizen Hearing on Disclosure organized by Stephen Bassett's Paradigm Research Group (PRG).
"I have also written articles that appeared in China's encyclopedia, which is a very prestigious encyclopedia that was edited by Shen Shituan, a famous scientist in my country," he added as quoted by Express.
Shituan, who is a luminary in the field of science and also served as the president of Beijing Aerospace University, maintained that the sighting reports of UFO and other findings of alien life should be taken seriously.
"Some of these sightings are real, some are fake and with others it's unclear," Shituan reportedly said.
"All these phenomena are worth researching."
According to the website Alien UFO Sightings, Shi-Li Sun previously highlighted that extraterrestrial beings dwell among us.
According to the UFO researcher, aliens exist among humans and they are present at different levels of human strata. Some are blue collar workers and others are either corporate executive or government officials.
Sometimes humans are unable to identify them because they are masked as humans.
Shi-Li Sun is only one of few Chinese officials who took it to the media in order to testify that the government has gleaned heavy evidence from scientific experiments and research. The collected insight then points towards the existence of alien life and UFO carriers as a whole.
Similarly, a former Canadian Minister of National Defense is also among those who maintained that alien visitors have tried to contact US and Russian governments.
But eventually, these governments were covering up the truth and were not exposing it to the media.
There have been infinite cases regarding UFO and alien sightings, although the truth is yet to be unfolded.
The search for mysterious “fast radio bursts”—very brief but intense pulses of radio waves from outer space—is heating up. Nobody knows what causes these powerful bursts, but some have even speculated that the signals could be transmitted by distant alien civilizations. In fact, astronomers are so perplexed by the phenomenon that it is driving a renaissance in radio astronomy.
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Now an international team of astronomers has detected the brightest ever fast radio burst. Dubbed FRB 150807 after its discovery date, the burst of intense radio waves lasted less than half a millisecond—that is 0.1 percent of the time it takes a human to blink. And the study, published in Science, has come closer than any before it to pinning down where the blip came from. The research comes just days after another study reported having seen a fast radio burst together with an outburst of gamma rays, extremely energetic electromagnetic radiation.
Despite their intensity, the nature and origin of fast radio bursts is still hotly debated. Some astronomers have suggested these brief, intense flashes are flares produced in the atmospheres of certain stars in our own Milky Way galaxy—a process similar to solar flares. Others argue they are caused by cosmic collisions such as a neutron star (a collapsed core of a large star) colliding with a black hole in a distant galaxy, or speculated that they could be alien signals.
The first fast radio burst—the Lorimer burst—was discovered serendipitously by radio astronomers using Australia’s Parkes telescope to search for pulsed radio emissions from spinning neutron stars called pulsars. The Lorimer burst remained a curiosity until other fast radio bursts at different positions in the sky were discovered by other telescopes such as the giant Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and the 100-meter Greenbank dish in the U.S.
But progress in understanding this enigmatic phenomenon has been slow. This is partly down to the short duration of the bursts, the limited resolution provided by the telescopes and the uncertainty of the sky positions of the bursts. Trying to discover a burst and, at exactly the same time, pinpoint accurately where in the sky it comes from is difficult. If a radio signal could be backed up by telescopes that are searching for other kinds of electromagnetic radiation (such as X-rays or the kind of “optical light” that we can see), we could measure the distance and understand the physics processes driving these events. If the processes driving these bursts are similar to those responsible for other cosmic explosions, such as gamma ray bursts, astronomers suspect that radiation at other wavelengths is likely to be emitted in the same event that caused the fast radio bursts. But it’s proven difficult to catch.
Indirect estimates of distances have been made by measuring how the radio signal is smeared out. This can help infer the amount of material the light has travelled through. From this, the distance of the fast radio burst from Earth can be estimated, using a variety of assumptions such as the amount of matter between us. Such measurements have indicated that the origins of fast radio bursts lie far beyond our galaxy.
Tracing the blip
FRB 150807 is remarkable for its short duration, radio brightness and high degree of linear “polarization”—a property describing the plane of the vibrations that make up the waves. Combining these properties, the new study suggests that the burst occurred in a galaxy over a billion light years away, identified by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) Hemisphere Survey. This is the closest we’ve ever got to pinpointing where a fast radio burst came from.
The polarization of light is affected by magnetic fields surrounding it. So knowing that helped the researchers estimate the magnetic properties of the plasma through which the radio waves travelled. Their analysis suggests that there’s only negligible magnetization of plasma close to the burst site. Interestingly, if this is correct, it would rule out strongly magnetized objects such as young neutron stars, magnetars or other objects causing it—favored models so far.
This study shows that as the small number of recorded fast radio bursts grows and their properties become better known, the exciting prospect of understanding what produces them becomes increasingly feasible. They could also be used to map out the magnetic fields in the universe—something we know little about. The next breakthrough may come with the first detection of a visible counterpart or optical afterglow, from which we can measure an accurate distance.
It may happen sooner than you think, given the other recent study’s tantalising report of possibly the first detection of a gamma-rays burst coinciding with a fast radio burst with NASA’s Swift satellite. If the two bursts do indeed come from the same source that would be very exciting—it could mean this source is lot more energetic than we had anticipated.
Analysis of FRB 150807 predicts that these events should not be rare—with 190 occurring across the sky per day. Future facilities such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope—that will survey the entire night sky every few days at optical wavelengths and the radio equivalent—and the Square Kilometre Array will revolutionize our view and understanding of these mysterious blips and the violent, ever-changing universe in which they live.
Astronomers have discovered a large valley on Mercury that provides further evidence for the planet's shrinkage — an odd phenomenon that has been the topic of debate for decades. NASA created a video overview of Mercury's 'Great Valley' here.
This newfound feature is about 620 miles long, 250 miles wide and 2 miles deep (1,000 by 400 by 3.2 kilometers), making it larger than Arizona's famous Grand Canyon and deeper than the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, scientists said. [10 Strange Facts About Mercury (A Photo Tour)]
"Unlike Earth's Great Rift Valley, Mercury's great valley is not caused by the pulling apart of lithospheric plates due to plate tectonics; it is the result of the global contraction of a shrinking one-plate planet," Tom Watters, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.
Using colorized topography, Mercury’s “great valley” (dark blue) and Rembrandt impact basin (purple, upper right) are revealed in this high-resolution digital elevation model merged with an image mosaic obtained by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington/DLR/Smithsonian Institution
Watters is lead author of a study published in Geophysical Research Letters that describes Mercury's great valley. He and his colleagues spotted the feature in images captured by NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft, which orbited the planet from March 2011 through April 2015.
Mercury is 3,032 miles (4,880 km) wide, and the vast majority of the planet's volume is taken up by its metallic core, which is estimated to be about 2,500 (4,000 km) wide. That core has been cooling slowly since Mercury (and the other planets) formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago, and the little world has been shrinking as a result.
The aforementioned debate involves the extent of that shrinkage. Observations by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft, which flew by Mercury three times in the mid-1970s, suggested that the planet has contracted by 1.2 to 2.5 miles (2 to 4 km) since its formation — significantly less than researchers' models had predicted.
But MESSENGER got a better look at Mercury, and its meticulous work allowed scientists to up the shrinkage estimate to 8.7 miles (14 km) or so. This higher number reconciled theory with observation.
As Watters noted, Mercury's crust is composed of a single plate (unlike Earth's, which consists primarily of seven large, interlocking plates). As Mercury has cooled, the rocks in this plate have been pushed together, thrusting some of them upward in cliff-like formations called scarps.
Two large, parallel scarps bound Mercury's great valley. But the valley's floor lies below the surrounding terrain, suggesting that the valley also formed via another process called "long-wavelength buckling," NASA officials said. Basically, the valley floor sagged downward as nearby rocks were pushed up.
"There are similar examples of this on Earth involving both oceanic and continental plates, but this may be the first evidence of this geological process on Mercury," Watters said.
Mysterieuze piramide ontdekt in oude Mayatempel in Mexico
Mysterieuze piramide ontdekt in oude Mayatempel in Mexico
El Castillo, de piramide van Kukulcan, bestaat eigenlijk uit drie piramides. Archeologen stuitten recentelijk op een derde bouwwerk, dat diep in de Mayatempel verborgen lag.
“Het is net een Russische matroesjkapop,” vertelde hoofdonderzoeker Rene Chavez Seguro aan journalisten tijdens een persconferentie.
Kukulcan bevindt zich in Chichen Itza, een Mayastad op het schiereiland Yucatan in Mexico.
Reusachtige stad
Toen de Mayabeschaving zijn hoogtepunt bereikte, was Chichen Itza een reusachtige stad. Het ging om één van de meest diverse steden in het Mayarijk.
Onderzoekers ontdekten het tweede bouwwerk in de piramide in de jaren dertig. Archeologen stelden vast dat het tussen 800 en 1000 na Christus is gebouwd.
De binnenste piramide is gevonden met behulp van elektrische weerstandstomografie, een 3D-scanmethode.
Nog meer
“Als we dit bouwwerk in de toekomst kunnen bestuderen, komen we mogelijk meer te weten over de eerste inwoners van de stad en kunnen we leren begrijpen hoe deze nederzetting zich heeft ontwikkeld,” vertelde archeoloog Denisse Lorenia aan Terra.
Het is mogelijk dat er nog meer, nog kleinere piramides verscholen liggen in El Castillo.
Professor Geoffrey Braswell van de Universiteit van Californië zei tegenover Sputnik International dat het bouwwerk misschien nog kleinere, oudere piramides herbergt.
Great Account Of A UFO That Made A Cloud Back In 1966 Over New York, UFO Sighting News.
Great Account Of A UFO That Made A Cloud Back In 1966 Over New York, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: summer of 1966 Location of sighting: Syracrus, New York, USA News source:http://www.syracusenewtimes.com/the-cloud-ufo/ This is a great account of seeing a UFO that had created a cloud. I too have seen such things twice, once over Rapid City, SD when four large glowing balls created perfect cloud tunnels that never broke apart or drifted away...all starting above my parking lot and disappearing over the horizon...then glowing balls the size of a B-1 bomber began going down each tunnel one by one every 20-30 seconds, each time starting on a different tunnel. That was the summer of 1989-1990. Saw about 25 of these before I was late and had to race to EAFB where I worked on B-1s & KC135s. Its a SAC base. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Photo above is from UFO Sighting Over China on 2014 News states:
It was the summer of 1966. Julia and her daughter Anne decided to go to the mall, as both were anxious to do some back-to-school shopping. Little did they know they would have a cloud UFO experience. The two were driving on the highway from Corning to the Arnot Mall in Horseheads, and were headed to a Southern Tier area known as Big Flats. Julia glanced up and noticed an odd-looking cloud in the clear, blue summer sky and alerted her daughter about the strange cloud. Julia said that the reason the cloud was so unusual was because it was a sort of “puff.” Anne described it further by saying it looked like a huge cotton ball. “That cloud began to dissipate and as it did a large saucer shaped object became visible.” Julia said after she pulled the car off the road onto the shoulder. The two women marveled at what they were witnessing. “If you were to hold a soda bottle cap out at arm’s length you’ll have a good idea how big it was as it hovered there in the sky,” Anne explained. After watching it for a moment, it suddenly got bright and just vanished in the clear blue sky. “I’ve never seen anything like it before that day and I haven’t seen anything like it since,” Julia said. Both mother and daughter assured me they remember the UFO incident like it was yesterday. (more at source)
Claudia may have used her own DNA to make alien hybrids. Thus, all failed experiments would be her own children, and often, even the successes would have to be killed when the experiment is over if its only a study, and research would be done later to simulate her work.
Claudia Haignere an astronaut from France TRIED to kill herself because of her job...working at a top secret human/alien DNA hybrid facility dedicated to creating more powerful humans...a super human of sorts that can blend in with normals and tip the balance of power for any country that controls them. For such a birth to succeed, thousands of births will fail. Seeing such hybrid babies die every day for the advancement of science must have pushed her over the edge. This kind of advancement needs to be done if humanity is going to evolve and grow. Human technology is going, but its leaving humans behind in the dust. We need this to survive the future. Imagine a human with instead of one DNA we have three intertwined DNA strands, increasing reaction speed, strength and running, memory, overall IQ. This is needed if we want to raise our level ethics and morality...because right now...humanity is free falling backwards. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
News states:
A shocking video claims France’s first female astronaut screamed “Earth must be warned!” before she attempted suicide. Claudie Haigneré, 59, reportedly had to “be restrained” after yelling the eerie caution prior to falling into a coma from an overdose of sleeping pills. A six-minute YouTube conspiracy film by UFOmania has resurfaced this week examining her story. It has been viewed nearly a million times. In 1993, esteemed scientist Claudie was a backup crew member for the 1993 Mir Altaïr mission, which included her future husband, Jean-Pierre Haigneré. She made it to the Mir space station in 1996 as part of the Russian-French Cassiopée mission, and in 2001 became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station. The asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named after Claudie and her husband. After retiring from space work, Claudie entered French politics and worked as minister delegate for research and new technologies from 2002 to 2004 and minister delegate for European affairs from 2004 to 2005. But, despite her efforts, budgets for scientific research were cut. After leaving politics, she worked in a biology lab at the Pasteur Institute.
Haignere poses on Oct. 27, 1992, after being chosen by the CNES (National Centre for Space Studies) to take part in the Franco-Soviet mission aboard the Mir space station.Photo: Getty Images That’s where the story gets strange.
Haignere trains on the Soyuz spacecraft in Star City, near Moscow.Photo: Getty Images In December 2008, it was widely reported that Claudie had to be rushed to a hospital after allegedly taking an overdose of sleeping pills. It was reported that she was found conscious but had to be restrained while screaming, “Earth must be warned!” before lapsing into a coma. Claudie blamed the incident on “burnout syndrome” and is now the director of the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie — the largest science museum in Europe. However, alien enthusiasts believe she was trying to warn the Earth about life in outer space. The YouTube video, which is narrated by a robot voice, is a conspiracy that blends fact and fiction. Claudie did attempt suicide in 2008, but the rest appears to be made up and continuously reappears on conspiracy forums, such as David Icke’s website. The video says: “She had to be forcefully restrained after screaming ‘Earth must be warned!’ “More ominously, her laboratory where she worked at the forefront of human/alien DNA research was destroyed by fire.” The video uses quotes from real reports by news agency AFP, but they’re taken out of context, with additional information. There is no such thing as “human/alien DNA research” because we have never encountered any aliens. Claudie’s story often pops up when something happens to a prominent UFO expert. The mysterious death of conspiracy theorist Max Spiers in October may have triggered the latest interest. Spiers was found dead on a sofa at a friend’s house in Poland days after warning his mother to “investigate” if anything happened to him. Friends also claim he had vomited a black liquid before his death.
Twin UFOs Caught During Super Moon Event Changing Speed, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Twin UFOs Caught During Super Moon Event Changing Speed, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 18, 2016
Location of sighting: Seen over moon, viewed from Vietnam
This is amazing! A UFO sighting from Vietnam...and a great catch at that. Two UFOs flying together like Navy pilots who always have a wingman watching out for each other. These UFOs change positions and speeds, even slowing down to wait for the other briefly. Its a great catch for a guy with no tripod. That must have been difficult to hold it that steady when he saw the UFOs, but we can hear his excitement in his voice.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
UFO hovering above the surface, pour down the super moon Again there was a clip sharing recorded images UFO hovering above the moon's surface on the evening of the last 13/11, the day of the super moon appears.
Recovery team members work in and around China's Shenzhou 11 spacecraft after it landed with Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong from a 32-day mission to the Tiangong-2 space lab on Nov. 18.
Credit: CCTV
Two Chinese astronauts returned to Earth early Friday morning (Nov. 18) after a month-long space lab mission that set a new record for their country's human spaceflight program and advanced preparations for China's first space station.
Jing Haipeng, 50, and Chen Dong, 37, who launched on board China's Shenzhou 11 spacecraft on Oct. 16, landed at 12:59 a.m. EST (0559 GMT or 1:59 p.m. Beijing time) in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Their 32 days in space more than doubled China's previous longest crewed mission.
Jing, who is now China's first veteran of three spaceflights, and Chen, who was on his first mission, spent 30 days on board the Tiangong-2 space lab, working on maintenance techniques, conducting science experiments and speaking with students and government leaders on the ground. [China's Tiangong-2 Space Lab Explained (Infographic)]
On Wednesday (Nov. 16), the two taikonauts boarded their Shenzhou 11 spacecraft and undocked from the Tiangong-2, beginning a two-day journey back to Earth. Descending under a parachute on Friday, the Shenzhou capsule fired retro-thrusters just before safely touching down and tipping onto its side.
Taikonauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong are seen after landing on board China's Shenzhou 11 spacecraft on Nov. 18.
Credit: CCTV
On Sept. 15, 2016, China launched its uncrewed Tiangong-2 space lab to Earth orbit. Learn all about the spacecraft, which China views as a key step toward building a bona fide space station, in our full infographic here.
Live television views from recovery helicopters and ground rescue vehicles showed the capsule's descent, though the coverage was brief due to poor visibility in the area. Once on the ground, the capsule was met by recovery teams to assist the crew out of the spacecraft.
Both taikonauts were reported to be in good health. After a brief period at their landing site, Jing and Chen were to be flown to Beijing Space City to rehabilitate from their time in space and to brief officials on their mission.
The Shenzhou 11 flight was the first and, as planned, only crewed mission to the Tiangong-2, which was launched in September. The space lab will remain in orbit as a platform for remotely-operated experiments and to receive China's first automated resupply and refueling vehicle, Tianzhou-1, which is slated for launch in the first half of 2017.
During their month on board the space lab, Jing and Chen served as correspondents for Xinhua news service, filing a "Space Journal" describing their life aboard the Tiangong-2. The taikonauts wrote about their daily routine, the space suits they wore, how they exercised and the food they ate.
In their last entry before leaving for Earth, they described the silkworm educational experiment they conducted as "a space lesson for Earth's children."
"Five out of the six silkworms taken aboard our Tiangong-2 space lab have cocooned," Jing and Chen wrote. "We've put them in cold containers. The sixth [silkworm] wasn't as strong as the others and it didn't move much."
The two were also the first Chinese astronauts to cultivate edible crops (lettuce) in space.
"The seeds germinated on the [flight's] fifth day. We were so excited we took some selfies with them," Jing and Chen described. "Our lettuce looked especially fresh and even greener than those on Earth, though we only tend to them for 10 minutes each day."
Jing has now logged 47 days in space, including 3 days on the Shenzhou 7 flight in 2008 and 13 days on Shenzhou 9 in 2012. Chen was the eleventh Chinese astronaut to fly in space since Yang Liwei became the nation's first taikonaut aboard Shenzhou 5 in 2003. Shenzhou 11 markedChina's sixth human spaceflight.
China's next crewed mission is scheduled for 2018, after the launch of the core module for the country's first space station.
Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Punctured Earth's Crust
Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Punctured Earth's Crust
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
Recovered core from the Chicxulub impact crater.
Credit: @ECORD_IODP
After analyzing the crater from the cosmic impact that ended the age of dinosaurs, scientists now say the object that smacked into the planet may have punched nearly all the way through Earth's crust, according to a new study.
The finding could shed light on how impacts can reshape the faces of planets and how such collisions can generate new habitats for life, the researchers said.
Asteroids and comets occasionally pelt Earth's surface. Still, for the most part, changes to the planet's surface result largely from erosion due to rain and wind, "as well as plate tectonics, which generates mountains and ocean trenches," said study co-author Sean Gulick, a marine geophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin. [Crash! 10 Biggest Impact Craters on Earth]
In contrast, on the solar system's other rocky planets, erosion and plate tectonics typically have little, if any, influence on the planetary surfaces. "The key driver of surface changes on those planets is constantly getting hit by stuff from space," Gulick told Live Science.
The researchers in the new study looked at Earth features to learn more about impact effects found on other solar system objects. Major craters sometimes possess rings of rocky hills in their centers. Most of these "peak rings" exist on extraterrestrial rocky bodies such as the moon or Venus, making it difficult to analyze these structures in detail and pin down their origins.
Researchers recovered cores from the Chicxulub impact crater, located in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
Credit: AWuelbers@ECORD_IODP
So to learn more about peak rings, scientists investigated a gargantuan crater on Earth that measures more than 110 miles (180 kilometers) across, located near the town of Chicxulub (CHEEK-sheh-loob) in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. This crater likely resulted from the epic crash of an object about 6 miles (10 km) wide, and the resulting impact is thought to have ended theage of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.
The researchers focused on the Chicxulub craterbecause it has the only intact peak ring on Earth. In contrast, larger craters on Earth, such as Sudbury in Canada or Vredefort in South Africa, "have [been] heavily eroded — neither one has peak rings anymore," Gulick said. "On the other hand, Chicxulub's peak ring is completely preserved."
The structures that the researchers wanted to examine were under about 60 feet (18 meters) of water in the Gulf of Mexico. To collect samples from these structures, the scientists traveled to the site in the spring of 2016 in a "liftboat" that could lower three pillars into the seafloor and lift the boat off the water by about 50 feet (15 m). The liftboat then lowered drills into the seafloor and "drilled into the crater for two months, to as low as 1,335 meters [4,380 feet] below the seafloor," Gulick said. (Lifting the boat from the water helps it avoid waves that can rock the vessel and snap the drill pipe.)
In the peak ring samples, the scientists discovered granite that likely once was deeply buried for about 500 million years, Gulick said. "These deeply buried rocks rose up to the surface of the Earth within the first few minutes of the impact," Gulick said. "They showed evidence they experienced a high degree of shock from the impact."
After the impact, "the earth there would have temporarily behaved like a slow-moving fluid," Gulick said. "The stony asteroid would have opened up a hole probably almost the thickness of Earth's crust, almost 30 km [18 miles] deep, and on the order of 80 to 100 km [50 to 62 miles] wide."
And similar to how fluids behave, the earth would immediately flow to fill in the hole, meaning the sides of the crater would collapse inward, he added. [When Space Attacks: The 6 Craziest Impact Craters]
"At the same time, the center of this hole starts reaching upwards, like when you throw a rock in a pond and you get a water droplet rising in the middle," Gulick said. "The center would have risen up from the surface of the Earth as much as 15 km [9 miles], and then become gravitationally unstable, collapsing downwards and outwards."
The end result of this dynamic process is a ring of mountains, or the peak ring, the researchers said.
The study's findings support one of the two main hypotheses that describe peak ring formation, the researchers said. One explanation suggested that peak rings originate closer to the surface: As an impact causes a peak to form in the middle of the crater, the uppermost part of this peak melts, causing the material to disperse into a ring of peaks. The other hypothesis suggested that peak rings formed because impacts dug deep into their targets.
"It turns out the models based on the deeper origins seemed to have gotten it right," Gulick said. "The model these findings support is based on what are known as hydrocode models, which are used for simulating nuclear bomb blasts. Those models simulate an asteroid impacting a target at close to about 20 km per second [44,740 mph], which can get the crust to flow."
Unexpectedly, the researchers noted that rocks from peak rings "got fundamentally altered by their journey upward during the impact," Gulick said. "They end up lower in density by a lot, with their porosity increasing from 1 to 2 percent to 10 percent."
These changes may have proven critical for the evolution of life on Earth, and perhaps on other planets, Gulick said. "When you get rocks with 10 percent more pore space, microbial life living below the surface may find new habitats on the surface," he said. "Our next area of research involves looking at whether ecosystems can get started by craters."
The scientists detailed their findings online today (Nov. 17) in the journal Science.
How to Avoid Stephen Hawking's Dark Prediction for Humanity
How to Avoid Stephen Hawking's Dark Prediction for Humanity
By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Contributor
Stephen Hawking, of the University of Cambridge, delivers a speech about why humanity should go into space on April 21, 2008, at George Washington University.
Credit: Paul. E. Alers/NASA via Getty Images
Stephen Hawking thinks humanity has only 1,000 years left of survival on Earth and that our species needs to colonize other planets.
The famed physicist made the statement in a speech at Oxford University Union, in which he promoted the goal of searching for and colonizing Earth-like exoplanets. Developing the technology to allow humans to travel to and live on faraway alien worlds is a challenge, to say the least. But is Hawking right that humanity has only 1,000 years to figure it out?
The dangers Hawking cited — from climate change, to nuclear weapons, to genetically engineered viruses — could indeed pose existential threats to our species, experts say, but predicting a millennium into the future is a murky business.
"While I respect Stephen Hawking enormously, speculating on how long Homo sapiens will survive before extinction is foolish," said John Sterman, director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative. "Whether we survive and thrive or descend into chaos is not something to predict or lay odds on, but a choice to be made." [Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth
Sustainable living?
If climate change continues apace, it will likely lead to a great deal of friction for the human species.
"There may be incredible amounts of food and water stress in some regions; combined with sea-level rise, this will lead to massive numbers of environmental refugees — enough to make the Syrian diaspora seem simple to absorb," said Shawn Marshall, a professor of geography and a climate change researcher at the University of Calgary in Canada.
Humanity is surviving now only by depleting the planet's natural resources and poisoning its environment, Sterman told Live Science. The nonprofit Global Footprint Network estimates that humanity uses up the resources of 1.5 Earths each year, essentially overdrawing from the planet's natural bank account. The problems of sustainability can't wait 1,000 years, Sterman said.
"Whether we can prevent damaging climate change, and the broader issue of whether we can learn to live within the limits of our finite world, will likely be determined this century," he said.
Emmanuel Vincent, a research scientist at the University of California, Merced and founder of the outreach organization Climate Feedback, echoed the call to make sustainable decisions now.
"It is important to remind [people] that one cannot predict whether a catastrophic event will wipe out humans within the next thousand years," Vincent told Live Science. "What Hawking is doing here is speculating on the risk that this will happen, and he estimates that the probability of extinction is high. While I agree that this is possible, I would like to emphasize that this primarily depends on how we manage to prevent such catastrophic outcome as a society." [7 Iconic Animals Humans Are Driving to Extinction]
Human extinction
This doesn't mean humans will necessarily go extinct if we make poor choices. Climate-wise, the planet is currently about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than preindustrial averages, Marshall said. (The past year has set multiple modern heat records.)
In comparison, temperatures during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were about 10 degrees C (18 F) warmer than preindustrial averages, or about 25 degrees C (45 F) compared with today's 16 degrees C (29 F), Marshall said. Yet life was quite abundant at that time, he told Live Science.
"It would be a habitable but rather different world," he said. "We'll run out of fossil fuels before we evaporate the oceans away."
So humans probably won't manage to actually bake themselves in an oven made of greenhouse gases, though tropical areas may become too hot for habitation, Vincent said. The real question is whether humans would be able to handle the upheaval that climate change would bring as coastlines vanish, diseases spread and weather patterns change.
"On its own, I don't see how climate change would lead to human extinction," Marshall said. "It would have to be through the social unrest triggering nuclear warfare, or some other societal implosion as a result of the environmental degradation."
Already, there are warning signs beyond warming temperatures. About half of global wildlife has been wiped out over the past 50 years, Vincent said. The situation is serious enough that many scientists believe the planet is in the midst of its sixth mass extinction.
"Anyone who thinks we can solve these problems by colonizing other worlds has been watching too much 'Star Trek,'" Sterman said. "We must learn to live sustainably here, on the one planet we have, and there is no time to lose."
Het klinkt als een idee dat rechtstreeks is weggewandeld uit sciencefictionfilm The Matrix: de wereld zoals wij die zien bestaat misschien niet echt. In plaats daarvan leven wij volgens sommige natuurkundigen in een hologram, een illusie.
De eerste die dit bizarre principe voorstelde was de Nederlandse Nobelprijswinnaar Gerard ’t Hooft. Hij haalde zijn inspiratie uit het natuurkundig gesteggel over de ware aard van zwarte gaten en de herschikking van de werkelijkheid in termen van informatie.
Informatie gaat onherroepelijk verloren
Voordat het holografisch principe ten tonele verscheen, hadden fysici al afgeleid dat twee dingen gebeuren wanneer een voorwerp in een zwart gat valt. Allereerst peuzelt het zwarte gat het voorwerp op, een proces waarbij alle gedetailleerde informatie over dat voorwerp onherroepelijk verloren zou gaan. Tegelijk wordt de horizon rond dat zwarte gat een heel klein beetje groter. De horizon van een zwart gat is de afstand vanaf waar het onmogelijk is nog aan zijn sterke aantrekkingskracht te ontsnappen.
Dat informatie in een zwart gat verloren lijkt te gaan, is in tegenspraak met de tweede hoofdwet van de thermodynamica. Die wet stelt dat de entropie, een maat voor de informatie van een systeem, altijd moet toenemen. Dat is echter onmogelijk wanneer het zwarte gat informatie genadeloos opslurpt en vernietigt. De oplossing schuilt in de groeiende horizon. Want als de entropie altijd toeneemt, en het oppervlak van de horizon van een zwart gat neemt ook altijd toe, dan zijn beiden voor een zwart gat misschien wel een en hetzelfde ding.
Fysici leidden zelfs heel nauwkeurig af hoeveel het oppervlak groeit. Voor elke bit aan informatie die in een zwart gat verdwijnt, blijkt het oppervlak van zo’n zwart gat met een zogeheten planckoppervlak te groeien. Zo’n planckoppervlak is gedefinieerd aan de hand van een van de onwrikbare natuurconstanten die ten grondslag liggen aan de werkelijkheid. Het is vermoedelijk het kleinst mogelijke oppervlak dat kan bestaan.
Binnenin een zwart gat
Dat het oppervlak van een zwart gat groter wordt wanneer je er een bit ingooit, betekent dat wanneer je weet hoe groot dat oppervlak is, je ook weet hoeveel informatie het zwarte gat bevat. Dat het oppervlak een maat is voor het aantal bits, wil natuurlijk niet direct zeggen dat die informatie ook daadwerkelijk op het oppervlak te vinden is. Toch is juist dat wat fysici met het holografisch principe aantoonden. Elke bit die in een zwart gat verdwijnt, blijkt na afloop terug te vinden aan het oppervlak. Dat betekent dat zelfs de meest complexe informatie die in een zwart gat valt nooit helemaal verdwijnt. Hoewel het daarna voor ons in praktische zin ‘onleesbaar’ is, gaat het niet verloren. Iemand die de machinerie van zwarte gaten nauwkeurig doorgrond heeft, kan de verloren informatie in theorie reconstrueren.
De realisatie dat de informatie van een zwart gat alleen aan het oppervlak zit en niet in zijn binnenste, is van doorslaggevend belang voor het holografisch principe. Om dat aannemelijk te maken, maak ik eerst een zijstapje en richt me op de vraag: hoeveel informatie kun je maximaal in een stukje ruimte kwijt? Het antwoord volgt uit het volgende gedachtenexperiment.
Boeken in een bol proppen
Stel je eens een bol om je heen voor met een diameter van, pak ‘m beet, 2 meter. Stel vervolgens dat we willen weten hoeveel informatie er in die bol past. Het boek waarin deze tekst staat, is minder dik dan de Dikke Van Dale, maar bevat toch best wel wat bits aan informatie. Dat boek kun je vasthouden en past in die bol. In onze bol van twee meter passen zelfs nog heel veel meer boeken.
Stel nu eens dat je die bol helemaal volpropt met boeken. Heb je dan de maximale hoeveelheid informatie in die bol gestopt? Het antwoord is: nee. Want het kan nog wel wat efficiënter. Je kunt in plaats van boeken immers ook allemaal USB-sticks of externe harde schijven in de bol proppen. Die bevatten veel meer informatie en nemen veel minder ruimte in. En als we straks een quantumcomputer ontwikkelen, past er misschien wel nog meer in.
Toch bestaat er wel een fundamentele limiet aan de hoeveelheid informatie die je in onze bol kunt proppen. Stel je eens voor dat we alsmaar meer USB-sticks in onze bol stoppen. We gaan door totdat ze allemaal vermorzeld worden. Totdat we zelf al lang en breed zijn stukgedrukt door een absurde stapel sticks, boeken en schijven. En zelfs dan houden we nog niet op. Op een gegeven moment zit die bol zo propvol dat de massa onder zijn eigen gewicht begint in te storten en ineens ontstaat een zwart gat. Pas dan, en niet eerder, past er met geen mogelijkheid meer informatie bij. Voeg je dan toch nog wat extra’s toe, dan groeit immers de horizon van het zwarte gat, zoals we net gezien hebben. En dan past dat zwarte gat dus niet meer in onze bol. Een zwart gat bevat, met andere woorden, de meest efficiënte opstapeling van informatie in de kosmos.
Dansen wij allen op de grillen van nullen en enen aan de rand van de kosmos?
Meest efficiënte opstapeling van informatie
Nu we weten dat zwarte gaten de efficiëntste archiefkasten van de kosmos zijn, kunnen we het holografisch principe afleiden. We weten namelijk ook al dat voor elk zwart gat geldt dat al zijn informatie op de horizon rond dat zwarte gat zit. Maar, en hierin schuilt de crux: letterlijk elk stukje lege ruimte kan een zwart gat worden, zolang je er maar genoeg informatie inpropt. En als in de meest efficiënte opstapeling van informatie in een bepaald stuk ruimte alle informatie in een schil rond die ruimte zit, waarom zou de natuur dan in andere gevallen niet ook de informatie op die schil bewaren?
Dat was het schokkende inzicht dat Gerard ‘t Hooft met het holografisch principe lanceerde. Alle informatie in de kosmos zit volgens dat principe gevangen in een schil om de kosmos heen. Die schil zit op de grootst mogelijke afstand die denkbaar is, de denkbeeldige rand om het universum. Met andere woorden: de wereld om ons heen is niet echt, maar is het gevolg van een bizar spel van enen en nullen op een oppervlak dat miljarden lichtjaren van ons verwijderd is.
Dat betekent dat het heelal sterk lijkt op een hologram. Bij zo’n hologram zit alle informatie namelijk ook gevangen op een tweedimensionaal oppervlak. Het is – net als bij een zwart gat – wel een beetje verstrooid. Door naar dat oppervlak te kijken zie je niets dat duidt op hoe het hologram eruit gaat zien. Maar als je weet hoe het hologram werkt, en je schijnt er op de juiste manier met een licht op, dan ontstaat vanzelf een prachtig driedimensionaal beeld.
Holografisch principe
Dat is de reden dat de bekende Amerikaanse fysicus Leonard Susskind het idee van ’t Hooft de naam ‘holografisch principe’ meegaf. Susskind vertaalde het op zijn beurt naar de taal van de snaartheorie, een van de belangrijkste kandidaattheorieën in de poging tot unificatie van alle natuurkrachten. Later liet de Argentijnse fysicus Juan Maldecena zien hoe je het holografisch principe praktisch kon toepassen in een beschrijving van de kosmos. Daarna ontwikkelde het principe zich, hoe tegendraads en onvoorstelbaar het ook is, tot een in de moderne natuurkunde breed gedragen idee.
Daarbij bleef echter wel één probleem over. De snaartheorie beschrijft in de meeste varianten van die theorie namelijk helemaal niet de kosmos zoals wij die kennen. Het beschrijft een universum waarmee fysici ietsje makkelijker kunnen rekenen. Eentje waarbij de mysterieuze, onbegrepen donkere energie (zie ook het hoofdstukje kosmologische constante) zich niet gedraagt als een soort antizwaartekracht, zoals in onze kosmos, maar als een min of meer ‘gewone’ variant van de zwaartekracht.
Andere fysici proberen het holografisch principe daarom te vertalen naar de echte kosmos. Een van hen is Erik Verlinde. In tegenstelling tot de meesten, komt hij daarbij echter tot een compleet nieuwe conclusie. Waar de meesten het holografisch principe stevig in het zadel houden, concludeert Verlinde dat informatie helemaal niet uitsluitend gevangen zit op een tweedimensionale schil op de kosmologische horizon. Volgens hem klopt het holografisch principe inderdaad keurig voor de theoretische universa die de snaartheorie beschrijft, maar zit de informatie in ons ware heelal zowel op een tweedimensionale schil als in het driedimensionale binnenste van de kosmos.
Einstein afleiden
Dat idee kun je volgens Verlinde zelfs testen. Wie strikt het traditionele holografisch principe toepast op de beschrijving van de kosmos vindt, na flink wat rekenwerk, vanzelf de wetten van Einstein terug, exact zoals Einstein ze aan het begin van de vorige eeuw noteerde. Ga je echter uit van een universum waarin informatie wél deels driedimensionaal is, dan vind je wetten die er net ietsjes anders uit zien.
Voor kleine stukjes ruimte blijkt volgens Verlinde de invloed van de informatie op de tweedimensionale schil om dat stukje ruimte dominant. Je krijgt dan uitkomsten die overeenkomen met die van het holografisch principe en de wetten van Einstein. Maar wanneer je naar grotere gebieden gaat kijken, met steeds grotere volumes, gaat de bijdrage van de informatie in het driedimensionale binnenste een steeds belangrijkere rol spelen. Dat zorgt voor subtiele aanpassingen op de wetten van Einstein.
Dat inzicht verklaart, net als bijvoorbeeld MOND, waarom de draaisnelheid van de buitenste sterren in sterrenstelsels volgens een regelmatig patroon afwijkt van de voorspellingen van Einstein. Het verklaart zelfs waarom in het waarneembare universum, met zijn enorme volume, zoveel donker spul nodig is om tot een sluitend verhaal te komen. De aanpassing van Verlinde op het kosmologisch principe geeft daarom op natuurlijke wijze een antwoord op het raadsel waar 95 procent van het heelal verstopt zit.
Nieuwe theorie suggereert dat we in een hologram leven
Nieuwe theorie suggereert dat we in een hologram leven
Sommige natuurkundigen stellen dat de wereld zoals we die zien niet echt bestaat en dat we in een hologram leven.
De eerste de dit voorstelde was de Nederlandse Nobelprijswinnaar Gerard ’t Hooft. Volgens zijn holografisch principe zit alle informatie in de kosmos gevangen in een schil om de kosmos heen.
Die schil zit op de grootst mogelijk denkbare afstand, de denkbeeldige rand om het universum.
Met andere woorden: de wereld om ons heen is niet echt, maar het gevolg van een bizar spel van enen en nullen op een oppervlak dat miljarden lichtjaren van ons verwijderd is.
Alternatief
Dat betekent dat het heelal sterk lijkt op een hologram. Bij zo’n hologram zit alle informatie namelijk ook gevangen op een tweedimensionaal oppervlak.
Andere fysici proberen het holografisch principe te vertalen naar de echte kosmos. Eén van hen is Erik Verlinde.
Hij presenteerde onlangs een nieuwe theorie van de zwaartekracht, die mogelijk een alternatief biedt voor donkere materie.
In 2010 stelde Verlinde dat zwaartekracht geen fundamentele kracht is, maar een verschijnsel dat tevoorschijn komt uit een onderliggende theorie.
Uitbreiding
Vergelijk het met het begrip temperatuur, dat geen op zichzelf staand verschijnsel is, maar voortkomt uit de bewegingen van grote hoeveelheden microscopische deeltjes.
Verlinde geeft met zijn theorie een uitbreiding aan het holografisch principe. Hij laat zien dat niet álle informatie op de denkbeeldige schil rond het universum is af te beelden.
Een deel van de informatie, het deel dat de zogeheten donkere energie in ons heelal beschrijft, blijft daadwerkelijk over de hele ruimte verspreid.
Meetbaar effect
Verlinde toont aan dat deze extra informatie een meetbaar effect heeft op de materie in het heelal – het effect dat tot nu toe werd toegeschreven aan de donkere materie.
“Onze gangbare ideeën over ruimte, tijd en de zwaartekracht moeten hoognodig op de schop,” zegt Verlinde.
“We weten al heel lang dat Einsteins theorie van de zwaartekracht niet door één deur kan met de kwantummechanica. Ik denk dat we ons aan de vooravond van een wetenschappelijke revolutie bevinden.”
Aircraft being refueled on November 3, 2016 over Wichita, Kansas.
Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Jimmy Carter Saw a UFO, We Have Lost Many Men and Planes Trying to Intercept UFOs, Time Travelers Allegedly Knew Trump Would be Elected, New President Elect will be Briefed on UFOs, The Ufologist, Vatican and UFOs, and Would You Baptize an Alien?
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President Jimmy Carter Saw a UFO
“It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors, and it was about the size of the moon. A red and green glowing orb radiated as it hurtled across the southwestern Georgia skies. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing’s for sure: I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified flying objects in the sky.” It was just another fun night, on January 22, 1969,when suddenly from the sky a UFO at the Leary Lion’s Club for Jimmy Carter when he and friends spotted a UFO.
President Carter filed two formal reports when he was governor of Georgia describing his observation of an unidentified flying object to organizations that collect and promote UFO sightings as unexplained phenomena. (ABCNEWS.com)
We Have Lost Many Men and Planes Trying To Intercept UFOs
George Wolkind writes concerning the statements of General Benjamin Chidlaw, former commanding general of Air (later Aerospace) Defense Command told Robert C. Gardener (ex USAF) in 1953: “We have stack of reports of flying saucers. We take them seriously, when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” George Wolkind writes, “The last time we checked the US lost 214 pilots and Soviets had 38 to possibly 48 dead pilots.” We lost nearly 200 Navy personnel in 1992, and destroyer ordered into the beam of a UFO establishing contact with cetaceans, only four survivors. Other countries such as Cuba and China have also lost aircraft and men.
Time Travelers Allegedly Knew Trump Would be Elected
Evidence DARPA-CIA time travel pre-identified Trump as future U.S. President U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama were also pre-identified by secret Presidential time travel preidentification program, according to Andrew D. Basiago, former chrononaut and 2016 Presidential candidate. Asked whether his statements are hearsay, Andrew D. Basiago responded, “My statement is not hearsay offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted that Trump will win the election. By Alfred Lambremont Webre https://newsinsideout.com/2016/11/evidence-darpa-cia-time-travel-pre-identified-trump-future-u-s-president/
Wikileaks is Releasing UFO Information
The Wikileaks correspondence confirms military and aerospace authorities are involved in communications between John Podesta and
“Sekret Machines” author Tom Delonge about efforts to open up the US government files on UFOs and ETs, which have been suppressed since World War II.
Tom DeLonge is a musician and co-founder of Blink-182 band. He is also a “UFO researcher.” These days, he’s focused on Sekret Machines, his new UFO-centered “multimedia franchise,” which just put out a book where military and intelligence sources tell classified stories about paranormal contact.
DeLonge has always viewed his work on UFOs has extremely important. He feels the mysteries of life in space involve “religion and cosmology, and it has to do with politics and secrecy. As the Wikileaks e-mail dump earlier this month clarified. DeLonge interfaced with John Podesta, chairman of the Clinton campaign. The e-mails indicate that DeLonge interviewed Podesta last year about a potential documentary, and that he wanted to organize another meeting with “A-Level officials” from the government’s “most fragile divisions, as it relates to Classified Science and DOD topics.”
In a recent Instagram post, he writes that “Wikileaks really messed some important stuff up,” implying that he was upset that his private emails about “Classified Science and DOD topics” were released to the public. Also, however, he seems excited about the higher profile his research has gotten because of the release of the e-mails, stating “Project is still on… things just got bigger.”
John Podesta emails show he also wants disclosure. There are hints Obama and Hillary would release disclosure if she was elected. There is also another group, composed of NASA, CIA, possibly White House people who view the ET presence in a positive light, and seem to have a plan related to disclosure.
Grant Cameron, who produces the www.presidentialufo.com/ website is analyzing the ongoing hacked WikiLeaks email dump and expects more revelations based on insider information this week. Allegedly, “John Podesta still has a green light to open up UFO and ET files beginning in January 2017 after the Presidential Inauguration.”
The Wikileaks correspondence confirms military and aerospace authorities are involved in communications between John Podesta and “Sekret Machines”author Tom Delonge about efforts to open up the US government files on UFOs and ETs, which have been suppressed since World War II.
The leaked emails reveal that three of Delonge’s highly placed advisors are Major General William N. McCasland, Robert F. Weiss, Executive VP and General Manager of Skunk Works at Lockheed Martin Corporation, and USAF Major General Michael Carey, retired after serving as Special Assistant to the Commander of the USAF Space Command.
From:t.delonge@me.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2016-01-25 16:04 Subject: General McCasland
exa He mentioned he’s a “skeptic”, he’s not. I’ve been working with him for four months. I just got done giving him a four hour presentation on the entire project a few weeks ago. Trust me, the advice is already been happening on how to do all this. He just has to say that out loud, but he is very, very aware- as he was in charge of all of the stuff. When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of that exact laboratory up to a couple years ago. He not only knows what I’m trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team. He’s a very important man. Best, Tom DeLonge.
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New President Elect will be Briefed on UFOs and Space
Republican president-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City.
Credit:Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The country has a new President elect, some are weeping and others are cheering. Hopefully, Trump can carry out his promises. Most of the conversations between President-elect Trump and Congress will probably involve immigration, health care, the economy, and other similarly high-profile issues. But the nation’s future in space will be perhaps the most important. There may be war in space between the technologically advanced nations or perhaps we will join together to fight an alien enemy. President Putin of Russia has indicated he wanted Trump to be President and implies the US and Russia can continue to work together in space.
In his first term, President Barack Obama canceled the space shuttle program and George W. Bush’s Mars moon-oriented Constellation program and instructed NASA to get astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid by 2025. Then head for Mars by the mid-2030s. To meet the first part of that directive, NASA devised the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which will pluck a boulder off a near-Earth asteroid using a robotic probe. This spacecraft will then haul the boulder to lunar orbit, where it will be visited by astronauts. But ARM has its share of detractors, and some of them occupy positions of power on Capitol Hill. For example, earlier this year, the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee proposed denying funding to the mission. “The Committee believes that neither a robotic nor a crewed mission to an asteroid appreciably contributes to the overarching mission to Mars,” committee members wrote in a report. “Instead, NASA is encouraged to develop plans to return to the moon to test capabilities that will be needed for Mars, including habitation modules, lunar prospecting and landing and ascent vehicles.”
And that brings up another issue, he added: Just how much international cooperation will there be on NASA’s journey to Mars. Who will the partners be? Could Russia and China be involved, even though U.S. law currently prohibits NASA from working with China to any significant degree? “That’s a very big civil-space public policy question that the next administration will most definitely be tackling,”
The George W. Bush and Obama administrations set NASA on a path that hands over many activities in low-Earth orbit (LEO) to private companies, theoretically freeing up the space agency to focus on more ambitious efforts, like getting people to Mars. For example, SpaceX and Orbital ATK currently fly robotic cargo missions to the International Space Station for NASA, and SpaceX and Boeing should start flying American astronauts to and from the orbiting lab in a year or two.
“That raises a bigger question about, Are there activities NASA has historically done that are perhaps better suited for the private sector to do?” There are other important space-policy questions that must be dealt with at some point, Weeden said. For example, which federal agency should regulate the moon and asteroid-mining industry?
Artist’s illustration of base on the surface of Mars.
Then there’s the national-security realm. Much of the United States’ military might is based on the nation’s dominance in space; for example, sharp-eyed spy satellites often give American war fighters a clearer view of the battlefield than their adversaries can get.
But other countries are increasingly contesting this dominance by developing their own advanced spacecraft and, in some cases, anti-satellite capabilities, experts have said. “There’s much more of a case that in future conflicts, there’s probably going to be a space element of the conflict,” Consultant Brian Weeden said. “How might the U.S. deter potential adversaries such as Russia and China from kinetic attacks on space [assets] in a future conflict? And then, how best to leverage commercial industries and allies in that mix of resilience and assurance?”
President-elect Trump and Congress will therefore have a lot to talk about when it comes to space. And they may have fewer arguments than we’re used to seeing, now that the presidency, House and Senate are all in Republican hands. Thanks to Space.com.
Note: Can anyone seriously suggest that the press didn’t go all out in investigating every aspect of Trump’s life and career? The six major companies that control the news will continue to blame Trump for every conceivable problem. He has successfully built 500 companies, so hopefully he has the ability to rebuild American jobs. The Republican nominee pulled off the incredibly difficult feat of capturing Michigan and Pennsylvania. People are angry and frustrated at a political system that does little for them. The real unemployment figures are around 20%, since anyone who does not collect unemployment insurance is not counted. Most journalists who work for national news organizations are simply out of touch with those folks and failed them in many ways. They news never mentions the killing of thousands of Christians in the Middle East or even UFOs
UFOs Over Canada 1913
“These strange lights, in procession, reappeared on the night of February 9, 1913, over Canada when Professor Chant, of Toronto, made many observations of them. Here is a summary of his report in the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (November 1913, page 141-142 of the Wilkins hardback: A strange spectacle was seen in Canada (Saskatchewan and Ontario), the U.S.A. (New York), at sea, and in Bermuda. A luminous body was seen, with a long tail attached to it. The body grew rapidly larger. Observers differ whether this body was single, or in three or four parts, with a tail to each. The group, or complex structure, moved with a peculiar, majestic deliberation. It disappeared in the distance, and another group emerged from its place of origin. Onward they moved, at the same deliberate pace, in twos, threes, or fours. As third group, or structure followed.” Some people, who observed these weird bodies, compared the singular spectacle to a fleet of airships – shall we say space ships?
others to naval battleships, attended by cruisers and destroyers.
One observer, cited in the scientific journal said” “There were probably 30 or 32 objects, and the peculiar was their moving in threes or fours, abreast of each other, and so perfect was their lining up that you would have thought it was an aerial naval fleet maneuvering after rigid drilling.” On that night, in 1913, a procession of unknown objects carrying lights passed in sky over Toronto, and was seen in Bermuda, and also in New York State. They took from five minutes to pass, and W. F. Denning, who said he had observed the skies since 1865, and had never seen anything like this phenomenon, “It looked like an express train lighted at night…. lights at the tail, one in front, one in the rear, then a succession of lights at the tail.” Sounds were heard from them, and they followed the curvature of the earth, at a relatively low velocity, as no meteorite would do. Chant said that unknown dark objects were seen over Toronto the next day.
“People even said they were airships cruising over the city. They passed from west to east in three groups, and then returned west in more scattered formation.” Thanks to Jim Klotz
“The Ufologist: The Haunting of John Ventre”
Book Review by Brian J. Allan
John Ventre is one of the very few Ufologists who successfully maintain an open mind on the nature of the UFO phenomenon and its possible causes. In this new book John presents a very plausible case based on personal experience that UFOs and their occupants are not necessarily from other worlds or galaxies, but could also have a distinctly occult and magical connection. He bases this on a series of all too close encounters with a number of entities that could sit comfortable in either camp. These are views shared by such noted luminaries as the late John Keel and Jacques Vallee and, as it happens, also with this reviewer.
The author also quotes other paranormal/UFO investigators such as Nick Redfern and mentions the shadowy, quasi-governmental CIA attached group called ‘The Collins Elite’, who came to a very similar conclusion, i.e. that ET’s were almost certainly demonic in nature. John elaborates on this by listing signs of demonic infestation and also lists the hierarchy of demons (and angels). Helpfully he also includes the rite of exorcism as well. The author also shares his timeline of personal haunting by a ghostly ‘something’ that may have had UFO connections and what he describes is truly alarming. This book may not appeal to the rigid mindset of the die-hard ETH Ufologist. This is a pity because in this field of study we need all the support we can get. However to anyone else with a genuinely enquiring outlook the book is truly enlightening and above all entertaining and well worth the purchase price. Brian J Allan is a Scottish paranormal expert, editor of Phenomena magazine and the author of numerous books.
Vatican and UFOs
Cristoforo Barbato an Italian independent UFO researcher and friend of Paola Harris as sent some interesting information that indicates serious Vatican interest in alien life. Barbato spoke at the Palazzo della Provincia of Pescara about the truth behind UFOs organized by the “Ufobserver” Cultural Association. During the conference he spoke about underground bases in the USA.
Barbato writes, “In the year 2000, I was working in Rome as an editor in the “Stargate” magazine and I wrote many articles about the Fatima Apparitions, their famous Third Secret and other Vatican State-related mysteries. After the publication of these articles I started to receive many e-mails from a person who qualified himself as a Vatican insider longing to know me for my researches about Fatima. From those e-mails rose up the story of a presumed Vatican Intelligence Agency named “S.I.V.” code from “Servizio Informazioni del Vaticano”. After one year of such kind of epistolary contacts (in the meantime that person had revealed to me he was a S.I.V. member from the Jesuit order working in structures of the Holy See and I could verify that these informations were true), we finally met in a public place in Rome and I could realize that he knew much more of what he had said in his letters.
Moreover, he sent to me some stuff including a video (shown during the Pescara Conference) regarding observations of something like a tenth planet approaching the Solar System. Such video had been presumably taped in 1995 from a space probe named Siloe and its images had been later sent to a secret radio-telescope hidden in a dismissed oil-refining plant in Alaska, totally managed by Jesuits.”
According to this person the reason to establish the S.I.V. was the meeting with an Alien delegation at Muroc Air Field Base in February 1954 in presence of President Dwight Eisenhower and James Francis McIntyre, bishop of Los Angeles. After the incredible event McIntyre flew to Rome to refer everything to Pope Pius XII who decided to found the S.I.V with the aim to get every possible information about Aliens and how they did interact with the American Government. From then bishop McIntyre and Detroit Archbishop Edward Mooney became the main information coordinators between USA and the Vatican State.
Incredibly, later on there should have been some direct personal meetings between S.I.V. members and a Nordic-looking race of Aliens. These Aliens presumably warned humans against another alien race met by the Americans in the California Desert. These meetings between S.I.V and Aliens took place mainly in the USA territory but also (two times) in the Vatican State, precisely in Vatican Gardens at the Papal Academy of Sciences in presence of Pope Pius XII the same.
He also called “Secretum Omega” the highest secrecy level in S.I.V, equivalent to the NATO “Cosmic Top Secret”. The Vatican has also worked closely with various countries such as Canada and South American countries where sightings are rampant.
In the 18th century, the Papacy actively supported astronomy, establishing the Observatory of the Roman College in 1774. The Vatican built an Observatory is now headquartered in Castel Gandolfo, Italy and operates a telescope at the Mount Graham International Observatory in Arizona in the United States. (above) Thanks to Cristoforo Barbato
Would You Baptize an Alien?
Brother Guy Consolmagno Director
Witty and thought provoking, two Vatican astronomers shed provocative light on some of the places where religion and science meet.
“Imagine if a Martian showed up, all big ears and big nose like a child’s drawing, and he asked to be baptized. How would you react?”µ
– Pope Francis, May, 2014
Pope Francis posed that question – without insisting on an answer! – To provoke deeper reflection about inclusiveness and diversity in the Church. But it’s not the first time that question has been asked.
Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father Paul Mueller hear questions like that all the time.
Did you know that the Vatican owned an observatory run by Jesuit scientists? Consolmagno, is an astronomer who studied at MIT, and Mueller, with a doctorate in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Chicago, are brilliant scientists and theologians, and they both possess a slightly irreverent and refreshing sense of humor. The authors attempt to highlight how the perceived conflict between religion and science is severely overblown. The discrepancies between the book of Genesis and the big bang theory is heady stuff for sure, but the casual writing style makes for an enjoyable learning experience. This is an excellent primer for anyone remotely interested in building a bridge between religious faith and scientific investigation. They’re scientists at the Vatican Observatory, the official astronomical research institute of the Catholic Church.
In Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?Theyexplore a variety of questions at the crossroads of faith and reason: How do you reconcile the Big Bang with Genesis? Was the Star of Bethlehem just a pious religious story or an actual description of astronomical events? What really went down between Galileo and the Catholic Church – and why do the effects of that confrontation still reverberate to this day? Will the Universe come to an end? And… could you really baptize an extraterrestrial?
With disarming humor, Brother Guy Consolmagno, and Father Paul explore these questions and more over the course of six days of dialogue. Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial will make you laugh, make you think, and make you reflect more deeply on science, faith, and the nature of the universe.
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Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Object
Tucson— I was in my front yard and am always looking at the sky on November 4, 2016, and I saw a bright silver moving object. At first I didn’t know what it was but was thinking it was a missile, as it got closer than I know. The object was moving North West from Mexico towards some strange clouds. When I seen it my first thought was a missile but then I could make out a rounder image. I lost it in the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Edwards— We were driving east, passing Edwards Air Force Base and I noticed an object traveling very fast across the highway on November 4, 2016. It had a wobble to it because the suns reflection wasn’t constant and it couldn’t be seen unless it tilted. I happened to take two pictures of it while it was reflecting the sun with my Canon digital camera. I have raw images that can be examined further, but will only submit a jpeg at this time due to the size of the raw image. It was moving too fast to get a good focus. Raw image can be sent if you would like. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Lights
Higganum— My 18 year old son went out on my porch early before work at 5:40 am on October 31, 2016, and took a picture for his girlfriend. After taking the picture my son realized there was some type of craft in the picture that was invisible to his naked eyes. The lights were directly over the church steeple across the street from our house. He looked up at the sky and still saw nothing then came inside to show me the picture. He was pretty surprised at what was in the picture. He felt it was alien and this needed to be shared with others. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
Lakeland— About 2:45 pm, I had just existed off the ramp onto Kathleen Road from Interstate 4 when I noticed, an object while waiting for the light to change on September 10, 2014. As I began, to focus in on the object, it became evident that it wasn’t an aircraft rather, something entirely different. I then, used my camera phone to capture this beautiful object that was in the distance. It was there one second and gone the next. Fortunately, I was able to get at least one picture of this tiny object, before it disappeared entirely. It was a green object the first of many to be shared. The heavens are full of life. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Object
Johns Creek — About five weeks ago while walking our dog, we were noticing a bright flashing light in the sky on October 1, 2016. It was brighter than any star and flashing, but not moving. After three nights of seeing this in the same place, we decided to observe with our telescope. The object is round, and surrounded by bright lights. The lights seem to be in rows, lining the outer edges changing color – white, red, yellow, blue and green. The object moves slowly in a diagonal track for 30 minutes at the same time each night and disappears. We have attached a 35mm digital camera to our telescope and have been able to take pictures and video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orb
Romeoville — I was standing outside smoking a cigarette with my friend when Ilooked up on October 17, 2016, and to the west I saw a green line with two pulsing red lights on each side standing still in the sky. After 20 minutes or so it slowly moved to the west and then back to the east very slowly and silently. The object was moving from side to side three times across the sky from east to west. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kansas Disc
Wichita— I was taking a photo of an awac aircraft being refueled a couple miles down range at about 9,000 feet in November 3, 2016.
When I got home and loaded film onto my computer I noticed the two objects. They were flying too high for birds. Five minutes before this an F-18 Super Hornet took off from the airport which was very weird. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Light
Brick — On Drump Point Road myself and two others were leaving work on October 24, 2016, the lady with me said, “OMG what’s that?” When I looked up I saw a fire ball, coming from roughly the NW area. First thought was a ufo. As I have seen many videos and documentaries about sightings. I immediately remembered seeing other videos about the same thing I’m witnessing. As it comes closer I grab my camera as is just above us. Watching on my phone while recording it looked more like a fiery plasma ball rotating and pulsating. The other guy came out and also saw the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Objects
Long Beach— This is a resubmission of my past posting with editing notes for clarification on November 5, 2016. I was informed by a Mufon investigator that he was unable to see the objects I described in my photos. Driving on the Meadowbrook Parkway I saw a white orb so I took a picture. I took other pictures in different locations at various times. My pictures include sightings form the Meadowbrook Parkway, Loop Parkway and Lido Blvd. My pictures however showed a lot more detail such as multiple orbs blue and white, a white triangle, and a white curved line and a purple rectangle. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Dakota Object
Fargo – I saw these objects on November 6, 2016 of six small orange points of light passing slowly overhead in triangular formation, crossing the night sky in about 60 seconds. Then few minutes later, two strings of 8 each travelling parallel flew back across sky at much higher rate of speed, passing over in the space of few seconds. Last night, I saw 16 flying objects in a close v formation at high altitude and at high rate of speed, crossing sky in four seconds, till they were out of sight. These craft did not hold tightly to their v formation as some on the outer edges of the formation spread apart. These craft emitted steady pale orange glow, and were about the size and brightness of an average star in the night sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Pill
Fairborn— I was at Maplewood Park with my girl friend on the swings. I looked up and saw a shiny, pill shaped UFO flying overhead. It was completely silent and really high floating across the sky. So I pulled out my cell and started recording. My girl friend and I just watched it and may have been a satellite or a blimp. I was only a couple miles away from Wright Patterson Air Force Base. I lost sight of the object when it flew away. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Chemtrails
All I am saying is that I felt their presence and it’s possible. I did see the continuation of the chemtrails today (DSC00672A). A lot seemed to be flying into and around (unknowingly to them) what I am calling a cloaked mother ship (DSC05145A). Here’s what I wrote yesterday. “On Friday, I was at the Monroe Institute by the big crystal and I saw something similar to the photos you forwarded re: the Crystal Ship. I saw wispy clouds forming and within 5 minutes they dissipated. They would grow from nothing, and then grow a bit and eventually dissipated all within about 5 minutes. Before they did, 10 maybe more round white spheres would be left and then they dissipate like the clouds.” These white spheres looked very similar to the ones in the picture minus the huge alien spacecraft that suddenly appeared in the sky. This round anomaly showed up right next to the airplane.”I have a theory. Maybe the chemtrails are serving a purpose other than what the powers that were intended them to be. Maybe the chemtrails are a cloaking device that ETs use when there are no clouds. Maybe I did witness a huge mother ship today, and maybe the smaller ships were in the chemtrails where they can vacuum the chemtrails more readily.” Thanks to Dan Johnson
Washington Lights
Ellensburg — Taken by a friend I was video chatting with on Saturday night June 17, 2016, at 11:00 PM. My light was out and his was also on his side. My bathroom light was on, so I could see the computer. Whatever it is had to be right behind me. I have experienced some odd things, waking up to an old table with a 50 pound marble top moved, loud bangs, seeing shadows, and my daughter said, “She saw a tall man once in front of the fire place.” They investigated this and concluded that it was a grey. A roommate saw a couple of UFO’s three days ago sighted towards Mt. Rainer. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington DC Object
Fort Lincoln –I was aboard Amtrak from New York to Florida when I was taking pictures but I didn’t notice the object until after I got home months later while reviewing the pictures. The picture was taken in Fort Lincoln, Washington, DC on August 2nd, 2016 at 8:51 am. I had experienced some interference with my cell phone reception but at the time I ignored it. The images before and after do not show the object. I’m just curious as to what it is above the busy bridge?
Wisconsin Orb
Burlington — I was waiting in a store parking lot, leaning against my car and looking at the cirrus cloud whips on November 6, 2016. I noticed a bright pinpoint. It went behind the high cloud but was still faintly visible. When the cloud passed, it was still there and I spotted eight other stationary lights/reflections nearby, so I grabbed my phone to take a picture so I could zoom in. I goggled iridium flare, just to try to explain. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Objects
My partner and I were lying on the hood of the vehicle looking up at the stars in the middle of nowhere on November 6, 2016, I spotted a moving object. Showing my partner I told him it was moving way to quick to be a satellite. Then we spotted two more that changed direction. They moved in near the same area like it was a road for UFOs. After they disappeared with a flash we spotted flashes around one star forming a circle. They kept flashing randomly making a circle. It looked like a big flying object that I tried to film, but it was too dark to film. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Disc
Haroldo Westendorff 20 years ago spotted a UFO from his aircraft. One of the most extraordinary sightings of a pilot in Brazil took place in Rio Grande do Sul, on the Lagoa dos Patos.
Haroldo circled the giant UFO three times with his small plane
Wednesday is a special day for the Brazilian Ufology, celebrating twenty years of one of its most impressive cases. On 5 September 1996 the pilot gaucho Haroldo Westendorff, Brazilian bi-champion of acrobatics, flying a plane near the city of São José do Norte. At 10.30 AM on a sunny day 1,800 meters above sea level, Haroldo suddenly faced with a huge object slowly flying over the region.
The UFO had a pyramid shape and base was 100 meters and its height was 50 to 60 meters. Westendorff noted that the object had eight sides and each of these there were three protruding wedges. Noting that detail, he realized that the UFO slowly rotating around its axis. In addition, the top had an oval dome and immediately contacted Harold pellets Airport. An operator of the tower was also able to observe the UFO, but the military radar did not detect any traffic.
The pilot approached the UFO cautiously and began circling it while describing everything via the radio. Suddenly, the upper dome of the object opened and a smaller UFO in the shape of two superposed plates, emerged from there upright, leaned over and fired at extremely high speed, heading for the sea. Haroldo estimated his speed at Mach 10, or ten times the sound and described what came to consider: “I thought I’d take a dip with the plane of the opening of the ship to see what was inside, but gave up when that opening came a column of reddish and undulating rays that scared me so I moved 200 meters from the ship.”
A few moments later, the giant UFO shot vertically enormous speed, causing fear in the pilot, He did not notice any wind or noise. The operator of the Pelotas tower, Airton Mendes da Silva, stated, “I saw an object in the form of a gray triangle with rounded edges.” The Case Haroldo Westendorff is one of the most impressive and emblematic Brazilian ufology, The UFO shot away at high speed after releasing a column of red rays. Thanks to Google Translate and Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Objects
Don Mills— I was walking home from work on November 1, 2016, and noticed there were more stars than normal. At first, I thought it was the moon or a star changing into various colors but was not moving. I instantly froze and my body became cold. Then I ran pulled out my phone and began trying to get the clearest recording of it that I possibly could. The night before on my way home from work I also observed north of me that there was a huge black triangle with five lights shaped like an upside down Y. I also got really scared and ran inside. The flashing orb I saw the second time did not move but only kept changing colors. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Cypress Light
Pafos — While on holiday with my fiancée we spotted this in the sky on September25, 2016, l decided to capture a few shots to see if l could capture their emitting frequency and lights. l have zoomed into some of the pictures but have left the originals for your own experiment or perception. Although l am convinced as UFOs have followed me all my life as mufon stated in my last sighting. I look forward to your views. Hope this helps prove one more piece existence of life is not just earth and us. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Greece Sightings
Nea Moudani — My friends were going to drink coffee and having fun on October 20, 2016. It was 23:30 hours and my friends started taking selfies with their phones. I took a picture with my smart phone that look like two objects with orange lights that look like dots or missiles, also one object with three white lights that looks like a triangle shape.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Lights
Crumlin — I was on the phone in my backyard on October 13, 2016. I looked up to see a large black diamond/cone shaped object. It was about 5.30 PM, when I saw a wobbling object a few miles away. It suddenly changed direction and flew NW away from me into cloud cover which is when I managed to take a picture! It all happened so fast, suddenly it was gone. I live in the country near an airport so I’m use to seeing lights/objects in the sky. You see them all out here, 99.9% I can explain. This one I can’t. It seemed too big for a balloon and was oddly shaped for one. I saw a UFO instead of something that can be explained. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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L’ufologie aujourd’hui, professionnalisme et respect
L’ufologie aujourd’hui, professionnalisme et respect
Un article de Richard Hoffman, Directeur des Projets Stratégiques du Mufon, publié le 14 juin 2016 sur son site « openminds.tv« , par Alejandro Rojas, membre de l’Académie d’Ufologie.
Après avoir passé la majeure partie de ma vie en tant qu’ufologue, j’ai eu le plaisir de travailler avec beaucoup d’autres ufologues incroyables pendant cinq décennies. Mon admiration pour ces personnes, qui ont consacré une quantité extraordinaire de leur temps personnel, de finances et davantage pour le sujet OVNI, est sans fin. Plus encore, il y a beaucoup de gens qui font un travail difficile et pas reconnu. A ceux-là et aux autres, je dis un grand merci.
L’ufologie est une aventure très enrichissante. Non seulement elle peut vous propulser dans plusieurs directions que vous n’auriez pas décidé de choisir, mais ces aventures sont bouleversantes et créent une nouvelle réalité du monde autour de vous, que vous adoptez personnellement. Comme nous le savons tous, il y a beaucoup d’ufologues qui ne partagent pas les mêmes croyances et notions ni sur les ovnis ni sur leurs occupants, que beaucoup affirment avoir vus personnellement. Pour certains, un OVNI ou un événement connexe, les ont peut-être amenés dans ce type d’étude en priorité, alors que pour d’autres qui n’en ont jamais vu, soit ils y croient, soit ils n’y croient pas ou encore ils sont très sceptiques à propos des affirmations autour de ce sujet.
Personnellement, je suis attristé par les récentes tendances croissantes sur les médias sociaux d’y voir les parties intéressées créer des groupes dissidents qui ont des points de vues similaires mais qui contribuent à perpétuer les divisions au sein de l’ufologie. Je continue aussi de voir entrer en jeu plus de comportements agressifs tels que l’intimidation. Il semble que la colère actuelle mentionnée dans les affaires politiques surgit elle-même dans notre monde. Je vois aussi un manque de tolérance envers ceux qui expriment une réalité différente de la nôtre. Bien que, par exemple, je ne puisse pas croire facilement que des contactés communiquent avec des extraterrestres, je ne vois pas la nécessité de frapper ou intimider ceux qui affirment cela. Je peux exprimer ma conviction civilement, laquelle peut être différente de la leur.
Une grande tendance est d’étiqueter les gens. Récemment, j’ai constaté l’augmentation du besoin de déclarer les gens « debunkers » simplement parce qu’ils expriment soit une position différente de la vôtre soit des faits actuels qui remettent en question la vôtre. Tout simplement parce que vous pouvez avoir une formation ou une expérience sur le sujet, vous êtes un « debunker ». J’ai vu un objet en 2012, qui plus tard s’est avéré être un ballon secret Google et qui a été identifié comme tel (aka Project Loon), après avoir franchi plusieurs Etats et qu’il ait été vu et photographié par quelques dizaines de personnes. J’étais alors devenu un « debunker ».
Il y a besoin d’un mouvement ufologique plus unifiée. Un mouvement qui reconnaisse que le comportement courtois est important, que la diversité des opinions est une bonne chose. L’expérience de ce que l’un peut être différent de l’autre et que cela n’en fait pas une « mauvaise personne » ni un ennemi du groupe de réflexion que nous avons adopté sur Facebook ou d’autres forums de médias sociaux.
Récemment, j’ai fait une présentation à l’Université d’Alabama à Tuscaloosa. Le professeur m’a demandé de l’aider à enseigner la pensée critique aux étudiants. J’étais, à ce point de ma carrière, un directeur régional adjoint pour « l’American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) ». Nous avions réalisé une étude et avions constaté que la compétence diminue à un rythme alarmant dans nos jeunes générations et que si nous ne réagissions pas à cela, des problèmes pourraient bientôt survenir. Aujourd’hui, c’est toujours valable. Nous voyons beaucoup de gens qui prennent au pied de la lettre tout ce qui est publié sur Internet, à la télévision ou dans des actualités ici ou là. Il n’y a absolument pas de vérification de faite ni de renseignements demandés. C’est un fait. Nous constatons l’acceptation rapide qu’une vidéo YouTube montrant un vaisseau-mère au-dessus de la Maison Blanche est encore un événement que le gouvernement camoufle.
Si l’ufologie s’efforce de résoudre les nombreuses questions qui restent sans réponses à propos du phénomène ovni, elle doit se consolider grâce au comportement exemplaire approprié de ses dirigeants, c’est-à-dire que la discipline est nécessaire aux points que j’ai mentionnés ci-dessus. Combien d’entre nous voient les comportements inappropriés de nos propres sites? Combien d’entre nous divisent les gens? Combien d’entre nous sont sceptiques à l’excès et mènent les conversations dans un débat qui se termine par des divisions supplémentaires? et aussi combien d’entre nous sont inflexibles sur « c’est soit mon chemin, soit la porte » ?
C’est mon espoir avant de mourir, que l’ufologie devienne un mouvement respectable assis sur une base professionnelle. Je crois que davantage peut être réalisé et accompli lorsque les gens et les organisations travaillent ensemble. Il est temps d’enterrer les haches de guerre et certainement pas le moment de construire des murs. Je préfère les ponts, ce sont les gens qui les construisent et ils apprécient de passer dessus. Merci à tous de votre dévouement à l’ufologie, indépendamment de vos étiquettes, de vos croyances et de la réalité.
Richard Hoffman est un professionnel de l'informatique qui aétudié le phénomène OVNI depuis 1964, quand il avait huit ans.
Il est actuellement Directeur du Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) pour les États d'Alabama et du Mississippi, ainsi que Directeur des Projets Stratégiques.
Observer reported six blue coloured discs “about the size of a shirt button held at arm’s length” passing overhead giving him a feeling of static or magnetic feeling. When he first saw them overhead, they were circular, but as they sped away, they looked flattened like a disc. While in sight they were darting around each other though never crossing over each other’s path. There was always a gap between each disc. The point of reference in the sky was the Saucepan.
Additional Details: On this particular night, Craig was out in his front yard endeavouring to cool off after a 35 degrees plus hot day in the suburb of Fawkner in Melbourne. He noticed six disc shaped objects approaching from the northeast. These objects were travelling at first, in a tight circular pattern with an object of the same size in the centre.
As they passed overhead, Craig now saw clearly that each of the objects emitted an electric blue in colour though no sound could be heard. Given the clear viewing condition of that night, he could distinctly see that each of the objects was in fact darting in around, behind, and in front of each other. All were darting without actually breading the larger boundary of the group or formation. Craig, living in the flight path of Essendon and Melbourne Airports, is also quite familiar with virtually all types of low flying aircraft that fly over regularly each day at approximate heights of 2000 feet. Each of these objects to be the size of a small single engine plane.
The duration of the sighting lasted approximately seven seconds with the objects soon disappearing heading in a southwesterly direction. There were no particularly noticeable effects involved with this sighting except to say, and I quote, “It is without a doubt the most exciting thing I have ever witnessed or been apart of!”
Jet Capsule hopes to start delivering the UFO 2.0 in early 2018(Credit: Jet Capsule)
UFO sightings could soon become a lot more common if Italian mini-yacht company Jet Capsule gets its way – Unidentified Floating Objects, that is. Having unveiled its floating off-grid home concept earlier this year, the firm is back with an updated and improved version, and plans to turn to the crowd to get it built.
Like its predecessor, the UFO 2.0 is essentially a flying saucer-shaped houseboat that would be built from carbon fiber and fiberglass, and would allow you to sleep with the fishes, literally, with a bedroom that's submerged.
This version is a little bigger and more refined, though. Where the first model was 12.5 m (41 ft) in diameter, the UFO 2.0 would measure 20 m (65 ft) in diameter.
It also now has three levels. The first floor includes the kitchen and bathroom, while upstairs lies a hot tub, a desk and seating, and the controls to maneuver it. The submerged level would have one large bedroom and bathroom as standard, but different configurations would allow for up to four bedrooms. Impressive glazing would let you check out the local sea life.
Jet Capsule envisions the UFO 2.0 as having twin engines, producing a maximum speed of up to 9 knots ( 16 km/h or 10 mph), which is up from 3.5 knots. The home would get its electricity from a combination of solar panels, wind power, and the firm said that a water turbine could also be used. These energy sources would be connected to a 16 battery array.
Besides luxury homes and hotels, the firm also says UFO 2.0 could be used as a gym or floating restaurant.
Jet Capsule told us that to help move this ambitious idea from the drawing board into the sea, it plans to launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds. Possible rewards include a night in the UFO 2.0.
All being well, the firm hopes to start delivering the first models in early 2018. We're awaiting word back on the expected cost, but would guess it's somewhere in the region of the first UFO concept, which was estimated at US$200,000.
Ermanno Borra thinks that aliens just may be winking at us from across the void—that they're trying to make contact using a method that even we primitive earthlings might grasp, and that they come (or perhaps will come, eventually) in peace.
The Université Laval astronomer realizes it's a bold claim, and will be rigorously challenged by his peers. But he's adamant that it's not a preposterous one.
"The search for extraterrestrial life is a very legitimate scientific endeavour," he says. "It's not something crazy."
In a peer-reviewed paper published in this month's Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Borra and grad student Eric Trottier wrote that an analysis of the spectra—the intensity of the light as a function of many wavelengths—of 2.5 million stars found minuscule but highly peculiar modulations from 234 of them. Like, really tiny: the separations detected were 10-9 to 10-15 seconds apart.
The pair examined the stars catalogued in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a 3D map of the universe that over the past 16 years catalogued over three million astronomical objects. They found that the 234 stars were also in the same spectral range as our Sun's (for the record, the F2 to K1 spectra range). With instrumental or calculation error and other possibilities accounted for and eliminated as possible sources of the readings, Borra and Trottier suggest that the signals may possibly have come from extraterrestrial intelligence trying to alert humans to their existence.
He speculates that it would be possible for an alien life form to shine a laser into outer space, superposing its light over that of its host star. The signal could be detected in the spectrum of the star, containing as it does the light of both the star and the laser.
The paper, excitingly titled "Discovery of Peculiar Periodic Spectral Modulations in a Small Fraction of Solar-type Stars," has already generated a lot of media coverage and controversy. It hasn't helped that overzealous and click-hungry headline writers use phrases like "probably from aliens" when discussing the work. An investigation bySnopes.com debunked the "probably" part, making it clear neither scientist was willing to use the word in a formal academic paper—something that likely would have resulted in the pair being pilloried by their colleagues.
Several scientists involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) have been either cautious or dismissive of their claims. Snopes notes that Breakthrough Listen, a search venture funded by Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner and backed by Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, isn't popping champagne corks yet; neither is theSETI Research Center at UC Berkeley.
But Borra, a professor of physics at Laval who received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario, certainly doesn't come across as a charlatan or a fool. And he knows that he needs a whole lot more evidence to back up his hypothesis. The scientific method is built on testing hypotheses and poking holes in them, so he never makes the claim that the signals are definitively from aliens. He merely carefully suggested that it's possible that they are. He suspects that those who dismiss his paper outright probably didn't read it in detail. The same would apply to those who jump to conclusions that aliens are definitely reaching out to us, based on his curious finding.
"The ETI hypothesis is a strange one, so it's normal to be skeptical," he says. "But it's not something crazy. Again, it's a field of very legitimate scientific research."
One that doesn't come cheap: for instance, the SETI Institute-operated Allen Telescope Array in northern California has burned through $50 million in about a decade, half of which came from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The Breakthrough Listen project's 10-year, $100 million funding is courtesy of Russian tycoon Yuri Milner. Even the Sloan Digital Sky Survey was mostly funded via the philanthropic Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. No government is seriously investing in the search for ETI (although President-elect Trump has said he will make space exploration great again, without offering any details). Still, there seems to be enough curiosity about our new frontiers and new life forms--whether they be in deep space or in the deep ocean—to spur individuals to generously fund scientific research alongside governments.
Borra says that if—and he admits it's a big if—his hypothesis is supported by enough solid evidence that it can be assumed that the source of these infinitesimal changes in the light pulses' intensity is indeed the result of extraterrestrial communication, he says it would be "one of the most important things ever done on Earth."
The method of communication is also flexible enough that the source—a hypothetical alien civilization—could also include vital information about themselves, including pictures.
This isn't the first time Borra has speculated that a specific kind of light pulse might have originated with ETI. A 2012 paper he authored predicted that the signals grad student Trottier found in the reams of data were consistent with what he believed an ETI signal would look like. Basically, light pulses are an easy way to send signals and have them seen by a distant recipient. The paper's abstract reads: "Theory, confirmed by published experiments, shows that periodic signals in spectra can be easily generated by sending light pulses separated by constant time intervals.... [T]echnology now available on Earth could be used to send signals having the required energy to be detected at a target located 1000 lt-yr away. Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) could use these signals to make us aware of their existence."
Borra is the first to admit that more work—a lot more work—is needed before we can be sure that something out there is reaching out to us. But any civilization trying to make contact likely wouldn't be interested in Earth as a target for conquest, enslavement or nourishment. He believes any such species would "certainly have technology far more advanced than we do," and that they would very likely be peaceful.
The theory is, if aliens can get it together enough to be able to create technology that looks to life beyond their solar system, they have advanced enough as a species to put their primitive, warlike impulses behind them. They don't need to slaughter or enslave us. It's a nice thought, but unfortunately, wholly speculative.
He further suspects that spectral modulations may be just one method aliens are using to reach out across the galaxy. There may be others that are beyond our comprehension, using technologies we haven't yet grasped.
The pace at which our technology has advanced in just the last 50 or 60 years gives Borra some perspective on what is feasible in terms of communications. From postage-stamped letters to Skype, the leap has been immense. Borra doesn't know where or how it will ever stop advancing, and that, he says, is encouraging in the long run.
"Intuitively, I suspect that civilizations that are more advanced are peaceful," he says. "So anyone trying to contact us would be very nice people, for obvious reasons."
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Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?
Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?
Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics.
BY CALEB SCHARF
ILLUSTRATION BY TIANHUA
Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke was being uncharacteristically unambitious. He once pointed out that any sufficiently advanced technology is going to be indistinguishable from magic. If you dropped in on a bunch of Paleolithic farmers with your iPhone and a pair of sneakers, you’d undoubtedly seem pretty magical. But the contrast is only middling: The farmers would still recognize you as basically like them, and before long they’d be taking selfies. But what if life has moved so far on that it doesn’t just appear magical, but appears like physics?
After all, if the cosmos holds other life, and if some of that life has evolved beyond our own waypoints of complexity and technology, we should be considering some very extreme possibilities. Today’s futurists and believers in a machine “singularity” predict that life and its technological baggage might end up so beyond our ken that we wouldn’t even realize we were staring at it. That’s quite a claim, yet it would neatly explain why we have yet to see advanced intelligence in the cosmos around us, despite the sheer number of planets it could have arisen on—the so-called Fermi Paradox.
For example, if machines continue to grow exponentially in speed and sophistication, they will one day be able to decode the staggering complexity of the living world, from its atoms and molecules all the way up to entire planetary biomes. Presumably life doesn’t have to be made of atoms and molecules, but could be assembled from any set of building blocks with the requisite complexity. If so, a civilization could then transcribe itself and its entire physical realm into new forms. Indeed, perhaps our universe is one of the new forms into which some other civilization transcribed its world.
These possibilities might seem wholly untestable, because part of the conceit is that sufficiently advanced life will not just be unrecognizable as such, but will blend completely into the fabric of what we’ve thought of as nature. But viewed through the warped bottom of a beer glass, we can pick out a few cosmic phenomena that—at crazy as it sounds—might fit the requirements.
While some scientists search for extraterrestrial life by landing rovers on Mars, launching telescopes into space, and scanning the skies with giant radio dishes, geobiologist Joseph Kirschvink thinks that the first telltale signs of alien life may be sitting on...READ MORE
For example, only about 5 percent of the mass-energy of the universe consists of ordinary matter: the protons, neutrons, and electrons that we’re composed of. A much larger 27 percent is thought to be unseen, still mysterious stuff. Astronomical evidence for this dark, gravitating matter is convincing, albeit still not without question. Vast halos of dark matter seem to lurk around galaxies, providing mass that helps hold things together via gravity. On even larger scales, the web-like topography traced by luminous gas and stars also hints at unseen mass.
Cosmologists usually assume that dark matter has no microstructure. They think it consists of subatomic particles that interact only via gravity and the weak nuclear force and therefore slump into tenuous, featureless swathes. They have arguments to support this point of view, but of course we don’t really know for sure. Some astronomers, noting subtle mismatches between observations and models, have suggested that dark matter has a richer inner life. At least some component may comprise particles that interact with one another via long-range forces. It may seem dark to us, but have its own version of light that our eyes cannot see.
In that case, dark matter could contain real complexity, and perhaps it is where all technologically advanced life ends up or where most life has always been. What better way to escape the nasty vagaries of supernova and gamma-ray bursts than to adopt a form that is immune to electromagnetic radiation? Upload your world to the huge amount of real estate on the dark side and be done with it.
If you’re a civilization that has learned how to encode living systems in different substrates, all you need to do is build a normal-matter-to-dark-matter data-transfer system: a dark-matter 3D printer. Perhaps the mismatch of astronomical models and observations is evidence not just of self-interacting dark matter, but of dark matter that is being artificially manipulated.
Or to take this a step further, perhaps the behavior of normal cosmic matter that we attribute to dark matter is brought on by something else altogether: a living state that manipulates luminous matter for its own purposes. Consider that at present we have neither identified the dark-matter particles nor come up with a compelling alternative to our laws of physics that would account for the behavior of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Would an explanation in terms of life be any less plausible than a failure of established laws?
Part of the fabric of the universe is a product of intelligence.
The universe does other funky and unexpected stuff. Notably, it began to expand at an accelerated rate about 5 billion years ago. This acceleration is conventionally chalked up to dark energy. But cosmologists don’t know why the cosmic acceleration began when it did. In fact, one explanation with a modicum of traction is that the timing has to do with life—an anthropic argument. The dark energy didn’t become significant until enough time had gone by for life to take hold on Earth. For many cosmologists, that means our universe must be part of a vast multiverse where the strength of dark energy varies from place to place. We live in one of the places suitable for life like us. Elsewhere, dark energy is stronger and blows the universe apart too quickly for cosmic structures to form and life to take root.
But perhaps there is another reason for the timing coincidence: that dark energy is related to the activities of living things. After all, any very early life in the universe would have already experienced 8 billion years of evolutionary time by the time expansion began to accelerate. It’s a stretch, but maybe there’s something about life itself that affects the cosmos, or maybe those well-evolved denizens decided to tinker with the expansion.
There are even possible motivations for that action. Life absorbs low-entropy energy (such as visible light from the sun), does useful work with that energy, and dumps higher-entropy energy back into the universe as waste heat. But if the surrounding universe ever got too warm—too filled with thermal refuse—things would stagnate. Luckily we live in an expanding and constantly cooling cosmos. What better long-term investment by some hypothetical life 5 billion years ago than to get the universe to cool even faster? To be sure, it may come to rue its decision: Hundreds of billions of years later the accelerating expansion would dilute matter so quickly that civilizations would run out of fresh sources of energy. Also, an accelerating universe does not cool forever, but eventually approaches a floor in temperature.
One idea for the mechanism of an accelerating cosmic expansion is called quintessence, a relative of the Higgs field that permeates the cosmos. Perhaps some clever life 5 billion years ago figured out how to activate that field. How? Beats me, but it’s a thought-provoking idea, and it echoes some of the thinking of cosmologist Freeman Dyson’s famous 1979 paper “Time Without End,” where he looked at life’s ability in the far, far future to act on an astrophysical scale.
Once we start proposing that life could be part of the solution to cosmic mysteries, there’s no end to the fun possibilities. Although dark-matter life is a pretty exotic idea, it’s still conceivable that we might recognize what it is, even capturing it in our labs one day (or being captured by it). We can take a tumble down a different rabbit hole by considering that we don’t recognize advanced life because it forms an integral and unsuspicious part of what we’ve considered to be the natural world.
Life’s desire to avoid trouble points to some options. If it has a choice, life always looks for ways to lower its existential risk. You don’t build your nest on the weakest branch or produce trillions of single-celled clones unless you build in some variation and backup.
Maybe there’s something about life itself that affects the cosmos.
A species can mitigate risk by spreading, decentralizing, and seeding as much real estate as possible. In this context, hyper-advanced life is going to look for ways to get rid of physical locality and to maximize redundancy and flexibility. The quantum realm offers good options. The cosmos is already packed with electromagnetic energy. Today, at any instant, about 400 photons of cosmic microwave radiation are streaming through any cubic centimeter of free space. They collectively have less energy than ordinary particles such as protons and electrons, but vastly outnumber them. That’s a lot of potential data carriers. Furthermore, we could imagine that these photons are cleverly quantum-mechanically entangled to help with error control.
By storing its essential data in photons, life could give itself a distributed backup system. And it could go further, manipulating new photons emitted by stars to dictate how they interact with matter. Fronts of electromagnetic radiation could be reaching across the cosmos to set in motion chains of interstellar or planetary chemistry with exquisite timing, exploiting wave interference and excitation energies in atoms and molecules. The science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem put forward a similar idea, involving neutrinos rather than photons, in the novel His Master’s Voice.
That’s one way that life could disappear into ordinary physics. But even these ideas skirt the most disquieting extrapolations.
Toward the end of Carl Sagan’s 1985 science-fiction novel Contact, the protagonist follows the suggestion of an extraterrestrial to study transcendental numbers. After computing to 1020 places, she finds a clearly artificial message embedded in the digits of this fundamental number. In other words, part of the fabric of the universe is a product of intelligence or is perhaps even life itself.
It’s a great mind-bending twist for a book. Perhaps hyper-advanced life isn’t just external. Perhaps it’s already all around. It is embedded in what we perceive to be physics itself, from the root behavior of particles and fields to the phenomena of complexity and emergence.
In other words, life might not just be in the equations. It might be the equations.
Caleb Scharf is an astrophysicist, the Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University in New York, and a founder of yhousenyc.org, an institute that studies human and machine consciousness. His latest book is The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities.
This article was originally published on Nautilus Cosmos, in November 2016.
Wordt het heelal aangestuurd door een buitenaardse beschaving?
Wordt het heelal aangestuurd door een buitenaardse beschaving?
De mensheid zoekt in het heelal al eeuwenlang naar nieuwe sterrenstelsels en kijkt hierbij zo diep mogelijk in de ruimte.
We hebben een hoop ontdekt, maar alles wat we tot nog toe hebben gezien, beslaat slechts vijf procent van het heelal. Naar de rest zoekt men nog.
Een astrofysicus van de Columbia-universiteit heeft nu gezegd dat het universum mogelijk wordt aangestuurd door de intelligentie van een buitenaardse beschaving.
Overal om ons heen
Deze beschaving is zo hoogontwikkeld dat hij bestaat in het kwantumrijk en voor ons niet zichtbaar is, schrijft Caleb Scharf voor Nautilus.
Een intelligentie die niet te onderscheiden is van de structuur van het universum zou veel mysteries in één klap oplossen.
Het zou verklaren waarom er nog geen intelligente beschavingen buiten de aarde zijn ontdekt. “Misschien is hypergeavanceerd leven niet extern,” schrijft Scharf.
“Misschien bestaat het overal om ons heen,” vervolgt hij. “Verankerd in de natuurkunde zelf.”
Gemanipuleerd
Het is volgens Scharf ook mogelijk dat buitenaardse intelligentie zich verschuilt in donkere materie.
Dat onze astronomische modellen niet altijd overeenkomen met waarnemingen, komt misschien doordat donkere materie kunstmatig wordt gemanipuleerd, aldus Scharf.
Deze intelligentie kan ook het gedrag van normale kosmische materie beïnvloeden, legt hij uit.
Niet herkennen
De versnelde uitdijing van het heelal vijf miljard jaar geleden wordt in verband gebracht met donkere energie, maar volgens Scharf kan intelligent leven hier ook een rol bij hebben gespeeld.
“Voordat de uitdijing begon te versnellen had leven acht miljard jaar de tijd om zich te ontwikkelen,” schrijft hij.
“Misschien wordt de kosmos beïnvloedt door het leven zelf of besloten hoogontwikkelde aliens invloed uit te oefenen op de expansie,” vervolgt hij.
Het is zelfs mogelijk dat we geavanceerd leven niet herkennen omdat het een integraal onderdeel is van wat wij zien als de natuurlijke wereld, besluit de astrofysicus.
VIDEO: NASA schakelt livestream uit nadat ‘mysterieus ruimteschip’ verschijnt
VIDEO: NASA schakelt livestream uit nadat ‘mysterieus ruimteschip’ verschijnt
Bij het internationale ruimtestation ISS is een onbekend vliegend object vastgelegd op video. Vlak na de waarneming ging het beeld op zwart, meldt deDaily Mail.
Volgens complottheoretici houdt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA bewust bewijzen van buitenaards leven achter.
Livebeelden van het ISS tonen een object dat razendsnel voorbij vliegt. Het ‘ruimteschip’ werd opgemerkt door YouTube-gebruiker ColdPyro.
Onder het tapijt
Vlak voordat het mysterieuze object uit beeld verdwijnt, schakelt NASA de livebeelden uit en verschijnt een mededeling dat er technische problemen zijn opgetreden.
Complottheoretici zien er bewijs in dat de NASA bewijs van buitenaards leven onder het tapijt veegt.
UFO-jagers zijn ervan overtuigd dat camera’s van het ISS voor het eerst een mysterieus ruimteschip hebben vastgelegd.
Blauw licht
In september en oktober werden ook al vreemde objecten bij het ruimtestation gespot. Afgelopen maand verscheen er een blauw licht bij het ISS.
In september werden in de buurt van een Progress-bevoorradingscapsule twee UFO’s vastgelegd op camera.
Chinese taikonauten terug op aarde na lange ruimtereis
Chinese taikonauten terug op aarde na lange ruimtereis
Tim Kraaijvanger
De Shenzhou-11 taikonauten Jing Haipeng en Chen Dong zijn terug op aarde. Dit meldt het Chinese staatsmedium Xinhua.
De capsule landde vanochtend om 07:15 uur Nederlandse tijd in het noorden van China in Binnen-Mongolië, een autonome regio grenzend aan Mongolië en Rusland. De landing van de SHenzhou-11 was live te volgen via Periscope. Voor China – een land waar veel achter gesloten deuren plaatsvindt – is dat zeer bijzonder.
Shenzhou-11 was de langste bemande Chinese ruimtevlucht ooit. Haipeng en Dong verbleven dertig dagen buiten de aardse atmosfeer in het ruimtelab Tiangong-2. “Als de plannen voor de Tiangong-2 succesvol zijn, komt China op het niveau dat alleen de VS en Rusland hebben bereikt: een bemand ruimtelaboratorium,” vertelt natuurkundige Merlin Kole aan Scientias.nl. Hij was in september aanwezig bij de lancering van de Tiangong-2. “Het bouwen van een eigen station betekent dat China qua ruimtevaart op hetzelfde niveau zit als de VS en Rusland en dat in een zeer korte tijd heeft weten te bereiken. Van daaruit zullen de Chinezen waarschijnlijk de hoge ambities doorzetten en wellicht de VS inhalen.” China hoopt in 2022 een permanent ruimtestation in een baan om de aarde te hebben, waardoor het land de rol van het ISS kan overnemen.
Hoe gaat het met de taikonauten? Het is nog onduidelijk hoe het met de taikonauten is. Op Twitter gaan geruchten rond dat er mogelijk iets aan de hand is met met taikonaut Chen Dong, maar het Chinese staatsmedium Xinhua meldt dat de astronauten er goed aan toe zijn. Toch is het opmerkelijk dat er nog geen citaat het wereldwijde web op is geslingerd, terwijl de taikonauten tijdens het verschijnen van dit artikel al drie uur op aarde zijn.
Wetenschappers hebben veel microfossielen aangetroffen in drie miljard jaar oude Australische stenen. De vondst van deze microfossielen laat zien dat leven in de bodem ouder is dan we denken.
“Je hebt een microscoop nodig om deze piepkleine fossielen te zien”, zegt paleontoloog Gregory Retallack van de universiteit van Oregon. 4,6 miljard jaar geleden is de aarde ontstaan in stofschijf rondom de zon. “Als we tweederde terug gaan in de geschiedenis van de aarde was er al volop leven aanwezig in de aardse bodem.”
Rijk microbioom De onderzoekers hebben een microbioom ontdekt met minimaal vijf verschillende microfossielen. Deze microfossielen verschillen onderling van elkaar als het gaat om grootte, vorm en isotopische samenstelling.
De grootste microfossielen zijn spindelvormige, holle structuren gevormd door schimmelachtige straalzwammen (Actinobacteria). Deze symbiotische bacteriën leven vandaag de dag bijvoorbeeld in de knolletjes aan de wortels van elzen. Zij zorgen ervoor dat deze loofboom voldoende stikstof krijgt. De karakteristieke aardse geur van tuingrond wordt ook veroorzaakt door deze straalzwam.
Daarnaast zijn er bolvormige fossielen aangetroffen die lijken op paarse zwavelbacteriën.
Geen verdwaalde cellen “Met een dichtheid van meer dan duizend cellen per kubieke millimeter vormden de microfossielen toentertijd al een goed functionerend ecosysteem”, vervolgt Retallack. “Het zijn dus niet een paar verdwaalde cellen.” Volgens de onderzoeker is er bewijs dat leven in de grond een belangrijke rol speelde in de cyclus van koolstof, fosfor, zwavel en stikstof.
Ging leven eerder van zee naar land? De vondst is belangrijk, omdat veel onderzoekers denken dat het leven 3,7 miljard jaar geleden ontstond in de vorm van cyanobacteriën. Zij zijn verantwoordelijk voor de vorming van stromatolieten. Eerder dit jaar werden op Groenland fossiele stromatolieten gevonden met een recordouderdom van 3,7 miljard jaar, waardoor de datum waarop het leven op aarde verscheen 200 miljoen jaar opschoof.
Onderzoekers denken dat het leven vanuit de zee naar het land verspreidde, maar dat dit wel lang duurde. “Oceanen waren broedplaatsen van leven, terwijl het op land nog een droge bedoening was”, schreef geobioloog Hope Jahren eerder dit jaar. “Er is namelijk geen duidelijk bewijs dat leven op het vasteland voorkwam.” Dit bewijs is er nu dan eindelijk, schrijven de onderzoekers van de universiteit van Oregon.
Buitenaards leven Opvallend genoeg lijken de zoutafzettingen en de microfossielen op structuren die Marsrover Curiosity op Mars heeft gevonden. Retallack: “Misschien kunnen we deze fossielen gebruiken om microscopisch leven op andere planeten te identificeren.”
Wetenschappers hebben veel microfossielen aangetroffen in drie miljard jaar oude Australische stenen. De vondst van deze microfossielen laat zien dat leven in de bodem ouder is dan we denken.
“Je hebt een microscoop nodig om deze piepkleine fossielen te zien”, zegt paleontoloog Gregory Retallack van de universiteit van Oregon. 4,6 miljard jaar geleden is de aarde ontstaan in stofschijf rondom de zon. “Als we tweederde terug gaan in de geschiedenis van de aarde was er al volop leven aanwezig in de aardse bodem.”
Rijk microbioom De onderzoekers hebben een microbioom ontdekt met minimaal vijf verschillende microfossielen. Deze microfossielen verschillen onderling van elkaar als het gaat om grootte, vorm en isotopische samenstelling.
De grootste microfossielen zijn spindelvormige, holle structuren gevormd door schimmelachtige straalzwammen (Actinobacteria). Deze symbiotische bacteriën leven vandaag de dag bijvoorbeeld in de knolletjes aan de wortels van elzen. Zij zorgen ervoor dat deze loofboom voldoende stikstof krijgt. De karakteristieke aardse geur van tuingrond wordt ook veroorzaakt door deze straalzwam.
Daarnaast zijn er bolvormige fossielen aangetroffen die lijken op paarse zwavelbacteriën.
Geen verdwaalde cellen “Met een dichtheid van meer dan duizend cellen per kubieke millimeter vormden de microfossielen toentertijd al een goed functionerend ecosysteem”, vervolgt Retallack. “Het zijn dus niet een paar verdwaalde cellen.” Volgens de onderzoeker is er bewijs dat leven in de grond een belangrijke rol speelde in de cyclus van koolstof, fosfor, zwavel en stikstof.
Ging leven eerder van zee naar land? De vondst is belangrijk, omdat veel onderzoekers denken dat het leven 3,7 miljard jaar geleden ontstond in de vorm van cyanobacteriën. Zij zijn verantwoordelijk voor de vorming van stromatolieten. Eerder dit jaar werden op Groenland fossiele stromatolieten gevonden met een recordouderdom van 3,7 miljard jaar, waardoor de datum waarop het leven op aarde verscheen 200 miljoen jaar opschoof.
Onderzoekers denken dat het leven vanuit de zee naar het land verspreidde, maar dat dit wel lang duurde. “Oceanen waren broedplaatsen van leven, terwijl het op land nog een droge bedoening was”, schreef geobioloog Hope Jahren eerder dit jaar. “Er is namelijk geen duidelijk bewijs dat leven op het vasteland voorkwam.” Dit bewijs is er nu dan eindelijk, schrijven de onderzoekers van de universiteit van Oregon.
Buitenaards leven Opvallend genoeg lijken de zoutafzettingen en de microfossielen op structuren die Marsrover Curiosity op Mars heeft gevonden. Retallack: “Misschien kunnen we deze fossielen gebruiken om microscopisch leven op andere planeten te identificeren.”
Prachtig bewaard gebleven mummie ontdekt in Egypte
Prachtig bewaard gebleven mummie ontdekt in Egypte
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De tand des tijds lijkt nauwelijks grip te hebben gekregen op deze mummie en de rijkversierde sarcofaag waarin deze ter ruste werd gelegd.
Spaanse archeologen ontdekten de tombe met daarin de mummie nabij een tempel die stamt uit de tijd van farao Toetmosis III. Deze farao regeerde tussen 1479 en 1425 voor Christus over Egypte. De tombe stamt niet uit de tijd van farao Toetmosis, maar is iets jonger. Onderzoekers schatten dat deze uit het begin van de Derde Tussenperiode (ongeveer 1070 tot 712 voor Christus) stamt.
In de tombe stuitten de onderzoekers op een prachtige, rijkversierde sarcofaag. En in die sarcofaag bevindt zich een mummie. Waarschijnlijk gaat het om de resten van een edelman – Amenrenef genaamd – die werkzaam was aan het koninklijk hof.
De sarcofaag.
Afbeelding: Egyptische Ministerie van Oudheden.
De mummie is versierd met allerlei symbolen die de edelman waarschijnlijk moesten beschermen. Zo staan de godinnen Isis en Nephthys en de vier zonen van Horus afgebeeld.
De mummie.
Afbeelding: Thutmosis III Temple Project.
Onderzoekers gaan de mummie en sarcofaag nader bestuderen. En uiteindelijk hopen ze zo meer zekerheid te krijgen over de identiteit van de overledene en de rituele gebruiken uit die tijd.
Why Martian Settlers Will Eat Potatoes, Insects, Algae and Mushrooms
Why Martian Settlers Will Eat Potatoes, Insects, Algae and Mushrooms
Written by ANDREW RADER
From the bottom of our gravity well on the Earth’s surface, getting anything into space is difficult and expensive, and that's even more true for travel to Mars.
On the International Space Station, for example, although some air and water is recycled, astronauts are ultimately reliant on Earth for everything. Given the challenges of distance, time, and energy required for the transit, this will have to change for Mars. 3D printing will provide some degree of self-sustenance (especially if we use local building materials where possible), but bulk consumables would have to be transported or generated in situ.
Luckily, Mars has both water in the form of ice, and a thin but useful atmosphere of carbon dioxide that can be processed into oxygen, and methane to power vehicles or rockets.
Being able to produce our own water and oxygen on Mars will be essential to sustaining human life there, but that's only about half the solution (and half the mass). We'd need to send around 2,000 pounds of food per Martian settler per year—and that assumes entirely freeze-dried food, which may not be the healthiest or most palatable option. A Martian settlement of six people would depend on a grocery run of more than fifteen Curiosity Rovers’ worth of dry food every 26-month Earth-to-Mars launch window.
Any food we can grow on Mars is food we don’t have to ship from Earth. Since we can get water there, we want to focus any Martian agricultural ventures on high-density bulk calories, high nutrition, or fresh morale-boosting foods that are easy to grow in a small space, while we continue to ship freeze-dried foods and vitamins from Earth.
Livestock is mostly out of the question, except perhaps if the animals are very small. Crickets are one of the best options. They eat discarded plant matter, are easy to raise in small spaces in a matter of weeks, and use hardly any water. They’re healthier than beef, with more protein, and include omega-3s, vitamins like iron and magnesium, and less fat.
Other small animals like snails could be on the menu. They may have been one of the first animals cultivated by humans for food. Aquaculture of mussels, crustaceans, and spirulina blue-green algae might round out a Martian diet.
What about plants and fungi? Mushrooms are packed with vitamins and grow without the need for light. As featured in The Martian, potatoes are also a good choice, and they’ve even been grown in simulated Martian soil in experiments in a greenhouse on Earth. They’re packed with vitamins, and contain some protein. You could live on them exclusively for a year or more, although you’d eventually suffer from a lack of fats, vitamins A and D, and B-12.
Even so, potatoes could contribute the bulk calories to a diet, as they have in many cultures on Earth throughout history. Sprinkle a few crickets on top of your potato pancakes and pop a vitamin pill and you’ve got a pretty balanced diet.
Or take a page from the 19th century Irish and combine potatoes with milk: in this case, dried milk shipped from Earth, preferably the full fat variety. By a strange quirk, potatoes and milk balance each other remarkably well, each providing the nutrients that the other lacks and forming about the best two-food diet a Martian settler could ask for.
Of course, ideally you’re rounding it out with at least a few other foods, if for nothing else than to avoid the monotony of endless cream of potato soup.
A Mars settlement will be dependent on Earth for the foreseeable future, but anything we can do to reduce the supplies we’d have to send brings it that much closer to reality. Changing the way we eat and learning how to grow our own food is going to be a big part of the solution.
Aerospace engineer Andrew Rader is a competitor in the Mars Generation’s annual Potato Challenge, held Thursday Nov. 17, to raise awareness and scholarship funding for the future of Science and Space Education. His latest kid’s science book, Mars Rover Rescue, is on Kickstarter at www.rover-rescue.com.
If humanity ever wants to truly explore the outer reaches of our solar system or travel to other stars, we’re going to have to build a better engine for our spacecraft. In fact, this engine will have to be so good that it will be capable of generating thrust without consuming propellant. That’s right: If we ever want a four-hour trip to the moon or a two-month trip to Mars, we’re going to need a rocket engine that doesn’t need rocket fuel.
This is the idea behind the radio frequency resonant cavity thruster—otherwise known as EmDrive—a theoretical reactionless engine powered by turning electricity into microwaves and bouncing them around a closed metal funnel.
The EmDrive has been dismissed as “impossible” on more than one occasion because it appears to violate Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. But if a leaked NASA paper posted online last Saturday is to be believed, then not only are NASA scientists pursuing an EmDrive, but they actually made one that works.
As detailed in the paper, a team of NASA physicists led by Harold “Sonny” White and Paul March—both leading figures in exotic propulsion systems—was able to generate thrust in a “tapered RF test article” (read: EmDrive prototype) during a series of tests at NASA’s Eagleworks Labs at Johnson Space Center in the fall of 2015.
In essence, the NASA EmDrive in the paper consists of a closed copper cone, the inside of which is being bombarded with microwaves. To test the EmDrive, the researchers powered it with 40, 60, and 80 watts and found that it generated up to 58, 128, and 119 micronewtons of thrust, respectively. Given that this “anomaly” was still observed by White and his colleagues after accounting for error, this suggests that the results of the experiment show an EmDrive is indeed possible.
Based on these results, the researchers estimated that their contraption would be capable of generating approximately 1.2 millinewtons of thrust per kilowatt were they to scale up the power input. To put this in perspective, the Hall thruster—one of the most powerful in development and powered by ejecting plasma—generates about 60 millinewtons of thrust per kilowatt.
The EmDrive described in the leaked NASA paper. Image: White, et al./NASA
“The issue involved here is whether the experiment is seeing something real or not,” Jim Woodward, a physicist at California State-Fullerton, told Motherboard. “I know Paul [March] does clean work and to be honest, I suspect there may really be something there. But the result they're seeing can't actually be explained in terms of the theory they're proposing. So the question is: what is causing it?”
Per Newton, if you want to propel a rocket through space, you’re going to have to eject some material in the opposite direction of the rocket’s travel. But an EmDrive appears to generate a reaction without any action—so what gives?
A number of theories have been floated attempting to explain this ostensible violation of the bedrock of physics. White has been a proponent of the quantum vacuum explanation, which posits that the EmDrive is able to generate thrust by acting on virtual particle pairs that are generated by fluctuations in the quantum vacuum (in this theory, these vacuum fluctuations are created by the electromagnetic field generated by the EmDrive). In essence, the microwaves would be ‘pushing off’ of these virtual particles within the EmDrive cavity to generate the thrust that has been observed by White and his colleagues in EmDrive experiments.
Another leading explanation is that the EmDrive’s thrust is generated by radiation pressure, a position held by its inventor Roger Shawyer. On this view, when the microwave radiation enters the copper cavity, the radiation pushes against the walls of the EmDrive and generates thrust.
Yet, according to Woodward, both of these theories are unlikely to be correct for a simple reason: Physics doesn’t allow them.
By way of example, Woodward likened explaining the results seen at NASA purely in terms of microwave pressure to arguing that you can accelerate a car by getting in the driver’s seat and pushing on the windshield.
“Can any disposition of microwaves inside the cavity produce thrust?” said Woodward. “There's a simple answer to that question: No, it cannot. Conservation of momentum dictates that any purely electromagnetic system that is enclosed cannot produce thrust. This is for both quantum theory and classical electrodynamics. It's physically impossible.”
This is what led White to his quantum-vacuum theory: If the microwaves can’t push against the inside walls in the copper cone to generate thrust, then they must be pushing off of something else within the cone—like virtual particle/anti-particle pairs that exist in the quantum vacuum. The problem is that while the existence of the quantum vacuum has been experimentally proven to exist, physicists are in pretty strong agreement that it can’t be used as a medium to generate thrust.
Although White’s quantum vacuum theory is referenced as the theoretical explanation of the thrust observed in both the recently leaked NASA paper and the first NASA EmDrive paper from 2014, it has been debunked time and time again by leading physicists within the community.
EmDrive inventor Roger Shawyer demonstrates why he thinks radiation pressure explains the EmDrive thrust
“A theoretical construct related to the quantum vacuum is nonsense,” said Woodward. “There is no experimental evidence that suggests anything remotely like [White’s theory] is a reasonable way to view the vacuum. It's something that no serious quantum field theorist takes seriously as far as I know.”
Instead, Woodward thinks that the results of NASA’s EmDrive experiments can be explained without having to overturn the basic laws of physics.
“The Mach effect is the only possible way to explain this,” said Woodward. “If they are looking at a real anomalous signal, and you want to try to explain it with physics that is not nonsense, then that seems to be the only way to approach this.”
As the first person to theorize about Mach effects in 1990, Woodward should know. According to Woodward’s Mach effect theory, when a body of mass is accelerated, some of the force applied to that body does not result in kinetic energy but is stored as potential energy in the body. While the acceleration is changing the internal energy of the body changes as well, which manifests itself as a change in the resting mass of that body.
The accelerating body is essentially being squished between the force being applied in the direction of its acceleration and the pushback from the rest of the material in the universe via a gravitational field. These two oppositional forces change the internal energy of the accelerating body and no physical laws are being broken: Momentum is conserved, but small amounts of it are being temporarily “stored” in the accelerating body.
According to Woodward, this mass fluctuation effect could account for the thrust observed at the NASA Eagleworks lab. If the microwaves propagating in the EmDrive cone are applying force to the material that the cone is made of, then you might explain the thrust generated this way by the Mach effect outlined by Woodward.
Woodward has spent the last two decades building devices which have successfully demonstrated the Mach effect, although his theory is still far from mainstream within the physics community. Still, it is gaining ground as more successful experiments confirm his theory. March, for one, has worked with Woodward on a number of successful Mach effect experiments over the last decade, and, at September’s Exotic Propulsion conference in Estes Park, Colorado, three physicists besides Woodward claimed to have experimentally reproduced Woodward’s Mach effect results.
“In my view, it’s the only physics that I know and trust to not involve wishful thinking and magical fields,” said Woodward.
For now, all we know is that the paper leaked on Saturday is in fact legitimate—it has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in the AIAA’s Journal of Propulsion and Power, where it is slated to appear in the December issue. What is unclear is how much the peer-reviewed version will have changed from the early release version leaked online.
According to Woodward, who saw a copy of the paper shortly after it had been accepted for peer review, the main difference between the accepted copy and the leaked early release is that the latter has way more theory trying to explain the results. Supposedly the AIAA would only accept the paper if White and his colleagues ditched the quantum vacuum theory and just published the results of their research without trying to explain it.
What remains to be seen is whether others can use Woodward’s Mach effect theory to reproduce the results seen in the NASA Eagleworks lab and thereby offer a compelling explanation for what White and his colleagues observed.
“Absent a convincing physical explanation that doesn't fly in the face of well-known principles of physics, you should hold in abeyance any judgment as to whether or not [the NASA results are] real,” said Woodward. “This stuff is much harder to do and get right than almost anybody who has not actually been in the trenches doing it really appreciates. The odds against anything being real in this business are very high.”
Expert: Brandstofvrije EmDrive ‘is niet onmogelijk’, stelt voor raadsels
Expert: Brandstofvrije EmDrive ‘is niet onmogelijk’, stelt voor raadsels
Er is de laatste tijd veel te doen rond de EmDrive, een brandstofvrije motor die in strijd lijkt te zijn met de natuurkundige wetten.
Deze ‘onmogelijke’ motor zou mensen in slechts 10 weken tijd naar Mars kunnen brengen.
Hoewel velen twijfelen of de EmDrive echt kan werken, zeggen experts dat de motor niet onmogelijk is, al begrijpen ze niet goed hoe het apparaat precies werkt.
Het zou allemaal draaien om het Mach-effect, schrijft Motherboard. “Waar het hier om gaat is of er tijdens de experimenten echt iets gebeurt of niet,” zei natuurkundige Jim Woodward.
Iets op het spoor
“Ik ken Paul March [één van de mensen die onderzoek doet naar de EmDrive] en hij doet goed werk, dus ik denk dat ze echt iets op het spoor zijn,” vervolgde hij.
“De resultaten kunnen echter niet worden verklaard aan de hand van de theorie die ze hebben opgesteld,” legde hij uit. “De vraag is dus: wat veroorzaakt de aandrijving?”
Volgens Woodward kunnen microgolven in een vacuüm geen stuwkracht genereren. Dat is fysiek onmogelijk, aldus de natuurkundige.
Verklaard
Hij zegt dat de werking van de ogenschijnlijk onmogelijke EmDrive kan worden verklaard door het Mach-effect, zonder daarbij de natuurkundige wetten te overtreden.
Woodward theoretiseert dat een deel van de kracht die wordt uitgeoefend op een accelererende massa wordt opgeslagen als potentiële energie.
Hierdoor ontstaan fluctuaties in de rustende massa van het object en dit effect kan de stuwkracht genereren die tijdens experimenten is waargenomen.
Naar verluidt werken een aantal groepen momenteel met de technologie, waaronder de Eagleworks Laboratories van de NASA.
Omdat we de afgelopen dagen te maken hadden met een zogenaamde supermaan, waren er meer dan ooit telescopen die kant op gericht.
En daarom zijn er diverse mensen die zonder enige twijfel vreemde ruimteschepen boven het maanoppervlak hebben weten vast te leggen.
Dat er ruimteschepen op de maan waren, zoveel is zeker. Wat niet zeker is, is de oorsprong van deze UFO’s. Want dat zijn het tot op dit moment, aangezien niemand er nog in is geslaagd om de objecten te identificeren.
Er zijn verschillende opnames beschikbaar en hier volgt de eerste:
Interessante waarneming, beide ufo's draaien om hun eigen as, dit is iets wat bij andere serieuze waarnemingen ook het geval is.
Een nog mooiere opname:
Dan worden er vervolgens opnames gemaakt van wat waarschijnlijk dezelfde UFO is, maar dan net boven het maanoppervlak.
Je kunt zien dat het object over het oppervlak van de maan vliegt, omdat het ook een schaduw werpt en als je goed kijkt, dan is zelfs te zien dat er een soort driehoek bovenop de UFO zit.
Vergeleken met het maanoppervlak heeft deze UFO een grootte van ergens tussen de twee en vijf kilometer, dus geen kleine jongen.
Hier volgen de bewegende beelden van dit object:
Ongetwijfeld zal niemand in Den Haag het de moeite waard vinden om hier vragen over te stellen. Daar houden ze zich liever bezig met wat DENK nu weer niet allemaal heeft bedacht.
Taiwan School System Puts UFO Sightings Daily Into Their Textbooks, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Taiwan School System Puts UFO Sightings Daily Into Their Textbooks, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Now, this is getting a bit strange. I have taught Jerry English since he was 4 years old, and sadly when he hit junior high, his family moved back to south of Taiwan to be closer to other family. Today I received a text message from his mom with a photo (above) from his junior high textbook. The photo just blew my mind. To get into the educational systems textbooks is both odd and amazing. Its nice that the Taiwan Educational system included such important information into the textbooks, so that students can learn a diverse menu of subjects. I do have two degrees in education, BA in elementary education and a Masters in Counselling education, so it personally feels great to be taken seriously by the school system in my own country. Scott C. Waring
UFO Over Casino At Laughlin, Nevada Nov 13, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Casino At Laughlin, Nevada Nov 13, 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: November 13, 2016 Location of sighting: Laughlin, Nevada, USA News source: MUFON #80486 I really like this witness account. It highly detailed and even includes a second witness account with it. This gives us a better perspective of what happened and what they saw. Nevada is a lower populated state, so UFOs will feel more comfortable to explore the area than say New York. With a total population of 7,323 its a perfect location to see a UFO more often than other locations. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
We observed two dark objects pass over Riverside Casino as it was caught in lights shining up illuminating front of building. Following the StarWorks UFO conference, Witness #2 (or W2) and I walked along the Colorado river front from the Aquarius Resort upriver to the Highway 163 bridge, along the river walk in front of the Laughlin casinos. We walked across the bridge and noticed the beautifully lit Riverfront casino and hotel. We were taking pictures of the scenery from the Arizona side of the river when W2 first noticed the object. She first called my attention to the first object as we were looking across river toward casino with a "what's that?" and pointed toward the casino. I had been looking down at my iPhone, changing the settings on my camera app. I quickly looked up and saw a fleeting glimpse of the first object as it moved out of light beam. We watched for a few moments more - about 10 seconds to a minute - when she said, "There's another one". At first I almost couldn't see it. Then I noticed same type of shape as the first one. Again, it was a fleeting glimpse, no more than a second or two. Both objects were shadowy and indistinct, roughly crescent, boomerang or chevron shaped. I could only see the leading edge clearly, which was lighter in color and caught the hotel lights. They traveled smoothly from N to S, over the Riverfront casino building, passing through the light beam. Length of crescent was approximately half fingernail width at arm's length. There was no sound associated with the objects. Second one moved same way as first, illuminated by hotel lights projecting up. It appeared to be passing directly over the building at approximately half-again the bldg height. (Using the Theodolite app on my iPhone, I measured it to be about 10 degrees elevation from horizontal). I estimate the speed to be about twice to four times walking speed. We observed each object for about one to two seconds and lost sight of each when it passed out of hotel light beam. We talked about it for a few moments, trying to decide what it was. We waited about five to ten more minutes for another of the objects to appear. I had my iPhone camera set to video with maximum zoom, but unfortunately we didn't see any more of the objects. We gave up and decided to walk back across the bridge toward the Nevada side of the river. We decided as we were walking back across the bridge, that we would each write down our descriptions of the sighting before we discussed it further. We jotted quick notes on the sighting as we ate dinner in the Mexican restaurant across the street from the Riverfront Casino. This is my description from my notes that night.
Witness 2 Description (copied from her notes) Observed two objects passing over the Riverfront Hotel.
At the time of the sighting, we were about a half mile from the hotels standing on the sidewalk along St. hwy 163 near a stoplight just across the river on the Arizona side. We stopped to take photos of where we were staying. After the StarworksUSA conference ended, around 5pm, W1 and I took a walk along the river walkway. The moon was full and the temperature was in the 50's. I wanted to see the small helicopter that was landed (displayed) along the river walk. The helicopter was not there but we decided to keep walking. The path led to the State Hwy 163 bridge over the Colorado river and we decided to walk across it. On the bridge we passed a man on a bicycle who appeared to be homeless. After we crossed the bridge I turned around and noticed the nice view of the hotels, we stopped walking and took pictures. Then I noticed something moving above the Riverside hotel/casino in the light and pointed it out to W1. He saw it as well. I saw a dark, curved boomerang shaped object. What appeared to be the back underside was clearly defined but I could not make out the far side of the object against the dark sky. The lights from the top of the hotel lit the underside and front edge as it moved down river. The edge was well defined and easy to see. Then as we watched, another one appeared a bit lower and moved in the same manner. There were no lights or sound. We observed a helicopter landing at the airport about 2 miles away, 10 minutes prior, and also saw two shooting stars after seeing the objects. We later observed other air traffic but nothing was as low as what we saw. Venus was also in the sky. Note: There was a man in the riverside park below us walking his large dog, where we stopped to take photos. He may have seen the objects as well.
UFO Over Casino At Laughlin, Nevada Nov 13, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Casino At Laughlin, Nevada Nov 13, 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: November 13, 2016 Location of sighting: Laughlin, Nevada, USA News source: MUFON #80486 I really like this witness account. It highly detailed and even includes a second witness account with it. This gives us a better perspective of what happened and what they saw. Nevada is a lower populated state, so UFOs will feel more comfortable to explore the area than say New York. With a total population of 7,323 its a perfect location to see a UFO more often than other locations. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
We observed two dark objects pass over Riverside Casino as it was caught in lights shining up illuminating front of building. Following the StarWorks UFO conference, Witness #2 (or W2) and I walked along the Colorado river front from the Aquarius Resort upriver to the Highway 163 bridge, along the river walk in front of the Laughlin casinos. We walked across the bridge and noticed the beautifully lit Riverfront casino and hotel. We were taking pictures of the scenery from the Arizona side of the river when W2 first noticed the object. She first called my attention to the first object as we were looking across river toward casino with a "what's that?" and pointed toward the casino. I had been looking down at my iPhone, changing the settings on my camera app. I quickly looked up and saw a fleeting glimpse of the first object as it moved out of light beam. We watched for a few moments more - about 10 seconds to a minute - when she said, "There's another one". At first I almost couldn't see it. Then I noticed same type of shape as the first one. Again, it was a fleeting glimpse, no more than a second or two. Both objects were shadowy and indistinct, roughly crescent, boomerang or chevron shaped. I could only see the leading edge clearly, which was lighter in color and caught the hotel lights. They traveled smoothly from N to S, over the Riverfront casino building, passing through the light beam. Length of crescent was approximately half fingernail width at arm's length. There was no sound associated with the objects. Second one moved same way as first, illuminated by hotel lights projecting up. It appeared to be passing directly over the building at approximately half-again the bldg height. (Using the Theodolite app on my iPhone, I measured it to be about 10 degrees elevation from horizontal). I estimate the speed to be about twice to four times walking speed. We observed each object for about one to two seconds and lost sight of each when it passed out of hotel light beam. We talked about it for a few moments, trying to decide what it was. We waited about five to ten more minutes for another of the objects to appear. I had my iPhone camera set to video with maximum zoom, but unfortunately we didn't see any more of the objects. We gave up and decided to walk back across the bridge toward the Nevada side of the river. We decided as we were walking back across the bridge, that we would each write down our descriptions of the sighting before we discussed it further. We jotted quick notes on the sighting as we ate dinner in the Mexican restaurant across the street from the Riverfront Casino. This is my description from my notes that night.
Witness 2 Description (copied from her notes) Observed two objects passing over the Riverfront Hotel.
At the time of the sighting, we were about a half mile from the hotels standing on the sidewalk along St. hwy 163 near a stoplight just across the river on the Arizona side. We stopped to take photos of where we were staying. After the StarworksUSA conference ended, around 5pm, W1 and I took a walk along the river walkway. The moon was full and the temperature was in the 50's. I wanted to see the small helicopter that was landed (displayed) along the river walk. The helicopter was not there but we decided to keep walking. The path led to the State Hwy 163 bridge over the Colorado river and we decided to walk across it. On the bridge we passed a man on a bicycle who appeared to be homeless. After we crossed the bridge I turned around and noticed the nice view of the hotels, we stopped walking and took pictures. Then I noticed something moving above the Riverside hotel/casino in the light and pointed it out to W1. He saw it as well. I saw a dark, curved boomerang shaped object. What appeared to be the back underside was clearly defined but I could not make out the far side of the object against the dark sky. The lights from the top of the hotel lit the underside and front edge as it moved down river. The edge was well defined and easy to see. Then as we watched, another one appeared a bit lower and moved in the same manner. There were no lights or sound. We observed a helicopter landing at the airport about 2 miles away, 10 minutes prior, and also saw two shooting stars after seeing the objects. We later observed other air traffic but nothing was as low as what we saw. Venus was also in the sky. Note: There was a man in the riverside park below us walking his large dog, where we stopped to take photos. He may have seen the objects as well.
The galaxy Messier 77 is a lot like our Milky Way. Both are what’s known as barred spiral galaxies, meaning massive groups of stars are arranged in huge arms extending like spirals from the center. And at the center of both galaxies is a supermassive black hole a million or even a billion times more massive than the Sun.
The center of Messier 77 is what’s known as an active galactic nucleus. This means that the accretion disk — the accumulation of cold gas and other matter around the black hole — is the source of much higher than expected emissions from across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. These AGN are hugely useful in searching for ever more distant objects in the cosmos. Some of these AGN are hidden inside thick, donut-shaped clumps of gas known as a torus. Actually, it’s very possible that all AGN have a torus around them, but only some are hidden relative to our Earthbound perspective.
“We know from various observations that some AGN are hidden by colder dust clouds from our point of view on earth,” Jack Gallimore, an astrophysicist at Bucknell University, told Inverse. “The unifying model arose that all AGN are surrounded by a donut of cold gas. If the donut is viewed from the side, we see a ‘Type 2,’ or hidden, AGN. If our view looks down the hole, we see a ‘Type 1’ AGN, that is, we see the accretion disk directly.”
These donuts of cold gas provide a natural cloak for supermassive black holes to hide inside, yet it’s unclear how these naturally unstable clumps of gas remain as they do without changing shape or falling into the black hole.
“Nobody knew how the donut of cold, dust gas, or the torus, stayed puffed up,” said Gallimore. “Cold gas donuts are not stable: They should collapse to a flattened disk.”
We’re so used to thinking about black holes as gobbling up any matter that gets too close that it’s more than a little surprising to hear the answer Gallimore and his fellow researchers have found: The black holes themselves fling matter from their accretion disks back out toward the gas donut, like an engine giving off exhaust.
Gallimore and fellow researchers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in South America to detect clouds of carbon monoxide pulling away from the outer portion of the accretion disk around the Messier 77 black hole. The energies of the superheated inner accretion disk created magnetic fields that were then in turn able to accelerate these clouds to speeds much faster than would normally be expected — say from a normal top speed of 100 kilometers per second to a whopping 400. That’s quite a bit faster than the disk’s normal rotational speed, which lets the gases escape the disk and move further away from the black hole.
“We’re learning more about the accretion disk and how the accretion disk feeds the black hole,” Gallimore told Inverse, saying evidence of this feedback from black hole and its accretion disk to the rest of the galaxy could mean the black hole plays a more active role in the galaxy’s development than we thought. “We will also learn something about how the black hole might feedback to the host galaxy and affect its evolution, although we’re not there yet with this particular project.”
While this latest research has revealed the interactions between black hole, accretion disk, and surrounding gas torus, Gallimore is optimistic that more study from the telescope in Atacama will reveal still more surprises about the complicated lives of black holes.
“Stay tuned to ALMA,” he said. “There are many researchers pursuing this question about NGC 1068 and other AGNs. Looking at the molecular, cooler gas is going to reveal surprises.”
Aclass of mysterious radio waves blasting from space may be more powerful than anyone expected. Calledfast radio bursts, or FRBs,they’ve been a perpetual source of confusion for astronomers, who have no clue from where they originate, or how and why they are created. Nevertheless, they still have some usefulness: scientists just detected another FRB coming from deep space, and it’s the brightest one yet. In another first, astronomers have observed one of these enigmatic blasts occurring together with a pack of gamma rays. This means they could have the same source, and it could be a billion times more energetic than previously predicted.
FRBs are high-intensity radio signals, which race through the universe at incredible speeds. The signals are brief, lasting only a few milliseconds each — which makes them extremely difficult to detect and pinpoint. The first FRB was observed in 2001, and since then astronomers have only detected 17. With limited information, all we seem to know is that they originate from outside the Milky Way.
Even though less than 20 examples have been detected, astronomers believe thousands of these puzzling flashes illuminate the cosmos on a daily basis. Some experts think colliding neutron stars could be the driving force behind these mysterious blasts, and there could be several factors causing the bursts. No one can say for sure yet.
The radio pulse of the recent FRB. The brightness varies due to variations in the cosmic web.
However, the researchers can agree that the recent flash — captured by CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales — one was one of the brightest ever seen. Despite flashing for only a fleeting moment, all FRBs are packed with crucial information. However, the most recent FRB was unique as it contained information about the cosmic web — aka the swirling mass of gasses and magnetic fields located in between galaxies.
“This particular FRB is the first detected to date to contain detailed information about the cosmic web — regarded as the fabric of the Universe,” Dr. Ryan Shannon of ICRAR-Curtin University explained in a news release. “It’s also unique because its travel path can be reconstructed to a precise line of sight and back to an area of space about a billion light years away that contains only a small number of possible home galaxies.”
The location of the FRB 150807.
Since this particular FRB was so bright (thanks to the gamma ray boost), the research team was able to estimate its origins in the sky more precisely than any other FRB. They estimate its origins could be in a galaxy named VHS7, which is roughly a billion light-years away. There are a handful of galaxies in that region, and astronomers cannot say for sure just yet, but VHS7 looks like the best bet.
While the team won’t be able to definitively determine what causes FRBs or pinpoint exactly where they came from, this discovery will be a great tool to help analyze what lies between us and the vicinity of VHS7. Astronomers can use it as a probe to study the vast cosmic web, enabling researchers to better understand how galaxies form, and how the universe itself is structured.
Mysterieus stenen bouwwerk gevonden in Kazachstan dat veel groter is dan Stonehenge
Mysterieus stenen bouwwerk gevonden in Kazachstan dat veel groter is dan Stonehenge
Archeologen hebben aan de oostkust van de Kaspische Zee in Kazachstan een enorm 1500 jaar oud stenen bouwwerk blootgelegd.
Het doet denken aan Stonehenge, maar is vele malen groter, meldt LiveScience.
Verspreid over een gebied van 750 hectare zijn grote blokken steen gevonden. De stenen zijn vier tot 24 meter groot en rijkelijk versierd met graveringen van wapens of wezens.
Metaaldetector
Het is nog een mysterie wie het enorme bouwwerk heeft gemaakt en waar het voor werd gebruikt.
In 2010 werd de vindplaats ontdekt toen een man genaamd F. Akhmadulin er rondliep met een metaaldetector.
Hij vond er delen van een zilveren zadel en andere curieuze voorwerpen die hij aan archeologen liet zien.
Die besloten op onderzoek uit te gaan. Sommige blokken steen staken uit de grond, wat erop wees dat ze grotendeels waren begraven.
Hunnen
Onderzoekers Andrey Astafiev en Evgeniï Bogdanov van de Russische Academie van Wetenschappen hadden in eerste instantie geen idee hoe groot het bouwwerk was.
Uit voorwerpen die zijn gevonden maken ze op dat het steencomplex mogelijk is gebouwd door een nomadenvolk.
In de periode dat het is gemaakt leefden de Hunnen in het gebied. Of ze het bouwwerk daadwerkelijk hebben gemaakt is nog onduidelijk.
Mysterieuze cultuur
“De Hunnen verdreven diverse etnische groepen in de Euraziatische steppe van hun grondgebied,” aldus de onderzoekers.
Het is dus ook mogelijk dat het complex is gebouwd door een andere mysterieuze cultuur.
Het bouwwerk is zo groot dat het waarschijnlijk nog jaren zal duren voordat het helemaal is opgegraven.
Het complex is gevonden in een regio waar niemand had verwacht zo’n enorme structuur aan te zullen treffen.
Strange ‘burning’ UFO spotted in the sky above capital city – The Aliens Are here!
Strange ‘burning’ UFO spotted in the sky above capital city – The Aliens Are here!
A mysterious ‘burning’ UFO has been filmed travelling across the sky above a capital city.
Residents of Lima, Peru, were left stunned as the orange light floated slowly through the air in the slightly darkened sky.
The video, which lasts a full minute and was revealed by Peruvian media last night, has left observers mystified.
To add to the mystery, people in other parts of the South American country, including the highlands to the southeast of Lima and the area near the Amazon rainforest, also spotted strange lights in the sky.
One silly theory that many researchers have now shunned is that the lights could be the high-altitude balloons used by Google’s Project Loon, an initiative that provides Internet access to people in remote and rural areas.
The balloons float in the stratosphere about 18km, 11 miles, above the Earth’s surface and do contain lights.
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However, there are a number of people who believe Peru is a regular stop-off for aliens who are drawn to the country by its many ancient sites, including the world famous Machu Picchu citadel in the Andes Mountains.
A close up of the orb like UFO
U.I.P SUMMARY
Lets get real people this is definitely NO weather balloon or ‘swamp gas’ in fact when you watch the video closely you can clearly see that the ufo/orb appears to be moving an a controlled manner!!
Peru appears to be a bit of a hotspot for ufo’s and even the governments airforce have confirmed engagement with unknown craft in the skies above their country!
UFO sightings are drastically on the rise and its time to wake the masses and get the steeple people of this planet to open their eyes and look up!!
MWV
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The Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle
Also known as the Devil’s Triangle, the Bermuda Triangle is believed to be the devil’s lair as most of the unusual disappearances in the triangle had no records of human error, equipment failures or natural disasters
The term “Bermuda Triangle” was initially coined by writer Vincent Gaddis in 1964 in the men’s pulp magazine Argosy. Gaddis was also the one who proposed that Atlantis was real and that it was somehow connected to the triangle.
Let’s have a look at some of the most famous incidents:
1. Accounts of weird activity in the area were already being recorded way back during the days of exploration and early travel. In fact, Christopher Columbus wrote about a large fireball dropping from the sky and into the ocean during one of his journeys in the region in 1492. Columbus claimed what he saw caused his compass to malfunction.
2.One of the most famous Bermuda Triangle mystery would have to be the story of the Mary Celeste. Also known as the Ghost Ship, it was found in full sail on December 4, 1872 without a single passenger on board
3.A large French ship sailing from Hamburg to Havana was discovered intactwith all of its cargo, but nobody on board, except for a canary, a cat and some fowl. Whatever happened to the crew remains a mystery…
4.On one of its trips, the large American ship Ellen Austin, came across another vessel sailing in the Bermuda Triangle with no one on board. Some of its crew transferred to the other vessel to try and salvage it, but it never actualized due to a storm. On another trip, the Ellen Austin came across once again with the ship and sent some of its crew to scavenge it. No one was on board and few days later, it disappeared again
5.The Deering was found aground off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1921 with its entire crew missing. The ships log and navigation equipment were gone, the crew’s personal effects and lifeboats had also disappeared, leaving investigators completely baffled.
6.The disappearance of the USS Cyclops and its 306 man crew back in 1910 is one of the Bermuda Triangle’s most mysterious incidents. Its disappearance is the single largest loss of life in U.S Naval history not directly related to combat.
7.Newlyweds Frank and Romina Leone went finishing off the coast of Boynton Beach, Florida in their new boat on June 18, 2003. When the couple failed to turn up for work the next day, family and friends began to worry. U.S coastguards were sent out to search the waters of Miami, but neither their boat or bodies were ever found.
8.On January 30, 1948, the Star Tiger left Santa Maria, Azores with 25 passengers on board. It was meant to arrive in Bermuda at 5 a.m, but at some point just before its arrival, the radio operator lost contact with the pilot. Hours later, the plane has disappeared out of sight. A fleet of 26 aircraft were sent out to search of the Star Tiger, which was never found.
9. During the same year as the Star Tiger’s mysterious disappearance, a Douglas Dakota DC-3 flight took off from Puerto Rico, heading for Miami, Florida. Twenty minutes before landing, the flight disappeared from radars and was never to be seen or heard of again. Two more cases very similar cases have occurred since.
10.On October 30, 1954, Flight 441 took off with 42 passengers making their way to Lajes in the Azores Islands. The plane was about 400 miles off the coast line when contact was lost. Flight 441 never arrived at its destination and disappeared without a trace.
11.Five ill fated avenger bomber planes disappeared without a trace on December 5, 1945 while on a training mission. Frequent communication had taken place between the trainees and their flight leader, Charles Taylor during the mission. To make the situation even weirder, the five rescue craft sent after them also disappeared.
12.While flying over the Bermuda Triangle in 1970, American pilot Bruce Gernon experiencing something that he can’t quite logically explain. As he was flying, he flew through mysterious donut shaped hole that formed into a swirling cloud tunnel. At the end of the tunnel the pilot witnessed what he could only describe as an electronic fog, which caused his aeronautical instruments to malfunction. Had he just gone through some sort of time portal?
13.Cary Gordon Trantham was flying home after spending time with her daughter in Florida when she experienced something very strange. While flying over the open water at night, she suddenly flew through a thick bed of fog, which left her flying in pitch darkness. She claims not to have been able to navigate herself as her plane’s instruments went haywire. Lucky escape!
14.On March 12, 2009, passengers aboard a flight spotted strange lights in the skies over what looked like a vortex in the sea. The unexplained sighting was even photographed by naval cameras who claimed the object floated above water for an hour before disappearing.
15.On November 3, 1978, Irving Rivers’ Eastern Caribbean Airways plane disappeared from radars just moments after controllers at the airport in Saint Thomas cleared it for landing. The plane was less than two miles from the airport when it disappeared.
16.It was on January 30, 1948 when Tudor Star Tiger left Santa Maria, Azores with 25 passengers on board. The plane was supposed to arrive in Bermuda at 5 a.m., but it never came. Hours after its supposed arrival, a fleet of 26 aircraft searched for days for the lost aircraft, but never found a single trace of the Star Tiger.
17. A couple of UFOs were spotted on the horizons of the Bermuda Triangle back in 2014 by passengers aboard a cruise ship. The UFOs were described as being bright orange, with lights that gradually dimmed and disappeared after a few moments
18. The Witchcraft was a luxury cabin boat owned by hotel mogul, Dan Burack. On December 22, 1967, Burack and a friend set out about a mile out of the Miami Coastline to view the Christmas lights when the coast guard received a distress call from him. When the coast guard arrived at the site, no boat was to be found.
19.Joshua Slocum was dubbed as the very first man to sail solo around the world in 1895. Although he was considered as one of the best sailors of his time, Joshua Slocum apparently disappeared from the face of the earth in 1909 after allegedly passing through the Devil’s Triangle. He sailed with his old fishing boat called “The Spray.”
UIP Summary:
This is only a small list of the mysterious disappearances and the governments must know what really is going on in the Bermuda Triangle! Not many people have survived this strange phenomenon, but the few that have tell the same story which makes me believe that there is definitely a portal in that part of the world.
I truly hope this is the case, as it would be wonderful to know that all of these people who disappeared are actually living a happy life in some other dimensions
Death Dive! Comet Plunges into the Sun at Mind-Blowing Speed
ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, saw a bright comet plunge toward the sun on Nov. 16-17, 2016, at nearly 1.3 million miles per hour.
Like most sungrazing comets, this comet was torn apart and vaporized by the intense forces near the sun.
The disk of the sun is represented by the dark circle in the video clips.
Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us
Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us
By Tia Ghose, Senior Writer
Credit: NASA/NOAA/GOES Project
INTRO: Beyond Earth
From a few subtle radio signals to alien monsters bombing the White House, science fiction is replete with depictions of aliens making contact with mere mortals.
While some of those depictions are far-fetched, it turns out that scientists have spent countless hours thinking about just how extraterrestrial civilizations could contact humans. Some of their ideas are nearly as fantastical as Hollywood's wildest tales.
Of course, signs of intelligent life don't have to be tiny objects — they could also be really, really big ones. Some scientists have argued that alien megastructures could be like a giant "come here" sign pointing other civilizations to their presence, Grinspoon said. In fact, scientists recently kept their eye on the star KIC 8462852, which dimmed and brightened mysteriously over the past several years. Some have argued that the star is surrounded by an alien megastructure that is occasionally blocking light from the star — though other explanations include a swarm of exoplanets or a planet-forming disc.
In December 2015, scientists reported a complete lack of communication from the region.
"We found no evidence of an advanced civilization beaming intentional laser signals toward Earth," study co-author Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International in San Francisco, said in a statement.
Credit: LLNL/NIF/NASA/E. Kowaluk (LLE)
2. Laser pulses
Repetitive laser pulses could also be a sign of an alien race trying to get in contact with us, because, in theory, lasers could send signals or messages across vast distances, Grinspoon said. To find those laser pulses, researchers have zeroed in on extremely bright flashes of light, which are less likely to be caused by natural phenomena.
So far, however, they've found no sign of alien signals.
Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech
3. Robot probes
Alien signals may not be traveling in electromagnetic waves at all. Instead, signs of intelligent life may be very small objects that advanced civilizations send out to explore the universe.
"Most of the solar system is still unexplored, so for all we know, there could be alien probes orbiting on the asteroid belt or somewhere on the surface of Mars," Grinspoon said. "They could be quite miniature. Who knows what alien technology is capable of — they could be the size of golf balls."
Finding these objects could rely on the same technology scientists could use to sample those regions, Grinspoon said.
Credit: SETI Institute
4. Radio waves
In a 1959 paper in the journal Nature, physicists Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi argued that scientists should scour radio waves for signs of extraterrestrial life. That's because radio waves travel relatively undisturbed through the universe, not being absorbed or re-emitted by celestial objects. Thus, the duo reasoned, any extraterrestrialshoping for their message to be relayed across long distances would logically resort to this medium, said David Grinspoon, an astrobiologist at the Planetary Science Institute.
For decades, that's been the predominant way to search for aliens. For instance, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has scoured telescope data for signal-like radio waves.
Of course, the whole search rests on the assumption that aliens are thinking just like us, which may not be the case.
"Aliens don't necessarily read Nature magazine," Grinspoon told Live Science.
Credit: Bibi Saint-Pol (Wikimedia)
5. Radiating away
Of course, not all aliens will be on a mission to find other creatures in the big, lonely universe. Some may be more like hermits, hoping to hide their existence. If that's the case, they'd make no attempts to broadcast their existence.
However, theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has argued that even celestial hermit kingdoms might develop technology to siphon energy from a nearby star using an orbiting object known as a Dyson sphere.
"It doesn't have to be a sphere at all," Dyson previously told Live Science, "just any place where aliens happen to be generating a lot of energy."
These Dyson spheres would then throw off waste heat, an inescapable byproduct of harnessing star power, in the form of infrared radiation. Already, researchers at the Allen Telescope Array and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer(WISE) space telescope are scouring the skies for signs of such waste radiation.
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
6. Star dance
Others have proposed that highly advanced civilizations could be advanced astro-engineers, moving stars into bizarre or highly geometric alignments that are unlikely to occur by chance, Grinspoon said.
"They could construct something that would be visible from a huge distance across the galaxy, or even from another galaxy, that would be obviously artificial," Grinspoon said. "Nobody's seen anything like that."
Others might actually harness star power to create messages. For instance, if aliens could spin small and extremely dense stars called neutron stars in just the right way, they could make these stars emit light as a kind of flashing beacon, Grinspoon said.
In fact, when neutron stars were discovered, scientists thought they might be messages from "little green men." (That discovery earned astronomer Antony Hewish the Nobel Prize in physics; his graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who first discovered the star, was passed up for the high honor.) [Nobel Would-Bes: 6 Scientists Who Were Passed Up for the Prize]
Credit: Mark Garlick/University of Warwick
7. Needle in a haystack
Even if aliens are trying to make contact, there's no guarantee we'd receive their messages. The universe is 91 billion light-years across, and messages could come from anywhere.
To narrow the search, some argue that aliens are likelier to send messages our way if they know we're here. A study published in February 2016 in the preprint journal arXivfound that there are 82 stars we know of in Earth's transit zone, or an area of the sky that has a direct line of sight to Earth.
"Along this line, there is a very small band— a strip of less than a degree from where extrasolar observers would see the Earth transiting the sun," said study co-author René Heller, an astrobiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany.
Heller and his colleague Ralph Pudritz at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, predicted that there may be up to 100,000 stars within this zone of the sky — some of which could have planets teeming with life orbiting them.
One advantage of this approach is that the tiny slice of the sky is relatively easy to search.
"You could just skim or scan the whole Earth transit zone over the course of maybe a few dozen nights or so, depending on how large the field of view of your radio telescope is," Heller told Live Science.
If these hidden exoplanets harbor life, they'd also be in the same galactic neighborhood — just a few hundred light-years away at most.
Credit: Dreamstime
8. Part of space exploration
The search for intelligent life-forms may not need dedicated megaprojects, Grinspoon said.
"We're going to send spacecraft out to these places to explore," Grinspoon said, referring to spots like the asteroid belt. "So while we explore the solar system, we should at least be aware of the possibility of finding something really anomalous that would be artificial."
Either way, if there are smart creatures in the universe, odds are, they know exactly what to do to make contact.
"Mathematically, it's pretty easy to show, and logically, it makes sense that they would be much more advanced," Grinspoon said. "We're such babies as a civilization; anybody that is outside trying to contact us probably has a much longer relationship with science and technology."
So, if aliens are trying to contact us, it's probably our fault that we're missing their signals, Grinspoon said.
Il traque les ovnis... mais n'y croit pas beaucoup
Il traque les ovnis... mais n'y croit pas beaucoup
Jean-Paul Aguttes dirige le Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés depuis février. | Ouest-France
Arnaud BÉLIER.
Le Français Thomas Pesquet s'envolera jeudi vers la station spatiale internationale. Y croisera-t-il des petits hommes verts ? Peu probable. Même si depuis quarante ans, la France est l'un des rares pays au monde à assurer une veille depuis le Groupement d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés, à Toulouse.
« Alice, viens voir! Qu'est-ce que c'est que ce truc? C'est extraordinaire! Faut appeler, j'sais pas quoi… Maman, passe-moi mon portable! » La scène, enregistrée sur un smartphone, se passe le 13 juillet 2011 à Châteaufort (Yvelines). La femme dont on entend la voix est sous le choc : une dizaine de points lumineux viennent d'apparaître dans le ciel. Et si c'était des ovnis…
Des témoignages comme celui-ci, le Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés (Geipan) en reçoit 500 par an. Dans son bureau, au sein du pavillon de direction du Centre national d'études spatiales (Cnes), à Toulouse, la documentaliste du service, Marie-Pierre Desvignes, a aménagé deux « murs des émotions ». Des photos, des dessins, des schémas. Tous disent l'incompréhensible, l'effroi parfois. Une boule dans le ciel, un éclair. Sur certaines photocopies, des témoins ont dessiné une soucoupe, ou ce qui ressemble à un vaisseau spatial, au-dessus d'une maison.
Allô docteur, est-ce moi qui débloque ou est-ce que les extraterrestres n'auraient pas débarqué ? Après tout, David Vincent, le héros de la série Les Envahisseurs, les a bien vus, lui… Le responsable du Geipan, Jean-Paul Aguttes, ne prend jamais ces témoignages à la légère. À 60 ans, ce spécialiste des radiofréquences, ancien sous-directeur du Cnes, épluche tout : les procès-verbaux de la gendarmerie, les rapports de la Défense, de la direction générale de l'aviation civile. Sans compter les témoignages, de plus en plus nombreux, à arriver directement sur le site du Geipan.
Avec le Chili et l'Argentine, la France est l'un des rares pays au monde à être dotés d'un tel service. « Ne pas traiter correctement ces observations, ces découvertes qu'on ne comprend pas, produit des incompréhensions, des interprétations incontrôlées », justifie Jean-Paul Aguttes. En bon scientifique, il entend apporter aux témoins de phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés (PAN) la réponse « la plus rationnelle, la plus rigoureuse » en travaillant sur ce qui « apparaît inexplicable » au premier abord.
Pas une mince affaire à l'ère d'Internet et du complotisme généralisé. Jean-Paul Aguttes dialogue en permanence, tout en s'en méfiant, avec deux camps : les ufologues convaincus de l'existence des objets volants non identifiés, et les ultra-cartésiens pour qui tout cela n'est qu'une vaste plaisanterie. « Ces derniers arrivent parfois à trouver des réponses originales à des phénomènes étranges »,observe le patron du Geipan.
13 % de cas non identifiés
Les points lumineux orange dans le ciel de Châteaufort ? De simples lanternes thaïlandaises en papier de riz qu'on lâche lors d'un mariage ou d'un événement heureux. Une traînée flamboyante qui se déplace rapidement dans le ciel ? Un « bolide » : une météorite ou un débris de satellite qui se consume dans l'atmosphère. Une sphère lumineuse de couleur jaune tirant vers le rouge ? Une boule de foudre. La moitié des témoignages reçus par Brigitte Vergée, l'adjointe de Jean-Paul Aguttes, trouvent rapidement une explication. Parce que le phénomène est bien connu, parce que les conditions météo, ce jour-là, ne laissent guère de place au doute.
Parfois, c'est plus compliqué. Jean-Paul Aguttes prend alors le relais. À distance, grâce à une foule d'outils (Google Street View, bulletins météo, observations radars), il circonscrit le témoignage, sollicite des experts. Si cela ne suffit pas, il envoie sur le terrain l'un de ses vingt enquêteurs bénévoles dispersés un peu partout en France. Des enseignants, des facteurs, des journalistes, sélectionnés pour leur « rigueur d'analyse et leur capacité à comprendre la méprise »,et formés à la psychologie cognitive. Leur boulot : « Chercher l'événement conventionnel, que l'on peut expliquer par nos connaissances, et l'élément perturbateur qui a créé l'étrangeté du phénomène observé. »
Et ça marche… dans la plupart des cas. Sur les 2 530 signalements répertoriés sur le site du Geipan à la fin octobre, 16 % sont classés A (parfaitement identifiés) ; 34 % B (globalement identifiés) ; 37 % C (non identifiables, par manque de données). Restent 13 % de cas non identifiés, classés D. « Il y a dix ans, quand on a décidé de rendre publics tous les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés, cette proportion était supérieure à 20%. On a progressé dans la connaissance, notamment sur les boules de foudre »,avance Jean-Paul Aguttes.
En rêve-t-il la nuit ? S'attend-il même, un jour, à répondre à l'un de ces interlocuteurs : non, vous n'avez pas rêvé, les petits hommes verts sont parmi nous… Il sourit : « La probabilité me semble très faible, mais je ne peux l'exclure. Qu'il y ait de la vie ailleurs dans l'univers, c'est probable : une étoile sur mille a une exoplanète habitable. Est-elle intelligente, ce n'est pas sûr. Et si oui, aurait-elle l'envie et la capacité de venir nous rendre visite? Je n'ai aucune raison de l'espérer, ça ne fait pas partie de mes attentes, ni de mes craintes. Je n'ai pas besoin de ce mystère. » Scientifique jusqu'au bout des ongles.
Electronic E.T.: Intelligent Aliens Are Likely Machines
Electronic E.T.: Intelligent Aliens Are Likely Machines
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
We often imagine intelligent aliens to be humanoid, but this is unlikely for a number of reasons.
Credit: Albert Ziganshin / Shutterstock.com
Any intelligent aliens that humans manage to contact probably won't look much like you or me, or the squid-like creatures in the new film "Arrival."
If an extraterrestrial species becomes advanced enough to send signals Earthlings can pick up, it will likely shed its traditional biological trappings and become a form of machine intelligence in rather short order, said veteran alien hunter Seth Shostak.
To make his case, Shostak pointed to the path that humanity appears to be on. The human species invented the radio around 1900 and the computer in 1945, and it's already manufacturing relatively cheap devices with greater computing power than the human brain. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
The development of true, strong artificial intelligence (AI) is therefore not too far off, experts have said. The famous futurist Ray Kurzweil, for example, has pegged 2045 as the year this world-changing "singularity" will hit.
"But maybe it takes to 2100, or 2150, or 2250. It doesn't matter," Shostak said in September during a presentation at the Dent:Space conference in San Francisco. "The point is, any society that invents radio, so we can hear them, within a few centuries, they've invented their successors. And I think that's important, because the successors are machines."
AI will interface with people's bodies for a while, but eventually humans will abandon the wetware and go fully digital, Shostak predicted.
"It'll be like — you build a four-cylinder engine. You put it in a horse to get a faster horse. And pretty soon you say, 'Look, let's get rid of the horse part and just build a Maserati,'" said Shostak, an astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California. "So that's probably what's going to happen."
Humans' machine selves will get smarter and more capable incredibly quickly, he added. Humanity's present intelligence is the result of 4 billion years of Darwinian evolution, which uses random variation as its raw material and is not directed toward any particular goal. But the evolution of machine intelligence will be engineered and efficient, Shostak said.
"Once you invent a thinking machine, you say, 'Invent something better than you are,' and you build that. 'Design something better than you are,' and you build that, and so forth," he said.
This idea has serious implications for the search for intelligent alien life. Unlike Earth organisms, super-advanced extraterrestrial machines would not require water or other chemicals to survive, so they would not be tied to their ancestors' home worlds tightly at all, Shostak said. And journeying tremendous distances would not be a big deal to these machines, provided they could access enough energy and raw materials to keep repairing themselves over the millennia, he said.
"We continue to look in the directions of star systems that we think have habitable words, that have planets where biology could cook up and eventually turn into something clever like you guys," he told the Dent:Space audience. "But I don't think it's going to be that way."
Shostak said he isn't counseling his fellow SETI astronomers to stop investigating potentially Earth-like planets such as Proxima b, a recently discovered world that lies just 4.2 light-years away. (And simple life-forms could still inhabit such worlds even if their most intelligent inhabitants went digital and departed long ago, Shostak said.) But it may be a good idea to expand the search to regions of space that would seemingly be attractive to digital life-forms, he said — for example, places with lots of available energy, such as the centers of galaxies.
"That may be where the really clever beings are," Shostak said.
"Maybe what we ought to do is look at places on the sky that connect two places where there is a lot of energy," in an attempt to intercept communications between alien machines, Shostak added.
"This is my message to you: We're looking for analogues of ourselves, but I don't know that that's the majority of the intelligence in the universe," Shostak concluded. "I'm willing to bet it's not."
See a Virtual Milky Way Map from Europe's Gaia Spacecraft
Mapping the Milky Way: 3D Image of the Galaxy
See a Virtual Milky Way Map from Europe's Gaia Spacecraft
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
Data from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft helped create this virtual map of star density in our Milky Way Galaxy.
Credit: ESA
The European Gaia space observatory is hard at work mapping our Milky Way Galaxy in unprecedented detail. Case in point: this virtual Milky Way map unveiled by Gaia mission scientists at the European Space Agency.
ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013 to make the most precise 3D map of stars in the Milky Way, as well as a map of its neighbors' stars – the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Earlier this year, ESA scientists unveiled Gaia's first billion-star map of the Milky Way. On Thursday (Nov. 10), the space agency also released this new virtual map based on data from the spacecraft. [Gaia's Milky Way Mapping Mission in Pictures]
"These engineering data have been accumulated over 18 months and combined to create a 'map' of the observed star densities, from which a beautiful and ghostly virtual image of our magnificent Milky Way galaxy can be discerned, showing the attendant globular clusters and Magellanic clouds," ESA officials wrote in an image description. "Where there are more stars, as in the Galactic center, the map is brighter; where there are fewer, the map is darker. The map includes brightness data corresponding to several million stars," they wrote in the same description.
The $1 billion (740 million euros) Gaia spacecraft is designed to create a high-resolution map of 1 billion stars in the Milky Way over the course of a five-year mission. The spacecraft is making its observations from a gravitationally stable point, called the sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2, or L2, about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth.
The star Kepler 11145123 is the roundest natural object ever measured in the universe. Stellar oscillations imply a difference in radius between the equator and the poles of only 3 km. This star is significantly more round than the Sun.
A star 5,000 light-years from Earth is the closest thing to a perfect sphere that has ever been observed in nature, a new study reports.
Stars, planets and other round celestial bodies bulge slightly at their equators due to centrifugal force. Generally speaking, the faster these objects spin, the greater the force, and the larger the bulge.
For example, the sun rotates once every 27 days, and an imaginary line drawn through its center at the equator is about 12 miles (20 kilometers) longer than a similar line drawn from pole to pole. The equatorial diameter of Earth, which completes a rotation every 24 hours, is 26 miles (42 km) longer than the polar diameter, even though Earth is much smaller than the sun. [Solar Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Sun?]
But the distant star, known as Kepler 11145123, has Earth, the sun and every other object that's ever been measured beat in terms of roundness, study team members said.
The researchers studied Kepler 11145123's natural oscillations, as observed by NASA's Kepler space telescope over a period of 51 months, from 2009 through 2013. (Kepler was designed to detect exoplanets by noting the tiny brightness dips that are caused when they cross their stars' faces, so the spacecraft is very sensitive to light fluctuations.)
The team, led by Laurent Gizon from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the University of Göttingen in Germany, then used this information to determine the star's size. This technique is known as asteroseismology, because it allows astronomers to probe stellar interiors in much the same way that geologists use earthquakes to study our planet's insides.
The researchers found that Kepler 11145123's equatorial and polar diameters differ by a mere 3.7 miles (6 km), even though the star is 1.86 million miles (3 million km) in diameter — about twice as wide as the sun.
"This makes Kepler 11145123 the roundest natural object ever measured, even more round than the sun," Gizon said in a statement.
Why is the star so round? It rotates about three times more slowly than the sun, but that's probably not the whole story. Magnetic fields can also help flatten stars, so part of the answer may lie in Kepler 11145123's magnetic environment, astronomers said.
There's no guarantee that Kepler 11145123 will keep its roundness record forever. Gizon and his colleagues plan to study other stars using their asteroseismological techniques, which they said have delivered unprecedented precision and may therefore open up new lines of inquiry.
"It will be particularly interesting to see how faster rotation and a stronger magnetic field can change a star’s shape," Gizon said. "An important theoretical field in astrophysics has now become observational."
The new study was published today (Nov. 16) in the journal Science Advances.
Pluto's famous heart-shaped feature caused the dwarf planet to roll over the eons, and this reorientation probably wouldn't have been possible without a subsurface ocean, new research suggests.
The left lobe of Pluto's "heart" is a 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) plain called Sputnik Planitia (formerly known as Sputnik Planum), which astronomers think is an enormous impact crater. This basin has been filling with nitrogen ice over the years and now contains huge amounts of the stuff. Indeed, observations by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by Pluto last year, suggest that Sputnik Planitia's ice may be up to 6 miles (10 km) thick.
Sputnik Planitia is aligned nicely with Pluto's "tidal axis" — the line along which the gravitational pull from the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon, is the strongest. And that's probably no coincidence, according to two new studies, both of which were published online today (Nov. 16) in the journal Nature. [Pluto Has Ocean Beneath Its Surface? Scientists Think So (Video)]
In the first study, James Keane, a doctoral student at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, and his colleagues modeled what happened as nitrogen ice accumulated in Sputnik Planitia. The results were dramatic.
"Once enough ice has piled up, maybe a hundred meters thick, it starts to overwhelm the planet's shape, which dictates the planet's orientation," Keane said in a statement. "And if you have an excess of mass in one spot on the planet, it wants to go to the equator. Eventually, over millions of years, it will drag the whole planet over."
This animation shows how Pluto reoriented in response to volatile ices filling Sputnik Planitia (the left lobe of Pluto's heart). Sputnik Planitia started northwest of its present position, and as it filled with ices, the tides from Charon (Pluto's largest moon) caused the entire dwarf planet to reorient.
Credit: James Tuttle Keane. Maps of Pluto and Charon by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.
This tumble brought Sputnik Planitia to the southeast, until the plain faced directly away from Charon as it does today. The team's models predicted this very orientation: In this spot, near the tidal axis, the additional mass causes the least wobble in Pluto's spin, the researchers said. (Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, meaning the two bodies always show the same face to each other, just as Earth's moon always shows just one side to Earth.)
Pluto's reorientation would have stressed the dwarf planet's crust, leading to a network of faults and fractures on the surface, Keane and his colleagues report. And New Horizons spotted just such a network, whose characteristics match those predicted by the team's models, they said.
Those models assume that Pluto harbors a subsurface ocean of liquid water — a notion bolstered by the second study, which was led by Francis Nimmo, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Nimmo and his team determined that the odds of Sputnik Planitia occurring in its present location, so close to the tidal axis, purely by chance were just 5 percent. So they, too, believe that a substantial reorientation has taken place.
The researchers suggested that the impact that created the basin weakened the crust overlying a buried ocean, causing some of the water to rise close to the surface. This action, along with the deposition of nitrogen ice in Sputnik Planitia, would have created enough of a "positive mass anomaly" to roll the dwarf planet, Nimmo and his colleagues wrote.
It's hard to imagine Pluto reorienting in this way if it didn't have an ocean, Nimmo said. For example, the team's calculations suggest that Sputnik Planitia's ice layer would have to be 25 miles (40 km) thick if no ocean existed.
"Our view is that 40 kilometers' thickness of nitrogen ice is not that likely," Nimmo told Space.com. "So if you want to have another source of dense material down there, then water seemed like a very natural explanation, because water is a lot denser than ice." ['Land' on Pluto's Icy Plains in This Amazing New NASA Video]
The team also considered the possibility that rock migrated in to make up the extra mass, but that explanation doesn't seem likely, either, Nimmo said.
"The rock is so far down there, and it's also pretty strong," he said. "So it's hard to figure out how that rock would get moved around in the way that you would need."
Other research groups also have suggested that Pluto may harbor a subsurface ocean, using other lines of evidence. One such argument points to the dwarf planet's surface fractures, which may be the result of this ocean gradually freezing over time — a prospect also raised by Keane and his colleagues in their paper. (Water expands as it freezes, which would lead to stresses in overlying rock or ice.) In addition, Nimmo said, Pluto doesn't have an equatorial bulge — and bodies with oceans can't maintain such a bulge.
"All these lines of argument are pointing in the same direction," Nimmo said.
This cutaway image of Pluto shows a section through the area of Sputnik Planitia, with dark blue representing a subsurface ocean and light blue for the frozen crust.
Credit: Pam Engebretson
If Pluto does have an ocean, how has it managed to avoid freezing up entirely over the past 4.5 billion years? Pluto is big enough that it may have retained a substantial amount of internal heat, Nimmo said. And the dwarf planet's water may contain significant amounts of ammonia or other substances that act as an antifreeze, he added.
Astronomers think subsurface oceans exist on the Saturn moons Enceladusand Titan; the Jovian satellites Europa, Ganymede and Callisto; and a number of other solar system bodies. Indeed, such buried water may be abundant in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of frigid objects beyond Neptune's orbit, Nimmo said.
"My guess is that, on big Kuiper Belt objects, these kinds of oceans are pretty common," Nimmo said. "One of the lessons of the last 20 years is that oceans pop up in all kinds of unexpected places."
Stephen Hawking: Humanity Only Has 1,000 Years Left on Earth
Stephen Hawking: Humanity Only Has 1,000 Years Left on Earth
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IN BRIEF
Because of systemic issues like habitat destruction, antibiotic resistance, increasing weapons ammunitions, and overpopulation, humanity's time on Earth may be rather limited. According to Hawking, our only hope may be alien worlds.
A PROBLEMATIC PLANET
Physicist Stephen Hawking has warned humanity that we probably only have about 1,000 years left on Earth, and the only thing that could save us from certain extinction is setting up colonies elsewhere in the Solar System.
“[W]e must … continue to go into space for the future of humanity,” Hawking said in a lecture at the University of Cambridge this week. “I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.”
The fate of humanity appears to have been weighing heavily on Hawking of late – he’s also recently cautioned that artificial intelligence (AI) will be “either the best, or the worst, thing ever to happen to humanity”.
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Given that humans are prone to making the same mistakes over and over again – even though we’re obsessed with our own history and should know better – Hawking suspects that “powerful autonomous weapons” could have serious consequences for humanity.
As Heather Saul from The Independent reports,Hawking has estimated that self-sustaining human colonies on Mars are not going to be a viable option for another 100 years or so, which means we need to be “very careful” in the coming decades.
Without even taking into account the potentially devastating effects of climate change, global pandemics brought on by antibiotic resistance, and nuclear capabilities of warring nations, we could soon be sparring with the kinds of enemies we’re not even close to knowing how to deal with.
Late last year, Hawking added his name to a coalition of more than 20,000 researchers and experts, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Noam Chomsky, calling for a ban on anyone developing autonomous weapons that can fire on targets without human intervention.
As the founders of OpenAI, Musk’s new research initiative dedicated to the ethics of artificial intelligence, said last year, our robots are perfectly submissive now, but what happens when we remove one too many restrictions?
What happens when you make them so perfect, they’re just like humans, but better, just like we’ve always wanted?
“AI systems today have impressive but narrow capabilities,” the founders said.
“It seems that we’ll keep whittling away at their constraints, and in the extreme case they will reach human performance on virtually every intellectual task. It’s hard to fathom how much human-level AI could benefit society, and it’s equally hard to imagine how much it could damage society if built or used incorrectly.”
And that’s not even the half of it.
Imagine we’re dealing with unruly robots that are so much smarter and so much stronger than us, and suddenly, we get the announcement – aliens have picked up on the signals we’ve been blasting out into the Universe and made contract.
Great news, right? Well, think about it for a minute. In the coming decades, Earth and humanity isn’t going to look so crash-hot.
We’ll be struggling to mitigate the effects of climate change, which means we’ll be running out of land to grow crops, our coasts will be disappearing, and anything edible in the sea is probably being cooked by the rapidly rising temperatures.
If the aliens are aggressive, they’ll see a weakened enemy with a habitable planet that’s ripe for the taking. And even if they’re non-aggressive, we humans certainly are, so we’ll probably try to get a share of what they’ve got, and oops: alien wars.
As Hawking says in his new online film, Stephen Hawking’s Favourite Places, “I am more convinced than ever that we are not alone,” but if the aliens are finding us, “they will be vastly more powerful and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria”.
Clearly, we need a back-up plan, which is why Hawking’s 1,000-year deadline to destruction comes with a caveat – we might be able to survive our mistakes if we have somewhere else in the Solar System to jettison ourselves to.
BUT WE’RE NOT FINISHED JUST YET
That all might sound pretty dire, but Hawking says we still have a whole lot to feel optimistic about, describing 2016 as a “glorious time to be alive and doing research into theoretical physics”.
While John Oliver might disagree that there’s anything good about 2016 at all, Hawking says we need to “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”
“Try to make sense of what you see, wonder about what makes the Universe exist. Be curious,” he told students at the Cambridge lecture. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.”
Physicist Stephen Hawking sits on stage during an announcement of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative with investor Yuri Milner in New York REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Professor Stephen Hawkinghas warned humanity will not survive another 1,000 years on Earth unless the human race finds another planet to live on.
The celebrated theoretical physicist and cosmologist painted a grave picture of the future while delivering a lecture on the universe and the origins of human beings at the Oxford Union debating society on Monday.
Professor Hawking, 74, reflected on the understanding of the universe garnered from breakthroughs over the past five decades, describing 2016 as a "glorious time to be alive and doing research into theoretical physics".
Climate change: It's "game over" for planet earth
“Our picture of the universe has changed a great deal in the last 50 years and I am happy if I have made a small contribution,“ he went on. ”The fact that we humans, who are ourselves mere fundamental particles of nature, have been able to come this close to understanding the laws that govern us and the universe is certainly a triumph.”
Highlighting “ambitious” experiments that will give an even more precise picture of the universe, he continued: “We will map the position of millions of galaxies with the help of [super] computers like Cosmos. We will better understand our place in the universe.
“Perhaps one day we will be able to use gravitational waves to look right back into the heart of the Big Bang.
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Prachtige ufo boven Tennessee
PRACHTIGE UFO BOVEN TENNESSEE, USA
Soms kom je best wel heel bijzonder ufo opnames tegen en de volgende hoort wat mij betreft in die categorie.
De foto hieronder is genomen door een man uit de plaats Arrington in Tennessee op 9 november 2016. Hij reed die dag op de weg en zag plotseling iets in de lucht. Eerst dacht hij dat het een luchtschip was, maar toen hij dichterbij kwam besefte hij dat dit absoluut geen luchtschip was.
Het was volgens de man erg groot en vloog heel langzaam vanuit het noorden naar het zuiden. Toen hij bij een plek kwam waar hij kon stoppen stonden er nog een paar auto’s en direct na hem stopte weer een auto.
De man beschrijft de ufo als er groot en solide en het enige licht dat de man kon ontdekken was een soort gloeiend wit licht bovenin. Er waren geen andere lichten bekennen zoals je die zou verwachten op een vliegtuig. Op een gegeven moment verdween het object achter de bomen en lieten een paar stomverbaasde mensen achter die nog nooit zoiets hadden gezien.
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Alien Skull And Body Found In Cave In Peru, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Skull And Body Found In Cave In Peru, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of discovery: unknown
Location of discovery: cave in Peru
The details are a little vague, but Brian Foerester of Youtube investigated some small bodies found in the back of a caver in Peru. The bodies look thousands of years old and they resemble an alien with a height of about 1-2 feet tall. Much like the blueish grey alien body in the old (real) KGB leaked video of a UFO crash back in the 1968. This is a short alien. So they are small, does that make them existing impossible? The shortest human in the world was 21 and a half inches. Did he exist? Of course he did, and of course intelligent aliens can too. Great video by UFOvni2012.
Two Unidentified Flying Objects Recorded On Video Passing Across The Supermoon
Two Unidentified Flying Objects Recorded On Video Passing Across The Supermoon
There was an increased interest in the moon recently as it came closer to Earth. However, one man claimed he noticed more than the supermoon when viewing it in Surprise, Arizona on Saturday evening.
According to YouTube username Rondomon, two strange objects passed by the moon on November 12.
The cameraman claimed he caught two UFOs while taking video of the supermoon with NexStar 6se telescope.
He said that he zoomed in the supermoon and walked away, but this was the time UFOs started their flyby. He described the UFOs to have distortion surrounding them, which he speculated to be a bending light.
The device he was using was a Sony handy cam with 5x optical zoom, 38x telescope magnification, maxview 40 lens, and manual focus at .9m.
Many UFO enthusiasts called the UFOs odd. They described them as solid because the light of the moon can’t be seen through them.
In the video comment section, some viewers agreed that the mysterious objects are UFOs. One viewer even claimed that she also saw a UFO passed by the supermoon on November 13 in Phoenix, Arizona. She reportedly saw it with her naked eye and it lo
oked like the UFO in the video posted on YouTube. Her boyfriend reportedly described it as if it was a little black ant crawling on the moon. The girl depicted the sighting as so strange but very real.
YouTube username Jugganaut7 thinks that they are just leaves blowing in the wind, but admits calling them UFOs is in the context of UFO definition.
Fast UFO caught on tape over Manchester, UK 15-Nov-2016
Fast UFO caught on tape over Manchester, UK 15-Nov-2016
Here’s a new video of a very fast object flying across the night sky above Manchester in United Kingdom. This was taken on 15h November 2016.
Witness report:
Looking out of the window I seen an Orb fly from south to north twisting going from red to white. first noticed it in the back garden.I thought at first it was a plane but it went across the sky way to fast.I felt excited. I ran upstairs where my CCTV was and checked it. video added had to edit it down to an acceptable size
Multiple lights filmed over Jacksonville, Florida 15-Nov-2016
Multiple lights filmed over Jacksonville, Florida 15-Nov-2016
Here’s a new footage of a bright unidentified flying objects in the night sky above Jacksonville in Florida. This was filmed yesterday (15th November 2016).
Witness report:
Five lights. Moving up and down. Above horizon. Bright but completely silent. Vanished quickly. I saw and videod what looked like a group of five bright lights above the horizon. Have two videos of the event. They were moving around in no straight pattern, and they were gone in a minute and a half. Very bright much brighter than a star. Too fast and high for helicopters and too quiet for a jet. Kust very curious what it was.
Multiple lights filmed over Jacksonville, Florida 15-Nov-2016
Multiple lights filmed over Jacksonville, Florida 15-Nov-2016
Here’s a new footage of a bright unidentified flying objects in the night sky above Jacksonville in Florida. This was filmed yesterday (15th November 2016).
Witness report:
Five lights. Moving up and down. Above horizon. Bright but completely silent. Vanished quickly. I saw and videod what looked like a group of five bright lights above the horizon. Have two videos of the event. They were moving around in no straight pattern, and they were gone in a minute and a half. Very bright much brighter than a star. Too fast and high for helicopters and too quiet for a jet. Kust very curious what it was.
Residents of Lima, Peru were left stunned after seeing and filming a mysterious burning UFO moving across the sky above the capital city. The orange unidentified flying object flew through the slightly darkened sky.
The video that made the rounds online lasts a full minute showing the strange lights in the air. According to Peruvian media, observers left mystified. Interestingly, residents in other areas of the South American country also spotted the same UFO, including those who live in the highlands to the southeast of Lima, as well as near the Amazon rainforest.
One explanation is that the light could be from Google’s Project Loon, a high-altitude balloon used to provide Internet access to people in remote areas.
Google’s balloons float in the stratosphere and do have lights.
Other people believe that Peru is a favorite destination of aliens because of the country’s ancient sites, such as the Machu Picchu citadel in the Andes Mountains.
The X-Files took believers seriously. We look at how the series mined UFO myths and played off our fears and suspicions.
Anyone driving across a barren interstate freeway at night has likely looked up into the sky and wondered about the possibility of witnessing the unexpected. For people who have held beliefs in extra-terrestrials or alien craft, the entire history of the UFO phenomenon is an obsession that goes beyond mere fascination.
Books, movies, and television help alien seekers conceptualize what an encounter could potentially look like. Perhaps no show has flown as close to the sun with depicting real-life accounts of the UFO phenomenon than The X-Files, the seminal sci-fi series from Fox and Chris Carter.
When Carter’s series made its return to Fox for a revival in 2016, it honed in on a new extra-terrestrial threat for the digital age. Ever since they successfully blurred the line between fiction and real world events when the pilot debuted in 1993, The X-Files has depicted triangle-shaped crafts, or disc shaped crafts of various sizes, or even more recently in the new episodes, ARV’s - Alien Reproduction Vehicle’s. But the series drew from real world belief in the phenomenon, as well as the belief in global conspiracies.
The Basis for The X-Files
Chris Carter’s pre-pilot research revealed something startling. He read a Roper Organization survey stated that three percent of the U.S. population believes they have been abducted by aliens. When Carter would later direct the “Duane Barry” episode, a fill-in crew member revealed his brother-in-law believed he had been abducted. Carter’s persistent mantra in the early years was that the show had to be “scientifically plausible.” This meant that a lot of the research was pulled from real UFOlogy archives.
One key plot element in the series has been the Roswell incident, which the Deep Throat character first mentioned in season one’s final episode “The Erlenmeyer Flask,” when he comments that “Roswell was a smokescreen.” It was a comment that would be mirrored by the old man in “My Struggle I” from the new event series.
The Roswell incident from 1947 in New Mexico has remained the holy-grail source for the subject, touching on most of people’s concerns. As The X-Files heavily played up in the first episode of season 10, “My Struggle,” they showed the military retrieving wreckage from an unidentified craft, and using intimidation, misdirection, deniability, or direct threats to hide from the public secret military technology, or the existence of extra-terrestrials. What is known about the incident is that an event took place in July of 1947. The public might not have known about it had it not been for a military press release on Tuesday, July 8th that confirmed a disc-shaped object that “landed” on a Ranch, just outside of Roswell Army Air Field.
"Are They Really A Hoax?"
The Roswell story caused a sensation for hours in the press before a second story was released that the wreckage of a weather balloon was recovered. Major Jesse A. Marcel was the head of 509th Bomb group intelligence office at the time of the incident. But the story of a landing wouldn’t jive with one of the eyewitness accounts of a foreman named William Brazel, who was working for rancher J.B. Foster at the time.
William and his son Vernon claimed to have come across an area strewn with unfamiliar material that was part of some collected wreckage. In a matter of days, Major Marcel and Captain Sheridan Cavitt of the Counter-Intelligence Corps contacted them and took the materials. In spite of residential eye witness accounts by the Wilmonts, the flying saucer story was debunked by the Roswell Dispatch by July 9th. Interest in the story was revived by the late ‘70s, but most of the eyewitnesses had passed away by then.
Many UFO believers regard the incident as a key moment, pointing fingers at segments of the military, whom they say created smokescreens to cover up alien technology, or secret military aircrafts. Original witnesses had offered conflicting stories; some had described a crashed disc, with two hundred yards in diameter that formed a long, thin strip some three quarters of a mile long, between two hundred to three hundred feet wide, and at one end was a deep gouge in the ground, ten feet wide, and five hundred feet long. That account would have indicated a significant amount of debris.
Some of the wreckage recovered had “I-beams” which Marcel’s son described as having hieroglyphic-type characters. These first accounts would describe something fairly mundane, and likely a crashed experimental craft in development near Roswell Army Air Field, or a shot down foreign craft.
The mythology of Roswell became evident here. There were no initial reports of an intact craft or alien bodies recovered. In 1974, TV researcher Robert Carr put out comments about a craft, and frozen alien bodies being held in Wright-Patterson AFB, related to a crash in 1948 that was later debunked.
Despite the falsehood, it triggered interest in the UFO research community, and the Roswell case started to be taken seriously. Other figures have elaborated the story with greater claims, such as Frank J. Kaufman, Glenn Dennis, Jim Ragsdale, “Pappy” Henderson, Mr. Rowe, and Major Edwin Easley. Several figures even claiming there were two crash sites, which has only complicated the narrative about what was found.
Some theories suggest that a Japanese Balloon bomb from World War II was recovered, or a V-2 rocket that veered off course, as part of the MOGUL project, a project developed with sensitive instruments and high altitude balloons to monitor soviet nuclear test activity.
Roswell’s Rumble is Chris Carter’s Treasure
What The X-Files did do well was add fragments from the known history to create an unsettling agenda in the series’ mythology. Carter and Co. borrowed much of the tone of the 1960s ABC sci-fi series The Invaders, which starred Roy Thinnes, a future X-Files acting alumnus who played the character of Jeremiah Smith.
In The Invaders, Thinnes played David Vincent, a man who witnesses a flying saucer land with alien beings intent on taking over the Earth. Over the course of the series, Vincent manages to gather a small circle of people who believe him, and eventually the invaders change their plans.
The series had an obvious parallel to the plight of the X-Files iconic villain. “We had a perfect conspiracy with an alien race,” The Cigarette Smoking Man ominously intoned in The X-Files season six episode, "One Son"; “Aliens who were coming to reclaim the planet and destroy all human life. Our job was to secretly prepare the way for their invasion. To create for them a race of human-alien hybrids. They were good plans, right plans. Kept secret for over fifty years, ever since the crash at Roswell.”
Some of the events in the series that speak of a clandestine meeting between the Colonists and the Syndicate in 1973 revealed in “One Son” mirror a rumored alleged clandestine meeting in February 1954 at Muroc, now Edwards, air force base, with on-going contact between Extra-Terrestrials and eminent people, including Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Which has also lead to the argument with some UFOologists that recovered technology from Roswell was “reversed-engineered,” and lead to developments like the current laser, transistors, microchips, Velcro, and microwave ovens. It has also been argued that such "reverse-engineering" gave the United States leverage with such contact. Deep Throat certainly suggested the Military use of “reverse-engineering” in season one’s second episode.
In The X-Files season five episode “Redux,” Michael Kritschgau offered up an counter explanation regarding Roswell as a cover, a red herring for other agendas.
“The Military saw a good thing in ’47 when the Roswell story broke. The more we denied it, the more people believed it was true. Aliens had landed – a made-to-order cover story for generals looking to develop the national war chest.”
Kritschgau further noted that such official investigations as Grudge, Twinkle, Project Blue Book, and Majestic 12 fed into the belief in UFOs, Kritschgau also noted that the first supersonic flight was in 1947, after which, every experimental flight was considered a U.F.O. All of these points are part of the historical lore.
The new X-Files episode, “My Struggle” depicted a version of the Roswell Crash, while also citing several other events, including the Kenneth Arnoldsightings from June 24, 1947, near Mount Rainier, Washington.Other events noted were the Maury Island sighing from June 21, 1947 near Tacoma, Washington, as well as the 1952 UFO flap over Washington D.C.
The Arnold sighting is notable. A pilot was commanding his own light aircraft to Pendleton Oregon from a job at Chehalis Air Service, Washington State, when he found himself near a location where an aircraft had vanished. At an altitude of 9,200 feet (2,760 m), he saw a bright flash, which he described as a “screwy formation… a chain of nine peculiar-looking aircraft” flying north to south at approximately 9,000 feet (2,790 m) elevation and going in a definite direction at an angle of 170 degrees.
The objects approached Mount Rainier at a very high speed, some of them changing or dipping direction. He realized they were moving much too fast to be a flock of birds. Upon landing in Yakima, Arnold described what he had witnessed to his fellow pilots. He would later describe them as half-moon-shaped oval in front and convex in the rear. At first, the news of his sighting was treated as a hoax, but Arnold’s impeccable record and integrity prompted people to take him more seriously. Arnold had assumed it was some sort of secret weapon or Soviet aircraft invading US airspace, an idea that was reinforced in private by a former USAF officer, that it was some rocket-powered jet, skeptics have suggested he witnessed a flock of pelicans, but this ignores the little known fact that Arnold had another sighting in the same area five days later at La Grande Airfield, Oregon.
Another key sighting that was visually referenced in the “My Struggle” teaser was the Maury Island incident. Harold A. Dahl, a harbor patrolman at Tacoma, was on his boat with his fifteen-year-old son, his dog, and two crewman on the 21st at around 2 p.m. when they saw five doughnut-shaped objects with rows of portholes circling around a sixth object. They estimated it was about 2,000 feet (600 m) above the water at the Puget Sound. They estimated that the objects were about 100 feet wide with a 25-foot hole in the middle.
While landing on the beach of Maury Island, Dahl took several photographs. One of the ships appeared to be trying to repair the other ship. There was a thunderous explosion, and the entire object emitted dark, almost molten, rock-like material and sheets of an extremely light metallic substance. Being directly under the shower, Dahl’s dog was killed, his son’s arm was injured, and the boat was damaged. After the UFOs headed out to sea, Dahl tried to get help via his radio, but it was dead. Dahl and others collected sample evidence and took it back to Tacoma to his boss, Fred Crissman. Soon, Kenneth Arnold was investigating the incident, and within days had his own encounter.
Lastly, there was the incident in Washington from 1952. As the nuclear age developed through the ‘50s, the ratio of UFO activity seemed to increase. In June of 1952, there were reports of UFOs over the skies of the east coast of the United States. Starting in Quantico, Virginia, there were various accounts of witnesses from Pan American Airline and National Airline crews spotting crafts through July, seen on radar at the Air Route Traffic Control. At Washington’s National Airport, the sightings near the capital reached such a degree that B-52s and F-94s were dispatched to intercept but to no avail.
These cases would evolve and become more complicated, and many themes were cited and explored on The X-Files. UFO abductions, the alien-human hybrid hypothesis as first cited in “The Erlenmeyer Flask,” UFO cults cited in episodes like “Red Museum,” or Ancient Astronaut Theory first cited in “Biogenesis,” or animal experimentation as cited in “Fearful Symmetry.”
Such real life incidents fed into the story arc’s of The X-Files, and often acted as a starting off point for the writers imagination. What is also to be noted is the point that writers would attend conventions about the UFO phenomenon in the early years, which would lead to the invention of characters like The Lone Gunmen, or other UFO investigators, there’s even accounts of the series writers enjoying cooperation from some government agencies. This cross pollination helped to shape the science and speculation that detailed the series.
Chris Carter and The X-Files took subjects that had been discussed in whispers and brought them into the mainstream, hence the popularity of Ancient Aliens for the History channel, or NASA’s Unexplained Files for the Discovery channel. Indeed, The truth is often stranger than fiction.
Den of Geek’s X-Files correspondent Matt Allair is a writer, freelance filmmaker, musician, and the webmaster of The X-Files Lexicon. He lives in San Francisco, CA.
NOVEMBER 4, 2016 ………….. NEWTON ABBOT DEVON ENGLAND
Hi Ken : I was sky watching when I spotted a luminous object approaching.
The object was sphere shaped and the top half was blue while the bottom half was white. The sphere moved very slowly across the night sky before coming to a stop. The sphere just hung there in the sky like it was waiting for something. I looked through my binoculars at the sphere looking for a conventional explanation but there was none it was definitely odd and unusual.
After a while of watching the sphere I then spotted a larger object that was approaching from the west. This larger object was shaped like a gherkin. The gherkin shaped object glowed different colours as it moved and got closer. As soon as the gherkin shaped object was near and in front of the sphere it seemed to somehow attach it’s self to the sphere by using light. It was like the tractor beam out of star trek. The beam appeared to fluctuate in brightness as it began to pull the sphere.
I quickly took a photograph and watched in amazement as the gherkin shaped object pulled the Sphere away across the night sky and off in to the distance. I was speechless. I have seen a lot of UFOs but I have never seen anything like this before it was really incredible to witness this. I have been sky watching a lot lately and have seen and photographed some very unusual things. Why do I see UFOs on a regular basis? The photograph was taken on the 4th of November 2016 at Newton Abbot Devon England.
The project team hopes to raise at least $1 million through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter by December 21, 2016, to lay the technical groundwork for the project, representatives said in a statement.
According to Space.com, the initiative would launch a small space telescope designed specifically to look at Alpha Centauri, which, along with Proxima Centauri, is the nearest stellar neighbour to Earth's solar system.
Because of the star system's closeness, that small telescope would be able to take a "pale blue dot" image of any potentially Earthlike planets orbiting there — a photo of a small blue speck like the one the Voyager spacecraft 1 took of Earth from afar. A blue hue would indicate potential oceans or atmosphere surrounding the planet.
Kickstarter
The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute and the University of Massachusetts Lowell have already signed on to collaborate on the project.
The entire mission would cost between $10 million and $50 million, Jon Morse, mission executive for Project Blue told Space.com when the project was announced in October.
The project's first $1 million raised will go to "crucial analysis, design and simulations that form the foundation of the mission," the Kickstarter page reads.
If more money is raised, the researchers also have stretch goals: $2 million will allow them to test the coronagraph that lets the telescope spot planets around the bright glare of Alpha Centauri's stars, and $4 million will let them finish the telescope's design, start building components and incorporate interested students and universities into the building process.
Science of 'Arrival': If Aliens Call, Does Humanity Have a Plan?
Science of 'Arrival': If Aliens Call, Does Humanity Have a Plan?
By Tom Metcalfe, Live Science Contributor
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The science fiction movie "Arrival," which opened in theaters last weekend, poses tantalizing questions about how humans might make contact — and eventually communicate — with intelligent aliens. The much-hyped film has renewed people's interest in the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. But what would happen if humans really did make contact with an intelligent alien civilization? If E.T. calls, is there a plan?
The answer is yes, and no, said astronomer Seth Shostak, who leads efforts to detect radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
In the 1990s, Shostak chaired a committee of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) that prepared a revised version of the "post-detection protocols" for researchers who watch for possible alien transmissions using radio telescopes, a field known as SETI (short for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
The protocols were first drawn up in the 1980s to help scientists in the United States and the Soviet Union share information about any potential SETI signals. But, Shostak explained, the SETI post-detection protocols are guidelines for governments and scientists, rather than a global action plan for dealing with alien contact.
"They say, 'If you pick up a signal, check it out ... tell everybody ... and don't broadcast any replies without international consultation,' whatever that means," he said. "But that's all that the protocols say, and they have no force of law. The United Nations took a copy of the early protocols and put them in a file drawer somewhere, and that's as official as they ever got."
"Men in Black"
In the movie "Arrival," spaceships land in several cities around the world, and a linguist (portrayed by actress Amy Adams) and a physicist (played by actor Jeremy Renner) are recruited as part of an international effort to try to communicate with the aliens and find out why they are here.
In real life, apart from the protocol dictating that researchers should share news about SETI signals with other astronomers around the world, Shostak said he is not aware of any government-level plans or established procedures in case of an alien contact, whatever form it might take.
And it seems there really are no "Men in Black," shadowy government investigators of UFO-lore, depicted in the comedy sci-fi movie series starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
"If [the government] could afford the 'Men in Black,' then they could afford to support SETI," Shostak joked. [7 Huge Misconceptions about Aliens]
But the U.S. government has shown no interest in SETI research so far, he said. "It's not a government program, so they have nothing to do with it. I would love to see some interest from them, but I never have," he added.
After one early SETI "false alarm," which eventually turned out to be a signal from a European research satellite, the only response was from journalists.
"In 1997, we got a signal that looked pretty promising for most of the day. We thought it was possibly the real deal," Shostak said. "I kept waiting for the 'Men in Black' to show up — they didn't. I kept waiting for the Pentagon to call. I kept waiting for the White House to call. They didn't call. But The New York Times called."
The supposed military plan, which became known as "Seven Phases to Contact," was first reported in a 1967 book on UFOs by the American broadcaster and UFO researcher Frank Edwards.
But Shostak said he has seen no sign of any extraterrestrial action plan for U.S. government agencies or the military. "As far as I know, there's nothing, and I think I would have heard something because of the [SETI] false alarms," he said.
While detecting an alien radio signal would be different from encountering spaceships that landed on Earth, Shostak doesn’t think protocols will play a big part in how we respond.
"Some people asked me at a conference last week, 'What plan does the military have to deal with aliens should they land?' And I said, 'I don’t know … but to the best of my knowledge, they don't have a plan.'"
Shostak noted that any aliens who could travel here in a spacecraft would need to be centuries or thousands of years more technologically advanced than humans are now, so it's almost impossible to imagine the consequences of contact between the species, let alone the thought of developing a plan to deal with them. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens]
"It would be like the Neanderthals having a plan in case the U.S. Air Force showed up," he said.
Calling planet Earth
Although the aliens in "Arrival"helpfully travel to Earth in faster-than-light spaceships, willing and ready to talk, Shostak said a more likely "first contact" scenario would be the detection of a SETI radio signal, perhaps from a source hundreds or thousands of light-years away.
That means it could take centuries for the aliens to receive any reply transmitted from Earth in an effort to communicate with them, he said. As such, there might not be any real hurry to decide what to say.
And if E.T. does call, what should humans say in response? Some scientists, including British physicist Stephen Hawking, have expressed concern about "Active SETI" programs designed to transmit messages from Earth to any aliens that might be listening. Hawking warned of the potential threat posed by unknown extraterrestrials and their alien motivations.
There's also the difficult matter of making the right first impression in any extraterrestrial chat, Shostak said.
"I've been to several conferences where people discuss whether we should tell [aliens] all the bad things about humanity, or just the good things, and that sort of thing," he said. "But I think that is terribly overdrawn. To me, that would be like the indigenous people of Australia seeing Capt. Cook coming over the horizon in his ship, then saying, 'We're going to have a couple of conferences to discuss what we're going to talk to these guys about, and what language we'll use’ — [but] it doesn’t matter."
Shostak pointed out that humans have already been broadcasting news into space for decades, in the form of television and radio signals, and so it's probably too late to keep quiet.
"Those signals have been going out into space since the Second World War, so we've already told them we're here," he said.
In the sci-fi film Arrival, alien spaceships suddenly appear above twelve locations on Earth. The aliens—seven-limbed creatures called heptapods—are willing to let a few humans come aboard for quick chats, but there's no universal translator gizmo to help the two species parley. Instead, each country calls upon its top linguists, including Louise Banks, played by Amy Adams.
Banks is whisked away to the nearest spaceship in Montana, tasked with untangling the heptapods’ languages and figuring out why they have come to Earth. To find out how linguists might react when faced with an extraterrestrial language, the filmmakers consulted Jessica Coon, a professor of linguistics at McGill University in Montreal.
“These aren’t your typical Star Trek aliens that have two arms and two legs and a vocal system just like ours, but happen to be a different color or have strange bumps on their heads,” Coon says. “They’re really not human looking at all and the sounds that they make are completely nonhuman sounds, and that’s probably more likely what we would expect to find.”
We asked Coon about what the film gets right about field linguistics, why alien languages will be difficult to decipher, and how linguists might go about doing so.
Aliens will play by a different set of rules
If aliens ever do touch down on Earth, their language is likely to offer challenges not found in any human language. “What linguists have discovered about human languages is that even though they can sound very different from one another and their grammars do show a lot of variation…languages tend to fall into certain patterns,” Coon says. So given certain pieces of information about a human language, linguists can often make reliable predictions about its other properties.
Take word order. In languages where verbs come before objects, it’s also common for prepositions like “on” to precede nouns. So in English, we say, “ate the apple,” and, “on the table.” In other languages, such as Japanese, both patterns are reversed. “Most of the world’s languages fall into one of those patterns or the other,” Coon says. “The variation isn’t completely unconstrained.”
Alien languages are unlikely to follow the same rules that human languages share. “Humans seem to be hardwired for this capacity to learn language,” Coon says. “Because it is part of our genetics and part of being human, it’s very unlikely that other creatures…would have the same kinds of constraints or show the same kinds of similarities that human languages do.”
And experiences that can be represented in every human language may not show up in an alien one. Every human language will have some way of representing intent, Coon says. “Kids are going to want to be able to say, ‘I didn’t mean to break that cup.’” But, as Banks explains to her colleagues in Arrival, if an alien species acts instinctively their language may have no concept of self-will, or no way to distinguish between doing things on purpose as opposed to by accident.
Linguists won’t even be able to assume that an alien language will have nouns, verbs, questions and other elements that are basic building blocks of our speech. “We would just have to hope…that we would still be able to recognize patterns and match it up with we’re seeing,” Coon says.
Even our own biology could limit us from understanding an alien language. Assuming our visitors even have mouths, we still might not be able to pick apart the speech they utter. In Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life,” the short story that inspired Arrival, Banks’s character points out that human ears and brains are built to understand speech made using a human vocal tract. But when it comes to aliens, she says, “it’s possible our ears simply can’t recognize the distinctions they consider meaningful.”
While they are able to make progress with the aliens’ unique written language, Banks and her colleagues are hampered by an inability to reproduce the heptapods’ noises. “With the spoken language it’s just a nonstarter because she can’t produce these strange sounds that sound like whale calls and purring cats,” Coon says.
So how would we talk to aliens?
For her first fieldwork assignment, Coon spent a summer in Mexico learning the Mayan language Ch’ol. “Going to the site of a recently arrived UFO isn’t really anything like driving into the jungle in Chiapas,” she admits. Still, Coon says, Louise Banks’s attempts to decipher the heptapods’ languages in Arrivaloffer a pretty accurate representation of how we would try to translate alien speech.
If future linguists find themselves facing down intelligent aliens, they will have to introduce themselves, communicate what they want to do, and practice speaking or writing with the aliens. Like Banks, linguists will start small, understanding very basic terms before working up to more complicated questions.
“The film doesn’t really go into the nitty gritty details of how exactly she deciphered the language…but I think they did a very nice job piecing together the montage scene of Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner working together and acting out different scenes, and getting translations for basic things you can point to, and you see her poring over the logogram looking for patterns,” Coon says. “I think that’s exactly what linguists would be doing if they do call us to translate for aliens.”
When deciphering human languages, most field linguists bring along a few simple tools, such as an audio recorder (and perhaps a video camera), some pencils and paper, and whatever information they already have about their target language or related languages. “That’s always a good starting place,” Coon says. For any new language, she says, “Really it’s about interacting with speakers and asking lots of questions, and building up hypotheses about how the grammar works, and testing them by asking speakers more questions and refining our understanding of detailed parts of the grammar.”
What can we learn from afar?
So actually being able to interact with aliens will be key. But what if we can't get close enough to attempt discourse with our alien guests? Linguists might still be able to make some progress with recordings, Coon speculates.
In the film, Banks’s first chance to hear the newly arrived aliens arises when a military officer plays her a brief audio file and asks what she can figure out from it. “That is obviously an impossible task, you need some kind of matchup between the sound and what’s being said,” Coon says. But Banks might have had more luck with videos and some knowledge of what context shaped the scene. If she had access to a large number of longer recordings, she could look for noises that reliably correspond to particular actions. “With enough of that kind of information…you could sort of whittle away at the grammar of a language,” Coon says.
Ancient human languages have been deciphered without help from living speakers. “If you have enough information and enough of the context and the history, I think there’s hope that even without a lot of interaction you could be able to make at least significant progress in understanding the grammar of a language—again depending on how likely we are to be able to understand alien life at all,” Coon says.
Does this mean that we could pick up an alien language from their broadcasts, or that they could learn ours? “I wouldn’t be surprised at all if creatures who could make giant spaceships that just show up on Earth could easily figure out our languages from the many broadcasts we put into outer space, and that we might be able to do the same thing with sufficient resources and sufficient information,” Coon says.
A drone at 9,000 feet? Not likely. Also, photos in this video are clearly not the actual incident.
UFO Report Canada:November 15,2016 ilot of passenger jet forced to put the aircraft into a steep DIVE to avoid a ‘UFO’ that was ‘too high to be a drone’ in emergency over Canada that injured two cabin crew. A UFO nearly caused an air crash over Toronto when a passenger plane with 58 people on board came face-to-face with the mystery object. Two flight attendants were injured when the pilots put the plane into a sudden nose-dive to avoid a head-on crash. They later reported the object which appeared on their flight path might have been a hot-air balloon or a drone but aviation experts have voiced doubt over both theories.
The second video addresses:
Can Crop Circles be used as a reference points for time travel. Space portals used by extraterrestrials from another planet to create crop circle “messages” to mankind? Tall, blond Extraterrestrials who look human with Scandinavian-type accents? What messages are crop circles trying to communicate to us, and are they an invitation for us to shift our worldview?
Crop circles offer humanity the opportunity to make a profound collective discovery.
It all began in the hamlet of Spring Valley in Rockland County during the summer of 1929. A 9-year-old girl was playing outside her home and suddenly she saw a flash of light in the sky. Upon a closer look, she thought what she was seeing was a big, metallic dirigible airship.
As she looked even closer, port holes all around the dirigible shaped object became visible. She would later tell investigators that the dirigible seemed to glow with an unusual light. The girl told investigators that three or four odd-shaped beings dressed in what looked like deep sea diving suits left the dirigible. The beings floated down to the ground where she was.
For some reason she said she was unable to move her feet or arms. She remembered that the local animals became unusually quiet while this was happening. She told investigators that she remembers seeing the beings floating back to their craft. She also noted that she had no idea how long the event took place.
When she returned home, she was scolded by her mother for having been away from the house for so long. It was the aftermath that investigators found intriguing, however. The girl developed a phobia about being alone. Shortly after the experience, she felt sick with a strange illness that doctors could not diagnose. Years later, she told investigators that she wondered if she’d caught some strange disease from the odd shaped beings.
Through her teens and into womanhood, she had nightmares about being chased by the strange visitors. Investigators experienced in abduction cases explain that the young woman’s incident, lifelong phobias and peculiar health problems were representative of the classic alien abduction scenario.
NOTE: The above image is CGI.
Thanks to the Syracuse News Times and Phantoms and Monsters.com
Wetenschap opent jacht op aliens die ons al ontdekt hebben
Wetenschap opent jacht op aliens die ons al ontdekt hebben
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Waar moeten we aliens zoeken? Misschien wel in het stukje heelal van waaruit zij ons heel gemakkelijk kunnen ontdekken, zo stelt nieuw onderzoek.
Al heel lang zijn mensen op zoek naar antwoord op die ene vraag: zijn we alleen in het universum? In een poging die vraag te beantwoorden, wordt de laatste decennia onder meer actief gezocht naar radiosignalen afkomstig van aliens. Vooralsnog zonder resultaat. Dat is op zich ook niet zo gek. Stel dat er aliens bestaan en ze proberen contact te leggen met de aarde. Dan moeten wij precies op het juiste moment en in de juiste richting ons oor te luisteren leggen. En het heelal is zo uitgestrekt, dat het best mogelijk is dat we elke keer net de verkeerde kant opkijken.
Kleiner zoekgebied Onderzoekers stellen in een nieuwe studie daarom voor om het gebied waarin we luisteren naar signalen van aliens te verkleinen. “Het zoekgebied wordt flink verkleind, waardoor we in een periode korter dan een mensenleven uit kunnen zoeken of er in dit gebied buitenaardse astronomen zijn die de aarde ontdekt hebben,” vertelt onderzoeker René Heller.
Overgang Maar op welk gebied moeten we ons dan richten? Heller en collega’s hebben daar wel ideeën over. Ze stellen dat we ons moeten richten op het gebied van waaruit eventuele aliens onze planeet voor onze zon langs kunnen zien bewegen.
Net als Kepler Veel van de exoplaneten (waaronder potentieel leefbare exoplaneten) hebben wij ontdekt door een ruimtetelescoop – Kepler – langdurig naar sterren te laten kijken. Wanneer Kepler ziet dat het licht van een ster regelmatig minder helder wordt, wijst dat erop dat rond de ster een planeet cirkelt. Op vergelijkbare wijze kunnen aliens ook onze planeet ontdekken en deze gaan bestoken met signalen. Het mooie is dat het gebied van waaruit aliens de aarde voor de zon langs kunnen zien bewegen vrij klein is. En in dat gebied moeten we volgens de onderzoekers dus op zoek naar signalen van buitenaards leven.
De onderzoekers wijzen in hun studie 82 nabije, zonachtige sterren aan. Vanaf planeten die rond deze sterren draaien is de aardovergang zichtbaar. Onze zoektocht naar signalen van aliens zou zich in eerste instantie op deze 82 sterren en hun omgeving moeten richten. Maar, zo benadrukken de onderzoekers, we kennen nog lang niet alle sterren in onze Melkweg. Ze schatten dat er zo’n 100.000 sterren zijn waar wellicht planeten omheen draaien met daarop aliens die ons ontdekt hebben en proberen te contacteren. Een deel van die planeten gaan we wellicht in de nabije toekomst ontdekken. En wel met behulp van de PLATO-missie. Tijdens deze missie hopen onderzoekers – wederom door naar overgangen te speuren – kleine planeten, waaronder aardachtige exemplaren te ontdekken. “PLATO kan zelfs de overgang van exoplaneten detecteren waarop mogelijk aliens leven die de aarde voor de zon langs kunnen zien bewegen,” vertelt Heller. “In zo’n gekke situatie zouden we elkaars planeten bestuderen door te kijken hoe ze voor hun ster langs bewegen.”
Stormachtige noordpool van Saturnus schittert op nieuwe foto
Stormachtige noordpool van Saturnus schittert op nieuwe foto
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Het lijkt een heel vredig waterverfschilderij, maar in werkelijkheid worden alle ‘penseelstreken’ veroorzaakt door heftige stormen en winden.
De prachtige foto is gemaakt door ruimtesonde Cassini. Op het moment dat de sonde de foto maakte, was deze zo’n 1,4 miljoen kilometer van Saturnus verwijderd. Elke pixel op deze foto laat een gebied zien dat zo’n 86 kilometer groot is.
Hexagon Wat natuurlijk direct opvalt, is de beroemde hexagon van Saturnus: een zeshoekig wolkenpatroon. In het hart van de hexagon bevindt zich een grote zwarte ‘stip’ die de noordpool van Saturnus lijkt te markeren. Het is waarschijnlijk het oog van een orkaan-achtige storm die op de noordpool woedt. Het oog is zo’n 2000 kilometer breed, ongeveer twintig keer groter dan het oog van een gemiddelde orkaan op aarde. Orkanen op aarde zijn geneigd om zich naar het noorden te haasten. Het exemplaar op Saturnus bevindt zich reeds op het meest noordelijke punt en verplaatst zich niet. Aangenomen wordt dat de enorme storm op de noordpool van de gasreus al jaren woedt.
De noordpool van Saturnus.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
De banden Naast de storm op de noordpool springen natuurlijk ook de verschillende ‘banden’ die we op verschillende breedtes rond de gasreus aantreffen, in het oog. Elke band kent andere windsnelheden dan de band ernaast. Ook de hoogte waarop de wolken zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus ophouden, verschilt van band tot band. Op de grens tussen twee banden – waar banden dus ook de interactie met elkaar aangaan – zien we wervelingen ontstaan.
Foto’s zoals deze moeten we koesteren: de missie van Cassini – de enige ruimtesonde in een baan rond Saturnus – nadert zo langzamerhand zijn einde. Binnenkort begint de sonde aan de ‘Grande Finale’. Tijdens dit deel van de missie zal Cassini herhaaldelijk in de ruimte tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen duiken. In september 2017 zal de sonde opdracht krijgen om zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren. De enorme druk en temperatuur in de atmosfeer van de gasreus zal de sonde fataal worden. NASA wil zo voorkomen dat Cassini – wiens brandstof na twintig jaar een eind op is – op één van Saturnus’ manen neerstort. Een aantal van deze manen – Titan en Enceladus bijvoorbeeld – bezitten onder hun ijzige korst een oceaan bestaande uit vloeibaar water. Onderzoekers sluiten niet uit dat in die oceanen leven mogelijk is en dus willen ze deze manen absoluut niet ‘besmetten’ met aardse microben die wellicht nog op Cassini aanwezig zijn.
De komeet – die een beetje doet denken aan een badeendje – zou zijn huidige vorm pas 1 miljard jaar geleden hebben aangenomen.
Toen ruimtesonde Rosetta komeet 67P/C-G naderde, ontdekte deze dat de komeet een bijzondere vorm had. De komeet had een ‘romp’, ‘hals’ en ‘kop’ en deed wel een beetje denken aan een badeendje. Aangenomen werd dat de komeet deze vorm zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar geleden – toen ons zonnestelsel nog in de kinderschoenen stond – had aangenomen.
Nieuwe visie Maar daar moeten we op terugkomen, zo stellen onderzoekers in een nieuw paper. “Het is onwaarschijnlijk dat een hemellichaam zoals Chury (67P/C-G, red.) zolang zonder beschadigingen heeft weten te overleven, zo laten onze computersimulaties zien,” vertelt onderzoeker Martin Jutzi.
De laatste foto die ruimtesonde Rosetta van 67P/C-G maakte. De sonde crashte op 30 september op de komeet. Afbeelding: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA.
Zwakke plek Aangenomen wordt dat de oorsprong van ons zonnestelsel heel rustig begon, maar daarna een stormachtig verloop kende. In die laatstgenoemde periode verkregen hemellichamen grotere snelheden en vonden er veel botsingen plaats. De onderzoekers berekenden hoeveel energie er nodig was om 67P/C-G tijdens zo’n botsing te vernietigen. En zo ontdekten ze dat de komeet een zwakke plek heeft: zijn hals. “We hebben ontdekt dat deze structuur gemakkelijk vernietigd kan worden,” stelt Jutzi.
Botsingen De onderzoekers wijzen erop dat kometen zoals 67P/C-G in hun beginjaren meerdere botsingen meemaakten. En zelfs weinig energierijke botsingen moeten al voldoende zijn geweest om de komeet – met die ene zwakke plek – uit elkaar te trekken. Daarom is het volgens de onderzoekers onmogelijk dat de komeet reeds in de beginjaren van ons zonnestelsel deze vorm had. “De huidige vorm van Chury is het resultaat van een grote inslag die waarschijnlijk ergens in de laatste miljard jaar heeft plaatsgevonden,” stelt Jutzi. En daarmee is de komeet veel jonger dan gedacht.
Geen originele vorm, wel een originele samenstelling Uit eerder onderzoek is gebleken dat komeet 67P/C-G uit materiaal bestaat dat minstens net zo oud is als ons zonnestelsel. Die bevinding lijkt in strijd te zijn met deze resultaten. Maar dat is niet zo. Computersimulaties laten zien dat de botsingen de komeet niet helemaal verwarmen en samendrukken. Vandaar dat de kern nog steeds poreus is en de vluchtige materialen die deze tijdens het ontstaan van de komeet heeft ingesloten, nog steeds aanwezig zijn. “Tot op heden is aangenomen dat kometen originele bouwblokken zijn, vergelijkbaar met Lego,” stelt Benz. “Onze studie laat zien dat de Lego-blokken niet langer hun originele vorm hebben, maar dat het plastic waar ze uit bestaan nog wel hetzelfde is als in het begin.”
In een tweede paper gaan Jutzi en Benz na hoe komeet 67P/C-G precies aan zijn bijzondere vorm is gekomen. Ze gebruiken daarvoor computermodellen. In die modellen lieten ze kleine objecten (met een diameter van 200 tot 400 meter) op een vijf kilometer groot roterend hemellichaam met de vorm van een rugbybal botsen. Zo’n botsing kon de rugbybal uiteenrijten. Die twee brokstukken zouden later – door toedoen van hun zwaartekracht – weer samen zijn gekomen, waardoor een komeet met een badeend-achtige vorm ontstond.
Bronmateriaal:
M. Jutzi et al.: How primordial ist the structure of comet 67P/c-G?, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 9 November 2016 M. Jutzi, W. Benz: Formation of bi-lobed shapes by sub-catastrophic collisions – A late originin of comet 67P/C-G’s structure, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 9 November 2016
10 Biggest Historical Mysteries That Will Probably Never Be Solved
10 Biggest Historical Mysteries That Will Probably Never Be Solved
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor
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INTRO: Unexplainable?
There are some historical mysteries that may never be solved. Sometimes, that's because the relevant excavated material has been lost or an archaeological site has been destroyed. Other times, it's because new evidence is unlikely to come forward or the surviving evidence is too vague to lead scholars to a consensus.
The lack of answers only makes these enigmas more intriguing. Here, Live Science takes a look at 10 of these historical questions that may never have definitive explanations.
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1. Who was Jack the Ripper?
In 1888, Jack the Ripper killed at least five women in London, mutilating their bodies. A number of letters, supposedly from the Ripper, were sent to police taunting officers' efforts to find the Ripper. (Whether any of them were actually written by the Ripper is a matter of debate among scholars.) The name "Jack the Ripper" comes from these letters.
Needless to say, the Ripper was never found, and over the years, dozens of people have been brought up as possible candidates. A recent book suggested that a woman named Lizzie Williams was the Ripper, although other Ripper experts cast doubt on it. It appears unlikely that the true identity of the Ripper will ever be known for sure.
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2. Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
The teamster union leader known for his involvement in organized crime disappeared in Oakland County, Michigan, on July 30, 1975, and is now presumed to be dead. The identity of his killer(s) and the location of his body are ongoing mysteries. Police and forensic anthropologists have searched a number of sites in Detroit and Oakland County to no avail.
One popular theory was that Hoffa's body was buried beneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey. However, this theory has been debunked. The identity of his killer is also unclear. Before his death in 2006, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski, a hit man, claimed to have killed Hoffa and dumped his body in a scrap yard. An author named Philip Carlo visited Kuklinski in prison before he died and wrote a book on Kuklinski's confessions. After the book came out a number of police officers cast doubt on the confession in media interviews. As the years go by, it appears increasingly unlikely that Hoffa's remains will ever be found.
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3. Where is Cleopatra's tomb?
Ancient writers claim that Cleopatra VIIand her lover, Mark Antony, were buried together in a tomb after their deaths in 30 B.C. The writer Plutarch (A.D. 45-120) wrote that the tomb was located near a temple of Isis, an Egyptian goddess, and was a "lofty and beautiful" monument containing treasures made of gold, silver, emeralds, pearls, ebony and ivory.
The location of the tomb remains a mystery. In 2010, Zahi Hawass, Egypt's former antiquities minister, conducted excavations at a site near Alexandria now called Taposiris Magna, which contains a number of tombs dating to the era when Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt. While many interesting archaeological discoveries were made, Cleopatra VII's tomb was not among them Hawass reported in a series of news releases. Archaeologists have noted that even if Cleopatra's tomb does survive to this day, it may be heavily plundered and unidentifiable.
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4. Who killed JFK?
This is probably the biggest mystery in American history that will never be resolved to everyone's satisfaction. On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald (although some speculate that he wasn't the only one shooting). On Nov. 24, 1963, before Oswald could stand trial, Oswald was fatally shot by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Ruby died of lung cancer on Jan. 3, 1967. [10 Persistent Kennedy Assassination Theories]
The most widely accepted explanation is that Oswald killed JFK on his own and Ruby killed Oswald, on his own volition. Ruby's stated motivation was to spare Jacqueline Kennedy "the discomfiture of [Oswald] coming back to trial." However there are still a significant number of professional historians, along with many amateurs, who do not agree with this explanation and since JFK's death, numerous alternative explanationshave been brought forward by historians and amateurs. Given that significant new evidence is unlikely to appear, a firm consensus will probably never be reached.
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5. Oak Island money pit
For more than two centuries, stories have circulated that Oak Island, located off Nova Scotia, Canada, held a money pit of buried treasure — supposedly left by the pirate Capt. William Kidd(1645-1701). Over that time, numerous expeditions costing millions of dollars have traveled to the island searching for the lost treasure, to no avail. [The 10 Most Notorious Pirates Ever]
Despite centuries of searching no treasure has been found on Oak Island. Nevertheless that doesn't stop people from trying to find it. A History Channel show called the "Curse of Oak Island" follows a modern-day expedition; the show was just renewed for a fourth season in 2016.
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6. The Copper Scroll treasure
Another treasure tale that will probably never be resolved is more ancient. In 1952 a copper scroll was found by archaeologists in a cave, along with other Dead Sea Scrolls, at the site of Qumran. As its name suggests, the writing was engraved onto a copper scroll. The scroll records a vast amount of hidden gold and silver treasure — so much, in fact, that some scholars believe that it is impossible for it to exist. [Gallery of Dead Sea Scrolls: A Glimpse of the Past]
The scroll dates back more than 1,900 years to a time when the Roman Empire controlled the Qumran area. There were a number of revolts against Roman rule at the time the scroll was written, and scientists have hypothesized that the treasure was hidden to prevent its capture by Roman forces. Whether the treasure is real, where exactly it was hidden, whether it was ever found and whether it could still exist today are all mysteries that will likely never be solved.
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7. The fate of the Ark of the Covenant
In 587 B.C., a Babylonian army, under King Nebuchadnezzar II, conquered Jerusalem, sacking the city and destroying the First Temple, a building used by the Jewish people to worship god. The First Temple contained the Ark of the Covenant, which carried tablets recording the 10 Commandments.
The fate of the Ark is unclear. Ancient sources indicate that the ark was either carried back to Babylonor hidden before the city was captured. It's also possible that the ark was destroyed during the city's sacking. In any event, the ark's location is unknown. Since the disappearance, a number of stories and legends about the ark's fate have been told. One story suggests the ark eventually made its way to Ethiopia, where it is kept today. Another story says the ark was divinely hidden and will not appear until a messiah arrives.
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8. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Ancient writers describe a fantastic series of gardens constructed at the ancient city of Babylonin modern-day Iraq. It's not clear when these gardens were built, but some ancient writers were so impressed by the gardens that they called them a "wonder of the world." Around 250 B.C., Philo of Byzantium wrote that the Hanging Gardens had "plants cultivated at a height above ground level, and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth."
So far, archaeologists who have excavated Babylon have been unable to find the remains of a garden that meets this description. This has left archaeologists with a question: Did the hanging gardens really exist? In 2013, Stephanie Dalley, a researcher at the University of Oxford, proposed in a book that the gardens were actually located at the Assyrian city of Nineveh. Over the past two decades, both Babylon and Nineveh have suffered damage from wars and looting, and it seems unlikely that this mystery will ever be fully solved.
9. Was the City of Atlantis Real?
Writing in the fourth century B.C., the Greek philosopher Plato told a story of a land named Atlantisthat existed in the Atlantic Ocean and supposedly conquered much of Europe and Africa in prehistoric times. In the story, the prehistoric Athenians strike back against Atlantis in a conflict that ends with Atlantis vanishing beneath the waves.
While no serious scholar believes that this story is literally true, some have speculated that the legend could have been inspired, in part, by real events that happened in Greek history. One possibility is that the Minoan civilization(as it's now called), which flourished on the island of Crete until about 1400 B.C., could have inspired the story of Atlantis. Although Crete is in the Mediterranean, and not the Atlantic, Minoan settlements suffered considerable damageduring the eruption of Thera, a volcano in Greece.
Additionally, archaeologists found that the Minoans were eventually overcome (or forced to join with) a group of people called the Mycenaeans, who were based on mainland Greece. It's unlikely that this debate will ever be fully settled.
The earliest surviving gospels date to the second century, almost 100 years after the life of Jesus (although recently, it was announced that a possible first-century fragmenthad been found).
The lack of surviving first-century texts about Jesus leave biblical scholars with a number of questions. When were the gospels written? How many of the stories actually took place? What was Jesus like in real life? Archaeological investigations of Nazareth, Jesus' hometown, reveal more about the environment where he grew up. More recently, scientists discovered a first-century housethat, centuries after Jesus' time, was venerated as being the house that Jesus grew up in, but whether it was actually Jesus' house is unknown.
Although new research will provide more insight, scholars think it's unlikely they will ever fully know what Jesus was really like. [Who Was Jesus, the Man?]
John Bradford, president of SpaceWorks Enterprises, wants to talk about Mars, hibernation, and bears, which is tricky because — despite what grade school teachers sometimes claim — bears don’t hibernate. What bears do, perhaps better than any other species on Earth, is chill. Every winter, grizzlies crawl into their dens, bed down, and enter a state called torpor. Their internal temperatures drop by 10 degrees, their breathing slows with their heart rate, and their metabolic activity drops as they begin to cycle nitrogen that would otherwise be excreted in urine to prevent muscle atrophy. This feat of physiology is remarkable on its own, but the real reason spaceflight entrepreneurs are so interested in torpor is what would happen if you poked a resting bear: It would wake up and eat you.
Torpor isn’t deep sleep. It is sometimes considered a type of hibernation, and the two are similar. In both cases metabolic activity slows, although true hibernation is more extreme — some animals can reach near-freezing internal temperatures and thaw out just fine. It’s the closest thing the natural world has to suspended animation, a way to avoid the negative physical and mental effects of time in space by leveraging a mammalian superpower — one humans might, on some level, possess.
“We still really don’t understand a lot of the triggers and mechanisms for even why some animals do it,” says Bradford, who has enlisted the help of biologists working on these very questions. His thinking? If we can get a handle on how our mammal cousins shut down without suffering long-term ill effects, we might be able to replicate those results in ourselves.
“I’m very encouraged,” he adds.
Here’s what he imagines: Astronauts entering pods, slowly losing consciousness, and letting their internal temperatures drop as engines fire up and blast away. Six months later, these unconscious explorers wake up on Mars without recollection of the journey.
NASA buys into this vision, which sounds science fictional, but might become a key component of the plan to get humans to the Red Planet this century. Spaceworks is now in the second phase of a NASA-funded project to research the feasibility of inducing torpor in Mars-bound astronauts in order to keep them healthy and save money.
A SpaceWorks design concept for a Mars-bound spacecraft.
As it turns out, the strongest argument in favor spaceflight hibernation is economic. Bradford estimates that a torpor habitat and launch system would weigh half as much as a traditional living space loaded up with food and oxygen tanks. Shipping costs to Mars work out to about $50,000 a pound, so when you’re talking savings in the realm of hundreds of tons, even a very large investment in research and design could pay off.
Plus, torpor might offer protections against bone density loss, muscle atrophy, and possibly even space radiation for astronauts on the long haul. “They’re still looking for good solutions to address those, and consequently you end up with multiple technology paths trying to solve each one of these individually, and we think we can with this one technology offer some benefits to all of those,” says Bradford.
From a medical perspective, it’s unclear at this point whether stasis would in itself protect against cellular damage from radiation, but from an engineering perspective, it’s a lot easier to implement shielding if astronauts are contained to a capsule.
Which all brings the question back around to feasibility. Humans do not typically hibernate, but many mammals do, and there are reasons to believe that we have our biology can be hacked to create a similar response. The best evidence is in rare and extraordinary cases where people have been found apparently frozen to death, only to come back to life once they warm up. As biochemist Mark Roth memorably put it in a 2010 TED Talk: “You’re not dead until you’re warm and dead.”
In 1999, Anna Bågenholm spent 80 minutes trapped under a frozen waterfall in Norway, and her internal temperature dropped to 57 degrees. Her heart was stopped for three hours, and yet thanks to a careful medical resuscitation, she came back to life and recovered almost completely.
In 2006, Mitsutaka Uchikoshi of Japan got lost in the forest and was found 24 days later in a hibernation-like state. His body temperature was just 72 degrees, and he had no recollection past the second day of his absence. He also recovered.
These days, Roth is working to develop a chemical way to induce hibernation or suspended animation in humans as an aid for emergency medical treatment. If you put someone in stasis right after a heart attack, stroke, or traumatic injury, his thinking goes, you can essentially stop the clock, giving doctors time to fix the problem while preventing the damage to the brain and other organs that would otherwise result from oxygen deprivation.
Hydrogen sulfide seems to have some promise as an inducer of suspended animation. The compound binds to oxygen receptors, which decreases the body’s demand for O2 and causes metabolism to shut down. The clinical trials were canceled, but Roth hasn’t given up on similar compounds that could help minimize injury from blood rushing back into tissues after a medical procedure.
Crew members would be fed nutrients intravenously through the flight.
Still, most of the medical research into human stasis is focused on finding ways to safely slow human metabolism for a period of a few hours to a few weeks. To get to Mars, that timeline will have to be expanded significantly, although that work will certainly provide crucial insights that will guide the future of space hibernation. And in order to accomplish that there will need to be human trails, which, again, gets tricky.
“Other than space flight, there isn’t really a compelling reason to do this to a healthy person,” says Bradford.
Even though Leroy Chiao, former NASA astronaut and commander of the International Space Station, is cheerleading for the project, not all astronauts are pumped to go under either. “At one of our technical conferences Buzz Aldrin voiced concerns,” says Bradford. “He didn’t want to do it. He wants to be awake.”
Bradford understood where the NASA vet was coming from, but he has a slightly more pragmatic perspective.
“If it means the difference between being able to go to Mars, and not,” says Bradford, “I think everybody will do it.”
National Geographic’s 'Mars' Offers a Glimpse of Our Future
National Geographic’s 'Mars' Offers a Glimpse of Our Future
That said, there are some science plot holes.
Producers pulled all the stops in the highly anticipated miniseries Mars, debuting Monday night on the National Geographic Channel. The $20 million, six-part television event pulled together an A-list team from the worlds of Hollywood and the scientific community: We’re talking about Oscar-winning producers Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Justin Wilkes sitting in the same room and talking about Mars with people like science writer Stephen Petranek, astronaut Mae Jemison, aeronautics engineer Bobby Braun, and many others.
The producers blend science fiction with reality to portray what a crewed mission to Mars will look like in the near-future mixed with real-world commentary and interviews from today’s leading space and engineering experts.
And in the interest of providing people with something that can still qualify as “entertainment,” Mars does not shy away from taking dramatic liberties that come at the price of scientific accuracy, interspersing a fake crewed mission with real-world commentary from leading engineers.
Two Inverse writers — Kastalia Medrano and Neel Patel — watched an advance screening of the first Mars episode. Warning: There are some spoilers.
NP: When I first heard about the concept for Mars, I was admittedly very skeptical about how this would turn out. Talking about traveling to Mars through a narrative of fiction almost never goes well. But I thought the first episode actually did a good job to bring to attention the types of obstacles and issues that are big for NASA, SpaceX, and other companies looking to get to the Red Planet — like the lack of Martian atmosphere that makes the descent to the planet such a dangerous move.
KM: It’s an interesting concept, treating the 2016 “flashbacks” as non-fiction, using cameos with the biggest names in the real-life journey to Mars like Elon Musk. I hope that they keep that balance with the rest of the episodes, because the future they’ve extrapolated can get a bit cheesy. I think in order to be successful as an academic tool and not just a source of entertainment, the series will have to be a little more economical with the “dramatic liberties,” as you put it.
Which isn’t to say the show by definition needs to be drier — Mars is cool! The reason the journey to Mars has captivated so many people is that the science is legit dramatic and high-risk, high-reward on its own terms, so I hope they can tap into that instead of just sensationalizing. One of the real-life challenges they touched on was the immense stress and degradation the astronauts’ bodies will face — but it was kind of just thrown in as an ominous bullet point to beef up a speech and make everything seem more dire while also making the characters seem more heroic. Granted, it was just the first episode, but I’d really like to see them work in some scientifically valid takes — not just on the more well-known narratives like loss of bone density, but on things like the challenges of organ regeneration in space, and how to cope in a vacuum without incoming medical resources. For instance, how do you hope they’ll handle the radiation issue?
NP: As you know, I’ve been harping on space radiation being the single biggest obstacle keeping us from sending people to Mars. It’s an issue that not even Elon Musk will fully address — and he and SpaceX are targeting to send the first humans to Mars by 2024 or 2025. How they’re going to keep those kinds of radiation levels from decimating the body is still a complete mystery. And it’s not just about the trip to Mars. Astronauts will need to be protected from the sun’s rays while they live and work on the Red Planet. If the goal is to establish a permanent human presence on Mars, it needs to be with the idea that we can live healthily and happily on the planet.
Speaking of health, that’s another issue I had with the premiere. The crew commander for the mission gets injured, but works to keep the extent of his injuries a secret from the rest of the crew and from ground control. Not only does this seem impossible — I would imagine the first astronauts to head to Mars would be completely wrapped in medical devices that measured vitals constantly — but it’s also impractical. Would an astronaut really work to keep problems with his/her health hidden from his team? Almost certainly not. Punting those problems down the road poses an enormous risk to the rest of the and forces them to potentially deal with much worse later on. I get putting forth something like this for the purposes of drama and suspense, but this does a disservice to astronauts as a whole and makes it seem the mental and physical prowess of those men and women are matched by a cavalier attitude.
KM: I felt the same way about the scene where they essentially begin hiking across Mars. I dunno what kind of rad spacesuits we’ll be working with in 2033, so I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it came off a bit cavalier. I did, however, appreciate the fact that they made it pretty clear that, whether or not the mission was successful, the team wasn’t really expecting to come back. The first generation of Mars colonists won’t be travelers who live there a few years and then go back and forth — when they leave Earth, they’ll need to do it with the understanding that they’re never coming back, since, even if they all survive, the distance and resources inherent to the whole thing makes a return journey just not feasible. So I was glad to not see a romanticized We’ll see you in X years!narrative, though of course the idea of leaving Earth never to return isn’t exactly lacking in drama either.
This probably won’t happen because it’s not the most scientific or animated thread in the plot, but I’d actually be interested in getting a bit more context about how the future supposedly arrived at the entity they call the International Mars Science Foundation (IMSF). Utopian organizations that have united all available civilizations are a pretty common optimistic sci-fi trope (see: Star Trek), but as of 2016, we already have the seeds of global cooperation — Russians and Americans coordinating on the International Space Station (well, sort of), new space laws meant to foster inter-country collaboration, private spaceflight companies working in tandem with NASA, and so on. I’d like to see them connect those dots to their 2033 timeline.
NP: For sure. I actually loved how they spent a bit of time explaining what SpaceX is currently doing by bringing rocket boosters back to Earth for a safe landing after a launch , and explaining why reusability is such an important part of making future space travel work.
It was especially clever how they let the footage of the June 2015 SpaceX explosion unfold — making it very clear that we have a long ways to go before we fully figure out how all of this is going to go.
Mars is fascinating, and it arrives at a time when the prospect of humans going to the Red Planet has transcended the realm of possibility to inevitability. I think the real thing will possess fewer histrionics, but will be no less an achievement of staggering proportions.
In collaboration with Fraser Cain, from Universe Today, we asked for your most pressing questions about physics and astronomy. Here, we dive into the answers.
Today, we have a host of innvative technologies that allow us to understand our universe as never before. Take, for example, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is an accomplishment of unprecedented proportions. It is, without a doubt, one of the most amazing (and important) pieces of technology that humanity has ever made. It allows us to simulate the earliest moments of our universe and, in so doing, better understand the physics that governs it.
Then there is the the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The JWST is Hubble’s successor, and it will be more sensitive by a factor of about 100 than all the telescopes that came before it. It could help us see some of the first stars forming in the universe. It could allow us to image planets orbiting alien stars. It will open up a world (a universe) of possibilities. We will be able to see farther and deeper than ever before.
However, despite all of these advancements, there is a lot that we don’t know. But where does knowledge stop and uncertainty begin? How much do we really know, and what remains in question?
We asked for your most pressing questions, and they came pouring in: Does intelligent life exist beyond Earth? What’s beyond the edge of our universe? Here, Fraser Cain, the founder of Universe Today, dives into the answers—separating what we know from what we’ve yet to discover.
A Porter AIrlines aircraft similar to the one in this image took evasive action on Monday to avoid an unidentified flying object, possibly a drone or balloon, while descending into the Toronto area.
Two people suffered minor injuries after an aircraft swerved to avoid a “UFO” in the skies over Lake Ontario on Monday.
The Porter Airlines Dash 8 aircraft, which was carrying 54 passengers, encountered the object at about 9,000 feet as it descended into the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.
At first the pilots thought it was a balloon. However, after debriefing, they said the object could have been a drone.
“Nobody knows at this point. It happened so quick,” Peter Rowntree, senior regional investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, told The Star. “It definitely wasn’t a bird. It was a fairly large object.”
The Canadian government is now working to pass new rules to regulate the growing number of drones, and possibly help prevent incidents such as this one.
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Astronomers Detect A New “Super Earth,” And It’s Right Next Door
Astronomers Detect A New “Super Earth,” And It’s Right Next Door
Artists impression of a Super-Earth, a class of planet that has many times the mass of Earth, but less than a Uranus or Neptune-sized planet. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
IN BRIEF
The exoplanet has five times the mass of our planet but does lie outside of the habitable zone of its star.
The search for exoplanets is more than just a search for habitable worlds, the understanding these discoveries can bring alone is worth the effort.
Scientists engaging in exoplanet hunting have recently seen a host of new discoveries. Teams of these celestial sleuths are combing the observable universe looking for a planet that might be capable of hosting life similar to our own.
Now, another exoplanet has been discovered, one with several intriguing characteristics. A new study reveals a “super Earth” orbiting GJ 536, a red dwarf star just 32.7 light years (10.03 parsecs) from Earth.
Artist rendition of a similar system. NASA/JPL
The planet’s “super Earth” classification comes from its size— super Earths are planets between one and fifteen times the mass of Earth. This planet is more than five Earth masses.
They also found that the planet has an orbital period of less than nine Earth days, and is just 0.06661 AU away from its star. The research studied data from ESO’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) and HARPS-N instruments.
It’s not just the detection that is offering new opportunities in exoplanet research. The brightness of the red dwarf and the planet’s closeness to its star makes it an excellent candidate for transmission spectroscopy. That’s where scientists figure out the chemical composition of the atmosphere of the planet based on how the star’s light strikes the atmosphere.
Artist’s depiction of the interior of a low-mass star, such as the one seen in an X-ray image from Chandra in the inset. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
ALIEN-LOOKING SKULL FROM PERUVIAN DESERT AWAITS FURTHER INVESTIGATION
ALIEN-LOOKING SKULL FROM PERUVIAN DESERT AWAITS FURTHER INVESTIGATION
The skull was found, along with several others, in a cave in the southern desert of Peru, the exact location will be given, hopefully, soon in the future.
The caretaker and the group that found this, along with other skulls, have no access to artisans or taxidermists that could have made them. The caretaker removed some of the bone from the underpart of the skull and exposed what is presumably marrow.
This, as well as the bone and skin can be sampled for DNA and radiocarbon testing in important laboratories in USA that they are working with already.
Other skulls have been found in recent years, the elongated skulls of Paracas in Peru caused a stir in 2014 when a geneticist that carried out preliminary DNA testing reported that they have mitochondrial DNA “with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far”
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Voormalig Chinese overheidsfunctionaris bevestigt bestaan aliens tijdens UFO-top
Voormalig Chinese overheidsfunctionaris bevestigt bestaan aliens tijdens UFO-top
Een voormalige Chinese overheidsfunctionaris zei tijdens een hoorzitting tegenover zes Amerikaanse oud-congresleden dat er buitenaards leven is.
Ufoloog Sun Shili, die voorheen deel uitmaakte van het Chinese diplomatieke korps, deed zijn claim tijdens de zogeheten Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, schrijft de Daily Star.
“Na jarenlang onderzoek te hebben gedaan is een groot aantal Chinese ufologen, waaronder ikzelf, overtuigd van het bestaan van UFO’s en aliens,” vertelde hij aan het panel.
Encyclopedie
Hij vertelde ook dat hij als professor werkzaam was op een universiteit, maar zich in de jaren zeventig meer wilde gaan verdiepen in UFO’s en de mysteries van het heelal.
“Ik heb ook artikelen geschreven die zijn opgenomen in de Chinese encyclopedie,” voegde hij toe.
“Aan de totstandkoming van deze prestigieuze encyclopedie hielp onder meer Shen Shituan mee, een beroemde wetenschapper in mijn land.”
Tientallen miljoenen
Shituan, een raketwetenschapper en de voormalige baas van de Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (nu: Beihang University), zei dat iedere UFO-waarneming nader moet worden onderzocht.
“Sommige waarnemingen zijn echt, sommige zijn nep en soms is het niet gelijk duidelijk,” zei hij.
“Al deze fenomenen moeten worden onderzocht,” vervolgde hij.
Volgens Sun Shili, die in 1971 zijn eerste UFO zag, kunnen tientallen miljoenen Chinezen worden gezien als UFO-enthousiastelingen.
Spaanse ministerie van Defensie geeft schat aan informatie vrij over UFO’s
Spaanse ministerie van Defensie geeft schat aan informatie vrij over UFO’s
Het Spaanse ministerie van Defensie heeft een enorme hoeveelheid informatie vrijgegeven over vreemde en onverklaarbare fenomenen in het Spaanse luchtruim.
Het gaat om een rapport van bijna 2000 pagina’s dat betrekking heeft op de periode tussen 1962 en 1995.
Net als in andere landen worden ook in Spanje geregeld UFO’s gezien. Het rapport gaat over 80 verschillende waarnemingen van onverklaarbare vliegende objecten.
Eén van de onverklaarbare objecten (bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es)
Buitenaardse wezens
Meestal wordt een UFO gezien als een vliegend object van buitenaardse wezens.
Het grootste deel van de UFO-waarnemingen is gedaan bij de Canarische Eilanden. Het eiland La Palma werd klaarblijkelijk het vaakst bezocht door aliens.
Er zijn ook relatief veel UFO’s gespot in Madrid en Barcelona. Mensen hebben daarnaast onbekende objecten gemeld in Extremadura, Andalusië, de Balearen (vooral Mallorca en Menorca) en Castellón.
In 1968 werden de meeste onbekende objecten gemeld. De allereerste waarneming vond plaats boven San Javier in Murcia.
Een tweede object dat is waargenomen (bibliotecavirtualdefensa.es)
Achter slot en grendel
Het is niet bekend wat er na 1995 is gebeurd. Mogelijk liggen de gegevens vanaf 1996 nog achter slot en grendel. Hoe dan ook zijn er nog veel vragen die beantwoord moeten worden.
Een greep uit de waarnemingen:
Op 27 november 1979 zagen veel mensen vreemde lichten in de lucht. In 1971 werd een oplichtend object waargenomen door de piloot van een T-33.
In 1977 zijn onverklaarbare lichten boven Madrid gezien. Op 4 januari 1984 verscheen een onbekend vliegend object boven Cáceres.
En in 1984 zagen veel militairen een vreemd oplichtend object boven het luchtvaartterrein van Léon.
ER SPELEN ZICH VREEMDE ZAKEN AF OP ANTARCTICA ( VIDEO )
ER SPELEN ZICH VREEMDE ZAKEN AF OP ANTARCTICA ( VIDEO )
Tijdens de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen vond de Amerikaanse Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, John Kerry, het nodig om een trip te maken naar Antarctica.
En voor de eerstkomende 35 jaar wordt het niet mogelijk om zonder voorafgaande toestemming naar die bestemming te reizen.
Nog steeds is Antarctica één van de meest mysterieuze gebieden op aarde, waar zich ongetwijfeld dingen afspelen waar wij gewone stervelingen geen weet van hebben.
Antarctica is ook het gebied waarvoor de Duitsers voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog grote belangstelling toonden en waar zich naar verluidt tot op de dag van vandaag nog geheime (Nazi) bases bevinden met vergevorderde technologie.
Keer op keer blijkt ook weer dat de Nazi’s wat technische ontwikkelingen betreft hun tijd ver vooruit waren en wel degelijk in staat waren om zogenaamde vliegende schotels te bouwen.
En nu komt Antarctica weer in het nieuws, niet alleen vanwege een bezoek van de Amerikaanse Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, John Kerry, maar ook vanwege omdat er een nieuwe internationale overeenkomst is gesloten, waarbij het voor privé personen de eerstvolgende 35 jaar onmogelijk wordt om zonder voorafgaande toestemming naar Antarctica af te reizen.
Dit verbod komt dan in de vorm van het beschermen van de natuur, maar effectief betekent dit dat het gebied gesloten blijft voor pottenkijkers.
In oktober werden door Wikileaks een aantal afbeeldingen vrijgegeven van Antarctica, waaronder de volgende. Waarom deze beelden zijn vrijgegeven is niet duidelijk, misschien omdat er vreemde dingen op staan?
In een artikel eerder dit jaar schreven wij over nog een onverwacht bezoek aan dit continent:
Zoals de Russisch Orthodoxe Patriarch Kirill die onlangs een bezoek bracht aan Antarctica, nadat hij in februari de paus had ontmoet in Cuba.
Ook schijnt het dat de Chinezen al vier jaar lang een geheim observatorium hebben in Patagonië, het uiterste puntje van Zuid Amerika. Na een tiental jaren durende gespannen verhouding met Argentinië gaat ook de Amerikaanse president Obama eind maart opeens naar dat land voor een bezoek en een rondje golf.
Hierna volgen een aantal video’s waar mensen wat dieper ingaan op wat er allemaal speelt rondom Antarctica en mogelijke redenen voor deze hernieuwde belangstelling voor dit continent en de plotselinge bezoeken van allerlei hooggeplaatste mensen.
Wat de reden ook moge zijn, duidelijk is dat ze daarbij geen pottenkijkers wensen.
Als deze kaarten gelijk hebben, wat in de praktijk vaak blijkt, dan is er wel degelijk een holle aarde, met een ingang die ongetwijfeld door de Nazi's is ontdekt.
AMAZING! COULD THIS BE ONE OF THE BEST UFO SIGHTINGS CAUGHT ON CAMERA?
AMAZING! COULD THIS BE ONE OF THE BEST UFO SIGHTINGS CAUGHT ON CAMERA?
When we expect catching a UFO sighting on camera, most of the time it turns out blurry and barely recognizable. Sometimes people even do it on purpose to produce a fake but believable snap, but in reality it's simply a hot air balloon or a jetplane.
But around a decade ago in West Sussex, United Kingdom, a man photographed what could be one of the best UFO sightings ever. The unidentified flying object appears to be disc shaped and it's dessed with some reflective material which could very well be of metallic nature.
The man who took the picture is a former director of investigations for the "British UFO Research Association". He was a skeptic back at the time, but after encountering such an astonishing phenomenon he became a believer ever since.
The photograph even made it to the "Sunday Nirror" which is a well known UK newspaper.
De camera’s van NASA leggen het ene na het andere spectaculaire tafereel vast en net zoals met Hillary Clinton doet de wereld alsof ze niets zien.
Gelukkig hebben wij oplettende lezers en ook een verrassende UFO-melding uit Uden.
Er waren plannen bij NASA om de camera’s bij het ISS ruimtestation uit te zetten omdat er teveel vreemde dingen werden vastgelegd.
De officiële reden was natuurlijk van economische aard, maar voorlopig schijnen ze nog te werken.
Dat is de reden dat één van onze lezers een merkwaardig tafereel wist vast te leggen. Of beter gezegd, NASA deed het, maar hij wist ze te betrappen.
Hij schreef ons het volgende (dank!):
Gisteravond om 20.45 (donderdagavond) keek ik de live opnamen van ISS.
Ineens kwam er vanachter de aarde een object aanvliegen. Deze vloog steeds hoger boven de aarde.
Het lukt niet dit te filmen. Wel om enkele screenshots te maken.
Het duurde toch zeker enkele minuten.
De afbeeldingen die hij heeft weten te “vangen”, spreken voor zich en volgen hierna. Links boven de aarde verschijnt een object dat zich in korte tijd naar boven beweegt in de richting van de ruimte. Of het een buitenaards object is of een schip van de geheime ruimtevloot is moeilijk te zeggen en we weten natuurlijk ook niet of het van de aarde afkomstig of dat het afkomstig is van achter de aarde ten opzichte van het ruimtestation.
Het is hoe dan ook een mooie "vangst".
En dan krijgen we gisteravond een hele bijzondere UFO-melding uit Uden van Jan Lammers die een sigaarvormige UFO heeft gesignaleerd boven zijn achterwerk.
Dit is wat hij schrijft:
Naam: Jan Woonplaats: Uden Ervaring:
Een enorme dildo zwevend boven je aars
Lezers die misschien een tip hebben voor Jan hoe hier mee om te gaan, kunnen een bericht sturen naarj.lammers@gmail.com
Giant Alien Disk Moving Across The Moons Surface On Nov 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Alien Disk Moving Across The Moons Surface On Nov 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 14, 2016
Location of sighting: Earths Moon
This UFO is making a shadow on the moons surface which is proof that the UFO is flying over the moon, and its not in orbit around Earth. When you add light to it (below) the dark UFO stands out more and has a triangle on its top. This is great video and surly the fact that it was a super moon...meaning the moon was closer at this moment in time than normally, which made it possible to spot this UFO so well. Compared to the surface of the moon, this UFO had to have been about 2-5km across or more.
Scott C. Waring
News states:
On November 14, the largest moon was seen in many years, the moon could be better appreciated to investigate and Aurelio Carbajal managed to capture that image where you can clearly see an object flying on the lunar surface.
Bright Light Shoots Out Of Rock Along Extraterrestrial Highway, UFO Sighting News.
Bright Light Shoots Out Of Rock Along Extraterrestrial Highway, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 7-1-2015 but reported today. Location of sighting: Southern California, USA News source: MUFON #80430 From the looks of the terrain, I would say this was not far from the California, Arizona, Nevada boarder. This looks like it was taken on Route 375, notoriously known as the Extraterrestrial Highway, not far from Area 51. I use to live in Needles and Bullhead City for a few years. The driver saw a beam of light coming out from in-between the crevice in a rock along the road. I would say this is a light being from the looks of it, and it is leaving an underground base that is about 4-5km below the ground in this very location. These light beings are often mistaken as angels. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Driving along a road in California, I stopped to take a picture of a small light hovering above a rock. It grew and then in an instant it was gone.
Bright Light Shoots Out Of Rock Along Extraterrestrial Highway, UFO Sighting News.
Bright Light Shoots Out Of Rock Along Extraterrestrial Highway, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 7-1-2015 but reported today. Location of sighting: Southern California, USA News source: MUFON #80430 From the looks of the terrain, I would say this was not far from the California, Arizona, Nevada boarder. This looks like it was taken on Route 375, notoriously known as the Extraterrestrial Highway, not far from Area 51. I use to live in Needles and Bullhead City for a few years. The driver saw a beam of light coming out from in-between the crevice in a rock along the road. I would say this is a light being from the looks of it, and it is leaving an underground base that is about 4-5km below the ground in this very location. These light beings are often mistaken as angels. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Driving along a road in California, I stopped to take a picture of a small light hovering above a rock. It grew and then in an instant it was gone.
Awesome NASA Megarocket Engine Test Burns Blue (Photo)
Awesome NASA Megarocket Engine Test Burns Blue (Photo)
By Christine Lunsford, Space.com Contributor
An RL10 rocket engine, a proven upper stage engine used in hundreds of space flights over the last 50 years, goes through testing at NASA's West Palm Beach, Florida test facility.
Credit: Aerojet Rocketdyne
What could be mistaken for a futuristic water cannon is actually a piece of technology developed more than 50 years ago that is destined to help launch NASA's next megarocket, the Space Launch System.
The RL10, a rocket engine developed in the 1950s by Pratt & Whitney, flew first in 1963. This engine has traveled to each planet in our solar system, powering spacecraft such as Voyager 1 — the first to reach interstellar space.
The RL10 rocket engine out-performs all other current engines and has over half a century of performance and documented reliability to its name. With more than 400 flights, over 15,000 hot fires on record and more than 2.3 million seconds of hot fire operation time with a greater than 0.999 demonstrated reliability during its use, the RL10 has earned its place in history. [The World's Tallest Rockets: How They Stack Up]
Because of its stellar record and its technically mature design, this rocket engine will make its way from the history books into the future of human spaceflight.
NASA's new Space Launch System, or SLS for short, will utilize this upper stage engine to launch an Orion spacecraft in the latter part of 2018 as well as eventually sending astronauts beyond the moon. Aerojet Rocketdyne of West Palm Beach, Florida will produce several RL10C-3 engines for NASA, powering its several planned deep space missions, with the ultimate goal being NASA's Journey to Mars.
According to James Burnum, NASA SLS Liquid Engines RL10 manager, "Engines are one of the most complex rocket elements … We need a reliable engine with a proven track record that has the performance to power humans to deep space."
Using the RL10 "leverages existing propulsion technology to provide SLS with a robust engine in a timely manner [avoiding] costs associated with a new engine development program," added Steve Wofford, SLS Liquid Engines manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where the SLS Program is managed.
The $174 million, 8-year contract leaves Aerojet Rocketdyne responsible for the management, testing (at NASA's West Palm Beach, Florida test facility), certification and delivery of the engines.
The opening scenes of the new sci-fi film "Arrival" cover familiar territory, as we see enormous spacecraft hovering over cities on our troubled planet Earth.
But soon the film reveals that it's not going to be like other alien movies. The spaceships have no weapons. Our hero is a linguist. Cerebral narrative puzzles take shape. A procession of subtle and intriguing ideas ultimately blossom into a story of profound insight and hope.
"Arrival" is the best sci-fi movie of the year because it does what science fiction does best: It encourages thoughtful conjecture and lateral thinking. It asks us to project our hopes and anxieties out to some notional event horizon, then see what develops. In the choppy wake of this terrible and divisive election season, it's the one movie you should take the time to see, and process and talk about afterward.
Warning: There are some moderate spoilers ahead, but nothing much past what you can see in the trailers, and I'll stay far away from the film's central mystery.
Amy Adams plays Dr. Louise Banks, a linguist recruited by the U.S. government to communicate with the aliens. Twelve spaceships — ovoids that suggest seed pods, significantly — have descended over countries around the world. The aliens show no signs of aggression, but the world's nation-states respond with varying defensive postures, scrambling jets and aiming weapons at the ships.
Banks is partnered with mathematician Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), who hopes that the language of numbers will help in establishing contact with the aliens. Each day, the ships' portals open briefly and Earth sends its various delegations aboard. Inside the ship, director Denis Villeneuve creates a minimalist marvel of art design, an extradimensional space with sideways gravity. It feels like a prehistoric cave, those sacred spaces where our species first experimented with language and art.
We see the aliens, eventually, but they're cleverly obscured and the visuals underline a storytelling strategy used throughout the film. "Arrival" isn't really interested in the aliens; it's interested in our reaction to the aliens. How will we reach out to this new entity, this ultimate Other? What will we choose to communicate, and how?
In the end, "Arrival" is all about communication. "The language we speak determines how we think," Louise says, referencing a fierce debate in the field of linguistics. Without spoiling too much, the aliens present us with a new kind of language, a new way to communicate. It's a language that imparts meaning directly, does not represent sound or speech, and is not bound by time.
It's so nice to be treated as an adult by a science fiction movie. This is a film that asks us to think, and presents delicious mysteries concerning ideograms, palindromes, game theory and the significance of the number 0.083.
It's said that providence moves in mysterious ways, as does Hollywood, and the timing of "Arrival" is auspicious. The film addresses that nagging suspicion, perhaps you're familiar with it, that the promise of the Digital Age is fading fast. Our precious devices and networks aren't bringing us closer together. They're driving us apart. We sit in public spaces, staring into the tiny screens in our palms. We gather in online cliques and echo chambers with those who share our history and opinions.
Despite our space-age communication technology, we're not talking to each other — not really. We're projecting digital versions of ourselves. We aren't connecting in the important ways. We're fractured and divided, as evidenced by the world's escalating conflicts and even our own domestic elections and referendums.
Thoughtful science fiction like "Arrival" can help us approach this existential dilemma from a sideways vector. As a genre, as a mode, sci-fi provides us with the opportunity to think laterally about ideas and issues. Movies are one of the ways we process change, as a culture, on some unknowable level of collective consciousness that transcends rationality and intent. When a movie like "Arrival" comes along, we should pay attention. We're telling ourselves something.
Video – Why Russia Did Not Put a Man on the Moon? The Secret Soviet Moon Rocket
Video – Why Russia Did Not Put a Man on the Moon? The Secret Soviet Moon Rocket
It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century.
Although the USA won the race to the moon, if you’d been a betting person from the mid 1950’s to 1960’s, the chances are that you would have thought the Soviet Union had a very good chance of getting there first.
So why didn’t Russia put a man on the moon?
At the time the soviets were leading the space race, they had already started with the launch of Sputnik, then launched several probes to the moon, including one in 1959 that orbited and taken photos of the far side and By 1961 they were the first to put a man in to space.
So when Kennedy made his now famous “We choose to go to the moon” speech in 1962 to rally public support, Khrushchev’s response was silence, neither confirming nor denying that they had a plan for a manned moon mission.
But at the time Khrushchev wasn’t really interested in competing with the US over the moon, he was more interested ICBM’s the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles for the strategic rocket forces.
But there were others that had harboured plans for manned mission for a long time, these included the man whose name was a state secret and the most powerful man outside the Kremlin when it came to space.
He was Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, outside the inner circle of the top space scientists he was known only as the “Chief Designer” or by his first 2 initials SP, because the Soviet leadership feared that the western powers would send agents to assassinate him.
Korolev was the man who was behind many of the soviet space successes and the head of the OKB-1 design bureau, he over saw sputnik, and the manned missions including the first man in space Yuri Gagarin. His authority extended over almost everything to do with space, his design group worked on missions to mars and venus, communications, spy and weather satellites, ICBM’s and the soviet manned moon missions.
Korolev had a huge amount of control over the space program. In administrative power he was almost a one man version of NASA covering areas that in the US were done across multiple aerospace companies and flight centres.
But even a man with his power and connections didn’t get everything his own way. He had to continuously fight against rival designers and design groups. Although Korolev wanted the moon missions, in 1960 the job was given to his rival, Vladimir Chelomei because of his patronage by Khrushchev but his lack of experience meant that progress was slow.
The progress of Apollo on the other hand worried the chief designers and as a result of this and the in-fighting between the design bureau’s meant that there were multiple overlapping designs for the moon missions, at one point there were 30 different designs for launchers and spacecraft.
In 1964 and with the fall of Khrushchev, Korolev was given complete control over the moon missions and pushed through his designs ahead of Chelomei’s and the decision to finally compete for the moon was given, with the aim to land in 1967 the 50th anniversary of the October revolution and get there before the Americans.
This created a problem for Korolev, in order to lift the payload weight of 95 tons he needed a very large rocket. This new rocket would be called the N1, be as big as the American Saturn 5 and would require large powerful engines, similar to the F1 rockets in the Saturn.
Valentin Glushko was the leading Soviet rocket designer and head of the OKB 456 bureau, which had a near monopoly when its came rocket design & production. He specialised in making engines that used hypergolic propellants.
These consist of a fuel and an oxidizer, that when mixed together spontaneously ignite when they come into contact with each other. Korolev thought these were too dangerous for manned missions due to the highly toxic and corrosive nature of the chemicals that made up the fuel.
Glushko said that it was not possible to create a new large engine design that used cryogenic fuel of liquid oxygen and Kerosene and get it ready in time with limited resources and cash. He also sited that at the time the Americans had been working on cryogenic Saturn engines for 5 years and still hadn’t got them to work reliably…….
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Aliens are ‘watching us and could arrive on Earth in the next 20 years’
Aliens are ‘watching us and could arrive on Earth in the next 20 years’
Erich von Daniken, author of infamous book Chariots of the Gods, claims extraterrestrials will visit our planet in the coming decades Aliens are watching us and could arrive on Earth in the next 20 years, the author of ground-breaking book Chariots of the Gods has claimed.
Erich von Daniken, 82, sparked controversy when he published the work in 1968. Today, Erich – who has sold 75million books to date – insists there is even more evidence to support his theory than there was when he crafted it in the late 1960s.
And he believes that when they do make their appearance it could be on television, or in a football stadium.
Speaking from his home in Switzerland, Erich said: “I believe that at the moment we are under observation.
“This is based on conversations with very intelligent people, who have been told officially that UFOs are reality, and we are being watched. “I believe within the next 20 years some extra terrestrials will show up here – on television maybe or in football stadiums. “Crop circles show that somebody is already trying to contact us without shocking us. And we should start to think about these things. “I believe extraterrestrials will return to Earth and we should take this into consideration so we are not shocked. “Because it will be good for mankind. “We will learn to live in peace.”
He went on: “We humans, we have a psychological problem with extra terrestrials. We look at earthlings at the biggest thing in the universe.
“We don’t want extra terrestrials because they will crush our uniqueness. And therefore we try to deny they exist. “But this has changed. Extra terrestrials were here and they promised our ancestors they would return. “It would make more sense to look at this prospect in a speculative way, than to just throw it away. Don’t say it’s all rubbish. “We should think about it as we do science fiction movies. “Science fiction movies helps us to keep an open mind, and to ask questions about other life forms that might be out there.”
Chariots of the Gods – which inspired Hollywood film Prometheus – speculates if landmarks such as Stonehenge and the Pyramids could be signs left by aliens who visited thousands of years ago and promised to return..
And while it was welcomed by millions of readers, many scientists dismissed its claims as rubbish. But Erich – who accepts that criticism for his book at the time was “completely normal” – insists he has won over many experts with his views as knowledge of space has improved.
These advances have opened up a new world of possibilities for those wishing to explore the universe. Last month entrepreneur Elon Musk unveiled his vision to send people to Mars in just 10 years – with the aim of building a city on the red planet. But while Erich welcomes the prospect of interplanetary travel, he says people will have to wait a lot longer if they want to live on Mars.
He said: “I support the mission to Mars but I know we absolutely cannot survive there without taking our own environment.
“That environment would have to be there for at least two generations before we create an earthly atmosphere.
“A mission to Mars would be great, but that’s a story that goes on for the next 200 years.”
In celebration of the Chariots of the Gods ’s 50thanniversary, Erich von Däniken will deliver a keynote speech on Saturday October 15 at The Princess Anne Theatre, BAFTA, Piccadilly London, for The Erich Von Daniken Legacy Night.
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15-11-2016
This Martian Structure May House Key Ingredients for Life
This Martian Structure May House Key Ingredients for Life
NASA
IN BRIEF
Researchers believe they've identified a structure on Mars that was likely formed by a process that would leave behind liquid water while providing warmth and nutrients.
If the researchers are right, their discovery would make the Hellas depression a good place to start in the hunt for Martian life when NASA sends a rover to the planet in 2020.
CAULDRONS OF LIFE
One of the reasons we have been so intent on reaching Mars is so we can look for evidence of life that existed or still exists on the planet. Now, a new finding reveals Martian structures that may in fact house the ideal conditions for life.
This new study led by scientists at the University of Texas examined depressions in craters found within the Hellas Planitia and Galaxias Fossae regions of Mars. These depressions were first discovered in 2009 and were interesting to the researchers because they resembled each other as well as structures we have on Earth called ice cauldrons. Typically found in Iceland or Greenland, those depressions form when volcanic eruptions occur and melt ice sheets. This causes them to display concentric fractures, like bull-eyes.
Joseph Levy/NASA
However, it wasn’t just their similarity to ice cauldrons that made the researchers want to look further into these Martian structures. “We were drawn to this site because it looked like it could host some of the key ingredients for habitability — water, heat and nutrients,” said lead researcher Joseph Levy in a statement.
After the researchers analyzed the structures using new stereoscopic photographs that could take 2D images and extract 3D information, they concluded that the one in Galaxias Fossae was most likely cause by an asteroid impact, but the one in Hellas could have been caused by a volcanic eruption, similar to how our own ice cauldrons formed on Earth.
Oddur Sigurðsson/Icelandic Meteorological Office
INGREDIENTS FOR LIFE
If the researchers are right, their discovery would make the Hellas depression a good place to start in the hunt for Martian life when NASA sends a rover to the planet in 2020. The large amount of magma necessary to melt the ice to create the structure would have left behind liquid water while providing warmth and nutrients. “The possibility of liquid water formation during or subsequent to volcanism or an impact could generate locally enhanced habitable conditions, making these features tantalizing geological and astrobiological exploration targets,” the researchers conclude in the report.
This isn’t the first example of volcanic activity playing a role in the creation of life. In fact, a similar volcanic origin is one prominent theory for the start of life on Earth. According to some studies, volcanism may have played a huge part in the formation of peptides (long chains of amino acids that form the proteins at the core of living cells).
The identification of this place on Mars that may have liquid water and a volcano in close proximity to one another, all within a crater that might have been formed by an amino-acid bearing asteroid, significantly narrows down our search for life on the planet and is a promising step forward in the search for extraterrestrial life.
For the First Time in History, We Are Seeing Alien Worlds
For the First Time in History, We Are Seeing Alien Worlds
The Subaru Telescope atop Mauna Kea. CHARIS works in conjunction with Subaru. Image: Dr. Hideaki Fujiwara - Subaru Telescope, NAOJ.
IN BRIEF
A new instrument known as CHARIS was able to isolate light reflecting from an exoplanet — a fairly difficult feat, given that these planets are dimmer than the stars they orbit.
In total, there have been 3,537 exoplanets in 2,653 planetary systems and 596 multiple planetary systems confirmed – CHARIS will only help that number grow.
This image from the CHARIS instrument shows planets located around a star in the planetary system HR8799. Image: N. Jeremy Kasdin and team.
ANALYZING LIGHT
A team of scientists and engineers at Princeton University just gave exoplanet research a long-needed boost. Using a new Earth-bound instrument, the scientists were able to isolate light reflecting from far-out exoplanets.
This new instrument is known as CHARIS, an acronym for Coronagraphic High Angular Resolution Imaging Spectrograph. It was built by a team led by N. Jeremy Kasdin, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton. CHARIS features nine mirrors, five filters, two prism assemblies, and a microlens array. It weighs 226.8 kg (500 lbs), and is maintained at -223.15 C (50 Kelvin, -369 F).
Credits: N. Jeremy Kasdin, et al. / Princeton University
According to the team, CHARIS was able to isolate light reflecting from an exoplanet — a fairly difficult feat, given that these planets are dimmer than the stars they orbit.
“By analyzing the spectrum of a planet, we can really understand a lot about the planet. You can see specific features that can allow you to understand the mass, the temperature, the age of the planet,” researcher Tyler Groff explained.
UNDERSTANDING EXOPLANETS
The sun and our solar system in relation to the Milky Way galaxy. The white circle indicates the area where the majority of exoplanets have been found with current telescopes.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
Exoplanets are planets found outside of the solar system, orbiting another star. We owe most of our success at finding exoplanets to the Kepler space telescope. But apart from where they are located, there really isn’t much we know about them.
“With CHARIS spectra we can now do a lot more than simply detect planets: we can measure their temperatures and atmosphere compositions,” said Olivier Guyon, faculty member at the University of Arizona and head of the adaptive optics program at the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with which CHARIS works in conjunction.
51 Pegasi b, also called "Dimidium," was the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a star like our sun. This groundbreaking find in 1995 confirmed planets like Earth could exist elsewhere in the universe.
Exoplanet research is bound to get even better in the next couple of years, with the capabilities of CHARIS, together with the Subaru Telescope, and with the James Webb Space Telescope’s scheduled launch in 2018.
“There is a lot of excitement,” said Tyler Groff, a member of the Princeton research team currently working in NASA. “[CHARIS] is going to open for science in February to everyone.”
Erich Von Daniken concludes: Aliens will RETURN to Earth within 20 years
Erich Von Daniken concludes: Aliens will RETURN to Earth within 20 years
The author of one of the most popular books on the planet —Chariot of the Gods— indicates Aliens will return to Earth in the near future –20 years— since we are part of their DNA. The evidence of their return is present all around us, scattered across the globe in ancient texts, monuments, and civilizations.
During the ‘Erich Von Daniken Legacy Night’ which celebrates 50 years of one of his bestseller books, Erich used a number of images, video clips, computer animations and other crucial pieces of evidence in order to back up his claims that thousands of years ago, before written history, Earth was visited by beings, not from Earth. Now, he claims, our ‘makers’ will return since mankind is almost ready to finally meet them.
The E.T.’s know about us because we are part of their DNA. The Bible speaks of the daughters of men having intercourse with these visitors, and many worldwide myths and legends repeat the same story. These stories always say the E.T.s will return to us.
Erich Von Daniken claims that in the distant past, alien beings played an extremely important role in the development of modern civilization. According to the author, there are worldwide myths, legends and ancient texts that are clear indicators of the role ‘the Gods’ played in the development of mankind. All of these stories and tales repeat the same outcome: One day, aliens will return to Earth.
From a safe hiding-place the inhabitants of the planet watch our space travellers, who wear strange hats with rods on their heads (helmets with antennae); they are amazed when the night is made bright as day (searchlights); they are terrified when the strangers rise effortlessly into the air (rocket-belts); they bury their heads in the ground again when weird unknown ‘animals’ soar in the air, droning, buzzing and snorting (helicopters, all-purpose vehicles), and lastly they take flight to the safe refuge of their caves when a frightening boom and rumble resounds from the mountains (a trial explosion). Undoubtedly our astronauts must seem like almighty gods to these primitive people, says Erich von Daniken.
I believe that at the moment we are under observation. This is based on conversations with very intelligent people, who have been told officially that UFOs are reality, and we are being watched, added the author.
During the presentation, where Erich was presented with the Stella Citizen Award by Ancient Aliens TV regular Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, the author said that ancient texts like the Christian Bible, religious texts from India and other make reference to heaven which according to him is in fact nothing other than a reference to outer space. Von Daniken claims that the so-called angels where nothing other that Alien visitors who came from elsewhere in the cosmos.
Now, after thousands of years have passed since the visitors touched down on Earth for the first time, we are approaching the time where society is ready to ‘meet’ our alien cousins.
Furthermore, alien contact has become something that millions around the world are already expecting. Our scientific achievements, social acceptance derived from continuous “bombardment” by Hollywood movies and series on alien life in the universe has allowed us to be prepared–as a race— to finally meet Alien civilizations without causing social unrest.
Von Daniken’s work has been translated into over 32 languages.
VIDEO: Mysterieuze aardbevingslichten gezien tijdens aardschok Nieuw-Zeeland
VIDEO: Mysterieuze aardbevingslichten gezien tijdens aardschok Nieuw-Zeeland
Tijdens de zware aardbeving in de buurt van de stad Christchurch, lichtte de hemel op mysterieuze wijze op. Het gaat om zogeheten aardbevingslichten.
Beelden van de ongewone lichten werden op YouTube geplaatst. In het filmpje zijn felle flitsen te zien tijdens de beving.
In een andere video, die op Instagram werd gezet, is te zien dat soortgelijke flitsen in de lucht zijn gezien in de stad Wellington.
Ook boven de oceaan
Dergelijke lichten werden eerder ook al gezien tijdens aardbevingen, waaronder die in Christchurch in 2011, waarbij 185 mensen om het leven kwamen.
Sommigen suggereerden dat de lichten mogelijk waren veroorzaakt door elektriciteitskabels of transformators, maar ze werden ook gezien boven de oceaan.
Wetenschappers zijn het niet eens over de oorzaak, hoewel een studie uit 2014 concludeerde dat bepaald gesteente tijdens een aardbeving ‘aardbevingslichten’ kan voortbrengen.
Paranormale verschijnselen
De flitsen nemen verschillende vormen en kleuren aan. Tijdens de aardbeving in het Italiaanse L’Aquila in 2009 maakten getuigen ook melding van flikkerende lichten in lucht, meldde National Geographic.
Aardbevingslichten zijn bliksemlichten, flitslichten of een soort oplichtende halo’s die voor of tijdens aardschokken verschijnen.
Vroeger werden ze in verband gebracht met paranormale verschijnselen, maar tegenwoordig is de uitleg alledaagser: het zou simpelweg gaan om elektrische ladingen afkomstig van seismische scheuren, een beetje zoals het noorderlicht.
Toch kan de wetenschap dit verschijnsel nog steeds niet volledig verklaren.
“Nostradamus voorspelde overwinning van Trump 400 jaar geleden al”
“Nostradamus voorspelde overwinning van Trump 400 jaar geleden al”
De bekende ziener Nostradamus zou 400 jaar geleden al voorspeld hebben dat Donald Trump de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen zou gaan winnen.
De Fransman Michel de Nostredame leefde van 1503 tot 1566 en was apotheker, arts en astroloog. Hij werd vooral bekend door zijn profetieën.
Zijn aanhangers stellen dat hij de wereld onder meer heeft gewaarschuwd voor Napoleon, de twee wereldoorlogen, de aanslagen van 9/11 en het terrorisme.
Rusland
Hij zou ook de overwinning van Trump hebben voorspeld: “De grote opzichtige, zonder schaamte, zal verkozen worden tot leider van het leger: de vrijmoedigheid van zijn beweringen, de brug gebroken, de stad zwijmelend van angst.”
En verder: “De valse boodschap over de oneerlijke verkiezing, die door de stad waart en een einde maakt aan het gebroken pact. Stemmen gekocht, de kapel bevlekt met bloed, de keizerrijken die samen worden gebonden.”
Dat zou dan weer te maken kunnen hebben met de relaties tussen de Verenigde Staten en Rusland.
Nederlagen
Tot slot zei hij nog: “De mannelijke vrouw zal haar invloed uitbreiden naar het noorden. Ze zal bijna heel Europa en de rest van de wereld tegen zich in het harnas jagen. Twee nederlagen zullen haar uit haar evenwicht brengen zodat leven en dood Oost-Europa sterker zullen maken.”
Volgens volgelingen van Nostradamus is dit een verwijzing naar Hillary Clinton en haar nederlagen tegen Obama en tegen Trump. Met Oost-Europa zou hij verwijzen naar Rusland.
Omdat zijn voorspellingen vrij vaag waren en op meerdere manieren geïnterpreteerd konden worden, kreeg Nostradamus ook veel kritiek.
UFO conspiracy theories argue that evidence of unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrial visitors is being suppressed by various governments, and politicians in every country, most notably the officials of Washington DC. Such conspiracy theories commonly argue that Earth governments, especially the Government of the United States, are in communication and/or cooperation with extraterrestrials despite public claims to the contrary, and further that some of these theories claim that the governments are explicitly allowing alien abduction.
Various UFO conspiracy ideas have flourished on the internet and were frequently featured on Art Bell's program, Coast to Coast AM. According to MUFON, the National Enquirer reported that a survey found 76% of participants felt the government was not revealing all it knew about UFOs, 54% thought UFOs definitely or probably existed, and 32% thought UFOs came from outer space.
Notable persons to have publicly stated that UFO evidence is being suppressed include Senator Barry Goldwater, Admiral Lord Hill-Norton (former NATO head and chief of the British Defence Staff), Brigadier General Arthur Exon (former commanding officer of Wright-Patterson AFB), Vice Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (first CIA director), astronauts Gordon Cooper and Edgar Mitchell, and former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer. Beyond their testimonies and reports no substantiating evidence has been presented to support their statements and conclusions. According to the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry little or no evidence exists to support them despite significant research on the subject by non-governmental scientific agencies.
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Space Laser to Help Robots 'Sniff Out' Alien Life
Space Laser to Help Robots 'Sniff Out' Alien Life
By Ian O'Neill, Discovery News
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Back in the 2000s, when Branimir Blagojevic was developing a sensor for the military to detect airborne bio-hazards, he had no idea the technology could later be used in the search for extraterrestrial life.
His original work focused on the novel use of lidar — which stands for Light Detection and Ranging — and is based on similar principles as radar. Instead of using radio waves like radar, lidar uses laser light to detect objects and measure the distance to a target. This why lidar is often referred to as "light radar."
Blagojevic, now a NASA technologist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, realized that the technology behind seeking out toxins and pathogens in the air might have an application beyond Earth and may even contribute to NASA's mission to work out whether Mars has (or had) life.
"If past life existed on Mars, it could be possible to detect with this kind of instrument," Blagojevic told Seeker.
Currently, any mission sent to Mars is pretty limited in how it searches for evidence of biology, past or present. The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, for example, can scoop a sample of regolith (the dusty powdery "soil" that covers the Red Planet) in the hope that the tiny amount of pulverized rock contains biological chemistry. Making physical contact with any material intended for analysis is a concern; though any robot sent to Mars is sanitized, there's a risk of contaminating the "pristine" sample with contaminants from Earth, potentially skewing test results.
Also, the slow and laborious process a robot must go through to collect and analyze samples means very few samples can be taken from any given location. It could be that the sample analyzed by the Mars rover scoops a completely sterile sample, but unbeknownst to the robot or its controllers back on Earth, there could be Mars dirt crawling with organic chemistry only a couple of meters to the left. They would never know.
Blagojevic likens this maddening search as trying to find the proverbial "needle in a haystack." But it's worse than that — we don't yet know where the haystack is.
So how do you narrow the odds of finding biological material on Mars? One method could be to use Blagojevic's Bio-Indicator Lidar Instrument, or, simply "BILI."
A dust devil snakes across the Martian landscape, kicking dust into the air.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz.
Mars is no stranger to lasers. Currently, Curiosity uses its ChemCam to laser-blast rocks so its sensors can study the vapor produced to decipher what chemicals it contains. Mars rocks will be safe from BILI, however.
Blagojevic, working with NASA planetary scientists Melissa Trainer, Alexander Pavlov and Melissa Floyd, hopes to mount this lidar system on a future Mars rover much in the same way ChemCam is used by Curiosity, but rather than aiming it at interesting geological features, this future rover would shoot its laser at particles in the Martian atmosphere. During its mission, the rover would scan its environment for dust plumes. Once it finds a wind-blown plume, likely above a hard-to-reach slope, it would fire its twin ultraviolet lasers into the dust.
As the laser light hits individual dust particles, energy from the laser will cause any particles in its path to produce light, a phenomenon known as florescence. The light from these fluorescing particles can then be measured, revealing what chemicals they are made of. If there's any organic matter in the dust (known as bio-indicators), BILI should be able to decipher its signal.
And the best thing is that this is all carried out remotely, possible hundreds of meters from the rover, meaning a huge area could be scanned for organic chemistry and contamination from the rover wouldn't factor into the measurements.
"This will basically increase the probability of finding life by roving the surface of Mars," said Blagojevic.
The applications on Mars are obvious, and we could see future rovers using BILI to scan dusty red plumes, but could the technology be used to hunt for life elsewhere in the solar system?
"Beyond Mars, we did some calculations modeling whether this instrument could work on frozen worlds like the moon Enceladus and maybe Europa," Blagojevic said.
Enceladus is one of Saturn's enigmatic moons that possesses a thick icy shell surrounding a subsurface ocean. Through tidal interactions with Saturn, Enceladus produces heat in its core that keeps the subsurface water in a liquid state. Its ocean is of huge interest to astrobiologists because, on Earth, where there's liquid water there's life.
The internal heating and constant stresses on the icy shell causes some of the liquid water to erupt to the surface of the moon, like opening the cap of a soda bottle. Huge quantities of water vapor are lost to space, creating the moon's trademark plumes. If there's any extraterrestrial biology in that water, it's being vented to space also.
NASA's Cassini mission has used onboard sensors to "taste" these plumes as it flies past (pictured above), but detailed analysis is needed. Could BILI be mounted to a flyby mission to Saturn to possibly fire its UV lasers into the plumes to see if organic chemicals are present also?
"We found that it will be challenging because the water plumes on Enceladus have very low density" when compared with dust particles in Martian air, said Blagojevic. On average, Enceladus' plumes have an extremely low density, so to detect anything, a spacecraft would need to fly within 50 kilometers of the moon's surface and the laser would need to be in the 1 watt range to detect any florescence.
"It's possible, but it requires a more powerful UV laser that may or may not be feasible for future flyby missions," he said.
As for Europa, lacking the obvious long-duration plumes that Enceladus has, whether this lidar system can be used to seek out biological chemistry would depend on if any aerosols exist close to its surface, cautions Blagojevic. The Jovian moon holds even more promise than Enceladus as a potentially habitable place for aquatic extraterrestrial life to thrive in its sub-surface ocean. Some optimistic hypotheses posit that multi-cellular life may even be possible.
As we know chemistry from inside the moon cycles to the surface — through apparently active icy tectonics — if there is biology in Europa's oceans, evidence of its presence may be found on the icy surface. And if there's some mechanism causing these organic chemicals to rise above the ice, perhaps a lander-mounted BILI could be used to reveal its secrets.
Imagine if scientists discovered that an asteroid was hurtling toward Los Angeles. The possibility has existed on the pages of Hollywood scripts. But in what may be a case of life imitating art, NASA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other government agencies engaged last month in a planetary protection exercise to consider the potentially devastating consequences of a 330-foot asteroid hitting the Earth.
The simulation projected a worst-case blast wave by an asteroid strike in 2020 that could level structures across 30 miles, require a mass evacuation of the Los Angeles area and cause tens of thousands of casualties. In 1998, the movie “Armageddon” dramatized an even greater fictional threat. In that blockbuster, a ragtag crew was sent on a mission to drill into an asteroid and set off a nuclear bomb to avert a global catastrophe.
As the character Harry Stamper, portrayed by Bruce Willis, summed up to his crewmates: “The United States government just asked us to save the world.”
The possibility has existed on the pages of Hollywood scripts. But in what may be a case of life imitating art, NASA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other government agencies engaged last month in a planetary protection exercise to consider the potentially devastating consequences of a 330-foot asteroid hitting the Earth.
The simulation projected a worst-case blast wave by an asteroid strike in 2020 that could level structures across 30 miles, require a mass evacuation of the Los Angeles area and cause tens of thousands of casualties.
That’s where the planetary protection exercise, conducted on Oct. 25 in El Segundo, Calif., comes in. The simulation that projected a strike in 2020 involved representatives from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories, the Air Force and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.
While a warning of four years may seem like a lot of time, it would probably not be enough to deflect an asteroid of the size and orbit outlined in the simulation, Mr. Chodas said.
“Engineers think the simplest way to deflect an asteroid is to build a large spacecraft and simply ram it into the asteroid” years before it is predicted to hit Earth, he said.
It could take up to two years to build such a “kinetic impactor” spacecraft and another year or more to reach the asteroid, so in the case of this simulation, an evacuation, not a “deflection mission,” was necessary.
For the organizers of Asteroid Day, a global movement that seeks to protect the world from dangerous asteroids, such planning is not out of this world.
The group, which maintains that one million asteroids have the potential to strike Earth but that only 1 percent of them have been discovered, was set on Monday to release a letter signed by planetary scientists supporting missions to increase knowledge of asteroids. The group promotes the “100x Declaration,” which calls for increasing the rate of asteroid discoveries to 100,000 per year in the next 10 years.
“The more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it became that the human race has been living on borrowed time,” Brian May, an astrophysicist and a founder and lead guitarist for the rock group Queen, said on the group’s website.
Asteroid Day is observed each year on June 30, the anniversary of what is believed to be the largest space-related explosion in human history: an asteroid strike in Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908.
An asteroid, believed to be less than 100 feet in diameter, exploded at the altitude of an airliner and flattened tens of millions of trees across 800 square miles. Researchers estimated the explosion was as powerful as a medium-size hydrogen bomb and several hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
While there were no official reports of human casualties, hundreds of reindeer were reduced to charred carcasses in the explosion, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported. – New York Times
Onlookers have captured video of bright flashes of light that lit up the sky over Wellington following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked New Zealand’s South Island.
Instagram user Syrian Kiwi posted video of the lights with the caption “Sky during earthquake in Wellington”.
The quake, located near Hanmer Springs in North Canterbury at a depth of 15km, struck just after midnight last night (10pm AEDT) and a swarm of powerful aftershocks have since rattled the country.
According to New Zealand news website Newshub reported that the video may have captured a phenomenon known as “earthquake lights”. where light is produced around continental rifts by electrical properties in certain rocks.
“When nature stresses certain rocks, electric charges are activated, as if you switched on a battery in the Earth’s crust,” senior researcher at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Friedemann Freund, told National Geographic in a 2014 article about the phenomenon.
Besides “earthquake lights”, Monday’s supermoon could have triggered the earthquakes according to seismologists.
Then, I just received an image taken by a resident in Perth, Australia, today (Monday November 14, 2016) which not only shows the supermoon but also a big blue/greenish UFO-like object.
Moreover, if you rotate the object 90 degrees a face of a human being appears in the middle of the object.
Although Friedeman suggests the mysterious blue lights in the sky are “earthquake lights”, I’m not convinced since “earthquake lights” look quite different (See image below) and normally they appear before or after an earthquake.
Maybe the seismologists have right about the supermoon, but then again, it does not explain the blue lights / flashes in the sky over New Zealand during the earthquakes and it certainly does not explain the strange blue / greenish object over Australia, captured many hours later.
Professor Stephen Hawking heeft gewaarschuwd dat het menselijke ras het geen 1.000 jaar meer overleeft als we geen nieuwe planeet vinden om naartoe te verhuizen. Dat zei hij tijdens een lezing voor de debatvereniging van de Oxford Union.
Hawking was er uitgenodigd om te spreken over het universum en het ontstaan van de mens. De 74-jarige astrofysicus noemde 2016, vanuit het standpunt als wetenschapper, een "glorieuze tijd om in te leven en onderzoek te doen naar theoretische fysica". "Ons beeld van het universum is de afgelopen vijftig jaar enorm veranderd en ik ben blij dat ik daar een kleine bijdrage aan heb kunnen leveren", zei Hawking. "Het feit dat wij als mensen, die zelf maar fundamentele partikels van de natuur zijn, zo dicht zijn gekomen bij het begrijpen van de wetten die ons leiden en van het universum, is zeker een triomf."
Tegelijk schetste Hawking een erg somber beeld over de toekomst. Hij benadrukt dat er nog veel meer onderzoek nodig is naar het universum, niet alleen om het beter te begrijpen, maar ook om ons voortbestaan te verzekeren. "Ik denk niet dat we het nog 1.000 jaar zullen overleven zonder van onze fragiele planeet te ontsnappen", zei hij.
Eerder dit jaar had Hawking ook al gewaarschuwd voor nieuwe ontwikkelingen op vlak van wetenschap en technologie, omdat die kunnen leiden tot "nieuwe manieren die kunnen misgaan". En aangezien zelfvoorzienende kolonies op Mars er pas ten vroegste over 100 jaar zullen zijn, moet de mens in tussentijd "erg voorzichtig" zijn.
Hawking sloot af met goede raad voor studenten. "Denk eraan om naar de sterren te kijken, en niet naar je eigen voeten. Probeer te begrijpen wat je ziet, verwonder je over wat het universum doet bestaan. Wees nieuwsgierig. Hoe moeilijk het leven ook lijkt, er is altijd iets dat je kan doen en waarin je kan slagen. Het is belangrijk dat je het niet gewoon opgeeft."
FOTO'SEen maandag is voor velen onder ons niet bepaald de favoriete dag van de week, maar noem deze maandag gerust met een licht gelukzalige glimlach terecht een 'Supermaandag'. Want vandaag doet een supermaan wereldwijd de monden openvallen. Een overzicht van prachtige foto's van dit wonderlijke zeldzame fenomeen.
Voor het eerst sinds 1948 staat de maan zo dicht bij de zon als vandaag. Ook wij zullen vanaf 17u21 (het allerbeste moment voor een reikhalzende blik naar boven, best richting het noordoosten, nvdr.) onze ogen richting de hemel werpen naar die prachtige grote bol die groter zal lijken dan normaal.
Helaas trekken wij Belgen aan het kortere eind in vergelijking met andere landen, want "de omstandigheden zijn zeer ongunstig voor de waarneming van de supermaan", zo waarschuwt het KMI. Het typisch Belgische herfstweertje met zijn storingen van mist, wolken en regen zal roet in het eten gooien. "Er is weinig kans dat dit fenomeen in ons land te bewonderen zal zijn", besluit het KMI.
Daar komt nog bij dat VRT-weerman Frank Deboosere de verwachtingen nog tempert door erop te wijzen dat het verschil tussen de grootste en de kleinst mogelijke maan amper 16% is en dat dit met het blote oog niet te zien is. "'Much ado about nothing', zou Shakespeare zeggen", besluit Deboosere.
Pech dus door wolken en mist voor ons land. Dikke pech zelfs, want het zal tot zo maar even 2034 duren voor het fenomeen nog eens voorvalt. Helaas lijken de eerste blikken naar boven écht niets op te leveren.
Als we toch onze nekspieren voor niets blijken te hebben opgewarmd en botsen op niets anders dan bewolking, zijn er nog altijd deze magnifieke beelden uit het buitenland die je kan bewonderen.
These are cloud orbs and they usually appear white, but when very close they really have a translucent appearance with a slow color changing that takes over different parts of the orb and either grows in area that the color has or becomes smaller of an area. The orb will have many colors areas at the same time. Scott C. Waring
News states: British holiday maker Paul Zinger said he filmed the UFOs over Barcelona while celebrating his 40th birthday at the fountains on La Rambla. He said the white orbs flew over the BBVA bank building nearby. The painter and decorator, who lives in Clitheroe, Lancashire, estimated there were at least 100 objects moving in different directions. He said: "It was amazing, there were at least 100 if not more in the sky. The footage I took doesn't show how many were there. "The holiday was a surprise 40th birthday present from my girlfriend. "We both got food poisoning so the only time we spent outside was basically a couple of hours on La Rambla. "The Rambla was chocca with people. "I think there was more than 100 objects. I watched them for ages." Mr Zinger, who appears to be an alien believer, has considered what the white orbs could have been. He said: "I've asked myself the question many times. When you see objects like this it truly changes the way you view the world. (More at source)
Giant UFO Exits Ground Causing Earthquake In New Zealand, Nov 14, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Giant UFO Exits Ground Causing Earthquake In New Zealand, Nov 14, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of event: November 14, 2016 Location of event: Christchurch, New Zealand UFOs are often seen during and after earthquakes, just like in this video below you see lights from a UFO that exited from the ground. It had to have been giant, about 1km for the opening to cause such an earthquake as it did. Christchurch is a hotbed of UFO activity over the last five years, so this is really no surprise. Its known from the Friendship case (Rocca Pia, Italy) that when aliens were to make an opening for a city or leave a city, they only had to command it, and the technology would open a cavern in the ground the size of city that even had its own weather system. Friendship case also states that people would just stand on the ground and the ground would gently and fast, lower itself, while the opening on top closes, until the person arrived at the city below the ground. Scott C. Waring
Mystery UFO Hits Earth With Explosion That Shakes Houses Nearby
Mystery UFO Hits Earth With Explosion That Shakes Houses Nearby
A massive UFO in cylindrical shape had crash landed and exploded, leaving homes shaking. The metal object that fell from the sky measures 4.5 meters long and 1.2 meters wide. Residents in nearby crash site said the metal cylinder had an acrid smell. Officials have yet to identify the mysterious object.
As the cylinder crashed, another object fell through the house roof nearby before the larger object hit the ground, resulting in the explosion of a land mine.
The mystery object crashed into the mud in Kachin, Myanmar. Fortunately, no report of a person being hurt.
One of the witnesses, Ko Maung Myo, said they were afraid of the explosion that shook their houses. They thought there was a war. They saw a thick smoke from their village.
The smaller piece of metal reportedly had Chinese characters, creating suggestions that the massive object is part of a spaceship from China.
However, others believe the cylinder could be from extraterrestrials.
Some UFO hunters said that the object could be a fragment from an alien object that remained in orbit for decades.
From Reactive Robots to Sentient Machines: The 4 Types of AI
From Reactive Robots to Sentient Machines: The 4 Types of AI
By Arend Hintze, Michigan State University
Machines need to be able to teach themselves, says one researcher who studies artificial intelligence.
Credit: kirill_makarov / Shutterstock.com
The common, and recurring, view of the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research is that sentient and intelligent machines are just on the horizon. Machines understand verbal commands, distinguish pictures, drive cars and play games better than we do. How much longer can it be before they walk among us?
The new White House report on artificial intelligence takes an appropriately skeptical view of that dream. It says the next 20 years likely won't see machines "exhibit broadly-applicable intelligence comparable to or exceeding that of humans," though it does go on to say that in the coming years, "machines will reach and exceed human performance on more and more tasks." But its assumptions about how those capabilities will develop missed some important points.
As an AI researcher, I'll admit it was nice to have my own field highlighted at the highest level of American government, but the report focused almost exclusively on what I call "the boring kind of AI." It dismissed in half a sentence my branch of AI research, into how evolution can help develop ever-improving AI systems, and how computational models can help us understand how our human intelligence evolved.
The report focuses on what might be called mainstream AI tools: machine learning and deep learning. These are the sorts of technologies that have been able to play "Jeopardy!" well, and beat human Go masters at the most complicated game ever invented. These current intelligent systems are able to handle huge amounts of data and make complex calculations very quickly. But they lack an element that will be key to building the sentient machines we picture having in the future.
We need to do more than teach machines to learn. We need to overcome the boundaries that define the four different types of artificial intelligence, the barriers that separate machines from us – and us from them.
Type I AI: Reactive machines
The most basic types of AI systems are purely reactive, and have the ability neither to form memories nor to use past experiences to inform current decisions. Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, which beat international grandmaster Garry Kasparov in the late 1990s, is the perfect example of this type of machine.
Deep Blue can identify the pieces on a chess board and know how each moves. It can make predictions about what moves might be next for it and its opponent. And it can choose the most optimal moves from among the possibilities.
But it doesn't have any concept of the past, nor any memory of what has happened before. Apart from a rarely used chess-specific rule against repeating the same move three times, Deep Blue ignores everything before the present moment. All it does is look at the pieces on the chess board as it stands right now, and choose from possible next moves.
This type of intelligence involves the computer perceiving the world directly and acting on what it sees. It doesn't rely on an internal concept of the world. In a seminal paper, AI researcher Rodney Brooks argued that we should only build machines like this. His main reason was that people are not very good at programming accurate simulated worlds for computers to use, what is called in AI scholarship a "representation" of the world.
The current intelligent machines we marvel at either have no such concept of the world, or have a very limited and specialized one for its particular duties. The innovation in Deep Blue's design was not to broaden the range of possible movies the computer considered. Rather, the developers found a way to narrow its view, to stop pursuing some potential future moves, based on how it rated their outcome. Without this ability, Deep Blue would have needed to be an even more powerful computer to actually beat Kasparov.
Similarly, Google's AlphaGo, which has beaten top human Go experts, can't evaluate all potential future moves either. Its analysis method is more sophisticated than Deep Blue's, using a neural network to evaluate game developments.
These methods do improve the ability of AI systems to play specific games better, but they can't be easily changed or applied to other situations. These computerized imaginations have no concept of the wider world – meaning they can't function beyond the specific tasks they're assigned and are easily fooled.
They can't interactively participate in the world, the way we imagine AI systems one day might. Instead, these machines will behave exactly the same way every time they encounter the same situation. This can be very good for ensuring an AI system is trustworthy: You want your autonomous car to be a reliable driver. But it's bad if we want machines to truly engage with, and respond to, the world. These simplest AI systems won't ever be bored, or interested, or sad.
Type II AI: Limited memory
This Type II class contains machines can look into the past. Self-driving cars do some of this already. For example, they observe other cars' speed and direction. That can't be done in a just one moment, but rather requires identifying specific objects and monitoring them over time.
These observations are added to the self-driving cars' preprogrammed representations of the world, which also include lane markings, traffic lights and other important elements, like curves in the road. They're included when the car decides when to change lanes, to avoid cutting off another driver or being hit by a nearby car.
But these simple pieces of information about the past are only transient. They aren't saved as part of the car's library of experience it can learn from, the way human drivers compile experience over years behind the wheel.
So how can we build AI systems that build full representations, remember their experiences and learn how to handle new situations? Brooks was right in that it is very difficult to do this. My own research into methods inspired by Darwinian evolution can start to make up for human shortcomings by letting the machines build their own representations.
Type III AI: Theory of mind
We might stop here, and call this point the important divide between the machines we have and the machines we will build in the future. However, it is better to be more specific to discuss the types of representations machines need to form, and what they need to be about.
Machines in the next, more advanced, class not only form representations about the world, but also about other agents or entities in the world. In psychology, this is called "theory of mind" – the understanding that people, creatures and objects in the world can have thoughts and emotions that affect their own behavior.
This is crucial to how we humans formed societies, because they allowed us to have social interactions. Without understanding each other's motives and intentions, and without taking into account what somebody else knows either about me or the environment, working together is at best difficult, at worst impossible.
If AI systems are indeed ever to walk among us, they'll have to be able to understand that each of us has thoughts and feelings and expectations for how we'll be treated. And they'll have to adjust their behavior accordingly.
Type IV AI: Self-awareness
The final step of AI development is to build systems that can form representations about themselves. Ultimately, we AI researchers will have to not only understand consciousness, but build machines that have it.
This is, in a sense, an extension of the "theory of mind" possessed by Type III artificial intelligences. Consciousness is also called "self-awareness" for a reason. ("I want that item" is a very different statement from "I know I want that item.") Conscious beings are aware of themselves, know about their internal states, and are able to predict feelings of others. We assume someone honking behind us in traffic is angry or impatient, because that's how we feel when we honk at others. Without a theory of mind, we could not make those sorts of inferences.
While we are probably far from creating machines that are self-aware, we should focus our efforts toward understanding memory, learning and the ability to base decisions on past experiences. This is an important step to understand human intelligence on its own. And it is crucial if we want to design or evolve machines that are more than exceptional at classifying what they see in front of them.
Morphing Wings Are 1st Step Toward Bird-Like Aircraft
Morphing Wings Are 1st Step Toward Bird-Like Aircraft
By Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor
Wings that can morph their shape during flight could reduce fuel consumption by improving the wing's aerodynamics.
Credit: Kenneth Cheung/NASA
Bendable, morphing wings covered with overlapping pieces resembling scales or feathers could be used to build more agile, fuel-efficient aircraft, a new study finds.
Nowadays, conventional aircraft typically rely on hinged flaps known as ailerons to help control the way the planes tilt as they fly. However, when the Wright brothers flew the first airplane, Flyer 1, more than a century ago, they did not use ailerons. Instead, they controlled the aircraft using wires and pulleys that bent and twisted the wood-and-canvas wings.
Scientists have long sought to develop aircraft that can alter or morph their wings during flight, just as birds can. In theory, morphing wings would create smoother aerodynamic surfaces, making an aircraft more agile and efficient than an aircraft that flies with many separate moving surfaces. [Up She Goes! 8 of the Wackiest Early Flying Machines]
However, most previous attempts to develop morphing wings have failed because they relied on mechanical control structures within the wings that were so heavy they canceled out any advantages that morphing provided. These structures were also complex and unreliable, said study co-author Neil Gershenfeld, a physicist and director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT.
"People have worked on morphing aerodynamics for years, but progress has been slow," Gershenfeld told Live Science.
But these new morphing wings allowed the researchers to "make the whole wing the mechanism," Gershenfeld said in a statement. "It's not something we put into the wing."
Side perspective of the test wing at Langley Research Center’s 12-Foot Low Speed Tunnel.
Credit: Kenneth Cheung/NASA
The new wing architecture consists of a system of tiny, strong, lightweight modules. The shape of the wing can be changed uniformly along its length using two small motors, which apply a twisting pressure to each wingtip.
These wings are covered in "skins" of overlapping strips of flexible material resembling fish scales or bird feathers. These strips move across each other as the wings morph, providing a smooth outer surface, the researchers explained.
Wind-tunnel tests of these wings showed that they at least matched the aerodynamic properties of conventional wings, at about one-tenth the weight. Initial tests using remotely piloted aircraft made with these wings have shown great promise, said study lead author Benjamin Jenett, a graduate student at the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT. "The first tests were done by a certified test pilot, and he found it so responsive that he decided to do some aerobatics," Jenett said in a statement.
Even small improvements in fuel efficiency can have significant impacts on the economics of the airline industry and its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.
"The goal is to build the whole aircraft this way, both manned and unmanned, so you can deform their shapes," Gershenfeld said. "The wings are just the first step."
The researchers noted that building large structures such as airplane wings from an array of small, identical building blocks — what Gershenfeld called "digital materials" — greatly simplifies the manufacturing process. Whereas the construction of light composite wings for aircraft currently requires large, specialized equipment for layering and hardening the material, the new modular structures the scientists developed could be manufactured quickly in mass quantities and then assembled by teams of small robots.
"We mass-produce pieces and assemble them like they're Legos," Gershenfeld said.
These modular structures also can be disassembled more easily, making repairs simpler. "An inspection robot could just find where the broken part is and replace it, and keep the aircraft 100 percent healthy at all times," Jenett said in a statement.
Still, the first aircraft built using this strategy will not be a passenger jet, Gershenfeld said. Instead, the technology will likely first be tested on unmanned aircraft, leading to drones that can fly for long times, to help deliver internet access or medicine to remote villages, he said.
In the new science fiction film Arrival, Amy Adams must convince moviegoers that she is a crack linguist named Dr. Louise Banks, tasked with communicating with a many-tentacled alien species called Heptapods. Unsurprisingly, making us believe Amy Adams is really Louise is much easier than convincing us that Heptapods are what aliens might actually look like. Science fiction can make us believe all sorts of things, but there’s a tricky difference between something seeming realistic and being realistic.
At first glance, the aliens of Arrival are more convincing — or at least more complicated — than the extraterrestrials found in most sci-fi movies. But why? The simple answer to this is that they have both tentacles and a complex language. Plus, their language is real, even if it was made specifically for the movie. This means humans could conceivably use the logograms in Arrival to communicate, giving the alien invasion movie a sheen of plausibility.
Much older science fiction dealing with aliens (TV, film, poetry, or prose) often now feels laughable and outdated, because how can you not laugh at those stupid rubber masks in Outer Limits? But, it’s pretty important to remember that these don’t feel dated because of any contemporary advance of real science. As of now, there is no working biological field of study about what intelligent aliens would look actually look like. This isn’t to say the entire field of astrobiologydoesn’t exist, it’s just that it’s primarily focused on the extraterrestrial environments where basic organisms could evolve. Wild speculation about whether intelligent aliens would have tentacles or exist as hive minds made out of gas doesn’t figure into real astrobiology.
And in terms of real science, contact with intelligent alien life is improbable enough to be considered practically impossible. The Fermi Paradox states plainly that the reason we don’t see any evidence intelligent alien life in the Milky Way Galaxy is because there isn’t any.
A many-tentacled alien in the 'Alien' prequel 'Prometheus'
In short: Because intelligent alien bodies have never, ever been seen, there is no real scientific case study on which to base their fictional design. Instead, the presentation of more “realistic” aliens with tentacles in science fiction is probably based on this line of thinking: Life as we know it would have evolved in an ocean. Things that live in the ocean have tentacles and seem “alien” to humans. Ergo, more “realistic” aliens would have space tentacles. And because there’s a legacy of great science fiction — like Octavia Butler’s 1987 novel Dawn — that feature complex aliens with tentacles, the many-tentacled alien motif has become code for more a more “plausible” alien.
Tentacles then, might be somewhat superficial, making the Heptapods really no more “alien” than the pointy-eared Vulcan, Mr. Spock on Star Trek. This isn’t the fault of the Heptapods, or of Mr. Spock. It’s actually just a very real limitation human creativity.
Ted Chiang’s short story “The Story of Your Life” (the basis for Arrival) finds Louise ruminating on the challenges of communicating with the aliens: “The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand,” she says. And though this is a brilliant line, it belies the opposite tendency of the physical depiction of aliens in most science fiction: We are in fact very “familiar” with the “bizarreness” of aliens who have tentacles.
In his groundbreaking 1997 meta-fictional essay/short story titled “If Lions Could Speak,” noted science fiction writer Paul Park points out that when any writer tries to “describe” an alien, that writer is probably only describing humanity through a lens. As Park writes: “The words we put into an alien mouth, the feeling into an alien heart, the tools into alien hands, what can they be but imitations of our words, feelings, tools?” In both “The Story of Your Life” and Arrival, the Heptapod aliens work in the narrative because there’s something human and relatable about them, despite their exotic appearance. No one loves this movie or short story because of the extreme “alienness” of the Heptapods. Instead, we love it because it has heart.
Cover detail of 'Coelestis.'
As Park writes, stories about aliens invariably show us something other than aliens: “When a writer conceives of an alien species, she will extrapolate what human beings would be like if they shared the alien’s morphology.” In his novel Coelestis (published as Celestis in the U.S.) Paul Park explored this as a literary conceit: The only way to write about aliens would be to imagine an alien who had been forced to be human. The story of Coelestis is all about aliens who have been coerced over the years to essentially change their species over to humanity. The novel focuses on a girl named Katherine who originally wasn’t a “girl,” because she’s not actually human. The plot then, focuses on her discovering her “alien” qualities. In this way, the dishonesty of trying to write from a true “alien” point of view is slyly subverted. “You can’t talk about the subject [of aliens] directly, or in a way that makes sense,” Park told Inverse, “Because of the logical problem in the story.”
Practically speaking, a realistic story about alien intelligence defies logic. In Stanislaw Lem’s famous novel Solaris, the basic question of bridging impossible communication gaps ends in sad failure. An intelligent alien ocean conjures up dead people from the memories of a depressed scientists in an attempt to say hello. Clearly, something is lost in translation.
But the impossibility of it all isn’t why we love stories like this. The communication with the Heptapods in Arrival is warm and touching because were are convinced — for a brief moment — that these aliens are real. The attention to detail and the idea that language is so central to the plot cements their “reality” firmly enough to make us care. But Louise’s journey with her Heptopod friends is ultimately — as all good alien stories are — mostly about her. “The alien intelligence becomes part of the landscape, something to be experienced or overcome,” Paul Park said. “It’s something to show us aspects of ourselves.”
When Louise writes the word “human” on her little dry erase board in Arrival, she’s really holding up a mirror to the Heptapods. And even if the reflection in that mirror is covered in tentacles, make no mistake, these aliens are still totally human.
Photos via Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Peter Elson, pintrest
The consequences of the discovery are only now sinking in. One year later, we’re less inclined to refer to Mars as an exotic, distant rock painted red — and more like a future second home for humanity, because suddenly we know Mars to be more Earth-like than ever before.
The initial research was about five years in the making before NASA’s announcement last September. In 2010, University of Arizona planetary geography researcher Alfred McEwen and graduate student Lujendra Ojha were the first to notice something strange creeping out in the middle of images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: dark streaks along slopes and gullies in the Martian landscape that appeared in the spring, grew in the summer, and disappeared when fall arrived. McEwan and Ojha published a study about these recurring slope lineae sites in 2011, and it caused quite a stir in the planetary science community.
The RSL had “all the trappings of a [water] flow feature,” Michael Meyer, the lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program and one of the scientists who participated in the September 2015 announcement, told Inverse recently. “But it wasn’t obvious that it was water.”
By the way, here’s what an ancient Mars teeming with water might have looked like. It looks a little like Earth:
McEwen and Ojha would publish a paper in 2011 detailing their findings and their suspicions that “water play some role,” McEwen tells Inverse, “but exactly what role was not clear then.”
As more data started coming in, one huge mystery began to get bigger and bigger: if the RSL was caused by water, what was the source? “If this was water,” says Meyer, then where is it coming from? The RSL weren’t forming in a site that would obviously be hosting some kind of aquifer.
Ojha and McEwen would continue their research, documenting more RSL sites in other locations, and seeing how they are affected by temperature and topographic features.
What they ended up publishing last was a study about the “detection of hydrated salts at some of the RSL sites,” says McEwen. This is important: “This was not a detection of liquid water,” he emphasizes, “but supports the idea that water plays some role in this activity.”
Meyer explains that hydrated minerals are a signature of hydrogen, which essentially equates to water. So while water itself isn’t directly imaged, we now have a definitive explanation for what is causing the RSL to appear and disappear: liquid water.
There are still questions about exactly where the water is coming from the detection of hydrated salts simply offers an explanation for why we’re seeing such an unusual flow behavior. The findings also mean the water is pretty briny. “It has to have a lot of salt in it to be able to flow at these low temperatures,” says Meyer.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this photo of dark, narrow streaks that are inferred to be formed by seasonal flow of water. These dark features on the slopes are called "recurring slope lineae" or RSL.
“Nevertheless, water is available on Mars at that latitude,” he says.
There are two big reasons why liquid water on Mars is such a big deal. The first is that, in the world of astrobiology, water is essential for the rise and evolution of life as we know it. We know Mars was once teeming with lakes and oceans, which means there might have been life on the planet. The presence of liquid water on the surface of the planet means life might exist. Mars is hellish, but so are some habitats on Earth, and life has managed to find a way to survive in these areas. It’s not hard to imagine Martian lifeforms evolving the ability to survive extremely salty waters.
The other reason has to do with us humans: When we finally travel to the red planet and colonize it — which will likely happen one way or another — water will be essential. And it’s not really feasible for us to ship it all the way from Earth.
Mars looks a little like Arizona here in this shot captured by the Mars Exploration Rover.
For a while, the best hopes for humans to collect water on Mars will be either miraculously stumbling on a subsurface ocean, or melting down mined chunks of ice from the poles. Either scenario (but especially the latter) will be very energy-intensive and dangerous.
The liquid water as outlined by the new discovery is not the most practical to use. The RSL sites are located in very isolated and rough terrain (the slopes are 40 degrees steep); the water that’s there is transient, and kind of shallow; and again, it’s very briny.
And yet, according to Meyer: “If you need water as a resource on Mars, [the RSL sites] hold promise. And if we pinpoint the source of the RSL sites, we may have access to a liquid aquifer that can meet our needs.”
Putting aside logistical issues with accessing the RSL sites for water, the discovery also created a shift in how we think about life on Mars. “Now, you suspect there is water accessible on Mars,” says Meyer. Water is there in some form. It now changes how you think about Mars in terms of resources for life available on the surface.
“Mars looks like a little bit of a better place to send humans than we thought before,” says Meyer.
Concept for NASA Design Reference Mission Architecture 5.0
This is critical for maintaining a sustainable human colony. For example, we’ll need to create farms to grow our own crops. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled on Tuesday his company’s plans to send humans to Mars, and made a bold claim: We can grow plants on Mars just by compressing the atmosphere.
So situating ourselves close to the RSL sites might be very useful and will allow us to collect amounts of water that are actually practical to use. Meyer explains that NASA’s review of potential landing sites for its own Mars mission plans is already taking into account predictions of where water might be found in greater concentrations.
Still, the discovery is not really the game-changer it was initially reported to be. “I was glad to be a co-author,” says McEwen, “but I found the media hype a tad embarrassing. This was an important incremental result, but not necessarily as groundbreaking as NASA officials and news media reported it.”
And as Meyer emphasizes, “the source of the water is still a mystery. But it’s a great problem. We’re headed in the right direction. We have a lot to learn about an alien planet, and that’s okay — it’s why we’re so eager to head over there.”
Photos via NASA, ASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona via Getty Images, Getty Images / NASA
Artist's rendering of Lockheed Martin's SR-72 concept vehicle, which the company says could potentially fly six times faster than the speed of sound.
Credit: Lockheed Martin Corp.
IN BRIEF
During a forum on the future of aeronautics representatives from NASA described the inevitability of passenger planes able to travel at speeds around 4,800 km/h (3,000 mph).
Hypersonic aircraft not only allows for faster passenger travel but can also lead to faster response to global tragedy.
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FASTEST TECH
The future of hyper-fast flight could be taking off very soon.
At an aeronautics forum held last month, great minds form global tech leaders spoke on the future of flight and aircraft. The forum welcomed speakers from NASA, Mojave Air and Space Port, and members of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Can you imagine travelling to any point in the world in just a few hours or less? Going faster than the speed of sound is the new frontier in aviation since travel times seem to have stagnated within the past 30 years. Director of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, David McBride, stated that technology for both supersonic (faster than the speed of sound) and hypersonic (five or more times faster than the speed of sound) passenger planes is well within our grasp.
“It is inevitable that hypersonic technologies are going to happen,” said Curtis Bedke, former U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen.
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A recent development in getting hypersonic aircraft out in the public comes from the US-Australian military research project called Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE). Their engine-rocket booster system has been going through testing with the help of Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The system reached an altitude of 278 kilometers (172 miles) at a speed 7.5 times faster than the speed of sound.
GOING BEYOND
“What’s exciting about aerospace today is that we are in a point here where suddenly, things are happening all across the board in areas that just haven’t been happening for quite a while,” said former U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Curtis Bedke.
Tech is growing fast. Super-fast flight systems, as well as rapid land travel systems, used to seem like concepts drawn completely from science fiction. But technological innovations are making many former impossibilities possible. The time of super-long flights seems to be making way for the era of hyper-fast travel. Besides leisurely travel, hypersonic planes could improve disaster response and relief during medical emergencies.
The Space Debris Problem: Dual Impact in Myanmar Shows What’s to Come
The Space Debris Problem: Dual Impact in Myanmar Shows What’s to Come
Hpakant is the centre of Myanmar's murky multi-billion dollar jade industry, which feeds a voracious demand for the stone in neighbouring China (AFP Photo/Ye Aung Thu)
NASA estimates there are more than 500,000 pieces of debris currently floating at speeds of up to 28,162 km/h (17,500 mph) around the Earth.
Two pieces of space debris crashed in Myanmar last Thursday that are likely either parts from an aircraft, a missile, a fallen satellite, or Tiangong-1.
DUAL IMPACT
A mining facility in northern Myanmar became the crash site of a huge piece of space debris last Thursday. As the impact occurred, a smaller piece of debris with Chinese markings on it simultaneously destroyed the roof of a house in a nearby village. Fortunately, no one was injured in either incident.
The larger object is barrel-shaped and measures about 4.5 meters (15 ft) long, with a diameter barely over a meter. “The metal objects are assumed to be part of a satellite or the engine parts of a plane or missile,” a local news report said. The Chinese government is neither confirming nor denying whether both pieces of space junk came from the same object.
Global New Light, Myanmar
While there may be not confirmation yet, it’s worth noting that just last month the Chinese Tiangong-1 spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere. It’s possible that these debris may be part of it.
This incident points to the ever growing problem of space junk and debris surrounding our planet. NASA estimates there are more than 500,000 pieces of debris currently floating at speeds of up to 28,162 km/h (17,500 mph) around the Earth.
DANGEROUS DEBRIS
Space junk accumulation is a product of humanity’s space exploration projects. These debris come mostly from old, decommissioned satellites or discarded parts of shuttles. Because they move quickly, they present dangers to the International Space Station and other working satellites, as well as space shuttles or other human transport space vehicles.
These could also crash into the Earth without warning, like what happened in Myanmar.
Fortunately, efforts are in the works to deal with our space junk problem, such as using lasers or dust clouds. One group from Switzerland even proposed sending a satellite equipped with a special type of net to collect space debris. While these efforts are commendable, a more comprehensive solution to the issue is needed – one where each country that’s contributed to space junk allots resources to cleaning it up.
If we want to send humans to Mars or to make (near-)space tourism possible, we have to make sure space rockets are safe from potentially destructive space junk in our orbit.
THE WELL-PUBLICISED Kecksburg, Pennsylvania UFO crash of 1965 has been touted as "Pennsylvania's Roswell" and presented as a crash recovery story that has been shrouded in a veil of mystery and governmental conspiracy which is intended to keep the truth of the incident from the American people.
But, Lackawanna County's city of Carbondale, Pennsylvania is also the location of a "downed saucer incident" that has caught the imagination and interests of ufologists and conspiracy enthusiasts throughout the nation. 9-11 November 2004 marked the 30th anniversary of Pennsylvania's other Roswell incident. - the legendary Carbondale UFO crash or perhaps, I should call it "The Carbondale UFO Capers".
As one of the three primary UFO investigators of the Carbondale saucer crash, I feel that it is time for me to present my recollections and reflections on this occurrence, as well as some thoughts on how and why the legend of the ill-fated Carbondale UFO has become a gleaming facet of contemporary ufological folklore. So, let me start my story at the beginning.
I was working quite late on the night of 10 November 1974 (on a design project) and had sketches and blueprints scattered about on the dining room table and floor. It was a little after midnight, (actually 11 November) and I had been listening to a local radio talk show when the programme's host suddenly announced that his programme director had just handed him a note about an unidentified flying object which had apparently crashed at Carbondale, Pennsylvania.
Since I had appeared on WWDB's Bernie Herman show several times discussing the UFO phenomenon, I phoned the station without hesitation and asked if the matter was legitimate or simply a prank. Both the show's host and his engineer assured me that the report was indeed "authentic" for they had just taken it directly from an Associated Press release.
I then contacted the Carbondale police department about the situation and spoke to a desk officer who told me that an airborne object had been observed by a group of five teens (but only three of the youngsters actually participated in our inquiry of the sighting), and that the UFO apparently plummeted into a pond and sank.
The youngsters agreed that a fiery object had fallen to earth in a shower of sparks and splashed down into a large coal breaker pit or 'silt pond', as it was called by locals.
The police had cordoned off the area in an attempt to keep curiosity seekers from possibly getting injured at the site, as two areas of the bank of the pond were rather steep and slippery. The acting police chief, Sgt Francis X. Dottle, confided that he didn't know what the object in the water was, but that he and a couple of his men had observed it glowing while submerged on the night of 9 November - and that it remained aglow until the wee morning hours of 10 November (i.e. for a period of about six to eight hours.
As I later learned, the teens who observed the phenomenon saw a fiery object streak across the sky, "Coming over Salem Mountain" in the direction of Russell Park. According to the boys, they ran into the park from their street corner location where they were just hanging around on a "nothing else to do" Saturday night and discovered a strange light glowing in the pond about twenty feet. from shore.
The boys had run about two blocks to the pond and didn't actually see or hear the object hit the water. There was a faint "fizz" or sizzling sound heard, however, and one of the lads said that "it sounded like someone had thrown a cigarette in the water."
So, too, one boy thought the pond had an odour "like gas from a gas stove", while another boy said that "the pond just smelled like it usually does". The mysterious airborne object was described as being bright whitish-yellow in colour with a trail of reddish sparks. It was estimated to appear about as large as a five cent piece (a nickel) held at arm's length.
But one of the boys would later say that it was about "three times the size of a basketball". No sounds were noted by the teens as the object appeared to fall towards the earth, and they didn't see a trail of smoke coming from it either.
One boy said, "It looked like a shooting star". However, later versions of the story credit the boys with saying the object whistled as it sped earthward.
The boys left the pond to report the submerged light to the police about 7:00 p.m. and when they returned to the pond (around 15 minutes later) they thought that the light had taken up another position in the water, although no one actually saw the light moving at that time. The light was described as being yellow-orange in colour by two of the boys, while the third witness described it as "yellowish, almost white".
The light on the water's surface appeared as an irregular disc about 5 feet in diameter. While several UFO researchers would later describe it as being an irregular shaped glow at 20 feet in diameter, I performed a very simple experiment with a flashlight in a darkened room and discovered that the central portion of the light's beam appeared to be about five feet in diameter (when directed at the ceiling) and its outer, fainter, and more widely dispersed light beam was about 4 times larger.
This may account for the discrepancy in the estimates concerning the diameter of the glow on the pond's surface - or perhaps, the later researchers may have misinterpreted the boys' statements regarding the "position" of the light from shore, which was initially reported to be about twenty feet.
I asked the officer on the phone if the object might have been a small private plane, fearing that someone may have been trapped in an air-pocket within the fuselage's wreckage. He said that the reports indicated that the object's tremendous speed and the lack of floating debris on the water seemed to deny that possibility.
I then asked if the object could have been some sort of "space junk" and informed him that there were military tracking installations such as NORAD that should be contacted in regard to the situation.
My primary concern was that if the object were some part of an American or Soviet spacecraft or satellite which hadn't completely burned up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, there may have been a possibility that some portion of its electrical system was still being powered by the "snap units" (or nuclear batteries) that were used to power various on-board instrumentation and guidance systems.
This seemed to be highly improbable, but, then again, there was that strange light beneath the pond's surface, a light which appeared to pulsate with diminishing intensity and at one point suddenly rushed towards a small boat which police had launched to further investigate the matter.
But, unknown to me at that time, Sgt Dottle (the Acting Police Chief) had already been in contact with Dr J. Allen Hynek's Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois about the situation. Dr Hynek advised Sgt Dottle that a meteor or a meteor fragment could not be the source of the light in the pond because burning meteors are immediately extinguished when they strike bodies of water. Sgt Dottle was further advised to obtain a Geiger counter to see if any radioactivity was present at the crash site, perhaps as a result of a faulty spacecraft or satellite re-entry.
Obviously, Dr. Hynek also feared that a snap unit had survived the re-entry and may have been leaking its contents into the pond.
Upon hanging up the phone, I awoke my wife, Grace, kissed her and our sleeping children goodbye, and started the early morning trek along the north-eastern extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike toward Carbondale.
As I drove through the Lehigh Valley I was still listening to radio news reports concerning the incident - and while some of the accounts seemed to be a bit sketchy, there were relatives of Carbondale residents phoning the radio station with additional information and some obvious rumours too.
As the events of the Carbondale saucer crash unfolded, the rumours would include suspicions that a Soviet missile was in the pond, that only a portion of a Soviet missile was in the pond, while still another section had crashed into Elk Lake about 25 miles north-west of Carbondale.
There was also a rumour that an alien space ship had landed - not crashed - in the silt pond and that the military had managed to recover whatever was in the water and spirit it away before anyone had an opportunity to see it (i.e., the story was beginning to take on characteristics of the earlier Kecksburg, Aztec and Roswell UFO crash reports). In one rumour scenario, the UFO was loaded upon a flatbed railcar that was brought to the site on a nearby (albeit, long abandoned) railroad spur - and in another account, two military helicopters were used to lift the object from the water and place it in an armoured truck.
Curiously, I too became linked to a rather ridiculous rumour which placed me at the scene as a government agent or high ranking Air Force officer disguised as a UFO field investigator.
But the truth was that I was just a guy who had an interest in the UFO phenomenon and had been investigating sighting reports for about two years prior to the incident. I had been in the US Army 12 years earlier, as a specialist Fourth Class (i.e. not quite the equivalent of a corporal) in the infantry.
I founded UFORIC, the Philadelphia-based UFO Report and Information Center, in 1972 and served as its director until 1980. I also swept the office floor and emptied the waste paper basket. I was simply a student of the phenomenon, not a self-proclaimed expert, and I went to Carbondale because the reported incident interested me. UFORIC was a very small research organisation, consisting of only five volunteer investigators.
Many of our reports were passed on to us by technicians at the Philadelphia Franklin Institute's Fels Planetarium, several police departments, both commercial and military air facilities and two local newspapers - while direct calls from the public were also received and routinely investigated.
As I entered the community of Carbondale, about 4:30 - 5:00 a.m. on the morning of 11 November, I asked directions to the police station and briefly conferred with detective sergeant Dottle. He informed me that Dr Hynek was dispatching a UFO field investigator from New York State to assist the police in their efforts to identify and possibly recover the object in the pond.
Sgt Dottle then asked if I would assist him until Dr Hynek's representative arrived and I agreed to do so. I was then taken to the crash site which was cordoned off by two Carbondale police officers and a group of youngsters who were members of the Civil Air Patrol (i.e., aeronautical boy scouts).
There were not any armed troops or technical military contingents of any kind present. But I did briefly speak to an Air Force officer (a major or lieutenant-colonel) at the pond much later in the day. I believe that he was involved with the Civil Air Patrol's community service related activities at the scene.
I think that the officer's name tag read "Merriman". (?) Anyway, several volunteer fire companies from neighbouring communities were summoned and they assisted in the recovery efforts by pumping thousands of gallons of water from the pond as Sgt Dottle, Dr Hynek's investigator, Mr Dains, Mr Barry of the 20th Century UFO Bureau and I felt that this was a far safer method of obtaining a look at the submerged object than permitting a scuba diver to enter the water.
By first light, several press people and scores of the general public were permitted to visit the site, as various attempts to locate the object were made and radiological surveys were performed. As the morning wore on, the news media people were clamouring for a conclusion to the drama as news story deadlines were rapidly approaching and the crowds which were estimated at between 1500 to 3000 people were becoming larger and larger.
I later learned that perhaps as many as 10,000 people had jammed the roads leading into the city in an attempt to see what was going on. Chief Dottle even had neighbouring community police departments assist with the control of the increased traffic into the area.
It looked just like a scene from a science fiction movie and fears grew that emergency vehicles could not have got through if they were needed. To make matters worse, although we hadn't a ghost of an idea of what was actually in the water, rumours were spreading like a brush-fire and a few very vocal UFO enthusiasts who were milling about at the site were questioning the effectiveness of the police, fire companies and UFO researchers' retrieval efforts.
Sgt Dottle began to fear that some minor incident involving the control of the crowds might spark a riot (or a panic) that his small police force couldn't possibly handle. Sgt Dottle found himself caught in the rather unenviable position of being damned if he did and damned, still, if he didn't do what everyone expected of him.
He wanted to ensure the safety of the public, his men and the volunteers at the pond, while the media and the saucer buffs in the crowd were chomping at the bit for a quick and spectacular climax to the story. The pressure and anticipation were building with each passing hour, and while Mr Dains and I shared Chief Dottle's concerns about safety, we were also concerned that the mysterious object in the water be spared from loss or damage by our recovery efforts.
Of course, not everyone was on the same page (i.e. thinking about safety and the preservation of evidence). I distinctly recall one persistent and annoying fellow asking me why we hadn't used more fire companies to do the pumping. When I replied that we didn't think it necessary (or prudent) to leave the surrounding communities without adequate fire protection, he grew visibly agitated and said "Well, you should be digging for that damned flying saucer now that the water level is down a bit!"
Somehow, I knew that no matter how far we dug, if we still hadn't found anything, this guy would be saying, "Just two more feet and a bit to the left!"
In fact, Sgt Dottle had requested the use of a large crane fitted with a massive magnet (i.e., the type used at auto salvage yards) since the pumping operations which commenced a little before noon hadn't been very successful, and were taking far longer than anticipated to complete.
Silt, mud and assorted bits of trash in the pond were clogging the pumping lines and we even had concerns that the huge magnet might crush whatever was in the water so we opted to use a backhoe to help lower the water level of the pond by digging a drainage ditch from it.
This too, was time consuming and there were concerns that the pond might empty too quickly causing a deluge of polluted (and possibly radioactive) water to engulf the area. It seemed that we would have to send in a diver to take a quick look-see at the object. The diver, Mr Mark Stamey, age 26, was also a volunteer from New York State. He drove to the crash scene with a friend after hearing about the UFO incident on a car radio. He told me that he felt that all the publicity about his assistance with the sunken UFO would be a real boost for his fledgling diving business.
Stamey also asked me to write him a note informing his state parole officer that I had requested he cross state lines to assist in the recovery operations.
I told Stamey that I hadn't the authority to do that and suggested he speak to Mr Dains or Chief Dottle about his dilemma. I later observed Stamey preparing his diving equipment and assumed that the question of his parole status had been straightened out. So, after briefing him on the scant information we had gathered and conveying our concerns that the object might still be electrified and/or radioactive, the diver slipped into his wet suit and prepared to enter the silt pond.
The UFO researchers were being interviewed by the press and a TV station's helicopter circled the pond churning up the water. Although we still hadn't any solid information on what the object in the water might be, Dr Hynek's representative and I were starting to suspect that the incident might be a prank that the teens had perpetrated on a nothing else to do Saturday night whim.
We thought that perhaps their hoax simply got out of control and took on a life of its own - and that the boys may have been too scared to fess up to what they had done. Of course, it may have been that the boys had witnessed a meteor or a bolide (a large and occasionally exploding meteor) streaking across the night sky and mistakenly assumed that it was the same luminous object that they discovered moments later in the pond. This seemed to be a reasonable notion, as the boys' description of the aerial phenomenon they had observed was absolutely meteoric in character.
In fact, I had very similar reports on file at the UFO report and information centre, reports that were later verified by technicians at the Fels Planetarium. One report stated, "About twenty stories overhead, a white fiery object with a red light on the underside about centre -flying east to west - it had sparks on the sides and coming from the rear section." The sighting duration was 15 seconds. (Mr Sanford Epstein, Levittown, Pennsylvania, 14 June 1974 - 9:15 p.m. EST).
Moreover, while attempting to discover who had perpetrated the hoax (if one had been committed?) was one of the field investigator's tasks, it was quite naturally, primarily a police matter as a great deal of the authority’s time and resources were expended during the 44 hour UFO drama.
The UFO researchers’ interests and responsibilities were to identify the object (if possible) and to preserve any evidence found from damage or loss (if possible). They would also gather eyewitness testimony on the incident to be used in later evaluation and analysis of the matter and in determining the veracity of the witnesses.
But in the Carbondale case, the researchers were also presented with the opportunity and distinct privilege of working with the community's authorities towards a safe and successful resolution of the incident. Unlike other "downed UFO incidents" where UFO investigators and civilian volunteers were reportedly turned away from the area by the military and police officials, such was definitely not the case at Carbondale.
According to the boys, John Lloyd, 14, William Lloyd, 16, and Robert Gillette, 15, the object that they observed coursing through the evening sky was a relatively ill-defined flaming mass with a shower of sparks trailing it as it rapidly travelled on an east to west course. Report sketches provided by the Lloyd brothers show an oval object with the descriptive words "red, yellow and white" printed under the drawing.
But an earlier drawing by Bobby Gillette looks something like a lens seen on its edge - Gillette's object also has a red dot in its centre. The teenage trio did not hear any sounds coming from the object as it descended, according to their first oral and written accounts - nor did the boys actually see it plummet into the pond. But one of the lads would later say that he saw cinders falling from it.
My inspection of the alleged crash site revealed that there were no topographical indicators to suggest that something like a plane, a large piece of space junk or a meteor had impacted the pond or the area surrounding it.
There wasn't any obvious displacement of earth; there was no displacement of water from the pond; there were no indicators of a fire, downed tree limbs or skid marks creating a gouge in the soil like the one which is said to have been evident at the J.B. Foster ranch near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
Interestingly, the details of the Roswell UFO story were not very well known by the general public or the press corps at the time of the Carbondale incident, but the reported UFO crash at Kecksburg in the western part of Pennsylvania had occurred nine years earlier and had received some attention by the press. But Carbondale's UFO (as a structural configuration) was not observed on the ground or while it was in the water. No one knew if it was a disc, a sphere like Sputnik or a cylindrical craft of some kind. There was just the glowing 5 foot circle of light on the water which the boys said had sizzled or softy hissed for several seconds.
Interestingly, while the police were poking around (in search of the submerged object) with a long pole that was fitted with a fish net, the disc of light suddenly charged their boat and one officer instinctively drew his revolver and fired at it!
In the pandemonium of the harrowing moment, the officer lost his balance and fell out of the boat into the silt pond which was said to have had a bottom like quicksand! I was unable to confirm this story with police officials at Carbondale back in 1974, but a deputy sheriff from the neighbouring community of Honesdale, Pennsylvania later told Ohio MUFON's chief researcher, Mr Larry Moyers, that Officer Joseph Jacobina (or Jacobino) had fired six shots at the on-rushing light.
Reportedly, patrolman Mark Trella (or Eltrilla) thought that he had snagged the object in the fish net at one point while in the boat,but it seemed to be quite heavy and slipped away. It was thought that the attempt had up-ended the object and the light was either facing down into the silt or else, it went out entirely.
When the pole was retracted from the water, it was noticed that the fish net on the end of it was slightly torn. But, the effort was not completely in vain as it was also noted that the 5 foot in diameter disk of light on the water's surface appeared to emanate from a much smaller point of light at the bottom of the pond.
In other words, the officers had observed an apparent cone-of-light in the water.
When Mr Dains took water samples from the pond, I was surprised to see that the water was basically clear and one could see for about a depth of 3 to 4 feet into it. I observed a discarded auto tyre, bits of trash and a sunken vehicle's roof and hood areas.
Of course, looking at the daylight reflecting off the water's surface made the water appear to be more opaque, and at certain angles the pond's silt floor appeared to give the water a brownish-grey cast. The water was indeed polluted, but it wasn't very discoloured.
Naturally, when the pond's silt and muddy bottom were disturbed the water did become very cloudy and murky-looking. The pond was an abandoned coal cleaning breaker pit that had managed to fill up with rain water over the years. Mr Dains and I also walked around the pond with instruments to detect magnetic disturbances; none were noted.
This cone-of-light seemed to be consistent with Sgt Dottle's early suspicions that the object was probably a flashlight. Moreover, Officer Trella's remarks that the object seemed to be too heavy to be a flashlight were based on the difficulty that he experienced while attempting to lift the object in the net on the end of a 10 foot long pole.
In fact, he may have even been struggling with other debris, mud and silt on the pond's bottom at the time (?). Anyway, it seems that the light in the water was visible for a period of six to eight hours - depending upon one's acceptance of the boys' reported discovery time or the initial observation of it by the Carbondale police. (i.e. from 7:00-9:00 p.m. on the night of 9 November to approximately 3:00-3:30 a.m. on the morning of the 10th).
It is entirely possible that when officer Trella attempted to retrieve the object in the net and he thought it had slipped away, he may have caused the lantern to fall into another location on the bottom of the pond.
Or he may have merely nudged the lantern which then resettled itself in the silt, thereby creating the illusion that it was rushing towards the boat. Additionally, any fisherman can tell you that lifting things on the end of a pole is strenuous, and that the object being lifted is perceived to be heavier and larger than it really is.
The Carbondale silt pond linked to a 1974 UFO story. (Kyle Wind/The Times-Tribune photo).
By Kyle Wind, The Times-Tribune
CARBONDALE (AP) — David Morris wants to believe.
The Greenfield Twp. resident was only 6 years old on Nov. 9, 1974, when then-14-year-old Robert Gillette Jr. and two friends reported to police they saw a red, whirring ball fly over Salem Mountain and followed it to a silt pond in Carbondale.
At age 48, he still is intrigued by the local legend.
Morris was one of dozens of people who took a county transit system trolley from Carbondale Grand Hotel to the old mine pond on Saturday to satisfy their curiosity — part of a hotel-hosted event commemorating an incident that became international news at the time.
"I was curious to see if it was physically possible for something like that to have taken place," Morris said. "I think it was definitely physically possible."
The "Carbondale UFO" drew police, military, UFO enthusiasts and spectators from all over the country in 1974. A green-tinged glow illuminated the pond for nine hours; after two days, a diver emerged from the murky waters with only an old railroad lantern.
Kay Pope, who was 15 at the time and is now 58, remembers riding her bicycle to the Russell Park area and seeing it cordoned off by the military. She also saw what appeared to be something large being removed from the area.
"We always rode our bikes up there," said Pope, who now lives in Blakely. "(I saw) a big flatbed truck on the road with something huge on it that was covered, and there were a lot of people in (military) uniforms."
Gillette told The Times-Tribune in 1999 that he threw the battery-powered, sealed-beam lantern into the water to scare his sister — but the legend has since lived on.
After seeing the pond and talking with locals who were around at the time, Morris didn't buy the story that a lantern was behind it all. He was disappointed Gillette did not speak at the event because he wanted to clarify some of the details.
"Why would you call in the people that were called in and heavy machinery to take a lantern out of a pond?" he wondered. "It just doesn't make any sense. I think something definitely happened there."
Now 56 years old, Gillette was hanging around the hotel during Saturday's "alien landing anniversary and celebration" and now claims what he told the newspaper 17 years ago wasn't true.
"My girlfriend broke up with me, so I was in a bad mood," he said. "I just told them what they wanted to hear, that it was a lantern. It wasn't a lantern. Something was pulled out of the pond."
Saturday's event included speakers from the Mutual UFO Network and others with expertise on the topic.
Bill Weber, the network's chief investigator for Pennsylvania and Delaware, said in an interview that he doesn't have extensive knowledge about the Carbondale incident, and based on what he knew, "I think the jury is still out."
"I hear reports of lights in the sky, maneuvers in the sky, unknown objects, triangles in the sky," Weber said. "In Pennsylvania, we average about 25 to 35 cases a month. We have means of testing the credibility. ... We take the report, we establish contact with the witness or witnesses and we do our own investigation, internet searches, FAA requests, local police, state police requests. We try to get to the bottom of it."
In 85 percent of the cases, investigators are able to explain what people saw, he estimated. The other 15 percent of the time, they are not.
For his part, Gillette did not think aliens were responsible for what he saw, but perhaps a Soviet satellite.
"I don't think it was aliens. Some people do," the city resident said. "I never called it a UFO. The official people did."
Richard Suraci, a marketing and sales official for Carbondale Grand Hotel, envisions the festivities becoming an annual event to celebrate an interesting piece of the city's history.
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The Zoo Hypothesis: Are aliens avoiding Earth?
The Zoo Hypothesis: Are aliens avoiding Earth?
Where is everybody?
JOSH HRALA
In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi asked a very important question over lunch at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Based on the number of galaxies we know exist, how many stars are inside those galaxies, and how many planets potentially orbit those stars, probability states that there should be alien life.
So, where is everybody?
This question - known as the Fermi Paradox - raised a lot of eyebrows, because it’s a logical thought when considering just how vast our Universe is. While there are many different hypotheses out there that attempt to concoct an answer, one of the best and most thought-provoking is the zoo hypothesis.
The zoo hypothesis was thought up in 1973 by MIT radio astronomer John Ball. He posited that, yes, there might well be intelligent aliens out there, but maybe they are simply ignoring us, forcing us to live in a cosmic 'zoo' or wildlife sanctuary where they can monitor our activity without disturbing it.
In other words, the hypothesis assud over the last 100 years alone sheds a bit of light on how much further along a civilisation that has lasted 100 million years longer than us might be.mes that alien life is out there, but it's so advanced, it either does not want to influence our primitive society, or it knows not to get involved with other intelligent lifeforms.
This makes sense when you consider that life might have evolved and progressed at a much quicker pace on other planets in our galaxy.
The rate at which humanity has progresse
"An OC [other civilisation] that is, say, a century younger than we are might not be able to communicate over interstellar distances; a century ago we couldn't," Ball explains.
"And an OC a millennium older than we are would probably be using a technology for interstellar communications, such as modulated gamma rays, that we humans haven't yet learned how to do."
If correct - and it’s important to note that this is all extremely hypothetical - there might be a civilisation out there that is so much more advanced than ours on Earth, we would be worth nothing to them.
Ball explains this by comparing how we feel about non-intelligent creatures here on Earth.
"An argument based on relative time scales suggests that the appropriate PEL [primitive Earth life] is an animal such as those in our Ordovician geological epoch, namely mollusks and trilobites.
Now I can imagine talking with mammals and birds; indeed I've done it, although the conversation was on a pretty low intellectual level. But oysters?"
This notion also harkens back to statements from famed physicist Stephen Hawking who thinks we shouldn’t broadcast ourselves out into the Universe just in case an advanced - and unfriendly - civilisation might be lurking in the shadows, looking for some primitive life ripe for conquering.
Ball also notes that there are other hypotheses surrounding the Fermi Paradox too, with some being far more popular than others. One of the most popular is that alien life does exist, but is very primitive, or maybe it's already come and gone?
The fact of the matter here is that no one really knows. The only way any of these hypotheses can be proven is with scientific evidence, and we're working on it.
So, where is everyone? At this stage, your guess is as good as any.
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David Icke komt naar Nederland om de mensen wakker te schudden
David Icke komt naar Nederland om de mensen wakker te schudden
De wereldberoemde Britse complottheoreticus David Icke brengt zaterdag 19 november een bezoek aan Amsterdam.
Icke reist al maandenlang van het ene naar het andere land, waar hij lezingen houdt voor uitverkochte zalen. Met zijn zogeheten World Wide Wake Up Tour wil hij het volk wakker schudden.
Hij is al meer dan 25 jaar bezig met het ontrafelen van wie er de macht over de samenleving heeft.
Icke’s speerpunten zijn de Orwelliaanse agenda voor de mensheid, wie er werkelijk achter het terrorisme zitten, de media en desinformatie, de Nieuwe Wereldorde, Saturnus en de maan, transhumanisme, de Derde Wereldoorlog en Reptilians.
Illuminati
Op zijn eigen gedreven manier neemt Icke het publiek mee door de wereld achter alles.
De 64-jarige Icke is voormalig proefvoetballer, sportverslaggever bij de BBC en nationaal woordvoerder van de British Green Party.
Sinds 1990 doet hij ‘fulltime onderzoek naar wat en wie de wereld werkelijk beheersen’.
De Green Party nam in 1991 afstand van hem in de politiek, toen hij zichzelf de zoon van God noemde. Icke zei zelf dat hij ieder mens als een ‘kind van God’ beschouwt.
Later beweerde hij dat de wereld in werkelijkheid geregeerd wordt door de Illuminati, een soort elite aan de macht. Hij bracht hen in verband met bijna iedere tot dan toe bekende complottheorie.
Reptilians
Hij publiceerde het boek ‘The Biggest Secret’ waarin hij beweerde dat een aantal machtige leiders in de wereld zouden afstammen van de zogenaamde Reptilians, een bepaald ras van buitenaardse wezens.
Als voorbeelden van afstammelingen van deze aliens werden onder andere door hem genoemd: George W. Bush en zijn vader George H.W. Bush, Elizabeth II, Beatrix, Bill en Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger, Winston Churchill, Al Gore en Tony Blair.
9/11
In zijn boek ‘Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster’ tracht hij aan te tonen dat de 9/11-aanslag het werk is van binnenuit de Amerikaanse regering en overheidsinstanties, een zogeheten ‘inside job’.
Deze theorieën zijn ook onderzocht door onder andere de Amerikaanse professoren Griffin en Jones.
Jones draagt argumenten aan die aan zouden tonen dat de Twin Towers en WTC7 door explosieven (thermiet) tot instorting zijn gebracht.
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Icke wordt door critici beschuldigd van antisemitisme omdat hij de antisemitische Protocollen van de Wijzen van Zion in verbrand bracht met zijn complottheorieën.
Zelf dicht hij de Joden geen bijzondere plaats toe in zijn wereldcomplot.
Zaterdag komt in Nederland ook zijn nieuwe boek Het fantoomzelf uit, over de schaduwwereld om ons heen, die gedomineerd wordt door toezicht, controle en onderdrukking.
A hovering disc-shaped object was reportedly spotted just 50 feet off the ground. A mother and son were at the Walmart on Houghton and Old Vail Road on September 26, 2016, at 10:37 p.m. when the son first noticed the UFO. The husband filed the report to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which then filed as Case 80260 in the witness reporting database.
The husband emphasized in his report that his wife and son are devout Catholics and truthful individuals.
According to the report, the son was about to enter the vehicle when he just happened to look up at the altitude of aircraft when he noticed the strange hovering object. The son then called the attention of his mother to look in the same direction above.
The wife and son then left Walmart, traveled in Valencia and Old Vail Road and headed towards Kolb. To their surprise, the object reportedly appeared above a gas station on the northwest side of the intersection. They were both in shock to see the strange object that seemed not being noticed by others driving along the area.
They then turned left at the light, turned again into S. Kolb Road and then pulled over. They still saw the large object in front of them that lowered to within 40- 50 feet in altitude. They stated that it had strobing white lights in a row pattern. Two rows of lights – upper and lower – were pulsating at the same time.
The object then reportedly started moving. It inverted in a 45-degree angle and flew to the right side of the road, towards Wilmot Road in Valencia then disappeared below the tree line.
The report was filed on November 6, 2016, but no images or videos were included.
Truth About Alien UFOs May Stay Buried As Hillary Clinton Fails To Win the Election
Truth About Alien UFOs May Stay Buried As Hillary Clinton Fails To Win the Election
UFO enthusiasts, who look for the truth about aliens, are mourning the result of the U.S. presidential election as Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump. Hillary has been saying in several interviews during the campaign that she’ll open up classified UFO files if she becomes the next president.
The so-called alien disclosure community closely followed Hillary and her campaign manager John Podesta’s pledge to release any top-secret government files about UFOs and aliens.
With Donald Trump declared as the winner in the recently concluded election, UFO enthusiasts’ hopes of UFO disclosure have been dashed.
However, Steve Bassett, founder of Paradigm Research Group, is still hoping that Hillary Clinton and Podesta can influence incumbent President Barack Obama to make the files public and reveal the truth before leaving the office in January.
The PRG believes that there is still enough time for Secretary Clinton, John Podesta, and President Barack Obama for alien disclosure through engaging the media at the soonest time.
In January 2016, Mrs. Clinton said she was also interested in knowing the entire activities in the mysterious Area 51 military facility in Nevada. UFO conspiracy theorists believe Area 51 is the secret place that housed aliens and their advanced technology.
Fleet of Seven UFOs Seen and Filmed Following Each Other In The Skies Above Lake Michigan
Fleet of Seven UFOs Seen and Filmed Following Each Other In The Skies Above Lake Michigan
UFO researchers believe a fleet of extraterrestrial spacecraft has been seen hovering in formation. A video has surfaced showing seven glowing UFOs flying over Lake Michigan, U.S.
The clip was reportedly recorded on November 6. At one point, it shows the lead object increases speed and moves faster than the rest of the fleet.
The video has since been pickup by several UFO followers who said that it was incredible to see UFOs following each other.
Several skeptical viewers claimed the lights were only Chinese lanterns but believers argued this wasn’t possible for three reasons.
First, the UFOs weren’t red, which is the color of most Chinese lanterns. Second, even if they were unique white lanterns, the fire below should still be red and observers did not see it red. Third, the front UFO was moving way faster than the wind.
Some UFO observers are confident in this sighting to be a proof of alien visitation on Earth. They said it was great that someone recorded it on video for the people to see.
Another explanation from the comments in the video is that the UFOs are airplanes over Lake Michigan lining up before they land at O’Hare airport. These planes move very slowly and may appear to behovering at the right angle.
The parallel universe from Stranger Things could be real, the US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz has surmised.
Hit Netflix show Stranger Things features a nightmarish parallel world called the Upside-Down.
Appearing on US TV’s Chelsea talk show, Moniz was asked by host Chelsea Handler if the US government operates similarly to the Department Of Energy seen in the show, which is the centre of Upside-Down research activities.
“I can tell you first of all that I’ve never see [the show], but I am aware of it,” Moniz replied.
“Secondly, I believe this fictional [Department Of Energy] laboratory was operating in the 1980s, you can draw any inference you wish from that. Third, I would note that we do work in parallel universes.”
Moniz went on to explain the science behind how parallel universes could exist before added that he “would not get carried away in terms of some of the other things that happen” in the show.
Watch in the clip beneath.
Netflix recently confirmed that it has renewed Stranger Things for a second season, expected in 2017. Season two will feature nine episodes – one more than the first – with co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer returning alongside executive producer Dan Cohen.
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Amerikaanse overheid: Parallel universum uit Stranger Things bestaat mogelijk echt
Amerikaanse overheid: Parallel universum uit Stranger Things bestaat mogelijk echt
Het parallelle universum uit de hitserie Stranger Things bestaat mogelijk echt. Dat heeft de Amerikaanse minister van Energie Ernest Moniz gezegd.
In Stranger Things is een parallelle wereld te zien die de Upside Down wordt genoemd. Die staat misschien dichter bij de realiteit dan je denkt.
In de talkshow Chelsea vroeg presentatrice Chelsea Handler aan Moniz of de Amerikaanse overheid net als het ministerie van Energie in de serie onderzoek doet naar de Upside Down.
Onderzoek
“Laat ik voorop stellen dat ik de serie niet heb gezien, maar ik heb erover gehoord,” antwoordde Moniz.
Hij voegde toe dat zijn ministerie ‘inderdaad onderzoek doet naar parallelle universa’, maar ging daar verder niet op in.
Moniz zei een groot voorstander te zijn van wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de kleinste deeltjes en de structuur van het universum.
Hogere dimensies
“De theoretische natuurkunde houdt zich bezig met dingen als hogere dimensies en parallelle universa,” lichtte hij toe.
In een gelekte e-mail schreef Moniz eerder: “Het is niet waar dat het ministerie van Energie geen onderzoek doet naar parallelle universa. We ondersteunen theoretisch natuurkundigen en kosmologen, waarvan sommige onderzoek doen naar parallelle universa.”
Het tweede seizoen van Stranger Things is momenteel in productie en zal naar verwachting in 2017 verschijnen bij streamingsdienst Netflix.
ExoMars was supposed to be for Mars what Lewis and Clark were to the exploration of the wild American western frontier: a mission to understand the biological mysteries of the Red Planet. The mission — a joint collaboration by the European Space Agency and Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos — was set to make its first major splash on Wednesday when the Schiaparelli lander was supposed to barrel through the Martian atmosphere and land on the planet.
Supposed to is the operative term here — ESAs ExoMars team lost contact with Schiaparelli and has no idea whether it survived its descent to the Red Planet, experienced a fatal crash, or simply lost the ability to communicate with the Trace Gas Orbiter (or TGO, the ‘mothership’ for Schiaparelli and the ExoMars mission as a whole) and any other satellites orbiting Mars. ESA put a positive spin on the setback, emphasizing that Schiaparelli was able to collect critical data during its descent to the surface, and that TGO is working as well as its supposed to be.
It’s an especially devastating blow, considering the fact that Schiaparelli was a test run for a brand new spacecraft entry, descent, and landing system designed for future missions to Mars. That exact same system is set to be used for the launch and delivery of the ExoMars rover in 2020, whose primary goal is to look for signs of past — or present — extraterrestrial life on Mars.
But that ExoMars rover mission is just one of three Martian rover missions taking place next year, arguably making 2020 a banner year for an explosion of Martian knowledge.
Conceptual art for Mars 2020 Rover
NASA is revving up preparations to launch an ExoMars-like mission called Mars 2020, the successor to the Curiosity rover. Its primary scientific objective is, like ExoMars, to search for evidence of extant or current Martian organisms, and to assess the historical and present potential for habitability on the Red Planet. Mars 2020 will be very, very similar to the Curiosity rover and use a very similar entry-descent-landing system — it’s a tried-and-true method that’s worked for NASA in the past, so why mess with a good thing? The biggest difference between those two little buggers, however, is that Mars 2020 will be specifically fitted with instruments relevant to astrobiology.
That’s not to say ExoMars and Mars 2020 are copycats — far from it. Mars 2020 will be tasked with collecting samples that NASA expects to retrieve on a future mission, then return to Earth for more in-depth analysis. ExoMars, on the other hand, will test out mechanisms relevant to extraterrestrial sample retrieval, but the actual sample return task for ExoMars is set aside for an unnamed, unplanned future mission.
We all know three’s company — and that’s why China is joining the Martian robot rave, with plans to launch its own rover to the Red Planet in 2020 as well. Details are sparse, but the scientific goals behind that mission seem more generalized than ExoMars and Mars 2020.
Conceptual art for China's Mars rover
So far, China’s space missions have been focused much more around establishing technological feasibility for space travel rather than actually conducting science. There are some exceptions, most notably that one time China’s lunar rover helped uncover some pretty strange history in the moon’s geology. But if China expects its Mars rover to actually ascertain something new about Mars, it will need to possess the kind of state-of-the-art instruments ESA/Roscosmos and NASA are building for their respective rovers.
Ultimately, the mission that’s most likely to conduct some groundbreaking science on Mars is Mars 2020. NASA’s been launching and operating these robotic bad boys since the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997. The agency knows what it’s doing.
Russia’s previous Martian rover missions occurred in 1971, but that ended in epic failure. So did ESA’s Beagle 2 mission in 2003. In that vein, it’s not entirely surprising to see that contact with Schiaparelli was lost. If the Schiaparelli saga proves anything, it’s that Mars missions are an intricate, lucky, flaky science, and 2020 has many surprises in store for us.
In the new Denis Villeneuve space-opera Arrival, 12 pods from outer space land at various locations on Earth, each operated by a strange species of alien. The American government enlists a linguist — Louise Banks, played by Amy Adams — to try to figure out what these extraterrestrials want, but it’s not going to be easy.
The first, and most significant, hurdle is language. How is someone who’s learned only Earth-based languages supposed to communicate with a group of beings that gurgle out croaks and write in what look like inky floating coffee stains?
Studying alien languages might seem like a silly, science fiction fantasy. But at the rate we’ve discovered more habitable Earth-like worlds, we are bound to encounter an alien species pretty soon. Sheri Wells-Jensen, an associate professor of linguists at Bowling Green State University, is one of a tiny group of people who has actively thought about how an alien species will communicate with humans.
The only thing she knows for sure is that there’s no way to know how they’ll communicate.
“It’s profoundly humancentric to think they’ll talk like us and look us,” Wells-Jensen told Inverse. The fact that most sci-fi revolves around aliens who speak through voice boxes like us, are bipedal, and even have vaguely anthropomorphic faces limits our imagination as to how extraterrestrial beings will speak when they get here. In reality, more likely than not, their bodies won’t operate or look a single thing like ours. And that means their communication mechanism will be wildly different from ours.
“We’re only beginning to understand that the way we think and communicate and what we build is determined by the way our bodies are shaped and our sensory apparatus,” Wells-Jensen said. For example, if we didn’t perceive sound waves, then our use of sound as a communication device would not exist. Consider the way deaf people communicate so expressively with their hands and faces, and are unable to lasso their voices into the pitch and tone the way hearing humans do when they talk.
Anatomy and physiology do more than dictate how we speak; it’s our way of understanding the world, which is vital to how early humans developed the language, and how we comprehend the world around us. “What if you had a race of aliens that couldn’t see? In what ways would that change the way they built their civilization and how they understand their world?” Wells-Jensen proposed. “We have some data to suggest that the way we are physically built might influence the way our language is structured. It’s because we walk erect, our top appendages are free, and we have to use our hands to do things.”
Language, after all, is a verbal reflection of how we understand our world through our bodies: We crawl, we stagger, we cry, we laugh. We look to see the stars, taste our morning coffee, smell the garbage on the streets, rub our hands in nervousness. Which makes the heptopods that Louise Banks deals with in Arrivalan especially hard one to understand, given that they experience the world with seven fingers, no obvious eyes or ears, and a language based purely on sound reverberations.
There’s also the fact that even if we did come to a point where we could speak the same language as an extraterrestrial species, we wouldn’t have the language to express certain concepts. “You see this with those lists of things in English that we don’t have a word for,” Wells-Jensen points out. And it could happen the other way around too — extraterrestrials might have phrases for concepts that they don’t have words for, which means we’ll have a rough time getting their worldview as well.
Doug Vakoch is the president of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, METIInternational, which works with its sister organization SETI (the S is for search) and, in 2011, wrote the definitive textbook on xenolinguistics, Communication With Extraterrestrial Intelligence. He says the dominant approach to how we’ll figure out how aliens speak will actually be the Jeremy Renner character in Arrival— through the universal language of mathematics.
“If aliens have an ability to send us messages, they have to be able to create radio and telescopes,” Vakoch reasons. “If they can build spacecraft to come to come to Earth, they have to have an understanding of good engineering, physics, science, math.” The current methods used by SETI is to do a data dump, with researchers shooting off notes into the ether, hoping some will get intercepted.
We’re already trying to make contact with extraterrestrials, and mathematics is the language of choice. Vakoch calls Arrival’s introduction of a linguist “radical” — and challenging. Math is inherently simple and devoid of meaning: a 1 has no feelings, no concept behind just being a single digit representing one unit of an object. “But doing the nitty-gritty work of going back and forth and making guesses at what an alien says, trying to interpret swirls” — as Louise Banks does in the movie — “and determining a sentence or concept? It’s hard.”
But in theory, it would definitely be more effective, Vakoch said. “Conveying matters. You need flexibility of language with its infinite combinations. Our art and culture — that’s all from language, that’s not from just raw numbers.”
Arrival tackles this concept, along with the idea that the very way we think is deeply ingrained within our language. That’s the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which suggests that our language is integral to how we think. Neuroscientists aren’t completely sure how language re-shapes our brain, but the question Jeremy Renner’s mathematician character asks Amy Adams’s linguist character — “Are you dreaming in their language?” — is not entirely fantastical.
In a study published earlier this week in the journal PNAS, researchers used people who communicate through sign language to understand how the brain processes language. It lines up with how linguist of Arrival approaches the heptopods of Arrival: With that universal symbol of openness and welcoming, an open hand, palm outstretched.
“Sign language has a structure, and even if you examine it at the phonological level, where you would expect it to be completely different from spoken language, you can still find similarities,” Berent said in a press release. “What’s even more remarkable is that our brain can extract some of this structure even when we have no knowledge of sign language. We can apply some of the rules of our spoken language phonology to signs.”
That means our concept of language is flexible, and we aren’t incapable of figuring out how to communicate with aliens — we simply must adjust our brains.
One thing is for sure: Humans don’t have a good track record of communicating with each other — and we’re the same species. The movie touches on this as well, with communication (ironically) breaking down between the other stations as they try to race to understand the role of the heptopods. “It’s a cheat answer, but it’s true,” Wells-Jensen said. “We’re a young race. We’ve only gone a couple hundred thousand miles to our moon and back. These races might be older than us. We’re maybe not even the first race they’ve met.”
There’s no way for us to prepare for communicating with an alien species — and that’s okay. What’s important is that we have to understand how to use what we have as humans to bridge the divide and create a conversation without implying that we as humans are the superior race — because we’re probably not. “We can’t use ourselves as a starting point,” Wells-Jensen said. “We are an endpoint at looking at things. We are the product of evolution. We’re like pond scum.”
Built by the Huns? Ancient Stone Monuments Discovered Along Caspian
Built by the Huns? Ancient Stone Monuments Discovered Along Caspian
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor
A massive stone structure, dating back 1,500 years, has been discovered along the Caspian Sea.
Credit: Photo courtesy Evgeniï Bogdanov
A massive, 1,500-year-old stone complex that may have been built by nomad tribes has been discovered near the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan.
The complex contains numerous stone structures sprawled over about 300 acres (120 hectares) of land, or more than 200 American football fields, archaeologists reported recently in the journal Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia.
"When the area was examined in detail, several types of stone structures were identified," archaeologists Andrey Astafiev, of the Mangistaus State Historical and Cultural Reserve; and Evgeniï Bogdanov, of the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Department's Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, wrote in the journal article. The smallest stone structures are only 13 feet by 13 feet (4 by 4 meters), and the biggest are 112 feet by 79 feet (34 by 24 m). [See Photos of the Massive Stone Structure and Artifacts]
A close-up of one of the stone structures and an intricately carved stone that appears to show some form of creature. The complex was first identified by an archaeologist in 2010 and excavations began in 2014. Much work remains to be done.
The structures are "made of stone slabs inserted vertically into the ground," the archaeologists wrote. Some of the stones, which look a little like those at Stonehenge, have carvings of weapons and creatures etched into them.
One of the most spectacular finds is the remains of a saddle made partly of silver and covered with images of wild boars, deer and "beasts of prey" that may be lions, Astafiev and Bogdanov wrote in their article. The images were etched in relief, sticking out from the silver background.
"The relief decoration was impressed on the front surface," Astafiev and Bogdanov wrote. The two researchers think ancient artisans designed the images out of leather and glued them onto wooden boards. "Finally, silver plates would have been laid over the shapes and fixed in place," they said.
Credit: Photo courtesy Evgeniï Bogdanov
The complex is located in an arid area whose vegetation consists of withered bushes. The modern day name for the location is "Altÿnkazgan." Archaeologists believe that the complex was likely built by nomadic groups who lived at a time when the Huns swept across Asia and Europe.
Stone-complex discovery
In 2010, a man named F. Akhmadulin (as named in the journal article), from a town called Aktau, was using a metal detector in Altÿnkazgan, which is located on the Mangÿshlak Peninsula, near the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea, when he found parts of a silver saddle and other artifacts. Akhmadulin brought the artifacts to Astafiev who works in Aktau. [7 Bizarre Ancient Cultures That History Forgot]
"Most of the territory consists of sagebrush desert," Astafiev and Bogdanov wrote. However, Astafiev found that the desert location where Akhmadulin brought him contained the remains of an undiscovered 120-hectare stone complex. Akhmadulin located the artifacts in one of these stone structures.
Credit: Photo courtesy Andrey Astafiev
The remains of a silver saddle were found in one of the stone structures. This fragment of the saddle shows "beasts of prey" (possibly lions) attacking a wild boar. Three birds can be seen flying overhead and two smaller animals can be seen behind the beasts of prey. A photo of a copper band, that was also part of the saddle, can also be seen in this picture.
"Unfortunately, the socioeconomic situation in the region is not one in which it is easy to engage in archaeological research, and it was not until 2014 that the authors of this article were able to excavate certain features within the site," Astafiev and Bogdanov wrote.
When excavations got underway in 2014, the archaeologists excavated the stone structure where Akhmadulin had found the saddle. They found more saddle parts, along with other artifacts, including two bronze objects that turned out to be the remains of a whip.
Who owned the saddle?
A great deal of work needs to be done to excavate and study the remains of the stone complex, the archaeologists said. "Certain features of the construction and formal details of the [stone] enclosures at Altÿnkazgan allow us to assume that they had been left there by nomad tribes," Astafiev and Bogdanov wrote.
The design and decorations on the silver saddle indicate that it dates to a time when the Roman Empire was collapsing, and a group called the "Huns" were on the move across Asia and Europe, they said. "The advance of the Huns led various ethnic groups in the Eurasian steppes to move from their previous homelands," Astafiev and Bogdanov wrote.
Credit: Photo courtesy Andrey Astafiev
In this saddle fragment a beast of prey is seen attacking a deer while a bird attacks the nose of the deer. More birds can be seen flying around.
The owner of the saddle was likely a person of considerable wealth and power as the archaeologists found symbols called "tamgas" engraved on the silver saddle above the heads of predators, something that can be "an indication of the privileged status of the saddle's owner." These signs may also be a link "to the clan to which the owner of the tamga belonged," Astafiev and Bogdanov wrote.
It's not exactly clear why the silver saddle was placed in the stone structure, though it may have been created for a ritual purpose or as a burial good, Astafiev and Bogdanov suggested. They found the remains of one skeleton buried beneath the stone structure; however, the skeleton may date to centuries after the silver saddle was deposited there.
Research is ongoing, and Bogdanov said the team plans to publish another paper on research into the silver saddle in 2017.
Bogdanov said the team hopes to make the public aware of the newly found site. "I hope that one day there [will be] a film about the archaeological excavations on the Mangÿshlak, about ancient civilizations and modern inhabitants," Bogdanov told Live Science.
Nat Geo's 'Mars' Miniseries Ready for Scientifically Accurate Liftoff
Nat Geo's 'Mars' Miniseries Ready for Scientifically Accurate Liftoff
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
Watch humanity's first voyage to Mars unfold in National Geographic's new miniseries "Mars." The show premieres Monday (Nov. 14) at 8 p.m. EST in the U.S.
The global event series premieres internationally one day sooner, on Nov. 13. But there's no need to wait for the televised premiere regardless of where you are — National Geographic has already released the first episode online.
"Mars" portrays the story of the first crewed mission to the Red Planet with a unique storytelling format. Scripted scenes that take place in the year 2033 depict the journey to Mars, but these scenes are spliced with present-day interviews with real scientific experts. The show not only tells the story of the first mission to Mars, but it also provides plenty of present-day and historic context. ['Mars': The Epic National Geographic Channel Miniseries in Pictures]
People on Earth have long dreamed of setting foot on Mars. As National Geographic's new series shows, it will be no easy task. Getting there is but one of the many struggles the first Mars colonists will face. Surviving and thriving on the Red Planet will likely be a greater struggle, the show suggests.
To depict the first human journey to Mars as accurately as possible, the show had information from space science experts for everything from rocket science to spacesuit and set designs. The makers of "Mars" were impressively thorough in their attempts to make the show scientifically accurate by summoning a great deal of input from a wide variety of specialists.
"What is really amazing is that people at Radical Media who produced this, and [executive producer] Ron Howard and the people at National Geographic — the one thing they were all on board about was getting this right," Stephen Petranek, author of the book "How We'll Live on Mars," told Space.com.
"Unlike [the movie] "The Martian," which had a lot of areas where you could rip into the accuracy of science behind what you're seeing in the drama, I feel very comfortable that this is as close to perfectly accurate as you're ever going to get in trying to forecast exactly what would happen in sending the first people to Mars and starting the first civilization there," Petranek added.
Experts weigh in
Of the many experts who were interviewed in "Mars," no one had quite as much impact on the series as SpaceX's Elon Musk. The private spaceflight company recently unveiled its concept for the Interplanetary Transport Systemthat could one day carry the first colonists to Mars.
At the world premiere of "Mars" in New York City on Oct. 26, producer Justin Wilkes of RadicalMedia said that his team were granted unprecedented access to Elon Musk and the whole SpaceX team, whom he called "some of the greatest minds that are dreaming up and actually engineering this mission."
Robert Zubrin, founder and President of the Mars Society, is one of the many experts that contributed to National Geographic's new "Mars" series.
Credit: Jemal Countess / Stringer / Getty Images
Other guests who appear on the show include NASA administrator Charles Bolden, astronaut James Lovell of the Apollo 13 mission, astrophysicist and TV star Neil deGrasse Tyson and "The Martian" author Andy Weir.
Several NASA scientists are interviewed in "Mars," but space scientists are far from the only kind of experts present in the show. Psychologist David Dinges of the University of Pennsylvania discusses the effects a journey to Mars would have on the human psyche. Casey Dreier, the director of space policy for the Planetary Society, and Thomas Kalil, deputy director at the White House Office of Science and Technology, discuss the policy implications of sending colonists to unclaimed territories.
Producing 'Mars'
Making "Mars" as realistic as possible required a tremendous amount of scientific information. The on-camera interviews merely scratch the surface of what the scientific community contributed to the making of the series. Even the scripted scenes, which required some creativity to conceptualize, were based almost entirely on advice from many different professionals.
A realistic spacesuit in National Geographic's "Mars" series, designed by Daniela Ciancio.
Credit: Jamal Countess / Stringer / Getty Images
The futuristic spacesuits the astronauts wear in "Mars" were created by the Italian costume designer Daniela Ciancio, and they were designed with real science in mind. Ciancio told Space.com that she based her design on actual spacesuit concepts by NASA and SpaceX. But her main inspiration was the BioSuit concept developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mars spacesuits will need to be strong, flexible, lightweight and comfortable, Ciancio said.
Bobby Braun, a professor of space technology at Georgia Tech, provided technical aid to help keep the show accurate and realistic. In an interview with Space.com, Braun said that he conceptualized the Daedalus spacecraft in "Mars" by combining ideas from papers written by NASA, SpaceX, Lockheed Martin and academic researchers at universities.
This is the Daedalus — the spaceship that transports the crew from Earth to Mars in National Geographic's "Mars" series. It is named after the inventor and craftsman of Greek mythology.
Credit: National Geographic Channels/Robert Viglasky
One idea that Braun incorporated into the Daedalus is the use of supersonic retropropulsion to land on Mars. This technology is necessary for a large spacecraft to slow down in Mars' thin atmosphere before landing. SpaceX has already demonstrated this technology by landing its reusable rockets on Earth, but doing the same thing on Mars will be a lot different, Braun said.
Collaboration between the show's creative team and its science experts was crucial for keeping the show accurate, Wilkes said in an interview with Space.com. But the two groups never quarreled over science versus theatrics. Instead, Wilkes said that the scientists' input inspired the writers to come up with even more dramatic storylines without sacrificing science.
"It's more dramatic because it's based on science," Wilkes said.
How to act like an astronaut
Former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison, the first female African-American to go to space, gave the cast a crash course in how to walk, talk and behave like an astronaut. At the "Mars" world premiere, Jemison explained how she also helped the show's scriptwriters create dialogues that accurately portray the astronauts' emotions and interactions with each other.
"Mae really clarified from her own personal experience of going to space how much you have to contain your emotions and how important that is for all the crew around you," said Jihae, the South Korean singer who plays two roles on the series. In addition to being one of the Daedalus crew, she doubles as her own twin, who works in the mission control center on Earth.
One of the fun parts of astronaut training involved hopping in a swimming pool, actor Ben Cotton (Commander Ben Sawyer) said in an interview with Space.com. In the water, the actors learned the motions of walking in a spacesuit on Mars, Cotton said.
"Mars" was filmed in a desert in Kazakhstan, and Cotton said that suffering from the heat in his spacesuit actually helped him get into character. Though Mars is actually extremely cold, the heat gave the actors the exhausted appearance that they would have during a long hike on Mars.
Arrive, then thrive
When the Daedalus crew arrives on Mars, dome-shaped habitats have already been deployed. But there's one big problem: They land off-course and have to figure out a way to get to their new home, and it's a long, bumpy road ahead.
Getting to Mars is only the beginning. After arriving on the Red Planet, a whole new journey begins for the Mars colonists. Food, fuel and other supplies will be limited. While no life is known to exist on Mars, the colonists must find a way to sustain themselves by farming in enclosed habitats. They'll also need to figure out a way to mine water on Mars.
Mars settlers grow their crops inside a greenhouse at their colony, Olympus Town, in National Geographic's "Mars" series.
Credit: National Geographic Channels/Robert Viglasky
But these technologies, much like the rocket-propulsion technologies borrowed from SpaceX, are not far out of reach. In fact, much of the equipment required to survive on Mars already exists today. Astronauts at the International Space Station have grown plants in space, and the orbiting laboratory contains a water-recycling system to conserve and reuse water.
"I think the public will be surprised when they see how much of the prep work [to get to Mars] is actually happening already," Braun said. "I don't think people have connected the dots that when SpaceX goes from the Falcon to the Falcon Heavy that it means something about how we will settle Mars…I think one of the nice things about this series is that it mixes in some of the present day events, and so it's going to show not only what this future mission might look like and the drama of that future mission, but it's going to show all the stuff that's happening in 2016 to get us ready to go do those things."
In National Geographic's new "Mars" series, humans step foot on the Red Planet for the first time. The series premieres Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. EST in the U.S. and internationally Nov. 13 on the National Geographic Channel.
Credit: National Geographic Channels/Robert Viglasky
What NASA programs will President-elect Donald Trump support, which will he potentially work to eliminate, and whom will he nominate for NASA's top leadership position? Two space policy reporters offered their insight on these questions.
Brian Berger is editor in chief at SpaceNews, a trade publication for the spaceflight industry, and Jeff Foust is a senior writer there. In a webinar on Wednesday (Nov. 9), Berger and Foust discussed how the new presidential administration might affect NASA and other U.S. space-related activities.
"There's going to be a period of uncertainty as the new administration figures out what their priorities are in space and what NASA programs they might want to continue, which ones they might actually want to accelerate and which ones they might want to get rid of," Foust said. [50 Years of Presidential Visions for Space Exploration]
Mars or the moon
Foust published an article yesterday (Nov. 9) outlining the information that Trump's campaign has provided about the president-elect's space plan. Most of that information comes via Robert Walker — former chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and former chairman of the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry — who was brought in to serve as the campaign's space policy advisor.
In Foust's article, Walker described the campaign's space plan with four words: visionary, disruptive, coordinating and resilient. Walker then outlined nine key goals of the plan. Some of those goals are "fairly broad," Foust said yesterday, including the declaration that Trump's administration will make a "commitment to global space leadership" for the United States.
It remains to be seen what specific actions the Trump administration will take to accomplish the goals that Walker laid out. Prior to the election, President-elect Trump and his campaign representatives made multiple statements voicing support for partnerships with private companies, including the intention to hand over operations in low Earth-orbit (which would include the operation of the International Space Station) to private industry. Such partnerships are already up and running; SpaceX and Orbital ATK are flying robotic cargo missions to the space station for NASA now, and SpaceX and Boeing are scheduled to begin ferrying American astronauts to and from the orbiting lab in the next year or two.
NASA is committed to its current level of support for the space station through 2024, and agency officials as well as leaders in the spaceflight industry have also voiced support for a plan that would relieve NASA of its financial responsibility to the station after 2024. Those funds could then be put toward the agency's efforts to send humans to more distant space locations.
It seems likely that the Trump administration will put particular emphasis on human space exploration, Berger and Foust agreed. One of the most ambitious goals set out by Walker calls for "human exploration of the solar system by the end of the century." Foust said Walker called this a "stretch goal" intended to "help drive some of the technology that will be needed for human exploration of Mars."
NASA is already working to get humans to the surface of the Red Planet by the first half of the 2030s, as instructed by President Barack Obama. But things may change under President-elect Trump.
Right now, NASA is developing a capsule called Orion and a massive rocket known as the Space Launch System (SLS) to get astronauts to distant destinations, such as Mars. Orion flew its first mission, an uncrewed test flight to Earth orbit, in December 2014; the SLS is scheduled to fly for the first time in late 2018, on a mission that will send an uncrewed Orion around the moon. But Berger said during the webinar that he thinks it's possible President-elect Trump could be swayed by arguments that the SLS program is unnecessary for NASA. That's partly because there are commercial companies also working on rockets with heavy-lift capacity (meaning they could also send humans and other payloads all the way to Mars), Berger said.
What's more, many spaceflight experts have said that NASA should establish a long-term human presence on or near the moon before heading to Mars. That goes against the plan laid out by President Obama, who nixed a human return to the moon, instead directing NASA to use a visit to a near-Earth asteroid as a "stepping stone" to Mars (more on that below). An independent report also showed that NASA can't currently afford to invest in a lunar and a Mars mission simultaneously.
"Bob Walker mentioned that he personally thought it was a good idea to have the moon as a stepping stone on the path to Mars," Foust said. "Certainly a lot of other people in the space industry, including other people who may end up on the transition team or have contacts with people on the transition team, are going to bring that up. I would not be surprised if that was revisited somehow."
A human presence on the moon could involve international partnerships, Foust said. "But how that works out and how that gets paid for will be one of the big issues for the next administration," he said.
Possible program changes
One of the only highly partisan aspects of NASA's current program is its Earth science program.
"A number of prominent Republicans on Capitol Hill think that NASA should not be involved to the degree that it is in Earth science," Foust said. Those representatives generally favor handing NASA's Earth science responsibilities over to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) or another agency.
Space policy experts who spoke with Space.com prior to the election said the stance held by many Republicans on climate change has driven this party divide.
In an op-ed published in SpaceNews, Walker and Peter Navarro, another space advisor to the Trump campaign, said that NASA should not be focused on "Earth-centric activities."
Foust said that, currently, Earth science accounts for about 10 percent of NASA's budget. If NASA's Earth science program is reduced or eliminated, that money could be shifted elsewhere within NASA, or to another agency that picks up those responsibilities.
"I would certainly expect to see some sort of development in terms of potential reduction to NASA's Earth science program," Foust said.
Another program that may also be on the chopping block is NASA's Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM), said Berger and Foust. The program aims to capture an asteroid and put it into orbit around the moon, where it could be studied and potentially mined for resources. The program was intended as a stepping stone to Mars because the technologies that would be developed for that program could then be used in a human Mars mission. Supporters say the program would also serve the goal of preparing humanity to redirect an asteroid away from a collision course with Earth.
Some members of Congress have already been "calling for a hard look" at ARM, said Berger.
"Certainly, there is a lot of skepticism about ARM going forward," Foust said. "I suspect the next administration is going to take a hard look at it. It may go away and be replaced with something else."
But Foust said it's unclear where the funding currently going toward ARM would be redirected.
"Again, it comes down to what sort of resources are going to be available for NASA and how the new administration decides to rework NASA's current human-exploration plans to fit in with what is arguably a much more expansive mission for human exploration … that Walker describes," Foust said.
NASA funding and administrator
Based on what President-elect Trump and his campaign representatives have said, there's no immediate indication that the administration will cut NASA's budget in any significant way.
"Bob Walker mentioned that he does not expect huge increases in NASA's budget," Foust said. "There may be some modest increases and may be some shifting of funding around."
President-elect Trump will also be able to nominate an administrator and deputy administrator for NASA (the top two positions at the agency). The appointee then has to be confirmed by the Senate.
Foust and Berger said the discussion about who President-elect Trump will nominate for the position of administrator has only just begun. NASA's current administrator, Charles Bolden, had stated before the election that he would retire from that position regardless of the outcome.
"It may take a while for [the administration] to settle on someone," Foust said. "And you may hear … a number of names getting mentioned in SpaceNews or elsewhere … that may or may not come to fruition for one reason or another, because they're not interested, or it just doesn't match up. So it may be some time before we actually get a firm idea of who the next confirmed NASA administrator will be."
According to certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, secret tunnels connect the surface with a subterranean paradise, and they call this legendary underworld Agartha. In India, this underground oasis is best known by its Sanskrit name, Shamballah, thought to mean ‘place of tranquility.’ Mythologies throughout the world, from South America to the Arctic, describe numerous entrances to these fabled inner kingdoms. Many occult organizations, esoteric authors, and secret societies concur with these myths and legends of subterranean inhabitants, who are the remnants of antediluvian civilizations, which sought refuge in hollow caverns inside the earth.
Numerous endeavors have been undertaken to access the interior of the earth. Polar expeditions and battles, such as Operation Highjump, still remain largely classified, and have been shrouded in secrecy for decades, but scientific revelations validating the rumors surrounding these covert events, and their implications, are finally being exposed to daylight.
Robert Sepehr is an author, producer, and anthropologist specializing in linguistics, archeology, and paleobiology (archeogenetics).
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I was on my way home from work and when I reached the 4 way stop I saw something large off in the distance to my left. I originally thought that it might be a blimp but as I continued to drive closer I realized that this wasn’t a blimp and it wasn’t an airplane. It was very large and it was flying very slowly from the North to the South.
When I got to a place where I could pull over and take pictures I observed 2 cars already pulled over doing the same thing and then another car pulled over right after I did. This large object was very large and solid and the only light that it gave off was it was glowing white at the top. There were no other type of lights on it to indicate that it was a plane or anything else that would have those type of lights. It continued flying South and I eventually lost sight of it behind some trees. Anyway this was something that I’ve never seen before and I thought I would report it to you guys to see if you could figure out just what it was.
This is a report of an interview I conducted of a person who was at the Roswell crash site. I am a retired engineer. I joined the staff of the then new campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz. There were several sightings of UFO’s in the mountains behind the campus in 1969 and reported to the University. I was asked to interview 3 people and file a report. I could find on credibility or evidence in these events but, because it was a small campus and everybody in the Sciences knew what was going on, I got the unwanted reputation of someone who knew about UFO’s.
One day in 1970, a maintenance worker who I knew well from my church, came into my lab and said he had a friend who wanted to talk to me but did not want to meet in a public place. I suggested we meet at my home that evening. At the time, I did not know he wanted to tell me about a UFO incident. That evening I was told by the two men that they had been captured by the Germans during WW2 and spent a year and a half in a POW camp. They became good friends during that time and remained so after the war. The individual I interviewed was a welder by trade and after the war was employed at the Roswell Air Force base welding jigs and fixtures for servicing aircraft. He began by stating that the week before the 4th of July flying saucers would fly over the base in pairs every once in a while. He said they were circular and had a large dome on the top. They were flat on the bottom and were silent. He assumed they were some technology obtained from the Germans. He said everyone working there called them “flats.” . He said that he had just returned back to work after the 4th of July holiday when a truck pulled up and an officer got out and told him to load a cutting torch and fresh tanks and that they were going out to the desert. He said that it was mid afternoon when they arrived at the crash site. He said at the time he thought a plane had gone down. He said they had a flatbed truck loaded with wreckage and there were soldiers on their hands and knees picking up every piece of wreckage and putting it in cloth bags. He said the bags were the kind used for sandbags. He said they drove a little farther out of sight from the wreckage and came upon a second group of people standing around an intact UFO. He said the brush was knocked down indicating the craft had skidded across the ground and came to rest nosed into a natural berm with the back side slightly off the ground. He described the craft as being about 25/26 feet in diameter with a large dome on top. He said the craft was the ‘color of weak tea’ with a burnished finish. He said there were no signs of weld marks, seams, or rivets and that all of the edges had either an inside or outside radius. There were no visible windows or openings. That was why he was brought there. He was told to cut an opening in the dome big enough for a man to crawl through. By this time it was getting to be late afternoon and there were soldiers setting up a bank of portable lights. He said he began cutting a hole from the base of the dome. He said it was a tough alloy and slow cutting but the material was surprisingly thin. He tried bending the metal out of his way as he was cutting but the metal would spring back to its original shape without creasing.
He finished his cut and set the metal piece aside and looked into the cockpit for a few seconds before he was ordered off the craft. He said it was difficult to see very far into the craft because of the glare from the portable lights and the cockpit was full of smoke from the cutting torch. He said he saw two beings who appeared to be dead. He said the cockpit had a strong smell of ammonia. He described the two beings as being about 4′ tall but they were doubled up so it was hard to say. They were wearing what he said were skin tight purplish flight suits that reminded him of sequins. He described their heads as what we now refer to as greys. He said there were no visible instruments that he could see. He was ordered off the craft with his gear and returned to the Air Base. He said it was dark when they arrived and he was escorted by armed guards into a building for a debriefing. He said there were several high ranking officers at the table along with 4 or 5 civilians in suits. He said that after he was debriefed he was told that he was not to talk about what he had seen as it was a state secret and if he was caught divulging anything he would spend the rest of his life in prison or worse. He was scared to death by the threat and my friend and myself are the only people he ever told and that was 23 years after the event. When we started the interview, I was told that I could not take notes or use a recorder. He was very nervous telling the story and had to be reassured by my friend that I would not betray him. He said that what had been described as the Roswell event was not true and he wanted the truth told after his death. He asked that I keep what he told me a secret until after his death which I have done. He and my friend both passed away in the late 1980’s. When I heard this story I did not know what to think. I was not a UFO buff and had never heard the Roswell story. My friend said this guy was the real thing and during the interview I never sensed anything odd about his presentation or with his mannerisms. He provided a lot more information that I have stated but the interview was almost 50 years ago and forgotten. I think he was telling the truth. My friend was a very honorable and trustworthy man who would knowingly support a bogus story. I never saw or spoke the welder again after that evening. I have shared my knowledge of this interview with a couple of investigators but I think they doubted my credibility. – MUFON CMS
The recent John Kerry 11-7-2016 departure trip to Antarctica by discussing the new agreed upon Nation State Treaty, banning private ships from traveling to Antarctica without advanced authorized permission to do so, for a period of 35 years.
Image above released by Wikileaks on October 18, 2016.
Add to this element of information the previous events occurring in Antarctica, when Obama visited Antarctica in March, and he was preceded by Patriarch Kirill of Russia.
Simultaneous to Obama’s visit to the South Pole, his director of CIA, James Clapper, made a secret trip to Australia, another country with heavy interest in Antarctica. Kirill offered a strange blessing of Antarctica, calling the barren land an “ideal for human kind” because there were no weapons down there or any type of science experiments.
Image above released by Wikileaks on October 18, 2016.
We know that is not true at all: there are multiple scientific expeditions that have gone to Antarctica: this was confirmed in an interview with Richard Byrd, who said that the region would become the center of scientific inquiry directly after WW2.
Due to the fact that prior to Kerry’s visit to Antarctica, Wikileaks released on October 18, 2016 23 images of Antarctica, MrCati comes to the conclusion that all these visits are intended to limiting investigation into Antarctica’s secrets from the past.
(VIDEO) WAS THIS FOOTAGE OF A GREY EXTRATERRESTRIAL REALLY SMUGGLED OUT OF TOP SECRET AREA 51?
(VIDEO) WAS THIS FOOTAGE OF A GREY EXTRATERRESTRIAL REALLY SMUGGLED OUT OF TOP SECRET AREA 51?
Area 51 is the government facility popularly believed to be involved in investigations into other forms of intelligent life and the cover-up of UFO crashes and other alien incidents.
FILM OF ALIEN INTERROGATION LEAKED FROM AREA 51
A man going by the alias 'Viktor' was able to obtain footage that he claims shows a 'Grey' extraterrestrial being interrogated by government officials. It is unclear whether he took this footage himself or was able to obtain it directly from Area 51.
The video can be viewed below.
The video although only short contains footage believed to be highly classified if Viktor and other alien life fanatics are to be believed. It first surfaced in 1997 although it is purported that the interrogation itself took place significantly earlier, in 1966. This matches with the period in which conspiracy theorists claim that Area 51 was at its most active.
'Ufologist' Sean David Morton was amongst the first to view Viktors tape, and although he can recount the details, his description leaves some ambiguity. Morton described the creature in detention as a "small, beige-skinned, black-eyed, bulbous headed creature." An image that would send a shiver down the spine of many however he is unable to provide any details that prove the videos legitimacy. Although the room and equipment seen in the video appear to be what one would expect in the context of an alien investigation, this makes the footage perhaps too perfect and lends strength to claims that it is not real.
Most disturbingly, towards the end of the footage the medical equipment monitoring the 'alien' sounds alarms and the creature is in physical distress, supposedly dying soon after. This supports claims that have been made many times by UFO believers that aliens were being subjected to cruel and in this case, fatal, experiments at a government location in the desert.
UFO disappears into clouds seen from Space Station, Nov 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO disappears into clouds seen from Space Station, Nov 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 14, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths orbit, ISS
This is an extraordinary find by Streetcap1 of Youtube. This is a UFO recorded on the live NASA space station cam. The interesting thing about it is that it actually passes below the clouds. That means this object has perfectly matched the speed of the space station and is traveling at an altitude of most passenger jets. Sure alien tech has no difficulty in keeping up with the 27,600 km/h space station, but still its remarkable to see it pass below those clouds. The size of the UFO looks to be about 1/3 that of the space station. That makes the UFO about 33 meters across. Great catch, please go to Youtube and give Streetcap1 a supportive thumbs up for his hard work. Scott C. Waring
UFO Turns Lights On Over Lima, Peru Excites Locals, Nov 2016, Video, 👽 UFO Sighting News 👽
UFO Turns Lights On Over Lima, Peru Excites Locals, Nov 2016, Video, 👽 UFO Sighting News 👽
Date of sighting: Nov 2016 Location of sighting: Lima, Peru This is cool. A UFO was recorded over Lima, Peru this week and in the recording we see a street light suddenly light up. Coincidence? Probably not, since hundreds of UFO reports report electrical problems when the UFO was near. This is important evidence that this object was a UFO. Scott C. Waring News states:
A mysterious ‘burning’ UFO has been filmed traveling across the sky above a capital city. Residents of Lima, Peru, were left stunned as the orange light floated slowly through the air in the slightly darkened sky. The video, which lasts a full minute and was revealed by Peruvian media last night, has left observers mystified. To add to the mystery, people in other parts of the South American country, including the highlands to the southeast of Lima and the area near the Amazon rainforest, also spotted strange lights in the sky. One theory is that the lights could be the high-altitude balloons used by Google’s Project Loon, an initiative that provides Internet access to people in remote and rural areas. The balloons float in the stratosphere about 18km, 11 miles, above the Earth’s surface and do contain lights. Is this where aliens from Mars relax? British conspiracy theorist spots a SOFA on Red Planet However, there are a number of people who believe Peru is a regular stop-off for aliens who are drawn to the country by its many ancient sites, including the world famous Machu Picchu citadel in the Andes Mountains.
UFO Caught Passing In Front Of Moon, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught Passing In Front Of Moon, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 12, 2016 Location of sighting: Surprise, Arizona, USA
This is odd. A UFO in orbit that has a haze mist around it. The object is solid, because if it was transparent, we would see the light of the moon through it. I believe that the field around it is due to the alien propulsion, because the haze has been seen in thousands of UFO photos before. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
While taking video of the Supermoon, with NexStar 6se telescope, UFOs do a fly by. Camera was a Sony CX500V HandyCam HD, 5X optical zoom, manual focus at .9m, maxview 40 lens for a 38X telescope magnification. The UFOs appear to have distortion surrounding them, perhaps bending light.
Mysterious 'burning' UFO spotted in the sky above capital city 'favoured by aliens'
Mysterious 'burning' UFO spotted in the sky above capital city 'favoured by aliens.
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The mysterious orange light was filmed for a full minute.
A mysterious ‘burning’ UFO has been filmed travelling across the sky above a capital city.
Residents of Lima, Peru, were left stunned as the orange light floated slowly through the air in the slightly darkened sky.
The video, which lasts a full minute and was revealed by Peruvian media last night, has left observers mystified.
To add to the mystery, people in other parts of the South American country, including the highlands to the southeast of Lima and the area near the Amazon rainforest, also spotted strange lights in the sky.
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The 'burning' UFO was filmed travelling across the sky above Lima, Peru, for a full minuteSome people think the light could a Project Loon balloon while other believe Peru is a favourite destination for aliens
One theory is that the lights could be the high-altitude balloons used by Google’s Project Loon, an initiative that provides Internet access to people in remote and rural areas.
The balloons float in the stratosphere about 18km, 11 miles, above the Earth’s surface and do contain lights.
However, there are a number of people who believe Peru is a regular stop-off for aliens who are drawn to the country by its many ancient sites, including the world famous Machu Picchu citadel in the Andes Mountains.
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Beagle 2 is niet gecrasht op Mars
Beagle 2 is niet gecrasht op Mars
Tim Kraaijvanger
De gedoemde Marslander Beagle 2 is in 2003 niet neergestort, maar toch zachtjes geland op het oppervlak van de rode planeet. Dat is de conclusie van een nieuw onderzoek.
“Waarschijnlijk lukte het de lander ook om de mees000te zonnepanelen uit te klappen”, beweert onderzoeker Nick Higgett van de De Montfort universiteit. Higgett en zijn collega’s gebruikten publiekelijk beschikbare foto’s van Beagle 2 om een 3D-model van de Marslander op de landingsplaats te maken. Vervolgens konden zij verschillende situaties simuleren, zoals de positie van de zon, om te kijken of de satellietfoto’s overeenkomen met de daadwerkelijke situatie volgens het 3D-model. Daaruit blijkt dat Beagle 2 drie – en misschien alle vier – zonnepanelen heeft uitgeklapt.
Wat gebeurde er? “Wat is er gebeurd met Beagle 2? We komen steeds dichter bij een antwoord op deze vraag”, zegt professor Mark Sims. “Natuurlijk komen we er nooit achter waarom Beagle 2 er niet in slaagde om te communiceren, maar we weten wel dat de landing een succes was.” De meest aannemelijke theorie is dat er drie panelen zijn uitgeklapt en dat dit niet genoeg stroom opleverde om contact op te nemen met Mission Control.
Werkt Beagle 2 nu nog? “Misschien werkte Beagle 2 wel enkele honderden dagen, afhankelijk van hoe snel het stof zich opstapelde op de zonnepanelen en of stofstormen (zogenoemde ‘dust devils’, red.) de zonnepanelen regelmatig reinigden”, vertelt Sims aan de BBC. “Eén mogelijkheid is dat Beagle 2 vandaag de dag nog steeds functioneert, maar dat is zeer onwaarschijnlijk en ik heb er twijfels over.”
Deze trechter op Mars: de plek om naar leven te zoeken?
Deze trechter op Mars: de plek om naar leven te zoeken?
Tim Kraaijvanger
Amerikaanse wetenschappers hebben een trechter op Mars gevonden. Het gaat om een depressie die is gevormd door een vulkaan onder een gletsjer. Is er ooit microscopisch leven ontstaan in deze warme omgeving?
De kans dat er nu nog microscopisch leven op Mars is, is klein, maar het is niet onmogelijk. Het oppervlak van de rode planeet is vele malen droger dan de droogste plekken op aarde. Maar miljarden jaren geleden was de planeet veel natter en warmer.
Sommige plekken op Mars zijn interessant om te onderzoeken als ‘hot spots’ van leven. Dit zijn plaatsen waar de ingrediënten voor leven ooit aanwezig waren, namelijk water, hitte en voedingsstoffen. Dit geldt voor een bijzondere depressie die lijkt op een trechter. De depressie is te vinden in een krater op de rand van het Hellas Bassin. Met een diameter van 2300 kilometer is het Hellas Bassin de grootste inslagstructuur op Mars. “We hebben verschillende scenario’s getest en denken dat de depressie is ontstaan door de interactie van lava en ijs”, concluderen de onderzoekers in het paper.
En dat is bijzonder, want als het gebied is ontstaan door een vulkaan onder een gletsjer, dan waren alle ingrediënten voor het ontstaan van leven aanwezig, inclusief vloeibaar water en chemische voedingsstoffen. Het is geen gek idee om een Marslander in dit gebied neer te zetten en om op zoek te gaan naar sporen van leven.
Hypersonic Flight Is Coming: Will the US Lead the Way?
Hypersonic Flight Is Coming: Will the US Lead the Way?
By Douglas Messier, Space.com Contributor
Artist's rendering of Lockheed Martin's SR-72 concept vehicle, which the company says could potentially fly six times faster than the speed of sound.
Credit: Lockheed Martin Corp.
MOJAVE, California — The world is at the start of a renaissance in supersonic and hypersonic flight that will transform aviation, but the effort will need steady commitment and funding if the United States wants to lead the way, congressional leaders and industry officials said at a forum late last month.
"What's exciting about aerospace today is that we are in a point here where suddenly, things are happening all across the board in areas that just haven't been happening for quite a while," said former U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Curtis M. Bedke.
"There was a period where engine technology had just sort of stagnated — a point where all materials technology was going along at about the same pace," Bedke added. "There just wasn't much happening. But suddenly, in all sorts of areas that apply to aerospace, things are happening." [NASA's Vision of Future Air Travel (Images)]
Bedke was one of five panelists to speak Oct. 27 at the Forum on American Aeronautics here at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Sponsored by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the forum was hosted by committee chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and member Steve Knight, R-Calif. Bedke, Smith and Knight were joined by David McBride, director of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, and Craig Johnson, director of business strategy and development for Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works. Former Mojave Air and Space Port CEO Stu Witt moderated.
Knight has taken the lead on the House Science Committee in getting NASA's aeronautical program to focus on a new set of experimental aircraft. He said his passion for these programs isn't just about improving American aviation — it's personal.
"In 1967 was the last time we went hypersonic in an airplane," Knight said, referring to an X-15 flight piloted by his late father, William J. "Pete" Knight. That flight reached Mach 6.7 — 6.7 times the speed of sound — a record for piloted aircraft that still stands nearly 50 years later. (Hypersonic flight is generally defined as anything that reaches Mach 5 or greater. "Supersonic" refers to any flight that exceeds Mach 1.)
"We collected an awful lot of data," he said. "But what I would like to see is that we can move that data into something, whether we are going to move into an aircraft that we're going to put people into or we're going to use it for some other program. We've got to have that continuity and move forward."
Knight noted that it still takes the same 4.5 hours or so to fly from New York to Los Angeles today as it did 30 years ago. Supersonic aircraft flights over land have been banned for decades because of the sonic booms they produce. No supersonic passenger planes have been in operation since the retirement of the Concorde in 2003.
NASA wants to change that. In February, the space agency awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin for the design of an experimental plane to test technologies that can significantly reduce the sonic booms caused by aircraft. If the program is successful, the ban on overland supersonic flights could be lifted.
"We're poised on the brink of a new era in air transportation," McBride said. "We do need to go faster. There is a market for supersonic flight over land in an efficient manner that can fly without being an annoyance to everyone on the ground."
NASA also is exploring ways to improve the efficiency and reduce the environmental impacts of subsonic aircraft. Engineers are experimenting with blended wings and other innovations.
Smith admitted that the difficulty that Congress and the president have experienced in passing budgets has caused problems in sustaining research.
"None of that is conducive to good work getting done in an efficient way," Smith said. "And we can do better. We need to get to the point where continuity actually lasts beyond just one administration, much less beyond tomorrow. And we're with you on that."
Bedke said there is no time to waste in moving these programs forward.
"It is inevitable that hypersonic technologies are going to happen," he said. "It is not inevitable that we are going to be the country to do it first. But we can be the country to do it first, but we're going to have to put our minds to it, and we're going to have to stop the history of fits and starts, of throwing money at a big program, achieving a wild success, and then having no follow-up. Or throwing a lot of money at too big a program, taking too giant a bite, failing miserably and then deciding hypersonics isn't going anywhere. Neither of those must be allowed to happen in the coming years."
NASA to Launch 'Swarms' of Small, Earth-Observing Satellites
NASA to Launch 'Swarms' of Small, Earth-Observing Satellites
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
NASA plans to launch a suite of tiny, next-generation satellites into Earth's orbit to study weather patterns and climate change. These missions will conduct important scientific research while also advancing the technology needed to launch smaller, cheaper satellites, NASA said.
The space agency hosted a teleconference today (Nov. 7) from its headquarters in Washington, D.C., to discuss some of the new small satellites, or "smallsats," that will launch in the coming months.
Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA Headquarters, explained that small satellites can reduce the costs of space-based Earth observations. Additionally, the satellites can increase access to space for private companies as well as universities and students interested in pursuing science experiments in Earth's orbit, Stofan said.
Small satellites have several advantages," he said during the teleconference. "They reduce the risk and cost of demonstrating precursor technologies and infusing them into larger flight projects. They're used for flight testing and demonstrating new proof-of-concept components. And they enable affordable distributive science observation systems using constellations or swarms of small satellites to achieve broad coverage."
For example, eight identical spacecraft in NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission slated to launch Dec. 12 will fly in formation over the Earth's most hurricane-prone latitudes to monitor the weather and improve storm-forecasting capabilities.
All eight CYGNSS observatories prepped for launch on the Pegasus rocket.
Credit: University of Michigan
Another mission, the Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes (RAVAN) project, aims to encompass the globe with several orbiting satellites that will monitor the greenhouse gas effect and Earth's changing climate. The first RAVAN is a three-unit CubeSat, or mini satellite, scheduled to launch later this month, said Bill Swartz, the mission's principal investigator. If all goes well, RAVAN satellites may someday swarm around the entire planet.
A planned constellation of multiple RAVAN (Radiometer Assessment using VerticallyAligned Nanotubes) satellites would be evenly distributed around planet Earth to measure energy balances in the global atmosphere and monitor climate change.
Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
In a separate mission, a swarm of 12 CubeSats will study tropical cyclones while also measuring and tracking air pollution. This mission is called TROPICS, short for Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats. Each satellite will use a radiometer instrument to measure temperature and water vapor profiles of storms. William Blackwell, the principal investigator for TROPICS, said during the teleconference that the satellites are about the size of a milk carton and weigh about 8 lbs. (3.6 kilograms) each.
With 12 individual CubeSats, the TROPICS constellation of small satellites will fly over any part of the tropics about every 30 minutes. This will allow the mission to monitor the quickly changing features of tropical cyclones as they progress. Each TROPICS CubeSat is the size of a loaf of bread and weighs eight pounds (3.6 kilograms), flying 350 miles (560 kilometers) above Earth.
Credit: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
These new missions mark the beginning of a new era in satellite technologies. Missions like those mentioned above may also pave the way for swarms of mini satellites to orbit around the moon, Mars and other objects in the solar system, Stofan said in the teleconference. And the initiative is making it easier than ever for space researchers outside of NASA to get involved in small satellite projects.
Stofan said that the agency is "actively promoting the small spacecraft approach as a paradigm shift for NASA and the larger space community," through contracts with industry, NASA directive projects, collaborations with universities and partnerships with other space agencies.
'Impossible' Space Engine Might Actually Work, Study Suggests
'Impossible' Space Engine Might Actually Work, Study Suggests
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Engineers are working on ways to make spaceflight faster and cheaper, in an effort to open the heavens to exploration.
Credit: NASA/Glenn Research Center
An experimental propulsion system that seems to violate the laws of physics may actually work, a new study suggests.
A controversial and puzzling engine design known as the EmDrive generated small amounts of thrust in a lab test, NASA researchers reported in the study, which has yet to be published or peer-reviewed but was recently leaked online.
The EmDrive, which was developed by British researcher Roger Shawyer more than a decade ago, generates thrust by bouncing microwaves around inside a cone-shaped chamber. According to Newton's third law of motion— for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction — this shouldn't work, because there's no exhaust expelled out of the EmDrive system. (Think about rockets, which get their oomph by blasting superheated gases and other material out of nozzles at high speeds.) [Superfast Spacecraft Propulsion Concepts (Images)]
But the NASA team, led by Harold "Sonny" White of the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, did measure some thrust. Specifically, their EmDrive variant produced about 1.2 millinewtons of force per kilowatt of energy. That's about 100 times more thrust than solar-sailing spacecraft, which harness the momentum of photons streaming from the sun, are able to achieve, White and his colleagues wrote.
Like solar sails, the EmDrive requires no propellant; a spacecraft equipped with this propulsion system could generate all the microwaves it needs using solar panels. So the EmDrive could make space travel much cheaper and faster, theoretically opening up the heavens to greater exploration, advocates have said.
Don't get too excited — that's a long way from happening, if it happens at all. The new study is just a proof of concept, and further testing is needed to definitively rule out all possible sources of experimental error, White and his team said. (For example, it's possible that air within the EmDrive system could have heated up and expanded, causing some of the observed effect, the researchers wrote.)
But the new result is the latest in a series of apparent successes for EmDrive technology. Shawyer reported generating thrust with his version, as did Chinese researchers who tested their own variant in 2012. And White and his colleagues reported a positive result back in 2013 as well.
So this seemingly impossible engine may actually work — perhaps by somehow harnessing the energy of subatomic particles that are constantly popping into and out of existence, White and his team have speculated. (Shawyer has his own ideas about what's happening inside the EmDrive, and he doesn't think Newton's Third Law is being violated at all. Check out his explanation here: http://emdrive.com/faq.html.)
The most important movie of 1997 was not Titanic; it was Men in Black. MiBgrossed less than half of what James Cameron’s flick made (although nearly $600,000 is still plenty of money). It won exactly zero Academy Awards — or any film accolades, for that matter. The film was not responsible for launching any of its cast members into superstardom, and it certainly possess no iconic scene of a nude portrait in progress — despite how badly the public was clamoring to see a naked Tommy Lee Jones grace the silver screen.
And yet, 19 years later, Men in Black has maintained a bigger influence on our lives than an overwrought piece of historical fiction directed by a megalomaniacal director — because it’s a movie about the future, or at the very least, a version of what our future might be.
The existence of extraterrestrials has been pondered endlessly since heliocentric theory was accepted as fact by the world’s scientists. Once the globe understand that the Earth was not at the center of the universe, people became more open to the idea that life — even intelligent life — could have evolved on other planets. And of course, the notion that life might exist elsewhere also meant those beings could possess some of the more gruesome qualities that humans do.
Namely, that they might be hostile.
So the 20th century was filled with stories and films depicting aliens invading us puny Earthlings, thereby forcing us to band together and fight off oppressors from across the galaxy. Although movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977) and E.T. (1982) demonstrated a more positive version of what a chance meeting with aliens might look like, the ‘90s saw a push for much more grim views of extraterrestrials visiting the third rock from the sun. Independence Day(1996) gave us the destructions of Earth’s major cities. The X-Files was smack in the middle of stoking ideas about government conspiracies, alien abductions, and an alien invasion that substituted lasers and guns for viruses and clandestine operations. Mars Attacks! was hilarious but also demented, showcasing an alien force composed of equal parts technological intelligence and id.
Men in Black changed all of that. It flipped the script of a half-century’s worth of stories about governmental secrecy, and presented a world where aliens were pretty much as dumb, simple, and happy-go-lucky as most human beings. Agent J (Will Smith) and Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) do spend a bit of their time firing guns and chasing down baddie extraterrestrials, but for the most part, they are playing the insanely dull role of having to just talk to people (or rather, aliens disguised as people) and help them with their problems.
Why are they so good at their jobs? Simple: they’re good at communicating with others. For Agent K and (to some extent) Agent J, a world with aliens is actually really mundane. They’re just people with more arms, ugly faces, and hotter tempers.
Men in Black posits the idea that maybe a scenario in which humans learn they aren’t alone is actually just as boring a universe as it is right now. And paradoxically, this is actually as crazy as the idea that aliens would come to this planet to wage war and conquer our species — because how the hell could lifeforms who have mastered interstellar travel be so consumed with, well, consumption?
But that’s exactly what makes Men in Black so brilliant. The film’s dry sense of humor demonstrates that, perhaps, if aliens ever do show up at our doorsteps, we shouldn’t heed hysterical notions that they’ll take over our world – nor should we consider that revelation as a foundational shift in our ideas about humanity. Instead, we should reaction to aliens the way we do most scientific findings: “hey, this is some pretty neat shit, and I can’t wait for our lives to be transformed by it, but for now I’m gonna get on with sharing cat gifs with all my buddies!”
The scientists who spend their days looking for aliens have still not found anything. To make your life’s work the search of something that has never before experienced any success must be existentially daunting. Men in Black highlights that a self-effacing approach to this absurd task at hand is exactly what allows you to pursue a difficult passion without becoming obsessively consumed by it.
As space travel and exploration moves faster, and allows us to peer off into far away worlds, the idea that we might one day meet extraterrestrials is feeling closer than ever before. We should look at Men in Black as a lesson that if and when that day arrives, let’s not lose our shit. Be like Agent K and just remember that everything and everyone is still pretty bad — and that the best thing we can do is to focus on our jobs, take care of the little things, and let the big things work themselves out.
When T.S. Eliot wrote that, he was considering the end of WWI and the dissolution of his marriage and the Treaty of Versailles, he was not (consciously at least) contemplating physics-based simulator. But he almost certainly would have been enamored of the visual poetry that Universe Sandbox2puts on offer. It’s a worlds-building game, an attempt to take the Sim genre to its logical conclusion, but it’s also a way to craft a personal vision for the end of Earth. And it is a profound reminder that we exist at the mercy of larger forces.
“This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.”
The lifelike simulator allows users to inject carbon dioxide into Mars’ atmosphere to try to make life or reenact the Big Bang, or, and this feels so inevitable, crash shit into Earth to see what happens.
To describe the simulated destruction of Earth as satisfying is to undersell the delight of a child with a magnifying glass and some plastic soldiers. Or a skilled Mortal Kombatant given the go ahead to “Finish Him.” Here’s how it might go down if it was me, not God (or whatever), in charge….
Despite being extremely unlikely, the scenario that immediately springs to mindis the collision of Earth and the Moon. It’s a visit that would not end well for humanity.
Beyond being immediately catastrophic, the collision would fundamentally alter the earth’s rotation, as this GIF demonstrates. Consequently, every extant ecosystem would have its weather changed. Time, indeed, might run backwards. (Sure, but would broken coffee cups come back together?)
Roughly 17 hours from impact, the release of energy from impact has increased Earth’s surface temperature to 1657 degrees Celsius, according to the physics simulator (which allows you to track surface conditions of your experiments, including atmospheric measurements).
Earth’s a goner….
A similar possibility: Mars gets hit and pieces from that detonation rocket into Earth’s atmosphere….
Predictably, this is no better a scenario for Earth’s chances than contact by the Moon. Surface temperature of the Earth about 12 hours after impact is actually hotter, 2205 degrees Fahrenheit, and the result doesn’t look much more liveable than the post-Moon impact world.
Fortunately, that’s still pretty unlikely.
The luminosity of the Sun is a function of both its size (measured by radius) and the surface temperature. Astronomers suppose the Sun’s luminosity will increase by 1% every 100 million years.
A projection of the Earth after 1.5 billion years have passed and the Sun’s luminosity has increased by 15% shows things already getting hot:
The most widely-agreed-upon endpoint for Earth as a life-sustaining force (all other disaster scenarios notwithstanding) is the increasing luminosity of the Sun, which is expected to make Earth so hot as to be entirely unlivable in three billion years.
An analysis of the Earth at this point reveals a surface temperature of 101.9 degrees celsius, or just past the boiling point of water — consistent with projections that one of the first things to disappear from late-stage Earth will be the oceans.
The surface temperature of the earth has more than tripled, to 376 degrees Celsius—according to the simulation—while the Sun’s radius has expanded from the current 696,300 km to 702,020 km. This is consistent with predictions that at the three billion year point, Earth’s temperature will resemble Venus’s (with a present temperature of 462 degrees celsius)….
Another well-known end times prediction from scientists states that our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the nearest galaxy, Andromeda, will collide in about 4 billion years.
Supposing that we’ve already found a way to get off the burning rock Earth will have become and colonize Mars or a planet further on, scientists speculate that the merging galaxies will make life difficult by ejecting our Solar System into outer space or, at minimum, moving us further from the galactic core.
The goods news is that we probably won’t hit anything. Scientists actually expect this interaction to feature few real collisions because the amount of space between celestial bodies is vast. Still, things get iffy when supermassive black holes are in play.
Universe Sandbox2 is like a physics lesson on the ultimate meaninglessness of life. Perhaps the most nihilistic game on the market, it serves as a stark reminder that the Trump presidency will be nothing more than a galactic hiccup — barely worth worrying about at all.
Everyone understands time, and no one knows how it works. And that may be the least contradictory thing about something that feels like a solid, inflexible part of reality, but consistently bends under the weight of culture and psychology. To live is to time travel and people experience that trip in different ways, but no one can reverse course or alter speed — a collective dream since H.G. Wells published The Time Machine in 1895. Author James Gleick wanted to know why, so he dug in, talking with philosophers and black hole-hunting theoretical physicists.
Though his book, Time Travel: A History, fails to offer practical tools for chronological self-determination, it does offer readers the opportunity to grapple with one of the few remaining restraints on human movement. Gleick spoke to Inverse about pulling on that last restraint.
Time Travel isn’t a new topic, and it isn’t a reality, so why does it fascinate us? Is there anything in particular about being a human in 2016 that draws us to the idea of time travel?
When I started the book, I did have in the back my head that sort of wacky, speculative idea that maybe time travel was basically over. That it had run its course and all the things that needed to say had been explored. That was in 2011 or 2012 — now I just think that’s a stupid thing to have thought, because that’s not what happened at all. As I was working on this book, incredibly interesting new variations on the theme of time travel appeared. Even this Fall I think there are at least three network television shows that have a time travel theme.
Why is this? Because our relationship with time is as froth, intense, and anxiety producing as ever. Probably even more so than before because everything in the world is going so fast — all the complications and confusions that come from living in a network existence, where we are getting information on multiple channels. Those channels come to us as though they are a part of our present. We’ve gotten good at different versions of time shifting, like instant replay or tape delay. So, for better or for worse, we’re filling our lives with things that resemble time travel. No wonder we are still interested in it.
Doctor Who's Tardis is England's most prominent modern time machine.
Do you think our perception of time will change or has?
I’m comfortable believing that we are never going to arrive at any kind of complete, final, satisfactory answer to what time is. I’m constantly resisting the bumper sticker slogans as to what time is, sayings like “time is what happens when nothing else does” and “time is nature’s way of keeping everything apart.” I love them, but I resist them.
There are serious physicists trying to answer the question of what time is. They are the ones with the official answer, if you believe in science, like I do. But I also believe that there is no official answer, and that the physicist’s version of time is only a part of the picture. We also have psychological time, which is different from that.
It’s my view that we have to accept that we have a very complicated view of something that we expect to understand simply.
Your book makes the case that literal time travel, as in going back and forth in time, is impossible exist. Did you encounter any scientists in your research who disagreed?
Yes. Lots. As you say, my view is that the literal view of time travel is an impossibility. I say that because of my view of what time is. There are people who don’t agree with me and I hope there are many of them because I’m raining on my own parade.
The kind of person most likely to say, ‘Well, we can’t be sure that time travel is impossible’ is your modern, up-to-date, theoretical physicist. There are lots of them who want to remain open to the possibility of time travel and they are a lot smarter than I am. I have a great respect for the way they think about these issues.
There are also theoretical physicists who think that a literal understanding of time travel implies a kind of view of reality that probably isn’t the right one — mainly, that the future is already there in some way, waiting for us to arrive in our machine. Or, that the past is also still there in some way and it’s not irretrievably gone so, if you had the right kind of machine or portal, you could go there. I don’t think that’s how it is and I think in their heart of hearts, most physicists don’t either. It’s just that with equations and models for reality, it’s hard for them to rule it out.
I appreciate a scientist who likes to keep an open mind.
When I was reading your book, it dawned on me that people probably wouldn’t want to time travel if they realized it would most likely mean they would slip into a black hole and hope that a worm hole would spit them out. That’s less appealing than jumping in a pod and going to 1920s Paris.
That’s right. We want there to be a good glass of wine waiting for us at the other end and to have the chance to talk to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Exactly. Do you think that popular culture will ever shift, and portray this more realistic version of time travel? Much of what we receive now seems to be a regurgitation of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.
Of course — and that’s good. That’s what attracted me to the subject in the first place. Even if I don’t think that we’re literally able to get into a time machine, I do think that it’s a real and powerful way of thinking about the world and helps us.
A recurring theme in my book is how time travel presentation has paralleled the evolution of ideas in popular culture and in science. H.G. Wells said that time in the fourth dimension was a gimmick, a trick that he was playing to get the reader to believe his story.
He didn’t imagine that, 10 years later, this German fellow Albert Einstein would be putting forward a whole theory of the universe in which it’s very useful to view time as a fourth dimension. That would in fact become modern orthodoxy. It’s not because Einstein read “The Time Machine*; it’s because they were both living in the same universe where, for many reasons, it was becoming more natural to think of time as space.
If you went back in time and saw the 2002 movie 'The Time Machine' than someone would have.
But even Einstein couldn’t nail down time.
Advances in physics during the last century have increased our knowledge of the world we live in, to an astonishing degree and — it can’t be underestimated — contributed to answering philosophical questions about the nature of reality. It’s interesting that, to an extent, these questions are still wide open.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Photos via Doctor Who/BBC, Back to the Future, The Time Machine, Wikimedia Commons
The theory of gravity gets a little weird in a few spots in our universe. One of those spots is the outer edges of galaxies. Stars in the outer regions of a galaxy rotate around the galaxy’s center faster than we would expect. This extra speed seems to come from some sort of extra gravitational force, and sincewe haven’t seen the matterresponsible, we’ve basically just stuck dark matter into the theory of gravity to explain the speedy rotation.
But we might not actually need dark matter to explain the extra speed. In a paperreleased this week on arXiv (pronounced “archive”), physicist Erik Verlinde at the University of Amsterdam argues his emergent theory of gravity accounts for the extra speed without dark matter.
“Cracks are showing in the dominant explanation for dark matter. Is there anything more plausible to replace it?” he recently wondered aloud on Twitter.
Verlinde first proposed the emergent theory of gravity back in 2010, and, ever since, it’s been controversial in the physics community. Verlinde’s theory casts gravity as an emergent property of the universe and an effect of entropy, rather than a fundamental force. Other physicists disagree, citing experimental results involving quantum particles.
Challenging Newton’s and Einstein’s theories is pretty ballsy. But viewing gravity from Verlinde’s perspective could not only help physicists better understand how stars move in the outer reaches of galaxies, but also how matter behaves around black holes and other situations traditional gravity has been unable to describe correctly.
Spoiler Alert: Hundreds of Stars Have “Strange, Alien Signals”
Spoiler Alert: Hundreds of Stars Have “Strange, Alien Signals”
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope stands out against the breaktaking backdrop of the Sacramento Mountains. 234 stars out of the Sloan's catalogue of over 2.5 million stars are producing an unexplained pulsed signal.
Image: SDSS, Fermilab Visual Media Services
IN BRIEF
When analyzing a spectra of 2.5 million stars, researchers came across 234 that produced the same strange signal — pulses of light at constant time intervals.
The conclusion? Either these are effects of the Sloan instrument itself and data reduction, or they are ETI signals.
STRANGER THINGS IN SPACE
Too often, when we encounter a seemingly unexplainable occurrence in space, we automatically think Aha! Aliens! It’s not exactly best practice to jump into declaring extraterrestrial life with a snap of a finger. But neither should we be too skeptical. A bit of both, certainly.
That’s why, when Laval University astronomers E.F. Borra and E. Trottier submitted a study about stars producing what appears to be ETI signals, we shouldn’t ignore it, nor swallow it entirely. In any case, the strange phenomena comes from their study of data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Analyzing the spectra of 2.5 million stars, they came across 234 that produced the same strange signal — pulses of light at constant time intervals.
The stars were all “overwhelmingly in the F2 to K1 spectral range,” the authors claimed, very similar to our own Sun. Is it possible that, like our Sun, these stars host a system with intelligent life, and are sending signals to contact other intelligent species?
WITH GREAT CLAIMS COME GREATER BURDEN OF PROOF
To Borra, it seems very likely, especially since the findings match a 2012 study he’d written about ETI signals. The authors easily dismissed three of the five possible explanations to the phenomena and settled on two: either these are effects of the Sloan instrument itself and data reduction, or they are ETI signals.
But are they really? It remains difficult to say, especially since the authors acknowledged that “the signals are due to highly peculiar chemical compositions in a small fraction of galactic halo stars.” And it is very possible to have a subset of stars that behave this way.
Not to mention the paper’s still up for peer review.
As the saying goes, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” which the Breakthrough Listen Initiative team quotes in a response to Borra’s findings. The Breakthrough team isn’t too eager about the whole study, giving it a 0 to 1 score on the Rio Scale. That says a lot coming from a group dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life.
In this case, we’ll have to stick to the likeliest possibility: the 234 blinking stars are what they are — blinking stars.
Modern astronomy lets us image and look at the skies in much more detail than ever before. Telescopes like the ROSAT, the Fermi Telescope, and the Planck Telescope have allowed us to see the universe in many different lights.
Now, a new astronomical survey reveals the heavens under a different spectrum — radio waves. The GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) shows what 300,000 galaxies look like if we could see radio waves.
Humans can only see everything under visible light. But any physics student can tell you visible light is but one of many spectrums of light out there. Humans can also see with only three primary colors, while the GLEAM survey imaged galaxies with 20 primary colors.
The GLEAM survey used data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), a radio telescope in the Australian outback. While previous observations have imaged parts of the sky using radio waves, this is the most comprehensive one yet.
Below are remarkable photos of the Milky Way galaxy in all its glory via different lenses.
Romania is the country where many puzzles, mysteries and fantastic discoveries have their place. Most times, nobody talks about them, ignoring them for convenience or because they are almost impossible to explain. Perhaps a more thorough investigation of these facts would open new horizons for understanding the history distant planet and about human evolution. Why not speak about these findings? The answer remains a mystery that will probably not be elucidated again.
UFOs carved stones Neamţului Mountains: among others, here they were found tablets of clay, printed icons which may constitute forms of the oldest writings in the world, and two strange stone structures, one resembling striking a UFO and the other bringing, as striking with the famous Sphinx in Bucegi. The oldest blast furnace metals worldwide was discovered in Câmpeni. It has existed for over 8000 years.
Mysteries of Sarmizegetusa. Here it is assumed that there are several underground rooms where secrets are kept mankind. So far no one had the curiosity to explore the area. I'm wodering why? Baciu Forest, near Cluj-Napoca, is considered "the paranormal", otherwise it's all over the world knowing the shocking details.
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THE MYSTERY BEHIND THE MISSING CAPSTONE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID!
THE MYSTERY BEHIND THE MISSING CAPSTONE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID!
The hidden secrets of the Great Pyramid of Giza have intrigued explorers and experts for a long time.
There are probably many hidden chambers that are still left untouched which could give us a lead to the true purpose of this colossal pyramid.
But one mystery surrounding the mega structure is the fact that the capstone is missing. How come? Was there a capstone in the first place?
Some researchers say that the capstone may have been completely built in gold, so, if it was in fact made of such a solid material then how did they achieve on removing such a large massive piece with aproximately 9 meters in height?
Another theory suggests that the pyramid had a large sphere in it's summit, which served as a conductor of cosmic energy and would turn the pyramid into a massive power plant. The sphere could also be associated with the "Eye of Horus" and the brightest star in the sky "Sirius".
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THIS IS WHY WE HAVEN NOT SEEN ALIENS YET & IT’S NOT GOOD ACCORDING TO BRIAN COX
THIS IS WHY WE HAVEN NOT SEEN ALIENS YET & IT’S NOT GOOD ACCORDING TO BRIAN COX
In recent days, two research directions in this direction have been published. The first comes from René Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System (Germany) and Ralph Pudritz, McMaster University ( Canada). These scientists have simply reflected the way we detect exoplanets and overthrew the problem: what are the moments and the most favorable locations to detect and observe the Earth when it is far away in space?
One technique for observing planets around other stars is to use the time they spend in front of their sun. This is the so-called "transits," which could even afford to get details on the composition of the atmosphere of exoplanet studied, and thus to discover traces of life.
Heller and Pudritz suggest to focus on the stars may be in the "gray area" in which, seen from there, the Earth would pass before the sun. If we shine our instruments on these stars, we could detect potentially habitable planets. Moreover, we could "hear" these planets, particularly with specialized radio telescopes in attempts to detect extraterrestrial intelligence, looking for signals that these "aliens" would send us after realizing that the Earth meets the conditions necessary for life and perhaps even found our electromagnetic emissions.
The second possibility, published a few months ago but back on the center stage this week, is more a hypothesis testing, one of the aliens already know about us, watching us but do not wish to contact us. This is one of the answers to the Fermi paradox, called "the zoo hypothesis ." In the style of the "prime directive "non-interventionist "Star Trek, "those brave Aliens have decided to let us live our lives peacefully watching us from afar.
Physicist and Astronomer Brian Cox was the latest to address the Fermi Paradox in a recent interview. Although his outlook is relatively pessimistic, it is still a very real possibility. Cox says, “One solution to the Fermi Paradox is that it is not possible to run a world that has the power to destroy itself and that needs global collaborative solutions to prevent that.” He continues, “It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably outstrips the development of political expertise, leading to disaster. We could be approaching that position.”
For what reasons? There's a gaggle of possibilities. For example, they can wait until we have reached a certain level of technology required for a first contact, considering it necessary that a civilization develops by itself without outside help. Perhaps instead they look at us with bewilderment wondering when we're going to self-destruct, unwilling to get caught in such molasses. Their motivations are perhaps so foreign to our thinking that we can not imagine.
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Er wordt al lang over gesproken en geschreven, maar morgenochtend is het zover. Dan kan u - als de bewolking wat meezit - een supermaan zien. En die supermaan wordt niet zomaar een supermaan, het wordt de grootste sinds 1948. Bovendien krijgen we eenzelfde groot fenomeen niet meer te zien tot november 2034. En toch is de impact van het verschijnsel vooral psychologisch.
Eerst de feiten. Morgenochtend krijgen we een zogenaamde supermaan te zien. Daarbij staat de maan ruim 48.000 kilometer dichter bij de aarde, dan op het verste punt. Bovendien gaat het om een volle maan, waardoor de maan in totaal 30 procent helderder en de maanschijf 12 procent groter zal zijn.
Een supermaan komt wel vaker voor, vorige maand op 16 oktober nog, maar een dergelijke grote en heldere maan is heel zeldzaam. Zo zeldzaam dat het sinds 1948 geleden is dat de maneschijn dergelijke proporties aannam. En de volgende keer dat het gebeurt zal pas op 25 november 2036 zijn.
Behoorlijk indrukwekkend, toch? De Amerikaanse astronoom Neil deGrasse Tyson plaatst het enthousiasme rond de supermaan echter in perspectief. Want de cijfers lijken dan wel indrukwekkend, in werkelijkheid kunnen wij mensen het verschil tussen een gewone (super)maan en de supermaan van morgenochtend helemaal niet zien.
De maan aan de hemel is namelijk ongeveer zo groot als een euromunt op twee meter afstand. Zo klein dat een klein verschil niet opvalt. "Zelfs het verschil tussen een pizza van 14 inch en een van 15 inch merk je niet", zegt deGrasse Tyson daarover. "En die ligt dan nog op je bord." De opwinding rond de supermaan is dan ook vooral psychologisch van aard. "Als we iets moois en spectaculairs verwachten, zien we dat vanzelf", zo klinkt het in de Volkskrant.
Maar hoe komt het dan dat we telkens bij een supermaan prachtige foto's te zien krijgen van een enorme maan aan de horizon? Opnieuw psychologie, zo luidt het antwoord. Ons brein ziet vooral verhoudingen, waardoor een verre wolk schijnbaar in het niets valt met een enorme maanschijf.
Wanneer kijkt u het best?
Om de supermaan te bewonderen is het het beste om direct rond de maanopkomst om 17.21 uur naar het noordoosten te kijken. Omdat die dan dicht bij objecten staat, zoals een boom of een gebouw, lijkt de maan veel groter. Dinsdagochtend rond 07.17 uur gaat de maan weer onder. Ook dan lijkt de maan ineens een flink stuk groter. Maandag om 12.21 uur staan de aarde en de maan het dichtst bij elkaar.
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The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments
The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments
By Jeremy Hsu
Credit: Twentieth Century Fox
INTRO: Super soldiers
A super soldier program produces Marvel superhero Wolverine in the movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," along with rivals Sabretooth and Weapon XI. Now LiveScience looks back on real experiments that the U.S. government ran on soldiers and citizens to advance the science of war.
The military didn't replicate Wolverine's indestructible skeleton and retractable claws. Rather, they shot accident victims up with plutonium, tested nerve gas on sailors, and tried out ESP. While some of the tests seem outlandish in hindsight, the military continues to push the envelope in seeking new warfare techniques based on cutting-edge science and technology.
"My measure of success is that the International Olympic Committee bans everything we do," said Michael Goldblatt, former head of DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, while talking with reporters. And that's not a Hollywood script.
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1. Build your inner armor
Perhaps super soldiers may not be far off after all, if efforts such as DARPA's "Inner Armor" project find success. Consider efforts to give humans the extreme abilities of some animals, such as the high-altitude conditioning of the bar-headed Goose that has been known to crash into jet aircraft at more than 34,000 feet. Scientists are also eying the Steller sea lion, which redirects blood flow away from non-critical organs during deep sea dives and reduces oxygen demand. "I do not accept that our soldiers cannot physically outperform the enemy on his home turf," said Dr. Michael Callahan, who heads the project at DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, during a 2007 presentation. The goal is to make soldiers "kill-proof" against all sorts of conditions, including infectious diseases, chemical, biological and radioactive weapons, temperature and altitude extremes, and harsh natural environments. Sounds like a certain mutant superhero.
2. 24/7 Warrior
Sleep can be a warrior's worst enemy, whether during day-long battles or long-duration missions flown from halfway around the world. But various military branches have tried to change that over the years by distributing "go pills" or stimulants such as amphetamines. More recently, the military has tested and deployed the drug modafinil – more commonly known under brands such as Provigil – which has supposedly enabled soldiers to stay awake for 40 hours straight without ill effect. And the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding even more unusual anti-sleep research, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation that zaps the brain with electromagnetism.
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3. Psychic vision
Psychics may not hold much credibility among scientists, but the Pentagon spent roughly $20 million testing extrasensory (ESP) powers such as remote viewing from 1972 to 1996. Remote viewers would try to envision geographical locations that they had never seen before, such as nuclear facilities or bunkers in foreign lands. Mixed results led to conflicts within the intelligence agencies, even as the project continued under names such as "Grill Flame" and "Star Gate," and led to spooks finally abandoning the effort. The CIA declassified such information in files released in 2002.
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4. Nerve gas spray
Threats of chemical and biological warfare led the U.S. Department of Defense to start "Project 112" from 1963 to the early 1970s. Part of the effort involved spraying different ships and hundreds of Navy sailors with nerve agents such as sarin and VX, in order to test the effectiveness of decontamination procedures and safety measures at the time. The Pentagon revealed the details of the Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD) project in 2002, and the Veterans Administration began studying possible health effects among sailors who participated in SHAD. This was just one of many chemical warfare experiments conducted by the U.S. military, starting with volunteer tests involving mustard gas in World War II.
5. Hallucinogenic Warfare
Psychoactive drugs such as marijuana, LSD and PCP don't just have street value: Researchers once hoped the drugs could become chemical weapons that disabled enemy soldiers. U.S. Army volunteers took pot, acid and angel dust at a facility in Edgewood, Md. From 1955 to 1972, although those drugs proved too mellow for weapons use. The Army did eventually develop hallucinogenic artillery rounds that could disperse powdered quinuclidinyl benzilate, which left many test subjects in a sleep-like condition for days. The National Academy of Sciences conducted a study in 1981 that found no ill effects from the testing, and Dr. James Ketchum published the first insider account of the research in his 2007 book "Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten."
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6. Falling near the speed of sound
When the U.S. Air Force wanted to find out how well pilots could survive high-altitude jumps, they turned to Captain Joseph Kittinger, Jr. The test pilot made several jumps as head of "Project Excelsior" during the 1950s. Each time involved riding high-altitude Excelsior balloons up tens of thousands of feet, before jumping, free falling and parachuting to the desert floor in New Mexico. Kittinger's third record-breaking flight on August 16, 1960 took him up to 102,800 feet, or almost 20 miles. He then leaped and freefell at speeds of up to 614 mph, not far from the speed of sound's 761 mph, and endured temperatures as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit.
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7. Pacifist guinea pigs
Most soldiers don't sign up to fight deadly viruses and bacteria, but that's what more than 2,300 young Seventh-Day Adventists did when drafted by the U.S. Army. As conscientious objectors during the Cold War who interpreted the Bible's commandment "Thou shalt not kill" very literally, many volunteered instead to serve as guinea pigs for testing vaccines against biological weapons. Volunteers recalled being miserable for several days with fever, chills and bone-deep aches from diseases such as Q fever. None died during the secretive "Operation Whitecoat," which took place at Fort Detrick, Maryland from 1954 to 1973.
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8. Rocket rider
Before man could launch into orbit and to the moon, he rode rocket sleds on the ground first. NASA scientists developed decompression sleds that could race at speeds of more than 400 mph before screeching to an abrupt halt, and early testing often had fatal results for chimpanzee subjects that suffered brain damage. Starting in 1954, Colonel John Stapp of the U.S. Air Force endured grueling tests that subjected his body to forces 35 times that of gravity, including one record-setting run of 632 miles per hour. As a flight surgeon, he voluntarily took on the risks of 29 sled runs, during which he suffered concussions, cracked ribs, a twice-fractured wrist, lost dental fillings, and burst blood vessels in both eyes.
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9. Get your plutonium shot
As the United States raced to build its first atomic bombs near the end of World War II, scientists wanted to know more about the hazards of plutonium. Testing began on April 10, 1945 with the injection of plutonium into the victim of a car accident in Oak Ridge, Tenn., to see how quickly the human body rid itself of the radioactive substance. That was just the first of over 400 human radiation experiments. Common studies included seeing the biological effects of radiation with various doses, and testing experimental treatments for cancer. Records of this research became public in 1995, after the U.S. Department of Energy published them.
Credit: Credit: U.S. Army/Sgt. Mike Alberts
10. Seeing infrared
The U.S. Navy wanted to boost sailors' night vision so they could spot infrared signal lights during World War II.However, infrared wavelengths are normally beyond the sensitivity of human eyes. Scientists knew vitamin A contained part of a specialized light-sensitive molecule in the eye's receptors, and wondered if an alternate form of vitamin A could promote different light sensitivity in the eye. They fed volunteers supplements made from the livers of walleyed pikes, and the volunteers' vision began changing over several months to extend into the infrared region. Such early success went down the drain after other researchers developed an electronic snooperscope to see infrared, and the human study was abandoned. Other nations also played with vitamin A during World War II – Japan fed its pilots a preparation that boosted vitamin A absorption, and saw their night vision improve by 100 percent in some cases.
Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 7 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets
Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 7 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets
By Denise Chow, Staff Writer
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INTRO : A secret history
Government and military secrets can range from terrifying to amusing to downright absurd, but most are nothing short of intriguing. From a secret U.S. Air Force project to build a supersonic flying saucer to a now-famous World War II-era research program that produced the first atomic bombs, here are seven declassified military or CIA secrets.
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1. Project 1794
In late 2012, the U.S. Air Force declassified a trove of documents, including records of a secret program to build a flying saucer-type aircraft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers. The ambitious program, called Project 1794, was initiated in the 1950s, and a team of engineers was tasked with building a disc-shape vehicle capable of traveling at supersonic speeds at high altitudes.
The declassified documents reveal plans for the plane to reach a top speed of Mach 4 (four times the speed of sound), and reach an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). The project's estimated cost was more than $3 million, which in today's dollars would be more than $26 million.
Project 1794 was canceled in December 1961 after tests suggested the flying saucer design was aerodynamically unstable and would likely be uncontrollable at high speeds (let alone supersonic speeds).
In the 1960s, the U.S. Army embarked on a secret mission to build a series of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The objective was to house medium-range missiles close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union.
The program was codenamed Project Iceworm, but to test its feasibility, the Army launched a cover research project called "Camp Century" in 1960. Under this guise, engineers built a network of underground buildings and tunnels, including living quarters, a kitchen, a recreation hall, infirmary, laboratories, supply rooms, a communications center and a nuclear power plant.
The base, which was kept secret from the Danish government, operated for seven years. The program was canceled in 1966 after shifting ice created unstable conditions. Today, the crushed remains of Project Iceworm are buried beneath Arctic snow.
During the Cold War, the CIA initiated Project MK-ULTRA, a secret and illegal human research program to investigate potential mind-control systems. The program's operators examined the effects of hypnosis, biological agents and drugs, such as LSD and barbiturates, on human subjects. Some historians suggest the program was designed to develop a mind-control system that could be used to "program" the brains of potential assassins. [The 10 Craziest Military Experiments]
In 1973, then-CIA director Richard Helms ordered that all documents from Project MK-ULTRA be destroyed, but a formal investigation into the program was launched several years later. The project became the basis for several movies, such as "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
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4. Area 51
Almost no other site has garnered as much attention from conspiracy theorists and UFO-enthusiasts as Area 51, a remote desert tract near Groom Lake in Nevada, roughly 83 miles (134 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas. The intense secrecy surrounding the base sparked peoples' imaginations, and Area 51 was commonly linked to paranormal activities, including pervasive theories that suggested Area 51 hid aliens and UFOs.
In July 2013, declassified documents from the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51 for the first time, and confirmed that the top-secret site was used to test a variety of spy planes, including the well-known U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.
While Area 51, which operates as a detachment of Edwards Air Force Base in neighboring California, has never been declared a covert base, the research and activities conducted there were some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets.
While Area 51 was not a top-secret base designed to study extraterrestrials, the U.S. Air Force did study the existence of UFOs. Project Grudge was a short-lived program launched in 1949 to study unidentified flying objects. The mission followed an earlier program, known as Project Sign, which published a report in early 1949 stating that while some UFOs seemed to be actual aircraft, there was not enough data to determine their origins. [Top 10 States for UFO Sightings]
Critics of Project Grudge said the program solely set out to debunk UFO reports, and very little actual research was conducted. In his book on the topic, Edward J. Ruppelt, Air Force Captain and director of Project Grudge, wrote: "[I]t doesn't take a great deal of study of the old UFO files to see that standard intelligence procedures were not being followed by Project Grudge. Everything was being evaluated on the premise that UFOs couldn't exist. No matter what you see or hear, don't believe it."
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6. Operation Paperclip
In September 1946, President Harry Truman authorized a program called Operation Paperclip, which aimed to lure scientists from Nazi Germany to the United States following World War II. Officials at the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor to the CIA) recruited German scientists to America to aid the country's postwar efforts, which would also ensure that valuable scientific knowledge would not end up in the hands of the Soviet Union or the divided East and West Germany.
One of the most well-known secret research programs is the Manhattan Project, which eventually produced the world's first atomic bombs. The project began in 1939, and was cloaked in secrecy as physicists investigated the potential power of atomic weapons. From 1942 to 1946, Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers led the Manhattan Project.
The first nuclear bomb was detonated at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, during the so-called Trinity test at the Alamogordo Air Base, 120 miles (193 km) south of Albuquerque, N.M. The explosion created a mushroom cloud that stretched 40,000 feet (12,200 m), and the bomb's explosive power was equivalent to more than 15,000 tons of TNT.
A month after the Trinity test, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in the waning stages of World War II. To date, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in war.
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'Arrival': A Close Encounter with Aliens Delves into Life and Loss
'Arrival': A Close Encounter with Aliens Delves into Life and Loss
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
"Arrival" (2016) is a science-fiction movie that is at once devastating and uplifting, and conveys both the terror and the unblinking fascination that would likely overwhelm the first humans to make contact with an alien race.
First-contact scenarios are a well-trod starting point for science-fiction stories, but one that can still lead down new alleyways. In "Arrival," a dozen large, smooth, stone-like ships appear in the sky at 12 random locations around the world, and it's not immediately clear where they're from or why they're here. Language expert Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is called in to try to communicate with the aliens on one of the ships.
The movie's tone, pacing and cinematography are frequently subdued, and at times even somber. But by the end, "Arrival" has also traversed pure excitement and joy. The emotional journey of the movie's central character drives the film just as much as the plot, both of which are fascinating to see unfold. While some space-movie lovers may wish for more spaceships or alien technology, "Arrival" is a true science-fiction tale, and one that is told with great care by an extremely capable filmmaker (Denis Villeneuve). [Strange Cinema: Space.com's Favorite Off-Beat Space Movies]
During the movie's first act, space fans get to see some cool spaceships (and a few cool ship tricks), although for the most part these stone eggs are defined by their minimalism. The audience also learn's Banks' back story, which I won't say much about, but suffice it to say, it's tragic.
"Arrival" also shows us the aliens fairly early on. That's a move some science-fiction movies put off as long as they can. Choosing what an alien race will look like in a movie is always tough for filmmakers. Sometimes the goal is just to have fun with the biological possibilities, other times it's to make the aliens seem "real."
But in more literary works, aliens reflect some aspect of the story. That's the case in "Arrival": the aliens are separated from the humans by a glass barrier, in a room filled with opaque white smoke. This physical separation remains in place during the film's second act, as Banks tries to navigate through the fog of interspecies communication. It's possible these beings have a language so wildly different from those found on Earth that she will never be able to understand it.
As the story progresses, viewers get to see Banks and a team of scientists go through the process of learning an alien language. This exercise is presented as extremely scientific (one skeptical physicist reluctantly notes that Banks approaches language like a mathematician). I give this movie a relatively high grade for the realistic depiction of scientists and how they work. Watching the scientists learn to talk to this new species is really fun; I even loved hearing the linguistic terms for the characteristics that define the aliens' method of communication. This section is also engrossing because the audience desperately wants the team to be able to ask the million-dollar question: What is your purpose on Earth?
Until the aliens can answer that question through language, the humans have little to no idea what the visitors' intentions are. The aliens' physical presence can be interpreted as menacing or as beautiful, and sometimes it shifts fluidly between those two. While Banks works, military personnel linger in the background, unsure if the visitors are hostile or peaceful. In the face of that uncertainty, Banks is both fearful and fragile, but also curious enough to find the strength and resolve to continue. (Adams does a great job juggling and conveying those emotions.)
The movie's last act follows in the footsteps of many great science-fiction stories by using an extraordinary scenario to pose a theoretical question. In this case, it's about life and loss. So much of the fun of this movie is trying to figure out what's going on, and then watching the pieces fall into place, so I'd rather not say anything about this section of the movie. I will note that hard-core science-fiction fans should be warned that the movie concludes on a note that is more philosophical than technical or scientific.
"Arrival" is based on a short story called "The Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. I haven't read it, but from what I hear, the movie does a good job at preserving much of the plot and the themes of the story.
How can an experience be both subdued and invigorating, both terrifying and utterly fascinating? How can a person be simultaneously fragile and strong? Maybe it takes a new way of communicating in order to see that these diverse states exist together on the same loop. Things that might seem like they belong at opposite ends of a spectrum become points on a circle; we pass through one on our way toward the other, until we start the journey over again.
Aircraft being refueled on November 3, 2016 over Wichita, Kansas.
Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Jimmy Carter Saw a UFO, We Have Lost Many Men and Planes Trying to Intercept UFOs, Time Travelers Allegedly Knew Trump Would be Elected, New President Elect will be Briefed on UFOs, The Ufologist, Vatican and UFOs, and Would You Baptize an Alien?
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, and Washington D.C.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon a sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cypress, Greece, France, Italy, Norway, 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 US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly 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.
These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over one hundred UFOs reported each week represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over one hundred UFOs reported each week represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when I chased one over England while flying for the US Air Force. I’ve been investigating them ever since. The US Air Force under Project Blue Book investigated UFOs for more than twenty years, we continue this research. It is my belief that God has spread his kingdom of intelligent civilizations throughout the universe. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
George A. Filer III
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President Jimmy Carter Saw a UFO
“It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors, and it was about the size of the moon. A red and green glowing orb radiated as it hurtled across the southwestern Georgia skies. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing’s for sure: I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified flying objects in the sky.” It was just another fun night, on January 22, 1969,when suddenly from the sky a UFO at the Leary Lion’s Club for Jimmy Carter when he and friends spotted a UFO.
President Carter filed two formal reports when he was governor of Georgia describing his observation of an unidentified flying object to organizations that collect and promote UFO sightings as unexplained phenomena. (ABCNEWS.com)
We Have Lost Many Men and Planes Trying To Intercept UFOs
George Wolkind writes concerning the statements of General Benjamin Chidlaw, former commanding general of Air (later Aerospace) Defense Command told Robert C. Gardener (ex USAF) in 1953: “We have stack of reports of flying saucers. We take them seriously, when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” George Wolkind writes, “The last time we checked the US lost 214 pilots and Soviets had 38 to possibly 48 dead pilots.” We lost nearly 200 Navy personnel in 1992, and destroyer ordered into the beam of a UFO establishing contact with cetaceans, only four survivors. Other countries such as Cuba and China have also lost aircraft and men.
Time Travelers Allegedly Knew Trump Would be Elected
Evidence DARPA-CIA time travel pre-identified Trump as future U.S. President U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama were also pre-identified by secret Presidential time travel preidentification program, according to Andrew D. Basiago, former chrononaut and 2016 Presidential candidate. Asked whether his statements are hearsay, Andrew D. Basiago responded, “My statement is not hearsay offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted that Trump will win the election. By Alfred Lambremont Webre https://newsinsideout.com/2016/11/evidence-darpa-cia-time-travel-pre-identified-trump-future-u-s-president/
Wikileaks is Releasing UFO Information
The Wikileaks correspondence confirms military and aerospace authorities are involved in communications between John Podesta and
“Sekret Machines” author Tom Delonge about efforts to open up the US government files on UFOs and ETs, which have been suppressed since World War II.
Tom DeLonge is a musician and co-founder of Blink-182 band. He is also a “UFO researcher.” These days, he’s focused on Sekret Machines, his new UFO-centered “multimedia franchise,” which just put out a book where military and intelligence sources tell classified stories about paranormal contact.
DeLonge has always viewed his work on UFOs has extremely important. He feels the mysteries of life in space involve “religion and cosmology, and it has to do with politics and secrecy. As the Wikileaks e-mail dump earlier this month clarified. DeLonge interfaced with John Podesta, chairman of the Clinton campaign. The e-mails indicate that DeLonge interviewed Podesta last year about a potential documentary, and that he wanted to organize another meeting with “A-Level officials” from the government’s “most fragile divisions, as it relates to Classified Science and DOD topics.”
In a recent Instagram post, he writes that “Wikileaks really messed some important stuff up,” implying that he was upset that his private emails about “Classified Science and DOD topics” were released to the public. Also, however, he seems excited about the higher profile his research has gotten because of the release of the e-mails, stating “Project is still on… things just got bigger.”
John Podesta emails show he also wants disclosure. There are hints Obama and Hillary would release disclosure if she was elected. There is also another group, composed of NASA, CIA, possibly White House people who view the ET presence in a positive light, and seem to have a plan related to disclosure.
Grant Cameron, who produces the www.presidentialufo.com/ website is analyzing the ongoing hacked WikiLeaks email dump and expects more revelations based on insider information this week. Allegedly, “John Podesta still has a green light to open up UFO and ET files beginning in January 2017 after the Presidential Inauguration.”
The Wikileaks correspondence confirms military and aerospace authorities are involved in communications between John Podesta and “Sekret Machines”author Tom Delonge about efforts to open up the US government files on UFOs and ETs, which have been suppressed since World War II.
The leaked emails reveal that three of Delonge’s highly placed advisors are Major General William N. McCasland, Robert F. Weiss, Executive VP and General Manager of Skunk Works at Lockheed Martin Corporation, and USAF Major General Michael Carey, retired after serving as Special Assistant to the Commander of the USAF Space Command.
From:t.delonge@me.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2016-01-25 16:04 Subject: General McCasland
exaHe mentioned he’s a “skeptic”, he’s not. I’ve been working with him for four months. I just got done giving him a four hour presentation on the entire project a few weeks ago. Trust me, the advice is already been happening on how to do all this. He just has to say that out loud, but he is very, very aware- as he was in charge of all of the stuff. When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of that exact laboratory up to a couple years ago. He not only knows what I’m trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team. He’s a very important man. Best, Tom DeLonge.
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New President Elect will be Briefed on UFOs and Space
Republican president-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City.
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The country has a new President elect, some are weeping and others are cheering. Hopefully, Trump can carry out his promises. Most of the conversations between President-elect Trump and Congress will probably involve immigration, health care, the economy, and other similarly high-profile issues. But the nation’s future in space will be perhaps the most important. There may be war in space between the technologically advanced nations or perhaps we will join together to fight an alien enemy. President Putin of Russia has indicated he wanted Trump to be President and implies the US and Russia can continue to work together in space.
In his first term, President Barack Obama canceled the space shuttle program and George W. Bush’s
Mars moon-oriented Constellation program and instructed NASA to get
astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid by 2025. Then head for Mars by the mid-2030s. To meet the first part of that directive, NASA devised the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which will pluck a boulder off a near-Earth asteroid using a robotic probe. This spacecraft will then haul the boulder to lunar orbit, where it will be visited by astronauts. But ARM has its share of detractors, and some of them occupy positions of power on Capitol Hill. For example, earlier this year, the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee proposed denying funding to the mission. “The Committee believes that neither a robotic nor a crewed mission to an asteroid appreciably contributes to the overarching mission to Mars,” committee members wrote in a report. “Instead, NASA is encouraged to develop plans to return to the moon to test capabilities that will be needed for Mars, including habitation modules, lunar prospecting and landing and ascent vehicles.”
And that brings up another issue, he added: Just how much international cooperation will there be on NASA’s journey to Mars. Who will the partners be? Could Russia and China be involved, even though U.S. law currently prohibits NASA from working with China to any significant degree? “That’s a very big civil-space public policy question that the next administration will most definitely be tackling,”
The George W. Bush and Obama administrations set NASA on a path that hands over many activities in low-Earth orbit (LEO) to private companies, theoretically freeing up the space agency to focus on more ambitious efforts, like getting people to Mars. For example, SpaceX and Orbital ATK currently fly robotic cargo missions to the International Space Station for NASA, and SpaceX and Boeing should start flying American astronauts to and from the orbiting lab in a year or two.
“That raises a bigger question about, Are there activities NASA has historically done that are perhaps better suited for the private sector to do?” There are other important space-policy questions that must be dealt with at some point, Weeden said. For example, which federal agency should regulate the moon and asteroid-mining industry?
Artist’s illustration of base on the surface of Mars.
Then there’s the national-security realm. Much of the United States’ military might is based on the nation’s dominance in space; for example, sharp-eyed spy satellites often give American war fighters a clearer view of the battlefield than their adversaries can get.
But other countries are increasingly contesting this dominance by developing their own advanced spacecraft and, in some cases, anti-satellite capabilities, experts have said. “There’s much more of a case that in future conflicts, there’s probably going to be a space element of the conflict,” Consultant Brian Weeden said. “How might the U.S. deter potential adversaries such as Russia and China from kinetic attacks on space [assets] in a future conflict? And then, how best to leverage commercial industries and allies in that mix of resilience and assurance?”
President-elect Trump and Congress will therefore have a lot to talk about when it comes to space. And they may have fewer arguments than we’re used to seeing, now that the presidency, House and Senate are all in Republican hands. Thanks to Space.com.
Note: Can anyone seriously suggest that the press didn’t go all out in investigating every aspect of Trump’s life and career? The six major companies that control the news will continue to blame Trump for every conceivable problem. He has successfully built 500 companies, so hopefully he has the ability to rebuild American jobs. The Republican nominee pulled off the incredibly difficult feat of capturing Michigan and Pennsylvania. People are angry and frustrated at a political system that does little for them. The real unemployment figures are around 20%, since anyone who does not collect unemployment insurance is not counted. Most journalists who work for national news organizations are simply out of touch with those folks and failed them in many ways. They news never mentions the killing of thousands of Christians in the Middle East or even UFOs
UFOs Over Canada 1913
“These strange lights, in procession, reappeared on the night of February 9, 1913, over Canada when Professor Chant, of Toronto, made many observations of them. Here is a summary of his report in the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (November 1913, page 141-142 of the Wilkins hardback: A strange spectacle was seen in Canada (Saskatchewan and Ontario), the U.S.A. (New York), at sea, and in Bermuda. A luminous body was seen, with a long tail attached to it. The body grew rapidly larger. Observers differ whether this body was single, or in three or four parts, with a tail to each. The group, or complex structure, moved with a peculiar, majestic deliberation. It disappeared in the distance, and another group emerged from its place of origin. Onward they moved, at the same deliberate pace, in twos, threes, or fours. As third group, or structure followed.” Some people, who observed these weird bodies, compared the singular spectacle to a fleet of airships – shall we say space ships?
others to naval battleships, attended by cruisers and destroyers.
One observer, cited in the scientific journal said” “There were probably 30 or 32 objects, and the peculiar was their moving in threes or fours, abreast of each other, and so perfect was their lining up that you would have thought it was an aerial naval fleet maneuvering after rigid drilling.” On that night, in 1913, a procession of unknown objects carrying lights passed in sky over Toronto, and was seen in Bermuda, and also in New York State. They took from five minutes to pass, and W. F. Denning, who said he had observed the skies since 1865, and had never seen anything like this phenomenon, “It looked like an express train lighted at night…. lights at the tail, one in front, one in the rear, then a succession of lights at the tail.” Sounds were heard from them, and they followed the curvature of the earth, at a relatively low velocity, as no meteorite would do. Chant said that unknown dark objects were seen over Toronto the next day.
“People even said they were airships cruising over the city. They passed from west to east in three groups, and then returned west in more scattered formation.” Thanks to Jim Klotz
“The Ufologist: The Haunting of John Ventre”
Book Review by Brian J. Allan
John Ventre is one of the very few Ufologists who successfully maintain an open mind on the nature of the UFO phenomenon and its possible causes. In this new book John presents a very plausible case based on personal experience that UFOs and their occupants are not necessarily from other worlds or galaxies, but could also have a distinctly occult and magical connection. He bases this on a series of all too close encounters with a number of entities that could sit comfortable in either camp. These are views shared by such noted luminaries as the late John Keel and Jacques Vallee and, as it happens, also with this reviewer.
The author also quotes other paranormal/UFO investigators such as Nick Redfern and mentions the shadowy, quasi-governmental CIA attached group called ‘The Collins Elite’, who came to a very similar conclusion, i.e. that ET’s were almost certainly demonic in nature. John elaborates on this by listing signs of demonic infestation and also lists the hierarchy of demons (and angels). Helpfully he also includes the rite of exorcism as well. The author also shares his timeline of personal haunting by a ghostly ‘something’ that may have had UFO connections and what he describes is truly alarming. This book may not appeal to the rigid mindset of the die-hard ETH Ufologist. This is a pity because in this field of study we need all the support we can get. However to anyone else with a genuinely enquiring outlook the book is truly enlightening and above all entertaining and well worth the purchase price. Brian J Allan is a Scottish paranormal expert, editor of Phenomena magazine and the author of numerous books.
Vatican and UFOs
Cristoforo Barbato an Italian independent UFO researcher and friend of Paola Harris as sent some interesting information that indicates serious Vatican interest in alien life. Barbato spoke at the Palazzo della Provincia of Pescara about the truth behind UFOs organized by the “Ufobserver” Cultural Association. During the conference he spoke about underground bases in the USA.
Barbato writes, “In the year 2000, I was working in Rome as an editor in the “Stargate” magazine and I wrote many articles about the Fatima Apparitions, their famous Third Secret and other Vatican State-related mysteries. After the publication of these articles I started to receive many e-mails from a person who qualified himself as a Vatican insider longing to know me for my researches about Fatima. From those e-mails rose up the story of a presumed Vatican Intelligence Agency named “S.I.V.” code from “Servizio Informazioni del Vaticano”. After one year of such kind of epistolary contacts (in the meantime that person had revealed to me he was a S.I.V. member from the Jesuit order working in structures of the Holy See and I could verify that these informations were true), we finally met in a public place in Rome and I could realize that he knew much more of what he had said in his letters.
Moreover, he sent to me some stuff including a video (shown during the Pescara Conference) regarding observations of something like a tenth planet approaching the Solar System. Such video had been presumably taped in 1995 from a space probe named Siloe and its images had been later sent to a secret radio-telescope hidden in a dismissed oil-refining plant in Alaska, totally managed by Jesuits.”
According to this person the reason to establish the S.I.V. was the meeting with an Alien delegation at Muroc Air Field Base in February 1954 in presence of President Dwight Eisenhower and James Francis McIntyre, bishop of Los Angeles. After the incredible event McIntyre flew to Rome to refer everything to Pope Pius XII who decided to found the S.I.V with the aim to get every possible information about Aliens and how they did interact with the American Government. From then bishop McIntyre and Detroit Archbishop Edward Mooney became the main information coordinators between USA and the Vatican State.
Incredibly, later on there should have been some direct personal meetings between S.I.V. members and a Nordic-looking race of Aliens. These Aliens presumably warned humans against another alien race met by the Americans in the California Desert. These meetings between S.I.V and Aliens took place mainly in the USA territory but also (two times) in the Vatican State, precisely in Vatican Gardens at the Papal Academy of Sciences in presence of Pope Pius XII the same.
He also called “Secretum Omega” the highest secrecy level in S.I.V, equivalent to the NATO “Cosmic Top Secret”. The Vatican has also worked closely with various countries such as Canada and South American countries where sightings are rampant.
In the 18th century, the Papacy actively supported astronomy, establishing the Observatory of the Roman College in 1774. The Vatican built an Observatory is now headquartered in Castel Gandolfo, Italy and operates a telescope at the Mount Graham International Observatory in Arizona in the United States. (above) Thanks to Cristoforo Barbato
Would You Baptize an Alien?
Brother Guy Consolmagno Director
Witty and thought provoking, two Vatican astronomers shed provocative light on some of the places where religion and science meet.
“Imagine if a Martian showed up, all big ears and big nose like a child’s drawing, and he asked to be baptized. How would you react?”– Pope Francis, May, 2014
Pope Francis posed that question – without insisting on an answer! – To provoke deeper reflection about inclusiveness and diversity in the Church. But it’s not the first time that question has been asked.
Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father Paul Mueller hear questions like that all the time.
Did you know that the Vatican owned an observatory run by Jesuit scientists? Consolmagno, is an astronomer who studied at MIT, and Mueller, with a doctorate in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Chicago, are brilliant scientists and theologians, and they both possess a slightly irreverent and refreshing sense of humor. The authors attempt to highlight how the perceived conflict between religion and science is severely overblown. The discrepancies between the book of Genesis and the big bang theory is heady stuff for sure, but the casual writing style makes for an enjoyable learning experience. This is an excellent primer for anyone remotely interested in building a bridge between religious faith and scientific investigation. They’re scientists at the Vatican Observatory, the official astronomical research institute of the Catholic Church.
In Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? Theyexplore a variety of questions at the crossroads of faith and reason: How do you reconcile the Big Bang with Genesis? Was the Star of Bethlehem just a pious religious story or an actual description of astronomical events? What really went down between Galileo and the Catholic Church – and why do the effects of that confrontation still reverberate to this day? Will the Universe come to an end? And… could you really baptize an extraterrestrial?
With disarming humor, Brother Guy Consolmagno, and Father Paul explore these questions and more over the course of six days of dialogue. Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial will make you laugh, make you think, and make you reflect more deeply on science, faith, and the nature of the universe.
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Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Object
Tucson — I was in my front yard and am always looking at the sky on November 4, 2016, and I saw a bright silver moving object. At first I didn’t know what it was but was thinking it was a missile, as it got closer than I know. The object was moving North West from Mexico towards some strange clouds. When I seen it my first thought was a missile but then I could make out a rounder image. I lost it in the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Edwards — We were driving east, passing Edwards Air Force Base and I noticed an object traveling very fast across the highway on November 4, 2016. It had a wobble to it because the suns reflection wasn’t constant and it couldn’t be seen unless it tilted. I happened to take two pictures of it while it was reflecting the sun with my Canon digital camera. I have raw images that can be examined further, but will only submit a jpeg at this time due to the size of the raw image. It was moving too fast to get a good focus. Raw image can be sent if you would like. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Lights
Higganum— My 18 year old son went out on my porch early before work at 5:40 am on October 31, 2016, and took a picture for his girlfriend. After taking the picture my son realized there was some type of craft in the picture that was invisible to his naked eyes. The lights were directly over the church steeple across the street from our house. He looked up at the sky and still saw nothing then came inside to show me the picture. He was pretty surprised at what was in the picture. He felt it was alien and this needed to be shared with others. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
Lakeland— About 2:45 pm, I had just existed off the ramp onto Kathleen Road from Interstate 4 when I noticed, an object while waiting for the light to change on September 10, 2014. As I began, to focus in on the object, it became evident that it wasn’t an aircraft rather, something entirely different. I then, used my camera phone to capture this beautiful object that was in the distance. It was there one second and gone the next. Fortunately, I was able to get at least one picture of this tiny object, before it disappeared entirely. It was a green object the first of many to be shared. The heavens are full of life. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Object
Johns Creek— About five weeks ago while walking our dog, we were noticing a bright flashing light in the sky on October 1, 2016. It was brighter than any star and flashing, but not moving. After three nights of seeing this in the same place, we decided to observe with our telescope. The object is round, and surrounded by bright lights. The lights seem to be in rows, lining the outer edges changing color – white, red, yellow, blue and green. The object moves slowly in a diagonal track for 30 minutes at the same time each night and disappears. We have attached a 35mm digital camera to our telescope and have been able to take pictures and video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orb
Romeoville — I was standing outside smoking a cigarette with my friend when I looked up on October 17, 2016, and to the west I saw a green line with two pulsing red lights on each side standing still in the sky. After 20 minutes or so it slowly moved to the west and then back to the east very slowly and silently. The object was moving from side to side three times across the sky from east to west. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kansas Disc
Wichita— I was taking a photo of an awac aircraft being refueled a couple miles down range at about 9,000 feet in November 3, 2016.
When I got home and loaded film onto my computer I noticed the two objects. They were flying too high for birds. Five minutes before this an F-18 Super Hornet took off from the airport which was very weird. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Light
Brick — On Drump Point Road myself and two others were leaving work on October 24, 2016, the lady with me said, “OMG what’s that?” When I looked up I saw a fire ball, coming from roughly the NW area. First thought was a ufo. As I have seen many videos and documentaries about sightings. I immediately remembered seeing other videos about the same thing I’m witnessing. As it comes closer I grab my camera as is just above us. Watching on my phone while recording it looked more like a fiery plasma ball rotating and pulsating. The other guy came out and also saw the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Objects
Long Beach— This is a resubmission of my past posting with editing notes for clarification on November 5, 2016. I was informed by a Mufon investigator that he was unable to see the objects I described in my photos. Driving on the Meadowbrook Parkway I saw a white orb so I took a picture. I took other pictures in different locations at various times. My pictures include sightings form the Meadowbrook Parkway, Loop Parkway and Lido Blvd. My pictures however showed a lot more detail such as multiple orbs blue and white, a white triangle, and a white curved line and a purple rectangle. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Dakota Object
Fargo – I saw these objects on November 6, 2016 of six small orange points of light passing slowly overhead in triangular formation, crossing the night sky in about 60 seconds. Then few minutes later, two strings of 8 each travelling parallel flew back across sky at much higher rate of speed, passing over in the space of few seconds. Last night, I saw 16 flying objects in a close v formation at high altitude and at high rate of speed, crossing sky in four seconds, till they were out of sight. These craft did not hold tightly to their v formation as some on the outer edges of the formation spread apart. These craft emitted steady pale orange glow, and were about the size and brightness of an average star in the night sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Pill
Fairborn— I was at Maplewood Park with my girl friend on the swings. I looked up and saw a shiny, pill shaped UFO flying overhead. It was completely silent and really high floating across the sky. So I pulled out my cell and started recording. My girl friend and I just watched it and may have been a satellite or a blimp. I was only a couple miles away from Wright Patterson Air Force Base. I lost sight of the object when it flew away. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Chemtrails
All I am saying is that I felt their presence and it’s possible. I did see the continuation of the chemtrails today (DSC00672A). A lot seemed to be flying into and around (unknowingly to them) what I am calling a cloaked mother ship (DSC05145A). Here’s what I wrote yesterday. “On Friday, I was at the Monroe Institute by the big crystal and I saw something similar to the photos you forwarded re: the Crystal Ship. I saw wispy clouds forming and within 5 minutes they dissipated. They would grow from nothing, and then grow a bit and eventually dissipated all within about 5 minutes. Before they did, 10 maybe more round white spheres would be left and then they dissipate like the clouds.” These white spheres looked very similar to the ones in the picture minus the huge alien spacecraft that suddenly appeared in the sky. This round anomaly showed up right next to the airplane.”Ihave a theory. Maybe the chemtrails are serving a purpose other than what the powers that were intended them to be. Maybe the chemtrails are a cloaking device that ETs use when there are no clouds. Maybe I did witness a huge mother ship today, and maybe the smaller ships were in the chemtrails where they can vacuum the chemtrails more readily.” Thanks to Dan Johnson
Washington Lights
Ellensburg — Taken by a friend I was video chatting with on Saturday night June 17, 2016, at 11:00 PM. My light was out and his was also on his side. My bathroom light was on, so I could see the computer. Whatever it is had to be right behind me. I have experienced some odd things, waking up to an old table with a 50 pound marble top moved, loud bangs, seeing shadows, and my daughter said, “She saw a tall man once in front of the fire place.” They investigated this and concluded that it was a grey. A roommate saw a couple of UFO’s three days ago sighted towards Mt. Rainer. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington DC Object
Fort Lincoln –I was aboard Amtrak from New York to Florida when I was taking pictures but I didn’t notice the object until after I got home months later while reviewing the pictures. The picture was taken in Fort Lincoln, Washington, DC on August 2nd, 2016 at 8:51 am. I had experienced some interference with my cell phone reception but at the time I ignored it. The images before and after do not show the object. I’m just curious as to what it is above the busy bridge?
Wisconsin Orb
Burlington — I was waiting in a store parking lot, leaning against my car and looking at the cirrus cloud whips on November 6, 2016. I noticed a bright pinpoint. It went behind the high cloud but was still faintly visible. When the cloud passed, it was still there and I spotted eight other stationary lights/reflections nearby, so I grabbed my phone to take a picture so I could zoom in. I goggled iridium flare, just to try to explain. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Objects
My partner and I were lying on the hood of the vehicle looking up at the stars in the middle of nowhere on November 6, 2016, I spotted a moving object. Showing my partner I told him it was moving way to quick to be a satellite. Then we spotted two more that changed direction. They moved in near the same area like it was a road for UFOs. After they disappeared with a flash we spotted flashes around one star forming a circle. They kept flashing randomly making a circle. It looked like a big flying object that I tried to film, but it was too dark to film. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Disc
Haroldo Westendorff 20 years ago spotted a UFO from his aircraft. One of the most extraordinary sightings of a pilot in Brazil took place in Rio Grande do Sul, on the Lagoa dos Patos.
Haroldo circled the giant UFO three times with his small plane
Wednesday is a special day for the Brazilian Ufology, celebrating twenty years of one of its most impressive cases. On 5 September 1996 the pilot gaucho Haroldo Westendorff, Brazilian bi-champion of acrobatics, flying a plane near the city of São José do Norte. At 10.30 AM on a sunny day 1,800 meters above sea level, Haroldo suddenly faced with a huge object slowly flying over the region.
The UFO had a pyramid shape and base was 100 meters and its height was 50 to 60 meters. Westendorff noted that the object had eight sides and each of these there were three protruding wedges. Noting that detail, he realized that the UFO slowly rotating around its axis. In addition, the top had an oval dome and immediately contacted Harold pellets Airport. An operator of the tower was also able to observe the UFO, but the military radar did not detect any traffic.
The pilot approached the UFO cautiously and began circling it while describing everything via the radio. Suddenly, the upper dome of the object opened and a smaller UFO in the shape of two superposed plates, emerged from there upright, leaned over and fired at extremely high speed, heading for the sea. Haroldo estimated his speed at Mach 10, or ten times the sound and described what came to consider: “I thought I’d take a dip with the plane of the opening of the ship to see what was inside, but gave up when that opening came a column of reddish and undulating rays that scared me so I moved 200 meters from the ship.”
A few moments later, the giant UFO shot vertically enormous speed, causing fear in the pilot, He did not notice any wind or noise. The operator of the Pelotas tower, Airton Mendes da Silva, stated, “I saw an object in the form of a gray triangle with rounded edges.” The Case Haroldo Westendorff is one of the most impressive and emblematic Brazilian ufology, The UFO shot away at high speed after releasing a column of red rays. Thanks to Google Translate and Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Objects
Don Mills— I was walking home from work on November 1, 2016, and noticed there were more stars than normal. At first, I thought it was the moon or a star changing into various colors but was not moving. I instantly froze and my body became cold. Then I ran pulled out my phone and began trying to get the clearest recording of it that I possibly could. The night before on my way home from work I also observed north of me that there was a huge black triangle with five lights shaped like an upside down Y. I also got really scared and ran inside. The flashing orb I saw the second time did not move but only kept changing colors. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Cypress Light
Pafos — While on holiday with my fiancée we spotted this in the sky on September25, 2016, l decided to capture a few shots to see if l could capture their emitting frequency and lights. l have zoomed into some of the pictures but have left the originals for your own experiment or perception. Although l am convinced as UFOs have followed me all my life as mufon stated in my last sighting. I look forward to your views. Hope this helps prove one more piece existence of life is not just earth and us. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Greece Sightings
Nea Moudani— My friends were going to drink coffee and having fun on October 20, 2016. It was 23:30 hours and my friends started taking selfies with their phones. I took a picture with my smart phone that look like two objects with orange lights that look like dots or missiles, also one object with three white lights that looks like a triangle shape.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Lights
Crumlin— I was on the phone in my backyard on October 13, 2016. I looked up to see a large black diamond/cone shaped object. It was about 5.30 PM, when I saw a wobbling object a few miles away. It suddenly changed direction and flew NW away from me into cloud cover which is when I managed to take a picture! It all happened so fast, suddenly it was gone. I live in the country near an airport so I’m use to seeing lights/objects in the sky. You see them all out here, 99.9% I can explain. This one I can’t. It seemed too big for a balloon and was oddly shaped for one. I saw a UFO instead of something that can be explained. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Mysterious x-rays coming from Pluto leave scientists baffled
Mysterious x-rays coming from Pluto leave scientists baffled
The X-rays were detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory on four separate occasions between February 2014 and August 2015.
X-rays are usually produced by the interaction of solar wind, the flow of charged particles from the sun, and the neutral gas atoms around a planet or comet.
Scientists did not think it was possible for Pluto to produce x-rays because, when the New Horizons spacecraft flew by it in 2015, it found that the dwarf planet has no measurable magnetic field and its atmosphere is a very tenuous layer of gases.
However a new study has found that a very small amount of x-rays are still leaking from the planet.
Chandra detected 174 kiloseconds worth of X-rays ‒ amounting to just seven photons ‒ over the course of about two days’ observation time. This is a tiny amount of data, but is still considerably more than the researchers were expecting, and they are struggling to explain why the X-rays are there, as the paper The Puzzling Detection of X-rays From Pluto by Chandra outlines.
It’s thought that the observation could lead to further discoveries. Pluto is the largest entity in the Kuiper belt, an icy disk in the solar system that is largely made up of small bodies. Scientists believe that if the X-rays coming off Pluto are also being emitted by other objects in the belt, then X-ray observations could help find them.
Mysterieuze röntgenstraling afkomstig van Pluto stelt wetenschappers voor raadsel
Mysterieuze röntgenstraling afkomstig van Pluto stelt wetenschappers voor raadsel
Uit metingen van de Amerikaanse röntgensatelliet Chandra blijkt dat dwergplaneet Pluto een bron van röntgenstraling is, laat deNASAweten.
Tussen februari 2014 en augustus 2015 heeft de satelliet tot veer keer toe röntgenstraling opgevangen die afkomstig is van Pluto.
De straling is het gevolg van de interactie tussen de zonnewind en de gassen in de ijle atmosfeer van Pluto. Het is voor het eerst dat er röntgenstraling is gemeten afkomstig van een object in de Kuipergordel.
Veel groter
Wetenschappers dachten dat de dwergplaneet niet in staat zou zijn om dergelijke straling te produceren.
Pluto is namelijk een koude, rotsachtige wereld zonder magnetisch veld en beschikt niet over een natuurlijk mechanisme om deze straling uit te zenden.
Uit een nieuwe studie blijkt echter dat Pluto toch röntgenstraling voortbrengt. De röntgenhelderheid van de dwergplaneet is daarnaast veel groter dan verwacht.
Eerder werd al ontdekt dat ook kometen en de ringen van Saturnus röntgenstraling uitzenden.
Torus van gas
De vraag is nu waarom Pluto zoveel röntgenstraling produceert. Een mogelijke verklaring is dat de staart van gassen die de dwergplaneet achter zich aansleept langer en breder is dan gedacht.
Andere mogelijkheden zijn dat magnetische velden meer zonnedeeltjes dan verwacht in de richting van Pluto geleiden of dat zich langs de baan van Pluto een torus van gas heeft gevormd.
Pluto is het grootste object in de Kuipergordel, een ring of gordel die een enorme hoeveelheid kleine hemellichamen bevat die achter Neptunus in een baan om de zon draaien.
Het onderzoek is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Icarus.
De meest vreemde komeet in ons zonnestelsel is ongetwijfeld komeet P67.
Hij zendt alleen radiosignalen, maar zo te zien hebben buitenaardsen het zich daar ook gemakkelijk gemaakt.
Eerder deze week schreven wij al over deze bijzondere komeet (zie onder) en hoe uit recente NASA foto’s bleek dat er een ruimteschip/UFO boven de komeet hing.
Het wordt nog vreemder, want nu is er op de komeet zelf een soort geparkeerd ruimteschip aangetroffen.
Het is een ontdekking die is gedaan door ufoloog Scott Waring op een EAS (European Space Administration) foto van juli dit jaar.
Duidelijk is dat het geen vlekje op de lens is, maar een klein soort ruimtevaartuig dat een beetje lijkt op een modern stealth gevechtsvliegtuig.
Een UFO in een dergelijke kleur steekt ook wel mooi af tegen het donkere oppervlakte van de komeet en kan dan ook op geen enkele wijze worden afgedaan als een “natuurlijk verschijnsel”.
Dat zal dan ook wel de achterliggende reden zijn dat alle communicatie met de Rosetta opeens is opgehouden omdat deze gecrasht zou zijn. Scott is er heilig van overtuigd dat dit een leugen is en dat de missie in het geheim gewoon doorgaat.
Wat die missie dan is, is niet duidelijk, maar wel dat er buitenaardsen bij betrokken zijn.
De foto waar Scott dit ruimtevaartuig op heeft gevonden, is hier te bekijken.
Een komeet die radiosignalen uitzendt en waar de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA miljarden euro’s aan uitgeeft om die te onderzoeken.
Ogenschijnlijk kwam er enkele weken geleden een einde aan de Europese ruimtemissie naar de komeet 67P
Op 30 september 2016, om 12.38 uur crashte Rosetta gecontroleerd op de komeet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Om 13.20 uur (Nederlandse tijd), kwam de bevestiging binnen dat Rosetta gecrasht is. Deze vertraging werd veroorzaakt doordat het 40 minuten duurde voordat de data de aarde bereikte. De sonde werd in overeenstemming met internationale afspraken automatisch uitgezet vlak voor de landing, dit om te voorkomen dat de zender als een stoorzender in het zonnestelsel zou gaan werken en andere observaties zou gaan storen. De crash betekent het einde van de succesvolle missie van Rosetta.
Echter, de dag voordat Rosetta crashte, zijn er toch nog wel een paar interessante opnames gemaakt waaruit blijkt dat die komeet toch wel even iets meer is dan men ons wil laten geloven.
Zoals op de volgende opname te zien, hangt er een grote UFO boven de rotsmassa van komeet 67P.
De bekende videomaker op Youtube BP Earthwatch ontving een e-mail met het volgende nogal schokkende bericht:
Het bericht is afkomstig van iemand die werkt binnen ESA (European Space Agency). Deze zegt dat de belangstelling voor deze komeet zo’n twintig jaar geleden werd gewekt doordat NASA radiosignalen ontving, afkomstig van deze komeet.
Dat niet alleen, maar ergens in de afgelopen twintig jaar schijnt 67P ook van koers te zijn veranderd.
Veel wetenschappers hebben ook al hun verbazing uitgesproken over het uiterlijk van deze komeet omdat men een soort sneeuw en ijsklomp had verwacht. Iets waarbij in het geval van 67P absoluut geen sprake is.
Besloten werd volgens de klokkenluider om deze “komeet” met een bezoek te vereren. Om de aandacht af te leiden en dit zo geruisloos mogelijk te doen, werd een samenwerking aangegaan tussen NASA en ESA, waarbij de laatste een missie zou organiseren onder de noemer van onderzoek naar een komeet.
De klokkenluider zegt verder: "Jullie zijn toch niet zo gek om te geloven dat ze deze Rosetta missie die al in 2004 werd gelanceerd en miljarden Dollars kost, zomaar gaan doen om een stukje rots in de ruimte te onderzoeken? Nee, ze doen dit omdat er iets aan de hand is met 67P en omdat ze vandaar radiosignalen hebben opgevangen".
Wat 67P ook moge zijn, volgens de klokkenluider is het zeker dat het geen komeet is.
Dan, net voordat de Rosetta voor ons gewone mensen volledig uit beeld verdwijnt, een ruimteschip wat daar hangt wat minstens 100 meter lang is.
I found this long building on the planet Mercury today. It really stood out and it was build on the edge of the crater wall. This building could move from place to place...think motorhome style of living, but could be in this location for mining. Basho crater is 75km in diameter says NASA, so this building is 1/8 the distance across the crater, so the length of the building is 9.37km across or 5 miles long. That is big enough to hold tens of thousands of people.
There is also a very large dark tower. Its on the opposite side of the crater and is as tall as the building is long...about 5 miles high.
The evidence is mounting up day by day. Soon an avalanche of evidence will be falling upon NASA, forcing them to tell the truth...that intelligent extraterrestrials do exist.
UFO Over Fresno Could Be Sign Big Earth Quake Is On Its Way, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Fresno Could Be Sign Big Earth Quake Is On Its Way, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Nov 10, 2016 Location of sighting: Fresno, California, USA Source: MUFON #80359 It the photos above you can clearly see a flying disk over Fresno this week. The disk appears to be metallic and has a blur around it. The blur was explained long ago by Bob Lazar of Area 51, who said, the blur is associated with the propulsion of the craft. I agree, every points to this being an alien craft over Fresno, but its kind of brazen to be over such a high populate area, unless they examining the San Andreas quake line. This may be a sign of a very big earth quake coming. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was in my backyard in Fresno,Ca. I was taking random photos of the sky just before and during sunset. The weather was warm with scattered light clouds. I did not see the object in question I only saw the object on my photo after I uploaded it to my Mac iPhoto. I was very surprised and taken back when I captured another UFO on my photos. This clearly did not look like a typical plane. This object was ovals/disc shaped and solid black with no windows, wings and not sound. It must have travelled fast since I did not see it. I was the only person in my backyard. This happened on November 11, 2016 around 6pm or so. I have over 200 photos of UFO's that I have when I take random photos of the sky. Some photos have one other may have three objects. I do not have photoshop. I own a Nikon D3300. I have also included other photos to share.
This object from space fell last night and its really big. Don't let the seems fool you. I have found alien artefacts with seems before, the greatest of my finds, a face on Mercury with detail and seems similar to that of the statue of liberty but of a black man was one of my greatest finds, however, my Asus computer caught a rare black screen virus just 24 hours later, destroying all my screenshots, and links to the site, and destroying my entire computer.
The object above may be an alien created fragment of an object, but it does has similarities to rocket boosters. Its not a military satellite, since its mostly an empty container, and military satellites are mostly small, compact and loaded with tech...this one is mostly empty...which means it probably held fuel. This is an old part of a rocket and could have been stuck in orbit for decades.
Scott C. Waring
BBC News states:
The cylindrical object, found on Thursday in Kachin state, is 4.5m (15ft) long and 1.2m wide.
Another piece of metal with Chinese writing on it tore through the roof of a nearby house at about the same time, but no injuries were reported.
It is thought that the incident might be related to the launch of a Chinese satellite.
Trouble in orbit: Growing problem of space junk
A Chinese Long March 11 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on Wednesday night, carrying an experimental satellite.
'Houses shook'
Local residents reported hearing a loud bang before the object landed.
Officials from the local Defence Service said it bounced 150ft (50m) and landed in a muddy area of the mine, according to the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
"We were all afraid of that explosion," villager Ko Maung Myo told the Myanmar Times. "Initially, we thought it was a battle. The explosion made our houses shake. We saw the smoke from our village." (more at source)
Half Of the Truth About Aliens Still Kept Secret, MoD Source Admits
Half Of the Truth About Aliens Still Kept Secret, MoD Source Admits
The governments of this world are not telling the complete details they know about aliens, according to the founder of Strange Phenomena Investigation, Malcolm Robinson.
A source with a connection to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has revealed to Robinson that governments, including Britain, aren’t telling even 50 percent of the truth.
The MoD had operated a UFO desk for three decades but stopped in 2009 because it was allegedly not helping the country’s defence and taking away resources and staff from more important activities. The public can access the findings gathered in the last two years of MoD UFO desk’s operation in the National Archives website, which holds other UFO files that MoD has previously released.
The collection of 25 files containing 4,400 pages includes a letter written by two Staffordshire young boys. The letter includes a narration about an apparent alien with a lemon-shaped head that invited the two boys to come with them.
Also included are sketches from recorded sightings, such as the color of the lights by the unknown aircraft and its height.
Robinsons, a paranormal investigator for decades, called for the government to conduct a serious investigation on sightings, including old case police files from Bonnybridge, Scotland, which comprised of at least 300 sightings.
He said the Ministry of Defense has slowly released records from the government in the U.K. The U.S. has also been declassified documents that clearly show NSA had connivance with governments from other nations and known exactly the truth.
As the world watched the race for the next president of the United States, it seemed that anyone else out there did the same.
UFO spotters have been left without a clue as to who or what was following the now U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s helicopter as it flew during his campaign.
The photographer, who chose not to be named, captured a blob following closely behind the business tycoon turned politician chopper as it flew a group of children above the Iowa State Fair.
According to the report of the witness to a U.S. national UFO database, Donald Trump gave children a ride in his helicopter at the Iowa State Fair.
The witness stated that they were walking down the street to the fair. They saw Trump’s helicopter flying overhead. The reporting witness decided to take a photo of the chopper using his phone camera.
When he later reviewed the picture while sitting in the shade, the witness was shocked to see the UFO in the photograph.
The Iowa Mutual UFO Network branch is reportedly investigating the report and the photo.
MUFON spokesman Roger Marsh suggested that the object could be anything from a second helicopter to a bird or perhaps a UFO. He said that picture analysis might shed some light on the object’s identity.
Mysterious Metal Fragment Recovered Near Roswell UFO Crash Site
Mysterious Metal Fragment Recovered Near Roswell UFO Crash Site
Vital clues may be lurking around the strange fragment of metal recovered near the scene of the infamous Roswell UFO crash site.
Best-selling author Ben Mezrich discovered the scrap, which is awaiting to be tested, when he visited the site to research his new book “The 37th Parallel.” The book investigated the UFO and paranormal road of the same name. Part of the 37th north parallel in latitude has become known for UFO sightings and unexplained animal mutilation cases.
The road is also believed to house several U.S. military bases and American Indian holy sites.
The Roswell case became so famous after the military announced they had recovered the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the nearby desert. However, they retracted their statement the following day, saying it was just a damaged U.S. Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward with claims that they saw alien bodies within the crashed sites along with the wreckage, which were taken to the top-secret Area 51 in Nevada.
The book looks into the bottom of UFO sightings along the parallel, including the Roswell incident. It charts the work of UFOlogist Chuck Zukowski, who investigated various cases along the parallel, which takes in Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and southern ridge of Colorado, for several years.
Mr. Mezrich is also the author of the best-selling book “The Accidental Billionaires,” which the film “The Social Network” is basing. He was a total skeptic before researching for his books. As from a family of scientists, he assumed before that most of the UFO community was crazy.
However, Mr. Mezrich became a believer when he met Mr. Zukowski, a former sheriff’s deputy and a part-time microchip engineer. Mr. Mezrich said that he now believes something happened at Roswell.
In 2002, Mr. Zukowski found strange triangular pieces of metal close to the 1947 Roswell crash site. However, it was just recently that he sent a fragment of it to the laboratory of Bigelow Aerospace. Conclusive results of the examination are yet to be released, according to the book
London teens battle aliens that invade their neighborhood in “Attack the Block.” Courtesy photo
BY ROD POCOWATCHIT
In honor of the new Amy Adams alien flick “Arrival,” well, arriving, here are 10 essential aliens-invade Earth movies (it should be noted that not included on my list are movies where there was no actual invasion, like “E.T.” or “Starman,” who did more hanging out than invading
When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team - lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) - are brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers – and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
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▪ “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977)
– Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi classic follows a group of people who are psychically connected to aliens who pay Earth a friendly, colorful, tuneful visit. It’s novel, grand in scope and simply breathtaking. And I’ve never looked at mashed potatoes quite the same way after seeing Richard Dreyfuss’ mashed potato sculpture scene.
▪ “The War of the Worlds” (2005)
– Speaking of Spielberg, the director’s take on H.G. Wells’ classic tale is a visceral, scary rush, led by a hearty performance from Tom Cruise as a less-than-perfect father tasked with trying to get his kids to safety when aliens attack. The scene with Tim Robbins where we don’t see anything but know exactly what’s going on is indelible – and genius.
▪ “Signs” (2002)
– Mel Gibson stars as the father of a family that finds mysterious crop circles in farm fields that could signal an alien invasion. Director M. Night Shyamalan was at the top of his game here, including nods to Alfred Hitchcock and even Spielberg himself. Everything kind of goes haywire with a ludicrous ending (as Shyamalan’s films tend to do), but up until then it’s an eerily tense mystery.
▪ “District 9” (2009)
– While most alien invasion films tend to treat the world as U.S. territory, co-writer/director Neill Blomkamp set his tale in South Africa (where he’s from), where an extraterrestrial race has arrived seeking solace and is forced to live in slum-like conditions. The film’s parallels to apartheid and immigration are none too subtle, but it makes for topical commentary.
▪ “Independence Day” (1996)
– OK, OK, it’s not actually a good film, but it’s a great bad one and more than a guilty pleasure. Sure, there are logic and plot holes big enough to drive a spaceship through, but who can resist Bill Pullman’s president speech? “We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!” I shed a little tear just now.
▪ “They Live” (1988)
– Wrestler-turned-“actor” “Rowdy” Roddy Piper gives a monotone, wooden performance in John Carpenter’s cult classic, but that actually makes it even better. He plays a man who stumbles across a pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens in our midst and expose evil subliminal forces at work in our everyday surroundings. The film’s Big Brother-like predictions are a bit too close for comfort.
▪ “Edge of Tomorrow” (2014)
– Tom Cruise plays a soldier, but the real star is the film’s “Groundhog Day”-like premise, in which Cruise slowly figures out how to fight off aliens by having to live the same day over and over again. It’s dazzling, gripping and a lot of fun.
▪ “Starship Troopers” (1997)
– Campy as all get-out but wearing it like a badge of honor is Paul Verhoeven’s giddily violent sci-fi mash-up where aliens that look like giant bugs have invaded Earth. It’s completely ridiculous but pure adrenaline-fueled fun.
▪ “Attack the Block” (2011)
– This British import is director Joe Cornish’s under-the-radar gem, about a teen gang in South London defending their block from an alien invasion. It’s funny, creative and exciting with some sly social commentary. It also stars a newcomer who would go on to stardom in a galaxy far, far away: John Boyega, who plays Finn in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
▪ “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951)
– No, not that painfully boring 2008 Keanu Reeves remake, but the original black-and-white classic about an alien that arrives and tells the people of Earth they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. Its environmental message was light years ahead of its time. But will we ever listen?
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and UFOs
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and UFOs
Ghosts & the Supernatural – Image Interpreters within the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) have an array of satellite imagery to analyze. The name ‘geospatial intelligence’ (GEOINT) basically means the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial data to dissect visual images of physical features and geographical activities on Earth.
If we are being visited by UFOs, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will most likely be the first ones to know it.
NGA most likely see UFOs flying in and around Earth and even near our satellites. NGA supports civilian and military leaders in their preparation for readiness of US Military forces. They also contribute towards humanitarian efforts such as tracking disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
NGA is a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., NGA operates major facilities in the St. Louis, Mo. and Washington, D.C. areas. The Agency also fields support teams worldwide.
Through the Freedom of Information Act, it is necessary for UFO Hunters worldwide to assemble and attempt to collect any information on UFOs that the NGA may have. If anyone knows that we are not alone, it would definitely be the NGA that knows.
Besides the NGA knowing about the truth of UFOs, here is a report that I received from two men who make claim that they are connected with the Israeli Mossad and Interpol. The UFO report that they disclosed is from South Africa:
Did Aliquis of Israeli Mossad and Hospes of Interpol witness a UFO in South Africa? Is Aliquis with the Israeli Mossad and is Hospes with Interpol? You decide.
Note: Israeli Mossad is aka The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations and Interpol is aka International Criminal Police Organization. Could Aliquis and Hospes belong to these two groups and were they on assignment in South Africa for these organizations? Read on:
At 10pm January 1, 2011, I may have received a phone call from operatives of the Israeli Mossad and Interpol, but of course again, it could have been a prank international call. I report it as it comes to me. Here is that report:
Paul: Hello?
Aliquis: (Speaker Phone) Hello Paul, we just had a UFO sighting that was kind of unusual and want to make a report. (Accent).
Paul: Sure, go ahead. What is your name?
Aliquis: Call me Aliquis, my partner here is Hospes.
Paul: What are your full names? Where are you calling from, this is a very unusual number?
Hospes: No full names please ( British accent?). We are here at Annadale, South Africa and we see something unusual. We can’t explain it. Do you take UFO reports?
Paul: Yes, HPI takes UFO reports, how did you find me?
Aliquis: We read your UFO stories on Internet, you are easy access to reach. This morning at 8am we see two UFOs. One UFO chase other UFO and shoot beam at UFO. UFO keeps beam on other UFO and moves it along and up into the clouds. The clouds parted and we could see the blue sky.
Paul: It is 10pm here and it’s still Jan 1st, it must be Jan 2nd over there, correct?
Hospice: Yes, correct.
Paul: So, you are saying the other UFO shot out a trajectory beam at the other UFO and it appeared it was towing the other UFO with a beam?
Hospice: Yes.
Paul: What kind of work do you two do and do you live in South Africa?
Aliquis: No, I am from Israel and my friend is from England. We are on assignment here in South Africa.
Paul: What kind of assignment?
Aliquis: I cannot comment on that.
Paul: What are the weather conditions? I have to ask you what kind of work do you do, for establishment of your character for this report?
Hospes: Aliquis is an Intelligence Analyst and I work in a Criminal Analysis Department. Some rain, partly cloudy at times, some thunder and saw some lightning.
Paul: Hospes, sounds like he is from England and if he works for a Criminal Analysis Department, then most likely he works for Interpol?
Hospes: I cannot disclose that. Have there been any other sightings in South Africa?
Paul: Yes, South Africa is sometimes a hotbed of UFO activity. I believe in 1965 some constables saw a UFO land in South Africa and 1974 2 men were abducted by a UFO. Many sightings take place in South Africa. Did you see any lights on the UFOs and what were the shape?
Hospes: Disc shaped and they were both pulsating red, we were maybe 10 miles from the UFOs when we saw them.
Paul: Did they change color?
Hospes: No.
Paul: Was there any sound emitting from the crafts?
Hospes: No.
Paul: Were there any aircraft nearby?
Hospes: Not that we can see.
Paul: Were you two the only ones that saw it?
Hospes: From what we can tell, yes.
Paul: Do you think there was some kind of misidentification, perhaps these were conventional aircraft and what you saw was a light emitting from one plane to another and the other plane followed the other plane into the clouds?
Aliquis: No, we are experienced observers, we know what aircraft look like, we make no mistakes and my organization has not made any mistake, only when we didn’t capture Mengele.
Paul: What? Mengele? The former German SS Officer that was on the run, the Angel of Death? Israeli Mossad was after Mengele, are you Mossad?
Aliquis: (Laughing) Paul…you are a funny man, even if I was, I would not be able to disclose that.
Paul: Okay, I think I have everything for my report. If you think of anything else or come across any other witnesses, please contact me again.
Aliquis: We will.
Personal Note from Paul: I do believe that Aliquis and Hospes saw something in South Africa, something that they will never forget. Many prestigious men and women of all walks of life have seen UFOs. Here are some quick case examples. Major General Wilfried De Brouwer, a very distinguished Belgium military officer has reported sightings of UFOs. As of November 29, 1989 a total of 143 UFOs have been reported in Belgium alone. Federal police at Lake Gileppe witnessed a UFO shoot out 2 red light beams with a red ball at the spearhead of both beams, in the horizontal plane.
Neil Daniels a United Airlines pilot Captain for 35 years with 30,000 flying hours under his belt and holds the distinguished flying. Neil in 1977 saw a UFO with his co-pilot and flight engineer. They observed a perfect round brilliant light at their wing tip, only a mere 1000 yards away from their United DC-10 that was enroute to Boston Logan from San Francisco.
With credible witnesses like this, I scoff at the critics. These men know what conventional aircraft look like. When they say they saw a UFO, I have a strong tendency to believe them. When I hear someone faced with witnesses like this and say they are skeptical, I say SHUT UP and listen! Okay let’s move on.
In 1982 a Portuguese air force pilot named Julio Guerra looked out his cockpit window and saw a low flying metallic disc. He was the Captain of Portugalia Airlines, he only saw this one UFO, but it changed his life forever.
General Parviz Jafari of the Iranian Air Force on Sept 18, 1976 was flying over Tehran and encountered 2 UFOs. The UFOs did not show up on radar and at one point of time Jafari was preparing to shoot down the UFOs with his AIM-9 heat seeking missiles. All instruments on the plane stopped working, communication disabled, weapon control panel went out as he observed the UFOs that went 10 degrees to the right, 10 degrees to the left and 10 degrees back to the right, something that a jet can’t even do! When the UFOs were gone, all instruments on the plane came back on and were in working order.
Comandante Oscar Santa Maria Huertas of the Peruvian Air Force witnessed UFOs, the list goes on and on and on! Did you know the FAA investigated a UFO that chased a Japanese 747 across the Alaskan sky for 30 minutes on November 7, 1986? Prestigious people from all around the world have witnessed UFOs or discovered the government knew more about UFOs than they want to admit, ask former head of British Defense Ministry’s UFO Investigative Unit Nick Pope. Ask Fife Symington III, former governor of Arizona what he thinks those Phoenix lights were, believe me he does not think they are flares!
It’s just a matter of time, when we realize that: 1. We are not alone. 2. Extraterrestrials kick started the human race and have been with us since the beginning of time. 3. Our governments knew about UFOs all along and suppressed it from the people. The day of enlightment will be here soon.
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UFO hunter reveals UK version of Area 51
UFO hunter reveals UK version of Area 51
365994 03: A warning sign marks the boundary of Area 51, March 12, 2000 in Rachel, Nevada. This sleepy Nevada town is located just a stone's throw from the secret U.S. military base known as Area 51. Locals claim that strange things occur around here such as the appearance of UFO's in the sky and other otherworldly oddities emanating from the military base. Due to these bizarre circumstances, the town's economy has geared up for tourism. The 'Little Ale Inn' and the 'Area 51' research center are just two of the many tourist attractions the town has to offer.
A paranormal investigator claimed that the British government is hiding the truth about UFOs and aliens. There have been hundreds of UFO sightings across the continents and the United Kingdom is just one of the countries known as a UFO hotspot.
The founder of the Strange Phenomena Investigations that is responsible for carrying out UFO and Paranormal Research, Malcolm Robinson, has recently revealed that the former Ministry of Defense (MoD) has disclosed several cold case police files from Bonnybridge showing evidence of at least 300 UFO sightings at UK's own "Area 51".
The United Kingdom also has its own Area 51 just like in the U.S. This Area 51 is allegedly considered as a secret military base where the remains of the UFO space crafts are stored. According to a report published by TIME Magazine, UK possibly houses a top secret facility which is similar to Area 51 that stores evidences about UFO and alien sightings.
According to the reports, Malcolm has already submitted the case files about UFO sightings to the former British Prime Minister, David Cameron. He has also requested the government to launch a formal inquiry about extraterrestrial sightings. However, the request was ignored.
The Mystery behind Area 51
In 2013, CNNreported that the Central Intelligence Agency has finally admitted that the Area 51 in Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States is storing debris of extraterrestrial aircraft. And on 2014, the former Area 51 scientist, Boyd Bushman has exposed the evidence of aliens and UFOs before his last breath.
Now, it is not just the United States that stores UFO and aliens evidence. According to Robinson, the governments including Britain had covered up many sightings and files about UFOs and aliens. He claimed that the manager of the defunct UFO desk, Nick Pope have lots of evidence, but refused to divulge half of it to the world.
UFO Department and Hotline was Shut Down
In 2009, the UFO department and hotline were closed because it no longer served its defense purpose. Documents were taken away and were later revealed from the Freedom of Information. Mr. Robinson said that the Ministry of Defence has slowly unveiled the government files about UFO sightings in the UK.
The Canadian military has investigated mysterious sounds in Canada's Arctic.JONATHAN HAYWARD/ AP
The theories range from UFOs operating under the ice to the release of methane gas to Russian or U.S. submarines lurking around in Canadian waters.
But one possible explanation for the mysterious sounds seemingly coming from the ocean floor in Canada’s Arctic may be rather straightforward, suggests a U.S. scientist working on project that generates low frequency sound in the far North. It could be ice rubbing together.
Last week, acting on a request from the government of Nunavut, the Canadian military sent a CP-140 Aurora aircraft to conduct surveillance of Fury and Hecla Strait, northwest of the hamlet of Igloolik. Hunters in the area have reported hearing noises ranging from hums to pings to beeps. They say the noises are driving animals away.
Paul Quassa, a member of Nunavut’s legislative assembly, told lawmakers last month the sounds seem to be coming from the sea floor. “The sound that has been heard in the area seems to be emitted from the seabed and underwater,” Quassa said in an Oct. 25 statement.
According to Department of National Defence spokesman Dan Le Bouthillier, the Aurora’s crew conducted “various multi-sensor searches in the area, including an acoustic search for 1.5 hours, without detecting any acoustic anomalies. The crew did not detect any surface or subsurface contacts.” The Aurora crew did observe two pods of whales and six walruses in the area of interest, Le Bouthillier added.
Residents have speculated about various theories for the sounds, including that a mining company may be conducting sonar surveys or that environmentalists may be using some kind of device to scare away animals so they can’t be hunted. Others have suggested the release of methane gases from the ocean floor or clandestine visits by Russian or U.S. submarines.
One of the more prominent theories focused on the claim the sounds were being emitted by a science project in the Arctic funded by the Office of Naval Research in the U.S. That project, called the Canada Basin Acoustic Propagation Experiment or CANAPE, uses low frequency sound to determine how the ongoing changes in sea ice affect acoustics. The project could produce data for use in tracking submarines in the far North.
But Peter Worcester of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California said the sounds being generated by CANAPE are very low and too far away to be heard in the Fury and Hecla Strait. “The signals transmitted for CANAPE are only expected to be above the background ocean noise level out to a range of at most a few hundred kilometers, which is much less than the distance to Fury and Hecla Strait,” said Worcester, who heads the project. “Even if the signals were louder, any underwater sound generated north of Alaska would be blocked from reaching Fury and Hecla Strait by the many islands in the Canadian Archipelago.”
Worcester said he didn’t know what would cause the mystery sounds and is loath to speculate since he hasn’t heard them himself. But he noted much of the acoustic noise in the Arctic is caused by ice rubbing together, cracking, and moving. Early Arctic explorers called the noises the “Devil’s Symphony” with descriptions ranging from buzzing, wheezing and loud bangs.
“You can even get things where the ice hums, where you get sounds that resonate almost like an organ pipe,” Worcester explained. “There was a paper written about the notion there are various melodies associated with the sounds generated by sea ice.”
A spokesman with the DND said the department considers the issue of the mystery noises now closed and there are no plans at this time to send more aircraft to investigate.
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The US Military's Secretive X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts
The US Military's Secretive X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Introduction
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane has been zipping around Earth since May 2015 while it performs a number of hush-hush activities. The current mission is the fourth for the robotic X-37B, which is also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). The other three OTV flights launched in April 2010, March 2011 and December 2012. Here are a few surprising facts about the military space plane.
Credit: Boeing
1. It's tiny
The X-37B looks a lot like NASA's iconic space shuttle, but the two types of vehicles don't resemble each other in size. The X-37B is just 29 feet (8.8 meters) long, with a wingspan of 15 feet (4.6 m). The now-retired space shuttle orbiters, by contrast, were 122 feet (37 m) long, and measured more than 78 feet (24 m) from wingtip to wingtip. Two X-37Bs could fit inside the shuttle's cavernous payload bay. Indeed, the X-37B's designers originally envisioned the shuttle carrying the smaller space plane to orbit but ultimately decided that launching the X-37B atop a rocket would be more economical. The X-37B currently rides to orbit aboard United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket. Like the space shuttle, the X-37B lands on a runway, plane-style, but does everything autonomously (in contrast to the piloted shuttle, which usually carried a crew of seven astronauts).
Credit: United Launch Alliance/Boeing
2. Its missions are classified
Although the Air Force has disclosed some of the payloads that have flown to orbit on the X-37B, most of the space plane's onboard gear is classified, as are the details of its orbital activities. This secrecy has led to some speculation that the vehicle is some sort of space weapon, perhaps one designed to take out or capture satellites. However, the Air Force has always denied this notion, insisting that the X-37B is just testing out technologies for future spacecraft, and carrying various experiments up to space and back. Some of these technologies being tested may be sensors and other equipment for future spy satellites, outside experts have said.
Credit: Boeing
3. It has NASA roots
The X-37 program started in 1999 with NASA, which initially planned to develop two separate vehicles: an Approach and Landing Test Vehicle (ALTV), and an Orbital Vehicle (OV). But NASA transferred X-37 development to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2004, at which point it became a classified program. In 2006, the Air Force announced it would develop its own X-37 vehicle, which it dubbed the X-37B, or OTV. The design of the space plane was based heavily on the original OV, which was never built. (DARPA did construct and test the ALTV, however.) Boeing has been the primary contractor for the X-37B program dating back to its inception in 1999. To date, the company has apparently built two X-37B space planes for the Air Force. (Two different vehicles have flown the program's four space missions.)
Credit: United Launch Alliance
4. The missions are incredibly long
The Air Force's X-37B fact sheet states that the space plane is designed to spend up to 270 days in orbit at a time. However, the vehicle has already zoomed past that limit multiple times. The first X-37B mission, known as OTV-1, stayed aloft for just 225 days. But OTV-2 and OTV-3 lasted 469 days and 674 days, respectively. OTV-4 has been circling Earth for more than 530 days, and when it will land is anybody's guess. This longevity may be a key part of the X-37B. After all, engineers testing technologies for future satellites want to see how this gear behaves in the space environment for long periods of time, experts have said.
Credit: Kevin Fetter
5. You can see it from the ground
Though the Air Force doesn't disclose the X-37B's precise orbit, keen-eyed amateur astronomers have managed to track the vehicle from the ground — and so can you, thanks to their efforts. Check out Space.com’s satellite tracker to see where the X-37B is overhead during a mission. The view won't be dramatic; the space plane usually looks like a star of middling brightness moving across the sky.
Credit: AIAA/Grantz/Boeing
6. Future versions might be coming
The current version of the X-37 may not be the last to reach space. In 2011, Boeing representatives announced that they were considering developing a larger variant called the X-37C, which could carry up to six astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). In addition, an engineering team led by former NASA astronaut Stephen Johnson has proposed using a modified version of the X-37B as an ISS emergency-evacuation vehicle. But this is just a concept at the moment, and there's no indication that Boeing is investigating this "astronaut ambulance" variant.
Deze trechter op Mars: de plek om naar leven te zoeken?
Deze trechter op Mars: de plek om naar leven te zoeken?
Tim Kraaijvanger
Amerikaanse wetenschappers hebben een trechter op Mars gevonden. Het gaat om een depressie die is gevormd door een vulkaan onder een gletsjer. Is er ooit microscopisch leven ontstaan in deze warme omgeving?
De kans dat er nu nog microscopisch leven op Mars is, is klein, maar het is niet onmogelijk. Het oppervlak van de rode planeet is vele malen droger dan de droogste plekken op aarde. Maar miljarden jaren geleden was de planeet veel natter en warmer.
Sommige plekken op Mars zijn interessant om te onderzoeken als ‘hot spots’ van leven. Dit zijn plaatsen waar de ingrediënten voor leven ooit aanwezig waren, namelijk water, hitte en voedingsstoffen. Dit geldt voor een bijzondere depressie die lijkt op een trechter. De depressie is te vinden in een krater op de rand van het Hellas Bassin. Met een diameter van 2300 kilometer is het Hellas Bassin de grootste inslagstructuur op Mars. “We hebben verschillende scenario’s getest en denken dat de depressie is ontstaan door de interactie van lava en ijs”, concluderen de onderzoekers in het paper.
En dat is bijzonder, want als het gebied is ontstaan door een vulkaan onder een gletsjer, dan waren alle ingrediënten voor het ontstaan van leven aanwezig, inclusief vloeibaar water en chemische voedingsstoffen. Het is geen gek idee om een Marslander in dit gebied neer te zetten en om op zoek te gaan naar sporen van leven.
Stephen Hawking: "We moeten niet langer aliens proberen aan te roepen"
Stephen Hawking: "We moeten niet langer aliens proberen aan te roepen"
Tim Kraaijvanger
De beroemde fysicus Stephen Hawking vindt het niet verstandig dat wetenschappers signalen naar mogelijke buitenaardse beschavingen sturen, in de hoop dat zij contact met ons opnemen. Dit kan wel eens heel gevaarlijk zijn.
In een nieuwe video legt Hawking uit dat we als mensheid een flink risico nemen. Het ergste is dat we al decennia signalen uitzenden. Tachtig jaar, om precies te zijn. “Des te ouder ik word, des te meer overtuigd ik ben van het feit dat we niet alleen in het universum zijn”, vertelt Hawking. “Ooit ontvangen we misschien een signaal van een planeet als Gliese 832c, maar we moeten niet te snel antwoorden.”
Een buitenaardse beschaving is mogelijk veel geavanceerder dan de mensheid. Deze aliens zien ons misschien als zwak en inferieur. “Wellicht vinden zij ons net zo waardevol als dat wij bacteriën vinden”, concludeert de fysicus.
Het is riskant om contact op te nemen met een buitenaardse beschaving die qua technologische ontwikkelingen duizenden, miljoenen of miljarden jaren verder is dan de mensheid.
Kunstmatige intelligentie Overigens denkt Hawking hetzelfde over kunstmatige intelligentie. “Kunstmatige intelligentie is het beste of het slechtste wat de mensheid kan overkomen”, zei hij een paar weken geleden tijdens een lezing op de Universiteit van Cambridge. “Kunstmatige intelligentie kan zichzelf op hoge snelheid herontwerpen, terwijl wij mensen het moeten doen met langzame, biologische evolutie. We kunnen deze strijd niet winnen.”
Dit is ook de conclusie van het boek Superintelligentie van hoogleraar Nick Bostrom. “We moeten problemen oplossen voordat de intelligentie-explosie plaatsvindt”, zegt Bostrom. “We moeten niet in paniek raken of fanatici worden, omdat de intelligentie-explosie nog minimaal tientallen jaren weg is. Wat we wel moeten doen is al onze menselijke krachten gebruiken om een oplossing te vinden.”
Breakthrough Starshot Ondanks zijn respectabele leeftijd van 74 jaar zit Stephen Hawking niet stil. Op dit moment werkt hij samen met de Russische filantroop Yuri Milner aan een nieuw wetenschappelijk project: Breakthrough Starshot. Het duo wil een ruimtevaartuig naar een van de meest nabije buursterren sturen, namelijk Alpha Centauri. De afstand naar het Alpha Centauri-systeem bedraagt 4,37 lichtjaar en dat moet deze ruimtesonde in twintig jaar tijd overbruggen.
Het ruimtevaartuig reist op hoge snelheid naar Alpha Centauri.
Zoals het er nu naar uit ziet wordt het ruimtevaartuig binnen vijftien jaar gelanceerd. Misschien kiezen Hawking en Milner uiteindelijk niet voor Alpha Centauri, maar voor de meest nabije rode dwergster Proxima Centauri. Deze ster is slechts 4,2 lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd. Het mooie aan Proxima Centauri is dat er een aardachtige exoplaneet om deze ster draait, waar wellicht vloeibaar water op het oppervlak ligt. Zeer interessant, want waar vloeibaar water is, is wellicht leven.
Scientists Just Launched a Breakthrough Initiative to Find Intelligent Alien Life
Scientists Just Launched a Breakthrough Initiative to Find Intelligent Alien Life
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IN BRIEF
The National Astronomical Observatories of China have partnered with Breakthrough Initiative to find alien life, bringing the largest radio telescope in the world with them — the 488 meter (1,600 foot) FAST telescope.
The FAST observatory will seek out extraterrestrial life with the world's other largest radio telescopes, including the Green Bank Telescope in the U.S. and the Parkes Observatory in Australia.
JOINING FORCES
Ever since the invention of the telescope, we have looked at the stars and wondered, “Are we alone?” Well, we wondered about it long before then, but it was only since the advent of the telescope that we could look to the skies with any hope of actually finding an answer. Individuals, groups, and governments have since devoted time and resources to finding signs of alien life.
Now, China is joining the extraterrestrial hunt in a major way. The National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) has teamed up with Breakthrough Initiatives to bring the world’s largest radio telescope into the search.
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and Russian businessman Yuri Milner started Breakthrough Initiatives for the sole purpose of finding extraterrestrial life. It has three programs: Starshot, which will send nanocraft space robots to Alpha Centauri; Message, which will design the best platform to communicate with aliens; and Listen, which will use the world’s radio telescopes to catch any signals from alien civilizations.
Thanks to the new collaboration with NAOC, Breakthrough Initiatives will get to use the Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) — a 488 meter (1,600 foot) long radio telescope that went online this September. To give you an idea: It’s longer than four American football fields.
The FAST telescope. Image Credit: Reuters
The Chinese team from FAST will share data, methods, and observation plans with our planet’s other gargantuan telescopes, including the Green Bank Telescope in the U.S. and the Parkes Observatory in Australia.
FINDING LIFE
This new collaboration underscores how mainstream the search for extraterrestrial life has become. You only have to consider how the thought of aliens was dismissed and laughed at only a generation ago.
Today, it’s not only thought there’s most likely life out there, but a great deal of resources are devoted to actively search for it. In fact, a current mission of astronomy is finding planets that may hold alien life.
“‘Are we alone?’ is a question that unites us as a planet,” Breakthrough Initiatives founder Yuri Milner said in a statement. “And the quest to answer it should take place at a planetary level too.”
But in truth, while there is much that weknow about our Pale Blue Dot and the cosmic abyss that exists just beyond our life giving atmosphere, there is a lot that we don’t know. But where does knowledge stop and uncertainty begin? How much do we really know, and what remains in question?
We asked for your most pressing questions, and they came pouring in: Could we ever travel to another star? Is warp drive really possible? How could we reverse the arrow of time? Here, Fraser Cain, the founder of Universe Today, dives into the answers—separating what we know from what we’ve yet to discover.
A large, unidentified metal object fell from the sky yesterday (Nov. 10) in the remote mountainous region of Myanmar.
The cylindrical object, which is about 12 feet (3.7 meters) long and 5 feet in diameter, blasted into the village of Lone Khin, near a jade mine. Villagers woke early in the morning to a loud boom and vibrations, when the object fell to the ground. Though no one was injured, the UFO ripped through a jade miner's tent, and afterwards, the smell of burning filled the air, according to The Myanmar Times.
"Initially, we thought it was a battle. The explosion made our houses shake. We saw the smoke from our village," Lone Khin villager Daw Ma Kyi told The Myanmar Times.
Aerial object
At first glance, the object looks like it may have come from an aircraft.
"I think it was an engine because I found a diode and many copper wires at the tail of the body," villager Ko Maung Myo told The Myanmar Times. "It also looks like a jet engine block."
However, government officials say that they haven't identified the object and are sending experts to examine it. One former government official with the Department of Aviation said that the image shown on Facebook of the metal "UFO" looked more like a rocket booster than part of a commercial plane.
Just yesterday China announced the successful launch of a Long March Rocket 11 into space, along with five satellites and an experimental X-ray pulsar navigation spacecraft, Spaceflight Insider reported. The XPNAV-1 (an acronym for Maichong Xing Shiyan Weixing), a 530-pound (240 kilograms) spacecraft fitted with solar arrays and two detectors that use X-ray emissions from pulsars to navigate, is meant to identify the locations of spacecraft in deep space.
Space debris is a regular part of satellite and rocket launches. Though the odds of any individual person getting struck by detritus is low, the odds that it hits one of the 7 billion people on Earth is surprisingly high: After the launch of a school bus-sized satellite in 2011, Mark Matney, a scientist in the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, previously told Live Science that the odds of anyone being hit by that debris immediately after the launch were approximately one in 3,200.
Space is littered with junk from past exploration. All told, there were at least 500,00 pieces of space junk marble-size or larger that are orbiting our planet in 2010, though most pieces are on the small side. Of that space junk, more than 20,000 pieces are larger than a softball, according to NASA. In 2012, Switzerland proposed building a kind of space janitor to clean up some of that debris.
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STRANGE GOINGS ON IN ANTARCTICA - DID THEY FIND SOME SORT OF LOST ANCIENT HIGH TECHNOLOGY THERE?
STRANGE GOINGS ON IN ANTARCTICA - DID THEY FIND SOME SORT OF LOST ANCIENT HIGH TECHNOLOGY THERE?
Officials decided that a medical situation at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station warrants returning a member of the station's winter crew to a Hospital.
The patient is seasonally employed through the Lockheed Martin Antarctic Support Contract (ASC), the prime contract for operations and research support contractor to NSF for the United States Antarctic Program (USAP).
Say that again please? Lockheed-Martin has a contract for scientific research in Antarctica? The same Lockheed-Martin renowned for advanced aerodynamics, the same Lochheed-Martin that is a key corporate defense contractor and player in the US military-industrial complex?
Now John Kerry is headed to Antarctica and it has nothing to do with the election results.
The United States has three research stations in the continent, which is one and a half times the size of the continental United States. The U.S. also has the most scientists and personnel of any country there.
Does anyone else find it strange that US's top diplomat, John Kerry, is going to Antarctica after Election Day?
STRANGE TRIANGULAR METAL PIECE FOUND IN ROSEWELL COULD BE EVIDENCE OF 1947 UFO CRASH!
STRANGE TRIANGULAR METAL PIECE FOUND IN ROSEWELL COULD BE EVIDENCE OF 1947 UFO CRASH!
Rosewell is probably one of the most notorious sites regarding the UFO phenomena on these modern times. It sparked countless conspiracy theories since then, but it's most probably the closest sighting of extraterrestrial life that civilian folk ever witnessed.
The eye witnesses spoke of a strange wrecked craft and military personal taking out bodies from inside the craft, which were then taken to Area 51. The next day it was dismissed as a crashed weather balloon.
But since then, the UFO phenomena didn't stop in that region. The 37th parallel which is known as the UFO road, has had many reports of UFO activity and bizarre animal mutilations.
On 2002, ufologist Chuck Zukowski was exploring the Rosewell crash site area and stumbled across a strange triangular piece of metal. Recently, he sent the piece of metal to be analyzed by laboratory of Bigelow Aerospace.
Could it be a piece of the 1947 crashed flying saucer?
NASA PREPARES TO TAKE FIRST PICTURES OF PLANET X NIBIRU
NASA PREPARES TO TAKE FIRST PICTURES OF PLANET X NIBIRU
Even before Pluto was demoted as a planet, there was often the joke that there was a tenth planet known as Planet X, but in reality, people laughed it off and would obviously not take such a comment seriously. Since Pluto was no longer deemed a planet, a planet known as Planet X has come to existence and is now in fact perceived as the ninth planet to replace what Pluto formally was.
The planet has often been referred to as Planet Nine and Nibiru. The planet has been a relative mystery, for the most part. However, one scientist believes that a sighting of the planet is expected to be seen within the next two years.
NASA GETTING INVOLVED IN MYSTERY PLANET
Astronomer, Mike Brown also stated that he expects that someone in the organization of NASA will, in fact, capture this hiding planet and learn much more about its existence and content. Brown has also indicated that 8-10 groups are already on the task of looking for the planet, which hints at a strong possibility that the sighting of Nibiru will be much sooner rather than later.
Reports indicate that Planet Nibiru is currently at or near aphelion, which is approximately 1,000 AU and measures in the sky of about 400 square degrees. In a simpler term, the moon covers about.5 of the sky, so this means that Nibiru is believed to be about four times bigger than the Earth, which also creates the likelihood to find this planet to be even stronger, given its unique and sheer mass for a planet. Scientists agree with this sentiment and say with their state-of-the-art telescopes the planet should be spotted in no time; it is just a matter of who spots the planet first.
This is also a big deal because a contest of who has better equipment to deal with space-related context is present again much like the United States and Russia decades back. China has apparently obtained an extremely powerful telescope that no one has even fathomed to exist, which leaves NASA reeling and trying to catch up to create something just as powerful if not stronger. NASA finding the planet first would also increase the possibility of receiving more funding towards better technology and projects overall.
This race is not as well-documented as the Sputnik satellite. However, there is some angst within NASA to try and get better. There is nothing wrong with taking pride in always trying to be number one.
'EARTH MUST BE WARNED!' - FRENCH ASTRONAUT'S CHILLING WARNING RESURFACED THIS WEEK
'EARTH MUST BE WARNED!' - FRENCH ASTRONAUT'S CHILLING WARNING RESURFACED THIS WEEK
Claudie André-Deshays Haigneré is at the center of an enormous mystery. In 2008, the talented and highly intelligent Frenchwoman issued a hysterical warning to the people of Earth after attempting to commit suicide. No one at the time knew what the warning meant and since Dr. Haigneré has recovered she has refused to clarify the matter.
SHE WAS WORKING ON RESEARCHING INVOLVING HUMAN AND ALIEN DNA
Dr. Haigneré is an extraordinarily accomplished woman who has enjoyed a storied and multi-faceted career. She is a rheumatologist and has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and certificates in biology, sports medicine, aviation and space medicine. In 1993, she traveled to space for the first time and became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station along with her husband who is also an astronaut.
After her travels in space, Dr. Haigneré entered French politics and served as a minster for Research and New Technologies between 2002 and 2004. She was also the minister for European Affairs between 2004 and 2005. Despite her efforts, while she was in office the budget for scientific research in France were cut. Disillusioned, she cut her political career short and went to work in a biology lab at the prestigious Pasteur Institute.
Sources have reported that Dr. Haigneré’s work at the Pasteur Institute was of a rather esoteric nature. Some have even claimed that she was working on researching involving human and alien DNA. After several years at the Pasteur Institute, it was widely reported that Dr. Haigneré was taken to hospital after taking a huge overdose of sleeping pills. She was conscious upon arrival but had to be forcibly restrained as she fought against doctors, screaming “Earth must be warned!” Shortly after that, she lapsed into a coma.
Immediately after this extraordinary scene, it was reported that there was a mysterious fire which has never been properly explained by workers at the Pasteur Institute which has raised suspicions that Dr. Haigneré came across something groundbreaking and deeply disturbing in the course of her research. However, if this is the case, Dr. Haigneré is not willing to speak publicly about it anymore. She has blamed her suicide attempt on ‘burnout syndrome’ and has now moved on to the directorship of the largest science museum in Europe, the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie.
RUSSIA'S SECRET BOOK AND ALIEN RACES ON EARTH (video)
RUSSIA'S SECRET BOOK AND ALIEN RACES ON EARTH (video)
The book's secret alien races is one of the most controversial documents originating from the period when Russia was dominated by communism. The first edition of the book was published in 1946 and was designed to inform the secret agents of the various alien races who had visited our planet until that time. As long as the iron curtain Russia resisted valuable information in this book they were enshrined. The moment the Communist regime began to falter, book secret alien races came in the hands of a Russian diplomat, who chose to live in Portugal. His son, and a friend, found the book among several other top secret documents bearing the trade mark for the first time translated into English in 2004.
The book is fascinating because it has many kinds of alien species, their ships and place of origin. Each alien species, which is presented in the book, and has contributed in one way or another about human evolution on Earth. These aliens have been sighted in various places of our planet and interesting is that collaborated with various governments of those countries. Information about alleged meetings remained secret, however, the book is both a source of information but also a manual for learning how to communicate with various alien species. For example, Allgruulk are known in the Universe as creators or builders. They can live up to 230 years old and come from the constellation Plasterer. Another extraterrestrial species is the Messengers, which is the most enigmatic alien race. They visit Earth to a period of 300 years and not in direct contact with people. Rak is the alien species that mankind has not visited since 720. Perhaps they have lost interest in our adventure planet. Invizibilii are those who can not be seen with the naked eye, but both the Americans and the Russians have developed special technology to detect them. Jefok is the alien species originating from the constellation Indus and are known as pacifists. They met with JF Kennedy just three weeks before he was assassinated.
De komeet die wordt aangeduid met de codenaam P67 moet wel één van de meest merkwaardige kometen ooit zijn.
Een komeet die radiosignalen uitzendt en waar de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA miljarden euro’s aan uitgeeft om die te onderzoeken.
Ogenschijnlijk kwam er enkele weken geleden een einde aan de Europese ruimtemissie naar de komeet 67P
Op 30 september 2016, om 12.38 uur crashte Rosetta gecontroleerd op de komeet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Om 13.20 uur (Nederlandse tijd), kwam de bevestiging binnen dat Rosetta gecrasht is. Deze vertraging werd veroorzaakt doordat het 40 minuten duurde voordat de data de aarde bereikte. De sonde werd in overeenstemming met internationale afspraken automatisch uitgezet vlak voor de landing, dit om te voorkomen dat de zender als een stoorzender in het zonnestelsel zou gaan werken en andere observaties zou gaan storen. De crash betekent het einde van de succesvolle missie van Rosetta.
Echter, de dag voordat Rosetta crashte, zijn er toch nog wel een paar interessante opnames gemaakt waaruit blijkt dat die komeet toch wel even iets meer is dan men ons wil laten geloven.
Zoals op de volgende opname te zien, hangt er een grote UFO boven de rotsmassa van komeet 67P.
De bekende videomaker op Youtube BP Earthwatch ontving een e-mail met het volgende nogal schokkende bericht:
Het bericht is afkomstig van iemand die werkt binnen ESA (European Space Agency). Deze zegt dat de belangstelling voor deze komeet zo’n twintig jaar geleden werd gewekt doordat NASA radiosignalen ontving, afkomstig van deze komeet.
Dat niet alleen, maar ergens in de afgelopen twintig jaar schijnt 67P ook van koers te zijn veranderd.
Veel wetenschappers hebben ook al hun verbazing uitgesproken over het uiterlijk van deze komeet omdat men een soort sneeuw en ijsklomp had verwacht. Iets waarbij in het geval van 67P absoluut geen sprake is.
Besloten werd volgens de klokkenluider om deze “komeet” met een bezoek te vereren. Om de aandacht af te leiden en dit zo geruisloos mogelijk te doen, werd een samenwerking aangegaan tussen NASA en ESA, waarbij de laatste een missie zou organiseren onder de noemer van onderzoek naar een komeet.
De klokkenluider zegt verder: "Jullie zijn toch niet zo gek om te geloven dat ze deze Rosetta missie die al in 2004 werd gelanceerd en miljarden Dollars kost, zomaar gaan doen om een stukje rots in de ruimte te onderzoeken? Nee, ze doen dit omdat er iets aan de hand is met 67P en omdat ze vandaar radiosignalen hebben opgevangen".
Wat 67P ook moge zijn, volgens de klokkenluider is het zeker dat het geen komeet is.
Dan, net voordat de Rosetta voor ons gewone mensen volledig uit beeld verdwijnt, een ruimteschip wat daar hangt wat minstens 100 meter lang is.
LEAKED! Vladimir Putin Trump Talk Of Planet X Nibiru Disclosure! UFO White House Secrets! 11/10/2016
LEAKED! Vladimir Putin Trump Talk Of Planet X Nibiru Disclosure! UFO White House Secrets! 11/10/2016
Russia Putin And Trump Planet X Nibiru Disclosure!! White HOUSE Secrets 11/10/2016 Leaked Top-Secret TRUMP Meeting Reveals Obama Warning Putin of Alien Invasion in September 2017?
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An Arkansas witness at Bella Vista recalled a UFO incident from 2014 when a triangle UFO was seen hovering about 300 feet over a roadway, according to testimony in Case 79743 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was driving to work at 7:30 a.m. on August 8, 2014, when a shadow was noticed on the roadway about a quarter-mile ahead.
“I looked up and saw the triangle or chevron-shaped craft hovering just east of the highway at about 250-300 feet AGL,” the witness stated.“It appeared to be about the size of an F-111 Aardvark.”
The object began to move as the witness approached.
The object was first noticed hovering over the highway. Pictured: Bella Vista, AR.
(Credit: Google)
“As I got closer it accelerated quickly to the south and I lost sight of it within a few seconds. The curious thing about the craft was that it had no definable color. Instead, it was slightly blurred out as if mimicking the background. The outline was fairly clear, but it was almost semi-transparent.”
The craft’s shadow bothered the witness.
“The thing that struck me was that the shadow of the craft was directly below it instead of where it should have been given the angle of the sun that early in the morning. I’ve included a sketch that I drew as soon as I got to work that morning that describes this phenomenon. I’m a former USAF Security Policeman and I’ve worked around nuclear weapons under the PRP. I’ve also been a civilian law enforcement officer, so my observational skills are pretty good. I was also wearing polarized prescription sunglasses that morning, which is why I may have been able to see it in the first place.”
The UFO quickly began to move away from the witness. Pictured: Bella Vista, AR.
(Credit: Google)
Bella Vista is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, population 16,582. MUFON Arkansas Assistant State Director Lynn Travis McCullough 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 Becomes Visible During Sunset Over Madison, Wisconsin On Nov 1, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Becomes Visible During Sunset Over Madison, Wisconsin On Nov 1, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 1, 2016
Location of sighting: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
News source: MUFON #80330
During sunset, the cloak on any UFO will be vulnerable to becoming visible to the naked eye from a few seconds to a few minutes. That is what we see here. It looks like a second sun, but its a UFO hiding in a clump of clouds. Even when I add contrast (above photo) the UFO only becomes more bright and visible. Its huge and its 100% there. Scientists still can't explain such sightings and some have adopted a farmers quote calling it a sun dog, but that doesn't explain what it truly is...a UFO.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
My husband and I were driving home (we live in downtown Madison) from the west side of Madison after shopping. I simply noticed the object because of how bright it was, and actually thought it was a tiny chunk of a rainbow forming, although there hadn't been any rain that day, until I noticed quickly hiw much light it was giving off on its own. It was just sort of hovering, colors changed a bit. I just remember feeling uncomfortable and worried about it. I didn't feel like it should be there, not sure it just made me very anxious I suppose. I'm not completely sure of its exact direction, as we were driving home in a curved pattern (the city is on an isthmus between two lakes). I just know when I first saw it we were in West Madison facing east, the brightness of the glow sort of had little spurts of being brighter and slightly less, and it gave off blue, orange, green, reddish colors, and about half an hoe later when we got home I saw it again but this time we had moved east 20 miles and I saw it when I faced about SW. I had been trying to take a picture the whole car ride and couldn't catch it with its moving directions, but this photo I did get was at the end of the event where I last saw it from a block outside my building. You can see the sun setting on the right, and the object glowing it's own light and some of the colors to the left.
'SOMETHING BIG COMING': Claim after NASA 'shut down ISS cameras when UFO appeared'
'SOMETHING BIG COMING': Claim after NASA 'shut down ISS cameras when UFO appeared'
SOMETHING big is about to break in the world of “alien visitations” according to ET hunters following claims of a NASA cover up after a UFO was allegedly filmed by the International Space station (ISS).
UFO conspiracy theorists allege the US space agency shut down a live stream video recording from the ISS, which is 250 miles above Earth, moments after the unidentified flying object was spotted.
In a video, uploaded to YouTube by prolific UFO chaser Streetcap1, a strange white light is seen with a glow around it appearing over the Earth's surface.
The footage then cuts to a blue screen, and it is seen no more.
Streetcap1 said: “NASA cut the camera feed so quickly even though this was very distant, but I still managed to get a couple of frames to enlarge.
“Who else is feeling that NASA and certain governments are getting prepared for something big?”
Glowing images such as this have been caught before by the ISS cameras that have later proved to be lens flares, which occurs when light refracts inside the lens and then appears on the image, or reflections of the ISS itself.
However, Streetcap1 tried to dismiss a lens flare as a possible cause of the latest anomoly.
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The UFO caught on ISS camera and (inset) in close up.
Describing the object, he said: “Unidentified object is brighter on the left side due to the light from the sun – so not lens flare.”
Scott Waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily, who uploaded the footage, said: "It appears far away but it's not.
“It's actually very close to the space station, but higher up so it appears distant. Excellent find.”
Some viewers of the video believe the alleged cut to the space station’s live stream is further proof NASA is trying to cover-up the existence of aliens.
Eric de Perik said: "NASA is looking more foolish by the day."
Another user by the name of Rob, added: "Good old NASA covering up."
One viewer, Jen Grindle, believes she captured further proof something other wordly was happening with footage of an alleged UFO over Murrieta in California, USA, at the same time as Streetcap1's space station live stream recording.
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This image was also said to be captured in California around the same time.
It initially said only select pieces of footage would be shown online, prompting one UFO enthusiast to say: "This only proves NASA is trying to hide something from us."
But, clarifying NASA's original statement, a spokesman said: "These change will not affect live video streams from the International Space Station.
"Viewers can continue to see live video as long as the ISS has signal."
The space agency also insists no UFOs have ever been recorded, and the anomalies are lens flares or reflections.
It says the camera goes to a blue screen, only when there is a loss of signal.
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Alien 'doorway' discovered on Mercury's surface by conspiracy theorists - but where does it lead to?
Alien hunter Tyler Glockner had his own theories about what the door found on satellite imagery might be - and whether it is still in use
Conspiracy theorists have found what they believe to be an 'alien doorway' on the surface of the planet Mercury.
The rectangular shaped object was first spotted on satellite imagery by Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily, who claimed it showed proof of an 'entrance' on the planet .
But the video footage was uploaded by alien hunter Tyler Glockner from Secure Team 10, who gave his own theory.
Talking over the clip, Tyler says: "Mercury has been rarely spoken about by the space agencies.
"There has been a question of whether there is a reason why planets like Mercury are rarely spoken about and that maybe that's because they don't want anyone's attention focusing on [them]."
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The bizarre alien 'doorway' was spotted on planet Mercury
Tyler points out that the rectangular shape appears to be out on its own with no similar shapes nearby.
But as he further examines the image, he offers an alternative theory to Waring's doorway idea.
"It became clear to me that this is not an entrance at all. In fact, it's something much more magnificent.
"This big, black rectangle? This is a shadow. So then you ask, where's the shadow coming from, and what is casting such a large, long shadow?
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Tyler claims Mercury is barely ever talked about and could have secrets
"And that my friends, is this large rectangular object, monolith-looking structure towering up above the surface."
The footage was uploaded to the Secure Team 10 YouTube channel on November 8 and has been viewed more than 238,000 times.
Viewers were divided over the video, with one writing: "It looks like an electrical discharge from something."
But another simply said: "That's a shadow on Mercury, not a doorway."
The incident has divided investigators, with explanations ranging from space debris to even an alien spaceship disguised as a meteor
A glowing green ball of light appeared in the sky in Japan this week, baffling expertsas to what it actually is.
The orb was captured hovering over Niigata, northern Japan, in the early hours of Monday morning.
This footage shows the green light shooting diagonally across the sky as sparks fly from the tail of it.
The incident has caught the attention of scientists, who have yet to determine what the UFO is.
YouTube / Suzuki KoHiroshi
It has yet to be identified as a meteor or a UFO
One astronomer told NBC News that it was probably a bright meteor, known as a fireball.
But they did mention that it could be a piece of space debris that burnt up as it entered the atmosphere, such as a satellite.
It has divided opinion, as one UFO investigator claims it was actually aliens entering Earth's space.
Scott C Waring of UFO Sightings Daily claims the object is an alien space craft trying to disguise itself asa meteor.
YouTube / Suzuki KoHiroshi
The light ball baffled thousands of people across Japan
He said that the glowing light was an alien, claiming that meteors don't glow green and that the curve of its flight was too straight to be a fireball.
The actual origins of the green ball of light haven't yet been identified.
The fireball rapidly lost height as it 'fell' to earth
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Residents were baffled by the huge fireball
According to an expert in the field, the two dark-coloured ships are shown in stark contrast against a bright white moon, seemingly flying side by side.
He wrote on his UFO Sightings Daily blog : “His editing software allows us to see its actual shape…a perfect saucer…two of them.
“There is no way these disks are satellites,” he adds, claiming that such manmade technology would not fly so close.
He added: “These are actual UFOs, flying in military style, because they are flying with a wingman to keep each other out of possible trouble."
Sheila Butt/Postmedia NewsResidents of Igloolik, Nunavut have thrown around many possible explanations for the strange sounds appearing to come from the sea bottom.
The theories range from UFOs operating under the ice to the release of methane gas to Russian or U.S. submarines lurking in Canadian waters.
But one possible explanation for the mysterious sounds seemingly coming from the ocean floor in Canada’s Arctic may be rather straightforward, suggests a U.S. scientist working on a project that generates low-frequency sound in the far North. It could be ice rubbing together.
Last week, acting on a request from the government of Nunavut, the Canadian military sent a CP-140 Aurora aircraft to conduct surveillance of Fury and Hecla Strait, northwest of the hamlet of Igloolik. Hunters in the area have reported hearing noises ranging from hums to pings to beeps. They say the noises are driving animals away.
“The sound that has been heard in the area seems to be emitted from the seabed and underwater,” Paul Quassa, a member of Nunavut’s legislative assembly, told lawmakers on Oct. 25.
According to Department of National Defence spokesman Dan Le Bouthillier, the Aurora’s crew conducted “various multi-sensor searches in the area, including an acoustic search for 1.5 hours, without detecting any acoustic anomalies. The crew did not detect any surface or subsurface contacts.”
The Aurora crew did observe two pods of whales and six walruses in the area of interest, Le Bouthillier added.
Residents have speculated about various theories for the sounds, including that a mining company may be conducting sonar surveys or that environmentalists may be using some kind of device to scare away animals so they can’t be hunted. Others have suggested the release of methane gases from the ocean floor or clandestine visits by Russian or U.S. submarines.
Google MapsFury and Hecla Strait
One of the more prominent theories focused on the claim the sounds were being emitted by a science project in the Arctic funded by the Office of Naval Research in the U.S.
That project, called the Canada Basin Acoustic Propagation Experiment, or CANAPE, uses low-frequency sound to determine how the ongoing changes in sea ice affect acoustics. The project could produce data for use in tracking submarines in the far North.
But Peter Worcester of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California said the sounds being generated by CANAPE are very low and too far away to be heard in the Fury and Hecla Strait.
“The signals transmitted for CANAPE are only expected to be above the background ocean noise level out to a range of at most a few hundred kilometres, which is much less than the distance to Fury and Hecla Strait,” said Worcester, who heads the project.
“Even if the signals were louder, any underwater sound generated north of Alaska would be blocked from reaching Fury and Hecla Strait by the many islands in the Canadian Archipelago.”
Worcester said he didn’t know what would cause the mystery sounds and is loath to speculate since he hasn’t heard them himself. But he noted much of the acoustic noise in the Arctic is caused by ice rubbing together, cracking, and moving. Early Arctic explorers called the noises the “Devil’s Symphony” with descriptions ranging from buzzing to wheezing and loud bangs.
“You can even get things where the ice hums, where you get sounds that resonate almost like an organ pipe,” Worcester explained. “There was a paper written about the notion there are various melodies associated with the sounds generated by sea ice.”
A spokesman with the DND said the department considers the issue of the mystery noises closed and there are no plans to send more aircraft to investigate.
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10-11-2016
De supermaan komt eraan: bewonder hem komende maandag
De supermaan komt eraan: bewonder hem komende maandag
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het is maandag volle maan én de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan is minimaal. Het resultaat: een supermaan!
Komende maandag – 14 november – is het volle maan én staat de maan relatief dicht bij de aarde. De afstand tussen de twee hemellichamen bedraagt een slordige 356520 kilometer. En omdat de maan dichter bij de aarde staat, lijkt deze veel groter (tot wel veertien procent) en helderder (tot wel dertig procent).
Ovaalvormige baan Maar hoe kan de maan nu het ene moment dichter bij de aarde in de buurt staan dan op het andere moment? Dat komt doordat de maan niet in een perfect ronde baan rond de aarde draait: de maan heeft en licht ovaalvormige baan. Op het moment dat de afstand tussen de maan en de aarde het kleinst is, kan de maan tot wel veertien procent dichter bij de aarde in de buurt staan dan wanneer de afstand tussen de aarde en maan het grootst is.
Twee van drie De supermaan van komende maandag is de tweede van drie supermanen (16 oktober, 14 november en 14 december) die ons in 2016 gegund zijn. Officieel is de supermaan van komende maandag de beste. NASA bestempelt deze als een ‘extra-supermaan’. Op 14 oktober en december is de afstand tussen de maan en de aarde het kleinst op dezelfde dag als volle maan. Op 14 november zit het moment van perigeum (het moment waarop de afstand tussen de aarde en maan het kleinst is) dichter op het moment waarop het volle maan wordt. Vanuit Nederland zijn de verschillen tussen de drie supermanen – met het oog op het exacte tijdstip waarop het volle maan wordt – echter nauwelijks waarneembaar.
Wie de supermaan komende maandag wil zien, hoeft daar geen gebroken nachten voor over te hebben. Je kunt de maan direct na zonsondergang al bewonderen. Mocht je agenda al volzitten of bewolking roet in het eten gooien, dan kun je dus uitkijken naar 14 december.
Ajoint investigation between scientists from the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute and METI International resulted in the discovery of exactly zero radio transmissions emanating from KIC 8462852, aka Tabby’s Star, aka that “alien megastructures” star everyone freaked out about late last year. According tonew findings published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, we still haven’t found signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Our cold streak continues.
In case you don’t remember, there was a big hooplah last fall when Jason Wright, an astronomer at Penn State University, dropped a small suggestion that strange stellar light patterns glowing from Tabby’s Star, nearly 1,500 light-years away from Earth, were caused by “alien megastructures,” a catchall phrase for materials artificially placed in orbit. Since then, study after study has basically put that hypothesis to rest, with more reasonable ideas like a family of weird cometsgarnering more and more support based on new data.
But science is about making confirmations, so the dutiful scientists at the SETI Institute and METI international came together and used the Boquete Optical SETI Observatory in Panama to determine whether or not the strange dimming patterns were caused by intelligent extraterrestrials, as well as use the Allen Telescope Array in California to measure whether the star system was spewing out any radio signals indicative of advanced technology.
“We were looking to see if there are intentional laser signals being beamed at us,” says METI International research and study coauthor Douglas Vakoch. He tells Inverse he and his colleagues were looking for the kinds of signs of technology that us humans on Earth might be capable of building and using to broadcast our presence to the rest of the universe.
Unfortunately, they did not find any radio signals, and the optical signals found were less than encouraging. No optical signal of a particular period pattern was measured, and the power of the light pulsing from Tabby’s Star didn’t seem characteristic of a laser signal. “If there is a large laser facility kicking out signals of 5 mega-joules or stronger, we would have been able to detect those,” says Vakoch. “We didn’t.”
Vakoch emphasizes that the results don’t totally discount alien life living in the star system. He and his team were using Boquete during Panama’s rainy season — “the worst possible time,” he says. He acknowledges that the results “don’t say for sure there aren’t extraterrestrials out there.” It’s always possible E.T. is sending weaker signals out or exhibiting patterns stretching across a larger timeframe.
“But we can say that within the scenario where we could have possibly gotten a signal, we didn’t get one,” says Vakoch.
Disheartening, sure, but there’s a strong silver lining to the new findings. While SETI research around the world centers in large part around the measure of radio signals, the new investigation allowed the scientists to flex their optics muscles and get practice at looking for signs of E.T. across other frequencies as well. “If we get a signal, there may be different sources of information at different frequencies, so we need to be ready to jump on that,” said Vakoch.
Moreover, the study demonstrated the feasibility of using even a modest-sized optical telescope to conduct SETI observations. This runs counter to the whole “bigger is better” mentality that permeates space science, and Vakoch thinks the new methodological approaches he and his colleagues outline in their paper illustrate a new model for doing SETI research that is more efficient and sustainable. He says a major goal of METI International, after all, is to answer “how do we sustain the search going forward” as funding for these types of projects drop or become thinned out over more and more initiatives.
“We still don’t have a natural explanation for what is going on” with Tabby’s Star, says Vakoch. And he doesn’t find that particularly discouraging. “This is the type of ambiguity we can expect if we really got a signal from E.T. It will be a slow unfolding and grappling of the data. So we continue to search for answers.”
Protoplanetary disks are celestial bodies found around young stars, which will eventually be sculpted into round spherical as we know them. They’re the subjects of the European Southern Observatory’s Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument, which has been somewhat forcibly maneuvered into the acronym SPHERE. On Wednesday, the ESO released new images and data, captured by three teams of astronomers using SPHERE, of what those young solar systems look like in action.
SPHERE’s cutting-edge precision is able to deliver the kind of detail we need in order to better understand the evolutionary processes of these nascent stars and planets. It has adaptive optics that compensate for visual distortion and a coronagraph that keeps the light from the central star from blowing out the rest of the image. It can also isolate light coming from the star and separate it from the features forming in the disk to make for a more accurate reading.
SPHERE’s first observation, or “first light,” was in June 2014. It uses direct imaging— basically, taking highly detailed pictures of the exoplanets scientists have their eye on. Getting usable direct imaging data from protoplanetary disks is no small feat (though it’s not easy to capture regular planets either).
Concentric rings on the disk around the star RX J1615.
Protoplanetary disks aren’t actually solid — the term refers to expansive clouds of stellar gas and dust that compact into planets over time. But the specifics of that process, including how some planets end up with rings or arms, still aren’t known to us. A SPHERE team hailing from the Netherlands obtained images of rings already forming in an especially young disk — a rare and valuable set of data. Observation of a second symmetrical system soon followed, which is important because prior to this we were mostly finding disks with asymmetrical features — this might mean there are more of the former out there than we thought.
Arm-like spiral structures on the disk around star HD 135344B.
The teams also observed cool phenomena like a “large central cavity and two prominent spiral arm-like structures,” which should eventually develop into something resembling Jupiter. They were also lucky enough to capture images of four separate dark streaks — shadows of young planetary material — one of which changed in shape between observations, meaning SPHERE is getting the data of it dynamically evolving in real time. The takeaway from all of this is basically that protoplanetary spheres are full of surprises — tantalizing, immensely rich fields of study that we now have the technology to better explore.
Photos via European Southern Observatory, J. de Boer et al., European Southern Observatory, T. Stolker et al., European Space Organization
What's in a name? When it comes to catchy monikers, most galaxies come up short.
But perhaps that isn't so surprising. With an estimated 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies in the known universe, it's no wonder that the majority of galaxies that have been identified thus far go by a catalog number: M51, GN-z11, and IOK-1, for example. Those arrangements of numbers and letters are loaded with meaning for astronomers, but they don't exactly inspire the imagination.
However, a handful of galaxies have fared a little better in the naming department — usually the ones that are distinctively shaped, extremely close by and easy to observe, or just exceptionally photogenic. Here's a look at some of these galaxies with standout names.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA, Acknowledgment --T. Do, A.Ghez (UCLA), V. Bajaj (STScI)
1. Milky Way Galaxy
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, measures 100,000 light-years in diameter, and is thought to contain at least 100 billion stars and possibly as many as 400 billion or more. It is a barred spiral galaxy, with a central bar structure running across its core.
Though the Milky Way was long thought to have only two spiral arms, a 12-year study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2013 confirmed that the galaxy has four major arms. Our sun and solar system are located on a minor structure known as the Orion Arm, about 26,000 light-years from the Milky Way's center.
Thousands of years ago, the Milky Way's bright sprawl of stars, dust and gas stretching across the night sky inspired the ancient Greeks to lend it a milky name, though historians are uncertain as to when it was first referred to as the Milky Way, according to Matthew Stanley, a professor of the history of science at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.
Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (USCS/LO), M. Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), and the ACS Science Team
2. Tadpole Galaxy
A close encounter with another galaxy disrupted the spiral galaxy Arp 188, commonly known as the Tadpole Galaxy. Like its aquatic eponym, the Tadpole has an oval "head" — the main part of the spiral — and a long, trailing "tail."
The sweeping appendage measures about 280,000 light-years in length and is studded with enormous and brilliant star clusters. It likely formed when another galaxy approached too close to the Tadpole and was swung around behind it by gravitational forces. That same attraction probably teased out the ribbon of stars and gas that now trails behind the Tadpole, according to a NASA description.
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
3. Eye Galaxy
Messier 64 (M64) has a somewhat sinister common name: the Black Eye or Evil Eye Galaxy, inspired by the dark band of dust surrounding its bright core. This shadowy band likely formed after a collision with another galaxy.
In the 1990s, scientists discovered that gas in the Black Eye's outer regions was rotating counterclockwise — the opposite direction from the gas and stars closer to the center. Astronomers suspected that this unusual region is the last remnant of a smaller galaxy that collided with the Black Eye over a billion years ago, and was gradually absorbed.
The Black Eye is located in the constellation Coma Berenices, approximately 17 million light-years from Earth, and was catalogued by French astronomer Charles Messier in the 18th century.
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
4. Sombrero Galaxy
The Sombrero is a spiral galaxy, and its unusual hat-like shape is suggested by our perspective on its position in space, viewed edge-on from Earth. This creates the illusion of a hat's "brim" — the outermost ring of stars — and a "crown" where the luminous core bulges at the center, circled by darker lanes of dust.
Also known as Messier 104 (M104), the Sombrero is located about 28 million light-years from Earth and measures 50,000 light-years across. It is one of the most massive objects in the Virgo cluster — as big as 800 billion suns, according to the Hubble Space Telescope website.
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)
5. Whirlpool Galaxy
Like our own Milky Way, the Whirlpool (Messier 51, or M51) is a spiral galaxy — the most common galaxy type, representing about 77 percent of all galaxies in the universe — with multiple arms curving outward and wrapping around a bright center. Its yellowish core is home to older stars, while younger and brighter stars are visible along its arms.
The arms of the Whirlpool — as in all spiral galaxies — are stellar nurseries, where infant stars are born. At only 25 million light-years from Earth and measuring 60,000 light-years across, the Whirlpool is highly visible to astronomers and has been called one of "astronomy's galactic darlings" by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).
Stellar deaths have been detected in the Whirlpool, as well. Observers reported three supernovas — a star's explosive demise — occurring in the Whirlpool during the past 17 years: in 1994, 2005 and 2011.
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
6. Cigar Galaxy
Located in the Ursa Major constellation about 13 million light-years from Earth, the Cigar Galaxy was named for the long, elliptical shape of its disk, which is how it appears relative to our sight line.
Also called Messier 82 (M82), the Cigar is known as a starburst galaxy — one with an exceptionally high star birth rate. In its central regions, stars are produced 10 times faster than in the Milky Way Galaxy, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).
This six-image composite mosaic — the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of the Cigar Galaxy — was assembled from images taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in March 2006.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
7. Cartwheel Galaxy
Resembling an oversize wagon wheel, the Cartwheel Galaxy is estimated to measure 150,000 light-years across. It has a bright center with wispy "spokes" of dust and gas radiating outward to a surrounding ring of stars, which is about 1.5 times the size of the Milky Way, according to the Hubble Space Telescope website.
The Cartwheel's unusual shape was caused by a dramatic, head-on cosmic collision millions of years ago, according to a description on the Chandra X-Ray Observatory website. It was originally a large spiral galaxy, but a smaller galaxy perforated its center, disrupting stars much like a stone dropped in water causes outward-spreading ripples.
It is located 500 million light years from Earth, in the Sculptor constellation.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
8. Sunflower Galaxy
Galaxy Messier 63 (M63), also known as the Sunflower Galaxy, was the 63rd entry in French astronomer Charles Messier's catalog of celestial objects, published in 1781, and was given its flowery name for the tight spiraling of its many arms, which was thought to be reminiscent of the pattern at a sunflower's center.
The Sunflower is about 27 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici — "The Hunting Dogs" — and is part of the M51 Group, a collection of galaxies that also appears in Messier's catalog and is named for Galaxy M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy.
The brilliant glow that illuminates the Sunflower's spirals is generated by newly formed blue-white giant stars, according to the Hubble Space Telescope website.
Neanderthals and modern humans interbred long ago, but evolution has purged many of our caveman relative's genes from modern human genomes, a new study finds.
Neanderthals were the closest extinct relatives of modern humans. Previous research suggested that modern humans migrating out of Africa encountered and interbred with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago.
"We know that the ancestors of modern Europeans and Asians mated with Neanderthals, and as a result, the modern-day descendants of those people have some small amount of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes," said study lead author Ivan Juric, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Davis. [In Photos: Neanderthal Burials Uncovered]
However, nowadays, Neanderthal genetic material makes up only about 1.5 to 2.1 percent of the genomes of people outside Africa, according to the draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome published in 2010. That means some of this genetic material was lost over time. To better understand why this evolutionary purge occurred, Juric and his colleagues examined where Neanderthal DNA was found in the modern human genome.
If offspring of modern humans and Neanderthals had Neanderthal DNA segments that possessed some so-called deleterious alleles — that is, harmful genetic variants — "then they'd be less likely to have kids, and so less likely to pass on those Neanderthal segments to future generations," Juric told Live Science.
In this way, the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection ensures that "over time, Neanderthal segments containing deleterious alleles get removed from populations faster than Neanderthal segments not containing deleterious variants," Juric said.
Previous research found that there is less Neanderthal DNA in regions close to genes than in the relatively inactive regions between genes. This suggests that natural selection weeded out Neanderthal variants of those genes, Juric said.
Juric and his colleagues developed a computer model that simulated the effects of natural selection on the distance between segments of Neanderthal DNA and modern human genes. Given the amount of time that has passed between interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans and the amounts and locations of Neanderthal DNA now found in the modern human genome, their findings suggest that many Neanderthal gene variants that entered the modern human genome after Neanderthals and modern humans interbred were "weakly deleterious" — that is, "they are being slowly removed by natural selection," Juric said.
The researchers suggested that many mildly negative gene variants, or alleles, were able to persist in Neanderthals because Neanderthals had much smaller populations than modern humans. However, when these gene variants made their way into modern humans, modern humans' larger populations — and thus bigger gene pools — were better at winnowing out these deleterious alleles.
"I find it fascinating to think that if the Neanderthals had reached larger population sizes in Europe, or if modern human populations had grown slower, some of us today would probably carry a lot more Neanderthal ancestry in our genome," Juric said in a statement.
Future research could investigate which genetic variants from extinct relatives of modern humans were weeded out of the modern human genomes. "I would love to know which exact Neanderthal alleles were selected against," Juric said. "Once we know more about the genes involved, we can ask what those genes do and what traits they are involved with in modern humans. Then, we might be able to make some guesses about the traits of those early human-Neanderthal hybrids."
What Triggered Tsunamis that Demolished Bronze-Age Civilization?
What Triggered Tsunamis that Demolished Bronze-Age Civilization?
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
A combined topographic map of the Santorini volcanic field shows how the flow of volcanic material entered the sea via the northwest strait (orange box).
Credit: Nomikou P., M. Paulatto, L.M. Kalnins and D. Lampridou
The historic eruption of the Greek volcano Thera in about 1650 B.C. triggered massive tsunamis and led to the end of the dominant civilization in the Mediterranean. Now, researchers say these destructive tsunamis may have been generated by the flow of volcanic material into the sea, challenging previous explanations, according to a new study.
Studies of the Bronze Age disaster led scientists to think the collapse of the volcanic crater (called the caldera) into the sea caused tsunamis after the eruption of Thera, on the island now known as Santorini. However, in the new study, scientists used volcanic and seismic data, along with detailed mapping of the seafloor, to disprove this theory and offer a new explanation.
Their research revealed that the caldera was not connected to the sea when it collapsed and, therefore, could not have caused the tsunamis. Instead, the researchers propose that large volumes of volcanic material flowing rapidly into the sea could have displaced enough water to create tsunamis. [The 11 Biggest Volcanic Eruptions in History]
Pyroclastic flows are fast-moving currents of volcanic material (rock fragments; lava; and hot, expanding gases) that flow down a volcano after an eruption. These flows can reach scorching temperatures of more than 750 degrees Fahrenheit (400 degrees Celsius) and move at speeds of up to 45 mph (70 km/h), the researchers said. As this material flows into the ocean, it solidifies and displaces massive amounts of water, they added.
"This violent entry of the pyroclastic flows into the sea triggered more than one tsunami," said study lead author Paraskevi Nomikou, a geologist and oceanographer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece.
Deposits of volcanic material up to 200 feet (60 meters) thick were found offshore Santorini, supporting the new theory, the researchers said.
Another famous volcano similarly triggered tsunamis: the eruption of Krakatoa, in Indonesia, in 1883. Tsunamis following the explosive Krakatoa eruption occurred when pyroclastic flows entered the sea, not because the caldera collapsed, Nomikou said. This well-recorded eruption caused more than 35,000 deaths and has been studied extensively by volcanologists. But the eruption of Thera may have been many times larger, and more destructive, according to the new study.
In fact, the eruption of Thera did more than blow a hole into the island and trigger tsunamis and flooding. The eruption also set off the decline of the Minoan culture, the dominant civilization in the Mediterranean at the time, the researchers said.
"The eruption was the beginning of the end of the Minoan civilization," Nomikou told Live Science. "The eruption occurred in 1650 B.C., and the end of the Minoan civilization was at 1450 [B.C.], so the civilization was destroyed completely, disappeared completely after 200 years."
To further understand just how violent and destructive the eruption of Thera was, Nomikou and her colleagues plan to continue their research on the pyroclastic flows.
"We know now that these flows caused so much damage in the area around Santorini like in Crete," Nomikou said. "So we need to better understand these flows and have the total volume of the eruption, because we believe that this was the most catastrophic event during the last 10,000 years."
The new research was detailed in a study published online today (Nov. 8) in the journal Nature.
Into the Abyss: Astronomers Are Trying To “See” a Black Hole for the First Time Ever
Into the Abyss: Astronomers Are Trying To “See” a Black Hole for the First Time Ever
C. Malin ESO
IN BRIEF
The Event Horizon Telescope Project is scheduled to take the very first snapshot of a black hole's event horizon by April 2017.
Sagittarius A, the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy, sits more than 25,000 light years away from Earth.
PICTURE PERFECT
Next year, a network of radio telescopes will do something that’s never been done before: capture a picture of the mysterious inside of Sagittarius A, the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy. The Event Horizon Telescope Project is scheduled to take the very first snapshot of a black hole’s event horizon by April 2017.
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The project consists of nine different observatories all over the world— located in the US, Chile, Spain, Greenland, France, and even the South Pole. And they’ll needall that power to get their shot.
“There are quite a few challenges that need to be overcome to take a picture of a black hole – it’s something that’s extremely small in the sky,” says EHT team member Feryal Ozel.
At 25,000 light years away, the black hole is just a pin prick. Ozel compares the size to us trying to see a CD sitting on our moon. To make it even more challenging, the black hole is surrounded by clouds of gas and dust.
Astronomers had to determine the right wavelength of light they would use for the process. They settled on 1.3mm, which can pierce the black hole’s dust clouds, allow hot gasses to shine brightly, and travel easily through the atmosphere.
PROVING PHYSICS
The end goal of this is not just to take pretty pictures. Ultimately, the EHT will prove one of the most fundamental tenets of physics: general relativity.
Einstein’s tenet says that black holes bend spacetime, and that we can calculate that bend. So the pictures we get from the EHT have to show a crescent, and it has to be bent the right way, or else something is wrong with our physics models.
“We know exactly what GR predicts for that size,” Prof Ozel said – making this observation what scientists call a “null hypothesis test” of the theory.
Ultimately, projects like the EHT allow us to prove what were only theories decades ago, and teach us a lot about the workings of the universe in the process. Technology is helping us to better see (and understand) our universe.
Paralyzed Monkeys Able to Walk Again With Brain Implant. Human Trials Are Next
Paralyzed Monkeys Able to Walk Again With Brain Implant. Human Trials Are Next
A neural interface helped a monkey walk again after its spinal cord was cutSwiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Jemere Ruby
IN BRIEF
Using a system of electrodes, transmitters, receivers, scientists were able to restore leg function in a primate, completely bypassing damaged nerves.
While this remarkable feat may be decades away from human use, it is a promising development for the hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. with spinal cord injuries
Gregoire Courtine, a neurologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, holds a silicone model of a primate's brain with an electrode array. The goal is to pick up signals from the brain and transmit them to the legs.
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INSTANT FUNCTION
Electrodes implanted in the brain and spine have helped paralyzed monkeys walk. The neurologists behind the study reported that the implants restored function in the primates’ legs almost instantaneously. The findings are detailed in Nature.
The spinal cord of the subject monkey was partially cut, so the legs had no way of communicating with the brain. To mend the brain-spine interface, electrodes were placed on key parts of the monkey’s body. Implants were placed inside the monkey’s brain at the part that controls leg movement, together with a wireless transmitter sitting outside the skull. Electrodes were also placed along the spinal cord, below the injury.
A computer program decoded brain signals indicative of leg movement and transmitted the signals to the electrodes in the spine. Within just a few seconds, the monkey was moving its leg. In a few days, it was walking on a treadmill.
Alain Herzog/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
“The primate was able to walk immediately once the brain-spine interface was activated. No physiotherapy or training was necessary,” said Erwan Bezard, one of the authors of the study.
PRIMATE-TO-PRIMATE
This study is a massive breakthrough—it’s the first time implants have helped a primate walk. There has been much research to develop tech for paralyzed patients, but most lab trials were done on rodents. “It seems the principles learned in rats are now translating into primates,” said Jen Collinger, a University of Pittsburgh bioengineer.
The results were astoundingly positive, but the researchers say that it will take at least a decade to fine-tune the technology for use in humans. Still, our bodies are greatly similar to that of monkeys, and the researchers believe transition could be quick.
Exciting news about the study is that the components that the researchers used are legal for human use in Switzerland. The Swiss group of the study have started clinical trial with eight people with partial leg paralysis.
We’re all eager for further development in the study—an innovation that could greatly change the lives of approximately 282,000 people in the U.S. with spinal cord injuries.
This amazing structure was found by Streetcap1. The building is on Earths moon and is one of the three types that I have often talked about. Type 1, the white ceramic structures (medium size and have 90 degree angles). Type 2 the large non reflective black structures (mountain size, but biomechanically grown and have curved edges most of the time). Type 3, the grey metallic structures (these are small, 100 meters or less and are most often near the edges of the large black structures and have 90 degree angles). Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
A pinging sound was in the Hecla Strait, so I got out Google Earth and started looking for the alien base causing it. It took a whole 5 minutes, but I found it. Check out the buildings I found both on the land and mostly in the shallow water. The right angle of the buildings is unmistakably intelligently made. This is or at least was, an alien base, but since its still making a pinging noise...its probably still populated. The pinging could also be an old distress signal, accidntly set off from an invasion of privacy. Maybe a local accidentally found one of the thousands of underwater structure and entered, and this could set of an alarm. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan News states: A strange "ping" is emanating from the Arctic Ocean, according to reports from hunters and boaters in Canada's Nunavut territory. The noise has been occurring for months, dating back to summer, and it correlates with fewer sightings of marine animals nearby. Some local hunters worry it's scaring away wildlife. Also described as a hum or beep, the mysterious sound seems to come from the seabed in the Fury and Hecla Strait, a narrow channel in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut. It's a remote area, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the hamlet of Igloolik, located within a stretch of open water surrounded by sea ice. Known as a "polynya," this type of habitat is normally a popular hangout for wildlife. "That's one of the major hunting areas in the summer and winter because it's a polynya," Nunavut legislator Paul Quassa tells the CBC. "And this time around, this summer, there were hardly any [animals]. And this became a suspicious thing." (More at Source).
UFO Buzzes Over Washington DC On Day Trump Is Elected US President, Nov 9, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Buzzes Over Washington DC On Day Trump Is Elected US President, Nov 9, 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Nov 9, 2016 Location of sighting: Washington DC, USA This UFO was seen today over Washington and in one part of the video, the UFO comes into focus as it tilts slightly so we can see its top surface. Its a half disk shape and should not be over Washington without being intercepted by several F16s which watch this airspace. Apparently this UFO didn't show up on radar. US radar towers have not been updated much since its invention and need a serious upgrade to catch UFOs in US airspace. Its my belief that this UFO was over Washington to see how Obama was taking the news of the next US president being Trump. Will Trump reveal UFO info to the public, or will he skirt this issue? Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
Check this out Angel Spotted in the sky this afternoon over Washington D.C. whats the meaning of this awesome sighting.
China Sends a Team of Astronomers to New Antarctica Observatory to Probe Extraterrestrial Life
China Sends a Team of Astronomers to New Antarctica Observatory to Probe Extraterrestrial Life
China’s construction of an astronomical observatory is close to completion at the highest point on the Antarctic plateau as the 33rd Chinese expedition to the frozen continent starts. The missions to the South Pole hope to know the origin of dark matter and extraterrestrial life.
Aboard the research icebreaker Xuelong (Snow Dragon) are four astronomers who have planned about 100 projects for the next nearly six months of travel. They have 20 days to work at Kunlun base, according to one of the scientists.
Since 2007, China has sent astronomers every year to the region to build an observatory on Dome Argus, nearly 750 miles or 1,200 km from the nearest coast and around 4,093 meters or over 13,400 feet above sea level as the highest point.
The Kunlun station was built in 2007, located 7.3 km from Dome Argus, where it has been preparing since for its observation center.
With an automated astronomical observation platform at Dome Argus, the country is now planning to build a high-elevation Antarctic terahertz telescope.
UFO Hunters Discover “Alien Structures” on Mercury
UFO Hunters Discover “Alien Structures” on Mercury
Truth researchers found what they call alien buildings after looking through NASA photos from Jet Propulsion Laboratory team, who send robotic probes for the Solar System exploration.
Experts claim that the discovery of alien buildings on the first rock from the Sun isn’t the first time.
Pictures seem to show 17 structures in dome shape around the craters’ edges on Mercury.
Bumps across the surface of the planet are found in photos taken from one of NASA’s orbiters.
However, instead of considering them as natural formations, some UFO hunters believe these dome-shaped structures are of alien origin.
Just last week, some extraterrestrial enthusiasts identified an alien moon base in pictures taken from lunar orbiter of NASA.
Referring to the dome-shaped formations, truth seekers suggest these structures show something other than what scientists think.
Mercury has temperature highs of about 900C and lows of -173C. Life, as we know it, would be almost impossible to exist in the smallest planet of the Solar System. Furthermore, liquid water cannot exist on its surface.
The planet also experiences frequent solar storms and asteroid impacts.
Government Asked Pilots Not To Discuss Their UFO Sightings With Media
Government Asked Pilots Not To Discuss Their UFO Sightings With Media
In the 1950s, UFO sightings reported by pilots – military or civilian – could be the biggest headache for the American Air Force to cover-up. Civilian UFO sighting reports could be questioned or even discarded because of the fact they don’t possess knowledge and expertise to come to conclusions about the UFO. This wouldn’t be the case if civilian and military pilots identified UFOs. However, according to many UFO conspiracy theorists, the American government was prepared for the latter scenario.
The U.S. Air Force allegedly implemented the policy of silencing its Air traffic controllers and pilots. The Air traffic controllers and pilots who reported UFO sightings were reportedly provided with Communication Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sighting (CIRVIS), which detailed procedures to follow in case they encountered a UFO.
The top U.S. Air Force officials allegedly had a meeting on February 17, 1954, with the representatives of the U.S. top airlines. Before the meeting took place, commercial pilots reported UFO sightings on the average of five to ten per night. Instead of sending reports about their UFO sightings directly to their companies, commercial pilots are instructed to report them to the nearest Air Force base or the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) intelligence in Washington.
Pilots were also asked not to discuss their UFO sightings to the public or share them to the newspaper. Hundreds of pilots gathered together and protested against this government instruction. They even sent a petition to the government, but to no avail. Even at present, pilots are discouraged from discussing their encounters with UFOs to anyone from the media or press.
As an observational astronomer who teaches students about the behavior of the moon, I'm thankful for anything that inspires people to go out and look at the sky. For me it's second nature to pay attention to the moon; when my son was born, I would take him out at night to observe with me, and one of his very first words was "moon."
But I have mixed feelings about what's being billed as the upcoming "super-supermoon." Many astronomers do not like using the term because reports overhype the factors that make certain full moons unusual. Most of what you've likely read has probably misled you about what you can expect to see on Nov. 14 and just how rare this event is. Beautiful, yes. Worth looking up for, definitely. Once in a lifetime… that's a bit overblown.
The moon's cyclical phases
Just about everyone is familiar with the moon's changing appearance as it goes through its phases from crescent, to half-illuminated (first quarter), to gibbous, to full, and then back through gibbous, to half-illuminated (third quarter), to crescent, to new.
This pattern occurs because the moon orbits the Earth. When the moon is between the Earth and sun, it's a new moon, and you don't see it that day. When the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun we get a full moon as the sun's light illuminates almost its entire face. The complete sequence of phases takes about the same amount of time as it does for the moon to orbit the Earth once — just about a month.
As the moon makes its monthly trip around our planet, it travels on an elliptical, not circular, path. Every object in the solar system orbits like this, including the Earth around the sun; over the course of the year, the Earth is sometimes closer to the sun and sometimes more distant. Same for the moon — sometimes it's closer to us and sometimes farther away.
The changes are proportionally not large; at "perigee" (the closest it gets to the Earth) the moon's approximately 10 percent closer to the Earth than at "apogee" (most distant point on its orbit). Over the year, the moon's distance from Earth varies from around 222,000 to 253,000 miles.
The time it takes the moon to go from perigee to perigee (about 27.3 days) is shorter than the time it takes to go through a complete set of phases (about 29.5 days). Because these timescales are different, the phase at which perigee occurs varies. Sometimes perigee occurs when the moon is full, but it is just as likely for perigee to occur when the moon is in the first quarter phase, or any other. Whichever phase the moon is in when it's at perigee will be the one that looks largest to us here on Earth for that month.
At perigee, the moon can appear 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than an apogee full moon. But this is complicated by the fact that our eyes play tricks on us and convince us the moon looks larger when it is near the horizon than when it is higher in the sky. Every full moon will look big and bright whether it happens at perigee or apogee.
So what's a supermoon?
The first time I heard the phrase "supermoon" was in 2011, and someone had to explain the suddenly in vogue term to me. People were using it to describe the full moon that happened to occur within an hour of perigee in March of that year. The moon's perigee distance also varies a bit, and March 2011 was the moon's closest perigee of that year.
This was a somewhat rare event – a full moon occurring not just at perigee, but at the closest perigee of the year. But many people got the impression that this was an exceedingly unusual event, and rushed to see and capture images of this supposedly ultra-rare moon. Depending on how closely you require the full moon to occur to perigee in order to call it a supermoon, though, these events happen at least roughly once a year, and often more frequently.
Which brings us to this month's much ballyhooed "super-supermoon." News stories are hyping the upcoming full moon as a once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity. It's true that the Nov. 14 full moon is the closest since 1948, and the next time the full moon will be closer is in 2034.
But this month's full moon is only 0.02 percent closer – a mere 41 miles! – than the March 2011 supermoon. These tiny distances make no noticeable difference in the moon's appearance.
Please do go out and observe the November full moon. If you are good with photography, try to document that the moon does appear larger than the other months this year. Just be aware you'll have other virtually equivalent opportunities to do so pretty much every year for the rest of your life. So don't worry if you miss it. You can catch the supermoon next time around.
Do UFOs exist? Are aliens real? Could there be aliens living among us? These questions have been plaguing us for many centuries, even thousands of years. UFO news 2016reportsclaimed of a “disk-like” UFO passing the moon, raising opinions that aliens were investigating the moon.
HOLLYWOOD STAR CAUGHT A UFO SIGHTING
UFO news 2016 reports on child actress Rowan Blanchard sighting of a UFO in New York City. She published a photo on her Instagram where she caught a UFO sighting on her phone.
am.com/p/BJeVT3VgwIQ/Screencap from Rowan Blanchard Instagram account/ https://www.instagr
Girl Meets World Rowan Blanchardsaid on her Instagram post, “Say what u will but that thing was just appearing in the photo and wasn’t physically there.” Her photo shows an alien-like spaceship glowing in the clouds.” Whether it’s an alien ship or not, it is up to the viewers to decide.
MULTIPLE UFO SIGHTINGS OVER THE YEARS?
Meanwhile, UFO Chronicles posted a tweet about a UFO sighting in 1984 of a “flying saucer.”
Reports claim that aliens have visited our planet and could be living among us, but that has not been confirmed nor debunked yet. UFO Sightings posted this picture of an alien in Twitter with a caption “Area 51 Scientist Smuggles Alien Photograph, Explains On His Deathbed Aliens Are Real.”
Although this has not been confirmed with evidence or declared edited, this is an interesting picture that could possibly reveal more about aliens.
Screencap from UFO Sightings /
https://twitter.com/UFOsightingss
The Courier reports UFO news 2016 of sightings and aliens living among us. It says that the UFO sightings on Falkland specifically “On September 23, 1996, two adults, a teenager and a 10-year-old driving near Newton of Falkland claimed they saw not only a large black triangular shaped ‘craft’ but numerous small grey ‘beings’ in front of some woods.”
There were also reports of aliens trying to contact us. Mirror reports about a Russian telescope receiving alien broadcast signals from outer space.
“A Russian radio telescope discovered the signal coming from a star in deep space, raising the possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth…Strange signals are thought to be coming from the star HD164595, which is located in the Hercules star constellation,” Mirror reports.
There is not much solid evidence about aliens and UFOs until now. The strange sightings still cannot be substantially explained by science as public records can show. Do you know any UFO news 2016 story that seems authentic? Let us know in the comments section.
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What is a UFO? Basic Facts and History
What is a UFO? Basic Facts and History
Unidentified Flying Objects and Conspiracy Theories
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A UFO is technically an "unidentified flying object," nothing more nor less.
Any object that flies and cannot initially be identified as an airplane, helicopter, blimp, balloon, kite, or any other object that normally flies, is a UFO. Many flying objects that are listed as a UFO can later be identified as an object made on Earth, then they can be called an "IFO," or identified flying object.
What is a UFO? Let's Look at the Basics
For many years now, UFOs have been identified as "flying saucers," or disc-shaped objects. But in reality, any flying object — in any shape — that occurs on earth and not readily identifiable as being a natural phenomenon or man made is referred to as a UFO.
The term UFO was created in 1953 by the United States Air Force, according to worldUFOday.com, a website dedicated to sharing factual and helpful information about the subject of UFOs. The US Air Force is said to have created the term UFO to keep track of the the many unidentifiable aircrafts and missiles that were being tested by countries involved in the Cold War.
As a matter of national security, any UFOs seen in the skies were intensely logged and reviewed to keep track of all of these airborne objects being tested during that time.
Even though the term UFO may have been created as a matter of national security, the term has also come to refer to flying objects that may have been created by extraterrestrial life — many people immediately classify UFOs with alien spacecrafts or alien life.
Conspiracy Theories Surrounding UFOs
Many conspiracy theories exist around the topic of UFOs, with many people believing that the government has long tried to hide evidence of extraterrestrial life and their flying vessels. Much speculation has been made around the following reports involving UFOs.
The 1947 Roswell UFO Crash Reports of a crashed alien craft in Roswell, New Mexico left many of the general public feeling that the long awaited proof of extraterrestrial intelligence had come — but hopes were soon dashed, as an earlier statement about a crashed saucer was changed to nothing more than a crashed weather balloon. This proved unbelievable to the public, leaving many suspicious of a government coverup as there were too many witnesses who claimed to have seen the crashed UFOs and alien bodies.
Did President Eisenhower Meet with Alien Beings? Rumors and conspiracy theories point to President Dwight Eisenhower being whisked away in 1954 in a hastily arranged trip to see an alien craft and its wreckage. The location for this alleged clandestine meeting was Edwards Air Force Base.
1980-Cash/Landrum UFO Encounter Two women and one child encountered a craft of unknown origin, and all three suffered not only emotional trauma, but severe physical injury as well in the Piney Woods of Texas, near the town of Huffman on December 29, 1980.
1997-The Phoenix Lights Thousands of people witnessed V-shaped patterns in the sky for space of around 300 miles from the Nevada line in 1996. Numerous photographs, and an abundance of video film make this one of the best documented cases in UFO history.
Every year, new reports are made about UFO sightings all around the world. For more information on other cases involving extraterrestrial sightings read The Best Documented UFO Cases and be sure to read on you if are looking for answers to your questions about UFOs & Aliens.
Gevonden! De mensheid is dus bijna zover dat deze in staat is om leven op planeten buiten ons eigen zonnestelsel op te sporen. Maar stel nu dat er op zo’n verre exoplaneet daadwerkelijk intelligent buitenaards leven is. Het zou zomaar kunnen dat deze buitenaardse wezens technologisch gezien een flink stapje voorlopen op ons, omdat ze al veel langer meegaan (de mens is een relatief jonge soort) of omdat ze simpelweg een stukje slimmer zijn. Hoe dan ook: het kan ook zomaar zijn dat niet wij de buitenaardse wezens ontdekken, maar dat de buitenaardse wezens ons ontdekken. En wat dan? Wat doen we als ze op een zaterdagmorgen zoals deze opeens op aarde landen?
Rep en roer Over die vraag buigt de documentaire ‘The Visit’ zich. De documentaire is afgelopen week in première gegaan en brengt in beeld wat er allemaal komt kijken bij zo’n buitenaards bezoek. Burgers in paniek, overheden en hun persvoorlichters in rep en roer en instanties die allemaal naar elkaar kijken: Wie gaat eropaf? Wie voert het woord? En wat zeggen we dan?
WIST JE DAT…
…aan boord van de ruimtesonde Voyager een boodschap te vinden is voor eventueel buitenaards leven? Beelden, maar ook geluidsfragmenten. Wat opvallend is, is dat er bewust voor gekozen is om alleen maar positieve zaken over de mensheid te communiceren. Zo wordt er in deze boodschap voor buitenaards leven niet gerept over oorlogen, geweld en andere zwarte bladzijden uit de geschiedenis van de mens.
De VN Wanneer een buitenlandse vorst ons landje bezoekt, wordt deze welkom geheten door onze koning. Hij vertegenwoordigt het Nederlandse volk. Maar wie kan als buitenaardse wezens op aarde landen de mensheid vertegenwoordigen? Het is heel aannemelijk dat er dan als eerste gekeken wordt naar de Verenigde Naties, nauwkeuriger gezegd naar UNOOSA: United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs. Aangezien er vele landen wereldwijd bij de VN zijn aangesloten lijkt deze organisatie de aangewezen vertegenwoordiger van de mensheid.
De wetenschap De VN mag dan misschien het best in staat zijn om – na ongetwijfeld langdurig overleg met de lidstaten – een welkomstboodschap te formuleren, het is misschien niet de beste kandidaat om ook daadwerkelijk die welkomstboodschap over te brengen. Wellicht is dat meer een klus voor een wetenschapper: iemand die geleerd heeft om objectief verslag te doen van wat hij ziet en iemand zonder politieke of militaire belangen. En bij voorkeur een onderzoeker die enige bekendheid heeft en het vertrouwen van het publiek geniet.
Voorzichtigheid Maar het is natuurlijk naïef om die onderzoeker zomaar richting dat buitenaardse ruimtevaartuig te sturen. We weten immers niet wat de intenties van de buitenaardse wezens zijn. Willen ze kennismaken? Onze planeet verkennen? Of komen ze met slechte bedoelingen? En zelfs wanneer ze met goede bedoelingen komen, is voorzichtigheid geboden. Onderzoekers wijzen erop dat deze buitenaardse wezens op een andere planeet geëvolueerd zijn en wellicht werkt hun lichaam heel anders dan het onze. Het zou bijvoorbeeld zomaar kunnen dat micro-organismen die in en op ons lichaam wonen een enorme bedreiging vormen voor de lichamen van de buitenaardse wezens. Andersom kunnen ook de aliens – zonder dat ze dat willen – een bedreiging vormen voor ons. Om te voorkomen dat we elkaar onbedoeld beschadigen, zal het ruimtevaartuig in quarantaine moeten en een individu dat contact legt, zal een speciaal pak moeten dragen om uit te sluiten dat er een besmetting plaats kan vinden.
Hoe verder? Laten we er voor het gemak even van uitgaan dat de aliens goede bedoelingen hebben en uit nieuwsgierigheid geland zijn. Wanneer het eerste contact dan eindelijk gelegd is, hoe moet het dan verder? Welke vragen willen we deze buitenaardse wezens voorleggen? En kunnen we al hun vragen beantwoorden? Wat zeggen we als ze ons vragen wat een mens is? Of als ze ons confronteren met zwarte bladzijden uit onze geschiedenis? En hoe voorkomen we een enorme paniek onder de wereldbevolking? Of een ingrijpen van één natie die het wachten op antwoorden beu is of denkt de geavanceerde technologie van de buitenaardse wezens in het eigen voordeel te kunnen gebruiken? Kortom: wat als de aliens niet op oorlog uitzijn, maar er onbedoeld wel eentje tussen verschillende landen op aarde op gang helpen? En wat als de aliens op een gegeven moment hun schip weer op gang brengen en vertrekken? Zijn we dan teleurgesteld? Voelen we ons dan eenzaam? En hoe verandert het leven op onze planeet wanneer we na zo’n ontmoeting met zekerheid weten dat we niet alleen zijn? Dat er buitenaards leven is?
Van een documentaire die handelt over een gebeurtenis die nog moet plaatsvinden, kun je weinig antwoorden verwachten. Maar minstens zo interessant als de antwoorden zijn de vele vragen die een eventuele ontmoeting met buitenaards leven zou oproepen.
Wetenschap opent jacht op aliens die ons al ontdekt hebben
Wetenschap opent jacht op aliens die ons al ontdekt hebben
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Waar moeten we aliens zoeken? Misschien wel in het stukje heelal van waaruit zij ons heel gemakkelijk kunnen ontdekken, zo stelt nieuw onderzoek.
Al heel lang zijn mensen op zoek naar antwoord op die ene vraag: zijn we alleen in het universum? In een poging die vraag te beantwoorden, wordt de laatste decennia onder meer actief gezocht naar radiosignalen afkomstig van aliens. Vooralsnog zonder resultaat. Dat is op zich ook niet zo gek. Stel dat er aliens bestaan en ze proberen contact te leggen met de aarde. Dan moeten wij precies op het juiste moment en in de juiste richting ons oor te luisteren leggen. En het heelal is zo uitgestrekt, dat het best mogelijk is dat we elke keer net de verkeerde kant opkijken.
Kleiner zoekgebied Onderzoekers stellen in een nieuwe studie daarom voor om het gebied waarin we luisteren naar signalen van aliens te verkleinen. “Het zoekgebied wordt flink verkleind, waardoor we in een periode korter dan een mensenleven uit kunnen zoeken of er in dit gebied buitenaardse astronomen zijn die de aarde ontdekt hebben,” vertelt onderzoeker René Heller.
Overgang Maar op welk gebied moeten we ons dan richten? Heller en collega’s hebben daar wel ideeën over. Ze stellen dat we ons moeten richten op het gebied van waaruit eventuele aliens onze planeet voor onze zon langs kunnen zien bewegen.
Net als Kepler Veel van de exoplaneten (waaronder potentieel leefbare exoplaneten) hebben wij ontdekt door een ruimtetelescoop – Kepler – langdurig naar sterren te laten kijken. Wanneer Kepler ziet dat het licht van een ster regelmatig minder helder wordt, wijst dat erop dat rond de ster een planeet cirkelt. Op vergelijkbare wijze kunnen aliens ook onze planeet ontdekken en deze gaan bestoken met signalen. Het mooie is dat het gebied van waaruit aliens de aarde voor de zon langs kunnen zien bewegen vrij klein is. En in dat gebied moeten we volgens de onderzoekers dus op zoek naar signalen van buitenaards leven.
De onderzoekers wijzen in hun studie 82 nabije, zonachtige sterren aan. Vanaf planeten die rond deze sterren draaien is de aardovergang zichtbaar. Onze zoektocht naar signalen van aliens zou zich in eerste instantie op deze 82 sterren en hun omgeving moeten richten. Maar, zo benadrukken de onderzoekers, we kennen nog lang niet alle sterren in onze Melkweg. Ze schatten dat er zo’n 100.000 sterren zijn waar wellicht planeten omheen draaien met daarop aliens die ons ontdekt hebben en proberen te contacteren. Een deel van die planeten gaan we wellicht in de nabije toekomst ontdekken. En wel met behulp van de PLATO-missie. Tijdens deze missie hopen onderzoekers – wederom door naar overgangen te speuren – kleine planeten, waaronder aardachtige exemplaren te ontdekken. “PLATO kan zelfs de overgang van exoplaneten detecteren waarop mogelijk aliens leven die de aarde voor de zon langs kunnen zien bewegen,” vertelt Heller. “In zo’n gekke situatie zouden we elkaars planeten bestuderen door te kijken hoe ze voor hun ster langs bewegen.”
Astronomen kijken toe hoe zonnestelsels worden gemaakt
Astronomen kijken toe hoe zonnestelsels worden gemaakt
Kraaijvanger
De nieuwe waarnemingen scheppen meer duidelijkheid over hoe het er in de kraamkamer van planeten aan toe gaat.
We weten grofweg wel hoe planeten ontstaan. Ze komen voort uit een enorme gas- en stofschijf rond pasgeboren sterren. Deze protoplanetaire schijven kunnen wel honderden miljoenen kilometers groot zijn en bestaan uit fijne deeltjes die door de tijd heen samenklonteren en uit kunnen groeien tot planeten. Maar de details van dit hele proces zijn ons nog onbekend.
Structuren in de schijf Zo weten we bijvoorbeeld dat door de interactie tussen protoplanetaire schijven en hun planeten-in-wording allerlei structuren in de schijven kunnen ontstaan. Denk aan enorme ringen, donkere leegtes en spiraalarmen. Maar er is nog geen verband ontdekt tussen die structuren en de planeten die ze hebben veroorzaakt. Dankzij SPHERE – een nieuw instrument op de Very Large Telescope (VLT) – komt daar verandering in. Het instrument kan namelijk de structuren in de stof- en gasschijven rond jonge sterren rechtstreeks vastleggen.
Hier zie je de schijf rond de jonge ster RXJ1615.
Afbeelding: ESO, J. de Boer et al.
RXJ1616 En dat heeft het instrument nu bijvoorbeeld gedaan voor de jonge ster RXJ1615. Deze ster – die zich op zo’n 600 lichtjaar van de aarde bevindt – blijkt een complex stelsel van concentrische ringen rond zich heen te hebben. Deze ringen doen qua vorm (niet qua afmetingen) aan de ringen van Saturnus denken. Slechts zelden hebben onderzoekers zo’n complexe structuur in een protoplanetaire schijf gespot. Wat ook bijzonder is, is dat dit stelsel nog piepjong is. Het stelsel zou zo’n 1,8 miljoen jaar oud zijn en onderzoekers vermoeden dat het planeetvormingsproces nog in volle gang is.
De schijf rond de ster HD97048.
Afbeelding: ESO.
Nog meer symmetrie Onderzoekers bestudeerden daarnaast nog een andere jonge ster: HD97048. Ook deze ster blijkt concentrische ringen in zijn protoplanetaire schijf te hebben. En daarmee zijn er dus overeenkomsten tussen de schijf van RXJ1615 en HD97048. En dat is opmerkelijk, aangezien de meeste stof- en gasschijven rond jonge sterren gekenmerkt worden door asymmetrische spiraalarmen, leemten en wervelingen. Dankzij deze ontdekkingen is het aantal bekende protoplanetaire schijven met meerder symmetrische ringen dan ook in één klap aanzienlijk toegenomen.
Asymmetrie in real-time Verder bestudeerden onderzoekers ook de ster HD135344B. Deze ster is al vaker goed onderzocht, maar toch wisten onderzoekers met SPHERE nog iets nieuws te ontdekken. Zo troffen ze nieuwe structuren in de protoplanetaire schijf van de ster aan: een grote centrale leemte en twee spiraalarmen. De astronomen denken dat deze veroorzaakt worden door één of meer zware planeten in wording die uiteindelijk uit zullen groeien tot Jupiter-achtige hemellichamen. Ook zijn er vier donkere vegen gespot: waarschijnlijk zijn dit de schaduwen van bewegend materiaal in de schijf van de ster. Eén van die vegen is in de periode waarin de onderzoekers deze ster bestudeerden, duidelijk veranderd. Het betekent dat onderzoekers bij deze ster in real-time getuige zijn van planetaire evolutie. En dat is vrij uniek.
De schijf rond de ster HD135344B.
Afbeelding: ESO, T. Stolker et al.
De waarnemingen resulteren in drie papers (1, 2, 3) die weer iets meer inzicht geven in hoe het er in een protoplanetaire schijf aan toe gaat. Maar er valt natuurlijk nog veel meer te ontdekken in deze schijven die – zoals de waarnemingen bewijzen – ook nog eens veranderlijk zijn. Gaandeweg komen we echter steeds dichterbij een beter begrip van de wijze waarop planeten de vorm van de schijf waaruit ze voortkomen, beïnvloeden.
Cassini ziet wolken drijven op Saturnus' maan Titan
Cassini ziet wolken drijven op Saturnus' maan Titan
Caroline Kraaijvange
De wolken steken ietsje anders in elkaar dan de wolken op aarde: zo bestaan de wolken op Titan uit methaan.
Ruimtesonde Cassini bestudeerde de maan gedurende elf uur en maakte elke 20 minuten een foto. Die foto’s zijn vervolgens achter elkaar gezet, waardoor we de wolken op het noordelijk halfrond van Titan kunnen zien bewegen.
De langgerekte wolken tussen 49 en 55 graden noorderbreedte vallen het meest op. De snelheid van deze wolken ligt tussen de 7 en 10 meter per seconde.
Maar wie goed kijkt, ziet ook noordelijker – boven de kleine meren – wolken drijven. Deze kleine wolkjes hebben een snelhei van zo’n 1 tot 2 meter per seconde.
De beelden helpen onderzoekers om een beter beeld te krijgen van de wijze waarop wolken op Titan ontstaan, bewegen en weer verdwijnen. Modellen voorspellen dat er aan het begin van de zomer op het noordelijk halfrond van Titan meer wolken zouden moeten ontstaan dan nu het geval is. Het suggereert dat we de veranderende seizoenen op Saturnus’ grootste maan nog altijd niet helemaal doorgronden. Maar wellicht komt daar nog verandering in: Cassini blijft de maan nog even in de gaten houden.
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"Watching Summer Clouds on Titan" - NASA De afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
From UFOTV®, accept no imitations. Narrated by Peter Coyote, OUT OF THE BLUE is widely considered one of the best documentary films ever made about UFOs and was directed by celebrated filmmakers James Fox, Tim Coleman and Boris Zubov. The films producers traveled around the world to investigate some of the most famous UFO events on record. Through exclusive interviews with high-ranking military and government personnel, this award-winning film supports the theory that some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin.
This film features Governor Fife Symington, Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Russian General Leonid Aleviev, President Jimmy Carter, Cosmonaut Major General Pavel Popovich, UK Admiral Lord Hill Norton, Physics Professor Dr. Brian Greene, President Gerald Ford, Astronaut Colonel Gordon Cooper. White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, and many more. Presents an International Scope, Quality Testimony, and Scientific Perspectives. OUT OF THE BLUE provides a Definitive Investigation of the UFO Phenomenon.
"The weirdest thing about the documentary OUT OF THE BLUE is how weird it isn't." - TV Guide
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Un spécial OVNIs en Belgique pour cette reprise en douceur des publications de votre site Sciences et Fictions et Histoires. Avec les interventions de Gaetan Bovy et Rémy Fauchereau qui vous présentent UFOwallonia et de Gilles Durand qui vous parle de l'Histoire de l'ufologie Belge.
Présenté par Gilles.T., voici également en enregistrement audio, Gaetan Bovy, qui vous parle de la vague d'ovnis en Belgique des années 89-90.
Pour finir, un extrait de documentaire sur cette même vague d'OVNIS de 1989-1990 en Belgique. Bien qu'un faussaire ait reconnu récemment avoir fabriqué une maquette pour la prendre en photo et faire mesquinement parler de lui en trompant l'humanité pendant de nombreuses années, il est évidemment impossible que tous ces témoignages, y compris ceux de policiers et de pilotes d'avions de chasse, et aussi de controleurs aériens-radaristes, sur une bonne partie du territoire belge, concernent cette unique maquette du faussaire qui s'est déclaré bien tardivement... Le 29 novembre 1989, dans l'Est de la Belgique, de nombreux témoins, dont des policiers, signalèrent avoir vu des OVNIS dans le ciel, ce qui fut le début de ce que l'on nommera par la suite "la vague Belge" qui dura en tout 18 mois. Ce soir là, des agents de la police fédérale belge patrouillaient près de la frontière allemande, dans la ville d'Eupen, lorsqu'ils furent les témoins d'OVNIS de forme triangulaireévoluant dans le ciel sans aucun bruit. Ils décidèrent alors de contacter leur QG qui était submergé par des appels téléphoniques signalant ces apparitions...
NASA May Have Just Accidentally Discovered Faster than Light Travel
NASA May Have Just Accidentally Discovered Faster than Light Travel
Brian Wu
Long home to science fiction, traveling faster than the speed of light is quite commonplace as heroes and villains alike zip around their galaxy in an effort to engage each other. It has become so popular, in fact, that you would be hard pressed to find anyone on Earth that didn't know about the concept. Now it seems that scientists could have accidentally brought the notion of faster than light travel out of the realm of science fiction and into real science.
The idea of traveling to other planets at speeds much faster than light has seemed impossible for a long time. If only it were possible, planet to planet exploration would be almost instantaneous and open the galaxy up for man to explore.
However, much of the scientific community has long believed that traveling at speeds faster than light is physically impossible, no matter the material, and accelerating something to those types of speeds simply can't happen.
But, there are those in the scientific community that do believe that faster than light travel is possible, and one team may have just accidentally stumbled onto faster than light travel.
A team of researchers at NASA unintentionally accelerated particles to faster than light speeds using the EmDrive resonance chamber. If their findings turn out to be accurate, the team may have just discovered faster than light travel.
The EmDrive is a proposed method of interstellar propulsion and could even end up being the engine that propels starships through the galaxy in the future. There are many advantages to using this engine. It's electrically powered, it doesn't have any moving part and doesn't require any material fuel to move. If it does work as planned, there is a good shot that this could be the first steps in the design of a brand new engine.
NASA is currently studying the new technology for future use, but no one expected these types of results. When the team of researchers fired lasers into the resonance chamber, the particles were accelerated to astronomical speeds, with some even exceeding the speed of light.
"...this signature (the interference pattern) on the EmDrive looks just like what a warp bubble looks like. And the math behind the warp bubble apparently matches the interference pattern found in the EmDrive."
So what does this mean for space travel as we know it? Well, it is possible that NASA accidentally created a warp bubble that could, in theory allow for fast travel between the planeets of our solar system and beyond. While it sounds like something out of Star Trek, it is indeed now a part of real science. If the EmDrive were able to create a stable warp bubble, traveling the stars will become easier than ever and could propel the human face to where no one has gone before.
Faster-than-light travel may be a possibility after an accidental discovery by NASA scientists, but researchers are cautioning observers not to get too excited about taking a week-long trip to Alpha Centauri just yet. The new engine technology — once believed to be impossible — is now successful in tests for the third time.
Faster than light travel was thought to be impossible, but new research shows how it might be acheived. Of course, nothing is official.
( NASASpaceflight.com )
The electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive, or EM Drive, which might make hyperspace travel possible bounces microwaves within a closed container in order to provide thrust. This very notion appears to be contrary to some of the most basic laws of physics, including Newton's Third Law of Motion, which states that for every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction. Traditional rocket engines are driven by this tenet of physics — as propellant is accelerated out through the exhaust of an engine, the movement creates an opposite reaction pushing the spaceship forward.
Albert Einstein is among the scientists best known for outlining reasons that traveling faster than the speed of light should be impossible — among other problems, the mass of an object increases with velocity. A spaceship accelerating to the speed of light would add an infinite amount of mass, making it impossible to propel.
British engineer Roger Shawyer first proposed the idea of an EM Drive about 15 years ago, but it was greeted with extreme skepticism by scientists who declared the principle of the device to be unfounded. However, in 2010, Chinese physicists reported they observed an accelerating force in such a device, an experiment confirmed by NASA in 2014. Neither of those experiments was conducted in a vacuum, leading some researchers to believe the purported effect was just the result of experimental error.
Eagleworks Laboratories, which carries out Advanced Propulsion Physics Research for NASA, has now carried out the third successful test of an EM Drive in a hard vacuum. The results were the same as the earlier experiments, showing the production of a force that could result in an acceleration.
Using such an engine could propel spacecraft from the Earth to the moon in four hours, or to Mars in just 70 days. This would allow space travelers to spend 90 days on the Red Planet before returning home.
"While the fast Mars transits that Q-Thruster technology [EM drive] could enable would be revolutionary, the independence from the limitations of departure and arrival windows may ultimately be more so," researchers report.
Amateur and professional physicists gathered together online to analyze the results of the experiment, although no official statement from NASA has been issued.
Applications for such an engine are not limited to faster-than-light travel. Such engines, without the need for propellant, could keep the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit without the need for intermittent boosts in altitude. Replacing a traditional propellant system on an average geostationary satellite would reduce the mass needed to be launched into space from 3 tons to 1.3 tons, significantly reducing costs.
The experiments are still a long way from powering spacecraft, but another Star Trek technology may one day become real.
Every building starts with a strong foundation — pouring concrete into a hole, constructing on top of it. But according to Martyn Dade-Robertson, the buildings on Mars won’t follow that formula, instead relying on colonies ofgenetically-engineered bacteria to be our de facto architects.
Dade-Robertson — professor of architectural design at Newcastle University — might seem crazy, but he’s onto something: Humans have always been playing catch-up to the construction genius of microbes. The plaque on your teeth is a structure built by bacteria, and we all know how sturdy and resistant it is against intruders. The planet’s youngest fossils are structures built by microbial colonies, called stromatolites. Even our most modern construction techniques rely on the labor of much simpler organisms: Cement is derived from calcium carbonate produced by living things like corals and mollusks — without them, we’d have no concrete, no cities. “Civilization is literally built on the fossils of sea creatures,” writes Dade-Robertson and colleagues in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society.
So why not cut out the middlemen? Could we inject bacteria directly into the soil, and have it consolidate the soil into a sort of concrete, in response to the pressure from the house sitting above? Maybe. “From our work we know that there are a number of genes (over 100) whose regulation is changed as they come under pressure,” Dade-Robertson tells Inverse by email. “These genes are controlled by genetic switches so we have been looking for genetic switches which can be turned on or off. We can then use these genetic switches to turn on other genes which, for example, would synthesize materials — inducing calcium carbonate formation, for example.”
Bacteria in the soil responds to pressure, and the foundation builds itself.
This isn’t science fiction. Already, a company called BioMason is making bricks cured by bacteria rather than heat. The process produces no carbon dioxide emissions — and the energy savings are enormous. Only the fossil fuel industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the construction industry, worldwide. Another group out of Newcastle University has engineered BacillaFilla— a strain of bacteria that can live in a dormant state in concrete, awakening in the presence of cracks to spur the structure to repair itself.
Here on Earth, these technologies could be game-changers. On Mars, they might be our only option.
Transporting construction materials to build colonies on Mars is inefficient, estimated to cost about $50,000 per pound, and lacking (to the best of our knowledge) the fossilized remains of sea creatures, the ingredients for cement won’t be naturally available.
But bacteria isn’t heavy, and under the right environmental conditions, they can be willing conspirators in the construction of a new world. Dade-Robertson admits his bioengineered foundations are still a ways away from reality here on Earth, let alone in extraterrestrial space. There are technical challenges to overcome: his test-case bacteria, E. coli, wouldn’t much like a soil environment, so that will have to be swapped out. Then there’s getting it to produce the right sort of material in the right quantity at the right pressure.
Of course, there will be political, legal, and ethical complications, too. “Do people want genetically engineered microorganisms in their environment?” he asks. “Will governments legislate for it? These are questions that are at the forefront of our mind.” It’s certainly illegal, at least for the time being, to seed Mars with alien life forms from Earth.
Maybe in 20 years we’ll see some working form of bioengineered foundations for Earth-bound homes, Dade-Robertson says. These wouldn’t just save energy, they could actually be carbon-negative, since the production of calcium carbonate sequesters carbon dioxide.
The amazing thing about imagining how we might build on Mars is how it expands our minds in terms of the possibilities here on Earth. In the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Dade-Robertson and his coauthors point out that the point is to consider the future in a greater scope: “Ultimately, considering the challenge of new types of material and construction techniques is not only of practical use to the future colonizers of Mars, but also encourages us to think in new ways about the colonization of our own planet.”
Here’s a scary thought: If the United States and Russia can’t agree on Ukrainian borders or even the pettiest aspects of cyber security, could the internationally community respond responsibly to an apocalyptic threat?
Though Ted Chiang’s short story “Story of Your Life” is mostly hyper-focused on the exchanges between human scientists and a group of aliens that suddenly descend upon the earth, its big screen adaptation, Arrival, paints a picture — or a mural — of diplomatic madness. In the film, massive alien ships with mysterious occupants land in a dozen countries, including the U.S., Russia, and China, creating an immediate need for human unity and, of course, a lot of narrative-driving tension.
“The loss of U.S. hegemony helped the dramatic narrative,” screenwriter Eric Heisserer told Inverse. “We weren’t the ones calling all the shots. The U.S. doesn’t get to be the leader, the number one domino.”
As expert linguist Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams), physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) and their team of military assistants try to establish a line of communication with the aliens, the State Department pressures its ambassadors for humanity to talk faster. Fear makes the issue of extraterrestrial motivation paramount. Military types want to know “why” the aliens have descended upon earth. Are they hostile? Do they want to trade? What are they saying to the Japanese (and can they trust the daily reports from other nationsabout their conversationswith the aliens)?
“There were more scenes in the script; I sketched out conversations between other alien arrival sites, between the London team and one of the Russian teams,” Heisserer said. “I had the Indian Ocean site, which is in international waters, and I asked who is taking charge of that place (spoiler: nobody and everybody). It was a fascinating work of political gymnastics that at at the end of the day just made my head hurt.”
Director Denis Villeneuve’s film didn’t keep all of the scripted international conflicts, but the filmmaker did include looks at how other countries approached communication with the aliens.
“We landed on mahjong as a model of communication that would be an alternative to them learning Mandarin,” production designer Patrice Vermette said of the Chinese government’s attempt to bridge the infinite language gap. “Then we began to realize all the pitfalls and trips that came from using a game with rules and victory and defeat baked into every interaction, and realized how that could undermine all the communication you are trying to do.”
In the film, the Chinese have a more difficult time with the aliens because of this alternate mode of communication, which in turn puts pressure on the American team to decode the aliens’ intentions. The film endorses patience and attempts at empathy over confrontation, policies that become harder to maintain as time goes on — China and Russia in particular inch closer and closer to confrontation with the aliens, which could precipitate an apocalypse for humanity.
Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner in 'Arrival'
Heisserer tried to consider not only what would happen if aliens arrived, but what would happen over time if they stayed. “Every indicator externally suggested that, yes, the longer you had these crazy scary alien ships parked in your backyard and you, as a regular citizen, had no info, the easier it was to buy that you’d be freaked out,” he said. The character of Colonel Weber [Forest Whitaker], is stuck managing an impossible situation: hysterical government leaders and citizens looking for answers, and patient scientists and linguists who see this as the opportunity of a lifetime.
In the version of Arrival that made it to screen, citizens begin to riot and demand information, and, though the United States president goes unnamed in the film, it is clear that he or she has the fortitude to withstand that outcry. Given what we’ve seen in this tumultuous presidential election, with two candidates who promise very different approaches to major crises, it is only fitting that Arrival hits theaters this week.
“For a long time there was a scene in the script where Col. Weber had to deal with the growing crowd surrounding the site of normal citizens who have come to look,” he said. “The tone of that group is more and more violent, the way it is with a certain political candidate in this election. The scene is Col. Weber talking to a sergeant, and the sergeant says, ‘I need 200 more men with assault rifles patrolling the area,’ and Weber says how dangerous it was having 200 armed soldiers next to an alien spaceship. The sergeant says, ‘I’m less worried about what happens to our citizens than what happens to our visitors.’”
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No More Dark Matter? A New Theory of Gravity Could Explain Away Dark Matter and Energy
No More Dark Matter? A New Theory of Gravity Could Explain Away Dark Matter and Energy
Tim De Chant/NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
IN BRIEF
By treating gravity as an emergent phenomenon instead of a fundamental force, emergent gravity theory negates the need for dark matter and dark energy to explain the universe.
Any theories that could help us reconcile the conflicts between the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics will bring us a huge step closer to understanding our physical universe.
Modern physicists haven’t been able to explain why outer regions of galaxies rotate much faster than they should based on the mass and energy of the stars, planets, interstellar gasses, and other matter within them. The best explanation thus far for this strange gravitational behavior has been dark matter, a type of matter that we can’t see and that we haven’t really discovered yet.
Verlinde has a different explanation for these deviations in motion, and he calls his new theory emergent gravity. In his theory, gravity is an emergent phenomenon and not a fundamental force. As such, it’s a product of fundamental bits of information that are stored with the structure of spacetime itself. When those fundamental bits change, gravity emerges.
“We have evidence that this new view of gravity actually agrees with the observations,”says Verlinde in a Delta ITP press release. Indeed, using his theory, he has produced accurate predictions of the velocities of stars rotating around the core of the Milky Way and stars in other galaxies without any need for dark matter. By including an adaptation of the holographic principle within his theory, Verlinde is also able to account for dark energy, the unseen force causing the universe to expand.
Credits: E. Verlinde
A NEW PARADIGM
Our current understanding of gravity is largely based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity. While that theory can explain a lot of the behavior of our universe, it doesn’t hold up when applied to quantum physics, which becomes evident in extreme situations like near a black hole or during the Big Bang. Therefore, Verlinde and many other physicists think that our theory of gravity needs to be updated.
“Many theoretical physicists like me are working on a revision of the theory, and some major advancements have been made,” says Verlinde. “We might be standing on the brink of a new scientific revolution that will radically change our views on the very nature of space, time and gravity.”
Of course, Verlinde’s theory is still just that — theoretical — and it does have its limitations, including an inability to explain large-scale effects like galaxies clustering together. However, it is a plausible path toward reconciling the two pillars of modern physics, Einstein’s theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics, and therefore worth thinking about…even if it might make your brain hurt.
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.
Baanbrekende theorie: Zwaartekracht is een volstrekte illusie
Baanbrekende theorie: Zwaartekracht is een volstrekte illusie
Natuurkundige Erik Verlinde van de UvA heeft een nieuwe theorie gepubliceerd over de zwaartekracht.
In zijn theorie, die een doorbraak zou kunnen betekenen in de natuurkunde, ontkracht hij het bestaan van donkere materie.
“Onze gangbare ideeën over ruimte, tijd en de zwaartekracht moeten hoognodig op de schop,” zegt Verlinde. “We weten al heel lang dat Einsteins theorie van de zwaartekracht niet door één deur kan met de kwantummechanica.”
Volstrekte illusie
Hij voegt toe: “Onze inzichten zijn drastisch aan het veranderen en ik denk dat we ons aan de vooravond van een wetenschappelijke revolutie bevinden.”
Het bestaan van donkere materie en zwaartekracht is volgens Verlinde een volstrekte illusie en het gevolg van iets fundamentelers.
Hij vergelijkt het met temperatuur. De warmte die wij voelen is zelf niets, maar wordt veroorzaakt door de beweging van moleculen.
Informatie
Iets soortgelijks gebeurt met zwaartekracht, aldus de hoogleraar. Het universum zou zich verzetten tegen het optillen van een massa, waardoor de illusie van zwaarte ontstaat.
We moeten de kosmos niet langer zien als een verzameling massa’s, maar als een verzameling informatie, zegt hij.
Verklaringen
Verlinde paste dat toe op het heelal en ontdekte in zijn formules gelijk verklaringen voor onbegrepen zaken zoals donkere materie en donkere energie.
In 2010 haalde de fysicus het wereldnieuws met zijn opvatting dat de zwaartekracht geen kracht is zoals Newton die voorstelde. Ook zei hij dat de oerknal niet bestaat.
Het nieuwe onderzoek is te lezen op de voorpublicatiesite Arxiv.
EM Drive: Gelekt rapport onthult dat ‘onmogelijke’ Star Trek-motor echt werkt
EM Drive: Gelekt rapport onthult dat ‘onmogelijke’ Star Trek-motor echt werkt
De resultaten van de tests die de NASA heeft gedaan met de ‘onmogelijke’ EM Drive zijn gelekt.
Ze onthullen dat het controversiële aandrijfsysteem echt werkt en stuwkracht genereert in een vacuüm.
De EM Drive was het afgelopen jaar al vaak in het nieuws omdat het hier gaat om een brandstofvrije motor die ons in slechts 70 dagen naar Mars kan brengen.
Er is alleen één groot probleem: volgens de huidige natuurkundige wetten zou de motor niet moeten kunnenwerken.
Zonder brandstof
De EM Drive is in strijd met de derde wet van Newton, die zegt dat krachten altijd in paren optreden. Als voorwerp A een kracht uitoefent op voorwerp B, dan oefent voorwerp B een even grote, maar tegengesteld gerichte kracht uit op voorwerp A.
Normaal gesproken wordt in de ruimte stuwkracht opgewekt door raketbrandstof te verbranden. De EM Drive werkt echter zonder brandstof.
De testresultaten zijn gelekt door de Australiër Phil Wilson, die actief is op het forum van NASASpaceFlight.com.
December
Zijn bericht werd verwijderd omdat de paper over de resultaten nog niet gepubliceerd is. Ook op Reddit werd zijn post weggehaald.
In december worden de testresultaten gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift van het American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Nieuwssite Next Big Future heeft besloten om naar de paper te linken, waardoor mensen de resultaten nu al kunnen bekijken.
Niet in strijd
NASA is erin geslaagd de experimenten van de Britse wetenschapper Roger Shawyer, de uitvinder van de EM Drive, te herhalen.
Ook heeft het ruimteagentschap bewezen dat het controversiële apparaat niet in strijd is met de wetten van Newton.
Onze planeet zag er niet altijd uit zoals wij die nu kennen. Ooit was er een compleet andere wereld waar letterlijk alles leefde en groeide.
Er groeiden bomen op aarde die zo groot waren dat er op de takken complete dorpen en steden konden worden gebouwd, maar toen gebeurde er iets…..
Wij hebben de scholen, de opvoedfabrieken van de machthebbers, waar ons wordt verteld dat de geschiedenis van de mensheid slechts enkele duizenden jaren voor Christus begint en dat alles wat daarvoor gebeurt, niets anders is dan een soort prehistorie, waarbij een aapachtige variant van de huidige mens de aarde bevolkte.
Geologisch onderzoek toont zonder enige twijfel aan dat de wereld ooit is getroffen door een enorme ramp. Van zo’n omvang dat er niets of nauwelijks iets is overgebleven van de wereld zoals die ooit was.
Russische wetenschappers hebben kunnen vaststellen dat er ooit een zodanige brand op aarde heeft gewoed dat ruim 99 procent van de aardse biosfeer toen is verdwenen. Dit hebben ze onder andere kunnen vaststellen aan de hand van stoffen zoals die zijn aangetroffen in het ijs op de noordpool.
Als er destijds 99 procent is verdwenen, dan is dat wat nu over is aan soorten en aantallen, slechts een fractie van wat er toen was. Nu geloven de mensen in het sprookje van overbevolking, maar wanneer je bomen nodig hebt en er is niet genoeg ruimte om ze allemaal naast elkaar te planten, laat ze dan maar de lucht in groeien.
Destijds kende de mens een aarde met enorme bomen die een enorme hoogte wisten te bereiken.
Tijden waarin je bomen had zoals we die nog tegenkomen in sprookjes, bomen van meer dan 100 meter hoog, zelf kilometers.
De video hieronder neemt je mee op een avonturenreis die voor sommigen moeilijk te volgen zal zijn. Wanneer je bereid bent om te kijken zonder vooroordelen, dan zal je bijvoorbeeld ontdekken dat er voor de ramp bomen op aarde waren die groeiden tot een hoogte van maar liefst zes kilometer en nóg hoger.
Een stukje van een dergelijke boom is vandaag de dag nog te zien bijvoorbeeld in het Amerikaanse Wyoming. Alleen wordt het niet de stomp van een boom genoemd, maar een rotsformatie.
Deze Devil’s Tower ziet er als volgt uit:
De wetenschap heeft voor alles eigenlijk een soort standaard antwoord dat alle onverklaarbare dingen zijn ontstaan als gevolg van vulkanische uitbarstingen.
Overal in die oude boomstronken komt de zeshoek tevoorschijn, net zoals die te zien is in een bijenraat, en dat wordt volkomen genegeerd.
Dat je niet alleen Devil’s Tower hebt, maar ook de Giant Causeway in Ierland waar zo'n 40.000 van die regelmatige zeshoeken worden aangetroffen. Wanneer je beelden van een landschap na een vulkanische uitbarsting bekijkt, lijken deze in het geheel niet op de “rotsformatie” die wij boomstronken noemen.
Het is eigenlijk een grote schande, dat wat niets anders is dan een oeroude steengroeve nu een nationaal park wordt genoemd, de Grand Canyon.
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je links de Giant’s Causeway in Ierland en rechts Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. Overblijfselen van wat ooit enorme bomen waren.
Bomen die zo enorm groot waren dat er op de takken complete dorpen of steden konden worden gebouwd. Bomen die letterlijk tot aan de hemel groeiden.
Wat we nog zien op aarde zijn de trieste overblijfselen van wat ooit enorme vegetatie was op deze planeet. Prachtige grote bomen die zijn omgezaagd voor belangen en anderen afgebroken als gevolg van een ramp.
Wat wij gebergtes en rotsen noemen, zijn niets anders dan restanten van geknakte bomen.
In oude tijden leefde alles wat op aarde was en vormde onderdeel van het ecosysteem. Dingen zoals rotsen en woestijnen kwamen niet voor en de mens leefde tussen de enorme vegetatie die destijds de aarde bedekte.
En toen…. is er iets gebeurd op aarde waardoor alles zo goed als vernietigd is. De prachtige grote bomen werden omgezaagd en hele stukken aarde werden afgegraven, waardoor de enorme steengroeves, maar ook woestijnen, ontstonden zoals de Grand Canyon.
Niet alleen de Grand Canyon want wanneer je je ogen opent en goed kijkt, zal je ontdekken dat de complete wereld een enorme steengroeve is. Dat zo goed als alles wat ooit op aarde leefde, al is vernietigd en dat er enorme machines zijn gebruikt (en nog steeds worden gebruikt) om de aarde letterlijk te slopen en te maken tot een kerkhof, wat het nu in feite is. Waar het op neerkomt, is dat de huidige bewoners van planeet aarde overlevenden zijn van een ramp.
Al het bovenstaande en meer wordt duidelijk gemaakt in de volgende video. De boodschap is eenvoudig: Stop met denken volgens patronen zoals je dat altijd geleerd is, open je ogen en ontdek de planeet die ooit een prachtige aarde was.
Ergens in het verleden is dat gebeurd en ergens hebben er één of meerdere kernoorlogen plaatsgevonden, waardoor zo goed als alles wat leefde op aarde is weggevaagd.
Ga op reis, vergeet even alles wat je ooit hebt geleerd en probeer door een andere bril te kijken. En wellicht zal ook jouw leven daarna voorgoed veranderen. Met de kennis uit deze video kijk je ook met hele andere ogen naar de film Avatar die over een dergelijke wereld gaat zoals de aarde ooit was. In die film wordt de aarde Pandora genoemd.
Two Florida witnesses at Bradenton reported watching a triangle-shaped UFO with a red light at its base that hovered for 20 minutes, according to testimony in Case 79981 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness A illustration with 8X binoculars.
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The incident occurred about 8 p.m. on October 22, 2016.
The reporting witness stated that the object was a “white triangle, well defined” – with a “red globe at base.”
Florida MUFON Field Investigator George Hopper State Section Director William Schroeder are investigating.
Hopper and Schroeder reported in their investigation notes that the object remained stationary during the 20-minute sighting.
“The witness described the object as what appeared to look like two long, white, fluorescent bulbs configured in such a way that it gave the appearance of a triangular shape with a red light at its base,” they stated.“The interior appeared darker than the lighted object. They had 8X power binoculars.”
Witness B illustration.
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The investigators refer to the sketches provided by the two witnesses.
“Witness A shows that the object appeared as two orb-like objects connected together with fuzzy edges. The witness stated that the object appeared more like a rectangular object than a triangle. He also noticed that both orbs appeared brightest on the ends. He stated he noticed red and blue shades emanating from the object. He also stated that the object appeared brighter than the planet Venus (which set below the Western horizon at approximately at 10:50 p.m. No sound was heard emanating from the object. The object was roughly the size of an aspirin held at arm’s length as seen with the unaided eye.”
Bradenton is about 45 south of Tampa, FL.
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The investigators checked for a natural explanation.
“I reviewed the Stellarium Astronomy software and did not notice any objects appearing in the sky that would have been mistaken for the object seen. I also reviewed the MUFON database and could not find a similar sighting during the time of this sighting. I asked and received a sketch of the UFO and it is included with this report.”
Bradenton is a city in Manatee County, Florida, population 54,437. The investigations remain open. 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 Georgia witness at Moultrie reported watching a triangle UFO with lights at each corner hover and then move directly overhead silently at the treetop level, according to testimony in Case 80091 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first noticed the hovering object at the tree top level at 7:45 p.m. on October 28, 2016. Pictured: Moultrie, GA.
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The witness was driving at 7:45 p.m. on October 28, 2016, and stopped at an intersection.
“I saw a strange object right in front of me in the sky that was sitting still,” the witness stated.“I thought it was a plane, but it was way too close to the ground to be a plane. So I rolled my windows down to listen just to be sure.”
The object was completely silent.
“It began to slowly, and at an extremely smooth and constant speed, fly over my car heading the opposite direction as me. As it passed overhead I saw that it had three red lights on all three corners and the front one was blinking.”
The object was hovering in place. Pictured: Moultrie, GA.
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As the witness continued to watch, a white light turned on along the right corner of the craft, right beside the red light.
“I tried to see if the white light was coming from a window, but could not tell due to its speed. I want to make it very clear that I saw the outline and bottom of the craft as well as the lights on the end, and I am 100 percent certain that it was not a plane or jet of any sort.”
The witness finally moved through the intersection.
The witness had one red light at each of the three corners. Pictured: Moultrie, GA.
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“When I looked out my window to look at it again, I could not find it. This may have been due to trees blocking my view or an increase in speed, I’m not sure. I was driving and it happened too quickly that I couldn’t get my phone out in time to get a picture. But I assure you, I wouldn’t spend the time filling this out if I was making this up.”
Moultrie is the county seat and largest city of Colquitt County, Georgia, population 14,268. MUFON Georgia Field Investigators Jeremy Haslam and Brion Trainor are 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.
SHOCK CLAIM: Nostradamus predicted ‘audacious’ Trump’s victory - and now world could end
SHOCK CLAIM: Nostradamus predicted ‘audacious’ Trump’s victory - and now world could end
NOSTRADAMUS predicted Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States and said it will also herald the end of the world, claim conspiracy theorists.
The Republican nominee pipped the Democrat’s Hillary Clinton to a shock victory in a close race for the presidency of the US.
While many were surprised by the billionaire’s victory in the 2016 US election, followers of Nostradamus would not have been, claiming the prophesier predicted this in the 16th century.
In Century III, Quatrain 81, Nostradamus wrote: “The great shameless, audacious bawler. He will be elected governor of the army: The boldness of his contention.
Donald Trump's election could spell the end, say conspiracy theorists
Many believe that the “shameless, audacious bawler” part refers to Mr Trump’s loud communication, while “governor of the army” refers to being in charge of the world’s leading military force.
In Century 1, 40, another prediction reads: “The false trumpet concealing madness will cause Byzantium to change its laws.”
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Nostradamus apparently predicted Trump's triumph
Byzantium was an Ancient Greek colony – some have connected this to the fact Greece is becoming a landing spot for immigrants and refugees, a topic that has been at the centre of Mr Trump’s candidacy.
Finally, in Quatrain 50, Nostradamus writes "the Republic of the big city” will engage in costly military operations, ordered by the “trumpet”, which has led to fears of nuclear war.
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Some believe that a nuclear war could follow Trump's election
One user wrote on Facebook: “I pretty sure this is the start to Nostradamus' prediction of the Apocalypse.”
Another posted: “Nostradamus predicted this outcome. Nostradamus predicted after the trumpet wins, there will be a Great War! He predicted this 400 yrs ago!
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Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States
“His prediction have all come true! I'm afraid America is going fall, compare us to Roma, we have to much debt, and we import more than we export, we are in serious trouble.”
Intelligence that could shed light on the most notorious British unsolved UFO mysteries, including the Rendlesham case from 1980, has been withheld from public view, according to UFO expert Malcolm Robinson.
Mr Robinson, founder of Strange Phenomena Investigations, has collated UFO evidence for years and in 2015 presented a dossier to Downing Street, asking then Prime Minister David Cameron to open an inquiry - something that failed to materialise.
He said: "The governments of this world – including Britain – know far more than they are letting on, that's for sure."
He claimed that a tip off off from a source within the Ministry of Defence suggested that many sightings and files had been covered up.
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UFO investigator Malcolm Robinson claims the UK Government withholds information on aliens
He claims the manager of the now defunct UFO desk, Nick Pope once told him: "We don't even tell you the half of it."
The UFO department and hotline was shut in 2009 because it no longer served a "defence purpose" and was taking staff away from "more valuable defence-related activities," documents obtained under Freedom of Information later revealed.
Now declassified documents stated: "The Ministry of Defence has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life."
It also added that, in 50 years, no UFO report had revealed evidence of a potential threat to the UK.
Eight years since the department was culled, Mr Robinson has called for government to launch an inquiry into clusters of sightings, including cold case police files from Bonnybridge, Scotland - a case he has focussed on.
There were more than 300 UFO sightings in the small town in the 1990s.
Mr Robinson said: "The Ministry of Defence have slowly released governmental files about sightings in the UK.
"Declassified documents in the US have also been released which clearly show that the NSA were in cahoots with other nation's governments – and knew exactly what was going on.
The governments of this world – including Britain – know far more than they are letting on, that's for sure.
Malcolm Robinson
"With any given sighting, we check with airports, with the National Security Agency, with the Ministry of Defence and meteorological stations to try and find a rational explanation.
"Some five percent can't be explained."
Earlier this year Express.co.uk revealed that MoD UFO files which had been sent to the National Archives for public release had been sent back for further censorship.
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IS WORLD ABOUT TO BE TOLD ALIENS EXIST? UFO pop star says 'big things are coming'
IS WORLD ABOUT TO BE TOLD ALIENS EXIST? UFO pop star says 'big things are coming'
FORMER Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge has claimed "big things are coming" in the world of alien disclosure in response to emails that he sent to Hillary Clinton's campaign team which were released by Wikileaks.
The former singer, who quit the group to focus on his interest in aliens, was thrown into the headlines after it emerged he was emailing Mrs Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta, another UFO truth seeker, about the out of this world topic.
In a message posted on Instagram, DeLonge said: "Wikileaks really messed some important stuff up.
"What seems like ridiculous subject matter to most, is of massive importance to admirable National Security Leadership.
"It's easy to poke fun about the topic from an armchair, but unless you're invited to the meetings I have been a part of, then...no more laughing.
"Big things are coming. Project is still on, believe it or not, things just got bigger. #SekretMachines."
Last week, it was revealed by Wikileaks that DeLonge had sent multiple emails to Mr Podesta, concerning proposed meetings and even military whistleblowers he was working with.
In one, he even told Mrs Clinton's team where the remains of the 'Roswell crashed flying saucer' were taken and stored away from public view - claiming it was the Wright-Patterson US Air Force (USAF) base, in Ohio, which contains the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop aerospace warfare technologies, with a budget of around $3billion.
Mr Podesta and Mrs Clinton have vowed she will make public as many classified government files on the subject as possible if she wins the race to the White House.
Two e-mails from Mr DeLonge to Mr Podesta sent last year were released by Wikileaks.
Big things are coming. Project is still on, believe it or not, things just got bigger
Tom DeLonge
In DeLonge identifies a top source, who he claims worked at "where the remains of the Roswell UFO crash" were taken and stored until very recently.
In an e-mail entitled "General McCasland", he wrote that he had been working with the named former military official on the Roswell mystery and hinted he may be about to turn whistleblower.
DeLonge is believed to be referring to Major General William McCasland, who was commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, at Wright-Patterson, until retiring in October 2013.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
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LAST 'PROOF' BEFORE THE 'COVER-UP': UFOs caught on ISS livestream NASA about to scrap
LAST 'PROOF' BEFORE THE 'COVER-UP': UFOs caught on ISS livestream NASA about to scrap
IT COULD be the last time alien chasers claim to capture UFOs buzzing the International Space Station (ISS) before NASA scraps the continuous eye into space.
In the latest claim from ET hunters, a video has emerged showing what appears to be two UFOs monitoring part of the ISS - a day before NASA scraps its ISS livefeed for good.
Footage uploaded by YouTube channel Streetcap1, a prolific watcher of the lifestream, appears to show two unusual objects flying above a progress capsule – which are used to supply the space station.
One UFO buff believes this, and many other similar captures from the livestream, are proof on their own that aliens exist.
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The supposed UFO (inset) in a still from the ISS livestream.
It almost looks like a giant spaceship is passing by but the rest of it is being blocked by some kind of invisible wall perhaps using some kind of software.
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One YouTube user said: "It almost looks like a giant spaceship is passing by but the rest of it is being blocked by some kind of invisible wall perhaps using some kind of software."
But other UFO experts and NASA say anomalies like these in the footage are nothing more than lens flares or reflections of sunlight hitting the ISS.
Earlier this month, NASA was accused of its biggest alien cover up yet after it emerged it is cutting off live feed cameras from the ISS permanently from TODAY.
The US space agency announced it is no longer going to live stream the cameras which which look 250 miles down towards Earth and out into space via the internet.
Conspiracy theorists immediately called it an attempted cover up.
It comes after a host of UFOs have been captured on the streams by alien chasers and uploaded to YouTube.
They claim NASA was routinely shutting down the live streams than a UFO appeared and has now chosen to axe the camera feeds to avoid having to keep doing this.
The space agency says so far found no evidence of alien life anywhere in the universe and vehemently denies any cover up, saying the live feed was only ever interrupted due to a camera switch or loss of power.
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RUSSIA Bizzare Portal RING! Military UFO Alert! 11/8/2016, Video, UFO Sightings News.
RUSSIA Bizzare Portal RING! Military UFO Alert! 11/8/2016, Video, UFO Sightings News
Date of sighting: Nov 8, 2016 Location of sighting: Russia This ring UFO was seen over Russia this month and was reported by ThirdPhaseofMoon, a UFO researching Youtube channel that focuses on all areas of paranormal phenomena. Ring UFOs are no joke. They have been recorded by the US military since 1957 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. (Click here to see it). In that sighting the US Army guard took many photos of the UFO as it was changing...it was creating a white cloud around it to hide in. Yes, UFOs make clouds. Its not rocket science to do it. I mean just drop some dry ice into your cup of water and bam! You got instant cloud. So with aliens and their advanced tech, its childs play. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Reference: Classified Shuttle Missions: Secrets in Space
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Classified Shuttle Missions: Secrets in Space
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
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STS-39 Mission Specialist Charles L. Veach monitors an AFP-675 panel on Discovery's aft flight deck.
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The space shuttle was NASA's primary option for transporting astronauts to Earth orbit between 1981 and 2011. The five shuttles that went into space flew 135 missions. Crews deployed satellites, conducted experiments and studied the Earth. A handful of the missions were classified, and little is known about these secret missions, even 30 years after the fact.
Joint operations
In the early days of the space shuttle program, some of the missions were run jointly by NASA and the military. This was in part because the National Reconnaissance Office had successfully requested the shuttle's payload bay — the part of the shuttle that carried satellites be carried into space — be enlarged to accommodate large military satellites, according to Air & Space Magazine.
NRO also wanted polar shuttle missions, since polar missions make it possible to see the Earth's entire surface below (as opposed to equatorial missions, which are limited.) The Air Force went so far as to create a launch pad in Vandenberg, California for polar-orbiting space shuttle missions, but after the Challenger incident, plans to use the pad were permanently mothballed.
After the Challenger disaster on Jan. 28, 1986, U.S. policy changed to allow the Department of Defense to use expendable, uncrewed rockets again. Classified shuttle flights continued with payloads that could not be shifted to the Titan IV rocket, the magazine added. The astronauts encountered considerable challenges in keeping information secret since the shuttle did not have secure information channels, and their movements and training operations had to be somehow kept separate in a normally open public agency.
Here is some of what we know about the missions with DOD.
STS-4 Columbia (Launched June 27, 1982)
The classified payload was known as Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrument for Shuttle (CIRRIS), which was supposed to test infrared sensors for a future surveillance satellite called Teal Ruby, according to America Space. The lens cap on CIRRIS failed to open, and the experiment failed. America Space added that Teal Ruby ended up being cancelled after the Challenger incident, which delayed shuttle flights by several years.
"Teal Ruby was first shifted onto STS-39 and finally cancelled," the publication said. "By the time STS-39 lifted off in April 1991, it carried not Teal Ruby … but an updated version of CIRRIS. Apparently, by the time it would have been ready to launch, the Teal Ruby technology — considered 'advanced' in the late 1970s — would be virtually obsolete, because sensor technology was advancing rapidly."
STS-51C Discovery (Launched Jan. 24, 1985)
Little is known about STS-51C's payload officially besides this terse line on the NASA website: "The U.S. Air Force Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster was deployed and met the mission objectives."
Multiple sources suggest that the satellite deployed was called Magnum/ORION ELINT, a signals intelligence program about which little is known. Before launch, no pre-flight commentary was available until nine minutes before liftoff — a first in the shuttle program.
STS-51J Atlantis (Launched Oct. 3, 1985)
Two Defense Satellite Communications System satellites were released on this mission, according to NASA. The system is intended to support secure data and voice transmissions for military users from across the globe.
STS-62A Discovery (Cancelled)
This mission was supposed to be the first one using the Air Force pad in Vandenberg, Calif., but it was cancelled after the Challenger explosion. Its main mission was to put Teal Ruby into orbit, according to NASASpaceflight.com.
STS-27 Atlantis (Launched Dec. 2, 1988)
It's probable that the crew released a satellite called ONYX, which had radar on board capable of observing targets on the ground through any kind of weather or cloud cover. According to Air&Space Magazine, one of the satellite's antenna dishes did not open and the crew possibly — although it's not confirmed officially — did a spacewalk to fix the issue.
STS-28 Columbia (Launched Aug. 8, 1989)
Air&Space Magazine reports that STS-28 hauled the Satellite Data System spacecraft into orbit; SDS was supposed to relay imagery from other military satellites. The magazine got confirmation on this from an Air Force officer, who was not named in the story.
STS-33 Discovery (Launched Nov. 22, 1989)
NASA's website simply says this was a Department of Defense mission. The payload has not been confirmed.
STS-36 Atlantis (Launched Feb. 28, 1990)
There are many theories as to what STS-36 carried, but nothing has been officially confirmed. The shuttle's ground track took it as high as 62 degrees, which is a record for the shuttle program.
STS-38 Atlantis (Launched Nov. 15, 1990)
NASA's website only says that this was a Department of Defense mission. No confirmed information about the payload is available.
STS-39 Discovery (Launched April 28, 1991)
The Air Force partially declassified this mission before launch. The unclassified payload was known as Air Force Program-675 (AFP-675), which was an updated version of CIRRIS. According to NASA, the classified payload "consisted of Multi-Purpose Release Canister (MPEC)," but no further information appears to be available.
STS-53 Discovery (Launched Dec. 2, 1992)
The main payload for this mission remains classified, with little information about what it could be.
Hypersonic Flight Is Coming: Will the US Lead the Way?
Hypersonic Flight Is Coming: Will the US Lead the Way?
By Douglas Messier, Space.com Contributor
Artist's rendering of Lockheed Martin's SR-72 concept vehicle, which the company says could potentially fly six times faster than the speed of sound.
Credit: Lockheed Martin Corp.
MOJAVE, California The world is at the start of a renaissance in supersonic and hypersonic flight that will transform aviation, but the effort will need steady commitment and funding if the United States wants to lead the way, congressional leaders and industry officials said at a forum late last month.—
"What's exciting about aerospace today is that we are in a point here where suddenly, things are happening all across the board in areas that just haven't been happening for quite a while," said former U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Curtis M. Bedke.
"There was a period where engine technology had just sort of stagnated — a point where all materials technology was going along at about the same pace," Bedke added. "There just wasn't much happening. But suddenly, in all sorts of areas that apply to aerospace, things are happening." [NASA's Vision of Future Air Travel (Images)]
Bedke was one of five panelists to speak Oct. 27 at the Forum on American Aeronautics here at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Sponsored by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the forum was hosted by committee chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and member Steve Knight, R-Calif. Bedke, Smith and Knight were joined by David McBride, director of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, and Craig Johnson, director of business strategy and development for Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works. Former Mojave Air and Space Port CEO Stu Witt moderated.
Knight has taken the lead on the House Science Committee in getting NASA's aeronautical program to focus on a new set of experimental aircraft. He said his passion for these programs isn't just about improving American aviation — it's personal.
"In 1967 was the last time we went hypersonic in an airplane," Knight said, referring to an X-15 flight piloted by his late father, William J. "Pete" Knight. That flight reached Mach 6.7 — 6.7 times the speed of sound — a record for piloted aircraft that still stands nearly 50 years later. (Hypersonic flight is generally defined as anything that reaches Mach 5 or greater. "Supersonic" refers to any flight that exceeds Mach 1.)
"We collected an awful lot of data," he said. "But what I would like to see is that we can move that data into something, whether we are going to move into an aircraft that we're going to put people into or we're going to use it for some other program. We've got to have that continuity and move forward."
Knight noted that it still takes the same 4.5 hours or so to fly from New York to Los Angeles today as it did 30 years ago. Supersonic aircraft flights over land have been banned for decades because of the sonic booms they produce. No supersonic passenger planes have been in operation since the retirement of the Concorde in 2003.
NASA wants to change that. In February, the space agency awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin for the design of an experimental plane to test technologies that can significantly reduce the sonic booms caused by aircraft. If the program is successful, the ban on overland supersonic flights could be lifted.
"We're poised on the brink of a new era in air transportation," McBride said. "We do need to go faster. There is a market for supersonic flight over land in an efficient manner that can fly without being an annoyance to everyone on the ground."
NASA also is exploring ways to improve the efficiency and reduce the environmental impacts of subsonic aircraft. Engineers are experimenting with blended wings and other innovations.
Smith admitted that the difficulty that Congress and the president have experienced in passing budgets has caused problems in sustaining research.
"None of that is conducive to good work getting done in an efficient way," Smith said. "And we can do better. We need to get to the point where continuity actually lasts beyond just one administration, much less beyond tomorrow. And we're with you on that."
Bedke said there is no time to waste in moving these programs forward.
"It is inevitable that hypersonic technologies are going to happen," he said. "It is not inevitable that we are going to be the country to do it first. But we can be the country to do it first, but we're going to have to put our minds to it, and we're going to have to stop the history of fits and starts, of throwing money at a big program, achieving a wild success, and then having no follow-up. Or throwing a lot of money at too big a program, taking too giant a bite, failing miserably and then deciding hypersonics isn't going anywhere. Neither of those must be allowed to happen in the coming years."
Breakthrough Listen, the largest scientific alien-hunting research program in the world, has just begun using a powerful new telescope to monitor what’s far beyond Earth.
The team announced the very first observations from the Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, which joins two other telescopes operated by Breakthrough Listen (one’s in California and the other’s in West Virginia)
This new, third telescope is an instrument uniquely positioned to help us pinpoint signs of extraterrestrial civilizations that might resemble our own. “First light” for the Parkes telescope was an observation of red dwarf Proxima Centauri, of recent Proxima b fame.
Shining brightly in this Hubble image is our closest stellar neighbour: Proxima Centauri.
“The chances of any particular planet hosting intelligent life-forms are probably minuscule,” Andrew Siemion, director of UC Berkeley SETI Research Center, told Breakthrough Initiatives. “But once we knew there was a planet right next door, we had to ask the question, and it was a fitting first observation for Parkes. To find a civilization just 4.2 light years away would change everything.”
The Parkes radio telescope
Searching for Life from Down Under
Parkes is the third such telescope to be used for Breakthrough Listen, and has the advantage of a Southern Hemisphere perspective that its peers, both located in the United States, do not. Now that Parkes has been added to the Breakthrough roster and is officially, functionally up and running, the search for alien life is only ramping up. In the southern sky, it will search the centers of 100 nearby galaxies and 1,000 stars, including all 43 within five parsecs. As with the other telescopes, all the data Parkes gathers will be available to the public for free.
Since theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur Yuri Milner launched the project in 2015 with a 10-year projection and a budget of $100 million, Breakthrough Listen has leapfrogged to the very front of the search for extraterrestrial life. It plans to survey the 1 million stars closest to Earth. The Breakthrough Initiatives also include Breakthrough Message, a mission to design communication that could be understood by alien species, and Breakthrough Starshot, which aims to get an unmanned flight to Alpha Centauri.
Black holes are mysterious cosmic monsters, shrouded in a thick veil of gas and dust. They lurk in the heart of galaxies, waiting to gobble up stars that get too close, before belching deadly x-rays in satisfaction. However, astronomers recently spotted a strange black hole streaking through space.
At first glance, this rogue specimen just seemed out of place, but upon further study, astronomers realized they had stumbled upon the remains of a grisly cosmic scene. Unlike most black holes, the subject in question — dubbed B3 1715+425 — was not in the center of a galaxy. Even more surprisingly, it appeared to be “naked”, meaning it was devoid of a black hole’s typical stellar shroud.
“We’ve not seen anything like this before,” James Condon, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and lead author of the study, said in a news release.
B3 1715+425 is a supermassive black hole residing on the fringes of an unusually small, faint galaxy. Like most supermassive black holes, it was doing its thing, munching on stars and spewing out deadly x-rays when it overindulged. That routine continued for billions of years until B3 1715+425’s host galaxy slammed into a larger galaxy.
This type of cosmic collision is commonplace, especially within larger galaxy clusters, like ZwCl 8193, where B3 1715+425’s galaxy lives. Astronomers think that the largest galaxies in the universe formed through galaxy mergers. Typically when galaxies merge, the two black holes within those galaxies take part in a dramatic orbital dance, with the pair orbiting each other until they eventually combine. (The LIGO experiment saw proof of this last September).
Most of the time, this merging process seems to go rather smoothly, as nearly all galaxies host a supermassive black hole, the majority of which are located at the galactic center. However, in the case of B3 1715+425, something went very wrong. B3 1715+425 was stripped of its stars as it tried to escape the clutches of a larger galaxy, and astronomers caught it in the act.
Using the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VBLA) — a network of ten 25-meter dish antennas spread across the globe and operated out of New Mexico — astronomers clocked the rogue behemoth racing away from the cosmic collision at more than 2,000 miles per second.
“We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes, with one offset from the center of a galaxy, as telltale evidence of a previous galaxy merger,” Condon said. “Instead, we found this black hole fleeing from the larger galaxy and leaving a trail of debris behind it.”
As it streaks through space, B3 1715+425 is steadily hemorrhaging ionized gas — the fuel needed to form new stars. Once that gas supply is gone, the galaxy will become invisible, which astronomers expect to see in the next billion years.
Are there other black holes like B3 1715+425 out there? Condon and team think there are, and they will be scanning the cosmos with the VBLA to find them.
Validating the Use of Graphite-Composite Nuclear Fuel Elements
Reaction Engines is building a fighter jet engine-sized ground demonstration engine of what will be a reusable hypersonic propulsion system. The ultimate goal is to create a single stage SABRE rocket that will lift aircraft into space. The sub-scale demonstrator is expected to show the flight regimen and cycle and will be a significant development on the way toward reliable and inexpensive space access. Reaction Engines expects the demonstrator will provide enough information so that it can create a development and testing plan for a full-sized version of the rocket.
In the following video, meet the Skylon Spacecraft that uses a Mach 25 SABRE engine.
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The number of discovered near-Earth asteroids now tops 15,000, with an average of 30 new discoveries added each week.
That's why NASA and FEMA have started a series of exercises that test readiness and possible response in the event of a large asteroid impacting Earth.
DOOMSDAY PREPPERS
Asteroid impacts aren’t on everyone’s immediate shortlist of natural disasters, but there is a significant possibility of them happening. With Earth already having been impacted before, and with a NASA database of more than 15,000 near-Earth objects, these are something the people of Earth should be preparing for.
That’s why NASA and FEMA have started training in anticipation of that very real threat. The two agencies recently held a series of exercises that tested readiness and possible response in the event of a large asteroid impacting Earth.
In the hypothetical exercise, NASA and FEMA were posed with an object 100 to 250 meters (300 to 800 feet) striking Earth in 2020. The exercise didn’t give the agencies enough time to mount an asteroid deflection, but they could plan evacuations, the level of information dissemination, and ways to prevent panic.
“It is critical to exercise these kinds of low-probability but high-consequence disaster scenarios,” FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said in a statement. “By working through our emergency response plans now, we will be better prepared if and when we need to respond to such an event.”
FIGHTING THE APOCALYPSE
The government is treating this sort of threat very seriously. NASA already has an office, the Planetary Defense Coordination Office, that will lead and coordinate between agencies in case this very specific threat arises. There is a similar European facility, the NEO office in Italy.
NASA is also testing how it can deflect asteroids destined for Earth impact. The agency’s Asteroid Redirect Mission is going to try bring an asteroid to the moon’s orbit for study, testing out planetary defense techniques in the process.
Philip Lubin, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara has created a laser propulsion system that will send a probe to Alpha Centauri. A part of the Breakthrough Starshot program, the laser is intended to deflect incoming asteroids.
“It’s not a matter of if, but when, we will deal with such a situation,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate’s new associate administrator, said in a statement.
China Sends Astronomers to New Antarctica Observatory to "Probe Origins of Dark Matter and Extraterrestrial Life"
China Sends Astronomers to New Antarctica Observatory to "Probe Origins of Dark Matter and Extraterrestrial Life"
China is close to completing construction of an astronomical observatory at the highest point on the Antarctic plateau, as a team begins the 33rd Chinese expedition to the frozen continent, the official Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday. The missions to the South Pole are intended to shed light on the origin of dark matter, as well as extraterrestrial life.
The four astronomers aboard the research icebreaker Xuelong (Snow Dragon) have about 100 projects planned for the next nearly six months of travel, although they will have only 20 days to work at Kunlun base, Xinhua reported, citing one of the scientists.
China has sent astronomers to the region every year since 2007 to set up an observatory on Dome Argus, or Dome A, some 1,200 km (nearly 750 miles) from the nearest coast and whose highest point is around 4,093 meters (over 13,400 ft.) above sea level.
In 2007, China built the Kunlun station, located 7.3 km from Dome A, where it has been making preparations since for its future observation center.
The image above shows China's fourth Antarctic research base, the Taishan station, between its two existing Zhongshan and Kunlun stations at an altitude of 2,600 meters.
China currently has an automated astronomical observation platform at Dome A and is planning to build a high-elevation Antarctic terahertz telescope, though further details remain unknown.
De Nederlandse wetenschapper Erik Verlinde heeft een verklaring gevonden voor de zogeheten donkere materie. De hoogleraar theoretische natuurkunde aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam publiceerde vandaag zijn bevindingen in een artikel over de zwaartekracht. In de theorie wordt het bestaan van donkere materie ontkracht.
"Donkere materie is helemaal niet nodig. Ik kan afwijkende bewegingen van sterren berekenen, zonder de materie erbij te betrekken", aldus Verlinde. Om dit te begrijpen ging Verlinde terug naar de oorsprong. Hij bekeek zwaartekracht op microscopisch niveau.
De vraag is echter of de theorie hout snijdt, maar als de theorie klopt is het echt een feest in de natuurkunde, volgens hoogleraar theoretische natuurkunde Icke in het Nederlandse radiojournaal.
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Er is nog weinig bekend over donkere materie. "We weten alleen dat ongeveer 95 procent van de inhoud van het heelal geen gewone materie is, maar we weten ook niet wat het wel is", aldus Icke.
Einstein
Om de theorie te begrijpen moeten we anders kijken naar de theorie van Einstein volgens Verlinde. "We weten al heel lang dat Einsteins theorie van de zwaartekracht niet door één deur kan met de quantummechanica."
Astronomen worstelen al decennia met zwaartekracht die zich anders gedraagt in sterrenstelsels. Draaiende sterrenstelsels hebben meer zwaartekracht dan van de sterren te verwachten is. Dit wordt toegeschreven aan materie die geen licht geeft en mogelijk zelfs onzichtbaar is.
Verklaren
In sterrenstelsels is de zwaartekracht sterker. Om dit te verklaren, grijpen astronomen naar donkere materie. De overtollige zwaartekracht wordt volgens de hoogleraar echter bepaald door de atomen in de ruimte en de manier waarop donkere energie zich gedraagt.
In 2011 trok de wetenschapper ook al de oerknal in twijfel. Verlinde bedacht de theorie om zwaartekracht te verklaren. Hij won dat jaar de NWO-Spinozapremie en kreeg 2,5 miljoen om zijn theorie verder uit te werken.
"Mijn god, ik heb een UFO gevonden." Dat riep de Canadese duiker Sean Smyrichinsky naar zijn collega's toen hij voor de kust van Brits-Columbia een mysterieus object op de zeebodem zag liggen. De Canadese marine zegt dat het gaat om een verloren gewaande kernbom uit 1950.
Smyrichinsky stootte op het tuig toen hij voor de kust van Haida Gwaii, een eilandengroep bij Canada, op zoek was naar vis. "Ik was vrij ver van de boot verwijderd toen ik iets op de bodem zag liggen. Het ding was groter dan een kingsize bed", verklaarde hij aan BBC. "Het zag er een beetje uit zoals een bagel: plat bovenaan met in het midden een gat."
De Canadese marine zal later deze maand onderzoek verrichten naar het voorwerp, maar legerdeskundigen gaan ervan uit dat het wel eens om een verloren gewaande nucleaire bom kan gaan. Met een onderwaterrobot zullen beelden van de zeebodem worden gemaakt.
Redenen om aan te nemen dat het om een bom gaat, zijn niet ver te zoeken: op 13 februari 1950 immers stortte een Amerikaanse bommenwerper neer voor de kust van Brits-Columbia. Aan boord een kernbom - een Mark IV - die na de crash niet werd teruggevonden. Het ding weegt zo'n vijf ton.
Het staat alleszins al vast dat de bommenwerper crashte op zo'n 80 kilometer van de plek waar de duiker het object terugvond.
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‘Aliens will return to Earth within 20 years’, Chariots of the Gods author predicts
‘Aliens will return to Earth within 20 years’, Chariots of the Gods author predicts
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Erich Von Daniken the author of Chariots of the Gods, was presented with the Stella Citizen Award by Ancient Aliens TV regular Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, at the Princess Anne Theatre, Bafta, London last month.
In a two hour presentation Erich used video clips, computer animations, slides and diagrams to back-up his claim that thousands of years ago there was a war in heaven. He said,
‘The E.T.’s know about us because we are part of their DNA. The Bible speaks of the daughters of men having intercourse with these visitors, and many worldwide myths and legends repeat the same story. These stories always say the E.T.s will return to us.’
Erich thinks this could be in the next twenty years.
The ‘Erich Von Daniken Legacy Night’ celebrated 50 years of his groundbreaking book that dramatically claimed humanoid extraterrestrials visited us in our distant past and caused the building of the Great Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Nazca lines, Stone Age cave paintings, Mexican temples and in more recent times UFO sightings and crop circles.
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Evidence of this is contained in ancient Indian religious texts as well as in the Christian Bible, Daniken claims. Erich emphasised that their concept of heaven is really a reference to outer space, so the angels were E.T. visitors rather than spiritual creatures.
Visions by the likes of Ezekiel and Enoch strongly suggest they saw E.T. shuttlecraft and spaceships. After telling NASA scientists at a secret meeting about Ezekiel’s vision, Erich claims they developed a multi-directional wheel from the Biblical descriptions and went on to patent the idea.
After his remarkable presentation he was interviewed on stage, where he confessed that he had always had an enquiring mind and was intrigued by the thought of alien visitors at an early age. He went on to work in the leisure and hotel industry, and worked as a hotel manager whilst writing Chariots of the Gods.
On its publication in the late 1960s it achieved worldwide success, and his books have now chalked up more than 70 million sales. They have inspired Hollywood blockbuster movies, TV series like The X-Files and numerous documentaries expounding his ideas and have become a cultural phenomenon far beyond his greatest expectations.
Media Invest Entertainment announced at the end of the event that they have numerous projects to exploit the Chariots of the Gods brand. These include a Hollywood movie, a TV series, live circus/musical spectaculars, video games and three theme parks. The parks will contain ancient lands and 4-D roller coaster rides with the theme of ancient wars in the ‘heavens’ and the influence of E.T.s on human civilisation. There are immediate plans for a site in Berlin, Germany, and a much larger scale one in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, scheduled to open in 2020. There are also plans for one in the U.K.
Erich’s life has gone full circle from working in the leisure industry to be the inspiration for an whole Chariots of the Gods leisure franchise. This and his books will be a lasting legacy for his work, and he is pleased about this as he says he does not want to be an icon for a cult following.
As this event, which was streamed live worldwide, showed Erich’s life has truly been a roller-coaster.
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Erich von Däniken in Londen: “De buitenaardsen komen eraan”
Erich von Däniken in Londen: “De buitenaardsen komen eraan”
Schrijver Erich von Däniken gaf afgelopen maand in het Princess Anne Theatre in Londen een twee uur durende presentatie waarin hij claimde dat er duizenden jaren geleden oorlog woedde in de hemel.
“De buitenaardsen zijn op de hoogte van ons bestaan omdat we onderdeel zijn van hun DNA,” zei hij. “In de Bijbel staat dat deze bezoekers zicht voortplantten met mensen en vele mythes en legendes vertellen hetzelfde verhaal. Ze gaan altijd over de terugkeer van de aliens.”
Von Däniken denkt dat deze terugkeer al in de komende 20 jaar kan plaatsvinden.
Piramides
De ‘Erich Von Daniken Legacy Night’ was georganiseerd naar aanleiding van de vijftigste verjaardag van zijn baanbrekende boek, waarin hij claimt dat mensachtige buitenaardsen ons in een ver verleden hebben bezocht.
Volgens de schrijver zijn de aliens ook verantwoordelijk voor de piramides, Stonehenge, de Nazcalijnen, rotstekeningen en in recente tijden UFO-waarnemingen en graancirkels.
Bewijs hiervoor is terug te vinden in oude Indiase religieuze geschriften en in de Bijbel, aldus Von Däniken.
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Wat oude volkeren beschouwden als de hemel, is in feite de ruimte, benadrukt hij. Engelen waren bijvoorbeeld buitenaardse bezoekers in plaats van spirituele wezens.
De visioenen van Ezechiël en Henoch gaan volgens hem over buitenaardse schepen.
Na een geheime ontmoeting met NASA-wetenschappers heeft het ruimteagentschap zelfs een ontwerp gemaakt op basis van het visioen van Ezechiël, beweert hij. Het ontwerp zou vervolgens zijn gepatenteerd.
Pretparken
Na zijn presentatie werd hij op het podium geïnterviewd. Hij zei dat hij zich al van kinds af aan bezighoudt met buitenaardse bezoekers.
Hij ging aan de slag in de hotelindustrie en werkte zich op tot hotelmanager. Hij schreef vervolgens het boek ‘Waren de kosmonauten?’ waar inmiddels 70 miljoen exemplaren van zijn verkocht.
Het boek is de inspiratie geweest voor Hollywoodfilms, televisieseries en talloze documentaires.
In Duitsland, Saoedi-Arabië en Groot-Brittannië wil men zelfs pretparken gaan bouwen die gebaseerd zijn op het boek.
Onderzoekers claimen dat mensen een ziel hebben die voortleeft na de dood
Onderzoekers claimen dat mensen een ziel hebben die voortleeft na de dood
Verschillende wetenschappers hebben gezegd dat de dood niet het einde is en dat mensen een ziel hebben die na de dood het lichaam verlaat.
De Britse natuurkundige Sir Roger Penrose meent dat bewustzijn een pakketje informatie is dat op kwantumniveau wordt opgeslagen.
Hij claimt bewijs te hebben gevonden dat deze informatie, die wordt opgeslagen in microtubulen in menselijke cellen, het lichaam verlaat nadat iemand sterft.
Bijna-doodervaringen
Deze kwantuminformatie wordt na de dood vrijgegeven aan het universum, maar keert terug naar de cellen in het lichaam als de persoon wordt gereanimeerd.
Dit kan volgens Penrose verklaren waarom mensen bijna-doodervaringen hebben. Hij denkt dat deze kwantuminformatie kan worden gezien als de ziel.
“Als de patiënt sterft, kan deze kwantuminformatie buiten het lichaam bestaan, mogelijk oneindig, als een ziel,” zei de natuurkundige.
Oneindig leven
Sir Penrose kan rekenen op bijval van onderzoekers van het Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in München.
Experts van dat instituut stellen dat ons fysieke universum slechts een perceptie is en dat er na de dood een oneindig leven op ons wacht.
Onsterfelijk
Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, voormalig hoofd van het instituut, zei: “Wat wij als hier en nu zien, deze wereld, is slechts het materiële niveau dat we kunnen begrijpen.”
“Daarbuiten bevindt zich een oneindige realiteit die vele malen groter is,” ging hij verder. “Het lichaam sterft, maar het kwantumveld blijft bestaan. In dit opzicht ben ik onsterfelijk.”
Its been a while since I have reported Comet P67, but I decided to have a look at some recent photos and saw a long UFO that is flat, but rectangle shape near the comet. The UFO may be there to greet the NASA/ESA lander that landed on the comet and went silent. This UFO is over 100 meters across when compared to the size of the comet.
I don't believe for a second that it went silent, but instead, NASA/ESA has a covert mission to wait and greet the aliens that have been sending the signal for over 20 years. Yes, the signal is the reason they are there and they said that themselves dozens of times, so obviously the mission stopped because they had another covert mission to accomplish. Its how NASA gets the Rosetta lander out of the public eye permanently and can keep using it to investigate.
Some fantastic person leaked an important NASA document that states not only does the Emdrive work, but its being used today in the Chinese space station and the secret remote controlled shuttle.
Why is this important? Because the Emdrive can take you to the moon in under 4 hours! It took Apollo 14 four and a half days! Thats just mind-blowing guys. The Emdrive will take us to Mars in 70 days. Thats why its important.
The Emdrive is begin compared to the Star Trek Enterprise slower speed called, "impulse." Hey, its a start right?
UFO Near Edwards Air Force Base Checks Out USAF Weapons, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Near Edwards Air Force Base Checks Out USAF Weapons, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 4, 2016 Location of sighting: Edwards AFB, California, USA News source: MUFON #80269 This UFO was obviously interesting in the Air Force base near it. UFOs are often seen near base, and have even totally and permanently disabled nuclear missiles in their silos. Aliens have even (at my old base, Ellsworth AFB SAC) had an encounter with two aliens that were seen and shot at by the gate guards...but thats another story. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
We were driving East, passing Edwards Air Force Base and I noticed an object traveling very fast across the highway. It had a wobble to it because the suns reflection wasn't constant and it couldn't be seen unless it tilted. I happened to take two pictures of it while it was reflecting the sun with my Canon digital camera. I have raw images that can be examined further, but will only submit a jpeg at this time due to the size of the raw image. It was moving too fast to get a good focus and I did not have time to make proper adjustments to capture a moving object. Raw image can be sent if you would like...
UFO Over Palmyra, Wisconsin On Nov 6, 2016, photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Palmyra, Wisconsin On Nov 6, 2016, photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 6, 2016 Location of sighing: Palmyra, Wisconsin, USA Source: MUFON #80286 This glowing orb has been seen worldwide over the past few years. It will move every month to a new country location. This is a bit surprising that its so close. Usually its further away, or this photographer has a great zoom lens. Awesome catch. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
At about midnight we were on the porch and noticed a bright distant object. Five of us took turns observing it with binoculars for a hour and a half. It remained stationary during the entire time it was observed. It changed colors and intensity from red to blue to white to green, and combinations of those colors. It was too bright to be a planet. It was at least a couple miles away but the night was clear and with binoculars it was very obviously not a planet or a plane. It was still there when we went to bed. The next night 2 of us observed it again in the same location for an hour. I took 2 photos with my phone. They aren't very clear but they do show some of the color changing.
Ufologists Claim UFO Sighting Over Italy Proves Advanced Species Are Monitoring The Earth
Ufologists Claim UFO Sighting Over Italy Proves Advanced Species Are Monitoring The Earth
Members of the UFO community left stun after witnessing a display of advanced interdimensional alien UFO in the skies above Lecco in Lombardy, Italy. Many onlookers believe that the spectacular sighting proves that highly advanced aliens are visiting Earth.
Other UFO enthusiasts believe the UFO technology belonged to Pleiadians or Nordic aliens, an international extraterrestrial species known to be highly evolved and benevolent.
YouTube user Davisito de Zabedrosky with the help of Midolo Corrado uploaded the images of the alleged advanced UFO. The mysterious object was spotted on November 2, 2016, Wednesday.
The images in the video show a large, translucent flying saucer that apparently sighted in the skies above Lecco after emerging from the so-called interdimensional portal.
The video also shows the UFO releasing smaller, bright and translucent spheres or orbs, which believed to be UFO drones.
The witness Giuseppe Filipponi snapped the images shown in the YouTube video and Gabriel Tim uploaded them to Facebook.
Some UFO enthusiasts described the translucent craft as a pearlescent, which looked like a giant disk with a dome on its top. They explained that UFOs are usually seen during sunset because their cloak becomes vulnerable. They said that the craft is more of an interdimensional because it is not solid.
Meanwhile, skeptics dismissed the UFO claims and said that the images were photoshopped.
Ignoring the skeptics’ suggestion, some UFO hunters link the appearance of the UFO over Italy to the series of destructive earthquakes in the country in recent months.
The sighting of the so-called interdimensional spacecraft in the skies over Lombardy happened two days before a destructive quake hit Chile.
Some UFOlogist theorized that alien geologists have been monitoring the increased global volcanic and seismic activity. Others went on to say that UFOs could serve as early warning of approaching geological disturbances and upheavals. They claimed that the alien spacecraft seen over Lombardy was sent by benevolent interdimensional alien species known as Nordic or Pleiadians to monitor ongoing seismic activity in Italy.
Nordic or Pleiadians are believed to be almost the same to humans, making them live undetected in human society. However, ET hunters said that Nordic aliens have Scandinavian physical looks with slim and tall physique, fair skin, and hair, along with their blue eyes.
A story of a secret alien UFO base in Hawaii has made the rounds online. An unnamed UFO witness claimed to have seen a flying saucer hovering above the high range around Kaneohe Bay. UFO onlookers then suggested that the reported sighting deserves enough attention as it could prove the presence of extraterrestrial life on Earth.
The witness has submitted a photograph of the UFO with detailed reports of the sighting to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). The witness explained in the report that he had no intention to photograph UFOs around the area since he was just interested on the view at the time.
As he was trying to look the images in the photographs he had taken, he noticed a strange flying object in one of the pictures. He first thought of it as a dust spec or wood chip on the lens of his camera. However, he started realizing that it was a UFO when he tried to zoom in the picture.
The witness considered himself as skeptics, but he could not help but stare awe at the image of the stereotypical UFO in one of the pictures.
UFO enthusiasts who believe in conspiracy theories are the same people who are convinced of the presence of aliens secretly building their base in Hawaii. Conspiracy theorists also believe that Hawaii is one of the places around the world that could be categorized as a hotspot of UFO invasion. They explained that aliens like to maintain bases in places like Hawaii and Russia because they can hide their bases better than the other areas on Earth.
Before releasing emails and email attachments sent to and from the private email server of Hillary Clinton, WikiLeaks had tried to prove that the U.S. government was interested in monitoring UFO activities in different parts of the world.
In 2015, WikiLeaks released more than 500,000 U.S. State Department diplomatic documents dating back to 1978. These documents have detailed information about the country’s monitoring of all things that are extraterrestrial.
A known UFO enthusiast, Grenada Prime Minister Eric Gairy had made concerted efforts to establish a committee in the UN for UFO investigation. Gairy, who was of particular interest to the U.S., could have seen that committee to fruition, one cabal reveals.
Interested member states were invited by the General Assembly to take appropriate actions in coordinating scientific research and investigation into ET life, including UFOs, on a national level. The General Assembly further invites interested member states to inform the secretary-general of all activities that had something to do with extraterrestrial life together with the observations, research, and evaluation.
Unfortunately, the plans did not push through after Gary was overthrown in 1979. On the other hand, it might change if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency. Recently leaked emails from members of Hillary’s inner circle reveal that she is very interested in UFOs. She promises to declassify UFO documents if she becomes the president.
Hillary could revive the plans for a UFO committee if she gets elected. The possibility could give her the coveted conspiracy vote this November 8 presidential election.
Stranger Pings: Weird Noise Coming from Arctic Seafloor
Stranger Pings: Weird Noise Coming from Arctic Seafloor
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
Credit: Incredible Arctic
A mysterious "pinging" noise is emanating from the seafloor in one of Canada's northernmost territories, and officials have yet to identify the source.
A military patrol aircraft was sent to investigate the area on Tuesday (Nov. 1), reported The Guardian. In a statement to the British newspaper, department spokeswoman Ashley Lemire said various multisensor searches in the area, including a 1.5-hour acoustic search, failed to detect any anomalies.
"The crew did not detect any surface or subsurface contacts," Lemire told The Guardian. "At this time the Department of National Defence does not intend to do any further investigations."
Hunters in the remote Arctic hamlet claimed the "pinging" sound is driving wildlife away, and the CBC reported that the Nunavut legislature discussed the mysterious sea noise last month.
Legislative assembly member George Qulaut told the CBC that the mysterious sound's potential effect on wildlife is concerning.
"That passage is a migratory route for bowhead whales, and also bearded seals and ringed seals. There would be so many in that particular area," Qulaut said, recalling his own days of hunting there. "This summer, there were none."
Locals have different theories for the pinging, the CBC reported, but no source has been confirmed. One theory blamed a mining company that has operated nearby, but the company said it doesn't have equipment in the water. Some locals also suggested Greenpeace could be behind the sound, scaring wildlife away from the hunting ground. However, a spokesperson for the environmental organization denied these allegations.
This isn't the first mysterious noise that the Canadian government has been called in to investigate. For years, a low rumbling known as the "Windsor Hum" has plagued residents of Windsor, Ontario. As of yet, research into that noise has failed to establish its origin.
Secret German World War II Base Rediscovered Near North Pole
Secret German World War II Base Rediscovered Near North Pole
By Tom Metcalfe, Live Science Contributor
The research team from the Russian Arctic National Park, based in Arkhangelsk, say they’re the first to fully explore and map the wartime site on the remote island. These canisters once contained food and other supplies that were regularly airdropped to the base by German aircraft.
Credit: Evgeny Ermolov/Russian Arctic National Park
The remains of a secret World War II German base have been rediscovered on an island near the North Pole by a team of Russian researchers.
The wartime "Schatzgrabber" ("Treasure Hunter" in German) weather station was built by the German military in 1943 on Alexandra Land, one of the isolated Franz Josef Land islands in the Barents Sea, located more than 680 miles (1,100 kilometers) north of the Russian city of Arkhangelsk.
The islands are snowy and ice-bound for much of the year and the site was last visited in the 1980s, the researchers said. But earlier this year, in August, a Russian archaeological team was able to explore and catalog the remains of the wartime weather station for the first time. [See Photos of the Secret World War II German Base]
"This summer in the Arctic was very warm, so the entire area of Schatzgrabber was completely free of snow and ice, which made it possible to explore the area fully," team leader Evgeny Ermolov, a senior researcher with the Russian Arctic National Park, which now administers the island, said in a statement.
Among the finds are the remains of several German army and naval uniforms, and fragments of weapons and ammunition — including rifle and machine-gun rounds, land mines and hand grenades — that were abandoned when the last of the base's occupants were evacuated by a German U-boat in 1944.
About 10 German meteorologists and laborers were stationed on the island from 1943, as part of a secret network of Arctic stations to give advanced warnings of weather conditions over the northern oceans and northern Europe, which the German military considered essential to their strategic operations.
Ermolov said the research team recovered more than 600 objects from the remains of the base station buildings, an emergency supply depot near the base station and an emergency aircraft landing strip. These artifacts have been sent to the Arctic National Park museum in Arkhangelsk for further study, the researchers said.
Ermolov said the very dry and almost microbe-free environment of Alexandra Land also helped to preserve many wood, leather and cloth objects at the sites, as well as many remains of books and documents, including German naval manuals, meteorology textbooks, astronomical tables, weather records, magazines and a copy of Mark Twain's classic novel "Tom Sawyer."
But sardines weren't the only thing on the wartime menu in Alexandra Land. The waters of the bay beside the weather station began to freeze as the winter approached, and several boats filled with supplies and equipment were crushed by ice, the researchers said.
"Some of the supplies and equipment sank, and so the diet for the weather over the winter was rather limited. It is no surprise that they wanted some fresh meat, and so they killed polar bears, because that's all there was," Ermolov said.
But he added that the weathermen failed to cook the bear meat properly, and almost everyone who ate it suffered a bout of trichinosis, a painful and unpleasant roundworm infection caused by eating contaminated meat.
In response to the medical emergency at Alexandra Land, a daring rescue flight set out from a German air base at Banak, in Norway, in July 1944, to carry a doctor to the island and to bring back the stricken weathermen, according to the German historian Franz Selinger.
But the large FW-200 "Condor" aircraft damaged a wheel when it landed and a second aircraft had to be sent from Banak to airdrop a replacement wheel so that the first aircraft could take off with the medical evacuees.
Ermolov said the researchers had to search a very large area, but they were fortunate to find traces of the emergency airfield, including the remains of fuel barrels, tents, batteries, crates, smoke bombs and signal flares made in 1941.
"Earlier it was only known from written sources, but now we have real proof," Ermolov said.
Last outpost
The German base on Alexandra Land was not lost completely to history: after the war, some of the structures were used by the Soviet military until Russia’s Nagurskoye air base was built on the island in the 1950s.
A team of German military specialists also visited the islands in the 1980s to remove the minefields that had been planted around the wartime base to protect it from an assault, Ermolov said.
But he added that this summer was the first time that the site has been comprehensively studied and recorded since it was abandoned.
"We've made a complete description of the station and all the remaining objects, including [the remains] of the bunkhouse, the weather station, a network of fortifications and the landing strip where the staff were evacuated in July 1944," he said.
The cryptic name of the weather station, from the German word for Treasure Hunter, has fueled speculation that the secret base on Alexandra Land was used for more than keeping a watch on the Arctic weather. Some theories suggest the base was occupied by a unit of Nazi SS troops and may have had a role in the development of secret weapons, or a search for a mythical "Nordic homeland" in the islands of the Arctic Circle.
But polar historian William Barr told Live Science that the base was strictly a scientific base, and one of about 10 German weather stations on the scattered Arctic islands north of Europe (albeit an ill-fated one).
"It was quite disastrous — the expedition leader went crazy, and when they were flown out he had to be strapped down to the floor of the aircraft, so he wouldn’t run riot," Barr said.
And the Russian researchers have found no evidence to back the speculative theories about the Schatzgrabber base: "We have prepared a complete diagram of the station, and geo-referenced all the facilities, including [machinery] that suggests a German origin dating from the time of the Great Patriotic War [World War II]," Ermolov said. "Based on these data, we can eliminate some of the myths that have formed around the station for many years."
The Milky Way galaxy glows in the night sky over Chile's La Silla Observatory.
Credit: ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
If you look upward on a clear night from Earth's darkest regions, you'll probably glimpse a broad stripe of stars, cloaked in clouds of dust and gas, arcing across the sky.
What you're seeing is a portion of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, which measures 100,000 light-years in diameter. (A light-year is the distance light travels in one year — almost 6 trillion miles, or 9.5 trillion kilometers.) Its core hosts a supermassive black hole — a giant gravitational field so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape — and its multiple "arms" that spiral from the center hold hundreds of billions of stars, one of which is our own sun.
The Milky Way is estimated to be 13.2 billion years old, and is one of many billions of galaxies in the known universe. Other galaxies may be older and bigger, but as Earth's cosmic address, the Milky Way has long fascinated humans. It was recognized by astronomers thousands of years ago, and ancient civilizations featured it in their mythologies. But how and when did this galaxy get its unusual name in the first place? [Stunning Photos of Our Milky Way Galaxy (Gallery)]
The Roman poet Ovid wrote about the Milky Way in "The Metamorphoses," first published in A.D. 8, saying, "There is a high track, seen when the sky is clear, called the Milky Way, and known for its brightness."
The earliest mentions of the Milky Way can be traced back to the ancient Greeks (800 B.C. to 500 B.C.), according to Matthew Stanley, a professor of the history of science at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. But it's unclear exactly when the name emerged, he told Live Science.
"The term was in common use in Western astronomy 2,500 years ago," Stanley said, referring to stargazers in European countries. "So there's no way of knowing who first coined it and how it first came to be. It's one of those terms that's so old that its origin is generally forgotten by now."
In fact, Stanley added, the Milky Way provided astronomers with the Greek root for the astronomical term "galaxy."
"'Galactos' literally means 'the milky thing in the sky,'" Stanley said.
The milky beginnings of our home galaxy, as explained by the ancient Greeks and depicted by Tintoretto in "The Origin of the Milky Way," painted around 1575.
Credit: PD-US
The Greek myth about the Milky Way's formation was immortalized by Renaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto in the painting "The Origin of the Milky Way," around 1575. Tintoretto likely based his artwork on a version of the story that appeared in the 10th-century folklore text "Geoponica," according to the National Gallery, where the painting is displayed. The legend described the god Zeus bringing an infant Hercules to his sleeping wife Hera's breast so the baby could nurse secretly. When Hera awoke and pulled away, her breast milk sprayed into the firmament and created the Milky Way.
But although early astronomers may have observed the Milky Way, they didn't quite know what to make of it. Prior to the invention of telescopes at the start of the 17th century, galaxies were known as nebulae, perplexing, cloudy regions that didn't behave like other visible objects, such as stars and planets.
"They were accepted as anomalies that you have to watch out for and not get distracted by, but they got little attention," Stanley said.
That all changed when Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope at the sky in 1609, and discovered that some of the puzzling cosmic dust clouds were made up of stars grouped closely together.
An artist's impression of our Milky Way galaxy, which is home to several hundred billion stars.
"This is the key moment for the realization that nebulae are something interesting, that they're structures of their own that can be studied," Stanley told Live Science. "That's when people start giving them particular names because they recognized shapes in them, and they realized they could have some cosmic significance."
However, most galaxies don't get descriptive names because there are simply far too many of them. The number of known galaxies continues to grow as technology improves scientists' ability to discover even very faint objects from the universe's infancy — by some estimates, the total could be as high as 200 billion. The vast majority of galaxies, once astronomers note their locations, are identified by a number following a letter or letters that indicate their position in a catalog of celestial objects.
And with the discovery of so many other galaxies, astronomers have learned that the Milky Way, despite being our home galaxy, is just not that special.
"The basic assumption is that our galaxy is totally ordinary," Stanley said.
Ordinary it may be, but the sight of the Milky Way — even a partial view from Earth or from space — is still awe-inspiring, and can help people to understand and to appreciate our place in the universe, and to recapture a little of the wonder experienced by the first astronomers who peered up at the sky thousands of years ago.
"Whoever named the Milky Way did so through standing in darkness, night after night, gazing up at our own galaxy and trying to name that feeling of being one with the cosmos," Stanley said.
"There's something extraordinary and sublime about standing on a mountaintop and seeing the vastness of our own galaxy wrapping around us," he added.
Les dossiers de Michel Duchaine:photos d’appareils militaires ultra-secrets
Les dossiers de Michel Duchaine:photos d’appareils militaires ultra-secrets
Certains secrets militaires doivent être bien gardés pour la propre sécurité des populations (ou pour garder un contrôle dessus). Les secrets concernant les aéronefs militaires sont d’une importance capitale pour éviter que l’ennemi reprenne à bon compte des connaissances qui lui permettraient de construire ses propres modèles. Dans certains cas, ces prototypes volants peuvent se révéler technologiquement très supérieurs à tout ce qui existait auparavant. Mais heureusement pour nous, il arrive que des secrets militaires soient levés et révélés au grand public. Voici plusieurs aéronefs militaires secrets dont vous ignorez sans doute tout.
Beaucoup d’avions militaires volent à des vitesses incroyables. Le Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle 2 est l’aéronef militaire américain le plus rapide jamais conçu. Le Falcon reste néanmoins au stade expérimental. Cet aéronef est un avion-fusée sans pilote contrôlé à distance grâce à des instruments de navigation automatisés. Le but d’un tel appareil est de prendre l’air afin d’administrer des attaques explosives sans que les radars ennemis aient le temps de le détecter.
Le Northrop XB-35 illustre parfaitement l’idée qu’en essayant de nouvelles choses on peut réaliser des objectifs scientifiques spécifiques. L’idée derrière le bombardier Northrop XB-35 était de créer un avion qui fonctionnerait non pas contre, mais en symbiose avec les facteurs environnementaux et les courants aériens. Dans les années 40, le XB-35 faisait si bien l’affaire qu’on lui donna le nom d’aile volante. La conception de l’avion permettait de réduire la traîne et d’en faire un appareil énergétiquement très efficient, ce qui est un avantage indéniable lors de longues missions. Cependant, des problèmes rencontrés avec les hélices ont finalement mis un terme au projet.
Pour ce prototype, l’armée de l’air voulait un appareil capable d’atteindre des vitesses incroyables. Le Boeing X-51 Waverider répond parfaitement à cette attente. L’idée était d’atteindre des vitesses supérieures Mach 6 et les ingénieurs ont réalisé cet objectif avec succès. Son statoréacteur utilisant un combustible hydrocarboné permet au X-51 d’atteindre des vitesses hypersoniques après s’être fait larguer dans l’atmosphère par un B-52.
Le concept du Boeing X-37B est de créer un appareil volant capable de survivre dans l’espace. Fruit d’une collaboration entre le ministère de la défense américain et la NASA, personne ne sait exactement ce qu’il en est du Boeing X-378. Nous savons simplement qu’il peut rester dans l’espace pendant un mois et qu’il peut ensuite se poser sur la Terre comme un avion ordinaire. La mise en orbite s’effectue à l’aide d’un réacteur de fusée à usage unique.
Dans les années 90, Lockheed-Martin a sorti un prototype d’avion furtif sans pilote. Le concept du RQ-3 Darkstar est identique à celui des drones d’aujourd’hui. L’idée était d’utiliser le Darkstar pour effectuer des missions de reconnaissance. Certaines rumeurs disent que le projet fut abandonné en 1998, alors que d’autres pensent qu’il a servi à l’invasion de l’Iraq en 2003.
Pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, un avion d’aspect inhabituel baptisé Vought V-173 a fait son apparition. En raison de sa forme originale, les gens l’ont surnommé «?Pancake Volant?». Le V-173 possède deux énormes hélices et s’apparentait plus ou moins à une aile ronde. Malgré une manœuvrabilité incroyablement simple, l’armée n’a pas su trouver d’usage légitime pour cet avion.
Le Sukhoi SU-47 fut le fruit de l’ingénierie russe. Ce prototype d’avion de combat supersonique a vu le jour pendant la guerre froide. Le SU-47 était un avion véloce pouvant atteindre des vitesses supérieures à Mach 1. Son design incomparable avec son aile en flèche inversée lui permettait d’atteindre des vitesses très élevées.
Pour complémenter les manœuvres d’appui aérien et les missions de reconnaissance, quelqu’un a décidé de créer le De Lackner HZ-1. Le pilote contrôlait les déplacements de cette plateforme volante en penchant son corps dans la direction souhaitée. Malgré l’achat de nombreux modèles, l’armée avait fait le choix de ne pas utiliser le De Lackner en raison de divers problèmes comme son pilotage difficile.
Le Tupolev TU-95LAL était un bombardier conçu par l’Union soviétique en 1961. Le bombardier était propulsé par un réacteur VVRL-100. Le TU-95 était un prototype d’avion destiné à tester la viabilité des avions à propulsion nucléaire. Après une quarantaine de vols d’essai, le projet fut abandonné pour différentes raisons de sécurité.
Le Sikorsky UH-60 modifié et transformé en Stealth Black Hawk. Selon la propagande américaine,deux de ces hélicoptères ont été capables de s’infiltrer dans la pseudo cache de Ben Laden sans être détectés par les radars, avec à leur bord 25 U.S. Navy Seals. Les hélicoptères étaient si silencieux que personne ne s’était rendu compte de leur présence avant qu’ils ne soient au-dessus de leurs têtes. Pendant le raid, un des hélicoptères s’est écrasé.Fait à noter:lea totalité des Seals ayant réussi la soi-disante mission,sont tous morts de mort violente rapidement.
Les avions traditionnels ont besoin d’une piste de décollage et d’une piste d’atterrissage. Dans le monde, certaines pistes sont particulièrement courtes et comportent donc beaucoup de risques. Pour contourner les contraintes liées au besoin de longues pistes d’atterrissage et de décollage, en 1953 la marine américaine décida d’entreprendre la création d’un appareil capable de décoller à la verticale. Ryan Aeronautical créa deux prototypes du X-13 avant que le projet ne soit abandonné.
On ne sait que très peu de choses à propos de l’Aurora. La plupart des informations rassemblées ne sont que spéculations. Dans les années 80, un rapport du budget de la défense fait référence à des dépenses s’élevant à 455 millions de dollars pour la production d’un avion noir. Or, un avion noir a été observé dans le ciel et des bangs supersoniques ont été enregistrés par l’U.S.G.S. (l’institut de recherches géologiques américain) au sud de la Californie, ce qui nous pousse à penser que cet avion a existé ou existe toujours. De plus,de nombreuses observation d’ovni semble pointer du doigt cet appareil.
L’armée de l’air américaine a disposé dans sa flotte du Lockheed U-2 «?Dragon Lady?» pendant plus de 50 ans. Le U-2 est un appareil-espion possédant un moteur unique et qui se pilote avec une seule personne à son bord. Il est capable de s’élever à plus de 70,000 pieds et peut voler sans encombre dans presque toutes les conditions météorologiques. Pour éviter les accidents de décompression, le pilote devait respirer de l’oxygène pur pendant une heure afin d’éliminer le nitrogène de son corps une heure avant le décollage.
Le D-21, conçu par Lockheed, était un drone de reconnaissance impressionnant. Il pouvait s’élever à plus de 90,000 pieds et atteindre Mach 3,5. Les D-21 étaient des appareils à usage unique qui s’autodétruisait une fois leur mission accomplie, et après avoir éjecté la caméra contenant les précieux renseignements collectés. Ils furent en service seulement deux ans, de 1969 à 1971.
L’A-12 Oxcart est également un appareil conçu pour des vitesses et altitudes extrêmes. La CIA a eu recours à cet avion pour des missions impliquant Cuba et l’URSS. L’A-12 n’a cependant pas servi longtemps à la CIA, ses missions n’ont duré que de 1963 à 1968. Après son retrait du service, il fut remplacé par un autre appareil.
Le F-117 Nighthawk est un avion impressionnant. Il affiche une envergure de 13 m pour 20 m de longueur. Le F-117 est le tout premier avion de combat furtif au monde. Grâce à sa conception et son revêtement, seulement 0,001 m2 (la taille d’un bourdon) de sa surface est détectable par les radars.
Lorsqu’on parle d’avions impressionnants, on ne peut pas omettre le SR-71 Blackbird. Ce dernier pouvait s’élever à plus de 70,000 pieds et atteindre Mach 3. Sa vitesse incroyable lui permettait d’échapper aux missiles antiaériens. L’armée américaine l’a retiré du service dans les années 90.
Le RQ-170 Sentinel est un appareil de reconnaissance sans pilote conçu par Lockheed-Martin. Très peu d’informations ont été publiées sur sa conception et ses fonctionnalités. On spécule qu’il est utilisé par l’armée de l’air américaine et la CIA.
Le Tacit Blue est un appareil particulièrement original. Il a été conçu pour démontrer l’efficacité des technologies furtives de l’époque. Surnommé «la Baleine», il n’a jamais été mis en service par l’armée de l’air américaine. Lors de son retrait en 1985, il avait 250 heures de vol à son actif.Il aurait coûté une fortune aux contribuables américains,ce qui explique le secret tenu autour de cet appareil.
Le Vril-7 ou RFZ-7 développé par la société du Vril,en Allemagne. La photo que vous voyez aurait été prise en 1939,selon les archives allemandes.Il serait issu de la technologie extraterrestre.
L’aile volante Horten fut en développement durant la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale.Lesaméricains s’emparèrent des plans de plusieurs prototypes durant l’opération Paperclip,en 1945. C’est cet appareil que Kenneth Arnold aurait aperçu en vol et qui fit naître le surnom de « soucoupe volante »,en 1947.
L’Arado 555 était le bombardier le plus secret et possédant la technologie la plus sophistiquée de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale.Les allemands n’ont pas eu le temps de le fabriquer,mais il aurait pu emporter la bombe atomique jusqu’à New York.Cet appareil semble avoir 20 ans d’avance sur son temps,car un ingénieur en a fait un modèle réduit qui fonctionne.
Le TR-3b serait l’un des derniers appareils ultra-secrets sans pilote développé par les américains. L’origine de cette technologie est douteuse et serait extraterrestre. L’appareil utiliserait un « coussin magnétique » pour ses déplacement. Les responsables américains nient totalement l’existence de cet appareil qui aurait été vu dans…la zone 51.
La vie extraterrestre existe-t-elle? Les réponses de cinquante chercheurs
La vie extraterrestre existe-t-elle? Les réponses de cinquante chercheurs
La vie extraterrestre et sa forme continue de nourrir de nombreux débats. Et à opposer les scientifiques.
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Réunis dans le Gers pour le festival d'astronomie de Fleurance, des chercheurs de différentes disciplines ont été invités à se prononcer sur l'existence de la vie sur une autre planète. Ils se sont finalement accordés... sur le fait qu'ils n'étaient pas d'accord.
La question fascine, la réponse divise. Y a-t-il une vie ailleurs que sur Terre? "Oui", "peut-être", répondent physiciens, géologues ou spécialistes des météorites, qui ont fait part, samedi, de leurs divergences lors du 26e festival d'astronomie de Fleurance (Gers).
Ce rendez-vous, l'un des plus importants de la culture scientifique et d'astronomie, réunit jusqu'au 12 août une cinquantaine de chercheurs. Tous viennent partager leurs connaissances dans des conférences, ateliers et débats. Né en même temps que la Nuit des étoiles, le festival aborde cette année la question de la recherche de la vie.
Va-t-on découvrir des traces de vie dans le système solaire ou sur une exoplanète? Pour Pierre Thomas, professeur à l'École normale supérieure de Lyon, "C'est oui. J'ai un faisceau d'arguments. Et je serais prêt à le parier." Ce dernière considère que "l'apparition de la vie a été facile sur Terre" et doit "donc être facile ailleurs".
"On ne sait pas encore ce qu'est vraiment la vie"
Ce géologue, travaillant à la formation des planètes et satellites et sur l'origine du système solaire, vise trois endroits où l'on pourrait, selon lui, trouver des traces de cette vie: le sous-sol profond de Mars, les océans sous-glaciaires d'Europe et d'Encelade, mais également les satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne.
Mais tout le monde ne partage pas cet optimisme. Brigitte Zanda, "météoritologue", se veut plus réservée sur une vie extraterrestre. Selon elle, cela "reste de l'ordre de la croyance" car "on ne sait pas encore ce qu'est vraiment la vie". Elle considère que "la probabilité de vie sur une planète est peut-être infinitésimale. Même si le nombre de planètes est infini, on ne peut tirer aucune conclusion".
Pour le géologue espagnol Juan-Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, il faut en outre "tracer une frontière entre vie et réaction chimique". "On n'a aucune preuve de la vie. Mes expériences ont montré que la réaction chimique peut mimer la vie primitive de la Terre", détaille le directeur du laboratoire d'études cristallographiques de Grenade, dont les publications ont longtemps suscité des critiques de la part d'une partie de la communauté scientifique.
Questions sur la forme d'une autre civilisation intelligente
Juan-Manuel Garcia-Ruiz espère beaucoup du programme ExoMars de l'Agence spatiale européenne qui va permettre en 2020 de sonder des roches de la planète rouge. Mais il souhaite pour cette mission qu'on "développe des technologies pour déterminer les traces moléculaires de la vie".
Pour plusieurs spécialistes, l'existence d'une civilisation intelligente reste une éventualité. "Si la vie s'est développée, il est probable qu'il y ait une intelligence", remarque Brigitte Zanda. Une chose est sûre, l'apparence de l'extraterrestre "n'aura aucun rapport avec la forme humaine", poursuit-elle. Une théorie contestée par l'avis du professeur Simon Conway Morris, de l'université de Cambridge, dans son livre The Runes of Evolution.
"La nature a plus d'imagination. On a découvert sur Terre des formes de vie qui semblent bizarres", rappelle le physicien niçois Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond. Le professeur Thomas, lui, qualifie de menteurs "ceux qui disent avoir vu des extraterrestres avec deux bras et deux jambes".
Toujours pas de trace trouvée...
Reste à comprendre pourquoi après tant d'années de recherches, aucune trace n'a été trouvée. Les moyens techniques pourtant aujourd'hui à disposition permettraient de détecter un signal, même très faible "à plusieurs dizaines d'années lumière", souligne le Pr Levy-Leblond.
Ce dernier formule plusieurs tentatives d'explications: celle d'une civilisation trop évoluée technologiquement ou encore celle d'un monde sous 30 km de glace dans l'incapacité de communiquer...
Cet enseignant également essayiste envisage aussi un scénario catastrophe, ce serait même "le plus probable", selon lui: "On peut envisager que des civilisations se sont auto-détruites comme nous risquons de le faire avec les guerres, la pollution...", avance-t-il.
Une projection d'artiste montrant le système solaire Kepler-47 avec deux planètes en orbite autour de deux étoiles. Photo d'illustration.
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Des scientifiques ont capté des "messages très inhabituels" en provenance de l'espace profond et envisagent une origine intelligente. L'institut Seti, lui, invite à la prudence et rappelle que "les déclarations extraordinaires méritent des preuves extraordinaires".
Et si des extraterrestres tentaient de communiquer avec nous? C'est ce qu'aimeraient bien découvrir Ermano F. Borra et Eric Trottier, deux astronomes de l'université Laval au Québec. Les deux chercheurs ont étudié les signaux provenant de 2,5 millions d'étoiles. Ils ont découvert que 234 d'entre elles "envoient des messages très inhabituels", qui pourraient porter la marque d'une intelligence extraterrestre.
L'étude, qui n'a pas manqué de connaître un écho mondial, ne prouve pas pour autant que nous avons (enfin) trouvé des extraterrestres, ni qu'il est "probable" que ces signaux soient émis par des E.T., comme l'ont estimé certains médias. Selon le centre de recherche SETI qui pilote le projet Breakthrough Listen -fondé par Yuri Milner et Stephen Hawking-, les résultats, s'ils sont "très prometteurs", n'étayent qu'une hypothèse.
Pour dépasser ce stade, il va falloir de nouvelles observations. "Les objets possédant ces spectres inhabituels découverts par Borra et Trottier méritent très certainement une étude de plus, a notamment expliqué le centre de recherche SETI dans un communiqué. Cependant, des déclarations extraordinaires méritent des preuves extraordinaires". Ce qui n'est pas encore le cas.
"Écarter les explications naturelles avec certitude"
"Il est beaucoup trop tôt pour attribuer sans équivoque ces signaux à des civilisations extraterrestres. Les protocoles internationaux de recherche de preuves de vies avancées au-delà de la Terre exigent que toutes les études soient confirmées par des groupes indépendants qui utilisent leurs propres télescopes et que toutes les explications naturelles soient écartées avec certitude", rappellent les scientifiques.
Raison pour laquelle le centre de recherche Seti a décidé de participer à cette contre-enquête en utilisant au moins deux télescopes pour effectuer "un travail minutieux". Il donc va falloir s'armer de patience... Et ne pas trop espérer.
The notion that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate is taken as fact by the physics community. The three scientists who made that discovery won the Nobel Prize five years ago. And yet, new research by Oxford University physicists suggests that it may not be that simple. There may not be any acceleration at all. If they’re right our understanding of dark energy is up for debate and so is our standard model of cosmology.
It just got more confusing to living in this particular universe.
Published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, the findings incorporate an analysis of an expanded data set and instead suggests the supporting evidence for accelerated expansion is not as airtight as previously suggested. The new data set, which the researchers say is 10 times bigger than than the Nobel-winning data set was, includes a catalogue of 740 Type Ia supernovae, which occur in binary star systems. Type Ia supernovae are important to research into dark energy — which is hypothesized to make up 68.3 percent of all energy in the universe and essentially drive forward the acceleration of universal expansion. Type la supernovae flare up with the same brightness as the stars they burst out from, and therefore glow for large distances across space. Measuring the distance of this brightness is key to researching the changing dynamics of the expansion of the universe.
According to Subir Sarkar, lead author of the Oxford team who wrote the new paper, the new data is more consistent with a constant rate of expansion for the universe. He and his team found that the evidence for accelerated expansion is, “at most, what physicists call ‘3 sigma’,” he said in a news release. “This is far short of the ‘5 sigma’ standard required to claim a discovery of fundamental significance.”
For context, Sarkar recalled the example of the new particle the Large Hardon Collider at CERN found last December, which had a significance between 3.9 and 3.4 sigma. An analogous example in this context would be the recent suggestion for a new particle weighing 750 GeV based on data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In August, however, that confidence dropped after new data showed the significance plummet to less than 1 sigma — indicating the initial data was almost certainly a statistical fluctuation.
The new findings, if true, would also put doubts behind current estimates of how much of our universe is made of “dark energy.” If it turns out the universe is not expanding at an accelerated rate, it upends the entire standard model of cosmology and raises big questions about whether dark energy is real, whether it plays a role in universal expansion, or whether it does something else entirely.
Sarkar and his team, however, are only poking holes in one of the many pieces of supporting evidence the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate, and not a constant one — such as the cosmic microwave background of the universe. But Sarkar thinks those tests were conducted on an assumption of an assumed model of accelerated expansion — and he also says “cosmic microwave background is not directly affected by dark energy.”
Sarkar may be onto something, but he’s going to need a lot more evidence to bolster this hypothesis, and a lot more time to persuade his fellow scientists to take this seriously.
“Naturally, a lot of work will be necessary to convince the physics community of this, but our work serves to demonstrate that a key pillar of the standard cosmological model is rather shaky,” he said. “Hopefully this will motivate better analyses of cosmological data, as well as inspiring theorists to investigate more nuanced cosmological models.”
Physicists have observed the butterfly Rydberg molecule for the first time ever, confirming a 14-year-old prediction, and the existence of a whole new type of atomic bond.
These molecules could be used in the development of molecular-scale electronics and machines because they require less energy to move.
For the first time, physicists have observed a strange molecule called the butterfly Rydberg molecule – a weak pairing of highly excitable atoms that was first predicted back in 2002.
The find not only confirms a 14-year-old prediction – it also confirms the existence of a whole new type of atomic bond.
Rydberg molecules form when an electron is kicked far from an atom’s nucleus, making them super electronically excited.
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On their own, they’re common enough. But back in 2002, a team of researchers from Purdue University in Indiana predicted that a Rydberg molecule could attract and bind to another atom – something that was thought impossible according to our understanding of how atoms bind at the time.
They called that hypothetical molecule combination the butterfly Rydberg molecule, because of the butterfly-like distribution of the orbiting electrons.
And now, 14 years later, the same team has finally observed a butterfly Rydberg molecule in the lab, and in the process, has discovered a whole new type of weak atomic bond.
“This new binding mechanism, in which an electron can grab and trap an atom, is really new from the point of view of chemistry,” explained lead researcher Chris Greene. “It’s a whole new way an atom can be bound by another atom.”
Rydberg molecules are unique because they can have electrons that are between 100-1,000 times further away from the nucleus than normal.
The team was able to create them for this experiment by cooling Rubidium gas to a temperature of 100 nano-Kelvin – one ten-millionth of a degree above absolute zero – then exciting the atoms into a Rydberg state using lasers.
The team kept these Rydberg molecules under observation to see if they could indeed attract another atom. They were looking for any changes in the frequency of light the molecules could absorb, which would be a sign that an energy binding had occurred.
Eventually, they discovered that the distant electrons could indeed help attract and bind with other atoms, just as they had predicted in 2002.
“This [distant] electron is like a sheepdog,” said Greene. “Every time it whizzes past another atom, this Rydberg atom adds a little attraction and nudges it toward one spot until it captures and binds the two atoms together.”
“It’s a really clear demonstration that this class of molecules exist,” he added.
These special butterfly Rydberg molecules are substantially larger than normal molecules due to their distantly orbiting electrons, and now that we know they exist, they could be used in the development of molecular-scale electronics and machines because they require less energy to move.
“The main excitement about this work in the atomic and molecular physics community has related to the fact that these huge molecules should exist and be observable, and that their electron density should exhibit amazingly rich, quantum mechanical peaks and valleys,” Greene told The Telegraph’s Roger Highfield in 2012.
We’re looking forward to seeing what happens with them now.
Life on Mars? New NASA Tech May Finally Track it Down
Life on Mars? New NASA Tech May Finally Track it Down
NASA has a new prototype instrument that takes advantage of a sensing technique that is currently used by the military to monitor air remotely in an effort to detect chemicals, toxins, and pathogens that could threaten the lives of servicemen and women. The NASA instrument is called the Bio-indicator Lidar instrument or BILI and rather than sniffing out hazards, it would be used to sniff out life on Mars.
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IN BRIEF
NASA's BILI, a prototype lidar system, uses light to detect and analyze the composition of particles in the atmosphere.
In the future, the tech could be mounted to a rover and used to detect small levels of complex organic materials from a distance of several hundred meters on Mars.
LIGHTING UP THE RED PLANET
Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) is a system used to detect the distance, speed, and direction of an object from a very far distance. It follows a similar principle as radar but, unlike radar which uses radio waves, lidar achieves the same feat using lights.
Lidar used for mapping the Bixby Bridge in Big Sur, California. Credit: National Ocean Service
NASA has created a prototype lidar system that allows it to look for life on Mars. Dubbed the ‘Bio-indicator Lidar instrument’ (BILI), this device was created by Branimir Blagojevic, a technologist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. BILI is a fluorescence-based lidar that could be used to detect bio-signatures in Mars’ dust clouds.
The instrument would be positioned on a rover’s mast and, as it finds a dust cloud, it would use two of its ultraviolet lasers to pulse the cloud. The light would cause the particles to resonate. Analyzing these resonances could reveal whether or not the dust contains organic particles .
“If the bio-signatures are there, they could be detected in the dust,” Blagojevic said.
FINDING LIFE BEYOND MARS
NASA has already used florescence-based lidar for their climate change studies, but this is the first time that it would be used in planetary studies. “If the agency develops it, it will be the first of a kind,” Blagojevic said.
The device could also be used in tandem with other detection methods. According to Blagojevic, “This makes our instrument an excellent complementary organic-detection instrument, which we could use in tandem with more sensitive, point sensor-type mass spectrometers that can only measure a small amount of material at once.”
This technology could eventually be mounted onto orbiting spacecraft to increase the probability of finding bio-signatures in the solar system. Blagojevic says, “Our goal is increasing the likelihood of their discovery.”
15 facts about the Sumerian King List: When GODS ruled Earth
15 facts about the Sumerian King List: When GODS ruled Earth
Among the numerous ancient texts, manuscripts and scrolls that completely disagree with mainstream history –or at least offer a complementary view— we find the ancient Sumerian King list which according to many is one of the most mysterious and important ancient texts ever discovered on Earth. Why? Because it suggests that the ancient rulers had implausible lengthy reigns: “…Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years. Alaljar ruled for 36000 years. 2 kings; they ruled for 64800 years. Then Eridug fell and the kingship was taken to Bad-tibira. In Bad-tibira, En-men-lu-ana ruled for 43200 years…”
This ancient text describes in great detail a time when Earth was ruled by beings referred to as ‘Gods’ for thousands of years.
The list composed in Ancient Sumerian offers details about numerous generations of kings that ruled over the land of ancient Sumer. The list not only offers us their names, but it details their supposed length andlocation of Kingship.
In this article, we bring you 15 mind-boggling facts about the Ancient Sumerian King list.
The more years the king ‘ruled’ the more important He was to history in the eyes of mortal humans.
Some scholars argue that the years of reign described in the Sumerian King list were not actual years, but are a reflection of the importance of the king
Experts argue that the antediluvian reigns described in the Sumerian King list were measured in Sumerian numerical units known as sars (units of 3,600), need (units of 600), and sosses (units of 60).
The list is only partially accepted in the academic community. Experts claim that some of the accounts are myths while other are genuine.
Mainstream scholars suggest that the Ancient Sumerian King list is a mixture of prehistorical and mythological account
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.
Fragments of the Sumerian Kind list were discovered in 1900’s by German-American researcher Hermann Hilprecht at Nippur.
The Ancient Sumerian king list provides a comprehensive list of the Sumerian Kings from the beginning, before the great flood, and the 10 kings who lived before the Flood who lived for thousands of years.
The first part of the Sumerian King List reads: “…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. Then Eridug fell and the kingship was taken to Bad-tibira. In Bad-tibira, En-men-lu-ana ruled for 43200 years. En-men-gal-ana ruled for 28800 years. Dumuzid, the shepherd, ruled for 36000 years. 3 kings; they ruled for 108000 years…”
After 1906, 18 other lists have been discovered dating from the second half of the Isin dynasty.
The best-preserved specimen of the Sumerian King List is called the Weld-Blundell Prism, which is a clay, cuneiform inscribed vertical prism housed in the Ashmolean Museum.
Scholars are unable to explain why the unique list blends mythical pre-dynastic rulers with historical rulers.
The Sumerian King list suggests that Ancient kings had implausible lengthy reigns, which has led many to conclude its not real.
Researchers have mixed feelings about the Sumerian King list. The mind-boggling lengthy reigns described in the SumerianKing list has led to the creation of countless theories trying to explain the implausible lengthy reigns.
The only problem with this theory is that no one can explain why the period of reign was switched to realistic numbers afterward.
Meet ‘The Eye’ a strange and nearly perfect circular island that moves
Meet ‘The Eye’ a strange and nearly perfect circular island that moves
In the middle of South America, there is a strange and almost perfectly spherical island that moves on its own. The landmass in the middle —called the Eye— floats on a pond of clear and cold water which is extremely strange and in contrast to its surrounding area. The bottom appears to be solid in comparison to the marsh around it.
Until now, no one has tried explaining ‘ The Eye’ or unraveling its many mysteries.
Looking at the story behind this mysterious island, many people have come forward claiming that “a circle inside another circle represents God on Earth,” — and as paranormal investigators point out— regardless, the area deserves much more interest.
Google Earth has been the place to go to if you are looking to explore the surface of the planet like never before. For years this tool has been used by researchers, scientists and ordinary people around the globe to make fascinating discoveries.
This time Google Earth reveals a mysterious island located in the Parana Delta between the cities of Campana and Zárate, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
There, in a little-explored and swampy area, is a mysterious spherical island that is nearly 100 meters in diameter and moves —seemingly on its own from side to side— ‘floating’ in the water channel that surrounds it.
Its discoverer is an Argentine filmmaker who investigates the paranormal phenomenon, UFO cases, and alien sightings.
After the filmmaker, Sergio Neuspiller, researched ‘the Eye’ in situ, checking the anomaly in order to rule out an optical illusion, he started a Kickstarter campaign. The Kickstarter campaign is needed in order to raise the necessary funds to gather a multidisciplinary team of scientists and researchers to ‘The Eye’ in order to get to the bottom of the mysterious island in South America.
How is such an island even possible? Is it the result of an unknown natural phenomenon that we have rarely seen on Earth? How has it lasted so long without deforming? And what caused its initial formation?
Is it possible that the nearly perfect spherical island is connected to UFO activity in the area? Or is there something underneath it that causes the mysterious island to move erratically?
The truth is that if we look back at the historical records of Google Earth, we will find that ‘The Eye’ has been visible on satellite images for over a decade and has apparently always moved in a mysterious way as if it were seeking attention from anyone looking from above.
To check out the enigmatic island for yourself, head on to Google Earth and visit the following coordinates: 34°15´07.8″S 58°49´47.4″W
According to website paranormalnews.com, Pablo Suarez from Boston University who does dynamic systems modeling, said that he had not run across anything like it. To him, it does not appear to be a crater or to have been caused by any typical natural phenomenon.
Gustavo Sznaider, who works at a company specializing in satellite surveillance, stated he had never seen anything like it before either, in spite of the years of experience he’s had analyzing imagery of the Earth.
Don’t forget to visit the website http://elojoproject.com/ for more information and stop by the Kickstarter Campaign.
Bizarre Evidence Ancient Aliens Visited Earth 250,000 Years Ago, China’s Pictures Of Structures On The Moon
Bizarre Evidence Ancient Aliens Visited Earth 250,000 Years Ago, China’s Pictures Of Structures On The Moon
– Aliens and extraterrestrials have been a fascination for centuries. And according to a new finding, tangible evidence of ancient alien technology present on earth might serve to peak ufo enthusiasts’ interest even more. According to an investigation on a piece of metal found in Romania in the 1970s, the artifact was most likely brought to earth by ancient aliens. According to tests carried out on the manufactured piece, it is over 250,000 years old and is composed of 90 percent aluminum. Humans only started producing aluminum about 200 years ago. The following is an excerpt of the report by Fox News.
“Gheorghe Cohal, the Deputy Director of the Romanian Ufologists Association, told local media: “Lab tests concluded it is an old UFO fragment given that the substances it comprises cannot be combined with technology available on Earth.”
Builders working on the shores of the Mures River not far from the central Romanian town of Aiud found the objects about 33 feet under the ground, where it was buried alongside two bones.
It was quickly determined that the two large bones belonged to a large extinct mammal that died between 10,000 and 80,000 years ago, but experts were stunned to find out that the third object was a piece of very lightweight metal, and it appeared to have been manufactured.
According to a local, Mihai Wittenberger, the mysterious ancient aliens artifact is from a World War 2 German aircraft. However, this does not explain its age. The aluminum artifact is now on display at the History Museum of Cluj-Napoca.
If the item is as old as reported, it could offer insight into technology used by aliens thousands of years ago. Presently, there has been speculation that NASA is involved in a massive cover-up of an alien operation on the moon. Just recently, a photograph of the moon on a NASA employee’s desk drew the attention of alien life enthusiasts who concluded that there were definitely structures there. The images, which can be seen here and here, are apparently evidence that NASA and the United States government are aware of the existence of alien life on the moon.
The following is an excerpt from the report on this by Express.
“Conspiracy theorists say the image on the table shows structures, clear geometric shapes that cannot be confused in any way as “natural formations” or “moon rocks.”
Other bizarre pieces of evidence indicating alien existence on the moon include pictures released by China. The images were released to corroborate evidence put forward by Dr. Michael Salla that structures built by an alien civilization exist on the moon, and the United States knows about them, but won’t put this information in the public domain. The following are the videos of the alien structures.
According to Dr. Salla, there is a strong possibility that an alien regime inhabiting the moon is working together with some humans on earth in areas related to military technology. The following was his statement in relation to China discovering the artificial structures and how he came about the evidence.
“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 [aliens] artifacts 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.”
This is according to a report by Ufoholic. Apparently, the alien structures are situated on the far side of the moon that cannot be viewed from the earth. As for the ancient aliens technological evidence in Romania, it has been labeled “origin still unknown” by the museum.
Bone-Chilling Science: The Scariest Experiments Ever
Bone-Chilling Science: The Scariest Experiments Ever
– Since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the popular imagination has been alive with stories of mad scientists and the chilling experiments they conduct. But sometimes, real life is even more frightening than fiction. From zombie dogs to mind control, here are some of the scariest experiments ever done.
1. Earth-swallowing black holes
When physicists first flipped the switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at least a few people held their breath. For years, rumors had circulated that the particle accelerator could create mini black holes that would destroy Earth. In 2008, a group even filed suit to stop the particle collider from turning on, arguing that the atomic collisions could cause the end of the world.
Though it sounded slightly plausible, there’s basically no chance that the LHC will destroy the Earth. A comprehensive study calculated that cosmic rays bombarding Earth routinely create higher energy collisions than the particle accelerator. According to that study, “nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programs on Earth already — and the planet still exists.”
Of course, even if the world is destroyed, at least we have a consolation prize: Earlier this year, physicists at the Swiss site announced they had found a particle that may be the Higgs boson, the elusive particle thought to give all other particles their mass.
A popular notion that the collider would create mini black holes that would suck up the Earth has been dismissed by experts as impossible. Here, an artist’s conception of what may be the smallest black hole in the binary star system IGR J17091-3624.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
2. Zombie dogs
In 1940, Russian scientists released a video of severed dog heads that were kept alive for several hours, wiggling their ears in response to sounds and even licking their mouths. The scientists claimed they could keep the animals alive by an artificial blood circulation system.
But that was just the first time scientists had created zombie dogs. In 2005, American scientists created another pack of zombie dogs. The team rapidly killed the dogs by flushing all the blood from their bodies and replacing it with oxygen- and sugar-filled saline, according to the researchers from the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research at the University of Pittsburgh.
Three hours later, the team gave the dogs a blood transfusion, and an electric shock. The dogs were resurrected, and while some had permanent damage, most were no worse for wear. The research, published in the Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, suggested that the treatment could one day revive people who are hemorrhaging blood too quickly for doctors to repair their injuries.
3. Mind control
Talk about a bad trip. In the 1950s, the CIA launched a top-secret program called MKULTRA to look for drugs and other techniques to use in mind control. Over the next two decades, the agency used hallucinogens, sleep deprivation and electrical shock techniques in an effort to perfect brainwashing.
CIA scientists conducted more than 149 research projects as part of MKULTRA. In one, they tested the effects of LSD in social situations by slipping the drug to unwitting bar patrons in New York and San Francisco. In others, they enticed heroin addicts to take the hallucinogen by offering them heroin.
Spooked by the Watergate scandal, in 1973 CIA Director Richard Helms ordered documents related to the project destroyed. However, some documents escaped destruction, and by 1977 a Freedom of Information Act request released more than 20,000 pages on the sordid program to author John Marks.
4. Deadly nurses
While the CIA was working so hard to control people’s minds, it turns out it’s pretty easy to get people to do what you say: All you have to do is ask like you mean it.
In 1963, social psychologist Stanley Milgram had shown that Yale University students were willing to administer a deadly shock to strangers if an authority figure requested it.
But psychiatrist Charles Hofling wanted to see how obedience influenced decisions when people didn’t know they were part of an experiment. In his innocuously titled 1966 paper “An Experimental Study of Nurse-Physician Relationships,” Hofling described a chilling experimental protocol: An unknown doctor called real nurses on the hospital’s night shift and asked them to administer twice the maximum dose of an unapproved drug to a patient. Unbeknown to the nurses, the “medicine” was actually a harmless sugar pill and the doctor was a fake.
While it’s frightening that the experiment was given the green light at all, it’s perhaps even scarier that 21 out of 22 nurses complied. The researchers clearly labeled the drug, so nurses knew they were overdosing their patients. The nurses also violated hospital rules by taking instructions over the phone and giving an unapproved medicine. The study showed just how much the aura of authority could cloud people’s ethical judgments.
5. Bat bombs
In World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps worked on a project to train bats as kamikaze bombers against the Japanese. A Pennsylvania dentist, Lytle Adams, first proposed the idea to the White House in 1942, after visiting the bat-filled caves at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Adams proposed strapping tiny incendiary explosives to the animals and exploiting their use of echolocation to find roosts in barns and attics. According to Lytle’s plan, the bomb-strapped bats would fly to Japan, nestle in the nooks of the mostly wooden buildings in Japanese cities, and set them ablaze.
The Marine Corps captured thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats and developed explosive devices to strap to their backs. The project was scrapped in 1943, probably because the U.S. government had made progress on the atomic bomb.
Declassified reports link Winston Churchill to a number of UFO sightings
Declassified reports link Winston Churchill to a number of UFO sightings
A series of recently declassified reports reveal a peculiar role of former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, in the cover-up of numerous UFO sightings. Speaking about one mysterious UFO sighting, Mr. Churchill ordered details to be classified saying that: ‘This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one’s belief in the Church’.”
Is this the ultimate evidence governments around the globe are aware fully aware Earth is being visited by intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations?
During his two terms, between 1940 and 1955, Churchill set up a team dedicated to uncovering the origin of the numerous encounters with unidentified flying objects: the “Flying Saucer Working Party.”
Researchers analyzed hundreds of cases and concluded that, although it was not possible to rule out the presence of extraterrestrial visitors on Earth, many of the studied cases appeared to correspond to natural phenomena, human-made unmanned aerial vehicles, or simply “psychological delusions.”
There, a pilot of the RAF (Royal Air Force) encountered, as he returned from a reconnaissance mission from continental Europe, a strange silver flying machine, which quietly disappeared near the aircraft. The enigmatic UFO had shadowed the plane for quite some time. According to reports, the crew had even taken photographs of the metallic UFO.
Upon learning of the incident, the prime minister ordered the case immediately to be classified, since, according to the prime minister, if the population found out about it, it could create panic and would destroy faith in God.
Interestingly, a weapons expert dismissed suggestions the object was a missile as the event was “totally beyond any imagined capabilities of the time.”
“There was a general inability for either side to match a plausible account to these observations, and this caused a high degree of concern,” wrote the scientist, whose details are redacted.
“Mr. Churchill is reported to have made a declaration to the effect of the following: ‘This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one’s belief in the Church’.”
Dr. David Clarke, the author of The UFO files and Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, concluded that the “fascinating” files showed the level of concern about such “bizarre incidents” during the war. It does tie in with what we already know as you have to remember that this was also long before the phrase UFO was created,” he said.
“I suspect there is an element of truth to the statement.”
These and other claims are contained in thousands of pages of declassified files on UFOs, released online by the National Archives.
Around 18 files are made up of over 5000 reports, letters, and drawings.
Onderzoek naar 'verborgen buitenaardse basis' na UFO-waarneming boven Hawaï Onderzoek naar ‘verborgen buitenaardse basis’ na UFO-waarneming boven Hawaï in UFO 7 november 2016 19:00 0 804 Bekeken Na de waarneming van een ‘vliegende sc
Onderzoek naar ‘verborgen buitenaardse basis’ na UFO-waarneming boven Hawaï
Na de waarneming van een ‘vliegende schotel’ boven een berg in Waikane in Hawaï, wordt door sommigen geclaimd dat aliens een geheime basis op aarde hebben, schrijft Tech Times.
Een foto van het onbekende object wordt momenteel bestudeerd door paranormale onderzoekers en het Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
De foto is op 23 oktober jongstleden gemaakt door een anonieme fotograaf. Die dacht in eerste instantie dat er iets op zijn lens zat, maar werd er al snel zeker van dat hij een UFO had gespot.
Rugbybal
De man verklaarde dat hij altijd sceptisch is geweest over dit soort verschijnselen, maar dat hij door deze ervaring van gedachten is veranderd.
“Ik geloof niet echt in stereotiepe UFO’s, maar hier schrok ik toch wel van,” legde hij uit. “Het ongeïdentificeerde object dat ik zag had de vorm van een schijf, een rugbybal, en was geel/oranje van kleur.”
Nadat hij een aantal foto’s van de bergen had gemaakt, verscheen plotseling het vreemde object, ‘dat mogelijk een UFO is’.
Landingsplaats
Volgens sommigen ligt er een buitenaardse basis verscholen in de bergen in Hawaï. Zij zeggen dat de aliens bergen uitkiezen zodat ze zich beter kunnen verstoppen voor de mensen.
De soevereine groep Lawful Hawaiian Government heeft zelfs een landingsplaats gemaakt voor UFO’s, schreef de Wall Street Journal.
De groep, die ook een centrum voor bezoekers uit de ruimte heeft opgericht, wil werken aan een vreedzame relatie tussen mensen en aliens.
“Dit is nog nooit gebeurd”: Strand in Siberië bezaaid met reusachtige sneeuwballen
“Dit is nog nooit gebeurd”: Strand in Siberië bezaaid met reusachtige sneeuwballen
Een strand in het noorden van Rusland ligt sinds een week vol met reusachtige sneeuwballen. De mysterieuze sneeuwballen zorgen voor veel opwinding op sociale media.
Het lijkt alsof ze door de mens zijn gemaakt, maar volgens lokale bewoners zijn ze vanzelf ontstaan.
Op foto’s van The Siberian Times is te zien dat er over een lengte van enkele kilometers vele duizenden ballen op het strand liggen.
Heel bijzonder
Enkele van de sneeuwballen (Ekaterina Chernykh)
Ze variëren van de grootte van een tennisbal tot ballen met een doorsnee van bijna een meter.
Het hele strand van de plaats Nyda is ermee bedekt. Een woordvoerder van het Arctisch onderzoeksinstituut noemt het fenomeen heel bijzonder.
De ballen zouden zijn ontstaan door een combinatie van de wind, ijsvorming en de temperatuur.
Erg verrast
De inwoners van Nyda zeggen zich niet te kunnen herinneren dat er ooit eerder zulke sneeuwballen op het strand lagen.
“We waren allemaal heel erg verrast,” aldus een verbaasde inwoner. “Dit is nog nooit gebeurd. En er was helemaal niet zoveel sneeuw om de ballen mee te vormen.”
In december 2014 werden soortgelijke sneeuwballen aangetroffen in de Golf van Finland en in december 2015 lagen de oevers van Lake Michigan opeens bezaaid met sneeuwballen.
I haven't done Mercury for a while so here it goes. I was looking at the JPL index and found these interesting structures along the edges of the craters. I have found such buildings before on Mercury, but this is a new photo I have never seen before. Every structure is a different main shape, however each structure is made of of smaller cubes formed together.
The main NASA photo is big at 3.9 MB thats almost HD quality so there is no mistaking these structures as something other than what they are. The detail is as fantastic as it gets coming from NASA.
STARGATE AWAKENS AT CERN, After Causing Massive Earthquakes In Europe, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
STARGATE AWAKENS AT CERN, After Causing Massive Earthquakes In Europe, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: Nov 2016 Maker of video:BPEarthWatch In the video BPEarthWatch states that there is a link between the current earthquakes in Italy and the CERN collider activity. I personally believe this to be true. If you remember when President Obama was in Norway receiving his Nobel Peace Prize, that a micro black hole opened up in the sky above his city. Coincidence...no, it was caused by CERN. If a micro black hole happened to open up below the surface, then it will eat and eat for about 3-15 minutes, just like the one over Norway, then it will disappear. That would cause the Earthquakes in Italy and other places. But no, it looks like CERN is purposely trying to create a stargaze, but the planet will suffer earthquakes in their failures. Sure a stargaze would be a way from one planet to another in a blink of an eye. This kind of technology could allow humans to use it as a portal to gather resources, meet other species and even conquer them, or just populate a new planet. It also allows aliens to come in from the other side to conquer us. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
UFO Sighting Caught On Tape Over Lake Michigan, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Sighting Caught On Tape Over Lake Michigan, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 2016 Location of sighting: Michigan, USA These glowing UFOs were recorded coming from the center of Lake Michigan this week. The UFOs were following each other. The front UFO will speed up and move faster than the others (end of video). Its really a remarkable sighting. One concern readers often have is that these lights may be Chinese lantern. First off most lanterns are red. Second, even if it is a white lantern, the fire below it will still be red orange, and we do not see that. Third, the front UFO is moving way faster than the wind. I am confident in this sighting and its great that someone caught it on video for us. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
This Quarter-Sized, Self-Powered Drone Is the Smallest in the World
This Quarter-Sized, Self-Powered Drone Is the Smallest in the World
UPenn/Scott Spitzer
IN BRIEF
The Piccolissimo comes in two sizes, a quarter-sized one weighing less than 2.5 grams and a larger, steerable one that's heavier by 2 grams and wider by a centimeter.
According to the researchers, 100 or 1,000 small controllable flyers like the Piccolissimo could cover more of a disaster site than a single large drone and more cheaply.
The Piccolissimo is the world’s smallest self-powered controllable drone. It comes in two sizes, a quarter-sized one weighing less than 2.5 grams and a larger, steerable one that’s heavier by 2 grams and wider by a centimeter (.39 inches). Size-wise, it is actually a bit larger than Harvard’s RoboBee, but the latter is hooked to an external power source and consequently has more limited motion.
Piccolissimo is made possible by UPenn’s ModLab, which specializes in “underactuated” robots that can achieve great ranges of motion with the fewest motors possible. The tiny tech only has two parts: the propeller and the body. The motor spins the body 40 times per second in one direction, while the propeller spins 800 times per second the opposite way. The drone can be steered because the propeller is mounted slightly off-center. Changing the propeller speed at precise points during the drone’s flight changes its direction.
“One of the interesting things about the design is that much of the complexity is in the design of the body which is 3D printed,” researcher Mark Yim told Digital Trends. “Since the cost of 3D-printed parts are based on the volume of plastic in the part, and independent of complexity, the flyer is very low-cost.”
COMPLEX FUNCTION, SIMPLE DESIGN
Tiny flying microbots have huge potential for applications in agriculture or disaster relief. When equipped with smart sensors, autonomously flying micro-robots could be used for crop pollination or to monitor agriculture for dryness or drought. In search and rescue missions, they could allow rescuers to cover larger areas faster and more cheaply. “Having 100 or 1,000 small controllable flyers could explore more of a disaster site than a single big, expensive one,” says Yim.
Microbots like Piccolissimo are taking function to a fundamental size, showing that in the future of tech, sometimes less can be more.
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Scientists Seek UN Approval to Create Asgardia, Earth’s “First Space Nation”
Scientists Seek UN Approval to Create Asgardia, Earth’s “First Space Nation”
Asgardia/James Vaughan
IN BRIEF
Asgardia's founders plan to send up a satellite in 2017 and eventually build a nation where people can live, work, and follow their own rules and regulations.
While far from a reality, Asgardia does bring up questions about the legalities and logistics of space colonization.
THE FIRST SPACE NATION
Ambitious plans to create the world’s first nation in space were unveiled this week in the hopes of ushering in a new era in the space age. Igor Ashurbeyli, head of the Aerospace International Research Center (AIRC) in Vienna and chairman of UNESCO’s science of space committee heads the initiative in close collaboration with a group of scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and legal experts.
Asgardia, named after a city in Norse mythology, will essentially function as its own sovereign country where citizens can eventually live, work, and follow their own rules and regulations — that is, if everything goes according to plan. Ashurbeyli hopes to secure UN recognition for Asgardia, a nation of scientific exploration free of geopolitical restrictions, but no word yet on whether that will actually happen.
Besides joining the UN, the founders’ ultimate goal is to build a high-tech shield in space that will protect their fellow humans on Earth from “cosmic, manmade and natural threats … such as space debris, coronal mass ejections and asteroid collisions.” The first step, however, is to send up its own satellite in 2017 and begin efforts to open up access to space.
Image Credit: Asgardia
ASGARDIAN CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL
The project is still in its early stages, but the team behind it is hoping that the publicity it gathers now will attract talent willing to work on making Asgardia a reality. That talent can be anyone, as Asgardia has opened citizenship up for everyone on Earth, but what does being part of this nation mean?
Basically, Asgardians will remain physically on Earth, but also become a citizen of this new space nation, which the founders hope will one day join the United Nations. Eventually, those citizens could travel to the space nation.
“We have not seen any nation attempt this before. So this will be a first,” Ram Jakhu, an Asgardia founding member, told Business Insider. “We’ll start small and eventually people will be going there, and working, and having their own rules and regulations … This facility will become an independent nation.”
Details regarding the feasibility of this audacious plan are vague. No clarifications have been made on whether or not current space laws would allow for a country to declare itself as an autonomous, sovereign entity in space. Similarly, technical details, logistics, and funding on the project have not been detailed, but the project does bring up important questions about how space colonization should be handled in the future.
Filer’s Files 45-2016 We’ve lost many planes to UFOs- PART I
Filer’s Files 45-2016 We’ve lost many planes to UFOs- PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: We Have Lost Many Men and Planes Trying to Intercept UFOs, Prime Minister May and Hacker Gary McKinnon, Alien Hybrid Breeding – Are Human Looking Aliens on Earth?, The Ufologist, Evidence of Alien Signals, and Gamma Ray Bursts.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, 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 US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly 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.
These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over one hundred UFOs reported each week represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over one hundred UFOs reported each week represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when I chased one over England while flying for the US Air Force. I’ve been investigating them ever since. The US Air Force under Project Blue Book investigated UFOs for more than twenty years, we continue this research. It is my belief that God has spread his kingdom of intelligent civilizations throughout the universe. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
George A. Filer III
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“We Have Lost Many Men and Planes Trying To Intercept UFOs”
Timothy Good writes, “The destruction or disappearance of military aircraft during interceptions of UFOs continued apace.” As General Benjamin Chidlaw, former commanding general of Air (later Aerospace) Defense Command told Robert C. Gardener (ex USAF) in 1953: “We have stack of reports of flying saucers. We take them seriously, when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” Leonard Springfield, the former Air Force intelligence officer was told by a reliable source in the 1950s that the “Air Force was losing about a plane a day to the UFOs.”Stringfield was reliably informed. According to US Defense Department figures, from 1952 until the end of October 1956, there were 18,662 major accidents of military aircraft, broken down as follows:
Year – Air Force – Navy Losses
1952 2,274 2,086
1953 2,075 2,325
1954 1,873 1,911
1955 1,664 1,566
1956 1,530 1,358
Of this astonishing total, most involved fast new jets (such as those scrambled in UFO interceptions), of which 56.2 per cent were found to be caused by pilot error; 8.1 per cent by ground-crew or other personnel failure; 23.4 per cent by failure of parts and equipment in the aircraft; 2.8 per cent by various ‘unsafe conditions’, and –9.5 per cent (1,773) were due to ‘unknown factors’. Thanks to Timothy Good’ book, “Need to Know” P.172
Comments:When I chased a UFO we exceeded the red lined aircraft air speed by 20 knots. In the excitement of the chase it is easy to exceed aircraft capabilities and often some part of the aircraft may fail. Many stories are told of firing missiles and making direct hits on the UFOs that were unharmed only to have them return the fire and destroy the interceptor.
Lt. Chidlaw entered the Air Corps Engineering School at Wright Field, Ohio, and later directed the development of the United States’ original jet engine and jet aircraft. He spent most of his career at Wright Field which established Chidlaw as an expert on materiel, especially aircraft. He became chief of the Experimental Engineering Branch, where he monitored the jet engine development. In March 1945, he took command of the Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Forces and was promoted to major general the next month.
Chidlaw returned to Wright Field in July 1945 as deputy commanding general for operations of what became Air Materiel Command (amc). He was flown to Roswell, New Mexico at the time of the UFO crash announcement in July of 1947. In October 1947, he became deputy commanding general of amc, with rank of lieutenant general, and full commander on September 1, 1949.
General Chidlaw was given the task to evaluate UFO sightings and his group agreed the phenomena was real and approved the Research and Development Board. It is likely his team attempted to back engineer and develop their own flying discs.
Silverbug aircraft was back engineered.
On July 29, 1951, he received his fourth star and the command of Air Defense Command at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado. Most fighter interceptors were under his command and each Air Force base had a UFO Officer who could launch fighters if UFOs were in the area.
Prime Minister May and Hacker Gary McKinnon
On July 24, 2016, ·Theresa May is became the new Conservative Party leader and second female prime minister, taking charge of the UK at one of the most turbulent times in recent memory. She had the support of six in 10 Conservative Members of Parliament. So how Theresa May become popular enough to become the Prime Minister of the UK?
British hacker Gary McKinnon had been hacking into NASA and US Navy files trying to obtain information on UFOs. He revealed amazing classified information about UFOs and a US space fleet. The Obama Administration was forcing the UK to extradite Gary McKinnon to face trial in the US with a possible seventy years in prison.
“We note that Mrs. May as the Home Secretary was responsible for the internal affairs and policing of England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the United Kingdom. Mrs. May as Home Secretary took the highly unusual step of blocking the extradition of Mr. McKinnon based on medical evidence. She told Parliament MPs: “Mr. McKinnon is accused of serious crimes but there is also no doubt that he is seriously ill. He has Asperger’s syndrome, and suffers from depressive illness. “The legal question before me is now whether the extent of that illness is sufficient to preclude extradition. She stated, “After careful consideration of all of the relevant material, I have concluded that Mr. McKinnon’s extradition would give rise to such a high risk of him ending his life that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with Mr. McKinnon’s human rights.”I have therefore withdrawn the extradition order against Mr. McKinnon.
Because of his search for evidence on the existence of UFOs, a spokeswoman for the US Justice Department said: “The United States is disappointed by the UK Home Secretary’s decision not to extradite Gary McKinnon.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of UK’s civil rights group Liberty, commented: “This is a great day for rights, freedoms and justice in the United Kingdom.”Mrs. May gained popularity and fame for standing up for a UFO researcher against the Obama Administration. I feel her decision helped her to become the Prime Minister.
Mr. McKinnon, admits hacking into US military computers but claims he was looking for evidence of UFOs. He believes UFO secrets should not be secret. McKinnon`s search of the American Internet web lasted from February 2001 until March 2002. Gary claims he saw photos of alien space craft on NASA`s site. He says he was inspired for this action by Hugh Cornwall`s Guide for Hackers and his main interest are secrets of the American government on alien space crafts and high technology. Gary believes that such information should not be hidden from the public. He claims he has found documents recording 400 testimonies of unidentified flying objects.
Flight controllers and persons in charge of controlling nuclear missiles wrote down their unusual encounters with UFOs. According to Gary’s claims, witnesses spoke of up to date technology which they took over from UFOs or destroyed it. According to the hacker, NASA is in possession of a large amount of photos and documents. He claims the US has space ships fighting at least one alien civilization. The technology is so advanced revealing it would severely affect the world’s economy. Thanks to skynews.com
Are Alien Hybrids Living Here On Earth
Alien Abductions: Hybrid Humanoids Breeding
A huge percentage of people that have been abducted by aliens under-go some kind of physical examination while abducted. While some of these examinations are various strange medical procedures like probes inserted into the eyes, nose and ears, or items surgically inserted somewhere under the skin, most are to do with the abductees’ genitalia (private parts).
In men it’s the taking of sperm samples, and with women abductees’ it’s egg extraction / manipulation. For many years people involved with investigating UFOs, Aliens and abductions didn’t know why the aliens done these experiments on the abductees’.
Investigatorsthought they were probably just experimenting, just like humans have done with animals for many years. Some of the alien examinations seemed pointless.
Then, when people started claiming to have beenimplantedwith item(s) somewhere inside their body under the skin, and items were actually found and removed, people started to think that maybe there was more to these examinations and experiments that the aliens were doing. People then started looking at things differently, thinking that perhaps this was some kind of alien “program”, a human tagging and tracking program. Again, a method that we use to track and monitor animals.
Alien Hybrid Breeding – Are Human Looking Aliens On Earth?
There is significant evidence that aliens are using humans to make alien hybrids, and some alien races like the Pleiadians don’t even need humans to try and look fairly human. Some of the abductees’ that had under gone either sperm extraction or egg extraction / manipulation claimed to have been taken to a room very similar to a hospital newborn baby care ward. Inside the room the abductees’ are shown a large amount of incubators, with human looking fetuses suspended in liquid inside, most of which were at different stages of development.
Some abductees’ were also shown video footage of normal humans going about their everyday life, some were laughing, walking down a busy city street, kids playing etc. At this moment the aliens communicated with the abductees’ and asked them “Can you spot “us” in these video scenes? The abductees’ responded “No”. All the abductees’ could see were what they thought looked like normal human beings.
This type of evidence and questioning from the aliens clearly spells out those aliens are using human men and women abductees’ to create alien hybrids that actually look completely human. And just remember, people have been getting abducted and reporting having sperm and eggs removed for over 50 years. So, it’s very possible that alien hybrids are actually living among us right now.Also, the the Pleiadians are from another planet and they look human so they don’t even need humans to breed. They could have been on the earth for century’s already.
Is this so hard to believe?
Many abductees’ also said that while abducted they seen aliens that looked human, working alongside alien greys. Some of the abductee reports claimed to have seen human looking aliens that had blonde hair, blue eyes, and looked athletic. However, when the abductees tried to communicate with them they did not speak or seem to understand what the abductees’ were saying. More and more people are reporting events like this taking place while abducted. These aliens, or shall I say, human species from another planet could have been on the earth for hundreds, or even thousands of years already and we would not have a clue because they look so much like us.
Seen many times by abductees – The Pleiadians
It should be noted: The abductees’ who gave the same stories or had very similar experiences come from different countries, cities, and even speak different languages to each other, so there’s no way that these people have somehow got together and made these stories up. People from all over the world have experienced the same thing. Men and women who have been abducted more than once have also said that they were actually shown a baby and told it was theirs, but most abductees’ rejected it because it looked strange and they didn’t feel like it was theirs. There are said to be 57 different species of aliens out in the universe. The ones that look human could be among us, so is it really that impossible to believe that the aliens that don’t look human are doing their bit to populate the earth. Could it be that there planet is under threat from becoming extinct and they want to keep their genes alive with by creating humanoids.
Make sure you keep an open mind, do your own research, and make your own mind up as to whether you believe aliens are creating hybrid humanoids or not. With so many abductees’ saying the same thing over and over again, it has to be taken seriously.
The Bible and other scriptures claim fallen angels took human women as wives, and the resulting offspring were giants, aka the nephilim, half human, half angelic entities that took over the world. This is recorded in Genesis 6. This started in the days of Jared and continued through the days of Noah, which is why God destroyed the Earth with the Flood; all flesh was corrupted from this hybridization, except for Noah and his family, their genetic pool had not been corrupted. Had God not intervened, there would not have been a pure bloodline for Christ to come through and hence, no salvation for mankind.
I believe the “alien” abductions are a repeat of Genesis 6. Jesus said in the days leading up to His Second Coming, the world would be just as it was in the days of Noah. These “alien” abductions were part of a hybridization program. Look at how scientists are crating human/animal hybrids. Folks, the time for the Second Coming of Christ draws near! http://www.12vn.net/2012/05/alien-abductions-storys-and-experiences.html
The Ufologist
The UFOLOGIST is the true story of a reluctant accidental UFO investigator who discovers the “String Theory of the Unexplained” in this conclusion for John J. Ventre as an author after seven books and twenty years of research in the elusive field of End Time Prophecy, Unidentified Flying Objects and Demonology.
BOOK REVIEW by Brian J. Allan
The Ufologist: The Haunting of John Ventre”
John Ventre is one of the very few Ufologists who successfully maintain an open mind on the nature of the UFO phenomenon and its possible causes. In this new book John presents a very plausible case based on personal experience that UFOs and their occupants are not necessarily from other worlds or galaxies, but could also have a distinctly occult and magical connection. He bases this on a series of all too close encounters with a number of entities that could sit comfortable in either camp. These are views shared by such noted luminaries as the late John Keel and Jacques Vallee and, as it happens, also with this reviewer.
The author also quotes other paranormal/UFO investigators such as Nick Redfern and mentions the shadowy, quasi-governmental CIA attached group called ‘The Collins Elite’, who came to a very similar conclusion, i.e. that ET’s were almost certainly demonic in nature. John elaborates on this by listing signs of demonic infestation and also lists the hierarchy of demons (and angels). Helpfully he also includes the rite of exorcism as well. The author also shares his timeline of personal haunting by a ghostly ‘something’ that may have had UFO connections and what he describes is truly alarming. This book may not appeal to the rigid mindset of the die-hard ETH Ufologist. This is a pity because in this field of study we need all the support we can get. However to anyone else with a genuinely enquiring outlook the book is truly enlightening and above all entertaining and well worth the purchase price. “The invisible world is just as real as the visible world. The devil prowls like a roaring lion seeking to devour someone.” Ventre may have discovered the true reality if some of the alien phenomenon.
Thanks to Brian J Allan is a Scottish paranormal expert, editor of Phenomena magazine and the author of numerous books. Printed editions now available at www.JohnVentre.com or you can upload e-books at Amazon.com
Evidence of Alien Signals
NASA officials have admitted that they have received what is believed to be an artificial signal from space in 2014. The source of the signal is located over 2.3m light years from Earth and has been repeating on a loop in the narrowband frequency. Mysterious signal coming from the star system HD 164595 was discovered by a Russian antenna this week. Fairly regularly signals are picked up from space, but are not repeated so they are considered a freak occurrence and not confirmed.
While studying a deep-space cluster of galaxies, NASA found an eccentric signal. At NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, a weird, strong X-ray signal was recently relayed from the XMM-Newton space satellite. The same satellite found a similar X-ray spike while studying a cluster of 73 other galaxies. The next step is to confirm that these signals are, in fact, real, as opposed to some sort of error or local interference.
A team of scientists from the University of Quebec have revealed new research that seems to indicate intelligent aliens beyond planet Earth exist and are trying to communicate with others. A paper titled “Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars” doesn’t necessarily sound like a stunning discovery to most people, but the research paper published in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific may turn out to be the first step in the quest to establish the presence of intelligent life beyond our solar system. An analysis of 2.5 million stars that researchers have been watching has revealed 234 stars giving off “strange modulations” that suggest their origins are likely caused by an alien species, rather than natural causes.
“We find that the detected signals have exactly the shape of an extraterrestrial intelligence signal predicted in the previous publication and are therefore in agreement with this hypothesis.”
“The fact that they are only found in a very small fraction of stars within a narrow spectral range centered near the spectral type of the sun is also in agreement with the Extra Terrestrial Intelligent hypothesis.” Astronomers from a university in Quebec used a mathematical tool to analyze super quick light pulses of about less than a trillionth of a second to reach their conclusion. The scientists explored a series of other potential causes for the modulations, including instrument effects, rotation of molecules, rapid stellar pulsations and chemistry. Thanks to The Independent
Note: Earth’s instruments searching for alien radio signals may be like looking for American Indian smoke signals; communication may be far advanced in other civilizations.
Gamma Ray Burst
Artist’s impression of a gamma ray burst hitting the Earth. The gamma rays would trigger changes in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Credit: NASA
Despite the obvious doom and gloom associated with mass extinctions, they have a tendency to capture our imagination. After all, the sudden demise of the dinosaurs, presumably due to an asteroid strike, is quite an enthralling story.
But not all mass extinctions are quite as dramatic and not all have an easily identified culprit. The Ordovician extinction — one of the “big five” in Earth’s history — occurred around 450 million years ago when the population of marine species plummeted. Evidence suggests that this occurred during an ice age and a gamma-ray burst is one of several possible mechanisms that may have triggered this extinction event.
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest electromagnetic blasts known to occur in the universe, and can originate from the collapse of massive stars or from the collision of two neutron stars. Supernovae are stellar explosions that also can send harmful radiation hurtling towards Earth. Both GRBs and supernovae are usually observed in distant galaxies, but can pose a threat if they occur closer to home.
But a GRB or supernova would quickly eviscerate the ozone layer. As the UV rays penetrate the planet’s surface they would break apart oxygen molecules and ground-level ozone would form, according to Washburn University astrophysicist Brian Thomas. We see this kind of ozone on hot, polluted days when smog alerts warn us to stay indoors for health reasons. But would the ground-level ozone created after a GRB pose a long-term biological threat? Thomas and his colleague Byron Goracke investigated the severity of this ground-level ozone and its potential effects on life using an atmospheric model to simulate a particular case of a GRB occurring over the South Pole.
“A GRB could happen over any latitude or time but we chose the South Pole mainly to look at a very high depletion case,” explains Thomas. “When the radiation enters the atmosphere over a pole, the depletion is concentrated there instead of spread around the globe.”
The marine life of the Ordovician fell victim to a mass extinction, the cause of which might have been a gamma ray burst. Ozone is also water soluble, which is particularly relevant to the Ordovician mass extinction as most life at the time was marine life. If all of the 10 ppb of ozone generated by a GRB became dissolved in the oceans, it would still only have a very minor impact, if any, on some bacteria and fish larvae, and wouldn’t have played a part in the Ordovician mass extinction. It’s quite clear, therefore, that a GRB event alone does not cause the kind of elevated ground-level ozone that’s deadly to life.
The ozone layer in the stratosphere blocks harmful UV radiation from reaching the surface of the Earth. A gamma ray burst would deplete the ozone layer, allowing UV radiation through.
However, this negative result is still vital to understanding what would or wouldn’t happen to the Earth’s atmosphere and its inhabitants following the energy from a GRB or supernova reaching our planet. A GRB would deplete the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, allowing harmful UV radiation to reach the ground and thus have dire consequences for life. However, the ground-level ozone caused by the GRB would not be an additional hazard for life.
Understanding what causes mass extinctions is also important for the search for life in the universe. Discovering a planet that ticks all the boxes for habitability may sound promising, but perhaps less so if a GRB or supernova recently occurred nearby. In the hunt for life we also need to consider the possibility that any life that might have existed on a distant planet could already be extinct.
Remember six companies control the news and you see and hear only what they want you to hear. You will not be told about UFOs or our advanced technology. They will not tell you the truth about the election. Make up your own mind about who will help your family and country the most.
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Filer’s Files 45-2016 We’ve lost many planes to UFOs- PART II
Filer’s Files 45-2016 We’ve lost many planes to UFOs- PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Grand Canyon West — I was taking pictures with my phone. Later in the day when reviewing the pictures, there was a spot on a picture. At first, I thought it was on my phone screen. It definitely was not a helicopter but, I am not sure what it was. I guess I am open to what others see.
Note: There is some uncertainty regarding the date and time of the photo. The photo file data indicates that the photo was taken on Oct 25, 2016 at 11 AM. local time. The witness said that the photo was taken with an I-phone 5 on Oct 26, 2016 at 9 AM.
The object could be suspended debris (e.g. garbage bag). However, winds were very light gusting to 18 MPH at 9 AM, Winds of this magnitude probably wouldn’t result in garbage bags to remain airborne.. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Arkansas Diamond
Fort Smith— These photos were taken on October 19th, 2016, around 6:45pm. This is a view of what appears to be “sunset” rays but this photo was taken facing east from Wal-Mart off Rogers Avenue. I took these photos and stand behind that these are 100% real! These photos captured a formation of lights perceived as a UFO. Four lights making a sideways diamond with a fifth light over top of the diamond. The photos were taken seconds apart from each other within a 15-20 seconds period. I showed a friend some photos and I noticed what looked like an airplane but after further inspections it appears to be what I would describe as a UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Corona— On October 31, 2016, at 6:47 PM, while trick or treating I knew this light was strange. The past nights I took the picture of this light and I made sure it was still and it did not move at all. After almost an hour it was gone but planes were flying low. I noticed on the left side of the picture another light.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Triangles
Denver– I was outside watching all the people arriving at the concert and saw dim lights that I thought was a hologram. The object was a v boomerang shape. There were red dimmed lights, almost like the redness hadn’t quite faded out. It flew in straight line travel, with no sound, I lost it after couldn’t see the red color. It was about as big as sticking your fingers in the air and making a peace sign. The drawing shows exactly how dim and faded the lights appeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Pensacola– I went to watch the Blue Angels practice in Pensacola on March 22, 2016.
The cylinder UFO showed up in one of my photos and appears to be traveling very fast.
I never saw it with my naked eye. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Demon
Carpentersville — I need help, there is something that is attached to me and it is not human. It has been attached to me since I can remember. As I get older it is getting more and more aggressive. I wake up with very large bruises and welts consistently often in geometric shapes or patterns. My concern lies for those around me. People notice bruising, scratches, rashes, and ultimately becoming violently sick in my presence. I’ve had instances where physical harm was done to those around me, such as being pushed down stairs or having doors slam on them. It has made its presence known and it knows I know it’s there. I have many witnesses to attest to this, and at one point physical proof. I had a very large un-human handprint burned into my bedroom door followed by another one burned into the wall next to my headboard. I went as far as to ask for help from the Catholic Church, they wouldn’t even pray with me and seemed disturbed by my presence instantly. This thing has never made me feel personally threatened until recently. I found my picture of my family and discovered that my face had been scratched out. I am terrified to sleep at night, because I go into these fits of convulsions and screaming that are difficult to wake me up from and sleep walking. I also went to a psychologist who stated that I am completely in my right mind and that what is happening to me is very real. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Light
New Oppenheimer – I was driving home on Friday, October 28, 2016, about 7:15 pm. As I approached town on Highway 32, I noticed a very bright and seemingly close light. I’ve noticed this light from various places in SE Missouri since October 1st, when I took photos. This sighting was closer and brighter, and the pictures are bizarre. The photo is shown in the original “Raw” format photos taken with my HTC 10 phone. We have three cameras, including a new EOS Rebel, and none of my regular cameras photograph this. This object appears on random days. It moves in the same pattern each time like it has a set flight path. It’s almost as if an airliner isn’t able to observe this in the air? Does anyone have a natural phenomenon explanation? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Note:Pilots and radar control often see UFOs but do not report.
North Carolina Orbs
Charlotte– I’m a professional driver and on this particular Sunday, myself, and roughly 15 people were standing around in the Le Meridien Hotel parking lot. I looked up at the roof of the hotel and spotted pulsing orbs or exterior lighting that was on something far bigger. I was stunned because of how low it was flying silently. I told everyone to look up realizing I didn’t know what I was looking at so I started filming. Yes, I believe in aliens, however I also believe in secret aircraft after having an uncle who worked for Lockheed Martin. I figured just document what I’m seeing. Civilian aircraft were flying in the distance. The lights literally faded out completely. It was too low to be an airliner or private plane over the city. Video Posted October 15, 2016. Thanks to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxLEnqsUYS4
Ohio Cylinder
Dayton — At 23:19 EST, my wife had taken the dog out October 29, 2016, and yelled for me to see an object. It was heading due east and looked to be the size of a commercial aircraft during descent for landing. This is weird, but it looked like an airplane that was totally engulfed in flames. It looked to be tapered at the front and have a high rudder-like tail like a commercial airplane. It was brilliant white at first and lessened to the flame like orange. I yelled for my son to take a video of the object. It headed slowly east and grew in brightness before hovering. Then it was heading back toward us and then resumed easterly and descending before dimming so much that it was barely perceptible. It rapidly changed colors.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Orbs
Portland — My brother in law also saw the orbs and took pictures around 9 PM on September 25th, 2016. He was in the parking lot at Fred Meyer, 6615 NE Glisan Street Portland, OR. He says there are six orbs that are bright orange. One is behind the light fixture.
Horsham — I was walking late at night on March 9, 2016 and saw a bright light in the sky. I watched it through an old oak tree.
As I got closer to the clearing, I saw three lights off in the distance, just as bright as the first two. The first one moved from the left to the right and the other one moved closer before disappearing.
I knew they were orbs when I first saw them because I’ve been seeing many for the past year. I took a photo and continued to walk to my bank.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Orbs
Nashville – I was at a Halloween party with 25 people on October 30, 2016. I looked east toward the Green Hills Mall and initially saw three bright orbs moving in a triangle formation. Then two more lights appeared. I alerted my friends. The lights moved together on a roughly south to north trajectory. There was aircraft traffic in the area at BNA 10 miles away. These were not airplanes, although the lights were relatively large but faded away in a minute. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Orb
Brisbane — I woke up at dawn and sat upright in bed, at the bottom of which was an oval shape filled with a gaseous smoke 4 feet x 3 feet on April 16, 2016. Inside this oval shape was what I can only describe as looking like a mirror ball with the reflection of colors ranging from white to silver, light grey, pale blue pulsing in and out. The orb was reasonably bright but did not light up the room. I had something in my eyes and rubbed them, then pulled my top eyelids over my eyes, but the orb was still there. Then I lay back down to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, I didn’t remember what I had seen. Later, my wife said, “She had seen something strange.” I led her to the bedroom and said right here gesturing to the bottom of the bed. She said, “She had woken up and had seen this oval shaped gaseous thing.” We went to a catholic priest to perform an exorcism. She saw a shape inside the oval shape and put her head under the blanket. Later she looked out the vision had gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Flying Object
Parkland County – Hasse — Those objects were recorded with my Phantom3P drone while recording fall colors above the trees to compose a video on October 10, 2016. When I examined the video, I noticed all those objects coming from the trees. I examined the footage and saw a lighter rectangle object. This object zoomed past my drone and vanished. Those objects were moving at incredible speed as my camera was recording at 60 frames per second and all you can see is blurring. This is by far the weirdest thing I have ever recorded. I have over 100 drone flights. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Disc
Paris – I was on vacation in October 10, 2013 with my family taking pictures. So when we stood at a spot where the Eiffel Tower is aligned with the obélisque monument, I made a photo. I didn’t see anything strange then, but later;
I noticed a black flying object only in this photo. I made about 200 photos and tried to enlarge it and found that on the left side of the object there is a cloud. The object is all black and in an enlarged photo it seems there are some lights around it. My first thought was that it could be a very big UFO. Recently I watched a MUFON show and it doesn’t seem to be an airplane. It seems and I don’t know what it could be.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Lights
Lamezia Terme — I was driving home with my girlfriend when we noticed a pulsed light in the sky that changes color on October 30, 2016.
I immediately thought it could not be a plane or a helicopter because of the type of lights, that alternated (white, red, green, yellow), and for the type of flight.
I was quite surprised to hear dogs barking. I don’t know exactly what I’ve seen, but it wasn’t certainly a plane.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Norway Orb
Oslo – On September 30, 2016, the photos and report was by Marie Andrem a Norwegian UFO researcher: The pictures were taken with a Samsung phone. The object seems to be moving when comparing several photos. The object was spotted in the photos after the pictures were taken.
Note: The above photos are very similar to a photo taken in Lebanon, Oregon on October 14, 2016. These photos were also taken with a Samsung Galaxy cell phone and are not a lens flare. The object shows movement in the photos taken in Norway and appears to be partially behind a cloud.
Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Switzerland Object
Geneva — On October 12, 2016, there was a sighting of a strange triangular shaped object over Geneva. The inexplicable appearance of a flying saucer as big as a plane was observed by hundreds of people and led to speculation about the craft being from an alien civilization. The craft was seen hovering in the black skies over the La Praille area of Geneva near a stadium. Many watchers took pictures as the object hovered over the night skies for about 20 seconds before it sped away. Many described it as oval shaped and flat-topped and glowed brightly in the heavens. The incident happened at 8.30 pm. Matías Vitkieviez a footballer reported that the UFO was flying over the industrial area and was as big as a plane. It was also sending out a shrill whistle like noise for about 20 seconds before the object departed. The object was not clearly visible on the pictures but was clearly visible to the onlookers. The lights were also glowing in different colors and not like the lights usually flashing on drones and aircraft.
NOTE: The above image is CGI. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
UK/England Orb
Nottingham — I was out in my back garden at 10:30 pm smoking a cigarette when I saw lights in the distance. Then again at 12:30 am, I went outside again and they were still there. What caught my attention first was the brightness of the centre of the orbs. At times they would dim as if the object had turned away, but it was still super-bright even then. One of the objects started drifting east while the others were hovering and unreasonably bright for being so far away. Looking almost directly south from my house I can see extremely far between buildings. I was watching the objects move east and west with slight adjustments in elevation and periodic hovering until one by one they drifted out of view.
I had a friend with me on the second viewing who couldn’t explain what he was seeing either. I managed to get a small amount of footage but missed a triangle moving formation with three objects. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Best Space Stories of the Week — Nov. 4, 2016
Best Space Stories of the Week — Nov. 4, 2016
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
JunoCam participant Matt Brealey wrote about this image: "An image constructed from the perijove 1 raw images, using common Visual Effects techniques, in The Foundry's 'Nuke' compositing software."
Credit: NASA, SwRI, MSSS & Matt Brealey copyright CC BY
A small asteroid gave Earth a close shave; a guitar-strumming astronaut wrote a book about being afraid of the dark; and the largest space-based telescope ever constructed is complete. Here are our picks for the best space stories of the week.
The (non) race to Mars
NASA is not try to beat Elon Musk to the Red Planet. This summer Musk announced how his private spaceflight company SpaceX plans to eventually send thousands of humans to Mars, but that doesn't necessarily conflict with NASA's Mars plans, according to NASA's associate administrator of science. [Full Story: NASA: We're Not Racing SpaceX to Mars]
Does art imitate life on Mars?
The National Geographic Channel is gearing up for the debut of a new series called "Mars," which is a mix of fiction and non-fiction centered on humanity's journey to the Red Planet. Here's what some of the show's creators have to say about art imitating life. [Full Story: National Geographic Channel's 'Mars': Does Art Imitate Life?]
Hubble's successor on track
Construction is now complete on the largest space-based telescope ever built, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Often referred to as the successor to the Hubble telescope, construction began on Webb more than 20 years ago. The telescope is now set to launch into space in 2018. [Full Story: World's Largest Space Telescope Is Complete, Expected to Launch in 2018]
Continuing the hunt for dark matter
Scientists aren't sure what dark matter is made of, just that it seems to make up most of the mass in the universe (outweighing "regular" matter by about 5 to 1). A new study has predicted the mass of one theoretical dark matter candidate, a particle called the "axion." The finding could greatly aid axion dark matter searches. [Full Story: What Is Dark Matter? Prime Candidate Gets Profiled]
Asteroid gives Earth a 'close shave'
A small asteroid buzzed Earth on Nov. 1, hours after astronomers spotted the space rock for the first time. Asteroid 2016 VA came to within about 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) of Earth. For comparison, the moon orbits Earth at an average distance of 239,000 miles (385,000 km). [Full Story: Surprise! Newfound Asteroid 2016 VA Gives Earth a Close Shave]
Citizen scientists in action
NASA is asking citizen scientists to get involved with its Juno mission to Jupiter. The JunoCam instrument on board the probe is sending back images of the gas giant's cloud tops, and members of the public are welcome to process them, either for scientific or artistic purposes. [Full Story: Citizen Scientists Jump Aboard NASA's Jupiter Mission to Create Amazing Images]
Here lie the dead
NASA's stunning ring system, as well as the rings of Neptune and Uranus, are likely composed of the powdered remains of dwarf planets like Pluto, a new study suggests. The work shows that Pluto-sized objects probably came close to those giant planets during the early days of the solar system, and were torn apart by each planet's gravitational forces. [Full Story: Saturn's Gorgeous Rings May Be Dwarf Planet Carcasses]
An astronaut faces the darkest dark
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield — perhaps best known for his on-orbit Bowie covers — is the author of a new children's book called "The Darkest Dark." It tells the story of a young boy facing down his fear of the dark, on the eve of the Apollo 11 mission's arrival on the moon. [Full Story: In Chris Hadfield's 'The Darkest Dark,' a Future Astronaut Faces His Deepest Fears]
Bring home the first space selfie
Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin is selling t-shirts that feature a Polaroid "selfie" he snapped during the Gemini 12 mission, which took place 50 years ago this month. The selfie features a view of Earth and part of Aldrin's face through his spacesuit helmet. [Full Story: Buzz Aldrin Debuts 'First Selfie in Space' T-Shirt for Gemini 12 50th Anniversary]
The super/strange science in Marvel's new movie
Marvel's newest superhero movie, "Doctor Strange," is more fantasy than science-fiction, but still includes some elements that related to real-world physics, astrophysics and philosophy of science. Space.com talked with Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester in New York who consulted on "Doctor Strange." [Full Story: 'Doctor Strange' Astrophysicist Talks Mind-Bending Marvel Science]
A colorful crash site
The first color images have been released of the site where a European Mars lander crashed onto the surface of Mars. The lander, which was intended to test technologies for a future Red Planet rover, hit the Martian surface on Oct. 19, after its thrusters failed to fire for the correct duration. [Full Story: See the 1st Color Photos of Europe Mars Lander's Crash Site]
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
An unobscured view of the limestone bedrock of the tomb said to belong to Jesus Christ.
Credit: ODED BALILTY / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles around, here are 10 of the coolest stories in Science this week.
Mystery Deepens Over Bones Linked to Amelia Earhart:Records of a partial skeleton of a castaway found in the 1940s on the Pacific island Nikumaroro shows some similarities to Amelia Earhart, but other forensics scientists are not sure the science holds up. [Full Story]
How One Man Fought Off a Great White Shark: Joe Tanner was paddling on his surfboard off the Oregon coast, waiting to catch a wave, when he felt something grab his leg. [Full Story]
Investigation Sheds Light on Final Moments of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: When missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, there was probably no one controlling it, a new analysis suggests. [Full Story]
Ancient Cave Lion Cubs Found Crushed and Frozen in Russia: Even though the animals died more than 30,000 years ago, northern Russia's cold permafrost has preserved the small bodies of two furry and wide-pawed cave lion cubs, one of them in almost pristine condition, a new study found. [Full Story]
Ancient Scratched Stones: World's Earliest Maps or Magic Artifacts? The broken stones, covered with etchings of lines and squares, were discovered at a 5,000-year-old sacred site in Denmark. [Full Story]
Why Some Pot Smokers Face a Higher Risk of Drinking Problems:People who use alcohol and marijuana together may be at greater risk for alcohol-related problems, such as drunk driving and health issues, than those who use only alcohol, a new study finds. [Full Story]
You Can 3D Print Your Own Mini Universe Have you ever wondered what the universe looks like in all of its entirety, or how it would feel to hold the universe in the palm of your hand? Good news: It is now possible to do both of these things — all you need is a 3D printer. [Full Report]
Original Bedrock of Jesus' Tomb Revealed in New Images: The original bedrock of the tomb said to belong to Jesus Christ has been exposed for the first time in centuries. [Full Story]
Did Too Many Energy Drinks Trigger Man's Liver Problems? A 50-year-old man developed a condition called acute hepatitis after consuming energy drinks regularly for three weeks, according to a new report of the man's case. [Full Story]
Mummified Poop Reveals Ancient Sloth Ate Mormon Tea and Saltbush: An extinct giant sloth once used a spacious cave not just as a shelter but also as a massive toilet, leaving droppings on the cave floor whenever nature called. Now, scientists have analyzed the sloth's mummified dung and determined what plants it ate. [Full Story]
Mysterious 'ping' sound from sea floor baffles Igloolik
Hunters pack their boat from the shore in Igloolik. The mysterious sound has been noted by hunters in the area of Hecla and Fury Strait, a rich hunting ground that they say was empty this year. (Nick Murray/CBC)
Mysterious 'ping' sound from sea floor baffles Igloolik
Sometimes called a beep, a ping, or a hum, the sound is blamed for scaring away animals
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Jimmy Thomson is a videojournalist based in Hay River, NT. He graduated from UBC's Graduate School of Journalism after earning a B.Sc. in biology at St. Francis Xavier University. You can find him on Twitter at @jwsthomson.
Hunters in a remote community in Nunavut are concerned about a mysterious sound that appears to be coming from the sea floor.
The "pinging" sound, sometimes also described as a "hum" or "beep," has been heard in Fury and Hecla Strait — roughly 120 kilometres northwest of the hamlet of Igloolik — throughout the summer.
Paul Quassa, a member of the legislative assembly, says whatever the cause, it's scaring the animals away.
"That's one of the major hunting areas in the summer and winter because it's a polynya," an area of open water surrounded by ice that's abundant with sea mammals, he said.
"And this time around, this summer, there were hardly any. And this became a suspicious thing."
The noise is "emanating from the sea floor," according to remarks Quassa made last month in the Nunavut legislature.
The sound appears to come from the sea floor in Hecla and Fury Strait. Northeast of Igloolik is Steensby Inlet, where Quassa says Baffinland, owner of the Mary River mine, has been doing sonar surveys. The company says it has no equipment in the water. (CBC)
Another area MLA, George Qulaut, said he visited the site after hearing the reports. Though he wasn't able to hear the sound — he says years of hunting have left him nearly deaf, especially to high-pitched sounds — he did notice the lack of wildlife.
"That passage is a migratory route for bowhead whales, and also bearded seals and ringed seals. There would be so many in that particular area," he told CBC News, recalling his own days of hunting there.
"This summer there was none."
Boaters aboard a private yacht passing through the area also say they heard the mysterious sound, and described it during an appearance on a community radio show upon their arrival in Igloolik. A number of people called in to say they'd also heard it.
The noise can apparently be heard through the hulls of boats. CBC News has not heard the noise and did not speak to anyone who claims to have heard it.
Theories abound
Nobody seems to know where the sound comes from, but theories — from environmental activists to mining — abound.
One theory blames Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation. The company has previously conducted sonar surveys of nearby Steensby Inlet in conjunction with its Mary River mine southwest of Pond Inlet. But the company told CBC News it is not conducting any surveys in the area, and has no equipment in the water.
Quassa says no territorial permits have been issued for work — such as construction, blasting or hydrography — in the area that could explain the noise.
He also says some of his constituents suspect the sound is being generated on purpose by Greenpeace to scare wildlife away from the rich hunting ground. The organization has a tense past with Inuit stemming from its opposition to the seal hunt in the 1970s and 1980s.
George Qulaut, MLA for Amittuq and Speaker of the Nunavut Legislative Assembly, travelled to the hunting grounds where hunters said the sound was scaring wildlife away. He saw 'only seabirds. Not a single seal.' (Submitted)
"We've heard in the past of groups like Greenpeace putting in some kinds of sonars in the seabed to get the sea mammals out of the way so Inuit won't be able to hunt them," Quassa said.
These rumours, though persistent, have never been substantiated.
"Nobody has ever seen any type of ship or anything going through that area and putting something down," Quassa said.
Greenpeace denies the assertion.
"Not only would we not do anything to harm marine life, but we very much respect the right of Inuit to hunt and would definitely not want to impact that in any way," Farrah Khan, a spokeswoman for the organization, said from Toronto.
Military investigating
The military is also aware of the noise, and says it is looking into it.
Internal correspondence between sources in the Department of National Defence, obtained by CBC News, suggest submarines were not immediately ruled out, but were also not considered a likely cause.
A spokesperson told CBC News the armed forces are investigating.
"The Department of National Defence has been informed of the strange noises emanating in the Fury and Hecla Strait area, and the Canadian Armed Forces are taking the appropriate steps to actively investigate the situation," a spokesperson wrote in a statement.
Igloolik is about 70 kilometres north of Hall Beach, an active military site that was once part of the now-defunct DEW line of radar stations.
In the meantime, Qulaut is worried about the sound's impact on game animals that have been feeding in the area for centuries. For now, the community has no answers about the sound, its origins, or what it might be doing to the animals.
"As of today, we're still working on it," he said.
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FASCINATING ANCIENT STRUCTURES CONNECTED TO THE ORION CONSTELLATION!
FASCINATING ANCIENT STRUCTURES CONNECTED TO THE ORION CONSTELLATION!
Our world has always been connected and there are several records of it through out many cultures. Since ancient times, there have been stories and myths that have fascinated and terrified mankind for ages, tales of heroes and gods which share similarities between many cultures.
One thing that mysteriously connects many of the ancient civilizations is the Orion Belt. According to myth, Orion was a greek demigod and a really powerful huntsman. When he died, his spirit went to the stars which formed the constellation we know today.
Today we can learn that some of the most mysterious structures ever built share the Orion alignment phenomenon. The great pyramids of Giza, the Teotihuacan pyramids and the hopi land mesas in the arizona desert. All of these are perfectly aligned with the Orion constellation and are also places that hold many legends about gods coming down and giving a blessing of creation.
MYSTERIOUS LONGYOU CAVES WERE BUILT USING ANCIENT ANNUNAKI MACHINERY!
MYSTERIOUS LONGYOU CAVES WERE BUILT USING ANCIENT ANNUNAKI MACHINERY!
The ancient world has probably some of the most impressive architecture ever built by humans, considering the primitive era they lived in. Or perhaps it was not as primitive as we think!
There's some evidence that many temples, buildings and caves were constructed in a very complex manner, with the kind of precision we would expect from an advanced piece of machinery.
We can speculate that most of these mysterious structures were not only man made, but also with the assistence of a super intelligent and advanced civilization, perhaps of extraterrestrial origin.
When speaking of an extraterrestrial race aiding humans in the past, we immediately think of the ancient god beings called the "Annunaki", which are mentioned in thousand year old texts and perhaps the culprits of many of our world's mysterious ancient structures.
One of these fascinating structures can be found in the Longyou Caves, China. It's a mystery to this day on how such a massive underground complex was made, and there are no records regarding the construction and purpose of these caves, and the chinese were very committed to leave records of pretty much anything.
MYSTERIOUS LONGYOU CAVES WERE BUILT USING ANCIENT ANNUNAKI MACHINERY!
MYSTERIOUS LONGYOU CAVES WERE BUILT USING ANCIENT ANNUNAKI MACHINERY!
The ancient world has probably some of the most impressive architecture ever built by humans, considering the primitive era they lived in. Or perhaps it was not as primitive as we think!
There's some evidence that many temples, buildings and caves were constructed in a very complex manner, with the kind of precision we would expect from an advanced piece of machinery.
We can speculate that most of these mysterious structures were not only man made, but also with the assistence of a super intelligent and advanced civilization, perhaps of extraterrestrial origin.
When speaking of an extraterrestrial race aiding humans in the past, we immediately think of the ancient god beings called the "Annunaki", which are mentioned in thousand year old texts and perhaps the culprits of many of our world's mysterious ancient structures.
One of these fascinating structures can be found in the Longyou Caves, China. It's a mystery to this day on how such a massive underground complex was made, and there are no records regarding the construction and purpose of these caves, and the chinese were very committed to leave records of pretty much anything.
THE CANADIAN MILITARY IS INVESTIGATING A MYSTERIOUS NOISE IN THE ARCTIC
THE CANADIAN MILITARY IS INVESTIGATING A MYSTERIOUS NOISE IN THE ARCTIC
In the tiny Arctic land of Igloolik, Nunavut, hunters say a mysterious sound, seemingly coming from the bottom of the sea, is driving wildlife away.
According to the CBC, locals have different theories about its source, and have attributed this “ping” or “hum” to a mining company that has operated nearby, or even to sabotage by Greenpeace.
Both entities denied having anything to do with the phenomenon that hunters allege has made an area once teeming with wildlife a bit more barren over the course of the summer.
Meanwhile in Ontario, a low rumbling sound known as the “Windsor Hum” has confounded residents for six years, with some describing it as like thunder or a subwoofer that can rattle windows.
The sound appears to come from an island surrounded by fences that’s home to a steel plant. The secrecy surrounding the plant has led to wild and unfounded speculation that the sound comes from an alien aircraft or from the construction of an underground tunnel by a billionaire.
WIKILEAKS SET TO REVEAL US-UFO WAR IN SOUTHERN OCEAN
WIKILEAKS SET TO REVEAL US-UFO WAR IN SOUTHERN OCEAN
Apparently there's a fierce ongoing battle in Antarctica between UFOs that can travel 25,000 mph and the USA naval forces.
A new report says that an upcoming WikiLeaks release of secret US cables details that the Americans have been “engaged” since 2004 in a “war” against UFO’s based on or near the Continent of Antarctica, particularly the Southern Ocean.
Also in 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd led 4,000 military troops from the U.S., Britain and Australia in an invasion of Antarctica called “Operation Highjump”, and at least one follow-up expedition. That is fact. It is undeniable. But... the part of the story that is seldom told, at least in “official” circles, is that Byrd and his forces encountered heavy resistance to their Antarctic venture from “flying saucers” and had to call off the invasion.
But it's beyond me how we could be in the midst of a raging war with "extremely aggressive" aliens that fly spaceships at 25,000 mph and can manufacture tsunamis.
Ze blijven maar komen, de grote moederschepen die er in eerste instantie uitzien als wolken en die niet thuis horen in het landschap.
Vreemde wolken waar dan, zoals in Italië enkele dagen geleden, kleinere UFO’s uit tevoorschijn komen alsof ze op verkenning gaan.
Lecco is een stad in Lombardije, Italië, gelegen 50 kilometer ten noordoosten van Milaan. Het is de hoofdstad van de gelijknamige provincie.
En het is boven deze stad dat er op 2 november 2016 iets heel bijzonders was waar te nemen.
De bewoners van die stad zagen op die dag het volgende:
Daar bleef het echter niet bij, want even later werden er vanuit die vreemde wolk een aantal onbekende objecten gelanceerd zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding.
De foto’s zijn genomen door een man met de naam Giuseppe Filipponi. Hij gaf de foto’s later aan een vriend, Gabriele Tim, die ze vervolgens op de sociale media plaatste.
Er gaat een theorie dat deze ufo’s en dat grote moederschip verband kunnen houden met de aardbevingen die enkele dagen daarvoor plaats vonden. De reden van die speculatie is dat er vaker ufo’s worden gesignaleerd in de buurt van gebieden waar aardbevingen plaats vinden.
In de volgende video worden de foto’s nader geanalyseerd en het lijkt erop alsof ze echt zijn.
Een dag voor bovengenoemde gebeurtenis in Italië, was er boven de Thaise hoofdstad Bangkok ook sprake van een heel bijzondere wolk, alsof ze daar Indepence Day in het echt meemaakten.
Sommige van deze wolken zullen misschien echt zijn, maar we hebben de afgelopen jaren ook talloze voorbeelden gezien van wolken waaruit kleinere UFO’s tevoorschijn komen.
En mocht je denken dat dit soort dingen alleen voorkomen in het buitenland, dan heb je het goed mis.
Het gebeurt ook bij ons, zoals iemand uit Friesland dit meemaakte:
Voor me is een brede, langgerekte, vrij laag hangende wolk. Dat is waar ik de hemel op zie lichten. Er komen witte bollen uit de wolk. Twee gaan naar links en twee gaan naar rechts. De afstand van de ene bol tot de andere blijft steeds gelijk, alsof ze met een touwtje aan elkaar vast zitten. Ze bewegen langzaam.
Ik weet niet, wat het is, dat ik zie... zijn dit vliegtuigen? van de basis? En waarom zijn die geïnteresseerd in een onweerswolk? Ja, het zijn vast vliegtuigen. Het licht pulseert ook, zoals bij een vliegtuig. Flits aan, flits uit. Ja maar, bij een vliegtuig zie je dan altijd ook een rood licht aan en uit flitsen. dat is hier niet. Alleen wit. Melkwit.
De twee bollen rechts zijn verdwenen, die van links zijn opeens weer terug boven de wolk. Verbeeld ik me nu dat ze sneller pulseren dan zo net? Nee, dat verbeeld ik me niet. Het lijken wel sterren en het licht is niet meer zozeer wit, als wel koud. Zoals bij sterretjes voor kleine kinderen. Het zijn nu dus geen witte bollen meer, maar steeds sneller aan- en uit flitsende 'sterren'.
Dan zijn ze weg. Een paar minuten is er niks meer te zien en dan opeens zijn er wel twintig. Allemaal onder, boven, naast of uit de wolk. En allemaal flitsen ze aan en uit, nu in een heel hoog tempo. In een ijzig wit licht dat zo fel is dat het mij verblindt. Je zou zeggen dat ze er plezier aan beleven, zoals ze om en door de wolk heen duiken. Er in, er uit, om de wolk heen, achter elkaar aan... Net zo plotseling als ze verschenen zijn ze nu weer weg.
Zelfs wanneer je alle nepopnames weghaalt die er ongetwijfeld zullen rondzwerven, dan nog blijven er talloze waarnemingen en beeldmateriaal over waaruit blijkt dat grote moederschepen zich ophouden in de buurt van de aarde.
Dat, wanneer ze dichterbij de aarde komen, ze zich verhullen in/als een wolk zodat een argeloze toeschouwer geen flauw benul heeft wat daar hangt. Wie het zijn en wat ze komen doen, is op dit moment nog veelal onduidelijk, maar het zal ongetwijfeld iets te maken hebben met de bijzondere tijden waarin wij leven.
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While searching cams for UFOs, I found this giant face above a volcano. Clouds can easily be manipulated by powerful alien thoughts. Here we see the face of a person that an alien was thinking about...maybe worried about for it to be so detailed above the volcano. This is not randomness, this is the deep thought of an alien in the base 4km below this volcano. We have observed and recorded hundreds of UFOs coming from the mouth of this volcano. This face only compounds that evidence. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
UFO Over Clouds In Italy Looks Pearlescent, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Clouds In Italy Looks Pearlescent, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 2, 2016 Location of sighting: Lombardy, Italy This pearlescent UFO was seen last week and looks like a giant disk, complete with a beautiful dome on its top. Sunset is one of the most common times to see a UFO, when the ships cloak becomes vulnerable. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
Tim Gabriele We share these images where they were allegedly captured in the skies of Lecco, Lombardy, Italy, on 2 November 2016 by Giuseppe Filipponi.
The Royal Canadian Navy is sending a ship to determine if a diver has discovered "the lost nuke" — a Mark IV bomb that went missing after a U.S. bomber crashed off B.C.'s North Coast in the early days of the Cold War.
Sean Smyrichinsky found the mystery object during a recent diving trip near Banks Island.
My god, I found a UFO. I found the strangest thing I'd ever seen!-Sean Smyrichinsky
"I got a little far from my boat and I found something that I'd never ever seen before," he recalled. "It resembled, like, a bagel cut in half, and then around the bagel these bolts molded into it."
When he got back to the ship he tried to describe the object to his crew.
"I came out from the dive and I came up and I started telling my crew, 'My god, I found a UFO. I found the strangest thing I'd ever seen!'"
The 'lost nuke'
Smyrichinsky started asking around and was told the story of Convair B-36B, a U.S. Air Force bomber that crashed off B.C. in 1950.
In a book published earlier this year, historian Dirk Septer traces the story of that flight, summarizing it in publicity documents as a Cold War drama:
"Just before midnight on February 13, 1950, three engines of a US Air Force B-36 intercontinental bomber caught fire over Canada's northwest coast. The crew jumped, and the plane ditched somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Almost four years later, the wreck of the bomber was found accidentally in a remote location in the coastal mountains of British Columbia, three hours' flying time in the opposite direction of where it was supposed to have crashed.
"After years of silence, the United States finally admitted to losing its very first nuclear bomb; the incident was its first Broken Arrow, the code name for accidents involving nuclear weapons. But was the bomb dropped and exploded over the Inside Passage, or was it blown up at the aircraft's resting place in the mountains?"
The lost bomb was a Mark IV. As soon as Smyrichinsky looked it up on Google Images, he recognized it as the object he had found.
"It was a piece that looked very much like what I saw," he said. "The plane that was carrying the bomb, it crashed 50 miles south of where I found that object."
"What else could it possibly be? I was thinking UFO, but probably not a UFO, right?"
Probably not nuclear
Major Steve Neta of the Canadian Armed Forces confirmed the location of Snyrichinsky's find does coincide with the site of the 1950 crash.
Neta also said records indicate the lost bomb was a dummy capsule, and so there is little risk of the object being a nuclear weapon.
"Nonetheless, we do want to be sure and we do want to investigate it further," he said.
The Royal Canadian Navy ship deployed to investigate should arrive in the area in the next few weeks.
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Canadian Navy to investigate mysterious find at the bottom of Pacific Ocean
The Royal Canadian Navy plans to dispatch Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS)Yellowknife to the waters off Haida Gwaii to find and investigate the mysterious object. Photo Credit: DND
Canadian Navy to investigate mysterious find at the bottom of Pacific Ocean
The Royal Canadian Navy is preparing to dispatch one of its warships later this month to investigate a mysterious object found by an intrepid diver in the waters off the coast of British Columbia.
Sean Smyrichinsky found the mystery object during a recent diving trip near Banks Island.
“I got a little far from my boat and I found something that I’d never ever seen before,” he said in an interview with the CBC’s Daybreak North program. “It resembled, like, a bagel cut in half, and then around the bagel these balls all cut into it, molded into it… It was the strangest thing that I had ever seen.”
(click to listen to a clip of Sean Smyrchinsky’s interview with the CBC’s Daybreak North program)
When Smyrichinsky started asking around from more veteran divers about possible origins of the strange object, he was told the story of Convair B-36B, a US Air Force bomber that crashed off B.C.’s north coast in 1950.
When the boat he was on finally came into a cell reception area, Smyrichinsky was finally able to do some online sleuthing of his own. He found out that the bomber and its crew of 17 people was carrying a nuclear bomb, a Mark IV, which was never found after the plane crashed.
As soon as he looked up Google images of Mark IV the resemblance with the object he saw at the bottom of the ocean was obvious, Smyrichinsky said.
“It was a piece that looked very much like what I saw, a big circle with these balls,” Smyrichinsky said. “I had no idea that a nuclear bomb contained all these big balls, bigger than basketballs.”
The Convair B-36B had crashed about 50 miles south of where he found the object, Smyrichinsky said.
“That’s what really set me off,” Smyrichinsky said. “Wow! I’m right in the right area, and it looks like it could be a piece of that thing, there is nothing else like that. What else could it possibly be? I was thinking a UFO, but probably not a UFO, right?”
Lt. (N) Greg Menzies, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Navy, said Canadian military experts are working in close collaboration with their U.S. colleagues to determine what the object is.
(click to listen to the full interview with Lt. (N) Greg Menzies)
The navy plans to dispatch HMCS Yellowknife, a coastal defence vessel, around the third week of November to conduct an investigation, Menzies said. The navy will take Smyrichinsky on board HMCS Yellowknife with them so he can pinpoint the location of his find.
The navy will deploy a small remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that can take still and video images of objects on the ocean floor, Menzies said.
“What we will also do we will also embark a small team from Fleet Diving Unit Pacific who are very well versed in operating this kind of equipment and they will provide explosive ordinance oversight in determining what the object is when they do in fact find it,” Menzies told RCI.
Based on information provided by the U.S. military the object is most likely from the 1950 crash of the B-36B bomber, but records indicate the lost bomb was a dummy capsule and so there is little risk of the object being a nuclear weapon and posing an environmental hazard, Menzies said.
“At this point I can tell you that there is no nuclear material on this particular item and we have been confirmed that it’s actually a dummy capsule,” Menzies said.
Malcolm Robinson has made a career out of collecting UFO reports and last year called on Downing Street to open an inquiry
The founder of Strange Phenomena Investigations also presented a dossier to then Prime Minister David Cameron.
He claims that a tip off he received from a source inside the Ministry of Defence indicated many sightings and files have been swept under the carpet.
His findings showed the UFO department and hotline within the MoD was shut in 2008 because it no longer served a “defence purpose” and was taking staff away from “more valuable defence-related activities”.
Robinson claims that a tip off he received from a source inside the Ministry of Defence indicated many sightings and files have been swept under the carpet
Some pages from the a Ministry of Defence files on UFOs
Robinson told The Daily Star: “The governments of this world – including Britain – know far more than they are letting on, that’s for sure.”
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Declassified documents also stated: “The Ministry of Defence has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life.”
It added that in 50 years, no UFO report had revealed any proof of a potential threat to the UK.
Eight years following the closure of the department, Mr Robinson has called for an inquiry into clusters of sightings, including cold case police files from Bonnybridge, Scotland.
Over 300 UFO sightings have been reported in the small Scottish town, leading some to compare it to Area 52 in Nevada, USA.
A copy of the United States Air Force report on the sighting of a UFO near bases at RAF Woodbridge RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk
Whether sightings are down to the extra-terrestrials or top secret technology, Robinson believes that Brits have a right to know exactly what is at play.
The UFO boffin said: “With any given sighting, we check with airports, with the National Security Agency, with the Ministry of Defence and meteorological stations to try and find a rational explanation.
“Ik heb een UFO gevonden!”: Canadese duiker stuit op mysterieus object op zeebodem
“Ik heb een UFO gevonden!”: Canadese duiker stuit op mysterieus object op zeebodem
De Canadese marine gaat later deze maand onderzoek doen naar een mysterieus object dat door een duiker is ontdekt voor de kust van Brits-Columbia.
Sean Smyrichinsky trof het mysterieuze object aan op de zeebodem in de buurt van Banks Island, meldt zender CBC.
“Ik raakte ver bij mij boot vandaan en vond iets wat ik nog nooit eerder heb gezien,” zei hij in een interview met de zender.
Bagel
“Het object lijkt op een bagel die doormidden is gesneden,” vervolgde hij. “Het is het vreemdste wat ik ooit heb gezien.”
“Toen ik uit het water kwam riep ik tegen mijn bemanning: mijn god, ik heb een UFO gevonden!” zei hij.
Het kan volgens sommigen ook gaan om een Amerikaanse kernbom die lange tijd geleden verloren is gegaan.
Bommenwerper
Andere duikers vertelden hem namelijk dat in 1950 een Amerikaanse bommenwerper was gecrasht voor de kust van Brits-Columbia.
Aan boord van de bommenwerper bevond zich een kernbom, een Mark IV, die na de crash nooit is teruggevonden.
De bommenwerper crashte op zo’n 80 kilometer van de plek waar hij het vreemde object aantrof.
Onderwaterrobot
“Het lijkt erop dat het een onderdeel van dat ding kan zijn,” zei Smyrichinsky. “Wat zou het anders kunnen zijn? Ik dacht dat het een UFO was, maar waarschijnlijk is het toch geen UFO?”
Canadese en Amerikaanse legerdeskundigen gaan later deze maand bepalen wat het object precies is.
Met een onderwaterrobot worden beelden van het object op de zeebodem gemaakt.
Majoor Steve Neta zei dat de locatie van de vondst overeenkomt met de crashplek. “Toch willen we het zeker weten en deze zaak verder onderzoeken,” zei hij.
“Britse overheid weet veel meer over UFO’s dan je denkt en heeft een eigen Area 51”
“Britse overheid weet veel meer over UFO’s dan je denkt en heeft een eigen Area 51”
De Britse overheid veegt geheime UFO-stukken al jaren onder het tapijt. Dat zegt een paranormaal onderzoeker.
Malcolm Robinson heeft de regering vorig jaar opgeroepen een onderzoek in te stellen naar buitenaardse activiteit.
De oprichter van Strange Phenomena Investigations heeft toen ook een dossier overhandigd aan toenmalig premier David Cameron.
Geen mening
Malcolm Robinson (Rex)
Hij zei dat een bron binnen het ministerie van Defensie te kennen gaf dat vele waarnemingen en documenten onder het tapijt zijn geveegd.
Het Britse ministerie van Defensie zegt zelf geen mening te hebben over het bestaan van buitenaards leven.
Volgens het ministerie is in 50 jaar tijd nog nooit bewijs gevonden dat UFO’s een bedreiging vormen voor Groot-Brittannië.
Area 51
Robinson wil dat er onderzoek wordt gedaan naar UFO-waarnemingen in het Schotse Bonnybridge.
In dit kleine Schotse dorp zijn al meer dan 300 keer onbekende vliegende objecten gespot, wat ertoe heeft geleid dat het ook wel wordt vergeleken met Area 51 in Nevada.
Of het nu gaat om buitenaardsen of topgeheime technologie, Robinson vindt dat de Britten het recht hebben om te weten wat er precies aan de hand is.
NSA
“De overheden in deze wereld – inclusief die van Groot-Brittannië – weten veel meer dan je denkt, dat is een ding wat zeker is,” zei hij.
“Uit geopenbaarde documenten is ook gebleken dat de Amerikaanse spionagedienst NSA samenwerkte met andere overheden en precies wist wat er aan de hand was,” besloot hij.
Ohio witness suffers memory loss after UFO encounter
Ohio witness suffers memory loss after UFO encounter
An Ohio witness at Orwell recalled a UFO encounter from 2007 that appeared to trigger a temporary memory loss, according to testimony in Case 79781 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first saw a black triangle UFO hovering over a bridge near Orwell, OH. Pictured: Orwell, OH.
(Credit: Google)
At 9 p.m. on October 10, 2007, the witness was on his way to work at a cabinet factory in Orwell, Ohio, a temp service position he had held for nearly three months.
“I was on the highway and was approaching a bridge,” the witness stated. “Ahead of the bridge I saw a big black, triangle craft with white lights in each corner and one red in the center. It was big enough and close enough that it blocked the sky out.”
The witness moved closer to the object.
“As I approached it, it was just sitting there hovering probably only about 100 feet above the trees and took up both sides of the highway. When I looked up as I drove under it, the red light was right above me. I have never seen anything like it.”
The witness quickly lost sight of the object. Pictured: Orwell, OH.
(Credit: Google)
The witness momentarily looked away.
“Then I remember looking in my rearview mirror and it moved off to the right very slowly. And when I tried to look back again, it was gone.”
The witness then experienced a memory loss.
“The weirdest part that bothers me to this day is that I could not remember where I was. I knew I was trying to get to work, but all the sudden had no clue where I was and I had driven this route by memory for almost 90 days. I ended up getting off at a wrong exit and got back on the highway trying to figure out how to get back home. I finally saw a sign that said Youngstown, which was kinda by where I lived in Warren, so I got off there and found my way back home and never went back to work there.”
The witness decided not to share his story.
“I was staying with my father at the time and knew I couldn’t tell him that, so I told him that I was let go from the job through the temp service. To this day I have no idea how I could have forgot how to get to work. It was like I felt funny and couldn’t make a clear thought. I’ve come to this website before, but could never bring myself to fill this out, but I think I just want people to know and maybe someone knows what it was. Thank you.”
The witness suffered a memory loss immediately after the sighting. Pictured: Orwell, OH.
(Credit: Google)
Orwell is a village in Ashtabula County, Ohio, population 1,660. Ohio MUFON State Director Tom Wertman 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.
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Idaho witness says rectangle UFO ‘fell from sky’
Idaho witness says rectangle UFO ‘fell from sky’
An Idaho witness at Post Falls reported watching a rectangle-shaped object “falling from the sky” shortly after hearing the sound of a sonic boom, according to testimony from Case 79772 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first stepped outside after hearing a sonic boom on October 12, 2016.
(Credit: http://www.visitpostfalls.org/)
The witness stepped outside after hearing a sonic boom about 11:45 a.m. on October 12, 2016.
“Looking south I observed what appeared to be some type of large rectangular object tumbling end over end emitting a large amount of smoke (white, gray and yellowish in color) trail as it fell,” the witness stated. “It was about four to five times the width of a typical airliner contrail and it was going straight down toward the ground.”
The witness also heard what may have been an engine trying to start.
“At one point during this approximately four-minute fall, it appeared some type of engine maybe briefly came on and emitted what looked like what could be a jet engine trying to start or work. But then it stopped and the trail became non-symmetrical again.”
The witness saw a rectangle-shaped object falling from the sky over Post Falls, ID.
(Credit: Google)
The witness retrieved binoculars and tried to view it while falling.
“It intermittently reflected sunlight as it tumbled. The object appeared to be about the size of a very large military cargo plane or bigger, but more rectangular in shape. The object disappeared behind the mountains to the south of Post Falls and no doubt whatever it was hit the ground somewhere based on rate of fall and trajectory.”
The witness called local authorities.
“After the object disappeared I called Spokane FAA tower and they said thanks, but did not ask any questions or details.” There are no reports in Idaho during this time period of any aviation crashes.
Post Falls, ID, is about 25 miles east of Spokane, WA.
(Credit: Google)
Post Falls is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, population 27,547. Idaho MUFON Field Investigator James Millard investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
Britain’s Area 51 Revealed? Royal Canadian Navy Scramble For Broken Arrow! Or USO? 10/5/2016
Britain’s Area 51 Revealed? Royal Canadian Navy Scramble For Broken Arrow! Or USO? 10/5/2016
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Silver Surfer Like UFO Spotted In Sky Over Major City In Turkey, UFO Sighting News.
Silver Surfer Like UFO Spotted In Sky Over Major City In Turkey, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Oct 2, 2016 Location of sighting: Turkey Original Video:
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/TAtH3g7hp_s/?spm=a2h0k.8191414.0.0 These kids were riding in a car and suddenly saw a silver human like figure moving over the tree tops. They called it the Silver Surfer...a Marvel comic book first published in the 1968. I see the resemblance for sure, but I believe its a lightning bolt shaped alien drone...a probe to scan and then be retrieved by a larger ship later. For those who still don't know who the Silver Surfer is, I will include a video of an amazing costume from Halloween one guy had...video at bottom of post. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitnesses state:
It was a shocking moment when a superhero silver surfer in a Marvel comic book appeared in the middle of a major city. The mysterious object was two car driving Ai Erkan? Alec and Halil? Kagera found that when it is traveling in the north-west of Turkey's fourth largest city Bursa over.
A hovering, disc-shaped UFO was reportedly photographed hovering near Kaneohe Bay in Waikane, Hawaii. The witness admitted that he did not notice any unusual while taking photos of the area. He only found out the strange object when he reviewed the images.
The witness noticed one photo that showed something not found in other pictures. He first thought of a wood chip on his lens but changed his mind after taking a closer look. The witness later realized he had spotted a UFO.
He is not an alien UFO believer, but the sighting creeped him out so much that he decided to report the case to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
The witness described the object as a yellow/orange disc. When he zoomed in his camera, he saw an apparent dome on the top of the UFO.
The report is filed as case 79999 in MUFON’s witness reporting database. Hawaii State Director David McManus of MUFON, David McManus, is investigating the case.
The investigation involves looking into camera lens anomalies and possible photo editing techniques. McManus would close the inquiry as unknown if the UFO in the picture can’t be explained, not something natural or human-made.
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Photographer Freaks Out After Seeing A Glowing UFO Over Whitby
Photographer Freaks Out After Seeing A Glowing UFO Over Whitby
Photographer Andrew Beattie took a snap of what he calls a UFO over the Whitby coast, UK at around 7:30 on Monday night. He admits to being freaked out of seeing the unidentified flying object.
What do you think about the image in the photo?
Theories have ranged from the moon to meteor and from military flares to alien UFO trying to hide behind the clouds.
Yarm resident Andrew went to the beach with hopes to capture the aurora. He walked down to the sea wall close to the beach huts to see if he could get a glimpse of the aurora.
He prepared his tripod and camera in the direction of the sea.
Moments later, he was offered with a surprise as he saw a bizarre red glow over the lighthouse, around 150 feet above it. The strange light disappeared after a second. Andrew decided to point his camera to where he spotted the glowing red.
Then a yellow light appeared for a few seconds moving to the side without noise before glowing red and disappearing. Strangely enough, the clouds behind it glowed red too before it vanished.
The witness admits he freaked out a little because he has never seen anything like it.
UFO Disguises As Huge Green Fireball Over Japan, Conspiracy Theorists Claim
UFO Disguises As Huge Green Fireball Over Japan, Conspiracy Theorists Claim
A green fireball that was caught on video going down to Earth created speculations it was an alien UFO in disguise.
There’s no official confirmation yet on the mysterious object’s identity, but experts at the American Meteor Society said that the glowing green tcolor would indicate space rock with high levels of nickel.
However, conspiracy theorists have ridden the uncertainty claiming that the fireball recorded by two cameras over Niigata airport in Japan could be a UFO trying to mask itself. They said that the object disguised itself as a meteor, but made mistakes.
One mistake, they claimed, was that it glowed in green, which most meteors don’t burn as such.
Secondly, meteorites that low don’t fly horizontally, according o conspiracy theorists.
Lastly, they called it as the stupidest mistake; the main ship turned off its glow for only one-tenth of a second. At this point, a silver disk came out and moved back slowly from the main ship, according to the released theory.
They stressed that even aliens make mistakes and the pilot of the disguised UFO made a lot.
Others claimed that the supposed fireball, which was being observed 250 miles north of Japanese city Aomori, could be a piece of space junk or a falling satellite for that matter.
Curiosity Rover Finds Weird 'Egg Rock' Meteorite on Mars
Curiosity Rover Finds Weird 'Egg Rock' Meteorite on Mars
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity stumbled upon a dark grey, golf-ball-size object last week that looks nothing like the typical red-orange rocks that are normally seen on Mars.
To figure out exactly what this weird rock is and where it came from, Curiosity used its on-board rock-zapping laser to analyze the rock's chemical composition. This test revealed that it is an iron-nickel meteorite that fell from the Martian sky. Curiosity's science team dubbed the newfound meteorite "Egg Rock."
These types of meteorites have been discovered on both Earth and Mars in the past, but this is the first time that Curiosity's laser-firing spectrometer, the "ChemCam," has been used to study such a rock. [Here's What a Mars Meteorite on Earth Looks Like (Photos)]
NASA's Mars Science Lab, also known as the Curiosity rover, spotted this strange, dark object on the Martian surface. The rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam) took this photo of the golf ball-sized meteor on Oct. 30, 2016. Further inspection with Curiosity's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument revealed that the rock is an iron-nickel meteorite.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
ChemCam works by firing laser pulses at objects of interest. When an object is struck by the laser, the electrons around its atoms get excited and emit light of varying wavelengths, or colors, depending on the elements that are being zapped. By analyzing this emitted light, Curiosity can then determine precisely what an object is made of.
This strange rock is made up of iron, nickel, phosphorous and a few other trace elements, which led scientists to conclude that it is a meteorite that is non-native to the Red Planet. These types of meteorites come from the molten cores of asteroids.
This dark, lumpy, golf ball-size object is an iron-nickel meteorite. NASA's Curiosity rover discovered it on Mars on Oct. 30, 2016.
"Iron meteorites provide records of many different asteroids that broke up, with fragments of their cores ending up on Earth and on Mars," ChemCam team member Horton Newsom said in a statement.
Scientists working with Curiosity (the rover is the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission) first noticed Egg Rock on Oct. 30 in photos taken by the rover's Mast Camera, known as Mastcam.
"The dark, smooth and lustrous aspect of this target, and its sort of spherical shape attracted the attention of some MSL scientists when we received the Mastcam images at the new location," ChemCam team member Pierre-Yves Meslin said in the same statement.
Curiosity came across the meteorite in an area called the Murray formation in lower Mount Sharp. The rover will continue to explore this area as a part of its extended mission, which is focused on learning how Mars' environment changed over time, and whether the environment could have possibly harbored life in the past.
See the 1st Color Photos of Europe Mars Lander's Crash Site
See the 1st Color Photos of Europe Mars Lander's Crash Site
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Zoomed-in view of the crater caused by the crash of Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander on Oct. 19, 2016. Photo taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 1, 2016.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
The first color images of a European Mars lander's crash site are revealing new details about the spacecraft's unsuccessful touchdown attempt last month.
The lander, known as Schiaparelli, slammed hard into the Red Planet on Oct. 19, apparently after its descent-slowing thrusters failed to fire for long enough, officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) have said.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) quickly spotted Schiaparelli's remains with its low-resolution camera, and then imaged the impact site in greater detail last week using its sharp-eyed High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. And now, MRO has provided the first color views of the lander's grave, also courtesy of HiRISE. [In Photos: Europe's Schiaparelli Mars Landing Day]
The new photos, which were taken Tuesday (Nov. 1) and released today (Nov. 3), show several bright spots near the main crater where Schiaparelli hit. These features were also visible in previous MRO images, though, at the time, it wasn't clear whether they were just "noise." But it's now apparent that the spots are real objects — probably fragments of Schiaparelli, ESA officials said.
MRO's new views also reveal that a large structure believed to be Schiaparelli's parachute has changed configuration since last week's photos were taken, likely because of the Martian wind, ESA officials said. (The same effect was visible in MRO images of the parachute that helped NASA's Mars rover Curiosity land in August 2012, they noted.)
There are three distinct parts of the overall Schiaparelli crash site: the crater gouged out by the lander itself; the spot about 0.9 miles (1.4 kilometers) away where the parachute and its attached rear heat shield came down; and another feature that appears to be the spacecraft's front heat shield. MRO imaged these first two areas in color, but its new photos of the front heat shield are still in black and white.
These images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 1, 2016, show the wreckage of Europe’s Schiaparelli lander, which crashed on the Red Planet on Oct. 19, 2016. At top is the crater caused by the lander’s impact; at bottom left is the craft’s parachute and attached back heat shield. The feature at bottom right is thought to be the front heat shield. The 10-meter scale bar applies to all three portions of the image.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
There should be more photos coming soon.
"Further [MRO] imaging is planned in about two weeks, and it will be interesting to see if any further changes are noticed," ESA officials wrote in a statement today. "The images may provide more pieces of the puzzle as to what happened to Schiaparelli as it approached the Martian surface."
An investigation into the events of Oct. 19 is ongoing, and could be wrapped up sometime this month, ESA officials have said.
Schiaparelli launched with another spacecraft, called the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), in March. Together, the two probes make up the first part of the two-phase ExoMars program, which ESA leads with help from its chief partner, the Russian federal space agency, known as Roscosmos.
The second part of ExoMars is a life-hunting rover, which is currently scheduled to launch in 2020 and land on the Red Planet in 2021. Schiaparelli's main goal was to prove out the technology needed to get this rover down safely; the data gathered during the descent on Oct. 19 should be useful for this future effort, ESA officials have said.
TGO aced its orbit-insertion burn on Oct. 19 and is currently looping around the Red Planet along a highly elliptical path every four Earth days, just as planned. The spacecraft will make its first science observations at Mars during two orbits that begin Nov. 20, ESA officials said.
Early next year, TGO will begin shifting to a circular orbit that lies 250 miles (400 km) above the Martian surface. The probe should reach this final orbit in March 2018, at which point it will begin its official two-year science mission. The chief goals of this mission involve hunting for methane and other gases that could be signs of Martian life.
TGO will also serve to relay communications from the ExoMars 2020 rover and other surface Red Planet craft back to controllers here on Earth before ending operations in 2022.
JunoCam participant Matt Brealey wrote about this image: "An image constructed from the perijove 1 raw images, using common Visual Effects techniques, in The Foundry's 'Nuke' compositing software."
Credit: NASA, SwRI, MSSS & Matt Brealey copyright CC BY
A camera flying aboardNASA's current mission to Jupiteris snapping stunning new images of the gas giant's stormy surface, and enabling members of the public to take an active role in this historic mission.
The Juno probe is flying closer to Jupiter than any spacecraft has done in history, coming to within about 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) of the giant's stormy cloud tops. Its primary science mission is to gather information about the planet's interior — peering through its thick cloud layers and all the way down to its rocky core.
The JunoCam instrument is an exception: It takes pictures of the surface of Jupiter's cloud tops. Its mission is primarily to serve as an outreach tool: The data that is sent back to Earth is made available to the public, and "citizen scientists" are welcome to process the images and try to learn from them. Looking ahead, members of the public will be able to vote on which features JunoCam should eye next. [Jupiter Shines in Scientific and Artistic Images by Citizen Scientists (Gallery)]
The creators of the JunoCam outreach program wanted to "involve the public in every aspect of what an imaging team would ordinarily be doing," according to Candy Hansen, a Juno co-investigator and head of the JunoCam team. Hansen discussed the project during a press briefing at the 2016 meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences (AAS DPS) in Pasadena, California.
People who participate in JunoCam get to see what scientists go through during a mission — "the good days and the more challenging days, and to sort of live our lives with us," Hansen said. The goal is to allow the public to join the mission "in a participatory way, not a passive way."
Juno arrived at the Jupiter system in August, and its orbit is highly elongated, so that it comes very close to Jupiter (for only a matter of hours), and then swings far out into space. This path allows the probe to loop in between the planet's cloud tops and a ring of very intense radiation that wraps around Jupiter, which could easily destroy the electronics on board. Such a path also brings Juno closer to Jupiter than any probe in history. Juno is currently on a 53-day orbit, but it may still drop down to a 14-day orbit.
So far, JunoCam has only sent one batch of data back to Earth (since Juno has only made one close flyby with its instruments turned on). The JunoCam team posted "raw images" to the JunoCam website, and already public participants have used them to post dozens of processed images to the website. Some of the images have been processed to make it easier to see storms and physical features in Jupiter's clouds; others have been processed to create visually engaging works of art.
This detailed image is a collaboration between image processor Gerald Eichstädt and astronomer John Rogers.
Credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / John Rogers copyright CC BY
Citizen scientists
On the JunoCam website, people can submit processed images, and then discuss their results and techniques in the discussion section. Or, if the participants aren't processing images, they can just ask questions of the people doing the processing.
JunoCam participant Matt Brealey told Space.com that he has been "attempting to use software from the Visual Effects industry" to process the images from JunoCam. (You can see examples of his work here and here, and you can read an article he wrote about his technique here).
"I've been fascinated by space imagery for as long as I can remember, so suddenly realizing that I could in some small way be a part of creating new images was extremely exciting," Brealey told Space.com via email. "That combined with the technical challenge of using tools from the VFX industry really [piqued] my interest in the project."
The skill level among the participants varies, according to Gerald Eichstädt, a software programmer who has been processing images from JunoCam with software he wrote especially for this project (which puts him at the upper end of the skill-level spectrum). He told Space.com that many people are using commercially available software, including some that's provided on the JunoCam website.
"JunoCam images provide challenges on almost any level; you can improve your skills according to your individual capabilities," he wrote. "To squeeze out as much as possible from the JunoCam images, you need more than (technical) skills; you also need to apply your skills, either by using existing software in an appropriate way, or by developing and applying appropriate software. But there are also many things you can do with consumer software. Good creative ideas are another important factor and may well be able to compensate [for] less technical skills."
Eichstädt said that he has been working with people who have skills that are different from his own (such as extensive knowledge about Jupiter's surface features), and he has been working with them to get more out of the images he makes. He said he has processed thousands of images and has posted most of them to his own website to avoid flooding the JunoCam website.
Participants can post their processed images to the mission website for others to see — Hansen said she definitely wants people to share the images, not just "post them to their private Facebook page." The goal of some of the processing is to analyze the different features that the instrument sees on the surface, while other images are processed with the aim of creating amazing aesthetic value. Some images accomplish both of those things.
"It's pretty cool that a lot of processed images are collected in one place and people can discuss them," Roman Tkachenko, a citizen scientist who is processing JunoCam images, told Space.com. Tkachenko's images focus on identifying swirling storms and other prominent features in the atmosphere. "Many amateur image processors face the problem of having no opportunity to show their work to the public, because their audience on social media is too small. This project partially solved that problem, at least regarding images taken by Juno spacecraft."
While the JunoCam instrument is not part of the probe's suite of science instruments, its first snapshots of Jupiter revealed never-before-seen features of the Jovian giant, including clusters of storms near the planet's north pole, and a cyclone stretching 52 miles (85 km) above the base surface level, according to Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator. Bolton discussed the early results during the same press briefing at the 2016 AAS DPS meeting.
"I've not the funding to do a space mission myself, so I can save a lot of time and money by joining an existing mission funded mostly by the U.S. taxpayers," Eichstädt wrote. "Processing JunoCam images is very challenging for most people, and I knew that I would be able to do it; so it's to some degree an honor and a duty to give the U.S. taxpayers something back."
A leap of faith
Besides image processing and the discussion board, the JunoCam project has two other key features. First, the JunoCam team is asking amateur astronomers to post telescopic images of Jupiter and other data that is gathered from Earth. Those uploads are then used to help Juno team members plan what JunoCam will image during upcoming flybys of Jupiter. Some of the images that have been processed are using that data already: Some of the user-submitted image show how the features that are seen in the JunoCam image correlate with the features that are seen in images of Jupitertaken by previous space or ground-based instruments.
"That allows us to connect what we're seeing from our different perspective to the historical record of the dynamics of Jupiter's atmosphere," Hansen said.
The final task that the JunoCam project will pose to the public is voting on which features will be imaged during future flybys. JunoCam can't take pictures continuously while Juno is making its close flyby of Jupiter, so the organizers have to be selective. Hansen said there will be a "partial vote" for what JunoCam should focus on during its next close approach on Dec. 11. Full voting will take place for the following close approach, scheduled to take place on Feb. 2.
"We took a real leap of faith with this experiment with the public — that people would actually think this is cool and participate," Hanse said. "And I'm really so pleased with the response that we've gotten. I really feel like our leap of faith was justified."
Spain declassifies 1,900 pages of top-secret UFO files
Spain declassifies 1,900 pages of top-secret UFO files
Another step towards global UFO disclosure. The Spanish Ministry of Defense has declassified 80 reports of alleged UFO sightings that took place between 1962 and 1995.
The Spanish Ministry of Defense has declassified 80 confidential reports containing around 1,900 pages of alleged UFO sightings that were recorded above Spanish airspace between 1962 and 1995.
The material is available to the public in the online library of the Spanish Ministry of Defense. The reports include the location of the sighting, the date, the summary of facts, considerations, conclusions and the proposed classification or declassification of each document.
The declassification process of the documents began in 1991 when the Ministry of Defense decided to analyze the reports and reduce their classification level in order to make them available to the general public which demanded access to these documents.
Fascinating accounts – inexplicable phenomena
One of the most interesting UFO sightings was reported by pilots and crew when President Adolfo Suarez was traveling from Germany to Spain.
The strange UFO was spotted at an undisclosed location. The encounter occurred when former President Adolfo Suarez, was on board an aircraft of the Spanish Air Force. The pilots and passengers onboard witnessed strange lights that could be explained. It remains unclear as to where the sighting took place. The report reads:“During night hours on February 25, 1980, onboard the 401st Squadron aircraft on a flight from Germany to Spain, Madrid with President Suarez, strange lights were observed by the pilots and passengers“.
Furthermore, the declassified documents reveal a number of different sightings that occurred over Spain when UFO’s were detected by radar but were invisible for pilots who were sent out to intercept them.
A document which dates to the 28th of November 1979 indicates that numerous individuals observed two UFOs in Madrid. A military plane was sent out to search for the UFOs. The pilot of the intercepting aircraft didn’t see anything, even though “the weather conditions were excellent” and “radar contact had been established four times” the report reads.
That same report details other sightings, one of them occurred on November 27, 1979, when “lights in the sky, were observed by many people” and “unknown echoes” were recorded.
Furthermore, the report details how in 1971, a “luminous object was spotted following a T-33 in Talavera-Getafe route”; and in 1977, mystery lights were seen above Madrid.”
The first UFO sighting over Madrid was recorded on December 11 of 1968. Two witnesses reported at 20.05 hours and 20.30 hours the presence “of a very bright object with changes in brightness,“ in the southwestern parts of the capital.
Check out more about the declassified documents by visiting this link.
Een team wetenschappers wil een ruimtestation, Asgardia genaamd, in het leven roepen dat onafhankelijk van de aarde zal opereren.
Deze ‘ruimtenatie’ moet zo buiten de controle van individuele landen vallen. Het project wordt geleid door de Russische wetenschapper Igor Ashurbeyli, voorzitter van Unesco’s comité voor Ruimtewetenschap.
Asgardia moet een ‘niemandsland’ om de aarde gaan worden. De naam is afgeleid van Asgard, één van de negen werelden in de Noorse mythologie.
Verwoesting
Sinds de lancering kunnen mensen zich inschrijven als burger. De eerste Asgardia-satelliet moet in 2017 gelanceerd worden.
Complottheoretici beweren nu dat Asgardia in feite een complot van de Illuminati is ‘om te ontsnappen aan de verwoesting die ze hebben aangericht’, schrijft de Daily Mail.
Zij claimen dat het Oog van Horus dat wordt gebruikt voor het project laat zien dat het gelinkt is aan het geheime genootschap.
Mind control
Dit symbool wordt onder andere in verband gebracht met vrijmetselaars en de Illuminati.
“De symboliek van de Illuminati is in het zicht verborgen, recht in je gezicht,” aldus complottheoreticus Dahboo777.
Mensen lijken het met hem eens te zijn. “Natuurlijk zullen ze het gebruiken voor mind control en andere kwaadaardige dingen,” schreef Teresa Elliot.
Schild
Eén van de eerste geplande Asgardia-projecten is de bouw van een schild dat de aarde moet beschermen tegen de inslag van asteroïden, ruimteafval en zonnewind.
Er cirkelen naar schatting ruim 20.000 stuks ruimteafval, waaronder inactief ruimtetuig en stukken van raketten, in een baan om de aarde.
Verenige Naties
“Asgardia is een volwaardige en onafhankelijke natie en een toekomstig lid van de Verenigde Naties,” aldus Ashurbeyli.
“Het dient de hele mensheid en iedereen, onafhankelijk van zijn of haar persoonlijk welzijn en de welvarendheid van het land waar ze toevallig geboren zijn,” voegde hij toe.
Gemaakt van sterrenstof: De verrassende overeenkomsten tussen neutronensterren en menselijke cellen
Gemaakt van sterrenstof: De verrassende overeenkomsten tussen neutronensterren en menselijke cellen
Mensen zijn meer verbonden met het universum dan ze denken. Uit nieuw onderzoek blijkt dat neutronensterren en menselijke cellen op dezelfde manier zijn opgebouwd.
De structuren waar ze uit bestaan lijken op parkeergarages. Natuurkundige Greg Huber van de UC Santa Barbara heeft dergelijke vormen samen met zijn team onderzocht.
Huber trof deze ‘parkeergarages’ niet alleen aan in het binnenste van menselijke cellen, ze waren eerder al ontdekt in de korst van neutronensterren.
Spiraalvormig
Neutronensterren zijn vreemde objecten. Ze ontstaan als gevolg van supernova-explosies en zijn ontzettend compact.
Deze sterren hebben een doorsnee die vaak niet meer dan enkele kilometers bedraagt, maar kunnen toch de massa van wel twee zonnen bevatten.
De onderzoekers hebben ontdekt dat het materiaal in het cytoplasma van menselijke cellen spiraalvormig is.
Het interessante is dat computersimulaties laten zien dat soortgelijke vormen ook in neutronensterren voorkomen.
Aangenaam verrast
Hoewel de vormen in neutronensterren een miljoen keer groter zijn dan die in een menselijke cel, lijken ze sterk op elkaar.
Natuurkundigen zijn aangenaam verrast over de overeenkomsten tussen de structuren.
“Dat soortgelijke materiefasen ontstaan in biologische systemen is erg verrassend,” zei Martin Savage van de Universiteit van Washington. “We hebben hier duidelijk te maken met iets interessants.”
Mysterie
Huber merkte op dat de overeenkomsten nog een mysterie zijn. “Ons onderzoek is niet het eind van iets,” zei hij. “Het is slechts het begin.”
Canadese leger onderzoekt mysterieus geluid dat van de zeebodem komt Canadese leger onderzoekt mysterieus geluid dat van de zeebodem komt
Canadese leger onderzoekt mysterieus geluid dat van de zeebodem komt
Het Canadese leger heeft bij een afgelegen Inuït-gemeenschap in het poolgebied onderzoek gedaan naar een mysterieus geluid op de zeebodem, schrijftThe Guardian.
Het geluid werd voor het eerst opgemerkt door jagers uit Igloolik. De lokale politicus Paul Quassa liet aan zender CBC weten dat het geluid dieren wegjaagt.
Dat is niet goed voor de gemeenschap, die leeft van de jacht. “Er waren nauwelijks dieren te vinden en dat is zeker in deze periode enorm verdacht,” zei hij.
Speciale eenheid
Toen het leger op de hoogte werd gebracht van het mysterieuze geluid, werd er gelijk een speciale eenheid naar het gebied gestuurd.
Een woordvoerder liet weten dat de eenheid geen bijzondere geluiden heeft opgevangen en niet van plan is om verder onderzoek te doen.
Het blijft gissen naar de bron van het geluid. Er werd onder andere gedacht aan sonargeluiden door een mijnbouwbedrijf dat in de omgeving zoekt naar olie en gas.
Maar het bedrijf liet weten dat het geen apparatuur heeft in het gebied.
Bulderend geluid
Anderen dachten dat Greenpeace het geluid bewust creëerde om wilde dieren weg te jagen, maar dat werd ontkend door de milieuorganisatie.
Eerder dit jaar hield een vreemd geluid mensen uit Portland in Oregon uit hun slaap. Het geluid werd tientallen jaren eerder ook al eens gehoord.
En in Ontario stelt een bulderend geluid lokale bewoners al zes jaar voor een raadsel. Volgens sommigen is het geluid afkomstig van een buitenaards schip of een ondergrondse tunnel.
A California witness at Grass Valley reported watching as many as 14 UFOs overhead in a rural area during an encounter where the objects appeared to be searching for something in a nearby wooded area, according to testimony in Case 79639 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The events played out during the early morning of September 26, 2016, when the witness received a call from a friend who needed to be “rescued” from a domestic violence situation along an old logging road named Jones Ridge Road near Grass Valley.
The witness had car trouble along a rural roadway and found that the sounds of nature had stopped.
(Credit: Google)
“I found her sitting on the road in complete darkness,” the witness stated.“I picked her up and continued down Jones Ridge to try and reach the other end that comes out close to my home – about two miles down Jones Ridge.”
But the witness encountered car problems.
“I high centered my car and busted a fuel line and all my gas drained out and we were now stuck in the middle of deep forest in complete blackness in the middle of nowhere. I began trying to patch the fuel line. I did not have anything to do this with so I tried to ‘MacGuvyer’ it with a maxi-pad, string and a zip-tie.”
The witness then realized something odd was happening.
“So I was on my back on the ground attempting this repair and the first thing I noticed was there was zero noises coming from the woods. No crickets, frogs, crunching leaves – nothing. If you know the forest, that does not happen – ever.”
The witness then decided to review the surroundings.
“When I noticed there were no sounds coming from the woods, I pulled my head out from under my car looking straight up. That’s when I saw the first two of them. They were straight up above us very high up – I’d say about 3,000 – 4,000 feet hovering and moving slightly back and forth and up and down, but maintaining their position.”
The witness became immediately excited and stood up, covered in red clay dust from the ground.
“I called to ‘G’, my friend, to come out of the car and look. She did so and became very upset and started to cry and become hysterical. I hugged her and gave her my best ‘not all aliens are bad’ speech. She began screaming, ‘We have to get out of here.They are going to abduct me.’ I told her to please keep her voice down and that we couldn’t leave because of the busted fuel line. She calmed down a bit and that’s when we saw the others.”
The witness soon noticed that multiple objects were near ground level appearing to be searching for something in the nearby woods.
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The witness then realized there were more objects.
“I counted 12 of them to our immediate north in the woods at varying distance form 20 yards to maybe 60 yards. They were all in the woods about 10feet from the ground to maybe 30feet from the ground. They looked to be searching for something in the woods. They were C-shaped turned sideways (up and down), gray metallic with two lights. One on the top end of the C and one on the bottom of the C. They were each a little larger than a VW bug approximately.”
The witness then decided to explore the lights with a flash light.
“I asked ‘G’ to hand me the mag light because I wanted to blink it at the two hovering objects to see if I could get a response (big mistake). ‘G’ objected and began to cry again. I should have listened. She handed me the light and I began slowly flashing the two bosses (what they seemed to be) above us. The blinking provided no response, so I held the beam steady on one of them.”
The objects appeared to react to the light.
“That’s when things got a bit ‘hairy.’ When the solid beam hit the one craft, it stopped moving completely as well as the one next to it a stood completely still in the sky. While I was looking up, ‘G’ began to scream, ‘Oh my god, oh my god, they’re coming.’ I looked down and over to where she was pointing into the woods. All 12 of the craft in the woods had stopped their search and were rushing down the hill, weaving in and out of the trees directly for us.”
Thinking that the light had upset the objects, the witness quickly shut it off.
“The lights that were coming toward us all froze at once – holding in place as if awaiting orders. They froze for approximately a minute, and then turned around and continued their search of the woods. We watched them for about a half hour. I tried to film them with my phone, but kept getting an error message that the phone was malfunctioning.”
The witness recalled an unusual event on the way to pick up the friend.
“When I was on my way out of Jones Ridge to get ‘G’ I had my stereo on running on a flash drive and it kept going in and out with static. I thought this very strange because it wasn’t the radio – it was a flash drive and not dependent on a signal.”
The witness finally got the vehicle running again.
“I got the patch to hold and had enough gas in the lines to start the car. We left the lights to their business and headed down the road. We got three or four miles away when the gas ran out and we slept in the car in the middle of the road until the next morning when my buddy ‘J’ came out with gas and a proper patch.”
The witness believes there were other witnesses at other locations who saw the same lights.
“The next night I was online and saw to my amazement that our lights were part of a huge squadron-like group that was featured on mainstream media – NBC KCRA Channel 3, Sacramento at 7:56 – the same night of our encounter only just earlier. They were spotted above Rocklin/Roseville in a huge ‘C’ formation heading east right towards ‘G’ and me.”
California MUFON Assistant State Director Devlin Rugne 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.
A witness in Ireland reported videotaping an unknown object moving overhead that was captured by the vehicle’s dash cam, according to testimony in Case 79266 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Still frame from the video provided by the witness.
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Few details were available from the early report, filed on September 19, 2016, from an incident that occurred at 10:45 a.m. on October 8, 2015.
Cropped and enlarged version of still frame from witness video.
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“Captured UFO alien spacecraft by my car CCTV camera during travel,” the witness stated.“Film was not converted and this is a truth copy. Only slow motion will be seen as well as closer pictures from the film.”
Cropped and enlarged version of still frame from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The report indicates that the object appeared to be under 500 feet as observed by the witness. Ireland MUFON National Director Jack Turnbull is investigating. No city was indicated in the report.
Please be cautious with all UFO video until the case investigation is complete. 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.
Michigan veteran describes triangle UFO hovering over I-75
Michigan veteran describes triangle UFO hovering over I-75
A Michigan military veteran at Roscommon reported watching a hovering black, triangle UFO near Camp Grayling with an odd light configuration, according to testimony in Case 80122 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first noticed a low set of lights while traveling southbound along I-75.
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The military veteran with training estimating distances and vehicle sizes was traveling southbound along I-75 near Camp Grayling at 10:01 p.m. on October 30, 2016.
“I noticed a large, but low set of lights – green and red, west/east respectively – on the horizon,” the witness stated. “At this distance it was approximately 20-25 degrees from the horizon. After getting a mile or so closer, I gave it more attention as I thought it was an aircraft landing at Camp Grayling, or one possibly training.”
The witness moved another mile or so closer.
“I remarked to myself that it hasn’t changed altitude, and now I could see an alternating set of strobe lights blinking. I again thought to myself that maybe it was a helicopter. As I closed the final mile between myself and the craft I began to get a better sense of its size as the gap between the red and green lights grew. It was as large, if not larger than a CH47 Chinook (the reason for the two sizes specified, this craft did not change size).”
The craft was seen directly over the north bound lanes of I-75 and approximately 500 meters north of Highway Old 76.
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Then another light became visible.
“This was a solid white light. Just as I was within the last 100 meters to the object, I still could not identify what it was against the night sky.”
The witness slowed his vehicle down a few mph and rolled the window down.
“The craft was directly over the north bound lanes of I-75 and approximately 500 meters north of Highway Old 76. As I passed underneath, yet another light became visible, but this one was much smaller than the three corner lights, larger than the strobe lights, but was much dimmer, a clear, crisp border to the craft could be seen as it was darker than the night sky. Conditions were clear and unlimited. Unbelievably it was a triangle.”
The lights again from a distance appeared to be red and green.
“When I was directly under the craft, the color was closer to red-orange, and blue-green. The white light that did not strobe was located on the ‘point’ of the triangle facing south, blue-green was west, red-orange was east. The alternating strobe lights were located between the dim center, white light and the two flanking lights, oriented east east-west. The corner lights also appeared to be ‘fuzzy’ or have an ‘aurora’ to them.”
The object was between 125 and 200 meters in altitude.
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The witness estimated the altitude between 125-200 meters.
“Seeing all this made me do a double take from the shock of what was a hovering craft in a shape and configuration so unfamiliar. Approximately 100 meters past (south) of the object I lost sight of it. Followed quickly by the exit sign for Old 76 (Exit 244). As I realized what I had seen, I began taking notes of all pertinent data, including time (10:01 was when I began taking notes), size, altitude, the color and orientation of the lights as well.”
Camp Grayling is the main training facility for the Michigan National Guard and is the largest US National Guard training facility in the USA.
No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on October 31, 2016. Michigan MUFON Chief Investigator Daniel Snow 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 Mountains In Romania Caught By Photographer By Accident, April 2015, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Mountains In Romania Caught By Photographer By Accident, April 2015, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: April 9, 2015, reported this week
Location of sighting: Lasi, Romania
Source: MUFON #80180
I didn't include the other photos from the witness because tehere was nothing there, but he did have 3 other photos of the same mountain, but the UFO was gone. So its safe to say the UFO was moving very fast. So fast that the UFO has a smudge on its right side, which means it was traveling from right to left of the mountain top. Again, the UFO looks like a cloud, but mind you, the other photos at the source confirm it was moving lighting fasts and got caught purely by accident. Its a perfect disk, but smudged from high speed.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I was taking pictures, at 1 sec. interval, one after another. At home, I saw the object in the picture. You will see all photos date ant time in the EXIF of the pictures. It's not dust on the sensor, I'm a photographer.
Alien Orb Caught Flying Around Mountain Hikers In Romania, Oct 2015, UFO Sighting News
Alien Orb Caught Flying Around Mountain Hikers In Romania, Oct 2015, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Oct 25, 2015, but reported today. Location of sighting: Kosovo, Romania Source: MUFON #80168 Orbs are curious things that don't often come down this low, but have been seen with the human eye to do so. Here its curiosity gets the best of it. I myself have witnessed an orb this big and 2 meters from me. This orb must have been in constant movement so the hikers wouldn't notice it. Its got great detail on the photo, and looks metallic, but may be some other material alien to us. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
As I was hiking with a large group of people in the mountain called Lubeten 2498 in Kosovo, I made some zoomed photos of people hiking near the ridge of the mountain. After I came back at home and looked the photos, I saw several pics with a golden orb behind some hikers. There were around 230 hikers and nobody noticed it. I have more pictures of the orb hovering around.
Bernard Haisch, physicist, “Be Skeptical of the Skeptics” UFO Sightings News.
Bernard Haisch, physicist, “Be Skeptical of the Skeptics” UFO Sightings News
Here is an interesting quote by Bernard Haisch, physicist, µ
“Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the "skeptics."”
UFO Shoots Over Car In Ireland On Oct 2106, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shoots Over Car In Ireland On Oct 2106, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 8, 2016 Location of sighting: Ireland Source: MUFON #79266 Here is a really fast UFO that move low over a car. It was caught on the car cam and in slow motion its shape looks impossible, and yet, its there. Its a shape that I have not seen before. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Real captured UFO Aliens spacecraft by my car CCTV camera during travel. film was not converted and this is a truth copy, only slow motion will be seen as well as closer pictures from the film.
This Day In UFO History: Travis Walton Gets Abducted By Aliens In Arizona, Nov 5, 1975, UFO Sighting News.
This Day In UFO History: Travis Walton Gets Abducted By Aliens In Arizona, Nov 5, 1975, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 5, 1975 Location of sighting: Central Arizona, USA Source: Coral Lorenzen, APRO
This is the anniversary of one of the most publicized and most amazing evidence backed sightings to date. I am amazed that Travis still lectures about it every year and he even has a book at his website that he will personally sign for you if you wish it. Click to to see Travis's UFO site. Scott C. Waring Report states: On November 5, 1975, six young woodcutters, along with their employer, were working in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, engaged in a tree-thinning contract for the U. S. Forest Service. The forest is located in east central Arizona, and the work area is fifteen miles from Heber. The story begins at approximately 6:10 P.M., when the men were heading home in a seven-man crew-cab truck. Traveling along a bull-dozed trail, one of the men sighted a gold-colored glow through the thickets. As they rounded a right-hand turn, they saw the source of the glow - a structural object hovering approximately fifteen feet above a clearing and a scant ninety feet or so from the viewers.
Travis Walton, twenty-two, was sitting on the right- hand passenger side of the front seat. When he saw the object, he called to Mike Rogers, the driver and boss of the crew, to stop. Hardly waiting for the truck to come to a complete halt, Walton jumped out and, at a fast walk, approached a woodpile (stacked by the thinners) to get a closer look. As his fellow employees called for him to be careful and come back, he stood and looked at the object, which was at a 60-degree elevation from his position. It had the shape of two "pie pans" or shallow bowls placed rim to rim. A "beeping" sound was heard by all. Walton stepped back a couple of paces, intending to vacate the vicinity of the craft when his friends were startled to see a blue-green beam shoot out from the bottom of the craft, striking Walton in the upper area of his body, lifting him from the ground with his arms out stretched, and flinging him back to the ground.
Thinking he and the others were in danger, Rogers restarted the truck and left the area. A quarter of a mile away, he stopped and the six men looked back. They saw a light rise from the ground and streak into the north east, originating in the area where they had left Travis. Thinking it was the object, Rogers turned the truck around and drove back to the clearing. For fifteen minutes the men searched for Walton, covering the near area and calling, but to no avail. Rogers then decided to drive to Heber, the nearest town, and report Walton's disappearance to the sheriff. On the way, they debated what they should tell, doubting that the truth would be believed, but, unable to come up with an acceptable explanation, they told what they had experienced. On November 10, the six men were given polygraph tests which established that they had not harmed Walton (it had been implied that they had done away with Travis and hidden his remains, despite the fact that Rogers was his best friend of many years standing) and that they had, actually, seen a UFO.
On the night of November 10, at approximately midnight, a call came in to the Grant Neff residence (Mrs. Neff was Travis' sister and at the time the only Walton in Snowflake, Arizona, with a telephone). It was Travis, sounding confused and disoriented, saying he was at a phone booth in Heber and in terrible pain. Neff went to Mrs. Kellett's (Travis' mother) home, picked up Travis' brother Duane, who had come up from Phoenix when notified of his brother's disappearance, and drove at breakneck speed to Heber, where they found Travis slumped in a phone booth. He had a five-day growth of beard and appeared thin but was otherwise apparently all right. Within hours, Duane drove Travis to his home in Phoenix, intent on keeping him away from the horde of reporters, which had plagued the Walton family during Travis' disappearance, and to obtain medical treatment. For a short time, Duane Walton was frustrated by the representative of a local UFO group, who sent him to a pseudomedical hypnotist, but he was eventually contacted by the AERIAL PHENOMENA RESEARCH ORGANI ZATION (APRO), which called in a team of medical experts. Ultimately, Walton was given the Minnesota Multi Phase Personality Inventory (MMPI), Rorschach (commonly called Inkblot) Polygraph and Psychological Stress Evaluator tests, all of which established that he had told the truth as he knew it. All of these tests were conducted and interpreted by experts.
Unfortunately, Walton only recalls an hour or two of his five-day absence. He claims to have awoke on a table in a room which he first assumed was a hospital. The ceiling seemed low, there was an oval-shaped metallic-colored apparatus on his chest (his denim jacket and shirt were pulled up), and he was in considerable pain. The "air" in the room seemed oppressive, i.e., warm and damp. It took a few minutes to get his wits about him, and when he became fully aware of his surroundings, he realized he was in no ordinary hospital. Around the "table" on which he reclined were three strange creatures-strange, because they were less than five feet tall, very pale, with large, domed heads, large eyes, small nose, mouth, and ears, and their bodies, encased in tannish orange, seamless jumpsuits, and were very thin. Upon seeing them, Walton struggled to his feet, and when they approached him with their fingernail-less hands outstretched, he grabbed a rodlike object from an adjacent table and prepared to defend himself. After flailing about with the instrument for a moment or two, Walton was surprised to see the trio file out of the door and turn to the right. After the creatures left, Walton also exited the room, turning left. Following a curved corridor, looking for a way out, he found a circular room with a chair (which was too small for him but nevertheless he sat in it) with a "screen" on each arm. He touched a lever and the "stars" on the "ceiling" above seemed to move, so he moved the lever back to its original position and decided against further experimentation. Shortly, a "man," approximately six feet tall, with brown hair and strange golden-brown eyes, appeared at the door which Travis had entered. He beckoned to Travis, and Travis went to him, babbling question after question, none of which were answered. The "man" said nothing, took Travis by the arm, led him out into the corridor or hall, to the right, then stopped, whereupon a section of the wall opened. He had not touched anything. They walked into a small room, the door behind them closed, and seconds later a door opened in front of them. They then went down an incline (apparently out of the enclosure Walton had been in) where Walton found him self in a large enclosure resembling a quarter of a cylinder. There were three or four oval-shaped metallic objects parked there (the same apparent metallic substance as everything else he had seen). He was led by the "man" (who was clad in a blue "jumpsuit" with a clear "helmet") through the enclosure, to another door into a room where there were three other human-appearing individuals-two men and a woman. They resembled the first, except that, although they wore the same clothing, they were without helmets. They gestured to him to get upon a table. He resisted, but they eventually succeeded in their efforts and Travis reclined; an apparatus resembling an oxygen mask with a black ball attached was placed over his face and he lost consciousness. Travis awoke about midnight about a quarter mile west of Heber, Arizona. He was lying on his stomach and raised up to watch the curved, metallic hull of an aircraft taking off straight up, reflecting the yellow stripe of the dividing line of the highway below. What did Travis Walton see? What did he experience? Tests indicate that he has related his experience truthfully. His book The Walton Experience (1978) will tend to illuminate the reader and enable him to make his own judgment.
Artist's illustration of the alien planet HD 189733b, which is about the size of Jupiter. HD 189733b's blue hue is probably caused by light scattering off silicate particles in its atmosphere, scientists say.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
The alien planet HD 189733b is a beautiful blue dot in a sea of inky blackness, just like Earth. But that's where the similarities between the two worlds end.
For starters, HD 189733b is much bigger and hotter than Earth; it's about the size of Jupiter and zips around its host star in just 2.2 Earth days. That orbit is so close that the exoplanet is probably tidally locked, always showing one face to its star, just as the moon always shows one face (the near side) to Earth.
And then there's the weather. The winds on HD 189733b (which lies about 63 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Vulpecula) blow at up to 5,400 mph (8,700 km/h) — about seven times the speed of sound. And if that's not crazy enough for you, scientists think the rain on this world is made not of water, but of molten glass.µ
Why, then, does this bizarre planet appear so superficially Earth-like? It's just a coincidence, scientists said.
"The cobalt blue color comes not from the reflection of a tropical ocean, as on Earth, but rather a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere containing high clouds laced with silicate particles," NASA officials wrote in a statement.
There may be a lot of ocean-free blue planets out there. Indeed, scientists know of two in Earth's own solar system: Uranus and Neptune. The upper atmospheres of both of these "ice giants" contain methane, which reflects blue wavelengths of sunlight back into space.
HD 189733b was discovered in 2005, and scientists figured out its color in 2013 using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other instruments. The exoplanet is one of six highlighted in NASA's "Galaxy of Horrors," a special Halloween gallery that the space agency put together this year. You can check out the Galaxy of Horrors here: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/galaxy-of-horrors/
National Geographic Channel's 'Mars': Does Art Imitate Life?
National Geographic Channel's 'Mars': Does Art Imitate Life?
By Douglas Messier, Space.com Contributor
Credit: Scene from "Mars," a National Geographic Channel miniseries due to air in November 2016.
LOS ANGELES — The new National Geographic Channeldocudrama "Mars" tells the story of the first human mission to the Red Planet in 2033, while also flashing back to interviews with real people who are working today to make the flight a reality.
The series is a work of fiction, but could this be a case of art imitating life? Has 2016 been a pivotal year during which humanity became serious about mounting a crewed expedition to Mars?
"I think it may well be," said Andre Bormanis, the co-executive producer of the six-part series, which debuts on Nov. 14. "Time will tell, obviously." [Trailer: 'Mars' by the National Geographic Channel]
Bormanis spoke last week during a panel discussion about Mars here at the Griffith Observatory that was moderated by Curator Laura Danley. He was joined by Rob Manning, Engineering and Science Directorate chief engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Leonard David, author of a companion book for the series titled "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet." (David is also Space.com's Space Insider columnist.)
Mars has been getting a lot of attention lately. In September, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled an ambitious plan to begin sending astronauts to Mars as early as 2024. And NASA is eyeing human missions to the Red Planet in the mid-2030s.
"It's a whole new territory to explore," Bormanis said. "Who wouldn't want to drive a rover through Valles Marineris, or go to the polar caps and go exploring around those areas?"
Manning said that the question of whether life ever existed on the Red Planet— and whether it still does today — is a leading motivator for sending humans there.
"Scientists would love to go to Mars," he said. "We'd love to go find out. Mars, in fact, could be the next step for the web of life to grow again."
David said Mars is the next logical step in the human exploration of space.
"I look at Mars as some kind of metaphor for exploration," he said. "I look at it as a metaphor for scientific discovery. I also look at Mars as a metaphor for danger. A lot of work to do — not easy, it's going to be hard, and the challenges ahead are phenomenal. But, I think humans in the arc of exploration — that's exactly where we go. And so that's what I try to capture in the book."
Though they're excited by Musk's bold plans to send humans to Mars, David and Bormanis said they have some serious concerns about the effort.
"It's the kind of vision that is really exciting for a lot of people," said David, who said Musk's plan harkened back to ones promoted by Wernher von Braun and Walt Disney in the 1950s. "Most of my engineering friends go, 'Nice try. We need more details.'"
Part of the reason Musk wants to colonize Mars is to "back up humanity" — making the species much less vulnerable to extinction in the event of a catastrophe here on Earth. Bormanis said he had an issue with that rationale.
"I think that's kind of a cynical reason to launch a mission to Mars, in the near term anyway," he said. "There is no urgency to send human beings to Mars in terms of our various social problems, which are many. I think there are great reasons to do it, I hope we do it and I hope we do it soon, but the notion that there's going to be like an asteroid impact or a plague or this, that or the other thing that is going to potentially wipe out human civilization ..."
"Or an election," David interjected, spurring laughter from the crowd.
During the year he spent researching and writing his book, David talked to many of the people who are working on advancing Mars exploration. He was struck by their enthusiasm and their inventiveness.
"There were days where I'm writing this book and I'm going, 'This is really, really hard, and I don't know if it's going to happen,'" he said. "Then I get a new paper from somebody and I go, 'Oh, they solved that. That's pretty interesting. And there's people working on the problem. Definitely this is hard to do, but it's not insurmountable.'"
There’s A Rogue Black Hole Streaking Through the Universe
There’s A Rogue Black Hole Streaking Through the Universe
IN BRIEF
Black hole B3 1715+425 was discovered hurtling through the universe at 2,000 kilometers a second, nearly stripped naked of its surrounding galaxy.
Astronomers believe that in about a billion years, B3 1715+425 will become invisible, as it'll have no new stars left to feed it.
It’s never a good day when you find yourself naked and alone, streaking through an unfamiliar neighborhood. But that’s the reality for a black hole called B3 1715+425, located in a galaxy cluster 2 billion light-years away.
B3 1715+425 started out like any other supermassive black hole, with a full elliptical galaxy full of stars around it. But astronomers have shown that it’s since been stripped and left nearly naked, hurtling through the Universe at 2,000 kilometers a second – with no signs of slowing down.
“We’ve not seen anything like this before,” said lead researcher James Condon, from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, who thinks the unusual black hole could help us to better understand galaxies form and evolve.
Supermassive black holes – which are millions or billions of times more massive than our Sun – are common throughout the Universe, and lie in the center of most galaxies.
The team spotted this naked rogue while looking for supermassive black holes that weren’t at the centers of galaxies, to try to understand more about these humungous structures. But they weren’t expecting to see B3 1715+425.
“We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes, with one offset from the center of a galaxy, as telltale evidence of a previous galaxy merger,”said Condon.
“Instead, we found this black hole fleeing from the larger galaxy and leaving a trail of debris behind it.”
The researchers think that the trouble started when it bumped into another galaxy. That’s not unusual, and most large galaxies in the Universe got that way by merging with other, smaller galaxies.
Normally when a bump happens, the supermassive black holes at the centers of each galaxy being to orbit one another, gradually moving closer and closer together until they merge, releasing a huge burst of energy (the first gravitational waves we detected earlier this year came from one of these black hole mergers).
But in the case of B3 1715+425, something went wrong.
Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) network of telescopes, Condon and his team were able to get a closer look at B3 1715+425.
Based on how the black hole is behaving now, they think is that, millions of years ago, B3 1715+425’s galaxy passed through a much larger galaxy – one that had already swallowed up other galaxies in its path.
Because it was so big, instead of merging into it, B3 1715+425’s galaxy was shredded and ripped apart, with parts of its stellar debris strewn throughout the galaxy cluster.
The supermassive black hole at the center managed to escape with the stars that were closest to it, and that’s what’s left burning through the surrounding space, gradually losing ionising gas as its last remaining stars burn out.
The astronomers believe that, eventually, in about a billion years, B3 1715+425 will become invisible, as it’ll have no new stars left to feed it – but it will likely continue hurtling throughout the Universe without a trace.
That suggests that there might also be more of these naked black holes out there that researchers simply haven’t been able to see before.
Condon and his team will now continue to hunt down more black holes like B3 1715+425, and as better optical telescopes come online, they might have a chance of spotting even very faint naked black holes streaking through the sky.
They might also be able to find some examples of what they were originally looking for: black holes not at the centers of their galaxies.
In the meantime, they’ll continue to study B3 1715+425 to see what it can teach us about how galaxies and galaxy clusters form and evolve.
The research will be published in Astrophysical Journal, and is available in full online now at arXiv.org.
You can see Cordon talking about the incredible discovery below:
World's Largest Space Telescope Is Complete, Expected to Launch in 2018
World's Largest Space Telescope Is Complete, Expected to Launch in 2018
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
After more than 20 years of construction, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is complete and, following in-depth testing, the largest-ever space telescope is expected to launch within two years, NASA officials announced today (Nov. 2).
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden hosted a news conference to announce the milestone this morning at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, overlooking the 18 large mirrors that will collect infrared light, sheltered behind a tennis-court-size sun shield. JWST is considered the successor to NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope.
"Today, we're celebrating the fact that our telescope is finished, and we're about to prove that it works," said John Mather, an astrophysicist and senior project scientist for the telescope. "We've done two decades of innovation and hard work, and this is the result — we're opening up a whole new territory of astronomy." [How NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Works (Infographic)]
The telescope will be much more powerful than even Hubble for two main reasons, Mather said at the conference. First, it will be the biggest telescope mirror to fly in space. "You can see this beautiful, gold telescope is seven times the collecting area of the Hubble telescope," Mather said. And second, it is designed to collect infrared light, which Hubble is not very sensitive to.
Earth's atmosphere glows in the infrared, so such measurements can't be made from the ground. Hubble emits its own heat, which would obscure infrared readings. JWST will run close to absolute zero in temperature and rest at a point in space called the Lagrange Point 2, which is directly behind Earth from the sun's perspective. That way, Earth can shield the telescope from some of the sun's infrared emission, and the sun shield can protect the telescope from both bodies' heat.
The telescope's infrared view will pierce through obscuring cosmic dust to reveal the universe's first galaxies and spy on newly forming planetary systems. It also will be sensitive enough to analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets that pass in front of their stars, perhaps to search for signs of life, Mather said.
The telescope would be able to see a bumblebee a moon's distance away, he added — both in reflected light and in the body heat the bee emitted. Its mirrors are so smooth that if you stretched the array to the size of the U.S., the hills and valleys of irregularity would be only a few inches high, Mather said.
In addition to Bolden and Mather, Christopher Scolese, director of the Goddard Space Flight Center; Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's new associate administrator for science; Eric Smith, the telescope's program director; and Bill Ochs, director of the James Webb mission, attended the news conference.
The James Webb Space Telescope is fully assembled, officials said Nov. 2 — and on track for an October 2018 launch.
"Some of you that have followed JWST know that it almost didn't happen, and it's mainly because of the people that are sitting here, able to talk to you today, that we're all here and within two years of launch," Bolden said.
The telescope was originally scheduled to launch in 2014, at a cost of about $5 billion, but a series of setbacks and budget constraints delayed and nearly canceled the project. Now, though, officials affirmed that the telescope is on track and on budget for an October 2018 launch on an Ariane 5 rocket. (As a result of the delays, JWST's cost is now $8.7 billion, Ochs said.) The project is led by NASA but supported by international partners, including the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
The telescope's testing at Goddard, which has already begun, will ensure that it can withstand the shaking and loud noise of a rocket launch. Then, it will be moved to Texas, where its focus will be tested, and then to California for some final assembly. The testing is particularly high-stakes, because unlike Hubble, which was repaired and refocused in orbit by astronauts, this telescope is not intended to be repaired by humans.
"It's critically important to get it right here on the ground, and that's the purpose for the tests that we're doing here and, most importantly, for the tests when we get it down to Johnson [Space Center] in Chamber A, the big vacuum chamber," Bolden said.
"[We need to] make sure it can, in fact, be focused, so that we don't find, as we did with Hubble, that we don't have the ability to do what we thought it was going to be able to do," Bolden said, referring to the repairs needed to focus Hubble after launch. Each of JWST's mirrors is individually tunable, he said, so they can be adjusted without a corrective lens like the one astronauts put on Hubble.
"Our lessons learned from the Hubble [telescope incident] were, if you really care about something, you've got to measure it at least twice," Mather added. "And if you don't get the same answer, you'd better figure out why."
Researchers will make observations with the telescope for at least 5 years, and will carry enough fuel for 10 years — if they're lucky, JWST will last even longer, Mather and Bolden said. They added that the craft will absolutely be hit by space debris over the course of its lifespan, and that it's designed to function fine with small holes in its mirrors.
The full telescope, with a 21.3-foot (6.5 meters) mirror assembly, is too large to launch fully extended, so the telescope will be carefully furled during launch and will have to unfold over the course of two weeks once it's in space, Mather said. After that, the sun shield will be extended carefully, and the telescope will be given time to cool down. Finally, it will be focused, they said.
By six months after launch, the telescope will be ready to begin doing science.
Mather alluded to the "7 minutes of terror" of the Curiosity Mars rover's automated landing in 2012 — a famously complicated maneuver that used a rocket-powered sky crane to lower the vehicle to the Martian surface.
Evidence from the Viking landers from the 1970s shows that we could have overlooked some evidence for life on the planet.
Finding any confirmation of life on Mars is very unlikely, but the ability to rake another look at promising evidence is an important backbone of science.
REVIEWING THE DATA
With all the attention Mars has been getting lately, scientists have been revisiting data from past mission to the red planet. Data from the Viking landings show evidence of of water, organic molecules, and methane. This increase in the potential signs of ancient life on Mars prompted researchers Gilbert V. Levin from Arizona State University and Patricia Ann Straat from the US National Institutes of Health to reexamine data from NASA’s 1976 Mars Viking landings.
Viking One.µ Credits: NASA JPL
The researchers found traces of ambiguous chemical signals (radioactive 14CO2 isotope) in Martian soil collected in 1976 by the Viking landers. They don’t claim that the landers (whose locations were 6,500 km (4,000 miles) apart) definitively found life on Mars.
“[I]n the absence of a non-biological agent that satisfies all Viking findings, and in view of environmental evidence that Mars may well be able to support extant life, it seems prudent that the scientific community maintain biology as a viable explanation of the LR experimental results,” the researchers say, going against the widely-accepted opinion that Viking labeled release (LR) experiment on soil collected by the landers didn’t show signs biological processes.
AN UNLIKELY SCENARIO
“Even if one is not convinced that the Viking results give strong evidence for life on Mars, this paper clearly shows that the possibility must be considered. We cannot rule out the biological explanation,” said Chris McKay, NASA astrobiologist senior editor of Astrobiology that published the study.
Still, the researchers remain hopeful: “Life may therefore still exist, if only in a cryptobiotic state, subject to resuscitation whenever water becomes available.”
Why Space Elevators Could Be the Future of Space Travel
Why Space Elevators Could Be the Future of Space Travel
IN BRIEF
Expensive, unsustainable rockets have served as our primary means to exit Earth, but space elevators present a cheaper way to enter outer space.
Although new materials are needed, space elevator missions are in motion and we could see the first elevator constructed in the next several decades.
IT COST UPWARDS OF $160 BILLION TO PUT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IN ORBIT. NEW SATELLITE LAUNCHES ARE GOING TO BE A WHOLE LOT CHEAPER.
IMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES.
THE SPACE ELEVATOR
Getting into space with rockets is ridiculously expensive. A NASA Inspector General report says the agency will pay Russia $491.2 million to send six astronauts into space in 2018. That’s almost $82 million a seat.
And depending on what company you launch a satellite with, it costs between $10 to $30 million for every metric ton you send into space, The Motley Fool reported this year. But there’s a vastly more affordable answer to rockets — space elevators.
Futurists have flirted with the idea of space elevators since 1895 when the Eiffel Tower inspired Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Tsiolkovksy reasoned if a tower was built 35,800 kilometers (22,236 miles) high, it would reach geostationary orbit and could carry payloads to outer space. His concept isn’t too far off from current thinking.
A 2002 NASA study by Dr. Brad Edwards re-invigorated the scientific community with what’s considered today’s modern day space elevator. According to the study, a flexible and durable cable with a space station counterweight could serve as a viable space elevator.
A mechanical “climber” — using magnetic levitation or rollers along the tether — would then carry many tons of equipment or people into orbit. Although such a project would cost in the tens of billions, it would eventually pay for itself by providing much cheaper space travel to a greatly expanded market.
The anatomy of a space elevator. Image Credit: Sploid
A 2014 report by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) proposes a “ribbon” tether stretching well past geostationary orbit that’s roughly one hundred million times longer than its width. The “ribbon,” held down by an anchor as heavy as about 170 school buses, could carry 1 kilogram to geosynchronous orbit for $500, opposed to the current price of $20,000 per kilogram via rocket, according to the IAA report.
Dr. Peter Swan, who helped author the IAA report, is the president of the International Space Elevator Consortium, a professional society of space elevator enthusiasts advocating for the megastructure. He said space elevators offer an “opening of our vision towards humanity’s future.”
“There’s a tremendous movement of moving off-planet,” Swan told Futurism. “Space elevators could jump in and help the whole process by lowering the cost to geosynchronous and beyond.”
Swan, a satellite engineer by trade, said a functioning elevator would decrease the cost of launching satellites and missions by 99 percent.
A different concept by Thoth aims to build an elevator just 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) high to launch rocket trips that would cost less fuel. But Thoth and the IAA face the same obstacle as all other space elevator designs: materials.
THE MATERIALS PROBLEM
To build a tether capable of reaching tens of kilometers from Earth, an incredibly strong, dense, and flexible material is needed. This is because gravity decreases the farther away from Earth you are, so the tensile strength for the cable has to support roughly 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) of itself.
Engineers thought the tether could be made of ultra flexible and tough carbon nanotubes, but a study by Hong Kong Polytechnic University ruled them out this year. It’s also possible a version of the diamond nanothreads researchers discovered in late 2015 could be the key.
Types of carbon nanotubes. Image Credit: Wikipedia
Swan said diamond nanothreads or boron nitride might work but still believes carbon nanotubes will be crucial in building the space elevator tether, despite the new Hong Kong Polytechnic University study.
“I don’t believe that any of the space elevator people that are working with carbon nanotubes to have been scared by that statement,” Swan said.
Point being: The materials don’t exist — yet. But we could see the right materials come out before 2030, according to a study published in the journal New Space.
How Earth could look from a space elevator. Image Credit: wallpaperfolder.com
The materials problem isn’t stopping the Japanese from trying to build a space elevator. The STAR-C orbiter from Shizouka University is on its way to the ISS and will test Kevlar in space to see if the material could work as a tether.
“They’re going to simulate what a tether climber could do on Kevlar. That would be a major step forward in the knowledge of space tethers and space elevators,” Swan said. “I applaud their activity.”
And since gravity isn’t as strong on the Moon or Mars as it is on Earth, we already have the materials — like Kevlar — to build space elevator tethers on these smaller celestial bodies. So space colonists in the immediate future could make use of the technology.
SOLAR SPACE ELEVATORS
Space elevators also present a way to generate potentially massive amounts of solar electricity. This is because solar panels in outer space — where the Sun’s light is unfiltered — can absorb vastly more energy than on Earth. The array could then radiate electricity down to Earth, bypassing power lines completely, Swan said.
“The key is to put acre-size solar arrays at geosynchronous (altitude), and radiate the energy down to the Earth at very, very low cost,” Swan said.
Solar towers could scale the sides of space elevators and generate massive amounts of energy for earth. Image Credit: Wikipedia
The 2009 sci-fi anime “Gundam 00” portrays a world where humans depend on a few orbital elevators to almost completely power the planet with solar power. Could something like it be in our future?
Swan ultimately believes space elevators will expand “the aperture of the human spirit.”
“By having extremely low-cost access to space, you can open up the human mind, so moving off-planet is not a dream, but a reality,” Swan said. “We can talk about going to Mars, going to the Moon, having a colony orbiting around the Earth.”
Scientists May Have Identified the Particles That Make Up Dark Matter
Scientists May Have Identified the Particles That Make Up Dark Matter
Simulated distribution of dark matter approximately three billion years after the Big Bang (illustration not from this work). Credit: The Virgo Consortium/Alexandre Amblard/ESA [Source]
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IN BRIEF
Using an advanced supercomputer, scientists came up with a profile for dark matter, concluding that it may be made of axions of a specific type.
With this new information, the race is on to be the first to prove the existence of dark matter particles.
MYSTERIOUS AND DARK
Understanding what dark matter is has proven to be amazingly difficult. Of course, one might expect this from a thing that is, for all intents and purposes, entirely invisible. Scientists have come to the conclusion that dark matter exists by observing the way gravity behaves—either our model of gravity is in need of an update, or dark matter exists. The latter is the most likely conclusion.
While there seem to be several phenomena explainable only by the existence of dark matter, there hasn’t been actual proof that it indeed exists. Studies abound, of course, but to date they have been inconclusive.
What (we think) we know is that dark matter comprises around 25-27% of the mass and energy in the observable universe. It cannot be seen, as it doesn’t seem to interact with photons, but it does interact with gravity, making it “observable.”
That may not be a lot to go on, but it’s enough for a team of German-Hungarian scientists from the University of Wuppertal, Eötvös University in Budapest, and Forschungszentrum Jülich to work with.
By extending the Standard Model of particle physics and using the JUQUEEN (BlueGene/Q) supercomputer at Jülich’s lab, the team led by Zoltán Fodor came up with elaborate calculations to predict just what particles make up dark matter.
Credits: The Virgo Consortium/Alexandre Amblard/ESA
THE LIGHTWEIGHT CONTENDER
Understanding what dark matter is, scientists believe, depends largely upon figuring out what particles make it up. It could be one of two possibilities: either dark matter is composed of a few very heavy particles or several light ones. Fodor’s team looked towards the latter. Of these, axions seem to be the most promising — although still hypothetical. What the researchers needed was evidence that these extremely light subatomic particles indeed exist.
Theoretically, the existence of axions can be explained as an extension to quantum chromodynamics (QCD), which predicts that very weakly interacting particles whose mass depend on quantum topological fluctuations can exist. To demonstrate this, the team needed the JUQEEN supercomputer to calculate the conditions by which axions can exist and contribute to the matter making up the universe.
The results were promising. If dark matter is largely made up of axions, these should posses a mass of 50 to 1500 micro-electronvolts (standard units of particle physics), which is up to ten billion times lighter than electrons — that’s an average of 10 million axions per cubic centimeter of the universe. In the Milky Way alone, there should be about one trillion axions per cubic centimeter.
“The results we are presenting will probably lead to a race to discover these particles,” says Fodor. At the very least, this study gives physicists a concrete range for their search of axions. The team also predicts that, within a few years, it will be possible to experimentally confirm or rule out the existence of axions. Thanks to the Jülich supercomputer, we may be a step closer to figuring out dark matter…now that we know what we need to look for.
NASA, SpaceX, and other institutions are accelerating their efforts to send humans to Mars, but the overall takeaway is that we’re not going to the Red Planet just for a quick tour. When we get there, we’re staying there. But it won’t be easy: Mars is always just a few short steps away from killing you. If we really want to establish a long-term colony on the Red Planet, we’re going to need to find a way to make it resemble something closer to the warm and fuzzy rock we call Earth.
And that’s where the idea of terraforming Mars comes in. A new YouTube video produced by Life Noggin makes the case for how humans could go about terraforming Mars and transforming it from a cold wasteland into a more amenable environment.
The video outlines four different major obstacles keeping us from making life on Mars an easy and comfortable existence: the thin and carbon dioxide soaked atmosphere, the low temperatures, th lack of a magnetosphere, and the low gravity.
The video concentrates on the first three factors, since they’re all connected with one another. First up, how can we make Mars’s atmosphere better suit our human needs? It’s one percent as thick as Earth’s and is a staggering 95.97 percent carbon dioxide. This means it’s not breathable by humans and does little to ensure the warmth of the sun (already farther from Mars than it is from Earth) is trapped well enough to keep Mars a cozy place (temperatures drop to minus 63 degrees Celsius).
Life Noggin says we might be able to create greenhouse effects by mining methane from rocks on Mars and combining it with atmospheric carbon dioxide endemic to the planet.
Terraforming Mars and making it into a new Earth
Maybe that is feasible, but the video also argues humans might be able to use ammonia derived from busted-up ice-rich comets from the outer solar system. For now, that’s just insane. The idea that we’ll be able to pull in that much ammonia from that many asteroids hanging around the solar system is ridiculous. Life Noggin also says that because ammonia is mostly nitrogen by weight, plants could serve as a useful way to foster an atmosphere similar to Earth’s — but it neglects to explain how exactly this would work and what the connection is.
With a thicker atmosphere to warm the planet, the video says “the rest of the terraforming job will be a relative cake walk” by mentioning we could melt Mars’s polar ice caps to create large bodies of water on the rest of the Martian surface.
Mars still has no magnetosphere to help protect the atmosphere from solar winds
Almost immediately, the video backtracks on this suggestion — acknowledging that we haven’t solved the magnetosphere problem! See, a magnetic field helps to repel solar winds and keep the surface from becoming an irradiated hazard zone. Mars used to have magnetic fields that jutted out from the poles — just like Earth — but lost them at some point in its ancient history. The result was that solar winds stripped the Red Planet of its atmosphere and resulted in a fast hemorrhage of liquid water.
The video makes no case for how to rectify this issue — because no expert is even close to figuring out how to recreate a planet’s magnetosphere. “Any atmosphere we do add on Mars won’t last,” the narrator says, “so Mars isn’t the best option” for making a terraformed new world.
The video goes on to outline how terraforming might work — and might fail on other planets and moons in the solar system, and eventually we’re left with the same understanding with which we entered the video: there is no place like Earth. A colony on Mars is possible, but for the rest of this century at the very least, don’t expect it to look much different from the destitute world you’ve already seen it to be.
In the 400 years since Galileo discoveredSaturn’s rings, astronomers have obsessed to learn exactly how these incredible celestial structures — comprised of ice and rock, stretching out as big as a house or shrunken to as small as a speck of sand — first originated. We now have an answer, and it’s more savage and ferocious than we could have realized.
In a new study published in the journal Icarus, researchers from Japan’s Kobe University report using sophisticated modeling and computer simulations to unravel how the rings were born. They started off with the knowledge that four billion years ago, during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, there were several thousand Pluto-sized objects that existed beyond Neptune. So the researchers calculated the probability that these objects passed by the planets of our solar system during this period, only to be destroyed by the planet’s tidal force.
They figured that these celestial objects did experience multiple encounters with three of our ringed planets — Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn. The researchers plugged all of this information into a computer simulation to figure out how much disruption actually happened and found that, “the combined mass of these captured fragments was found to be sufficient to explain the mass of the current rings around Saturn and Uranus.”
Celestial objects got pummeled when they got too close to Saturn. Those fragments were captured in the tidal force of the planet and coalesced to form rings. It’s similar to the proposed process for how Mars will develop its own ringin about 30 million years throughthe torn apart pieces of its crumbling moon, Phobos.
This Saturn ring revelation comes paired with an extra surprise: a new image of the rings captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
This photo was taken with a spectral filter.
Here we see the famed rings lit by the sun at 41 degrees above the ring plane. Consisting of continually colliding icy particles, NASA points out that these collisions are what cause the rings to wave and wake. This in turn creates a “subtle influence” on both Saturn and its moves. It’s a chain reaction of influence and reaction — much like the creation of the rings themselves. The life of the rings — gorgeous as they are — continue to exhibit residual traits of their more chaotic past.
It’s hard to conceptualize space. Movies have made it seem flat and empty, sort of a Star Wars credits style flat plane of existence. But space is actually a lot like Earth, at least geographically: There are hills, valleys, deep pits that seem to fall into nothing, more powerful and consequential than perhaps any mountain top or canyon here on Earth. You just can’t see them.
In his new book, The Gravity Well, Sandford uses his 28 years’ worth of expertise in working on spaceflight and being at the forefront of the space industry to explain how humans ought to go about conquering the gravity well, one of the most impressive obstacles that has prevented humans from deep space travel.
What is the gravity well?
This is sort of my working definition — and I just sort of made this up — but I’m using the Earth-sun Lagrange point [the points in the orbital configuration of two bodies where another smaller object can maintain a stable position]. That’s why I say it’s a million miles.
The exact physical definition is not so important as the idea that space is not this black, black region — it’s got terrain. It has mountains and flat spots and valleys that we have to negotiate. If we play our cards right, we can go a long way with very little energy. If we play our cards incorrectly, we can spend a tremendous amount of energy to go not so far.
xkcd's illustration of the gravity well.
A lot of people think about space and they think there’s nothing there when that couldn’t be further from the truth. Not only is there terrain but there are wells, and there’s a lot of water. There’s actually trillions of dollars worth of minerals in space not too far from the gravity well.
What are other misconceptions about space?
Probably the biggest one is that it [space exploration] is expensive. The public investment in space [i.e. NASA’s annual budget] is $18 billion dollars. That’s a big number, but what I try to do in the book is provide a framework for that number just like I tried to reframe their mental model of space. The kinds of problems that the civil space program can help us solve are problems that we currently spend two orders of magnitude more on than what it costs to execute a civil space program. I’m including in my definition what I call an “audacious civil space program,” not the one we have now which simply maintains the status quo.
I make the argument that if we as a nation recognize these benefits and use the space program the way it can be used and the way it has been in the past successfully, we would reap these rewards and those rewards would be problems that we spend in total trillions of dollars to address every year. As a nation, we spend about a trillion dollars on education every year. Anything that can inspire a generation of people to go into STEM has a truly huge value to the century. If we have to spend 10 billion dollars to get that, that’s a lot of money, but it’s relative to the benefit and relative to how much we spend today on that problem. It’s not actually very much money. That’s the kind of re-framing I’m trying to do in terms of the cost of space.
Earth's gravity well.
Do you think that commercial space has been a big factor in persuading people to start taking these operations more seriously?
I absolutely think that it’s all tied together. I would suggest to you that there has always been a contingent of people working under the radar on the problem of going to Mars through the years that you may or may not have known about. Now that people like Musk are making this pitch to the public and the public is responding, I do think it helps.
What are some other obstacles preventing us from successfully and safely traveling out into deep space and conquering the gravity well, so to speak?
There’s so much that we need to learn how to do to be able to land people on Mars. Some of those things we have to learn how to do are surface-based activities like surface habitats and surface construction equipment and resource utilization. There are some things that actually simply happen in space. They’re in-space technologies and that has to do with communications and navigation and guidance and trajectory analysis. Highly autonomous rendezvous and docking. I should say highly autonomous and highly reliable on rendezvous and docking. Our [extravehicular activity] tools have to get better and more automated. For both in space and surface system, we need better life support.
A illustration for a proposed Mars entry-descent-landing.
Going 25,000 mph in space to going quietly and safely under the surface — we’re talking about trying to figure this out for a 15 to 30 metric ton payload, not a rover that’s under one metric ton. They’re incredibly large systems that we need for habitats and power systems and that kind of thing.
Then there are obstacles to the settlement as well. That’s where Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and those guys come in because they are literally taking the systems that we use for exploration, and making it into a commercial system that will cost significantly less.
They’re doing amazing things to reduce the cost of access to space. Reusability in the design and launch of rockets means the manufacturing costs come down as well as the assembly and integration cost. When SpaceX launches a rocket, the mission control system is dramatically different than a NASA system. That lowers the cost. That’s probably the first thing that we need to work on.
What are the benefits of space travel?
One point I haven’t mentioned yet is the benefits of space on international influence. [President] Kennedy started the Apollo program not for economics or education — it was about international influence. His exact words are actually pretty poetic and meaningful and deserve to be understood. I think Apollo was extremely successful and may have been his biggest contribution to the victory of democracy and capitalism over communism as anything else.
Photos via Randall Munroe/xkcd, University of Liverpool, NASA, YouTube
DID NOSTRADAMUS PREDICT THE RISE OF PUTIN AND AN ALIEN INVASION IN 2017?
DID NOSTRADAMUS PREDICT THE RISE OF PUTIN AND AN ALIEN INVASION IN 2017?
Alien UFO invasion in 2017 - 2020? Nostradamus and Revelation prophecies. Alien UFO invasion of earth in 2017? Alien takeover of the planet? Fullfilling Book of Revelation prophecies of the rise and defeat of the Antichrist Putin. Nostradamus and Book of Revelation prophecies of alien invasion of earth and modification of human DNA. Revelation 19 - return of Jesus Christ, possibly on a UFO. Revelation 21 - the New Jerusalem descends from outer space. Revelation 22 - DNA modification of the human species.
Alien Invasion of Earth and the New Jerusalem is a Giant Alien City. Bible prophecies of the Book of Revelation, Aliens invade and take over earth. Jesus Christ leads the alien UFO fleet. Jesus Christ and the Aliens will defeat the Antichrist Putin.
Mysterious green light 'fireball' spotted in Japan sky
Mysterious green light 'fireball' spotted in Japan sky
Strange green lights were spotted in JapanCREDIT: NHK / YOUTUBE
Amysterious green light recorded travelling at speed over Japan has attracted the attention of curious UFO watchers.
The green object was captured by a Nippon TV affiliate weather camera in eastern Japan and released by NHK to add to the spooky sightings on Halloween night.
So have the little green men from outer space been captured on camera? Astronomers believe they might have a more normal explanation for the emerald green ‘orb’.
An astronomer told NBC the bright lights could be a very bright meteor known as a ‘fireball’.
“A fireball is another term for a very bright meteor, generally brighter than magnitude -4, which is about the same magnitude of the planet Venus in the morning or evening sky,” explains the American Meteor Society.
“A bolide is a special type of fireball which explodes in a bright terminal flash at its end, often with visible fragmentation”
The astronomer also suggested the green light could have been space debris re-entering the atmosphere, however no evidence has been found on the ground, the BBC reports.
Malcolm Robinson, a founder member of Strange Phenomena Investigations (SPI), believes there is a normal explanation for 95 per cent of UFO sightings.
“We are only talking about a small 5 per cent that can’t be explained and three per cent of the five could be our own black budget technology,” he explained at a recent talk on UFOs.
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VIDEO: Mysterieuze groene ‘vuurbal’ gespot in de lucht boven Japan
VIDEO: Mysterieuze groene ‘vuurbal’ gespot in de lucht boven Japan
Een mysterieus groen licht boven Japan heeft de aandacht getrokken van UFO-jagers. Dat schrijft de Daily Telegraph.
Het groene object werd vastgelegd door een weercamera van Nippon TV in het oosten van Japan.
Een astronoom vertelde aan NBC dat de heldere lichten afkomstig kunnen zijn van een ‘vuurbal’, een zeer heldere meteoor.
Een bolide is een vuurbal die een magnitude -14 of helderder bereikt. Astronomen gebruiken het woord gewoonlijk om er een opvallend heldere vuurbal mee aan te duiden, vooral één die explodeert.
Geen bewijs
De astronoom suggereerde ook dat het groene licht ruimtepuin zou kunnen zijn dat richting de aarde is gevallen, hoewel daar volgens de BBC geen bewijs voor is gevonden op de grond.
Malcolm Robinson van Strange Phenomena Investigations (SPI) merkte op dat 95 procent van de UFO-waarnemingen kan worden verklaard.
Hulp
“Vijf procent is onverklaarbaar en drie procent daarvan zou te maken kunnen hebben met onze eigen geheime technologie,” legde hij uit.
Afgelopen maand schakelde de politie de hulp van het publiek in toen er een UFO was gefilmd boven het Kanaal van Bristol.
First Contact: De aarde wordt klaargestoomd voor ‘contact met een andere beschaving’
First Contact: De aarde wordt klaargestoomd voor ‘contact met een andere beschaving’
De film First Contact, die voorzien is van commentaar door de legendarische acteur James Woods, vertelt het verhaal van Darryl Anka, die naar eigen zeggen na een UFO-waarneming in contact kwam met een buitenaards wezen genaamd Bashar.
Volgens Anka geeft Bashar boodschappen door om de aarde voor te bereiden op contact met een andere beschaving.
Uit EEG-onderzoek blijkt dat er opzienbarende veranderingen optreden in zijn brein als hij de boodschappen doorkrijgt.
Niet vreemd
In de film, die op 14 oktober jongstleden in première ging in Praag, wordt besproken welke positieve impact contact met buitenaardsen kan hebben op onze beschaving.
Buitenaards contact klinkt de meeste mensen inmiddels niet vreemd meer in de oren. De vraag is niet óf het gaat gebeuren, maar wanneer, aldus Woods.
In de documentaire komen ooggetuigen aan het woord en wordt wetenschappelijk bewijs gepresenteerd.
Realiteit
Ook proberen de makers een antwoord te geven op vragen die al duizenden jaren worden gesteld: Waarom zijn we hier? Hoe zal de toekomst eruitzien? Wat is de aard van ons bestaan?
Bashar legt in de film uit hoe het universum werkt en hoe ieder persoon zijn of haar eigen realiteit creëert.
De afgelopen 30 jaar hebben duizenden mensen van over de hele wereld naar zijn boodschappen geluisterd.
Nederland
First Contact stelt dat we niet alleen zijn en dat waarheid vreemder is dan fictie.
Wil jij dat de film ook in Nederland in de bioscoop te zien zal zijn, kijk dan hier voor meer informatie.
During my time as Director of Investigation for the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) I had the pleasure of cooperating with UFO researchers and UFO research organisations in both the UK and around the world. BUFORA had many regional UFO groups affiliated with them and also used to cooperate with others on a regular basis. One such organisation was the Plymouth UFO Research Group (PUFOG) in Devon in the UK. Its chairman was Robert (Bob) Boyd and in February of 1995 Bob passed a very interesting UFO photographic case to me. The sighting in question came from a former Royal Marine and took place while he was still serving with H.M. Forces in Cyprus.
On the 20th of April 1993, PUFOG were interviewed by their local BBC radio station. As a result of that broadcast PUFOG were contacted by a former Royal Marine. He had been a Regimental Sergeant Major and he wanted to relate a UFO sighting from 1971. According to Bob Boyd this turned out to be one of the best UFO reports they had ever received.
Map showing Malta and Cyprus.
(Credit: Google Maps)
The witness in question didn’t want any publicity so his name was changed and he was simply referred to as ‘Steve’. What follows is a verbatim reproduction of his UFO sighting. He was interviewed by PUFORG and this interview and photographs are reproduced here with permission of Bob Boyd. The photographs are copyright PUFORG.
“I used to me a member of the Royal Marines, and we were part of a group called 41 Commando Group that was stationed in Malta. We used to depart from Malta 2 or 3 times a year and go to Cyprus for what’s called field exercises. I don’t know if you know the shape of Cyprus, but it looks something like a rugby ball laid on its side. On this particular night (31st May, 1971), we were deployed in the field. The unit deployed with Echo company on the left hand side, in other words on the west end of the island. We had 2 companies on the north and my unit which was Command HQ, was due south at a place called Ghoshi Trooli. Altogether there were about 1400 men on the exercise.
At our position, we were doing what is known as a night move and what happens is you move a Command HQ, from one place in the field to another place in the field in darkness. One of my jobs was to control that move. So I would depart, set up a new location and then the unit would have to move to me, and we would have the spaces where they all went. Shortly before 8.00 pm, we drove to a new location. There was a particularly bad piece of track on the way there and I dropped off a young marine, a policeman, and said to him to stay on this track and when the unit comes, make sure you push them towards me in the right direction. There was one place where they could make a bad turn.
Shortly after getting on the ground, I located the various places and cleared them out. About 8 o’clockish a very bright light appeared behind a crest maybe a thousand metres away. What it looked like initially was the headlights of a car on full beam, situated behind the hill. Because this was a night move with no lights, I got on the radio gave my call sign and told them to turn their lights off. The light just got stronger so I transmitted again, negative lights. As I’m talking this light came over the crest about a thousand meters away, and you go ‘it’s not bloody headlights it’s a flare’. I thought at first this was a mortar flare I was looking at. Mortar flares are stationary. You fire it up in the air and the aim is to illuminate the area. They hang by a parachute. The initial reaction was mortar flare and I was pretty concerned because we were in carbon grove, which is dry trees and if a flare lands amongst them you’ve got major problems. Twelve men had been killed in similar circumstances. A flare started in the Troodhos forest and a large number of English troops were killed. This was years before in 1957, which was in my time.
UFO photo taken by Royal Marines. Click to enlarge.
(Credit: PUFORG)
So now when I’m in a senior position in 1971 I think I’ve got a phosphorous flare hanging above a bloody carob grove and I’m not going to be very happy. It appeared from a thousand meters, which as I said was from behind the crest but it could have been quite high in the sky. The impression I got was that initially it was quite low. My initial impression was that this object of light was about 5-10,000 feet. That’s a complete guess.
There was about 20 of us at this place, looking at this light, when we suddenly realise that it isn’t a flare and you say ‘well what else can it be. The more you looked and the more people spoke, you couldn’t relate it to something else you’d seen, it was difficult to pin a label on. This was a massive thing. It appeared to be about the size of a golf ball at arms length. That’s the angle we were looking at (pointing 45 degrees). You had no obvious sign of movement. The main mass of light was almost spherical but it was putting out so much radiance, it looked like nothing you’d ever seen before. All it was like, was a burning ball of light. The light was extremely bright and when I’m talking about extremely bright, I’ve never seen anything as bright in my life.
The brilliance wasn’t burning enough to burn your eyes but it was just…..awesome. The nearest I can get to it is if you lowered the sun. And this is what I mean by a burning ball of light. The thing was that bright you see. It was like a burning orb of light, one orb of brilliance. I could also see other lights amongst it or thought I could. Not obvious lights. They weren’t like porthole lights with little people putting their heads out and waving at you. It was just what I thought indications of other lights, the same colour as the main one. You had this burning ball coming overhead like that and I am seeing something, not actually a cross but other lights roughly that shape within the centre light.
Front and back of it, especially when it was lower in the sky, you had like a vortex of movement as though you had displacement of air. In other words if a thing is moving it would push air backwards and forwards. I could see something like that. You get a lot of dust in Cyprus, especially at that time of year. Very dry dusty conditions and you get a lot of dust in the atmosphere. If you had a burning ball of phosphorous, you would have the central core of phosphorous, then the glare of the diffused light. If you were moving that phosphorous through conditions where there was dust, you would get movement, a push vortex and a vortex behind.
UFO photo taken by Royal Marines. Click to enlarge.
(Credit: PUFORG)
There was a lot of chat among the 20 men. You’re all talking about it. You’ve never seen anything like it in your life. We are now watching this for some minutes. Remember I told you that I’d left a marine corporal guarding at the track. We all of a sudden we hear this (beats hand on table) and this guy came over the hill doing about 600 mph!! This is in full kit. And you know Cyprus is a hot and sticky place. Anyway, he came up and after panting for a bit said ‘Can you see that?’ We said yes and he said ‘Thank Christ for that’. It wasn’t till that happened that you realised that by being in a group of people watching, it wasn’t frightening as it was if you were alone. I mean for a Marine Corporal to disobey my orders and bugger off, and then it was something. To a lone individual…..to run away from something is a serious offence, let’s not disguise the fact. He deserted the post that I had given. For a lone individual, what he saw by himself…..meant it was a bit more serious than that.
Everybody on the exercise, about 1400 men, saw the light. During this period the unit you remember, is doing a night move. As I said we had radio sets and we could hear transmissions of other people taking about the light, and at one stage the following dialogue took place between a call sign which is a unit and a commanding officer, Sunray. There was a little bit of chat about the light then Sunray said ‘It must be a flying saucer ha ha’. There were the words he used.
We watched this for 22 minutes. We were all professional observers. I carry powerful binoculars, night glasses, and there was about half a dozen pairs of binoculars there. Now you may think that what I was going to tell you is stupid, but the light went from ground zero and took 22 minutes to disappear out of sight of binoculars to the right of the moon. WE didn’t use the glasses when the light was easily visible because it was so bright it might have damaged your eyes through binoculars. It was when it was at height that we used the binoculars. So using night glasses leaning on a land rover, watching this light, the moon is now hanging over Dekali Garrison and the object ended up to the right of the moon.
A point I want to make is that there was no impression of speed, sound or movement. You were looking at something that seems to drift past you. I’ve been trained for 27 years to judge distances, that’s what I’m paid for. But I couldn’t tell you if that was 1000 meters high, 5000 metres high, 50 mile high. I’m also a professional parachutist, so I knew distances in the air, gut I couldn’t tell you how far away it was or how high. It was just something you’d never seen before. The day we saw the light was the same day that the Americans had launched on of their moon shots. I think it was the second one.
We then moved back to the barracks. When I got back to base, I wrote a complete report of everything we’d seen that night. It covered about 5 pages. I posted it to my wife first and told her to keep the letter because I knew it was something different – and she ditched it!! The next morning, we were all talking in the mess about the light, so I rang Aquitiri and asked to speak to the station Net. Officer and I couldn’t get hold of him. The lines were burning. So I contacted my opposite number there and spoke to him. He said ‘Is it about the light we saw last night, and I said yes. He said ‘the switchboard had been jammed solid’. The he said that ‘it was the Mariner shot (NARAS) that’s all we were watching’.
Later that morning the colonel sent for me and (we were referring to the light in general discussion) he instructed that all sub-units who’d seen it, were requested to write a report on it and anybody who had taken photos to hand them in as part of the research into this Mariner thing. And this was done. I then got to draw ammunition. I used to lodge my ammunition in a compound. Bring it off a ship, put it in the compound and draw from the army barracks. Everyone you saw would say did you see that light and you’d have a chat about it. I went down there and was talking to the blokes about it. One bloke had come out of the mess, drunk: out of an army mess, drunk. He gets to the car park and goes to start his car and he looks up and sees what we saw and he said in seconds he was stone cold sober. He raced back into the mess goes ga a ga and they all run out to watch the light.
The Turks or the Greeks, I don’t know which but one of them believes a light, a bright light like this means the coming of the new Messiah. When I went for the ammo, locals worked in the ammunition dump, and one of them was telling us that his village had seen this as part of their sort of religion of Christ and that, and they all turned out and were praying in the streets, thinking that the Boss Man had arrived again. It wasn’t just a few people. It was reported in the local press so it could easily be checked I’m not giving you a load of waffle. You could dead easy get a check o it.
I started collating the reports and listening to other people talking about it. Echo Company was on the left of the Island. Now they had observed what we had observed, maybe ten minutes prior. So let’s say at about 7.35 pm, they’d noticed this light coming from West to East, so it was coming straight towards them. This light came from West to East. Halfway across the Island, it then turned from North to South. So Echo Company watch it coming towards them, it then comes inland turns from North to South. We watch it as it came over the mountain and flies south. I didn’t know they had Mariner craft that turn a right angle basically and then disappear. All the reports were handed in, photos and negatives and quite a lot got handed in. If you’ve got 1400 blokes in the field, you’re going to have a hundred of them with cameras, aren’t you? There was a large quantity of films handed in. I would say over a hundred rolls of film.
UFO photo taken by Royal Marines. Click to enlarge.
(Credit: PUFORG)
Weeks later it was confirmed that this was a UFO. You see what happened the first morning when the colonel asked me to get the reports; he didn’t give me a full brief. I would be responsible for running the unit and he would normally be dead straight with me. Now for some reason he had a top level meeting with his company commanders and would have discussed it with them, but he didn’t tell me the full story.
In the centre of Cyprus is a place called the Troodhos Mountains, on top of which they’ve got the most sophisticated radar in the world. They’re called golf balls because of their appearance and are maybe 3-400 feet in circumference. They used to monitor the U2 flights and long range radar transmissions. There’s a fighter base at Aquitiri and it’s a very sophisticated fighter base. On RAF bases abroad, they always have QRF (quick response) fighters burning internally. So on an operational base you always have the latest aircraft there, ready to go.
About 2 or 3 weeks later we were off the coast of (location deleted) doing a job. I went in for my morning sherry with him and he said ‘That UFO’s been confirmed’. So I said what UFO? “Didn’t I tell you?’ he said. I said, no but you’re going to tell me now, aren’t you? And then he explained that this was a UFO and it was an official job from reports, they went off and then it then came back as confirmed as a UFO.
I was told this by him, that is the colonel that during this, those ‘golf balls’ up on Troodhos had traces early on in the game. They put 2 Lightings up (RAF fighter aircraft), which were capable of about 1200 mph. They would obviously have an early interception course on this particular object, whatever it was, and they could be put alongside it. And the way it was said to me was ‘Two Lightings couldn’t touch it’. In service parlance that means that you can up two aircraft and they could not get those planes in contact with the object.
The radar at Troodhos pinged them early, and the Lightning’s went up. You never get a single plane going off QRF, you always get two. You’ve got two fighters depart from Aquitiri to investigate, told them to have a look, so they get a vector course. They pick it up on their radar long before it’s visible, probably 5 to 600 miles away. So the Troodhos radar would have picked it up at distance, the Lightings would be sent up to investigate it and they can’t touch it doing 1200 mph. Yet when you ask me how fast is it going and I’m telling you it is almost stationary. If it looked almost stationary, and the Lightning’s couldn’t touch it, it must have been a fair old height. But none of the facts relate, it doesn’t fit in with anything you’ve seen before.
I would be very interested in seeing what the Lightning’s saw. They would have been put up early enough by radar to get within good seeing distance to it. They all actually carry cameras on board, so they would trigger the cameras if nothing else. These would be cine cameras. These photos I’ve given you were taken by a naval publicity photographer. In the middle of the Island you had the support company, which was firing the weapons. The photographer, who took these, was with that company. He was using tripods set up for night firing. It wasn’t just a hit and miss affair with a guy with a camera. This is one of the few occasions that a guy was there with a proper set of equipment, tripods, etc. This guy was photographing what id known as Wombats and Nobats. They’re anti-tank guns and have an open breech called venture and when the round fires, the propellant burns out the back in a big flash, so when you see them they look very dramatic. You know the gun crew, the hooded figures, the round going out, a big flash at the back. That’s what his camera was set up for.
When the light appears the guy put his camera on it and included these on the same reel of negs. And these were handed in as part of what I told you. These I imagine are the only 3 surviving photos of this. He handed the roll in but a couple of days later, he was in the dame mess as me, gave me a set of the prints he had done. And that’s what these are. I had more photos than this but a couple have been nicked. I think I had 5 or 6 originally. When I showed them to people, I loaned them to one or two of them and possibly they kept one or two. I had about half a dozen at first. Luckily I’ve still got these. I’m well aware that it’s taken me 20 years to tell you this. Now if I was trying to do a snow job, I wouldn’t wait 20 years to tell you what I saw. I’m also no idiot. You could probably falsify photos 1, 2 & 3, by a dark room, a neon light and a clever photographer. But there is no way you could do this one (photo 2) which shows the lights of Dekalia Garrison, 6 or 7 miles away.
The photos are time exposures, so don’t show the ball of light as such but its trail across the sky. I don’t know how long he left the shutter open. You can get a good idea of how bright it was. The photos also show the illuminated dust in the atmosphere as it passes through. Lots of people who saw this are still serving. You’ll find that the senior officers like me have gone but lots of the younger ones will still be serving.
It’s taken me 20 years to tell you now, because you don’t like getting ridiculed. I’ve told it to other people because the beauty of it is I can prove what I’m saying. Luckily I’ve still got the photos showing the horizon. There was no cover up or hush up on the base because it fitted in with the Mariner thing, but we all knew it wasn’t that. What was surprising was that it didn’t make the English press. I’ve sometimes read or heard on the radio, that someone has seen a flying saucer. It’s amazing that on a thing like this where you’ve got, in my case, at least a thousand or more trained observers, whether they are junior or senior, all looking at the same object, and I’m talking about at least half an hour or more. Plus from different locations spread over an area of a couple of hundred square miles. You’ve got the whole small isolated community like Cyprus seeing it, and reported on their radio, their own media and yet it never got any massive press coverage over here.
I just heard you by accident on the radio and what clicked in my mind was when you said the MoD had got something on these lines. I thought I’ll tell him about the photos. Otherwise they would have just lain there forever.”
END OF INTERVIEW
The 3 photos are reproduced here in full. You can see as ‘Steve’ described in photo number 2 the lights of the garrison at the bottom of the photo.
At the time when the photos and interview were conducted PUFORG contacted the Ministry of Defence in the UK to see if they could obtain any further information on this event. After all ‘Steve’ had told them that he collated lots of reports and photos and that later his colonel had confirmed that it was a UFO. The reply from the UK Mod was:
The files for 1971 would have been sent to the public records office a long time ago and are covered by the terms of the public records act, remaining closed from public viewing, until 30 years after the last action was taken.
Of course those 30 years has now passed and in the last few years the UK Ministry of Defence has begun releasing its UFO files to the National Archives. The main man behind this is Dr David Clarke. I recently asked Dr Clarke to check to see if there was any sign of this incident in the released MoD files:
Nothing. I’ve gone through the files for that year at Kew with a fine tooth comb and would have a note of it if it was there. But as it was Royal Marines the report might have gone to the Navy and never reached the Air Staff. There are any number of reasons why it doesn’t appear in the UFO files. If they knew it was a military exercise of some description it might never have been treated as a UFO at official level. That’s the problem with following up cases like this that rely upon the memories of a single individual decades after the event.
I don’t agree with Dr Clarke that we are relying purely on the memories of one individual. If the witness is correct then he collected numerous reports as ordered by his commanding officer and photographs as well. The fact that they are not in the released files will only fuel speculation in some quarters that the MoD has not released everything and that there is indeed some kind of cover-up in place. I’m not sure I share such an idea but I can fully understand why some researchers do support such a notion.
And what of the three photographs provided. I asked UFO photographic analyst Winston Keech to comment on them:
My first pass of the photos and report look good – unless I find finer detail I would consider them genuine print copies of a real illuminated object taken with a standard lens on a tripod on long exposure. I have identified the tracks of stars in the background which should confirm the exposure duration etc. There is one effect from the forward scattered light around the object in one print that I need to explain, that is unusual – but that aside, they appear genuine … proper report to follow
There are a few typos in the report, which I suspect are due to phonetic interpretation of an original conversation … nothing drastic – except that the correct spelling of the RAF base is ‘Akrotiri’. I did Ii n fact put in for detachment to that very base when I was a pilot with the RAF in the early 80’s … along with half the RAF, as it is considered a prize detachment … almost sea and sun holiday in fact!
It has always been a very strategic base for refueling and reach of the middle east/turkey … and I can confirm that it was the home to the no 56 squadron, who would have just converted to Mk 6 Lightning’s (not quite as quick in climb, but with longer fuel range) from the Mk 3 model, in 1971.
Note also, that the radar referred to with 500 mile range is the hilltop radar, not the lightning’s onboard radar – the lightning would have only be good for less than 50 miles targeting radar range depending on model and conditions. The hilltop system would have been similar to the early Fylingdales modified ‘sage’ system.
Hope this of help,
really interesting case,
Win.
p.s. for a commissioned officer to desert his post like that would normally be considered an extremely bad/unthinkable thing … it generally results in dishonorable discharge – so to not be, speaks volumes in my opinion.
I also asked Winston Keech if he thought that the Mariner 9 launch could have been misidentified and be a possible explanation for this sighting and photographs:
I would say that it would not be possible to see the launch phase of the mariner 9 probe from Cyprus at that time. It was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 22:23 gmt in a direct ascent and separated from it’s launch vehicle at 22:36 gmt (a 13 min ascent) then deployed its solar cells at 22:40 gmt. The ground observation visual range to low earth orbit height (about the separation height) would be around 300 miles max. As this was a direct (vertical) ascent this means that the earth could only have rotated Easterly by around 250 miles by that point, so at absolute best it could not be seen in more than an area from 300 miles offshore from Florida to 550 miles inland from Canaveral and +/- 300 miles North South during the entire launch phase. The local launch time in Cyprus would be 23:23 to 23:36 and the probe would not be visible at all until around 20 hours later as Cyprus would be rotating away from the launch site, which is around 1/5 of the Global circumference away to the West. (as it was quoted as vertical ascent therefore controlled to fly directly from the launch point towards its target – mars, so would be flying westerly downrange at around 1000 mph by separation). I think we can pretty much rule out the Mariner probe. Presumably his ‘8 pm’ would be local time, or he would have quoted it as 1900 Zulu (as Cyprus is GMT +1 hr I believe).
Hope this is of help,
Win.
And just to be on the safe side I consulted with former RAF Wing Commander Alan Turner just to see if he knew anything about the operations of the base there at the time in Cyprus and to check that the witness’s recollections were indeed accurate:
“Many thanks for your article on what was observed in Cyprus – very convincing stuff. What is impressive is the fact that the sighting was acknowledged formally as a UFO.I was involved with 56 Lightning Squadron when it returned from Cyprus in early 1974, but I don’t know if that particular squadron was there at the time of the Royal Marine’s sighting. Having said that, a couple of the pilots alluded to “sightings which were weird” although they didn’t go into detail”.
Many UFO researchers will tell you that UFO sightings made by trained observers, especially members of the military, are held in high regard. They are less likely to be fooled by misidentifying known natural phenomenon although they are not infallible of course. They are after all only human like the rest of us. This sighting would seem to fall in to that category. It seems highly unlikely that it was not a misidentification of the launch of Mariner 9. If it was, then why ask for all the reports to be collected? Mariner 9 was a mission to Mars and was launched in the full blaze of normal publicity. This case has the potential to be quite unique simply by the amount of military observers involved. One would of course like to speak to more of them and as a researcher I’d like to know where within the Ministry of Defence these reports are stored because so far they have not been released. Are they simply buried in red tape and languishing in a dusty file somewhere, or are the conspiracy theorists correct and there really is a cover- up? I for one don’t have the answers but hopefully one day someone will.
References: PUFORG Report No: 9308.
Winston Keech (private correspondence)
Dr David Clarke (private correspondence)
Wing Commander Alan Turner (private correspondence)
About the author: Philip Mantle is the former Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association and is the publisher at FLYING DISK PRESS. He can be contacted at: http://flyingdiskpress.blogspot.co.uk/
I found this way back when and wanted to see if I could go back and make the detail of the structure on the moon more focused. Its really big. The original photo is below, altered photo above. You can see that this looks like a giant long triangle craft that has become half buried by the lunar dust. It must have been there for a million years to have so much debris covering it up. Perhaps others could get it more focused than this, if so, leave the link to your focused photo below. thanks,
UFO Hovering Over NYC On Nov 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Hovering Over NYC On Nov 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 1, 2016
Location of sighting: New York City, NY, USA
Here is s UFO that hovers in place and is clearly not a drone or plane. It was recorded by Brianf121 of Youtube. The object appears to want to look like it has plane lights on, and yet, its not moving. Its a nice camouflage, but lucky for us, someone noticed it hanging there. Some UFOs do have the ability to change their outside appearance with lights or hologram imagery, to make themselves appear as a normal plane.
UFO Hiding In Cloud Flying Low Over City In California, Oct 29, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Hiding In Cloud Flying Low Over City In California, Oct 29, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 29, 2016
Location of sighting: California, USA
UFOs make clouds, thats just a fact. We have reported hundreds of UFOs hiding in or near clouds over the years. Here we have a giant UFO shaped cloud. The shape is disk like because the UFO is disk shaped, but much smaller...about 10% the size of the cloud. The layers are made because the disk decides to rise up or lower, but its making the cloud at the same time, so it appears a new layer is there.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I've never seen a cloud like this before, it was literally layered. Super WEIRD, UFO-looking cloud in California!
UFOs like to investigate human technology, and where better to see the newest and fastest cars than at a Formula 1 trials race. Its the perfect opportunity for aliens to observe and scan human emotions, feelings, and commitments to win. As well as some awesome cars. Don't be so surprised, like we can record a movie, they can record so much more. Scott C. Waring
News states: Mexico: UFO Over Speedway During Formula 1 Trials By Alfonso Salazar During the Formula 1 speed trials this afternoon (October 29, 2016) the time being 1:25 in the afternoon, an unidentified flying object flew over the Hnos. Rodriguez speedway from west to east at an altitude of approximately 10,000 meters. The UFO flew at a speed comparable to that of aircraft. It was highly visible, as the sky was completely blue. Witnesses to the UFO's transit were on the orange stands to the left of the main track, and the UFO went off toward the eastern part of the city until it vanished from sight. It is worth noting that UFOs have been seen flying over the same speedway during other events, at times remaining static overhead. On one occasion, such a report was even transmitted live over Brazilian television.
Scout, currently in development down at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, works by aggregating and analyzing data from a number of different telescopes. When it identifies a near-Earth Object (NEO), it both calculates the risk of impact and collects subsequent data gathered by other telescopes.
A handful of such objects are tracked pretty much every night. Sunday’s asteroid was never on a trajectory to actually crash into the Earth, but it did pass within about 300,000 miles and measured somewhere between around 16 and 80 feet across — which made it the kind of too-close-for-comfort object Scout was designed to alert us to. A companion program called Sentry is tasked with tracking larger ones. Asteroids measuring around 450 feet across are the ones approaching the size capable of destroying a major city, and astronomers hope that Sentry will one day be able to identify around 90 percent of those larger threats.
Of course, Scout and Sentry can only warn us about NEO’s on potentially dangerous trajectories — they can’t actually break them up or move them. Kind of like those weird LifeLock commercials that joke about monitoring the problem without being able to fix them, these kinds of programs still leave it up to us to develop a solution. Astronomer Ed Lu told NPR that the key to being able to divert NEO’s is early detection, at least a decade or two. When they’re that many billions of miles away, they can be “nudged” off course little by little.
NASA’s already on the case, working in conjunction with other major space science entities like the European Space Agency, Observatoire de la Côte d´Azur (OCA), and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). The collaboration, known as the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) Mission, is at the forefront of a potentially life-saving maneuver called the kinetic impact technique. This basically involves a spacecraft smashing into the worrisome asteroid in question, pushing it a fraction of a percent off its orbit. The idea is that by the time it reaches Earth, that gap will have widened significantly enough to keep it at a safe distance.
Meet the Nightmare Machine: An AI That Creates Your Worst Fears
Meet the Nightmare Machine: An AI That Creates Your Worst Fears
DeepDream Project/Google
IN BRIEF
Dr. Cebrian and his colleagues fed 200,000 images of human faces into the machine – then, they fed a zombie face into the neural network.
When a machine learns what images scare humans, it can be taught to do the opposite, and generate behavior that makes us feel comforted.
GENERATING FEAR
The artificial intelligence (AI) currently being developed is largely benevolent. It can mimic the way humans think, complete menial and repetitive tasks, and more. But that doesn’t prevent people from being afraid of AI, thinking it will take away jobs or eventually turn Terminator into a documentary.
Somebody thought AI wasn’t scary enough, and did something to change that. Researchers from MIT and Australia’s CSIRO have created AI that actively warps pictures into scary nightmare fuel.
Nightmare Machine
Aptly named the Nightmare Machine, the algorithm started like any nightmare would, rather benignly. The researchers fed their algorithm 200,000 faces, for it to recognize and generate a normal face.
But they then fed it just one picture of a zombie, and changed the code so the zombie face would have more weight in the images generated. Soon after, the algorithm was generating nightmare fuel like crazy.
FOR COMFORT AND WARMTH
Creating sleepless nights is not the main reason for the Nightmare Machine. It has a higher purpose: to tell machines how to comfort us. When it learns what images or things scare humans, AI can then be taught to do the opposite, and generate behavior that makes us feel safe.
“Just like a child, or an adult, by learning behavior that upsets humans, a machine can then be trained to avoid that behavior,” says Manuel Cebrian Ramos, of the CSIRO, in a statement. “So the same technology we are using in this silly project could actually be used to comfort, to invite humans to co-operate with machines.”
In fact, he believes that this is the best way to create benign AI, as opposed hard wiring rules. “Instead of [Asimov’s] top-down rules, which are always going to have loopholes, it’s better for a machine to learn bottom up,” says Cebrian.
Essentially, if machines can help us understand them, then it’s going to be easier to work with them. “If we perceive them as alien, as too different from us, then we will fight them, and I don’t like that, I like co-operation,” he says.
Blue Origin Will Take Humans to the Edge of Space in 2017
Blue Origin
IN BRIEF
Last week's landing marked the fifth successful one for Blue Origin's New Shepard booster after a suborbital flight.
As a result, the company announced they're on track for flying test astronauts by the end of 2017, and commercial flights by 2018.
The capsule of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle separates from its rocket during a “in-flight escape test” on Oct. 5, 2016.
Credit: Blue Origin
It might seem as though Elon Musk and SpaceX have the market cornered on commercial space travel, but other companies are steadily coming out of the woodwork, ready to give Musk a run for his (insane amounts of) money.
Treading lightly is Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, fresh from a crash two years ago. Now, Virgin has revealed its newest rocket, SpaceShipTwo, and has been conducting more tests for its systems.
Perhaps even more ambitious, however, are the plans of Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin. After a successful “in-flight escape test,” Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson has revealed that the company plans to fly test astronauts by next year, in anticipation of full-fledged space tourists by 2018.
“We’re still on track for flying people — our test astronauts — by the end of 2017, and then starting commercial flights in 2018,” said Meyerson.
The New Shepard vehicle consists of a rocket and a capsule. During the test, the capsule used its escape motor to separate from the booster. Everything worked well, Meyerson said, describing it as a “picture-perfect test.” The capsule came back to Earth softly under parachutes, as expected.
As a bonus (and a complete surprise) the rocket was able to land its booster, showing that it’s not just SpaceX who’s working on reusable rockets. Now, we wait to find out how much a ticket to space will run us.
AMAZING daytime UFO filmed over Rochester, New York 17-Aug-2016
AMAZING daytime UFO filmed over Rochester, New York 17-Aug-2016
Here’s one really interesting daytime footage of a bright unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above Rochester in New York. This was taken on 17th August 2016.
Witness report:
We witnessed this strange disc shaped object over our house in upstate New York. It appeared to hover at first then flew slowly in a straight trajectory.
Mass UFO Sighting In Arizonian Skies Revitalizes Phoenix Lights Incident
Mass UFO Sighting In Arizonian Skies Revitalizes Phoenix Lights Incident
Social media went abuzz after the sighting of a mysterious UFO with strange lights streaking across the skies above the East Valley. Hundreds of residents in Phoenix, Arizona claimed to have seen the strange object on Tuesday, October 5.
Several witnesses posted photos and videos of the UFO to social media. The UFO appeared in the sky above Queen Creek area of the East Valley between 6 p.m. and 6:45 p.m., several residents said.
There were also reports of the sighting of a UFO with three lights in the town of Gilbert in the southeast of Phoenix. The UFO was observed moving southward over the valley. One witness managed to get a video of the unusual aerial object moving across the sky.
Several sighting reports also came from Globe, Gila County, around 70 miles from Phoenix.
Another witness claimed to have seen unusual lights in the sky close to Superstition Mountain in the east of Phoenix. The witness reportedly saw three or four strange lights flashing on and off.
The sightings created some debates on the nature of the lights. Most witnesses agreed it was a UFO but not all of them think it was extraterrestrial aircraft. Some believe it must have been a man-made aircraft, but others insisted it must have been an alien craft because it did not look like any plane.
For many Phoenix residents, the latest unidentified flying object sighting was reminiscent of the Phoenix Lights incident on March 13, 1997.
A man from Charlotte believes he caught his UFO sighting on video. The footage has become viral since it was posted to YouTube.
Chris Hulbert claimed to have shot the video from the outside of the Le Meridien hotel in uptown Charlotte. The video shows a large number of flashing lights like fireflies up in the air.
Hulbert, who claims he’s a professional driver, was waiting outside the parking lot of the hotel when he noticed the lights. He then grabbed his cellphone to record the incident.
Hulbert said in the video that they are moving like fireflies, but high up in the air. He described the lights as moving very strangely and looking like strobe lights, which later forming a pattern.
Hulbert stated that the lights made a triangle formation and could be the original form before moving around.
The video has been viewed over 500,000 times since being posted on October 15.
Director of the National UFO Reporting Center, Peter Davenport, is being intrigued by the lights because they cannot be explained. Davenport said that he has been monitoring UFO sightingsfor more than 22 years and he noticed that Carolina skies have been experiencing an increase in sightings within the last 53 months, particularly in South Carolina. He revealed that they already received around 30,000 to 40,000 reports of sightings similar to the latest one in Charlotte.
Medieval Painting Shows A UFO Over Count Dracula’s Homeland
Medieval Painting Shows A UFO Over Count Dracula’s Homeland
A work of art in the Monastery Church in Sighisoara, Transylvania could show evidence of alien UFO visitationhundreds of years ago. The medieval painting shows a large flying saucer with a beam of light above of what looks like a church building.
According to the book “UFOs over Romania,” by Dan D. Farcas (Amazon link), the work could be done before 1534, but experts have yet to determine when it was exactly done and who created it.
Mr. Farcas, 76, who has a doctorate in computers and maths, said there are possibilities that images in these paintings do depict a UFO.
Images in paintings depicting something that would be described today as a UFO have been found in centuries-old paintings. Some researchers suspect they may be evidence aliens have visited Earth throughout history.
The UFO sighting near Dracula’s castle is also featured in the book. It involves a couple who claimed to have seen a large flying disc out of a lake when they toured the ruins of Poenari or popularly known as Dracula’s Castle. The pair said the mysterious object then flew north over mountains towards Transylvania.
The book also notes the case of police sergeant Marian Mancu and voluntary guard Maricel Rusu. They reportedly saw strange flashing lights in the village of Certesti, Romania at around 12:30 a.m. on July 8, 1996.
Mr. Mancu said they saw a flashing red and blue lights from an object that hovered half a meter from the ground. Allegedly, the object eventually landed, and they saw three aliens got out. He described them as white-faced aliens with big heads, pointed ears, and covered in gray scales.
THE CHRONOVISOR - THE VATICAN HAS A SECRET DEVICE TO LOOK INTO THE FUTURE AND PAST
THE CHRONOVISOR - THE VATICAN HAS A SECRET DEVICE TO LOOK INTO THE FUTURE AND PAST
Several paranormal writers and researchers have spoken out about the extraordinary technological capabilities of the Vatican. It has been sensationally alleged that there is an incredible device kept at the heart of the Catholic Church which allows senior members to see future events and events from the past. It has been said that this device is the secret to explaining the continued influence and power of the Church.
THE VATICAN’S ATTEMPTS TO LOOK INTO THE FUTURE
It has been said that the device was constructed in the 1950s by a team of twelve scientists led by Father Pellegrino Maria Ernetti. Father Ernetti had worked as a physicist before moving into the papacy. The team was also supported by a number of renowned scientists from outside of the Church including Enrico Fermi and the rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun .
The machine, which is referred to as the Chronovisor, apparently looks like an oversized cupboard covered with antennas, cathode ray tubes, dials, and levers. While Father Ernetti has refused to reveal a great deal of information about the functioning of the machine he has admitted that it works by processing residual electromagnetic radiations. Using the machine, it has been said that Ernetti viewed one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s speeches, a Greek tragedy called Thyestes and even the crucifixion of Christ.
However, the Chronovisor has not only been used for historical investigation. In the 1970s, the Vatican decided to use the extraordinary technology to create a rudimentary form of time travel. In the 1970s, it is alleged that people from within the Vatican successfully traveled forward in time to 2013 and where they claim that they saw the Supreme Court building submerged underneath 100 feet of water and significant damage to Washington DC. When this event did not transpire, scientists from within the Vatican suggested that the Chronovisor was not an accurate instrument for predicting the future. It has been suggested that it is only capable of showing one potential outcome of current geopolitical events. Alternatively, it may show realities from alternate universes.
Whether this explanation is correct is now impossible to discern as officials within the Vatican have elected to destroy the device, fearing the potential consequences such advanced technology could have for the world. Now it appears that all traces of the machine have been purged from the Vatican archives. Even Father Ernetti made a deathbed recantation of his claims about the capabilities of the machines. However, according to François Brune, it seems likely that he was pressurized into making this retraction by powerful forces within the Catholic Church.
Russische wetenschapper: “De nieuwe Kleine IJstijd is al begonnen”
Russische wetenschapper: “De nieuwe Kleine IJstijd is al begonnen”
Een Russische wetenschapper claimt dat eind vorig jaar een nieuwe Kleine IJstijd is begonnen. De komende decennia zal het flink afkoelen, zo zegt hij.
De nieuwe Kleine IJstijd begon eind 2015, na de piek van zonnecyclus 24, schrijft dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov van de Russische Academie van Wetenschappen in zijn nieuwe studie.
Hij verwacht dat het vanaf 2060 sterk gaat afkoelen op aarde. Zijn werk, dat tegenwicht moet bieden aan het beeld dat CO2 de belangrijkste oorzaak is van global warming, is vertaald in het Engels door geoloog Don Easterbrook.
Stuk kouder
Als gevolg van afnemende zonneactiviteit zal de temperatuur boven Noord-Amerika en Europa dalen.
De afzwakking van de Golfstroom maakt West-Europa en oostelijke delen van de Verenigde Staten en Canada een stuk kouder, aldus Abdussamatov.
Hij voorspelde eerder al dat afnemende zonneactiviteit de komende 30 jaar zou leiden tot een nieuwe Kleine IJstijd.
Lagere temperaturen
Britse oceanografen schreven enkele jaren geleden in vakblad Nature dat Europa vier tot acht graden kouder zal worden door het afzwakken van de Golfstroom.
Al enige tijd waarschuwen wetenschappers dat de afnemende zonneactiviteit de komende jaren zorgt voor lagere temperaturen.
Dat beeld wordt tegengesproken door veel wetenschappers die broeikasgassen zoals CO2 zien als de oorzaak van de opwarming.
Supermoon November 2016: When, Where & How to See It
Supermoon November 2016: When, Where & How to See It
By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor
This year, the full moons of October, November and December all take place when the moon is at its closest point of approach in its orbit around Earth — a so-called supermoon.
October's supermoon occurred on Oct. 16. The next supermoon will be November's full Beaver Moon, which is expected to reach the peak of its full phase on the morning of Nov. 14, at 8:52 a.m. EST (1352 GMT).
This full moon will be not only the closest and brightest supermoon of 2016 but also the largest since 1948, Bob Berman, an astronomer at the Slooh Community Observatory, told Space.com. What's more, the full moon won't come this close to Earth again until Nov. 25, 2034, according to a statement from NASA. [Full Moon: Why Does It Happen? (Video)]
A full moon occurs each month when the sun, Earth and moon line up, with the moon on the side of the Earth opposite to the sun. The term "supermoon" is used to describe a full moon at its perigee — the point in the moon's orbit when it is closest to Earth, causing it to appear up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter in the sky, NASA officials said in the statement.
November's full moon is also called the Beaver Moon because it arrives at the time of year (in the Northern Hemisphere) when hunters would set traps before the waters froze over, to ensure they had enough warm furs for the winter.
The Beaver Moon follows the full Hunter's Moon of October and the full Harvest Moon of September — both of which are also named for seasonal changes that marked times when people would begin to prepare for the colder months ahead. November's full moon also has been referred to as the full Frost Moon, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
The Slooh Community Observatory will offer a live broadcast for November's full moon on Nov. 13 at 7:00 p.m. EST (0000 GMT on Nov. 14). You can also watch it live on Space.com, courtesy of Slooh.
Back-to-back supermoons
To round out the trifecta of supermoons for 2016, December will see its full Cold Moon peak on Dec. 13 at 7:05 p.m. EST (0005 GMT on Dec. 14).
"The supermoon of December 14 is remarkable for a different reason: It's going to wipe out the view of the Geminid meteor shower," NASA officials said in the statement. "Bright moonlight will reduce the visibility of faint meteors five- to ten-fold, transforming the usually fantastic Geminids into an astronomical footnote. Sky watchers will be lucky to see a dozen Geminids per hour when the shower peaks."
Editor's note: If you snap an awesome photo of the moon that you'd like to share with Space.com and our news partners for a potential story or gallery, send images and comments to managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.
Mis ‘m niet: Grootste supermaan van de eeuw in november
Mis ‘m niet: Grootste supermaan van de eeuw in november
De volle maan op 14 november 2016 wordt niet alleen de grootste en helderste supermaan van het jaar, maar ook de grootste van de eeuw.
De maan komt pas op 25 november 2034 weer zo dicht bij de aarde, weet de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
Als de volle maan op het dichtstbijzijnde punt van onze planeet staat in de ellipsvormige baan die de maan rond de aarde maakt, dan spreken we van een supermaan.
Drie supermanen op rij
Het jaar 2016 eindigt met drie van zulke verschijningen achter elkaar. De supermaan is tot 14 procent groter en tot 30 procent helderder dan een gewone volle maan.
Het ene punt in de baan van de maan om de aarde, het perigeum, staat op 14 november ongeveer 48.000 kilometer dichter bij de aarde dan het andere punt, het apogeum.
Meteorenzwerm
Op 14 december gebeurt er ook iets speciaals. Het licht van de supermaan zal dan het zicht op het anders fantastische natuurfenomeen van de Geminiden-meteorenzwerm verstoren. Maar we krijgen er wel een supermaan voor in de plaats.
Wie de bijzondere maan wil zien, kan het beste een plek met weinig licht opzoeken en hopen op niet al te veel wolken.
*In een eerdere versie van dit artikel stond de afstand tot de maan onjuist vermeld.
Nog steeds is voor veel mensen de klassieke vliegende schotel vorm, ook wel retro UFO genoemd, de mooiste die er bestaan.
Ook nu is weer een dergelijk exemplaar vastgelegd boven een afgelegen berg op Hawaii.
De waarneming van de getuige vond plaats op 23 oktober 2016 in Waikane op Hawaii. De zaak is in onderzoek bij Mufon onder nummer 79999.
De getuige vertelt hoe tijdens de lunchpauze foto’s nam van Kaneoha Bay. Hij had zijn camera ingesteld op “meerdere opnames”, wat betekent dat wanneer hij zijn vinger op de opnameknop houdt de camera achter elkaar door een aantal foto’s neemt, zonder dat er zelfs een seconde tussen zit.
Met deze optie ingesteld nam hij foto’s van de bergen. Toen hij ze later bekeek, viel hem op dat er één bij was die anders was dan de andere.
De getuige verklaarde verder:
Eerst dacht ik dat het misschien een vuiltje op de lens was, maar toen ik goed keek, zag ik een UFO! Nu geloof ik niet in die stereotype UFO’s, maar hier schrok ik zo van dat ik het toch maar meldt, voor het geval dat.
Het niet geïdentificeerde object dat ik zag was een schijf, een soort rugbybal met een geel/oranje kleur. Wanneer ik inzoom met mijn camera lijkt er zelfs een soort koepel op te zitten.
Toen ik in de gaten kreeg dat hier geen sprake was van een vuiltje op de lens, begon ik een vreemd gevoel te krijgen.
Volgens de bij ons inmiddels bekende ufoloog Scott Waring zie je dit soort UFO2016-11-01’s vaak in de buurt van bergen in afgelegen gebieden omdat er dan weinig kans is dat ze daar worden gezien en omdat ze vaak in de buurt van bergen hun ondergrondse basis hebben.
Op de laatste van de twee volgende afbeeldingen is door Scott wat contrast toegevoegd om het object wat beter zichtbaar te maken.
A New Zealand witness at Coromandel reported watching and videotaping a large, disc-shaped UFO emitting smaller objects, and reports someone “hacked” the video after it was emailed to multiple locations, according to testimony in Case 78924 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration 1.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness stepped outside on a bright, windless night about 9:10 p.m. on September 1, 2016.
“I noticed this very big bright, glowing ball,” the witness stated. “Huge compared with stars. Ran and got my camcorder. Filmed it for approximately 17 minutes. The mother ship was opening a platform and smaller craft were taking off at all angles, plus also exiting from below. There were definitely six smaller craft, maybe seven. There also was a red orb beneath, some distance of which one of the smaller ships attached itself to – approximately two miles.”
Witness illustration 2. (Credit: MUFON)
Witness illustration 3.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness states there was some “amazing footage” collected.
“However, I downloaded this to my laptop in four different places in case I lost some and sent the vid to family and friends. However, nobody received it. Yesterday approximately four days later I checked the video. Some bastard had hacked it. The video was now 5-6 mins long. It got a quick showing of one smaller craft, of which they missed. The sounds are of the city with cars trucks etc. going past. Also,later on, it has sounds of gale force winds. The cam recorder also had been hacked. I will send to you what’s left of it. Now I tried to send, but the file is too big, plus what’s to say these bastards aren’t going to steal it again. What’s not to say you guys aren’t one of them. So if you want the movie, you will have to find someway of getting it. I do not trust Drop Box. I’ve drawn some pictures for you.”
Witness illustration 4.
(Credit: MUFON)
Witness illustration 5.
(Credit: MUFON)
The Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand extends 85 kilometres north from the western end of the Bay of Plenty, forming a natural barrier to protect the Hauraki Gulf and the Firth of Thames in the west from the Pacific Ocean to the east. At its broadest point, it is 40 kilometres wide. Almost the entire population lies on the narrow strips along the Hauraki Gulf and Bay of Plenty coasts. In fine weather the peninsula is clearly visible from Auckland, the country’s biggest city, which lies on the far shore of the Hauraki Gulf, 55 kilometres to the west. The peninsula is part of the local government areas of Thames-Coromandel District and the Waikato Region.
Waikawau Bay on Coromandel Peninsula.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
New Zealand National Director Roger Stankovic 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.
Guy Asks UFOs To Come Closer...And They Did, Nov 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Guy Asks UFOs To Come Closer...And They Did, Nov 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 1, 2016 Location of sighting: Unknown ( I asked and location will be updated soon). Here is an interesting video of a man using meditation and focus to call the orbs over to his area. It works...watch them come when he asks them too. Its really rare to see this many UFOs come when a person summons them. Usually just one will appear. This person...DWC Coffman of Youtube, must be a very focused and pure hearted person at this moment in time. Does summoning work, yes, I have done it myself, but only a single UFO came. This is spectacular. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Forgive my speaking I talked to them while I meditate and they always show up, I have many photos.
Mysterious Star Pulses May Be Alien Signals, Study Claims
Mysterious Star Pulses May Be Alien Signals, Study Claims
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
A study published in October 2016 reported the detection of odd light pulses coming from 234 of 2.5 million stars observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's 2.5-meter telescope in New Mexico (pictured here). These pulses are consistent with signals that intelligent aliens might produce, the study authors claimed.
Credit: SDSS/Fermilab Visual Media Services/NASA
Strange pulses of cosmic light might be signals from hundreds of different alien civilizations — or just the latest false alarm in the tortuous search for ET.
This month, astrophysicists Ermanno Borra and Eric Trottier, both from Laval University in Quebec, announced that they had spotted mysterious light signals coming from 234 different stars in our Milky Way galaxy. These pulses match the profile of signals that Borra, in a 2012 paper, predicted intelligent aliens might use to get our attention, the authors wrote.
"We find that the detected signals have exactly the shape of an ETI [extraterrestrial intelligence] signal predicted in the previous publication and are therefore in agreement with this hypothesis," the duo wrote in the paper, which was published online Oct. 14 in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens]
"The fact that they are only found in a very small fraction of stars within a narrow spectral range centered near the spectral type of the sun is also in agreement with the ETI hypothesis," the researchers added in the study. (Borra and Trottier looked at the spectra of 2.5 million stars studied by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which uses a telescope in New Mexico.)
But don't get too excited: Borra and Trottier said that additional observations are needed to confirm this hypothesis, and outside astronomers are even more emphatic on this point. Indeed, a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted, said Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California.
For example, it seems unlikely that 234 separate alien societies would be sending out such similar signals more or less simultaneously, Shostak said.
"It would be like expecting us to send the same signals as the Abyssinians — it doesn't make a whole lot of sense," he told Space.com. "If I were a betting guy, I'd bet this is an artifact of the way they processed their data."
Shostak also said that he knew of six different reviewers who had recommended against publishing the paper, at least without significant revision. However, he did stress that Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific is a reputable journal.
The astronomers behind Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million project that's scanning the heavens for SETI signals over the next 10 years, also urged skepticism.
"The international SETI community has established a 0-to-10 scale for quantifying detections of phenomena that may indicate the existence of advanced life beyond the Earth called the 'Rio Scale,'" team members of Breakthrough Listen, whose science program is headquartered at the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC) at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "The BSRC team assesses the Borra-Trottier result to currently be a 0 or 1 (None/Insignificant) on this scale."
But skepticism is not the same thing as dismissal. Shostak thinks the stars singled out by Borra and Trottier are worthy of follow-up investigation, as does Breakthrough Listen. Indeed, the latter organization plans to study several of these stars using the 7.9-foot (2.4 meters) Automated Planet Finder optical telescope at Lick Observatory in California, team members said in the same statement.
The long history of SETI false alarms — including a detection that generated buzz this past August, but was soon traced to a Russian satellite — shouldn't deter scientists from checking out intriguing candidates, Shostak stressed.
"You can't get too cynical," he said. "You don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater."
Our Galactic Arm May Have a Longer Reach Than We Thought
Our Galactic Arm May Have a Longer Reach Than We Thought
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
An artist's impression of the Milky Way as seen from the outside. New research suggests that the Orion Spur, or Arm, is almost twice as long as scientists had previously thought.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R. Hurt
The sun's galactic neighborhood just became a bit more significant. New research reveals that the sun's branch of the Milky Way may be several times longer than previously measured, which would make it a significant contender in the structure of the galaxy.
Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way contain several massive structures known as arms, which unwind from the galaxy's center. The sun's neighborhood is called the Orion Arm, though scientists often refer to it as the Local Arm. Despite its name, it is classified as a spur — a collection of dust and gas that lies between the more massive arms.
"Our study reveals that the Local Arm is not only a tiny spur of the Milky Way. In includes a prominent major arm nearly extending to the Perseus Arm and a long spur branching between the Local and Sagittarius Arms," astronomer Ye Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences told Space.com by email. Xu led a team that identified eight new features in the Orion Arm and determined that it is much longer than scientists have previously estimated, Xu said. [Our Milky Way Galaxy: A Traveler's Guide (Infographic)]
Mapping from within
With their gently unfurling arms and ongoing star formation, spiral galaxies are some of the most beautiful star collections in the universe. But it is far easier to calculate the characteristics of distant galaxies than it is to understand the features of our own Milky Way.
"Determining the structure of the Milky Way has been a long-standing problem for astronomers because we are inside of it," Xu said. "While astronomers agree that our galaxy has a spiral structure, there are disagreements on how many arms it has and on their specific location."
Mark Reid, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts who was not involved in the study, compares the Milky Way to a dinner plate with an interesting design on its face. While the pattern is easy to spot from above, it can be difficult to interpret when the plate is edge-on.
"All of the structures are projected on top of each other, and without accurate distances to these structures, it is impossible to infer the design," Reid told Space.com by email.
To measure how far parts of the arm sit from the sun, scientists search for telltale signals in star-forming regions. As gas enters galactic arms, gravitational forces squeeze the gas to produce newborn stars. In other galaxies, blobs of bluish light that are produced by the birth of stars trace out spiral arms.
In the Milky Way, star-forming regions are more challenging to map. As part of the new research, the scientists identified bright spots of radio emission known as masers, whose shift in light researchers can measure to identify their movement and distance from Earth. Masers can be made up of clouds of gas that contain trace amounts of molecules such as water and methyl alcohol.
Reid compared the microwave emissions produced by masers to the spots of red light streaming from a hand-held laser.
"All they need is a source of energy — analogous to the battery in a laser pointer — and long path-lengths to amplify the emission," Reid said. "In star-forming regions, the more massive and very young stars provide the energy."
Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a suite of 10 telescopes operating in Socorro, New Mexico, the scientists identified and measured eight new masers in the Orion Arm, setting its new length at about 25,000 light-years long. (A light-year is the distance light travels in a year.) Although measurements of the arm vary, Xu’s team set the distance as being just over 16,000 light-years in 2013.
"This characterization of the Local Arm will change the image of the Milky Way," Xu said.
The new research, which was published in the journal Science Advances in September, reveals the Milky Way as more complex than scientists have previously estimated. The galaxy is typically classified as a grand-design spiral, which Reid said is often very symmetrical, often boasting only two arms.
"The Milky Way, while probably a 'pretty galaxy,' has significant irregularities," Reid said. "Based on our observations, it is clear that there are four major spiral arms and some non-symmetric structures like the Local Arm."
Further studies are needed to determine how irregular the Milky Way might be: "Without a complete map of the Milky Way, however, it is not clear how symmetric the four arms are," Reid said.
Instruments like the VLBA, located in the northern hemisphere, are limited in their ability to study the Milky Way. According to Reid, they can only map a bit more than half of the galaxy.
"We need more observations, particularly from the Southern Hemisphere, so that we can map the entire Milky Way," Reid said.
Amajor lunar mystery may have just been solved. Orientale basin — a 580-mile-wide crater — is one of the moon’s most striking features and resembles a large bull’s-eye. After pondering its origins for decades, scientists now think they’ve discovered how the crater’s concentric rings formed, and it’s more complicated than just a giant meteor pummeling into the surface.
A pair of articles published in the new issue of Science, explains how researchers used data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft to examine the lunar subsurface in order to piece together the giant crater’s history.
“Big impacts like the one that formed Orientale were the most important drivers of change on planetary crusts in the early solar system,” says Brandon Johnson, lead author of one of the papers and a co-author of the other. “Thanks to the tremendous data supplied by GRAIL, we have a much better idea of how these basins form, and we can apply that knowledge to big basins on other planets and moons.”
Maria Zuber, a a geophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lead on the gravity field study, explained that they used GRAIL much like an X-ray machine. The spacecraft mapped the interior of the planet by using its own gravity. The lunar interior is made up of a myriad of materials, each with their own temperature, density, and composition. The surface also has a variety of features, and GRAIL measures the gravitational differences around all of these objects to map out what’s underneath.
“In the past, our view of Orientale basin was largely related to its surface features, but we didn’t know what the subsurface structure looked like in detail,” Jim Head, a geologist at Brown University in Rhode Island, a GRAIL scientist and a co-author of the new research, said in a statement. “The beauty of the GRAIL data is that it is like putting Orientale in an X-ray machine, and learning in great detail what the surface features correspond to in the subsurface.”
A color-coded map that shows the strength of surface gravity around the Orientale basin.
By analyzing the GRAIL data, the researchers concluded that an object about 40 miles (64 km) across, struck the Moon while traveling at roughly 9 miles per second. The data also indicated that the three concentric rings surrounding the crater were not caused by the initial impact. Instead, they were formed by processes happening below the surface in response to the impact.
As the crust rebounded following the impact, molten rocks below the surface flowed toward the point of impact, causing the crust above to rise up, forming the jagged cliffs that make up the outer two rings.
The innermost ring, however, was formed by a different process. When the crust rebounds, it can form a central peak. But in Orientale’s case, that central peak was so massive that it was unstable, eventually collapsing into a ring-like structure.
Multi-ring craters exist all over the solar system, and future missions modeled after GRAIL could be sent to other planetary bodies to better understand their inner-workings. When similar craters formed on the Earth, the first single-celled organisms were emerging. By studying craters similar to Orientale, on places like Mars, it could give us a better understanding of whether or not life existed.
Paleontologists at Cambridge University have announced the discovery of the first known fossilized dinosaur brain tissue — ever. It’s a small fossil, and a huge deal.
The rock, just a few inches long, was picked up in 2004 by fossil hunter Jamie Hiscocks on a beach in the south of England after a storm. Since then, paleontologists have been working on making a solid case that it is what they think it is: exquisitely preserved tissue from the outer layer of the brain of an iguanodon, or similar dinosaur that lived 133 million years ago.
Fossils that wash up on shore have already lost a lot of important information about their origin, often changing shape, and making it difficult to figure out what it originally was. But the evidence — at least for this piece of detritus — is all pointing in one direction.
The rock fits neatly into the brain cavity of an iguanodon, based on known fossils, and it likely came from the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation, which is 133- million-years-old, and coincides with when iguanodons would have been hanging out in the area.
The brain might have belonged to an animal that looked something like this.
The soft tissues on the outer layer of the fossil are exquisitely preserved — you can even see the blood vessels running through it. The patterns match what we see today in the closest living relatives of the dinosaurs: crocodiles and birds.
Soft tissue fossils from the dinosaur era are rare finds and require very special circumstances for preservation. Although fossilized stomachs, skin, feathers, and even blood vessels have been found, many scientists would have said we’d never find a brain — until we did.
Cambridge paleontologist David Norman, who announced the discovery at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s annual meeting in Utah this week, theorizes that the animal died and sank to the bottom of a shallow, stagnant pond. It flipped over on its head, which became buried in the muck. The conditions in the pond would have had to be inhospitable to bacteria in order for the tissue to stay intact long enough to become mineralized.
Scanning electron microscopy images show what appear to be meningeal blood vessels on the surface of the fossilized brain.
In Norman’s telling, the main mass of the brain ultimately eroded, and was replaced with sediment. The fossil, as it exists today, is mostly made up of debris, preserved in the shape of the brain casing, and enveloped by a very thin layer of fossilized brain material.
This last point was one Norman debated for years with Oxford paleobiologist Martin Brasier, who was involved with the find at an earlier point, and theorized that perhaps the brain had been fossilized in its entirety. Brasier died suddenly in a car crash in 2014, although he left behind notes later found by a former student that indicated he had come around entirely to Norman’s point of view.
The discovery of the fossil will be published in a special edition of Earth System Evolution and Early Life, honoring Brasier’s life and contributions to science.
This brain will certainly be the focus of intense research and debate among paleontologists for years, and decades, to come. Assuming the findings hold up to the scrutiny, this fossil will open up new possibilities into the study of the physical structure of dinosaur brains, and what they might have been thinking.
These Scary Things in Space Will Haunt Your Dreams
These Scary Things in Space Will Haunt Your Dreams
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
1. Ghost Hand of God
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/McGill
Witches, ghosts and ghouls don't just haunt the Earth on Halloween night — such spooky figures exist throughout the universe, too. Here are some of the most spine-chilling space photos to scare your pants off this Halloween. HERE: This glowing, green zombie-like hand reaches through the depths of space to grab a bright-red cloud of light. Is this a giant space zombie grabbing some dinner? Not quite — NASA calls this nebula the "Hand of God." It is actually a pulsar wind nebula, produced by the dense remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova.
2. Screaming Skull
Credit: A. Fabian (IoA Cambridge) et al., NASA
Yikes! This ghastly face in space appears to be screaming while suffering through a miserable, fiery death. But no real skulls were harmed in the making of this photo. It's actually an X-ray image of cluster of galaxies known as the Perseus Cluster
3. Space Ghosts
Credit: Adam Block, NOAO, AURA, NSF
Ghastly figures appear to be fighting to escape from this cloud of interstellar gas and dust called SH2-136. The illuminated dark nebula is about 1,200 light-years away, towards the constellation Cepheus.
4. Halloween Skull in Space
Credit: NAIC-Arecibo/NSF
How did this skull wind up in space? A radar image of asteroid 2015 TB145, which NASA says is likely a dead comet, was captured using the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico on Oct. 30, 2015. The skull-shaped asteroid flew by Earth last Halloween (Oct. 31).
5. Zombie Pac-Man Nebula
Credit: Gemini South GMOS/Travis Rector/U. of Alaska Anchorage
An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is nicknamed the "Skull Nebula," but some astronomers call it the "Pac-Man Nebula." It appears to be taking a bite out of space.
6. Witch Head Nebula
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A witch appears to be cackling out into space in this eerie image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The infrared portrait shows the Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile of a wicked witch.
7. Eye of Sauron is Watching You
Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This evil eye-shaped nebula, formally named Fomalhaut, strikes an eerie resemblance to the fearful Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings series. In the books, Tolkien described the eye as being "rimmed with fire... watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened up on a pit, a window into nothing."
8. The Face on Mars
Credit: NASA
Though we have yet to find any aliens on Mars, NASA did discover this creepy human face on the Red Planet. The original "Face on Mars" image was taken by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter, in grey scale, on July, 25 1976. NASA assures that the face is simply a peculiar pile of rocks — but that doesn't make it any less spooky!
9. Ghost Head Nebula
Credit: Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri (Observatoire de Paris) et al., ESA, NASA
The Ghost Head Nebula's two flaming-hot eyes peer at us all the way from the Magellanic cloud, located about 170,000 light-years away from Earth. Its glowing eyes are star-forming regions with hot blobs of hydrogen and oxygen
10. Black Widow Nebula
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Wisc.
This giant, red space spider is the biggest black widow we've ever seen! But don't worry — it won't bite. It's actually just a nebula, or a cloud of interstellar gas and dust.
11. Zombie Star Explodes Back to Life
Credit: NASA/CXC/Chinese Academy of Sciences/F. Lu et al
This zombie star named Tycho was once a white dwarf, or the remnants of an exploding supernova. The dead star gobbled up too much mass from another nearby star and exploded again in what's called a Type Ia supernova.
12. Extreme Pumpkin Stars
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA has discovered 18 strange stars that spin so fast that their spherical shape is squashed into the shape of a pumpkin. These rapidly-spinning stars blast X-rays into space at rates of up to thousands of times as much as our sun.
This Is the Best View Yet of Europe's Mars Lander Crash Site
This Is the Best View Yet of Europe's Mars Lander Crash Site
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Europe's ExoMars lander gauged out a crater 1.6 feet (0.5 meters) deep and nearly 8 feet (2.4 m) wide when it crashed into the Red Planet's surface last week, a new photo by a NASA Mars orbiter reveals.
The lander, known as Schiaparelli, apparently deployed its parachute prematurely and didn't fire its thrusters nearly long enough to pull off a soft landing as planned on Oct. 19, European Space Agency (ESA) officials have said.
The new image, which was captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on Tuesday (Oct. 25), shows the aftermath of Schiaparelli's violent impact. [In Photos: Europe's Schiaparelli Mars Landing Day]
This Oct. 25, 2016, image from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the area where Europe's Schiaparelli lander struck Mars. The inset at center shows where the main lander hit; at bottom is Schiaparelli’s parachute and back heat shield, while the inset at upper right shows the front heat shield.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
First of all, there's the main crater, which the lander blasted out when it hit the surface at a speed of about 180 mph (300 km/h). The fuzzy dark smudges around the central crater are difficult to interpret at the moment, ESA officials said: These markings are asymmetrical, which suggests that the impactor was traveling at a low angle to the ground, but Schiaparelli should have been descending pretty much perpendicular to the surface when it hit.
"It is possible the hydrazine propellant tanks in the module exploded preferentially in one direction upon impact, throwing debris from the planet’s surface in the direction of the blast, but more analysis is needed to explore this idea further," ESA officials wrote in an update today (Oct. 27).
"An additional long, dark arc is seen to the upper right of the dark patch but is currently unexplained," they added. "It may also be linked to the impact and possible explosion."
About 0.9 miles (1.4 kilometers) south of this crater is a bright feature above a smaller gray disk, which are almost certainly Schiaparelli's 39-foot-wide (12 m) parachute and its attached rear heat shield, respectively, ESA officials said.
Another bright feature 0.9 miles (1.4 km) east of the Schiaparelli crater is probably the lander's front heat shield, they added.
"The mottled bright and dark appearance of this feature is interpreted as reflections from the multilayered thermal insulation that covers the inside of the front heatshield. Further imaging from different angles should be able to confirm this interpretation," ESA officials wrote in the update. "The dark features around the front heatshield are likely from surface dust disturbed during impact."
Schiaparelli launched in March 2016 along with the Trace Gas Orbiter. Together, the two spacecraft make up the ExoMars 2016 mission — the first part of the two-phase ExoMars program, which ESA leads with assistance from its chief partner, the Russian federal space agency Roscosmos.
The second phase of ExoMars aims to land a life-hunting rover on the Red Planet's surface in 2021. Schiaparelli's main goal was to test out the technologies needed to get this rover down safely, and the data gathered during the lander's Oct. 19 descent should be helpful in this regard, ESA officials have said.
The ExoMars team expects to wrap up its investigation into what exactly happened during Schiaparelli's descent by mid-November, ESA officials added.
The landing site of ExoMars’ Schiaparelli lander within the predicted landing ellipse (top), along with zoomed-in, before-and-after views (bottom left and bottom right, respectively) showing evidence of the lander’s crash on Oct. 19, 2016.
Credit: Main image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, Arizona State University; inserts: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
TGO, for its part, aced a crucial orbit-insertion burn on Oct. 19 and is in good shape as it loops around Mars on a highly elliptical, four-day-long orbit, mission team members said. Early next year, the spacecraft will begin moving into its final science orbit, a circular path with an altitude of 250 miles (400 km).
TGO should reach that orbit by March 2018, at which point the spacecraft will begin hunting for buried water ice and sniffing the Martian atmosphere for methane and other gases that could be signs of life. This science mission will last for about two years. TGO will also serve as a communications relay for the ExoMars rover and other surface craft before ending operations in 2022.
MRO took the new photo with its supersharp High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. The Schiaparelli crash site was first identified last week in images captured by MRO's lower-resolution CTX camera.
Outer space is terrifying — not just on the body, but also on the mind. Extreme environments and situations can stretch people’s minds to the brink of sanity, and outer space is no exception. Sure, astronauts are protected inside their multimillion-dollar spacecraft, but those confined little metallic boxes can make one feel isolated and trapped. And we’re also making strides to put humans on other planets.
All that time in the deep dark void — probably not good for the noggin, right?
Thankfully, NASA’s on it. Welcome to the world alternately called aerospace psychiatry and psychology — a field of medicine where one provides mental health support to aviation professionals.
Astronauts, in particular, have been the focus group for decades now. They’re people who we typically think of as the best of the best, “who are otherwise quite healthy, but operate in an abnormal environment,” says Gary Beven, NASA Flight Surgeon and Chief of Aerospace Psychiatry at NASA Johnson Space Center.
Although the U.S. beat Russia to the moon, it was the Russians who started aerospace psychology. Beven explains that during missions onboard the Salyut 6 (1977 - 1982) and Salyut 7 (1982 - 1991) space stations, Soviet cosmonauts began to experience noticeable signs of psychological distress (or physical problems with an underlying psychological cause) while in space.
Taylor Swift would do poorly in space.
This most likely had to do with the longer durations of these missions. Salyut 6 had the first six-month space mission, while Salyut 7 upped the ante with the first-ever eight-month mission. Each mission put two or three cosmonauts in a fairly tight quarters with one another. Several crew stints had to be terminated before completion.
The Russians were spurred into establishing their own space psychology program. “They brought in experts within the field of psychology to work full-time with the Russian space program,” says Beven. “They were involved not only with cosmonaut selection, but also providing support and monitoring the psychological well-being of astronauts while they were in space.”
Until fairly recently, NASA wasn’t interested in long duration missions, so they had no need for psychologists or psychiatrists beyond the initial medical and mental health evaluation during the candidate selection process.
That changed in the mid 1990s, when the U.S. and Russia established the Shuttle-Mir Program to allow NASA to learn about Russia’s experiences with long-duration space habitation. At that point, NASA brought in a group of psychologists and psychiatrists to develop a behavioral health and support group for the NASA astronauts that were staying aboard Russia’s Mir space station.
Space Shuttle Atlantis docking to Mir.
“Life aboard Mir was very arduous and very difficult,” says Beven. “Some of the (U.S.) astronauts even admitted they felt they had not been psychologically prepared for that type of a mission.” Some did exceptionally well, like Shannon Lucid (who stayed on Mir for seven months in 1996), but others publicly acknowledged the difficulty of living in an orbital spacecraft for months at a time. Part of the feelings of psychological anxiety and depression that crept up were simply the result of isolation, difficulty communicating with Russian counterparts on the station, the lack of leisure activities on Mir.
With all that qualitative data and feedback, NASA refined the aerospace psychiatry system as it and the rest of the world began moving forward with the International Space Station. Today’s aerospace psychiatry group supports astronauts from the time of training all the way through the end of the mission — and even beyond to assist with post-mission acclimation to life on the ground. “In some ways, we may be involved with astronauts all the way to the end of their career,” says Beven. “We get to know them very well, and we also get to know their families very well.”
Beven says the candidate selection process is probably the most important way to prepare astronauts for the mental rigors of space travel and life. The goal is to pick candidates who possess sound, sturdy minds. Beven and his team grade candidates on nine different “suitability proficiencies”:
ability to perform under stressful conditions
group living skills
teamwork skills
self-regulation of one’s emotions and mood
motivation
judgement and decision making
conscientiousness
communication skills
leadership skills
They also screen for any history of major mental disorders or disqualifying problems. For the most part, candidates come from occupations where good mental health and the aforementioned traits are already a necessity, sometimes in already extreme or stressful environments — such as fighter pilot living aboard an aircraft carrier, or a scientist who has done stints at research stations in Antarctica. When you’re talking about picking 10 astronauts to train out of a final list of 60 people, you’re really getting the most mentally and behaviorally qualified group, says Beven.
The vast majority of the aerospace psychiatry group’s work, however, revolves around proactively working with active astronauts. Beven says there are a little over 40 active astronauts currently working at NASA, and each one is notified they’ll be going up into space about two years prior to the mission launch.
Beven and his team start to work directly with the astronaut (and their spouse), and their work can be categorized into two parts. The first is behavioral medicine: evaluating astronauts’ mental health at regular intervals before launch (the last meeting happening 60 days before launch) and training them to identify and deal with instances of psychological detriment in other crew members.
Up in space, Beven or his colleagues will do a private video conference with each astronaut about every two weeks to go over everything pertaining to sleep, crew morale, if that astronaut is dealing well with the workload or experiencing fatigue (or even feeling underworked), their relationship with the ground team, concerns with family, and anything else. If they need immediate help, they can call Beven’s cell phone or send him an email in an instant, at any given moment. If any major concerns arise out of these avenues of communication, Beven and his team will confer with the flight surgeon to decide on a course of action.
What kinds of problems are we talking about? For the most part, the typical psychological problems you’d find in space are no different from what you’d find in a high-stress environment here on the surface. They include:
difficulty sleeping
irritability
mood lability
feelings of discouragement
heightened nervousness or anxiety
A nurse working in the E.R. or a long distance runner training for a marathon might experience these kinds of symptoms pretty regularly. But when an astronaut — who is trained more rigorously to withstand stressors — starts to experience these kinds of symptoms, there’s a much larger cause for concern, since they’re essentially trapped up there in space.
Beven says these problems are not unlike what you might find for someone who is unfamiliar to a long winter in a northern country, or a prisoner who is placed in solitary confinement. “There’s nothing unique about the symptoms themselves. What’s unique is that, given the spaceflight environment, there’s no analogue for them here on Earth, because of the microgravity.”
After getting back to Earth, the astronaut undergoes three more psychological assessments — at 3 days, 14 days, and 30 to 45 days after getting back — to go over lessons learned in hindsight and help the astronaut adjust to their new role on the ground.
“Many astronauts, when they land, might not fly again for several years, so they need to determine if they will stay with NASA, or do something else,” Beven says — which can be a very difficult, debilitating decision, even among the least neurotic among humans.
The other facet is what Beven calls behavioral support: it’s essentially the way he and his team make sure an astronaut has access to hobbies or forms of entertainment that they can indulge in in their leisure time to unwind and de-stress. It could range from music, to watching sporting events or television, having access to games — whatever. Even astronauts love to watch Game of Thrones, and it’s critical to keeping their sanity.
“Our belief is that if you’re forced for six months or more to live and work in your office, the downtime really needs to be rejuvenating,” says Beven.
So far NASA’s aerospace psychiatry program has been very successful. Beven says that every astronaut performs “exceptionally well,” for 95 percent or more of their mission duration. “Occasionally, they dip down to more mundane frustrations or frictions,” he concedes. Yet, for the entire time he and his team have been working with the ISS, “we’ve not noticed anything that would be of clinical significance,” nor anything that would terminate any mission or procedural activity due to psychological detriment.
Artist's rendering of Mars Semi-Direct/DRA 1.0: The Manned Habitat Unit is "docked" alongside a pre placed habitat that was sent ahead of the Earth Return Vehicle.
This is all thanks to the constant communication and support the team can provide astronauts while they’re up there in space. But as space travel begins to expand — both in allowing more people access to space travel, and in sending more people out to greater distances beyond Earth’s orbit — aerospace psychology will need to change. “In the next 10, 20, or even 50 years, how are we going to provide the system to allow the first Mars crew the same opportunities for psychological support that the ISS crew has — even if there is a 45-minute delay in communications?” asks Beven.
One idea: using A.I. programs to that can provide instant cognitive behavioral therapy to astronauts onboard a spacecraft or working on a Martian or lunar colony. A future astronaut may be having bi-weekly meetings with an artificial robot on their iPad, instead of chatting so frequently with a human being here on Earth. “I don’t think anything on Earth right now has been proven to work in that realm, but that’s something we need to make certain is working,” says Beven.
And as spaceflight becomes commercialized and low-Earth orbit operations are turned over to private companies, it’s unlikely commercial astronauts will be as rigorously screened as NASA’s astronauts are right now. Beven predicts “there will be someone who does have the first psychotic episode in space,” or the first manic episode, or someone who develops a drug or alcohol problem in space.
But he’s optimistic: “The way in which those things are dealt with will spread into the psychiatric and psychological community.” He thinks, for example, an asteroid mining community will likely contract with a healthcare provider or institution, and work with them to provide on-call psychiatrist and psychologists who are available 24/7. Or, making sure a general physician who is there can detect signs of psychological problems and provide some sort of solution.
At some point, we’ll see the first marriage in space, the first child born in space, and more — especially once we see a colony in space or somewhere on another world. “Space travel is becoming normal,” says Beven. It’s only natural that mental health services acclimate to those changes as well.
The fact that science fiction is becoming real excites many, annoys some, and absolutely terrifies an unfortunate few suffering from spacephobia or astrophobia, which is characterized by a fear of outer space or celestial objects. For those people, the idea of colonizing Mars is pants-wettingly horrifying. That’s fine, they don’t have to go. But psychologically similar spacephobes may truly suffer several generations down the line if humanity does become a multiplanetary species.
For people with spacephobia, the very concept of space creates feelings of anxiety and distress. As with other phobias, this fear is irrational. Humans can only survive for 15 seconds exposed in space, but no one has — contrary to Gravity — floated off into orbit. The perils of both cis-lunar and extra-lunar space are also eminently avoidable for people who don’t work as professional astronauts.
Phobias usually manifest themselves when you’re a child or a teenager — sometimes because of a specific event or experience, or sometimes because of an acute anxiety that may slowly progress into a full-blown fear. Genetic factors and brain chemistry may also play a role. Exposure to specific media could as well. It’s the golden age of science fiction right now and, yes, that could lead to the proliferation of fear.
In a sense, spacephobia is an amped up version of agoraphobia, the unfortunately common fear of going outside. Agoraphobes suffer privately or overcome their terror to lead normal lives; regardless, it’s a rough time. And it could — at some point in the distant future — be a similarly hard go for spacephobics born to asteroid miners or deep space explorers. Eventually, spacephobia could become to natural-born Martians what aquaphobia currently is to those born on islands.
For now, spacephobia is not debilitating, but like other phobias — which are treated variously with medications like beta blockers and antidepressants or exposure therapy, relying on acclimation to a phobia — it’s also nearly impossible to treat. If someone has ophidiophobia (fear of snakes), exposure therapy would probably first involve getting someone comfortable with first talking about snakes, then looking at pictures of snakes, then watching videos, and at last being comfortable with seeing snakes in real life and perhaps even holding one and interacting with it. Spacephobia is trickier because you can show pictures and video, but you can’t just send people into orbit (though virtual reality might help psychologists get around this limitation until rocket scientists eliminate it).
For now, spacephobia and astrophobia are minor conditions. They do, however, permanently ground some peoples’ imaginations. And there is harm in that even if we’re all not headed to Mars tomorrow.
The sun will blow up one day. And when that happens, the warm yellow orb at the center of our solar system will transform into a cooler — but still broiling — red giant. It will consume Mercury, Venus, and Earth. It’ll probably make Mars into a dessert. And yes, this will happen quickly. One day Earth will be there, and the next it will be gone. But don’t worry, there will be enough time for some suffering.
There’s a few things you ought to remember about the sun. Light that’s emitted from our host star takes eight minutes and 20 seconds to hit our planet. If the sun suddenly blew up, we actually wouldn’t know it happened for — you guessed it — eight minutes, 20 seconds — since even that explosive light show would only be traveling, at maximum, the speed of light. The death and destruction would follow very, very shortly after that.
But when the sun does blow up, it’s not simply going to extinguish like a small flame in a candle. It’s going to shoot out some really gnarly, very powerful stuff. All that energy — about as much as you would observe if you blew up a few octillion nuclear warheads — will almost instantly kill all life on Earth. Chances of survival will near zero.
Even if the Earth miraculously survived, and life found a way to go on without the energy from the sun, the resulting radiation would decimate the planet. A supernova 30 light years away would probably result in a destruction of the ozone layer and mass extinctions. A supernova 8.3 light-minutes away? Annihilation. Explosions would vaporize the surface of the planet facing the sun. The other side would hit temperatures 15 times hotter than the surface of the sun right now. The entire planet would probably disintegrate in a few days.
So, yeah, we’re not going to be able to walk it off.
Now, it’s also important to remember that perhaps we might actually feel the effects of the sun’s departure, even during those eight minutes of impending doom. If the sun exploded, Earth would no longer have a celestial body to rotate around. And when the center ceased to hold, the gyre would widen. There are more nuanced ways of considering how this would actually work from a math and physics perspective, but the general notion is that Earth would go from planet to spaceship to nothingness over the course of relatively little time.
Of course, you’re not supposed to worry about any of this. Our sun has only made it about halfway through its expected 10 billion-year lifespan. The sun is not going supernova tomorrow.
The notion that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate is taken as fact by the physics community. The three scientists who made that discovery won the Nobel Prize five years ago. And yet, new research by Oxford University physicists suggests that it may not be that simple. There may not be any acceleration at all. If they’re right our understanding of dark energy is up for debate and so is our standard model of cosmology.
It just got more confusing to living in this particular universe.
Published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, the findings incorporate an analysis of an expanded data set and instead suggests the supporting evidence for accelerated expansion is not as airtight as previously suggested. The new data set, which the researchers say is 10 times bigger than than the Nobel-winning data set was, includes a catalogue of 740 Type Ia supernovae, which occur in binary star systems. Type Ia supernovae are important to research into dark energy — which is hypothesized to make up 68.3 percent of all energy in the universe and essentially drive forward the acceleration of universal expansion. Type la supernovae flare up with the same brightness as the stars they burst out from, and therefore glow for large distances across space. Measuring the distance of this brightness is key to researching the changing dynamics of the expansion of the universe.
According to Subir Sarkar, lead author of the Oxford team who wrote the new paper, the new data is more consistent with a constant rate of expansion for the universe. He and his team found that the evidence for accelerated expansion is, “at most, what physicists call ‘3 sigma’,” he said in a news release. “This is far short of the ‘5 sigma’ standard required to claim a discovery of fundamental significance.”
For context, Sarkar recalled the example of the new particle the Large Hardon Collider at CERN found last December, which had a significance between 3.9 and 3.4 sigma. An analogous example in this context would be the recent suggestion for a new particle weighing 750 GeV based on data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In August, however, that confidence dropped after new data showed the significance plummet to less than 1 sigma — indicating the initial data was almost certainly a statistical fluctuation.
The new findings, if true, would also put doubts behind current estimates of how much of our universe is made of “dark energy.” If it turns out the universe is not expanding at an accelerated rate, it upends the entire standard model of cosmology and raises big questions about whether dark energy is real, whether it plays a role in universal expansion, or whether it does something else entirely.
Sarkar and his team, however, are only poking holes in one of the many pieces of supporting evidence the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate, and not a constant one — such as the cosmic microwave background of the universe. But Sarkar thinks those tests were conducted on an assumption of an assumed model of accelerated expansion — and he also says “cosmic microwave background is not directly affected by dark energy.”
Sarkar may be onto something, but he’s going to need a lot more evidence to bolster this hypothesis, and a lot more time to persuade his fellow scientists to take this seriously.
“Naturally, a lot of work will be necessary to convince the physics community of this, but our work serves to demonstrate that a key pillar of the standard cosmological model is rather shaky,” he said. “Hopefully this will motivate better analyses of cosmological data, as well as inspiring theorists to investigate more nuanced cosmological models.”
NASA’s Scout Space Monitoring System Gave 5 Days Warning of Passing Asteroid
NASA’s Scout Space Monitoring System Gave 5 Days Warning of Passing Asteroid
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IN BRIEF
Thanks to NASA's Scout, we received warning of an incoming asteroid five days ahead of it (completely missing the planet).
With the ever-lengthening list of near-Earth objects, it is a comfort to know that there are currently systems in place to monitor threats, and they are only getting better.
FIVE DAYS NOTICE
Did you notice anything strange Sunday night? Perhaps a giant asteroid passing by the Earth?
Scout did. Five days early.
NASA JPL’s new space-monitoring system, Scout, detected an asteroid making its way toward our planet last week. In just ten minutes, the software displayed all potential routes the asteroid might take. Some of these paths did intersect our planet, but luckily, we had ample time to assess the possibility.
Scout alerted three other telescopes that would help to narrow down the asteroid’s path. “When a telescope first finds a moving object, all you know is it’s just a dot, moving on the sky,” astronomer Paul Chodas from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told NPR.
“You have no information about how far away it is. The more telescopes you get pointed at an object, the more data you get, and the more you’re sure you are how big it is and which way it’s headed. But sometimes you don’t have a lot of time to make those observations.”
The asteroid, 2016 UR36, passed by us at a distance of 498,000 km (310,000 miles). Sound close? It was 1.3 times further away than the Moon.
A telescope in Hawaii first spotted the asteroid. Rob Ratkowski/Courtesy of Pan-STARRS
BETTER PROTECTION
Five days might not seem like much, but it’s better than what we used to get. The first time researchers detected an asteroid hurdling toward Earth, they had just 19 hours to formulate a plan. Remember the dash cam footage of the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russiaback in 2013? NASA didn’t have any notice at all for that encounter. Thanks to Scout, the confirmation process for asteroids can be expedited.
Currently, NASA has more than 15,000 near-Earth objects on file that could potentially be heading toward Earth. “The NASA surveys are finding something like at least five asteroids every night,” says Chodas.
Don’t start digging your underground bunker just yet, though. Scout’s job is to narrow down that list and assess which of those are a real threat. Scout is still relatively new – this was actually its first case study – but it is expected to be fully operational by the end of this year.
It Took 15 Months, But All of New Horizons’ Data Has Finally Been Downloaded
It Took 15 Months, But All of New Horizons’ Data Has Finally Been Downloaded
NASA/New Horizons
IN BRIEF
Over a year after its closest approach to Pluto, all of the data from New Horizon has finally been safely transmitted to Earth.
The spacecraft made 400-plus scientific observations, which will give astronomers research opportunities for years to come.
Finally, the New Horizons team has their entire “pot of gold.” 15 months after the mission’s flyby of the Pluto system, the final bits of science data from the historic July 2015 event has been safely transmitted to Earth.
“The New Horizons mission has required patience for many years, but we knew the results would be well worth the wait,” New Horizons project scientists Hal Weaver told me earlier this year.
Because of New Horizons’ great distance from Earth and the spacecraft’s low power output (the spacecraft runs on just 2-10 watts of electricity), it has a relatively low ‘downlink’ rate at which data can be transmitted to Earth, just 1-4 kilobits per second. That’s why it has taken so long to get all the science data back to Earth.
“This is what we came for – these images, spectra and other data types that are going to help us understand the origin and the evolution of the Pluto system for the first time,” New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern said a few months ago during an interview. “We’re seeing that Pluto is a scientific wonderland. The images have been just magical. It’s breathtaking.”
Because it was a flyby, and the spacecraft had just one chance at gathering data from Pluto, New Horizons was designed to gather as much data as it could, as quickly as it could – taking about 100 times more data on close approach to Pluto and its moons than it could have sent home before flying onward. The spacecraft was programmed to send select, high-priority datasets home in the days just before and after close approach, and began returning the vast amount of remaining stored data in September 2015.
New Horizons is now over 3.1 billion miles (5 billion km) away from Earth as it continues its journey through the Kuiper Belt. That translates to a current radio signal delay time of five hours, eight minutes at light speed.
The science team created special software to keep track of all the data sets and schedule when they would be returned to Earth.
New Horizons was about 3.7 million mi (6 million km) from Pluto and Charon when it snapped this portrait on July 8, 2015. Credits: NASA-JHUAPL-SWRI
The final item that was received was a portion of a Pluto-Charon observation sequence taken by the Ralph/LEISA imager. It arrived at New Horizons’ mission operations at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, at 5:48 a.m. EDT on Oct. 25. The downlink came via NASA’s Deep Space Network station in Canberra, Australia. It was the last of the 50-plus total gigabits of Pluto system data transmitted to Earth by New Horizons over the past 15 months.
“We have our pot of gold,” said Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman, of APL.
Bowman also said the team will conduct a final data-verification review of New Horizons two onboard recorders before sending commands to erase all the data on the spacecraft. New Horizons has more work to do, so erasing the “old” data will clear space for new data to be taken during its Kuiper Belt Extended Mission (KEM). The spacecraft will do a series of distant Kuiper Belt object observations as well as perform a close encounter flyby with with a small Kuiper Belt object, 2014 MU69, on Jan. 1, 2019.
“There’s a great deal of work ahead for us to understand the 400-plus scientific observations that have all been sent to Earth,” said Stern. “And that’s exactly what we’re going to do—after all, who knows when the next data from a spacecraft visiting Pluto will be sent?”
RECONSTRUCTED 2000 YEAR OLD MANUSCRIPT PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF THE NEPHILIM RACE!
RECONSTRUCTED 2000 YEAR OLD MANUSCRIPT PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF THE NEPHILIM RACE!
History is surrounded with mysteries and we add new information every now and then, some of this new information can even rewrite history as we know it.
But the biggest mystery comes from ante deluvian times, when humans and other races roamed the Earth. Several ancient texts speak of a race of supernatural giants called "The Nephilim", which are the offspring of female humans and fallen angels.
There's an ancient 2000 year old manuscript, with little to no information about it's author, that speaks of the Nephilim race and their role in the world. The book in question is called "The Book of Giants". The manuscript can be put in parallel with another ancient christian book called "The Book of Enoch". Enoch was a prophet that was granted a vision of heaven and spoke to many deities.
Could these be proof of the existence of super human giants?
UFOs over Melbourne ECETI Aus Sky Watch October 29th 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs over Melbourne ECETI Aus Sky Watch October 29th 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 29, 2016 Location of sighting: Melbourne, Australia This is a really amazing video of a powerful glowing orb summoned that hovers over some people in Melbourne this week. They are part of the US ECETI ranch group, but stationed in Australia. The UFO comes over them on an overcast night, hovers, and then moves about in the sky some before it leaves. They mentioned a Star Language, which is some sort of positive thinking and feelings of love so the UFO will come. As I have said before, UFOs often are equipped with emotional sensors, which are also useful to protect it as well as find those who are receptive to their appearance. Scott C. Waring
This UFO tried hard to disguise itself as a green glowing meteor over Japan yesterday, however it made some amateurish mistakes. First, its glowing a color most meteors don't glow...green. Its rare. Second, its performing the horizontal mambo, and meteorites do not fly horizontal while that low to the planet. Gravity would have pulled it down and it would have a curve. Third and this was the stupidest mistake the aliens made. The main ship turned off its glow for only 1/10th a second, (watch in slow motion) and at that moment a silver disk came out and moved back slowly away from the main ship. This is a disk, with a domed upper portion and grey metallic hull. See, even aliens make mistakes, this pilot, he made a lot. Scott C. Waring
Humanoid Robots to Flying Cars: 10 Coolest DARPA Projects
Humanoid Robots to Flying Cars: 10 Coolest DARPA Projects
By Denise Chow, Staff Writer
Credit: DARPA
INTRO:The way of the future
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has a reputation for working on some of the most cutting-edge, futuristic projects — many that could easily be mistaken for science fiction. The agency, which falls under the watch of the U.S. Department of Defense, is responsible for developing new technologies for the military.
From humanoid robots to flying armored cars, here are 10 of the coolest DARPA projects.
1. WildCat and BigDog
As their names suggest, WildCat and BigDog are four-legged, headless robots designed to walk, run and carry heavy loads through potentially dangerous terrain, much like deployed troops. DARPA awarded contracts to Boston Dynamics to develop WildCat and BigDog for use by the military.
BigDog, created in 2005, is 3 feet (0.91 meters) long, and stands 2.5 feet (0.76 m) tall. The robot, which is roughly the size of a small mule, is capable of hauling 400 pounds (181 kg) of cargo, and can navigate difficult terrain and inclines up to 35 degrees.
WildCat, however, is quicker and more agile. The robot can gallop up to 16 mph (25 km/h) on flat surfaces, and is part of a DARPA mission to develop robots that can assist human soldiers on a variety of ground missions.
Sometimes life imitates art, as is the case with DARPA's project to develop interfaces that enable soldiers to control and partner with semi-autonomous bipedal machines that, "act as the soldier's surrogate." Sound familiar? Hollywood director James Cameron explored the idea in his 2009 blockbuster hit "Avatar."
In its 2013 budget, DARPA allocated $7 million to its "Avatar Project," which could enable soldiers to control surrogate robots in dangerous combat situations.
Credit: DARPA
3. Excalibur
To reduce the amount of "collateral damage" in war, particularly during battles fought in urban settings, DARPA is developing laser weapons that are small and efficient enough to be used in combat. These experimental laser weapons will be 10 times lighter than existing high-power laser systems currently in use, DARPA officials have said.
The lasers, developed for airplanes, may also be used for laser communications, target designation and airborne self-protection, agency officials added.
Credit: DARPA
4. Falcon Project
DARPA's Falcon Project was announced in 2003 as a joint program with the U.S. Air Force. The project aimed to develop a reusable, unmanned, rapid-strike hypersonic vehicle.
A prototype Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) first flew in April 2010 and again in August 2011. The ultra-fast, arrow-shaped drone flew at blistering hypersonic speeds of Mach 20 (about 20 times the speed of sound), more than 22 times faster than commercial jetliners. During the flight, surface temperatures on the vehicle reached 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,930 degrees Celsius), which is hotter than a blast furnace capable of melting steel.
During both test flights, operators lost contact with the HTV-2 prototypes. In July 2013, DARPA confirmed it would not conduct a third flight of the HTV-2, but research on the project will continue until summer 2014 to gain better understanding of hypersonic flight.
Credit: DARPA
5. Transformer
Imagine a militarized version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This is the thrust of DARPA's Transformer project, which aims to develop a flying armored car. The four-person vehicle will be able to drive normally but also take to the skies to avoid road obstructions or other threats on the ground.
The vehicle is being designed to take off and land from the vertical position, and will be able to fly up to 250 nautical miles on a single tank of fuel. Eventually, these flying tanks may be used for strikes, raids, counterinsurgency operations, reconnaissance, medical evacuation and supply missions.
Credit: DARPA
6. Atlas
DARPA's Atlas project was revealed to the public on July 11, 2013. The bipedal humanoid robot stands 6-feet tall (1.8 m), and is designed to assist with a range of emergency services, including search and rescue operations. The U.S. Department of Defense is not interested in using the Atlas robot in combat situations, officials have said.
Atlas was developed by Boston Dynamics and was based on some of the company's earlier robot creations.
Credit: DARPA
7. Navigation chip
Advances in GPS technology revolutionized tracking and navigation, but what about areas where GPS is unavailable, or the signals are interrupted? To help soldiers find their way around areas of GPS blackout, DARPA researchers are developing a tiny navigation chip that is smaller than a penny.
The so-called timing & inertial measurement unit (TIMU) chip incorporates three gyroscopes, three accelerometers and a highly accurate master clock into a single miniaturized system that can provide precise information for navigation, including orientation, acceleration and time.
DARPA officials have said the navigation chips will not replace GPS, but rather are designed to work when GPS is unavailable or doesn't work.
Credit: Boeing
8. X-37
The Boeing-built X-37 reusable space plane started as a NASA project in 1999, but was eventually transferred to DARPA in 2004 before the Air Force took control of the project two years later.
The unmanned X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle, which resembles a miniaturized version of the space shuttle, rides into orbit atop a rocket and returns to Earth and lands as a space plane. The X-37 launched on its first orbital mission in April 2010.
Previously, DARPA reported it was developing the X-37 to rendezvous and refuel older satellites or perform minor repairs in space using a robotic arm. Speculation mounted, however, that the X-37 was being used by DARPA and the Air Force as a vehicle for space-based weapons. In 2010, a high-ranking Air Force official involved with the project dismissed the rumors, and stressed that the X-37's main purpose is to test space technology.
Credit: PNAS, 2013
9. Brain-Machine interfaces
Imagine if your brain could communicate with an external device, such as a thought-controlled mechanical arm or a device to restore sight. DARPA researchers are investigating potential communication pathways between the human brain and machines to build, assist, augment or repair human cognitive or sensory-motor functions.
Research on these so-called brain-machine interfaces began in the 1970s, and work by DARPA researchers is focused on neuroprosthetics that aim to restore damaged sight, hearing and movement. One of DARPA's brain-machine interface projects is Proto2, a thought-controlled prosthetic arm. Proto2 consists of a dexterous hand and fingers that can perform 25 joint motions.
Credit: DARPA
10. Microscale pumps
DARPA-funded researchers created the world's smallest vacuum pump system that can be used for any electronics or sensors that require a vacuum. In 2008, DARPA's Chip-Scale Vacuum Micro Pumps (CSVMP) program set out to develop the smallest, most power-efficient pumps ever created.
The vacuum pumps could be used to build tiny chemical sensors, such as ultra-sensitive gas analyzers to detect chemical or biological attacks, or to design new sensors or instruments for micro-drones. The penny-size vacuum pumps were created by researchers at the University of Michigan, MIT and Honeywell International.
SpaceX versus Blue Origin: de ontsluiting van de ruimte nadert
SpaceX versus Blue Origin: de ontsluiting van de ruimte nadert
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De final frontier lonkt. En ruimtebedrijven knokken om deze te mogen verleggen. Er wordt zelfs gesproken over een heuse ‘ruimtewedloop’. Voor wie juich jij?
Lang was de ruimte het domein van door overheden gesubsidieerde ruimtevaartorganisaties. Die ruimtevaartorganisaties zetten mensen op de maan, rovers op Mars en stuurden sondes naar planetoïden en kometen. In een baan rond de aarde belanden of een bezoekje brengen aan onze natuurlijke satelliet was slechts voor een handjevol mensen weggelegd en de namen van deze pioniers staan in het geheugen van de mensheid gegrift. Maar de tijden zijn aan het veranderen. De door overheden gesubsidieerde ruimtevaartorganisaties zullen de ruimte op korte termijn moeten gaan delen met private ruimtevaartbedrijven. Deze ‘NewSpace’-beweging is niet meer te stoppen en heeft een helder doel voor ogen: de ruimte ontsluiten voor iedereen.
Dragon en Falcon SpaceX is misschien wel het bekendste ruimtevaartbedrijf. En terecht. Het bedrijf – dat zich bezighoudt met de ontwikkeling, bouw en lancering van raketten en ruimtecapsules – heeft in zeer korte tijd ontzettend veel weten te bewerkstelligen. Nadat het bedrijf in 2002 door Elon Musk werd opgezet, ontwikkelde het een raket (Falcon 9) en ruimtecapsule (Dragon). In december 2010 was Dragon het eerste private ruimteschip in de geschiedenis dat vanuit een lage baan rond de aarde terugkeerde op onze planeet. Twee jaar later bracht het ruimteschip een bezoek aan het internationale ruimtestation. Opnieuw een primeur: nog niet eerder had een privaat ruimteschip het ISS bezocht. En in 2014 krijgt SpaceX van NASA het felbegeerde Commercial Crew Contract. Onder dat contract heeft SpaceX de afgelopen jaren al heel wat voorraden naar het ISS gebracht. En dat is nog maar het begin: uiteindelijk zal SpaceX ook astronauten naar het ISS gaan brengen.
Dragon bij het ISS. Wist je trouwens dat de Nederlandse astronaut André Kuipers Dragon binnenhaalde toen deze voor het eerst een bezoek bracht aan het ISS? Afbeelding: NASA.
Terwijl Dragon zo geschiedenis schrijft, blijft SpaceX sleutelen aan Falcon 9. Want het bedrijf wil de ruimte voor zoveel mogelijk mensen ontsluiten. Maar dat betekent dat de kosten van de ruimtevaart omlaag moeten. Hoe doe je dat? Door onderdelen van de raket opnieuw te gebruiken. Maar dan moet je die raket na lancering wel weer heelhuids op aarde laten landen. En daar heeft SpaceX de afgelopen jaren hard aan gewerkt. Na tal van mislukkingen slaagde het bedrijf er in december 2015 in om de eerste trap van de raket heelhuids op het land te laten landen. En in april van dit jaar lukte datzelfde ook op een drijvend zeeplatform. Ondertussen werkt SpaceX ook nog aan de Falcon Heavy: een zeer krachtige raket die mensen op de maan of Mars moet kunnen brengen.
De eerste trap van Falcon 9 landt heelhuids op aarde. Afbeelding: SpaceX.
Blue Origin Maar SpaceX is niet het enige ruimtebedrijf dat hard aan de weg timmert. Het eveneens bekende Blue Origin zit ook niet stil. Het bedrijf – opgericht in 2000 – richt zich eveneens op de bouw en ontwikkeling van raketten en ruimteschepen en heeft ook als doel om de ruimte voor zoveel mogelijk mensen te ontsluiten. Het bedrijf – opgericht door Jeff Bezos – ontwikkelde de New Shepard: een combinatie van een draagraket en ruimtecapsule. Ook deze draagraket is ontwikkeld met hergebruik in het achterhoofd: Blue Origins slaagde er voor SpaceX al in om de raket heelhuids op aarde te laten landen. Overigens moeten we daar wel een kanttekening bij plaatsen. De eerste rakettrap van New Shepard landde heelhuids op aarde na een suborbitale ruimtevlucht. Tijdens deze vluchten wordt de ruimte wel bereikt, maar keert een ruimtevaartuig terug naar het oppervlak van de aarde alvorens er een omloop rond de aarde is voltooid. Falcon 9 keerde – weliswaar een paar maanden later – heelhuids terug op aarde na een vlucht waarin deze daadwerkelijk een ruimtevaartuig in een baan rond de aarde had geplaatst. En dat was een veel grotere uitdaging dan een suborbitale raket na lancering weer heelhuids op aarde laten landen, zo merkte SpaceX-baas Elon Musk fijntjes op.
De raket van Blue Origin landt keurig op aarde. Afbeelding: Blue Origin.
Inmiddels heeft Blue Origin besloten ook verder te gaan kijken dan de suborbitale vlucht. Recent kondigde het bedrijf de New Glenn aan. Een gigantische raket die – in tegenstelling tot New Shepard – ruimtevaartuigen daadwerkelijk in een baan rond de aarde kan brengen. De raket – die nog ontwikkeld wordt – zal er in een twee- en drietrapsuitvoering zijn. Beide raketten zijn groter dan de Falcon 9-raket van SpaceX. New Glenn moet nog voor 2020 het luchtruim kiezen.
Het ruimteschip van Blue Origin landt aan parachutes weer op aarde. Afbeelding: Blue Origin.
Geld verdienen Zowel SpaceX als Blue Origin zijn private ruimtevaartbedrijven. En dus moet er geld worden verdiend. Maar hoe? Blue Origin zet haar geld op ruimtetoerisme en wil al in 2018 de ‘astronaut experience‘ aan gaan bieden. Toeristen zullen naar een hoogte van zo’n 100 kilometer worden gelanceerd, gewichteloosheid ervaren en natuurlijk genieten van een prachtig uitzicht alvorens ze weer naar de aarde terugkeren. Ook wil Blue Origin raketmotoren aan andere bedrijven verkopen. SpaceX verdient ondertussen natuurlijk aardig aan de Commercial Crew Contracts (die een waarde van zo’n 2,6 miljard dollar hebben).
NEWSPACE
Natuurlijk zijn SpaceX en Blue Origin niet de enige ruimtevaartbedrijven. Er zijn er nog veel meer. Denk aan Virgin Galactic of Bigelow Aerospace. En er komen regelmatig nieuwe bij. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan Moon Express of Planetary Resources.
Verschillen Natuurlijk zijn er de nodige overeenkomsten tussen SpaceX en Blue Origin. Beiden opgezet door mannen die hun vermogen online hebben vergaard. Beide bedrijven richten zich op het ontsluiten van de ruimte. En beide bedrijven zien iets in het hergebruik van raketonderdelen. Maar er zijn ook zeker grote verschillen. Zo zoekt SpaceX eigenlijk continu de aandacht: of het nu gaat om successen of mislukkingen, SpaceX deelt het allemaal. Ook is het bedrijf niet bang om haar grootse ambitie te ventileren. Zo kondigde Musk onlangs nog aan serieuze plannen te hebben voor een reis naar Mars. Sterker nog: de man achter SpaceX onthulde plannen voor een interplanetair ruimteschip en een reusachtige raket die dat ruimteschip op Mars moeten brengen en kolonisatie van de rode planeet mogelijk moeten maken. Als het aan Musk ligt, is er over vijftig tot honderd jaar een zelfvoorzienende kolonie op Mars te vinden. Blue Origin is een stuk geslotener en voorzichtiger. Overigens wil dat niet zeggen dat Mars of de maan niet lonken: Blue Origin fantaseert al over een nieuwe raket (New Armstrong) die de maan en Mars binnen handbereik moeten brengen.
Bezos en Musk lijken het dan – ondanks hun fitties op Twitter – over één ding eens te zijn: de aarde is niet ons eind-, maar ons vertrekpunt. Uiteindelijk zullen we deze planeet verlaten. Misschien omdat het klimaat uit de klauwen loopt, omdat we de aarde uitgeput hebben of louter uit nieuwsgierigheid, maar uiteindelijk zullen miljoenen hun heil elders zoeken. En zowel Bezos als Musk willen daar een bijdrage aan leveren. Dat ze in krap tien, vijftien jaar tijd al zover gekomen zijn, geeft te denken. Waartoe zijn deze bedrijven in staat als we ze nog eens vijf tot tien jaar (zonder al te grote tegenslagen) gunnen? Met een beetje geluk halen de twee kemphanen dan het beste in elkaar naar boven. En daar kan de mensheid dan mooi van profiteren.
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